THE EMMAUS WALK:

Perhaps secular-humanist, liberal black leaders such as Al Sharpton and Rev. Jesse Jackson need to review the words of this wonderful spiritual 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"

I attended a "black church" for over seven years and learned a great deal about contemporary black Christian people as well as black people of other eras as I worshiped God with them and sat under the preaching and ministry of the pastor and numerous evangelists (all black). During that time I began reading the books in the library, and found a big book by a black woman scholar who detailed dozens of notable black people in America and Africa. I brought some of these notable historical personages to the bulletin board of the church, printing the accounts of black patriots and pioneers, and singers such as Marian Anderson, and others. No one showed the least interest (save one man, who never mentioned the subject again to me). The church members did not know the people of these fascinating accounts, or even that the book was in the library, until I told them. But their interest stopped before it even got started. They did not care if yodelling was invented by blacks in Africa--not the Swiss! They did not care if the Fisk College Choir was the first to promote Negro Spirituals, which until then had been a secret hymnody of the cotton field slaves down on the plantations. That shocking lack of interest in Christian black people told me that a people who are ignorant of their own history will have that history and heritage stolen from them by those who want to manipulate and use them for their own political and economic advantage. This is the case with the black people in America. They have been manipulated and misled by the Democratic Party for generations, it is clear by what has happened to them. A few black people have open eyes and see how they have been betrayed and misused, but so far the vast majority remain in the thrall of their political slave-masters, who want to keep them in that bondage for ever if they can. The children of the black people continue to grow up ignorant of their own history--and a false, distorted, politically-warped version is given them by liberal, secular-humanist teachers and educators and textbook writers. Martin Luther King Jr., for example, is not featured preaching and speaking of God and Christian values--he is remade into a secular-humanist, liberal politician and civil rights leader--which he was not in the strict sense. Take away the Biblical content of his speeches, you have almost nothing left but "I have a dream!" That is about all we are given in the various commemorations. "I have a dream!" It is a "tablula rasa" upon which secular humanists can write virtually anything they like to mislead the black people of America. And they do use it that way! But his whole vision was profoundly Biblical in inspiration and content--he saw a civil, fair society without sectarian and racial lines that would include all men--regardless of color or station in life--joining together in a free union and free society where everyone could achieve what God put in him or her. God gave us this right--he truly believed, and said so countless times. God was the basis of this kind of society, he preached. He was a religious man--thoroughly so. To make him merely a politician, even though a great civil rights leader, is to demean him and rob us of his legacy bequeathed to all Americans, no matter what race or color they are.

DUNCES OF THE WORLD CENTER:

There are so many outstanding candidates to choose from nowadays for our Dunciad, 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? His Moslem Highness, Congressman Keith Ellison? "His Irascible Lowness," the homosexual activist Congressman, Barney Frank? Paris Hilton? Brad Pittman? The secular humanist governor of Vermont who is determined not to give children the least protection of the law against repeat sex predators? The list goes on and on! Try to imagine how many others we don't hear about! Since America was cut adrift from its self-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 us 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, pleasure-loving, sensualist, effete, obscenely corrupt 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 continually 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. The same kind of people are advising President Bush in the White House and Congress concerning Islam--it is no threat, they tell him, it is compatible with American democracy, and only a relative few Moslems are radical or fanatic jehadists. All these things are patently false, as former radical Moslems and also Christian Arabs have tried repeatedly to tell the President, who is not listening to people who know the truth about Islam and speak the truth about Islam. Martin Mawyer is one American who knows and tells the truth also about Islam. In his booklet, "Jihad in America," he defines the religious war against America waged by Moslems, radical and "moderate." Moderates will NEVER speak out against the radicals, as there exists no middle ground for them to stand and speak from--without bringing death and destruction on themselves and their families. They will remain silent, as the jehadists draw the noose around Americans and all our liberties and then give a final yank that finishes us off as a free people, a free democracy, and free Christians.

