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PETITIONS
File an FCC Complaint about
Multiple Unedited "S-words" on NBC
The networks have become emboldened by the FCC's recent inaction on
indecency complaints. So much so that NBC deliberately included a song
in Sunday night's episode of the generally clean Chuck that featured the
repeating refrain "You're the sh*t and I'm knee deep in it." Only the
s-word was not edited out.
SCHOOLS BLESSING DENIED BRINGS LEGAL REPLY: ...the lawsuit was filed to protect their client's constitutional rights. The Christian Law Association is asking the court to rule that the school violated the young girl's free-speech rights -- and to instruct the school not to do it again.
THE LAW APPEALS COURT REVERSES TEN COMMANDMENTS DECISION: A Kentucky county can restore a display that included the Ten Commandments along with other historical documents after a federal appeals court ruled Thursday that there's no evidence the county intended to mount a religious display on public grounds.
UAW DUES POLICY ALLEGED TO BE DISCRIMINATORY: ..."he found that the union was actually forcing him to give to a charity more than anyone else had to pay in dues to the union -- and that's where the discrimination came in," Gleason explains.
UNIONS NAB SWEETHEART HEALTH-CARE DEAL:
Big Labor got some big love from President Obama and congressional Democrats yesterday after they agreed to exempt union workers from the whopping “Cadillac tax” on high-cost health-care plans until 2018.
TSA NOMINEE MISLED CONGRESS ABOUT ACCESSING CONFIDENTIAL RECORDS:
The committee approved his nomination Nov. 19. One day later, Southers wrote to Lieberman and Collins saying his first account was incorrect. After reviewing documents, he wrote, he recalled that he had twice conducted the database searches himself, downloaded confidential law enforcement records about his wife's boyfriend and passed information on to the police department employee, the letter said.
"DOJ" LACKS TRANSPARENCY: ...a federal district court has imposed attorneys' fees on the individual DOJ lawyers in the case, including Steven Rosenbaum and Loretta King, because they refused to provide answers during discovery in the lawsuit. Rosenbaum heads the CRD's housing section and King was once acting assistant attorney general. JOE BIDEN UPDATE: HE MEETS ON TRANSPARENCY TODAY. BUT THE MEETING IS CLOSED: In fact, today's Biden schedule highlight is a meeting with the chief of transparency for economic recovery. But, unfortunately, the transparency meeting is non-transparent, closed to the press.
PELOSI 'CRAZY,' 'VERY CONFUSED' ON CHURCH TEACHINGS:
"Just because you have free will does not mean that you always make the right decision," he contends. "I think she is very, very confused over what free will is and what free will would allow her to do and still be in good standing with the Catholic Church."
POLISHING UP THE 'JOBS' NUMBERS:
...any "stimulus" money used to cover payroll will be included in the jobs program, including pay raises for existing employees and pay for people who were never in jeopardy of losing their positions.
SAUDI, NORWAY GOV'TS GIVE TO CLINTON:
Bill Clinton joined Giustra on a 2005 trip to Kazakhstan, whose human-rights record Hillary Rodham Clinton had criticized, and within days after the pair met with Kazakhstan's president, Giustra's business lined up preliminary agreements giving it rights to buy into uranium projects controlled by a Kazakhstan state-owned enterprise. Bill Clinton has said he had nothing to do with the arrangement.
I delight greatly in the LORD; my soul rejoices in my God. For he
has clothed me with garments of salvation and arrayed me in a
robe of righteousness, as a bridegroom adorns his head like a
priest, and as a bride adorns herself with her jewels. For as the
soil makes the sprout come up and a garden causes seeds to
grow, so the Sovereign LORD will make righteousness and praise
spring up before all nations.
~ Isaiah 61:10,11 NIV ~
I form the light, and create darkness:
I make peace, and create evil:
I the LORD do all these things.
Drop down, ye heavens, from above, and
let the skies pour down righteousness:
let the earth open, and let them
bring forth salvation,
and let righteousness spring up together;
I the LORD have created it.
