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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. |
Sun Nov 29, 2009
SWITZERLAND: TOPPLE ALLAH’S MINARETS
J. Grant Swank, Jr.
That’s correct.
Tolerant Switzerland is putting it to Muslims inside its borders.
Minarets have to go. Slice them off. Dump them. No more skylines ruined with poking the clouds with Islam’s symbolic pride and power.
Swiss voters slapped a “blanket ban” on spikes in the air, per AFP and Swiss’ new agency ATS.
That’s moving forward.
If other countries wised up, civilization could gain ground again. If not, Muslim murdering-the-infidels spread will increase. Decent, law-abiding citizens must act. They must defend their cultures rather than brag on multiculturalism, as Europeans have been boasting lately.
Now these various nations are concluding that multiculturalism is all right when it refers to cultures representing civility. But when Islamics try to slide in under multiculturalism, they are barbarics that just don’t fit, no matter if they attempt to be “moderates.”
After all, who can define a “moderate Muslim”? All Allah disciples are committed to slay infidels or be slain by zealots. What does that mean for sleeper cells waiting for the call to slice and dice non-Muslims? It means that in short time we non-Islamics are spewing forth the blood fountains.
Therefore, topple the Allah might-symbol atop mosques. Rid that power fling from society. Then go after the mosques themselves, as well as the so-called spiritual leaders holding seminars on how ruin nations.
America must rid itself of Islamic schools teaching their young to hate non-Muslims. Some of these schools have received press coverage; but they are still open. Are they in your neighborhood?
America must rid itself of Islamic websites—4000 of them—that play “friendly” while defending Muslim intrusions till the sleeper cell call-ups broadcast.
America must rid itself of Muslim military personnel who give obvious signals of plotting terror.
Americans, in other words, must do more than they are doing in order to presence freedoms for citizens who deserve freedoms. Muslims intent on prostituting freedoms must be deported.
Yes, no niceness. Deportation.
“The SVP had forced a referendum under Swiss regulations on the issue after collecting 100,000 signatures within 18 months from eligible voters.
“Switzerland has an uneasy relationship with its
Muslim population of some 400,000 in a country of 7.5 million people. Islam is the second largest religion here after Christianity.”
“Uneasy relationship” is the sweet way of saying Switzerland has finally come to its basics before Allah’s murderers swing sword.
COURIC TURNS ON OBAMA?
J. Grant Swank, Jr.
“Is the honeymoon over?”
That’s Katie Couric going after Barack Hussein Obama, Marxist Muslim as defined by those who know.
Can “CBS Evening News” actually permit Couric a line of truth? Appears so. Will it last. Only time will tell. But let’s grasp the present-tense to realize that The Boy may just be figured out as Failure One by liberals.
“Although President Obama has been in office less than a year, many Americans are growing disenchanted with his handling of the enormous problems he and the country are facing, from healthcare to unemployment to Afghanistan.
“His poll numbers are sliding, and at least one poll shows his job approval rating has fallen, for the first time, below 50 percent,” Couric said per NewsMax.
Can it be that hard heads wedded to ruining our Republic with Pied Piper Obama leading the route to his lying machine could be seeing the light? Maybe. If they follow the light, they will have to discard the dark side of Pennsylvania Avenue. That would be quite the dump; but miracles happen.
Is this the Couric who snided Sarah Palin? Yes.
Couric actually said that our citizenry could become “disenchanted” with Obama.
NewsMax continues: “Correspondent Chris Reid chimed in: ‘The president is getting battered on everything from the economy to foreign policy. Some polls show Americans are increasingly questioning his credibility.’”
That would mean that conservatives are being joined by the newly converted to facts. That would be most encouraging if it is true and if it continues till Obama is ousted from the White House, that not being soon enough.
“’The president is getting battered. . .’”
That battering must be waged day and night. FOXNews and bloggers as well as conservative websites are getting out the basics 24 / 7 so that the grassroots is wiping out mob hysteriacs who crowned Muslim O. But no let-up can be permitted.
Media continued to expose Obama as not producing anything worthwhile concerning unemployment. There is no “change.” There is no “hope” from his power slings. His czars are useless for the nation’s good. His shadow government is composed of loons.
Note this important NewMax statement: “CBS also cited a poll showing that only 14 percent of Americans believe Obama’s claim that healthcare reform won’t add to the budget deficit, and only 7 percent believe that the stimulus has created any jobs at all.”
As for Afghanistan, media stated that Obama is “indecisive,” not good for Americans’ conclusion regarding his acumen.
The report also criticized the president for being “indecisive” on Afghanistan, and for returning from his recent Asian trip “with little to show for it.”
“An expert was quoted as describing his trip as the ‘amateur hour,’ as he did not line up agreements with foreign countries before venturing abroad.”
AMERICA, SQUASH MUSLIM VIOLENCE
J. Grant Swank, Jr.
Other countries are slowly waking up to the Muslim intrusion. That break-in breeds violence, flattens community, and seeks to overtake civility for barbarism.
Actually, some political leaders here and there are taking the matter seriously so as to strap down these madhouse Muslims.
For instance, in Canada, immigrants are told in no uncertain terms what is expected if they want to stay put. There will be no genital mutilation, for instance. That cuts through Islamic customs centuries’ old. The female children are mutilated so that they are ready recipients of male domination. Not so in Canada.
Canada has also banned honor killings. That’s basic turf on which to build a society worth calling cultured. Yet in Islamic environs honor killing is daily bloodflow. If a woman is concluded by clan males to have defamed that clan, she can be shot in the head. When Iraq was overseen by Killer Hussein, females frequently were dragged into soccer stadiums, shot in the head and left as examples to other women to toe the male line.
Canada will not tolerate spousal abuse. What goes on in some Muslim cluster communities is horrific. Other Muslims provide cover so that the non-Muslims don’t find out about the violence. It’s “their way.” But Canadian civil authorities are spelling it out to immigrants that authorities will investigate. They will uncover. They will find out what is bedeviling their neighborhoods in the name of Allah.
It is not the “Welcome” sign to Muslim mayhem that one might think could slip through into Canadian culture. Instead, enough has become known about the Islamic cult to begin to cleanse the nation of that which undermines and destroys. America needs to do the same.
Britain was surprised at first by the influx of Muslims en masse. But gradually Brits have come to their senses. Of course, much more needs to be done; but at least what’s started no doubt, thank God, will continue in order to rid the nation of Islamic slice and dice.
A particular police force has been set up in Britain to know what really is going on in Muslim households and communal settings. The focus is particularly on honor killing. The police have told the public that any Brit who has been kidnapped to a “foreign country” will be returned to Britain. Pakistan specifically has had a happy time of it slipping these females out of Britain for hell’s corridors.
What about females who think they are going to be slaughtered by male Muslims ready to slit their throats. The women can ask for a witness-protection plan to be enforced for their lives’ sake. This is a major move forward on the side of civilization continuance.
What about Brit’s legal cases file that is laden with honor killings
data? Scotland Yard has started to dust off those files for proper investigations.
Europe has been threatened, scolded, stomped on and yelled at by Muslim fanatics bent on taking over. Europe has been slow at moving against the enemy. But Europeans are starting to get the message that if they don’t bury the Muslim murderers and rapists and thieves, there won’t be much Europe niceties left.
Europe is moving to install protection of females, especially Muslim immigrant women who could be buried via honor killings. Europe’s pouted praiseworthy ‘multiculturalism’ has painted over its face a deadly scar. That pain has screamed loudly enough for power structures to hear the cry. Does Europe want to be drenched in blood or open their windows to morning breezes of delight and song?
Now what about America and its handouts, its stupid tolerance, its Muslim President hiding truth from our nation?
Yes, there are honor killings in the land of the free and home of the brave.
There is domestic violence fostered by adherence to the blood verses of the Koran. There are females who are treated as worthless, as dung. There are wife beatings. There are forced nuptials. There are brand new mosques constructed to instruct males in how to be instruments of cruelty over women and children.
America, take off the blind folds.
Read “How America Will Fall to Islam” at http://www.magic-city-news.com/J_Grant_Swank_61/How_America_Will_Fall_to_Islam12635.shtml
MOHMOUD AHMADINEJAD: LIAR LIAR, GLOBE ON FIRE
J. Grant Swank, Jr.
Iranian thug President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said: “The bottom line is we do
not need a bomb. The time for nuclear bombs has ended,” per AP.
Then is he going to wipe out Israel with a teaspoon?
Is he going to welcome back his adored Islamic messiah with fireflies?
Ahmadinejad is the typical Muslim zealot: liar, liar and more liar.
He champions peaceful uses of his nuclear plants while daily stapling his
own citizens to misery and hopelessness. Why are there Iranians in exile
who constantly warn the free world of Ahmadinejad’s madness? They do so
for they have suffered first-hand from his clones and himself.
Ahmadinejad is surrounded in his executive suites by his satanic cronies.
They are murderers, rapists and stealers, like unto their fiendish prophet
Mohammed.
The Iranian governing guard is not a civil collection of upright, moral
individuals. These personages wear labels usually attached to mortals who
have proven their integrities. Yet in a Muslim country, it is in reverse,
more so in Iran.
Even today, Ahmadinejad continues to endorse the sharia “legal system.” He
and millions of other Muslims wed themselves to its barbarism.
Therefore, when Ahmadinejad courts the UN audience with promises of laying
down his bombs for picking up peace doves, he lies superbly.
How many times has civil society confronted the suave political liar? Of
course such is not reserved for despotic regimes alone. Democracies have
their share.
Yet Ahmadinejad and his clique are far more frightening. They lie in order
to gain time to construct the final bomb. They smile while delivering hope-
filled speeches about peace, all the while craftily scheming the planet’s
last hour.
Ahmadinejad is so married to his messiah’s return that he has spent
millions in erecting edifices in the messiah’s honor. He has so
indoctrinated his own soul in the prophesies regarding that messiah that
he would give his right arm for their truths.
Muslims believe in the second coming. They hold to that tenet with all
their longings. They say that the messiah left the planet at age 5, only
someday to come back when the globe’s surface is on fire.
With the Islamic messiah’s return, Islam World Rule will be secured.
Now how can Ahmadinejad then state that the era of bombs is over? How can
he sincerely promise the listening world that his intentions are peace and
peace only?
He is not about to backslide from his own cultic dogmas. To backslide is
to go to hell.
He instead is going to kid the world communities by lying through his
smiling teeth. That he can do in his sleep. By doing so he keeps all the
more his promise to his messiah that he will do everything in his power to
prepare for the splitting of the skies.
And creating that split will be bombs bursting in air--from Iranian
nuclear fields.
Count on it.
In contrast, this is the biblical Christians’ hope:
Jesus followers hold to a second coming of Christ.
The Bible states that Christ Himself forecast His own return to His property, planet Earth. He provided signs preceding His return, such data given in Matthew 24, Mark 13 and Luke 21.
These literal details are in parallel to the symbolic vision given the Apostle John on the Isle of Patmos. The details are recorded in the last book of the New Testament--the Book of Revelation.
Christ stated that He would return when the world was caught up in wars and rumors of wars, famines, the increase of sin, family members increasingly taunting one another, persecution of Christians, pestilence, earthquakes, and the gospel
preached globally.
All these signs are taking place now.
In addition to these general signs, Exekiel 36-39 lays out signs pertaining specifically to Israel. These passages underline that Jews in the End Times will return from all over the world to their own homeland. That took place on May 14, 1948. They would then establish their own urban centers and agricultural splendor.
However, Jews in Israel would also discover severe suffering. Enemies would threaten them continually.
These Old Testament signs are now taking place. Therefore, when we place the Old and New Testament signs alongside one another, we realize that they play out in the daily news. This all the more reveals to the biblical student that we are indeed living in the “last generation,” as Christ referred to that time frame just prior to His return.
Christ stated in Matthew 24:29-31 that His rapturing ("gathering together unto Him") of the believers from the four corners of the planet would coincide with His open appearance in the atmostphere above the planet. In other words, the rapture and second return would be the two sides of the same coin.
There are some within the evangelical camp of biblical believers who preach that the rapture takes place prior to a seven-year tribulation period. However, that is not according to Matthew 24:29-31 which details the rapture and second coming as one and the same event at the close of the about-seven year tribulation period.
Those then who preach a pre-tribulation rapture hold out a false hope to believers. It is the post-tribulation rapture which is biblically accurate.
Christ will return at the height of the Battle of Armageddon in the northwestern section of Israel. Christ will speak the word and in that Christ will win the battle.
Satan will then be cast into the Bottomless Pit for one thousand years during which Christ will rule in peace and holiness from Jerusalem.
At the close of the millennium, an army numbering as the sands of the sea will plan a mutiny against the Christ-rule in the Holy City. However, fire will fall from heaven to consume them.
In contrast to the Islamic messiah returning when the world is set ablaze (presumably by Muslims), the Bible states that the Christ-Messiah will return at the height of the Armageddon Battle.
Therefore, biblical Christians do not plot to envelop the globe in flame but instead pray for their enemies, intercede for lost souls and witness to the good news that personal salvation is found in Christ alone.
This is a crucial difference between the Islamic messianic scheme and the biblical Christian hope.
MUSLIMS, WELCOME TO AMERICA. NOW TAKE OVER
J. Grant Swank, Jr.
This does not need commentary. I received it from a friend:
“I thought I would let everyone know that I took a deer into Archers Meats in Fishers, Indiana on Friday after Thanksgiving. It is the same place I have taken deer for 20 years.
“They told me they couldn’t take my deer today because it was a Muslim holiday and the Muslims were in the BACK SACRIFICING GOATS TO ALLAH.
“I repeated back to her slowly and in a shocked tone what she had just said to me.
“Then I told her: ‘Shame on you for putting your customers on the back burner and the American Hunter to the side while the people we are at WAR with practice their religion in the back of your building hidden from public eye.’
“I left. My deer and my business.
“Will now go to Marsh Deer processing at 8820 W. US. Highway 36 Middletown, Indiana 47356 at 765-779-4353. It’s not that far away.
“Please let all the people know about this.
“If I wouldn’t have gone to jail I would have gone back to spit on the floor in front of the Muslims and draw my weapon.
“This is America. Let’s keep it.”
Read How America Will Fall To Islam at http://faithfreedom.org/islam/how-america-will-fall-islam
HOW AMERICA WILL FALL TO ISLAM
J. Grant Swank, Jr.
Schools will instruct pupils on the “religion of peace,” Islam. Now Islamic speakers are invited into school systems to teach faculty and principals about the goodness of Islam.
Mosque clerics will be regarded the same as the Methodist minister down the street. After all, a cleric is a cleric.
Liberal groups such as the Episcopal Church, Unitarian-Universalist Society, and United Church of Christ (Congregational) will look upon Islam as a world religion among religions, thus deserving equal space with Christianity and Judaism.
Local clergy associations will welcome Muslim clerics into their fellowship.
Liberal politicians will champion Islam as compatible with America because they will believe the lies on 4000 Muslim web sites. After all, America welcomes all equally.
Theologically conservative leaders such as Billy Graham’s son, Franklin Graham, will be black listed for publishing factual books exposing Islam as a violent cult. He already has suffered such. He has been silenced by the liberal element in the United States.
Politicians and religious liberals will regard “peace religion” Islam as being highjacked by “insurgents” and “terrorists” rather than realizing that all Muslims are aligned with the same killing passages replete in the unholy book, the Koran.
Schools will set aside rooms for Muslim prayers during school hours. Airports will follow suit. Independent living residential communities will follow suit. Just as they have chapels, they will have mosque centers.
Public buildings will provide prayer rooms for Muslim prayers just as a local athletic building in New Jersey has done so for Muslim sports figures there.
Newspapers’ religion pages will place mosque advertisements for meetings and so forth right alongside the advertisements for churches. They will also provide regular feature articles on Islam as a “peace religion,” just as the local city paper already does where I live.
The sharia will become legal fare in most countries, including America. This Koran-based judicial system that enhances murder and maiming as well as discrimination against females will be set aside as proper for the Muslim community.
Islamic professors will pepper the universities and colleges throughout the nation, propagating the message that Islam is a “peace religion.” They will likewise blackball Christianity and Judaism, as is presently the fashion. This takes place presently.
Religious colleges that are theologically liberal will have Muslim instructors and personnel on staff in order to give the public relations image that they are open to all beliefs.
Chapel services on theologically liberal religious-oriented campuses will have Muslim speakers to balance out theologically liberal “Christian” preachers. Already at Bates College, Lewiston, Maine, the campus chapel is decorated with flag banners of all world religions, including Islam. The banners hang from the sanctuary ceiling.
Islamic so-called holy days will be legitimatized as holidays necessitating celebration and days off from work throughout the nation
Islamic symbols will decorate our stamps..
Islamic authors will become popular in “reading America.”
Peace themes focusing on Islamic actors will be placed in television sitcoms.
TV series such as “Sleeper Cells” will become passe and regarded as out of date and out of fact.
Legislation will be passed stating that anything truthfully negative about Islam will be regarded as a “hate crime.”
Certain Islamic personages will run for political offices and will win their elections. This takes place now.
The National Council of Churches will welcome Islam into its membership.
Liberal seminaries such as Harvard Divinity School will baptize Islam as a legitimate religion among world religions, just as HDS does already in its world religions building / courses.
It will become posh for Islamic speakers to be featured on talk shows and at book forums in local communities.
The Koran will be placed alongside the Bible in hospital chapels, just as it already is placed in the chapel in the city hospital near where I live.
The headscarf used by Muslim women will become fashionable for non-Muslim women in America. Already the headscarf clad young women appearing in various advertisements on the Internet.
Advertisements will include in their human figures not only whites and blacks and Hispanics but also obviously garbed Muslims.
“Jihad” will change its meaning from murder and maiming to improving the inner self, just as it is now defined on the Council for American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) lying web site.
Muslims will establish charitable causes to which the public will be asked to contribute, moneys used to enhance Islam and thereby overtake the nation.
Christians and Jews will be relegated to a lower status than Islam. Christians and Jews will be informed to be quiet, hold no meetings or seminars teaching the facts about Islam, and squelch any preaching against Islam.
Political liberals such as “Rev.” Jesse Jackson will come to the fore as comrades of Islam, presenting Christianity and Islam as monotheistic religions of common foundation. It will become posh for Islam and Christianity and Judaism to be presented as the three great monotheistic religions of the world, thus giving Islam equal footing with the other two religions.
There will be much talk about all three religions having Abraham as “the father of the faith.”
Regarding Islam as a killing cult will expose the offender as committing a “hate crime.”
University and college commencement addresses, particularly those on the state level, will feature Islamic speakers.
Islamic killers in America will be regarded as an anomaly and embarrassment to Islam as the true “religion of peace.”
Sunday school curricula in liberal denominations will feature Islam as a legitimate world religion.
Islam will become a highlight article feature in theologically liberal publications. Already such articles have appeared in the Harvard Divinity School Bulletin.
Islamic literature will be distributed widely freely throughout the nation, similarly to such literature distributed by Moonies at airport terminals.
Koran killing passages will be rephrased so as to erase the Koran killing-passages just as such quotes are changed on the Muslim Public Affairs Council (MPAC). These changes will appear in the American publication of the Koran placed in public buildings.
Government agencies, particularly in Washington DC, will cower before Muslim demands just as they did as set forth in the article above.
Muslims elsewhere on the planet will cause such mayhem that America will fear such coming to this country and therefore will give Muslims anything they want in order to keep the blood from flowing our USA streets.
Sat Nov 28, 2009
DETAIL: OBAMANGST CARE DAMNS AMERICA
J. Grant Swank, Jr.
Read this letter from an Indianapolis medical doctor:
Senator Evan Bayh,
As a practicing physician I have major concerns with the health care bill before Congress. I actually have read the bill and am shocked by the brazenness of the government’s proposed involvement in the patient-physician relationship. The very idea that the government will dictate and ration patient care is dangerous and certainly not helpful in designing a health care system that works for all. Every physician I work with agrees that we need to fix our health care system, but the proposed bills currently making their way through congress will be a disaster if passed.
I ask you respectfully and as a patriotic American to look at the following troubling lines that I have read in the bill. You cannot possibly believe that these proposals are in the best interests of the country and our fellow citizens.
Page 22 of the HC Bill: Mandates that the Govt will audit books of all employers that self-insure!!
Page 30 Sec 123 of HC bill: THERE WILL BE A GOVT COMMITTEE that decides what treatments/benefits you get.
Page 29 lines 4-16 in the HC bill: YOUR HEALTH CARE IS RATIONED!!!
Page 42 of HC Bill: The Health Choices Commissioner will choose your HC benefits for you. You have no choice!
Page 50 Section 152 in HC bill: HC will be provided to ALL non-US citizens, illegal or otherwise.
Page 58 HC Bill: Government will have real-time access to individuals’ finances & a ‘National ID Health card’ will be issued!
Page 59 HC Bill lines 21-24: Government will have direct access to your bank accounts for elective funds transfer.
Page 65 Sec 164: Is a payoff subsidized plan for retirees and their families in unions & community organizations: (ACORN).
Page 84 Sec 203 HC bill: Government mandates ALL benefit packages for private HC plans in the ‘Exchange.’
Page 85 Line 7 HC Bill: Specifications of Benefit Levels for Plans—The Government will ration your health care!
Page 91 Lines 4-7 HC Bill: Government mandates linguistic appropriate services. (Translation: illegal aliens.)
Page 95 HC Bill Lines 8-18: The Government will use groups (i.e. ACORN & Americorps to sign up individuals for Govt HC plan.
Page 85 Line 7 HC Bill: Specifications of Benefit Levels for Plans. (AARP members - your health care WILL be rationed!)
Page 102 Lines 12-18 HC Bill: Medicaid eligible individuals will be automatically enrolled in Medicaid. (No choice.)
Page 12 4 lines 24-25 HC: No company can sue GOVT on price fixing. No “judicial review” against Govt monopoly.
Page 127 Lines 1-16 HC Bill: Doctors/ American Medical Association - The Government will tell YOU what salary you can make.
Page 145 Line 15-17: An Employer MUST auto-enroll employees into public option plan. (NO choice!)
Page 126 Lines 22-25: Employers MUST pay for HC for part-time employees AND their families. (Employees shouldn’t get excited about this as employers will be forced to reduce its work force, benefits, and wages/salaries to cover such a huge expense.)
Page 149 Lines 16-24: ANY Employer with payroll 401k & above who does not provide public option will pay 8% tax on all payroll! (See the last comment in parenthesis.)
Page 150 Lines 9-13: A business with payroll between $251K & $401K who doesn’t provide public option will pay 2-6% tax on all payroll.
Page 167 Lines 18-23: ANY individual who doesn’t have acceptable HC according to Government will be taxed 2.5% of income.
Page 170 Lines 1-3 HC Bill: Any NONRESIDENT Alien is exempt from individual taxes. (Americans will pay.)
Page 195 HC Bill: Officers & employees of the GOVT HC Admin.. will have access to ALL Americans’ finances and personal records.
Page 203 Line 14-15 HC: “The tax imposed under this section shall not be treated as tax.” (Yes, it really says that!)
Page 239 Line 14-24 HC Bill: Government will reduce physician services for Medicaid Seniors. (Low-income and the poor are affected.)
Page 241 Line 6-8 HC Bill: Doctors: It doesn’t matter what specialty you have trained yourself in—you will all be paid the same! (Just TRY to tell me that’s not Socialism!)
Page 253 Line 10-18: The Government sets the value of a doctor’s time, profession, judgment, etc. (Literally-- the value of humans.)
Page 265 Sec 1131: The Government mandates and controls productivity for “private” HC industries.
Page 268 Sec 1141: The federal Government regulates the rental and purchase of power driven wheelchairs.
Page 272 SEC. 1145: TREATMENT OF CERTAIN CANCER HOSPITALS - Cancer patients - welcome to rationing!
Page 280 Sec 1151: The Government will penalize hospitals for whatever the Government deems preventable (i.e. readmissions).
Page 298 Lines 9-11: Doctors: If you treat a patient during initial admission that results in a re-admission—the Government will penalize you.
Page 317 L 13-20: PROHIBITION on ownership/investment. (The Government tells doctors what and how much they can own!)
Page 317-318 lines 21-25, 1-3: PROHIBITION on expansion. (The Government is mandating that hospitals cannot expand.)
Page 321 2-13: Hospitals have the opportunity to apply for exception BUT community input is required. (Can you say ACORN?)
Page 335 L 16-25 Pg 336-339: The Government mandates establishment of=2 outcome-based measures. (HC the way they want—rationing.)
Page 341 Lines 3-9: The Government has authority to disqualify Medicare Advance Plans, HMOs, etc. (Forcing people into the Government plan)
Page 354 Sec 1177: The Government will RESTRICT enrollment of ‘special needs people!’ Unbelievable!
Page 379 Sec 1191: The Government creates more bureaucracy via a “Tele-Health Advisory Committee.” (Can you say HC by phone?)
Page 425 Lines 4-12: The Government mandates “Advance-Care Planning Consult.” (Think senior citizens end-of-life patients.)
Page 425 Lines 17-19: The Government will instruct and consult regarding living wills, durable powers of attorney, etc. (And it’s mandatory!)
Page 425 Lines 22-25, 426 Lines 1-3: The Government provides an “approved” list of end-of-life resources; guiding you in death.. (Also called ‘assisted suicide.’)
Page 427 Lines 15-24: The Government mandates a program for orders on “end-of-life.” (The Government has a say in how your life ends!)
Page 429 Lines 1-9: An “advanced-care planning consultant” will be used frequently as a patient’s health deteriorates.
Page 429 Lines 10-12: An “advanced care consultation” may include an ORDER for end-of-life plans. (AN ORDER TO DIE FROM THE GOVERNMENT?!?)
Page 429 Lines 13-25: The Government will specify which doctors can write an end-of-life order. (I wouldn’t want to stand before God after getting paid for THAT job!)
Page 430 Lines 11-15: The Government will decide what level of treatment you will have at end-of-life! (Again—no choice!)
Page 469: Community-Based Home Medical Services = Non-Profit Organizations. (Hello? ACORN Medical Services here!?!)
Page 489 Sec 1308: The Government will cover marriage and family therapy. (Which means Government will insert itself into your marriage even.)
Page 494-498: Government will cover Mental Health Services including defining, creating, and rationing those services.
Senator, I guarantee that I personally will do everything possible to inform patients and my
fellow physicians about the dangers of the proposed bills you and your colleagues are debating.
Furthermore, if you vote for a bill that enforces socialized medicine on the country and destroys the doctor-patient relationship, I will do everything in my power to make sure you lose your job in the next election.
Respectfully,
Stephen E. Fraser, MD
APOSTATE CHURCHES FEED MUSLIM OBAMA
J. Grant Swank, Jr.
The false religion is all around us.
Those churches that have turned against the Word of God, Christ as God, and the proclamation of personal salvation through His forgiving mercy, aid in damning America.
Those churches clustered into denominations add to the demonic force
Those clergy who preach other than Holy Scripture are digging the Republic’s pit deeper and deeper.
The Episcopal Church is a prime example of this apostasy. Of course, the biblical believers are moving out of that conclave to form their own Word witness.
