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Election Question & Thought for November 6th, 2016!

Election Question & Thought for November 6th, 2016!
Hi Sunday Friends!!!! Did you ever consider Trump as our rowboat?
1. Question – Trump-Unorthodox-Clinton-Establishment-Confused? What does America need desperately?
2. Thought –

A well written article that was forwarded to me from one of my USS Valley Forge shipmates….I think you’ll enjoy it!
Irv
THE ROWBOAT COMES FOR YOU…..
This may be the best and most honest political promotion statement you will ever read. It decidedly does not brush objections aside. You hate Hillary? READ it. You hate Trump? READ it. You think there’s no choice? READ it. And, read it with your grown-up hat on. We’ve all been dealt huge responsibility with this election. The first step toward accepting responsibility is accepting it, and the first step toward accepting it is recognizing it. READ THIS. Read every single word. It’ll take you about three minutes. Be sure to read to the end (take a few minutes and read all of it!)
 
Are you sickened and despondent with the current campaign and upcoming presidential election? I consider myself a conservative and do truly believe our country is at a political/economic/moral/social crossroads. I need to let you know I could/would never vote for Hillary Clinton to lead this country. To me, she represents everything that is wrong with our current political structure. On the flip side, I look and listen to Donald Trump and I cringe at every rude, insulting comment he makes.
 
If you find yourself in a similar state of mind, please read the following article:
A Message For Christians About Donald Trump
Here’s a famous joke about God and how he talks to us.
“A deeply faithful Christian man is stuck on roof at home with massive flooding up to the 2nd floor. Rowboat comes. He says “No, I’m waiting for God. I prayed and I know he’s coming.” 2nd Rowboat. “No, I’m waiting for God.” 3rd Rowboat. “No, I’m waiting for God.”
Water rises. The man drowns. Now he’s meeting God in heaven. The religious man says, “Where were you God? I prayed. I was faithful. I asked you to save me. Why would you abandon me?”
God says, “Hey, I sent you 3 rowboats.”
Did you ever consider Trump as our rowboat?
 
Maybe God is trying to tell us something important–that now is not the time for a “nice Christian guy” or a “gentleman” or a typical Republican powder puff. Maybe now is the time for a natural born killer, a ruthless fighter, a warrior. Because right about now we need a miracle, or America is finished. Maybe the rules of gentlemen don’t apply here. Maybe a gentleman and “all-around nice Christian” would lead us to slaughter.
 
Or do you want another Mitt Romney, Bob Dole, John McCain, Gerald Ford or Paul Ryan? Did any of them win? Did they lead the GOP to “the promised land?” Did they change the direction of America? No, because if you don’t win, you have no say.
 
Paul Ryan couldn’t even deliver his own state, Wisconsin! And as leader of the House, Paul Ryan rolls over to Obama like my dog rolls over for a scrap of food, or a steak bone. Nice, but obedient. I mean Paul Ryan…not my dog. My dog is actually a pretty good defender and loyal.
 
Maybe God is knocking on your door loudly, but you’re not listening. Maybe God understands we need a “war leader” at this moment in time. Maybe God understands if we don’t win this election, America is dead. It’s over. The greatest nation in world history will be gone. Finished. Kaput. Adios.
 
And with one last breath, maybe what we need to save us at the last second, is someone different. Someone you haven’t ever experienced before– because you weren’t raised in rough and tumble New York where nothing good gets accomplished unless you’re combative, aggressive, outrageous, on offense at all times, and maybe just a tad arrogant too.
 
Someone with a personality you’ve never seen on stage at your church. Maybe, just maybe, being a nice gentlemanly Christian would not beat Hillary and her billion dollars, and her best friends in the media who will unleash the dogs of hell upon the GOP nominee.
 
