Jerry wrote:
BLAH! BLAH! BLAH!

I guess you've forgotten that the Bible has already been deemed hate speech in Canada. The culture war is in full throttle and in the end who wins will determine whether your pastor is preaching in a church or in the local jail.

It is true that Christians need to be concerned about the more important things. At the same time my children are facing the homosexual agenda in the public schools that my tax money is paying for. If I complain, I could end up in jail with my kids being taken away. I won't be able to go on the radio because of the fairness doctrine. I won't be able to afford to put my kids in private schools because of higher taxes.

Do politics matter, not if you don't mind throwing your kids away and your religious freedoms.

As per Israel, I don't agree with everything they do, but I would rather err on the side of blessing than cursing.

The problem with young people is our lack of revival. We will never have it while we are content to live without it.

Brother Don wrote:
Intelligent Design is just as corrupt as the teachings of human evolution. It is impossible to properly teach the truth of creation apart from the name of the Intelligent Designer--the Lord Jesus Christ.

Susan Miller wrote:
Walmart has replaced General Motors as the largest employer in America.

I have several African Pentecostal friends, two are from Nigeria. As far as I know they do not adhere to the prosperity doctrine. Blessing Adeoye is starting a Christian reading room in Nigeria, where he is originally from. He is very particular about the books that he makes available. As a Pentecostal, he will not accept any books that propagate the prosperity message. He is also an elder at the Urbana Assembly of God Church where I used to attend.

The point I am making is that Pentecostalism is not automatically equivalent to prosperity. Secondly, not all Nigerian Pentecostals subscribe to the prosperity doctrine.

Jim Lincoln wrote:
Documentation we are a Masonic Republic? Look on the one Dollar Bill Masonic symbols right on it.
"GEORGE WASHINGTON
AND FREE MASONRY"
http://www.classicalfree.org/masonry.htm

George Washington was not much of a dedicated Mason. I think he went to the lodge once or twice.

"Freemasonry's basic tenets are:
1. brotherly love (tolerance, respect, kindness and understanding of others, especially to their Masonic Brothers)
2. relief (caring for the whole community through philanthropy)
3. truth (morals)"
http://religiousmovements.lib.virginia.edu/nrms/Masons.html
It is NOT a Christian organization, but there are certainly many worse non-Christian organizations around like the Knights of Columbus!

Muslim's honor is to kill in the name of Allah.

You accused the Republican party of only caring about the rich, upper class, particularly in regards to taxes. In the year 2005 my wife and I made around $45,000. We received checks in the mail from the IRS three times due to Bush's tax cuts for the "upper class". It totaled up to around $1500. We used this to go on vacation, which we other wise could not have afforded.

I am not saying that there are not good arguments for divine election, but I am saying that this is not a good one.

Connected to this and pertaining to earlier mentions of being in God's hands and eternal security: There are three characteristics of Christ's sheep, 1) My sheep hear my voice, 2) I know them and 3) they follow me.

I do not deny a movement towards a New World Order. I have been to numerous conferences over the years. I have met Gary Kah, author of En Route to Global Occupation as well as Bill Schnoebelen (another Mike Warneke), Ed Decker, Dave Hunt and others. All these tend to lean on conspiracy theories. Gary Kah impressed me as a man who is down to earth. Here is a good book review, http://www.sermonaudio.com/addcommentnew.asp?WhatsNewID=24006

"gwb" or the not so "Obvious Truth" has proven my point very well. As a man thinketh in his heart so is he.

Because I call for the facts, now I am an 'idiot' that 'condones torture'. If you knew my address, I should expect a lynch mob at my front door on account of my guilt by association; that is association with other Christians in public discourse (i.e. Janet Folger). Because I called a spade a spade, now I am a bonesman and 'idolater'. Because I appreciate the judicial nominees of GWB and reject hyper conspiracy theories, I am not even a Christian.

I Corinthians 13:4-7, Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud. It is not rude, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs. Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth. It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres. 13. And now these three remain: faith, hope and love. But the greatest of these is love.

Keep in mind that many times nations are actually called by the name of their ancestral heritage. This can be confusing at times, but I think that it is fairly clear here in the context that Paul is referring to that this is the case.

I use to love to read Chick tracts and I dare say that I have probably passed out more than any other person who has posted here. I would literally spend my last quarter on Chick tracts.

Over the years of study and research I have learned a thing or two, not even close to everything, but a thing or two. A common sense look at history tells us that the Catholic Church is no more responsible for every thing bad in the world, than the devil is responsible for every thing bad that happens to us.

I'm sure that Chick probably thinks that the the devil was a member of the Church of Rome when he was in heaven and that is why God gave him the boot. Get real!

“When I was a child, I spoke as a child, I understood as a child, I thought as a child: but when I became a man, I put away childish things.” (1Cor 13:11).