Barak Hussein Obama, Chris Matthews And The Steak With The Onions Waitress

In his first State of the Union Address, Obama showed signs of the repeated beatings he has received by friend and foe, alike. His youth appeared gone, no glint of aged wisdom appeared in his eyes despite the faux gray now crafted into his pate. Nervously entangling fingers, fatiguely resting them upon the podium, then with the familiar dancing-puppet movements, the pincer gesture and the proctologic point, he countenanced the same blaw blaw progressivist, elitist gobbledygook he has always trumpeted. There was some idiocy about climate change. He struggled to stand tall with his back to the Vice-clueless, and Specter of the House, made richer from the bailouts, wife of a real estate venture financier (wink, wink), Mrs. Paul Frank Corleone Pelosi, as he fed the crowd the whole holy cow of vintage 1920′s national socialist zeitgeist, including an open homosexuality policy that would make way for the first openly bi-racial-bi-sexual-bye-bye-birdie bi-President and the first First Partners of anyone of a dozen different orientation combinations. But he stopped short of coming out with any admissions about his own proclivities or why he chooses one but not another.

Then there was the whiny, whimping-out about political fisticuffs, and a gratuitous invoking the great demon of NEA contolled “we makem dumber” liberal education policy, as he played off the inculcated ignorance of his constituency by denying the facts that the history of political office and politics in general has always been with filled with partisan virtiol. He begged for the fight to be over all the while being about as partisan as one can get. It was like he was saying: “I just can’t take any more… It’s just horrible. Those brutes… Damn you Bush, *damn you America, damn you Auntie Em, how could you treat me… I mean, me… this way after all the ways I did you… Save me O’s Great Wright Hope!”

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We now return to your regularly needed deprogramming:

Admitting defeat, he actually coopted conservative tax philosophy. How he is going to pay for all the freebies he promises so that Democrats can buy more votes was left unsaid. However, he vowed that he will not quit fighting, but would quit fighting, but wouldn’t quit fighting but would, and promised to turn congress over to the Republicans if they think they can run the government better. (If the Republicans):

insist that 60 votes in the Senate are required to do any business at all in this town — a supermajority — then the responsibility to govern is now yours, as well.

He vowed to stop the partisanship, he vowed to continue it, he vowed he would walk away, he vowed he would not walk away, he vowed he would talk away, he vowed he wouldn’t… he vowed to resurrect Reagan’s budget axe, he vowed to keep it buried, he vowed that he would finish the job he began on the American people, he vowed to blame others for it, he vowed he would uphold the constitution, he vowed to read it sometime, he vowed to learn how to read, he vowed to get a new teleprompter operator, he called for quits to political campaigning, he gave a political speach, he vowed to quit fighting, he threw punches at everyone, even the Supreme Court, his shadow, the the stage lights, he promised, he didn’t promise, he promised, shehe loves me, heshe loves me not, he condemned the right, he promised he promised to stop partisan bickering, he condemned Bush, he promised he would promise to stop partisan attacks, he condemned, he promised to quit the political folderal, he attacked again, he promised substance, he blew hard, he promised he promised he promised, he promised Iran what? War? He promised peace, he promised to be a hawk, he cooed like a dove, he hawked up a chunk, and squatted like a buzzard, Iran tested a nuke while he promised us increased terrorism policies, he promised he would look into acts of terrorism, he promised us safety and security, he promised to secure the borders, he promised not to alienate the Hispanic vote, he promised, he promised no more damn run on sentences as wasted words ran down his chin like drivel… Such is the confusion,

Such are promises…

A punch-drunk mind is to be pitied. But when it sees the exit and refuses to leave the ring no matter how many times it promises, you must conclude it is the teleprompter operator’s fault.

This just in: Chris “Hammond Maxwell” Matthews, talking head for the Democrat Party admits the Democrats used racism to win their majorities when he said: “dat boy show know how to polish dem shoes… I mose forgets dat ‘bama was mandingo…, it’s like, heuns real peepul…”

Honestly, how many times do the Democrats have to tip their racist hand before the liberal black community rises up against Democrat manipulation of race for the politics of power? One would think that being typified as a lesser being by the likes of Matthews would pretty much reveal the slaver mentality of the left. The fact is that Obama has done nothing to heal the racial divide. He used his black heritage with the same fervor that Hammond used Ellen. Don’t be confused, Obama used his “blackness” in every bit the whorish way that Matthews and other white liberal Democrat owners of the black Democrats do.

Every thing looks better in black and white.

Breaking News: 150,000 Died Today, Your Next Haiti

Death is routine, daily business, so mundane and common place. It is a tragedy of epoch proportions which surrounds us constantly, numbing us. It takes dramatic events, magnitude, nearness in relationship, popularity, or certain attributes of those affected to pique our interest. When confronted with the immediacy of death, especially in great numbers, the mind always engages in why searching. One death or thousands, what’s the difference?

