ARE YOU A CHRISTIAN?

If you are a Roman Catholic, Protestant or member of any Christian faith you can not vote for the Democratic Party. Think about this as you approach the communion rail or raise your hands in worship. Aborting a baby in the first, second or third trimester is murder. Abortion in the third trimester is the most vicious. Your Christian faith is the trump card and economics, middle class, unions etc… becomes dust under your feet. Attempting to spin these Democratic ideals is hypocrisy if you profess to be Christian. Aborting a seven pound baby is murdering innocents and the blood is on your hands. If you profess belief in Jesus Christ and worship him, voting Democratic negates the love of your Savior. If abortion is ignored when voting Democratic, as if it does not exist, you are not Christian and will stand in judgment…

WERE THE PILGRIMS CHRISTIANS?

Geneva Bible (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

 

Were the Pilgrims Christians? Of course they were. Atheist claims that the first settlers in America were not Christians; also that Christianity was not the religion of our Founding Fathers. This is utter nonsense.

The Pilgrim Separatists used the “Geneva Bible.” This was a translation (with commentary notes in the margin) made by English Calvinist refugees living in Switzerland.

The official English church strongly disagreed with the Geneva Bible’s commentary. King James authorized a new translation. The first “King James Bible” was published in 1611.

Pilgrim Hall Museum also owns a King James Bible, printed in 1620 (shortly before the Mayflower sailed). It belonged to John Alden; Alden was not originally a Separatist but chose to join the community.

Describing the Pilgrims’ Separatist religious beliefs: ORIGINAL SPELLING
“The one side [the Reformers] laboured to have ye right worship of God & discipline of Christ established in ye church, according to ye simplicitie of ye gospell, without the mixture of mens inventions, and to have & to be ruled by ye laws of Gods word, dispensed in those offices, & by those officers of Pastors, Teachers, & Elders, &c. according to ye Scripturs. The other partie [the Church of England], though under many colours & pretences, endevored to have ye episcopall dignitie (affter ye popish maner) with their large power & jurisdiction still retained; with all those courts, cannons, & ceremonies, togeather with all such livings, revenues, & subordinate officers, with other such means as formerly upheld their antichristian greatnes, and enabled them with lordly & tyranous power to persecute ye poore servants of God.”
William Bradford, Of Plymouth Plantation.

“[They] as the Lord’s free people joined themselves… in the fellowship of the gospel, to walk in all His ways made known, or to be made known unto them.” – William Bradford..

Puritanism in England was essentially a movement within the established church for the purifying of that church-for ministers godly and able to teach, for a simplifying of ritual, for a return to the virtues of primitive Christianity.

Within the Puritan movement there was an extremist group
called the Separatists, and our Pilgrims fall within this category…It had a deep philosophical grounding going all the way back to Scripture and involving the belief that Christians must separate themselves from the world.

 

CHURCHILL ON ISLAM

The attached short speech from Winston Churchill was delivered by him in 1899 when he was a young soldier and journalist. It probably sets out the current views of many, but expresses in the wonderful Churchillian turn of phrase and use of the English language.

HERE’S THE SPEECH:

“How dreadful are the curses which Mohammedanism lays on its votaries!
Besides the fanatical frenzy, which is as dangerous in a man as hydrophobia
in a dog, there is this fearful fatalistic apathy. The effects are apparent in
many countries, improvident habits, slovenly systems of agriculture,
sluggish methods of commerce, and insecurity of property exist wherever
the followers of the Prophet rule or live.
A degraded sensualism deprives this life of its grace and refinement, the
next of its dignity and sanctity. The fact that in Mohammedan law every
woman must belong to some man as his absolute property, either as a
child, a wife, or a concubine, must delay the final extinction of slavery
until the faith of Islam has ceased to be a great power among men.

Individual Muslims may show splendid qualities, but the influence of the
religion paralyses the social development of those who follow it. No
stronger retrograde force exists in the world. Far from being moribund,
Mohammedanism is a militant and proselytizing faith. It has already
spread throughout Central Africa , raising fearless warriors at every
step; and were it not that Christianity is sheltered in the strong arms
of science, the science against which it had vainly struggled, the civilization
of modern Europe might fall, as fell the civilization of ancient Rome ..”

Sir Winston Churchill; (Source: The River War,
first edition, Vol II, pages 248-250 London).

PRAYER

Jesus in Pray (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

 

While the disciples slept, Jesus prayed. While Jesus slept, the disciples fretted. Tenacity, untempered by peace, is a curse…It becomes a gift when reined in by stillness. Prayer imparts serenity, prayer with fasting provides an open channel to God’s ear…

 

Faith is not in…

Faith is not intellectual but a gift. If you do not believe in God I dare you to shout out loud, “If you exist show yourself now”! I dare you.