Europe Preparing for Russian Invasion

The Russians are coming!!

Numerous countries in Europe, and also the USA, have had to scramble jet fighters to intercept Russian bombers that are flying into their air space.  Russia is reviving it's old Cold-War posture.

Today we find this ominous headline;

Poland Is Preparing For A Potential Russian Invasion

As Vladimir Putin’s Russia continues to threaten Ukraine after stealing Crimea in the spring and exerting de facto Kremlin control over much of the Donbas this summer, war worries are mounting on NATO’s eastern frontier.

New reports of Russian troop movements on the Ukrainian border this week are not reassuring to those Atlantic Alliance members who suffered Soviet occupation for decades, and still live in Moscow’s neighborhood.

Neither are Russian air force incursions into Western airspace calming nerves with their reborn Cold War antics: yesterday, NATO fighters intercepted no less than nineteen Russian combat aircraft, including several heavy bombers.

No NATO countries are more worried about Kremlin aggression than the Baltic states, with their small militaries and lack of strategic depth — countries that are frankly indefensible in any conventional sense without significant and timely Alliance assistance.

But Poland is the real issue when it comes to defending NATO’s exposed Eastern frontier from Russian aggression.

Only Poland, which occupies the Alliance’s central front, has the military power to seriously blunt any Russian moves westward. As in 1920, when the Red Army failed to push past Warsaw, Poland is the wall that will defend Central Europe from any westward movement by Moscow’s military.

Here;  http://www.businessinsider.com/poland-is-preparing-for-a-russian-invasion-2014-10

Dang it!!  Why are those Russians so cantankerous?  Why can't we all just get along?

That's just not how the game of Nations is played on planet earth.

We will NEVER all get along until the Prince of Peace comes and rules over us.  Until that time we well see more headlines about wars and rumors of war.

Also remember that Russia is a key player in the Ezekiel 38 war.  One day they will have "hooks in their jaw" and the God of Israel will draw them into devising a plan to destroy Israel.  While Russia and her Muslim allies are gathered to make war, the God of Israel will decimate their armies.  Israel will realize that God has saved them and the nation will begin the process of turning back to God.

So the fact that Russia is now in the news everyday and the headlines are always about wars and rumors of war that involve her....give us one more signal that we may be in the very Last Days.

They kingdom come, Thy will be done, on earth as it is in heaven.

Mom Beheaded by Son

What kind of demonic door have we opened?  It would seem that almost every day another story about beheading is showing up on Google News.

This latest grizzly story comes from New York.  It's being reported that a man cut off his mother's head and then threw himself in front of a train.

A psychotic killer lopped off his mother’s head and dumped her bloody corpse on a Long Island street before jumping in front of a LIRR train in a grisly murder-suicide.

Derek Ward butchered his mother, Patricia, a 66-year-old college professor, for no apparent reason on Tuesday, authorities said. Ward, a 35-year-old who battled psychiatric problems for the past decade, sat for a short period of time with his mother’s headless corpse inside their gore-spattered Farmingdale apartment prior to taking his own life, Nassau County police Detective Lt. John Azzata said.

“There were multiple signs of trauma, multiple stab wounds, broken ribs,” the detective said at a news conference. “The weapon used was believed to be a knife. That knife was recovered.”

As 8 p.m. drew near Tuesday night, Derek Ward dragged his mother’s headless corpse out of their second-floor home, down a staircase, through the building lobby and onto the street, Azzata said. He also carried her head outside.

After leaving his mother’s torso and head on either side of Secatogue Road, he walked three blocks to the vicinity of the Clinton St. crossing for the Long Island Rail Road and took a dive in front of an oncoming eastbound train.

Derek Ward spent 45 days behind bars after a 2006 conviction for possession of 100 Valium pills and a 9-mm. Smith & Wesson handgun. He also was arrested in 2003 on a criminal mischief charge.

Cops said the killer’s already unstable mental health deteriorated further after his grandfather died in August 2013.

