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Truth in Conviction offers insights related to politics, religion and social happenings in the US and worldwide. The columns' philosophical base is conservative. Regarding
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Swank has BA and MDiv degrees with graduate work at Harvard Divinity School. Married for 49 years with 3 adult children. Author of several books and thousands of articles in various Protestant and Catholic magazines, journals, web sites, and newspapers. Writer of weekly religion column for PORTLAND PRESS HERALD newspaper, Portland ME. |
Mon Jan 04, 2010
ZAMBIA LEADERS COMMIT TO CHRIST
J. Grant Swank, Jr.
While Muslim Barack Hussein Obama leads America further and further from its Christian heritage for Islam World Rule, Zambia’s leadership calls the citizenry to a fresh commitment to Jesus Christ.
“Last Tuesday was Zambia’s celebration of their 18th Anniversary as a Christian nation, and the country’s Republican President Rupiah Banda encouraged his government and the people to seek God’s blessings in all they do” per The Christian Post.
Dittoing Banda’s convictions, “Heritage Party leader, Godfrey Miyanda added, ‘We should establish why we are having difficulties with something which is good. Being a Christian nation does not mean we are perfect but that we need to work hard to live up to the declaration. In other words, we should be followers of Christ.’”
Banda spoke “passionately” when he referred to Christ as the hope for his country. Would to God that the United States returned to its allegiance to the Bible as God’s Word and Christ as Savior.
“In a speech read at the 18th anniversary celebration of the country’s Christian declaration, Banda said, ‘It is my passionate desire that my government can access the prosperity which comes from the living God.’
“’I am very positive that you, my fellow Zambians, share this belief with me that in this covenant lies the wisdom of God which, if you hold any kingly position like I do as the Republican President of this nation, then you can align with the covenant like King David did,’ he said.
“’If you are a spiritual leader, you can also align with the covenant like Moses did.
“’We must all be practically responsible citizens who are watchful enough and guarding the only one land that God has graciously given us to work on it and take care of.’”
Instead of double talking religion or masking himself as a Christian while being something else as Obama does, Banda sounded more like gospel preaching than a politician.
If the rest of the free world cast out the demonizing temptations for aligning up with the holiness of Scripture, the world would change for hope and change under God.
TIGER ‘UNSTABLE’ PER KIM’S $300 MIL
J. Grant Swank, Jr.
Elin Nordegren Woods fluffed Tiger off for Christmas as she also told her mother-in-law to mail gifts rather than visit.
In addition, Elin tells media that she’s bagging $300 mil and setting up comfortably somewhere with the children in order to start all over.
Appearing quite confident, Elin even got on California security camera tape Tiger kissing some frisky in a parking lot when he had told wifey he was in Vegas doing a charity stint.
Not cowering to either hubby’s or mom-in-law’s appeals to patch things up, as if Woods’ adultery litany was some sort of lifting candies at the corner store, Elin marches onward.
Finally, a woman cheated upon may actually do the strength-thing feminists claim. If Elin follows through with independence max, she may set a healthy pattern for others.
Staying by her man is not necessary “for the children.”
The children stay with Elin and Tiger? That equals children enduring screaming, fights, doors slamming and perhaps worse. It happens in lesser-known houses.
These children will grow older reading all about what the world is coming to know day by day. Nothing will be hidden from these youngsters.
In the meantime, they need to wake up in a house that is freed up from combat between parents.
Read “Elin is talking $300 mil” at http://www.nypost.com/p/news/national/elin_is_talking_mil_OsH8qOsdQw7t6OhVO3TL6L
NY: $32,000 TEACHES ADDICTS HOW TO SHOOT UP
J. Grant Swank, Jr.
So goes tax money.
New York’s Department of Health has spent $32,000 for 70,000 leaflets depicting how to shoot up.
There are even comic-like drawings to help those not all that adept at reading words, per Brad Hamilton of the New York Post.
Things are really getting cozy with crime when that kind of money is forked out for that kind of pastime.
“It’s basically step-by- step instruction on how to inject a poison,” said John Gilbride, who heads the Drug Enforcement Administration’s New York office.
“It’s sick,” said City Council member Peter Vallone Jr. (D-Queens)
“Foolish,” said Columbia University drug researcher and treatment expert Dr. Herbert Kleber.
When the nation flies liberal off the charts, moral baselines become increasingly twisted so that now we have the next generation instructed in how to blow themselves away with a needle.
Leaflets’ elementary language gives the ‘cut on dotted line’ instruction: “Warm your body (jump up and down) to show your veins,” and “Find the vein before you try to inject.”
More New York adolescents are into heroin than ever before. So how do we cut the figures to a minimum? Health Department officials obviously conclude that making it easier to insert the needle will do it.
Crazy world makes crazy world crazier.
Read more: http://www.nypost.com/p/news/local/heroin_for_dummies_oLIfe1Gxl7RMk9iJZiWlnL
GOD KNOCKS GLOBAL WARM RELIGION
J. Grant Swank, Jr.
“Climate change is bringing freezing temperatures to Peruvian poor villages where families have long existed on the margins of survival.
“Now some must choose whether to save the animals that give them a living, or their children” per The Observer/guardian.co.uk’s Annie Kelly in Pichccahuasi.
God has a way of showing to humanity that He in fact is God, albeit the divine patience letting things quite out of hand on occasion, that is, in mankind’s definition of “patience.”
“There have been warnings from meteorologists in Peru that this month will see the Huancavelica region hit by the worst weather conditions in years with plunging temperatures, floods and high winds.
“The weather is already claiming lives; last month seven people died and scores were treated in hospital after torrential rain caused flash flooding in Ayacucho, the capital of the neighbouring region.”
God is in charge of the planet’s climate.
Mortals are playing God when they move into changing climate and moving continents and sludging taxpayers and kissing up to unbelieving loudmouths and passing legislation that will gouge Americans and so forth.
God IS God.
This particular planet, along with the entire universe, is God’s. He is Maker and Owner. He is the one in charge of sun, moon, stars, seasonal changes and everything else related to creation. God has His hand upon it all. His claim is tagged to every part of it.
Mortals are so intent on playing deity that they play right into the hands of God’s enemy, Satan. Satan always wanted to be God. He sought to take over the eternal throne. That cost him his place in hell. Now he is known in the Bible as the “King of the Pit.”
If these mortals keep playing God, they will end up with the King of the Pit.
Genesis 8:22 is holy writ. This is revealed information from the God of creation. In
that verse alone God states that “as long as the earth endures, seedtime and harvest, cold and heat, summer and winter, day and night will never cease.”
“. . .will never cease.”
All detail related to that overview is under God’s surveillance, not mortals’. Tell
that to Al Gore. Inform Bill Clinton of that basic reality.
It was a delight to see God’s sense of humor sprayed out over the Copenhagen cop-out when snow blanketed empty-headed conferees. It was particularly encouraging to read that snow gusts stalled Nancy Pelosi’s jaunt to the climate flop.
If mortals continue to play deity, they will answer with severe divine wrath. They will be blanketed with that which they never dreamt of. Horrific it will be.
Al Gore, once a born again believer, reared in such a biblically moored home, has gone the way of the transgressor. For years he and his wife have given up on the Bible as the Word of God.
Similarly with Bill Clinton, reared in the same biblical milieu. He too has put aside the divine revelation for his own egocentricity, writing his own religion.
These are representative of the climate-geared God-mockers who seek to manipulate creation to their own ends. Their own ends will be what is described repeatedly in Scripture as damnation.
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