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Billboards all over town say "We care". Isn't it amazing how many companies and businesses care about us...as long as we can afford them to? people actually think that you can buy compassion, and unfortunately some Christian seem to think so too. The "What's in it for me" attitude motivates many to work for the Lord--take away the perks, and it's goodbye Jesus. Still, I am befuddled by all the lawyers and organization that say they care, and if you pay them, they'll help you. I like what the lord said in 1 Peter 5:7: "Casting all your care upon him; for he careth for you." Only Jesus really cares. the salvation Army is now privately owned (or so I hear), and…
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Who's Afraid of the Fiscal Cliff? By Patrick J. Buchanan Tuesday - November 27, 2012 Were the average Republican asked for a succinct statement of his views on taxation, he or she might respond thus: "U.S. tax rates are too high for the world we must compete in. The tax burden -- federal, state, local, together -- is too heavy. We need to cut tax rates to free up our private and productive sector and pull this economy out of the ditch." This core conviction holds the party together. Yet today the leadership is about to abandon this conviction to sign on to higher tax rates or revenues, while the economy is nearing stall speed. Yet, two years ago, President Obama hi…
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In today's news seems weather change is weird. Is this normal; or created? A little along for the past 20 yrs I've read articles on the subject. The USA started their weather program in 1947 and UK followed in 1951. Then came star wars in the '80's and USA's doomsday machine from Reagan's failed star wars. Why anyone wants a doomsday machine is more like Peter Sellers in Dr. Strangelove. Nevertheless; we have one. Ironically, back in the days of Vietnam we were brought before the UN (1978) and required to sign a treaty to stop using weather for war..... the Vietnam monsoon season didn't exist - we created it. As time goes by you find it harder to find information…
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So does anyone have suggestions as to which chain stores have the best deals in windshield washer fluid? We stocked up a while back, but it's been some time since I bought any.
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Not set in stone; but one that could be correct - maybe. Everyone knows the Catholics have always had it wrong - period; Jan 6th or DEC 25th.. Nothing new. DEC 25th is for the pagan christ Tammuz. All know this. And it came to pass in those days, that there went out a decree from Caesar Augustus, that all the world should be taxed. 2 (And this taxing was first made when Cyrenius was governor of Syria.) 3 And all went to be taxed, every one into his own city. Luke 2:1-3 (KJV) Most know Roman tax time was Sept 2nd. and Jesus was born just after that. The clincher is at the end. And Joseph also went up from Galilee, out of the city of Nazareth, into Judaea,…
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A topic I've ponder but never discuss. Was Osama Bin Laden killed in 2007? What was Bhutto killed? This Pakistani political leader was murdered by intelligence agency supported terrorists after she admitted Bin Laden was dead When Benazir Bhutto returned to Pakistan to take a stand for democratic government, 3 million Pakistanis greeted her at the airport. Now she is dead. (The date: 27 December 2007.) At the 6:15 mark in this video, Benazir Bhutto refers in a matter-of-fact manner to "the man who killed Osama bin Laden." If this was a misstatement, she did not correct herself, nor did the interviewer call attention to it. Before she was murdered, the…
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What Are You Thankful For In 2012?
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1 Peter 2:1 Wherefore laying aside all malice, and all guile, and hypocrisies, and envies, and all evil speakings, 1 Peter 2:2 As newborn babes, desire the sincere milk of the word, that ye may grow thereby: 1 Peter 2:3 If so be ye have tasted that the Lord is gracious. 1 Corinthians 15:57 But thanks be to God, which giveth us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ. I'm thankful to God for his grace to me and to be able to share it with family ,friends, and those who are lost.
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Hello, My name is Jonathan or WLFJ (Worship Love Faith Joy) and I attend the fundamentall baptist church which uses the King James Bible. It's a great church and they have showed great love and joy towards me. Their website has sermons of their pastor. And some photos of the church I attend. I hope everyone will be blessed by my church's website: http://www.amazinggr...tistchurch.org/ Also, I am also on Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/Eccadairius just send me a message that you're from Online Baptist Forums. Good day, God bless!
