Salt and Light

This morning my latest article on the New Media Journal is out and it is titled “Recession-Proof Racket” and here is a small hint:

It’s about Planned Parenthoood.

Here’s my press release about my article.

Thanks for passing this on!

This is the 187th post I am making on this blog; it is by far the most important I have ever made and I daresay ever will make. I want you to watch this video and then return below to read what I have written.

If you are a born again Christian and you are watching the Oprah Winfrey Show you must stop immediately. Oprah has become God’s enemy; she is blaspheming God in such a bold fashion that it is obvious she is at best delusional and at worst under demonic influence.

Oprah says in the video that when she heard God is a jealous God, she thought “Something about that doesn’t feel right.” What Miss Winfrey has just stated is that she has a problem with God’s Second Commandment:

“You shall not make for yourself a carved image—any likeness of anything that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth; you shall not bow down to them nor serve them. For I, the LORD your God, am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children to the third and fourth generations of those who hate Me, but showing mercy to thousands, to those who love Me and keep My commandments.” (Exodus 20:4-6)

Oprah also said that she began to “search for something more than doctrine.” The Apostle Paul taught Timothy:

“Till I come, give attention to reading, to exhortation, to doctrine. Do not neglect the gift that is in you, which was given to you by prophecy with the laying on of the hands of the eldership. Meditate on these things; give yourself entirely to them, that your progress may be evident to all. Take heed to yourself and to the doctrine. Continue in them, for in doing this you will save both yourself and those who hear you.” (1 Timothy 4:13-16)

Oprah’s spiritual mentor Eckhart Tolle says “Man made God in his own image.” What’s the problem you ask?

“So God created man in His own image; in the image of God He created him; male and female He created them.” (Genesis 1:27)

Obviously Mr. Tolle is changing God’s words around to fit his purposes; there is biblical precedent for that:

Now the serpent was more cunning than any beast of the field which the LORD God had made. And he said to the woman, “Has God indeed said, ‘You shall not eat of every tree of the garden’?”
And the woman said to the serpent, “We may eat the fruit of the trees of the garden; but of the fruit of the tree which is in the midst of the garden, God has said, ‘You shall not eat it, nor shall you touch it, lest you die.’”
Then the serpent said to the woman, “You will not surely die. For God knows that in the day you eat of it your eyes will be opened, and you will be like God, knowing good and evil.” (Genesis 3:1-5)

What is the difference between Satan the Serpent changing God’s words to fit Satan’s schemes and Eckhart changing God’s words to fit Eckhart’s schemes? You’re right, nothing!

Christian men, you must forbid your wives from watching Oprah immediately and forever unless Oprah repents and claims Jesus Christ as Savior and Lord. No matter the amount of protest, men you must play the man.

Christian parents, you must forbid your children from listening to this dangerous blasphemy.

Three and a half years ago, Dr. R. Albert Mohler, the president of Southern Seminary and a fine, godly man tried to warn us about Oprah in his article “The Church of Oprah Winfrey–A New American Religion?”

Dr. Mohler, I must confess I was not paying attention back in November 2005; I’m paying attention now.

Beloved, do not scoff at this; this is of eternal importance.

It’s time for an Oprah Ousting!

Well it seems as thought the Veep Sweepstakes has begun; McCain has begun work on his list of Vice-Presidential candidates. Governor Mark Sanford of South Carolina is getting a lot of ink as of late and he would be a fine choice.

Governor Tim Pawlenty of Minnesota is considered a front-runner by many, including Jonathan Martin at Politico.com. I would have no heartburn with this choice.

Two people I would not like to see because of their past records and how divisive they are among parts of the conservative movement is Mitt Romney or our governor here in Florida, Charlie Crist.

I understand that the VP candidate has not historically brought a lot of votes to the ticket, however in our fractured state that is the Republican Party, we need a VP candidate that will counter McCain’s age and yawn effect, and unite the party as much as possible (even if it is nothing more than just gluing some of the pieces back together).

Someone who is an up and comer, who is my first choice is Governor Bobby Jindal of Louisiana. This guy is so awesome he even delivered his third child, a son! This is a long article that was written by Ben Domenech of RedState, but it’s worth the read. Check out “Bobby Jindal Saves Louisiana.” I’m letting the McCain campaign know that Jindal is my first choice.

I am so excited!

Tonight I will be on “The Rude Awakening,” a Conservative Christian talk show based out of Liberty University on 90.9 FM “The Light.”

