“The early Christians rejoiced when they were deemed worthy to suffer for what they believed. In those days the Church was not merely a thermometer that recorded the ideas and principles of popular opinion; it was a thermostat that transformed the mores of society…”
~ Martin Luther King Jr. (Letter from the Birmingham Jail)…
Time to pray in accordance with 2nd Chronicles 7:14 —Pastor Ward Clinton
–Pastor Ward Clinton
–Pastor Ward Clinton
So I heard some pastor announce: “Jesus had weird relatives too.”
I laughed and laughed because I could’t help thinking of my family. I also couldn’t help but to think about the fact that I did not even know that guy but he somehow knew my family.
Now I know that every family tree has a few nuts but my family is incredibly overly endowed; at least from my perspective, because I am probably the only normal person in the whole tree.
In our day, when the Holy Bible is quite readily available, in multiple translations, just in the English, it is disturbing to observe that the overall trend regarding reading any books is on the decline. Even though the Holy Bible still has the status of being the “best seller of all time” it also likely holds a distinction of being the most neglected book. Therefore people in general only know what they pick up in bits and pieces through bits of sermons which they might not really be paying attention to or quotations, especially the popular misquotes. Therefore we really should not be surprised that there are so many ineffectual Christians as well as people who imagine themselves to be a Christian but have only had enough exposure so as to be inoculated against catching the real thing.
Those two groups occasionally find themselves annoyed by the spirit-filled, effectual, group of Christians; the second more so than the first but both tend to seek out the failures of the sanctified ones, or effectual Christians, in order to exploit them to make themselves feel better about their less=than-optimal level of spiritual living. But every one of us needs to be striving toward being more Christlike, as revealed in the Holy Bible, in order to be more properly equipped for residence in Heaven.
Ladies and gentlemen of the world; if you don’t like being in Church for a couple hours on a weekly basis, what makes you think you are going to like Heaven?
Only holy beings can handle residing in the habitation of the One True God who is the God of Father Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob who is a holy God and He expects His people to be holy like Him. He cannot lie to Himself and call that which is unholy to be what it isn’t without making it be. Now, if someone is content to live in the “I sin daily in thought word and deed” rut, they ain’t holy by any stretch of the imagination. But they still need to be.
Party’s Over
National teachers’ unions are prepping an assault on Betsy DeVos, Trump’s pick to lead the education department. According to the Washington Post, the unions are urging teachers to contact senators to tell them to vote against her. Why? Well, the union bosses say she’s an “ideological extremist.” NEA president Lily Garcia says Betsy DeVos “has made a career trying to destroy neighborhood public schools.” Randi Weingarten, union boss for the American Federation of Teachers, says Trump has chosen “the most anti-public-education nominee in the history of the education department.” Now, folks, it’s true: Betsy DeVos has had choice words for teachers unions over the years. And it’s true she’s a strong proponent of charter schools. But there’s more to it than that. Let’s take the NEA accusation that she wants to “destroy neighborhood public schools.” Uhhh, Democrats and teachers’ unions have already done that! In city after city, we have failing schools which “graduate” woefully unprepared students. Others just drop out. Violence plagues the worst schools and parents have no say in choosing better schools for their kids. What Betsy DeVos really threatens is the stranglehold that teachers’ unions and the Democrat Party have had on public education for decades. Democrats have allowed teachers’ unions to have their way in exchange for hefty campaign donations, while our public schools have become a national embarrassment. They’re little indoctrination centers. They’re propagandizing the kids. The teachers’ unions are afraid that that party — that the propagandizing and the indoctrination — is gonna end. -Rush Limbaugh
Betsy Devos will make America’s schools better for the students and the teachers and America as well. God bless President Trump and Betsy DeVos.
–Pastor Ward Clinton
A Grand Canyon-Sized Divide Between Democrats and Christians
By Louis DeBroux
Eight weeks after progressive Democrats’ world was rocked by the Earth-shattering, this-can-NOT-be-happening realization that tens of millions of “deplorable” Americans had turned out to vote for Donald Trump, thereby depriving Her Royal Lie-ness, Hillary Clinton, of the presidency, they are still dredging the depths of the political ocean for answers as to why they lost.
They blame FBI Director James Comey’s re-opening of the Hillary email investigation in the final days of the campaign. They also blame Russian hacking, though there is scant evidence for this (besides, had Hillary not illegally used a private server to conduct official government business out of the reach of congressional oversight, the Russians would have nothing to hack). Still others blame sexism, “fake news,” voter fraud, talk radio, or even Clinton aide Huma Abedin and her pervert husband, former Democrat Congressman Anthony Weiner (D-Creepystan).
