— It’s so fun watching the train wreck that is Romney’s campaign.
— I heard something on TV the other day about the “Arab Spring.” I thought that spring started the same day every year, no matter what nationality you are.
— A word of advice for anyone who commits a minor offense in Griffin: Opt for community service instead of a fine. If you want to know why, go to City Park on a weekend morning. The people who are supposed to be picking up trash sit around smoking and chatting while the supervising police officer is nowhere in sight. Better than paying a fine.
— To the busybody who complained about teachers making a left turn out of the Griffin High School parking lot: Why don’t you try to do something productive with your life, instead of snitching on other people?
— With respect of the office, Mr. President, you are not worthy or fit to hold the office that you do.
— The Atlanta Falcons are 3-0, but every team they have defeated is from the AFC. Players in the AFC play like girls. That is why people call it the “American Female Conference.”
— Americans have freedom, but not for long if we allow the liberal Democrats to control our lives. We know the answer to change. It’s not government. Americans must stand against same-sex marriage, failing economy, anti-Christianity, national debt, health and death taxes, illegal immigration, and a weaker military and foreign policy.
— It does not seem right that doctors make you wait in a big waiting room, then call you back to wait in a smaller waiting room. I would rather stay in the big waiting room, with other people, instead of being confined to the little room, where I feel like I am in jail.
— The choking noise that you just heard came from the Georgia Tech football team.
Elders should take it up with the pastor and the pastor should address during service that if anyone is not happy with how the church service is run, then they should find another church. You know, the Lord is leading them somewhere else because your service is not going to change. Period. If they continue to grumble and complain tell them "in the Spirit of Christ" you are asking them to leave. The griping and complaining is just too negative for the church and its in the best interest of everyone who is not happy to find another church. If they come back and continue--I would consider this harrassment and begin taking appropriate actions to counteract what they are doing. Don't be afraid or ashamed of this. Its all what's in your heart.
It seems as though that pastor has led his flock there with his own negative intentions. God will deal with him later, but its up to your church, if it is to remain a church, to stand against his intentions and not allow them to come to fruition.
Baptist churches have only men in all of their leadership positions, correct? They are going to have to get over the fact that this is a black and white issue, take the risk on being called racist (if that name bothers them--the race card is pulled all the time to get what people want--kind of getting old now) and not back down. Take a risk for God against what is obvious evil.
The Lord knows what's in everyone's hearts. There is no need to be upset over this. There is only call for action. You and your congregation have been placed in a very uncomfortable position but you can overcome and be stronger and closer because of it. It can be done with peace and love. The only harsh and negativity to be expected is if what you assume about this new group is true and they get angry and show out. That shows their true intent. They don't get to be members and they don't come back.
Oh, and don't let the initial name of sbpdl.com throw you off. It is an extremely informative website that, well, posts the truth. As hard as it is to swallow.
Stop worrying about who is getting married, stop using religion to force others to do as you want, stop with all the divisiveness and concentrate on the crooks sitting in Washington (on both sides) who are running this country into the ground for their own benefit.
to believe that such preaching is alright.
I also won't attend or bring my kids up in a church who's bishop Mark Hanson was quoted saying "The tragedy of Trayvon's death must move us to ask searching questions. How much longer shall any child live in fear because of the color of their skin? Are we, who are white, ready to confront our power and privilege for the sake of a more just and inclusive society? Are we as a nation ready to reform our criminal justice system?"
And for those who signed the Churches Uniting in Christ who signed the Statement on Trayvon Martin:
David R. Daniels, Jr.
President of the Council of Bishops
African Methodist Episcopal Church
Sharon E. Watkins
General Minister and President
Christian Church (Disciples of Christ)
Thomas J. Hoyt
Senior Bishop
Christian Methodist Episcopal Church
The Most Rev. Katharine Jefferts Schori
Presiding Bishop and Primate
The Episcopal Church
Mark S. Hanson
Presiding Bishop
Evangelical Lutheran Church in
America
Gradye Parsons
Stated Clerk of the General
Assembly
Presbyterian Church (USA)
Geoffrey A. Black
General Minister and President
United Church of Christ
Bishop Larry Goodpaster
President of the Council of Bishops
United Methodist Church
Churches Uniting in Christ is a covenant relationship among ten Christian communions that have pledged to live more closely together in expressing
their unity in Christ and combating racism together. The member churches of CUIC include the African Methodist Episcopal Church, the African
Methodist Episcopal Zion Church, the Christian Church (Disciples of Christ), the Christian Methodist Episcopal Church, the Episcopal Church
Each of these denominations interjected themselves in such a highly racial case--when they had no business doing so.
You liberals, you love to scream the race card to try to corner someone who tells the truth to try to shut them up.
There is nothing hateful about the truth. You may not want to hear it--you know--it hurts sometimes. It is what it is.
