THE EMMAUS WALK:

Perhaps Al Sharpton and Rev. Jesse Jackson need to review the words of this wonderful anthem, which has more genuine expressions about faith in God than their whole lives and careers and speeches evidence. If they would only change and seek to serve the Black people as true servants of Christ--forgetting their own selves--they would leave a lasting legacy comparable to the legacies of other Black leaders who have served Christ and helped their people in the past to rise up out of poverty and ignorance and despair.

"The Negro National Anthem"

DUNCES OF THE WORLD CORNER CENTER:

There are so many outstanding candidates to choose from nowadays, it is extremely hard to pick just one or two from the huge crowd of dunces that are parading about in the public eye. Al Gore? Sharpton? Hillary Clinton? Schumer? Her Royal House Speakerness Nancy Pelosi? Bill Ellison? "His Irascible Lowness" Barney Frank? Paris Hilton? Brad Pittman? Leonardo the Capricious? The governor of Vermont? The list goes on and on! Try to imagine how many others we don't hear about! Since America was cut adrift from its corrective, Biblical base, we are inundated, as a society, with utterly worthless dunces! It is a plague of Biblical proportions. Our nation of America has chosen foolishness and forgotten God. Anything goes. Anything can win approval. America is ruled by foolish men and foolish women, seated in the Congress, in the White House, and in the Supreme Court. These dunces are throwing America away--the best, freest, most prosperous, most caring and generous country on earth--and will substitute for it a hellish utopia that will be ruled authoritatively and have no freedom left to its name. It does not matter to them what the record actually shows America to be--they don't want a Christian, moral, homogenous, American society, free and indivisible under God. They want just the opposite--an immoral, divided and fratracidal, authoritarian, godless society. Moreover, they do not want a prosperous, wealth-creating society--they aim to apply draconian Global Warming sanctions and make it sink to a Third World economy like Mexico's, while they retain their high positions and wealth, of course. To help achieve such a hell on earth they only emphasize the bad (and there is bad, plenty badness in America, thanks to their liberal erosion of morality and belief in God and Christ and basic ethics such as honesty).

It is high time for President Bush to come to grips with the clear and unmistakable peril we are in and call America to a Day of National Fasting and Prayer. We are tottering to our final overthrow, while enjoying a last, mad fling, like the degenerate, sensualist Ancient Romans just before the barbarians sacked Rome in 410, or like Prince Regent Belshazzar holding a royal bash at the palace, the night Cyrus's Medo-Persian army marched into Babylon to take it, interrupting Belshazzar's grand toast to himself amidst the cheers of his noblemen-dunces crying in their cups, "Long live the king! Long live King Belshazzar!" The partying that goes on in Washington, D.C., can't be much different from Belshazzar's. The same kind of people are present, doing the same licentious and blasphemous things in defiance of God, so not much has changed in 2500 years, other than the names.

"DUNCES OF THE WORLD CENTER"

CHRISTIAN NEWS FLASH:

Pastor Jerry Falwell of Thomas Road Baptist Church, Liberty University, and the Moral Majority--a leading conservative Christian--has passed away suddenly from apparent heart failure at the age of 73. He was found unconscious in his office ("his Gospel boots on") and rushed to the hospital. He had been in the hospital in 2005 for heart and lung problems. The BBC's TV report was hostile--as you and I would expect to hear from a full-blown HIV-atheistic organization that has as its agenda the destruction of Christian values and institutions and even the end of a Christian voice in America's affairs. They called him a racist, supporting the apartheid regime of South Africa. I refuse to believe anything they say about this issue--it cannot be credible, coming from such a polluted, prejudice, biased source as this one. I know the apartheidist regime ruling South Africa was replaced by another government headed by Nelson Mandela, supposedly a vast improvement, but it is proven to be a basket-case not much better than Zimbabwe (the former Rhodesia). The pandemic of AIDS, due to the unrestrained immorality of South Africans, is devastating an entire generation, leaving millions of orphans in the most dire circumstances. The government's welfare system and socialism are not helping the economy either. But this is the "improvement" the BBC fought for and got. Now the BBC has the word on Jerry Falwell, a man the BBC was not worthy to have enter its doors at Bush House in London. They did not mention anything good. They did not mention he was a family man, with a long, successful marriage, and that he was a truly moral, exemplary, even "squeaky clean" man in every respect, and that he loved God and served Jesus Christ and witnessed and ministered to sinners all his life as a pastor and friend. They said he could say the most terrible things in an affable way--things like "sin is wrong and destructive to a person," "God loves the homosexual, but hates the homosexuality," and "God wants everyone to be saved in the Name of Jesus Christ by accepting Him as their Lord and Savior."

