The Freedom We Once Assumed are Disappearing
I am deeply distressed over the direction our nation is taking. The political solutions that we thought would rescue our nation from its moral and spiritual freefall have had scant effect.
We are learning that the problem is deeper than we thought. Thus the solution itself must be deeper also.
It is said that after God died in the 19th century man died in the 20th century for when God is dead man becomes an untamed beast.
Some would compare the church in the United States today as in the church in Nazi Germany. I believe we should study the Nazi era, to learn all we can about our present
struggles as the church in America. And as we shall see, in doing so we might be preparing ourselves for our own impending future. There are signs that we would wake up one day and discover that our freedoms we once knew are gone. That day is here.
One does not have to be a prophet to see that dark days are coming to the United States. There are signs of the freedoms we once assumed were ours are disappearing. Hitler did not discourage people from attending church. He was a Catholic but had long since abandoned his faith but he did not mind if others continue to attend church as long as it did not affect the way they lived or the value they had in fact he explicitly said that he would not interfere with a specific doctrine of the church, just as long as the churches we're teaching those things that were in harmony with the good of the German people. He called this “Positive Christianity”.
Germans for centuries celebrated Christmas and Easter Hitler had to reinterpret the meaning. Christmas was turned into a totally pagan festival. In fact, at least for the SS Troops, its date was changed to December 21 that date of the winter solstice. School prayers were band and carols and nativity plays were forbidden in the schools and in 1938 even the name of Christmas was changed to Yuletide, Crucifixes were eliminated from classrooms. Easter was turned into a holiday that heralded the arrival of spring. If religion was tolerated it had to be secularized so that it would be comparable of the state’s commitment to the greater good of a revived Germany. Most of the church bowed to the culture currents and endorsed the “Positive Christianity” that was in line with the government policies. We can see that happening right now and we are currently headed in that direction here in the United States.
Obama holds a fascination because his arrival as President enjoyed widespread support. People were looking for change; never in history has a person been so well liked. He has that rare gift that motivates people.
Isn’t a shame? For all are great exploits discoveries and inventions and successes. We human still find ourselves unable to build a lasting peace among our neighbors in the world. Ways is that? What keeps us constantly embroiled in warfare, violence and unrest divided by race, class and gender? Why does hope seem to be so elusive?
Take a look around , watch the news on television, listen to news brief on the radio, read a newspaper, or go online to search and news and the result is the same. Whatever you are reading, listening to, or watching, you are certain to be bombarded with reports that tell you that our world is crumbling beneath the weight of financial downturns, war, terrorism, bloodshed, violence, government and corporate corruption, poverty, genocide, homicide, suicide, racial and ethnic divisions, and global warming. All of these maladies can lead us to feel helpless, with a loss of trust and a feeling of insecurity. We seem be dangling from our last thread of hope.
Think about this. If you're adult living in a virtually any part of the industrial, computerized so-called civilized world by now you know the drill. Chances are you get up in the morning with a mind filled with what you worried about all night. How far has the Dow dropped? How much money have you lost in your 401(k). How are you going to pay for your children to finish college? Can you keep your home from going into foreclosure? Help! You sigh, oh, what am I going to do?
These are the same thoughts that rocked you through another restless night of sleep. Awaken by your burdens; you now drag yourself through another day, plagued with anxiety of uncertainty. Still, you dream about something that will somehow alter your condition and turn your drab reality into a thing of beauty.
You ask yourself the question: Did my lottery ticket win this time? Have I finally struck it rich? Are you daydreaming about how all those millions of dollars might greatly change your world? As your false hopes built, your mind dwells on grand illusions. You see yourself as a successful person, able not only to pay all your bills, but even to lavish expensive gifts on your loved ones, pay for their college, buy an upscale house and luxury cars, and travel the world.
It all seemed so real you can almost taste it, but when the true reality slaps you in the face and you awake from your daydream and are faced with the harsh truth that your circumstances haven't changed a bit.
Enjoy and Gods Blessing’s
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Saturday, August 6, 2011
Friday, July 29, 2011
From TownHall News Letter
Michael Brown
Michael Brown
Leftists Beware-The Christian Revolutionaries Are Coming Your Way
7/28/2011 | Email Michael Brown | Columnist's Archive
On the heels of the tragic massacre in Norway, the internet and media have been abuzz with warnings about the potential threat of “Christian extremists.” Typical is an article from domestic terrorism expert Daryl Johnson entitled, “Christian Extremism from Timothy McVeigh to Anders Breivik.” (Yes, you read that title correctly.) He begins by stating, “Those two jihadists—two right-wing reactionaries, two terrorists, two anti-government white supremacists, two Christians—have a lot in common. . . .” Two Christians?
