This is a good look at Sin, how it develops:
Hi Friends,

Instead of writing about the economy and the mess we have in the financial markets I wanted to talk a little about sin.

Recently I began to start paying a little more attention to conversations I hear while just living my life. I noticed that very seldom, if ever did I hear the word "Sin" being mentioned. I have travelled around the country and have spoken with many different Christians at all types of Churches and when they talk about sin, it is usually societal sins. Today if you hear groups praying, you will often hear prayers about abortion, marital rights gambling etc. When you think about this, it may sound a bit self righteous. You can read in Luke 18:13 about the Tax collector and the prayer he said, "God, be merciful to me, a sinner." If you study Greek a little and the culture of Greek society in the day, you will learn the word sin meant to "miss the mark." Another way to put is that sin could be considered a miscalculation when trying to achieve something. Now we all know the 10 commandments and if not, here they are:

1) You shall have no other gods before me
2) You shall not make for yourself an idol, nor worship any
3) You shall not take the name of the Lord your God in vain
4) Remember the Sabbath day, to keep it holy
5) Honor your father and your mother
6) You shall not commit murder
7) You shall not commit adultery
8) You shall not steal
9) You shall not bear false witness
10) You shall not covet

I remember receiving an email from someone who watched a video I made about sin and in that video; I stated we are all sinners. Well I got lambasted from this person saying how I may be a sinner but he does not sin any more and he is sanctified under Christ. He went on to call me several different names and ranted on about how I was a heretic. The whole time I read the email I wondered if he realized that he was sinning and breaking one of the 10 commandments as he typed his email. You see folks, if you believe that after you became a Christian, you stopped sinning, you are wrong. I sin! You sin! We all sin. Now I hope and pray that you do not commit murder or adultery. But the fact remains that I have felt resentment, succumbed to materialism, acted selfishly and others. When you really think about it, I am sure you will find the same to be true with your own life.

Let me give you an example. My wife, who I love and adore, has a habit of being a little late. She sometimes will forget about time and I might be forced to wait a few extra minutes. Just last week, we were at a Birthday Party for her Dad. We were walking out and I said I would go get the car. I got the car and I was waiting for her to come out. I waited. And waited. And then waited some more. I started to get angry with my wife and thoughts came into my mind. I got out of the car and went back inside. As soon as I opened the door my wife was there and she knew I was angry. She very calmly said, "This is not a big issue and there is no reason to be upset." She might have even thrown in the word Pastor at the end. Of course she was right and immediately I realized the sin I was allowing to fester in my mind.
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This explaines it very well.

BUCHANAN & OBAMA

I am not a great fan of Pat Buchanan but here, I think he hits the nail square on the head.
Buchanan to Obama
by Patrick J. Buchanan

Barack says we need to have a conversation about race in America.?

Fair enough.
But this time, it has to be a 2-way conversation
White America needs to be heard from, not just lectured to.

This time, the Silent Majority needs to have its convictions,
grievances and demands heard.
And among them are these:

First, Americahas been the best country on earth for black folks.
It was here that 600,000 black people, brought from Africa in slave ships,
grew into a community of 40 million, were introduced to Christian salvation,
and reached the greatest levels of freedom and prosperity blacks have ever known.

Wright ought to go down on his knees and thank God he is an American.

Second, no people anywhere has done more to lift up blacks than white Americans.
Untold trillions have been spent since the '60s on welfare, food stamps, rent supplements, Section 8 housing, Pell grants, student loans, legal services, Medicaid, Earned Income Tax Credits and poverty programs designed to bring the African-American community into the mainstream.

Governments, businesses and colleges have engaged in discrimination
against white folks -- with affirmative action, contract set-asides
and quotas -- to advance black applicants over white applicants.

Churches, foundations, civic groups, schools and individuals
all over America have donated time and money to support
soup kitchens, adult education, day care, retirement and
nursing homes for blacks.
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I hope after reading this you can spare one minute each night to Pray.God Bless each of you.