I just heard a full-blown HIV-Leftist on Talk Radio, who claimed to understand Middle Eastern terrorism because he spent 7 years in Gaza, accuse Rev. Falwell and Pat Robertson of pandering to the death squads of the contras in Central America, when both were there for the sake of Christ's Gospel and both have always supported the return of democracy and freedom after the authoritarian leftists and socialists were on the verge of taking over whole countries in Central America and wiping out all freedom there. The Contras won, even with the American Left trying to stop any aid from the U.S., and the socialists lost--so that freedom was restored. We see no problem with that outcome--but the Leftists do, since they prefer authoritarian, socialist governments that control every aspect of life and put Christians in prison.

In any case, no Christian could support death squads--that would be a complete denial of Christ our Savior and Lord, who said love your enemies, do good to those who persecute you. To accuse Christians of that is a calumny and a base lie.

The BBC mentioned Liberty University and the Moral Majority, only because they are perceived as a political threat to the liberal establishments and elites of this country and Britain. They do not see that this school and moral reform movement form about the only basis for hope for the survival of America and also Britain. The BBC refuses to accept that terrorism is not deserved by America, and roots for the terrorists because they are against America, whom the BBC regards as the true enemy in the world. But Jerry Falwell, seeing that America was founded as a Christian, covenanted nation under God, did not accept the secular humanist template, godless and anti-Christ and self-destructive and immoral as it is, but stood valiantly and consistently on the Word of God and the Ten Commandments as the true basis for any viable civilization. The BBC, and its cohorts in America, are true dunces. When their names go down into a pit of everlasting shame, Jerry Falwell's name will rise, and he will have many golden crowns to present to Christ for his love of Jesus, love of sinners, and his unfailing, courageous witness (taking the persecution and bitter, unjustified attacks of the secular humanist media with a smile and Christian love) for the sake of Christ. A true Christian champion has laid down the torch. Will YOU take it up, fellow Christian? He did what we are all called to do--take up the banner of Christ and stand regardless of all opposition and bitter attacks on us, whole showing true Christian love to our enemies and inviting them to accept Jesus as their personal savior so they might be saved and be taken to heaven. We can do this same thing that he did--in our own situations. Let us do it now--while we still have life and opporltunity.

A while ago I read Jerry Falwell's autobiography, and I was intrigued by his ability to tell on himself and throw his whole weight and reputation on the grace of Christ--it was most refreshing! He did not present himself at all as a holier than thou Christian. Rather, he was saying, I was just like you, my friend, a desperate sinner caught in Satan's bondage and the shackles of sin, but Christ, crucified and risen from the dead, set me free! We need more witnesses of grace so outspoken and candid and transparent as Jerry Falwell was. No wonder he rose to the heights he did--you can't keep an honest, genuine Christian down, who consistently lives godly and refuses to compromise his beliefs and Christian lifestyle to conform with the fallen world. The world tried everything it could think of to silence and discredit him--but it utterly failed. He is now enjoying the eternal bliss and beauty of heaven (a place his detractors in the BBC, in the U.S. media, and Liberal Talk Radio, unless they repent, will never see). No doubt the Lord said to him, "Well done, good and faithful servant! Enter now into the joy of the Lord!"

Have you noticed? The vicious attacks of the secular humanist media have been stepped up, without his enemies waiting even 24 hours in deference to the grief of his family, friends, students, and millions across the nation. These disgusting little frogs in the media are croaking up a storm against a man whom they could not face while he still lived in order for him to give his own defense. No, they conveniently attack him after he is gone, so that they don't have to deal with the facts and can slander and smear all they please. There are always plenty fools to believe them too. This is what they are counting on. The Democrats do not all go along with this cowardly attack. Al Sharpton and Jesse Jackson, for two, have complimentary words for him (this must be said for them!). How about the others? There is a deafening silence so far, as the frogs in the slime and duckweed of the political swamp begin to croak, "Falwell was a racist!". I love the little peepers that announce spring in the Northwest--but the human variety are quite another thing. In the Bible, a not very nice view is taken of frogs. Frogs are used to describe unclean demonic spirits, even the Anti-Christ and the Beast and False Prophet. They are basically unclean creatures--happily breeding even in contaminated waters or foul water--and when they take on voices and speak blasphemy they are truly demonic spirits. Well, we are truly in the Latter Days just before the Rapture, when we can expect demonic spirits to start speaking out against the godly and righteous ones--as we can clearly hear them already speaking in this case of Jerry Falwell's passing.