What do the signs of the Moslem protestors say? In the upper picture, where the Moslems are agitating in front of the White House no less, the sign says: "ISLAM WILL DOMINATE!" Did President Bush, the one who proclaims that Islam is a "religion of peace," take notice? Did his White House staff advisers take notice? Apparently not! They are still proclaiming this blatant untruth since they started.

This is the religion of peace declaring that Islam will dominate America and, in all meanintful American ways, destroy her. What will George W. Bush or his descendants think then? They will be hoisting Islamic signs, no doubt, at religious parades and mosque observances--or be driven into the wilderness or killed or taxed to death, if they don't actively resist Islam's hold on the country.

What other country would permit such a demonstration as this but America, which doesn't believe that Islam is a religion of war, which means exactly what it says in these Islamic signs? And what other religion would dare to state that right in front of the President in the White House? I don't see Presbyterians or Pentecostals or Baptists parading in protest, with signs of violent intent against America, right in front of the White House. On the very day the recent JFK airport plot of Islamic terrorists to blow up its fuel lines was foiled, the NPR radio program in response was a symposium of the usual secular humanist experts discussing "the threat of Christian nationalism." A woman began by branding Jerry Falwell a racist. This is the response of the secular humanists in Ameica, who are more concerned with putting down American patriotism by evangelicals than Islamic terrorists seeking to overthrow our government from within the society. They regard Christians as the terrorists to fear--not the Islamic jehadists. They are actually anxious to turn America over to the Moslems--so that Christians are completely crushed and their voice silence forever. No matter if all our precious American freedoms are extinguished at the same time. Britain, leading the way, is a dying Western nation whose secular humanist elites are giving up their freedoms to the Moslem community in Britain--even dictating that Moslem religion be taught in the schools, which is happening in America too. This is the message of the religion that President Bush tells us is a "religion of peace"--We, the Moslems, will dominate you, America, and rule over you with our Sharia law! The bottom picture on Martin Mawyer's booklet's cover shows these signs: "SLAY THOSE WHO INSULT ISLAM," "EUROPE WILL PAY...", AND "BUTCHER THOSE WHO MOCK ISLAM."

This is what the false, double-dealing "religion of peace" proclaims today in our public squares and even before the dangerously-compromised White House and president. To the Moslems, President Bush is an arch-infidel, leader of the Great Satan, which is America in their eyes. We must be destroyed or at least crushed to the level of sub-humans who are forced to accept the dictatorial rule of Moslem Sharia religious and civil law. To achieve this our Moslem enemies, both in and outside the country, have ample means--the numbers of jehadists necessary, the necessary funds from oil money and Saudi Arabian contributions to Moslem terrorist organizations, and the will and resolve and plan to carry out a graduated strategy of attacks on America using nuclear suitcase bombs, which were easy to obtain for about 20 million each from Russian sources, according to Osama bin Ladin.

Meanwhile, President Bush (for whatever reason--ignorance? wrong advice? mistaken policies of his father? secular-humanist or liberal leanings?) continues to mislead and deceive the American people, continued to assure us that Islam is a religion of peace, with only a minority we need worry about and fight with our army. Somehow political figures think they are also theologians who can decide these questions, and the people are supposed to take their views on religious matters as the Gospel truth! He continues to defend the front door of America, while leaving our "back door," the Canadian and Mexican borders, wide open to terrorists and suitcase nuclear bombs. He announced to the nation that he plans to sign the Democratic bill after Congress had previously authorized 700 miles of fence to help close off the 1,500 Mexican-U.S. border. How can he do this? This ridiculous bill reduces the mileage of the fence to only 300, which may never be completed anyway since the Federal Government is not known for making good on any of its promises. This bill is a sham, an act of war against our national security, perpetrated on the American people by the U.S. Congress and even our President! Shame on both of them, for such deception, dereliction of duty, and outright lies! They are betraying us all into the hands of jehadist Islam--and it will be a cruel fate for us after over 200 years of enjoying freedom and the right to worship God as our conscience (not man or a Moslem mullah) dictates.