Johnson alleges that, “[McVeigh’s] idealism of a golden-age white America was the Christian translation of al-Qaeda’s idealized caliphate.” He further claims that, “Islamists who may want us harm need only sit back and enjoy the view. They might as well have outsourced the job to their Christian brethren, with plenty of assists from mainstream conservatives.” And this is meant to be taken seriously. Indeed, it is meant to serve as a warning.
Of course, we have known for years that Christianity played no role at all in Timothy McVeigh’s demented, murderous mind (he was, in fact, a self-professed agnostic), while it is becoming increasingly clear that a living, Christian faith (as opposed to a European, cultural Christianity, completely unrelated to faith) was something of no real importance to Anders Breivik. And Christian thinking or ideology certainly did not fuel his savagery.
But falsely branding McVeigh and Breivik as “Christians” is not the real problem. The problem is when people of genuine Christian faith are labeled “Christianists,” the semantic equivalent of “Islamists,” the current way of describing Islamic terrorists who allegedly distort and pervert Islam. We are now the perverters of the Christian faith, not Christians but “Christianists.” Apparently, if you take your faith seriously enough to allow it to influence your worldview, and if you seek to live in accordance with that worldview, you are a Christianist.
In keeping with this, the JoeMyGod, gay activist website posted a link to my recent Townhall article about Anders Breivik with the heading, “Michael Brown: American Christianists Will Suffer Because Of The Norway Killer.” Similarly, my article drew the attention of RightWingWatch.com, a website which also warns of dangerous “Christianists” like me. Read More Here>http://townhall.com/columnists/michaelbrown/2011/07/28/leftists_beware-the_christian_revolutionaries_are_coming_your_way/page/2
Michael Brown
Leftists Beware-The Christian Revolutionaries Are Coming Your Way
7/28/2011 | Email Michael Brown | Columnist's Archive
On the heels of the tragic massacre in Norway, the internet and media have been abuzz with warnings about the potential threat of “Christian extremists.” Typical is an article from domestic terrorism expert Daryl Johnson entitled, “Christian Extremism from Timothy McVeigh to Anders Breivik.” (Yes, you read that title correctly.) He begins by stating, “Those two jihadists—two right-wing reactionaries, two terrorists, two anti-government white supremacists, two Christians—have a lot in common. . . .” Two Christians?
Johnson alleges that, “[McVeigh’s] idealism of a golden-age white America was the Christian translation of al-Qaeda’s idealized caliphate.” He further claims that, “Islamists who may want us harm need only sit back and enjoy the view. They might as well have outsourced the job to their Christian brethren, with plenty of assists from mainstream conservatives.” And this is meant to be taken seriously. Indeed, it is meant to serve as a warning.
Of course, we have known for years that Christianity played no role at all in Timothy McVeigh’s demented, murderous mind (he was, in fact, a self-professed agnostic), while it is becoming increasingly clear that a living, Christian faith (as opposed to a European, cultural Christianity, completely unrelated to faith) was something of no real importance to Anders Breivik. And Christian thinking or ideology certainly did not fuel his savagery.
But falsely branding McVeigh and Breivik as “Christians” is not the real problem. The problem is when people of genuine Christian faith are labeled “Christianists,” the semantic equivalent of “Islamists,” the current way of describing Islamic terrorists who allegedly distort and pervert Islam. We are now the perverters of the Christian faith, not Christians but “Christianists.” Apparently, if you take your faith seriously enough to allow it to influence your worldview, and if you seek to live in accordance with that worldview, you are a Christianist.
In keeping with this, the JoeMyGod, gay activist website posted a link to my recent Townhall article about Anders Breivik with the heading, “Michael Brown: American Christianists Will Suffer Because Of The Norway Killer.” Similarly, my article drew the attention of RightWingWatch.com, a website which also warns of dangerous “Christianists” like me. Read More Here>http://townhall.com/columnists/michaelbrown/2011/07/28/leftists_beware-the_christian_revolutionaries_are_coming_your_way/page/2
Tuesday, July 26, 2011
In All My 66 Years here on this planet.
In my 66 years of my life as a proud citizen the United States of America, this is the first time. I felt that a president of our country, holds his fellow Americans in the United States in contempt, I don't think I've ever felt such an overwhelming feeling of rejection as they do with this administration. It's as though everything that was raised so probably to hold dear and true has been denigrated. Every single day we hear something else that is a slap in the face of every patriot, I pray that we will see relief in November, because I know that I am not the only American that feels the frustration. It is unimaginable to me, what might happen if we cannot find some relief in November. It seems to me. The sediments are not widely held in this country, my friends and acquaintances, and even strangers. During my travels, I often don't want to talk about politics anymore, some say they can't bear to watch the news, because of Obama's daily assaults on all we hold dear. And yet he continues, deliberately and unapologetically, to force his agenda & will on the nation.
The facts speak for themselves, as does Obama's destructive record.
