Rejecting All Else

Quoted by and from The Berean Call
December 22, 2009; Our Daily Updates

Accepting Christ Means Rejecting All Else

"The notion that we enter the Christian life by an act of acceptance is true, but that is not all the truth.  There is much more to it than that.  Christianity involves an acceptance and a repudiation, an affirmation and a denial.  And this not only at the moment of conversion but continually thereafter day by day in all the battle of life till the great conflict is over and the Christian is home from the wars.  To live a life wholly positive is, fortunately, impossible.  Were any man able to do such a thing it could be only for a moment.  Living positively would be like inhaling continuously without exhaling.  Aside from its being impossible, it would be fatal.  Exhalation is as necessary to life as inhalation.  To accept Christ it is necessary that we reject whatever is contrary to Him.  This is a fact often overlooked by eager evangelists bent on getting results.  Like the salesman who talks up the good points of his product and conceals its disadvantages, the badly informed soulwinner stresses the positive side of things at the expense of the negative."

--A.W. Tozer

...at the expense of the soul.

From that time Jesus began to preach, and to say, Repent: for the kingdom of heaven is at hand.  ~Matthew 4:17

From The Viscount Monckton of Brenchley in Copenhagen

Lord Monckton Assaulted to the point of unconsciousness by EuroThug Police at Copenhagen

The Sonoran Weekly Review

"One of them began the now familiar technique of manhandling me, in the same fashion as one of his colleagues had done the previous day.

Once again, conscious that a police helicopter with a high-resolution camera was hovering overhead, I thrust my hands into my pockets in accordance with the St. John Ambulance crowd-control training, looked my assailant in the eye and told him, quietly but firmly, to take his hands off me.

He complied, but then decided to have another go. I told him a second time, and he let go a second time. I turned to go and, after I had turned my back, he gave me a mighty shove that flung me to the ground and knocked me out."  Read the full report here

Through thy precepts I get understanding: therefore I hate every false way.  Thy word is a lamp unto my feet, and a light unto my path.  ~Psalm 119:104, 105

It's Not Good

School goes ballistic when 2nd-grader draws Jesus
Boy, 8, gets psych evaluation after sketch of Christ on cross called 'violent'

Posted: December 15, 2009
12:51 pm Eastern

By Chelsea Schilling
© 2009 WorldNetDaily

"An 8-year-old boy has been suspended from school and forced to undergo a psychological evaluation after he drew a picture of Jesus Christ on the cross, his father claims..."
Read the story →here←.

And whosoever shall offend one of these little ones that believe in me, it is better for him that a millstone were hanged about his neck, and he were cast into the sea.  ~Mark 9:42

Climategate

December 7, 2009

By THE WASHINGTON TIMES

A tale of destroyed documents, fraud, conspiracy and the misuse of millions of government dollars would seem to have all the juicy ingredients of a scandal that journalists would kill to cover. However, the mainstream media apparently doesn't think that Climategate is news. ABC News hasn't deemed the story newsworthy. Neither has CBS nor NBC. If Americans only got their news from the networks, they would not know about the global-warming fraud or would merely think there was a simple misunderstanding about what scientists meant in some vague e-mails.

...The networks found plenty of airtime to cover rumored family problems plaguing professional golfer Tiger Woods. Yet, even though there is climate-regulation legislation pending in Congress that could cost Americans trillions of dollars, network producers don't see anything newsworthy in a scandal exposing fraud in global-warming research. Such omissions make mainstream news complicit in the cover-up.

Read the editorial piece here.
Related: Inside Cover

These six things doth the Lord hate: yea, seven are an abomination unto him: a proud look, a lying tongue, and hands that shed innocent blood, an heart that deviseth wicked imaginations, feet that be swift in running to mischief, a false witness that speaketh lies, and he that soweth discord among brethren. ~Proverbs 6:16-19

FYI -- H1N1 Vaccine and Miscarriages

People's experiences with the H1N1 vaccine — not being tallied and reported — are surfacing, because the internet provides an avenue of information sharing by commoners.  Perhaps the internet will have to be shut down.