Martin Mawyer's excellent expose about the true nature and agenda of Islam (both by terroristic jehadists like Osama bin Ladin and also by the equally dangerous, government-financed and supported radical Wahibist Moslem clerics of Saudi Arabia) can be obtained by going to his his Christian Action Network website:

"Jihad in America!" by Martin Mawyer

IS ISLAM INCOMPATIBLE WITH AMERICA AND DEMOCRACY? Not long ago, after some years of pondering its behavior and its long history, I came to the conclusion that Islam is completely, essentially incompatible, not only with America and democracy but Christianity and Western Civilization. You can't have one, and the other--they are mutually exclusive. All the progress we have made in the West to promote education, economic well-being, and civil and religious liberty is rolled back to the 7th century by Islam as it is practiced and followed by its adherents since it began with Mohammed.

What changes would we expect to see if America is Islamicized? Well, to begin with, men are put ahead of women--far ahead. Women are de-emancipated. Slavery is reinstated. Democracy and voting rights expunged. Christianity crushed and Christians reduced to almost slave status and heavily taxed, Christian churches destroyed or confiscated and turned into granaries, barns, and storehouses, with no permits given to build new ones.

As in today's Egypt, Christians relegated to the bottom of society, with jobs going to Moslems first and foremost, and whatever is left that Moslems reject given to Christians. Women disenfranchised and relegated to a cloistered existence--made to cover themselves, especially in the sight of men, and left uneducated, their abilities ignored, except when they serve as sex objects, subservient wives or baby-factories. All democratic rights and institutions destroyed. The most brutal "Honor killings" of women who are perceived to be out of line with Moslem morals. Of course we know that the monarchist or authoritarian regimes that rule most Moslem states today (Saudi Arabia, Jordan, Libya, etc) do not subscribe to quite all of the traditional subjection of women and Christians and Moslem Arab apartheidist treatment of Jews--but they are still not free societies, and Islam is still the state religion in practice if not always officially (as in Western-leaning, secularist-governed Moslem Turkey), and minorities of every kind are treated as less than equal with Moslems. Terrorist states--Syria, Gaza (Hamas-stan), Iran, and even Hezbollah-overrun Lebanon--demean and persecute Christians, women, and minority Moslem sects even worse.

In other words, the diagnosis is correct: we are doomed if Islam gains the upper hand in America. The parallel-society idea is false. There can be no parallel-societies if Islam is the participant. Europe is finding this out the hard way. Moslems who emigrate take with them the Sharia law and Islamic religious civil government (which is a clerical dictatorship), for clerics go along with the others and agitate for these things and the overturning of the host secular government and society in the West. They are at war, to be sure, from the day they enter a Western country--though this is never acknowledged. They come as rulers, as one Dutchman realized in Holland, not as imigrants to be assimilated. They do not assimilate, for the reasons given above, that they are a state-within-a-state that, given time and the huge birth rate of Moslems in their new homes, will eventually outvote and then overturn the democratic Western society that has given them a chance at a new life--a chance they throw away in order to reinstate the former tyranny of their Moslem home countries.

The excellent "Levitt Letter," the newsletter of the Zola Levitt Ministries, has a recent article in the May 2007 issue that every Christian in America should read, entitled, "How do Christians Live With Muslims?", authored by Frank Pastore, www.townhall.com. You can try the web address of Mr. Pastore. Otherwise, the excellent Levitt Letter magazine can be ordered or the article by Mr. Pastore can be accessed, perhaps, by going to the Zola Levitt website:

WWW.TOWNHALL.COM for Frank Pastore's article, "How do Christians Live With Muslims?"