For all his posturing about bipartisanship, and his openness to all ideas, his action have shown all partisan, close minded and determined to implement his agenda, At any cost. And he has detailed the corrupted and high handed tactics. He has used in the process.
Obama doesn't link to the people. He brazenly ignores our wishes, indeed is pleased, that he would cease and detest from this reckless course, and is far from showing the normal concern of a politician. Even a statesman would have ignored his own amazing popularity, Obama moves forward at double time pace, never looking back, and never revealing the slightest inkling of self-doubt.
In his road to socialism, Obama will hope for no challenge. In response to the measurable results of his economic plans, he maintains things would have been much worse without his initiatives. And after he failed to keep his grandiose promise to improve American diplomacy, he gave us more of the same. In the meantime he continues to insult our allies and pamper our enemies George Sorros.
Doesn't worry him that America is in decline. Under his leadership? Obviously not, any voice's contempt for American exceptionalism and pledges to rectify a related unfair consummation of the world's resources. In fact, one can't help but notice that a declining America actually exist if his ideology went well.
It's wasteful stimulus and mortgage bailout packages, along with its fostering nationalize healthcare on this nation, are just the beginning. He is hell-bent on passing a cap and trade bill that will further destroy our prospects for economic recovery and future growth. His plans to boost taxes, including a possible the VAT (value added tax), is also on the front burner, and we shouldn't be surprised if he is ultimately tries to exact a wealth tax whereby he taxes, not just our income and sales transaction, but our Private property, many reasonable fear their pension funds are more mobile and right for the taking. If that happens, you can be sure that debt, exploding Obama will insist is doing us a favor by confiscating our lives earnings to rectify the debt crisis, he himself is largely responsible. Small businesses and producers everywhere weight in anxiety for the next series of shoes to drop from the Socialists programs of Obama's agenda.
All this weren't bad enough, it's urgent push for comprehensive immigration reform has just gotten under way. Expect this initiative, to be loaded with more than the normal amount of demagoguery and populism, as this supposedly post-racial president plays the race card on steroids and route to disseminating rule of law. And what remains of America's unique culture.
Some maintain Obama is intentionally wrecking affect on America as part of a lowered. strategy to manufacture a crisis in order to destroy the nation as we know it and rebuild it into a socialistic image. Others argue Obama is sold deeply in he’s socialist dogma that he is impervious to the manifest evidence of its failure. Regardless of which scenario may be correct, the out come would be the same.
Americans, former skeptics on the right side of the aisle, should now understand how committed Obama is to his far left agenda. They should finally grasp how far the left is willing to go when they are in power. Their talk of moving past partisanship is designed to cover the radical designs. They are precisely the opposite of what they hold themselves up to be freedom loving, compassionate, pro-economic growth, bullish on America Democratic, tolerant, and calm compromising.
America is in a dangerously rapid nose dive under Obama's navigation. The key to our delivery from this systematic assault is for the American people to understand Obama's extremist agenda, to getting engaged, and do everything we can to peaceably remove him and his supporters from office at election time and replace them with Constitutional values and , liberty loving public servants that respect the rule of law.
“Who is a Barack Obama? No one really knows. He led no movement, was spokesman for no ideology…. he cast no shadow. Obama has left his backers, and indeed the nation at large, guessing. Americans know Obama’s smart but we still don't know him. Come to think of it, what did we ever really know about Obama? He is certainly the least known figure ever to reach the presidency. I read an article in the New York Times titled or “Barack Obama's lost brother found in Kenya/” his name is George Hussein Obama, who lives on less than a dollar a month in a Nairobi slum. It’s remarkable that Barack Obama, who has a net worth of several million dollars and is president of the richest country in the world, hasn’t lifted a finder to help a destitute close relative.
Obama is radiant figure on the world stage. He looks the way, an American president should look, and he talks the way many in the world want the American president to talk. As a personality, he conveys dignity and calm. He seems to be what Aristotle called the great-soul man. As an orator, Obama is cerebral . And yet confident, a man who is not afraid to occupied large shoes or undertake large venture.
I certainly don’t think that Obama is a closet Muslin extremist who seeks to destroy America from within. I realize that his first name, Barack, refers to a Muslin blessing, his middle name, Hussien, is Islamic, and his last name, Obama, is similar Osama.
The charge of socialism, now furiously leveled against Obama, seems to bring us closer to the mark. Here is a president who has no business background and very few people with business experience around him; as he goes about slicing the economic pie, its not clear that he has any idea how to make a pie. More troubling Obama is a president who spends the taxpayer’s money with shameless promiscuity. He runs up debt not in the billons, but in the trillions. Just when it seems that he has broken the bank, he purposes new spending.
Never before have the tentacles of government reached so deeply into private sector, Obama even woke up one day and decided to fire the CEO of General Motors aka Government Motors.