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Before 12:00 noon Linda had left & gone to town. I was setting in my recliner feeling a sneezing attack coming on, a tickling feeling in my nose. I got up & went to the bathroom to get some tissue to blow my nose. I remember entering the bathroom door turning on the light, but the next thing I remember I was standing up with blood dripping on the floor turned towards the door wondering what happened. I turned my head to the left to look in the mirror & saw blood running down my forehead from a slight gash above my left eye falling on the floor. After this took place I did not want to call my wife fearing she would get over excited & drive to fast coming …
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GOP leaders already jockeying for 2016 LAS VEGAS (AP) — Louisiana's Bobby Jindal is urging the Republican Party to rethink its pitch to voters. Bob McDonnell of Virginia says Republicans should look to outsiders to fix partisan gridlock in Washington. Their fellow governor, Wisconsin's Scott Walker, says the next GOP leader must do a better job explaining why the party's policies will help ordinary Americans. New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie is holding court with admirers — and ignoring reporters as he ducks into nominally private meetings. And Sen. Marco Rubio of Florida is packing his bags for a very public trip to Iowa. Yes, the jockeying for 2016 has already begun. …
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Psalms 19:1 The heavens declare the glory of God; and the firmament sheweth his handywork. Leonid meteor shower - the peak comes in the hours before dawn on Saturday. However, you may be able to see a lot of this display of God’s handiwork Friday evening late. They'll appear to come from the constellation of Leo the Lion, south of the Big Dipper, though they can appear anywhere in the night sky. Most of us are familiar with the Big Dipper so I'll use it as a reference for where to look. Identify the two pointer stars of the Big Dipper – that is, the two outer stars in the Big Dipper’s bowl. An imaginary line drawn between these stars points in one direction toward P…
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How The New Religious Right Assisted in the Re-Election of President Obama And Are Hastening God's Judgment of America Opinion and commentary by Brannon Howse Click here to order Brannon's new hardcover book Religious Trojan Horse (488 pages) or to download the Ebook. Click here to join the more than 14,000 on Brannon's Facebook page Note: I call this new generation of pro-family leaders the "New Religious Right" because I do not believe many of the now deceased leaders of the Religious Right from the 1970s, such as Dr. D. James Kennedy and Dr. Adrian Rogers, would agree with the theological and doctrinal compromises made by many of today's NRR leaders. Ple…
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Why do you go to church? *because you feel it is commanded? *because you enjoy the fellowship? *because you want to grow in the Lord? *to be "fed" by the Word? *because it's a good testimony for you?
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Genesis 27 And it came to pass, that when Isaac was old, and his eyes were dim, so that he could not see, he called Esau his eldest son, and said unto him, My son: and he said unto him, Behold, here am I. 2 And he said, Behold now, I am old, I know not the day of my death: 3 Now therefore take, I pray thee, thy weapons, thy quiver and thy bow, and go out to the field, and take me some venison; 4 And make me savoury meat, such as I love, and bring it to me, that I may eat; that my soul may bless thee before I die. Early last Saturday, my youngest son put on his cammos, took his bow and arrows, climbed an oak tree at the corner of our property and arrowed a nice fat do…
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This is from "Morning and Evening", I thought it needed to be read by all of us. November 14 Morning “I will cut off them that worship and that swear by the Lord, and that swear by Malcham.” - Zep_1:5 Such persons thought themselves safe because they were with both parties: they went with the followers of Jehovah, and bowed at the same time to Malcham. But duplicity is abominable with God, and hypocrisy his soul hateth. The idolater who distinctly gives himself to his false god, has one sin less than he who brings his polluted and detestable sacrifice unto the temple of the Lord, while his heart is with the world and the sins thereof. To hold with the hare and ru…
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Rep. Ron Paul, the iconic libertarian congressman from Texas, has delivered what will most likely be his final address to Congress. In a sprawling, 52-minute speech to the House chamber, Paul lambasted U.S. government, politicians and special interests, declaring that the U.S. people must return to virtue before the government allows them to be free, and that the Constitution has failed to limit the scope of an authoritarian bureaucracy. "Our Constitution, which was intended to limit government power and abuse, has failed," Paul said. "The Founders warned that a free society depends on a virtuous and moral people. The current crisis reflects that their concerns were j…
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I don't like to get too political, but couldn't resist this one!
