(The Roman Catholic Church should unionize-then it could apply for one an exemption–like 3000 other waivers given to Obama’s other union cronies.)

Since it is an election year, President Obama is once again going to church and carrying his Bible. He even attended the National Prayer Breakfast last week! He piously claimed, “Jesus would back my tax-the-rich policy.”

Christian faith, the President noted, compels him “to give up some of the tax breaks that I enjoy.” One wonders why his Christian faith hasn’t compelled the modern day Zaccheus to go the extra mile and voluntarily give eighty percent–or more–of his wealth to the US Treasury? (Any repentant socialist can do the same at anytime! All they need to do is make out a check–not to the IRS–to the US Treasury as penance.)

Perhaps most interesting about the President’s speech is what people are NOT saying in its aftermath. For example, President Obama’s claim has not drawn any public concerns about the so-called “separation of church and state” (Barry W. Lynn – where are you?). Only Mormon US Senator Orrin Hatch has so far questioned the President’s cynical quoting of Christ.

Atheists notwithstanding, doesn’t he care–really care–about how this reference to Christ would likely offend minority voting blocks like Jews, Muslims–and even possibly the Jehovah’s Wintesses? Or, is he just trying to pull his sheep’s clothing over the eyes of the majority voting block?

Critics are probably silent for fear of being called racist or anti-Christian. So in the absence of meaningful dialog on the matter, how about if we consider this question: was President Obama right? Is it true that Jesus Christ would stand arm-in-arm with President Obama and support the elevation of effective tax rates on high-earning Americans? Would Christ endorse Obama’s “rich versus poor” tactic? Did Christ come to create class warfare? Or, did Christ come to bring peace?

Perhaps we should “test the spirits to see whether they be of God or not?” There was another person who had less than altruistic motives concerning finances and he also masked the motives in pious terms. John 12:5-6, Judas said… ‘Why was not this ointment sold for three hundred pence, and given to the poor?’ This he said, not that he cared for the poor; but because he was a thief, and had the bag, and bare what was put therein.”

Another, considered a saint by some, has stated, “Socialism works–until you run out of other people’s money.”

Pastor Terry K. Hagedorn
Calvary Baptist Church
PO Box 282 Reedsville, WV
Ph. 304-864-3870
MOUNTAIN MANNA, 96.7 FM, Sundays 9:30am

http://mountainmanna.com

“Pointing Mountaineers to Mount Calvary.”

Then, my friend, you are almost as good as your dog!

- Author Unknown

FT. LAUDERDALE, Fla., Dec. 5 /Christian Newswire/ — As Christians around the country are met with violence and marginalization, Dr. Gary Cass, has founded the Christian Anti-Defamation Commission (CADC) a new organization that aims to counter threats to millions of Christians’ First Amendment rights. While the overwhelming majority of Americans are professed Christians, it has become routine for the media and elites to openly mock and trivialize Christians because they choose to express their faith.

In his new book Christian Bashing and the Christian Anti-Defamation Commission, Dr. Cass examines the threats, slurs and violence being perpetrated against Christians–and the apathetic reaction of American society. “When controversial statements are made against certain groups, there is a demand for an immediate apology. When anti-Christian sentiments flow from the media, there is never a response–until now,” said Dr. Cass.

“When a group known as the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence, a group of radical homosexual agitators, recently disrupted a Catholic mass in San Francisco, the reaction from the entire religious community was a big yawn. It is time for Christians to stand up and call bigotry by its rightful name and to fight back when defamed.”

An employee of an Idaho computer company was fired after displaying Bible verses in his cubicle–in response to a pro-homosexual flyer distributed by the company.

Howard Stern on his nationally syndicated radio show said, “If I was president, I would have you (pro-lifers) gassed. I would march you into the ovens.”

(Excerpt) Read more at christiannewswire.com …

To The Editor:

It is ironic that Martin Luther King Day and the anniversary of the pro-abortion Roe v. Wade decision should both be in January. The irony is that liberals hail MLK for his defense of the right to “life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness” while advocating a holocaust against the unborn–depriving them of their most basic right to life.

A niece of the legendary civil rights leader says her uncle would be considered a pro-life, “social conservative” today. “Uncle Martin sounded no different than a conservative Christian preacher does now,” Alveda King said, “He was pro-life, pro-abstinence before marriage, and based his views on the unchanging Word the Bible,” said King. “Today, Planned Parenthood would condemn Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. as part of the ‘religious right.’ “

However, Dr. King would also condemn Planned Parenthood as the largest abortion provider in America with 78% of their clinics in minority communities. Blacks make up 12% of the population, but 35% of the abortions in America. Blacks are being targeted! That is genocide!

Did you know that the founder of Planned Parenthood, Margaret Sanger, was a devout racist who created the Negro Project designed to sterilize unknowing black women and others she deemed as undesirables of society? In his book, Killer Angel, George Grant says: “Particularly shocking was Sanger’s involvement in the Eugenics movement. Grant says: ‘[Sanger] was thoroughly convinced that the inferior races’ were in fact human weeds’ and a menace to civilization.’ . . .”