No matter how bleak conditions look now, we have reason for optimism, and the American people, like no other people in world history, love our liberty bestowed upon us by our founding fathers and preserved by the blood of our patriot brothers and sisters.
http://www.tripleclicks.com/detail.php?item=41281Show your patriotic pride with this new American Flag
The facts speak for themselves, as does Obama's destructive record.
For all his posturing about bipartisanship, and his openness to all ideas, his action have shown all partisan, close minded and determined to implement his agenda, At any cost. And he has detailed the corrupted and high handed tactics. He has used in the process.
Obama doesn't link to the people. He brazenly ignores our wishes, indeed is pleased, that he would cease and detest from this reckless course, and is far from showing the normal concern of a politician. Even a statesman would have ignored his own amazing popularity, Obama moves forward at double time pace, never looking back, and never revealing the slightest inkling of self-doubt.
In his road to socialism, Obama will hope for no challenge. In response to the measurable results of his economic plans, he maintains things would have been much worse without his initiatives. And after he failed to keep his grandiose promise to improve American diplomacy, he gave us more of the same. In the meantime he continues to insult our allies and pamper our enemies George Sorros.
Doesn't worry him that America is in decline. Under his leadership? Obviously not, any voice's contempt for American exceptionalism and pledges to rectify a related unfair consummation of the world's resources. In fact, one can't help but notice that a declining America actually exist if his ideology went well.
It's wasteful stimulus and mortgage bailout packages, along with its fostering nationalize healthcare on this nation, are just the beginning. He is hell-bent on passing a cap and trade bill that will further destroy our prospects for economic recovery and future growth. His plans to boost taxes, including a possible the VAT (value added tax), is also on the front burner, and we shouldn't be surprised if he is ultimately tries to exact a wealth tax whereby he taxes, not just our income and sales transaction, but our Private property, many reasonable fear their pension funds are more mobile and right for the taking. If that happens, you can be sure that debt, exploding Obama will insist is doing us a favor by confiscating our lives earnings to rectify the debt crisis, he himself is largely responsible. Small businesses and producers everywhere weight in anxiety for the next series of shoes to drop from the Socialists programs of Obama's agenda.
All this weren't bad enough, it's urgent push for comprehensive immigration reform has just gotten under way. Expect this initiative, to be loaded with more than the normal amount of demagoguery and populism, as this supposedly post-racial president plays the race card on steroids and route to disseminating rule of law. And what remains of America's unique culture.
Some maintain Obama is intentionally wrecking affect on America as part of a lowered. strategy to manufacture a crisis in order to destroy the nation as we know it and rebuild it into a socialistic image. Others argue Obama is sold deeply in he’s socialist dogma that he is impervious to the manifest evidence of its failure. Regardless of which scenario may be correct, the out come would be the same.
Americans, former skeptics on the right side of the aisle, should now understand how committed Obama is to his far left agenda. They should finally grasp how far the left is willing to go when they are in power. Their talk of moving past partisanship is designed to cover the radical designs. They are precisely the opposite of what they hold themselves up to be freedom loving, compassionate, pro-economic growth, bullish on America Democratic, tolerant, and calm compromising.
America is in a dangerously rapid nose dive under Obama's navigation. The key to our delivery from this systematic assault is for the American people to understand Obama's extremist agenda, to getting engaged, and do everything we can to peaceably remove him and his supporters from office at election time and replace them with Constitutional values and , liberty loving public servants that respect the rule of law.
“Who is a Barack Obama? No one really knows. He led no movement, was spokesman for no ideology…. he cast no shadow. Obama has left his backers, and indeed the nation at large, guessing. Americans know Obama’s smart but we still don't know him. Come to think of it, what did we ever really know about Obama? He is certainly the least known figure ever to reach the presidency. I read an article in the New York Times titled or “Barack Obama's lost brother found in Kenya/” his name is George Hussein Obama, who lives on less than a dollar a month in a Nairobi slum. It’s remarkable that Barack Obama, who has a net worth of several million dollars and is president of the richest country in the world, hasn’t lifted a finder to help a destitute close relative.
Obama is radiant figure on the world stage. He looks the way, an American president should look, and he talks the way many in the world want the American president to talk. As a personality, he conveys dignity and calm. He seems to be what Aristotle called the great-soul man. As an orator, Obama is cerebral . And yet confident, a man who is not afraid to occupied large shoes or undertake large venture.
I certainly don’t think that Obama is a closet Muslin extremist who seeks to destroy America from within. I realize that his first name, Barack, refers to a Muslin blessing, his middle name, Hussien, is Islamic, and his last name, Obama, is similar Osama.
