HR 1388 Bans National Service Participants From Sharing Christ

Following the overwhelming passage of "The Generations Invigorating Volunteerism and Education Act" by the House of Representatives last week, the U.S. Senate voted 74 to 14 on a procedural move that essentially guarantees that a mandatory national service bill will be passed by the Senate.

"National service" sounds great until you realize exactly what is in this bill. The House version of this bill includes a provision that bans all national service participants from being involved in any form of evangelism.

The "GIVE" Act was passed in the House by a 321-105 margin. You can find the full text of the bill here:

http://www.govtrack.us/congress/billtext.xpd?bill=h111-1388

Section 125(a)(7) of the House version of the bill prohibits the following:

Engaging in religious instruction, conducting worship services, providing instruction as part of a program that includes mandatory religious instruction or worship, constructing or operating facilities devoted to religious instruction or worship, maintaining facilities primarily or inherently devoted to religious instruction or worship, or engaging in any form of religious proselytization.

So the U.S. government plans to create a massive horde of young people who are serving the United States who will be banned from serving the Lord Jesus Christ and from sharing the gospel with their friends.

Talk about the secularization of American society - a bill which seeks to get countless thousands of young Americans involved in "national service" and which will prohibit them from serving God.

What kind of insanity is this?

The truth is that the economy is a mess, wars in Iraq, Afghanistan and in several other covert locations have stretched the U.S. military beyond the breaking point, and many American cities need to be rebuilt. So now the Obama administration will use the cheap, conscripted labor of young people to get things fixed.

It's called involuntary servitude.

But this is what some in the Obama administration have been eyeing for quite some time.

Barack Obama's new chief of staff, Rahm Emanuel, is the coauthor of a book that calls for, among other things, compulsory national service for all Americans between the ages of 18 to 25.

The following quotes are from pages 61-62 of the book Emanuel coauthored in 2006 entitled "The Plan: Big Ideas for America":

It's time for a real Patriot Act that brings out the patriot in all of us. We propose universal civilian service for every young American. Under this plan, All Americans between the ages of eighteen and twenty-five will be asked to serve their country by going through three months of basic training, civil defense preparation and community service. ...

Here's how it would work. Young people will know that between the ages of eighteen and twenty-five, the nation will enlist them for three months of civilian service. They'll be asked to report for three months of basic civil defense training in their state or community, where they will learn what to do in the event of biochemical, nuclear or conventional attack; how to assist others in an evacuation; how to respond when a levee breaks or we're hit by a natural disaster. These young people will be available to address their communities' most pressing needs.

Now keep in mind that the person who wrote that is going to be the new White House chief of staff.

Wow.

The frightening thing is that it looks like some of Emanuel's ideas are already being implemented by the new administration.

The official website of President-Elect Obama, Change.gov, originally announced that Obama would soon "require" that all students in middle school all the way through college would be forced to participate in community service programs.

Fortunately, the Internet exploded with outrage, and the website's wording was quickly softened.

But before the change, this is what Obama's website said about this program: "Obama will call on citizens of all ages to serve America, by developing a plan to require 50 hours of community service in middle school and high school and 100 hours of community service in college every year."

I think that we have had enough of "Patriot acts" and I know that most young Americans do not want to be part of any kind of a draft.

How many of you would willingly submit to mandatory national service?

What would YOU do if you got drafted into the U.S. military?

The U.S. government is taking more control over our lives than ever before, and still most American seem like they could care less.

Modern Slavery

When you talk to most people about "slavery", they think of something that happened long ago that has now been abolished. However, the reality is that modern slavery is not only real, but it is rapidly growing, and today more people are enslaved around the world than ever before.

A recent report put out by the United Nations claims that most of the world is in denial about the horror of human trafficking. Instead of going away, human slavery is getting even worse and more widespread in the 21st century.

Exactly how many people are being trafficked?

The U.S. State Department says that there are 800,000 new victims each year, while the International Labor Organization claims that the number is actually about 2.5 million.

The executive director of the U.N. Office on Drugs and Crime, Antonio Maria Costa, had this to say about the U.N. report: "It's sick that we should even need to write a report about slavery in the 21st century."

Actress Mira Sorvino has been appointed as a U.N. goodwill ambassador to help Costa's agency fight human trafficking, and she had this to say about the human trafficking phenomenon: "Until a few years ago, I blissfully believed that slavery was a thing of the past.....Well, obviously I was terribly wrong."

According to the U.N. report, sexual exploitation accounts for 79 percent of human trafficking, while forced labor accounts for 18 percent.

So just who is being trafficked?

The report says that women are 66 percent of the victims, followed by young girls at 13 percent, men at 12 percent, and young boys at 9 percent.

One of the greatest tragedies in all of this is that millions of children are being enslaved around the world, with many of them forced into the sex trade for the enjoyment of sick tourists.

According to the American Bar Association, 8.4 million children around the world are currently subjected to "forced labor, forced recruitment for armed conflict, prostitution, pornography, and other illicit activities."

