June 2008 Entries

I was golfing with a member a number of months ago and he used the term "working poor."  I was fascinated -- I know poor and I know those who work and I have never put those two words together.  What he meant is that there are those who truly want to work and take responsibility of themselves but the wages they make and their stage and experience will always place them in the lower 25% of income in the US.  This means they work but still are improverished. 

The government programs are a complete failure and rewards slothfulness, laziness and fraud. The people who need a hand up not a hand out are left to kill themselves and see no light at the end of the tunnell. While those who live off welfare sit home in their air conditioned section eight housig playing video games and drinking beer on the corner with their pals!

It was never so evident then this morning when I was meeting with a 19 yr old gal who really wants to make sometime of herself. She is in school, working, taking for her baby and she can't find suitable housing.  She makes too much; she must be in at a certain time each night not allowing her to work; they won't take a baby....the excuses and stipulations are endless...

Some where the believing church needs to rise up and start providing for the working poor and help them get up off the ground and start up the ladder towards independence and self sustainablity!

This past Sunday was our third annual In and Out Sunday.  The concept began three years ago after reading the book - The Church of Irresistable Influence by Robert Lewis.  My heart skipped beat after beat when I thought about what it would do for a church if it would cancel all Sunday services and in force hit the streets of the town or city where they live and do "good works."  I knew that our Father in heaven would be glorified because that is what Jesus had promised. 

Well again -- NewSOng led the way and took the risk of leaving tradition behind and doing the unique thing of serving on the "sabbath." We painted; cleaned; fixed; held hands; talked to the senile and washed cars for free!! What a day!  We all gathered back at the church for lunch and to hear testimonies.

Thanks NewSongers -- you are amazing -- lets pray that God uses our sacrifice and obedience and wins some to the Savior!

You remember the old cartoon Popeye.  he use to say something like this - "That's all I can stanz and I can't stanz no more!" he would then squeeze open a can of spinach and his arms became anatomically impossible wrecking machines.  Well i can't take it any longer concerning the presidental politics and especially concerning Mr. Obama and all the dangerous advisors that have influence him for the last two decades and how he is trying to claim that they have no influence on him.  I was upset two weeks ago from his whining about the unfair treatment of his wife and pastor so i sat down and penned an editorial for our paper -- I NEVER SENT IT....but here is what I was thinking then...
May 20, 2008
Wife, Pastor and their influence – All up for Review!
Dear Editor:
Why is it that no one in the media and especially at the Intell staff picked up on Obama’s recent threat concerning his wife and her being a target of interest in the campaign? Last week the probable Democratic nominee said, “If they think that they're going to try to make Michelle an issue in this campaign, they should be careful. Because that I find unacceptable, the notion that you start attacking my wife or my family. Michelle is the most honest, the best person I know.” Where I come from -- that is a threat.
Well Mr. Obama you better grow up, wake up and realize that if you send your “honest and best” bride out on the campaign trail, anything that spews out of her mouth is most definitely up for review and criticism. When she makes comments that “for the first time in my adult life – I am proud to be American” – you better believe we are going to ask a lot of questions about a woman who seems more bent on getting to the White House more than you are. If you use her to do you bidding, be ready for her values, belief, past activities, associations and desires to all be under scrutiny.
What do you think we are going to believe that your wife and her radical, liberal positions that are well documented have not influenced you and your positions? Listen Mr. Obama, do you think that the American people are so naïve to recognize that your Pastor of 20 years has not influenced your thinking and so you hope we will believe the same about Michelle? Your wife and your pastor are in the same boat and should be viewed in the same way.
These people have influenced who you are and what you believe. We must conclude that affects the way you will govern as President.  As these two people think and speak and have acted in the past – so will you! Unless of course you can categorically demonstrate that you have NOT been swayed or colored by what they believe.  So Mr. Obama – you do not get a pass on your wife or your pastor – they are open game this political season.
This weekend Obama resigned from his church. Supposely as a sign of his disaggreement of the inflammatory statements and positions they have had.  HAs anyone pointed out that this church has had those positions and high charged racial overtones for years.  Please refer to my blog and few weeks back on Black Liberation Theology -- they are not saying anything different then they have for the 20 years he has been a member.  Why he is replused by their position now?  POLITICAL EXPEDIANCE!!!  I only hope the American people are wise enough to see through his charade and not allow their anger towards our president open the door for a radical, racially charged, anti-american agenda that we will get from Mr. and Mrs. Obama and all their long time friends.....