Here;  http://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/nyc-crime/suny-farmingdale-professor-id-beheaded-woman-article-1.1991722

As of now, I don't see anything on the news that would say Derek was a Muslim.or a recent Muslim convert.

Remember, the Bible tells us in Revelation that lots of folks are going to be beheaded by the Antichrist and his cohorts during The Tribulation....so maybe all these beheading stories are a clear foreshadowing of how close we are to the worst days planet earth will EVER see.

"If those days were not cut short, NO FLESH would survive." said Jesus.

Thank you Jesus that we who have put our trust in you will not have to endure these days of Great Tribulation!

Joel Osteen Endorses Obama

I don't have a lot of time to blog right now, but wanted to get this headline out to you;

Will the real Joel Osteen please stand up?

Joel Osteen, Pastor of the biggest congregation in America, Lakewood Church, declared to the world who he really is by endorsing Obama, despite the fact that Obama's agenda goes against everything true Christians believe. Those of us who are intelligent and observant were not really surprised, as we have known for a long time that Osteen's “I'm okay, you're okay” milk toast sermons are far from Bible-based and do not reflect in any way the beliefs of his father, John Osteen, who started Lakewood Church and preached the uncompromising message of Christ for multiple decades before his death in 1999. Joel Osteen, however he may have started out, is currently nothing more than a progressive in Christian's clothing.

Obama a Christian? Come, come now

Anyone calling President B. Hussein Obama a Christian is a curious thing, as Obama himself no longer even tries to make this claim. In addition, President Obama has stated that we are not a Christian nation and that the Bible is “not adequate for modern life.” He has not yet offered any criticism of the Koran, however. Maybe he feels the violence it promotes IS appropriate for today's modern world.

Christians should not be surprised, as the Bible warns that there will be a falling away in the church during the end times, which is the era we are living in right now. The Scriptures state that supposed ministers of the true Gospel will abandon Biblical Christianity in favor of their own mystical, man-centered doctrines. Anyone who listens to Osteen preach can see that that is exactly what he has done.

Oprah Winfrey, a self-professed “new age high priestess,” felt perfectly comfortable sitting in the front row of Osteen's church with her friend, Tyler Perry. (We won't even go there.) Why would any true Christian pastor want to give praise to someone who uses her influence with people around the world to convince them that there are many ways to God, rather than the One Way spoken of in the Bible? Osteen made the following speech when Oprah visited his church: “we are so honored to have a world changer, history maker and one of the great voices of our generation present today. Oprah has brought a friend with her, Tyler Perry, and we are so honored to have you two here and it is great to see what God is doing in your lives.” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_tfBccsaP0Q

What God is doing in their lives? One must wonder to which god Osteen is referring, since it is impossible for Jesus to work in the lives of those who are not his followers. Of course, he also stated that there will be homosexuals in Heaven. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B4i-00c32J4

I have a hunch that neither Osteen nor Obama have breezed through the Bible lately.

See it here;  http://www.examiner.com/article/joel-osteen-endorses-obama-just-before-midterms

Now just yesterday, Rapture Ready had an article I was reading which asked the question if a TRUE FOLLOWER of Christ could ever support a Democrat?  Abortion?  Gay marriage?  Those things would not be something God would condone...so how can we vote for people who do?

Read that article here;  http://www.raptureready.com/soap2/ungurean17.html

Happy reading!  Just remember, the world is NOT going to get any better.  Gay marriage will NOT be able to be rolled back...it has already swamped us like a wave.  More perversion will certainly follow...so then...HOW THEN SHALL WE LIVE?

Man Molests Pit Bull

Honestly....some of these headlines just make you shake your head and say, "You can't make this stuff up!"

MENTALLY ILL MAN RAPES PIT BULL

Alice Woodruff reportedly entered her backyard in Waterbury, Connecticut, and discovered her neighbor, who was naked, sexually assaulting her rescue pit bull. Following the horrifying discovery, the situation grew even more scary and extremely bizarre.