How about a Gospel Check? This one is good too--it won't bounce, for the Bank of Heaven and God Almighty as the Bank President stands behind it, to pay out to Whosever believes and cashes it:

BIBLE JOKE CENTER

"The meek shall inherit the earth, if it's alright with the rest of you."--Submitted by Mrs. Pearl A. Ginther

QUOTABLES CENTER:

SOAP BOX SERMON

"DUZ you DREFT with the TIDE? VEL, now is the time to CHEER up, if you want real JOY. The TREND is to BREEZE to church on Sunday. Too many people WOODBURY their heads in a pillow, or work to make their car SPARKLE, forgetting the Lord's Day was made for LESTOIL. When the Lord is first a DOVE will never need to be sent with a S.O.S. for you to put God first. Maybe we ought to DIAL you to remind you of the IVORY palaces yonder.

"Worship is a LIFEBUOY. So why not WISK yourself out of bed next Sunday, dress up SPIC AND SPAN, and DASH like a COMET to Sunday School and church? As you sing PRAISE to God and hear His word, you will get a wonderful cleanser for your soul, and you will feel like MR. CLEAN all week long."--Submitted by Mrs. Pearl A. Ginther, age 97

WASHINGTON AND THE WHOLE NATION DESPERATELY NEED A SPRING DEEP-CLEANING: Imagine how dirty and unwashed (and smelly!) this nation and particularly its capital Washington, D.C., the murder capital of the country, is, spiritually--when most people never darken the doors of a church or go to God and the Word for real cleansing of their heart and soul! Pastor Kroeze in his latest broadcast on Christian TV had it right: corruption (pornography) is everwhere you look, he said. This nation is wallowing in the filth of pornography, and dirty entertainment, and dirty dancing, and dirt-throwing--ergo, it is a dirty nation. Lord, grant us the cleansing of a coast-to-coast revival and repentance that deep-cleans our souls. Amen--Ed.

CARTOON CENTER

"Cartoon Center"

BIBLE QUIZ CENTER

"Bible Quiz Center"

My parents' church, founded in 1909, the year my mother was born. She is still a member at age 97, and attends and takes a very active part, praying unceasingly and contributing her wonderful encouragement to people in any way she can, tithing faithfully as well. The church has grown from this very modest house of worship to a large, complex, beautiful facility that has more than 1,000 members a month attending two services and many activities. But growth of this degree is not necessarily spiritual growth. Love of God and godliness of life has not necessarily increased from the congregation that met in this six-windowed, shed-like structure in 1909.

I have reason to say this. My mother used to supply the Gospel tract holder in the church, which for many, many years was hanging out in a public area where it was visible to all, but when she didn't see it in its former place and asked, she was informed the rack was moved, and, anyway, the literature the church provided was what the church preferred given out. Before this, this same not very evangelistic leadership decided not to reprint or even excerpt her written testimony of how the Lord used her to lead two octogenarians to the Lord, which a pastor of a local Baptist church wrote up for his parishioners to encourage his elderly church members to quit doing nothing and start ministering to others and witnessing Christ to the unsaved as my mother was always doing.

These are small signs, but real signs, of spiritual decline--a gradual lessening of love for God and a dying of the once-bright fire of evangelism that shows a church is growing cold and dying. This same church had a pastor who pushed a brainstorm of his that almost succeeded: a very expensive, architect-designed structure to be appended to the front of the church sanctuary that was to be a mausoleum such as Episcopalian churches have at some of their sites. Fortunately, my concerned mother and other praying saints at the church sought God and prayed against this hideous, ill-conceived monstrosity, and, lo and behold, the church income suddenly took a dive and the considerable money needed for the project dried up--and now there is no more talk about the pastor's brainstorm--it is indefinitely suspended as a poor idea. This shows the power of one praying saint, and the power of prayer too of others who followed her lead! Who says one can't make a difference? Who says one is too young, too old, too uneducated, too unqualified, too poor...not God. With God, we can do the impossible, as my mother has amply proven, over and over again, right in her own church.