The United Church of Christ (Congregational), to which Barack Hussein Obama and wife belong, is like unto the Episcopal antichrist spirit. Obama tries to fool the public with this Protestant tie but he is in fact a Marxist Muslim given to Islam World Rule.
Other denominations that have turned their backs on the God of Scripture include the Evangelical (a misnomer) Lutheran Church of America. Of course, the Unitarian/Universalist Society has always sided with the anti-God systems. These open doors to outright blasphemy will answer at the Judgment Seat of Christ.
Pockets of wickedness worm their ways into other mainstream denominations in particular.
“They had a split. The pastor went for being ‘all-inclusive,’” the woman explained to me when speaking of an American Baptist Church nearby. When the biblical pastor followed the apostate advocate, there were not enough God loyalists to keep church doors open.
High Street Baptist Church in Portland Maine has gone apostate with “all-inclusive” etched into its church sign. That caused much pain for the biblically aligned; other Baptist churches within that association tried to get that one congregation to change its position, but to no avail.
A pastor in the Church of the Nazarene surveyed the present debate concerning the emerging church as well as some homosexual students at the denomination’s ministerial training institution. “What are they going to do with these men when they graduate and want to be ordained, then placed in a church?” he asked.
He predicted that in short time frame the Church of the Nazarene will condone homosexual practice. That holiness church would never have entertained such a notion a few years ago. Now the young turks are taking over, particularly through liberal NazNet website overseen by left-leaning Founder/Moderator Dave McClung. He is joined by Moderator Hans Deventer and Manager Scott Cundiff.
The spirit of antichrist rests upon liar Obama. He is surrounded by like spirits in his czars and shadow government. Congresspersons are a part of the dark spirit scheme as well.
Instead of there being a biblically strong American church to combat this devilment, there is fracture to right and left.
This turning backs on the God of Scripture is weakening the Republic’s stability. A nation without the God of the Bible cannot stand.
Read HILLARY & OBAMA = SPIRIT OF ANTICHRIST at http://www.americanconservativedaily.com/2008/02/hillary-obama-spirit-of-antichrist/
Fri Nov 27, 2009
GAY TUNE: “My Father’s a Homo” & OBAMA’S SAFE-SCHOOLS CZAR
J. Grant Swank, Jr.
Barack Hussein Obama’s safe-school czar, Kevin Jennings, is sexual left-of-left, per expected.
He is now mentoring our Republic’s school systems to the tune of homosexual spread. When an instructor at Concord, Mass. Academy, Jennings set up America’s first ‘gay-straight alliance.’
Then Jennings established the coast-to-coast Gay, Lesbian and Straight Education Network. Do we really need that kind of warped individual as a safe-school head?
When leaving Massachusetts for DC, Jennings took with him his liberal furtherance of AIDS and other sexually transmitted diseases via homosexual practice.
It is always a demented puzzle to realize the liberals’ frenzy in working night and day to publicize that AIDS must be eliminated. They stage celebrity studded events to raise funds for that fancy aim. They get liberal media accolades.
At the same time they will do everything possible to ensconce the homosexual lifestyle as tightly secured in our culture. This is health-wise insane. It is likewise wicked, though of course liberals go berserk when such theological terms as “wicked,” “sinful,” and “evil” are attributed rightfully to their capers.
Now Obama’s school-safe sally has left in his train a Concord environs thirsting to elevate homosexual glamour. The latest is a musical. Its foretaste is a schedule of free performance peeps prior to the full stage.
Concord-Carlisle High is the place. “Falsettos” is the antics’ title. A prime lyrical tripe is entitled, “My Father’s a Homo.”
Throughout the display, homosexual this-and-that is at the porno core. It is a demonic definition of “family” and “home” and “parenthood.” The devil is in the details.
Pro-decency MassResistance takes the lid off this community devilment trashcan. MassResistance’s constituency is outraged, properly so, at the pit dug by those determined to level healthy family life.
FOOTNOTE:
ANTI-HOMOSEXUAL PASSAGES IN THE
BIBLE
Leviticus 18:22: “You shall not lie with a male as one lies with a female; it is an abomination.”
Leviticus 20:13: “If there is a man who lies with a male as those who lie with a woman, both of them have committed a detestable act; they shall surely be put to death. Their bloodguiltiness is upon them.”
Romans 1:18-32: “For the wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of men, who suppress the truth in unrighteousness, because that which is known about God is evident within them; for God made it evident to them. . .For even though they knew God, they did not honor Him as God, or give thanks, but they became futile in their speculations, and their foolish heart was darkened. Professing to be wise, they became fools. . .
“Therefore God gave them over in the lusts of their hearts to impurity, that their bodies might be dishonored among them. For they exchanged the truth of God for a lie, and worshiped and served the creature rather than the Creator, who is blessed forever. . .
“For this reason God gave them over to degrading passions; for their women exchanged the natural function for that which is unnatural, and in the same way also the men abandoned the natural function of the woman and burned in their desire towards one another, men with men committed indecent acts and receiving in their own persons the due penalty of their error.
“God gave them over to a depraved mind, to do those things which are not proper, being filled with all unrighteousness, wickedness, greed, malice; full of envy, murder, strife, deceit, malice. . .without understanding. . . and, although they know the ordinance of God, that those who practice such things are worthy of death, they not only do the same, but also give hearty approval to those who practice them.”
I Corinthians 6:9: “Do you not know that the unrighteous shall not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived, neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor effeminate, nor homosexuals, nor thieves, nor the covetous, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor swindlers, shall inherit the kingdom of God.”
PALIN’S GOD VS. OBAMA’S GOD
J. Grant Swank, Jr.
Sarah Palin’s deity is the God of the Bible. Her personal Savior is Jesus Christ. Her holy writ is the infallible, inerrant Bible. Her hope for eternity is heaven as described in the Word of God. Her hope for the present is God’s will activated in her dedication.
Barack Hussein Obama’s deity is the god of the Koran—Allah. His personal savior is Allah, though he professes to be a Protestant via his membership in the theologically liberal United Church of Christ (Congregational / UCC). That would make him out to be a witness to Jesus Christ; of course, that is bogus, including his testimony that at an altar at Chicago’s Trinity UCC he discovered Christ. If it was Christ, it is not the Christ of the New Testament.
Obama’s so-called holy writ is the abominable Koran. His hope for eternity is unknown; but if he becomes a suicide bomber for Allah, he will be guaranteed pronto a score of virgins for everlasting. His hope for the present seems to be his reliance upon Islam’s Koran furthered by his clandestine support of Islam World Rule via czars and a shadow government given to overthrowing our Republic.
In January 2009, Marxist Muslim’s Obama seemed to be riding high on mob hysteriacs seating him proudly in the Oval Office. Recall he told the world, “I won.” Countless devotees showed up at his inauguration. He was applauded throughout Congressional halls as the new messiah promising “hope” and “change.”
Not yet a year later, he has not produced productive “change” for America; therefore, there is no grassroots “hope” in the Pied Piper who led millions into his lying machine.
Today he is below par in polls. He has not accomplished anything worthwhile, per Saturday Night Live spoofs, for example.
Today he is on the verge of submerging America into the trenches due to his pro-Islamic policies installed by crooks and Muslim cronies surrounding him 24 / 7.
He stalls on Fort Hood investigations. He enforces the warmist religion by bowing down to Al Gore clones at global global warming sessions.
He cheers on 9/11 civil investigations, providing Allah disciples privileges not deserving self-confessed Muslim murderers.
Obama is being unsealed moment by moment so that even the young mob hysteriacs are starting to get the cruel message instigated by the chief betrayer set loose in America. In short order he has plotted to ruin our health care system, dump us into the devil’s debt and bankrupt our Christian heritage by uplifting Muslims and atheists on the same honorary level as biblical believers.
This cancer sore Obama is the most dangerous occurrence ever in all the Republic’s history for it promises us our doom.
Then comes along Sarah Palin. What does she hold out for the populace?
She speaks of common sense politics, a Christian heritage history continuance, reliance upon the God of Scripture, actual hope in prayer and the Holy Spirit’s guidance in one’s personal faith life.
She comes from a biblical base regarding worship gatherings. It is not theological liberalism as touted in the United Church of Christ, Episcopal Church, Anglican Church, United Church of Canada, Unitarianism, Evangelical (a misnomer) Lutheran Church of America and other anti-Christ labels.
She worships with Christians who seek to live out the Bible, confess to following Christ as personal Redeemer, pray daily, conduct family devotions, believe in miracles, repent of their sins and then yearn to go forth in holiness.
Palin is the antithesis to Obama. Palin represents a biblical way of life. Obama represents a satanic cult.
America is now faced with the choice of Palin or
Obama. Of course, in weeks and months to come, someone else may log in to sideline Palin. But at the moment, it is Palin versus Obama.
To say that America is at a crucial fork in the road is to speak in understatement.
Read PALIN’S PENTECOSTAL FAITH: LIBERALS WILL POUNCE at http://zenithmax.wordpress.com/2009/11/18/palin%E2%80%99s-pentecostal-faith-liberals-will-pounce/
Wed Nov 25, 2009
THE HOUSE BECAME HIS GOD
J. Grant Swank, Jr.
He and wife decided to put a new addition onto their house.
In short, the addition became his god so that he lost out in his soul. It is that easy a slip to happen.
The addition consumed them. It became such an all-encompassing project that the Lord’s Day became shopping day for floor covering, tile, and so on and so on. Lowe’s and Home Depot vied for God’s attention.
“You’re not going to keep having Wednesday evening Bible study,” he pointed adamantly to me one day.
I had never said we were dispensing with the study. But he decided that his word ruled. Of course it didn’t. However, in his head the house addition was more important than
mid-week Bible study. Over and out.
The rest of us continued to gather around the Word weekly. He was missing, House addition supplanted the Word.
The rest of us were kind enough to inquire about the addition—what colors, what tile selections, what floor plans. After all, we wanted to be happy with a friend who was a part of our house church.
However, it was obvious that the addition—wood, nails, paint—were all important in this fellow’s life. It was the beginning signs of spiritual backsliding.
How harmless a matter as an addition onto a house can rob the soul of God’s first place. But it happens all the time, in one form or another for the enemy of our souls never gives up.
Several years prior he and his first wife were sliding
backward in their commitments to the Lord. As pastor I saw it and quaked. There was nothing I could say for they would rebut every caution I would verbalize. That’s the way it is when a Christian starts losing out with God.
It was a snowy Monday morning when his wife’s automobile slid into an accident that cut through in an instant her earthly stay. She was gone. God’s mercy retrieved her soul before she lost out completely with her Lord.
I met with him through all those hours of sorrow. I was there as faithful pastor.
Then he married a second time. The marriage moved along with one happy project and then another. The house addition came to the fore and loomed higher than it should. The fellow lost sight of legitimate spiritual priorities. The rest of us believers witnessed it and wondered what would eventually happen with the man’s test of loyalty.
Sundays became a quick stay for house worship and then off for more house building supplies. Addition. Addition. House addition became his all-in-all.
But God said, “Thou shalt have no other gods before me.”
With the sour state of his soul, he became critical of everything that happened in worship. That’s what happens when a person begins to pull away from the glory of the Lord. Even that which is nourishing to the faithful believers becomes repulsive to the one backsliding.
One Sunday evening we had a most enriching worship in an elderly woman’s home. The music was uplifting. The testimonies were enlivening. The fellowship was rich and sincere. The Bible opened to fill our waiting spirits with new food.
However, not so with the one who had by now given his allegiance to his own selfish world.
Monday morning he phoned me to complain about everything that occurred the evening before. We sang too many hymns. The sermonic illustrations were not proper. The distance driving to the elderly woman’s home was too long. And on and on.
All I could see in my mind during his tirade was House Addition, House Addition, House Addition equals god. It was truly sad.
He ordered me how to conduct future worships. He ordered us all when we were to meet and how long and where. In short, his phone message was obnoxious—but worse. It was the final sign that he had given into the backslidden soul.
Soon after he decided to exit the house church for his own lonely abode, his second wife slipped while working on the house addition. She broke her leg in multiple locations, pins having to be inserted, two months off the use of the leg and so forth.
I have witnessed this often when persons willfully turn their backs on God. We mortals need do nothing. God then moves in to discipline those He loves, according to His Word.
To this moment, the man has never apologized for the havoc he brought to God and the innocent house church believers.
Instead, he continues his way in the void promised him by the enemy of our souls.
THE DEVIL’S IN THE DETAILS: GORE’S CLIMATE WARMING MUMBO JUMBO
J. Grant Swank, Jr.
“The conspiracy behind the Anthropogenic Global Warming myth (aka AGW; aka ManBearPig) has been suddenly, brutally and quite deliciously exposed after a hacker broke into the computers at the University of East Anglia’s Climate Research Unit (aka CRU) and released 61 megabytes of confidential files onto the internet. (Hat tip: Watts Up With That).”
So now it’s been uncovered that politics and ego have played a prime role in the so-called global warming religion.
Al Gore, champion charlatan, now wipes egg off his face. Fine for truth.
Telegraph.co.uk’s James Delingo provides a revealing overview.
Emails back and forth from those trumpeting the climate creeds of global heat-up have surfaced, now much to the writers’ embarrassment.
Therefore, we can conclude that not only Barack Hussein Obama is committed to lying, per his Muslim “ethic” writ in the Koran. But other dark-side game-players have taken on lying as a virtue.
Those lifting high truth are warned repeatedly that it is to be “wise as snakes and harmless as doves.”
Read the surfaced emails for yourself:
“As Andrew Bolt puts it, this scandal could well be ‘the greatest in modern science’. These alleged emails – supposedly exchanged by some of the most prominent scientists pushing AGW theory – suggest:
“Conspiracy, collusion in exaggerating warming data, possibly illegal destruction of embarrassing information, organized resistance to disclosure, manipulation of data, private admissions of flaws in their public claims and much more.”
And now this:
Writer James Delingpole states: “One of the alleged emails has a gentle gloat over the death in 2004 of John L Daly (one of the first climate change sceptics, founder of the Still Waiting For Greenhouse site), commenting:
“’In an odd way this is cheering news.’”
Imagine that for defending facts alone. Imagine the truth-tellers closeted while the politico-money-hungry warm religionists pound away for whatever they can gain from lying.
Now get this next email:
“I’ve just completed Mike’s Nature trick of adding in the real temps to each series for the last 20 years (ie from 1981 onwards) and from 1961 for Keith’s to hide the decline.”
Read every word and uncover deceit maximum at work in this email:
“The fact is that we can’t account for the lack of warming at the moment and it is a travesty that we can’t. The CERES data published in the August BAMS 09 supplement on 2008 shows there should be even more warming: but the data are surely wrong. Our observing system is inadequate.”
Read it again: “’Our observing system is inadequate.’”
Disciples of this warm religion collaborate to destroy damaging emails:
“Can you delete any emails you may have had with Keith re AR4?
“Keith will do likewise. He’s not in at the moment – minor family crisis.
“Can you also email Gene and get him to do the same? I don’t have his new email address.
“We will be getting Caspar to do likewise.”
Then the urge to violently attack those not bowing down at the warm religion altars:
“Next time I see Pat Michaels at a scientific meeting, I’ll be tempted to beat the crap out of him. Very tempted.”
Here is an email trying to cover up the “inconvenient truth of the Medieval Warm Period (MWP)”:
“Phil and I have recently submitted a paper using about a dozen NH records that fit this category, and many of which are available nearly 2K back–I think that trying to adopt a timeframe of 2K, rather than the usual 1K, addresses a good earlier point that Peck made w/ regard to the memo, that it would be nice to try to ‘contain’ the putative ‘MWP’, even if we don’t yet have a hemispheric mean reconstruction available that far back. . .”
What are the warm religionists to do with scientists who continue to expose the warmist lies? Read it:
“This was the danger of always criticizing the skeptics for not publishing in the ‘peer-reviewed literature’. Obviously, they found a solution to that–take over a journal! So what do we do about this?
“I think we have to stop considering ‘Climate Research’ as a legitimate peer-reviewed journal. Perhaps we should encourage our colleagues in the climate research community to no longer submit to, or cite papers in, this journal.
“We would also need to consider what we tell or request of our more reasonable colleagues who currently sit on the editorial board…What do others think?
“I will be emailing the journal to tell them I’m having nothing more to do with it until they rid themselves of this troublesome editor.”
THANKSGIVING IN SCOLLAY SQUARE
J. Grant Swank, Jr.
I was a sophomore in a church-related New England college outside Boston. I could not go home for Thanksgiving because I just couldn’t. I was planning on being home for Christmas and being in Maryland for November vacation was too close to December’s get-away.
So I went from student to student on campus to ask for money. I had an idea. I would feed the Boston poor in Scollay Square on Thanksgiving Day. But I needed money — cash.
Fellow students gave away their money. I put it in a jar in my dorm room. And then most of my friends left for Turkey Day elsewhere. It was an eerie feeling at the college when dorms were mostly empty. But I was so excited I was beside myself.
Prior to Thanksgiving I went into Boston where they sold clerical collars. I, a Protestant, would dress as a priest. It was the only way I could be certain that I’d be safe at nighttime in Scollay Square — the dregs section of the metro. It was after all where the prostitutes stood on corners, vagrants slept in the gutters, and a downtown mission sang hymns like, “Softly and Tenderly, Jesus is Calling.”
I knew Scollay Square. I was a part of the college’s Evangelistic Association. We made our ways into the slums of Boston to sing and preach and hand out hymnals in the mission. It smelled badly in that mission house. But it was one grand place to be. Straight backed chairs. Floppy hymnals with paper backs. An old piano at the front of the room. No microphones. Hanging bald light bulbs strung from the stained ceiling. And the gospel preached with gusto, especially by students preparing for the ministry.
I can recall when I preached my first sermon. It was in the Scollay Square downtown mission. When I got back to campus, seated in chapel the next morning, I wrote the outline of my sermon on the back of an envelope I was mailing home to my parents. They would be so proud that their son was preaching, let alone at the slum mission. I was elated with that sermon outline. I wish I still had it.
So it was that preparing for Thanksgiving I went to buy my Roman collar. It worked. It fit. I weighed only 120 pounds, so I didn’t need a large collar. I had a black suit; most of the preacher-wannas had a black suit. So I was all set. I had my cash. I had my collar. I had my black suit. And I had my Thanksgiving in Boston rather than with family in Maryland. Perfect.
The day came to get onto the T — the train that went from Quincy to Boston. There I sat, looking very much like a Father. And so it was that people seated to my right and left greeted me kindly: “Hello, Father.” “Good day, Father.” I smiled and nodded in reply. I recall especially two old ladies. They were whispering to one another. I heard one say, “He seems awfully young to be a priest.” Oh, if they only
knew!
Of course, then, in 1958, Catholics swarmed all over Massachusetts, particularly Boston. Priests in garb and nuns in habits were all over the place. So for me to be one of them fit in quite readily, though truly I was a bit young to have finished one’s priestly schooling.
Presently I disembarked and walked up the dungeon steps from below ground onto Park Street and Tremont Street, the Boston Commons to my left. It was mid-afternoon. I walked down past King’s Chapel right into the heart of Sculley Square. I was home!
Sure enough, vagrants, otherwise then known as “bums,” were to right and left. I approached my first customer. “Hello, Father.” “Hello. I hope you’re having a blessed Thanksgiving Day, sir.” “Not at all.” “Then here’s some money. Take it over there to the cafeteria and get yourself a turkey dinner. God bless you.”
I handed him the cash. I had already checked out how much the meal was. It was indeed a cafeteria where you served yourself and paid the cashier when filling up your tray.
With a flash the man took my money and darted into the shadows. He had no intentions of eating a turkey dinner. Liquor was better. And he had my cash in hand.
That taught this naďve Protestant teetottler a lesson. So for the next fellow I approached about a turkey dinner, I walked with him to the cafeteria, watched him put the food on the tray and then paid the cashier myself for his food. That was that.
But before any more men had their free meals, I walked them right into King’s Chapel. The doors then were never locked. It is an historic church — stone, awesome, quiet, perfect for meditation and prayer. There each fellow along with myself knelt before the altar to pray. I prayed aloud. Then we two stood to our feet, walked to the cafeteria and the man had his turkey dinner.
Night began to fall. I still had money. I was on one grand high for Jesus. Truly. I had never felt so good in a long, long time. I thought my heart would burst.
I came upon a flophouse. I walked in. I talked with the clerk, who herself was a bit of a vagrant. Everyone was that in Scollay Square. The building was dark and dirty. For fifty cents a person could literally flop down somewhere under its roof.
I walked further down the street to be called out to by a fortuneteller. “Father, let me see your palm. I will tell your future,” she beckoned. She was seated in a storefront type of station, dressed as gypsy fortunetellers were garbed in Scollay Square. Behind her was a fancy, colorful curtain. “No thank you,” I replied. “God bless you.” Then I went on my way as she kept calling me to have my fortune told.
Presently, as I was standing under a lamppost, its light forming a perfect circle all around me, I looked up several stories high to an apartment of sorts. There was a light on and a man peering out the window. He must have caught sight of my collar and concluded he hated priests. So with that he opened the window to shout obscenities at me — clenching his fist all the while. I concluded I wasn’t going to linger there under that light.
Finally all my money was gone. I boarded the T for a return to college. All the way home I was thrilled beyond words. What a Thanksgiving Day I had had. It was delightful, fulfilling, out of this world. No one could ever believe what a grand time I had in Scollay Square.
Looking back on that day many, many times — and sharing the experience with numerous friends not only at Thanksgiving — I truly believe it was one of the most miraculous spiritual experiences I have ever been privileged to know.
Tue Nov 24, 2009
THE DEVIL’S IN THE DETAILS: GORE’S CLIMATE WARMING MUMBO JUMBO
IS LOVING ADAM LAMBERT A HATE CRIME?
J. Grant Swank, Jr.
Don’t you just love Adam?
After all, who lately has made such an adieu about cuddle this and kissing that? A pinch here, a fondle there.
Now that America is under hate crime watch, is loving Adam Lambert a hate crime? I was pondering that this evening when reading all about ABC zapping him for their “Good Morning America” bit.
The whole problem is this: So you love Adam Lambert. Does that mean that you hate God?
Adam Lambert is telecasting that he is an out-o-the-closet kind of person. And he proves it on stage by kissing an onstage male entertainer—impromptu, so who can judge him for doing what his drives tell him what to do?
More than that, he leads around stage fellow males on leashes. Now if that’s not anti-Petticoat Junction, I don’t know what is.
But the quandary is this: Adam Lambert does this kind of mix-up and gets cancelled on one major network while picked up on another. He’s got thousands of Americans phoning in to television execs complaining about his capers. He’s got interviews with reporters, whining he’s sorry if his lifestyle stuffs it in people’s faces.
Then he persists in romping around while screaming out a screech and smashing a male’s head in his crotch.
Now is loving Adam Lambert a hate crime? Because I read in the Bible that doing that kind of thing as a male to male is repulsive to biblical deity. And so if it is that basic a madness, then perhaps Adam Lambert is putting his signature to a hate crime.
I mean by that that God hates his display because it is sin.
Of course, everyone who knows a smidgen about the Bible knows that the God of the Book forgives a genuinely repentant soul. So if Adam Lambert sincerely confessed his whatevers to God, God would bestow mercy. Note: it would have to be sincere; that is, to “go and sin no more,” as Jesus told the woman caught in adultery.
However, of course, I am not at all leaning in the direction of Adam Lambert running to the confessional for at this juncture in his young life he is making a lot of money and fuss over his carnal flips. He’s got a lot of people yakking pro and con. That makes for a star slot in some individuals’ opinions.
But back to the main point: Is loving Adam Lambert
a hate crime? That is, is loving Adam Lambert equal to his committing a hate crime. Maybe I should have put it that way at the outset.
In any case, it is a serious matter. For if one Adam Lambert is committing a hate crime in God’s estimation then it would behoove him to weigh his present spotlight in nastiness with what lays ahead eternally.
What say you?
Mon Nov 23, 2009
OBAMA’S RECOVERY.COM LIES
J. Grant Swank, Jr.
This Barack Hussein Obama Recovery.gov lies.
It is unfortunately believed by the uninformed. That is utterly abominable but once again underlines that Obama plants deceit in every corner of his oversight.
Obama lies regarding statistics on numerous Recovery.gov levels. Obama has been asked to fix the site. He refuses to fix the site. He will not attempt to fix that site.
How can this be? Can be tolerated?
The answer is that Muslims are taught to lie for it furthers Islam World Rule. Allah instructs via the Koran to outsmart the enemy. Lying then is an Islamic virtue.
To Christians, lying is a sin. Therefore, Christians in the nation expect people to tell the truth. Of course, Christians know there are liars out there. But when these liars are caught, Christians expect them to be exposed. Sometimes they are penalized or disciplined in some manner.
However, a Marxist Muslim President gets away with lying because the liberal media will not expose him. His own lying team, naturally, will not expose him. And so he twists the honest citizenry once again in the wind.
There are plenty of Dems in Congress who are not Muslims; but since their leader lies, they take on his mantle. And countless get by with it.
Hopefully in the next elections, these liars will be spanked out of Congressional halls. Of course, some more liars will no doubt take some of their places; but let’s pray that enough liars are sent into oblivion that truthful individuals sit in their seats.
Obama lied from years back. Demented Jeremiah Wright preached for twenty years to Obama.
In that cultic mentoring Obama was taught how artfully to lie. Michelle was as well. Now these two sit in the White House, screwing up our Republic.
Obama’s czars and shadow government plot through sessions to refine their lies. Then when they are caught, for instance, in Congressional question-and-answer sessions, at times the query gets the cat out of the bag.
Recovery.gov is symbolic of the prime motive spinning Obama’s lying machine. Like Wright’s cultic warehouse where hate and deceit were a membership requirement, Obama’s lying machine builds on to Wright’s creedal teachings in political environs.
Back to the bottom line regarding Recovery.com: It is laden with lies because it is overseen by a socialist Muslim who honors Islam’s warped ethic that condones lying as a moral good.
From Recovery.gov, one can extrapolate to whatever Obama considers his political mission, schemes that lie, such being a fundamental quotient. That includes his health care plan. Also his stand on abortion. That includes his (mis)management of Afghanistan as well as his projections for job increase, stimulus policy substance, international relations, basic freedoms regarding religion and speech, and so forth.
Obama plans on destroying America through the power of the lie. Of course, history reveals indeed how tremendously powerful the lie is.
The lie is the given in Obama’s religion. It is the absolute in his speeches, his dealing with other nations, and his empty promises laid on America.
In other words, Obama cannot be believed in anything he says. He cannot be believed in anything.
Recovery.gov is an in-your-face example.
SPIKE LEE RE B. H. OBAMA: HOW WRONG CAN ONE GET?
J. Grant Swank, Jr.
Looking back on the pre-presidential election days can be quite interesting. Take this:
Filmmaker Spike Lee said that God put Barack Hussein Obama in the Oval Office. He is certain that Barack Hussein Obama will walk into the White House
because heaven ordained it to be so.
Lee says that he can feel it. It is without question. There is such certainty in Lee’s conviction.
However, Lee is not known for his biblical sensitivity or theological learning. Lee is not considered a spiritual advisor of excellence.