Woodruff told WTNH-TV that she first thought her dog “had killed somebody” because she saw a man underneath the dog. Then she realized what was really going on.

“I started to scream,” she said. “I had a citronella candle and I threw it at him, screaming ‘get off my dog, you have to get out of here.’ He said, ‘No, today is the day we are going to spend the rest of our lives together.’”

Woodruff claimed the man “pranced through the yard naked, yelling ‘this is our day and you have to prosper in it.’” He also reportedly told the woman, “ISIS sent me.”

The woman quickly realized she needed to be prepared to defend herself. She retrieved her firearm and showed the naked man that she was armed.

“I showed him the clip went in, but I always kept the gun at my side while I was talking to him. He kept saying this is the plan, that we were going to die today in a massacre,” Woodruff told WTNH-TV. “He didn’t seem to care that I had the gun, and I kept it down. Then I gave him a warning and shot the gun to the right into the dirt.”

After firing the warning shot, Woodruff recalled what happened next: “He put his arms out and started walking toward me, telling me to kill him, but to know that as soon as I kill him that we were going to die. Honestly, the whole time I thought there was a bomb or gun and he was going to take it out and do a massacre.”

Fortunately, no one was hurt in the incident and police were able to respond and arrest the suspect.

The unidentified man, who is reportedly hospitalized, will likely face charges of cruelty to an animal, sexual assault and breach of peace, CBS Connecticut reports.


Woodruff said the suspect is only 22 years old and appeared to be mentally ill.

Here;  http://www.theblaze.com/stories/2014/10/27/the-outrageous-discovery-woman-found-in-her-own-backyard-left-her-fearing-an-imminent-massacre/

Has crazy stuff like this always been going on?

The short answer is, "Yes, it has always gone on."

The next question I have is, "How do you know he is mentally ill?"  To which someone will respond, "Because only a mentally ill man would have sex with a pit bull."

Really?  How about the idea that GOD HAS GIVEN THIS MAN OVER to his desires?  How about the idea that demons have infected this man so that he can't control himself?  How about the idea that this man acted on his natural born desires but those desires are so heinous that they opened up a doorway to the Satanic realm...and now he has numerous demons living in him?

Let's go back about 3000 years and see what was happening in Canaan Land...land which God promised to His people, the Jews. Clearly all these folks inhabiting the land were NOT all mentally ill.

Leviticus 18
23 “‘Do not have sexual relations with an animal and defile yourself with it. 24 “‘Do not defile yourselves in any of these ways, because this is how the nations that I am going to drive out before you became defiled. 26 But you must keep my decrees and my laws. The native-born and the foreigners residing among you must not do any of these detestable things, 27 for all these things were done by the people who lived in the land before you, and the land became defiled. 28 And if you defile the land, it will vomit you out as it vomited out the nations that were before you. 30 Keep my requirements and do not follow any of the detestable customs that were practiced before you came and do not defile yourselves with them. I am the Lord your God.’”

Yep!...nothing new under the sun!  Men and women have been having sex with animals since Moses took his people to see the Promised Land!

What's sad is that I'm quite sure we are going to hear more and more about these abominations happening in our own backyards.  As God withdraws....demonic activity increases.

As light fades...darkness increases.

Consumer Confidence Hits 7 Year High

Have you ever noticed that the consumer is almost ALWAYS wrong?

Yeah, yeah...I know....for those of us who have worked in retail we are constantly told, "The customer is always right!"...and for customer service purposes, he is.  But in the macro economy...the consumer is almost always wrong.

Let's look at just a brief history....

Remember the DOT-COM boom and bust of 1999-2000?  The consumer had just seen the NASDAQ market go up on value about 60% per year for 2 years and they were told that ANY STOCK that played in the Internet was going to double about once every 2-3 years!!  People started making retirement plans for age 35 and the happy days were NEVER going to end!!  Consumer confidence was at an all time high....the American dream was being fulfilled for everyone!!...until it crashed and $billions and $billions of magic money vanished overnight.

