Fear Not the Storm But The Creator of the Storm

In seeing and hearing of the rage of the massive and deadly tornado that his Moore, OK, please consider this: do not fear the wind or storm, but fear Him Who created it and rules over it. Many feel helpless in light of such strength as a tornado (or any other natural disaster), but that is nothing compared to the awesome power of the holy holy holy God Who rules and reigns over all His creation. This is microscopic compared to the power of God. So fear Him and submit to Him.


Mat 10:28  "Do not fear those who kill the body but are unable to kill the soul; but rather fear Him who is able to destroy both soul and body in hell.

In the triune God alone is salvation from all our sins, justification so we can go to Heaven, eternal life so we can live forever in humble worship of Him, comfort and peace from the One Who is the Prince of Peace....peace that is beyond circumstance, through every storm and trial in life. But His peace and comfort can only be given to those who have acknowledged their wickedness and sin before Him and have pleaded for His mercy. For those, He liberally gives grace, peace, and true unchanging love. For the rest who will not humbly come to Him, is eternal death and destruction.

Come to Him and repent of your sins and trust in the perfect Person and finished work of the Lord Jesus Christ, who died on the cross to make the full payment for all the sins of many sinners in order to satisfy the just wrath of the Father, and Who rose again on the third day according to the Scriptures for their justification (declaration of the unrighteous to be righteous based on Christ).


Rom 3:9  What then? Are we better than they? Not at all; for we have already charged that both Jews and Greeks are all under sin; 
Rom 3:10  as it is written, "THERE IS NONE RIGHTEOUS, NOT EVEN ONE;
Rom 3:11  THERE IS NONE WHO UNDERSTANDS, THERE IS NONE WHO SEEKS FOR GOD;
Rom 3:12  ALL HAVE TURNED ASIDE, TOGETHER THEY HAVE BECOME USELESS; THERE IS NONE WHO DOES GOOD, THERE IS NOT EVEN ONE." 
Rom 3:13  "THEIR THROAT IS AN OPEN GRAVE, WITH THEIR TONGUES THEY KEEP DECEIVING," "THE POISON OF ASPS IS UNDER THEIR LIPS";
Rom 3:14  "WHOSE MOUTH IS FULL OF CURSING AND BITTERNESS";
Rom 3:15  "THEIR FEET ARE SWIFT TO SHED BLOOD,
Rom 3:16  DESTRUCTION AND MISERY ARE IN THEIR PATHS,
Rom 3:17  AND THE PATH OF PEACE THEY HAVE NOT KNOWN."
Rom 3:18  "THERE IS NO FEAR OF GOD BEFORE THEIR EYES."

Rom 10:8  But what does it say? "THE WORD IS NEAR YOU, IN YOUR MOUTH AND IN YOUR HEART"--that is, the word of faith which we are preaching,
Rom 10:9  that if you confess with your mouth Jesus as Lord, and believe in your heart that God raised Him from the dead, you will be saved; 
Rom 10:10  for with the heart a person believes, resulting in righteousness, and with the mouth he confesses, resulting in salvation. 
Rom 10:11  For the Scripture says, "WHOEVER BELIEVES IN HIM WILL NOT BE DISAPPOINTED." 
Rom 10:12  For there is no distinction between Jew and Greek; for the same Lord is Lord of all, abounding in riches for all who call on Him; 
Rom 10:13  for "WHOEVER WILL CALL ON THE NAME OF THE LORD WILL BE SAVED." 

1Jn 1:8  If we say that we have no sin, we are deceiving ourselves and the truth is not in us. 

1Jn 1:9  If we confess our sins, He is faithful and righteous to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness. 

1Jn 1:10  If we say that we have not sinned, we make Him a liar and His word is not in us.

Craig Morgan: "This Ain't Nothin' "

Praying for our friends in Oklahoma.

Moore, OK Tornado

My prayers are going up to the God Who hears, for those in Moore, OK. I have a friend who lives just a few miles nearby, but praise the Lord, they are all safe.

Much devastation has occurred in OK. But God is still reining. This after all is HIS world. Great mercy has also been seen through this.

Psa 148:7  Praise the LORD from the earth, you great sea creatures and all deeps, 8  fire and hail, snow and mist, stormy wind fulfilling His word! 

To register yourself or look for loved ones go to Safe and Well.

IRS Union President Gets Access to Obama; Obama Gives Executive Orders in IRS Favor

Obama and the IRS: The Smoking Gun? President met with anti-Tea Party IRS union chief the day before agency targeted Tea Party.

... According to the White House Visitors Log ... the president of the anti-Tea Party National Treasury Employees Union, Colleen Kelley, visited the White House at 12:30pm that Wednesday noon time of March 31st.

... The very next day after her White House meeting with the President, according to the Treasury Department’s Inspector General’s Report, IRS employees — the same employees who belong to the NTEU — set to work in earnest targeting the Tea Party and conservative groups around America. The IG report wrote it up this way:

....The IG report did not examine White House Visitor Logs, e-mails, or phone records relating to the relationship between the IRS union, the IRS, and the White House.