Nevertheless, that did not stop Lee from publicly pronouncing his soul witness endorsing Barack Hussein Obama as deity’s choice for America’s President.
Per Jeff Poor of Business & Media Institute, “Lee revealed he thought the economic difficulties that are presently plaguing the country were ordained by God to help get Barack Obama elected president.”
Therefore, add to the Lee certainty that God has placed Barack Hussein Obama on Pennsylvania Avenue that God also planned the nation’s financial mess. In other words, thank you, God, for two weird blessings wrapped in one package.
“Lee appeared on ‘Morning Joe’ and, in an interview with co-host Joe Scarborough, he made the revelation.
“‘I’ve always believed, and it seems naive, that God had a hand in America,’ Scarborough said. ‘And I get a real sense you feel that God has had a real hand in this.’
“‘So many things have happened – all of a sudden, the economy goes south at that moment, and then McCain,’ Lee replied. ‘There were so many things.. It was almost a movement that had to be ordained, I think.’”
So there you have it. Lee the prophet. Lee the advisor for future events and analyzer for past happenings.
This is Lee the film designer giving forth the Holy Spirit’s messages to his own spirit.
What is so odd is that Lee’s testimony does not square with God’s Word. And of course if Lee is speaking for the Bible’s God, then what he states as divinely ordained should square with divine revelation.
However, it does not.
Lee’s idol, Barack Hussein Obama, is pro-choice for womb killing mothers. This is not God sanctioned.
Obama desires homosexual activity to be permitted throughout America as a legitimate pastime. This is not God sanctioned.
Obama states that reading the Koran was a poetic, aesthetic experience for his own soul experience. This is not in line with the Bible as divine revelation in comparison to the Koran as demonically scribed.
Obama holds that all religions are one. That is not sanctioned by the Bible’s God.
Obama embraces Islam as a legitimate religion, holding a long history of being pro-Muslim so that many suspect him to be a mask Muslim. That is not
God sanctioned.
Lee obviously speaks for other than God. If he sincerely means that a spirit spoke to his spirit, that spirit would have to be a satanic spirit, not the Holy Spirit.
The Holy Spirit cannot contradict His own inspired Word. The Holy Spirit cannot cancel out biblical ethics. The Holy Spirit cannot endorse an immoral agenda such as that proposed by Barack Hussein Obama.
Lee, check out your spirit. It does not appear to be in line with the Holy Spirit, therefore, your analyses are suspect, evidently.
RIGHT MOVE: KENNEDY REFUSED COMMUNION
J. Grant Swank, Jr.
Canon Law Regarding Catholics and Abortion:
“Canon Law 1398 Catholics who have obtained an abortion, or performed an abortion, have excommunicated themselves latae sententiae (automatically by their very action) from the Catholic Church. They remain outside the church until the reception of the sacrament of Penance through a good confession.
“Canon Law 1329 Catholics who are accomplices in enabling and permitting the crime of abortion to occur, who without their assistance the crime would not have been committed, incur the same penalty.
“Canon Law 915 (an exception to receiving Holy Communion) “Others who obstinately persist in manifest grave sin are not to be admitted to Holy Communion.”
All bishops should follow their own Canon Law concerning their constituency and the abortion atrocity.
Roman Catholic Bishop Thomas Tobin sets the morally correct standard. He refused Patrick Kennedy the sacrament in Rhode Island.
Kennedy’s endorsement of child killing is abhorrent to God. It is abhorrent to the Roman Catholic ethical understanding of Scripture—the inerrant, infallible Word of God.
Kennedy favors killing womb infants. That is called “murder.” Female rights have no right to murder.
Therefore, the devil is in the process when mortals slay mortals who are in female bodies. That is not only how Tobin sees it; that is the way biblical believers understand divine revelation.
TV’s The View Whoopie Goldberg had a field day this morning when it came to her understanding of what the church does with its constituency’s views of right and wrong. With that, she went on her evangelistic diatribe about her understanding of Scripture.
She concludes that the Bible allows a human to do what he or she wants to do as long it is in keeping with that individual’s personal communication with God—no interference from churchly organizations or spiritual leaders.
On one part, she is accurate: a mortal can communicate with God and is served the consequences of that via accountability from that God.
But on the other part, she is so wrong. The God of the Bible does not have various moral codes for various persons depending on what they say they “hear” from God. God’s biblical standard is there as an eternal verity; it is not waffling to left or right, up or down.
Whoopie always has a good old time of it when trying to make deity out to be a Nice Guy on everything from communion altars to sex. In that she makes a lot of viewing friends for they likewise serve a deity who is totally into relativism, discounting absolutes.
However, Tobin is in line with the true understanding of Scripture when he holds the line on not permitting those who claim to be “Christian” yet murder to have Communion. They in no way have the ethical right to partake of the body and blood of Christ. That is atrocious in itself.
Think about it: Did Savior Christ suffer severe mistreatment on the cross in order to share His body and blood with persons who slay children? I don’t think so.
Did Christ stretch His holy presence on Calvary, permit nails to be driven through His hands and feet, then endure the spear slice in His side to allow pious appearing church goers the honor to partake of the sacrament representing that redemptive offering? I don’t think so.
Did Christ anywhere in His public ministry ever teach that slaughtering womb innocents is okay if it is not in a person’s life plan? I don’t think so.
Would to God that more clergy kept the same biblical standard that Tobin keeps. All spiritual leaders in the Christian tradition should obey God, His moral base and instruct those under their care to do the same.
“Sorry, you can’t chalk it up to an ‘imperfect humanity.’ Your position is unacceptable to the Church and scandalous to many of our members,” Tobin told Kennedy.
Stay the holy course, Tobin. Stay the holy course.
FOOTNOTE:
The Bible speaks of a fetus as a person, not simply tissue that can be discarded if found to be a bother or nuisance. Since the fetus is a person from the moment of conception, then the destroying of the fetus is killing a person.
“In the past, some people have mistakenly speculated that perhaps the body might be in the process of formation for some time, and then ‘God breathes a soul into it.’ They had it backward. The life that is present forms matter into a body for itself’” (Joseph Breig, “Life Forms Matter,” The Catholic News, Jan. 24, 1974, p. 8).
“Your hands shaped me and made me. Will you now turn and destroy me? Remember that you molded me like clay. Will you now turn me to dust again? Did you not pour me out like milk … and knit me together with bones and sinews? You gave me life and showed me kindness, and in your providence watched over my spirit” (Job 10:8-12 NIV).
“Before I was born the LORD called me; from my birth he has made mention of my name...and now the LORD says--he who formed me in the womb to be his servant...” (Isaiah 49:1, 5).
“The word of the LORD came to me, saying, ‘Before I formed you in the womb I knew you, before you were born I set you apart; I appointed you as a prophet to the nations’” (Jeremiah 1:4-5).
In the following passages we note that personality is ascribed to the unborn.
“For you created my inmost being; you knit me together in my mother’s womb. I praise you because I am fearfully and wonderfully made; your works are wonderful, I know that fully well. My frame was not hidden from you when I was made in the secret place. When I was woven together in the depths of the earth, your eyes saw my unformed body. All the days ordained for me were written in your book before one of them came to be” (Psalm 139:13-16).
“Sons are a heritage from the LORD, children a reward from him” (Psalm 127:3).
Exodus 21:22-25 relates how Israel was to judge a circumstance relating to the death of the unborn:
“If men who are fighting hit a pregnant woman and she gives birth prematurely but there is no serious injury, the offender must be fined whatever the woman’s husband demands and the court allows. But if there is serious injury, you are to take life for life, eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, foot for foot, wound for wound, bruise for bruise.”
All of the latter deals with unintentional hurt that comes to a pregnant woman; how much more will divine penalty come upon those who intentionally discard the fetus? The Gospel of Luke ascribes personality to the fetus within Elizabeth:
“When Elizabeth heard Mary’s greeting, the baby leaped in her womb, and Elizabeth was filled with the Holy Spirit… As soon as the sound of your greeting reached my ears, the baby in my womb leaped for joy” (1:41, 44).
Mere tissue does not leap for joy; only personhood leaps for joy. The Bible regards the fetus as having personality. In Galatians, Paul speaks of himself as a person while still in his mother’s womb, but more a person consecrated by God for a holy mission (compare Jeremiah 1:5 for the same accent):
“But when God, who set me apart from birth, and called me by his grace, was pleased to reveal his Son in me so that I might preach him among the Gentiles...” (Gal. 1: 15-16).
Since the Bible regards the fetus as personality, then the aborting of the fetus is murdering personality.
Some verses from Scripture dealing with murder are then appropriate for study, such as Genesis 9:6: “Whoever sheds the blood of man, by man shall his blood be shed; for in the image of God has God made man.” Also, read Exodus 23:7: “Have nothing to do with a false charge, and do not put an innocent or honest person to death, for I will not acquit the guilty.” Note I Peter 4:15: “If you suffer, it should not be as a murderer...”
If the Republic returned to the biblical definition of personhood, we would defend every womb child.
John Adams said the following:
“Our Constitution was made only for a religious and moral people. It is wholly inadequate for the government of any other.”
Andrew Jackson said the following:
“The BIBLE is the rock on which our Republic rests.”
Daniel Webster:
“If we abide by the principles taught in the BIBLE, our country will go on prospering.”
“For all the talk of freedom and self-determination, the abortion movement is at its heart a movement denying rights to a silent segment of humanity and soliciting public sanction, support and subsidy to its own cause” (Donald P. Shoemaker, ABORTION, THE BIBLE AND THE CHRISTIAN, Hayes Publishing Co., 1976, p. iv).
HE FACED TWENTY YEARS
J. Grant Swank, Jr.
He faced twenty years for being accused of a heinous crime.
I was substance abuse counselor at the jail at the time of his admittance.
“I fell to my knees. I cried out, ‘If there is a God, help me. My life is over.’” That was the agonizing prayer of the young, white felon.
“Then I opened my eyes. I stared into the corner of my cell. There was this Bible.”
When I first met Stan, he was walking down the jail corridor to his work station. In his hand he held a Bible. At first glance, I asked him, “Why are you reading that book?”
“Because it helps me,” he answered in a low-key voice.
The next day I asked him the same question. I got the same answer.
The next day I asked him once again the same question. Once again, I got the same answer.
The next time I asked him, getting the same answer, I told him I was one with him. I informed him that I am a Christian.
With that, we became conversational friends in jail.
One day we were talking about the strength the Word provides us when under pressure. He obviously was under a severe strain with twenty years in prison in front of him.
“The more I read this Book, the more the outside world recedes. Now I have read it through three times. I can honestly say that with this Book in my heart, I don’t care any more about the twenty years. If it’s twenty years behind bars, then it’s twenty years behind bars. I accept it as God’s will.”
It is amazing how the Bible can insulate a soul for sound mental and emotional health. The Word is powerful. It can redeem and cleanse. It can rejuvenate and implant hope. It can retrain thought patterns and emotional networks. It can perform miracles.
Stan was experiencing in jail all of these changes within his very person. From the first night, slamming his body against the cell floor in desperation, to this moment of confessing liberation, he had traveled quite the inner journey.
Being in ministry for nearly half a century, I could trust this man to be relating to me the whole truth. He had no reason to fabricate. If he had tried to fabricate, it would have shown itself without doubt, considering the twenty years in prison that was hanging his life.
I promised him that I would intercede for him in my own humble prayers. He thanked me sincerely.
We continued our friendship. Though I was employed in a secular position at the jail, yet there were opportunities for me to speak with Stan, even though briefly, about grooming his soul in the Holy Spirit’s presence.
I could not get over his words about the outside world receding the more he immersed himself in the Word. I thought of how many believers outside jail could come upon such release if they only took the time to do as Stan.
Our lives are so filled with nonsense and worldly lures.
We don’t know the freedom that we could experience if we only immersed ourselves in the Bible with greater discipline. Instead, we content ourselves with a five-and-dime religion of superficial spirituality. Television, MP3s, chit-chat on cell phones, trivia, movies and all the rest of our culture’s sidelines keep us away from soul depth.
Stan came upon God’s treasure house only because his crime had corralled himself inside a jail cell with a Book. That became his key to real-life freedom.
He was imprisoned in a July. By a miracle, the next February he was released. There is no human explanation. It is sheer miracle. It is nothing but the divine hand.
Years have passed.
Stan has proven over time his surrender to the Christ he met in the Book. Today he is a model believer, happily married and rearing a family, serving in his local church and witnessing to the power of God to set a prisoner free.
Sun Nov 22, 2009
I THOUGHT MY WIFE WOULD SHARPEN KNIVES WHEN MARTHA STEWART BOILED SARAH PALIN
J. Grant Swank, Jr.
She was not ready to hoist our turkey knife-upward either. She was livid. She was after Martha Stewart. For certain.
And this wife of mine is a Martha Stewart loyal royal. She loves her show. Martha says it; it’s true. My wife even tried the recipe mimic.
But no more. When Priscilla learned that Stewart went after Sarah Palin, finis!
Sarah Palin is not God. But Palin is indeed a choice one for Priscilla.
So Stewart was asked what she thought of Palin. I saw it with my own eyes. And as far as I could tell, Stewart’s eyes drooped in a condescending fall. The lids were all but on the floor.
Stewart let it be known in that soft, cutting voice of the elite that Palin was “boring.” Palin is so boring that Stewart would not even care to walk across the street to hear one syllable from the former Alaskan Governor.
Further, Palin is not only stiff board, she’s “dangerous” for any country. Just plain dangerous. She is not good stuff, in other words.
When I told her what media was telecasting, Priscilla was a bit suspicious that I had fallen into hyperbole.
But when Priscilla heard with her own ears those
nasty terms sliding off the kitchen mistress’ tongue, Priscilla just about slid all the knives from her own cabinet onto the fighting field. Priscilla looked to me as if she were after blood.
After all, there are some moral bases that cannot be crossed without battle begun. I guessed in an instant that the garrisons were being called up and children should run for cover.
Stewart, with all her cute phrases and courteous glances toward one show guest or another was now no friend of Wifey. Stewart’s lush pad and come-back from prison cell was no bait for Priscilla’s liking.
And I can’t say I blame her. I go right along with her analysis of the Cooking Queen.
Stewart has lost with us common folk who have brains working for what is decent and logical. Stewart has tightened all the more with the crusty liberals, dittoing their mantras and bedding down with their tripe.
That’s it for Stewart.
Any questions, just ask Priscilla. She’s ready with the verbiage—out and about and up and down and left to right, no end in sight.
Further, as I see her marching up the avenue, I note quite a line of like-minded pot-banging females screaming at the pines.
See video http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/11/22/martha-stewart-calls-sara_n_366810.html
OBAMA’S PRO-MUSLIM WORDS
J. Grant Swank, Jr.
Let Barack Hussein Obama speak for himself:
“The person who made me proudest of all though was my (half-brother), Roy. He was converted to Islam.” (DREAMS OF MY FATHER)
“In Indonesia, I spent two years at a Muslim school. . .I studied the Koran.” (DREAMS OF MY FATHER)
“Lolo (Obama’s stepfather) followed Islam. . .I looked to Lolo for guidance.” (AUDACITY OF HOPE)
“ I will stand with them (Muslims) should the political winds of war shift in any ugly direction. . .”
(AUDACITY OF HOPE)
“We are no longer just a Christian nation. We are also a Jewish nation, a Muslim nation, a Buddhist nation, a Hindu nation, and a nation of nonbelievers.” (INAUGURAL SPEECH)
What Obama does not understand, or perhaps he does but discards it, is that America was founded on a decidedly Christian base.
Naturally not all early settlers were biblical believers. But those seeking religious freedom in the New World were by and large Christians. They held to the Scriptures as the Word of God. In doing so, they tried to live out its morals, believe in Jesus as Savior, and prayed to Him.
They taught their children the Christian way, keeping Sunday s a holy day, even using Scripture verses in school texts by which to instruct pupils in the proper way to live.
Obama now wants for America, not merely the European secularization, but Islam World Rule. That is why he has circling him czars in a shadow government who are known as “devout Muslims.”
He had the same in his Senatorial office in Illinois. He used them in his political campaign. Now he has them to right and left making policy and wielding untold power.
This nation surely has its spiritual faults. But it has a Christian heritage that cannot be denied, though Obama would erase it as quickly as possible. He does not want the next generations learning of the facts. He wants an Islamic theocracy in the United States.
Read The Republic’s Foundation was Christian at http://www.magic-city-news.com/J_Grant_Swank_61/The_Republic_s_Foundation_was_Christian12408.shtml
BIBLICAL MORALISTS DEFY GOVERNMENT
J. Grant Swank, Jr.
Biblical ethicists defy left-of-left government intrusion if the latter prods believers to deny their values.
These stalwarts are in the line of Jesus overturning temple tables, sending merchants fleeing. Jesus defied the power structure in favor of hallowing His Father’s House of Prayer.
Christians through centuries have defied evildoers. They have stood for the God of the Bible while secularists threatened them with harm.
So it is today those adhering to scriptural morals inform a secularist-prone government to move over. These godly disciples will not bend to unbelievers’ demands. They will serve God as God.
“Because we honor justice and the common good,” it states, “we will not comply with any edict that purports to compel our institutions to participate in abortions, embryo-destructive research, assisted suicide or euthanasia or any other anti-life act; nor will we bend to any rule purporting to force us to bless immoral sexual partnerships, treat them as marriages or the equivalent, or refrain from proclaiming the truth, as we know it, about morality and immorality and marriage and the family.”
The document referred to is the Manhattan Declaration per Washington Times’ Julia Duin.
It is bolstered by evangelicals, Roman Catholics and Orthodox leaders in particular. Moralists of all stripes agree with its mission.
Prison Fellowship founder Charles Colson and Princeton University professor Roman Catholic Robert P. George spearheaded this Christian witness. Scores of others join them.
As Barack Hussein Obama, Marxist Muslim, continues to gather about him anti-Christian cohorts, particularly as czars in his shadow government, Christians do what Jesus told them to do.
Jesus instructed His grace children not to hide their lights under bushels. Jesus told His own they were the salt of the earth. Jesus Himself defended heaven’s moral base against the odds, finally being murdered for doing so.
Jesus instructed that in every age His saved ones are to be in the world but not of the world, hence Christians take their testimony into the marketplaces. For that some have been persecuted, others martyred. Nevertheless, Jesus followers boldly hold to His example worldwide.
“There are at least 224 million Christians in the United States, according to the Web site Adherents.com.
“The document, which was drafted over the summer, is being released at a time of high stress for many of the groups that signed it. The Archdiocese of Washington is under fire for saying it will not comply with a pending D.C. law that would force the Catholic Church to give health benefits or adoption services to same-sex couples.”
For biblical ethicists there is no thought of compromise, no matter how threatened. Allegiance is having none other than the God of the Word. His law comes first; defending it is paramount.
Read “Religious leaders vow civil disobedience on anti-life issues” at http://washingtontimes.com/news/2009/nov/21/religious-leaders-vow-civil-disobedience/
WRIGHT RE JESUS: 'Throw his cracker ass out of here!"
J. Grant Swank, Jr.
Barack Hussein Obama and family sat under this cultic lecturer’s diatribes for twenty years:
The following is from a Jeremiah Wright sermon, “And God Said to Moses: I Hate Those Honkey-Ass Crackers” as posted at IMAO’s website: http://www.imao.us/archives/009779.html
Now this is outright blasphemy against Christ. Read it and call it what it is - the spirit of antiChrist:
“Now some tell me that we shouldn’t be for killing the honkeys. We should just turn the other cheek. Who says this? That cracker Jesus!
“Well, answer me this: Has Jesus ever been called a [n-word]? Did anyone invent AIDS to kill Jesus?
“Well, maybe Jesus should not be lecturing the black man on what he should and should not be doing. As we speak, the government is working on plans to send all black people to Venus! That’s right: NASA is going to send us to Venus where it is inhospitable to life and we will all die.
“So what does Jesus have to say about that? Nothing! God bless Jesus? No. God [expletive] Jesus!
“To hell with him! Throw his cracker ass out of here!”
The sermon begins with this opening paragraph: “When Moses finally escaped the Egyptians, he turned to God and asked, ‘There could surely be no one as bad at those people?’
“God said to Moses, ‘Yes there are. Beware the honkeys. Beware the crackers. Especially beware the Jews. I hate all those people. Frankly, if you blow up their buildings, that’s okay with me.’”
Jeremiah Wright is no Christian preacher. Diatribe as above is satanic. Any biblical clergyperson will vouch for that. There is no question when a biblical believer reads that kind of madness. It is satanic.
I do not believe then that Muslim B. Hussein Obama did not hear that kind of blasphemy over the two decades he sat in that sanctuary. Michelle heard it also. They both listened and took it in.
Why then did Muslim B. Hussein Obama remain there?
Because he thought, with the congregation numbering into the thousands, it would be politically advantageous to his future.
And it was. With that he became popular in Illinois which led to him making it to the US Congress.
In being politically opportunistic by joining that political plant called a “church,” Muslim Obama had likewise to join hands with Nation of Islam Louis Farakkhan for the latter was within Muslim Obama’s political district.
In being friends to Farrakhan and that Muslim conclave, Muslim Obama employed some of those in NOI on his Congressional and campaign staff.
Muslim Obama tolerated outright blasphemy, the misuse of the name of Jesus, the maligning of the ministry and incarnation of the Son of God.
For that, Muslim Obama will pay a dear price at the Judgment Seat of Christ. His soul is in grave danger of damnation.
Adding to his political opportunism by aligning with a mentor blasphemer and Islamic organizations, Muslim Obama also damns his soul by endorsing killing infants in wombs, sodomy, human stem cell research, and erasing the Judeo-Christian heritage from the US in favor of melding all religions into one.
All of the above is absolutely counter to God’s Word.
Read more at the IMAO’s website: http://www.imao.us/archives/009779.html
HIS BOOK: MUSLIM OBAMA SAYS HE'S ON THE SIDE OF MUSLIMS
HIS BOOK: MUSLIM OBAMA SAYS HE’S ON THE SIDE OF MUSLIMS
By J. Grant Swank, Jr.
“In the wake of 9/11, my meetings with Arab and Pakistani Americans … have a more urgent quality, for the stories of detentions and FBI questioning and hard stares from neighbors have shaken their sense of security and belonging,” he laments. “I will stand with them should the political winds shift in an ugly direction.”
That is what Barack Obama wrote in his book, “Audacity.”
Now you can be sure that when Obama is in the White House, something “ugly” will occur to offend the nation’s “Arab and Pakistani Americans”—in other words, Muslims.
So whose side will Obama then take?
He will side with the Muslims per his own public statement in his book. There is no question. It is right there.
That is not the closet Muslim which he’s been. That’s the out-in-the-open Muslim hinted about even present-tense.
“I will stand with them. . .”
That is why he stands with them in the pro-Islam sanctuary called Trinity United Church of Christ. That’s why Obama embraces Jeremiah Wright’s pro-Muslim crowning of Nation of Islam Louis Farrakhan.
That’s why Obama, with his Muslim childhood schooling, endorses the mosque-cleric-like angry yelling of Wright’s pulpit delivery.
That’s why Obama states in “Audacity” that Judeo-Christian heritage will recede as an all-religions country emerges. Obviously, from his siding with Muslims, Muslims in particular will have the upper hand in the new America.
It is scary to read just that one paragraph in his book about siding with the Muslims if matters turn “ugly.”
One can be certain that Muslims reading that paragraph will see to it that some offense will strike their sensitivities once The Boy sits in the Oval Office. Their squeals will trigger their discontent thereby triggering Obama the Muslim to spring forth.
Muslim Obama has already given us warning in his book. If we are too stupid to get it, then we are going to suffer the consequences of not being informed.
Contributor’s website: http://jgrantswankjr.blogspot.com/
Sat Nov 21, 2009
AFFLUENCE, SIN, OBAMA: U.S. ALWAYS UNDER ATTACK
J. Grant Swank, Jr.
America has always been under attack.
Communists said they’d bury us.
Remember those days when we were instructed as school children to duck under the desks if we heard the alarms? Civil Defense quarters were broadcast so we could find shelter. Some built underground bunkers in their front yards.
Then came along our own opulence. As a Christian given to frugal lifestyle, I became alarmed as America became more and more enamored with its toys. We were beleaguered by our own materialistic lusts.
Things were gods. Money was the Promised Land. And boasting of tangibles was the all-in-all creed. I pondered if we would implode because of our money success—monster homes, for example.
Add to this the “increase of sin,” as Jesus prophesied in Matthew 24. He said it would be one of the prime signs of the close of the Church Age.
Now sin abounds as that which is right. People opt for living together rather than marriage. It is posh to have that significant other. Same-sex ‘marriage’ is the legitimate right.
Sanctuaries empty. Churches close. Clergy trespass. Denominations go left with immoral doctrines.
In the Church of the Nazarene, the holiness denomination in which I was raised, website NazNet, for instance, has Moderator Hans Deventer champion a Bible that is fraught with errors. This is totally against the reliable divine revelation that was preached since the church’s start.
Deventer is joined by Moderator Scott Cundiff who believes in the same errant Scripture. Site Founder and Moderator Dave McClung does nothing to bring these two persons in line with holiness beliefs, though he states repeatedly that the site is Nazarene-friendly. It is not. It is just the opposite.
Read NAZNET DISTORTS at http://naznetdistorts.blogspot.com/
So we have had threats all along as a biblically originated nation. The thirteen colonies were composed of believers who taught Scripture to school children. Some preachers were renegades; but by and large village pastors delivered sermons regarding biblical truth as God’s Word—without question.
This is the only country on the planet that had such an origin. No other nation had settlers who carried their Bibles, kept the Lord’s Day holy, held to scriptural morality and taught judgment day accountability.
Heaven and hell were real. Jesus was Redeemer. Salvation was through conversion to Jesus. And the God of the Book was the Mighty God.
Of course there were theological liberals who opposed that biblical base; but by and large believers seeking religious freedom in the New World held to the Word’s eternal verities.
In this present age, we have as a citizenry created our own enemies in opulence, outright sinful lifestyles and a steady disregard for the Bible.
But we are still here. Why?
God has continued to show mercy because of the righteous remnant. Their prayers, added to the early colonies’ intercessory prayers, keep divine grace upon America.
It is God’s holy nature to honor is own persona. He cannot go against His caring personhood; consequently, the Republic still stands.
The newest threat to the United States is the Oval Office’s Marxist Muslim and his shadow government/czars impregnating evil government. He is out to destroy our democracy, in that sense beheading the infidels. He has long publicly witnessed that he is Muslim, though too many have never recognized that as fact.
In his left of left policies now set forth with the majority of Democrats in Congress, he is fully intent in obliterating the nation.
Nevertheless, God is still on His throne. God tops Satan.
Therefore, since Allah is Satan, the Koran was scribed by demons, and Islam is a hellish cult, God continues to defend His righteous remnant. His grace children, by simple faith, believe in that with their entire beings.
Consequently, this latest threat from a cult and its devotee, Barack Hussein Obama, will not do away with this Republic. God will level His wrath against those who would obliterate the only country planted in biblical truth.