Next those poor, burned consumers who told themselves they were done with that crazy stock market...they all piled in the REAL ESTATE market!!  Yep!  They were quite sure that they could NEVER lose money in real estate...because, after all, "they aren't making real estate anymore!"

Of course we know what happened next.  The real estate market went up and up.  People bought $700,000 homes using no money down and interest-only mortgages!  What could possibly go wrong! Consumer confidence in the $millions they were going to make as their home values doubled every few years was off the charts.  People refinanced their homes every few years to get CASH BACK and used that "free" money to go buy new pickup trucks, campers, ATV's and toys!!

And then it crashed....

Millions of folks were underwater on their debt.  They owed more money on the house than it was worth.  In many cases they owed WAY MORE than the home could be sold for.  Millions of Americans went bankrupt, short-sold or just walked away.  Millions more had to cash in all of their savings just to keep current on their home.

So now they learned their lesson on buying too much house....they won't do that again.  Also when the real estate market crashed it dragged the stock market down with it....so there was a double whammy of the 2007-2008 collapse.

Now the poor consumer is turned off of stocks and turned off of real estate....so where should he go?....hmmm....HOW ABOUT GOLD??  Gold has NEVER been worth nothing!!  Look at all the commercials on TV and radio!!  "Buy gold!  It's been the only safe haven for 5000 years!", cooed the announcers!

So of course LOTS of folks bought up gold or gold certificates.  What could go wrong??  Gold was going to be the cat's meow when all the governments of the world printed so much paper money that the system collapsed...and ONLY gold would survive!!

Well....where are the GOLD GUYS now?  Whimpering in the corner....because gold went down 30% in value while the stock market went up 30%.  That means that an investor who put $10,000 into gold and $10,000 into stocks had $7000 left in gold at year end and $13,000 in stocks!

Today we find an interesting headline running around on Google News.

US consumer confidence hits 7-year high in October

WASHINGTON (AP) — U.S. consumer confidence rebounded strongly in October, hitting a seven-year high as solid job gains raised expectations for economic growth.

The Conference Board said Tuesday that its confidence index climbed to 94.5, the strongest reading since October 2007 and the start of the Great Recession a few months later. This month's gains reversed a revised decline to 89 in September from 93.4 in August.

Job gains and falling gasoline prices have helped to improve sentiment, despite muted economic growth in Europe and China that has fueled volatility in financial markets.

Economists project that the gains should continue into October with the addition of 235,000 more jobs, according to the data firm FactSet.

The recent hiring has left more people optimistic about getting a raise. The Conference Board found in the survey for its confidence index that 17.7 percent of consumers expect their incomes to improve, compared to 16.9 percent in September. Meanwhile, the share of Americans expecting their income to drop fell to 11.6 percent from 13.4 percent.

Also, Americans are likely feeling less depleted after a trip to the gas pump. Average gas prices have fallen 31 cents in the past month to $3.03 a gallon, according to the AAA's Daily Fuel Gauge Report, freeing up cash to spend elsewhere.

Still, shopping has yet to accelerate, according to the Conference Board results.

"Plunging gas prices, strong job growth, and rising confidence should provide support for consumer spending in coming months, but for now the buying plans portion of the survey showed high levels of cautiousness continuing," said Morgan Stanley analyst Ted Wieseman in a client note.

Here;  http://www.businessweek.com/ap/2014-10-28/us-consumer-confidence-rose-in-october

So let me ask you a question....is this GOOD NEWS that consumer confidence is at a 7 year high?

We all know that the Federal Reserve just pulled off a Ponzi-scheme of epic proportions.  USA owes $18 trillion and soon all the taxes we collect will only pay the interest.  ISIS is unraveling the Middle East and America seems incapable of dealing with them.  Our churches are failing at alarming rates. Our kids are killing each other in schools almost on a weekly basis.  Most Americans can't name the first 5 books of the Bible.  Divorce is ripping the fabric of our society into shreds.  110,000,000 Americans have contracted a venereal disease.  Gay marriage will soon be legal in all 50 states and we still murder millions of unborn babies....but....

