Saturday, April 24, 2010

Things we could do in Church if we weren't religious

I was thinking of how many Church Buildings are empty mausoleums most of the week. Sure, there are Churchy meetings. But the big issue is getting people to come on one day a week. How about doing things every day of the week and sometimes other that are things that we all do anyway and do it there. Here's a list I ginned up this morning. This came out of a conversation about attractional versus missional church focus. I'm all about missional, but maybe the combination of the two would be even better. I know some of these are already being done. For instance, Pastor Al Fenner is having a HALO tournament at his church today. But, how about other ideas. Here's my list.
  • Eat - food for anyone who is hungry, like a restaurant. One meal a day. Maybe two. Contributions accepted not expected.
  • Sleep - not a homeless shelter, but a place where if you are homeless you can come for a brief time until your new place is ready. I was in this shape once.
  • Play video games like halo and wii in tournament as well as old fashioned pinball. ARCADE.
  • Coffee Shop in the Mornings
  • A library
  • Garden Plots for the community instead of lawn to mow.
  • 4 TV's tuned to sports and the markets in a sit down area.
  • Sports being played every day - B Ball and others, whatever is possible
  • Very High speed free wi fi in the building and public computers with access to the net instead of going to the library
  • A practice room and place for people to sit and listen for area musicians. Any kind of music. Just do it HERE
  • A place for very high fidelity Music to be played. CD's or Mp3's. The best sound system in the world.
  • A small movie theater area where blue ray videos of recent movies would be screened.
  • Vocational and other formal training on site.
  • Clothing for free from grandma's closet.
  • Kids after school drop off service until mom's done working instead of latch key.
  • A brokerage for those who trade stocks and commodities area with hot lines to brokers.
  • Free Concerts every week by up and coming bands.
  • Monthly Car Washes for five bucks in the parking lot
  • Health Check Screenings
  • Dental Screenings
  • Tutoring for Web Work Wannabes
  • Tutoring for children who need help
  • Men and a truck to help single mothers move
  • Free Legal advice monthly
  • Furniture and stuff exchange
  • Financial counseling, not training, specific to the crisis at hand
  • An informal in house bank. Maybe even formal. Checking, credit cards, loans, savings etc
  • Flea market in the Parking Lot during the summer months on Saturdays
  • A Salon monthly for those who want to be more beautiful.
  • Barber Shop for the men.

Friday, April 23, 2010

Brown: Backs Romney now, thinks Palin qualified

WASHINGTON — Sen. Scott Brown says he thinks former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin is qualified to be president but right now he's supporting former Gov. Mitt Romney for the 2012 Republican nomination.

As for his own ambitions, he say "absolutely in 2012" he's ruling out any run for the presidency. And in an NBC interview Friday, Brown said "I'm not even going to jump" at a question about whether he would seek the presidency later on.

Brown said, "I've been here three months ... and I'm very focused on doing my job." Asked if he regretted bolting the Republican caucus recently to support Democrats on a jobs bill, he said, "I don't really care. .. I'm going to be the independent person I have always been."

Thursday, April 22, 2010

Earth Day Is An Enviro Wackazoid Scam.

Part of the Religious Left social and political agenda.

If your kids come home preaching to you, tell them where this religion comes from and ask them if it is polite or courteous to force a religion on someone without their knowledge or consent.

http://www.jcn.com/manifestos.html


"FOURTEENTH: The world community must engage in
cooperative planning concerning the use of rapidly
depleting resources. The planet earth must be considered
a single ecosystem. Ecological damage, resource
depletion, and excessive population growth must be
checked by international concord. The cultivation and
conservation of nature is a moral value; we should
perceive ourselves as integral to the sources of our
being in nature. We must free our world from needless
pollution and waste, responsibly guarding and creating
wealth, both natural and human. Exploi- tation of natural
resources, uncurbed by social conscience, must end." Humanist Manifesto II, 1973


This is where it all comes from.

Sanctimonious liberals who lecture conservative, Bible-believing people about trying to establish a 'theocracy,' are far more guilty of using government to Establish their religion in education, public policies and even in private business.

They are totalitarian religious fanatics.

Happy 'Earth Day
www.jcn.com
The Manifesto is a product of many minds. It was designed to represent a developing point of view, not a new creed. The individuals whose signatures appear would, had they been writing individual statements, have stated the propositions in differing terms. ...

Wednesday, April 21, 2010

It's a "Culture Crisis" Not a "Health Care Crisis"

Dear Mr. President:

During my shift in the Emergency Room last night, I had the pleasure of evaluating a patient whose smile revealed an expensive shiny gold tooth, whose body was adorned with a wide assortment of elaborate and costly tattoos, who wore a very expensive brand of tennis shoes and who chatted on a new cellular telephone equipped with a popular R&B ringtone.

While glancing over her patient chart, I happened to notice that her payer status was listed as "Medicaid"! During my examination of her, the patient informed me that she smokes more than one costly pack of cigarettes every day and somehow still has money to buy pretzels and beer.

