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Piper on the Election

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on October 31, 2008
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Good video by John Piper, and also very good timing. My thoughts on his points:

  • Womanhood. I agree with him that Sarah Palin’s place is in the home taking care of her children, especially the little baby. I love that she is pro-life and I love that she is a Christian, but she is clearly going against God’s plan for women.
  • Race. I believe that a black president would be a good thing for this country. However, I believe Barack Obama will be the wrong black president. He is wrong on all the important issues, and his race has nothing to do with why I will not be voting for him. Furthermore, if he does get elected, I believe his race has everything to do with it, and I believe that is a sad testimony of American voters.
  • Abortion. This is the single most important issue that I look at in a candidate. Barack Obama is wrong on this issue, and I believe that anyone who overlooks his pro-abortion position and votes for him is taking part in the murder of all the babies that will be aborted under his presidency.
  • Prophetic perspective. I agree with Piper on this point. We need to realize that this is not the end of the world for us. The sin of abortion and open homosexuality is the judgment of God. If He puts a liberal into office then it may be His way of continuing that judgment. What this should do to Christianity is bring us to repentance, and then maybe God will bless this country.
  • Sovereignty. Do we truly believe that God is in control? If we do then we should look to see why God is allowing us to go through these troubles. Until America sees God as in control there will be no repentance.
  • Gospel. The last of Piper’s points is the Gospel. Christians are obviously failing to spread the Gospel in America. Sin is the natural activity of those who are lost. The Gospel is the only cure for sin, and God has called His Church to be the tool to spread the Gospel. Putting Obama in office may be God’s way of getting the church off the couch and in the streets.

I will go out and vote for John McCain on Tuesday. However, I know that it is God who will put the President in office. I believe that the country would be better off with McCain than Obama, but I know that God’s purpose matters more than my opinion. So, the real prayer shouldn’t be that God puts McCain in office, but that He does exactly what He desires which will ultimately bring Him the most Glory.

Obama’s abortion position

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on August 22, 2008
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I figured I would help spread this video around a little bit. It contains the very disturbing testimony of a nurse, Jill Stanek, who testified before Congress about the events that she witnessed at a hospital she was once employed at. Remember as you watch that Obama can’t decide when life begins. It is above his pay grade.

Attention!!! There is only One Way to Heaven

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Chris
on June 27, 2008
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Barack Obama is not alone. I recently posted some quotes that Barack Obama made in the past about his belief in getting to Heaven. I asserted that Obama doesn’t know “squat” about being a Christian, and that if he wanted to win the presidency he needed to appeal to “Evangelicals.” Well, if he wants to connect with “Christian” voters he is apparently doing the right thing. Deny that Jesus is the only way to Heaven, and you are in agreement with the majority of so called “Christians.”

Recent polls have been published which show that American “Christians” do not hold to the basic tenets of the Christian faith, specifically “one way to God.” Check out these numbers:

  • 70% of religiously affiliated people believe that there are many ways to Heaven
  • 57% of “evangelicals” believe in many ways to Heaven

And get this one:

  • 60% of professing Southern Baptists believe that there are many ways to Heaven

Oprah’s gospel is now more accepted in the mainline protestant church than Jesus’ gospel is. And why has the church created so many who profess Christ but don’t possess Christ?

A few reasons:

  • We have persuaded people to “choose Jesus” without telling them that they must “bow to Jesus.”
  • We urge them to “just worship Him’” and not to worry about “serving Him”.
  • We tell them to come and “get a healing” when they really need to come and “get a cleansing.”
  • We tell them that He is “Love” and neglect that He is “Holy.”
  • We teach His “Grace” and forget His “Commandments.”
  • We talk about His “Mercy” and leave out His “Wrath.”

And thus, they can claim Him without believing Him. Yet it was Christ himself that said:

I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the Father, but by me.

So Barack, if it is “Evangelicals” you need, then welcome to the White House.