US consumer confidence hits 7-year high in October

What could possibly go wrong?

Has Islam Been Hijacked?

We have all heard it..."Islam is a religion of peace!  A few lunatics have hijacked this wonderful religion and made a mess...but don't you dare question Islam!"

Really?  Is it just a few?  Is it really a religion of peace?

Today in the Wall Street Journal, a Muslim author from Egypt questions WHY we can't ask difficult questions about Islam?  Are they somehow not intellectually capable of handling questions?  Every other religion answers questions....so why can't Islam be asked?

In my opinion, this article should be printed, cut out and hung up on every bulletin board from sea to shining sea.  After all, this is flippin' America!!...we should be able to talk about ANYTHING and in no way, shape or form, should Islam be off the table.

This week a Canadian Muslim gunman went on a rampage in Ottawa, killing a soldier and storming into the Parliament building before he was shot dead. Authorities have since said he had applied for a passport to travel to Syria. Three Muslim schoolgirls from Colorado were intercepted in Germany apparently on their way to Syria, the base for attacks there and in Iraq by the terror group Islamic State, or ISIS. An Aug. 20 article in Newsweek estimated that perhaps twice as many British Muslims are fighting for ISIS as are serving in the British army.

What could possibly inspire young Muslims in the West to abandon their suburban middle-class existence and join a holy war? How could teenagers in Denver or anywhere be lured by a jihadist ideology—or are grisly videos of ISIS beheadings and crucifixions not enough of a deterrent?

What is so compelling about radical Islamism may lie within its founding texts. It is time we acknowledged the powerful influence these texts have had even on ordinary Muslims. The political ideology based on them has already dragged the Middle East back toward the Stone Age.

As a teenager growing up in Egypt in the 1980s, I liked to stroll through Cairo’s outdoor book market, fishing out little gems like an Arabic translation of “War and Peace.” One day I stumbled upon a book that shook everything I believed in.

The book was “In the Shadows of the Quran,” Sayyed Qutb’s magnum opus. The Egyptian writer, who died in 1966, remains arguably the most influential thinker in contemporary Muslim societies. He was the principal theorist of the Muslim Brotherhood and the intellectual impetus behind the Islamist parties it spawned. Qutb’s ardent disciples included Osama bin Laden and Ayman Zawahiri of al Qaeda. It is not an exaggeration to say that Qutb is to Islamism what Karl Marx is to communism.

Today, Qutb’s outlook—Islamism—is the dominant political ideology in most Muslim-majority countries, often taking root in vacuums where secular politics have never had space to develop. Polls by the Pew Research Center, such as 2013’s “The World’s Muslims” indicate that in many Muslim countries, the population is overwhelmingly in favor of veiling for women, the death penalty for leaving Islam and stoning as punishment for adultery; rabid anti-Semitism is rampant.

Compare the collective response after each harrowing high-school shooting in America. Intellectuals and public figures look for the root cause of the violence and ask: Why? Yet when I ask why after every terrorist attack, the disapproval I get from my non-Muslim peers is visceral: The majority of Muslims are not violent, they insist, the jihadists are a minority who don’t represent Islam, and I am fear-mongering by even wondering aloud.

This is delusional thinking. Even as the world witnesses the barbarity of beheadings, habitual stoning and severe subjugation of women and minorities in the Muslim world, politicians and academics lecture that Islam is a “religion of peace.” Meanwhile, Saudi Arabia routinely beheads women for sorcery and witchcraft.

