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In these days of ever growing Government with the effects and consequences of it on our culture and society there is a great burden on the hearts of the conservative individual. All we can do today is hope that the Conservative leadership and policies will be found again in our country and society, but that seems very unlikely. There is no conservative leadership in most of Washington. The few who do stand up are destroyed and slandered by the Mainstream Leftist Media and abandoned by the Moderate controlled Republican Party. With the abandonment of moral laws and absolutes the societal...

Holly recounted how she became quite worried about it all, realizing that the deadline for her rent payment would be past due if she delayed. Further, how would she get to and from work on an empty tank?

Now it's Christmas. We have numerous nativity sets we've collected over the years - one special one we bartered for outside Bethlehem in the mid-60s. There's another one given us by Tanzanian missionaries - soapstone figurines. And so forth and so forth.

By William D Smith (to hear it read click the play button)

Reading through my diary this Christmas, I came across this detail below. I reflected on that pain. Today, the pain is gone due to my son living for the Christ Child, evangelizing in His holy name, and overseeing his Christian home under God. It is amazing how such suffering can continue for years; but then free will explodes in heaven’s favor so as to filter out the anguish.

My son stood larger than life, the sun dancing on his hair, his eyes sparkling as he laughed with his teammates in all the bravado only teammates can share. Grinning from ear to ear, ahead in a major semi-pro football game, my son was radiant with the joy of it, and I thanked God for days such as this. I once had the RIGHT to kill him. For a second I imagined him not there. That thought shot through my body like ice and anger at women like Nancy Pelosi welled up inside. What kind of monster would fight to...

Somewhere in my peripheral vision there was a young girl pushing a load of shopping carts toward the grocery store. There must have been twenty to thirty of those huge metal carriers locked into one another.

Today's divine mercies are keeping the globe spinning upon its axis. God loves this globe. "For God so loved the world. . ."

Click film to view. At the height of the Great Depression, the showman of a renowned circus leads his troupe through the devastated American landscape, lifting the spirits of audiences along the way. During their travels they discover a man without limbs at a carnival sideshow, but after an intriguing encounter with the showman he becomes driven to hope against everything he has ever believed. Starring Eduardo Verástegui (Bella), Doug Jones (Pan’s Labyrinth, Fantastic Four) and featuring the debut performance of Nick Vujicic.

Last year at this time, you were giddy beyond words for your part in a historic election. You were utterly smitten with the first bi-racial President-elect of the United States. Like a child on Christmas Eve, you could hardly contain yourselves waiting for that Inauguration morning when this messianic figure would leave the columns in Denver behind and deliver unto you your wildest dreams once in the White House.

Glenn was faced with 20 years in prison. I met him while on staff at the jail.

There are hundreds who see through this ritual.

By faith we still see Him and give praise with angels’ chorus: “Glory to God in the highest. . .”

It is your responsibility to reason your head into the mind of Christ. You are to pray through to the divine graces. You are to learn the peace of total surrender to the divine plan.

As I left the building I felt sorry for the young lady. She was there the entire evening, had sung in the choir, but had missed the wonder of Christmas. She had not seen Jesus. All she had noticed was a defective flashlight.

And so it is with each of us--we make the journey to the close, then we see. We come upon heaven's own reward--sight!

How could parents put their child out at Christ- mas? That was one question that had been eating away at my heart ever since he knocked on the parsonage door.

Majestic strains pealed forth from the organ: “Trumpet Tune in C Major,” by Henry Purcell; “Sonata for Flute and Organ,” by George Frederick Handel; and others.

From the womb of divine grace was born the original human being, the height of creation's journey.

We lost our comfortable home for what I came to call “God’s tin can.” It was a makeshift trailer set alongside a woodsy road. The interior was dark fake wood walls and an orange carpet and drapes from the 50s. The front screen door had a screen that was busted halfway out. We were fortunate: we did have an indoor bathroom with tub and shower and running water —hot and cold. We had a refrigerator and stove. Other than that, when the Maine snowstorms came to fill up much of the space around the trailer, we were banked in for...

As I sat in that courtroom — a cold, impersonal, austere space — I looked straight ahead at my adopted teen son with his feet in chains. He was dressed in that dreaded orange outfit. His otherwise handsome face was grimaced, especially as he shot shamed glances at his mother and me when entering through the side door. Guards were on either side of him.

On April 18, 1775, a British soldier ordered John Hancock and others to "disperse in the name of George the Sovereign King of England." John Adams responded to him: "We recognize no sovereign but God, and no king but Jesus!" ". . .no king but Jesus!"

My wife and I had decided that we had to move. Her health was not getting any better. The neurosurgeon who could treat her performed his operations in Boston and we had to go where he was. Into the truck we slid our boxes, while our dreams seemed to go “out the window.”

This mystery woman reminds me of Vi.

