June 30th, 2008
There was a time in my life that I was very politically active. I fought for my candidates and made my political views well known. I was even the president of a local chapter of the Right to Life Committee. I am not there anymore, much to the chagrin of those who are still politically active. I have come to a simple conclusion. If we are to effect real change in our nation, politics is not the venue. The hearts and minds of people are what we should be fighting for. There are those who would tell me we need to be fighting in all realms, political, temporal, spiritual, eternal. That we will fail if we do not fight all of these battles. That it is the only way we will beat the juggernaut. I will tell you to save your breath. Who do we serve? Do we serve an impotent god or do we serve the Holy One of Israel, Jehovah who is capable of all things? Who is more powerful, the juggernaut of our government or Jehovah? If we as His children turn back to Him and forsake our selfish ways, is He not capable of restoring our nation? If He chooses not to then what have we lost?
What government we are under does not matter as long as we serve Him. All things will work together for His glory. So why do we struggle in the temporal world to right a ship that we have no power to right? It is like trying to pump out the ocean using a hand pump. At some point we will be flooded out. Only when we have turned our hearts back to the One who commands the ocean itself and put our faith in Him and submit to His will we will be restored. This is a simple truth. One that Israel learned over and over again. We are on the same path.
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June 20th, 2008
My friends I have a serious prayer request. One of my nieces has strayed from the faith of her parents. She has engaged a group of friends and become part of their group, and through them has embraced Wicca. She has moved out of her parent’s house and moved in with her latest “boyfriend”. I give these details only so that those who will pray know what to pray for and is done with permission. Please pray for her parents to have the wisdom, patience, and love to deal with this. I ask that you pray that my niece’s eyes are opened to the truth of her situation.
As a side note this is part of my crusade. My niece is where she is because of the prevailing attitudes of our churches today. Because my niece has minor autistic tendencies people in the church tended to ostracize her because they did not understand her. Rather than loving her for who she is. It is a crime in my eyes that those involved in the pagan practices Wicca are more loving and accepting of my niece’s differences than those that claim to follow Yeshua.
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June 16th, 2008
Some of you may protest, but mine have yours beat. Period end of discussion.
Father’s day started a day early as my eldest wanted to take me to see the new Hulk movie. That was awesome. A must see movie for those into that kind of thing. I saw the first hulk movie and it was bad, the new one is light years ahead.
On Fathers day my children let me do the one thing I like to do most. REST. I had to do nothing for the day. I also got a lot of love and some cool gifts. To continue on with the Hulk theme I got a new Hulk game for my Xbox so far it has been cool to play. A couple of tee-shirts including one exclaiming to the world what my children thought of me, and some more reading material (way cool). My lovely bride got me some more music and a way cool Sony MP3 player to play it on.(ok, I kind of knew about it as it is the same one that my wife got for Mothers day although mine is black and hers is pink.)
Anyway, my kids are way cool and I am a very blessed father to have them.
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June 11th, 2008
I was kind of sad to see Mr. Webb leave. I have no animosity toward him and I am sure we could have had some interesting conversations. He mentioned in his last comment that Jonah was a reluctant prophet what is funny is that Jonah and I are alike in that regard. I am a very reluctant prophet. I mean who wants to hear that G_d is pulling His hand of protection from our country. That the church is loosing sight of its first and true love. And talk about using the “foolish” to confound the “wise”. Why call a man who has NO desire to go before people and tell them what they don’t want to hear? Come on, I freeze up in family related social situations to the point other family members ask my wife if I don’t like them. How well do you think I am going to do with complete strangers?
Mr. Webb indicated that it was his understanding that the prophets ended with Yeshua’s fulfillment of prophecy and that the apostles were a special group of believers with powers directly from Yeshua. Yet just a quick search in acts alone shows that the title of prophet did not end. What has changed is our understanding of the job of the prophet. It got rolled up into to office of pastor or preacher. There are probably a number of reasons for this but I am not that adept in church history or adept in the understanding of how people think and reason to give an accurate accounting of why it happened. What I do know is that there seems to be a stigma attached to being a called prophet, especially in evangelical circles. Yet even a simple study would show that the need for prophets never really ended.
25 And he left for Tarsus to look for Saul;
26 and when he had found him, he brought him to Antioch And for an entire year they met with the church and taught considerable numbers; and the disciples were first called Christians in Antioch.
27 Now at this time some prophets came down from Jerusalem to Antioch.
28 One of them named Agabus stood up and began to indicate by the Spirit that there would certainly be a great famine all over the world And this took place in the reign of Claudius.
29 And in the proportion that any of the disciples had means, each of them determined to send a contribution for the relief of the brethren living in Judea.
30 And this they did, sending it in charge of Barnabas and Saul to the elders.
Acts 11: 25 – 30
30 So when they were sent away, they went down to Antioch; and having gathered the congregation together, they delivered the letter.
31 When they had read it, they rejoiced because of its encouragement.
32 Judas and Silas, also being prophets themselves, encouraged and strengthened the brethren with a lengthy message.
33 After they had spent time there, they were sent away from the brethren in peace to those who had sent them out.
Acts 15: 30 – 33
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