In the U.S., we Muslims are handled like exotic flowers that will crumble if our faith is criticized—even if we do it ourselves. Meanwhile, Republicans and Democrats alike would apparently prefer to drop bombs in Syria, Iraq, Afghanistan and beyond, because killing Muslims is somehow less offensive than criticizing their religion? Unfortunately, you can’t kill an idea with a bomb, and so Islamism will continue to propagate. Muslims must tolerate civilized public debate of the texts and scripture that inform Islamism. To demand any less of us is to engage in the soft bigotry of low expectations.

Here;  http://online.wsj.com/articles/aly-salem-lets-talk-about-how-islam-has-been-hijacked-1414365802

Of course this is a secular article but gives you some talking points when you get in a discussion with your liberal family, friends and co-workers.

Followers of Christ know exactly what is going on within Islam.  It's a false religion that is being empowered by Satan.  Jesus himself told us, "You are either for me or against me."...and since Islam does NOTHING to spread and confirm the Gospel of Jesus Christ but instead only perverts the Word of God...we know that it is AGAINST Jesus Christ...so MUST have it's roots and power in Satan himself.

Another Day, Another School Shooting

This time the school shooting was in Washington state.  It seems that a popular kid who played football and was the homecoming prince of his 9th grade class, decided that he had had enough of some of his friends.  So he brought a pistol to school and shot them in the head while they sat at lunch.  Once he had done that, he then shot himself.

So far two of them have died...and the shooter would be the third.

MARYSVILLE, Wash. (AP) — A 14-year-old girl died two days after a student opened fire inside a Washington state high school, raising the death toll in the shooting to three, including the gunman who killed himself as a teacher tried to stop him.

Authorities scheduled a Monday afternoon news briefing, while the community wondered why a popular homecoming prince would open fire Friday in Marysville-Pilchuck High School cafeteria.

"We can't answer that question," said Matt Remle, a tribal guidance counselor who has an office at Marysville-Pilchuck High School, which is 30 miles north of Seattle. "But we try to make sense of the senselessness."

Three other students remain hospitalized, two in critical condition and one in satisfactory condition.

On Sunday, parents and students gathered in a gymnasium at the school for a community meeting, with speakers urging support and prayers and tribal members playing drums and singing songs. Fryberg was from a prominent family from the Tulalip Indian tribes.

"We just have to reach for that human spirit right now," said Deborah Parker, a tribal member.

Young people hugged each other and cried as speakers urged people to come together.

"Our legs are still wobbly," said Tony Hatch, a cousin of one of the injured students.

Here;  http://www.chron.com/news/crime/article/Girl-wounded-in-Washington-school-shooting-dies-5849711.php

We can pretty much count on the anti-gun liberals to point another finger and say, "See!  Guns are bad!!"

What's funny is that the same liberals point to Islam and say, "Don't let a few crazies in ISIS make you say "Islam is bad"....but yet they don't understand that a few crazies with guns don't make guns bad.

Yep!  In their numb minds they have convinced themselves that taking guns away from Americans will somehow solve this nation's problem of teens killing each other.

The problem of school shootings is a SPIRITUAL PROBLEM.  We let our young boys play demonic video games from the time they can walk, we turn them over to the demons of porn when they are old enough to open a laptop,  and we teach them in public schools that, "There is no God...you are a product of evolution"....then we stand back in awe and say, "What could have possessed this popular kid to shoot his friends"?

Sadly, stories of school shootings, rapes, incest, teachers having sex with students, venereal disease running rampant, perversion, drug use....all these events are only going to increase as we kick God out of our schools and out of our nation.

Has Judgment Already Started for America?

As Christ followers, we are guaranteed that we will not suffer the WRATH of God that will be poured out on planet earth.  This is one, of many, VERY good reasons to believe what the Bible says about a PRE-TRIBULATION Rapture of the bride of Christ.

Romans 5:9
Since we have now been justified by his blood, how much more shall we be saved from God’s wrath through him!

But as you look around America and continue to read the headlines, it's becoming harder and harder NOT to wonder if God's protective hand isn't being withdrawn from our nation.