“The rest of my family made something of themselves, but the bottle got to me over and over again.”

Don't know if this has been yet presented on FR. Also, I'm not posting this to titillate all the dirty old men on FR, but I'm sure they will get a charge out of it.

9 Slain In Bloody Holiday Weekend 2 Incidents Of Murder-Suicide On Friday AloneCBS The violence began around 5 p.m. Thanksgiving eve, when Shannon Moore, 18, was found lying on the ground with gunshot wounds in the hallway of a building at 537 E. 44th St. A witness who saw Moore involved in an argument went to call police, and as he was going to make the call he heard multiple gunshots, Perez said. Moore was taken to Northwestern Memorial Hospital, where he died at 4:45 p.m. Saturday, according to the Cook County Medical Examiner's office.

Peak Oil, Climate change and the Greater Depression will pose many challenges to our way of life but let’s get real, for a moment: Golden Hordes aren’t one of them. At least not now. Economic depression brings with it a host of serious problems, and I think you can say quite confidently, without being a chicken little, that most of the world is in a Greater Depression. But still, we’ve got a few years to go before we can say that the USA is no longer a viable culture, when no one wants to live in Paris or London, when...

New Obama T-shirt. This one you got to see!

RUSH: I'll tell you, these e-mails that we told you about last week from that group in Great Britain that formed the basis for the UN's climate change panel and their recommendations, those e-mails apparently now are the real deal, and they may not have been hacked. They may be from a whistle-blower inside the organization who is just unhappy about what's going on.

United States President Barack Obama is preparing to make his first official trip to Asia this week, and a growing list of important economic and defense-related issues are on his agenda. From the time he touches down in Tokyo on Thursday until the time he flies home from Seoul - stops in Singapore, Shanghai and Beijing are also planned - Obama is going to be watched closely back home. Obama's visit to China is going through some last-minute changes due to recent remarks about China's plans for space by General Xu Qiliang, commander of the People's Liberation Army's (PLA) Air...

The world is under attack on numerous levels. But Christians live, not under demonic attacks, but under God's grace. When you go to sleep at night, thank God for His protective grace. When you wake up in the morning, thank God for His fatherly mercy watching over you.

An environmental group is seeking to stop three logging projects on several thousand acres in northwest Montana, arguing that the timber sales would harm the area's fledgling grizzly bear population. The Alliance for the Wild Rockies filed a federal lawsuit Monday to block the projects in the Kootenai National Forest, which are designed in part to reduce fire danger and provide commercial logging opportunities.

Too many political conservatives with biblical values as their base have inadvertently turned their zeal into a religion without realizing it. What happens when political conservatives turn their social activism into a religion?

Today's divine mercies are keeping the globe spinning upon its axis. God loves this globe. "For God so loved the world. . ."

"Always In Prayer" Network In His earthly life, even Jesus had to wait on His Father's appointed times and seasons. John 2 Water Turned to Wine  1 On the third day there was a wedding in Cana of Galilee, and the mother of Jesus was there. 2 Now both Jesus and His disciples were invited to the wedding. 3 And when they ran out of wine, the mother of Jesus said to Him, “They have no wine.� 4 Jesus said to her, “Woman, what does your concern have to do with Me? My hour has not yet come.� 5 His...

It is God, the unseen partner of prayer warriors. Those who intercede on behalf of the Republic are not in need of a mortal leader at the moment. We are bereft of a mighty party spokesperson.

<p>PLEASE continue to pray for MarySecretary and her recovery from a successful kidney transplant operation.</p> <p>THANKS to everyone who has prayed. Please continue.</p> <p>From: April T. Subject: Mary Date: Friday, November 6, 2009, 8:41 AM I called the hospital this morning. They just brought Mary into her room a little before 8:00. Due to the out break of H1N1 in the Syracuse area visiting hours are restricted to 12:00 - 8:00 p.m.</p>

A spoonful of hope might not be the best medicine, according to a new study from a Carnegie Mellon University professor that asserts that optimism can actually be harmful to mental health. The study, authored by CMU's George Loewenstein and several researchers at the University of Michigan, measured the emotional well-being of patients in two groups: those with permanent colostomies and those with colostomies that might be reversed. A colostomy is a surgical procedure -- either temporary or permanent -- resulting in feces leaving a patient's body through the abdomen. Though patients with reversible colostomies initially reported higher life satisfaction,...

Imagine this. At a time of political turmoil, a charismatic, telegenic new leader arrives virtually out of nowhere. He offers a message of hope and reconciliation based on compromise and promises to marshal technology for a better future that will include universal health care. The news media swoons in admiration. The public is likewise smitten, except for a few patriots who circulate disturbing rumors on the Internet about the leader's origins and intentions. The leader, undismayed, offers assurances that are soothing, if also just a tiny bit condescending: "Embracing change is never easy." So, does that sound like anyone...