On yet another occasion, Kelley’s presence at the White House was followed shortly afterwards by the President issuing Executive Order 13522. A presidential directive that gave the anti-Tea Party NTEU — the IRS union — a greater role in the day-to-day operation of the IRS than it had already — which was considerable.

~ Excerpts  from Newsbusters; for the full article go  here

Chart to Explain the Jewish Calendar and Which Day Jesus Died and Resurrected

Helpful chart  from Def Con:

Please go to the article linked above, for the explanation.

Can We Reason With A Christ-hating Culture?

...When a person is redeemed in Christ, he is to live his life in such a way as to glorify the One who purchased him. A Christian does not exist to make the world a better place to live, but to serve as a beacon, a sign post pointing to Jesus Christ, the Savior. By living a life of obedience to God, and acknowledging Him in all that one does, the Christian testifies to the world that his allegiance is not to the fallen, sinful system of mankind, but to the One who will one day judge all men. Thus, his job is not to necessarily fix a broken system. Short of all mankind being saved in Christ, no system established in this world will ever be fixed. It will always be tainted by the sinfulness of the human heart....

Christians, we cannot reason with the unregenerate, Christ hating world on their terms. They have no reasoning outside of God and we only will feed their insatiable appetite for sin. We must always preach the gospel, regardless of whether the world agrees with it or not. The gospel is the power of God to salvation. Only the gospel can change sin hardened heart. Only the gospel can bring a dead man to new life. Let us be less about the winning of culture and be more about the winning of souls condemned to Hell. If we commit to be obedient in this calling, then the Lord will save whom He will save. And if scores of untold souls are saved, then the consequence may just be a society that desires to live morally because it loves the Lord who established true morality to begin with.

~Defending Contending 

Pfeiffer on IRS Scandal: 'Law Is Irrelevant'

"Look, I can't speak to the law here," he said. "The law is irrelevant. The activity was outrageous and inexcusable."

~The Weekly Standard

Obviously that's the view of Obama and his administration. Clearly they think the Bill of Rights are no longer rights.

Amendment 1:

Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.

Amendment 2:

A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed.



Lawlessness will be the downfall of this nation.

Even Bob Scheiffer Is Fed Up With The Obfuscation of the Obama Administration

Noel Sheppard reports on the exchange between CBS' Bob Schieffer and Dan Pfeiffer (Obama senior advisor (whatever that means)):

BOB SCHIEFFER, HOST: You know, I don’t want to compare this in any way to Watergate. I do not think this is Watergate by any stretch. But you weren't born then I would guess, but I have to tell you that is exactly the approach that the Nixon administration took. They said, “These are all second-rate things. We don't have time for this. We have to devote our time to the people's business.” You’re taking exactly the same line they did.

SCHIEFFER: But Mr. Pfeiffer, and I don't mean to be argumentative here, but the President is in charge of the executive branch of the government. It’s my, I'll just make this as an assertion: when the executive branch does things right, there doesn't seem to be any hesitancy of the White House to take credit for that. When Osama bin Laden was killed, the President didn't waste any time getting out there and telling people about it.

But with all of these things, when these things happen, you seem to send out officials many times who don't even seem to know what has happened. And I use as an example of that Susan Rice who had no connection whatsoever to the events that took place in Benghazi, and yet she was sent out, appeared on this broadcast, and other Sunday broadcasts, five days after it happens, and I'm not here to get in an argument with you about who changed which word in the talking points and all that. The bottom line is what she told the American people that day bore no resemblance to what had happened on the ground in an incident where four Americans were killed.

End quote.

~News Busters, full article with video of the interview between Bob Schieffer and Dan Pfeiffer

New Spirituality: Who's Promoting It?

Who's who in Contemplative Spirituality aka New Spirituality (organizations as well as individuals).

Yes, This Religion IS Being Promoted and Practiced In Your Government Schools

By Berit Kjos
(From Berit’s new book, How to Protect Your Child From the New Age & Spiritual Deception - May 25, 2013)

Unbeknownst to most parents, America’s public schools are teaching their children to use mindfulness meditation (Eastern-style meditation or TM). In a New York Times article titled “In the Classroom, a New Focus on Quieting the Mind,” elementary children in an Oakland, California school are promised peace and loving-kindness if they will learn to meditate. An eleven-year-old explains, “I was losing at baseball, and I was about to throw a bat . . . The mindfulness really helped.”1 While that may sound like a great thing to a lot of teachers, the article acknowledges where this comes from:

As summer looms, students at dozens of schools across the country are trying hard to be in the present moment. This is what is known as mindfulness training, in which stress-reducing techniques drawn from Buddhist meditation are wedged between reading and spelling tests.2

A whole new generation of children is being drawn into New Age/New Spirituality, and it is happening right under their parents’ noses. While some of us grieve the real-world consequences of this cultural revolution, a rising chorus of voices are now demanding acceptance of today’s paradigm shift. Their positive spin inspires visions of an evolved humanity that is bursting out of the old shackles of Christian morality, traditional guidelines, and parental restraints. This new civilization reminds me of Isaiah’s ancient warning: “And the people shall be oppressed, every one by another, and every one by his neighbour: the child shall behave himself proudly [insolently] against the ancient [the elder], and the base against the honourable” (Isaiah 3:5).