Read “How Long will God Intervene?” at http://www.magic-city-news.com/J_Grant_Swank_61/How_Long_will_God_Intervene12456.shtml
Thu Nov 19, 2009
MUSLIM OBAMA TWISTED IN THE DARK BY WRIGHT
J. Grant Swank, Jr.
Compare then and now. We are now reaping the rot that was sown in weeds back then:
“When Moses finally escaped the Egyptians, he turned to God and asked, ‘There could surely be no one as bad at those people?’ God said to Moses, ‘Yes there are. Beware the honkeys. Beware the crackers. Especially beware the Jews. I hate all those people. Frankly, if you blow up their buildings, that’s okay with me.’
God hates the Jews. Wright said it. That is bold, orthodox Muslim preaching. So blow up Jews’ buildings. That’s Muslim Muslim Muslim written all over it.
“We believe in white supremacy and black inferiority and believe it more than we believe in God,” Jeremiah Wright preached.
And this: “How many children of biracial parents can make it in a world controlled by racist ideology?”
I don’t believe Barack Obama saying he never sat under Jeremiah Wright’s preaching rant sermons against America. It is simply impossible to believe that considering Wright’s hatred for America and whites especially.
Obama is lying in order to become President.
When reading Wright’s sermonic sentences, Wright sounds very much like a mosque cleric.
All the more that I believe Obama to be a Muslim mask. I believe that wife Michelle likewise is a Muslim mask. I believe that they wholeheartedly agree with Wright’s anger against the USA, his hatred against whites and are covering all that up to get into the White House.
Here are some of Wright’s Muslim-like sermonic sentences:
“The government gives them the drugs, builds bigger prisons, passes three-strike laws and wants them to sing God Bless America.
“No! No No!
“God damn America … for killing innocent people.
“God damn America for threatening citizens as less than humans.
“God damn America as long as she tries to act like she is God and supreme.”
Obamas heard those sentences and many more like them. I have been a Christian preacher for nearly half a
century. I know what sermonic themes I have accented over the years. Wright had his accents as well. They are dittoed for a congregation that in fact was brainwashed cultic style. Obamas were a part of that.
Here are more of Wright’s Muslim-like sermonic sentences:
“We bombed Hiroshima. We bombed Nagasaki. And we nuked far more than the thousands in New York and the Pentagon and we never batted an eye.
“We have supported state terrorism against the Palestinians and black South Africans, and now we are indignant because of stuff we have done overseas is now brought back into our own backyard. America is chickens coming home to roost.”
In my preaching files, I was preaching my understanding of the Bible. Wright does the same. But he twists the Bible toward blackism. In that, his congregation was fed unreasonable, anti-American tirades in the guise of biblical preaching.
Obamas were a part of the listeners’ intake. They sat in the pews. They did not walk out when Wright was raving mad. The congregation frequently stands to its feet, claps in favor of Wright, and chimes in with Amens and such enthusiastic support.
Obamas would have been party to that over twenty years. Here are more Muslim-like sermonic sentences:
“The government lied about inventing the HIV virus as a means of genocide against people of color. The government lied.”
Then turning to Barack Obama as potential US President, Wright said the following:
“There is a man here who can take this country in a new direction,” Wright said during his Jan. 13 sermon.
During a Christmas sermon, Wright tried to compare Obama’s upbringing to Jesus at the hands of the
Romans.
“Barack knows what it means living in a country and a culture that is controlled by rich white people,” Wright said.
“Hillary would never know that.
“Hillary ain’t never been called a nigger. Hillary has never had a people defined as a non-person.”
Wright preached against “the white value system.” Obamas heard that over and over again. It’s part of sermons and literature and Bible studies. Obamas could not have missed it.
Wright had more to say about Hillary. And this was couched in a so-called Christian sermon from a Christian pulpit from the Trinity United Church of Christ—one of the most liberal denominations in the world.
“Hillary is married to Bill, and Bill has been good to us. No he ain’t! Bill did us, just like he did Monica Lewinsky. He was riding dirty.”
And more:
“We’ve got more black men in prison than there are in college. Racism is alive and well.
“Racism is how this country was founded and how this country is still run. No black man will ever be considered for president, no matter how hard you run Jesse [Jackson] and no black woman can ever be considered for anything outside what she can give with her body.”
Racism is in Wright’s blood. It has been transferred to his loyal congregation. It had to be relayed likewise to Obamas or they would have left that church ages ago. Instead, they stayed. They stayed because they believed what Wright was preaching. It was the cultic clutch on hundreds in the pews.
“America is still the No. 1 killer in the world. . . .
“We are deeply involved in the importing of drugs, the exporting of guns, and the training of professional killers.
“We bombed Cambodia, Iraq and Nicaragua, killing women and children while trying to get public opinion turned against Castro and Ghadhafi.
“We put [Nelson] Mandela in prison and supported apartheid the whole 27 years he was there. We believe in white supremacy and black inferiority and believe it more than we believe in God.”
White supremacy. Black inferiority. Those were two of the most believed political creeds held to by that congregation. And it was because Wright molded the church’s thinking agianst whites and into blackism.
Obamas had to get in on all of this. Obama lies when he says that all of these beliefs of Wright are now foreign to his understanding. That is simply impossible to believe.
Obama lies to further his campaign. Lies are permitted Muslims as trophies to Allah. I believe that Obama lies, holding that as a Muslim he has that right.
“We supported Zionism shamelessly while ignoring the Palestinians and branding anybody who spoke out against it as being anti-Semitic. . . . We care nothing about human life if the end justifies the means.”
The end for Muslims that justifies the means is Islam World Rule. I believe that Obama is in league with Islam World Rule and sleeper cells throughout the USA. There is too much evidence over twenty years’ listening to Wright to not think that real.
“We started the AIDS virus . . . We are only able to maintain our level of living by making sure that Third World people live in grinding poverty. . . .”
America started AIDS.
America is to be held accountable for worldwide poverty.
That’s vintage Wright sermonic content. It is a pity that a congregation was so brainwashed over years. Wright has molded them into the Muslim mold.
Obama says he never heard those kinds of words from Wright. That is a lie. It has to be a lie. Wright did not change his sermonic content from Sunday to Sunday.
Instead, he built his large congregation by such hateful “messages” and created an anger-based following, more a political center than a church. It certainly was not a Christian church.
In another sermon, Reverend Wright suggested that the song “God Bless America” should be substituted with “God Damn America.”
He has also suggested that we deserved what we got on 9/11.
More from Wright:
“That’s right: NASA is going to send the black man to Venus where it is inhospitable to life and we will all die.”
And still more from the Muslim-like preacher:
“When Moses finally escaped the Egyptians, he turned to God and asked, ‘There could surely be no one as bad at those people?’ God said to Moses, ‘Yes there are. Beware the honkeys. Beware the crackers. Especially beware the Jews. I hate all those people. Frankly, if you blow up their buildings, that’s okay with me.’
God hates the Jews. Wright said it. That is bold, orthodox Muslim preaching. So blow up Jews’ buildings. Muslim Muslim Muslim written all over it.
“How many children of biracial parents can make it in a world controlled by racist ideology?
“Children born to parents who are of two different races do not have a snowball’s chance in hell of making it in America, especially if the momma was white and the daddy was black. A child born to that union is an unfortunate statistic in a racially polarized society,” he said.
“But, if you use your mind, instead of a lost statistic in a hate-filled universe, you just may end up a law student at Harvard University. In fact, if you use your mind, you might end up as the editor of the Harvard Law Review. If you use your mind, instead of [being] a statistic destined for the poor house, you just may end up a statesman destined for the … Yes, we can!” Wright said, using the popular Obama slogan to bring the crowd to its feet in cheers.
Rev. Otis Moss will follow the recently retired Wright. Moss said that the congregation was fortunate to have had a pastor who accented politics and not a prosperity gospel.
“While other ministers and ministries have allowed the winds of the current culture and market to reshape the gospel into formulaic catchphrases and false hopes of financial success, Dr. Wright, you have etched out a unique homiletic of recovery and redemption,” Moss said.
OBAMA DISSED: MORE ISRAELI HOUSES = TAKE ALL ‘SIX DAY WAR’ LAND
J. Grant Swank, Jr.
In the 1967 Six Day War, Israel gained control of the Sinai Peninsula, Gaza Strip, the West Bank, East Jerusalem, and Golan Heights.
Israel should never give up any of this turf. Israelis have bartered some of it away. It should remain today as it was on June 11.
My wife and I were in Israel in 1966, passing from Jordan into Israel. We went through the Mandelbaum Gate, prayed at the Wailing Wall, visited holy sites, including Gordon’s Calvary where we observed the communion sacrament with friends.
Since then it has pained me to think Israel would lose any of that land fought for. I believe it was a miracle that they won that war in six days.
Now Barack Hussein Obama wants less of Israel and more of Arab earth. Why not? Go figure.
Therefore, Obama is dissed at Israel officialdom not going the Obama Way. Best wishes to Israel on that score. May they stay their course.
Israel, no larger than New Jersey, is recorded in the Old Testament as the land “flowing with milk and honey.” God has smiled upon that navel of the planet while other geographies have more acreage. This is in keeping with God’s fondness of the small and insignificant.
How many times in biblical history did God call upon the little person, the out-of-the-way places, by which to open His will? Bethlehem, for instance, is biblically scored as not very important in mortal eyes. But there deity housed Himself in flesh.
David was a nobody; yet God chose him as Israel’s king.
Nazareth. Well, what good can come out of Nazareth?
Therefore, when I think of Israel, I pray for that part of the world specifically for I know King Christ will return to the Mount of Olives, establishing His millennial reign. It will be back to the little place that the Second Person of the Trinity will rule the planet. In the meantime, I ask God to keep Israel intact.
The other day I was shopping at the mall. I came upon a kiosk manned by two young Israeli’s selling their goods. I chatted with these fellows, finding them especially interesting.
I told them I had visited their country and to that their faces lit up. They were so pleased to be talking to an American who had walked their streets. With that, I invited them to our home. I expect them to visit us one of these evenings.
There is something quite dear about Israel to the soul of the Christian.
Therefore, when I see Israel threatened so rudely, I feel the hurt. The rest of the world turns on them. All through the years, America basically has stood by Israel. But now with a Muslim President, we cannot expect that.
Therefore, I intercede all the more for the Holy Land. I pray that Mount Moriah will remain intact, its holy places not destroyed by Islamic bulldozers, as they have been doing in recent times, focusing on Solomon’s original temple site.
May Jerusalem always remain Israel’s capital city. May it prepare itself for the advent of Christ’s holiness.
Read “Israel Defies Obama with New Settlement Construction” at http://www.newsmax.com/newsfront/israel_obama_settlement/2009/11/17/287567.html
OBAMA’S ISLAM = SHEIK MOHAMMED TRIAL MOTIVE
J. Grant Swank, Jr.
So try Khalid Sheik Mohammed in a federal civilian court.
Why?
Read: “Some strange ideological impulse—rather than common sense and respect for the rule of law—is driving the Obama administration to give special treatment to the perpetrator of one of the greatest war crimes ever committed against the United States” per CNSNEWS.com’s Terence P. Jeffrey.
“. . .ideological impulse. . .”
Dick Morris stated the Obama motive being an “ideological” one.
What these two men are saying when using the term “ideological” is Muslim. It is the theology of the Koran. It is what Allah would have Obama do.
Now to figure out the fine line details as to what verse or verses in the Koran are behind Obama’s thought patterns is another matter.
But suffice it to say that it his cultic underpinning that is evangelizing this preposterous, outlandish display in Manhattan. We all know by now the fleshed out voluminous reasons why this Mohammed scene should never happen.
But what is particularly significant is to try to figure out the Marxist Muslim Obama’s intent that drives such brash, public insanity.
Thinking persons know that when all is said and done in Obama’s activities to right and left, it is his allegiance to Allah that governs all.
His Protestant membership in Trinity United Church of Christ (Congregational) is a cover for his real religion.
It is Islam as he himself has stated publicly: OBAMA STATES HE IS MUSLIM at http://www.renewamerica.com/columns/swank/091107
Let the UCC fade as Islam looms largely, more so each day.
Read ISLAMIC TIMELINE FOR GLOBAL RULE http://www.allvoices.com/contributed-news/4569807-islamic-timeline-for-global-rule
SALLY QUINN DOESN’T GET SARAH PALIN’S FAITH
When Bill O’Reilly asked Sally Quinn questions regarding Sarah Palin’s faith on The Factor, Quinn was all over the answer board.
Quinn went on and on about her recent visit with Rick Warren, touting his bestseller, “The Purpose Driven Life,” and commending him and his wife for being so nice. So what’s that got to do with O’Reilly’s question about Palin? Nothing.
Quinn then went on about Palin giving birth to a Down syndrome child but in interviews Palin saying that she knew she could have chosen abortion.
Quinn read into Palin’s abortion remarks that Palin might finally have concluded to go for that. Instead, the obvious reasoning concerning Palin’s comments was that she briefly was tempted with the abortion choice but, knowing her faith base, soon buried that option.
Quinn would have her stretching out her angst until it was pitted into desert sands.
Quinn then questioned Palin’s free will versus predestination. Where Quinn thought she was going on that track cannot be picked up by rational mortals. She was smilingly stupid at that juncture so that logical TV watchers would have thrown a shoe through their screens.
Quinn was snide all the way through O’Reilly’s interview, maintaining that pretty smile that was crusted cold. It appeared she was more motivated to show off her fashionable garb than succinctly responding to O’Reilly.
Quinn, a woman, did no favor for genuinely analyzing another woman now in the spotlight. Typical of feminists.
O’Reilly kept coming back to Palin’s simple Christian faith. Quinn decidedly was about shredding O’Reilly’s thesis by positing Palin as an unrefined complicated doctrinal mess.
When biblical believers hear Palin, they know her Christian faith is indeed fundamental; that is what spins secularists on their heads. Nevertheless, Palin is Palin. And Palin is a scriptural disciple who sincerely believes what she has learned the Christian way.
Too bad that liberals like Quinn don’t get it. Too bad that feminists don’t get it.
That all the more reveals the definite split Palin will continue to create throughout America as her pre-campaign revs up. The biblical believers versus secularists will shoot crevices across the Republic’s crust from coast to coast.
Let the crust begin.
Read “Palin’s Pentecostal faith: liberals will pounce” at http://www.renewamerica.com/columns/swank/091118
Read WOMEN ENDORSING PALIN? IT’LL BE SLICE-N-DICE
Wed Nov 18, 2009
WOMEN ENDORSING PALIN? IT’LL BE SLICE-N-DICE
J. Grant Swank, Jr.
Women should support women.
That’s what feminists preach. They write it as a part of their creed. It’s basic.
Not however when it comes to Sarah Palin. She will not get the support of America’s women in total. Not on your life.
Instead, Palin will split women in two camps just as she will divide Americans into two opposing segments: believers versus secularists.
Women who are liberals will slam, dunk and bury Palin. They will pick her apart more than liberal males. Take for example The View. The liberals there cannot tolerate Palin.
So it will go throughout Hollywood’s celebrities, coast-to-coast politicians and theologically liberal churchwomen. They will slice and dice. They will not care a twit that she is female. And females against a female get out the claws like no other animal.
Because Palin is morally based on the Bible, secularist females will tear her apart. Feminism’s creed states just the opposite. But hang the creed.
Feminism is basically an opportunist swing anyhow. It stands for LIBERAL. Period. Anything conservative—politically or theologically—is chewed meat.
Watch Palin become more and more popular with America’s moralists and then you will witness daily Battle Royal. Liberal women will mount stallions, button up dueling garb and go after Palin’s heart—right there in the bull’s eye.
All the more, feminism’s hypocrisy will come to the fore just as it did during the McCain-Palin run for the White House. Females who despised Palin let it be known by screeching it from the witchtops.
I cannot get out of my head the look on Barbara Walter’s face every time Palin was brought up then. She was restrained but it was obvious that her trying for equality-for-all was wearing thin.
The other three panelists liberal bound held Walter’s position to the close. Their faces turned to stone.
If Palin goes further than putting on the table her book, she better wear thick protective gear. Or else she can continue to do what she does best: hold her convictions solid and let God shoot level the enemy.
I think she will choose the latter.
Read PALIN TO RIGHTLY DIVIDE USA ALL THE MORE at http://truthinconviction.us/weblog.php?id=P3263
Read PALIN’S PENTECOSTAL FAITH: LIBERALS WILL POUNCE at http://truthinconviction.us/weblog.php?id=P3262
PALIN TO RIGHTLY DIVIDE USA ALL THE MORE
J. Grant Swank, Jr.
Sarah Palin, if running for President, surely will divide this Republic all the more into two definite segments—fiercely opposing segments.
Already we have two primary segments: believers and secularists.
Believers are those moralists who hold to the God of the Bible, particularly the New Testament God in Christ. It may be via Roman Catholicism, evangelical Protestantism, Orthodox Christians, or non-church members who hold to biblical ethics.
Secularists are exampled by Joy Behar on The View. She is with conviction a non-believer who holds that this life is all there is. No deity. No hereafter. No judgment accountability. This is it; write your own (im)morals.
George W. Bush’s interviews regarding his faith brought out remarks that he read the Bible, prayed to Christ, believed in the hereafter, and other basics common to biblical believers.
This infuriated secularists. They charged him with swords and knives aplenty. Likewise Laura.
But with Sarah Palin, Pentecostal, all the more swords will cut and slash. Interviewers from a secularist-based media will pound away till blood flows in her boulevards. Headlines will misquote her. Liberal press will cut her to ribbons.
Therefore, if there was a divide in the Republic with Bush, all the more so with Palin. Will she make it through a campaign let alone a sit-down in the White House? That is a tough question to answer.
But one thing Palin cannot afford to do is to compromise who she is. And who she is is known now by thinking moralists. Thinking moralists know their faith, ethic, biblical mooring and its practical lifestyle. They are also tuned into buzzwords that reveal truth or double-talk.
Therefore, if Palin compromises her ethic, it will be picked up immediately by genuine moralists. And they will not let her get by with hypocrisy.
For instance, when Bush invited Muslims to a Ramadan dinner in the White House at which time he lifted high the Koran, announcing its placement in the White House library, knowledgeable biblical believers shot him down—and appropriately so.
When Bush told a visiting Muslim leader that many paths lead to God, knowledgeable biblical believers let not a moment go by without informing the President that he was so utterly incorrect.
These two faith failures will long be remembered by those who know the solid faith they hold as eternal truth. Eternal verities cannot be sliced through. They cannot be used opportunistically for this or that. They are God-given; therefore, even the President of the United States cannot sheer off truth’s solidity.
If Palin tries for the numbers’ game by playing politically correct in any venue, she’s done. Secularists will immediately drive home her inconsistency. Moralists will drive home her weakness.
She cannot afford inconsistencies or weakness. She sounds solid now. She must sound solid all the way through to whatever.
In doing so, she will divide the American people all the more into two fighting segments—secularists versus biblical believers.
PALIN’S PENTECOSTAL FAITH: LIBERALS WILL POUNCE
J. Grant Swank, Jr.
Sarah Palin will be quizzed about political this and that. But when she runs for Oval Office, if she does, and it surely does appear as if it’s in her adrenaline swing, her being Christian will be shredded.
She is not only Christian in the biblical definition, but also “evangelical” when it comes to tags.
And not only “evangelical,” but charismatic/pentecostal.
That issue alone will swab the deck. The atheists, agnostics and generic secularists will warp and woof. They will holler and screech. They will write and scrawl. They will pull up the sewer tops from every evangelical and pentecostal persona in the past century.
Further, they will take especially the pentecostal beliefs and strew them from coast to coast, then every continent. They will misplace them, misstate them, malign them and nail them to hell’s front door.
The bloody war that awaits evangelicals and charismatics in particular is not yet envisioned by the general biblical believers. But it will be forthcoming if she goes further than marketing her book.
Her local church will be swarmed with reporters. Her pastor will have to hide from media. Every churchgoer there in her hometown will likewise be buttonholed. Some will speak clearly regarding doctrine. Others won’t have a clue and so will stir up the theological pot to dirt.
Then First Dude will be quizzed till he’ll flee on dogsled. Palin children will be asked if they agree or disagree with family faith, especially the matriarch’s claim.
The Bible verses relating to miracles, the Second Coming and speaking in tongues will make front page fodder, mostly screwed up to the nth.
Imagine what Katie Couric will do with the Word.
Those truly interested in the topic will be twittering and emailing and posting till their fingers fall off. In the meantime, God will oversee the mayhem and wonder what happened when Sarah Palin decided to run run run.
The circus has not even started yet. Wait till they pitch the Big Tent.
Tue Nov 17, 2009
WHAT IS A CHURCH?
J. Grant Swank, Jr.
NazNet Moderator Hans Deventer: “NazNet is an online forum, it’s not a church.”
Incorrect.
NazNet appears as an “online forum.” But in reality when checking out its base line on theology, it acts like a church.
NazNet presents its own doctrines, such, for instance, being Deventer’s belief statements. They include that there is no eternal torment in hell as Christ informs. Instead, Deventer states that the unsaved are zapped via “annihilation.”
Now Deventer right there puts forth a churchly faith statement as churches do. Consequently, Deventer is not only holding forth on an “online forum” but pitting his “doctrines” against the holiness Church of the Nazarene, the latter posted on NazNet as being friends with NazNet.
Further, Deventer and fellow Moderator Scott Cudliff state doctrinal beliefs thusly: the Bible has errors in it. Yes. That’s what they hold faith in. It is not the infallible inerrant Word of God, a divine who knows how to reveal without flaw.
When these two Moderators give forth with that kind of theology, they are not in keeping with the Church of the Nazarene. In fact, they become theological enemies to Nazarenes. That evangelical Protestant denomination believes deity is equipped to tell His own proclamations flawlessly.
As one reads through NazNet, the unmistakable conclusion reached is that Founder and Moderator Dave McClung definitely pits his site against the Church of the Nazarene.
He is forming his own competitive Internet-church to the Church of the Nazarene. If the Nazarene General Superintendents don’t confront this head-on, they are not fulfilling their responsibilities.
In addition, Deventer doctrinally proclaims his belief that “eternal life” as defined by Christ is not everlasting. That poses the question as to whether Deventer has any acumen by which to define terms understood by others as meaning what they mean.
Just importantly, this kind of heresy weave throughout NazNet would put that site in the form of a church. It is a church without buildings. But it does have officialdom and creeds. It does have means by which to communicate those creeds.
So NazNet preaches that heaven is not without end. Hell is not eternal torment. The Scriptures are not reliable.
But there is more: Deventer teaches that infant baptism is divinely approved accurate, more so than adult believers’ baptism. The New Testament states just the opposite; but who cares? We have Deventer.
So now NazNet has its own definition of a sacrament. That surely does move into the churchly venue.
Will the Church of the Nazarene leadership own up to this opposing “church”, doing so as to state publicly that the denomination disavows any “friendly tie” to NazNet? NazNet delights in repeatedly claiming to be Nazarene-friendly. Oh yes, very much so.
Will Nazarenes realize that when reading NazNet they are being drawn into a church as defined by the site’s own doctrinal statements?
Further, a former Moderator Chaplain Barbara Moulton even went so far as to inform me about her position on a moral issue. It was homosexuality.
She, a chaplain, stated she would not witness to the scriptural position on the topic, that is, she would not support God’s stance in public. In other words, she would play coward at that juncture.
I then would take that as a churchly position taken by one of NazNet’s top names, though now she has bowed out of the site, per Dave McClung absenting her from the masthead and also his latest post of “Making NazNet an even friendlier place”.
Read more at NAZNET DISTORTS at http://naznetdistorts.blogspot.com/
BABY KILLER OBAMA PITTED VS. BABY DEFENDER SENATE DEMS
J. Grant Swank, Jr.
Marxist Muslim Barack Hussein Obama will be confronted by Senate Dems who oppose his baby killing when the health care debates fires up soon.
Obama and wife give no apologies for cheering on slaying of the womb innocents, though they photo themselves as the loving family with the caring father as head.
Lies lies lies abundant. Lies, by the way, are permitted by the Koran’s Allah to further Islam World Rule.
Obama, using the anti-Bible United Church of Christ (Congregational) as US cover for his Islamic devotion, continues the UCC furthering of infant slaughter.
But when pro-life Dems start declaring their convictions in the upcoming wrangle, then Obama will be faced with those of his own political kin who trounce his stance.
The House put strict restrictions on their version of the health care tumble. Will the Senate?
“’This is a horrible dilemma,’ said Larry Sabato, a political science professor at the University of Virginia. ‘The Democrats have to pass something – they have no choice,’ he said, adding that they have backed themselves into a corner by making healthcare reform a priority” per FT.com’s Anna Fifield in Washington.
The House passed a bill that “prevents abortion coverage in the public health insurance option but also prohibits private health insurers that have any customers receiving federal subsidies from offering abortion coverage to anyone else.”
Obama sidelines the abortion bit since walking into the Oval Office. But now he’ll have to speak up or be considered The Boy many consider him to be.
Read “Abortion clause raises problems for Obama´at http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/1da64700-d2dd-11de-af63-00144feabdc0.html
FOOTNOTE:
The Bible speaks of a fetus as a person, not simply tissue that can be discarded if found to be a bother or nuisance. Since the fetus is a person from the moment of conception, then the destroying of the fetus is killing a person.
“In the past, some people have mistakenly speculated that perhaps the body might be in the process of formation for some time, and then ‘God breathes a soul into it.’ They had it backward. The life that is present forms matter into a body for itself’” (Joseph Breig, “Life Forms Matter,” The Catholic News, Jan. 24, 1974, p. 8).
“Your hands shaped me and made me. Will you now turn and destroy me? Remember that you molded me like clay. Will you now turn me to dust again? Did you not pour me out like milk … and knit me together with bones and sinews? You gave me life and showed me kindness, and in your providence watched over my spirit” (Job 10:8-12 NIV).
“Before I was born the LORD called me; from my birth he has made mention of my name...and now the LORD says--he who formed me in the womb to be his servant...” (Isaiah 49:1, 5).
“The word of the LORD came to me, saying, ‘Before I formed you in the womb I knew you, before you were born I set you apart; I appointed you as a prophet to the nations’” (Jeremiah 1:4-5).
In the following passages we note that personality is ascribed to the unborn.
“For you created my inmost being; you knit me together in my mother’s womb. I praise you because I am fearfully and wonderfully made; your works are wonderful, I know that fully well. My frame was not hidden from you when I was made in the secret place. When I was woven together in the depths of the earth, your eyes saw my unformed body. All the days ordained for me were written in your book before one of them came to be” (Psalm 139:13-16).
“Sons are a heritage from the LORD, children a reward from him” (Psalm 127:3).
Exodus 21:22-25 relates how Israel was to judge a circumstance relating to the death of the unborn:
“If men who are fighting hit a pregnant woman and she gives birth prematurely but there is no serious injury, the offender must be fined whatever the woman’s husband demands and the court allows. But if there is serious injury, you are to take life for life, eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, foot for foot, wound for wound, bruise for bruise.”
All of the latter deals with unintentional hurt that comes to a pregnant woman; how much more will divine penalty come upon those who intentionally discard the fetus? The Gospel of Luke ascribes personality to the fetus within Elizabeth:
“When Elizabeth heard Mary’s greeting, the baby leaped in her womb, and Elizabeth was filled with the Holy Spirit… As soon as the sound of your greeting reached my ears, the baby in my womb leaped for joy” (1:41, 44).