The charge of socialism, now furiously leveled against Obama, seems to bring us closer to the mark. Here is a president who has no business background and very few people with business experience around him; as he goes about slicing the economic pie, its not clear that he has any idea how to make a pie. More troubling Obama is a president who spends the taxpayer’s money with shameless promiscuity. He runs up debt not in the billons, but in the trillions. Just when it seems that he has broken the bank, he purposes new spending.
Never before have the tentacles of government reached so deeply into private sector, Obama even woke up one day and decided to fire the CEO of General Motors aka Government Motors.
No matter how bleak conditions look now, we have reason for optimism, and the American people, like no other people in world history, love our liberty bestowed upon us by our founding fathers and preserved by the blood of our patriot brothers and sisters.
http://www.tripleclicks.com/detail.php?item=41281Show your patriotic pride with this new American Flag
Monday, July 4, 2011
Obama's Misleading Vocabulart (From Townhall Newsletter)
Lurita Doan
Lurita Doan
Obama's Misleading Vocabulary
7/4/2011 | Email Lurita Doan | Columnist's Archive
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Independence Day provides all Americans with an opportunity to celebrate the many freedoms that make our country both great and unique. Our Declaration of Independence was breathtaking in scope and written in precise, plain, unequivocal language. When read in townships across the Colonies, crowds listened in hushed silence and then broke out in applause when the reading was complete. Our Founding Fathers felt no need to dilute or cloak their intentions to form a government.
As you celebrate the 4th, it might be appropriate to contrast the straightforward language of our founders and other great American leaders with the weasel words now emerging from Washington, and all too frequently, from President Obama, who prefers euphemism-laden, convoluted, pixilated flummery.
A quick review of Obama's speeches reveals his most common euphemisms seem to show a pattern of deception, obfuscation and misdirection. In President Obama's lexicon, words have different meanings; to decipher the message and understand what the President is saying requires a special Washington Dictionary. Here are some samples from President Obama’s special dictionary:
• Investment is the president's word for government spending. When he says we need to invest more, he really means he wants to increase spending on some special project. Obama knows that the word “investment” is reassuring to most Americans and implies that at some point in time a good investment will return a decent profit. But, no return is envisioned with Obama's "investments". In fact, to Obama all government spending is an investment.
• Millionaires and Billionaires – Obama often talks about the need to increase taxes on the millionaires and billionaires. Of course, what he really means is higher taxes on any family making more than $250,000. Obama’s math skills must be sufficient to understand that there is a huge mathematical difference between 250,000 and a billion, but he chooses to ignore the difference to better stoke class resentment, all while hoping that average Americans are too stupid to understand. Read more here>
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Lurita Doan
Obama's Misleading Vocabulary
7/4/2011 | Email Lurita Doan | Columnist's Archive
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Check out what's inside the July issue of Townhall Magazine!
Independence Day provides all Americans with an opportunity to celebrate the many freedoms that make our country both great and unique. Our Declaration of Independence was breathtaking in scope and written in precise, plain, unequivocal language. When read in townships across the Colonies, crowds listened in hushed silence and then broke out in applause when the reading was complete. Our Founding Fathers felt no need to dilute or cloak their intentions to form a government.
As you celebrate the 4th, it might be appropriate to contrast the straightforward language of our founders and other great American leaders with the weasel words now emerging from Washington, and all too frequently, from President Obama, who prefers euphemism-laden, convoluted, pixilated flummery.
A quick review of Obama's speeches reveals his most common euphemisms seem to show a pattern of deception, obfuscation and misdirection. In President Obama's lexicon, words have different meanings; to decipher the message and understand what the President is saying requires a special Washington Dictionary. Here are some samples from President Obama’s special dictionary:
• Investment is the president's word for government spending. When he says we need to invest more, he really means he wants to increase spending on some special project. Obama knows that the word “investment” is reassuring to most Americans and implies that at some point in time a good investment will return a decent profit. But, no return is envisioned with Obama's "investments". In fact, to Obama all government spending is an investment.
• Millionaires and Billionaires – Obama often talks about the need to increase taxes on the millionaires and billionaires. Of course, what he really means is higher taxes on any family making more than $250,000. Obama’s math skills must be sufficient to understand that there is a huge mathematical difference between 250,000 and a billion, but he chooses to ignore the difference to better stoke class resentment, all while hoping that average Americans are too stupid to understand. Read more here>
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Friday, July 1, 2011
Read this before you dip into your Pockets
As folks open their pockets for any current disaster, that crisis, or the next whatever catastrophe, please keep these facts in mind:
The American Red Cross
President and CEO - Marsha J. Evans
salary for the year 2010
was $651,957, plus all personal, medical,
& pension expenses.
Less than 10 cents of your donated dollar
actually goes to the cause.
The United Way
President - Brian Gallagher receives a
$375,000 base salary,
along with numerous personal & family
expense benefits.
Less than 12 cents of your donated dollar
actually goes to the cause.
