A Few Things On My Mind.

Tonight we were at church for prayer meeting. I had some very good news to share that will help us to hang onto our place a few years longer and depending on what happens things will work out in our favor in the long run.

This being said, I listened to Ravi Zacharia's "Let My People Think!" radio broadcast on my iPod on the way to church. One of the people talking in the discussion lamented how far Evangelicals have drifted away from the Bible's core teachings. Not only in America but here in particular since the majority of the "Christian" world has become so secularized. When it comes to Christians that get involved in politics, and many today are very angry with our leaders, he heard someone spew out his hatred against his political enemies. On the question if this is how Christ would do it, the person's response was, "stop bringing up this Christian x... At this point he realized what he said and took a step back, somewhat
in shock of himself.

Yet, this is the very reason why I mentioned it at church. Well do I remember the emerging religious right and how under majority leader Newt Gingrich and then on during the Bush years we had the highest number of Evangelical incumbents. Did anything change in the fiber of American society? NOTHING!!!!! We still lock horns with anyone and everyone who is not considered a Conservative. And yet, who ever said that being a Christian is being a Conservative. If anything, Jesus attacked the religious leaders as well as the prophets did by telling them to turn back to God or else. But it was left at that. The prophets still cared about the welfare of the people but did not turn away from God when Israel would do so. They still lived a godly live. Christ still went on and healed and preached to tell mankind about the kingdom of God. He did not get consumed trying to fix what politics (legislative morality) could not fix anyway if the people's hearts run astray.

Is this to say that we should not become politically active, whether it is just to vote or even run for political office? Not so! But when we loose focus of God and become so consumed with how we feel about those that evidently run our country into the ground while they are lost just like the rest of humanity who do not know God, then we are no better then them. We do not show Christ's love and mercy and righteousness to a starving world but venom and hatred just like everyone else does. By doing so, instead of drawing the lost to Christ, we push them away.

The same person who voiced his concern said that he travelled quite a bit around the world. He has seen churches from good to ugly and rightout silly, making a mockery of the Christian Martyrs and those Christians that live it every day in the Middle East under extreme difficult circumstances. To us, a good church is the one with the most "entertainment." It's not so much to learn about the word of God, but where can I feel good and have fun.

All the Tea Parties of the world ARE NOTHING!!!!!! outside of God. Let's not make Christianity another ideology but a way of live as Jesus himself lived it before us.

Wellesley, Massachusetts Public School Students Learn to Pray to Allah

I cannot say it enough. This is an outrage what happens here in America. Forget the ACLU forget political correctness. We are COMITTING OUR OWN SUICIDE!!!! And the ones that pay the worst prize are those that allowed it to infiltrate our country from the very get go. They will loose their heads first and then everyone else follows who denies Islam and is not willing to subdue to the dhimmi tax. OUR OWN COUNTRY is enabling OUR CHILDREN to become part of this.

Are You Ready To Die For Your Faith

Think about the ones that died for their faith at the Columbine shooting. Quite thought provoking.

Martyred Christians.mp4

Burning none believers alive? Think about 9/11, think about stoning and cutting hands and feet off, think about burying women alive because they are charged with adultery. It really is a religion of peace and Muslims have the gull to white wash it and say it's not in the Qur'an just because in the days of Mecca Mohummed praised Jews and Christians as being the people of the book while later on in Medina he hated them and peresecuted them. Nothing new under the sun. Maybe you can tell that I'm really getting angry at this point. Pray for our brothers and sisters in Christ.

The President Says That ‘Muslims Are Our Friends’

Enough said. That says it all. Thanks to the courtesy of the Walid Shoebat Foundation.

 

The President says that 'Muslims are our friends'

Here are the facts Mr President

 

The Qur'an:

Qur'an (5:51) - "O you who believe! do not take the Jews and the Christians for friends; they are friends of each other; and whoever amongst you takes them for a friend, then surely he is one of them; surely Allah does not guide the unjust people."

Qur'an (5:80) - "You will see many of them befriending those who disbelieve; certainly evil is that which their souls have sent before for them, that Allah became displeased with them and in chastisement shall they abide."    Those Muslims who befriend unbelievers will abide in hell.

Qur'an (3:28) - "Let not the believers Take for friends or helpers Unbelievers rather than believers: if any do that, in nothing will there be help from Allah: except by way of precaution, that ye may Guard yourselves from them..." This last part means that the Muslim is allowed to feign friendship if it is of benefit. Renowned scholar Ibn Kathir states that "believers are allowed to show friendship outwardly, but never inwardly."

Qur'an (3:118) - "O you who believe! do not take for intimate friends from among others than your own people, they do not fall short of inflicting loss upon you; they love what distresses you; vehement hatred has already appeared from out of their mouths, and what their breasts conceal is greater still; indeed, We have made the communications clear to you, if you will understand." This verse not only warns Muslims not to take non-Muslims as friends, but it establishes the deep-seated paranoia that the rest of the world is out to get them.