And you know what makes this worse?

Sickos from the United States are fueling much of this.

The term "sex tourism" has actually become part of the English language over the past decade as thousands upon thousands of Americans (and Europeans too) have flown to foreign countries to have sex with these sex slaves. Often these sex slaves are only young boys or young girls.

Our world is becoming full of sickos and perverts just as 2 Timothy 3:1-4 warned us would happen in the last days before the return of Christ.....

"But mark this: There will be terrible times in the last days. People will be lovers of themselves, lovers of money, boastful, proud, abusive, disobedient to their parents, ungrateful, unholy, without love, unforgiving, slanderous, without self-control, brutal, not lovers of the good, treacherous, rash, conceited, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God"

The truth is that this world is falling apart. It is becoming a darker and more evil place with each passing day. The signs of this growing evil are all around us.

If humanity is so "evolved" and so "advanced", then why can't they get rid of this evil? The reality is that they can't. Humanity is a slave to sin just like the Bible says. In fact, the Scriptures say that each one of us is a slave to sin.

There is only one way to escape this slavery to sin. Only through the Lord Jesus Christ can you be set free:

http://www.chick.com/reading/tracts/1049/1049_01.asp

Body Scanners

The TSA has begun installing super sensitive body scanners in airports across the United States that can look under your clothing for guns, knives and whatever else the feds want to see.

Imagine a futuristic world where security is so tight that just to take a flight you have to be scanned by a machine that can look under your clothes and give security officers a perfect look at the precise form of your naked body - including your private parts. Well, the future is now.

You might not be so eager to take that next flight after you read this.

"Body scanners" that give operators a very clear image of what is underneath your clothing have replaced metal detectors at Tulsa's airport.

We wanted to put up a picture of what these "body scans" look like, but we were hesitant because they actually do border on pornography. These body scans are the closest thing to viewing a person's naked body without actually seeing their skin.

Officials in Australia where they have installed similar machines confess that these machines DO show people's private parts.

Cheryl Johnson, the general manager of the Office of Transport Security in Australia, admitted the following about these machines: "It will show the private parts of people, but what we've decided is that we're not going to blur those out, because it severely limits the detection capabilities."

She also added this comment: "It is possible to see genitals and breasts while they're going through the machine, though."

But all in the name of "security", eh? Now to board a plane you have to subject yourself to having one or more "security" guards view the naked form of your body.

Tulsa International Airport is just the first airport where these body scanners will be tested in the United States.

San Francisco, Las Vegas, Miami, Albuquerque and Salt Lake City will join the body scanning test in the next two months.

According to ABC News, the TSA plans to install 600 of these machines in airports across the nation this year.

Since the announcement there has basically been NO outcry by the public.

Are any of you upset by this? Have we become so dehumanized and so domesticated that we are not even upset that a bunch of "security officers" get to oggle our naked bodies before we can get on an airplane?

HR 875: The End Of Organic Farming?

Many small farmers and organic food activists are claiming that if H.R. 875 is passed, it will mean the end of organic farming in the United States.

H.R. 875 was introduced by Democrat Rosa DeLauro in February. Her introduction of this bill represents a stunning conflict of interest, because her husband, Stanley Greenburg, works for Monsanto. Monsanto is the world's biggest producer of herbicides and genetically engineered seeds, and they would GREATLY benefit if thousands of small organic farmers were put out of business, because organic farmers don't use Monsanto products.

H.R. 875 is called the Food Safety Modernization Act of 2009 and you can find the full text of the bill here:

http://www.govtrack.us/congress/billtext.xpd?bill=h111-875

This horrific bill would establish a "Food Safety Administration" within the Department of Health and Human Services. The mandate of this new department would be "to protect the public health by preventing food-borne illness, ensuring the safety of food, improving research on contaminants leading to food-borne illness, and improving security of food from intentional contamination, and for other purposes."

Section 3 of H.R. 875 defines what type of establishments would be subject to the regulations in this legislation. It that section, a "food production facility" is defined this way:

The term ‘food production facility’ means any farm, ranch, orchard, vineyard, aquaculture facility, or confined animal-feeding operation.

So that would include.....

*All organic farms
*All small farms
*All family farms
*Even small family gardens if you sell any produce to your neighbor at all

If you read this bill, you will see that it gives the government the power to regulate what is "safe" farming, and therefore if organic farmers are not using enough herbicide on their plants to be "safe" or they aren't following the same "quality control" procedures as the big guys they could be instantly put out of business.

In addition, it loads small farmers with massive amounts of paperwork and administrative burdens that the big corporations can handle but they can't.

That is how you put a horde of small competitors out of business - you get the government to pile on the rules and burdens and regulations until they collapse.

That is why Monsanto desperately wants this bill. They hate the small farmers and they want to take them out of the picture.

If you care about organic farming, please call Congress and tell them to stop this horrible bill.

The Federal Reserve Completely Dominates And Controls American Politics

U.S. Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner, who just came over to the Treasury Department from the New York Federal Reserve, will soon propose a massive overhaul of the regulatory system that will give the Federal Reserve sweeping new powers over the financial system of the United States.