Mere tissue does not leap for joy; only personhood leaps for joy. The Bible regards the fetus as having personality. In Galatians, Paul speaks of himself as a person while still in his mother’s womb, but more a person consecrated by God for a holy mission (compare Jeremiah 1:5 for the same accent):
“But when God, who set me apart from birth, and called me by his grace, was pleased to reveal his Son in me so that I might preach him among the Gentiles...” (Gal. 1: 15-16).
Since the Bible regards the fetus as personality, then the aborting of the fetus is murdering personality.
Some verses from Scripture dealing with murder are then appropriate for study, such as Genesis 9:6: “Whoever sheds the blood of man, by man shall his blood be shed; for in the image of God has God made man.” Also, read Exodus 23:7: “Have nothing to do with a false charge, and do not put an innocent or honest person to death, for I will not acquit the guilty.” Note I Peter 4:15: “If you suffer, it should not be as a murderer...”
If the Republic returned to the biblical definition of personhood, we would defend every womb child.
John Adams said the following:
“Our Constitution was made only for a religious and moral people. It is wholly inadequate for the government of any other.”
Andrew Jackson said the following:
“The BIBLE is the rock on which our Republic rests.”
Daniel Webster:
“If we abide by the principles taught in the BIBLE, our country will go on prospering.”
“For all the talk of freedom and self-determination, the abortion movement is at its heart a movement denying rights to a silent segment of humanity and soliciting public sanction, support and subsidy to its own cause” (Donald P. Shoemaker, ABORTION, THE BIBLE AND THE CHRISTIAN, Hayes Publishing Co., 1976, p. iv).
Mon Nov 16, 2009
CLOSET ‘GAY UNIONS’?
J. Grant Swank, Jr.
Barbara Moulton told me: “I don’t perform them (homosexual ‘marriages’) and will never perform them. I simply am not going to crusade against allowing them to take place in my country.”
“. . . not. . .crusade against allowing them. . .”
So that’s the conclusion of it, is it Ms. Chaplain?
To her cemented conclusion I asked her how she could be a biblical Christian and yet gag her biblical testimony in the marketplace?
My Bible reads that Christ told His own to gospel the world. That includes the Christ ethic regarding issues such as homosexual practice. Former NazNet Chaplain / Moderator Barbara Moulton refuses to recant her cowardliness for courage in witnessing openly regarding this pressing moral issue.
I have waited for a retraction from the Chaplain. None has been forthcoming.
Instead, Moulton has informed me that she has blocked my email communications. In her own words: “I will be blocking your e-mail.” Clearly noted.
Further, she complains that by exposing her cowardliness, I botched her morning.
She states: “Thanks for starting my day off in such a lovely manner.” That said sarcastically, obviously.
Immediately I thought of God’s heart. How “lovely” has Moulton delighted the divine by hiding “gay nuptials” in the closet. There she put “homosexual marriage” for all time, no matter the call of God to broadcast truth by every means possible.
As Ms. Chaplain locks the closet door, homosexuals clog our boulevards with crusading chants.
Did not Christ say something about not hiding one’s light under a bushel?
Read more re Barbara Moulton: NAZNET DISTORTS at http://naznetdistorts.blogspot.com/
NAZARENES GOOFED ON DEFINITION OF HELL?
J. Grant Swank, Jr.
NazNet website Founder/Moderator Dave McClung makes this statement at the site’s outset:
“NazNet is proud to be a loyal supporter of the denomination and its world wide mission—to respond to the Great Commission of Christ ‘to make Christ-like disciples in the nations.’ This is a Nazarene friendly site and our purpose is: ‘building community among Nazarenes and friends.’”
Not so. In fact, far far from it.
NazNet undercuts Church of the Nazarene historic theology. One of the site’s prime voices is Moderator Hans Deventer, unfortunately.
McClung should absent Deventer from any posts on the site if McClung wants to be honest in his opening statement of support for the Church of the Nazarene.
Deventer propagates heresies that will never be acceptable to Wesleyan holiness teachings of the Church of that Nazarene, that is, unless this denomination transgresses its spiritual journey in disobeying God. And that in fact is happening as I type. If it continues, the Church of the Nazarene will implode under God’s wrath.
For example, NazNet reader Ian Gentles states to Deventer: “I believe in eternal torment. Oh trust me, I don’t like it, but I believe it. Can the church have misunderstood all these centuries?”
Deventer answers: “THE church has had different opinions, and THE church has never felt the need to express itself in the early creeds on this topic. Hence, it is an issue where differences of opinion are allowed.”
Gentles responds: “Did the Nazarene church misunderstand?”
Deventer says: “Yes. Hey, we can’t have everything right, can we?”
Gentles continues: “Did i misunderstand the Bible?”
Deventer again: “Yes.”
Yes?
Gentles states he believes the biblical Christ’s teaching regarding eternal torment being just that.
Deventer redirects him to the “truth according to Deventer.” Sadly Deventer does this repeatedly throughout the site.
Deventer tenaciously believes in infant baptism, contrary to the traditional Nazarene infant dedication and adult believers’ baptism.
Deventer teaches that there is no “eternal torment.” Deventer states that “annihilation” is the proper reality.
Deventer teaches that there is no such entity as “eternal life.” “Eternal” is not meant to be everlasting but merely the content, not duration for the saved.
Deventer does not hold that the Bible is the infallible, inerrant Word of God. He believes that the more doubt one holds to, the more one comes upon truth. Moderator Scott Cundiff agrees. NazNet Founder Dave McClung does nothing to correct these heresies.
I emailed Deventer regarding his misuse of Scripture. His email to me let me know that I am his “enemy.”
If am his enemy, I am God’s friend. Deventer destroys the biblical truth; I support biblical truth.
Deventer seemingly has no fear of appearing before the Judgment Seat of Christ for he writes his own holy writ by flying by the seat of his pants.
That’s actually not the way to carry out biblical research, especially for the benefit of inquirers on a site that advertises itself as friend to Nazarenes.
What say, McClung?
Read more: NAZNET DISTORTS at http://naznetdistorts.blogspot.com/
Sun Nov 15, 2009
BIBLE NOT THE WHOLE WORD OF GOD?
J. Grant Swank, Jr.
That is correct.
Site overseers such as NazNet Manager Scott Cudliff and Moderator Hans Deventer champion those who doubt the Bible as a reliable revelation from the Christian God. (See footnote for further detail at NAZNET DISTORTS http://naznetdistorts.blogspot.com/ .)
Yet the Bible states in 2 Timothy 3:16-17: “All Scripture is given by inspiration of God, and is profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness: that the man of God may be perfect, thoroughly furnished unto good works.”
“All Scripture. . .is profitable for doctrine. . .”
When God inspired those words, He meant it. Not just what is convenient Scripture or that which is pleasant to you, but all Scripture. Not just what liberals pronounce as condoned, but all Scripture. That means from Genesis to Revelation, all Scripture is God’s infallible communication.
Does NazNet’s deity have flawed communication skills? Obviously, for Cudliff and Deventer applaud same. NazNet Founder and Moderator Dave McClung must go along with this heresy for he never disciplines his overseers or counters their anti-God views.
By the way, McClung is not a theologian. He is a successful businessman.
Why then does he found and head a primarily religious site, advertising it as Church of the Nazarene-friendly? He is not doctrinally astute. He is not theologically trained. Yet he is forming a seminary-on-Internet and Internet competitive “denomination” against the holiness Nazarene history.
McClung delights in his ego aggrandizement in watching particularly the young follow his Pied Piper musical dance into God’s wrath. McClung is proud. He is conceited. That is why he has molded this NazNet grouse that entices the unknowing into his dark web.
Yet all along he boasts that NazNet is a support system for the Wesleyan holiness Church of the Nazarene. It is just the opposite.
For instance, Cudliff states on NazNet that he is mesmerized by C. S. Cowles’ address regarding the emerging church. In that address, Cowles esteems a liberal theologian who destroys faith in the Bible for ongoing doubt.
Cudliff lifts high that quote from Cowles and states for the world to read that such an heretical view encourages Cudliff’s “Wesleyan perspective.”
That is a lie. It cannot be. Cowles’ quote has nothing to do with endorsing Wesleyan theology and the holiness interpretation of the Word. In fact, that quote enables atheism, not Wesleyan doctrine.
Time and again, such deceit weaves its way through the discussion slides on NazNet. There is much there that is cotton candy; but there is enough to damn. And McClung knows that; but he is so enthralled with his own ego enlargement by this site that he continues to “gospel” lies.
“All Scripture is given by inspiration of God. . .”
That includes the flood in Noah’s day. That flood is scuttled by Cowles and thereby by Cudliff by the latter’s own confession on NazNet.
That divine inspiration includes the slaying of various peoples in the Old Testament period. Such is submerged by Cowles and therby Cudliff.
What these liberals do is to transplant their own divine personality mold upon the Bible—mostly sugary sweet deity images. If the Bible does not support that persona, the biblical verses are scrapped. Of course, Psalm 23 is left. And I Corinthians 13. However, the more difficult passages are yanked out as logically and theologically unsound.
However, God has stated: “All Scripture is given by inspiration of God. . .” It is not there for us to scissor out at our whim. Scripture is not provided for us to critique. It is there by “inspiration of God.” God!
Therefore, if you cannot stomach that God, don’t claim Him.
However, the likes of Cowles, Cudliff, McClung and Deventer want to claim Him to get to heaven; but they disown His ability to give us a responsible revelation. Such hubris. Yet it is there on NazNet while that site witnesses to being a companion to the Church of the Nazarene.
Will the General Superintendents do anything about this?
I don’t know. But I have emailed to them various NazNet samplings to let them know the facts about that site.
If they do nothing, then they have no spines. They are mandated by Christ to tell the truth, defend the truth, and particularly care for the holiness biblical trust of the Church of the Nazarene. Time will tell what they do about such demonic inroads as NazNet.
Some time ago, I wrote about the difficult sections of Scripture in the light of God’s persona. I did not have to slide God off the charts. I instead discovered in the study of those venues that this God I serve is most respectable. It is because of his just and merciful holy nature.
What the rebels such as overseers on NazNet have done is to overweigh God on the love side of His persona and neglect His justice side. One cannot do that.
Holy God is the eternal, perfect balance of justice and mercy. When realizing that truth in both Old and New Testaments, one comes upon a perfect deity, in no need of NazNet’s surgical knives.
Read NAZNET DISTORTS at http://naznetdistorts.blogspot.com/
Read BIBLE HARSH PENALTIES & CHRIST’S ETHIC at http://truthinconviction.us/weblog.php?id=P3256
BIBLE HARSH PENALTIES & CHRIST’S ETHIC
J. Grant Swank, Jr.
A comment received to my article, AMERICA BELIEVES CHRIST IS GOD, reads as follows on ConservativeVoice Forum http://www.theconservativevoice.com/forum/read.html?id=732:
“Grant, I wonder if you are a football fan? Just because, if so, I hope you’re demanding to the team ownership that the whole team should be put to death immediately. After all, a literal reading of the Bible does tell us that anyone who works on Sunday should be killed, right? And you’ve apparently linked belief in Christ with blindly following everything in the Bible.”
Here is the answer to that comment:
In the Old Testament, God commanded the death penalty in twenty-some cases. This was not because God was barbaric, but because God was civil. The Israeli twelve tribes had no law enforcement agencies. Further, they were surrounded by barbarisms of strange magnitudes exhibited by neighboring pagan nations.
Consequently, for God to establish an Israeli civil community, He set forth stringent punishments--some being the death penalty. He Himself became, in other words, the Law Enforcement Agency for the new nation of Israel. That chosen community thereby was to model morality / civility to the surrounding nations.
Extremely severe penalties then were commanded by God in order to bring in line an Israeli community which tended to be unruly like its neighbors. If God had been lax in penalties, human nature, being what it is, would have tested gladly the boundaries. But when penalties were severe, human nature thought twice before testing the boundaries, hence the death penalty prescribed by God in some instances.
However, once Israel lost its nationhood by “going a-whoring after other loves”, Israel’s civil structure disappeared. Israel as a nation lost its temple, its government--that is, its two primary components of culture--religion and politics. Pagan nations then ruled over the heretofore nation of God. In this loss was the disappearance of death penalties previously prescribed by God. The death penalty period as dictated by divine revelation, in other words, ended near the close of the Old Testament era.
That is why when Jesus appeared as flesh-and-bones divine revelation, He pronounced, “You used to say, ‘An eye for an eye’, but now I say to you: Love your enemies.” Jesus pronounced a civility of love toward one’s enemies. “Love your foes, pray for your foes.” This was the New Testament for it was now a new way of dealing with others--all others.
Government was now established primarily within the believer rather than under Israeli kings. “The Kingdom of God is within you.” Law was now primarily of the heart. “My law will be written on your hearts.” That was the new politic. Further, the tabernacle was now primarily the human frame: “Your body is the temple of the Holy Spirit.” That was the new religion.
Therefore, for the New Testament Church Age, it is the law of love toward all--friends and foes. Jesus provided a simply stated ethic. He refused to garble it with amendments. But, one may ask: “What about these atrocious crimes and the death penalty?”
The biblical answer is still the same: love your friends and foes in Jesus. What kind of Christian love then can be shown to a multiple-murderer / rapist / arsonist / child molester? What kind of Christian love can be meted out to a Hitler?
It is a Christian tough love. Tough love keeps the exceptional criminal alive but consigns that one to supervised environs without parole. Hopefully, even that exceptional criminal then may come upon redemption through Christ, yet never be placed in tempting circumstances whereby he again may do others and Himself harm.
Keeping the individual alive also allows the possibility that, realizing human justice systems to be flawed, that person in truth may be found innocent though originally pronounced guilty. Indeed, the future may prove this to be fact if new evidence is forthcoming. History has case files on those in the aforementioned category.
Reason this moral / ethical situation from God’s perspective: Adam and Eve slew God’s love when they played loose with Eden’s snake. However, God did not slay them. Instead, God banished them to their own solitary isles of remorse, hoping at least for their eternal redemption.
You once slew God’s love by going your own stubborn way. In reality, you pronounced yourself Lord of your life. It is a hurtful truth to you now that you are a believer; nevertheless, living once in sin and for sin, you were once that callused toward your own loving Creator. However, did God obliterate you? No, instead God searched you out, loved you even while you were enemy, in hopes of redeeming what was left of your destiny.
He now invites each Christian to live out that same kind of persevering, at-times-tough love toward all others--especially those who are Enemy. God has already walked for us the path of love-for-foes. We, of all creatures, should know this for sure. Praise be to a loving, merciful God!
He then invites us to join Him on that love path. He has walked it for us. He asks us now to walk it for others.
Wed Nov 11, 2009
DON’T TRUST IN CHARIOTS
J. Grant Swank, Jr.
“Some boast in chariots, and some in horses;
But we will boast in the name of the Lord, our God.”
Psalm 20:7
In a confused world, even the believer may find himself out of his element. That is, he may find himself swept up in the anxious talkathons so as to miss sight of God. That can happen. We’re mortal, remember — spiritually flawed creatures.
Therefore, with all that’s going on around us — a world caught in its own webs — the believer continues to look above it all into the face of God.
There are those putting their trust in the hands of horsemen on chariots. Such folly. They are as flawed as the rest of us. The other afternoon I reminded myself of that basic while walking into a neighboring sanctuary. (Thank God for some churches that still keep their doors unlocked during weekdays).
While seated in that Lakes Region church, I felt holiness take over the shadows. There was a needed quietness. I unwound. I pondered. I then lifted a hymnal to leaf through its pages, scanning the messages of hope above the fray.
Then I opened a Bible that was resting nearby. There I came upon the familiar verses that have always drawn me away from fretting and worry into mercy and light.
“Some boast in chariots, and some in horses; But we will boast in the name of the Lord, our God.
“Indeed, none of those who wait for Thee will be ashamed. . .Make me to know Thy ways, O Lord; Teach me Thy paths. Lead me in Thy truth and teach me, For Thou art the God of my salvation; For Thee I wait all the day.” Psalm 25:3-5
“Even though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I fear no evil; for Thou art with me; Thy rod and Thy staff, they comfort me.” Psalm 23:4
“Let integrity and uprightness preserve me; For I wait for Thee.” Psalm 25:21
“Wait for the Lord; Be strong, and let your heart take courage; Yes, wait for the Lord.” Psalm 27:14
God is watching. God sees it. God is very much aware. The world finally is His property, after all. Granted, it has fallen temporally into the hands of the prince of the power of the air — Satan. But God is still Alpha and Omega. He is the Start and Finish. He provided the call of creation. He will provide the call to conclusion. It is God who has overseen the ins and outs of all human history. It is this God who capes the globe with His judgment and His mercy.
Therefore, those who have come under God’s grace leave the workings of history to God. Chariots and horsemen may dart to and fro. They always will. But the believer’s trust is not in them; it is in the God of time and eternity.
Does God sit by and merely ponder? No. God acts. And God is acting now. Then what believers need to do in the hour of confusion and peril is to fling their hearts more deeply into God. God is not only in history. God is above history. Therefore, when the believer flings his trust deeply into God, he anchors himself into One who not only impregnates Himself in the world’s doings but ultimately rounds out those doings. Therefore, the obedient believer’s outcome is secure — grounded — sure.
Consequently, this is a time for praising God, not pouting or bewailing or twisting one’s hands in doom. This is the time for praising God above the swirl. This is the very moment when heaven waits for children of grace to call out the powerful name of God. Even in the midst of flame. In the sight of quaking hills and dales. Call out the mighty name of the Lord God!
“I will bless the Lord at all times; His praise shall continually be in my mouth. My soul shall make its boast in the Lord; The humble shall hear it and rejoice, O magnify the Lord with me, And let us exalt His name together.
“I sought the Lord, and He answered me, And delivered me from all my fears. They looked to Him and were radiant, And their faces shall never be ashamed.” Psalm 34:1-4
Pray now that — beginning where you live — then across the world believers of every land and tongue will come together as one magnificent chorus of praise. In that, we will radiate hope in a dark world. We will shine forth His wisdom and love. We will counter the forces of destruction and mayhem.
In a recent neighborhood Bible study I attended, those gathered voiced that this is why we are here at this very time. It is not by chance that we are breathing. We are ambassadors for God in a troubled time. We must see through our station for His mission presses us to the front lines.
“O taste and see that the Lord is good; How blessed is the man who takes refuge in Him! O fear the Lord, you His saints; For to those who fear Him, there is no want.” Psalm 34:8-9
You are knowledgeable concerning the headlines? You can dialogue with the best of them on political currents? You have opinions strong and convincing? You are fresh from the newspapers with the latest? You are scouring the detail for shoring up your side?
You are also worn out, frazzled and numb. You are wilting on the vine.
But you are not only a citizen of the world — sophisticated and articulate. You are also a believer. You are one of those who speaks to God. You say you pray, don’t you? Then pray. Closet yourself away in the “secret place.” Bolster your soul with, not only the knowledge of today’s news, but the insight of the eternities. Let God speak to you above the battle. Let God guide you through the murky mist. Let God comfort you in the depths.
This is the hour for boasting — not in chariots and horsemen — but in God Almighty. Do it and be radiant. Do it and be glad. Do it and praise His holy name — now and forevermore.
“Some boast in chariots, and some in horses;
But we will boast in the name of the Lord, our God.”
Psalm 20:7
WINTER’S WAIT
J. Grant Swank, Jr.
In Maine’s Lakes Region, I ponder the waiting season. It is the waiting on winter-into-spring. There are the snow mounds and then the glimpses of what-is-next-to-be. Naturally, in this annual exercise there are the delights and the dilemmas. We are all players in this drama.
Much of life is composed of waiting. Some relates to our waiting on God in prayer.
I think back to one winter when I packed our belongings into the rented moving van, ready to head back to the eastern part of the United States--thousands of miles from where I had closed the Bible atop the pulpit and resigned from my church.
My wife and I had decided that we had to move. Her health was not getting any better. The neurosurgeon who could treat her performed his operations in Boston and we had to go where he was. Into the truck we slid our boxes, while our dreams seemed to go “out the window.”
December came, and so did Priscilla’s brain surgery. Half of her hair was shaved off. The surgeon inserted a tube from her brain down behind her ear and then into her heart to re-route cerebrospinal fluid. There was not enough space between her brain and her skull for the fluid to drain properly because of scar tissue that had somehow formed during her childhood.
We “celebrated” Christmas and New Year’s Day in the hospital l00 miles from our relatives and our little daughter.
When Priscilla was well enough to return home, life was not so bright as the doctors had predicted. While still experiencing much discomfort from the surgery, Priscilla also suffered a nervous collapse, and depression set in. I took a job as the executive for the Chamber of Commerce, and I would come into the house at the end of every workday to find her no better. “Darkness” fell long before nightfall most evenings.
Night after night I crawled into bed with numbness enveloping my heart. I worked on “automatic pilot” most of the time.
One night, as I lay in bed unable to sleep, I reached my arms up into the air. I could not see my arms because of the darkness. Yet I wanted to reach out and touch God somehow. I did not understand why I felt so alone, so unable to make contact with Heaven. I knew that the Bible is true, yet lately I had not felt any comfort when I read it. And it had been so hard to pray.
“Where have You gone?” I asked softly.
After a while I fell asleep. In the morning, life seemed just as flat as ever.
Gradually Priscilla’s health returned. Her depression slowly faded, and little by little we resumed a normal life. Occasionally we suffered setbacks. When we look back, those two years do not seem all that long; but when we were going through them, they seemed like a millennium.
Then came the day when Priscilla told me that she was well enough to be a pastor’s wife again. Several months later we moved into a parsonage and resumed full-time ministry.
One Sunday night I lay in bed thinking back over our winter season of trial. And it came to me! When I had put that childlike question to my Father: “Where have You gone?” His answer had come just as simply: “I have been with you all the time.”
I knew that to be so, even in the darkest hour, even during those years when I did not feel his answer.
Now, when the shades are drawn to shut out the day, I remind myself to trust God’s kind reply with even more assurance. Though I may not always feel that God is with me, I know that HE NEVER LEAVES ME!
GOD, THE UNSEEN POWER
J. Grant Swank, Jr.
America’s unseen Power at work on behalf of moralists is God.
The Republic Party does not have a strong front person as leader.
How is it then that the moral positions held to tenaciously by moralist Republicans continue to be defended, even with the most vicious attacks from the godless?
It is God, the unseen partner of prayer warriors. Those who intercede on behalf of the Republic are not in need of a mortal leader at the moment. We are bereft of a mighty party spokesperson.
Nevertheless, such ethical issues as abortion and homosexual unions are being fought by American citizens, but lead by the unseen Partner—God.
Therefore, all the more moralists must continue to believe in the universal Holy Presence. He does not need anything but those who have strong, childlike faith in Him.
God then can do whatever He plans on doing when having the Noah-and-his-family cohorts beseeching His intervention. There were only 8 who kept the faith in that generation. Yet the Creator defended them, kept them safe and disciplined the disobedient.
So it is in every age. God does not need a host; He needs those few who would put their faith on the line for His eternal verities. The righteous remnant is that conclave today. They join the early founders of this nation in their moral base and prayer faith.
Therefore, when newsfeeds inform moralists that they are weak because they “can’t get their act together” in uncovering that dynamic party leader, put aside that wail.
Rev up your faith quotient in God the Mighty God.
Tue Nov 10, 2009
NAZNET SAYS BIBLE NOT NO-ERROR RELIABLE
Mon Nov 09, 2009
NAZNET DISTORTS
NAZNET MODERATOR HANS DEVENTER NIXES ETERNAL HELL. HE’S NAZARENE?
J. Grant Swank, Jr.
In his own words: “I believe that hell is annihilation.” Check it out here: http://www.naznet.com/community/showthread.php?t=28935
Clear words. Simple words. Definitions understood without commentary.
Hans Deventer is moderator of a supposed Church of the Nazarene supportive site per the site’s own “advertisement.”
The Church of the Nazarene has never preached that hell is annihilation. I was born into that denomination and have graduated from that church’s seminary, having graduated from that church’s liberal arts college.
I have never heard any professor, preacher or evangelist claim that “hell is annihilation.”
Jesus never stated that hell is annihilation. Instead, he stated just the opposite. Hell is everlasting torment for the damned.
That is why the traditional Church of the Nazarene proclaimed that hell is eternal torment for that denomination sought to underline exactly what the Bible states. That denomination was not known for diverting from the Word, that is, until Hans came along with his theologically liberal colleagues on NazNet.
NazNet, to use Hans as an example, seeks to stir up confusion though the site claims just the opposite as its reason for being. It needs readers. It needs responders. Therefore, it moves into that which is contentious in order to get readers.
It’s the same with Hans’ opinion that infant baptism is his okay-baptism. He states in another venue that he once believed in believers’ adult baptism; however, he’s now an advocate for infant baptism.
Spin the theologically liberal bottle once again, Hans.
Yet you still state that you are supportive of the Church of the Nazarene? Not so. You are supportive of your place on the NazNet site that you hope will supplant the historic Church of the Nazarene teaching by claiming it worn out. The past is “old hat.”
Whether it is annihilation or infant baptism, these two examples are just two of others that seek to plant, particularly in the young readers, questions regarding the denomination’s heretofore biblical proclamations.
NazNet is not then a friend to the traditional history of the Church of the Nazarene. It is a rebel.
Hans and NazNet overseers are out to be popular, not to be theologically biblical or friends of the Church of the Nazarene. Therefore, the Church of the Nazarene leadership should come out in defense of biblical doctrine, exposing NazNet as not a genuine companion.
So, Hans, you join liberals in prostituting Scripture to your own opinions, such as your definition of hell as annihilation. You knew from the start that you were handling a basic biblical teaching that you were subverting. But for your own personal popularity and your site’s increased readership, you took the gamble of toying with the Word.
Of course, you will answer for this from God for He will not tolerate those who twist and turn His revelation in order to suit their own egocentric aims. Opportunistic you, as well as your other site overseers, may think you are the new gurus for the Church of the Nazarene. But you are not.
Using the Bible as evidence, you are not friends to the Church of the Nazarene.
As a troubling postscript, Hans also states this set of confusing words: “The Bible isn’t clear about the intermediate state.”
The biblical Protestant does not believe in an “intermediate state.” Biblical believers know that the Word teaches that at death the soul goes to heaven or hell. There is no middle state—the “intermediate state.”
Roman Catholicism and some other liturgical conclaves teach an intermediate state. Catholic teaching has traditionally taught a limbo space for unbaptized infants who die. Catholic teaching also has taught a purgatory, an “intermediate state.”
However, the Church of the Nazarene specifically has never believed in limbo or purgatory or any other “place” called “intermediate state.”
I personally believe that Hans does not know what he is talking about on various points in his post here: http://www.naznet.com/community/showthread.php?t=28935
He truly is not theologically knowledgeable so as to monitor an evangelical holiness site.
Yet he continues on NazNet’s claimed-to-be supportive site for the Church of the Nazarene.
Not sound. Not true.
