This Sunday begins the first Sunday of Kingdomtide
Government finances-II-F
The Bible says that there will be a world dictator who will seize control in the last days but it does not say when it will occur. It could be any time. For that to happen, there must be a world-wide crisis that will force the nations to unite under one world government. President Obama pushed the nation deep into debt to support his failing economic policies. He supported his spending by printing trillions of dollars of money which was worthless because the money was not backed by anything. It was basically a promise to pay. President Trump reversed many of those policies and tried to get us back on a firm financial policy, but President Biden has restored many of those policies and inflation has returned. That is dangerous since most nations today are stockpiling American dollars because it is more sound than any other currency. That contained inflation temporarily. However, many nations are seeing the possible collapse of the American dollar and shifting to precious metals and other currencies so that we could face a sudden collapse in the value of the American dollar as other nations begin selling them off. If that happens, American dollars could become worthless overnight causing the collapse of our economy. If the United States collapses, it will take down a great deal of the world because they are so dependent on us and could easily lay the groundwork for a world-wide dictator to take power. I go into government and economics in “Truly In The World, But Not Of It-part B” under “Government” and “Economics”.
Government finances-II-E
Liberals just passed the $20 billion dollar “Inflation Reduction Act” and it was signed into law. They are promoting it as a great success. However, you need to be aware of what they have succeeded in doing. They will promote it as a great accomplishment in reducing inflation, however examining the facts will point out certain problems. First, they are responsible for the inflation with the massive spending bills that they have passed. Inflation is caused by a lot of money available with few goods to purchase. Goods are in short supply due to their failed economic policies and adding more money will only accelerate the inflation. To counter that, the bill includes massive new taxes on the middle class to reduce the money supply. As a result, the middle class will lose due to both inflation and higher taxes. They passed out a massive amount of money in the form of free benefits to make people grateful to them and vote for them, but nothing is ever free. They now have to take back all the money they gave out but it will be buried in your tax bill so most people won’t see it, because it will be just a line item on their paystub. People will be grateful for the benefits and not realize how high a price they are paying for them. The rich will shift their funds to non-taxable funds and raise prices on what they sell so the main burden will fall on the middle class. The inflation is usually followed by a recession due to declining sales. The middle class lose again as declining sales reduce work and income, while the rich benefit by writing off their loses as tax deductions. As a result, the middle class lose both ways. Second, the bill includes funds for a massive number of new IRS agents who will join the large number of FBI agents that President Obama hired just before leaving office in harassing and threatening conservatives who oppose their liberal policies.
Politics-Deep State-A-I
President Obama filled the FBI and justice dept with thousands of new workers loyal to him just before leaving office. The President appoints the heads of federal agencies, but the workers under them are under civil service. President Trump was hampered by the workers hired by President Obama who violated agency mandates, He could not fire them due to union rules. They continued to harass him throughout his presidency and are still doing it. President Trump was accused of colluding with the Russians based on warrant known to be fake, yet it was used to spy on him in order to discredit him so they could win the election. When their attempt failed, they launched an investigation but no evidence of wrongdoing was found. When testimony surfaced tying the fake document to Hillary Clinton, they halted the investigation and impeached President Trump without filing formal charges. They later accused him of stirring up the Jan 6 riot and impeached him again, before they even investigated the charges. In spite of a long investigation, no evidence has surfaced in their investigation, yet they continue. Now President Biden has signed the bill doubling the number of IRS agents. It appears he intends to use them for political purposes just as President Obama did with the justice dept. and the FBI. President Obama also used the IRS to investigate conservative groups and threatened some with losing their non-profit status if they spoke out against liberal policies and it is very likely President Biden intends to do the same. He has already called on the FBI to investigate parents who object to school policies in school board meetings as terrorists. To use federal employees to discredit an opponent and threaten and intimidate them in order to win an election is not only a violation of civil service laws, it is a open violation of the public trust.