This piece of news would draw yawns from most Americans, but that is only because they don't understand what is really going on in America.

What we have is the ex-head of the New York Federal Reserve coming in to the Treasury Department and immediately trying to transfer massive power to his real bosses at the Federal Reserve.

You see, the Federal Reserve is about as "federal" as Federal Express.

The Federal Reserve is a privately owned central bank that is owned and run for profit by elite international bankers primarily based in Europe.

These international bankers dominate the political scene through shadowy roundtable groups such as the Bilderberg group, the Trilateral Commission and the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR).

The truth is that every presidential administration since FDR's has been completely dominated by members of the CFR. Just look it up.

In his recent article for WorldNetDaily, Henry Lamb wrote the following about the influence of the CFR in American politics:

During Bill Clinton's administration, Washington Post writer Richard Harwood reported that the Council on Foreign Relations is "… the closest thing we have to a ruling Establishment in the United States," and went on to identify dozens of CFR members in the White House.

George W. Bush's administration was also loaded with members of the CFR: Dick Cheney, Donald Rumsfeld, Condoleeza Rice, etc. etc.

So what about Barack Obama?

Has he brought change?

No, in fact his administration is packed so full of members of the Bilderberg group, the CFR and the Trilateral Commission that it might be the most Federal Reserve dominated administration ever - and that is saying a lot. In fact, Politico has just come out with a major 3 page feature story on this.

Have you ever wondered why things seem to stay the same no matter who gets elected?

Now you know.

The problem is that both the Democrats and the Republicans work for the Federal Reserve.

America - A Nation Addicted To Dirty Pictures

One of America's dirty little secrets is that it is now a nation that is completely addicted to pornography. One Focus on the Family survey found that 47% percent of families said pornography is a problem in their home. America's young men are particularly addicted - more than 70% of all men between the ages of 18 and 34 visit a pornographic site in a typical month.

The Internet has made access to pornography easier than ever before in human history, and instead of getting bored with it, Americans seem to want more of it than ever. In fact, an increasing number of Americans are not even waiting to get home to indulge in it.

Newsweek is reporting the results of a new survey that reveal that 25 percent of American employees who have Internet access visit porn websites while they are at work.

So if you are in an office with at least 3 coworkers, the odds are that at least one of you is looking at porn while you are at work.

But should we be surprised by all of this?

The truth is that the United States is totally enslaved to pornography.

Did you know that.....

*89% of porn is created in the United States?

*$2.84 billion in revenue was generated from U.S. porn sites in 2006?

*89 dollars is spent on porn every single second of the day?

*260 new porn sites go online every day?

*Porn revenue is larger than all of the COMBINED revenues of all professional football, baseball and basketball franchises in the United States?

*A survey of "Promise Keeper" men revealed that 53% of them had viewed pornography in the last week?

*The number of pornographic websites is over 4.2 million (12% of the total websites in the world), and that those websites get over 40 million visits per day?

*25% of all search engine requests are related to porn?

*More than 70% of all men between the ages of 18 and 34 visit a pornographic site in a typical month?

Now there is news that officials estimate that 600,000 Americans and 65,000 Canadians are trading dirty child pictures online.

That is an epidemic!

And actually the child pornography unit of the Ontario Provincial Police believes that the 65,000 figure for Canada is very low.

According to them, 40,000 computers in Ontario alone are known to be used to access child pictures.

They also say that the profits from creating and trading these images is estimated to be 2 to 3 billion dollars every year.

How sick is that?

America and Canada are disgustingly sick and the problem is getting worse every single year.

But those who practice these things will be held accountable by God.

In Matthew 18:6, Jesus said the following about those who would abuse children.....

But if anyone causes one of these little ones who believe in me to sin, it would be better for him to have a large millstone hung around his neck and to be drowned in the depths of the sea.

If you have ever been involved in any aspect of this type of sin, you need to get down on your hands and knees and repent before the living God while you still have time to repent.

You sin has been terrible, but there is hope for you. The only hope for any of us is to find forgiveness of our sins and eternal salvation through Jesus Christ:

http://www.chick.com/reading/tracts/1049/1049_01.asp

The Strong Male Has Become An Endangered Species In America

If you turn on the television, you won't have to wait long to see how men are expected to behave in modern America - sex crazed, beer swilling, irresponsible idiot slackers who cower before their more mature, more responsible and more dominant female partners.

The truth is that the "strong male" has become an endangered species in the United States. It has been widely reported that testosterone levels in men are dropping about 1.2% per year, and 59% of all college students are now female. In fact, it has been reported that women in their 20s in the 10 largest cities in the United States now earn more money than men of the same age. Those women who are still looking for a traditional "man" complain that all they find are overgrown boys who have given up, tuned out, are slaves to their addictions and who won't take leadership or responsibility for anything.