To those who do not know Christ, to confront death is to face a great unkown, blackness of darkness forever, unsatisfying, searing any approach of mind, and forebodingly consuming. Each Christian has been confronted by death too, but they’ve seen it and have seen it die in the death of Christ. For the Christian, to be absent from the body is to be present with the Lord. They know that to be true because they have died in him. And they’ve understood the great evil that death is, but they know also his resurrection and his triumph over death.

A more abundant life is what everyman, everywhere, thoughout time has desired so as to escape what they do not know. From fountains of youth, to magic mirrors, from mystic mountain heights, to elemental dissolution, the hope of immortality wanders through man’s monuments like the secret lover in a dear darling’s diary. Life more abundant, eternal, is what Christ alone can grant, yet man will not look for him even though God shows man where to look for life by exposing man to death.

Except that you are in him, in his death, you will die even though you live. If you are in Christ, even though you die you shall live for you have died with Christ. So whether a Christian lives or dies, in Christ he finds his only hope and by that this life here and now becomes more abundant than a life without Christ can provide. Without Christ, there is no hope, there is no peace, no answer to the disturbed questions of a restless man worried about death in this life.

The only way to escape your own Haiti, is in Jesus. But just like all people, things like time, pleasure, and other distractions will cause you to forget about your Haiti, about your appointed time. You will begin to think that all things go on just as they always have, that people live and people die. Such is life! You’ll no longer consider that you are just a people. What would it take to convince you that you live as though you will not die, even though you know you will, even though you have been shaken by death numerous times, and even though you don’t know what the next moment holds for you? A tsunami, an earthquake, another twin towers, Dachau, the Sudan? A mother, brother, sister, a child, a spouse? How much history will you need? You should live expecting that in the next moment, in your next breath, you may die, because 150,000 people died today. And more will die tomorrow. And you are just a people. You cannot be sure that you are not next. Are you ready? If you do not know what comes next, if you cannot know for certain what tomorrow holds, death or life, don’t you think you need to know what death will hold for you?

How can you know you’re ready? Christ invites you to contemplate your death. Take a good look, the next moment could be your Haiti. With every confrontation, whether in the news or in personal contact, the why that you ask involuntarily is being answered. Today is the day of salvation.

The real tragedy is that you might say to yourself, others deserved what they got. But I am not like them. Or, why did God pass over me? Be sure of this, he has his eye on the sparrow and you as well. You might simply question why did this happen at all, as if to say there is no reason, no one deserves this? In any case you are asking for a judgement, you want to place the blame, on others, on God, on nature, and all the while excuse yourself.

Therefore you have no excuse, O man, every one of you who judges. For in passing judgment on another you condemn yourself, because you, the judge, practice the very same things. We know that the judgment of God rightly falls on those who practice such things. Do you suppose, O man—you who judge those who practice such things and yet do them yourself—that you will escape the judgment of God? Or do you presume on the riches of his kindness and forbearance and patience, not knowing that God’s kindness is meant to lead you to repentance? But because of your hard and impenitent heart you are storing up wrath for yourself on the day of wrath when God’s righteous judgment will be revealed.

He will render to each one according to his works: to those who by patience in well-doing seek for glory and honor and immortality, he will give eternal life; but for those who are self-seeking and do not obey the truth, but obey unrighteousness, there will be wrath and fury. There will be tribulation and distress for every human being who does evil, the Jew first and also the Greek, but glory and honor and peace for everyone who does good, the Jew first and also the Greek. For God shows no partiality.

For all who have sinned without the law will also perish without the law, and all who have sinned under the law will be judged by the law.

Do you think you have escaped judgement? If you have judged yourself not worthy of death, or passed any judgement at all, read: For there is no distinction: for all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God

And since everyone is cursed, because every one has sinned: one trespass led to condemnation for all…,

what happened in Haiti was not due to any inherent differences between them and you, no acts of sin they did that you have not. Indeed, the whole world lies under the curse and the whole could be wiped out at anytime for the simple reason that all men are condemned. The miracle is that you are still alive at this moment, that God has granted to you through his forebearance, time, so that you might repent. It is not about others, this moment is about you.

Let’s listen to Jesus explain the same doctrine of your sin: There were some present at that very time who told him about the Galileans whose blood Pilate had mingled with their sacrifices. And he answered them, “Do you think that these Galileans were worse sinners than all the other Galileans, because they suffered in this way? No, I tell you; but unless you repent, you will all likewise perish. Or those eighteen on whom the tower in Siloam fell and killed them: do you think that they were worse offenders than all the others who lived in Jerusalem? No, I tell you; but unless you repent, you will all likewise perish.”

The harsh, anxious reality is that the death toll is total. It is appointed once to every man to die and then the judgement. Are you ready? That was the message of Haiti for you if you missed it. It was the answer sent ahead of time, special delivery to you, since you haven’t been paying attention to death all around you everyday. Everyone you pass by on the street is dying and will die, some before the day is through. They all deserve to die. And so do you.

