The Mugging of Dearly Departed Grandma Betty @ Truth Observed
Here is a short one act, one minute script.
Read it, please. The inheritance tax is THEFT!
The Mugging of Dearly Departed Grandma Betty : Truth Observed
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Coral Ridge Presbyterian Church – We Are One
Being an outsider who does not attend Coral Ridge Presbyterian Church, I have watched with some interest the “new” Coral Ridge.
After the merger of New City Presbyterian and Coral Ridge Presbyterian, Tullian Tchividjian took the helm of the mighty church founded by D. James Kennedy. Last year, there was a small dust-up in the church over Pastor Tullian’s convictions on how to do “church.” I remember, during the conflict, one quote that stuck in my head and really bugged me! It went something like Tullian was trying to do away with the “dignity” of “high church worship.”
I had to ask what that was, and since I know the church I attend has a contemporary worship service that is quite unique. I wondered, since my “warehouse church” doesn’t have a pipe organ, and my pastor does not wear a robe. We do not use hymnals, either. Is our worship experience then “undignified” and not quite “high church?”
Having a Baptist background, I struggle with my preference of the deep, profound lyrics of hymns and the seeming shallow egocentric modern worship. It was further exacerbated by my dislike of the music pastor and his chosen style of worship at my church. This conflict led me to some profound truths that were fefreshed and reinforced by the events at Coral Ridge.
Rock music, in a Baptist world, was always called “sensual,” mostly because of the “hip grinding” and dancing that it causes. I know, it sounds funny. But it is not. This was also coupled loosely to modern worship music. Years of teaching are hard to overcome… but there is hope, by the grace of God.
You see, my old pastor, Richard Schermerhorn, taught an incredible lesson one morning in Sunday School some 20 years ago. It was on biblical authority. God caused me to remember that lesson, complete with the increasingly larger covering from the umbrella illustrations he used. He showed me the fact that my worship leader is considered an authority figure over me, serving at God’s will. He leads, I submit, as if it were to God Himself, as long as he does not cause me to sin. The authority serves me by willfully taking responsibility from me. I get freedom from that responsibility!
So, I submitted it to God, and my music pastor. About a year later, God, as He is prone to do, refreshed my memory. Our music pastor was out-of-town on an extended absence. God actually impressed upon my heart how much I missed Pastor Clay! And then the lesson was written upon my heart! God had changed my perspective, and in my submission, I was given freedom. In addition, my submission became a blessing to me!
I was able to watch the things happen at Coral Ridge from a distance. I also know New City’s music director personally, and have had some discussions with him on this issue. It intrigued me, and I did continue to pay attention, at a distance. Surprisingly, this week it may have ended!
After seeing this blog post by Pastor Tullian, and his convictions on unity, I can only think I wholeheartedly agree! This is Divine wisdom, and brings together two separate cultures inside one! It is a perfect lesson on submission, temperance and forbearance!
It leads me to ask how can two walk together, except they agree? I know at our church, we have several campuses, the styles of worship are different at each campus. But through the marvels of technology, the message is the same! However, we are not segregated by worship under the same roof, we are one!
I know that this is placing some difficulty on those who have attended Coral Ridge for a long time. But I challenge you to submit to those whom God has placed in authority!
There is freedom AND BLESSING in that! But above all, God gets the glory!
Check out the post from Tullian Tchividjian here: We Are One
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Our Next Greatest Generation – Don’t Give Up Hope
The Battle Hymn of the Republic
I think this is my all time favorite patriotic song, and as a hymn, it ranks almost at the top of the list. There is maybe on or two that can supersede it… but this is amazing!
Watch the video, read the blog post, but please keep this in mind…
What is striking to me is that there is not a single person involved in the production–the choir, the band–who is more than 18 years old, except for the directors, and some of them are 10 or 11. The moral of which is: if they haven’t given up, why should you?
From the Power Line, read it here: Don’t Give Up Hope
God save the United States, God save the president, God save its citizens!
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The Inerrancy of Scripture
Albert Mohler sums writes on his now 60 year stance on the inerrancy of scripture. He says…
“[W]hen you encounter a present-day view of Holy Scripture, you encounter more than a view of Scripture. What you meet is a total view of God and the world, that is, a total theology, which is both an ontology, declaring what there is, and an epistemology, stating how we know what there is. This is necessarily so, for a theology is a seamless robe, a circle within which everything links up with everything else through its common grounding in God.”
You see, it is this “grounding” in God that sticks everything. If your morality is not grounded, it becomes subject to relativity. God is unchangeable. He is the uncaused. He is eternal, holy, good, just and righteous… just to start.