A relative handful of introspective Democrat operatives have touched on a major reason for their loss, but it’s one which the progressive Democrat leadership and their uber-leftist foot soldiers don’t even see as a problem – the massive disconnect between the Democrat Party and America’s evangelical Christians, which make up approximately one-fifth of the American electorate. To put that into context, Evangelicals (which are just one subset of professed Christians) are a larger bloc of voters in the U.S. than black voters and Jewish voters combined.
Yet rather than court this critical demographic, Democrats and their “tolerant” base openly and defiantly mock and attack Christians as being the worst elements of humanity. Is it any wonder that Donald Trump, who openly admitted to serial adultery but promised to defend Christians, won a staggering 81% of the Evangelical vote?
In a recent interview with The Atlantic, Michael Wear, former 2012 Obama campaign director of faith-outreach efforts, got to the root of the Democrats’ problem with Christians. “Liberals have been trying to convince Americans, and evangelicals in particular, that America is not a Christian nation,” Wear explained. “The 2016 election was evangelicals saying, ‘Yeah, you’re right! We can’t expect to have someone who is Christian like us. We can’t expect to have someone with a perfect family life. What we can expect is someone who can look out for us, just like every other group in this country is looking for a candidate who will look out for them.'”
The Democrat Party has become a bastion of leftist radicals, including those who are rabidly anti-Christian. Other than popping up in black churches just before elections to remind parishioners that if Republicans are elected, they will take away Social Security and Medicare, try to implement school choice (gasp!), or reinstate slavery (conveniently forgetting it was Democrats who defended the abhorrent practice), Democrats have little good to say about Christians in general, and Evangelicals in particular. What else would you expect of people who booed God at their 2012 national convention?
Obama famously described salt-of-the-Earth Midwesterners as “bitter” people who “cling to guns or religion.”
Lest one think these are isolated incidents taken out of context, consider the following:
In a speech at the 2015 National Prayer Breakfast, the blood having barely dried from the murderous attacks by Islamist terrorists in Paris, Obama lectured us about how Christianity is no better than Islam, trotting out the brutality of the thousand-year old Crusades as proof. Obama haughtily declared, “Lest we get on our high horse and think this is unique to some other place, remember that during the Crusades and the Inquisition, people committed terrible deeds in the name of Christ. In our home country, slavery and Jim Crow all too often was justified in the name of Christ.” Obama conveniently forgot that the Crusades were a reaction of European Christians to Muslim hordes invading their lands, and also that it was Christian ministers who led the fight to end slavery in America.
It was likewise the Obama administration that used the power of the federal government to force The Little Sisters of the Poor, a charitable order of Catholic nuns, to provide as part of its employee health insurance contraception drugs, including abortifacients which trigger abortions in early pregnancies. The use of contraception, and especially abortion, are grave sins in the Catholic faith.
Obama also aided in the effort to force Christian bakers, florists, photographers and bed-and-breakfast owners, among others, to violate their faith by providing services for same-sex “weddings.” He has routinely implied that holding true to the biblical definition of man/woman marriage is driven by bigotry and homophobia.
His administration argued before the Supreme Court that religious organizations should be forced to hire employees not of their faith, and should be prevented from firing employees who violate their code of moral conduct. In a similar vein, the Obama administration instituted health care regulations under the ObamaCare monstrosity that stripped health care workers of conscience protections, effectively forcing them, for example, to participate in abortions or be fired, and possibly prosecuted.
He pressured Evangelical pastor Louie Giglio to withdraw from offering the inaugural benediction because of his biblical views on marriage.
Though anecdotal, to be sure, it’s interesting that in eight years, not one of the White House “holiday” cards sent out by Obama — who claims to be a Christian, even as he denigrates Christians — has ever included the word “Christmas.”
These are just a few of the dozens and dozens of examples of Obama’s hostility toward Christians (we won’t even here address Obama’s contemptible treatment of Israel, our staunchest ally in the Middle East).
In the present political atmosphere, it’s nearly impossible for the far-left Democrat Party to find common ground with Middle America, much less devout Evangelical Christians. The Democrats openly loathe and mock Christians, are rabidly pro-abortion, reject any respect for or compromise on moral issues so important to religious people, and in short, they find us “deplorable.”
That creates quite a problem for Democrats who find themselves unexpectedly in the political wilderness, having lost control of the House, the Senate, the White House, and two-thirds of state legislatures. They are vehemently opposed to the beliefs and principles of the very people they need in their camp to regain political power.
Democrats worship at the altar of the state, and as far as anyone can tell, they have no inclination to stop.
Woodrow Wilson used to hold that position and he caused a lot of needless suffering but BHO has surpassed him for that position. Hopefully, however, the next President, Trump, will be able to bring a halt to the ill effects of the Obama administration and his vile sycophants in the major media outlets.
We, the American people, need to keep praying in accordance with 2nd Chronicles 7:14 and keep reassuring each other through social media as well as keep trying to get the truth out to everyone while we do the hard work of making America great again because we finally have someone who will “have our back.”
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