IS BIGGER REALLY BETTER? America has this trait, which is not really a godly trait. Lets say you want to put Podunk, USA, on the map. Well, build the biggest "widget" you can, and then you can boast to the world, "Biggest Widget in the World!" This has been done a thousand times all across the USA. We all laugh at this, of course, but just look around. The whole culture is "widgetized" in much the same way, only we have made it more sophisticated than Podunk could ever make it. But, where is modesty, frugality, humility, meekness, self-effacement, and simplicity? Those used to be values in America. Now it is just the opposite in America. Look even at Christian TV: the speakers, ministers, singers, evangelists, bands, most all parade in the most expensive and fanciest wardrobes money can buy. Women put on enough jewelry to stock a jewelry store. Their dresses and necklines reveal most everything they have been given by God for their husbands in marriage--not the crowds--to see. Some women remain modest--it is true--but the trend is downward, to copy the world's corrupt, "flaunt it" fashions. Christian women on TV now frost their hair with unnatural tints just to draw attention: I saw a woman just the other day singing away about Jesus in a very expensive, snugly-designed dress to show her shapely form, and her luxuriant head of full-length, blonde hair was tinted over the top (but not all the way) with a totally unnatural blue-greenish hue that made her look like a rock star under colored lights. Who let her "perform" decked out like that? She was singing about Jesus, of course, but all I really could see was her atrocious, mixed, rockstar hair color. My impression is correct--and it is disturbing. Television (a technical means of communication corrupted to serve our human pride and lust for vain glory and self-advancement) has all but ruined us. Yes, the Gospel still gets out, despite the incredible mess we make of ourselves before the watching Third World who are gasping most of the time over our wardrobes and jewelry and worldly behavior. But the fact still remains that the singers and even the choirs (which used to be put in the backs of churches or off to the side atleast if seated at the front!) are mostly there to attract attention to themselves, apparently, not for the sake of Christ. To attract center stage attention to themselves, they obviously will do anything, spend any amount of money. It is incredible, the amount of posturing for attention and upstaging even on programs devoted to evangelism--as if they were there for promoting their own careers and the ratings of the show, rather than holding up the victory of the Cross of Christ and the Risen Christ to a suffering world bound in sin. Do these performers ever stop to consider the effect they could be having on the watching world of hundreds of millions of very poor people round the world--who could never afford the lifestyles and clothes and travel and cars and even the jets of the evangelists and the singers and the hotshot preachers from mega-churches. At one church I attended, I was told by the pastor that the worship leader in the denomination was paid 300k a year. Now who is worth that much in a church or a denomination? That amount for her Christian services" struck me as obscene--and it still does. Why doesn't she donate her time like a genuine Christian who knows the Christ of the Cross, so the 300k can be put into evangelism and the feeding of the poor and the clothing of the naked? That amount would go a long way, and bless thousands of people who have nothing. If I were the bishop, she would be the first one I would make a janitor, just to get some reality back into her Christian walk! But I doubt, with my ideas about denying myself as a Christian, and the narrow gate, and the cross, that I would ever be considered for bishop--though I am certain I would make a memorable one, if not a popular one.

Finding Your Spiritual Gift(s) Self-Exam:

WANT TO KNOW WHAT YOUR GIFTS ARE WITHOUT GUESSING? "Finding Your Spiritual Gifts," the Wagner-Modified Questionnaire" may be a big help to you. This self-exam and questionnaire will "help you discover and understand your spiritual gifts" and was recommended and sent to me by the late Duane L. Smith who took the self-exam. It is available for a small charge when you order it from C. Peter Wagner of Fuller Theological Seminary.

SAINT-BUILDING CENTER, FEATURING THE MESSAGES OF THE INIMITABLE STUART MAXWELL HAWKINS:

"Saint-Building Center"

These valuable messages of Stuart Maxwell Hawkins' will furnish one or more of the six elective subjects as they come on-line with study questions or quizzes.

Stuart Maxwell Hawkins's message, "Forgive Me," is now on-line, and will also carry Study Questions soon.

"Forgive Me," Message by Stuart Maxwell Hawkins

WILL PRESIDENT BUSH'S ROADMAP TO PEACE AND THE GIVING UP OF ISRAELI LAND FOR PALESTINIAN ASSURANCES THEY WILL DISANNUL THEIR OWN CHARTER'S ANTI-ISRAEL PROVISIONS AND THEREAFTER ACCEPT ISRAEL'LS RIGHT TO EXIST, WORK? OR IS THE ONLY TRUE AND WORKABLE ROADMAP TO PEACE FOUND IN JESUS CHRIST ALONE, JUST AS THE BIBLE IN THE BOOK OF ISAIAH TEACHES IN ISAIAH, CALLING THE MESSIAH YESHUA, JESUS, THE PRINCE OF PEACE? EPHESIANS 2:4 ALSO STATES: "HE IS OUR PEACE."

The Bible clearly shows that the "Roadmap to Peace" promoted by Washington is wrong, since it goes completely against God's Covenant, which is unbreakable: "My covenant I will not break, nor alter the word that has gone out of My lips."--Psalm 89:34.