For further digressions from the Church of the Nazarene’s biblical past, read: NAZNET’S CHAPLAIN MODERATOR BARBARA MOULTON DRAWS SPIKED REACTIONS at http://www.allvoices.com/contributed-news/4578553
FOOTNOTE: GOD WARNS OF ETERNAL HELL
The Bible teaches that there is a fiery everlasting hell, a place that Jesus warned people about. Note this sampling of Scripture:
“And if your hand or your foot causes you to stumble, cut it off and throw it from you; it is better for you to enter life crippled or lame, than having two hands or two feet, to be cast into the eternal fire,” (Matt. 18:8)
“. . .these will go away into eternal punishment, but the righteous into eternal life” (Matt. 25:46)
Jesus says: “Depart from me, you cursed, into everlasting fire. . .” (Matthew 25:41)
“22 . . . the rich man also died, and was buried;
23 And in hell he lift up his eyes, being in torments, and saw Abraham afar off, and Lazarus in his bosom.
24 And he cried and said, Father Abraham, have mercy on me, and send Lazarus, that he may dip the tip of his finger in water, and cool my tongue; for I am tormented in this flame.
25 But Abraham said, Son, remember that you in your lifetime received good things, and likewise Lazarus evil things: but now he is comforted, and you art tormented.
26 And beside all this, between us there is a great gulf fixed: so that they which would pass from hence to you cannot; neither can they pass to us, that would come from thence.
27 Then he said, I pray you therefore, father, that you would send him to my father’s house:
28 For I have five brethren; that he may testify unto them, lest they also come into this place of torment. (Luke 16:22-28)”
NAZNET’S CHAPLAIN MODERATOR BARBARA MOULTON DRAWS SPIKED REACTIONS
J. Grant Swank, Jr.
NazNet chaplain moderator Barbara Moulton stated to me: “. . .for the record, I do have objections to gay marriage. I don’t perform them and will never perform them. I simply am not going to crusade against allowing them to take place in my country.”
I responded: “God help us! So there you have it. Simple words that convey just what they say. No doubt as to what she believes. Nothing there to quibble about.”
She’s “not going to crusade against them (‘gay marriages’) allowing them to take place in my country.” There you have it, believing friends.
NazNet has a chaplain moderator who permits the homosexuals to get full coverage day and night while she hides away in the site’s underground. There can be no other conclusion reached than that she is a religious coward overseeing a site that claims to be elitistically alluring.
Not so.
For more, read NAZNET’S CHAPLAIN MODERATOR KEEPS ‘GAY MARRIAGE’ IN THE CLOSET at http://www.allvoices.com/contributed-news/4574089
Those reading this responded with their own angst:
“Barbara Moulton is following in the steps of those German Lutherans who sang their hymns in their PC insulated churches while the wheels of the box trains carrying Jewish families to their deaths kept to the rhythm of their religious songs.
“Don’t crusade against any sin, Barbara! but ‘gain the whole world’ of prestige and position; however, don’t forget the second part of that verse!”
And. . .
“Hi Grant,
I have been reading your posts about Naznet with interest and also a sad heart. For those of us who poured our hearts out with loving compassion pastoring our churches and stressing the importance of heart holiness, it is sad to witness decline of any type. As you well know, we are going to be attacked for taking our stands for that which is true and just. God bless! Keep on keeping on.”
And. . .
“. . .chaos and confusion! These people are nuts. . .”
And. . .
“Is she a coward or what????????????? Naznet tries to make itself out to be socially active.
“Obviously one of its moderators is not that when it comes to putting her biblical convictions in the market place. But that is where it finally counts, isn’t it? Naznet is made up of elitist think-themselves-intellectuals with giddy this and that throughout, kissups aplenty.
“But when it comes to moving off the site into the open air, obviously one of the chaplain (!) moderators is not willing to be so bold. Such hypocrisy. Secret discipleship does not count at the eternal throne.”
And. . .
“I had a brief email exchange with Barbara Moulton a couple of years ago regarding a cheap shot she took at Hannity. She is Canadian and, like most non-US types on Naznet, she has no objections to ‘gay marriages’ and finds socialism to be entirely compatible with the Scriptures.
“The ‘upholding the traditional Nazarene standards types’ seemingly has left the Naznet forums during the last 2-3 years. Statements from leaders in Kansas City Nazarene headquarters seem to indicate a similar decaying pattern.”
Read NAZNET WEBSITE UNFAIR at http://www.michnews.com/J_Grant_Swank_Jr/jgs110609.shtml
NAZNET’S CHAPLAIN MODERATOR KEEPS ‘GAY MARRIAGE’ IN THE CLOSET
J. Grant Swank, Jr.
Is this not puzzling to you as a biblical believer?
NazNet’s moderator, who also tags herself as a chaplain, told me that she is against “gay marriage” but would not take the issue out in public.
This is so like NazNet: opportunistic, conveniently in-house and shallow “Christian.”
Are we not to be lights in the world—not hidden under the bushel?
Are we not to be salt to the earth?
Are we not to be in the world, yet not of the world?
Are we not to allow ourselves to be hated for the cause of Christ rather than carve out hideaways for safe cover?
How interesting that the open homosexuals take to the marketplace, boulevards, church pulpits, and anywhere they can find foothold.
But Ms. Barbara Moulton, chaplain moderator on NazNet, would have the biblical believer not go where scriptural convictions air. She’s not going to go in open space to state that God considers “gay marriage” no place in marriage.
Yet NazNet prides itself on being contemporary Christian. It says in so many words, “Come to us to talk out the latest and act out the boldest.”
However, one of its own moderators is so cowardly as to state to me that she does not intend on taking the homosexual issue into the open.
This is a direct contradiction, Ms. Moulton. You are showing your cowardliness so brashly. You are also revealing your lack of theological understanding when it comes to the Christ ethic of the Gospels.
Christ permits His disciples no place to cower, to compromise the mode as well as the message. Instead, He told His own to go into all the world to preach the gospel. Preaching the gospel is “out there.” It’s where the opposition derides.
Christ never sidestepped the opposition. He went after them. Further, when they came after Him, He was ready—with power, with logic, with separating soul from spirit.
If we are to be like Christ, we are to be of like courage.
Homosexuals taking to the malls and government steps are in our face. Yet you sit there in your comfortable Internet site office having coffee.
That is absolutely insulting to the rest of us who are carrying the cause and cross where it counts—where the enemy is, where the friends are, where Christ is overseeing the fray.
I am stunned today. I am shocked to read what you have stated to me. It is beyond abhorrent. Yet it is right there in front of me. No wonder today’s church is so lame. No wonder its impact is derided as drained.
So it is that you are among the site’s leaders who counsel input daily to others? This is unthinkable.
NazNet chaplain moderator Barbara Moulton states to me: “. . .for the record, I do have objections to gay marriage. I don’t perform them and will never perform them. I simply am not going to crusade against allowing them to take place in my country.”
God help us!
So there you have it. Simple words that convey just what they say. No doubt as to what she believes. Nothing there to quibble about.
She’s “not going to crusade against them (“gay marriages”) allowing them to take place in my country.”
There you have it, believing friends.
NazNet has a chaplain moderator who permits the homosexuals to get full coverage day and night while she hides away in the site’s underground. There can be no other conclusion reached than that she is a religious coward overseeing a site that claims to be elitistically alluring.
Not so.
NAZNET UNFAIRLY DELETES ROBERT HARTMAN’S INPUT ON SITE
J. Grant Swank, Jr.
It is sad that NazNet continues its unfair mode by deleting Robert Hartman’s input on the site. That input delivered a defense of my character and writing style, the latter constantly derided by responders on the site.
Those responders were granted full permission by the site moderator Barbara Moulton to continue their snide remarks; but Mr. Hartman’s courteous statements were consider cause for the moderator to close off discussion.
One cannot now find on the Internet Mr. Hartman’s logical and rightful comments for the site overseers, Hans Deventer in particular, have noted on that discussion slide that those overseers have deliberately deleted Mr. Hartman’s input from the discussion.
These overseers state that Mr. Hartman’s registration on NazNet is suspect. They state that his email address is not legitimate. In fact, his email address is quite legitimate. How they reached that conclusion is suspect and of course bogus.
The obvious is that overseers now conclude that Mr. Hartman’s comments are legitimate. Being so, the overseers don’t want the public to read them, so they have deleted them.
Again, NazNet takes the low road, unethical for certain. Yet NazNet prides itself on being a morally based evangelical Internet site. Not so, evidently.
I ask NazNet to return Mr. Hartman’s input to that site so that readers can read for themselves what he stated. Let the readers decide if Mr. Hartman’s input was cause for closing down discussion.
Note original post below. Note that where the reader is directed to read Mr. Hartman’s own posts that that will not work. Clicking on that link data will not produce that which NazNet has deleted for fear that Mr. Hartman’s logic will hold sway.
CHURCH OF THE NAZARENE: NAZNET WEBSITE UNFAIR
J. Grant Swank, Jr.
There on NazNet website was a discussion regarding my EASTERN NAZARENE COLLLEGE ANTICHRISTIAN PLAY PRESENTED post recently on numerous sites. Read http://www.naznet.com/community/showthread.php?t=28930
The NazNet discussion was particularly mean regarding me and my writing content and style.
I was born into the Church of the Nazarene which is basically unofficially the dialogue base of this website. I pastored in that denomination from 1964-1998.
Now my posts regarding the antiChristian drama presentation at my alma mater becomes, not by my submission by the way, a discussion piece on NazNet.
With that, people who know me and don’t know me plow in. Their remarks are so cheap and slap-stick pocking that it is unbearable to imagine that a Church of the Nazarene-related website would tolerate such tawdry fare, especially when it is so derision-based against a pastor—myself.
Then friend Robert Hartman enters the discussion with a gentlemanly polite defense of Grant Swank, his writings over half a century and his biblical convictions.
That raises the ire of responders all the more. They become even more vicious, nasty and, yes, unChristian in the guise of appearing spiritually excellent.
Now the moderator of that particular discussion point closes down the site. But it is not in the midst of responders’ discourteous slams against me. It is when Robert Hartman logically, courteously defends my character and writings. Read http://www.naznet.com/community/showthread.php?t=28930&page=17
Moderator Barbara Moulton closes down the discussion by disciplining Robert Hartman. It is his comment input that is put down as the necessity for stopping all further remarks.
What?
Nasty, mean-spirited cheap comments can flow like a river without Moulton’s interference. However, when Robert Hartman enters to rightfully defend me and my positions, he is the villain who has brought an end to that discussion thread.
NazNet, if you reflect the Church of the Nazarene in present tense, the denomination is in sad shape. Sad sad shape indeed.
By the way, I checked out other NazNet discussion slides and find that often the same few responders are floating from dissuasion slide to discussion slide. There are not countless individuals involved in the NazNet site.
In addition, I came upon the NazNet discussions regarding the Eucharist. May I ask what “Eucharist” has to do with the Church of the Nazarene? Everyone in religious studies knows that the Church of the Nazarene has never long-term history spoken of communion by the term “Eucharist.” It has always been called “communion” or “the Lord’s supper.”
Does this Eucharist nomenclature simply expose the small grouping of elitist Nazarenes who are pushing for a complete change within the denomination? I have heard that there are those desiring to erase the past heritage of the Nazarene worship style for a mimicking of high church whatever.
By reading the comments on the NazNet discussion slide regarding the Eucharist, I would conclude that these wise-guys are part of the elitist crew who have no idea what they are talking about. They simply go on and on to impress one another as some sort of intellectuals into ritual this-and-that.
All in all, NazNet lacks quality, intellectual excellence and spiritual loyalty to the Scripture, particularly the Bible’s accent on holiness. That is a travesty.
It does not look healthy for the Church of the Nazarene if NazNet reflects that denomination.
Read I BELIEVE IN MIRACLES: GOD PROVISIONS at http://jgrantswankjr.blogspot.com/2009/03/i-believe-in-miracles-god-provisions.html
NAZNET MODERATOR HANS DEVENTER NIXES ETERNAL HELL. HE’S NAZARENE?
J. Grant Swank, Jr.
In his own words: “I believe that hell is annihilation.” Check it out here: http://www.naznet.com/community/showthread.php?t=28935
Clear words. Simple words. Definitions understood without commentary.
Hans Deventer is moderator of a supposed Church of the Nazarene supportive site per the site’s own “advertisement.”
The Church of the Nazarene has never preached that hell is annihilation. I was born into that denomination and have graduated from that church’s seminary, having graduated from that church’s liberal arts college.
I have never heard any professor, preacher or evangelist claim that “hell is annihilation.”
Jesus never stated that hell is annihilation. Instead, he stated just the opposite. Hell is everlasting torment for the damned.
That is why the traditional Church of the Nazarene proclaimed that hell is eternal torment for that denomination sought to underline exactly what the Bible states. That denomination was not known for diverting from the Word, that is, until Hans came along with his theologically liberal colleagues on NazNet.
NazNet, to use Hans as an example, seeks to stir up confusion though the site claims just the opposite as its reason for being. It needs readers. It needs responders. Therefore, it moves into that which is contentious in order to get readers.
It’s the same with Hans’ opinion that infant baptism is his okay-baptism. He states in another venue that he once believed in believers’ adult baptism; however, he’s now an advocate for infant baptism.
Spin the theologically liberal bottle once again, Hans.
Yet you still state that you are supportive of the Church of the Nazarene? Not so. You are supportive of your place on the NazNet site that you hope will supplant the historic Church of the Nazarene teaching by claiming it worn out. The past is “old hat.”
Whether it is annihilation or infant baptism, these two examples are just two of others that seek to plant, particularly in the young readers, questions regarding the denomination’s heretofore biblical proclamations.
NazNet is not then a friend to the traditional history of the Church of the Nazarene. It is a rebel.
Hans and NazNet overseers are out to be popular, not to be theologically biblical or friends of the Church of the Nazarene. Therefore, the Church of the Nazarene leadership should come out in defense of biblical doctrine, exposing NazNet as not a genuine companion.
So, Hans, you join liberals in prostituting Scripture to your own opinions, such as your definition of hell as annihilation. You knew from the start that you were handling a basic biblical teaching that you were subverting. But for your own personal popularity and your site’s increased readership, you took the gamble of toying with the Word.
Of course, you will answer for this from God for He will not tolerate those who twist and turn His revelation in order to suit their own egocentric aims. Opportunistic you, as well as your other site overseers, may think you are the new gurus for the Church of the Nazarene. But you are not.
Using the Bible as evidence, you are not friends to the Church of the Nazarene.
As a troubling postscript, Hans also states this set of confusing words: “The Bible isn’t clear about the intermediate state.”
The biblical Protestant does not believe in an “intermediate state.” Biblical believers know that the Word teaches that at death the soul goes to heaven or hell. There is no middle state—the “intermediate state.”
Roman Catholicism and some other liturgical conclaves teach an intermediate state. Catholic teaching has traditionally taught a limbo space for unbaptized infants who die. Catholic teaching also has taught a purgatory, an “intermediate state.”
However, the Church of the Nazarene specifically has never believed in limbo or purgatory or any other “place” called “intermediate state.”
I personally believe that Hans does not know what he is talking about on various points in his post here: http://www.naznet.com/community/showthread.php?t=28935
He truly is not theologically knowledgeable so as to monitor an evangelical holiness site.
Yet he continues on NazNet’s claimed-to-be supportive site for the Church of the Nazarene.
Not sound. Not true.
For further digressions from the Church of the Nazarene’s biblical past, read: NAZNET’S CHAPLAIN MODERATOR BARBARA MOULTON DRAWS SPIKED REACTIONS at http://www.allvoices.com/contributed-news/4578553
FOOTNOTE: GOD WARNS OF ETERNAL HELL
The Bible teaches that there is a fiery everlasting hell, a place that Jesus warned people about. Note this sampling of Scripture:
“And if your hand or your foot causes you to stumble, cut it off and throw it from you; it is better for you to enter life crippled or lame, than having two hands or two feet, to be cast into the eternal fire,” (Matt. 18:8)
“. . .these will go away into eternal punishment, but the righteous into eternal life” (Matt. 25:46)
Jesus says: “Depart from me, you cursed, into everlasting fire. . .” (Matthew 25:41)
“22 . . . the rich man also died, and was buried;
23 And in hell he lift up his eyes, being in torments, and saw Abraham afar off, and Lazarus in his bosom.
24 And he cried and said, Father Abraham, have mercy on me, and send Lazarus, that he may dip the tip of his finger in water, and cool my tongue; for I am tormented in this flame.
25 But Abraham said, Son, remember that you in your lifetime received good things, and likewise Lazarus evil things: but now he is comforted, and you art tormented.
26 And beside all this, between us there is a great gulf fixed: so that they which would pass from hence to you cannot; neither can they pass to us, that would come from thence.
27 Then he said, I pray you therefore, father, that you would send him to my father’s house:
28 For I have five brethren; that he may testify unto them, lest they also come into this place of torment. (Luke 16:22-28)”
US FREEDOM OF SPEECH: MUSLIM REVOLUTION
J. Grant Swank, Jr.
Muslims take full advantage of America’s freedom of speech to broadcast the Revolution Muslim cultic line per their own street vendors’ open season.
Note video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WhHYiWCm8Gs
This is youthful Islamics advocating Koran extinction of non-Muslims, this stated on America’s sidewalks.
What will Marxist Muslim Barack Hussein Obama say about this videocast? Muslim Obama will say nothing denouncing this advocate to overthrow our democracy for it is his brethren preaching revolution.
Note: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tCAffMSWSzY&feature=player_embedded
These videos speak for themselves.
America, wake up. Demand that the Oval Office speak up for democracy, America’s Christian heritage, and abhorrence for all that would tear apart our Republic.
Sun Nov 08, 2009
OBAMACARE: 50 MILLION PATIENTS UP. DOCS LACK
J. Grant Swank, Jr.
“The brain drain.”
They get their medical education in Canada then pick up their paychecks in the US. Been going on for years. Still going on.
Canada does not have enough doctors. That means the dreaded “wait list.”
A male cousin living in New Brunswick told me that much of his day is sitting in a hospital’s personnel room, not in the surgical theater. Why? Because his patient has been put on the “wait list.” That means that surgeon has to wait.
His wife is a medical doctor. When I mentioned the “wait list” to her, she looked at me as if I were alarmed. But I was alarmed. However, to her it is a way of professional wasteland she has been schooled into. If she in day-to-day routine got alarmed about it she would go unbalanced.
“I’m on the wait list,” a relative in Nova Scotia told me. That struck fear.
If Obama’s Whacko Health Blanket smothers America, the US will not have enough doctors.
All of a sudden fifty million new patients. Where are the medical professionals to care for this floodsweep? They don’t exist. Then comes the “wait list.” Long weeks, months, perhaps years. No kidding. One Nova Scotian friend had to wait four years to get a pacemaker!
In those four years she often was near death’s door. Thankfully, she did not breathe her last.
Furthermore, Obamacare means that Medicare is going to pain maximum. That means that elderly who in particular need care are going to go wanting. They are five hundred billion dollars sliced out of Medicare if Marxist Muslim Obama gets his scheme in destroying our Republic.
My mother was in a luxurious health care unit in Texas. She was 96. Now that facility is imploding. There is one CNA for two wings. Long-standing nurses’ name signs are no longer posted outside their prior offices. And so forth.
Mother then was cared for in a doctor-owned facility. Then she received proper treatment.
But if the Obama Whack Plan is cemented, these doctors will be worked flat out.
The bottom line regarding Obamangst is that people who need medical attention will not have a professional to help them. Those in the US will be logged on the “wait list.” Wait wait wait. Will they die before they get the medical aid they need? Perhaps. It happens every day in Canada.
This same travesty goes on in UK constantly. When visiting in Ireland, our host and hostess told us that she had to be put on the “wait list.” They said it as a matter of fact for it has been woven into the lifestyle there. It is no longer recited sadly for even that emotion has deflated.
Does the US want this flatout squash?
America will implode as mother’s previous facility is imploding as I type.
America, wake up!
NAZNET’S CHAPLAIN MODERATOR BARBARA MOULTON DRAWS SPIKED REACTIONS
J. Grant Swank, Jr.
NazNet chaplain moderator Barbara Moulton stated to me: “. . .for the record, I do have objections to gay marriage. I don’t perform them and will never perform them. I simply am not going to crusade against allowing them to take place in my country.”
I responded: “God help us! So there you have it. Simple words that convey just what they say. No doubt as to what she believes. Nothing there to quibble about.”
She’s “not going to crusade against them (‘gay marriages’) allowing them to take place in my country.” There you have it, believing friends.
NazNet has a chaplain moderator who permits the homosexuals to get full coverage day and night while she hides away in the site’s underground. There can be no other conclusion reached than that she is a religious coward overseeing a site that claims to be elitistically alluring.
Not so.
For more, read NAZNET’S CHAPLAIN MODERATOR KEEPS ‘GAY MARRIAGE’ IN THE CLOSET at http://www.allvoices.com/contributed-news/4574089
Those reading this responded with their own angst:
“Barbara Moulton is following in the steps of those German Lutherans who sang their hymns in their PC insulated churches while the wheels of the box trains carrying Jewish families to their deaths kept to the rhythm of their religious songs.
“Don’t crusade against any sin, Barbara! but ‘gain the whole world’ of prestige and position; however, don’t forget the second part of that verse!”
And. . .
“Hi Grant,
I have been reading your posts about Naznet with interest and also a sad heart. For those of us who poured our hearts out with loving compassion pastoring our churches and stressing the importance of heart holiness, it is sad to witness decline of any type. As you well know, we are going to be attacked for taking our stands for that which is true and just. God bless! Keep on keeping on.”
And. . .
“. . .chaos and confusion! These people are nuts. . .”
And. . .
“Is she a coward or what????????????? Naznet tries to make itself out to be socially active.
“Obviously one of its moderators is not that when it comes to putting her biblical convictions in the market place. But that is where it finally counts, isn’t it? Naznet is made up of elitist think-themselves-intellectuals with giddy this and that throughout, kissups aplenty.
“But when it comes to moving off the site into the open air, obviously one of the chaplain (!) moderators is not willing to be so bold. Such hypocrisy. Secret discipleship does not count at the eternal throne.”
And. . .
“I had a brief email exchange with Barbara Moulton a couple of years ago regarding a cheap shot she took at Hannity. She is Canadian and, like most non-US types on Naznet, she has no objections to ‘gay marriages’ and finds socialism to be entirely compatible with the Scriptures.
“The ‘upholding the traditional Nazarene standards types’ seemingly has left the Naznet forums during the last 2-3 years. Statements from leaders in Kansas City Nazarene headquarters seem to indicate a similar decaying pattern.”
Read NAZNET WEBSITE UNFAIR at http://www.michnews.com/J_Grant_Swank_Jr/jgs110609.shtml
Sat Nov 07, 2009
HEALTH CARE + ABORTION = CRAZY
J. Grant Swank, Jr.
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and President Barack Hussein Obama try to appear so compassionate when saying that universal health care will help the nation.
One nasty, sticky point in all that love fest is that it’s not true when writing abortion into health care.
Abortion is murdering innocent babies in female wombs. That is not compassionate. It is evil. It has nothing to do with health. It has all to do with slaying.
The liberals—religious and political—have such a love affair with slaughtering those infants that it is unbelievable, except when considering The Fall. When our first parents disobeyed God, the soul was
severely damaged. Witness pro-choice advocates.
Pelosi and Obama represent that crew that delights in chanting pro-choice. They get absolutely ecstatic about the slaughter scene. They then get red-faced when moralists defend little ones in wombs who end up in dumpsters.
I think of killing-womb-babies champion Joy Behar cackling away on The View. She gets absolutely evangelistic about preaching on behalf of the abortion evil.
Of course, she has stated emphatically she despises “under God” supporters who lobby for that duo remaining in the pledge of allegiance. Why? Because she does not believe in any god.
She told the audience recently she does not believe in an afterlife. “This is it!” she exclaimed most certainly, smiling devilishly.
Joy, name inappropriate, bolsters immoralists who will do everything possible to rid our nation of its Christian heritage moral base. They salivate for secularization total, rivaling Europe’s godlessness.
Now these same cogs who kill the young toil night and day for their pet slide-through—universal health care, even for illegal aliens. Yes, it must be right there on the line for those not legally in the country but at the same time they will slice and dice the babies via that same bill.
How crazy can a body of lawmakers get than to have endorsers of abortion wed their song to helping the grassroots working chap and his wife?
Crazy crazy crazy.
FOOTNTOE: THE BIBLE AND ABORTION
It is alarming to realize the nonchalance on the part of many concerning abortion. But it is not new. A popular newsmagazine quoted one medical opinion: “Abortion is finding its place as a perfectly acceptable and valid health measure. We no longer think of it as a crime.”
There are those who say that every woman has a right to control her own body. That is true. Then, having control over her own body, she should not become pregnant if she does not want children. That is control! When she becomes pregnant, then she has lost her control over that situation.
But more importantly, only God has final rights to any person’s body. He brought that body into life and someday will take that body out of life. In the meantime He provides the very sustaining power for the body’s life to continue.
The Bible speaks of a fetus as a person, not simply tissue that can be discarded if found to be a bother or nuisance. Since the fetus is a person from the moment of conception, then the destroying of the fetus is killing a person.
“In the past, some people have mistakenly speculated that perhaps the body might be in the process of formation for some time, and then ‘God breathes a soul into it.’ They had it backward. The life that is present forms matter into a body for itself’” (Joseph Breig, “Life Forms Matter,” The Catholic News, Jan. 24, 1974, p. 8).
“Your hands shaped me and made me. Will you now turn and destroy me? Remember that you molded me like clay. Will you now turn me to dust again? Did you not pour me out like milk … and knit me together with bones and sinews? You gave me life and showed me kindness, and in your providence watched over my spirit” (Job 10:8-12 NIV).
“Before I was born the LORD called me; from my birth he has made mention of my name...and now the LORD says--he who formed me in the womb to be his servant...” (Isaiah 49:1, 5).
“The word of the LORD came to me, saying, ‘Before I formed you in the womb I knew you, before you were born I set you apart; I appointed you as a prophet to the nations’” (Jeremiah 1:4-5).
In the following passages we note that personality is ascribed to the unborn.
“For you created my inmost being; you knit me together in my mother’s womb. I praise you because I am fearfully and wonderfully made; your works are wonderful, I know that fully well. My frame was not hidden from you when I was made in the secret place. When I was woven together in the depths of the earth, your eyes saw my unformed body. All the days ordained for me were written in your book before one of them came to be” (Psalm 139:13-16).
“Sons are a heritage from the LORD, children a reward from him” (Psalm 127:3).
Exodus 21:22-25 relates how Israel was to judge a circumstance relating to the death of the unborn:
“If men who are fighting hit a pregnant woman and she gives birth prematurely but there is no serious injury, the offender must be fined whatever the woman’s husband demands and the court allows. But if there is serious injury, you are to take life for life, eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, foot for foot, wound for wound, bruise for bruise.”
All of the latter deals with unintentional hurt that comes to a pregnant woman; how much more will divine penalty come upon those who intentionally discard the fetus? The Gospel of Luke ascribes personality to the fetus within Elizabeth:
“When Elizabeth heard Mary’s greeting, the baby leaped in her womb, and Elizabeth was filled with the Holy Spirit… As soon as the sound of your greeting reached my ears, the baby in my womb leaped for joy” (1:41, 44).