Thank God for Civil Rights. Pray that those same rights would be extended to the unborn. “Jesus loves the little children of the world: red, or yellow, black or white–born or unborn–they are precious in his sight!  Jesus loves the little children of the world!”

Pastor Terry K. Hagedorn
Calvary Baptist Church
PO Box 282 Reedsville, WV
Ph. 304-864-3870
MOUNTAIN MANNA broadcast on WKMM, Sundays, 9:30 to 9:45am (starting
2/5/2012)

Chip Stam writes: “This hymn was written at a particularly difficult time in the history of the missions to China. Missionaries had been captured by the communist Red Army and released in poor health after over a year of suffering. Others had been captured never to be heard from again. In 1934 the young missionaries John and Betty Stam (my great aunt and uncle) were captured in Anhwei and beheaded . The news of these sorrows had reached the mission’s headquarters in Shanghai. Though this was a very dangerous time for both the Chinese Christians and the foreign missionaries, Frank Houghton decided he needed to begin a tour through the country to visit various missionary outposts. While traveling over the mountains of Szechwan, the powerful and comforting words of 2 Corinthians 8:9, “though he was rich, yet for your sake he became poor,” were transformed into this beautiful Christmas hymn.”

Thou who wast rich beyond all splendour,
All for love’s sake becamest poor;
Thrones for a manger didst surrender,
Sapphire-paved courts for stable floor.
Thou who wast rich beyond all splendour,
All for love’s sake becomes poor.

Thou who art God beyond all praising,
All for love’s sake becamest man;
Stooping so low, but sinners raising
Heavenwards by thine eternal plan.
Thou who art God beyond all praising,
All for love’s sake becamest man.

Thou who art love beyond all telling,
Saviour and King, we worship thee.
Emmanuel, within us dwelling,
Make us what thou wouldst have us be.
Thou who art love beyond all telling,
Saviour and King, we worship thee.

– Frank Houghton (1894-1972)

10) DON’T look down it at somebody (Pride)

09) DON’T poke it into someone else’s business (Strife / Dissension)

08) DON’T snoop around with it (Nosey / Gossip)

07) DON’T get it out of joint (Anger)

06) DON’T cut it off to spite your face (Bitterness)

05) DON’T pay through it (Materialism)

04) DO find something right under it (Love / Salvation)

03) DO see past it (Eternity / Hope)

02) DO Keep it clean (Humility / Obedience)

AND THE NUMBER ONE THING TO DO WITH YOUR NOSE…

01) DO get it stuck in a book (The Bible!)

Feeling footloose and frisky, a featherbrained fellow forced his father to fork over his farthings. Fast he flew to foreign fields and frittered his family’s fortune, feasting fabulously with floozies and faithless friends.  Flooded with flattery he financed a full-fledged fling of “funny foam” and fast food.

Fleeced by his fellows in folly, facing famine, and feeling faintly fuzzy, he found himself a feed-flinger in a filthy foreign farmyard. Feeling frail and fairly famished, he fain would have filled his frame with foraged food from the fodder fragments.

“Fooey,” he figured, “my father’s flunkies fare far fancier,” the frazzled fugitive fumed feverishly, facing the facts. Finally, frustrated from failure and filled with foreboding (but following his feelings) he fled from the filthy foreign farmyard.

Faraway, the father focused on the fretful familiar form in the field and flew to him and fondly flung his forearms around the fatigued fugitive. Falling at his father’s feet, the fugitive floundered forlornly, “Father, I have flunked and fruitlessly forfeited family favor.”

Finally, the faithful Father, forbidding and forestalling further flinching, frantically flagged the flunkies to fetch forth the finest fatling and fix a feast.  Faithfully, the father’s first-born was in a fertile field fixing fences while father and fugitive were feeling festive. The foreman felt fantastic as he flashed the fortunate news of a familiar family face that had forsaken fatal foolishness. Forty-four feet from the farmhouse the first-born found a farmhand fixing a fatling.

Frowning and finding fault, he found father and fumed, “Floozies and foam from frittered family funds and you fix a feast following the fugitive’s folderol?” The first-born’s fury flashed, but fussing was futile. The frugal first-born felt it was fitting to feel “favored” for his faithfulness and fidelity to family, father, and farm. In foolhardy fashion, he faulted thefather for failing to furnish a fatling and feast for his friends. His folly was not in feeling fit for feast and fatling for friends; rather his flaw was in his feeling about the fairness of the festival for the found fugitive.

His fundamental fallacy was a fixation on favoritism, not forgiveness. Any focus on feeling “favored” will fester and friction will force the faded facade to fall. Frankly, the father felt the frigid first-born’s frugality of forgiveness was formidable and frightful. But the father’s former faithful fortitude and fearless forbearance to forgive both fugitive and first-born flourishes. The farsighted father figured, “Such fidelity is fine, but what forbids fervent festivity for the fugitive that is found? Unfurl the flags and finery, let fun and frolic freely flow. Former failure is forgotten, folly is forsaken. Forgiveness forms the foundation for future fortune.”

Four facets of the father’s fathomless fondness for faltering fugitives are:

1)  Forgiveness
2) Forever faithful friendship
3) Fadeless love, and
4) A facility for forgetting flaws