Obama seeks Christian votes

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on June 18, 2008
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Barack Obama realizes that he cannot win the Presidency of the United States without getting some percentage of the “Evangelical” vote. John Kerry and Al Gore have recently discovered this. So in order to try and pull some of those voters, Obama has been trying to appear more Christian, and even “Evangelical”.  See the article Obama Is No Joshua by Cal Thomas. Looking at some of the statements Obama has made in the past show that he is not an “Evangelical.”

“I’m rooted in the Christian tradition,”

“I believe there are many paths to the same place, and that is a belief that there is a higher power, a belief that we are connected as a people.”

“The difficult thing about any religion, including Christianity, is that at some level there is a call to evangelize and proselytize. There’s the belief, certainly in some quarters, that if people haven’t embraced Jesus Christ as their personal savior, they’re going to hell.”

“I don’t presume to have knowledge of what happens after I die. When I tuck in my daughters at night and I feel like I’ve been a good father to them, and I see that I am transferring values that I got from my mother and that they’re kind people and that they’re honest people, and they’re curious people, that’s a little piece of heaven.”

These quotes demonstrate one thing, that Obama doesn’t know squat about being a Christian. He is a Universalist, in that he thinks you can believe in anything and go to heaven. His Christianity is based on tradition.  He doesn’t believe the Bible, especially when it teaches that those who “haven’t embraced Jesus Christ as their personal savior” are going to hell.  He has no assurance that he will go to heaven when he dies, and apparently is putting trust in the fact that he is a good person.

The following verses of Scripture show that Obama is wrong and doesn’t believe the Bible.

Acts 4:12  Neither is there salvation in any other: for there is none other name under heaven given among men, whereby we must be saved.

John 14:6  Jesus saith unto him, I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the Father, but by me.

Revelation 20:15  And whosoever was not found written in the book of life was cast into the lake of fire.

1 John 5:13  These things have I written unto you that believe on the name of the Son of God; that ye may know that ye have eternal life, and that ye may believe on the name of the Son of God.

Ephesians 2:8-9  For by grace are ye saved through faith; and that not of yourselves: it is the gift of God: Not of works, lest any man should boast.

My six year old daughter could realize that Obama has no idea of what biblical Christianity is. I only hope that the so called “Evangelicals” do not fall for his religious speak this election year and vote this guy into the White House.

For the record, George Bush was also a Universalist, and didn’t believe that anyone would go to hell. I do not think he understood, or believed the Bible. Why did I vote for him? Because he stood up for the life of the unborn, and was against homosexual marriage.  Obama, on the other hand, is the most anti-life senator in Washington, and would be the most liberal president ever.

Christians shouldn’t look for the candidate that is the most Christian, but the candidate that will stand up for Christian values.  I don’t know that McCain is the best man, nor do I know, or believe, that he is a true Christian, but he is the more conservative choice. Unfortunately, he’s the only choice.

Homeschooling illegal in California! Who’s next?

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on March 9, 2008
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While reading Al Mohler’s, blog I noticed the following story from the San Francisco Chronicle which is in reference to a recent decision by a California court which bans homeschooling in the state.

“California courts have held that … parents do not have a constitutional right to homeschool their children,” Justice H. Walter Croskey said in the 3-0 ruling issued on Feb. 28. “Parents have a legal duty to see to their children’s schooling under the provisions of these laws.”

According to this story, parents who do not hold state teaching credentials, will no longer be allowed to teach their children at home. If these parents do not enroll their children in a public or private school, which is state approved, they will be subject to prosecution under the states truancy laws.

“With this case law, anyone in California who is homeschooling without a teaching credential is subject to prosecution for truancy violation, which could require community service, heavy fines and possibly removal of their children under allegations of educational neglect,”

It appears from the article, that this ruling will also cause trouble for small private schools which do not hire accredited teachers. This will leave Christian families with no other choice than to give their children to the state to be brainwashed by its liberal ideology.

“California courts have held that … parents do not have a constitutional right to homeschool their children,”

This proves that liberals are wanting to take away a parent’s God given right and duty, to teach their children. What happens in California is just a glimpse of our future, as long as we keep putting politicians like Barack Hussein Obama and Hillary in office. Give either one of them eight years, and see what happens next.