The car cam was a Christmas present from my eldest son. This was my first trip with it and there is a lot of static but hopefully we have solved that.
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This gentleman makes you believe there is still hope for America. On this Christmas Day thank the God of Heaven and earth (the God of the Bible) for the liberty you have and may that liberty continue in spite of what is taking place in America via this administration.
Living in Australia I have never seen 
. However, I do read the news and Duck Dynasty’s Phil has really stirred a hornet’s nest in the USA with his paraphrasing of One Corinthians 6. Here are those words from 1Corinthians 6:9 – 10 which Phil paraphrased. “Know ye not that the unrighteous shall not inherit the kingdom of God? Be not deceived: neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor effeminate, nor abusers of themselves with mankind (these are the sodomite, the present day gays or homosexuals), 10 Nor thieves, nor covetous, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor extortioners, shall inherit the kingdom of God.”
Matthew Henry (18 October 1662 – 22 June 1714) said of all these people in those verses as “The scum of the earth are no ways fit to fill the heavenly mansions.” Now, these “abusers of themselves with mankind” of whom Paul speaks are what used to be known as sodomites but today have labelled themselves as “gay”. Gay is certainly is not the appropriate word to use for two men performing an act that God created only for a man and woman! Aside from the fact that there are health consequences to homosexual sex the main purpose of sex is reproduction. There is absolutely no reproduction between two men or two women!
Paul also said to Timothy in his first epistle that “the law is not made for a righteous man, but for the lawless and disobedient, for the ungodly and for sinners, for unholy and profane, for murderers of fathers and murderers of mothers, for manslayers, 10 For whoremongers, for them that defile themselves with mankind (these are Sodomites, homosexuals), for menstealers, for liars, for perjured persons, and if there be any other thing that is contrary to sound doctrine” 1 Timothy 1: 9 – 10. NOTE, the law was given for the people described here, of which the homosexual is included, and they are said to be “the ungodly’ and “sinners”. It is said here that it was for these that Christ died, Roman 5:6 “For when we were yet without strength, in due time Christ died for the ungodly.”
The reality is that unless a person admits they are a sinner and repents of their sins, they will not enter the kingdom of God! That is a simple fact of Scripture. Yes, the homosexual is included in this! This is not being unkind or unloving but it is being truthful as to what the Scriptures teach.
The churches need to wake up and begin to preach that Christ died for the all the ungodly before laws are passed prohibiting such preaching! The homosexual crowd have brought this issue into the public forum and the churches MUST reply in the public forum by stating what God’s Word says and not what is politically correct.
Yes, abortion is sin, adultery is sin, stealing is sin, lying is sin and so is homosexuality!!!! Sadly, many of us will probably be affected in someway someday by homosexuality via one of our children or grandchildren. When and if that does occur the Bible hasn’t changed and neither should we. As we love our children and grandchildren no matter what, so God so much more loves the sinner. Yes John 3:16 is still in the Bible; “For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life.” and so is Romans 5:6 “For when we were yet without strength, in due time Christ died for the ungodly.” We were all in that group called the “ungodly” before we were born again.
If I was answering the GQ magazine’s question I may not have stated it the way Phil did but he had (and as far as I know he still has) the freedom to state his beliefs even though they are not politically correct. Some Christians have stated the subject of one’s sexuality is a matter that should not be discussed in a public forum. Well, Phil is a public figure doing an interview with a public magazine that would be read by the public. He was asked a question and he answered the question. So be it. Does he not have the right as an American citizen to answer a question with what he truly believes? Or do only those who agree with the homosexuals have that right?
There is a lot more that could be said and perhaps should be said here but REMEMBER, when Duck Dynasty has run its course (and it will) the world will turn to another programme but God’s Word will remain the same and the homosexual along with all unrepentant sinners will not “inherit the kingdom of God”.
This is an Army recruiting movie produced in my home town of Ottumwa, Iowa around the late 1950’s. Nostalgic to say the least.
