TWEEK YOUR BRAIN - SERIOUSLY!

We are down to the wire.

I just got an email – no kiddin' – from Joe Biden. Well, I guess it is likely from a team writer and his name it is on it. Is he really still out there? Anyway, the Democrats are scampering. Even heard how democrats are apologizing and falling all over themselves to put distance between them and Obama's team. So, I believe there can be restoration out there. But let's not look at just what we can do. Let's seek what God can do through this election!

Let's not take this lightly. Read II Chronicles 7:14 – "¹⁴ if my people, who are called by my name, will humble themselves and pray and seek my face and turn from their wicked ways, then will I hear from heaven and will forgive their sin and will heal their land." We really need this to happen. We sincerely need God to hear us.

I am reading the book "Radical" by David Platt. The idea that the church of Christ was built on prayer and meager men; afraid of authorities, yet filled with the Spirit through their prayer; enabling them to be bold, strong and wise…blows me away. I have always known that, but reading it again, it clicked. It is not about us. It is about God.

So, we seek Him...humiliate ourselves before Him and offer up our forgiveness.

Then, we pray for wisdom. A wise man of God, very in-tune with these elections, passed the following scriptures to me. Read in full these passages: Exodus 18:13-26; Deuteronomy 1:9-18.

Here is Exodus 18:20-21:

²⁰ Teach them the decrees and laws, and show them the way to live and the duties they are to perform. ²¹ But select capable men from all the people—men who fear God, trustworthy men who hate dishonest gain—and appoint them as officials over thousands, hundreds, fifties and tens.

When you sit/stand before your ballot with your list of state questions and candidates, it is not just a box. It is not – NOT – just a party, club or color…no you are voting the future!

It is time we back away from the donkeys and elephants and notice all the people behind them!

America is not – NOT – what it is becoming! But "when good people do nothing…" or worse, when good people mindlessly and robotically vote….SHAME ON US! SHAME!

IT IS NOT ABOUT SEPERATION OF CHURCH AND STATE!! Never did God ever intend for this to be the case! No. Throughout scripture we are to pray for our leadership, our leadership is to seek the Lord and we are to uplift them no matter – but when they defile the position of leadership we are not to support them. Who cares what card you carry! Your allegiance is God alone.

So, hopefully, over the last two years you have been awakened! Hopefully, you have the scales pried from your eyes! Hopefully, you have sense about your person and you are going to go to the voting booth with wisdom from God, common sense from conversation and a foundation of the Constitution directing how to vote.

The next posts will include some of our thoughts here at Church-andState.blogspot.com regarding the state questions and candidates.

UNTIL THEN….THINK, DAWG GONE IT!

ENEMIES UNITE!

ALRIGHT!
I've just about had it! Really, the President of THE United States of America gets on Univision and slams me personally? Oh, he did not use my name...nor yours for that matter...but he used very inciteful language to take a last ditch effort to "mobilize" his support base. Here is his quote:

"If Latinos (AKA - Mexicans, Spanish Americans, Illegals, Spanish Citizens) sit out the election instead of saying, "We're going to punish our enemies and we're gonna reward our friends who stand with us on issues that are important to us," if they don't see that kind of upsurge in voting in this election, then I think it's going to be harder, and that's why I think it's so important that people focus on voting on November 2."

Maybe, you say, I am just reading into things. But you know, I am tired of him being excused! Seriously! He bows before other leaders! He is weak on foreign policy & relations. And...let us not forget the botched, failed and otherwise hideous bailout attempts, stimulus smack-down and ensuing debt! Oh, and never mind his wife's clear disregard for laws when she voted last week!

So, no, I believe the Presidential Pressure Cooker is taking it's toll on an inexperienced community organizer and the sweat is more pronounced than ever. He said what he meant and what many "right wingers" warned against in his running. This guy is not to be trusted. Black, white, purple or polka-dot ... it matters not, Obama has disgraced the Office of Presidency in a way totally impeachable! However....

In the above quote, he is baiting those that would have America offer amnesty to illegal persons. Then, even worse, he is stepping on the lives of Spanish Americas (AKA: AMERICANS) that have come to this land as my ancestors did, worked hard and became citizens legally! Or like those countless stories of the long citizenship process, hard fought, sought and won - bringing sighs of relief from those seeking the liberty of America! Do we step on these and grant citizenship to every illegal person? No!