"How do Christians Live With Muslims?" by Frank Pastore, c/o Zola Levitt Ministries

"DUNCES OF THE WORLD CENTER"

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, WHICH HAS AMPLY DEMONSTRATED THAT IT IS A NATION OF LIARS AND DECEIVERS AND SHAMELESS IMMORALISTS, DESPERATELY NEEDS A SPRING DEEP-CLEANING: Pfui! What is that awful smell? Where is it coming from? 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"

A case in support for "smallness": 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? IS MUCH REALLY MORE? IS FLAUNTING IT THE WAY TO BEHAVE? America has this trait toward excessivism and exhibitionism, which is not really a godly trait. Lets say you want to put Pumpkin Center, South Dakota, up as a prime tourist site. Well, assemble as much cement and orange paint as you can and build the biggest "pumpkin" you can, and then you can boast to the world, "Biggest Pumpkin in the World!" Plaster the whole area round Pumpkin Center (there really is such a place, by the way) with big signs, and place radio spots and television ads, and build a big casino and offer free fares to all the suckers (America has plenty suckers to fleece, as P.T. Barnum well knew!--this has been done a thousand times all across the USA.

Not long ago I was in a garage waiting room seeing to some work on my car when a woman was talking loudly to a man in front of me, bragging about all the casinos she was going to, and the good food they served, and how much she enjoyed it, and I finally blurted out to the fellow, "They say a sucker is born every day!" He kind of smiled, and didn't deny the fact. I was amazed at what came out of me--for I am normally polite and wouldn't think of saying such a thing.

We all laugh at this, of course, but just look around. The whole culture is "suckered" in much the same way, only we have made it more sophisticated than Pumpkin Center, South Dakota, could ever make it. But, where is modesty, frugality, humility, meekness, self-effacement, and simplicity? Those used to be basic, genuine, foundational 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. Christian women load 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 Christian women remain modest--it is true--but the trend is always downward, to copy the world's corrupt, "flaunt it" fashions. Christian women singing on TV now frost their hair with unnatural tints just to draw attention: I saw a woman just the other day belting out a song 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

Yellow buttercups, bracken fern, clover--these are considered noxious weeds in any lawn, and are poisoned or dug out by lawn growers. Are you, friend, considered a "weed," an unwanted intrusion in this world, and even in your church? Do you fail to fit the religiously and politically correct mold, or the established norms of this secular humanist society and worldly-minded church? Where are you according to the secular humanist "Code" established by law in Canada, the same code that will be legislated in America into law, condemning all those who do not subscribe to same-sex marriage (sodomy and lesbianism), inclusiveness (no more absolute claiming such as Jesus Christ is the only Way, Truth, and the Life, and the Ten Commandments, and the sanctity of human life, and the sanctity of marriage).

Jesus Christ was the Root growing in dry ground, the wondrous Branch, the true Vine--yet He was rejected, despised, cast aside, even cut off! How can his true followers be treated any different than their Lord? You too will be rejected and despised if you are a true follower, particularly by those in your own church and family. You do not have to fit the mold of this world, it is the Bible and God's truths that are the only true, lasting mold to fit! Christ will take you, the world's weed that it tries to eradicate any way it can--by shunning, ignoring, belittling, then by outright persecution if those methods don't discourage and get rid of you--and make you His choice jewel, his beloved! If the world thinks well of you--beware! Joel Osteen is currently thought well of--he is acclaimed by the multitudes and even the godless TV show hosts as a charismatic mega-church leader with the country's largest church--but what does he have really? Jesus Christ was rejected, despised, and cut-off in his prime--all for our sake--and he is still rejected and despised by the world, and the worldy church. Nothing has changed in that respect. But someday soon all will be changed. What is despised will be brought forth to glory and honor. Jesus will stand on the Mount of Olives in Jerusalem, and establish his Millennial Throne and rule for a thousand years. All his despised, unwanted, persecuted followers will be brought to Him to rule with him in his glorious seat of government. Be one of them! Don't give up! You will be vindicated--so just hang on, keep loving God, keep loving those around you, and keep obeying God's Word. Live holy in this unholy, immoral society and lost world, and you will be a light in a very dark place to those who truly want the light. You will shine as others continue to grow darker and darker, full of sin and wickedness, and of course you will be hated for this--but keep shining! Keep on! (a word a woman of God gave once to my elder brother, who is a street evangelist).