UNICEF
CEO - Caryl M. Stern receives $1.2 Million
per year (100k per month)
plus all living & housing expenses,
including a ROLLS ROYCE.
Less than 15 cents of your donated dollar
actually goes to the cause.
The Salvation Army
Commissioner - Todd Bassett receives a
salary of only $13,000 per year (plus housing)
for managing this $2 billion dollar
organization.
96 cents of all donated dollars go to the cause.
Please share this with friends.
The American Red Cross
President and CEO - Marsha J. Evans
salary for the year 2010
was $651,957, plus all personal, medical,
& pension expenses.
Less than 10 cents of your donated dollar
actually goes to the cause.
The United Way
President - Brian Gallagher receives a
$375,000 base salary,
along with numerous personal & family
expense benefits.
Less than 12 cents of your donated dollar
actually goes to the cause.
UNICEF
CEO - Caryl M. Stern receives $1.2 Million
per year (100k per month)
plus all living & housing expenses,
including a ROLLS ROYCE.
Less than 15 cents of your donated dollar
actually goes to the cause.
The Salvation Army
Commissioner - Todd Bassett receives a
salary of only $13,000 per year (plus housing)
for managing this $2 billion dollar
organization.
96 cents of all donated dollars go to the cause.
Please share this with friends.
Wednesday, June 15, 2011
Have you ever heard of Laminin?
Laminin
Have you ever heard of Laminin?
The image above is a diagram of what Laminin looks like. Laminin is a type of protein that essentially holds us and animals together (in very laymen terms). Christians are making the connection of the cross shape of Laminin with Jesus Christ who HOLDS all things together.
Colossians 1:15-17 states, "He is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn over all creation. For by him all things were created; things in heaven and on earth , visible and invisible, whether thrones or powers or rulers or authorities;
all things were created by him and for him. He is before all things, and in him all things HOLD TOGETHER. "
Truth or Fiction, a website that investigates eRumors finds the information circulating around the Internet to be true. The following comes from their website:
Laminin, an Important Protein that Looks Like a Cross-Truth!
Summary of the eRumor:
The eRumor talks of a substance called "laminin" that is described as part of a family of proteins that "hold us together." Then there is a picture of laminin---which looks like a cross.
The Truth:
This story leads into complex considerations of science and biology but the main questions it prompts are whether laminin is as important as the eRumor claims and does it have a shape like a cross.
The simple answer to both questions seems to be yes.
Laminin is defined by the Webster Medical Dictionary as a "glycoprotein that is a component of connective tissue basement membrane and that promotes cell adhesion." In other words, looking at laminin as a kind of glue isn't far from the truth. There are several different laminins.
In their book The Laminins authors Peter Elkblom and Rupert Timpl go into more detail about both the importance of laminins and their structure. They describe laminins that, together with other proteins, "hold cells and tissues together." They also say, "Electron microscopy reveals a cross-like shape for all laminins investigated so far." They went on to say that in solution the laminin shapes were more like a flower than a cross. The strands of laminins do not always stand straight and at right angles, but they do consists of arms, three of which are short and one of which is long.
Research has been conducted on laminins in connection with numerous conditions and diseases. It has been found, for example, that people with congenital muscular dystrophies do not have laminin-alpha2, which is normally found in the layer of cells around muscle fibers and other cells important to the structural integrity of muscle cells.
http://bacpro.ecrater.com (How Great is Our God)
Have you ever heard of Laminin?
The image above is a diagram of what Laminin looks like. Laminin is a type of protein that essentially holds us and animals together (in very laymen terms). Christians are making the connection of the cross shape of Laminin with Jesus Christ who HOLDS all things together.
Colossians 1:15-17 states, "He is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn over all creation. For by him all things were created; things in heaven and on earth , visible and invisible, whether thrones or powers or rulers or authorities;
all things were created by him and for him. He is before all things, and in him all things HOLD TOGETHER. "
Truth or Fiction, a website that investigates eRumors finds the information circulating around the Internet to be true. The following comes from their website:
Laminin, an Important Protein that Looks Like a Cross-Truth!
Summary of the eRumor:
The eRumor talks of a substance called "laminin" that is described as part of a family of proteins that "hold us together." Then there is a picture of laminin---which looks like a cross.
The Truth:
This story leads into complex considerations of science and biology but the main questions it prompts are whether laminin is as important as the eRumor claims and does it have a shape like a cross.
The simple answer to both questions seems to be yes.
Laminin is defined by the Webster Medical Dictionary as a "glycoprotein that is a component of connective tissue basement membrane and that promotes cell adhesion." In other words, looking at laminin as a kind of glue isn't far from the truth. There are several different laminins.