H1N1 Swine Flu Vaccine Miscarriage Stories From Pregnant Women

70 Heartbreaking Stories From People Who Have Had Their Lives Destroyed By H1N1 Swine Flu Vaccine Side Effects

March 11, 1969 - Vice-President of Planned Parenthood-World Population Frederick Jaffe's "Activities Relevant to the Study of Population Policy for the U.S." is printed containing a memo to Population Council president Bernard Berelson. It includes examples of proposed measures to reduce U.S. fertility, such as 1.  encourage increased homosexuality 2.  fertility control agents in water supply 3.  encourage women to work 4.  abortion and sterilization on demand 5.  make contraception truly available and accessible to all [Dialectics, Rockefellers, and Population Control; Item #17]

"If you want the truth on vaccination, you must go to those who are not making anything out of it.  If doctors shot at the moon every time it was full as a preventive of measles and got a shilling for it, they would bring statistics to prove it was a most efficient practice, and that the population would be decimated if it were stopped."---Dr Allinson [Medical Men and Vaccination] [Great Vaccination Quotes]

"Each year enormous effort goes into producing that year's vaccine and delivering it to appropriate sections of the population. And yet, year after year there are studies showing that flu vaccines DO NOT provide any benefit. ...Two years ago a study in the British Medical Journal concluded that the effectiveness of annual flu shots has been exaggerated, and that in reality they have little or no effect on influenza campaign objectives, including reducing the number of hospital stays, time off work, and death from influenza and its complications. Other studies, done prior and subsequently, also confirm these findings." [Do Flu Shots Work? Ask A Vaccine Manufacturer]

1,000% Increase in Alzheimer's Risk "...This issue flared up back in 1997 when a leading proponent of the vaccine-autism link, Hugh Fudenberg, MD, presented his research at the NVIC International Vaccine Conference, Arlington, VA. His data showed that if an individual had five consecutive flu shots between 1970 and 1980 (the years studied) his / her chances of getting Alzheimer's disease is 10 times higher than if he / she had one, two, or no shots. This data was never published in a peer reviewed journal. Supporters of Fudenberg describe him as "the world's leading immunogeneticist and 13th most quoted biologist of our times (nearly 850 papers in peer review journals)...." [Are Vaccinations Causing Early Alzheimer’s?] [Alzheimer's & Vaccination]

By mercy and truth iniquity is purged: and by the fear of the Lord men depart from evil.  ~Proverbs 16:6

FYI -- H1N1 Vaccine

mercola.com

Mounting Debilities and Deaths from H1N1 Vaccine

Excerpts:

Jordan McFarland, a 14-year-old boy from Virginia, is weak and struggling to walk after coming down with a reported case of Guillain-Barre syndrome (GBS) within hours after receiving the H1N1 vaccine for swine flu...

...Oh, how short our memories are.

It was only four short years ago when President Bush projected that TWO MILLION Americans would [could; source] die from the bird flu.  Guess how many in the US died from bird flu?

Zero, not one person…

...Adverse Reactions Listed in Package Inserts

Here are just a few adverse reactions listed in the package insert from MedImmune’s Intranasal “live” vaccine (the one you see being administered up children’s noses on TV):

* Guillian-Barre syndrome
* Exacerbation of symptoms of mitochondrial encephalomyopathy
* Gastrointestinal disorders
* Immune system disorders, including anaphylactic reaction

Read the whole article here.

Now of the things which we have spoken this is the sum: We have such an high priest, who is set on the right hand of the throne of the Majesty in the heavens; A minister of the sanctuary, and of the true tabernacle, which the Lord pitched, and not man.  ~Hebrews 8:1, 2

We the People

The following preceded the 9/12 march on Washington (ergo "we are coming"), is posted on Glenn Beck's website, and is circulating via email.  As an aside, I've a friend whose son-in-law is a Capitol Hill policeman, who was unexpectedly called to work on September 12, 2009, because they were expecting a crowd of 500,000, and prior to 1:00 p.m. EDT, the mass numbered 1.5 million.  Estimates later in the day numbered greater than that.

June 2009

GLENN BECK: I got a letter from a woman in Arizona.  She writes an open letter to our nation's leadership:

I am a home grown American citizen, 53, registered Democrat all my life.  Before the last presidential election I registered as a Republican because I no longer felt the Democratic Party represents my views or works to pursue issues important to me.  Now I no longer feel the Republican Party represents my views or works to pursue issues important to me.  The fact is I no longer feel any political party or representative in Washington represents my views or works to pursue the issues important to me.  Instead, we are burdened with Congressional Dukes and Duchesses who think they know better than the citizens they are supposed to represent.

There must be someone. Please tell me who you are. Please stand up and tell me that you are there and that you're willing to fight for our Constitution as it was written.  Please stand up now.