Being a graduate of Liberty (and currently a graduate student of Liberty Baptist Theological Seminary), it is going to be a great honor to be on the show.

Please tune in online at 6:30 pm central time (7:30 Eastern; 4:30 Pacific). Just click the “listen live” link and your Windows Media Player will be activated.

Hope to see you there!

I can assure you that you have never seen anything more precious than this! In fact this video deserves to be alongside this defintion of precious:

One who is dear or beloved; a darling.

With what little we know about Barack Obama, is it possible that he has communist leanings?

Now of course people are going to scream about this accusation, but before anyone becomes hysterical, I encourage you to read Paul Hollrah’s article on the New Media Journal titled “Red, White & Black?”

Hollrah’s writes: “…he [Obama] identifies simply as ‘Frank’ as being a decisive influence in helping him to find his present identity as an African-American…”

The more we learn of Obama’s mentors, the more we have reason to worry.

For a vile and Christian-hating rabid atheist, Christopher Hitchens sometimes gets it right. He got it right on the war, and he has definitely hit a grand slam with his latest article, “The Tall Tale of Tuzla.”

He has taken the same approach as mine by declaring Hillary is a Liar.

Truth can be so refreshing, now if I can just get Mr. Hitchens to see the real Truth…

I wanted to share a funny ditty that Bill Malley sent to me for my birthday. Bill and I share the same birthday, today, and he is the younger one while I am the more handsome one.

Anyway, enjoy!

It wouldn’t be funny if it wasn’t so true… To commemorate her 69th birthday on October 1, actress/vocalist, Julie Andrews made a special appearance at Manhattan’s Radio City Music Hall for the benefit of the AARP. One of the musical numbers she performed was “My Favorite Things” from the legendary movie “Sound Of Music.”

Here are the lyrics she used:

Maalox and nose drops and needles for knitting, Walkers and handrails and new dental fittings, Bundles of magazines tied up in string, These are a few of my favorite things.

When the joints ache,
When the hips break,
When the eyes grow dim,
Then I remember the great life I’ve had, And then I don’t feel so bad.

(Ms. Andrews received a standing ovation from the crowd that lasted over four minutes and repeated encores.)

Kind of a shocking headline isn’t it? It shouldn’t even be news because Hillary has been lying for a while. That’s the gist of my new article “Hillary is a Liar” at the New Media Journal. While you’re reading about Hillary lying, read Chris Adamo’s article titled “Stop the Presses! Hillary Lied!”

Chris writes about how the national media have been ignoring both Bill and Hillary Clinton’s lies and drinking the Clinton Kool-Aid. While were talking about the Left, go ahead and read Frank Salvato’s latest editorial “The Insolent Arrogance of the Progressive-Left.”

You’ll want to read the editorial last; it will have your blood boiling and you may need to go for a walk afterwards.

These three articles are three more reasons why conservatives and evangelicals have got to join together to stop the shift of this country to the Left. We cannot let Barack Obama or Hillary Clinton win the White House.

Are you listening Ann Coulter?

There is something you do not learn during Black History Month! According to Frances Rice, “It should come as no surprise that Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. was a Republican. In that era, almost all black Americans were Republicans. Why?”…read more.

I happened upon a wonderful website, The National Black Republican Association. They have a wealth of information there and I encourage you to visit their website.

Pass this on to all your liberal friends and family members and watch them turn apoplectic (look it up!).

Well it’s another Monday and you might be thinking, “what’s the use?”

I just cannot get ahead no matter what I do! I wasn’t given a fair shake! My needs are not being met and no one cares!

I want you to meet my new hero. His name is Nick Vujicic and he is a living example of what Jesus Christ can do in a life regardless your circumstances. Hat tip to Rob Sutphin for bringing this amazing man to my attention.

After watching this video you are going to want to visit his website, Life Without Limbs.

Watch this video and be amazed and humbled:

Six months ago today my son Eddie was killed in Iraq (September 19, 2007). So much has happened in these past six months, and yet it feels as though I found out about Eddie six minutes ago.

With all the things happening in our country and the constant drumbeat for change from our political candidates, one thing has remained constant. Jesus Christ is faithful to meet our needs before we even know we have them. My family has been greatly sustained by the Sustainer and all of your precious prayers.

I wanted to include all of Eddie’s articles and the three I wrote for him, plus the tribute video for Eddie and the video I made to explain how great our God is.

We love you Eddie!