And, you and our Congress expect me to pay for this woman's health care? I contend that our nation's "health care crisis" is not the result of a shortage of quality hospitals, doctors or nurses. Rather, it is the result of a "crisis of culture", a culture in which it is perfectly acceptable to spend money on luxuries and vices while refusing to take care of one's self or, heaven forbid, purchase health insurance. It is a culture based in the irresponsible credo that "I can do whatever I want to because someone else will always take care of me".

Once you fix this “culture crisis" that rewards irresponsibility and dependency, you'll be amazed at how quickly our nation's health care difficulties will disappear.

Respectfully,

STARNER JONES, MD

Hey Southern Poverty Law Center!!!

I DEMAND To Be On This List!!!

If you think these are bad people, then I know they are good people!

Big tough guys at SPLC......You're afraid of Michelle Bachman?

Good!

You should be!

She has more huevos than any of you limp-wristed, Humanist-indoctrinated (http://www.jcn.com/manifestos.html) liberals!!!

http://www.splcenter.org/get-informed/publications/the-patriots?page=0,0

Oh, and btw, the whole nation sees how you are 'celebrating diversity.'

You are Humanist fanatics of the Religious LEFT!
www.splcenter.org
In the last year and a half, militias and the larger antigovernment "Patriot" movement have exploded, accompanied by the rapid expansion of other sectors of the radical right.

Tuesday, April 20, 2010

RACIST ANTI-CHRISTIAN BIGOTS AND PREACHERS OF SOCIALISM/HUMANISM IN WHAT PASSES FOR 'NEWS' MEDIA....

Why Aren't You Reporting This???

You are cowards and censors!!!

That is why your industry is dying, and it is why average Americans avoid you, in their search for real news information.

One Tea Party person has more integrity than all of LeftMedia.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P1CLPhz0DHM&feature=PlayList&p=FD8FFEC15BB80E71&playnext_from=PL&index=57&playnext=3

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fIJjA3x9uXg&feature=PlayList&p=FD8FFEC15BB80E71&playnext_from=PL&playnext=2&index=56
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An African American reverend delivers a passionate speech at a Tea Party in Plymouth, Michigan. He refutes cries of tea party racism.

Murder City

Apostle Marlon D. Hester Sr. saw a vision in February of this coming. The culture that has created this is born of lawlessness. Only the law of God in a man or woman's heart that is there by the power of the Holy Spirit can stop this thing. It's a demon. No one does these things without demonic delusion. One 18 year old dying in ...his own blood wouldn't tell the police who shot him, He knew he said and then said, "I ain't tellin you Sh..t". And died. His mother was shocked. Said he was such a good boy, always nice, couldn't understand how this could happen, despite the fact that in his 18 years he had been arrested on drug, robbery, assault and various charges 14 times. That's a demon spirit. One the Mother and the young man both carry. Denial. Pretense. Victims. Blaming the system. Blaming the cops for picking on her dead son. It's a culture that eschews telling the truth about what's happening here. A delusion from hell.

It's time to get real. Passing MORE gun laws won't help. They are already illegal, Chicago has the most stringent gun laws in the nation. Yet everyone has a gun and uses them. One more law is useless. This can only be stopped by change of heart...turning the hearts of stone in the city that is demon possessed into hearts of flesh by the Spirit of the Living God.

Apostle Hester is on this mission. I stand with him. I hate this warfare. Yet, it must be fought. Not by the political misleaders in the community who use these events to muster political power. I would call them out if you like, but you know who they are. Father Pfleger could do much good IF he would identify the cause and not the political angle to it all. More laws is not the answer. ONE law in the hearts of men and a fear of an almighty God will change everything. Evenso, come Lord Jesus.
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Apr 16, 2010 Chicago Murders - Chicago Shootings 2010: 7 Dead, 12 Wounded Overnight In The Windy City A violent 12-hour period overnight

Monday, April 19, 2010

The Last time people were this discontent with the government there was a clean sweep of the house and senate. I have hope.


Distrust, Discontent, Anger and Partisan Rancor: Overview - Pew Research Center for the People & the
people-press.org
By almost every conceivable measure Americans are less positive and more critical of government these days. A new Pew Research Center survey finds a perfect storm of conditions associated with distrust of government – a dismal economy, an unhappy public, bitter partisan-based backlash.

President Obeyme

Controls the car industry

Controls the banking industry

Controls the housing industry

Controls healthcare

Controls Wall street

Controls 'news' media

Controls the unions

Controls education

Controls military Miranda 'rights' for terrorists

Controls who visits whom in hospitals, based on claimed sexual orientation

But can not control the Tea Party

Can not control Bible-believing Christians

Can not control lawful gun owners

Can not control patriotic Americans

Guess who he desperately wants to get control of?

President Obeyme is most certainly a control freak.

http://article.nationalreview.com/306365/barack-obama-control-freak/thomas-sowell

Muslim Love

Janet Incompetano Thinks Christians And Pro-Lifers Need To Be On Her Homeland Security 'Watch List.' Hussein Obama Thinks Town Meeting Attenders And Tea Party People Are Dangerous.

He Has Yet To Pick A Church Or Attend Regular Christian Worship Services.