Not that men are bad - most of them feel completely lost and confused - as if they have lost something that they didn't even know they were missing. All of their lives American men have been taught that they are NOT the leaders of the home, and that it should be expected and accepted that women will yell at them and tell them what to do. Movies and television reinforce this programming every single day by bombarding men and boys with the message that they are irresponsible subserviant slackers who need to be corrected by the more responsible females.

Just think about all the times you have watched a scene where a female character yells at a male character and chews him out.

And what do we do?

We laugh and snicker.

But now take that same scene and flip the characters.

We would be horrified, wouldn't we?

And rightfully so.

So why do we think it is cute when the female verbally abuses the male?

A shocking study done by the respected Pew Research Center confirms that in the United States it is women who predominantly rule at home.

The study surveyed 1,260 individuals who were either married or living together. What the study found was that in 43% of all couples, women make more decisions in the four areas Pew surveyed: planning weekend activities, household finances, major home purchases and TV watching.

26% of the time men make more of the decisions, the survey revealed, and 31% of the time the decisions are made "equally".

So should we be surprised? Can we all not see that the women wear the pants in most families now?

For example, one respondent to the USAToday article on this survey wrote this:

"I am a manager at work, and wouldn't have it any other way. But when I get home, I'd much rather chill out and let the wife make the calls."

The truth is that we have trained a generation of American men to be immature, subservient, submissive wimps who are very hesitant to take responsibility or leadership.

Watch just about any sitcom or any television commercial or any movie with these issues in mind. Watch who the dominant or responsible partner in any couple is. Once you know to look for it you will see it everywhere.

This is not how a society should work.

The Bible teaches that men should be strong, powerful, sacrifical servant-leaders as we see in Ephesians 5:25:

Husbands, love your wives, just as Christ loved the church and gave himself up for her

The truth is that men need to be so strong for their wives and children that they need to be ready to die for their families if it comes down to that.

Wow, how far we are from that ideal today.

Instead of creating a society full of strong men who would be willing to die for their families if need be, we have created a society full of weak, irresponsible, passive men who won't stand up for anyone or anything.

Why We Should Never Look Down On Others

Looking down on others has gotten so bad that it has almost become a national sport in America. Every day the media and the Internet are full of headlines about the latest failings of both celebrities and ordinary Americans.

When someone fails spectacularly, the talking heads in the media gleefully discuss how bad that person is hour after hour - at least until the next big juicy piece of gossip comes along.

The truth is that we are being taught by the media to hate and to judge one another - Republican vs. Democrat, men vs. women, religious vs. non-religious, conservative vs. liberal, people of one race vs. people of another race, wealthy vs. poor, urban vs. rural - it seems like there is a never ending supply of people out there to look down upon and to blame our problems on.

But should we be this way?

Imagine this: You wake up one day and notice that all the big networks are airing a two hour documentary in prime time that night starring YOU. You are excited because you think that now you will be world famous, but your excitement turns to horror as you discover that the 2 hour documentary will be revealing all of the most horrible, disgusting and wicked things that you ever thought, did and said.

If you are like most people, you would want to run away from society forever and never come back.

Why?

The truth is that ALL of us have done evil. We all have done disgusting and horrible things we would never want the world to know. We like to think of ourselves as "good", but all of us know that if our private thoughts, our private actions and our most wicked deeds were televised around the world it would expose us as we really are.

So no person, religious or otherwise, should ever look down on someone else.

The truth is that we all need mercy.

As we document the increasing wickedness of America, the reality is that it is not because we have it all together either. The Scriptures say that ALL have sinned and that ALL need the grace and mercy of the Lord Jesus Christ.

Now, some people have kind of done the opposite and have made "do not judge" into a rule that says that nobody can ever say anything that anyone does is wrong.

But that is not what being judgmental means.

It is not being judgmental to say what the law is.

It IS being judgmental to determine if someone in particular is breaking that law.

For example, saying "do not commit adultery" is not being judgmental.

But sitting there and thinking that someone is cheating on their spouse when you don't know that for a fact is being judgmental.

You are "passing judgment" that someone has broken the law against adultery.

Do you see the difference?

The reality is that we will all stand before God someday and He is the one who will judge us.

Since all of us have sinned, that puts us all in a very bad position.

But the good news is that Jesus Christ paid the penalty for all of our sins on the cross.

If we will invite Jesus into our lives, God will forgive our sins and will give us eternal life.

But if we refuse Christ's payment for our sin, then we will have to pay for our own sins.

Those who have received Christ and are saved don't have any reason to look down on others. We have simply reached out for a "life preserver" and we should be thankful for the amazing mercy of God.

Let us all tell the news of the great mercy of God to as many people as we can while there is still time.

Fluorescent Cats, Spider Goats And Human/Pig Hybrids

Thanks to advances in genetic modification, bizarre cross-species beasts are not just found in science fiction novels any longer. Now fluorescent cats, spider goats, human/pig hybrids and other incredibly weird creatures have actually been created by our scientists.

Would you like a cat that glows in the dark? They now exist! A genetically modified cat named Mr. Green Genes is the first fluorescent cat in the United States.

