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Monday, 24 September 2007

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    How Now Shall We Live?
    By Charles Colson, Nancy Pearcey
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    Hi Everyone,

    I've been kind of M.I.A. on Xanga, now that I've discovered Facebook.  But I am using every channel I can think of to spread the word about a presidential candidate that has so much integrity that he cannot even make it through the typical political channels because they are so corrupt.  please consider placing your vote for him by studying what he stands for.  He is wise, intelligent, and eloquent, and God-centered rather than self-centered.  I really don't want another self-centered president leading us in these tumultuous times.  Here is a letter he wrote to his supporters recently:

    Hello Everyone,
     
    I am greatly encouraged by the step you have taken, and the heartfelt words of encouragement many of you have added to your commitment.  I also want to take a few moments to make sure you understand the unique nature of that commitment, and the special hope it represents for the future of our liberty.
     
    In the first few essays in the Crisis of the Republic (recommended reading, and readily available at the America’s Revival website) I discuss the present corrupt state of the American political process.  As a people, we have allowed ourselves to be convinced that media attention and money are the absolute prerequisites of political success.  Therefore, the media and money powers have become the gatekeepers of our political arena.  Effectively, no one is even allowed to compete without their apparent blessing.
     
    But in the surveys that indicate the views of people in the media, their responses suggest that they either don’t believe in God, or believe His will and presence make no difference to human morality.  Yet when the young man called Christ “Good Master” Jesus replied “There is none good but God.”  He makes clear that without God, we cannot understand what is good, cannot distinguish right from wrong, cannot understand or follow what is moral.  Most of the people who staff and control the media in our country reject this view.  They represent, quite literally, an ungodly approach to the most vital area of human deliberation, the one in which we think through the relation between what we do and what is right.  If these ungodly media people are the gatekeepers of our political process, how can anyone who acts on our nation’s founding principles stand a chance?
     
    Through my own experience I know that the money powers in our politics mostly favor abortion, and don’t much care about the survival of the God ordained natural family, or the preservation and strength of the sovereignty our people claim as a consequence of their God-given natural rights.  When I ran for the US Senate in Illinois, for instance, I was invited to a gathering of people regarded as the big fundraisers in Republican politics in Illinois.  In the course of the affair (good food and drink, lots of friendly conversation, followed by a session where I spoke and took questions from the attendees) someone quietly took me aside to offer some friendly advice about the approach to politics that would assure the support of these big fundraisers.  ‘They liked me,’ he said, ‘they wanted me to win, and they didn’t want me to change my views.  I just needed to stop putting so much emphasis on the life issue (this while running against an opponent, Barack Obama, whose support for abortion goes so far that he refused to support legislation to stop infanticide, i.e., killing children born alive after a failed abortion procedure); stop talking so much about the need to defend traditional marriage; stop emphasizing “that religious stuff” in my speeches and presentations.  They wanted to hear me talk more about the money issues, about my approach to health care, social security and the things Illinois voters really cared about.’
     
    Of course, the real problem wasn’t that I failed to talk about the so-called economic issues, but that I always truthfully draw the connection between all of these issues and the issue of our country’s moral decline, the issue of our abandoned allegiance to the authority of God.  The message was clear:  I would get the support of these money powers so long as I stopped arguing for the relevance and priority of the moral crisis that I believe is dooming our liberty.  Of course, I refused this dirty bargain and the money powers turned against me.  So long as such powers are gatekeepers in our political process, how can anyone who speaks truthfully about the nature and implications of our nation’s moral crisis stand a chance?
     
    I believe that with God’s help and the faithful integrity of people like you, America’s Revival represents the answer to this difficult political challenge.  Despite the deceptive pronouncements that dominate media talk about our politics, money and media are not the decisive factors on election day.  The decisive factor is people, individual people and the votes they cast.  Is there a way to outflank the media and money powers, and to gather enough people by election day to assure the success of the principles and actions we believe are vital to the survival of our good character and our Constitution?  Even a few years ago there appeared to be no answer.  But with the growth of the internet and the development of sophisticated information technology, the means exist to reach people directly and to send them out to gather more and more until we reach the number required for electoral victory.
     