Subject: Fw: One Minute Each Night
Date: Fri, 25 Jul 2008 22:24:03 -0500

ONE MINUTE EACH NIGHT

This is the scariest election we as Christians have ever faced, and from the looks of the polls, the Christians aren't voting Christian values. We all need to be on our knees. Do you believe we can take God at His word? Call upon His name, then stand back and watch His wonders to behold. This scripture gives us, as Christians, ownership of this land and the ability to call upon God to heal it. I challenge you to do so. We have never been more desperate than now for God to heal our land. This election is the scariest I remember in my lifetime. 2 Chronicles 7:14...'If my people, which are called by my name shall humble themselves, and pray, and seek my face and turn from their wicked ways, then will I hear from heaven, and will forgive their sin, and will heal their land.' During WWII, there was an advisor to Churchill who organized a group of people who dropped what they were doing every night at a prescribed hour for one minute to collectively pray for the safety of England , its people and peace. This had an amazing effect as bombing stopped. There is now a group of people organizing the same thing here in America . The United States of America and our citizens need prayer more than ever!!! If you would like to participate, each evening at 9:00 PM Eastern Time (8 PM Central, 7 PM Mountain, 6 PM Pacific), stop whatever you are doing and spend one minute praying for the safety of the United States, our troops, our citizens, for peace in the world, the upcoming election, that the Bible will remain the basis for the laws governing our land and that Christianity will grow in the U.S. If you know anyone who would like to participate, please pass this along. Someone said if people really understood the full extent of the power we have available through prayer, we might be speechless. Our prayers are the most powerful asset we have. Thank you. Please pass this on to anyone who you think will want to join us. God Bless You!!!

A Pray for every one.
Wednesday, July 30, 2008 9:06 PM
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Relax your mind and humble your heart to focus on Christ. Allow God to be the only person on your mind while you read this prayer. If we can take the time to read long jokes, stories, etc., we should give the same respect to this prayer. Friends, who pray together, stay together.
If you pray this prayer, change the number in the subject box.
Dear Lord, I thank You for this day. I thank You for my being able to see and to hear this morning. I'm blessed because You are a forgiving God and an understanding God. You have done so much for me and You keep on blessing me. Forgive me this day for everything I have done, said or thought that was not pleasing to you. I ask now for Your forgiveness.
Please keep me safe from all danger and harm. Help me to start this day with a new attitude and plenty of gratitude. Let me make the best of each and every day to clear my mind so that I can hear from You.
Please broaden my mind that I can accept all things.

Let me not whine and whimper over things I have no control over. Let me continue to see sin through God's eyes and acknowledge it as evil. And when I sin, let me repent, and confess with my mouth my wrongdoing, and receive the forgiveness of God.

And when this world closes in on me, let me remember Jesus' example -- to slip away and find a quiet place to pray. It's the best response when I'm pushed beyond my limits. I know that when I can't pray, You listen to my heart. Continue to use me to do Your will.

Continue to bless me that I may be a blessing to others. Keep me strong that I may help the weak. Keep me uplifted that I may have words of encouragement for others. I pray for those who are lost and can't find their way. I pray for those who are misjudged and misunderstood. I pray for those who don't know You intimately. I pray for those who will delete this without sharing it with others. I pray for those who don't believe. But I thank you that I believe.

I believe that God changes people and God changes things. I pray for all my sisters and brothers. For each and every family member in their households. I pray for peace, love, and joy in their homes, that they are out of debt and all their needs are met.

I pray that every eye that reads this knows there is no problem, circumstance, or situation greater than God. Every battle is in Your hands for You to fight, I pray that these words be received into the hearts of every eye that sees them and every mouth that confesses them willingly..

This is my prayer.

In Jesus' Name, Amen.

This is our real hope, please join each of us in Prayer for our Nation we can be victories by doing what this leads us to do. Thanks for you cooperation. God Is Great, He will Bless our Nation. God Bless America.

Subject: Christians Unite and Pray (from Marsha Lee)

GOD IS GOOD.... ALL THE TIME....

I was very dismayed when, recently, a family member of mine said to me with great resignation that Obama will take the presidency. These words came from someone who in the past has been a great prayer warrior. What is happening was my question??? Why are we Christians settling and not issuing a battle cry and falling to our knees and taking our country back? We allowed ourselves to be stripped of the right to pray at school functions and in school, we have the 10 commandments removed from government places and are told we cannot pray in school, all the while providing public prayer places for Muslims. What in the world is going on and why are we being apathetic? Why aren't we praying?

Our God is a mighty God who is waiting patiently for us to raise our voices to heaven to stop the tide of the anti-Christ actions in our world today. Now we find we have a charismatic candidate for president who does not respect our flag and refuses to wear one on his lapel except when it becomes politically expedient and whose own wife and pastor that he loves profess to have strong anti-white feelings, and we sit back and say 'it is a given, we can do nothing.' There has never been a time in 2000 years that we can do nothing, never a time that we must sit back and allow the evil in men's and women's hearts to take over our world. We should be very afraid because our apathy is leading us to perdition.

It is time for all Christian Americans to raise the battle cry and take our nation back. Maybe McCain on his own cannot defeat Obama, but our God can and He will if we take to our knees in prayer and raise a mighty cry to the heavens to 'Save us O Lord.' We have the power to change the course of this election and to keep a man as suspect as Barak Obama from leading our country to who knows where with his message of 'change' - a change which I fear will be away from our Christian ideals and away from Christ and further away from one nation under God to one nation under Allah.