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Nascar Phoenix: Brad Keselowski Livid Over Jeff Gordon-Clint Bowyer Retaliation, Melee
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NASCAR Phoenix: Brad Keselowski livid over Jeff Gordon-Clint Bowyer retaliation, melee I heard about this on the news, & the reported stated that a poll had been taken & more than 60% of the NSACAR fans wants disputes settled on the track with the drivers knocking each other out on the track. So sad, Americans have turned into a blood thirsty & bully people & its waxing worse with each generation.
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BEWARE: Beck uses an ugly word. Glenn Beck on Romney loss: “sometimes God really sucks” by Joel McDurmon on Nov 9, 2012 The Blaze reports Glenn Beck’s reaction to the presidential loss by fellow-Mormon Mitt Romney: “Man, sometimes God really sucks. . . . I got up yesterday at 3:00 in the morning and I knew. And I couldn’t sleep and I started to say my prayers and I got up and kneeled down by the edge of my bed and I knew that‑‑-or I suspected that my mind’s not God’s mind, and the peace and the comfort that he had given me and so many of my friends was not about an election. God’s about a bigger picture than an election or a candidate. God is about the free…
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Is the GOP Headed for the Boneyard? By Patrick J. Buchanan Friday - November 8, 2012 After its second defeat at the hands of Barack Obama, under whom unemployment has never been lower than the day George W. Bush left office, the Republican Party has at last awakened to its existential crisis. Eighteen states have voted Democratic in six straight elections. Among the six are four of our most populous: New York, Pennsylvania, Illinois and California. And Obama has now won two of the three remaining mega-states, Ohio and Florida, twice. Only Texas remains secure--for now. At the presidential level, the Republican Party is at death's door. Yet one already sees the …
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A quote I've place in this Sunday's bulletin, & we should all be this way, yet I fear many times we ae not. Heb 10:24 And let us consider one another to provoke unto love and to good works: Christians are like the flowers in a garden that have that have each of the dew of Heaven, which being shaken with the wind, they let fall at each other’s roots whereby they are jointly nourished and become nourishes of each other.
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Just one more step to becoming like Sodom and Gomorrah.... http://news.yahoo.com/calif-city-plans-transgender-surgeries-003038743.html
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What would happen in a president election if after the supposed loser makes a concession speech yet the vote count happens to change in a state or two, enough to make the loser the winner, would they declare a new winner? It seems to me they would have to, but our government has some strange ways. Do you know if this has this ever happened? What got me to thinking about this a site I went to the difference between Mr. Obama & Mr. Romney in Florida was 64,959 votes with total of 8,060.844 votes cast. That's not much of a difference. 49.17% Mr. Romney 49.97% Mr. Obama
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I had to make a run to town on the way home I was listening to a Christians talk show, a called stated, "I am completely discouraged with the election going the way it did, there is no hope for us, I've given up all hope." Ps 118:8 It is better to trust in the LORD than to put confidence in man. Ps 118:9 It is better to trust in the LORD than to put confidence in princes. I can't help but wonder how many place their hope in politics, political system, in a mere man, how many of our brothers & sisters are waiting for a messiah to come along so they can elect him, thinking He will protect them from evil rulers, making everyone obey God's laws? Making this a solid …
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I heard on the radio this morning that after a meeting between Romney and Billy Graham, the Billy Graham Evangelistic Association website has removed their statement which had declared Mormonism a cult. Not a big surprise coming from Billy, but just as Jerry has pointed out many times, Christians endorsing a Mormon for president is giving more acceptance and respectability to Mormonism. Christian "leaders" suddenly declaring that a man's faith/religion isn't important when it comes to leadership and politics in America (after saying just the oppositve for the past several decades) has prompted many fence sitters o the issue, as well as many others, to move on to accepti…
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