Qur'an (9:23) - "O ye who believe! Choose not your fathers nor your brethren for friends if they take pleasure in disbelief rather than faith. Whoso of you taketh them for friends, such are wrong-doers" Even family members are not to be taken as friends if they do not accept Islam. (This is the mildest interpretation of this verse from the 9th Sura, which also advocates "slaying the unbeliever wherever ye find them").

Qur'an (53:29) - "Therefore shun those who turn away from Our Message and desire nothing but the life of this world."

Qur'an (3:85) - "And whoever desires a religion other than Islam, it shall not be accepted from him, and in the hereafter he shall be one of the losers."

Qur'an (3:10) - "(As for) those who disbelieve, surely neither their wealth nor their children shall avail them in the least against Allah, and these it is who are the fuel of the fire." Those who do not believe in Muhammad are but fuel for the fire of Hell (also 66:6, 2:24. 21:98).

Qur'an (7:44) - "The Companions of the Garden will call out to the Companions of the Fire: "We have indeed found the promises of our Lord to us true: Have you also found Your Lord's promises true?" They shall say, "Yes"; but a crier shall proclaim between them: "The curse of Allah is on the wrong-doers" Muslims in heaven will amuse themselves by looking down on non-Muslims in Hell and mocking them while they are being tortured (see 22:19-22.

Qur'an (1:5-7) - "Show us the straight path, The path of those whom Thou hast favoured; Not the (path) of those who earn Thine anger nor of those who go astray" This is a prayer that Muslims are supposed to repeat each day. "Those who earn Thine anger" specifically refers to Jews and "those who go astray" refers to Christians (see Bukhari (12:749)).

 

There are verses that contradict the above however the peaceful friendship verses were written when Mohammed had few followers and when he had many follower the verses switched to violence. The previous verses were abrogated by the later verses. If verses contradict each other that should be a big question as to the validity of such a faith.

 

So Mr. President if you are not a Muslim why are you using Al Taqiyah to deceive the American people about Islam.

 

Wake up America, just look at the evidence.

 

Keith Davies

Executive Director Walid Shoebat Foundation

Florida Pastor Says Koran-Burning Will Not Happen

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Sept. 9: Dove World Outreach Center pastor Terry Jones speaks to the media in Gainesville, Florida.

A Florida pastor said Friday he will not burn Korans this weekend after appearing to walk back a similar pledge the day before. 

In two television interviews, the Rev. Terry Jones said the book-burning "is not going to happen," but also repeated his claim that an imam told him the controversial Ground Zero mosque would be moved in exchange for his decision. 

"Absolutely no doubt about it," Jones said. 

A disagreement between those two religious leaders over the mosque had thrown into doubt Jones' announcement Thursday that he was calling off the Koran-burning, a protest meant to mark nine years since the Sept. 11, 2001, terror attacks. After meeting with Imam Muhammad Musri, the president of the Islamic Society of Central Florida, Jones said he was assured he had a bargain that the mosque planned in lower Manhattan would be moved. The decision was met with relief, as top government officials and international organizations had warned that the burning would pose a security threat, particularly to U.S. troops overseas. 

But Musri insisted he never promised to change the location and that Jones "stretched my words." The imam in charge of the New York Islamic center and mosque project also quickly denied any deal was made. Musri repeated that claim Friday. 

Sept. 9: Dove World Outreach Center pastor Terry Jones, left, listens as Imam Muhammad Musri, president of the Islamic Society of Central Florida in Orlando, speaks during a press conference in Gainesville.

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Florida Pastor Cancels 9/11 Koran Burning

Claims 'Ground Zero mosque' will move Jones, after backpedaling to say the Koran protest was merely suspended, said it was canceled Friday and that he hopes to still hold a meeting with the mosque developers in New York City Saturday. 

Jones spoke on ABC and NBC Friday morning. 

Despite Jones' wavering, many in Asia greeted the news not to burn the Koran with relief, though some said the damage already has been done. Muslims consider the book the sacred word of God and insist it be treated with the utmost respect.

Cleric Rusli Hasbi told 1,000 worshippers attending Friday morning prayers in Indonesia, the world's most populous Muslim country, that Jones had already "hurt the heart of the Muslim world."

"If he'd gone through with it, it would have been tantamount to war," the cleric said in the coastal town of Lhokseumawe. "A war that would have rallied Muslims all over the world."