~Lighthouse Trails Research

Go to the link for the full article.

Rick Warren Endorses Roman Catholic Book That Calls People Back To Roman Catholicism

James Sundquist alerted me to this article by Lighthouse Trails Research:

Rick Warren has endorsed a book "Catholics Come Home" by Tom Peterson which, along with their heavy campaign (tv commercials which I have seen on tv myself) trying to seduce people to go back to Rome. Rick Warren yet AGAIN shows his hostility toward Christ by endorsing Catholicism and its "evangelism". Yet John Piper is convinced he is biblically sound and holds to at least some Reformed doctrines. Let's remember this is also the guy who Francis Chan filled in the pulpit for and highly praised recently. 

“The mission of Tom Peterson and Catholics Come Home to bring souls home to Jesus and the church is critically important during this challenging time in our history. I fully support this New Evangelization project.”
—Rick Warren, author of The Purpose Driven Life

This shot is from Catholics Come Home endorsement page.

As Erin at Do Not Be Surprised reports in reference to Warren's endorsement of the book and "evangelizing" back to Rome:

"Rick Warren tipped his ecumenical hand long ago. Most recently, this was demonstrated when the purpose-driven pastor called on Christians to join him in "fasting and prayer for the 115 Cardinals seeking God's Will in a new leader." ...Indeed, it seems quite apparent that Warren was not cleverly asking Christians to pray that the Cardinals and Pope might come to repentance and faith in Christ alone. If he were, he would not have glowingly endorsed the book, Catholics Come Home, by Tom Peterson...  

By now, one may begin to wonder just how many chances remain for Rick Warren to repent of his false, blasphemous, ecumenical behavior. Only the Lord knows, but let the call for that repentance be sounded by Christians who see and who grieve over Warren's continual sin, for he is leading and has led many astray."

Continue here for the entire article.

Sola Sisters also rightly ask:

"Now that Saddleback pastor Rick Warren has endorsed the Roman Catholic campaign Catholics Come Home, created to bring lapsed Catholics back to the Catholic faith, can he finally and officially be publicly marked out and separated from for the false teacher that he is?"

Valid questions.

Sadly, I think at this point, Warren could say he is the anti-Christ, and "Christians" will not give him up but rather look for some "good" in him and his teaching. Yes, I think it is THAT BAD in "Christianity" today. If Warren's endorsement of Eastern mysticism, sodomy, Islam, liberation theology, Romanism, pragmatism, anti-Lordship, anti-Scripture alone, moral goodness, anti-sovereignty of God, repeatedly lying, hasn't been enough up to now, THIS won't be enough either. (Go here and here for all of this info which I give evidence for.)

Judging Error

From Today's Days of Praise:

"Now I beseech you, brethren, mark them which cause divisions and offences contrary to the doctrine which ye have learned; and avoid them. For they that are such serve not our Lord Jesus Christ, but their own belly; and by good words and fair speeches deceive the hearts of the simple." (Romans 16:17-18)

In order to mark and avoid those professing Christian teachers and leaders who are promoting doctrinal heresy (thus causing divisions among Christian believers), it is obvious that we must exercise sound biblical discernment and judgment. This judgment must be based on "the doctrine which ye have learned" from God's word. "To the law and to the testimony: if they speak not according to this word, it is because there is no light in them" (Isaiah 8:20)....

Full article here on judging error

IRS's Admission Before House Committee Was Planned

WASHINGTON – Last week, Lois Lerner, head of the tax exempt division of the Internal Revenue Service dropped a bombshell: The IRS had been applying extra scrutiny to conservative groups claiming tax exempt status...


As it turns out, it was not a spontaneous revelation. The question, said outgoing IRS Commissioner Steven Miller in testimony before the House Ways and Means Committee Friday, was planted, as part of a prepared strategy for the IRS to release this information to the public.

~The Daily Caller

Ralph Reed of the "Christian" Coalition Brokers Discussion Between Christian Conservatives and Pro-Homosexual Boy Scout Leaders

Compromise is compromise. Ralph Reed is part of the problem of the "Christian" Coalition. His position is not Christian because it is not biblical.

"WORLD learned that Reed, founder of the Christian Coalition and now president of the Faith and Freedom Coalition, has arranged meetings and conference calls between Christian conservative leaders and BSA officials who support the pro-gay resolution. "

~ World Magazine

There can be no compromise between biblical Christianity and homosexuality (the Boy Scouts of America are trying to allow homosexuals become leaders). Why would a professing Christian try to make the two accept each other when foundationally they cannot?


2Co 6:14  Do not be bound together with unbelievers; for what partnership have righteousness and lawlessness, or what fellowship has light with darkness? 
2Co 6:15  Or what harmony has Christ with Belial, or what has a believer in common with an unbeliever? 

The answer to these rhetorical questions is in the negative. Shame on Ralph Reed for his disloyalty to Christ and to His who are fighting the putrid wickedness of our culture. Homosexuality is an attack against the God-ordained family order. Reed is not proclaiming the "faith" or "family". There is no discussion to be made in compromising with those who push for acceptance of homosexuality. The only peacemaking that can biblically be made is that of proclaiming the Gospel to homosexuals and everyone because all people are hostile toward God in their sin and disobedience and must repent of all their sins. By accepting and compromising with homosexuals, Reed is actually doing quite an unloving thing: not standing firm on biblical Truth at all costs.