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 token Republican features are not even liberal 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 and bergs in the shipping lane ahead. We too are ignoring every warning from God and godly men and women, and the recorded ends of Rome, Assyria, Greece, and Babylon. 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 decisive 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.

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Jesus Christ first, and all the rest will fall into line.

"Raison d'Etre": This site has developed, unintentionally, into a site for helping to inform Christians on the perils arrayed against our faith in Jesus and our Christian values. What good is a Bible, if we are reading it with politically correct blinders? What good is a Bible if we do not practice it in our society and (as the ACLU is legislating and judicially ruling us to do, practice it only behind closed church doors!). What good is a Church of Christ that is world-minded, following the dictates of a world-view that is anti-Christ and anti-truth? What good is a Christian people who are being shepherded by atheistic, secular humanist teachers and pastors? The program of disinformation and "de-stablization" of Christians, seeking to confuse and ultimately to silence Christians, conducted by the secular humanist elites in America (including the media, entertainment, and sex industries), has almost completely succeeded in overthrowing Christian influence in the mainstream culture. Secular humanism is a vanguard of Islamization. Both work in tandem to overthrow America and its freedoms. But first Christianity must be eradicated or at least rendered compromised and impotent (an apostate, Crossless, Christless Christianity you find in the National Cathdral of Washington, in the pulpits of thousands of mostly mainline denomination churches, affiliated with the National Council of Churches and the World Council of Churches). This is the pleasure-loving, "easy does it" Laodicean Church age, which the Revelator, John, wrote about in his book. Truth faith is growing cold, while all forms of false gospel and false religiosity are flourishing. In this petri dish, all manner of evil is given ample food and the right conditions to grow and push out the genuine in Christianity. Just as with money, the bad drives out the good--not the other way around. Christian faith, the historic faith based on the Kerygma, has ceased to be respected--it is now perceived as an evil, an obstruction to the brave new world the secular humanists envision and are working night and day to bring about in America and in other Western nations. The true churches are fighting defensively, and even that is not enough to turn the tide. Positive thoughts are hindrances, when you are in an impossible situation, with your survival at stake, and you don't admit the peril you are in. If I were drowning and thinking positive thoughts--"I am swimming, I am not sinking, I will overcome this too!--I will be denying the reality of my plight and will go down a third time and drown. Nature is not forgiving of our foolish mistakes or even our misplaced positivism. Try walking on thin ice--you will break through it and plunge into the lake or pond! The Prophets of old were not foolish positive thinkers, choosing positivism at the expense of truth and repentance. Read them! They identified and excoriated the social evils in their times and hypocrisy and idolatry of the people of God. They demanded a change! For seeking to keep these people from destroying themselves, they were slandered, persecuted, and killed, even sawn in two. This age will not accept anything but a positive, affirming word, truth-denying word--that denies the Cross and Substitution of Christ for our sin's penalty at the same time. This age demands to hear "God loves you, you little sweetie," but rejects, "Repent, sinner, or bear the terrible consequences of your sins!" This age includes every philosopher and religious teacher, and demands that Christianity do the same or be branded intolerant and exclusive and evil. This age wants an immoral, selfish, self-centered faith that will promote its materialistic, selfish lifestyle--so a false, positivistic Christianity has adapted to the world's demand for affirmation (never correction or rebuke of evil) and turned out false teachers and false evangelists who cater to the world and worldly, carnal Christians. Carnal Christians choose positivism in the pulpit or they will find another church that will dish out what they want instead of what the Bible teaches. John Wesley, Martin Luther, George Whitefield--they would be rejected by this crowd of 21st century positive-religionists who call themselves Christians. They will not listen to the real Gospel.