Hope Rides Alone
Freedom Feels Good
Real Deal in Ramadi

Hope Rides Eternal
His Best Christmas Ever
My Little Boy Became a Man

Here is the second part of my interview last Friday with Greg Allen on The Right Balance.

It seems as though Pope Benedict XVI has short-term memory when it comes to Iraq. In his Palm Sunday message he said, “At the same time, I make an appeal to the Iraqi people, who for the past five years have borne the consequences of a war that provoked the breakup of their civil and social life.”

Let’s look at the Iraqi civil and social life under the rule of Saddam Hussein:

1. “Under Saddam’s regime many hundreds of thousands of people have died as a result of his actions - the vast majority of them Muslims.”

2. “According to a 2001 Amnesty International report, ‘victims of torture in Iraq are subjected to a wide range of forms of torture, including the gouging out of eyes, severe beatings and electric shocks… some victims have died as a result and many have been left with permanent physical and psychological damage.”

3. “Saddam has had approximately 40 of his own relatives murdered.”

4. “Allegations of prostitution used to intimidate opponents of the regime, have been used by the regime to justify the barbaric beheading of women.”

5. “Documented chemical attacks by the regime, from 1983 to 1988, resulted in some 30,000 Iraqi and Iranian deaths.”

6. “Human Rights Watch estimates that Saddam’s 1987-1988 campaign of terror against the Kurds killed at least 50,000 and possibly as many as 100,000 Kurds. The Iraqi regime used chemical agents to include mustard gas and nerve agents in attacks against at least 40 Kurdish villages between 1987-1988. The largest was the attack on Halabja which resulted in approximately 5,000 deaths. Two thousand Kurdish villages were destroyed during the campaign of terror.”

7. “Iraq’s 13 million Shi’a Muslims, the majority of Iraq’s population of approximately 22 million, face severe restrictions on their religious practice, including a ban on communal Friday prayer, and restriction on funeral processions.”

8. “The UN Special Rapporteur’s September 2001, report criticized the regime for ‘the sheer number of executions,’ the number of ‘extrajudicial executions on political grounds,’ and ‘the absence of a due process of the law.”

9. “Executions: Saddam Hussein’s regime has carried out frequent summary executions, including: a) 4,000 prisoners at Abu Ghraib prison in 1984 o 3,000 prisoners at the Mahjar prison from 1993-1998; b) 2,500 prisoners were executed between 1997-1999 in a ‘prison cleansing campaign’; c) 122 political prisoners were executed at Abu Ghraib prison in February/March 2000; d) 23 political prisoners were executed at Abu Ghraib prison in October 2001; e) At least 130 Iraqi women were beheaded between June 2000 and April 2001.

10. “The U.S. Committee for Refugees, in 2002, estimated that nearly 100,000 Kurds, Assyrians and Turkomans had previously been expelled, by the regime, from the ‘central-government-controlled Kirkuk and surrounding districts in the oil-rich region bordering the Kurdish controlled north.”

Now that is quite a top-ten list of reasons Iraq had a better “civil and social life.”

Ah, for the good ol’ days!

Source: Life Under Saddam Hussein

I was on Greg Allen’s The Right Balance yesterday and I wanted to share Part 1 with you and will release Part 2 either tomorrow or Monday. As I’ve said before, Greg Allen is the best interviewer in radio and I always enjoy visiting with Greg. The fact that he is a very close friend always makes it enjoyable. Checkout Greg’s website!

Here’s part one of the interview:

Folks, you want to buy this CD before this group becomes famous so you can say you knew about them before they got real big!

Go to their website Inner Fire Music and read all about them and get your CD. As their producer says about them, “Working with Bernie, Faith and Johnna was a complete joy for me! I enjoy working with amazingly talented people with a heart for ministry. I truly believe that InnerFire will be a household name in Gospel Music very soon!”.

You can also see them at their MySpace page.

Now as a matter of full disclosure I have to say that I am Bernie and Faith Joyner’s uncle. Before you’re amazed that there would be any musical talent on my part, Faith is my wife Karen’s niece. Faith is the daughter of Karen’s brother Randy, so you can see that I married up!

Notwithstanding, please pass the word about this wonderful up and coming Christian group; the Lord is going to bless their ministry and you’re going to want to be a part of it. You can listen to their songs at their website and then order the CD through PayPal for only $15, including S&H! When you order your CD tell them you heard about Inner Fire on the Salt and Light blog, just so I can thank all of you.