Mere tissue does not leap for joy; only personhood leaps for joy. The Bible regards the fetus as having personality. In Galatians, Paul speaks of himself as a person while still in his mother’s womb, but more a person consecrated by God for a holy mission (compare Jeremiah 1:5 for the same accent):
“But when God, who set me apart from birth, and called me by his grace, was pleased to reveal his Son in me so that I might preach him among the Gentiles...” (Gal. 1: 15-16).
Since the Bible regards the fetus as personality, then the aborting of the fetus is murdering personality.
Some verses from Scripture dealing with murder are then appropriate for study, such as Genesis 9:6: “Whoever sheds the blood of man, by man shall his blood be shed; for in the image of God has God made man.” Also, read Exodus 23:7: “Have nothing to do with a false charge, and do not put an innocent or honest person to death, for I will not acquit the guilty.” Note I Peter 4:15: “If you suffer, it should not be as a murderer...”
If the Republic returned to the biblical definition of personhood, we would defend every womb child.
John Adams said the following:
“Our Constitution was made only for a religious and moral people. It is wholly inadequate for the government of any other.”
Andrew Jackson said the following:
“The BIBLE is the rock on which our Republic rests.”
Daniel Webster:
“If we abide by the principles taught in the BIBLE, our country will go on prospering.”
“For all the talk of freedom and self-determination, the abortion movement is at its heart a movement denying rights to a silent segment of humanity and soliciting public sanction, support and subsidy to its own cause” (Donald P. Shoemaker, ABORTION, THE BIBLE AND THE CHRISTIAN, Hayes Publishing Co., 1976, p. iv).
NAZNET’S CHAPLAIN MODERATOR KEEPS ‘GAY MARRIAGE’ IN THE CLOSET
J. Grant Swank, Jr.
Is this not puzzling to you as a biblical believer?
NazNet’s moderator, who also tags herself as a chaplain, told me that she is against “gay marriage” but would not take the issue out in public.
This is so like NazNet: opportunistic, conveniently in-house and shallow “Christian.”
Are we not to be lights in the world—not hidden under the bushel?
Are we not to be salt to the earth?
Are we not to be in the world, yet not of the world?
Are we not to allow ourselves to be hated for the cause of Christ rather than carve out hideaways for safe cover?
How interesting that the open homosexuals take to the marketplace, boulevards, church pulpits, and anywhere they can find foothold.
But Ms. Barbara Moulton, chaplain moderator on NazNet, would have the biblical believer not go where scriptural convictions air. She’s not going to go in open space to state that God considers “gay marriage” no place in marriage.
Yet NazNet prides itself on being contemporary Christian. It says in so many words, “Come to us to talk out the latest and act out the boldest.”
However, one of its own moderators is so cowardly as to state to me that she does not intend on taking the homosexual issue into the open.
This is a direct contradiction, Ms. Moulton. You are showing your cowardliness so brashly. You are also revealing your lack of theological understanding when it comes to the Christ ethic of the Gospels.
Christ permits His disciples no place to cower, to compromise the mode as well as the message. Instead, He told His own to go into all the world to preach the gospel. Preaching the gospel is “out there.” It’s where the opposition derides.
Christ never sidestepped the opposition. He went after them. Further, when they came after Him, He was ready—with power, with logic, with separating soul from spirit.
If we are to be like Christ, we are to be of like courage.
Homosexuals taking to the malls and government steps are in our face. Yet you sit there in your comfortable Internet site office having coffee.
That is absolutely insulting to the rest of us who are carrying the cause and cross where it counts—where the enemy is, where the friends are, where Christ is overseeing the fray.
I am stunned today. I am shocked to read what you have stated to me. It is beyond abhorrent. Yet it is right there in front of me. No wonder today’s church is so lame. No wonder its impact is derided as drained.
So it is that you are among the site’s leaders who counsel input daily to others? This is unthinkable.
NazNet chaplain moderator Barbara Moulton states to me: “. . .for the record, I do have objections to gay marriage. I don’t perform them and will never perform them. I simply am not going to crusade against allowing them to take place in my country.”
God help us!
So there you have it. Simple words that convey just what they say. No doubt as to what she believes. Nothing there to quibble about.
She’s “not going to crusade against them (“gay marriages”) allowing them to take place in my country.”
There you have it, believing friends.
NazNet has a chaplain moderator who permits the homosexuals to get full coverage day and night while she hides away in the site’s underground. There can be no other conclusion reached than that she is a religious coward overseeing a site that claims to be elitistically alluring.
Not so.
OBAMA STATES HE IS MUSLIM
J. Grant Swank, Jr.
Barack Hussein Obama’s stance as a Protestant--theologically liberal in keeping with the United Church of Christ (Congregational)--is a cover for the facts.
The facts are that he is indeed a Muslim by his own words.
He states that he is Muslim, admires his Islamic heritage, and regards highly the nuances of his Koran upbringing. He states his kinship with worldwide Muslims.
There are those who contest this. However, we have on video Obama stating the reality that he is a Muslim, is proud of it, and seemingly has no intention of being otherwise, though the UCC cover remains when convenient.
This should concern every American who seeks to preserve the Christian heritage to this nation.
It is of grave concern to every Republic-loyal citizen, so much so, that we should strive tirelessly to seek his removal from office, hence the work being done to prove he is not a valid US citizen. He should not be President on those grounds alone.
Then we have a liar in the White House. We have a cohort with terrorists. We have one in our midst who is in league with those who would destroy our democracy, hence his czardom and shadow government disregarding present governmental agencies.
Hence his sloppy and unfeeling response to the Muslim who killed at Fort Hood. Obama was entertaining a group at the White House when he got the horrific message regarding Fort Hood.
He put that pressing matter aside and then when addressing the grieving told us all not to “jump to conclusions.” His words of comfort to the stricken were frighteningly lame. So we are not to “jump to conclusions”?
Naturally we are going to reach conclusions that stare us in the office, not jumping emotionally but logically. Obviously scared stiff Obama is afraid that our reason will hold sway in the future regarding his actual stance as Muslim.
Now hear from Obama in his words his religious confession that he in reality is a Muslim:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tCAffMSWSzY&feature=player_embedded
Fri Nov 06, 2009
ISLAMIC TIMELINE FOR GLOBAL RULE
J. Grant Swank, Jr.
OBSESSION is one of the most informative web sites regarding the deceitful ploys of Islam. Visit it at http://www.honestreporting.com/obsession/whatwecando.htm
On that site, there is provided a time line of Islamic killings and woundings since 1968. Below is an abbreviation of that time line. Read it and be informed.
In July 1968, Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP) hijacked Israeli El Al Airplanes.
In 1970, Palestinian Liberation Organization (PLO) killers attacked bus in West Bank, killing Barbara Ertle of Michigan and wounding two others from the US.
In March 1970, PFLP lodged rockets at US Embassy, Beirut, as well as the American Insurance Company, Bank of America and John F. Kennedy library.
In September 1970, PFLP murderers took hold of four airliners, three of which were blown up.
In March 1972, PFLP engaged the Japanese Red Army to machine-gun and grenade attack Israel’s
main airport. Twenty-six were slain, 78 wounded, many from the US.
In September 1972, Arab killers attacked Olympic Village, Munich, Germany, kidnapping nine Israelis and slaying two others. A grenade slaughtered athletes while others were trying to rescue them. A German policeman is slain. Jews killed totaled eleven.
In 1973, Back September Muslim killers slew US ambassador, Cleo A. Noel, and charge d’affaires and a Belgian diplomat.
In June 1976, Arab killers hijacked an Air France flight from Tel Aviv.
In August 1976, PFLP attacked Israel’s main airline, El Al. Four were slain, 20 injured.
In March 1977, Muslim murderers took 134 hostages near the White House. One is slain, 12 wounded, in the seizing of the Islamic Center, the international headquarters of B’nai Brith and Washington’s City Hall.
In February 1979, the US ambassador to Afghanistan is slain by Afghan militia.
In November 1979, Muslims take over US Embassy in Tehran, Iran; 66 diplomats are held hostage. Also, in that month the US Embassy in Islamabad, Pakistan, is taken by Muslim murderers. The building is set ablaze, killing four.
In June 1981, Muslim killers slay Coptics in their burnt out homes in Egypt. Eighty-one Coptics died with more than a hundred gravely wounded. Eighty houses were destroyed and looted.
In the same month, Anwar Sadat, Egyptian President, was slain by members of the Takfir Wal-Hajira sect. Eight others were murdered at Sadat’s reviewing stand.
In January 1982, Lebanese killers murder American military attache Lt. Col. Charles R. Ray as he leaves his apartment.
In August 1982, PLO killers slay two from the US who were eating out at a Jewish restaurant in Paris.
In the same month, Lebanese murderers slew an American embassy employee by releasing a bomb under his car.
In September 1982, Muslim killers slew Lebanese Prime Minister Bashir Gemayel via a car bomb in Beirut.
In March 1983, five Marines are slain by Islamic Jihad and Al-Amal militia.
In April 1983, an Islamic suicide car-bomber kills 63 at the US Embassy in Beirut. Inured: 120. Islamic Jihad claimed planners of the attack.
In October 1983, 241 US Marines were slain by Islamic Jihad. They were killed in their Beirut barracks. Also, 50 UN peacekeepers were slain at the French military barracks.
In December 1983, Five were killed, 86 wounded in Kuwait City when Islamic killers set off car bombs in front of the US and French embassies.
In January 1984, American University of Beirut Prescient Malcolm Kerr was slain by Islamic Jihad.
In April 1984, eighteen American service personnel were slain by Islamic killers in Torrejon, Spain.
In September 1984, Islamic Jihad damaged the US Embassy in Lebanon, killing two Americans, twenty Americans wounded.
In April 1985, American service personnel were slain by Muslims in Madrid, Spain.
In June 1985, Lebanese Shiite murderers threatened Captain John Testrake in his cockpit of hijacked TWA Flight 847. Muslims kill US Navy diver Robert Stethem, tossing his body around carelessly.
In August 1985, a US soldier is slain by Muslims in Frankfurt.
In October 1985, PLO killers hijack Italian cruise liner. A 69-year-old man is shot in his wheelchair, then thrown overboard in his wheelchair.
In November 1985, EgyptAir Flight 648 is hijacked by Muslim killers. Fifty-eight were slain or burnt alive.
In December 1985, Muslim slayers killed 20 at US and Israeli check-in desks in Rome and Vienna international airports.
In that same month, Abu Nidal’s group seized El Al offices in Rome. Thirteen were slain, five being from the US, 74 wounded.
In May 1986, TWA Flight 840 was shot through, leaving a hole in its side. A bomb explosion was set loose by Arab Revolutionary Cells. Also, four from the US were slain when a bomb exploded on a TWA jet going from Rome to Athens. The ARC claimed responsibility.
In April 1986 Americans were bombed in a West Berlin restaurant.
In September 1986, Muslim killers hijacked Pan Am 747, leaving 20 slain.
In October 1986, an American was murdered by a grenade leveled by Fatah at the Western Wall, Jerusalem.
In February 1989, bookstores in Berkeley, CA were bombed by Muslims in protest of Salman Rushdie’s “The Satanic Verses.”
In March 1989, US Navy Captain Will C. Rogers’ wife is attacked by a car bomb.
In October 1991, Ankara, Turkey, a US soldier is slain and his wife wounded by Turkish Islamic Jihad.
In the same month, a US Air Force sergeant is slain via car bombing with Turkish Islamic Jihad claiming responsibility.
In November 1991, American University, Beirut, administration building is bombed, killing one and wounding over 12 more.
In March 1992, Muslims attack and kill an Archpriest, a Monk, and three laypersons at the St. Mary’s Monastery, El-Mouharak, Asyut.
In that same month, Hizbullah said it blasted the Israeli Embassy in Buenos Aires, Argentina, killing 29, wounding 242.
In October 1992, Islamics attack, destroy and loot homes in El-Qousya, Asyut.
In January 1993, a Palestinian shoots two CIA employees, wounding three others near CIA headquarters, Langley, VA.
In that same month, Ramzi Yousef was judged as heading up the 1993 World Trade Center bombing as well as the 1994 explosion on Philippine Airlines Flight 434.
In February 1993, six were killed by Islamic murderers. They set loose explosives in the World trade Center.
In the same month, a Cairo café attack slew three via bomb.
In April 1993, former US President George Bush was under assassination attack while in Kuwait.
In June 1993, Islamics ambush UN peacekeeping personnel, killing 23.
In August 1993, Islamics kill 4 from US in Somalia.
In September 1993, Muslim murderers shot down US UH-60 blackhawk over Mogadishu. Servicemen’s bodies were strewn in the streets. In October, American service personnel’s bodies were dragged through the avenues of Mogadishu.
In July 1994, a bomb explosion set by Islamics in Buenos Aires, laid low Jewish organization headquarters, killing over 85, wounding over 200.
In December 1994, an Islamic bomb on Philippine Airlines Flight 434 killed Haruki Ikegami, Japanese businessman.
In that same month, Armed Islamic Group took hold of Air France Flight to Algeria.
In March 1995, Islamics opened fire on US Consulate van in Karachi, slaying two US diplomats and wounding a third.
In September 1995, a grenade was thrown through the US Embassy window, Moscow.
In November 1995, a car bomb at Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, US military location slew seven, wounding 60. Islamist Movement for Change and Fighting Advocates of God took responsibility.
In that same month, a suicide bomber killed 16 at the Egyptian Embassy, Islamabad, Pakistan.
In February 1996, Muslims in Egypt took a Coptic village, leveling homes, animal, crops and fields.
In June 1996, a fuel truck exploded near Dharan, Saudi Arabia with 19 Americans slain by Husbollah.
In August 1996, French Archbishop of Oran’s home was bombed, slaying him and his chauffeur. The Algerian Armed Islamic Group did it.
In December 1996, a Paris subway train was exploded, killing four, wounding 86.
In February 1997, a dozen Coptic Christians are killed while worship in their Abu Quorcas church.
In the same month, an Islamic teacher fired at tourists at the Empire State Building New York, NY. A Danish national was killed, visitors were wounded.
In November 1997, Islamics slew four American auditors for Union Texas Petroleum Company and their Pakistani driver in Karachi. The Islamic Inqilabi Council and the Aimal Secret Committee said they did it.
In the same month, 58 were slain by murderers at the Hatshepsut’s Temple, Egypt.
In August 1998, bombs bases the US embassies in Nairobi, Kenya, and Dar es Salaam, Tanzania. Blasts slew 247 in Nairobi and 10 in Dar es Salaam, more then 5000 wounded.
In November 1999, rockets fired at US Information Services cultural center and UN offices in Islamabad, Pakistan, wounded Pakistani guard.
In January 2000, Coptic Christians’ funeral in El-Kosheh, Egypt, due to Muslim murderers’ attack.
In October 2000, USS Cole’s port side view shows damage via Muslim attack via bomb explosion during refueling in Aden, Yemen. Seventeen sailors were slain, 30 wounded. Bin Laden: the ship sailed “to its doom. . .(along a course of ) false arrogance, self-conceit, and strength.”
In December 2000, Muslim on his way to bomb Los Angeles Airport is arrested at US / Canadian border. He has over 100 pounds of explosives in his vehicle. Algerian Ahmed Ressam informs authorities that he was schooled in a camp in Afghanistan, the latter overseen by bin Laden.
On September 11, 2001, Islamic killers international highjack planes, then crash into the World Trade Center, New York, killing more than 5000. Soon thereafter another hijacked plane smashes into the Pentagon. Sixty-four passengers and crew as well as 125 military and civilian personnel were slain with 80 wounded. Another hijacked plane with 44 onboard crashed into Shanksville PA field. All were slain by Arab Islamic zealots.
In October 2001, Muslim murderers slay worshipers in Tomata Indonesian church.
In the same month, Muslim killers shoot into church, slaying 18, in Bahawalpur, Model Town, Pakistan.
In December 2001, Muslim murderers slay Christian community, killing five, in Vwang, Nigeria.
In January 2002, Daniel Pearl, Wall Street Journal reporter, was kidnapped by Muslim murderers in Karachi. He was later slain.
In February 2002, worshipers in a Coptic Church in Egypt were set afire.
In that same month, three Christians were murdered by Islamics in Ilorin, Nigeria.
In that same month in Amman, Jordan, a vehicle was blown apart via car bomb, slaying an Egyptian and Iraqi laborer. The car was owned by the wife of the head of the Jordanian
Anti-Terrorism Unit.
In March 2002 in Islamabad Pakistan, five are slain via grenade in a church. Forty-seven are wounded.
In April 2002 in Tunisia, Islamic suicide bombers kills 26 in historic synagogue. Islamic Army for the Liberation of the Holy Sites says they did it.
In the same month, Muslim killers slay twelve worshipers in a Christian village, leaving six wounded.
In May 2002 in Pakistan, a bus exploded, murdering 12 and wounding 19. Al-Qaida was suspected.
In the same month in Kapiisk, Russia, Muslim murderers set loose a bomb in the bushes that slew 42, wounding 150 others. Islamic al-Qaida suspected.
In May 2002, car bombs explode near US Consulate and Marriott Hotel in Karachi, Pakistan with eleven dead and 51 wounded. Al-Qaida suspected.
In June 2002, Islamic killers fired into a Neelum Valley, Pakistani bus, forcing it over a cliff, killing 10 persons, injuring 12 others.
In July 2002, grenades thrown into tourists in Mansebra.
In August 2002, six missionaries taken, two beheaded, in the Philippines. In Jhika Gali, Murree, Pakistan, at a Christian missionary school six are slain and four wounded in Islamic murdering attack against believers.
In August 2002, Kabul Afghanistan witnesses bomb explosion outside UN guesthouse, two wounded. Muslim killers suspected.
In September 2002 in Ahmedabad India, Muslims attack and slay Hindu monks and dozens of worshipers in a temple. Lashkar-e-Toiba takes responsibility.
In October 2002 in Dhabbah, Yemen, explosives kill one and wound four on French oil tanker Limburg.
In October 2002 in Kuwait, Muslims kill one US Marine and wound another as the latter are conducting a non-live-fire exercise.
In the same month in Bali, 187 tourists are slain by Muslim murderers at San Club on Legian Street. Al-Qaida told press they did it.
In November 2002 in Mombaasa Kenya, 15 killed by suicide bomber, 40 wounded. Al-Ittihad suspected.
In the same month in Mombasa Kenya, two SA-7 Strela antiaircraft missiles were launched but missed downing a Arkia Boeing 757. Al-Qaida, the Government of Universal Palestine in Exile, and the Army of Palestine claimed they did it.
In December 2002 in Makassar Indonesia, McDonald’s restaurant is exploded via bomb, 3 killed, 11 wounded. Laskar Jundullah did it.
In December 2002, three worshipers are slain and fourteen wounded in church in Daska Pakistan. Muslims are suspected.
In February 2003, Muslims kill fourteen and wound 8 worshipers in Christian village in Philippines.
In March 2003 in Mindanao, Philippines, a bus is attacked by Moro Islamic Liberation Front, killing nine and injuring four.
In April 2003 in Davao Philippines, a bomb kills 15 and wounds 55. Jemaah Islamiyah is responsible.
In May 2003, suicide bombers storm a residential complex in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, leaving 35 dead, wounding 200. Al-Qaeda suspected.
In May 2003, bomb attacks in Casablanca fly into restaurant, hotel, Jewish cemetery, Jewish Community Center and Belgian Consulate, leaving 33 dead and 101 wounded. Salfiya Jihadiya suspected.
In July 2003, a Catholic priest in Ranala Kot, Pakistan, was shot and slain in his home. Muslim “fundamentalists” are said to have done it.
In August 2003, Jakarta, Indonesia, Marriott hotel is bombed, killing 10, wounding 150. Jemaah Islamiyah suspected.
In the same month, a truck exploded in Baghdad, Iraq, killing 23, wounding 100.
In September 2003, a car bomb exploded near UN headquarters, killing a guard and wounding 18 in Baghdad, Iraq.
In October 2003, a car bomb exploded at Baghdad Hotel housing US and Iraqi officials, leaving 38 dead and 45 wounded.
In November 2003, a rocket was set loose in Kabul, Afghanistan. Taliban and al-Qaida suspected.
In December 2003, Kerbala government and foreign troops’ buildings were attacked by Muslim suicide squads, killing 19, wounding 120.
In the same month, in Baghdad, Iraq, car bombs exploded outside Nabil Restaurant, eight killed, 35 wounded.
In January 2004 in Marathiwat, Thailand, Islamic killers stormed an armory, setting it on fire as well as burning 18 schools, leaving four dead and an unknown number wounded.
In the same month, suicide car bombs strike US-led coalition’s offices in Baghdad, Iraq, killing 31.
In February 2004, Islamic killers blow up an automobile packed with explosives in a crowd of Iraqis lined up outside an army recruiting building in Baghdad.
In the same month, Muslim murderers slay 49 farming community laborers in Nigeria. They had taken refuge in a church.
In the same month in Manveles, Philippines, Abu Sayyaf’s group bombed a ferry, killing 200.
In March 2004, Muslim attackers killed 185 Iraqis in Baghdad and Karbala, Iraq, as they attended shrines.
In the same month, Muslim bombs attacked a commuter train complex in Madrid, Spain, killing 191, wounding 1,800. It was the deadliest attack since Lockerbie bombing in 1988 in Europe.
In the same month, nine from US were slain by Islamics via bomb explosion near Fallujah.
In April 2004, five suicide bombs exploded near police headquarters and academy with 74 slain and l160 wounded.
In the same month, Islamic killers via suicide car bomb slew 5 and wounded 150 in Riyadh.
In the same month, 24 were slain via roadside bomb hitting bus in Baghdad, Iraq.
In May 2004 in Saudi Arabia, Muslims slew six in attack on Western oil company offices in Red Sea city of Yanbu. The slain were then dragged through the streets.
In the same month in Fallujah, Iraq, four were slain via grenade. Mobs dragged the corpses through the streets.
In the same month, Islamics show video of beheading a man who was identified as Nick Berg from Philadelphia.
In the same month, 11 Christians were burnt alive by Islamics in two churches in Nigeria.
In the same month, President of Iraqi Governing Council Izzadine Saleem is slain by Islamic murderers.
In the same month, two are slain by a bomb at a shrine. Fifty others were wounded.
In the same month, in Ambon, Indonesia, bombs kill one and injure 13 in a Christian neighborhood. Another bomb goes off near a church.
In the same month in Barentu Nrritrea, seven are slain and 80 wounded by bomb blast.
In the same month in Pattani Thailand, Islamics kidnap Buddhist civilian, then behead him.
In the same month in Turbat Pakistan, Islamics kill a 14-year-old boy and dozens are injured in a rocket attack against the Minister of Education.
In June 2004, bombs explode close to US base in Beiji, slaying 11 and wounding 22.
In the same month in Rihadh, Frank Gardner, BBC’s security correspondent, was critically injured and his cameraman Simon Cumbers was slain.
In the same month, car bombs exploded near American base in Taji, killing nine, wounding 30.
In the same month, car bomb explodes, killing US solider and five Iraqis with 15 others wounded.
In the same month, Muslims down Robert Jacob, American working for Vinnell Corp, Riyadh.
In the same month, suicide car bomb kills 12 in Baghdad, Iraq.
In the same month, car bombs explode in Baghdad, slaying 13. Crowd dances in the streets, showing “Down with the USA!”
In the same month, artillery shells slay 35, wound 138 in Baghdad, Iraq.
In the same month, US hostage Paul Marshal Johnson, American engineer for Lockheed Martin, is beheaded by Al-Qaeda.
In the same month in Zainapora India, Lashkar-e-Toiba murders kidnap two, later slitting their throats.
In July 2004 in Jakarta Indonesia, a priest was slain and four wounded when gunmen attacked their church. It was near the site where over 2000 Christians have been slain by Muslims.
Source: Obsession. Vist: http://www.honestreporting.com/obsession/timeline.htm
Thu Nov 05, 2009
NAZNET UNFAIRLY DELETES ROBERT HARTMAN’S INPUT ON SITE
J. Grant Swank, Jr.
It is sad that NazNet continues its unfair mode by deleting Robert Hartman’s input on the site. That input delivered a defense of my character and writing style, the latter constantly derided by responders on the site.
Those responders were granted full permission by the site moderator Barbara Moulton to continue their snide remarks; but Mr. Hartman’s courteous statements were consider cause for the moderator to close off discussion.
One cannot now find on the Internet Mr. Hartman’s logical and rightful comments for the site overseers, Hans Deventer in particular, have noted on that discussion slide that those overseers have deliberately deleted Mr. Hartman’s input from the discussion.
These overseers state that Mr. Hartman’s registration on NazNet is suspect. They state that his email address is not legitimate. In fact, his email address is quite legitimate. How they reached that conclusion is suspect and of course bogus.
The obvious is that overseers now conclude that Mr. Hartman’s comments are legitimate. Being so, the overseers don’t want the public to read them, so they have deleted them.
Again, NazNet takes the low road, unethical for certain. Yet NazNet prides itself on being a morally based evangelical Internet site. Not so, evidently.
I ask NazNet to return Mr. Hartman’s input to that site so that readers can read for themselves what he stated. Let the readers decide if Mr. Hartman’s input was cause for closing down discussion.
Note original post below. Note that where the reader is directed to read Mr. Hartman’s own posts that that will not work. Clicking on that link data will not produce that which NazNet has deleted for fear that Mr. Hartman’s logic will hold sway.
CHURCH OF THE NAZARENE: NAZNET WEBSITE UNFAIR
J. Grant Swank, Jr.
There on NazNet website was a discussion regarding my EASTERN NAZARENE COLLLEGE ANTICHRISTIAN PLAY PRESENTED post recently on numerous sites. Read http://www.naznet.com/community/showthread.php?t=28930
The NazNet discussion was particularly mean regarding me and my writing content and style.
I was born into the Church of the Nazarene which is basically unofficially the dialogue base of this website. I pastored in that denomination from 1964-1998.
Now my posts regarding the antiChristian drama presentation at my alma mater becomes, not by my submission by the way, a discussion piece on NazNet.
With that, people who know me and don’t know me plow in. Their remarks are so cheap and slap-stick pocking that it is unbearable to imagine that a Church of the Nazarene-related website would tolerate such tawdry fare, especially when it is so derision-based against a pastor—myself.
Then friend Robert Hartman enters the discussion with a gentlemanly polite defense of Grant Swank, his writings over half a century and his biblical convictions.
That raises the ire of responders all the more. They become even more vicious, nasty and, yes, unChristian in the guise of appearing spiritually excellent.
Now the moderator of that particular discussion point closes down the site. But it is not in the midst of responders’ discourteous slams against me. It is when Robert Hartman logically, courteously defends my character and writings. Read http://www.naznet.com/community/showthread.php?t=28930&page=17
Moderator Barbara Moulton closes down the discussion by disciplining Robert Hartman. It is his comment input that is put down as the necessity for stopping all further remarks.
What?