For this reason, this site may be humble, but it cannot stop trying to inform fellow Christians. Cease, brethren, from being "surfer Christians," "Cotton Candy disciples," fluff instead of the real thing. Follow Jesus, who went to the Cross, who asks you take up your own cross and quit denying it, and know true Christianity in your life. It may not seem worth the self-denial and self-sacrifice now, but in heaven the happiness and honor you will be given by Jesus (Yeshua) will last forever and be beyond your imagination! What price glory? Your self--and my self! That is the price the Bible reports again and again. Will you pay it in exchange for the immeasurable riches in Christ offered us? Will I? We shall see--will we not?--in heaven and at the Judgment Seat of Christ that every Christian must stand before. The ones who paid the price, they will be most exalted, even while on the earth they were despised, persecuted, and even slain in the most brutal ways. They will be comforted. But those who, like the rich man in the parable Christ told about, were well-off, comfortable, selfish, and heedless of the poor and oppressed, will be wailing in the depths of a burning lake of fire. Whatever falls our lot--it will be the product of our choice.

Katharine Hepburn, self-avowed atheist and hedonist, and legendary Hollywood filmstar, said she did not believe in God or the hereafter, and laughed at the idea, saying she had her fame and fortune and had her "fun," and when she died that was all there was to it. Nothing followed, in her mistaken view. Well, that is what most Americans believe--they will have their fun, and then "go fishing" in eternity, which they really think they will deserve, if there happens to be a hereafter. But you do not fish in hell. Ignore Jesus, and YOU will be the hapless, despairing fish Satan hauls into his net to cast into the flames of hell--that is the only way to describe what will happen to you. Sin enslaves and dooms. Sinners perish in hell. Nice, or "good people" don't go to hell, Americans believe and constantly say. Oh, yes, they do! The Bible says so. Good people choose their own way to heaven, and it is a false way leading to death and destruction, since human goodness will never qualify a person for heaven. Satan is their actual shepherd, deceiving them to think they can take any road and it will end in heaven or at least a mindless, "tripped out" oblivion and selfless state like the Nirvana promised by Buddhism. But there is no other way--other than the way to hell, and the Way to Life that is Jesus Christ and believing and living in Him. This age has rejected the only true Way to life in Jesus, and it is demanding that Christianity give up its historic, Bible-based Gospel proclaiming that saving Truth. As along as I live, and God help me, I choose to proclaim this saving Truth, however politically incorrect, POSITIVE-THINKING, or religiously incorrect it becomes.

Jesus Christ to the Church of Laodicea, and our own Churches and Christians of 21st Century America:

And unto the angel of the church of the Laodiceans write: These things saith the Amen, the faithful and true witness, the beginning of the creation of God: I know thy works, that thou art neither cold nor hot: I would thou wert cold or hot. So then because thou art lukewarm, and neither cold nor hot, I will spue thee out of my mouth. Because thou sayest, I am rich, and increased with goods, and have need of nothing; and knowest not that thou art wretched, and miserable, and poor, and blind, and naked: I counsel thee to buy of me gold tried in the fire, that thou mayest be rich and white raiment, that thou mayest be clothed, and that the shame of thy nakedness do not appear; and anoint thine eye with eyesalve, that thou mayest see. As many as I love, I rebuke, and chasten: be zealous therefore, and repent."--Revelation 3:14-19