If you get one of these, you will never have to turn on the lights to find your cat.

This comes on the heels of some South Korean researchers creating a cat that glows red under ultraviolet light.

But if you think fluorescent cats are strange, just wait until you hear about the next creature we are going to talk about.....

"Spider goats".

Yes, animals that are part goat and part spider really exist. If you do not believe us now, you will believe by the end of this article.

The Canadian company Nexia has produced goats that are genetically modified to be part spider.

The genetic modification causes these spider goats to produce spider silk protein in their milk that is collected, purified and spun into super strong fibers.

These fibers are apparently more durable than Kevlar, more stretchable than nylon, and stronger than steel.

This company sees nothing wrong with messing with nature to harvest a substance that has very valuable industrial and military applications.

But we don't expect you all to take our word for it. The Telegraph, one of the leading newspapers in the U.K., featured this major article about spider goats, and according to them this has been going on for quite some time.

The funny thing is that these scientists are not even trying to hide it anymore. The following YouTube video is of a television report where you can see these "spider goats" and where scientists describe exactly how they create these spider goats and what they are doing with them:



Okay, you might say, we may be combining different types of animals, but we would never do this to humans.....

Right?

Wrong.

Human/pig hybrids will soon be grown inside of the United States.

This is being publicly announced and nobody is getting upset about it.

A new U.K. program being launched is going to produce pigs with human genes in them. These pigs will be grown in order to produce organs for transplants into humans.

So now we will have these entities that are part pig and part human openly being grown right out in the open.

And do you know exactly where these pigs are going to be "raised"?

In Missouri.

An abomination right in the heart of the United States.

Does this upset any of you?

It should.

But certainly we would never eat any of these bizarre creatures, right?

Don't be so sure.

The FDA has announced that the offspring of cloned animals could be in our food supply right now and that there is nothing that they can do about it.

Apparently they feel that it is perfectly safe and they aren't really worried about it.

Of course we eat tomatoes with roach genes in them and we eat corn with insecticide grown inside of it right now, so why should we be worried about some cloned animals, eh?

Well, you should be concerned.

In fact, if you live in the U.K., YOU can now be cloned without your consent.

Just imagine a world where the government uses your DNA without your consent to create human/animal hybrid creatures for bizarre scientific experiments. Does that sound like a plot to a far-fetched Hollywood film?

It's not.

The U.K. House of Commons has passed a law entitled the "Human Fertilisation and Embryology Bill" that allows human/animal embryos to be created through cloning which scientists may then use for "scientific" experiments.

Where will the scientists get the DNA they need for this cloning? Well, another provision in the bill allows scientists to take DNA from certain classes of people without their consent. So if you live in the U.K., and you belong to one of those classes of people, you can now be cloned without your consent.

Are you upset yet?

Does all of this seem very evil to you?

It should, because it is.

Did you know that the 3000 year old book of Jasher (a book of ancient history that is quoted in the Biblical books of Joshua and II Samuel) tells of evil genetic engineering that was going on in the days of Noah?

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http://www.ccel.org/a/anonymous/jasher/4.htm

"and the sons of men in those days took from the cattle of the earth, the beasts of the field and the fowls of the air, and taught the mixture of animals of one species with the other, in order therewith to provoke the Lord"

-The Book of Jasher 4:18

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But have we learned from the past?

No.

Instead we are doing the exact same thing in our day, but we think we are so "advanced".

The truth is that we are only "advanced" in wickedness.

The news is getting stranger and more bizarre all the time, and the world that we once knew is slowly slipping away with each passing day.

Do "Love" And "Tolerance" = Approval Of Sin?

What do "love" and "tolerance" mean? Does being loving and tolerant towards someone mean that you approve of everything that they do?

Is it unloving and intolerant to speak out against the behavior of someone else and tell them that they need to change?

Let's take a look at one example.

Today President Obama signed an executive order lifting the federal ban on human embryonic stem cell research.

Now, is it "unloving" and "intolerant" to tell President Obama that he is very wrong to allow scientists to kill unborn human babies for scientific research?

When a person confronts evil and speaks out against it, should that be defined as "love" or as "hate".

In the media today we are being taught that "love" is about approving of everyone just the way they are and cheering on however they want to live their lives.

But this is NOT what love is about, and a simple illustration shows this very clearly.

Take some time to imagine the following:

Two people enter a supermarket. As they head down the aisles, they see a 3 year old boy who is opening up a bottle of Clorox and is about to pour it into his mouth.

The first person grins widely and yells out to the little boy enthusiastically: "Chug it down little man!"

The second person is absolutely horrified and runs over and rips the bottle of Clorox out of the little boy's hands.

Which person is being loving in that situation?

It is the second person of course.

Our society has developed a very warped definition of "love".

Today it seems that if you love someone, you are supposed to cheer on whatever choices they make, even if those choices are incredibly self-destructive.

The reality is that couldn't be farther from the truth.