Afghanistan Still Refuses Banning Violence Against Women

"AFGHANISTAN’S parliament has refused to pass a new law banning violence against women."

~Express (UK)

News flash: this isn't news nor is it shocking. This is true Islam. Wake up Westerners and realize that Islam cannot coexist with feminists, Westerners, homosexuals, Christians, Jews, all non-Muslims who refuse to submit, those for freedom. The quran teaches husbands to beat their wives if they fail them; it and the hadiths encourage "honor" killing of women who dishonor the family. Both consider women to be far inferior to men, too. Here are some examples:

If they party liable is mentally deficient, or weak, or unable Himself to dictate, Let his guardian dictate faithfully, and get two witnesses, out of your own men, and if there are not two men, then a man and two women, such as ye choose, for witnesses, so that if one of them errs, the other can remind her. ~Surah 2.282

"Men are superior to women on account of the qualities which God hath gifted the one above the other, Surah 4:34 ….  and on account of the outlay they make from their substance for them. Virtuous women are obedient, careful, during the husband's absence, because God hath of them been careful. But chide those for whose refractoriness ye have cause to fear; remove them into beds apart, AND SCOURGE THEM: but if they are obedient to you then seek not occasion against them: verily, God is High, Great!" S. 4:34 

Allah (thus) directs you as regards your Children's (Inheritance): to the male, a portion equal to that of two females: if only daughters, two or more, their share is two-thirds of the inheritance; if only one, her share is a half. For parents, a sixth share of the inheritance to each, if the deceased left children; if no children, and the parents are the (only) heirs, the mother has a third; if the deceased Left brothers (or sisters) the mother has a sixth. (The distribution in all cases ('s) after the payment of legacies and debts.  ~S. 4.11

Hadith - Burkhari vol. I, no. 301: Allah's Apostle...said, "O women! Give alms, as I have seen that the majority of the dwellers of Hell-fire were you women...I have not seen anyone more deficient in intelligence and religion than you."

This shows why its futile to try to change Afghanistan: a Muslim country by nature will never ultimately embrace western thinking or worldviews, not to mention the Biblical Worldview.

The Myth of Mental Illness

The claim that "mental illnesses are diagnosable disorders of the brain" is not based on scientific research; it is a lie, an error, or a naive revival of the somatic premise of the long-discredited humoral theory of disease. My claim that mental illnesses are fictitious illnesses is also not based on scientific research; it rests on the materialist-scientific definition of illness as a pathological alteration of cells, tissues, and organs. If we accept this scientific definition of disease, then it follows that mental illness is a metaphor, and that asserting that view is stating an analytic truth, not subject to empirical falsification....  

Moreover, the belief that so-called mental health problems stand in the same relation to brain diseases as, say, urinary problems stand in relation to kidney diseases is superficially attractive, even plausible. The argument goes like this. The human body is a biological machine, composed of parts, called organs, such as the kidneys, the lungs, and the liver. Each organ has a "natural function" and when one of these fails, we have a disease. If we define human problems as the symptoms of brain diseases, and if we have the power to impose our definition on an entire society, then they are brain diseases, even in the absence of any medically ascertainable evidence of brain disease. We can then treat mental diseases as if they were brain diseases.

However, a living human being – a person – is not merely a collection of organs, tissues, and cells. The pancreas may be said to have a natural function. But what is the natural function of the person? That is like asking what is the meaning of life, which is a religious-philosophical, not medical-scientific, question. Individuals professing different religious faiths have kidneys so similar that one may be transplanted into the body of another without altering his personal identity; but their beliefs and habits differ so profoundly that they often find it difficult or impossible to live with one another.

~Thomas  Szasz, update to his book "The Myth of Mental Illness" written over 50 years ago

Thomas Szasz is professor of Psychiatry Emeritus at the State University of New York Health Science Center in Syracuse, New York.  

The answer to this is found in the Bible, from Genesis to Revelation. Man is indeed not merely a blob of tissue (as the evolutionists want to believe), but is made in the image of God, by God, as His crowning creation achievement, to glorify Him and to have a relationship with man that also glorifies Him. Sin is the problem that entered the world through Adam, and that is precisely what is the real problem with all people and why their thinking is wrong and so self-centered--why we are all self-worshippers instead of God-worshippers.

Indeed, because we have a spirit that God breathed into our bodies (as Genesis 1-2 states), we are far more than a collection of mere tissue. Because of that our problems often have to do with things of a spiritual nature---the inner man--that which makes a man a human being, alive and living. Thoughts cannot be medically sick because thoughts are from the heart and mind of man. They are often sinful, and that is the problem. Unless we are saved from our sins and made new in Christ Jesus, we will continue to live enslaved to our sin and wrong thinking, wrong emotions, wrong expectations. Only God and His holy Word can correct those things through His Holy Spirit and Scripture in the believer's life.