You might ask yourself what my views and issues are that I would feel so horribly disenfranchised by both major political parties.  What kind of nut-job am I?  Well, these briefly are the views and issues for which I seek representation:

One, illegal immigration.  I want you to stop coddling illegal immigrants and secure our borders.  Close the underground tunnels.  Stop the violence and the trafficking in drugs and people.  No amnesty, not again.  Been there, done that, no resolution.  P.S., I'm not a racist.  This is not to be confused with legal immigration.

Two, the STIMULUS bill. I want it repealed and I want no further funding supplied to it. We told you No, but you did it anyway. I want the remaining unfunded 95% repealed. Freeze, repeal.

Three, Czars.  I want the circumvention of our constitutional checks and balances stopped immediately.  Fire the czars.  No more czars.  Government officials answer to the process, not to the president.  Stop trampling on our Constitution, and honor it.

Four, cap and trade.  The debate on global warming is not over.  There are many conflicting opinions and it is too soon for this radical legislation.  Quit throwing our nation into politically-correct quicksand.

Five, universal healthcare.  I will not be rushed into another expensive decision that will burden me, my children, and grandchildren.  Don't you dare try to pass this in the middle of the night without even reading it.  Slow down!  Fix only what is broken — we have the best health care system in the world — and test any new program in one or two states first.

Six, growing government control.  I want states rights and sovereignty fully restored.  I want less government in my life, not more.  More is not better!  Shrink it down.  Mind your own business.  You have enough to take care of with your real [Constitutional] obligations.  Why don't you start there.

Seven, ACORN.  I do not want ACORN and its affiliates in charge of our 2010 census.   I want them investigated. I also do not want mandatory escrow fees contributed to them every time on every real estate deal that closes — how did they pull that one off?  Stop the funding to ACORN and its affiliates pending impartial audits and investigations.  I do not trust them with taking the census with our taxpayer money.  I don't trust them with any of our taxpayer money.  Face up to the allegations against them and get it resolved before taxpayers get any more involved with them.  If it walks like a duck and talks like a duck, hello.  Stop protecting your political buddies.  You work for us, the people.  Investigate.

Eight, redistribution of wealth.  No, no, no.  I work for my money.  It is mine.  I have always worked for people with more money than I have because they gave me jobs — and that is the only redistribution of wealth that I will support.  I never got a job from a poor person!  Why do you want me to hate my employers?  And what do you have against shareholders making a profit?

Nine, charitable contributions.  Although I never got a job from a poor person, I have helped many in need.  Charity belongs in our local communities, where we know our needs best and can use our local talent and our local resources.  Butt out, please.  We want to do it ourselves.

Ten, corporate bailouts.  Knock it off.  Every company must sink or swim like the rest of us.  If there are hard times ahead, we'll be better off just getting into it and letting the strong survive.  Quick and painful.  (Have you ever ripped off a Band-Aid?)  We will pull together.  Great things happen in America under great hardship.  Give us the chance to innovate.  We cannot disappoint you more than you have disappointed us.

Eleven, transparency and accountability.  How about it?  No, really, how about it?  Let's have it.  Let's say we give the buzzwords a rest and have some straight honest talk.  Please stop trying to manipulate and appease me with clever wording.  I am not the idiot you obviously take me for.  Stop sneaking around and meeting in back rooms making deals with your friends.  It will only be a prelude to your criminal investigation.  Stop hiding things from me.

Twelve, unprecedented quick spending.  Stop it now.

Take a breath.  Listen to the people.  Slow down and get some input from non-politicians and experts on the subject.  Stop making everything an emergency.  Stop speed-reading our bills into law.  I am not an activist.  I am not a community organizer.  Nor am I a terrorist, a militant or a violent person.  I am a parent and a grandparent.  I work.  I'm busy.  I am busy, and I am tired.  I thought we elected competent people to take care of the business of government so that we could work, raise our families, pay our bills, have a little recreation, complain about taxes, endure our hardships, pursue our personal goals, cut our lawn, wash our cars on the weekends and be responsible contributing members of society and teach our children to be the same all while living in the home of the free and land of the brave.

I entrusted you with upholding the Constitution.  I believed in the checks and balances to keep from getting far off course.  What happened?  You are very far off course.  Do you really think I find humor in the hiring of a speed reader to unintelligently ramble all through a bill that you signed into law without knowing what it contained?  I do not.  It is a mockery of the responsibility I have entrusted to you.  It is a slap in the face.  I am not laughing at your arrogance.  Why is it that I feel as if you would not trust me to make a single decision about my own life and how I would live it but you should expect that I should trust you with the debt that you have laid on all of us and our children.  We did not want the TARP bill.  We said no.  We would repeal it if we could.  I am sure that we still cannot.  There is needless urgency and recklessness in all of your recent spending of our tax dollars.

