Posted on 01/28/2016 7:24:50 AM PST by justlittleoleme
After my dad became a Christian, we all moved together to Houston. And seeing the amazing transformation in her husband, my mom became a Christian within a year as well. Thus, by age 4, I was blessed to be being raised in a Christian home with two strong (but new) believers as parents.
I was raised in the church. Each night, my dad would read with me from our children's Bible. We'd memorize Bible verses, and compete to see who could do the best. We'd act out scenes from the Old Testament. We attended Clay Road Baptist Church, pastored by the same Brother Gaylon Wiley who had led my father to the Lord.
When I was 8 years old, I went to our church's summer camp, along (with) my cousin Bibi. At the invitation, tears streaming down my face, Bibi and I both walked down and gave our lives to Jesus.
And it changed my life. To have a personal relationship with Jesus Christ, to know that God's only Son died to pay for my sins, that I was fallen that I am redeemed by the blood of the Lamb, nothing is more important to me. I am a new creature in Christ, and it central to who I am today.
I couldn't run for president without relying heavily on my faith. When I have doubts, He comforts me. When I am weak, He gives me strength.
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When I fight to defend religious liberty, it's not purely a constitutional matter; it's a lifelong passion and personal commitment.
(Excerpt) Read more at charismanews.com ...
I wouldn’t want to vote for Huckabee either.
Please take no offense to this, but if you do not like Ted Cruz, (or Donald Trump, or Mario Rubio), refrain from disparaging them here.
I get it, it’s the internet - I’m a big boy, but “flaming” a candidate is ridiculous.
I’ve read almost this exact account before (from Ted Cruz’s book).
It’s interesting to me, as a Christian, and as a native of the Houston area.
Did you see where wife of just released by Iran, Pastor Abadini, has filed separation/divorce for abuse? She said they’d had trouble over the years and it was her obligation to fight for his release, but that the situation hadn’t changed. She’s only had a few days with him to discover that.
Indeed...and it’s not just here. It’s everywhere. Everything has been turned upside down... and God mercifully waits for us all to wake up.
VERY appropriate tag-line! ;-)
GK is terrific!
The links you’re passing out in PM are buggy.
Do not send me anymore PM. Thanks
I’m glad Senator Cruz is a Christian. I accept his acknowledgement of Christ as Savior and Lord.
As with any Christian who is also a politician, we weigh different things to determine which is best for the country.
I’m certain Jeremiah wouldn’t have selected Nebuchadnezzar as the one for the Jewish people to follow, but God told Jeremiah to tell the Jews that’s exactly what He had in mind.
I was replying to the picture posted. Follow the thread. I was pointing out the irrelevance of the pic in post I’d replied to.
By the way, not all churches believe in having self-ordained preachers. Just saying.
I had not seen that. It is also a shame. I know divorce is a sticky issue for believers. But did not the Apostle Paul say that if a believing husband and wife cannot live together, they should separate? Iow, take a practical step for the well being of the couple, while yet stopping short of outright divorce. Of course, a case of infidelity is another matter.
If true, this is very sad. We should all pray for both of them.
Lord Jesus, please grant them healing and set them on a new path of matrimonial holiness and kindness. Amen.
BINGO ‘in the Age of Kardashian’
God’s ways are higher than our ways....and He calls us all to be holy a people who will do HIS will.
“...Hallowed by they name.. THY Kingdom come, THY will be done...on earth as it is in heaven...”
oops...should have been THY Name..
In private practice, Cruz said, he did pro bono work to defend a veterans’ memorial on federal land in the Mojave Desert. “A lone white Latin cross, erected over 70 years ago to honor the men and women who gave their lives in World War I.” The ACLU had successfully petitioned to have the monument taken down in several federal courts.
“They said you could not gaze upon the image of a cross on federal lands,” Cruz said as members of the crowd shook their heads in disbelief. “Well, I’ll tell you this. They were right on one thing. The cross has power.” Cruz helped take the case to the Supreme Court and—you guessed it—he won. And the crowd in Washington went wild.