Believers as well as unbelievers perished in Haiti. Indeed, believers and unbelievers perish every day. But does anyone one take it to heart? Seriously? The wicked perish every day and we mourn their passing. The righteous perish and we mourn their passing, too. Yet, they go to the same place, the wicked and the righteous, to be judged as either having done well or as having done evil. Yet, as the Scriptures above explained- all men do evil. No one escapes the judgement. How can a man be justified in the eyes of God, then? The mourning on this side of death is light and temporary compared to the ubearable, eternal wailing on the other side. How can anyone escape condemnation, then? And who cares?

As a lamb without spot or blemish, the only righteous one was crucified for sin. Yet who asks why? Some ask, “Couldn’t this one who worked such great things have saved himself?” Does any one ask why the only one ever born of a woman who did not deserve to die, had to die like all the rest? The foundational truth is that he did not appeal to his own righteousness, though he could have, but to the mercy of his Father, (Psalm 22, cf. Luke 23:46, Hebrews 5:7), trusting fully that his Father would not abandon him to condemnation.

I will tell of your name to my brothers; in the midst of the congregation I will praise you: You who fear the Lord, praise him! All you offspring of Jacob, glorify him, and stand in awe of him, all you offspring of Israel!For he has not despised or abhorred the affliction of the afflicted, and he has not hidden his face from him, but has heard, when he cried to him. From you comes my praise in the great congregation; my vows I will perform before those who fear him. The afflicted shall eat and be satisfied; those who seek him shall praise the Lord! May your hearts live forever! All the ends of the earth shall remember and turn to the Lord, and all the families of the nations shall worship before you. For kingship belongs to the Lord, and he rules over the nations. All the prosperous of the earth eat and worship; before him shall bow all who go down to the dust, even the one who could not keep himself alive. Posterity shall serve him; it shall be told of the Lord to the coming generation; they shall come and proclaim his righteousness to a people yet unborn, that he has done it.

Think on this: you say that you will go here and there and buy and sell, marry and live your life. You cannot even number the days of your life, how then will you add any to it? What confidence do you have that tomorrow will even be there for you? Tonight, your soul is required to stand before the judge of the living and the dead. Because everyday you are storing up judgement for yourself on the day of judgement. Are you ready? Or will tragedy find you asking why and never being able to give a good answer. Christ could answer that there was nothing of the devil in him, but can you say that you have never done anything to offend the least of the commandments? Will you claim that you are not like other sinners? Or, as Jesus, who was not a sinner like you, will you throw yourself upon the mercy of God? Jesus said the sinner who could not even lift up his head because of his sin, went away justified when he cried out for mercy. Would you not even do what the only innocent man to have ever lived would do? Would you not do what a sinner would do? Jesus calls you to take up your cross and follow. Death comes to all men and Jesus is asking you to call upon his Father just as he did, that you might be saved. Stop, turn from your unbelief and live. Trust this way, the way of mercy. You have no excuse, you know what God requires: right judgement about your sin, a plea for mercy because of your sin and for you to walk humbly before God, accepting the good works done on your behalf by Jesus on the cross.

The answer is in Jesus’ simple explanation. You are as much a sinner as any and unless you repent and believe you likewise will perish. So today, while it is still called today, if you hear his voice, repent. Christ, the only righteous one died on Calvary for that purpose. If you believe that, if you hear, if you understand that you deserve what he didn’t and that his death paid the penalty for your sin, if you cry out to him for mercy, you will be saved. You may die in the next Haiti, you may die in your sleep tonight, you may recover from the wounds of a Haiti today and be killed in the Haiti of tomorrow. Today is the day of salvation, so do not harden your heart.

Ignore the NOAA, NASA and Hadley Center Press Releases

If, instead of bleating to be feed more of the astro turf provided by false shepherds of doom, the climate-crisis lemmings crowd would read, they might be interest in this found in an article by Joseph D’Aleo.

…Climate change is real, there are cooling and warming periods that can be shown to correlate nicely with solar and ocean cycles. You can trust in the data that shows there has been warming from 1979 to 1998, just as there was warming the around 1920 to 1940. But there has been cooling from 1940 to the late 1970s and since 2001. It is the long term trend on which this cyclical pattern is superimposed that is exaggerated.

Every month the world data centers release monthly data with their assessment of the historic ranking of the previous month. NOAA, NASA State record highs show the cyclical pattern but suggest the 1930s to 1940 peak was higher than the recent peak around 1998…

and The Hadley Center will announce that December 2009 ranked among the top 5 warmest Decembers in history for the globe. This will seem incongruous in many parts of the world that have suffered through brutal cold and snow during that month. It was the coldest in three to four decades in the UK and China. In the US, it was the 14th coldest in 114 years.

Given these data issues and the inconvenient truths in the Climategate emails, the claim that the 2000s was the warmest decade in a millennium or two is ludicrous.