Standing Fast In The Liberty of Christ In Humility: let no one have unbiblical authority in your life

"But you are not to be called 'Rabbi,' for you have only one Master and you are all brothers." Matthew 23:8 

In every generation, there are those of an officious spirit who aspire to leadership, demanding deference from their fellows. Such men insist upon unqualified subjection from their followers.Their interpretation of the Scriptures must not be challenged, their dictates are final. Everyone must believe precisely what they teach, and order all the details of his life by the rules of conduct which they prescribe — or else be branded as a heretic.

There have been, and still are, many such self-elevated little popes in Christendom, who deem themselves to be entitled to implicit credence and obedience, whose decisions must be accepted without question. They are nothing but arrogant usurpers, for Christ alone is the Master of Christians; and since all of His disciples are "brethren," they possess equal rights and privileges.

"Do not call anyone on earth your father; for One is your Father — He who is in Heaven." Matthew 23:9. This dehortation has ever been needed by God's people, for they are the most part simple and unsophisticated, trustful and easily imposed upon. In those verses, the Lord Jesus was enforcing the duty of private judgment, bidding believers to allow none to be the dictators of their faith, or lords of their lives. 

No man is to be heeded in spiritual matters, any further than he can produce a plain and decisive, "Thus says the LORD" as the foundation of his appeal. To be in subjection to any ecclesiastical authority which is not warranted by Holy Writ, or to comply with the whims of men — is to renounce your Christian freedom. Allow none to have dominion over your mind and conscience. Be regulated only by the teaching of God's Word, and firmly refuse to be brought into bondage to "the commandments and doctrines of men." Instead, "Stand fast in the liberty with which Christ has made us free," yielding unreservedly to His authority alone.

God does not require the minds and consciences of His children to be enslaved by any ecclesiastical dominion. Each one has the right to exercise his own judgment.

"Be shepherds of God's flock that is under your care . . . not greedy for money, but eager to serve; not lording it over those entrusted to you, but being examples to the flock." 1 Peter 5:2-3. Instead of lording it over God's heritage, preachers are to be "examples to the flock" — personal patterns of good works, holiness, and self-sacrifice; models of piety, humility, and charity.

Love of power has been as common a sin in the pulpit, as love of money, and many of the worst evils which have befallen Christendom, have issued from a lusting after dominion and ecclesiastical honors. Such is poor human nature, that good men find it hard to keep from being puffed up and misusing any measure of authority when it is committed unto them, and from not doing more harm than good with the same. Pastors are to make self-abnegation, and not self-exaltation, their constant aim.

The right of private judgment does not mean that each Christian may be a law unto himself, and still less lord over himself. We must beware of allowing liberty to degenerate into license! No, it means the right to form our own views from Scriptures, to be in bondage to no ecclesiastical authority, and to be subject unto God alone. Two extremes are to be guarded against: 
1. slavery to human authority and tradition, and 
2. the spirit of self-will and pride.

Private judgment does not mean private imagination, but a deliberate conviction based on Holy Writ! Though I must not resign my mind and conscience to others, or deliver my reason and faith over blindfold to any church — yet I ought to be very slow in rejecting the approved judgment of God's true servants. Self-conceit is to be rigidly restrained. Private judgment is to be exercised humbly, soberly, and impartially, with a willingness to receive light from any quarter.

Ponder the Word for yourself; but mortify the spirit of haughty self-sufficiency, and be ready to avail yourself of anything likely to afford you a better understanding of God's truth. Above all, daily beg the Holy Spirit to be your teacher! And always accord your brethren the same right and privilege, which you claim for yourself.

(Arthur Pink, "Private Judgment" 1950)

Spiritual Refreshment and the Hard Things of Life

"He makes me lie down in green pastures, He leads me beside quiet waters" Psalm 23:2

A young Christian who had been for many weeks in a hospital, undergoing a painful operation and then slowly recovering, wrote me in the days of her convalescence, "I have found my little white bed here in the hospital a bit of God's green pasture." Not only had it proved a place of rest and peace to her--but also a place of spiritual refreshment.

The hard things are not meant to mar our life--they are meant to make it all the braver, the worthier, the nobler. Adversities and misfortunes are meant to sweeten our spirits, not to make them sour and bitter.

"Before I was afflicted I went astray, but now I keep Your word." Psalm 119:67

"It is good for me that I was afflicted, that I may learn Your statutes." Psalm 119:71

"I know, O LORD, that Your judgments are righteous, and that in faithfulness You have afflicted me." Psalm 119:75 

(J.R. Miller, "The Glory of the Commonplace")

Standing Ovation by Collegues for Kelly's Rebuke Against the IRS

REP. MIKE KELLY (R-PA): This has nothing to do with political parties. This has to do with highly targeted groups. This reconfirms everything the American public believes. This is a huge blow to the faith and trust that the American people have in their government. Is there any limit to the scope where you folks can go? Is there anything at all? Is there any way that we could ask you is there any question that you should have asked?

My goodness. How much money do you have in your wallet? Who do you get emails from? Whose sign do you put up in your front yard? This is a tax question? And you don't think that's intimidating? It's sure as hell intimidating. And I don't know that I got any answers from you today. And I don't know that -- what Mr. George said is great work -- but you know what? There's a heck of a lot more that has to come out in this. Any anybody that sat here today and listened to what you had to say, I am more concerned today than I was before, and the fact that you all can do just about anything you want to anybody? 