I think what you don't like about that website is the fact you are probably associated with the Democratic party--you know--they fight for "your" rights. But the Democrats also represent that 47% that the libs got so upset about. That 47% that won't do anything to better themselves because they want the government to do it for them all while bringing the rest of the country down. If I were you I'd be really trying to distance myself from that too. You know, the Obama administration is the one who so strongly wanted the consensus done. Those dems, they love to count people and demographics. JK2: THE TRUTH SPEAKS FOR ITSELF AND WILL ALWAYS SPEAK FOR ITSELF. You can argue about the name of a website all day long, but I challenge you to spend some time reading it--you won't find the n-word or any other horrible racist name used to describe other people. What you will find is a website, using its First Ammendment right to freedom of speech--to spread the truth that ABC, NBC, CBS and even FOXNEWS won't have the guts to post.
Also, dbaugh, wow, get your facts straight.
You should read the Constitution. Read the First Amendment part real slow. You will be surprised to learn there is nothing about separation of church and state. It says two things and they are called the Establishment and Free Exercise Clauses. Congress cannot establish an official government sanctioned religion like they had in Merry Ole England, and they can make no laws that interferes with the free exercise of religion. Surprise! Surprise! Nothing about Separation there.
In fact the First Amendment only applied to laws enacted by the Congress until the middle of the 1900s. Then the Supreme Court got into the mix and stretched what the First Amendment says all out of shape. Kind of like calling a penalty for not having insurance a tax. They are so much wiser than everyone else even though they don't all agree on things. So they can’t ever possibly be wrong could they?
Did you know they held church services in the Capitol building and other federal building in Washington DC in the 1800s? Even in the Supreme Court building? Heaven forbid the atheist would climb the walls if they found out. If they found out that Thomas Jefferson was the one that started it they would go crazy. It went on until after the Civil War to. I'm amazed our country survived all that church worshiping going on back then.
Seriously, that is the truth and not what some folks go around telling about how our country was founded. Our nation’s history is founded in Biblical principles. Our freedoms come not from a man or a king but from our Creator. Oh my, that is a religious word, Creator. Atheist don't believe we were created we just sprung up from some soup that formed in the oceans. Don't know where the oceans came from the big bang I suppose. But who created the big bang? Scientist says that matter cannot be created or destroyed. It can only be changed into something else.
I’ll just end this with man cannot create matter but someone created it because it is here. We can see it, we can touch it. It is real. So the only possible answer of where it came from is it came from a force or a spirit or a higher being with more power than we can ever imagine. I believe it came from a living God.
by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Under a spreading chestnut-tree
The village smithy stands;
The smith, a mighty man is he,
With large and sinewy hands;
And the muscles of his brawny arms
Are strong as iron bands.
His hair is crisp, and black, and long,
His face is like the tan;
His brow is wet with honest sweat,
He earns whate'er he can,
And looks the whole world in the face,
For he owes not any man.
Week in, week out, from morn till night,
You can hear his bellows blow;
You can hear him swing his heavy sledge,
With measured beat and slow,
Like a sexton ringing the village bell,
When the evening sun is low.
And children coming home from school
Look in at the open door;
They love to see the flaming forge,
And bear the bellows roar,
And catch the burning sparks that fly
Like chaff from a threshing-floor.
He goes on Sunday to the church,
And sits among his boys;
He hears the parson pray and preach,
He hears his daughter's voice,
Singing in the village choir,
And it makes his heart rejoice.
It sounds to him like her mother's voice,
Singing in Paradise!
He needs must think of her once more,
How in the grave she lies;
And with his haul, rough hand he wipes
A tear out of his eyes.
Toiling,--rejoicing,--sorrowing,
Onward through life he goes;
Each morning sees some task begin,
Each evening sees it close
Something attempted, something done,
Has earned a night's repose.
Thanks, thanks to thee, my worthy friend,
For the lesson thou hast taught!
Thus at the flaming forge of life
Our fortunes must be wrought;
Thus on its sounding anvil shaped
Each burning deed and thought.
I tend to immerse myself in the classics JK2. We probably don't have much in common. To study this poem from so long ago reminds one of what it must have been like to build this great country. Something tells me you are one of those bent on changing the greatness of this country into a cesspool of perversion and disgust. I doubt we have much in common to talk about.
Freedom from religion and Separation of Church and State is never mentioned in the Constitution or it amendments. People like to quote that though but it is not there. Our Supreme Courts have been more concerned with the Establishment part and with little concern about the Free Exercise part. So in just my lifetime some have seen fit to stop prayer at football game or as we see today our commissioners meetings. Will they one day stop our president and others from ending a speech with God Bless America? It's coming because there are groups out there such as The Freedom From Religion group that seek to do just that.
The question is are we better off today than we were before? I say no because I have lived long enough to see what has been happening to our country and to our schools. We once were allowed to have a minister come to our school every Monday and talk to us children. It was not always the same minister and they did not come to talk to us about religion but about how to respect one another and how to treat one another as human being. It certainly did not harm us in any way. I could see the benefit.
Look at our schools today across this country. Who would have ever thought kids would carry guns to school to kill other kids? Connect the dots folks it's that simple. We have allowed a few to tell us what is best for us and we know better. We know they are wrong. What you see happening across the country can happen right here to and it probably will sooner or later. If someone could have talked at school to those kids that carried guns to school and killed those other kids it just might not have ever happened.
Think about that for a moment. Would it have been worth it? I can see a connection between what is going on today and with what we are being told we can and cannot do in our communities.