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Hey Stan, I am able to edit my sig <errr...my profile, not sig>. Yesterday when you were asking for feedback, I was only able to see a 'frame' of the site, so it was not loading completely in either Safari or FF, cache cleared or not. Also, I was unable to use the password reset feature. Everything seems to be better today.

WASHINGTON SECRETS Liberal pundit blasts left's tactics to silence women, blacks, who don't fall in line BY PAUL BEDARD | MAY 11, 2015 | 10:52 AM In a stunning slap at her team, liberal pundit Kirsten Powers is charging in a new book that the left is so intolerant of alternative views that it will use sexist and even racist language to shout down women and blacks who don't champion Democratic causes. Kirsten Powers, a USA Today and Daily Beast columnist and designated "liberal" on Fox, confessed in her new book that the left aggressively tries to "silence people" who don't fall into the liberal line. In The Silencing: How the Left is Killing Free Speech, she calls out the lefty tactics, especially how they belittle conservative women and African-Americans. She said the goal is to silence the right and its outlets. "Conservative women are treated as dimwitted, self loathing puppets of the patriarchy, or nefarious gender traitors," she writes in the book from Regnery Publishing provided to Secrets. Ditto for blacks. "Raffi Williams, a young black conservative who works as the deputy press secretary for the Republican National Committee, told me he regularly gets Facebook comments or tweets from supposed liberals calling him an 'Uncle Tom,' 'house n­-word,' race traitor, and sellout," she added. Powers is sure to get slapped herself as a sellout for hitting what she views as hypocrisy by liberals, as former CBS reporter Sharyl Attkisson did before her. Powers grew up in a liberal family but said that interacting with conservatives, and finding God, has given her a new perspective. "Two experiences unexpectedly put me in a regular relationship with conservatives: working as a contributor at Fox News and a later in life conversion to Christianity. The more I got to know actual conservative and religious people, the harder it was to justify the stereotypes I had so carelessly embraced. In my early days at Fox, I can remember trying to convince a conservative there that George Bush's nomination of Harriet Miers to the Supreme Court didn't really count as a female appointment because she was conservative and an evangelical Christian. He was horrified. I was confused as to why he would be horrified. I'm now embarrassed that I ever thought such a thing, let alone said it aloud. Such a prejudiced view was only able to take root because of the lack of ideological, political, and religious diversity," she wrote. Powers added: "This intolerance is not a passive matter of opinion. It's an aggressive, illiberal impulse to silence people. This conduct has become an existential threat to those who hold orthodox religious beliefs. But increasingly I hear from people across the political spectrum who are fearful not only of expressing their views, but also as to where all of this is heading. I've followed this trend closely as a columnist with growing concern. It's become clear that the attempts—too often successful—to silence dissent from the liberal worldview aren't isolated outbursts. They are part of a bigger story. This book is that story." Some key excerpts: • Delegitimizing and "Silencing" Tactics by "Illiberals." With no sense of irony or shame, the illiberal left will engage in racist, sexist, misogynist, and homophobic attacks of their own in an effort to delegitimize people who dissent from the "already decided" worldview. Non­-white conservatives are called sellouts and race traitors. Conservative women are treated as dimwitted,self-­loathing puppets of the patriarchy, or nefarious gender traitors. Men who express the wrong political or ideological view are demonized as hostile interlopers into the public debate. The illiberal left sees its bullying and squelching of free speech as a righteous act. • A Who's Who of the Illiberal Left. The people who are prosecuting many of these delegitimization campaigns are not fringe characters. They include Nancy Pelosi, Harry Reid, Debbie Wasserman Schultz, senior White House aides, administrators and professors of major public and private universities, and the president of the United States. Major media figures and major liberal activist groups consistently carry water for the illiberal left. These are all people who call themselves liberal, and who claim to believe in tolerance, while behaving in the most illiberal manner imaginable. • The Illiberal Left's War on Fox Women. So pervasive is the smear that all the female commentators and anchors on Fox are dumb blonde chicks that it was actually fact­-checked by Politi­Fact. That's not a joke. They analyzed the female hosts' and anchors' hair color and found the assertion "mostly false," because Fox had its fair share of black-­haired and brunette women. Paul Bedard, the Washington Examiner's "Washington Secrets" columnist, can be contacted atpbedard@washingtonexaminer.com.

We had the privilege of winning a significant award. with the Associated Church Press, for this article in a magazine I am glad to be the editor of. Interested in your thoughts Untitled.pdf

It's a beautiful testimony. Christian education is truly a mission! Wish we didn't spend so much money on big evangelistic meetings held in sports stadiums and more on grass-roots education! Our children need it!

​I have to disagree with both of you, genesis7 and eightdaypriest on this. Jesus did not break the Sabbath. He was accused of breaking a man-made rule that made the Sabbath a burden on the people. And, He was accused by men who taught that they were to be believed even if one of them said the sky is green and another one of them said the sky is not green. Both statements were to be taken as the voice of God and both statements had to be accepted as true. These accusers of Christ were also murderers. They were planning the murder of Christ at the time they accused Him of breaking the Sabbath. They even broke their own manmade laws and taught the people to break the laws given by God through Moses. Their hypocrisy was tremendous, and to take their accusation as being truth is an insult to Christ.

Rebecca Kowalsky’s photo of the southern wall excavations in the Old City of Jerusalem. The southern wall was a place from which Jews ascended to the Temple Mount in the times of the Second Temple.

Its a may miracle..