Speaking of Supreme Court cases, Cruz was the only candidate Wednesday to spend time on the issues surrounding the upcoming decision on gay marriage. He even touched on the religious freedom law in Indiana that touched off a national firestorm earlier this year. Critics of the law claimed it gave the state’s business owners the right to discriminate against gays and lesbians. Cruz rightly noted a nearly identical federal law aimed at protecting the free exercise of religious beliefs had been supported decades earlier by prominent Democrats as well as Republicans. But Cruz called out some unnamed Republican rivals for not vigorously defending Indiana’s law.
http://www.weeklystandard.com/among-the-faithful-conservatives-cruz-shines/article/973801
Originally, the U.S. Justice Department defended the cross memorial. However, when President Barack Obama was elected, the government’s defense of the memorial under Attorney General Eric Holder seemed to become lackluster, and the Mount Soledad Veterans Memorial Association stepped in to bolster the defense. They are represented by Allyson Ho, a partner at the powerhouse firm Morgan, Lewis & Bockius (Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX)
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was a partner at that firm prior to his Senate election, and in fact Cruz and Ho were the co-chairs of the firm’s Supreme Court practice group), and Jeff Mateer and Hiram Sasser from Liberty Institute, one of America’s foremost religious-liberty law firms.
A crowd converged on the World War II Memorial on the National Mall on Sunday, pushing past barriers to protest the memorial’s closing under the government shutdown.
Republican Sens. Ted Cruz of Texas and Mike Lee of Utah, along with former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin, were part of the demonstrators.
“Let me ask a simple question,” Cruz told the crowd of hundreds that gathered beginning at 9 a.m. “Why is the federal government spending money to erect barricades to keep veterans out of this memorial?”
http://dfw.cbslocal.com/2013/10/13/sen-ted-cruz-joins-protest-at-wwii-memorial-in-washington/
I’ve been here longer that you, Red. Sell your sanctimonious bilge for your fellow sheep. I’m sure they are more than willing to lap it up. Pinging the list of e-thugs doesn’t silence me about the FRAUD you’re pushing here.
I have family on the Wall...served while your candidate was getting “medical” deferments to avoid it and compared his “prep school playboy” years to their sacrifice.
It was your “anointed” candidate who says a soldier is only a hero if he wasn’t captured. Not my words, those are his:
The only candidate I’ve seen stand up for our veterans and issues you rant about is Ted Cruz.
TED CRUZ: ‘The families of the victims in Benghazi deserve the truth’
I could post every link and statement he has made here but that wouldn’t remove the blinders or get your head out of your backside. So save your “outrage” for your candidate when he sells out the country in order to make a “deal” with one of his liberal cronies.
Yes, Paul said separation shouldn’t be blocked. And then, usually overlooked, he said that the Christian “is no longer bound”. The context of being bound leads me to believe he was indicating that marriage could legitimately be ended as if it had never happened. Extraordinary passage. Remember his saying a wife was bound to her husband as long as he lives? That death breaks that bond. But here he uses the same word and says ‘no longer bound’.
We’re talking about abuse and/or desertion here, and he came down very hard on it.
JMHO.
LOL! Obama isn’t my candidate. Methinks you are confused. :) just to be clear, one of the main reasons I like Cruz over Trump is precisely because Cruz isn’t making grandiose promises based on his ego, but instead is offering a principled path to deconstructing the socialist incursions that are destroying us from within. Hard work, yes, but the sort of thing mortals can aspire to.
Peace,
SR
Yea, Trump is all about the veterans when he can use them as props. It’s a whole different matter if they are “squatting” in his neighborhood...
DONALD TRUMP WANTED VETS KICKED OFF OF FIFTH AVENUE
Isn’t that passage re the case of an unbelieving spouse leaving/deserting a believer?
1 Corinthians 7:15 (New American Standard Bible (NASB))
15 Yet if the unbelieving one leaves, let him leave; the brother or the sister is not under bondage in such cases, but God has called us to peace.
Agree. According to Ted he is the greatest and the best at everything. From his college classmates at both Princeton and Harvard people do not want to be around the creep /know it all for long. I am not going to blast a man’s relationship with the Lord. I know I have to remind myself daily to be a much better Christian, and; I have much work ahead. I have asked my wife to remind me to not do things. Most people who have worked with Cruz want to get the hell away from him fast. Here are more examples of the -”I know it all” from people who know him. I hope they are wrong.
http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2016/01/ted-cruz-jerk-hated
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