Spoiling the Soup

A new husband asked his bride, “when would you be able to make biscuits like my mother”? She replied, “when you are able to make dough like my father.” There is much art in the world, painting, Sculpture, music, but, no more appreciated than the art of cooking. Usually, not a group endeavor, the talent of one. (too many cooks spoil the soup) More now than ever before, too many lunatics have spoiled the world.

Since radio talk shows have gained there own niche in the world of entertainment, I have been a regular on many of these shows. My Christian faith is not kept secret, there or anywhere else. The non-religious, or atheist, in person, usually jumps me on that, more than anything else.

Once, at an automobile dealership, a large, tattooed, gruff mechanic, who could have squashed me like a bug, having heard me on the radio, questioned me about my faith. He said, “My parents took me to church as a child but I have found that church and church-goers are hypocrites. It is just a matter of money, church people wanting money, not living any better than anyone else, just pretending to be something which they are not.” He was surprised when I agreed with him, that much church activity is hypocrisy. I could have agreed with him about money, that there are those involved in God's work, tainted by money. The mechanic talked about Oral Roberts, Benny Hinn, televangelists, even local preachers and pastors who live the good life, golf courses, country clubs, expensive cars, restaurants, better houses than the rest of us. He had much to say about the wealth of the Catholic church, opulence of cathedrals, the cars in which the “vows of poverty”, priests and nuns ride. If he had seen the opulence of Vatican City, that I have seen, the priceless art, gold, silver, paintings but, like the Queen of England, who lives in a 675 room palace, 80 bathrooms for just she and her 89 year old husband. (Buckingham Palace is just one of her many palaces and extravagances) There are many things we do not understand but, one can understand this. God is still Boss, and, at the end of the Queen's life, the Pope's life or a homeless beggar's life, all the money in the world will not buy one more second, all will leave as we came, with empty hands. God's word speaks of the deceitfulness of riches. (Matthew 13:22)

The Catholic church has tried to keep it quiet, Pope John Paul I, who served as Pope for only 33 days. Several books have been written (In God's Name) about the belief that the Pope was murdered... involving intrigue concerning Catholic riches, those who were managing them and the Pope looking behind the curtain. This could very well be the reason that JFK and RFK were murdered, finding things behind a curtain. Many of us believe that the well worn path from a certain Wall Street bank (Goldman Sachs) always walked by treasury secretaries such as Paulson, Geithner, Rubin, etc. are the real evidence pertaining to federal money corruption. As that famous humanitarian-crook, Bernie Madoff has said, “the game is fixed”.

It will be necessary for God to expand the depths of hell to accommodate the many crooks and cooks who have spoiled the soup of this capitalistic, free enterprise, democratic, ONCE blessed republic and, for those elected to represent the common people in the “kitchen” of their country, the spooks-cooks-crooks who have messed up the soup will have their part in eternal damnation. Spilled blood of patriots, young men and women buried on foreign soil, hard working-God fearing-Tax paying parents who provided them, cry out for vengeance “vengeance is mine, I will repay, saith the Lord.” (Romans 12:19) The Christian must learn to live the life of the 12^th chapter of Romans.

Whether the church, whether the government, whether the media, education, banking or any other system involving mankind we must believe that which we cannot change to One who can. When we have churches, we have what churches can do. When we have government, we have what government can do. When we have fellow human beings with warts, we have what they can do but, when people pray, seek God's help, then you have what God can do. The only way to change this spoiled soup, too many human cooks, is what God can do.

Throwing Flowers

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Private donations and volunteer efforts have poured into Haiti from all over the globe—especially from the United States. Simply put, I cannot remember such an all-out "relief effort" by our nation's military and government forces following a natural disaster anywhere—ever! According to AFP 20,000 US troops are in Haiti.

Much about this earthquake does not make sense, like the explosion at the Murrah building in Oklahoma City, the towers falling in New York City, the JFK assassination, the general George Patton assassination...like the use of depleted uranium throughout the Middle East which is not only poisoning our own troops but innocent civilians, body scanning machines had already been ordered before the supposed plane bomber, the fact that the Dominican Republic did not get even a tremor and no tsunami ensued anywhere from this 7.0 earthquake...things do not make sense. The sorriest President next to the one in the White House now, was Jimmy Carter, who gave away the Panama Canal. It is understood that there are 125,000 Chinese soldiers there. Perhaps a man made earthquake in Haiti will ensure USA occupation and a footprint in that part of the world for many years to come, just as much blood and treasure has been spent in the Middle East for a footprint there. We hate to think that a government could be so demented as to kill thousands of innocents in the world wide power play which obviously is going on. But why should a country willing to kill 3,000 of our most innocent citizens (abortion) each day hesitate about innocent women and children in a country which has been a headache for Americans for many years?