I guess you think God is only nice and gentlemanly. Really? Then you’ve missed the whole point of the Bible. When necessary, God is pretty tough. When necessary, God strikes with pain, death and destruction. When necessary, God inflicts vengeance. Maybe you think God couldn’t possibly be associated with someone like Trump. Trump is too vicious, rude and crude. When we won WWII, was God “nice?” Were we gentlemanly when defeating Hitler? Were we gentlemanly when firebombing Germany? Were we gentlemanly when dropping atomic bombs on Japan? Is God ever “nice” on the battlefield? Or does he send us vicious SOB’s like General George S. Patton so the good guys can defeat evil?
 
It’s pretty clear to me God sends unique people to be “war leaders.” That’s a different role than a pastor or church leader. God understands that.
And maybe it’s time to re-define “nice.” Maybe Mitt Romney and Paul Ryan aren’t nice at all–because they led us to defeat. And losing again would mean the end of America. And God can’t allow that. Maybe Romney and Ryan mean well, but the road to hell is paved with good intentions. Or maybe they’re just jealous they had their chance and blew it. Maybe they’d rather help elect Hillary than allow a Trump victory that would make them look weak, feckless and incompetent.
“Even the youths shall faint and be weary, And the young men shall utterly fall, But those who wait on the Lord shall renew their strength; They shall mount up with wings like eagles, They shall run and not be weary, They shall walk and not faint.” (Isiah 40:30-31)
 
God is about miracles. We don’t need a “nice guy” or a “gentleman” right now. It’s the 4th quarter and we’re losing 14-0. We need a miracle.
 
So let me repeat my message to Christians: “YOU’RE MISSING THE BOAT.”
 
I believe Trump is our miracle. I believe Trump is our rowboat. Except he’s more like a battleship!
 
No one is saying Trump is perfect. No one is saying Trump is a perfect conservative. But he is a patriot. He is a warrior. He is a capitalist. He is the right man, at the right time. Yes, he’s a bit rude and crude and offensive. But that may make him the perfect warrior to save America, American exceptionalism, capitalism and Judeo-Christian values. The choice should be easy for Christians. It’s Trump…or it’s the end of the American dream.
If anything in this article strikes a positive chord with you, please pass it on.
 
 
rem – “I’ve never let my schooling interfere with my education.” (Mark Twain)
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Question – Thought and AND for 5 November 2016!

Question – Thought and AND for 5 November 2016!
Good Saturday Morning Voters!
1. Question – Really?
2. Thought – When I heard that one of the very first acts of Congress in 1782 was to actually commission a publishing of the Scriptures in America so that the people could have free access to it, I was floored! Really? The very government that in 1962-1963 removed prayer and Bible reading from our schools is the one at its founding was desperately seeking to get it into as many hands as it could?
Given a generation of dominance in public education where God seems to have been edited out of the equation, and we have become a nation with spiritual amnesia. We do not know, because we have not heard.
America in many respects could be likened to the prodigal son – it has taken a glorious inheritance and squandered it (Luke 15). Whether we are the older son who has gotten lost in the house, or the younger son who has wondered a far ways off, may we all discover the amazing Father who waits and longs to see us return to Him. (The Founder’s Bible by David Barton)
“The Americans combine the notions of Christianity and of liberty so intimately in their minds, that it is impossible to make them conceive the one without the other.” (Alexis De Tocqueville, 1831)
History! Gotta love it!
AND: It seemed to me that this passage from Ayn Rand was particularly
descriptive of a lot of potential voters:

“People don’t want to think. And the deeper they get into trouble, the
less they want to think. But by some sort of instinct, they feel that
they ought to and it makes them feel guilty. So they’ll bless and
follow anyone who gives them a justification for not thinking. Anyone
who makes a virtue – a highly intellectual virtue – out of what they
know to be their sin, their weakness and their guilt… They envy
achievement, and their dream of greatness is a world where all men
have become their acknowledged inferiors. They don’t know that that
dream is the infallible proof of mediocrity, because that sort of
world is what the man of achievement would not be able to bear.”
Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged
 


rem – “I’ve never let my schooling interfere with my education.” (Mark Twain)
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Question & Thought for November 4th, 2016!

Question & Thought for November 4th, 2016!

Good Friday Morning!