SALUTE TO MRS. RUTH GRAHAM ON HER HEAVENLY HOMEGOING: Ruth Bell Graham, 1920-2007. In her eighty seven years on this earth she has earned many imperishable crowns and eternal honor in heaven, standing on the Word of God her entire life. She earned fame, not because she was the wife of the world-renowned evangelist, but because she followed Christ her Savior and Lord faithfully, and put Him first in her life and heart always. Loving Christ first and foremost, she then had the love she needed, along with the guidance, to be the splendid wife, mother, grandmother, and great-grandmother and spiritual example she was to her family and the church of Christ world-wide. Millions across the world, church and unchurched, mourn her passing, but rejoice for her, that she has now entered through the Gates of the Celestial City, where she will be greeted no doubt by millions who were won to Christ through her husband's ministry and her own. Her own ministry was to stand in the shade of her husband, praying and supporting him and being with the children at all times and raising them according to the Word, all of which provided the real power behind the pulpit, if the truth be known. Yes, Billy Graham would still have been great in evangelism without her--but as great as he did become? I think not! Together, they were an unbeatable team, since they both put Christ first and foremost in their hearts and lives. They were passionately in love with each other too to the last days of their time together, and so there was no conflict or divided loyalties. They demonstrated to the entire world that you can love God above everyone else and yet love your spouse and your family and everyone else with the same kind of unconditional love. Farewell, Mrs. Ruth Bell Graham!

All who wish to see the Ruth Bell Graham memorial on the Billy Graham website and who also may want to express kind thoughts and condolences to the grieving family can access it on the Billy Graham website.

Ruth Bell Graham Memorial

ANSWER THE CALL OF GOD IN NASHVILLE: The Call Nashville is a move by the people of God to surrender to the Lord in repentance and real change of their own hearts and lives and a march together in spirit (and literally) to take back not only Nashville but the whole nation for God! Rick Skaggs and Lou Engle are the human heads of this, but the Lord and the Holy Spirit are the real Directors. 7-7-7 is the date of the gathering and then the march in Nashville from the Parthenon--the re-created heathen temple from Athens that is the seat of the Python, the spirit and stronghold of American neo-paganism and also the symbol of humanism and secularism and man's religious and intellectual system supplanting God's kingdom and true Church--down Church Street (now the stronghold of carnality, porn, illicit sex, homosexuality, drunkenness, and perversity) and through Nashville to the LP Field and Titan Stadium. The Titan (power worship and power god of America) needs to fall as well as these other idols and false gods). This parade and march of God's people will carry no banners and megahorns blaring forth--no, nothing but a silently praying people of God seeking God, repentently and humbly, in the midst of Satan's kingdom in Nashville and the whole nation. This will overturn Satan's kingdom--nothing else.

Do you want to see God's kingdom re-established in your life, in your town or city, in your family, in your church, in your state, and in your nation? They are all fast crumbling away, and overrun by Satan--which anyone with open eyes can plainly see. You can turn this around, and be an Esther, be a Gideon, be a David, be a Jerry Falwell. You! Me! God gets more glory from using nobodies and nothings--not the big and important people who people naturally look to for leadership and power. God wants to use nobodies like us! Join, or at least send your financial help and prayer help, by fasting and praying at home for this:

The Call Nashville

Rev. and Dr. Jerry Falwell, August 11,1933-May 15, 2007. He was considered and also treated as Public Enemy Number 1 for decades of his public ministry--who did nothing but evil in the estimation of this country's liberal, secular humanist elites, media, and governing authorities (all children of the devil, called wicked in the Bible). What was the terrible thing he did wrong? he stood for righteousness, morality, the truth of the inerrant Bible, the Gosepl of Jesus Christ, and the Christian heritage of our once great nation. For that he was demonized, persecuted, ridiculed, and ignored as much as possible. He, not the lying, terrorist-supporting, anti-Semitic Jimmy Carter, deserved the Nobel Prize. But Jerry Falwell will receive far greater than the Nobel Prize from the Lord Jesus in heaven! I mention him here because this is the lot of a truly righteous man of God who pushes against the tide of this immoral society and its immoral rulers. It is the lot of anyone today who stands for the things Jerry Falwell stood for unwaveringly. This champion laid down the torch on June 15, to be taken up by those who share his legacy. What about us, in response? We can all do what Jerry Falwell did, in spirit and truth (if not in deed). We don't have to create a Moral Majority, a major university, a huge church, and a television ministry that reached millions. We simply have to be righteous in the midst of unrighteousness--that is, submit to Christ so that His righteousness can abide in us!

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