Satellite data centers will also release their assessments of monthly and global temperature. For reasons we will discuss their results will be less remarkable. This has been the trend in recent years. For instance NOAA announced that for the globe June 2009 (for the globe) was the second warmest June in 130 years falling just short of 2005. In sharp contrast to this NASA, The University of Alabama Huntsville, UAH and MSU satellite assessments had June virtually at the long term average (+0.001C or 15th coldest in 31 years) and Remote Sensing Systems, with RSS 14th coldest.

The only real question in the whole global warming hoax is what the motives were in the hearts of those who have lied to the entire global community?

There are other articles they could check out like this:

Further, a Colorado scientist described by the Washington Post as “the World’s Most Famous Hurricane Expert” said the East Anglia e-mails “are but the tip of a giant iceberg of a well-organized international climate-warming conspiracy that has been gathering momentum for the last 25 years.”

Main Stream Media Hate Speach Against Christians Spurs Violence

Violent crimes against Christian Churchers was 9800%, nealy 100 times, greater in 2009 than against the killing factories defended by the the death mongering MSM.
Abortion Clinic violence is nearly non-existent, today.

Sadly, the daily barage of hate spewing forth from liberal mainstream media outlets has ballooned hate crimes against Christians.

Mainstream media political hate rhetoric aimed at Christians prompted new attitutudes and attacks against Christians Churches, it is surmised. Assigning blame as liberals do to negative speach, they must bear the totality of the blame for the crime wave they have instigated.

Violence against the death factories has steadily declined over the decades since Roe vs Wade declared one class of humans to be dispensible. And that, according to the abortion wackos pridefully displayed statistics. And it is to be noted that crimes using “acid,” as they admit, sought no harm to individuals, but merely served to interrupt the taking of life. Even in the hayday of anti-death camp violence, there wasn’t much crime to speak of and today, as I said, it is nearly non-existent.

Though the article from VirtueOnline is correct that there is no way to determine exactly hate of Christians as motivation in the majority of cases- burgarly, inside crime, murder, or rape- arsons are most likely motivated by hate. Even if, for charities sake, we shave 50% of the arsons away, hate crimes against Christian Churches were 4900%, nearly 50 times, more likely than hate crimes against the abortion death camps to have happened in 2009.

Don’t expect the MSM to report that.

Is Psalm 105:19 About Joseph’s Character Development? Or, Why Lie To Element Church?

Is Psalm 105:19 about Joseph’s character delopment? No. The psalm is a song of praise and thanks to the Lord God who rescues his own out of tribulations and always fulfills His dream for his people despite what man might do. Which explains a lot about the meaning of the word testing. The testing is not about God developing Joseph’s character, and surely not about Joseph developing his own. The point of verse 19, is that of the continued testings, that is the tribulations to which Joseph was subjected were purposed by God to bring about what could not be twarted by either Joseph’s captors, or by Joseph himself. In context of the rest of the psalm, it is about God delivering his people out of captivity as captives of God’s grace. The ability to flee Pharoah’s wife like the ability to interpret dreams, was not within Josephe, but is as all other things concerning his life, God’s purposed plan working in him both the willing and doing so that all things work together for good, for those who are called according to his purpose. Just as that, God’s plan, his dreams for his people, are not contingent upon them and their will or effort, but according to the promises God has for his people.

There is some connection here to James 1:2-4. But even there, it is the perfection of faith, and not the character of the faithful, which is in view. In any case, God could care less that you develope your character before He fulfills a dream he has given because it is not about having your best life now, it is not about your life’s work, it was not about Joseph, it is about God and him alone. The end of the Psalm tells a tale:

And he gave them the lands of the nations, and they took possession of the fruit of the peoples’ toil, that they might keep his statutes and observe his laws.

We know that they took possession, at least in part. We also know they did not keep his statutes and observe his laws. The fact is that they showed no “character” despite God’s gracious blessing, regardless of forty years of testing. Yet, the dream of their God for them is fulfilled, regardless:

To you I will give the land of Canaan as your portion for an inheritance.

An inheritance is not earned, nor can it be lost, or so goes the tale of the prodigal.

Praise the Lord.

Jeff Maness again shows his disdain for what the Scripture is teaching so that he might advance his weird occult like, hyper-spiritualized, agenda. Through much the same pragmatic paradigm as vision casting, the actualization of dreams through some penitential discipline is offered as an elite brand of “spiritual” pursuit. In both cases Maness warns of the impending failure if the right formulas are not followed- eye of newt, entrail of rat, stew 15 minutes, no more, no less. It is magic, a kind of sorcercy, not Christianity. It is too bad. Psalm 105 is a wonderful overview of God’s sovereignty, a sovereignty that Maness has to overthrow to teach what he does.

Psalm 105 begins with this kind of praise:

Remember the wondrous works that he has done, his miracles, and the judgments he uttered, O offspring of Abraham, his servant, children of Jacob, his chosen ones!