The courageous former missionary kids, now young women, who began the blog that lit the fire under the Association of Baptists for World Evangelism’s (ABWE) “Miracle Mountain” now have a facebook page on which they tell those who continue to be concerned enough to read it; that “Eleven months after firing GRACE they have yet to contact us for any reason, let alone regarding their new investigation. Guess they really don’t care for us after all the nice things they said over the past 3 years….sometimes face-to-face and coming from the mouth of their interim president, Al Cockrell. (The new president has made ZERO efforts to contact us. How’s that for godly leadership?)” ELEVEN MONTHS! IS SILENCE GOLDEN OR DOES IT SAY A LOT ABOUT WHAT THE NEW PRESIDENT AND THE ABWE BOARD REALLY THINK ABOUT THESE GIRLS?
Yes, the former ABWE president, Michael Loftis, no longer occupies an office on “Miracle Mountain” which is a good thing. Loftis along with Russ Ebersole and Don Davis have also parted company with ABWE. This is all because a few missionary kids had the courage to speak out. However, these departures from ABWE land only occurred because these former ABWE missionary kids spoke out publicly which got the attention of ABWE and a few others. It is almost certain that if it had not been for these girls NOTHING would have changed at ABWE.
But has enough taken place within ABWE? Oh yes, ABWE has been proud and loud in telling the world they have created a new position of full time child safety officer. Oh yes, ABWE also spent a considerable amount of money to fly their administrators all the way from Asia, Africa, Europe, the Middle East, Latin America and North America to an Investigative Training Conference in Orlando, FL where they “were trained in child abuse prevention and investigation during an intense two-day seminar.”
Nevertheless, with a new staff member assigned to now “protect” the ABWE missionary kids from predators like Donn Ketcham and the purging of several former staff members, Jim O’Neill, ABWE’s new president, “has made ZERO efforts to contact” these courageous girls! UNBELIEVABLE! Doesn’t anyone wonder why Mr. O’Neill hasn’t contacted these girls to just talk to them or to hear their side of the story? Has he been told not to contact them or is he just afraid of what he might hear?
Don’t these girls deserve a hearing from the new ABWE president? Again, why the silence? Yes, there were some changes made but is that all that is required? Do these changes really mean ABWE has changed and can now be trusted to “protect” the present and future ABWE missionary kids when the new ABWE president will not even communicate with the girls who lit the fire on “Miracle Mountain”? One can only speculate!
Before closing it is also very confusing as to why there was not more noise, LOUD NOISE, coming from the churches over the Ketcham, Kempton, Ebersole and Davis collusion and cover-up!? Have the churches arrived at the place where a para-church organization like ABWE is beyond reproach? Also, where was the out-cry from the pastors and the missionaries!
It seems many may hold the view that as long as ABWE missionaries are still “preaching” the gospel, it is permissible to over-look the cover-up of pedophilia and the collusion that took place between the then field administrator, mission president and field council who allowed the guilty pedophile to return home and practice medicine while the abused girl and her family suffered. All the changes ABWE has made will never make up for the mishandling of the pedophile incident on the Bangladesh field! Collusion, favouritism and cover-up was the name of the game then and only time will tell if it has been totally eradicated from ABWE.
After all the personnel and policy changes made at ABWE one would have assumed the new president in his first year would have at least communicated something to these former missionary girls but that assumption would have been wrong. Why, why, why? The present ABWE board and new president do not seem to have learned much if anything from the sinful mishandling of Donn Ketcham and his pedophilia. This lack of communication with the very ones who exposed the ABWE pedophile sore opens the door for speculating that perhaps all the changes at ABWE are just simply superficial. A person just might think the Good Ole Boy’s Club is still alive and well within ABWE.
SHAME on the ABWE’s new president and the board for their lack of communication to the very ones who should have been kept abreast of things regarding the protection of missionary kids from missionary abusers and pedophiles! SHAME, SHAME, SHAME!