The bible, to me is an amazing document. It has withstood almost 2,000 years of naysayers… yet eventually, disproves them all.
So, when you compare yourself to the standard declared in just the ten commandments, how do you stack up?
I know I don’t! BUT… I thank God for a Savior Who could AND DID, thereby covering me and anyone else who places their faith in that fact!
Check out what Albert Mohler has to say about the inerrancy of scripture.
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The Prophecy of Ishmael and the Ground Zero Islamic Center at Bible Prophecy Today
Take a moment to ponder this thought…
“Every place where you see human suffering either socialism or Islam is involved. This president touts both.”
I could almost think that truer words were never spoken!
Bill Wilson nails it, read the entire article here at Bible Prophecy Today.
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The Jesus Christ Show
Recently… I had a real sickening, but surreal encounter.
I was recently scheduled for jury duty, but the evening before, a last Sunday night, I was summoned to work by my employer at 9:30 PM. Being on call, unless I can find someone to take the job, I do have to go. Unsuccessful in that, I prepared myself for the one hour drive, letting my customer know my predicament.
As I got in the van and started it up, I turned up the radio. It is my custom to listen to talk radio, and it is usually tuned to WIOD. What I heard… well… it made me want to vomit!
The show that was playing was your standard host with the ability for listeners to call in. Well the fist call-in I heard, the caller called the host Jesus. After listening for a few minutes to see if the host would correct the guy, I was disappointed, yet not unexpected.
The show was called The Jesus Christ Show. The host calls himself the “holy host,” yet plays the part as if he was Jesus. He talks bible verses in FIRST PERSON. Yet, will have to ask callers the names of their spouses. That makes me wonder…
Anyway, I continued to listen with discernment for my hour drive… He gives somewhat sound counsel from the bible, albeit in first person, as if it were his idea. He speaks of his “own” death on the cross, flippantly.
After wrapping up my task, and heading home, I was able to catch the last half-hour of the show. People called in actually thinking this guy was the real Jesus! He counseled them and encouraged them. I mean, I could not figure out if this was comedy or what, I thought I had entered some kind of time warp… yeah I was almost playing that song in my head!
But, I could knew what I was hearing, by the witness of the Holy Spirit… it was BLASPHEMY!
On arriving at home, I immediately checked out the website, including the advertisement for the “comedy show,” this “Jesus” hawked in the tradition of the radio hosts need to pay bills. (As if his father did not own the cattle on 1,000 hills!)
But sadly, looking at the FAQ section on the website, you’ll find…
Q: Does the “Holy Host” really think he is Jesus?
A: No, the show is interactive radio theater designed to teach people more about themselves and the historical person of Jesus Christ.
Is it just me, or is it wrong for someone to obfuscate, lure or otherwise trick someone to get them to listen to the truth of the gospel?
Or worse, steal glory from the Holy One?
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Youth violence: Grandmother of burned boy speaks out about youth violence
Really?
Just saying we ought to do these things is going to help?
Do you not understand what the real problem is?
You cannot speak to oughtness or even good morality if you hold to the religion of modernity, that of the belief that there is no God and natural selection is responsible for their existence.
If you instill into these kids that they are nothing but an animal, and in the animal kingdom, might makes right. How then do you expect them to behave? Animals have no morality… when a dog steals another dog’s food, does the doggy thief feel bad and then atone for the theft?
Really… the game is survival of the fittest. That is what they are taught in science from grade school through college. There is no basis for morality in that… or even oughtness, yet we expect it!
So let us go back to the basics, teaching all that they are made in the image of their Creator, and as such, every human has great value. Instead of teaching them that life is cruel, teach them that man is noble, yet can be cruel.
Teach them that all life is valuable, especially human life. Teach them that there will be consequences, temporal and eternal. Teach them that there are morals, because the Creator is just and right, and expects us to be like Him.
Do not teach them that they are just animals… and then be shocked when they act like it.
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Hitchens attacks Gore Vidal for being a ‘crackpot’
Christopher Hitchens ought to know how to spot a crackpot! Mr. Hitchens enjoys some sort of success by peddling the same vitriol and clap-trap he decries in others.
There is a small bit of a feud playing across the pond.
“It does seem like a kind of bizarre personal vendetta being carried out on the pages of Vanity Fair, replete with factual inaccuracies and not very much substance.”
“Factual inaccuracies and not very much substance” seems to be the stock and trade of Mr. Hitchens! And it is correct that Mr. Hitchens makes money from “the crank-revisionist and denialist history he is now peddling."