Of course the whole Psalm is filled with the personal pronouns, but in this sentence, alone, you can see that what this Psalm is about is God, not Joseph. It speaks of his dealings with his chosen people, his wonderous works. The over view shows his sovereignty over all people, even those among whom the chosen walk as sojourners and how he protects the chosen. It moves on to demonstrate how he has orchestrated famine to force the offspring of Jacob into slavery, but also how even in that “testing” they were not alone. It speaks of his increasing them while they were in the land of Ham. Or, as it is sometimes known, the land of sin. And we might reflect that while we were yet dead in sin, Christ died for us. There is prophecy here if one cares to look for it. The prophecy of one sent before to prepare the way, and a prophecy of a deliverer, who as one being dead is raised from the pit to provide life to others while they yet are in bondage. There is prophecy of the comfort that God has always been faithful to his word so that his people may be confident that he will bring them to the land of their dreams. Those dreams he gives are his, and he always completes what he intends and so his people endure to the end.

Quite to the contrary is the picture Maness paints. His god cannot be trusted. His god is not omnipotent. His god is unable to bring to fruition the dreams he gives man. He can conceive, but he cannot bring to birth. Instead, the god of Element Church is frustrated by the actions of sinful man, waiting upon them to hone their character before he can act:

What is it that God wants you to accomplish? What dream has God planted in your heart? I think for many people, they have this dream, goal or ambition they feel they are “called” to accomplish. There is something they are “meant” to be or do. There is a vision they are “supposed” to follow. What often happens is…it DOESN’T happen! There is a delay in the opportunity to pursue it. There is a roadblock that seems to obstruct it. There are closed doors instead of open doors, and I think within that, we often MISS opportunities to develop something that ENABLES the pursuit of our dreams. Ready?

We end up focusing on the timing of our dreams instead of dreaming about our time! (That is either deep or stupid I’ll let you decide)

We spend SO MUCH TIME thinking about our dream (which may never happen) that we don’t pay attention to the time we already have…NOW! The biggest opportunity we miss in waiting for our dreams, is developing our character, and to be honest, that is the GREATEST THING TO PURSUE and the ONLY thing that matters! If my character doesn’t develop my dream doesn’t matter.

Psalm 105:19 says Until the time came to fulfill his dreams, the Lord tested Joseph’s character! And if you remember the story, Joseph PASSED the test BECAUSE he developed his character. He dreamed about his time instead of spending time thinking about his dream. He lived for the NOW and not for the “to come”. Food for thought. If we would focus on our today instead of hoping for our tomorrow, our dreams may just happen instead of drowning in our sorrow!

He lived for the NOW and not for the “to come”.

Really? Until the time came to fulfill his dreams, the Lord tested Joseph’s character! …Joseph PASSED the test BECAUSE he developed his character! The Psalm says nothing of the kind, nor do the texts of Genesis. Maness’ focus is on self. Joseph’s is on God. What we find out is that Joseph knows that the whole show was God’s purposed plan. Joseph would disagree with Maness. Joseph knew, no matter what, that the purpose of God would go forth. The only way believers can live for the Now is to live for the time “to come.” That’s the message of Joseph. At least the Apostle Paul seemed to think that was the right motivation:

For the grace of God has appeared, bringing salvation for all people, training us to renounce ungodliness and worldly passions, and to live self-controlled, upright, and godly lives in the present age, waiting for our blessed hope, the appearing of the glory of our great God and Savior Jesus Christ, who gave himself for us to redeem us from all lawlessness and to purify for himself a people for his own possession who are zealous for good works.

…because of the hope laid up for you in heaven. Of this you have heard before in the word of the truth, the gospel, which has come to you, as indeed in the whole world it is bearing fruit and growing—as it also does among you, since the day you heard it and understood the grace of God in truth… And so, from the day we heard, we have not ceased to pray for you, asking that you may be filled with the knowledge of his will in all spiritual wisdom and understanding, so as to walk in a manner worthy of the Lord, fully pleasing to him, bearing fruit in every good work and increasing in the knowledge of God. May you be strengthened with all power, according to his glorious might, for all endurance and patience with joy, giving thanks to the Father, who has qualified you to share in the inheritance of the saints in light. He has delivered us from the domain of darkness and transferred us to the kingdom of his beloved Son, in whom we have redemption, the forgiveness of sins.

The hope that motivates in the Now is a hope that is laid up in the future. Specifically, it is the return of the Lord, not some temporal fulfillment of personally desired dreams. And look at who does the character developing. It is God, and it does not fail.

…I charge you in the presence of God and of Christ Jesus, who is to judge the living and the dead, and by his appearing and his kingdom: preach the word; be ready in season and out of season; reprove, rebuke, and exhort, with complete patience and teaching. For the time is coming when people will not endure sound teaching, but having itching ears they will accumulate for themselves teachers to suit their own passions, and will turn away from listening to the truth and wander off into myths. As for you, always be sober-minded, endure suffering, do the work of an evangelist, fulfill your ministry.