Marching out of Yorktown to surrender, the British Army played the song “The World Turned Upside Down.” As I drive to Mega Lo Mart to make my latest deposit of monopoly money in a Chinese savings account all I can do is mumble the final tag-line of the Wicked Witch of the West, “What a world? What a world?” There’s a massive unspoken problem in America today floating like the iceberg in front of the Titanic waiting to sink the unsinkable ship. Founded by revolutionaries crying “No taxation without representation!” the Republic these revolutionaries devised devolved into a society where...

In a motion filed in federal district court on Thursday, lawyers representing artist Shepard Fairey in the copyright fight with The Associated Press over his Obama "Hope" poster asked that they be allowed to withdraw from the case and that a Jones Day attorney and a pair of law professors be allowed to replace them. The move comes a little more than a week after Fairey admitted lying about which AP photograph he used as the basis for his iconic poster -- and then fabricated and destroyed evidence to cover up the truth. Fairey's present legal team -- led by...

No description needed. I bet a whole bunch of people who voted for Obama are thinking "I sure the hell hope I'm not just left with change after Obama's done with me." The hopium is wearing off and like a really bad hangover, waking up is often a very unpleasant but sobering process. Only crazy idiots continue to get hammered and keep going through this self-induced punishment and somehow expect 'next time it'll be different.' It won't. Wake up. Sober up. Don't be stupid like this again. We're taking back the country in 2010. "NY23!" It starts here! This is...

U.S. Sen. John McCain said Friday that Americans are in the toughest times he can remember and that President Barack Obama hasn't brought the change in Washington that he promised. The Arizona Republican spoke at a town hall Friday to a couple hundred people at Mesa's Central Christian Church, reiterating many of the same arguments he's made in recent similar events. McCain took to the stage with standing ovations and an aim to address key issues affecting Arizonans, such as the economy, health care reform, the war in Afghanistan, among other things.

An amazing piece of Street Theatre has been planned for this year's Village Halloween Parade... and all you patriotic New Yorkers are invited to participate -- as zombie followers of Obama! This is a follow-up to last year's successful skit, "Zombies for Obama," led again by artistic director Reynolds Butler. Parading up Sixth Avenue this October 31 will be a group of Obama-worshiping zombies, chanting "Hope... Change... Hope... Change..." and led by an outrageous and wonderfully offensive Barack Obama. You can participate in several ways: •March as a zombie follower of Obama •Blog about the event to increase publicity •Videotape...

The divide grows deeper every day, both sides seething with contempt and even hatred for the other side. No good can come from this. In my more benevolent moods, I sometimes find myself seeking a more radical approach to coping with the next 3+ years. I offer these suggestions, which I myself have decided to try: Pray for Obama. Pray--not only that he will not carry out his socialist agenda, but that he will do the right thing. Pray that he will not only do the right thing, but that he will be an extraordinarily good president. Pray that he...

In a strange twist to an already complicated legal situation, artist Shepard Fairey admitted today to legal wrongdoing in his ongoing battle with the Associated Press. Fairey said in a statement issued late Friday that he knowingly submitted false images and deleted others in the legal proceedings, in an attempt to conceal the fact that the AP had correctly identified the photo that Fairey had used as a reference for his “Hope” poster of then-Sen. Barack Obama.

"Shepard Fairey has now been forced to admit that he sued the AP under false pretenses by lying about which AP photograph he used to make the Hope and Progress posters," Kasi said. "Mr. Fairey has also now admitted to the AP that he fabricated and attempted to destroy other evidence in an effort to bolster his fair use case and cover up his previous lies and omissions." Kasi said the AP would continue to "vigorously pursue its countersuit alleging that Fairey willfully infringed the AP's copyright in the close-up photo of then-Sen. Obama."

The God Chasers by Tommy Tenney Book Excerpt & Commentary I recently finished THE SHACK by William P Young and HE LOVES ME by Wayne Jacobsen. I found both of them deeply moving, Biblical, edifying and helpful in drawing me closer to God. Subsequently, a Navy Friend/ Christian Bro of 30+ years read me the riot act about THE SHACK. I found his rants about “heresy” completely without substance. Turns out he had not read it. Sheesh. It is, after all, a NOVEL! And, I found it exceedingly Biblical. Some important Biblical truths, doctrines are affirmed with a sentence...

Imagine you are a New Hampshire inmate facing Obama's economy. Your choices have been limited to the picture on the left and the picture on the right. Which would you choose? People at the lowest levels of society (you know, those quieted voices that Obama claims to represent) have realized that hope for them is all but gone in Obama's America, with some preferring to spend their time in prison to testing their prospects on the outside. "Inmates know that the economy is still weak and the job prospects aren't good, officials say. With no job and nowhere to live,...