You know, you can put anybody out of business that you want. Any time you want. I gotta tell you. You could talk about how you're a horribly run organization, if you're on the other side of the fence, you're not giving that excuse. And the IRS comes in, you're not allowed to be shoddy, you're not allowed to be run horribly, you're not allowed to make mistakes, you're not allowed to do one damn thing that doesn't come in compliance, and if you do, you're held responsible right then. I just think the American people have seen what's going on right now in their government. This is absolutely an overreach and this is an outrage for all Americans.

~Reported by Real Clear Politics

My applaud goes to Rep. Kelly too.

IRS Demands Content of PRAYER: This is not the America I, Nor My Forefathers Knew

During a House Ways and Means Committee hearing today, Rep. Aaron Schock, R-Ill., grilled outgoing IRS commissioner Steven Miller about the IRS targeting a pro-life group in Iowa.

“Their question, specifically asked from the IRS to the Coalition for Life of Iowa: ‘Please detail the content of the members of your organization’s prayers,’" Schock declared.

“Would that be an inappropriate question to a 501 c3 applicant?” asked Schock. “The content of one’s prayers?”

“It pains me to say I can’t speak to that one either,” Miller replied.

~Washington Examiner

Another freedom destroyed: the freedom of religion.

Thus far the IRS has ripped apart the freedom of protesting one's government, freedom of assembly, freedom of religion.

Really Americans, how many more freedoms will you justify being taken away?

We Have No Right to Ever Be Angry With the Thrice Holy God

I've often heard professing Christians justify their anger toward God by saying, "God can handle anything I throw His way, including my anger." I believe this is a prideful attitude toward God and is sinful in nature. God does not earn one's anger for all that He does is righteous and good and holy. It is to rail against His justice and really, to accuse the thrice holy God as being unjust.

Does Scripture say its ok to be angry at God?

Job 38:1  Then the LORD answered Job out of the whirlwind and said, 2  "Who is this that darkens counsel By words without knowledge? 3  "Now gird up your loins like a man, And I will ask you, and you instruct Me! 4  "Where were you when I laid the foundation of the earth? Tell Me, if you have understanding, 5  Who set its measurements? Since you know. Or who stretched the line on it?

Job 38:12  "Have you ever in your life commanded the morning, And caused the dawn to know its place, 13  That it might take hold of the ends of the earth, And the wicked be shaken out of it?

Job 38:31  "Can you bind the chains of the Pleiades, Or loose the cords of Orion? 32  "Can you lead forth a constellation in its season, And guide the Bear with her satellites?

Job 40:1  Then the LORD said to Job, 2  "Will the faultfinder contend with the Almighty? Let him who reproves God answer it." 3  Then Job answered the LORD and said, 4  "Behold, I am insignificant; what can I reply to You? I lay my hand on my mouth. 5  "Once I have spoken, and I will not answer; Even twice, and I will add nothing more." 6  Then the LORD answered Job out of the storm and said, 7  "Now gird up your loins like a man; I will ask you, and you instruct Me. 8  "Will you really annul My judgment? Will you condemn Me that you may be justified? 9  "Or do you have an arm like God, And can you thunder with a voice like His?

Isa 45:23  "I have sworn by Myself, The word has gone forth from My mouth in righteousness And will not turn back, That to Me every knee will bow, every tongue will swear allegiance. 24  "They will say of Me, 'Only in the LORD are righteousness and strength.' Men will come to Him, And all who were angry at Him will be put to shame. 

Is This Still America?

Daily Mail excerpts:

Ousted acting IRS commissioner Steven Miller apologized to the House Ways and Means Committee on Friday.

Texas Republican congressman Kevin Brady had the harshest criticism for Miller. 

‘Is this still America?' he asked him.

'Is this government so drunk on power that it would turn its full force, its full might, to harass, and intimidate, and threaten an average American who only wants her voice, their voices heard?’

~Read more at the UK's Daily Mail

Where are our rights to freedom of speech and assembly and voting for whoever we want?

Two Bibical Reasons Why Supporting AHA Should Be Reconsidered for Anyone Who Has

Thought provoking and good insight at airo on why Justin Edwards can no longer promote or support AHA.

Hating America

Dr. Walter Williams notes:

Brothers Tamerlan and Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, who are accused of setting the bombs that exploded at the Boston Marathon, attended the University of Massachusetts. Maybe they hated our nation before college, but if you want lessons on hating America, college attendance might be a good start. Let's look at it....

University of Southern California professor Darry Sragow preaches hate to his students in his regulation of elections and political finance class, recently telling them that Republicans are stupid, racist losers and that they are angry old white people. A few years ago, Rod Swanson, a UCLA economics professor, told his class, "The United States of America, backed by facts, is the greediest and most selfish country in the world."...Professor Sharon Sweet, an algebra teacher at Brevard Community College, told her students to sign a pledge that read, "I pledge to vote for President Obama and Democrats up and down the ticket." Fortunately, the college's trustees fired her.

~End quote. (emphasis, mine)

Dr. Walter Williams goes on to list several professors from well known universities that say the same drivel:

Richard Falk, professor emeritus at Princeton University blames "the American global domination project" for the Boston bombings and says Bush ordered the destruction of the World Trade Center twin towers.