What is so wonderous about Joseph’s earlier dreams is that they are filled with eschatological import. And concentrating on the dream is where the understanding of the moment and the strength to endure, resides. That is where the patience in teaching is found. Joseph was living Scripture and his works were written by them. Unfortunately for many like Maness, jealousy about the few chosen to have dreams and visions clouds his ability to see clearly. He is the teacher accumulated to satisfy the narcisstic passions of the people. His are the myths of which Paul speaks. God given dreams never fail, myths do. If Maness would only spend time really reading Scripture rather than tween his personal beliefs, visions, and dreams into the texts, he would serve his people much better. Maness delivers exactly the opposite message from what Psalm 105 teaches. The Psalm is consistent with Genesis and the rest of Scripture, Maness is not. The Psalm gives us encouragement that despite our circumstances, including our failures in character, the dreams of God never fail to come to fruition. We are reminded of Peter’s character failure and take note of Jesus’ words:

Simon, Simon, behold, Satan demanded to have you, that he might sift you like wheat, but I have prayed for you that your faith may not fail. And when you have turned again, strengthen your brothers.” Peter said to him, “Lord, I am ready to go with you both to prison and to death.” Jesus said, “I tell you, Peter, the rooster will not crow this day, until you deny three times that you know me.”

We know Peter didn’t “turn” until after the “dream” is fulfilled.

The contrast between Joseph in later life and Peter is stark, but it is only so if we look at just the isolated picture. A better contrast would be Samuel and Peter, but even Samuel failed the character test in judging without prejudice his sons. And at that point of Israel’s history we might note God’s declaration of Israel’s character:

According to all the deeds that they have done, from the day I brought them up out of Egypt even to this day, forsaking me and serving other gods, so they are also doing to you.

Psalm 105 does not focus upon what man does, and certainly not Joseph. The focus is as it should be, God, and his purposes, which he always, without failure, accomplishes for those he has called.

As you can see, this is not happenstance with Maness, but a crippling ministry in which he persists to twist and deny what the word of God teaches.

Global Warming Causes Record Cold In Northern Hemisphere

Here.

There.

Everywhere.

Oh thankyou Brako One Obabba, and the Wonderous Algore, Great Wizard of Warming, for warning the world of how warm it was getting.

Pelagian Heresy: Non-Calvinist Southern Baptists In John Owen’s View

…According to Pelagianism, the preaching of God’s word [apart from the regenerating work of the Spirit] is quite sufficient as an outward means to bring a person to repentance and faith. The revelation made of God and his mind is quite sufficient to teach men all they need to believe and do, that they may be converted to God and begin to obey him. [in the Pelagian view] …regeneration is the result of responding to the Word preached. ( that is conviction, my emphasis)

…If the preaching of God’s Word is done with great eloquence and ability of speech, then men will be persuaded to repent and believe, say the Pelagians. But Paul utterly rejects this in his ministry. He says, “My speech and my preaching were not with persuasive words of human wisdom, but in demonstration of the Spirit and of power’ (1 Cor 2:4).

…The Pelagians and all who believe that sinners must first repent and believe before they are born again say that the only work the Holy Spirit does in preaching is to persuade by motives, arguments and reasons put to the natural unconverted mind, and that by these alone the sinner is convinced and persuaded to repent. The sinner therefore repents and believes of his own free will and choice.

…If the Holy Spirit does nothing more than present reasons, arguments and motives to conversion, the will of the unregenerate person will remain unmoved. If it is up to the unregenerate first to repent and believe before the Holy Spirit will do his work of regeneration, then this denies salvation to be of the sovereign grace of God. It is indeed true that the will of the unregenerate can resist and refuse the gospel and the grace that accompanies its preaching. But it is false to say that God is unable to effect a work of grace in us that cannot be resisted and will infallibly lead to conversion. It is false to say that the only work of grace God can do in us is that which can be resisted and rejected. It is false to say that the will of the unregenerate can make use of that grace of God or not, as it chooses. It is false to say that the power of conversion lies alone with the sinner, and that God cannot regenerate the sinner and bring him to conversion without the sinner first giving his consent. This is Pelagianism.

…If regeneration is nothing more than persuading a person to be good, then no new, real, supernatural strength has been conferred on the soul, though prejudices may have been removed from the mind. According to this teaching, man has no need to such supernatural power, because he has been able by his own power, the power of his own will, to overcome his depraved, sinful, corrupt nature, remove all errors and prejudices from his mind and bring himself to such holiness of life as to make himself wholly acceptable to God. This is the power of free will which some have believed and taught. Such people deny that man must first be born again before he can do anything pleasing and acceptable to God.

