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We’re Having a Party! Are You Invited

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Jesus said to him, “A man gave a large banquet and invited many people. When it was time for the banquet, he sent his servant to tell those who were invited, ‘Come! Everything is ready now.’“Everyone asked to be excused. Luke 14:16-18a (GW)

114-10422~The-Invitation-PostersI was excited! I couldn’t wait! Finally it arrived in the mail! I got my invitation. The party was going to be in a few weeks and they wanted to give me plenty of time to make arrangements to attend because they really wanted me to be there. It felt good to actually be invited to go to the party. It was nice to be wanted. To be singled out to receive an invitation. No one else on my street got an invitation. No one else at work got this invitation. It was sent to me and to me only. It was a special invitation. I had been chosen to attend.

Perhaps you would not be as excited as I am to get an invitation. Perhaps you get invited to all kinds of affairs and this would have been just another invitation. To you it may have been just one of many but to me it was the only invitation I was to receive. I knew there would not be another one at least not this year so I made arrangements to attend. Nothing was going to stand in my way from attending this party. I made up my mind I was going. I felt special because I had one of only a few invitations to this particular party It was not exclusive but it was a party for only a few people. Friends, family and just a few people the hosts wanted to share the evening with. Continue reading “We’re Having a Party! Are You Invited” →

Wisconsin Elementary school’s ‘WACKY WEEK’ stirs controversy.

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What where they thinking? With all the craziness in this world already must we be playing dress-up during the time when our children are supposed to be learning? It would appear from the participation that a minority of the students actually participated. Could this indicate that the majority thought it was just plain silly? Talk about WACKY WEEK! I think the only thing wacky about this week was the school district‘s idea of a wacky week.
clipped from www.christianpost.com
REEDSBURG, Wis. (AP) – An elementary-school event in which kids were encouraged to dress as members of the opposite gender drew the ire of a Christian radio group, whose angry broadcast prompted outraged calls to the district office.
Students at Pineview Elementary in Reedsburg had been dressing in costume all last week as part of an annual school tradition called Wacky Week. On Friday, students were encouraged to dress either as senior citizens or as members of the opposite sex.
The dress-up day was not an attempt to promote cross-dressing, homosexuality or alternative gender roles, district administrator Tom Benson said.
The theme for Friday’s dress-up day came from students, Hayes said.
About 40 percent of the student body dressed up Friday, Hayes estimated, with half portraying senior citizens and half dressing as the opposite sex.
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40th Anniversarie of Dr Martin Luther King’s death remembered

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Martin Luther King, Jr.Image via Wikipedia
Interesting point of fact that Rev Dr Martin Luther King was first a preacher of the gospel and then a leader for civil rights and and end to racism. Today we need more preachers preaching against the ills of society by proclaiming the gospel cure.It is a known fact that you can not legislate love it has to come from the heart.
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April 4, 2008 marked the 40th anniversary of the assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Anyone who had reached the age of consciousness by that date remembers exactly where they were and what they were doing when they heard the shattering and heartbreaking news that Dr. King had been gunned down in Memphis.
Looking back on the truly significant progress Dr. King and those inspired by his dream, black and white, made between the Brown v. Board of Education decision in 1954 and Dr. King’s death in 1968, I must confess that I am deeply saddened we have not made more progress toward racial reconciliation and justice than we have in the subsequent 40 years.
Perhaps the law has done most of the heavy lifting it can do. People of faith should understand better than most that the law can change habits, but faith can change hearts.
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High School Teacher teaches Christians more likely to commit rape and murder

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And this is no April Fools joke. Of course it certainly is full of foolishness.
clipped from www.foxnews.com
A student and his family have filed a federal lawsuit demanding that a popular European history teacher at California’s Capistrano Valley High School be fired for what they say were anti-Christian remarks he made in the classroom.
Chad Farnan, a 16-year-old sophomore, says the teacher, James Corbett, told his students that “Jesus glasses” obscure the truth and suggested that Christians are more likely than other people to commit rape and murder.
Farnan recorded his teacher telling students in class: “What country has the highest murder rate? The South! What part of the country has the highest rape rate? The South! What part of the country has the highest rate of church attendance? The South!” Farnan said he took the tape recorder to class to supplement his class notes.

Got a Billion Buy a President

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Greeting babies - a traditional campaign activityImage from WikipediaWhat can you buy with a billion dollars? How about the presidency of the United States? Would you consider running for president if you had a spare billion dollars lying around? It would appear from a report on NPR that today’s presidential race is slated to topple the billion dollar mark for the first time in U.S. history. They reported that with more states striving for early primaries candidates are forced to be in more places in much of the same time frame. What once took a whole year to accomplish has now been pushed back to a few months. Having to purchase expensive television advertising in more places requires the candidates to raise larger sums of money than ever before. This year, as previously stated, the amount of money raised in the entire presidential campaign may top $1 billion dollars.

Now I do not know about you but I think I can find much better ways to spend a billion dollars than to spend it on political ads. For the most part these ads are attempts to sell us on a person who is more than likely going to not do anything he or she has stated in these said ads. Face time is what they are after in these advertisements. Trying to get their persona in front of as many people as possible in the shortest amount of time to impact the largest percentage of people. This makes it impossible to keep big money out of politics. It just stands to reason then the person with the most money is more than likely to win their appointed elections. Therefore a billion dollars can buy you the presidency of the United States of America.

When the only criteria used to determine fitness for office is one’s ability to raise huge sums of money, the potential for graft and political corruption increases with the ever increasing budgets. The more money being tossed about the more opportunities there are to buy political favors. Mr Joe Rockerfeller and Big Bucks Daddy’o Grady can purchase any special project or any politico they wish to control. These, bought by large donor purchases, political leaders then cater to special interest and not what is in the the public’s best interest.

I do not know about you but I much prefer electing someone to office who can not be bought. How then can we expect this to happen when the budgets to run political campaigns is running into the billions of dollars? What must we do to get back to the common man being able to run for elected office?

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