Love is about caring for people, wanting the best for people and about meeting the needs of people.

Love is NOT about participating in and cheering on their self-destruction.

When we see someone caught in sin, the loving thing to do is to urge them to turn from their self-destructive ways and to turn to the Lord God.

To cheer on the sinful choices of others is the total opposite of love. Instead, it reveals the selfishness, laziness, self-centeredness and utter lack of holiness in our own lives.

So when "Christian" leaders cheer on the sinful behavior of others are they being loving?

Not at all.

In fact, they are shaking their fists at God and they are enabling others in their self-destructive behavior.

The Scriptures define what right and wrong are, and when people shake their fists at the Word of God they do so to their own peril.

Isaiah 5:20 tells us the following: Woe to those who call evil good and good evil, who put darkness for light and light for darkness, who put bitter for sweet and sweet for bitter.

The reality is that America has become a nation that has almost completely switched the definitions of good and evil. Killing unborn babies and rampant sexual immorality is now "good" and preaching against sin and telling people to repent from wickedness and turn to God has become "evil".

As the U.S. continues to reject God, those who stand up for God and for His Word will be increasingly persecuted. In fact, we should not be surprised by this, as Jesus Himself told us that we would be hated. In John 15:18, Jesus said this:

If the world hates you, keep in mind that it hated me first.

As the world becomes a darker place it will be important for all of us to seek the Lord and get closer to Him than ever before.

Eight Solid Reasons Why You Should Believe That Christianity Is True

Did that headline get your attention?

I hope so.

We are not afraid to ask the hard questions and tackle the tough issues on this site.

Christianity is either true or it is not.

In a world of logic, reason and science, why do millions of people still follow a religion that is nearly 2000 years old? How can any faith compete with the collective knowledge and wisdom of modern society? Isn't it time to start demanding that religions either stand up to the rigors of intellectual investigation or be discarded in the name of progress?

Mankind has had greater advances in education and science over the past 100 years than ever before. Once upon a time the horse and buggy were cutting edge technology, but now we fly around in jet aircraft. Our knowledge of physics, astronomy and other sciences has absolutely exploded. So why does anyone still listen to an ancient religion that is thousands of years old?

Everywhere you go on the Internet today, and I mean EVERYWHERE, there are debates going on about Christianity, and these debates can get incredibly heated. It seems that almost everyone out there claims to have the answers. Atheists, skeptics, philosophers, preachers, bloggers and other self-appointed religious experts are constantly battling for the intellectual high ground.

So, who is right?

Do logic, reason and modern science have anything to say about religion?

Can religion survive in an era when most of the people are educated and when many people look at religious claims with skepticism?

The truth is that when skeptics attack most religions, they DO indeed have the intellectual high ground. For when one closely examines such "faiths" as Islam or Hinduism one does find that logic, reason and real, hard evidence are directly contradictory to these religious systems.

However, Christianity is the one faith that is different in this regard. If you are willing to look at the truth, you will find that there is no conflict between Christianity and the truth.

If you make the decision to actually investigate these matters objectively, you will find that Christianity has a MOUNTAIN of evidence to support it. Those who have actually studied these things with an open mind know the truth.

Dr. Simon Greenleaf (Harvard University - one of the greatest professors of Law in U.S. history) once said: "According to the laws of legal evidence used in courts of law, there is more evidence for the historical fact of the resurrection of Jesus Christ than for just about any other event in history."

Have you ever spent much time wondering if Christianity is true or not?

Perhaps you should.

We have studied these matters for over 20 years, and we have come to the conclusion that after you have asked all the questions, and after you have done all the research, the evidence does lead to an overwhelming conclusion:

Christianity is true.

But the sad reality is that the vast majority of Christians do not know how to defend the Christian faith. Why? Because the church has done an absolutely MISERABLE job of teaching people about the evidence for Christianity. So when Christians come up against atheists, skeptics and self-appointed, know-it-all "experts" they don't know how to respond to their questions.

We would encourage all of you to investigate these matters for yourself.

The following are eight solid reasons why you should believe that Christianity is true.....

#1) The world around us reveals that God DOES exist. The following short videos were produced by an ex-atheist and ex-evolutionist who is a graduate of Yale Law School. These videos drive atheists and skeptics crazy, but for a more complete treatment of this topic, please read Strobel's excellent book entitled "The Case For A Creator":

http://www.leestrobel.com/Creator.htm

#2) The historical evidence reveals that Jesus Christ really did come to this earth:

http://www.grantjeffrey.com/article/historicalev.htm

#3) There is overwhelming evidence that Jesus Christ really did physically rise from the dead:

http://shatteredparadigm.blogspot.com/2008/05/resurrection-of-jesus-is-real.html

#4) All of these things about Jesus were prophetically foretold by God in the Bible with specificity:

http://www.xenos.org/teachings/topical/objections/daniel9.htm
(Click "Watch" to view the presentation)

and

http://shatteredparadigm.blogspot.com/2008/07/do-you-know-about-all-messianic.html