From my perspective, it seems that all of you have gone insane.  I also know that I am far from alone in these feelings.  Do you honestly feel that your current pursuits have merit to patriotic Americans?  We want it to stop.  We want to put the brakes on everything that is being rushed by us and forced upon us.  We want our voice back.  You have forced us to put our lives on hold to straighten out the mess that you are making.  We will have to give up our vacations, our time spent with our children, any relaxation time we may have had and money we cannot afford to spend on bringing our concerns to Washington.  Our president often knows all the right buzzwords like unsustainable.  Well, no kidding.  How many tens of thousands of dollars did the focus group cost to come up with that word?  We don't want your overpriced words.  Stop treating us like we're morons.

We want all of you to stop focusing on your reelection and do the job we want done, not the job you want done or the job your party wants done.  You work for us and at this rate I guarantee you not for long because we are coming.  We will be heard and we will be represented.  You think we're so busy with our lives that we will never come for you?  We are the formerly silent majority, all of us who quietly work, pay taxes, obey the law, vote, save money, keep our noses to the grindstone...and we are now looking at you.

You have awakened us, the patriotic freedom spirit so strong and so powerful that it had been sleeping too long.  You have pushed us too far.  Our numbers are great.  They may surprise you.  For every one of us who will be there, there will be hundreds more that could not come.  Unlike you, we have their trust.  We will represent them honestly, rest assured.  They will be at the polls on voting day to usher you out of office.

We have cancelled vacations.  We will use our last few dollars saved.  We will find the representation among us and a grassroots campaign will flourish.  We didn't ask for this fight.  But the gloves are coming off.  We do not come in violence, but we are angry.  You will represent us or you will be replaced with someone who will.  There are candidates among us who will rise like a Phoenix from the ashes that you have made of our constitution.

Democrat, Republican, independent, libertarian.  Understand this.  We don't care.  Political parties are meaningless to us.  Patriotic Americans are willing to do right by us and our Constitution, and that is all that matters to us now.  We are going to fire all of you who abuse power and seek more.  It is not your power.  It is ours and we want it back.  We entrusted you with it and you abused it.  You are dishonorable. You are dishonest.  As Americans we are ashamed of you.  You have brought shame to us.  If you are not representing the wants and needs of your constituency loudly and consistently, in spite of the objections of your party, you will be fired.  Did you hear?  We no longer care about your political parties.  You need to be loyal to us, not to them.  Because we will get you fired and they will not save you.

If you do or can represent me, my issues, my views, please stand up.  Make your identity known.  You need to make some noise about it.  Speak up.  I need to know who you are.  If you do not speak up, you will be herded out with the rest of the sheep and we will replace the whole [snip expletive] congress if need be one by one.  We are coming.  Are we coming for you?  Who do you represent?  What do you represent?  Listen.  Because we are coming.  We the people are coming.  - Janet Contreras

When the righteous are in authority, the people rejoice: but when the wicked beareth rule, the people mourn.  ~Proverbs 29:2

Oink

Another Shocking Warning about Swine Flu Vaccine

For as in the days that were before the flood they were eating and drinking, marrying and giving in marriage, until the day that Noe entered into the ark, And knew not until the flood came, and took them all away; so shall also the coming of the Son of man be.  ~Matthew 24:38, 39

Pretty Funny Fishy

Well, maybe it's only funny, if one is having trouble processing what ignorant people are doing and why on earth they're doing it, and someone comes along commenting ever-so-well on that.  Even then, it's not knee-slapping funny.  Or even ha-ha funny.  Um, maybe it's not funny at all.  Never mind the funny thing.

Excellent article:  You Want Fishy?  I'll Give You Fishy

And when these things begin to come to pass, then look up, and lift up your heads; for your redemption draweth nigh.  ~Luke 21:28

Scared Me

An article title at World Net Daily.  Thought I better read it, because the title quite unpleasantly surprised me, given the source.  Smart author.  His ruse worked.

Now heads up here.  Don't get scared.  I'M not saying this — this is the article title.  Great article.  Give it a read, if you've a moment:

I Agree with Rick Warren!