One man is a literary genius and the other a philosopher. These so-called intellectuals, read that as we’re smart – you are dumb, have tangled themselves into the tin-hat crowd.
Ask yourself, do these two men really encourage you to live a better life? I thought not. So do we really care when the intellectual elite fight amongst themselves?
Sorry I brought it up! 
Hitchens attacks Gore Vidal for being a ‘crackpot’ – News, People – The Independent
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Oscars Target a Wider Audience – *YAWN*
I think I have reruns of Canon to watch that night.
Are there people who actually still watch the Oscars? I know I stopped many years ago. I really got tired of seeing a bunch of the silicon-collagen-and-Botox set give themselves, the ungrateful gentry, awards!
And when they accept the “coveted” award, they don’t thank those who spend their hard earned money on their “art” to support the stars’ lavish lifestyles. Instead they thank the Academy… the other people in their peer group who voted for them! And the acceptance speech is laced with wacko left-of-center political rants!
The kicker is when they gave an Oscar to Al Gore for a debunked documentary!
The Oscars have lost any credibility. Really, watching the champagne and caviar set laud themselves makes compelling television?
Hey, if watching the stars, and caring what they say or do is your bag, then go for it. If you like the progressive (read communist) social engineering that comes from Hollywood, tune in.
It ain’t for me, I don’t do that religion. They are just people, mostly, far less interesting and far less savvy than the regulars at the bagel nook on the corner.
Why not pick up the all-time best seller and read the book of John (John 1.) It will take less time, be more interesting, and might just change your whole perspective on life. Now that is compelling!
Check out what God has to say, he is far more real and personal than those who will appear on the Oscars!
‘Avatar,’ ‘Hurt Locker’ Lead Oscar Nominations – WSJ.com
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Avatar, James Cameron and The Lost Tomb of Jesus
We truly live in the end times. I am constantly amazed at the number of my Christian brethren who lack discernment. Daily I am bombarded by praise for the movie Avatar from those who say they love Jesus.
While I am sure the movie is superb, but please consider a few things before you support the message the movie portrays.
The movie is saturated with ritualistic worship, spirit communion, shamanism and blatant idolatry. This is nothing but nature worship with its god, Gaia. A Christian who exercises discernment would immediately avoid this. But, when it is coated in eye-candy, sort of like putting medicine in a spoonful of sugar, it makes it easy to accept, sub-consciously.
More so, today’s culture marginalizes the church from all directions, yet you see more and more Christians engaging and accepting the culture. It is just more evidence of the Laodicean Church age. Today’s culture promotes a worship of those who entertain us. These entertainers tickle our ears and our eyes, but with what?
Most of them eschew truth and reject the Creator of the universe, yet we give over our hard earned dollars to support them! Do you support your church with the same amount of money you spend to support the CULTure and its gods?
Paul wrote in Romans:
Romans 1:18 For the wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of men, who by their unrighteousness suppress the truth. 19 For what can be known about God is plain to them, because God has shown it to them. 20 For his invisible attributes, namely, his eternal power and divine nature, have been clearly perceived, ever since the creation of the world, in the things that have been made. So they are without excuse. 21 For although they knew God, they did not honor him as God or give thanks to him, but they became futile in their thinking, and their foolish hearts were darkened. 22 Claiming to be wise, they became fools, 23 and exchanged the glory of the immortal God for images resembling mortal man and birds and animals and creeping things.
24 Therefore God gave them up in the lusts of their hearts to impurity, to the dishonoring of their bodies among themselves, 25 because they exchanged the truth about God for a lie and worshiped and served the creature rather than the Creator, who is blessed forever! Amen.
While I will choose not see the movie Avatar, for some of the above reasons, there is one yet to be revealed. James Cameron made a documentary called “The Lost Tomb of Jesus.” This debunked documentary denied the resurrection of Jesus Christ! The basis of this blasphemy was on ossuary alleged to have contained the bones of a man named Joshua or Jesus. This ossuary has since been found to be a forgery.
Either you support the good news of Jesus’ shed blood for remission of sins and His resurrection to new life and the hope that brings to humanity by giving of you treasure. Or you support the cult of personality and the blatant anti-Christ message they proselytize.
It is a funny thing about mixing righteous things and unrighteous things (1 Corinthians 5:6.) A little bit of unright corrupts the whole. So how is it you would corrupt your offerings to God by your worship and offerings to the cult of culture?
Are we not choosing what we believe with our dollars?
Jesus Family Tomb: Burial after Crucifixion and the Jesus Tomb
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