Frabjous was coined by Lewis Carroll in Through the Looking-Glass, 1871, with elements suggestive of fabulous and joyous. "O frabjous day! Callooh! Callay! / He chortled in his joy." -Lewis Carroll

Gay man gets unexpected apology from one of his junior high school bullies - 20 years later ChadMichael Morrisette recalls being bullied so severely that 'I couldn’t even walk to classes without an adult escort or friends with me' 07 May 2015 | By Greg Hernandez ChadMichael Morrisette remembers being bullied - a lot - during junior high and high school. 'I was bullied for being who I am,' he writes on his Facebook page. 'I was bullied for being gay. I was bullied for being little. I was bullied for every reason someone is bullied. It was awful. I couldn’t even walk to classes without an adult escort or friends with me.' Morrisette, now a successful brand consultant and visual designer, was surprised recently when one of his tormenters reached out to him on Facebook. The man explained that his daughter had asked him if he had ever bullied anyone and the man sadly admitted that he had. 'What came to mind was how s-----y and mean I was to you when we were in Jr. High,' the man wrote in a Facebook message. 'I want to apologize. If we lived in the same state, I would apologize to your face. I don't even know if you remember but I do and I am sorry.' Morrisette tells Queerty he could not stop crying after taking a few days to process what he had read. He wrote his former classmate back telling him he was 'quite moved' by his gesture and accepted his apology. 'In 20 years, you are the only person to apologize for being a bully to me when we were younger,' he wrote. 'I hope you can proudly tell your daughter that you have apologized for it and that we are good.' The man replied: 'Your forgiveness means more than you know' and he added that he hoped he is not the last person to apologize for the bullying. the Link I see God in this! HE is that good! Gay man gets unexpected apology from one of his junior high school bullies - 20 years later - See more at: http://www.gaystarnews.com/article/gay-man-gets-unexpected-apology-one-his-junior-high-school-bullies-20-years-later070515#sthash.2gG57VWk.dpuf

Dear Gay, Sodomy is NOT the unpardonable sin. Resisting the Spirit until you are numb to God's pleading or leading. THAT is the unpardonable sin. The "rich young ruler" went away sorrowing, because he really WANTED to be "saved". But he was unwilling to part with his "riches". He loved them more, than he wanted God. It's the same with all of our pet sins. That's the battle. We WANT salvation, a relationship with Jesus, a home in the Kingdom, but we also WANT to keep our pet sins. So we rationalize in our minds, that our own pet sin, is not as "bad" as other sins. (It's consensual. We're not hurting anyone. The rich guy didn't need that money I stole. Just a little bit won't hurt me. etc. etc. etc.) We rationalize that Jesus loves us, and died for us, so He won't reject us for His kingdom, even if we intentionally KEEP (stop trying to overcome) our own pet sin. The whole Bible is full of stories about people who KEPT their own pet sin. And in every story - the consequence of that sin finally came back to hurt them terribly. Revelation 2:7 "To him who overcomes I will give to eat from the tree of life, which is in the midst of the Paradise of God."' (NKJ) Revelation 2:11 "He who overcomes shall not be hurt by the second death."' Revelation 2:17 "To him who overcomes I will give some of the hidden manna to eat. And I will give him a white stone, and on the stone a new name written which no one knows except him who receives it."' Revelation 2:26 "And he who overcomes, and keeps My works until the end, to him I will give power over the nations-- " Revelation 3:5 "He who overcomes shall be clothed in white garments, and I will not blot out his name from the Book of Life; but I will confess his name before My Father and before His angels. Revelation 3:12 "He who overcomes, I will make him a pillar in the temple of My God, and he shall go out no more. And I will write on him the name of My God and the name of the city of My God, the New Jerusalem, which comes down out of heaven from My God. And I will write on him My new name." Revelation 3:21 "To him who overcomes I will grant to sit with Me on My throne, as I also overcame and sat down with My Father on His throne." Revelation 21:7 "He who overcomes shall inherit all things1, and I will be his God and he shall be My son." NO - I'm not teaching perfection here. I'm not saying that every person must overcome every shred of self or sin. I'm saying that we must be striving always against those things, in our own lives, that God has named "sin" and instructed us to abandon. HE comes to each individual with conviction concerning our own pet sins. I asked HIM once, what my "greatest sin" was. A word flooded my mind immediately. Impatience! THAT hit hard - I can tell you. A man might even be struggling because he knows that God has "called" him to a special work, and he does not want to leave the life he presently enjoys. (I'm thinking Jonah, and the "rich young ruler".) We "overcome" day by day, little by little, but we keep striving. To overcome, is to not give up the fight. By the way Robert, infants and children cannot "overcome" anything.

There are several reasons, which I already posted, NOT to believe that an "investigative judgment" began in Heaven back in 1844. Other than the writings of EGW, it seems like the ONLY support FOR the "investigative judgment" theory is the SDA interpretation of the 70 weeks. THAT is why it keeps coming up again, and again, and again.

It should read Can we justify sin according to the life we want to live? Based on what has been posted on C/A it is a curiosity question.

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Boruch Len’s incredible photo tells a story of faith versus effort!

Most of us posting here have differing perspectives and ideas, which isn't bad. It prevents us from following the wrong leader into the ditches on either side of the road. Every day I think about the Kingdom, hoping that I can understand it better and be worthy to become a member. Unfortunately, we are all transgressors, sometimes externally, sometimes internally. Our main business is to follow the LORD as best we can. What others think or do is far less important and probably none of our business, but a few kind words can go a very, very long way. Haven't had KFC for a very long time, but I did stop there a few times, mainly for the zingy coleslaw.