In another commentary I discussed a Christian Haitian I knew in New York City. Voodoo and every type perversion known to man, ever since Duvalier and his family, have made Port Au Prince a cesspool. The American tax payers will probably have the opportunity to rebuild this large “housing project”.

I get so tired of “talk shows” in which politicians are interviewed, not only thrown “soft ball” questions but the interrogator and the one being questioned just throw flowers back and forth at one another. You never get a straight answer about anything and you know, full well, that every politician interviewed is supplied ahead of time with the questions that will be asked. They never commit themselves to anything. Obama had attended one Chicago church for 20 years, evidently, never heard one thing that the nationalistic, vitriolic, black supremest, anti-American, preacher ever said. Pelosi cradled Catholic, going to Catholic church her entire life, in front of God, the Bishops, everyone, professed to know nothing about Catholic doctrine. Rangel, chairman of House Ways and Means, knows nothing about taxes...not even the paying of his own. Geitner, Treasury Secretary, does not realize that the American tax dollars are totally controlled by the Federal Reserve. Bush could duck when a shoe was thrown at him, Reagan did duck when a man shot him, a bullet coming within one inch of his heart which surely would have killed him. Some of the people at the Murrah building were warned not to go to work and the same with the New York buildings but it seems that brain washed Americans just enjoy seeing flowers tossed...never questioning anything. The state controlled news media will certainly question nothing...just take in stride when two of their numbers are beheaded(Daniel Pearl, Nick Berg). I have stopped even contemplating the tight mind a person must possess, politician, physician, psychologist, pastor etc. who does not understand the gravity of their position in life. We know that 80% of all psychologists are Atheists. We know that unless the love of God is written in the heart (Romans 2:15) regardless of credentials, there is no such thing as conscience.

God has already judged all of these people and it is not up to me to clarify his judgment. Janet Reno did not have to draft foreign evil-doers to kill the 85 women and children at Waco, Texas. It is well known that the a assassination of Benazir Bhutto was a CIA operation and so it has been with Blackwater and other operations in the Middle East. The black shadow government which pulls the puppeteer strings of the puppets in office will some day be revealed. The madness of power and money has so deceived those entrenched in debauchery that they think even God cannot reach them and, the slaves shackled with government checks just enjoy the flower tossing thinking that they too, will not be held responsible. Let me say to every adult of voting age, you are responsible not only for your vote but for every enabling action that leads to the success of evil doing.

There are good habits for living which I call “The Therapies of Virtue”. Everything in life has a design, we are designed not to over eat, not to over work, not to be stressed by worry, not to abuse our senses with the perversion of pornography, the horrific clamor of loud music, sensitivity to every function of the human body. The heart pumps 6,000 quarts of blood every day. Heart attack, cancer and stroke are the big killers. Biblical living habits will preserve your life. How do you expect a long healthy, pain free life when you take into this magnificently designed temple of God addictive habits such as smoking tobacco, the introduction into your metabolism, narcotics or other exotic chemicals destined to destroy and compromise all the billions of cells which make up all tissues?

Life and living is the best virtue therapy. Everyone has problems of some sort but everyone has hopes and dreams. For the children who are fortunate enough to escape the holocaust of abortion there is nothing more beautiful or sensitive than a young child's development. I can well understand why our blessed lord said it is better to be dropped into the bottom of the sea with a rock tied around you than to abuse the sexual sensitivity of a small child (Mat 18:6).

The American psychologist Dr. Carl Rogers, known for his “person centered approach” feels there is some good in all of us. Dr. Sigmund Freud, in a much older time, in his theories of psychoanalysis, felt there was a deep seeded evil in all of us. We often feel that, from an analytical approach in observing governments and even the people around us, the pathology of evil has taken over. Even church people, who should know more about their belief doctrine than they do have no fear of God. Like the Buddhist, they just think what goes around will come around, or like the Hindu, they will get a chance to come back and do it over. Realize this, you have one life and it is very short...just a vapor which rapidly vanishes (James 4:13-14).

Harry Truman admitted that he prayed much before permitting the first atomic weapon to be dropped on Japan. I hope the demon-damaged Bushes, Clintons, and Mr. Obama sought Divine guidance before they tossed deadly explosives and poisons...not flowers...at the innocent women and children in these war torn areas of the world...perhaps Haiti.

Death of a Nation

I have studied the history of the world on this side of the flood; I can say with all sincerity and honesty that we are now in the worst historical condition in the history of the planet. During my lifetime, 80 years, I have seen America, a democratic republic, change totally. I have tried to think, “When did the change start?”