Go Arizona! Wave the banner of Liberty, stand tall! God Bless you citizens that fought hard to be a part of the American Family - resist this call for amnesty! If interested in this, read this article.

November 2, 2010. Next Tuesday. I hope people read this from all over. We need everyone to vote the career politician out and bring in new statesmen/women to lead. We need to accomplish the following:
1). Agree that English is the native language of America, celebrate America and throw PC language out the door! (Every other country does this!)
2). Strengthen our borders and enforce/streamline the citizenship process; give border guards support and decision ability
3). Stop spending, cut waste
4). Minimize Government (put a leash on EPA, Red-line the IRS, and put education back in the hand of states.)
5). Incentivize American Business investment - making factories, warehouses, production facilities and goods from America, made in America, the absolute best. This includes putting out the Unions.
6). Eliminate Debt as quickly as possible

This in no way means allow hatred, environmental waste, tax programs or rebates to run amuk. NO! We Americans love each other as a whole - regardless of color, race, creed, status, religion, etc. It is the behavior of some that require punishment or disregard. Common sense laws are needed. True leadership is needed too!

WAKE UP AND STAY AWAKE!

Ben Stein, we all know and love for his role as a teacher in Ferris Bueller's Day Off, is also a great conservative thinker and challenger of thought. Due to the fact that this is a widely spread email, I will not re-post it here. However, that which is most correct to the transcript of the CBS Sunday Morning Show that it originated in 2005 is accessible via this link, which includes actual interpretation of the email chain: here.

Consider the link above....and then, just for thought:

Bottom line: The statement about America being atheist - totally thoughtful. However, in the spirit of the true context of his writing, I would think that Ben Stein might say "Where is it that America is supposed to be totally accepting and non-individualistic? Is it not what the Pilgrims and Founders of America landed here to become? Did they not want Liberty for all?"

Seems to me, we wear are feelings and personal preferences on our sleeves. We have a true ROOT to who we are - totally traceable in unrevised history. From that Federalist Root, our Republic was born. Why is it that Texas gets this?

What Some People Don't Want To Realize About Their Rights

Freedom Of Speech Is A Two-Way Street

Mississippi Attorney Danny Lampley was jailed for five hours this week because he refused to recite the Pledge of Allegiance at the order of a judge. Lampley had shown up to court to represent his client in a divorce case when Judge Talmadge Littlejohn entered the courtroom and asked everyone to stand for the Pledge of Allegiance. Clinging to his First Amendment rights, Lampley refused to participate and was held in contempt.

The ironic thing is that Lampley successfully sued the Pontotoc school district in northern Mississippi in the 1990s to stop students from exercising their First Amendment rights by preventing them from praying over the intercom.

It has long been misunderstood that freedom of speech is a right given only to those who oppose organized religion or the patriotism of Americans in singing the National Anthem or reciting the Pledge of Allegiance. Its about time they begin to learn that the First Amendment is a two way street.

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Irresponsibility Of Congress Showcased In Budget Failure

Two things are clearly evident about our government’s current leadership in our democratic congress. 1) They have no accountability and they know it. 2) They are completely irresponsible when it comes to spending money.

We need to look back no further than last week to find the most telling examples of this. Anxious to break camp and get back home to campaign for next month’s elections. Congress decided adjourn with two major items left on the table. With millions of Americans hurting from the current economic recession and democrats fighting to hang on in key elections around the nation they left what was quite possibly the best campaign tool in unresolved in Washington D.C. Instead they’re choosing to run in the elections without being able tell Americans what their tax rates will be next year.

Even more pressing, Congress dismissed without approving a budget for the government year that began last Friday. Instead they chose to pass a "continuing resolution," a stopgap measure to keep the government in operating funds for the next two months and avoid a pre-election federal shutdown. Basically the U.S. government is going to spend over the next two months with absolutely no budget. And we wonder why the nation’s debt is out of control.

Thirty-nine democrats joined the Republicans in a push to get a vote on extending the Bush tax cuts which nearly deadlocked the motion to adjourn but Nancy Pelosi cast the tie breaking vote allowing congress to leave the matter unresolved and head home. Instead we were given a promise from Pelosi that the tax cuts would be addressed after the elections. Basically they’re giving us the vote us back in and we’ll take care of ya line. Count me in as a guy who isn’t buying into it!

How about next month we bring some accountability to congress with our votes by showing that irresponsibility will no longer be tolerated!