1. Question – What if I don’t like what I see?

2. Thought –

Safe Landing: Keep the Lights On

Posted by Ravi Zacharias on October 24, 2016
Topic: Blog

Topic: Government and Politics

We are closing in on the day when we elect a leader for the next four years. The bitter rhetoric will hopefully come to an end. To say that it has been a tumultuous path to this day is an understatement. Once again we swing between the two extremes of thinking politics is everything and thinking politics is nothing. Somewhere in the middle lies the truth. Pontius Pilate and the Caesars thought they were in control. They were not. A rock cut with no man’s hand changed history.

Politics is the process by which we choose to be governed for a season. And yes, quite a bit can be at stake. But the heart of man, often bereft of wisdom, chooses for the now and ignores the long-term ramifications. That’s the peril. Isaiah 3:6 says that in the last days a man shall say to his brother, “You have a cloak, you be our leader; take charge of this heap of ruins!” Evidently in the last days, the Scriptures tell us, all it will take for a leader to be considered qualified to govern over a heap of ruins is to own a cloak. Seems quite ominously close to the present qualifications right now, to say nothing of the cloak and dagger type approaches in sway. It is hard to believe that in a nation with so much ability, so much potential and promise, we are reduced to this. It is a movie-like script, swinging between the Scylla of comedy and the Charybdis of tragedy.

But alas! Let us not lose heart. I always bank on the heartfelt prayers of God’s people. Ultimately, He will overrule and bring about what He deems we need the most for this hour. Whether it be in blessing or judgment, time will tell.

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I fly a lot and spend time thinking on the blessings and the risks of air travel. I heard of a flight instructor training a young pilot on what to do in an emergency to conserve power and glide to a safe position. “At the last moment, turn the lights on and if you like what you see, land.”

“What if I don’t like what I see?” asked the student pilot.

“Then turn the lights out,” said the instructor.

That’s the feeling we get right now, I’m afraid. Everyone I talk to has their fears whichever side they’re on. They want to turn the lights out.

But there’s another way to look at it, using the same analogy. I am told that when a pilot in his private plane runs into trouble, he has to live by the four Cs:

Keep calm
Climb high
Communicate with the controller
Comply with the instructions 

That’s the code I’m following. I am speaking my heart out to the Lord and am at peace that He will do His will. I will put my head down on the pillow that night and wake up with the promise that He is in charge. He can change the heart of a king. My life is in my Lord’s hands, however daunting the glimpse of what lies ahead.

Years ago, Senator Jeremiah Denton, a one-time Vietnam POW, wrote of the crucifixion of Jesus from Mary’s perspective as she watched in horror:

Her face shows grief but not despair,
Her head, though bowed, had faith to spare.
And even now she could suppose
His thorns would somehow yield a rose.
Her life with Him was full of signs
That God writes straight with crooked lines.
Dark clouds can hide the rising sun
And all seem lost, when all is won!

History moves in pendular swings. God’s clock is keeping perfect time. Let’s be calm, let’s climb high, let’s commune with the Lord, and comply with His instructions. None of us can accelerate the march of history but with His light on the terrain ahead, we can make a safe landing.

Don’t text and drive. Read and share the Gospel.

rem – “I’ve never let my schooling interfere with my education.” (Mark Twain)
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Question & Thought for November 3rd, 2016!

Question & Thought for November 3rd, 2016!
Good Thursday Morning!
1. Question – His presence is always there – right?
2. Thought – It is not necessary to be continually speaking to God, or always hearing from God, in order to have communion or fellowship with Him. A little child can sit all day long beside his mother, totally engrossed in his playing, while his mother is consumed by her work, and although both are busy and few words are spoken by either, they are in perfect fellowship. The child knows his mother is there, and she knows that he is all right.
In the same way, a believer and his Savior can continue many hours in the fellowship of love. And although the believer may be busy with ordinary things of life, he can be mindful that every detail of his life is touched by the character of God’s presence, and can have the awareness of His approval and blessing. (Streams in the Desert by L.B. Cowman)
“Asking God is not weakness; it’s strength.”
rem – “I’ve never let my schooling interfere with my education.” (Mark Twain)
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