I believe the change for the worst started with the killing by this nation of its president, John F. Kennedy, in Dallas, TX in 1963. Studying the details of this assassination, one cannot help but come to the conclusion that the Warren Report, and all other government detail of the killing, was a cover up. Lee Harvey Oswald, blamed and killed, was right when he shouted to the news media that he was a “patsy”. Eye witnesses and film of the despicable government distortion were ignored. The public has become so dumbed down that we no longer recognize the facts involved in government cover up (JFK, 9/11, or even the recent massacre at Ft. Hood). Then, in 1963, an innocuous 21 word prayer was thrown out of the school house. The courts and the parents decided it was better to have police in the schools patrolling the halls than have prayer in the classroom.

In 1973, the Supreme Court decided that the killing of the most innocent of human life could be reconciled with the Constitution. The culture of death, the holocaust of abortion, the euthanasia of the elderly (physician-assisted suicide in several states), has lead to the death of nearly 53 million babies which would have brought much happiness and productivity to the American experience. In 1970, 90% of surviving children were reared in homes with a mother and father. Today, 50% of all children are reared in homes with just a mother. 35% of all black children are reared in a single parent home (52% of all black babies are aborted).

From 1799 to 1892, the Supreme Court declared this nation a Christian nation. There are still many Christians in this nation, but according to the Marxist-Muslim President Obama, this is no longer a Christian nation. The crime statistics, the lackadaisical attitude of most citizens, the surge towards pleasure and “me-ism”, pornography, drug addiction and every decadent and satanic pleasure the world can conceive, marks us a profane nation on the brink of destruction. If this country, the world as described on the printed page and that I have witnessed in 8 round the world trips traveling every continent, survives in its present state, God will certainly apologize to Sodom.

Nonsense has become worship in most churches. Yesterday, I heard a pastor invite his members to the church to decorate the building for Christmas. Some churches actually put a Santa Claus figure in the vestibule of the church welcoming the public into a supposed faith based, sovereign, grace thrilled sanctuary for believers. The last place a Christmas tree (phallic symbol in the pagan religions) should be seen is in the scripture based, omnipotent, omniscient, sovereign House of God. The only tree with which Christians should be concerned is that cruel tree on which our Savior died to redeem the world. The only lights the Christians should memorialize at this season is the light of the world who came to overcome darkness. The only red balls, or holly thorns the Christian should memorialize at this season are the thorns on the crown of our blessed Lord or the red blood drops for the washing clean of our sins and our atonement.

If you missed this meaning of Christmas, you have missed Christmas. Mixing “Here Comes Santa Claus” (the greatest myth ever perpetrated on the Christian church) with “It Came Upon a Midnight Clear” is as preposterous as the now decadent practice of young Christian people spiking their punch at their Christmas banquet with vodka. No wonder that 75% of all young people brought up in a Christian church abandons Christianity. The Catholic Church, which boasts 70% of the American voting public, in the last election voted 54% for abortion-promoting Obama. The Catholic Church may not be right about some things, anymore than most denominations are not right about everything, but the Catholic Church is right about its attitude towards the killing of the most innocent of life. Catholics could have prevented the election of this culture of death.

We are living in an age of deception, “To obey is better than sacrifice” (1 Sameul 15:22). Obedience and submissiveness is foreign to the unsaved and very unpopular with the Christian. Even believers want God on our terms, not His terms. Today's churchgoers can sit on the padded pews in absolute comfort and go “smiling through” (Broadway play) any message pertaining to sin (Romans 1:21). The Church has dragged the world into its sanctuary. Unless closely observing, you cannot tell the church service from the nightclub or country club...same people, same clothes, same attitude, same language, and in most cases, same music. God requires the Christian Church to be a chosen people, a royal priesthood, a peculiar nation...the salt of the Earth. I am convinced, the only reason, we, as a nation, though in the throes of death, are still standing.

Dr. Paul Craig Roberts, Assistant Secretary of the Treasury in the Reagan Administration, well known writer, stated recently that perhaps the second leg of this depression will awaken those who are not yet awake. I lived through the Great Depression of the 1930's. I remember the “Hoover carts”, empty store shelves, hungry people coming to the door asking for food, real Christian people on their hands and knees at the church altar begging for mercy for themselves and their country. We now have a soft, spoiled population.

Several times recently, I have heard one of these young, pretty, empty-headed talking heads in a news broadcast say, “Socialism is not all bad, Islam is not all bad, why don't we all just worship Allah so we will have friends around the world?”. The geometric, square, black stone Mosque at Mecca (Ka'aba edifice, windowless, one door) which is without images of any kind, to which Muslims bow in its direction five times a day, to which two million Muslims visit each year and walk around counterclockwise seven times, is not the God which we, as redeemed, blessed children of the Creator of the Universe, worship. We do what we do because we believe what we believe. Most of our problems, whether at the White House, the courthouse, the church house, the school house or your house, is because of stinking thinking. Nations have died in the past. This old, totally blind veteran tells you that this one is worth saving.