University of Rhode Island history professor Erik Loomis demanded NRA Wayne LaPierre's "head on a stick". His mouth is full of f-words.

Georgetown University law professor Louis Siedman blames our country's problems on the "insistence on obedience to the Constitution, with all its archaic, idiosyncratic and downright evil provisions."

Really? The document that gives the people a government made of the people, limited in scope and power, with checks and balances, allowing for all sorts of freedoms the majority of the world over only dare dream about? 

Williams goes on to make the point with examples of how parents don't have to wait for college for their kids to be indoctrinated with this anti-Americanism by teachers---its happening at the high school level.

Is it no wonder that the "journalists" of today and the politicans of of tomorrow (many whom are interns or mere staffers right now) who have grown up and been fed all this anti-Americanism, anti-capitalism, anti-Constitutionism, are now hailing it as normal while trying rabidly (yes, they learn from their professors to name call and threaten----aka bully) to do away with the very foundations of this great country. As we've already seen, they will be the victims of their own worldview because the freedom they savor only for themselves (not for  the nasty racist white conservatives who love slavery, mind you), will be the very freedoms their own worldview of Socialism/Statism/Marxism/Communism will take away from them. Obama's DOJ is already doing it.

IRS Official in Charge During Tea Party Targeting Now Runs Health Care Office, ABC News Reports

The Internal Revenue Service official in charge of the tax-exempt organizations at the time when the unit targeted tea party groups now runs the IRS office responsible for the health care legislation.

Sarah Hall Ingram served as commissioner of the office responsible for tax-exempt organizations between 2009 and 2012. But Ingram has since left that part of the IRS and is now the director of the IRS’ Affordable Care Act office, the IRS confirmed to ABC News today.

~ABC News

As Christians Grow Older

"Even to your old age and gray hair I am He; I am He who will sustain you. I have made you and I will carry you; I will sustain you and I will rescue you!" Isaiah 46:4

As we grow older, there should be a constant gaining, never a losing in our spiritual life. Every year should find us living on a higher plane than the year before. Old age should always be the best of life, not marked by spiritual emptiness and decay--but by nobler fruitfulness and more gracious beauty. Paul was growing old, when he spoke of forgetting things which are behind, and reaching forth to things ahead. His best was yet to be attained. So it should always be with Christian old age. We must ever be turning heavenward, toward nobler life and holier beauty!

"The righteous will flourish like a palm tree, they will grow like a cedar of Lebanon; planted in the house of the LORD, they will flourish in the courts of our God. They will still bear fruit in old age, they will stay fresh and green!" Psalm 92:12-14

(J.R. Miller, "The Glory of the Commonplace")


Jer 17:7  "Blessed is the man who trusts in the LORD And whose trust is the LORD. 8  "For he will be like a tree planted by the water, That extends its roots by a stream And will not fear when the heat comes; But its leaves will be green, And it will not be anxious in a year of drought Nor cease to yield fruit.

Psa 92:12  The righteous man will flourish like the palm tree, He will grow like a cedar in Lebanon. 13  Planted in the house of the LORD, They will flourish in the courts of our God. 14  They will still yield fruit in old age; They shall be full of sap and very green, 15  To declare that the LORD is upright; He is my rock, and there is no unrighteousness in Him. 

Additional words on the Christian growing old:

"Those who are growing old should show the ripest spiritual fruitfulness. They should do their best work for Christ in the days which remain. They should live their sweetest, gentlest, kindliest, most helpful life in the short time which they have yet to remain in this world. They should make their years of old age—years of quietness and peace, and joy—a holy eventide. But this can be the story of their experiences only if their life be hid with Christ in God. Apart from Christ, no life can keep its zest or its radiance!"

Welcome to Your World, Liberals

I've often said, although in a slightly different, although somewhat related vein, that liberals will be the first victims of what they unquestioningly promote: liberalism. That is to say, liberals demand government involvement into the personal lives of everyone, telling them how to live and not live, think and speak, all with the threat of punishment even or especially by the government (that's supposed to be of the people, by the people, and for the people).

It is the liberals who have been the most intolerant of those who disagree with them, many with the admitted view that those who disagree should be shut down. This is bullying; its terrorizing people opposing them into submission (the same tactics of Islam, for example).

And now their liberalism has come home to roost.

Finally the liberals, the ones in the media right now, along with a few in politics, are getting a taste of their own worldview thrown back at them. The DOJ looking into work and personal phone records, emails, and faxes of AP reports  is what liberalism is all about.

It was ok for the IRS to do this to the Conservative groups (Tea Party, Patriot, Christian).

Suddenly its not ok when its done to their own.

Welcome to what its like to feel the intrusion of one's rights, Lefties. This is what your worldview does. It destroys the very rights you enjoy and the ones you wanted taken away from those nasty Conservatives.

How does it feel? Not good, right?

Time to grow up and leave Liberalism behind. You are closer to Communism than Conservatives (Socialism or Statism is only half a step from Communism, really). You want government intrusion on Conservatives but not yourselves, not your domain, not your profession. But you can't have it both ways, Libs. That's what we've been trying to tell you for years.