~ Isaiah 45:7,8 KJV ~
The LORD is exalted, for he dwells on high;
he will fill Zion with justice and righteousness;
and he will be the stability of your times,
abundance of salvation, wisdom, and knowledge;
the fear of the LORD is his treasure
A Baptist pastor fresh out of seminary was assigned to a small church
in the hills of Kentucky.
In his first sermon, he condemned gambling, especially betting on the
horses. The sermon was not well received. "You see, Reverend," a
parishioner explain-ed, "this whole area is known for its fine horses.
Lots of our members make their living breeding race horses."
The next Sunday the pastor spoke on the evils of smoking, and again,
his sermon was not well received - for many of his members also grew
tobacco.
The third week the pastor preached on the evils of drinking, only to
discover after that a major distillery was one of the town's largest
employers.
Chastised for his choice of sermon topics, the frustrated pastor exclaimed,
"Well, then, what can I preach about?" A kindly, older woman spoke up and
said, "Pastor, preach against those godless communists. Why, there isn't a
communist within 4,000 miles of here!"
There are some sermons people do not want to hear because they
contradict their dearly held values or their comfortable life styles. Jesus
earned a reputation for preaching these kinds of sermons - sermons that
were challenging and demanding, radical and divisive.
Jesus' preaching changed lives because He backed down to no one.
~ Frank Rothfuss ~
"The Lord had said to Abram, 'Leave your country, your people and your father's household and go to the land I will
show you.... So Abram left, as the Lord had told him.... He took his wife Sarai, his nephew Lot ...and they set out for
the land of Canaan" (Gen 12:1-5).
When a famine arose in Canaan, Abram went to live in Egypt. Fearing that the Egyptians would kill him for his
beautiful wife, Abram asked Sarai to say that she was his sister (which was half true, as she was his half-sister).
Sarai was taken into Pharoah's palace, but God inflicted serious diseases on Pharoah's household until Sarai
was given back to her husband.
Abram and Lot continued "moving about" with their families, going "from place to place" (Gen 13:3,5). When
their flocks became so large that "the land could not support them while they stayed together" (Gen 13:6),
Abram suggested that they peacefully part company. Given first choice, Lot took the "well-watered" land to the
east which promised the most comfortable lifestyle, but the people there "were wicked and were sinning greatly
against the Lord" (Gen 13:10,13). Though Abram was left with the less fertile land, God promised to bless him
and to give all the land to him and his offspring.
The Lord has led us, many times, to leave our home, job, friends, or family, to go to a new place. He hasn't
always shown us immediately where or why he wants us to go; he has simply said, "Leave ...and go to the place
I will show you." We have spent months, even years, in transition, waiting for a house to call home, a church to
call family, or a stable job to call our own.
It is frightening to be left uprooted, especially when there is "a famine in the land," (i.e. a weak economy). When,
once again, we are faced with an insecure future, it's easy to panic and seize the reins of our life away from God,
into the control of our own hands. Even though God has always protected and provided, we are sometimes tempted
to manipulate our situation, like Abram, even to the point of misrepresenting the truth. It's true that God can work
all things together for our good (Romans 8:28), but surely, he would prefer to have our honesty, integrity and
obedience to work with!
At other times, we are faced with a decision: do we "go to the left," or do we "go to the right" (Gen 13:9)? The
most attractive option isn't always the best choice. We have to determine what or who is pulling us through (or
pulling us away from) the door of opportunity: money, power, pain, fear, relationships ...or God?
Lord, when you ask me to leave what is familiar and comfortable, give me the wisdom to discern your will, the
patience to wait for your timing, and the courage to trust you. When my future is unclear, make your promises
clear to me. Calm my fears and increase my faith throughout the journey. "May integrity and uprightness protect
me, because my hope is in you" (Psalm 25:21). Help me to keep my hand in yours as you lead the way, and to
hear your voice in my ear, saying, "This is the way; walk in it" (Isa 30:21).
________________________________________ The Daily Bible Journal Project is based on daily readings from
The Daily Bible (F. LaGard Smith, Harvest House).
It's a complex thing to measure church attendance but here
are a few pointers on arriving at an accurate number based
on the attendance figures they give you.
- 50% if its a Pentecostal worship service because they
count the legs and forget to divide by two.
- 30% if its a Baptist church because they count members
on the roll and not all of them are still living.