We are great at passing stories and pictures around the internet, but where are our prayers and prayer warriors praying to stop this tide of Obama? God parted the red sea, Jesus rose from the dead, and we can bring our country back to its Christian roots and stop the move to the rise of Muslims in our country. We can stop our country from being 'under Allah,' but we must begin to pray, to pray as if our country and our lives depended on it, because they do. We can stop all these atrocities against God's commands that have taken root in our country through something as simple as sincere prayer, a call to God to deliver us, to forgive us our sins of apathy and to protect us from the evil that is upon us.

Okay prayer warriors, here is your challenge - start those prayer chains. Get the spiritual power working on our behalf and stop Obama the proper way, by calling on our God to save us from the deception that charismatic preaching is using to lead us on the wrong path. Stop those who would take God out of our country and our government. Raise up good men to lead us and protect us. George Bush is being buffeted because he has fought a holy war against the evils that attack us and we should not be surprised because a prophet is not honored in his own country. But we should not rest on our laurels and allow ourselves to be taken further off the path of Christianity and to have God removed from our presence in our schools, courts, government and businesses. Invite God into the fray. Ask that His power rest upon us and give us the victory. Ask him to raise up a might army to defend us and to protect our country as he did in days of old. Let us be victorious beginning NOW. The battle is His but we must call on Him without ceasing and unite our voices and hearts in prayer and fasting.

Please pass this around to all people of prayer that you know and maybe, just maybe, a more eloquent person of prayer will write something better and more inspiring and even the rocks will shout that Jesus is Lord and our Mighty God is with us, bringing the victory for us and ultimately for Him.

'Be joyful always, pray continually, give thanks in all circumstances, for this is God's will for you in Christ Jesus.' I Thes. 5:16-18

Marsha Lee

This should be stoped!


TUESDAY, JULY 08, 2008
Dear Harold,

Christians are under attack.

In Iran, a couple is tortured for reading the Bible. Two men are tried and
convicted for possessing Christian books in Algeria.
This is serious. Right now, there is a radical proposal being pushed before the United Nations that will make expressing your faith an international crime.
Speak out for Christianity and you might face the death penalty.
Give generously right now to help the ACLJ's legal defense teams in the U. S and Europe fight this IMMEDIATELY at the United Nations level - to protect the rights of individuals around the globe who are targeted for their faith!
In countries around the world, Christians are under attack as never before. I could go on. There are examples of a growing global crisis Christians targeted, facing the harshest of penalties - often death. Why? For simply sharing their faith or even reading a Bible! And it could very well get worse.
Now, one of the largest organizations inside the United Nations has made a bold move - targeting you.
The Organization of the Islamic Conference (OIC) at the U.N. is pushing a dangerous resolution - making speaking out against Islam ... including proclamation of Christianity ... an international crime.
It's an anti-Christian measure and it clearly endorses what's taking place in many Muslim countries - where those who even speak out about Islam are severely punished with imprisonment and even death.
This is a travesty! Give your immediate online donation to help the ACLJ - along with our European affiliate - answer the OIC aggressively: Anti-Christian bigotry will not be tolerated!
I firmly agree with Justice Scalia who said in his recent dissent on the Supreme Court ruling on Guantanamo Bay, ''American is at war with radical Islamists.''
We are your voice in this matter at the United Nations. And we are the only ones using the legal process to combat its very perilous resolution.
I have teams of ACLJ and ECLJ attorneys and staff working aggressively on the issue. We are calling on the U.N.'s High Commissioner of Human Rights to vehemently oppose this sinister resolution ...And focus instead on improving existing international law to protect the religious beliefs of all individuals.
We have mounting legal work ahead of us - researching, preparing reports and oral presentations - on your behalf, to protect your religious freedom.
Please stand with us today in generosity and prayer. We need your help to launch an effective, and successful, nationwide campaign ... and to quickly defeat this dangerous violation of your right to freedom of religion and expression.

Thank you. God bless you for your dedicated membership.

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True Values of America

Our heritage is very important. Our forefathers fought and died for them. So we need to put up a fight to get them back.
Some of our heritages that have been taken away from us are: Prayer, Bible, God, Ten Commandments out of our school's (there has been two generations of our Children with out the privilege of being allowed God in schools. What a shame to let it go so long. No wonder God don't bless this America, as we think He should. The Ten Commandments out of our Government Buildings etc.
The ACLU is helping take all of our religion away from us like Christmas, Thanks Giving, in God we Trust on our coins, God out of our pledge of allegiance, and out of our Government proceedings. Integrity seems to be a lost art, from Individuals, Cities, County's, States, and our government, Courts, and Federal Judges, What will it take to get it back? There are two Associations that are fighting them: Alliance Defense Fund, and ACLJ. This is the two I know. I am sure there are more. They are
available from the link just click on them in the Link box.
The Bible has been the principle that the United States of America was built on. The Ten Commandments are the principles our forefathers lived by, and we should also. And they are.:
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