But He Is Making Secret Overtures To Muslims.

Why Am I Not Surprised?

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/04/19/us/politics/19muslim.html?pagewanted=2
White House Quietly Courts Muslims in U.S. - NYTimes.com
www.nytimes.com
The Obama administration has reached out to Muslims in a widening effort that has left even skeptics surprised.

Humble thy name is Obama


Obama Claims One of His Personality Traits is Humility | Western Journalism.com
www.westernjournalism.com
The famously humble Barack Obama gave an interview to Australian television and must think we won't find out about it here. You've got to be kidding me.

Sunday, April 18, 2010

China and Russia want the USA to give Texas back to Mexico

China and Russia have decided to solve the problem of violence and border incursions between Mexico and the USA by demanding that the US give California, Texas, New Mexico and Arizona back to Mexico. For this the Mexican drug lords promise to stop murdering, importing drugs, terrorizing people and invading the USA. A...t least that's what Obama seems to be proposing to Israel.

www.nytimes.com
A declaration that the conflict is a vital U.S. security interest indicated how hard President Obama might push for peace.

Debt Bomb

This is what is going to happen in America if we don't reverse the curse of debt we are living under. I know this is esoteric, but the crushing global debt in Argentina destroyed the economy and eliminated the middle class in ten years. A path we are on right now. The net result will be a very small very wealthy class and a huge dependent poor underclass living on the edge of poverty. The USA is headed this way RIGHT NOW!

www.bloomberg.com
Argentina will later today unveil its plan to restructure $20 billion in defaulted debt held out of a 2005 settlement, a move that may allow the country to access international debt markets for the first time in almost a decade.

Summers drinks the Kool Aid

I respected Larry Summers, but he has become drunk on the Kool Aid. He was one of the few knowledgeable people in the Obama Administration. Now the devil has stolen his soul. The continuing of eternal unemployment insurance crushes incentive. Summers said that a few years ago and was right. Now.....it's party line.... Sad end to a great man. Spines are in short supply in DC.

online.wsj.com
The Wall Street Journal writes that Larry Summers's new economic stance is pay people for not working, and more people will work.

General Electric Globally made 10.8 Billion dollars in 2009. It paid not one thin dime in taxes to the USA

General Electric Globally made 10.8 Billion dollars in 2009. It paid not one thin dime in taxes to the USA. Jeffery Immelt, CEO of GE who makes multimillions per year is on President Obama's Economic Advisory Board (link in comments). Do you think there's any connection? MSNBC is a liberal's best friend. Do you th...ink this will get much play? NAAAH. Hypocrisy. That's why I am a tea partier.

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General Electric filed more than 7,000 income tax returns in at least 250 global jurisdictions last year, but when push came to shove, the company owed the U.S. government a whopping bill of $0.

Immelt connection

Cry of the Heart

Senator Gaylord Nelson, founder of Earth Day said: "Our goal is an environment of decency, quality and mutual respect for all human beings and all other creatures—an environment without ugliness, without poverty, without discrimination, without hunger and without war.".That is the cry of the human heart. It's a cry... that only life in Heaven can answer. Everything else is unrealistic.

Worth the Read

In The Wall Street Journal, R. James Woolsey writes that by using more electricity, natural gas and biofuels in our transportation fleet we can quickly reduce our dependence on OPEC.

Human Sacrifice

To appease the earth gods of the Iceland Volcano we should toss in a few human sacrifices. I am thinking of some prime candidates right now...... I'll bet you can as well.

Ignorance is reversible, stupidity is not

Ignorance is reversible, stupidity is not. I'm afraid there are some people who have submitted themselves to a voluntary blind stupidity, they are not curable. Whatever happened to the power of reason or an open mind?


Sin blinds. It causes deafness. It callouses to the truth. I firmly believe that this is what is behind what we are seeing today.

It is odd to see perfectly normal looking people with high IQ's thinking and speaking such insane and twisted thoughts. Trying to reason with them is like reasoning with a slug. Like giving a speech to zombies.

America and the world is reaping the harvest of generations given to pleasure seeking, rather than God seeking.

"...because they received not the love of the truth, that they might be saved. For this cause God shall send them strong delusion, that they should believe a lie: that they all might be damned who believed not the truth, but had pleasure in unrighteousness." ~ 2 Thessalonians 2 :10-12

How much Mr Gore?

The Volcano in Iceland..I demand to know by Al Gore exactly how much global warming this is causing and how much our taxes will have to be raised to correct it!!!
Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-1266403/Iceland-volcano-space-The-dramatic-ash-plume-engulfing-Britain-seen-above.html#ixzz0lQ62eC6a.

www.dailymail.co.uk
Created deep in the volcanic bowels of Iceland, this is the dramatic plume of ash engulfing the UK as seen from space.

Did this man do ANYTHING wrong

Did this man do ANYTHING wrong, illegal, immoral, crooked, sleazy? Or did he see a gross misalignment in the economy and took advantage of it? Is there anything wrong about that?

www.nytimes.com
John A. Paulson had a role in the instrument that caused $1 billion in losses for Goldman Sachs customers.