Archbishop of Canterbury

Did you hear? --the Archbishop of Canterbury criticized the United States for shooting dead the unarmed Osama bin Laden.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/al-qaeda/8494852/Osama-bin-Laden-dead-Archbishop-of-Canterbury-criticises-White-House.html

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History as a guide?

I think that Gandhi’s commitment to non-violence was admirable, but it's impractical today. Non-violence as a response to today's Islamo-terrorism would be disastrous. 

Gandhi was dealing with rational men; we are not.

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The masculine Jesus

I've always been enamored by how Christ always swam against the current, as it were. Indeed, Christ would get under the skin of the Pharisees by healing poor souls on the Sabbath, and He even needled the so-called 'righteous' Pharisees by calling them whitewashed sepulchres full of dead men's bones, to their faces! --what a riot! Jesus was a man's man.

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NASA finds evidence of alien life

(God, did you hear?) --NASA thinks it has found alien life forms out there in your cosmos. That’s the conclusion one NASA scientist has come to. He released his groundbreaking revelations in the Journal of Cosmology. http://journalofcosmology.com/Life100.html

Interestingly, if a small, multi-cellular organism was in a woman’s womb rather than (outer) space, the U.S. Supreme Court wouldn’t call it “life”. Think about that. (This life form even has a corporate logo. I wonder what the 'S' stands for?)

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Mass murders

 What did the US learn from the Muslim Fort Hood mass murders? … Not much. Just last week, the US Senate confirmed that the Muslim shooting at Fort Hood in 2009 could have been prevented! It gave President Obama a complete pass on his reverse-profiling orders that prevented authorities from acting on information they knew about the dangerous killer before his attack. :-(  :-(  :-(
http://blogs.abcnews.com/thenote/2011/02/painful-conclusion-senators-say-fbi-dod-could-have-prevented-ft-hood-shooting.html

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God visits man

(Deaconess Virginia Obregon, far-right, fellowships with Jubilee Vietnam's Shekinah youth) .... There are different ways God visits man. The most common way God visits man is through people! The pity is that we do not recognize God in people, but instead prefer God in a fantastic and sparkling package. In seeing God as He isn't, we err.

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King James Bible

The King James Bible is 400 years old this year. Sometime in 1611 it was published. Hundreds of millions are in circulation. To Christians all around the world, it is still the ancestral language of our saving faith.

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"Mother" and "Father"

Dear Lord, you know it's distressing, but President Obama's Big Brother apparatus killed off our mother and father!  On Friday Obama's State Department decided that those people we used to call our "mother" and "father" should now be Parent 1 and Parent 2. ... President B. Hussein Obama has now has officially descended to the level of Karl Marx. *verybigsigh*
http://radio.foxnews.com/2011/01/07/feds-approve-gender-neutral-passport-apps/

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NFL's crime

 I like stories of redemption. But I simply cringe when I think of Michael Vick's crime. He didn't just participate in the illegal activity of dog fighting; he tortured and killed dogs with his own hands and paid others to do the same. Oh that the NFL would explain why torturing and killing animals is an offense that the NFL forgives.

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Limits to power

It's astounding to witness but the Obama presidency has produced a healthy public backlash that is re-acquainting Americans with the Constitution, and how it limits Congress' powers. New year 2011 year should be exciting.

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Global warming and Britain

Global warming is hitting Britain real hard! .... And it appears its chief apologist, Al Gore, has completely retreated from his faith-based initiative; --he's nowhere to be found! :-o 

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/earth/earthnews/8230318/Britain-could-be-heading-for-coldest-winter-in-300-years.html 

 

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It takes a lot of Faith to predict the weather for decades!

The head of the UN climate science body has admitted he was taken entirely by surprise by the ferocious public reaction to a blunder in its report  that the Himalayan glaciers would disappear by 2035. Rajendra Pachauri said:

"I had absolutely no idea what was coming. It just sort of escalated."

So this prophet who claims he can reliably predict the weather for decades --is taken by surprise by a "storm of criticism."  He should have seen it coming! It takes a lot of faith to reliably predict the weather for decades!

http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2010/nov/19/un-climate-rajendra-pachauri-regret

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Thanksgiving

I believe that Cicero was on to something when he said, "Gratitude is not only the greatest of virtues, but the parent of all the others."

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Calculus and Christianity

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Lessons on Leadership 1

As a deacon in my local church, I'm always on the lookout for examples from spiritual (or national) leaders whose lives I can glean and apply leadership ideas. Make no mistake, all have spiritual application in the kingdom of God regardless from where they come. 

I'm always amazed at how the previous president of the United States (George W. Bush) shed so much light on what it meant to be a leader. On the other hand, our current president of the United States, Barack Obama, sheds light on the fact that community organizers are not leaders. Community organizing appears to have been Barack Obama's only real 'leadership' training. But if one thinks about it: the job of a community organizer is to focus other people on their problems and empower those people to change their own lives.

Regarding leadership skills, we have a President of the United States who was not only a community organizer, but a failed community organizer; simply look at his former Chicago community today. For example, president Obama is so focused on who to blame for a problem that he cannot corral the resources to fix the problem. And, there are so many examples from which I can choose in current events! Remember BP's Clear Water Horizon oil rig blowout in the Gulf of Mexico? The Netherlands offered their expertise to scoop up the surface oil, but Obama turned them down because of US laws prohibiting foreign flag vessels in American waters. (President GWB suspended those laws during Hurricane Katrina!)

To cap it all off, Obama went on morning television, and used a word inappropriate around children, and people were so distracted by his word choice they failed to pay attention to what he really said: he's talking to experts not about solving the problem, but about who to blame!

“I don’t sit around just talking to experts because this is a college seminar. We talk to these folks because they potentially have the best answers so I know whose ass to kick.”   -Obama, June 2010
 

He is talking to experts not to find out how to solve the problem but to find out whose _ss to kick? Seriously?
 

This man Barack Obama needs an enemy to operate. And it explains every step that he takes in addressing a problem. He is his own worst enemy. :-o  

president Obama shows how not to practice leadership. 
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Creature of God

We humans (especially I) can experience the blessing of God and flourish and always face the temptation of self-confidence. God then reminds me of my pride and summons me to muster trust in Him, --and I see all over again that I am a creature and God alone is God.

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Chilean miner gives thanks

 

This Chilean miner gives an unfiltered witness to the world! (Esteban Rojas, the 18th miner rescued).

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Blessing the pooches

Blessing the pooches .... It's noteworthy, that our Catholic brethren have a tradition every October, a time of blessing of the animals. This custom is conducted in remembrance of St. Francis of Assisi’s love for all creatures. It's terrific! Oh that my Silicon Valley church would bless the pets of our congregation. It would sure make our pet owners happy!
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Moses and his wilderness experience

"Moses" Obama is trying to lead the American "Israelites" into a trap. He somehow believes the government-land is flowing with milk & honey! ... The spiritual satire is hilarious.
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A curious distinction

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