In their book The Laminins authors Peter Elkblom and Rupert Timpl go into more detail about both the importance of laminins and their structure. They describe laminins that, together with other proteins, "hold cells and tissues together." They also say, "Electron microscopy reveals a cross-like shape for all laminins investigated so far." They went on to say that in solution the laminin shapes were more like a flower than a cross. The strands of laminins do not always stand straight and at right angles, but they do consists of arms, three of which are short and one of which is long.
Research has been conducted on laminins in connection with numerous conditions and diseases. It has been found, for example, that people with congenital muscular dystrophies do not have laminin-alpha2, which is normally found in the layer of cells around muscle fibers and other cells important to the structural integrity of muscle cells.
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Wednesday, June 1, 2011
Transformed By Troubles
Transformed by trouble
God has a purpose behind every problem.
He uses circumstances to develop our character. In fact, he depends more on circumstances to make us like Jesus then he depends our Reading the Bible. The reason is obvious. You face circumstances 24 hours a day.
Jesus warned us that we would have problems in the world. No one is immune to pain or insulated from suffering, and no one gets to skate through life problems-free. But life is a series of problems. Every time you solve one, another is waiting to take its place. Not all of them are big, but all are significant in God’s growth process for you. Peter assures us that problems are normal, saying, “Don’t be bewildered or surprise when you go through the fiery trials ahead, for this is no strange unusual thing that is going to happen to you.”
God uses problems to draw you closer to himself. The Bible says, “The Lord is close to the brokenhearted; he rescues those who are crushed in sprit.”. Your most profound and intimate experiences of worship will likely be in your darkest days--- when your heart is broken, when you feel abandoned, when you’re out of options, when the pain is great--- and you turn to God alone. It’s during suffering that we learn to pray our most authentic, heartfelt, honest-to-God prayers. When we’re in pain, we don’t have the energy for superficial prayers.
When life is rosy, we may slide by with knowing about Jesus, with intimating him and quoting him and speaking of him. But only in suffering will we know Jesus. We learn things about God in suffering that we can’t learn any other way
God could have kept Joseph out of jail, kept Daniel out of the Lion’s den, kept Jeremiah from being tossed into the slimy pit, Kept Paul from being shipwrecked three times, and kept the three Hebrew young men from being thrown into the blazing furnace but he didn’t. He let those problems happen, and every one of those persons was drawn closer to God as a result.
Problems force us to look to God and he depend on him instead of ourselves. Paul testified to this benefit: “We felt we were doomed to die and saw how powerless we were to help ourselves, but that was good, for then we put everything into the hands of God, who alone could save us.” You’ll never know that God is all you need until God is all you got.
Regardless of the cause, none of your problems could happen without God’s permission. Everything that happens to a child of God is father filtered, and he intends to use it for good even when Satan and others mean it for bad.
Every problem is a character building opportunity, and the more difficult it is, the greater the potential for building spiritual muscle and moral fiber. Paul said, “We know that these troubles produced patients. patient produces character. What happens outwardly in your life is not as important as what happens inside you. Your circumstances are temporary, but your character will last forever.
Problems don’t automatically produce what God intends. Many people become bitter, rather than better, and never grow up. You have to respond the way Jesus would.
Remember that God’s plan is good. God knows what is best for you and has your best interests at heart. God told Jeremiah, “The plans I have for you [are] plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future.” Joseph understood this truth when he told his brothers who had sold him into slavery, “You intended to harm me, but God intended it for good.”
It is vital that you stay focused on God’s plan, not your pain or problems, That is how Jesus endured the pain of the cross, and we are urged to follow his example.. Keep your eyes on Jesus, our leader and instructor. He was willing to die a shameful death on the cross because of the joy he knew would be his afterwards.
If you look at the world, you’ll be distressed. If you look within, you’ll be depressed. But if you look at Christ, you’ll be at rest. Your focus will determine your feelings. The secret of endurance is to remember that your pain is temporary but your reward will be eternal. Moses endured a life of problems because he was looking ahead to his reward. Paul endured hardship the same way. He said our present troubles are quite small and won’t last very long. Yet they produce for us an immeasurable great glory that will last forever. Don’t give in to short term thinking. Stay focused on the end results. If we are to share his glory, we must also share his suffering. What we suffer now is nothing compared to the glory he will give us later.
Rejoice and give thanks. the Bible tells us to give thanks in all circumstances, for this is God’s will for you in Christ Jesus.
The Bible says, rejoice in the Lord always. It doesn’t say rejoice over your pain. You rejoice in the Lord. No matter what happens, you can rejoice in God’s loving care wisdom power and faithfulness. Jesus said before of joy at that time because you have a great reward waiting for you in heaven.
We can also rejoice in knowing that God is going through the pain with us. We do not serve a distant and detached God who spouts encouraging clichés safely from the sideline. Instead, he enters into our suffering. Jesus did it in the incarnation, and the Spirit does it in us now. God will never leave us on our own.