According to the SBC’s Baptist Faith and Message you can have it your way:

Regeneration, or the new birth, is a work of God’s grace whereby believers become new creatures in Christ Jesus. It is a change of heart wrought by the Holy Spirit through conviction of sin, to which the sinner responds in repentance toward God and faith in the Lord Jesus Christ…

Depending on who does the interpreting, regeneration for the Southern Baptist comes either after conviction of sin, or before it. It is left up to the adherent as to what is the result of regeneration and what is the result of conviction. Is the response to regeneration repentance and faith, or are they reponses to conviction?

Owens is quite clear, it is not by another means such as conviction through which regeneration is wrought. It is in the reverse order. Nor is it repentance and faith in response to conviction through which regeneration is accomplished. There can be no conviction except that regenration has already taken place. Neither can there be repentance, nor faith. Regeneration is an immediate act of the Holy Spirit conditioned by nothing prior to it. Conviction, repentance and faith are the result, and not the cause.

As to the charge of Pelagianism, it is the default position of all who hold that man has in some remote recess of his being an untainted ability to comply with the commands of God in a righeously acceptable way such as conviction of sin, repentance and faith. The default belief is necessary to preserve the free will of man. If the will is any way corrupted, it cannot be free. If it must be regenerated, likewise, it is not free. As Owens observes, free will is the belief that man alone is responsibile for the final decision concerning his salvation and that decision precedes regeneration. That, however, must be done according to a free will belief from the position of neutrality, free of any external constraint or causal influence. Salvation is of grace for those who hold the free will doctrine, but that grace is not that which accomplishes anything Godward, but merely is a rhetorical device of which man can avail himself, or not. In this view, there is no faith given, just incentive (cleverly devised fables) to choose it, or not. The power to choose has always been resident in man, according to Pelagians/semi-Pelagians, he merely needs the proper argument to motivate him to make the right choice.

As R.C. Sproul has rightly characterized it:

The semi-Pelagian doctrine of free will prevalent in the evangelical world today is a pagan view that denies the captivity of the human heart to sin. It underestimates the stranglehold that sin has upon us.

And he makes no differentiation between the essential nature of semi-Pelagianism and Pelagianism:

…semi-Pelagianism-which is simply a thinly veiled version of real Pelagianism at its core…

Semi-pelagianism as he characterizes it is Pelagius’ Island -a tiny haven of righteousness left unscathed by the fall.

The Southern Baptist Convention’s confession was purposely designed to allow for such latitudianarian flexibility. One must wonder though, if it is both truth and untruth, if it is both orthodoxy and not, at once, how that must appear to a world looking on? And, how is it warrant for the Great Commission Resurgence? It does not play well to say it is a matter of indifference, and yet put it in their confession as a statement of “Baptist Faith.” What kind of faith would that call sinners to if it is so uncertain?

R.C. is quite right, no new Reformation, no Gospel great commission resurgence, is in the offing until the matter of the reason the first took place is resolved:

there will not be a new Reformation. Until we humble ourselves and understand that no man is an island and that no man has an island of righteousness, that we are utterly dependent upon the unmixed grace of God for our salvation, we will not begin to rest upon grace and rejoice in the greatness of God’s sovereignty, and we will not be rid of the pagan influence of humanism that exalts and puts man at the center of religion. Until that happens there will not be a new Reformation, because at the heart of Reformation teaching is the central place of the worship and gratitude given to God and God alone.

Or as Owen said:

To say that we are able by our own efforts to think good thoughts or give God spiritual obedience before we are spiritually regenerate is to overthrow the gospel and the faith of the universal church in all ages.

To invite the unregenerate to believe as the Southern Baptists do in the light of “whatever,” or “that’s your interpretation,” is to offer no greater light than they already have.

The Science is Settled, You’re Wrong! Or, What’s So New About The New Year?

If there is one story that will eclipse the Democrat Health Care fiasco it will be their further attempted fascitization of the United States by taking over the rest of the nations economy through mandates from the EPA and new environmental regulatory laws. Their bunko will include more fraudulent claims about the environment. Al Gore will continue to lie and get the front page while making millions off his propaganda gambit. The Sonambulant, witch doctor wannabe Obamamambo, party-time president of the United States, the One and thank God, the only, will sell off ever greater portions of our freedoms through foreign debt, secret handshakes, bowed pleadings, and foot-lickings. And eventually, if not in 2010, then soon after, if the Democrats are still in control of the horizontal and vertical, it will be the twilight zone, for the U.S. will collapse under the oligarchical dictatorship of The One’s Democratic Socialist Party System. But perhaps sense will prevail and the Constitution will be honored by the people and for the people in the upcoming elections. Until then there will be more lunacy about health care shortages which are not, and global warming which is not and as we are now seeing, the linking of the two into one newer, more virulent strain.

What follows is meant to shed some light on the situation and to demonstrate how the convo can deteriorate into maniacal ravings of a victim of intracranial pelosiosis.