If you fell asleep like a Rip Van Winkle for 30 years and awoke today, imagine how shocked you would be at what happened to America.

1. Divorce: Increased from 4% to 51% in one generation.

2. Cohabitation: 65% of "altar-bound" singles live together, a euphemism for lifestyle fornication.

3. Abortion: 57 million unborn babies aborted, some with taxpayer funding and now part of socialized medicine.

4. Marijuana: Being legalized in several states.

5. Euthanasia and Infanticide: Being legalized under camouflage names.

6. Pornography: Rampant, graphic, just a "click away" on hand-held devices.

7. Homosexuality, lesbian and transgender lifestyles: Promoted even by our president along with gay marriage and homosexual ordinations.

8. Movies and music: Standards almost nonexistent with graphic nudity, profanity and blasphemy commonplace.

9. Out-of-wedlock births: 1st time in U.S history – more than 50%.

10. Sexually transmitted diseases: Over 110 million in our population infected.

11. Economic insanity: $18 trillion national debt; millions unemployed deriving benefits; $60 billion in annual Medicare fraud and waste.

12. Illegal immigration: Over 11 million and politicians pushing open borders and amnesty.

13. Political leaders: Corruption, incompetence and deception at all levels.

14. Radical Islam and terrorism: Exploding in regions of the world with an increasingly vulnerable America dismantling militarily and docile politicians calling it a "peaceful religion."

15. Should we add illiteracy... crime... catastrophic fatherlessness... human trafficking... adultery... profane comedians...an ignorant and low information populace? How about the ongoing erosion of our religious freedoms and secularism taking over society? And last but not least, how about a Laodicean, apostate church compromising and lacking the courage to address the defining issues of our day with clarity and conviction while defining success in terms of happy sermons, attendance, offerings, number of staff, programs and square footage?

Do we see the "handwriting on the wall" that we are at an unprecedented tipping point? Are we aware that America is rapidly spiraling into a lawless culture similar to Germany of a generation ago?

Here;  http://www.charismanews.com/opinion/heres-the-deal/45851-15-signs-of-the-times-indicating-judgment

Now HERE is where the article gets convicting.  How many of us have made similar excuses?

• "I don't like what's happening in America on so many issues, but it's not really affecting me or my family."

• "I prefer they not schedule soccer games on Sunday morning but I guess we can live with it. As a family we try to make it to church at least twice a month unless we need to catch up on our rest."

• "I wish our pastor would address these critical issues but his role model is Joel Osteen so he avoids controversy."

• "I grew up with Sunday school, Sunday evening and Wednesday evening services but times have changed and I guess we can get by with a brief Sunday service."

• "Our worship leader is gay, I think, and the primary singer is living with her boyfriend but it's probably best not to stir up problems."

• "I wish our church gave out voter guides so we knew where candidates stand but since we're in a building program, leadership said they don't want to jeopardize fundraising."

"Our pastors tell us they don't put out any lawn signs for candidates or  speak about anything political because of separation of church and state."

"We got the evite for the citywide gathering to pray for transformation in our city but it's the same night of Dancing With the Stars finale and we just can't miss it."

Friends, I know I can sound like a broken record, but this country is standing on the edge of the abyss but we are too apathetic and complacent to even see it!  The Churches of America are supposed to be the purveyors of SALT AND LIGHT...but instead they have desired to be so LOVED by the world that they have lost the Gospel message in the process.

We have lost sight of our ONLY MISSION while here on earth....which is to be ambassadors of the Kingdom of Light, making disciples while the Holy Spirit sanctifies us and we wait for the Master to return.

"I know your deeds, that you are neither cold nor hot. I wish you were either one or the other! So because you are lukewarm – neither hot nor cold – I am about to spit you out of my mouth. You say, 'I am rich; I have acquired wealth and do not need a thing.' But you do not realize that you are wretched, pitiful, poor, blind and naked" (Rev. 3:15-17)

Lord forgive us, we know not what we do.

Even so, Come Lord Jesus!