Politics-Deep State-A-H
We are seeing an unprecedented abuse of the federal bureaucracy for political purposes. The raid on President Trumps home was totally out of line. They could have used a grand jury. To make a raid just before a general election smells an awful lot like a publicity stunt to discredit him and prevent him from running again for President. President Obama kept far more records, and no attempt has been made to recover them. Hillary Clinton not only used her private server to avoid scrutiny, when she was found out, she not only destroyed the records, she also destroyed the computers and phones to prevent any recovery of the records. Records are having to be recovered from the computers of those she sent the messages to and that is a long and difficult job, because it involves so many people. It is a clear case of obstruction of justice, yet no action has been taken against her by the justice dept. Everything learned so far has been gained by private watchdog groups that have had to resort to filing civil lawsuits to obtain freedom of information access. Justice is supposed to be blind and no respecter of persons but it is evident that the judicial dept. is being used by the administration to attack their opponents and protect their own people. The justice dept. is supposed to be outside politics. We need to elect legislators that will thoroughly investigate the FBI and justice dept. and root out those responsible.
Ministry Opportunities
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Thirteenth Sunday of Pentecost-Aug 28
Problem pregnancies. Our society glorifies sex but does not warn girls about the dangers. Pro-abortion crisis pregnancy centers prey on such girls by promising protection against pregnancy but do not tell them that there is a high failure rate or about the multitude of sexually transmitted diseases that go with sex with multiple partners. They encourage frequent sex and profit from these girls by selling both the “protection” and “the solution to the problem” when the protection fails. As a result many girls and women find themselves pregnant and unable to care for a child. Christian crisis pregnancy centers have grown up in most cities and many larger towns to help girls caught by unwanted pregnancy. Volunteer counselors are needed to let these girls know that someone cares and is there to help them, as well as to educate them on preventing unwanted pregnancies and sexually transmitted diseases in the future. Check out “National Right-to-life” on the web.
Celebrations
Many people ask me why I celebrate the Christian holidays. There are good reasons.
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Church Ministry-3V
I am often asked by pastors in underdeveloped countries how they can get training for their pastors. Frank Laubach was a missionary in the Philippines and forced to leave when WW II broke out. It left the people without any teachers. He developed a way for someone with a fourth grade education to teach reading to someone who could not read.
Child Evangelism developed a way that they could teach mothers to teach the kids in their neighborhood, even though the mothers had no formal Bible training by getting the mothers together and teaching them the lesson for the week. They didn’t have to know a lot, all they needed was to know the lesson they were to teach that week.
These things can help when there are no trained teachers. If a teacher teaches a student something, the student can go and teach it to others. They don’t have to know a lot, they just have to know more than the one they are teaching.
In many areas, it is hard for rural pastors to get together for training. However, if someone teaches those who are within ten miles of him in all directions, it creates a circle of knowledge 20 miles across. If they then teach those who are ten miles beyond them, it creates a circle of knowledge 40 miles across. If they then teach those ten miles beyond them, it creates a circle 60 miles across. Like ripples on a pond, the knowledge spreads.
Freedom of Religion-A-G
Liberals have sought to infiltrate and control what is taught in our public schools and universities, as well as the media, because they know that is where children learn about the world around them. As a result, liberal administrators are seeking to banish Christians and any beliefs that run contrary to their liberal ideas from our public schools and universities and have sought to impose their liberal beliefs on students without their parent’s knowledge or consent. Schools no longer seek to educate students to analyze problems and seek solutions based on facts, but are trying to turn children against Christian beliefs and indoctrinate them in their liberal beliefs. In addition, it has sought to control Christian schools and universities through threats and intimidation. Christians must recognize the threat and seek to reach children with the truth and expose liberal lies. Christians cannot expect that their children are immune to the lies and threats of the liberal school administrations. Churches must actively teach their children the truth and expose the lies in the media and their schools. While liberals portray Christians as accepting falsehoods on faith, the liberals base their arguments on feelings with little or no basis in fact and it is Christians whose beliefs are supported by facts. However, Christians cannot resist the liberal lies without access to the facts and liberals are doing everything possible to suppress the facts.