+ 10% if its a Vineyard service because those rugs on the
floor were actually people!
+ 20% if it's a fundamentalist church because they don't
count the people they didn't want there.
- 30% if it's an Anglican/Presbyterian/Methodist church
because the number they gave you is from their huge
Easter service.
+ 15% if it's an ethnic/non-western service because all
those people coming late missed the counting.
- 10% if its a megachurch because the worship team and
welcome team got counted during all 5 services.
- 520% if its a Catholic church because they count the
parish, not the church attendance.
+ 20% if it's an emergent service because those having
a smoke outside were not counted.
- 25% if its a Reformed church service because they
count
the people who SHOULD have been there.
- 15% if it's a house church because the neighborhood kids
playing video games in the back room somehow managed
to get counted with everyone else. So did the guy
delivering pizza.
THE LORD'S BASEBALL GAME
Freddy and the Lord stood by to observe a baseball game. The Lord's team was playing Satan's team.
The Lord's team was at bat, the score was tied zero to zero, and it was the bottom of the 9th inning
with two outs. They continued to watch as a batter stepped up to the plate named 'Love.'
Love swung at the first pitch and hit a single, because 'Love never fails.'
The next batter was named Faith, who also got a single because Faith works with Love.
The next batter up was named Godly Wisdom. Satan wound up and threw the first pitch.
Godly Wisdom looked it over and let it pass: Ball one. Three more pitches and Godly Wisdom walked
because he never swings at what Satan throws.
The bases were now loaded The Lord then turned to Freddy and told him He was now going to bring
in His star player. Up to the plate stepped Grace. Freddy said, 'He sure doesn't look like much!'
Satan's whole team relaxed when they saw Grace.Thinking he had won the game, Satan wound up
and fired his first pitch. To the shock of everyone, Grace hit the ball harder than anyone had ever
seen! But Satan was not worried; his center fielder let very few get by.
He went up for the ball, but it went right through his glove, hit him on the head and sent him crashing
on the ground;the roaring crowds went wild as the ball continued over the fence . . for a home run!
The Lord's team won!
The Lord then asked Freddy if he knew why Love, Faith and Godly Wisdom could get on base but
couldn't win the game. Freddy answered that he didn't know why.
The Lord explained, 'If your love, faith and wisdom had won the game, you would think you had
done it by yourself. Love, Faith and Wisdom will get you on base but only My Grace can get you home:
'For by Grace are you saved, it is a gift of God; not of works, lest any man should boast.'
~
Ephesians 2:8-9 ~
'For the Lord God is a sun and shield; the Lord will give grace and glory; no good thing will He withhold
from those who walk uprightly.
~ Psalm 84:11 ~
'I can do all things through Christ who strengthens me.'
~ Phil 4:13 ~
A young man is paired up with a priest on the first hole at the
golf course. When they make it to a long par three the priest
asks,"What are you going to use on this hole son?"
The young man says, "An eight iron, father. How about you?"
The priest says, "I'm going to hit a soft seven and pray."
The young man hits his eight iron and puts the ball on the green.
The priest tops his 7 iron and dribbles the ball out a few yards.
The young man says, "I don't know about you father, but in
my church when we pray, we keep our head down."
"One day I hopped in a taxi and we took off for the airport. We were
driving in the right lane when suddenly a black car jumped out of a
parking space right in front of us.
My taxi driver slammed on his brakes, skidded, and missed the other
car by just inches! The driver of the other car whipped his head around
and started yelling at us. My taxi driver just smiled and waved at the
guy. And I mean, he was really friendly.
So I asked, "Why did you just do that? That guy almost ruined your car
and sent us to the hospital!"
This is when my taxi driver taught me what I now call, "The Law of the
Garbage Truck."
He explained that many people are like garbage trucks. They run around
full of garbage -- frustration, anger, disappointment. As their garbage
piles up, they need a place to dump it and sometimes they'll dump it on you.
Don't take it personally. Just smile, wave, wish them well, and move on.
Don't take their garbage and spread it to other people at work, at home,
or on the streets.
The bottom line is that successful people do not let garbage trucks take
over their day. Love the people who treat you right. Pray for the ones
who don't."