#5) There is extraordinary evidence that Jesus is doing miracles in our day:

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=2575536377261580026&q=Raised+from+the+dead&hl=en

#6) There are thousands of stories of Jesus appearing to people all over the globe:

http://prorege-forum.com/messages/407.html

and

http://www.amightywind.com/fastfood/dreams/040723muslimdreams.htm

#7) Jesus is coming again and the signs of the end times that were foretold in the Bible are coming to pass right in front of our eyes:

http://shatteredparadigm.blogspot.com/2008/05/did-you-know-that-there-are-ancient.html

#8) Credible witnesses have seen the afterlife and have come back and reported to us that it is precisely as the Bible describes:

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=648912510964850987&q=hell&hl=en

and

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0ElnQUVkWsQ

The truth is that the afterlife is very real, so make the right choice and give your life to Jesus Christ today:

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=8149875636555097567&q=Hell+and+Back&hl=en

If you have been persuaded by the evidence and you are interested in becoming a Christian, the following link is a place where you can learn more:

http://www.chick.com/reading/tracts/1049/1049_01.asp

With each day that passes our remaining time gets shorter and we get even closer to the return of Yahshua (the Lord Jesus Christ). You are not going to live forever. What will happen to you when you die? If you are not certain of your eternal destiny, please give your life to Jesus while you still can.

Deadly Bird Flu/Human Flu Mixture Sent To Other Labs By Accident

The Austrian branch of U.S. vaccine company Baxter is under close scrutiny by health officials for sending a mix of H3N2 seasonal human flu viruses and unlabelled H5N1 bird flu viruses to other unsuspecting labs around Europe.

Fortunately, a lab in the Czech Republic that received one of these batches tested them on some ferrets. All of the ferrets died, which they were not supposed to do, so they alerted Baxter. You see, ferrets do not die from human H3N2 flu viruses. Further testing confirmed that the sample which the lab in the Czech Republic received contained live H5N1 bird flu virus.

The big unanswered question is how in the world human H3N2 and avian H5N1 viruses somehow became co-mingled. Investigators are so far baffled as to how the company could have been so incredibly negligent as to have allowed human flu and bird flu to have gotten mixed together like that.

The reality is that an accidental release of a mixture of live H5N1 and H3N2 viruses to the public could have triggered a devastating pandemic.

How bad could things have gotten if this had gotten out into the public?

The Toronto Sun explains it this way:

While H5N1 doesn’t easily infect people, H3N2 viruses do. If someone exposed to a mixture of the two had been simultaneously infected with both strains, he or she could have served as an incubator for a hybrid virus able to transmit easily to and among people.

Some are even suggesting that Baxter may have had a profit motive in all of this. If bird flu did start spreading among humans, it would create an overnight demand for bird flu vaccines which Baxter makes. The profits that Baxter International would reap during such a panic would be enormous.

Meanwhile, there have been 4 more human deaths from the bird flu in Indonesia. Disturbing reports of bird flu activity have been popping up all over the world recently, and the reality is that if H5N1 does transition into a form that is easily transmissible from human to human then we will have a problem of unimaginable proportions on our hands.

How To Become A Christian

How does someone become a Christian?

The world is getting crazier every day, and many people are starting to wake up to the fact that there is NO hope and NO future without God.

What about you?

Do you want to know how to become a Christian?

Do you want to have your sins forgiven?

Do you want to have a relationship with the God of the universe?

Would you like to live for eternity?

You can!

The God of the universe is very real, and He wants you to have eternal life and to live with him for eternity.

Today we wanted to share with you all the basic things that you need to know to become a Christian.....

1) God LOVES you and offers a wonderful PLAN for your life.

God's Love
"God so loved the world that He gave His one and only Son, that whoever believes in Him shall not perish, but have eternal life" (John 3:16).

God's Plan
[Christ speaking] "I came that they might have life, and might have it abundantly" [that it might be full and meaningful] (John 10:10).

Why is it that most people are not experiencing the abundant life?

Because....

2) Man is SINFUL and SEPARATED from God. Therefore, he cannot know and experience God's love and plan for his life.

Man Is Sinful
"All have sinned and fall short of the glory of God" (Romans 3:23).

Man was created to have fellowship with God; but, because of his stubborn self-will, he chose to go his own independent way, and fellowship with God was broken. This self-will, characterized by an attitude of active rebellion or passive indifference, is evidence of what the Bible calls sin.

Man Is Separated From God
"The wages of sin is death" [spiritual separation from God] (Romans 6:23).

How can we bridge this separation?

3) Jesus Christ is God's ONLY provision for man's sin. Through Him you can know and experience God's love and plan for your life.

He Died in Our Place
"God demonstrates His own love toward us, in that while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us" (Romans 5:8).

He Rose From the Dead
"Christ died for our sins...He was buried...He was raised on the third day, according to the Scriptures...He appeared to Peter, then to the twelve. After that He appeared to more than five hundred..." (1 Corinthians 15:3-6).