For Paul had determined to sail by Ephesus,... And from Miletus he sent to Ephesus, and called the elders of the church.  And when they were come to him, he said unto them,... For I have not shunned to declare unto you all the counsel of God.  Take heed therefore unto yourselves, and to all the flock, over the which the Holy Ghost hath made you overseers, to feed the church of God, which he hath purchased with his own blood.  For I know this, that after my departing shall grievous wolves enter in among you, not sparing the flock.   Also of your own selves shall men arise, speaking perverse things, to draw away disciples after them.  Therefore watch, and remember, that by the space of three years I ceased not to warn every one night and day with tears.  ~Acts 20:16, 17, 18, 27-31

Interesting Newsletter

July Issue

Knowing this first, that there shall come in the last days scoffers, walking after their own lusts, And saying, Where is the promise of his coming? for since the fathers fell asleep, all things continue as they were from the beginning of the creation.  ...The Lord is not slack concerning his promise, as some men count slackness; but is longsuffering to us-ward, not willing that any should perish, but that all should come to repentance.  ~II Peter 3:3, 4, 9

Interesting

World Net Daily - May 05, 2009
Census GPS-Tagging Your Home's Front Door
Coordinates being taken for every residence in nation

"...According to the Census Bureau's website, the GPS technology 'allows us to reduce the amount of time spent by census workers in locating addresses. … Most importantly, by adding a GPS coordinate to each housing unit, the Census Bureau is able to ensure that residents are counted in the right location.'"  [read more]

This WND article cites a cost of $700 million tax dollars for the hire of "census workers" to establish these GPS coordinates in advance of the actual, constitutional census taking in 2010.  This is to save later census workers time and trouble?  Sounds like doubletalk doubletime to me.  Even if there was no cause for concern over having one's front door GPS painted by the federal government, why pay canvasing crews twice?  Hello.  Would the waste of taxpayer dollars was the gravest concern.

Trust in him at all times; ye people, pour out your heart before him: God is a refuge for us. Selah.  ~Psalm 62:8

Article - Audacity

"Yes, a weekend at Camp David was not enough of a rest for the First Family.  They required a weekend in Chicago in order to celebrate Valentine's Day this past weekend.  It would seem that Michelle was not satisfied with the White House chef that she hand picked to cook for her for the next four years so after just a brief ride on Air Force One, the Ones found themselves snuggling in a corner booth at a swanky restaurant in their home town."  [Click here to read article about the Obamas' hard work and personal sacrifices in this time of national crisis.]

A little that a righteous man hath is better than the riches of many wicked.  ~Psalm 37:16

A Dark Nation in Dark Times

By Sheriff Jim R. Schwiesow, Ret.
February 7, 2009
NewsWithViews.com

"I don’t know about others, but I have quickly tired of the ubiquitous presence of Barack Obama.  Though I had no more regard for George W. Bush than I do for Mr. Obama, I do have to admit that Mr. Bush’s disinclination to television omnipresence was indeed a virtue.  ...It is clear that George W. Bush pushed the nation far down the road toward destruction, and it is equally clear that President Obama will most assuredly finish it off." 
read more...

Article -- The "Jesus" the World Loves

I've long been interested in the concept of designer gods, which are usually developed as an extension of self or a desire to be religious. We were all created with worship as a fiber of our beings, and if we don't bestow that worship upon The One True God, it'll land somewhere.  The following article is a thoughtful treatment of the topic.

"God did not draw pictures on the tablets He gave to Moses. His continual command to him and to His other prophets was to write down His instructions.  Visual imagery was at the heart of pagan worship used by people whose lives centered around idols--the chief by-product being unbridled superstition."  read more...

Blessed are the peacemakers: for they shall be called the children of God.  ~Matthew 5:9

Article - Blessed Subtractions

A friend brought to my attention this morning some of the most recent movements of the persuasive and celebrated leader of the purpose driven church movement, which prompted me to run "blessed subtractions" through a search engine, because our family was a so-called blessed subtraction from such a church back in the '90s, and I was going to look for the guru's exact quote teaching his followers to condemn people in local fellowships (often "Community Churches") who won't get on-board with the heresies in the church growth movement. This article which popped up in the search results was interesting:

"...Consensus in the church says that the majority determines the will of God. Though many godly men and women throughout history have had to stand alone against heinous herds of misguided zeal, the postmodern church has been persuaded by certain celebrated charlatans that groupthink is synonymous with God-think." read more...