    This is the reason for the pledge we have asked you to take.  Assuming that you are faithful to your pledge, each of you actually represents at least five more people like yourselves.  When they pledge, those five represent twenty five more, who represent 125 more, who represent 625 more and so forth.  The mathematical progression is clear and inexorable, so long as each pledge taker is true to the word they give.
     
    Using the terminology of the internet, the key to victory on election day is a search process.  Each of you represents the result we are seeking, so we key the search to find all similar results.  The America’s Revival website is the search engine, where results are stored, counted and declared.  Each of you is a searcher, looking for people like you in the world you live in, the real world- your family, your place of worship, your school, your workplace and so on.  You gather as many as you find and send them to the site where they in turn become searchers adding to the result.
     
    The ungodly media and the abortion-minded, amoral money powers want us to believe we are few.  Yet they are at great pains to make sure no voice that speaks our heart is allowed on the platforms that reach the bulk of our people.  If we are so few, why are they so afraid to let us be heard? Through and for America’s Revival we can ascertain our real strength and, with God’s help, put the lie to the false perception they use to discourage and paralyze our will.  It will work, however, only because we gather what I call “good seed”, people of faith who will faithfully keep the pledge they have taken.  Christ said that with faith as little as a grain of mustard seed, the faithful can move mountains.  We can shoulder aside the mountain of media lies and money fueled discouragement, if we have just that little mustard seed of faith within us, and accept God’s grace enough to act on it.
     
    We must be clear.  This is not politics as usual.   For their own profit and power the ungodly media want us to believe that politics is something we watch on TV.  For those of us who commit to America’s Revival, however, politics is not something you watch, it’s something you do.  It’s not a suit of clothes or a bumper sticker that you passively display, it’s the courageous action that reaches out to others and calls on them to act as we do, faithfully and in good faith.  In the course of our work we seek not only to achieve political success, but in the process to restore a concept of citizenship in which people realize that among free people, every citizen is a leader, not just a follower; every citizen is a standard bearer not just the people they formally choose to represent them.
     
    The bottom line is simple: Don’t wait to hear from us.  Let us hear from you.  Christ said “by their fruits ye shall know them.”  Let us see your fruits.   And in doing so, let the world see the strength of truth in America.  We will keep careful track of those results, and we will prominently display the number of pledged supporters as, with God’s help and your good faith, it grows.  We begin with hundreds.  Our first goal is to reach 5000 pledgers by the end of September.  That seems like a big job until you realize that all that is required is that each of you understand the urgency of our work, and strive right now to keep the pledge you have made.  The yoke is easy, the burden light.  But the results truly have no limit except your faithfulness.  God be with you as you...
     

    Keep Faith,
     
    Alan Keyes
     
     

Saturday, 30 June 2007

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    Finding God at Harvard: Spiritual Journeys of Thinking Christians
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    "Having been set free by Christ, who respected our freedom to reject Him until such time as we were ready to contemplate the fundamental things that pertain to salvation, can we adopt any other approach than to extend the same genuine respect to others who struggle with questions and attitudes and uncertainties?"  Habib Malik in his chapter "Harvard Square" on p. 177 within the highly recommended book: Finding God at Harvard edited by Kelly Monroe Kullberg.

    This book is illuminating so much for me.

    Following Jesus Christ is true freedom.  Rejecting him is true bondage.  Let him set you free.  I'd be glad to chat with you about it anytime.  Love you.

Tuesday, 29 May 2007

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    The Theory of Everything
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    It was Arthur Schopenhauer, the philosopher whose writings would later greatly influence Joseph Campbell, who would later greatly influence George Lucas, who would later be a great influence on our entire culture, who observed that

    …the experiences and illuminations of childhood and early youth become in later life the types, standards and patterns of all subsequent knowledge and experience, or as it were, the categories according to which all later things are classified—not always consciously, however. And so it is that in our childhood years the foundation is laid of our later view of the world, and there with as well of its superficiality or depth: it will be in later years unfolded and fulfilled, not essentially changed.

    Sounds like a good argument for homeschooling.

    Also sounds a lot like "Train up a child in the way he should go, and when he is old, he will not depart from it."

    Unfortunately these 3 guys above all ended up very humanistic and being fascinated with mythology and the power of man, basically "New Age".  God has been left out of their equation.  We must be careful that God is not left out of our equation.

Wednesday, 09 May 2007

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