Increased warming increases the likelihood of precipitation. The more precipitation the greater the evidence of warming. The problem is that if the globe is warming and precipitation is increasing it would mean larger ice-shelf formation, not less. Regardless, the wind-up dolls in Algorian parades continue to march spewing out their tiring Algorythmic chants that the Polar Bears face desphincterization due to glacial dehydration. The real question is, will Algore survive if political capital switches its monetary base from climate parasitism paranoia? The MSM is so fecal retentive they’ll dance with anyone depending on what cycle they’re in. Has no one compassion on him for what might happen when he is no longer needed to lie for them? Well, he might just melt down in punungulent frenzy. It may be to late if we wait. Then again, he and his oil profits don’t really need no stinkin’ global warming (GW) to make him rich, anyway.

The GW cabal has made shinkage a main diet in their propaganda. Shrinkage would actually occur because of cooling (also known as the scrotal effect). There would be less water vapor to produce precipitation, less precipitation, smaller ice-shelf formation. The scrotalisis would be much like the appearance of Nancy Pelosi when asked a question on Constitutionality and her head collapses leaving a shrivelled mass of what were once facial features- tell-tale of a serious syndrome. Thus the new medical terminology of a disease, pelosiosis, one of the few that will be covered by the new, improved, kind of socialist health care. Affecting only Democrats, it is not the first inter-species cross-over virus. First discovered in leaches, now passed on by podium nationaliae, it works by evacuating the brains out of what appear to be normal humans. It is only in the later stages, when the face takes on that pruned appearance, that it is detectable.

Yes, it is sad. Nothing seems to make sense among eviro-wankers. By their own inbred theories, it appears, they’ve pickled themselves. All soured and wrinkly they are, squinty eyed, auto-sated, and all the time thinking imaginary things are real.

For instance, last winter was one of the coldest on record in Europe. Not a thing that the GWarmers like to hear. On the other hand, cooling temperatures tell us that the preceding cycle was warmer, producing water vapor, which blocks sunlight, and cools the globe. Precip reaching the ground cools the surface, also, through immediate effect and through further evaporative effect. For the enviro-wanker, the science of global warming is settled, global cooling proves it.

I always loved those evaporative thermometers in science class. They gave a much more accurate temperature than dry ones. Ambient humidity screws with the ambient temperature data as measured by dry methods. The wet thermometers balance the humidity so that a truer ambient temperature can be measured. The only problem is aioli, which increases your chance of heart failure but tastes great on seafood. But, I digress.

Anyway, Ambien, you can meet real friends in your dreams.

What?

El Nino y La Nina hyper-activity is a symptom of warming/cooling cycles. Recently they produced greater than normal precipitation in some zones, like Antartica, while at the same time depriving parts of the U.S. of needed moister. But that probably due to immigratng masses displaced by the higher than usual, or actual, voter content of the southern hemisphere- which, by the way, seems to have reversed, also, as is evidenced by rainfall and voter totals in abundance above normal in double digit figgers in some places in the U.S.. Neither having anything to do with Patul lui Procust. But it is probably why the pop crowd at Copenhagen thought they were actually at a film festival.

We are, here in the true Chy-town, out of a decade long drought cycle (hopefully) which will help the developers, high-end campaign donaters that they are, over-develope so that the next draught really makes watering my lawn enough to keep it green, even a greater crime than it is now. But, I digress.

It is fun to watch the X-plainers try to fit the facts into the models the modelers contrive. Just about as fun as it is to watch the Weather Channel try to explain why there weren’t any major huricanes this year in the Carribean basin and why there were so many cyclones in the Pacific. And funner still to watch the circus of pundits try to explain the X-plainers explaining the models’ failures to provide explaination for the fact that the climate is just not cooperating with anyone. With claymation you can create whole new model worlds and make them appear as if they’re real. Ergo X-plainers, not Explainers. Now, if the modlers can just make it appear real, the X-plainers won’t sweat as much. Beside, when did you ever see a dummy sweat. Have you ever seen Algore sweat? Then how do you know he’s not just a Tim Burton creation?

Teargas grenades cause occular orbital warming which produces water to form around the globe of the eye. If the irritant is of sufficient quantity, droplets form in the conjunctive process between two theraputic partners. Air cools the surface temperatures through cognate evaporation. The end result is that the eye quits tearing up once the globe is cooled sufficiently, friends are made and there are hugs all around, inducing a drying cycle that tends to heat up the surface again setting in motion a new cycle of vapor formation and a further need for psychoanalysis.

The results of apparent emotional catalysis may or may not be due to joy, or sadness, but a foreign agent introduced into the emotive pool. Natural cycles of joy and sadness produce the same effects, though they too can be induced by pseudo-stimuli like chick-flicks, happy meals, sad excuses, flat beer, the Broncos losing, or winning. It is simply impossible to determine the sources of the climatic changes in personality which overtake the normal psyche producing periods of moistened eyes.

That about answers any questions anyone might have concerning global warming. If you don’t agree, the science is settled. You’re wrong!