Take heed therefore unto yourselves, and to all the flock, over the which the Holy Ghost hath made you overseers, to feed the church of God, which he hath purchased with his own blood. For I know this, that after my departing shall grievous wolves enter in among you, not sparing the flock. Also of your own selves shall men arise, speaking perverse things, to draw away disciples after them. Therefore watch, and remember, that by the space of three years I ceased not to warn every one night and day with tears.
~Acts 20:28-31

For such are false apostles, deceitful workers, transforming themselves into the apostles of Christ. And no marvel; for Satan himself is transformed into an angel of light. Therefore it is no great thing if his ministers also be transformed as the ministers of righteousness; whose end shall be according to their works.
~II Corinthians 11:13-15

Commentary

[President-Elect] Obama, now that you work for me...
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I exhort therefore, that, first of all, supplications, prayers, intercessions, and giving of thanks, be made for all men; for kings, and for all that are in authority; that we may lead a quiet and peaceable life in all godliness and honesty. For this is good and acceptable in the sight of God our Saviour; Who will have all men to be saved, and to come unto the knowledge of the truth. ~I Timothy 2:1-4 (quoted in the article from a corrupt version)

GreatNot ProudNot

Last Trumpet Newsletter - August

I always try to remember to catch this monthly newsletter** and have just now read the August issue. The topics therein aligned with my recent thoughts, prompted by the phrases greatest nation on earth and proud to be an American. I realize that people who use these phrases in reference to the United States of America probably aren't thinking about the words, and they mean well. People of my generation were taught to accept and utter the phrases as unshakeable truths. The words and the concepts are such a terribly ill fit to reality -- at least for Christians.

I sorrowfully shudder over the concept of calling the USA the greatest nation on earth when she is filled with, enjoying, and promoting every evil under the sun -- a list so long and pervasive that I dare not tackle the task of enumerating, for it would be exhausting and likely depressing. The newsletter mentions a few of the evils this nation now embraces. The author is very near my own age, so he also lived in the nation this once was and mentions having watched it decay and become nearly unrecognizable. Personally, it would scare the daylights out of me, if I was of a mind or heart to call the present USA the greatest nation on earth, given her swarthy departure from both God and good and her ever-deepening plunge into evil deeds and darkness.

I'd be even less inclined to entertain pride in being an American, as if I could claim having had a hand in being born into this nation or that she's doing something today of which I could be proud...if I was of a heart to nurture pride. God clearly hates pride; oh, that He might have mercy on me and always help me to shun pride. May the Holy Spirit always remind me that all of my blessings come from the Lord and are none of my own doing or merit. I am very thankful that I was born into the USA and have enjoyed the rich, unmerited blessings which were mine in a nation that once honored and respected the One True God, even endeavoring to be ruled in accordance with His precepts.

"My soul shall make her boast in the Lord: the humble shall hear thereof, and be glad. O magnify the Lord with me, and let us exalt his name together." (Psalm 34:2, 3)



** In the weeks since I published this blogpost, it has come to my attention that the author of the newsletter departs from sound doctrine on some critical issues. I do not endorse all of the author's doctrinal perspectives.

Woe unto them that call evil good, and good evil; that put darkness for light, and light for darkness; that put bitter for sweet, and sweet for bitter! ~Isaiah 5:20

This know also, that in the last days perilous times shall come. For men shall be lovers of their own selves, covetous, boasters, proud, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy, without natural affection, trucebreakers, false accusers, incontinent, fierce, despisers of those that are good, traitors, heady, highminded, lovers of pleasures more than lovers of God; having a form of godliness, but denying the power thereof: from such turn away.
~II Timothy 3:1-5

Change

For I am the Lord, I change not;
~Malachi 3:6a

Zoomer brought to my attention a guest article by Kathi Sundeen in the June 2, 2008, newsletter of Lighthouse Trails Research Project. The article is entitled Todd Bentley and a Spirit Named "Winds of Change" and begins:

The "healing revival" started by Todd Bentley that is currently taking place in Florida began with a demonic appearance by a spirit calling itself the "Winds of Change."

The article is a well footnoted and interesting piece on change agents and change, a much heard word these days.

Fret not thyself because of evil men, neither be thou envious at the wicked; For there shall be no reward to the evil man; the candle of the wicked shall be put out. My son, fear thou the Lord and the king: and meddle not with them that are given to change: For their calamity shall rise suddenly; and who knoweth the ruin of them both? ~Proverbs 24:19-22

Yo Zeus

Who's Guiding the Olympic Vision?

by Berit Kjos

Thus saith the Lord, Learn not the way of the heathen. ~Jeremiah 10:2a