He Is the Only Way to God
"Jesus said to him, 'I am the way, and the truth, and the life; no one comes to the Father, but through Me'" (John 14:6).

It is not enough to just know these things...

4) We must individually RECEIVE Jesus Christ as Savior and Lord; then we can know and experience God's love and plan for our lives.

We Must Receive Christ
"As many as received Him, to them He gave the right to become children of God, even to those who believe in His name" (John 1:12).

We Receive Christ Through Faith
"By grace you have been saved through faith; and that not of yourselves, it is the gift of God; not as a result of works, that no one should boast" (Ephesians 2:8,9).

We Receive Christ by Personal Invitation
[Christ speaking] "Behold, I stand at the door and knock; if any one hears My voice and opens the door, I will come in to him" (Revelation 3:20).

Receiving Christ involves turning to God from self (repentance) and trusting Christ to come into our lives to forgive our sins and to make us what He wants us to be. Just to agree intellectually that Jesus Christ is the Son of God and that He died on the cross for your sins is not enough. Nor is it enough to have an emotional experience. You receive Jesus Christ by faith, as an act of the will.

You can receive Christ right now by faith through prayer.

God knows your heart and is not so concerned with your words as He is with the attitude of your heart. The following is a suggested prayer:

"Lord Jesus, I need You. Thank You for dying on the cross for my sins. I open the door of my life and receive You as my Savior and Lord. Thank You for forgiving my sins and giving me eternal life. Take control of the throne of my life. Make me the kind of person You want me to be."

Does this prayer express the desire of your heart? If it does, we invite you to pray this prayer right now and Jesus will come into your life, as He promised.

If you received Jesus into your life today, or if you have any questions about how you can become a Christian, please leave us a message in the comments section below.

Should Christians Practice Yoga?

Should Christians practice yoga?

There are literally thousands upon thousands of Christians across the United States and Canada who are taking "Christian yoga" classes this very day. Most see it as a fun, harmless form of exercise.

In fact, there are websites such as http://www.christianyoga.com/ that enthusiastically promote a "Christian" form of these ancient practices.

But is it harmless?

Is there more to yoga than just exercise?

The truth is that over ten million Americans are practicing some form of yoga, but the vast majority of them have absolutely no idea what they are involving themselves in. The reality is that you can't take yoga out of Hinduism and you can't take the Hinduism out of yoga.

For instance, did you know that "yoga" is literally a Sanskrit word that means to yoke with Brahman?

Did you know that many of the mantras that yoga instructors have their followers chant are actually the names of Hindu gods?

Did you know that many of the practices of yoga are specifically designed to call forth Hindu deities?

Did you know that a large percentage of those who get involved with yoga also get involved with Hinduism, New Age religion and the occult?

In Exodus 23:13 it says this: "Do not invoke the names of other gods; do not let them be heard on your lips."

If you chant the names of Hindu gods and you participate in practices designed to call them forth, that is an abomination to God.

By participating in yoga, you are participating in false religion.

If you go over to India and ask the "gurus", they will tell you that yoga is pure Hinduism.

Many Christians get sucked into "just an exercise program", but later on they end up getting deeply involved in Hinduism, New Age religion and even occultic practices.

The truth is that yoga and Christianity are diametrically opposed to each other, and if you are a Christian that is involved with yoga then you really need to watch this short YouTube video:

New Government Plan Would Put RFID Chip In All Driver's Licenses

A shocking new U.S. government plan would embed an RFID chip in all driver's licenses. Just when privacy advocates thought that the REAL ID program was dead, the federal government has come up with something far worse.

If this proposal is implemented, the U.S. government would be able to electronically track nearly every adult citizen wherever they go. The possibilities for abuse of such a system are endless. For example, the government would be able to compile attendance lists at anti-government rallies just by walking through the crowd with an ID reader.

This very disturbing proposal actually has the support of Janet Napolitano, the new head of the Department of Homeland Security. Instead of calling them REAL IDs, these new licenses would be called "enhanced driver's licenses".

The Department of Homeland Security even has a web page up about these "enhanced driver's licenses". On that page they even admit that a RFID chip that "will signal a computer to pull up your biographic and biometric data" and tell the government agent all of your personal details.

Do you all find this disturbing yet?

Of course this is not the Mark of the Beast yet, but it is another step in that direction. Someday the antichrist will require that all the people of the world take an identification mark in their right hand or their forehead, and those who do not take it will be killed.

Already, RFID implants are being used in humans with alarming frequency. For instance, RFID implants are being implanted in older Americans living with Alzheimer's disease who are at risk of wandering off. RFID human implants are also being used in some places to store the medical records of patients who are chronically ill so that doctors can get their information quickly in an emergency.

While those uses may sound "good" to a degree, the reality is that the primary use of this technology is to create a "Big Brother" society where everything that you do is tracked, traced and watched by the government. Every time this technology expands, it brings us closer to that day that we read about in the book of Revelation.

Let us hope that Americans will unite and oppose this proposal just as they opposed the READ ID Act.





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