Nasty, mean-spirited cheap comments can flow like a river without Moulton’s interference. However, when Robert Hartman enters to rightfully defend me and my positions, he is the villain who has brought an end to that discussion thread.
NazNet, if you reflect the Church of the Nazarene in present tense, the denomination is in sad shape. Sad sad shape indeed.
By the way, I checked out other NazNet discussion slides and find that often the same few responders are floating from dissuasion slide to discussion slide. There are not countless individuals involved in the NazNet site.
In addition, I came upon the NazNet discussions regarding the Eucharist. May I ask what “Eucharist” has to do with the Church of the Nazarene? Everyone in religious studies knows that the Church of the Nazarene has never long-term history spoken of communion by the term “Eucharist.” It has always been called “communion” or “the Lord’s supper.”
Does this Eucharist nomenclature simply expose the small grouping of elitist Nazarenes who are pushing for a complete change within the denomination? I have heard that there are those desiring to erase the past heritage of the Nazarene worship style for a mimicking of high church whatever.
By reading the comments on the NazNet discussion slide regarding the Eucharist, I would conclude that these wise-guys are part of the elitist crew who have no idea what they are talking about. They simply go on and on to impress one another as some sort of intellectuals into ritual this-and-that.
All in all, NazNet lacks quality, intellectual excellence and spiritual loyalty to the Scripture, particularly the Bible’s accent on holiness. That is a travesty.
It does not look healthy for the Church of the Nazarene if NazNet reflects that denomination.
Read I BELIEVE IN MIRACLES: GOD PROVISIONS at http://jgrantswankjr.blogspot.com/2009/03/i-believe-in-miracles-god-provisions.html
MUSLIM KILLS AT FORT HOOD
J. Grant Swank, Jr.
A Muslim followed his Islamic catechism by shooting down our own troops defending the Republic.
How many more Muslims in uniform will follow suit? Time will tell.
There cannot be enough scouring Muslims in uniform as well as Muslims in Congress and Muslims in the Barrack Hussein Obama spawned czardom shadow government.
They are there. Why? Because Marxist Muslim Obama blesses their presence there.
Muslim Maj. Malik Nadal Hasan is a psychiatrist recently reassigned from Walter Reed Army Medical Center in Washington, D.C. to work with soldiers at Darnall Army Medical Center on Fort Hood.
According to FOX News, Hasan said the following: ‘Muslims should stand up against the aggressor.’
And who in his head is the ‘aggressor’? It is the United States.
‘We should get out’ of Iraq and Afghanistan is what he publicly claimed.
Those in military listening to his rants would warn one another that the ‘ragheads’ might someday turn against our military. That happened on November 5 in a horrific manner.
Regarding Muslim suicide bombers, Hasan said: ‘Maybe we should have more of these strapping bombs on themselves’ in the United States, per FOX News.
He made comments regarding Obama, focusing on hoping that Obama would pull troops out of Iraq and Afghanistan. Hasan said things would then settle down.
When Obama did not do that, Hasan became more frustrated with our troops there.
Those of us who have warned in post after post concerning Muslims in America have often been considered outlandishly alarmist.
Events prove we have been realists. We are simply realists who are trying to warn the uninformed or those hysterically loyal to Obama.
Thank God this traitor is still alive. Now Hasan can be interrogated to the nth degree, uncovering layer by layer what it is like to be an Islamic infiltrator in the military.
Then we as grassroots citizens can turn on Congress and the White House shadow government to expose individuals who are Hasan clones intent on submerging our democracy.
YOU PAY ABORTIONS, PELOSI
J. Grant Swank, Jr.
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi is so intent on slaughtering womb babies that she vows to cement it in the blanket health care travesty.
For those who want to read Pelosi’s killer sentence, go to line 16, page 96, section 213, under ‘Insurance Rating Rules.’
Pelosi prides herself on being a model mother. Her husband and children sit alongside her in family photos. There you have it—the liberal American household with smiling-teeth Mom at the center.
What an accomplished female she has become—from California on West Coast to Washington DC on East Coast. She’s the queen mother of the nation, bound to set us free from biblical values. She’s worked night
and day with liberal chaps of like evil bent to undercut every scriptural ethic.
Pelosi, Catholic, detests the Roman Catholic moral base endorsed by devout biblical churchmen and women. She does not mind flying in the face of her own spiritual leaders worldwide.
Pelosi writes her own religion. I recall what a hypocritical face she wore months back when standing in a group of Congresspersons, she was quoted as saying, “That’s what church is for, isn’t
it?”
Those white teeth and broad smile circled her words of religiosity. She was responding to some inane comment about religion. With that, she saw her opportunity to court real believers by sliding in the word “church.” How dumb does she think we are? Pretty dumb, obviously.
This space cadet of a House Speaker is so dangerous. She stands next in line to Marxist Muslim Barack Hussein Obama. The two are out to rob the Republic of its Christian heritage. Total secularization is their aim. Ditto Europe’s godlessness.
Now with the health plan propped for a “go,” she does not renege regarding the sentence sentencing womb infants to the dumpster.
With that one sentence, all of us would be paying out for the guillotine laced around every unborn babies’ neck. Is this what America at its best stands for?
It’s time to dump Pelosi and all her cadre. It’s time to take advantage of the recent moralist surge in November’s elections.
Wed Nov 04, 2009
CHURCH OF THE NAZARENE: NAZNET WEBSITE UNFAIR
J. Grant Swank, Jr.
There on NazNet website was a discussion regarding my EASTERN NAZARENE COLLLEGE ANTICHRISTIAN PLAY PRESENTED post recently on numerous sites. Read http://www.naznet.com/community/showthread.php?t=28930
The NazNet discussion was particularly mean regarding me and my writing content and style.
I was born into the Church of the Nazarene which is basically unofficially the dialogue base of this website. I pastored in that denomination from 1964-1998.
Now my posts regarding the antiChristian drama presentation at my alma mater becomes, not by my submission by the way, a discussion piece on NazNet.
With that, people who know me and don’t know me plow in. Their remarks are so cheap and slap-stick pocking that it is unbearable to imagine that a Church of the Nazarene-related website would tolerate such tawdry fare, especially when it is so derision-based against a pastor—myself.
Then friend Robert Hartman enters the discussion with a gentlemanly polite defense of Grant Swank, his writings over half a century and his biblical convictions.
That raises the ire of responders all the more. They become even more vicious, nasty and, yes, unChristian in the guise of appearing spiritually excellent.
Now the moderator of that particular discussion point closes down the site. But it is not in the midst of responders’ discourteous slams against me. It is when Robert Hartman logically, courteously defends my character and writings. Read http://www.naznet.com/community/showthread.php?t=28930&page=17
Moderator Barbara Moulton closes down the discussion by disciplining Robert Hartman. It is his comment input that is put down as the necessity for stopping all further remarks.
What?
Nasty, mean-spirited cheap comments can flow like a river without Moulton’s interference. However, when Robert Hartman enters to rightfully defend me and my positions, he is the villain who has brought an end to that discussion thread.
NazNet, if you reflect the Church of the Nazarene in present tense, the denomination is in sad shape. Sad sad shape indeed.
By the way, I checked out other NazNet discussion slides and find that often the same few responders are floating from dissuasion slide to discussion slide. There are not countless individuals involved in the NazNet site.
In addition, I came upon the NazNet discussions regarding the Eucharist. May I ask what “Eucharist” has to do with the Church of the Nazarene? Everyone in religious studies knows that the Church of the Nazarene has never long-term history spoken of communion by the term “Eucharist.” It has always been called “communion” or “the Lord’s supper.”
Does this Eucharist nomenclature simply expose the small grouping of elitist Nazarenes who are pushing for a complete change within the denomination? I have heard that there are those desiring to erase the past heritage of the Nazarene worship style for a mimicking of high church whatever.
By reading the comments on the NazNet discussion slide regarding the Eucharist, I would conclude that these wise-guys are part of the elitist crew who have no idea what they are talking about. They simply go on and on to impress one another as some sort of intellectuals into ritual this-and-that.
All in all, NazNet lacks quality, intellectual excellence and spiritual loyalty to the Scripture, particularly the Bible’s accent on holiness. That is a travesty.
It does not look healthy for the Church of the Nazarene if NazNet reflects that denomination.
Read I BELIEVE IN MIRACLES: GOD PROVISIONS at http://jgrantswankjr.blogspot.com/2009/03/i-believe-in-miracles-god-provisions.html
MAINE CHRISTIANS THANKFUL NO-GAY-NUPS WON HERE
J. Grant Swank, Jr.
Our Maine Christians are rejoicing in the aftermath of the voters’ support for the biblical definition of marriage.
Those chanting for homosexual nuptials lost, though into Tuesday evening it appeared as if they might win. It was not till this morning that I learned the win news.
Countless biblical believers have worked hard to support God’s view of marriage. They have prayed, phoned, given money, and voted. Now this morning they reap their win on behalf of scriptural truth.
On Tuesday evening it was nauseating to see one more time Maine’s governor take center stage with TV coverage as he proudly endorsed that which God abhors. So goes our political leadership in this naturally endowed state.
Maine is gorgeous in nature’s splendor—at any season. That’s why my wife and I concluded that in all the places we have lived, Maine tops them all—equal to our home in Nova Scotia.
Anywhere in Maine one can travel a short distance to entertain God’s pristine wonders unspoiled by human’s mess machine. We’ve lived in Indiana, Kansas, New York, Ohio, Massachusetts, Maryland, and Missouri. But Maine outstrips them all when it comes to God’s handiwork.
It is so sad that much of anti-God plugging goes on in this naturally gifted environs. We have both extremes—the splendor provided by the Creator and the wretched schemes of the ungodly.
However, midst all that are bedrock Christians. They wed with one another in this fight against evil and they won out for the moral base of Maine. This has been one tough going. However, believers relied on prayer power and God’s guidance every step of the way.
The Maine legislature and governor dictated a homosexual rule in the state, even called sodomy “marriage.” However, grassroots voters won out for biblical ethics. The legislature and governor now sit in the back seat. Will they remain there and turn toward more noble goals? Only time will tell.
However, Maine being what it is, no doubt the immoral renegades will resurface immediately. However, the Christians will not back off. They remain loyal to the eternal verities, blessed by the God of the Bible.
Read “Maine Voters Reject Gay Marriage Law” at http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2009/11/03/gay-marriage-vote-close-maine/
ENC ANTICHRISTIAN PLAY. . .INTERNET COPIOUS COVERAGE BELOW
J. Grant Swank, Jr.
The world now has read regarding the Eastern Nazarene College AntiChristian Play.
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Click on below to read the Internet ample coverage:
http://www.topix.com/colleges/eastern-nazarene-college
http://www.buzztracker.com/story/57a62fad7802776d6d9f2663/education
note bottom of screen/site: http://enc.uloop.com/main/
http://twitter.com/christianbuzz
http://www.genwi.com/read/33230338
http://www.allvoices.com/news/4420797
http://www.postchronicle.com/religion/article_212265241.shtml
http://www.topix.com/wire/colleges/eastern-nazarene-college
http://www.topix.com/colleges/eastern-nazarene-college
http://www.prolifeblogs.com/articles/aggregator.php?entry=785059
http://www.magic-city-news.com/J_Grant_Swank_61/Protesters_will_appear_at_ENC12492.shtml
http://www.postchronicle.com/religion/article_212262711.shtml
http://www.renewamerica.com/columns/swank/091018
http://truthinconviction.us/weblog.php?id=P3218
http://jgrantswankjr.blogspot.com/2009/10/eastern-nazarene-college-anti-christ
note especially the footnote. . .
http://www.michnews.com/J_Grant_Swank_Jr/jgs110209a.shtml
This is representative of individual responses to the ENC AntiChristian play:
I AM VERY MUCH DISTURBED THAT A SUPPOSED CHRISTIAN COLLEGE WOULD PUT ON SUCH A PLAY. YOU CAN REST ASSURED THAT WHEN MY DAUGHTER AND GRANDDAUGHTER MOVE BACK TO MASSACHUSETTS THAT SHE WILL NOT ATTEND ENC. THERE IS ENOUGH ANTI-GOD OUT THERE WITHOUT GETTING SUCH AT A ‘CHRISTIAN’ COLLEGE.
Another representative response:
I am convinced apart from a deep and genuine move of the Holy Spirit that this college and Nazarene higher education will go the root of Harvard, Yale etc. It is the way of sinful man.
I pray that the denomination repents and addresses these issues that are creeping in. They must choose this day whom they will serve. . .govt. grants, cultural approval, intellectual
reasoning, philosophies of men, or Christ.
The persecution of Christians is at our door and this is going to force them to fall one way or the other. It is time for them to come outside the camp and choose suffering the reproach of Christ.
Tue Nov 03, 2009
GRASSROOTS MOVES FROM MOB HYSTERIA TO REASON
J. Grant Swank, Jr.
Mob hysteria sent a celebrity-type into the Oval Office. Reason had little to do with the Barack Hussein Obama win.
There were scores of voters who were caught up in an emotional vote for the first black President. They loved him, wept for him, and stroked him onto Pennsylvania Avenue.
The reasonable quotients at the grassroots agonized over an election based on frenzy rather than logic.
However, since Obama has done little but move the Republic more and more to the socialist leftist edge of falling off the cliff, reality has crept back into America’s brain cavities.
Obama has delivered a cadre of sidekicks laden with criminal records. They are an unsavory lot who should never have the power plays in their court.
Obama promised “hope” and “change” which is a duo slowly fading from political verbiage. Why? Because there is no reality based hope to his promise. There is no productive change to his policies.
Reason is beginning to get hold of the electorate. This means that in recent elections reason has shown itself in public via the local vote. The ballots cast on November 3 indicate that people used their heads rather than their libidos to decide.
There was no rallying around weeping women pawing the air. There were no stadiums filled with Obama-crazed disciples.
Instead Americans quietly went to the polls, wrote out their conclusions on ballot forms and then waited for results tallied. In those tallies rose up the logic instead of the emotional nonsense that reasonable citizens endured in the presidential election.
In other words, there is realistic hope that realistic change may save the nation from destruction. Reasonable folk know that we are not home free on that score for there are the criminal-types still holding positions circling Obama.
However, in time the reasonable contingent could rescue the power plays for America’s resurgence as a genuine democracy. This would slide off the charts the socialistic pressure Obama has put on the country to submerge our democratic heritage.
Reason, not emotion, is what came forth center stage on Election Day this November. Buttressing the voting specifics is that foundational reality: reason, not emotion, won out in major quarters. This win out should continue in months ahead to reclaim America as the strong, honorable Republic it has been in the past.
Surely praying believers from coast to coast can take encouragement in their faith in the God who was honored by our original founders. They believed in the biblical God, taught their children about Him in the schools and taught His Word from colony pulpits Sunday after Sunday.
The present-day righteous remnant has taken most seriously the power of intercessory prayer for our nation. They have prayed in their homes with believing friends. They have prayed in their Bible studies and Sunday school classes. They have prayed from their lecterns. They have prayed in their personal daily devotions.
Those prayers in the now, tied in with the thirteen colonies’ originators prayers for their future nation, are coupled before heaven’s throne. God takes most seriously those petitions and will answer them according to His will.
After all, America is the only country on the planet that has had such a biblically based start. God will not forget that start or those today who champion that start resurrected for our nation’s tomorrows.
HYPOCRITE OBAMA SCOLDS KARZAI
J. Grant Swank, Jr.
Hypocrite Barack Hussein Obama scolds Hamid Karzai.
The US President needs to understand that his hypocrisy is showing blatantly when rapping the knuckles of Afghanistan President.
For instance, Obama informs Karzai that it’s not nice to tolerate such high level corruption throughout Karzai’s regime.
Obama is surrounded by criminals in his presidency role. These criminals now rule with immense power over the grassroots without the slightest sign of confessing their corruption to the public.
Obama himself is corrupt in not coming clean on his own birth legitimacy, leaving many in the Republic suspicious of his right to hold the nation’s highest office.
Obama fellowed with criminals throughout his Senate term representing one of the most corrupt regions in Illinois.
Obama continues to register criminal types as his signed-in visitors to the White House inner sanctum.
Obama informed Karzai that he had to clean up the drug trade rampant in Afghanistan. However, Obama himself has tolerated drug-like parallels throughout his past and present connections. They are not hard-core drug connections but political and social “drug” charged criminality networks.
Obama called Karzai to write a “new chapter” in his political rule. While Obama promised America “hope” and “change” for the betterment of our society, he has yet to deliver on that. Instead, Obama’s new chapter is fraught with lag and drag as well as outright evils such as condoned sodomy and killing womb babies.
In addition, Obama continues to drag his feet regarding what needs to be done for village peace and democracy planting in Afghanistan. America’s youth continue to die and be wounded there while Washington DC yields a blind eye to their safety.
“The administration wants Mr. Karzai and the Afghan government to put into place an anticorruption commission to establish strict accountability for government officials at the national and provincial levels, senior administration officials said Monday” per New York Times’ Helene Cooper and Jeff Zeleny.
Strict accountability for government officials throughout Obama’s government appointments has yet to surface. Instead, Americans are living with biographies of dark pasts controlling America’s future. These power forces are not in the nation’s clean interest but are up to destroying our democracy in favor of a one-world government rule.
They are especially out to undermine the Christian heritage of this country. They detest the biblical foundation undergirding our democracy. Understand, if one is not on the side of the biblical God he on the side of the demonic powers. Now proceed with your logic extension on that one related to Obama.
America continues to funnel money and young bodies for the good of Afghanistan while Karzai continues to place drug money grabbers close to his presidential seat. Obama knows this.
But how can Obama continue to demand cleaning house in Karsai’s regime when Obama’s own regime is loaded with the unsavory and outright criminal?
Read “Obama Warns Karzai to Focus on Tackling Corruptionv” at http://www.nytimes.com/2009/11/03/world/asia/03afghan.html
Mon Nov 02, 2009
OBAMA’S HUBRIS NEGATES FINAL CHECK-OUT
J. Grant Swank, Jr.
Barack Hussein Obama discounts the realism of the final check-out. His pride is in zenith gear at the moment; no doubt his residence at Pennsylvania Avenue does him no good in correcting that.
Obama claims to be a Christian, member of a church, and delights in quoting Scripture. He has befriended various clergy, especially of the liberal bent though at times even giving in to evangelical dialogue.
During his campaign, Obama sponsored gospel concerts in the US Bible Belt. He climbed pulpit stairs to address congregations on Sunday mornings.
Obama early on stated that he answered an ‘altar call’ at Chicago’s Trinity United Church of Christ. For an altar call to be scheduled in a liberal sanctuary is something else. He witnessed that he met Christ at that juncture.
That church would have had to be white-hating Jeremiah Wright’s. How all Wright’s rant fits in with an old-fashioned Dwight L. Moody style altar call is beyond me.
Nevertheless, the point is that Obama has not followed through with a biblical lifestyle or scriptural ethics in public life; consequently, whatever happened in his soul was not a bone fide conversion to Christ as Lord.
Obama in fact belongs to one of the arch-theologically liberal denominations in existence. He attended for two decades a demented cultic type local church overseen by a warped black preacher who taught black elitism vs. white values.
Therefore, for Obama to continue on the theologically liberal journey is to understand how he takes no serious note of the Judgment Seat of Christ. The theologically liberal carve our their own religion, even calling it “Christian.”
They create their own moral base. They discount the God of the Bible, sideline Christ as Master, and believe that much of Scripture is myth.
Obama is a prime example of this persona. His wife joins him in that.
Now that he is in the Oval Office, hubris rules his life more than ever, though in prior years it propelled him to claim the impossible. That has led the non-thinking to follow him in mob hysteria, giving him messianic status.
The Bible teaches that every mortal will appear at the Judgment Seat of Christ at death. That includes every human born since Adam and Eve. That includes those of every religion and of no religion. One cannot escape the final check-out—the Judgment Seat of Christ.
It is at that experience that the soul confronts the One who said He was “the way, the truth and the life.” Each of us therefore stands before Eternal Truth in Christ. Each of us gives an account of every motive, word and deed that transpired during our lifetime.
Obama will do the same. However, by his support of sodomy, for instance, he evidently does not care that God does not support sodomy.
It is the same with his endorsement of killing womb babies. Obama has no regard for deity’s abhorrence of abortion.
Obama lies. Therefore, he has no qualms about sleeping with lies accumulating during his daily rounds.
Obama is totally opportunistic. He says and does
what will further Obama, not adhering to scriptural expectations.
Now of course there are scores of others who live that same immorality; however, what is unique about Obama naturally is that he is the President of the United States. His power over America is exerted mainly in the groove of anti-God, anti-Bible.
Obama gives no indication that he is going to change. However, biblical believers know that their responsibility under heaven is to pray for Obama’s conversion to Christ as Lord of life.
In that, real Christians follow through by having faith to believe that miracles are possible, even Barack Hussein Obama finding a brokenness of heart before the Lord. He can confess his sins, repent of his hubris and reach out for divine acceptance.
At present, all of that does not seem to be in the offing. Nevertheless, real Christians always pray sincerely for the impossible. And so they intercede on behalf of Barack Hussein and Michelle Obama and their children to be genuinely saved.
FOOTNOTE: JUDGMENT DAY
Hebrews 9:27:
It is appointed unto men once to die, but after that the judgment.
Matthew 7:21-23: the words of Christ:
Not every one that saith unto me, Lord, Lord, shall enter into the kingdom of heaven; but he that doeth the will of my Father which is in heaven. Many will say to me in that day, Lord, Lord, have we not prophesied in thy name? And in thy name have cast out devils? And in thy name done many wonderful works? And then will I profess unto them, I never knew you: depart from me, ye that work iniquity.
Matthew 12:36-37: the words of Christ:
But I say unto you that every idle word that men shall speak, they shall give account thereof in the day of judgment. For by thy words thou shalt be justified, and by thy words thou shalt be condemned.
Romans 2:6-11:
God who will render to every man according to his deed: To them who by patient continuance in well doing seek for glory and honor and immorality, eternal life; But unto them that are contentious and do not obey the truth, but obey unrighteousness, indignation and wrath, Tribulation and anguish, upon every soul of man that doeth evil, of the Jew first, and also of the Gentile; But glory, honor and peace to every man that worked good, to the Jew first, and also to the Gentile: For there is no respect of persons with God.
Romans 14:10-12:
For we shall all stand before the judgment seat of Christ. For it is written, As I live, saith the Lord, every knee shall bow to me, and every tongue shall confess to God. So then every one of us shall give account of himself to God.
I Corinthians 4:5:
Therefore judge nothing before the time, until the Lord come, who both will bring to light the hidden things of darkness, and will make manifest the counsel of the hearts: and then shall every man have praise of God.
II Corinthians 5:10:
For we must all appear before the judgment seat of Christ; that every one may receive the things done in his body, according to that he hath done, whether it be good or bad.
Numbers 32:23:
Be sure your sin will find you out.
THE WHORE RAN OFF WITH OUR MAN
J. Grant Swank, Jr.
That’s right.
Call it a part of the end times “great falling away” or whatever you want to; but the facts are that the pretty whore ran off with a man who claimed to be a born again, Spirit-filled Christian for the past two decades.
She started attending our house church. She brought her big Bible and ready smile. She also treated us all to her luscious fudge. And when anyone needed help, she was there on the spot.
This was the businesswoman of the city who knew most of Congress Street’s street people as well as merchants like unto herself. She’d been in business a long, long time.
Now turning 51, she was desperate for a long-term man. She wanted him for sex, dismantling her air conditioner come winter, sitting down to her decorated table for evening meals and going to church in the same auto.
She openly told us all about her relationships prior to being saved several years ago. But she would always underline that such escapades with the handsome and wealthy were prior to committing her life to Christ. Concerning the latter, she was known in several evangelical churches in the area for on occasion in past years she attended services there.
My wife and I particularly enjoyed her company. She was vivacious, compassionate and knew her Scripture. She would tell me about my sermons, “Preach them straight. I don’t mind coming under conviction.”
Now in our same worship gathering there was the man who had attended services for years on end. He was the first in line to inform us of prophesies fulfilled, the world going to hell, the church turning lazy, and the need for strong preaching from pulpits that had gone lame.
This man could encourage any biblical pastor for he backed him up with a holy lifestyle that was equal to none—as far as we knew, that is. He faithfully attended worship, maintained daily devotions, passed out Bibles to new converts and sent money supporting evangelical organizations worldwide.
How many times had our house church friends ate at his table, treated to his hospitality without limit?
However, he had a wife who was no help to God, the Bible and the church. She quietly boycotted all three. She was one stubborn character who enjoyed her nicotine more than her soul.
Eventually she developed lung problems filled with holes that sent her to the oxygen machine 24/7. Daily her husband came home from work to find her bent over in her chair, hardly able to walk across the living room to her bedroom for the night. This was his depression milieu for evenings. In other words, this is what he was going to be stuck with for God only knew how long.
My wife and I were going out of country this fall. Before we left, the unknown-to-us whore asked for the man’s phone number. I rolled it off my tongue for I knew it by heart. As soon as I did that, I knew she was up to no good.
While we were driving out of town for our two-week get-away, I said to myself, “They’ll have sex while we’re gone.”
Upon our return, she said she had something to tell my wife and me. That Wednesday evening prior to mid-week worship, she spilled everything.
The man we had sworn holy drove to the church on Sunday morning where he figured she would be attending while our house church took a brief hiatus. After worship, she invited him to her summer cabin. There she proceeded to undress into night attire.
“I didn’t know he could see me from the living room,” she whined. My wife and I knew that was a lie for we have sat in her cabin and know what can be seen from the living room.
In short order, the two of them were in bed. Fill in the blanks.
Days following the two came to know too much about one another. In the meantime, he scooted his wife to town hall for signing divorce papers, telling us later that it was consensual, she agreeing to leave her house and get into a low-income rental.
All sorts of flags went up on that score. She would not have agreed to separate from a husband who knew when her oxygen tank was low, ordered on the spot another one for her life’s sake, and depended on him for numerous basics every day and night. In other words, I could only conclude that this man high jacked his wife, quit his job, and bedded down the whore for future keeping.
When my wife and I returned from the two-week stint, we found the whore seated on our couch confessing everything—and I mean every tiny detail. Just as she finished, the man walked through our door to attend mid-week prayer meeting and Bible study. He had no hint that we had just been handed the dirty goods.
With that, we proceeded with others gathered to sing hymns, pray and study our usual Scripture lesson.
“That was a powerful lesson,” he said to me at the close, playing the holiness role to the hilt. When he left, I was so exhausted fighting off the demons that I went straight to bed.
Since then we at the house church have not seen the man or woman, know nothing about the wife betrayed, and so keep intercessory vigil for their souls.
It is so utterly sad to realize that in these times, everyone is vulnerable. Take heed by taking in these specifics about the whore who ran off with our man. Of course, his free will choices made the backsliding travesty all horrifically possible.
It takes two to tango. The whore, now that we recall past conversations with her about her ties with various men—both homosexual and heterosexual, now reveal her to by a pathological liar nymphomaniac exhibitionist, nothing short of.
The man years ago had various divorces tallied in his own bio detail.
One plus one in this instance doesn’t add up to anything worthwhile for present or eternity. In the end times, the Bible warns that there will be a “great falling away.”
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