America, listen up! This unequivocal declaration by Almighty God, the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, completely invalidates President Bush's "Roadmap to Peace." God will never approve it. Psalm 105, 7-15, states: "He is the Lord our God, His judgments are in all the earth. He remembers His covenant forever, the word which he commanded for a thousand generations [40-50,000 year stretch of time, which means unlimited in extent--Ed.]. The covenant which He made with Abraham, and His oath to Isaac, and confirmed it to Jacob for a statute, to Israel as an everlasting covenant. Saying, "To you I will give the land of Canaan as the allotment of your inheritance." When they were but few in number, indeed very few, and strangers in it. When they went from one nation to another, from one kingdom to another people. He permitted no one to do them wrong; yes, he rebuked kings for their sakes, saying, "Do not touch My anointed ones, and do My prophets no harm!"

A MOVE TO DESTROY AMERICA LEGISLATIVELY: The elections in 2008 are approaching! We need, not another savvy political thinker, but a true man of God--honest, genuine, with Christian convictions, and the backbone to hold to his beliefs and to the promises he made the electorate and the American people. Political thinkers have failed us abysmally, have they not? They have dragged us into the quagmire where we are now swimming in muck and manure up to our noses. Another secular humanist such as we had in Jimmy Carter, William Clinton, and even the two Bushes (who despite a few Republican features are not even Republicans in practice) will take us down under! Human wisdom, which has cut adrift from American precedent and Biblical principles, has misled every presidential administration from the 19th century to the present. Washington is overflowing with think tanks, lobbyist centers, foundations, universities, university academics, counsellors, experts, commentators, policy makers--and yet we continue to commit the most stupendous follies and ignore all the warnings of God and the admonitions of Bible-teaching ministers and evangelists even of the caliber of Billy Graham. This just tells me that Captain Smith is still at the helm of America, as he continues to run the ship full steam ahead toward the iceberg in the distance!

Do you know that Captain Smith (and the company CEO on board) ignored every warning from other ships about ice packs ahead. We too are ignoring every warning from God and godly men and women, and history. We fail to realize that the world's greatest nation, just like the world's greatest ship, can be struck and sink to the bottom in the space of a mere couple hours. We saw what an hour could do to the the World Trade Center and the Pentagon and our great commercial aircraft taking off from our nation's leading airports--so we should be thinking sober thoughts of what another such hour could do to us (more about this later, as we review the published plans of Osama bin Ladin for attacking us with his suitcase bombs and forcing Islamic law on a terrified, nuclear-blasted America in the near future).

Captain-President Bush II is determined, it is clear now, to hand the concluding victory over conservative-Republican values to the Democratic Party by signing the Democratic Senate's immigration bill (if it comes to his desk). This is the comprehensive destruction of the Republican Party bill, as Rush Limbaugh has aptly called it. It guarantees 12-20 million Mexicans, now illegals but soon to be legalized under the amnesty bill promoted by the Senate, a place as legal residents of the U.S., after they entered illegally! They will be entitled to nearly all or all of the rights of U.S. citizens, including social security and social services. This is the end of the Republican Party and the influence of the evangelical church and conservative voice in America and the further gigantic expansion of government and the welfare state with its fiscal irresponsibility--if this succeeds. But God...we can still hope and pray for a turnaround, and that this bill from hell will be defeated. It is completely unworkable (a purely cosmetic wash over the huge threat to America from the illegals). It cannot and will not be enforced. If that is shown, and the true nature of it comes out to the American people, it will be met with such a storm of protest that the U.S. Congress will back down. Signs are that it is already going the wrong way with this bill, which was supposed to be a shoo-in, when we first heard it made public by the Senate. The Senate, a puffed up, vainglorious body of over-educated ignoramuses, ideologues, and back room power brokers that likes to call itself the greatest deliberative legislative body in the world (with the likes of Senator Byrd, or Senator Edward Kennedy, no less, presiding!), has suppassed previous follies with this bill. That is a most remarkable achievement--but I will pray, and hope all you (including Mexican-Americans who entered legally), will pray that God Almighty will not allow this bill to destroy this country, as it will surely do.

Butterfly Productions Home Page

(c) 2007, Butterfly Productions, All Rights Reserved

All Emmaus Walk Students, to earn a Certificate, must complete the 10 required courses and the 6 elective courses, and must write to the Founder and Director regarding their candidacy and for access to answers for quizzes and tests. Contact information: Write: Ronald Ginther, The Emmaus Walk, P.O. Box 212, Puyallup, Washington 98371

WWW.OARINGINTHERIVER.COM Master Directory