Bondage of Ingrates

Born blind and deaf, Helen Keller, who lived at the beginning of the 20^th century, was an inspiration to the world. When Hitler was burning books in Germany in 1933, the first book on his “burn list” was her 1908 biography, he so despised disabled people. Those of you who have heard Helen Keller speak, and she lectured all over the world, know she had to have someone to interpret for her because, not hearing, it was a matter of her passionate jabbering. But, she said one time, “I ask people what they see when they take a walk and the usual response is “nothing”. What I would give to see one beautiful bird, one flower, even some green grass growing”.

Even though I have been totally blind most of my life, I did see when young. Totally blind people from birth have asked me to explain colors to them, the texture of a frog. You see, the families of the blind think we are mentally disabled or retarded. They never take the time to spend time with their blind relatives and friends. How often have you thanked almighty God for your sight, your hearing, your ability to communicate, even your ability to think? Most people I have known in my life are in a bondage of ingratitude. I thank God every time I taste a milkshake, a chocolate bar, or have a good night's sleep. Consider how many people never get a good night's sleep. Do you realize how many children in the world have never tasted anything tasty to eat? I think of the thousands of small children in Thailand and Nepal begging for anything a tourist would give them.

One man I knew in Thailand was a famed concert pianist from San Francisco. Some way, some how, he had some pieces of candy in his pocket and when he gave some of this candy to the children, they actually had him down on the ground searching his pockets for candy. My sister, living in the most beautiful I home I have ever visited, left her three small children with me one day when she went to a seminar at the University. I attempted to fix the children some lunch. They threw an absolute “fit” because I did not have “Hellman's mayonnaise”. One of my employees said her children would not eat leftovers. Such is the promiscuous, spoiled children of America who have never known want for anything, who have never known hunger and who, in most cases, have never known what it is to be thankful for anything.

Every morning of my life, at 5:00, this old totally blind 100% disabled veteran, celebrates what God did for me on Calvary when I take a small piece of bread and small sip of wine in HIS memory. This is the greatest form of gratitude when we go to the Lord's table, whether in your home or your place of worship. One young girl, a church member, said to me, “I have never participated in a communion service”. What is wrong with her pastor?

The greatest spirit in gratitude is in sharing, not just food and drink, but experiences of life and the faith you have in overcoming the problems of living and your devotion to the eternal life ahead. Most of all, be thankful for someone to share with. We do not know the names of the men who held the ropes and the basket helping the Apostle Paul down the wall in Damascus. We do not know the names of the men who went on the housetop with their friend and let him down on his bed in front of the Master Savior and Healer. We do not know the mother's name who prepared a small boys lunch when he went to hear the Savior of the world preach. The world is full of greatness never brought to our attention.

I went to my oldest Aunt's funeral at the church where she had served so faithfully. I remembered her as the hardest working woman, other than my mother, I had ever known. They owned a large motel. To save money, she washed all the sheets and towels herself rather than sending them to a laundry service. This is just one example of her frugality, leaving behind a fortune for ungrateful children and grandchildren. Her last 10 years were spent bedridden, drawn up in a fetal position (but still very alert mentally), physically spent, unable to move. My Uncle, her childhood sweetheart, cared for her continuously for many years. He could well afford to have people help him, but he cared for her. Later he said to me, when I was telling him the admiration the world had for his devotion, “I would do anything for her because I loved her so much”.

The intelligentsia of the world do not understand the power of prayer, the power of goodness. The Holy Spirit of God, in dwelling the hearts of redeemed men, will call you to do things for others that the world cannot understand. Within these saved vessels of God, there is a redeeming power of love, an inner force and concern which will cause a father or mother to accomplish amazing feats for children or for one another. There is an inner force which will cause a soldier to fall on a hand grenade to save the lives of his fellow soldiers. There was a force of concern for the souls of the lost in eastern North Carolina which caused my great grandfather to leave a comfortable home and large family and, through the worst of weather, travel by horse and buggy through almost impossible paths to places of worship in the state. He wrote, “I could hear the screams of the unsaved in Hell who never heard the message of salvation”. In a college graduation address, he spoke of returning from a large Baptist meeting in Nashville, TN where he had traveled by train and where he had seen electric lights and indoor plumbing for the first time. Think of the charlatans preaching on television, in today's world, traveling around on their private $20 million airplanes, sleeping in the finest hotels on silk sheets, eating off gold plates, enjoying the largess filtered through his hands, which hard working, tithing, tax paying, believing-called “saints” had given “as unto God”.

On a grassy knoll in Dallas, 46 years ago this week, people saw and heard what they wanted to see and hear. Debatable, indefensible, the killing of an American president. Everyday, our minds are twisted, our hearing polluted, our eyes defiled by the cameras. As in Dallas, man's inability to separate right from wrong.

We do what we do because we believe what we believe. It is time to escape the bondage of ingratitude and, with all our senses, come face to face with the way, the truth, the life (John 14:6).