This should say it all. Islamic leaders say that their countries allow for other religions to co-exist and yet they would make a statement like that. The so called art of an upside down cross in a jar of urine is considered culture. Christians don't go on rampages over that, yet where are we as the church? We mustn't be as radical as this Floridian pastor but we should also not shy back from being in the public square making people aware of God's wrath on our nation for our trespasses. And we also shouldn't shy back from not voicing our political views as a church for the sake of those who wouldn't here the truth otherwise.

A day earlier in New York, the Islamic center project leader, Imam Feisal Abdul Rauf, said in a statement that he was glad Jones had backed down but that he had spoken to neither the pastor nor Musri.

"We are not going to toy with our religion or any other. Nor are we going to barter," Rauf said. "We are here to extend our hands to build peace and harmony."

This is so nice to know. But it's in the face of the former statement that any such act would be considered war.

Opponents argue it is insensitive to families and memories of Sept. 11 victims to build a mosque so close to where Islamic extremists flew planes into the World Trade Center and killed nearly 2,800 people. Proponents say the project reflects religious freedom and diversity and that hatred of Muslims is fueling the opposition.

Moving the mosque is not why Jones canceled his threat, Musri said. Instead, he relented under the pressure from political and religious leaders of all faiths worldwide to halt what President Barack Obama called a "stunt." Musri said Jones told him the burning "would endanger the troops overseas, Americans traveling abroad and others around the world."

"That was the real motivation for calling it off," Musri said.

Jones had never invoked the mosque controversy as a reason for his planned protest at his Dove World Outreach Center. Instead, he cited his belief that the Koran is evil because it espouses something other than biblical truth and incites radical, violent behavior among Muslims.

Obama urged Jones to listen to "those better angels," saying that besides endangering lives, it would give Islamic terrorists a recruiting tool. Defense Secretary Robert Gates took the extraordinary step of calling Jones personally.

Jones' church, which has about 50 members, is independent of any denomination. It follows the Pentecostal tradition, which teaches that the Holy Spirit can manifest itself in the modern day.

The cancellation also was welcomed by Jones' neighbors in Gainesville, a city of 125,000 anchored by the sprawling University of Florida campus. At least two dozen Christian churches, Jewish temples and Muslim organizations in the city had mobilized to plan inclusive events, including Koran readings at services, as a counterpoint to Jones' protest.

This is apostacy in the pure. If we as the church and synagogue have to read the Koran from our pulpits just to make aware of a sensitive situation a book burning of the Koran would cause, where is our biblical truth? We have straight away from the teachings of the Bible. The church in America, at least within the main stream context has become corrupt and is rotten at the core.

Jones said at the news conference that he prayed about the decision and concluded that if the mosque was moved, it would be a sign from God to call off the Koran burning.

"We are, of course, now against any other group burning Korans," Jones said. "We would right now ask no one to burn Korans. We are absolutely strong on that. It is not the time to do it."

Despite Jones' words, in the Gaza Strip, Hamas Prime Minister Ismail Haniyeh said to a crowd of tens of thousands of Muslim faithful that they had come "to respond to this criminal, this liar, this crazy priest who reflects a crazy Western attitude toward Islam and the Muslim nation."

"We came to say, the Koran is our constitution, we are committed to God and his holy book," he said to those holding the texts in their hands at a stadium in the northern town of Beit Lahiya. "God willing, should they try to carry out their crime against the Koran, God will tear their state apart and they will become God's lesson to anyone who tries to desecrate the holy book."

This only confirms the earlier statement made by the other cleric that burning the Koran is a declaration of war.

Part of the pressure exerted on Jones came from Gates who briefly spoke to the pastor before his first announcement to call it off. Gates expressed "his grave concern that going forward with this Koran burning would put the lives of our forces at risk, especially in Iraq and Afghanistan," said Pentagon spokesman Geoff Morrell.

Morrell said earlier that the decision to issue a personal appeal was not easy because it could provoke other extremists "who, all they want, is a call from so-and-so." Earlier, Jones had said if he was contacted by the White House that he might change his mind. After Gates' call to Jones, Morrell said the secretary's "fundamental baseline attitude about this is that if that phone call could save the life of one man or woman in uniform it was a call worth placing."

In Afghanistan, where tens of thousands of U.S. troops are in harm's way, President Hamid Karzai said he heard Jones had perhaps abandoned his Koran-burning plan.

"The holy book is implanted in the hearts and minds of all the Muslims," he said from Kabul. "Humiliation of the holy book represents the humiliation of our people. I hope that this decision will be stopped and should never have been considered. I ask the world for peace and stability and the respect of each other." 

Again, whenever have Christians retaliated because they felt humiliated? Furthermore do we as Christians identify as a people? No. Not at all! Rather we identify ourselves as the church of Christ that has nothing to do with a culture or people or creed but all that give their lives to the Father and his son and therefore are called children of God. How vastly different this is from Islam where "true" believers do not even know if they have it what it takes to make it to paradise.