God bless!

If I hear one more liberal excuse as a private matter an adulterous politician I think I will scream! I do, however, have a cure for this.

Here’s a question we need to ask candidates before they are elected:

“With the recent public spotlight of adulterous politicians, and this question requires only a yes or no answer and I will give you one minute to explain your yes or no answer, my question is, is this a private matter? Should the public have a right to expect their politicians to not commit adultery?”

HELLO!

Most politicians run on values and high standards and so I think this is a fair question. I want to know if there is another Bill Clinton or Elliot Spitzer, is their shameful adulterous behavior strictly a private matter. Any politicians that answers yes get the heave-ho from me.

The twisted, contorted, and sad explanations coming from liberals defending Spitzer’s despicable, illegal, and hypocritical behavior is a very revealing commentary on society. As I wrote in my book “Understanding Evangelicals: A Guide to Jesusland,” we are in the middle of a societal civil war.

Are we paying attention yet?

Here’s a copy of the email I sent to Fox News about Susan Estrich’s latest commentary:

Ms. Estrich’s latest commentary gives a wonderful insight into the liberal mind. Here are a few of the revealing comments in quotation marks with my commentary in italics:

“It used to be that you could have fun with interviews with the foreign press, knowing that nothing you said would make it back to any voters until long after the election was over, if ever. Say goodbye to those days; say hello to Matt Drudge.” Oh for the good old days when liberals could go overseas, protest against America, make whatever disparaging remarks about America and Americans without being held responsible for our words. Drat that Matt Drudge!

“Her description of the New York senator as ‘a monster’ was all over the place, beginning with the much-read DrudgeReport, within hours, as were some of her other juicy quotes, which clearly had not been meant for an American audience.” Translation: “Of course if I knew that my talking behind Senator Clinton’s back would ever get back to her, I would have never said such a cowardly thing.” Drat that Matt Drudge!

“Of course, Power really didn’t mean any of it. Or so she now is being forced to say, after the comments caused the explosion they did. Sen. Obama apologized. Power resigned from her unpaid position in the campaign.” Translation: While Professor Power meant every word she said, of course she would have never said it had she known she would be held accountable for it. Now because her cowardly remarks were published she has to say she didn’t mean any of it. Drat that Matt Drudge!

“People hate negative tactics, but the fact is, as the 3 a.m. ad demonstrates, they can be very effective. How to fight them without getting covered with mud is the challenge Obama and his advisers must confront. All I can say, to quote Professor Power, is “Ergh.” This is the “ergh” period of the campaign, and it’s not likely to end soon.” How do you avoid “getting covered with mud?” Stop throwing it into the wind. Liberals still think they own the media. Drat that Matt Drudge!

As Rush Limbaugh always says, “Liberals will always be liberals above all else.”

According to Dictionary.com, revise used to mean “to amend or alter: to revise one’s opinion.”

Associated Press “reporter” Sara Kugler’s definition of revise means “to lie, to tell an untruth: to revise the truth.”

Now Ms. Kugler would probably disagree with my assertion of her new definition, but I will let her article titled “Clinton Revises Remark on Women in Miss” speak for her.

This little tidbit from the article is quite revealing: “Speaking to radio station WJZD-FM in Gulfport, Miss., the former first lady said the comments she made about the state in the run up to the Iowa caucuses ‘were not exactly what I said,’ even though they came directly from an interview she gave to the Des Moines Register in October.”

Um, Sara…Mrs. Clinton has once again lied. She didn’t revise her remarks; she lied about them. She did not tell an “untruth” (from the Algore Dictionary); she lied. Mrs. Clinton lied because she is a liar.

See Sara, doesn’t that give you a sense of freedom? Try saying it one time Sara, “the former first lady (now senator) lied.” Truth has a wonderfully free feeling about it; doesn’t it?

No doubt! Jesus said that “you shall know the truth and the truth shall set you free.”

I know that’s not proper English (for all my readers who are teachers and former teachers), but I wanted to share with you my conversation with Mark Levin on his show last night. I had emailed Mark earlier this week and told him we would be celebrating Eddie’s birthday today and he asked me to come on his show Friday night to wish Eddie a Happy Birthday.

Mark is a wonderful human being and has been very kind to my family; the response from his listeners when he read Eddie’s “Hope Rides Alone” on the air was phenomenal. Mark was also kind enough to give a shout out to my blog and I sure appreciate that. Here is the clip from last night’s show.