If you’re facing troubles right now, don’t ask, why me? Instead ask, what do you want me to learn? Then trust God and keep on doing what’s right. You need to stick it out, staying with God’s plan so you’ll be there for the promised completion. Don’t give up grow up.
John Baca
http://bacpro.ecrater.com
God has a purpose behind every problem.
He uses circumstances to develop our character. In fact, he depends more on circumstances to make us like Jesus then he depends our Reading the Bible. The reason is obvious. You face circumstances 24 hours a day.
Jesus warned us that we would have problems in the world. No one is immune to pain or insulated from suffering, and no one gets to skate through life problems-free. But life is a series of problems. Every time you solve one, another is waiting to take its place. Not all of them are big, but all are significant in God’s growth process for you. Peter assures us that problems are normal, saying, “Don’t be bewildered or surprise when you go through the fiery trials ahead, for this is no strange unusual thing that is going to happen to you.”
God uses problems to draw you closer to himself. The Bible says, “The Lord is close to the brokenhearted; he rescues those who are crushed in sprit.”. Your most profound and intimate experiences of worship will likely be in your darkest days--- when your heart is broken, when you feel abandoned, when you’re out of options, when the pain is great--- and you turn to God alone. It’s during suffering that we learn to pray our most authentic, heartfelt, honest-to-God prayers. When we’re in pain, we don’t have the energy for superficial prayers.
When life is rosy, we may slide by with knowing about Jesus, with intimating him and quoting him and speaking of him. But only in suffering will we know Jesus. We learn things about God in suffering that we can’t learn any other way
God could have kept Joseph out of jail, kept Daniel out of the Lion’s den, kept Jeremiah from being tossed into the slimy pit, Kept Paul from being shipwrecked three times, and kept the three Hebrew young men from being thrown into the blazing furnace but he didn’t. He let those problems happen, and every one of those persons was drawn closer to God as a result.
Problems force us to look to God and he depend on him instead of ourselves. Paul testified to this benefit: “We felt we were doomed to die and saw how powerless we were to help ourselves, but that was good, for then we put everything into the hands of God, who alone could save us.” You’ll never know that God is all you need until God is all you got.
Regardless of the cause, none of your problems could happen without God’s permission. Everything that happens to a child of God is father filtered, and he intends to use it for good even when Satan and others mean it for bad.
Every problem is a character building opportunity, and the more difficult it is, the greater the potential for building spiritual muscle and moral fiber. Paul said, “We know that these troubles produced patients. patient produces character. What happens outwardly in your life is not as important as what happens inside you. Your circumstances are temporary, but your character will last forever.
Problems don’t automatically produce what God intends. Many people become bitter, rather than better, and never grow up. You have to respond the way Jesus would.
Remember that God’s plan is good. God knows what is best for you and has your best interests at heart. God told Jeremiah, “The plans I have for you [are] plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future.” Joseph understood this truth when he told his brothers who had sold him into slavery, “You intended to harm me, but God intended it for good.”
It is vital that you stay focused on God’s plan, not your pain or problems, That is how Jesus endured the pain of the cross, and we are urged to follow his example.. Keep your eyes on Jesus, our leader and instructor. He was willing to die a shameful death on the cross because of the joy he knew would be his afterwards.
If you look at the world, you’ll be distressed. If you look within, you’ll be depressed. But if you look at Christ, you’ll be at rest. Your focus will determine your feelings. The secret of endurance is to remember that your pain is temporary but your reward will be eternal. Moses endured a life of problems because he was looking ahead to his reward. Paul endured hardship the same way. He said our present troubles are quite small and won’t last very long. Yet they produce for us an immeasurable great glory that will last forever. Don’t give in to short term thinking. Stay focused on the end results. If we are to share his glory, we must also share his suffering. What we suffer now is nothing compared to the glory he will give us later.
Rejoice and give thanks. the Bible tells us to give thanks in all circumstances, for this is God’s will for you in Christ Jesus.
The Bible says, rejoice in the Lord always. It doesn’t say rejoice over your pain. You rejoice in the Lord. No matter what happens, you can rejoice in God’s loving care wisdom power and faithfulness. Jesus said before of joy at that time because you have a great reward waiting for you in heaven.
We can also rejoice in knowing that God is going through the pain with us. We do not serve a distant and detached God who spouts encouraging clichés safely from the sideline. Instead, he enters into our suffering. Jesus did it in the incarnation, and the Spirit does it in us now. God will never leave us on our own.
If you’re facing troubles right now, don’t ask, why me? Instead ask, what do you want me to learn? Then trust God and keep on doing what’s right. You need to stick it out, staying with God’s plan so you’ll be there for the promised completion. Don’t give up grow up.
John Baca
http://bacpro.ecrater.com
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