Another Gosnell House of Abortion Horrors in Texas

Just days after a Philadelphia jury found abortionist Kermit Gosnell guilty of the murder of three newborn children and the negligent death of a patient, evidence of similar atrocities has surfaced in Houston, Texas.

Three former employees of abortionist Douglas Karpen have come forward to give their testimony in a video interview with Life Dynamics.  

Karpen’s former employees describe hellish scenes in which children were killed beyond 20 weeks gestation. One of the employees said:

“Sometimes he couldn’t get the fetus out…He would yank pieces – piece by piece – when they were oversize. And I’m talking about the whole floor dirty. I’m talking about me drenched in blood.”

~Susan B. Anthony List

The murder of babies: its not clean, sanitary, easy, ethical, humane, or right.

No End In Sight: wire tapping senators' phone calls with journalists

More wire tapping by "Justice" Department, this time with the Press Gallery phones inside the Capital building and AP journalists. The concern is, for Congressman Nunes, the separation of powers (or lack thereof).

2nd Appeals Court: Obama's Recess Appointments to NLRB Unconstitutional

A second appeals court has joined the D.C. Circuit in ruling that President Barack Obama’s recess appointments to the National Labor Relations Board were unconstitutional, concluding that some board actions taken in the wake of those appointments were also invalid.

~Politico

IRS Threatened to Withhold Tax-Exemption If Pro-Life Group Promises Under Perjury to Not Protest Obama's Campaign Support Group, Planned Parenthood

“In one case, the IRS withheld approval of an application for tax exempt status for Coalition for Life of Iowa. In a phone call to Coalition for Life of Iowa leaders on June 6, 2009, the IRS agent ‘Ms. Richards’ told the group to send a letter to the IRS with the entire board’s signatures stating that, under perjury of the law, they do not picket/protest or organize groups to picket or protest outside of Planned Parenthood,” the Thomas More Society announced today. “Once the IRS received this letter, their application would be approved.”

~The Washington Examiner

That's a clear violation of freedom of speech, freedom to protest one's government, and freedom of assembly, not to mention, freedom to vote for whoever they want. Using the IRS as a pit bull threat is against everything this country was founded on, not to mention fought against in multiple wars.

Liar, Liar

The White House on Wednesday released 94 pages of emails between top administration and intelligence officials who helped shape the talking points about the attacks in Benghazi, Libya, that the CIA would provide to policymakers in both the legislative and executive branches.

The documents, first reported by THE WEEKLY STANDARD in articles here and here, directly contradict claims by White House press secretary Jay Carney and Secretary of State Hillary Clinton that the revisions of those talking points were driven by the intelligence community and show heavy input from top Obama administration officials, particularly those at the State Department.

~The Weekly Standard

Obama, Clinton, and Carney are liars. They are also so arrogant in thinking that nothing can touch them.  Ultimately they are condemning themselves before the thrice holy God, who will not ignore their grave sin.

Do You Feast On God's Word?

"Your words were found, and I ate them; and Your word was to me the joy and rejoicing of my heart!" Jeremiah 15:16

Oh, that you and I might get into the very heart of the Word of God--and get that Word into ourselves! As I have seen the silkworm eat into the leaf, and consume it--so ought we to do with the Word of the Lord--not crawl over its surface, but eat right into it until we have taken it into our inmost parts! It is idle merely to let the eye glance over the words, or to recollect the poetic expressions, or the historic facts; but it is blessed to eat into the very soul of the Bible until,
at last . . .
you come to talk in Scriptural language,
your very life is fashioned upon Scripture models, and,
what is better still, your mind is flavored with the words of the Lord.

"Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that proceeds from the mouth of God!" Matthew 4:4

~Charles Spurgeon

The IRS Scandal: using the government of the people against the people who disagree with the Obama Administration

Surely, we all understand the awesome and, frankly, horrifying power the IRS has come to have in our system, which originally didn’t even contemplate an income tax, much less oversight of it by such a monstrous bureaucratic leviathan. What could be more chilling and destructive to our liberties than a government targeting – that’s its word, not mine – private citizens and organizations based on their political and ideological views?


If the First Amendment means anything, it is that the full force of the federal government will be used to safeguard, not suppress, the liberties of American citizens to utter political speech, especially speech critical of the government. But instead, this IRS sought for abuse groups that criticized the administration and groups that wanted to teach people that under our Constitution, such government officials have no right to do this type of thing.

~David Limbaugh

"Freedom from fear"? Nope. That is gone.  You dare speak out against Obama and you will be harassed by the IRS.

Thousands of Doctors Protest Psychology's New DSM-5 For Its Questionable Labeling and Reliability

An estimated 3,000 doctors have signed a petition of protest against the psychiatric industry’s latest bible for diagnosis and treatment, the DSM-5, charging its contents could lead patients to be prescribed unnecessary medications....

The petition states, in part: “We, the undersigned, are concerned that the [DSM-5] includes many diagnostic categories with questionable reliability … [and] did not receive a much-needed and widely requested external scientific review [and] may compromise patient safety through the implementation of lowered diagnostic thresholds.”

~Washington Times

Read the entire article here.