If I could count the stars, learn all Truth from your lips,
If I could just stand behind Your total eclipse.
If I could love my neighbor, as you see him today,
If I could get out of Your way.

Ohh help me, Holy God,
I need instruction, where it is not,
I need a filling inside,
I need a splashing of Your grace,
I need Your presence manifesting, in front of my face.

So often content, with just words from Your book,
But I'm starting to realize, that's not just how it looks,
You bring power, changing time and space,
You bring holiness, to this unholy place.

God, Savior, come meet with us,
You're not some far away being, Your the God-man we can trust.
Break my mindset, tear it apart,
Craft my inspiration, an artful masterpiece of your heart.

Bless the Lord,
Hold on to Him tight,
If I just get a touch of his cloak, I'll be all right.
He'll heal me, the power will flow out,
Leaving, me with no doubt.
That He is God,
That He is King,
That He deserves our everything.
He's above,
All conceptions we hold,
Bring forth Your will, O let it unfold.

Limited Tolerance in an age of diversity speech for Contest

I'm in the semi-final round tomorrow morning. His will be done.

Amen.

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Read what Obama is spouting out:

http://www.christianitytoday.com/ct/2008/januaryweb-only/104-32.0.html?start=1

"Our goal should be to make abortion less common, that we should be discouraging unwanted pregnancies, that we should encourage adoption wherever possible. There is a range of ways that we can educate our young people about the sacredness of sex and we should not be promoting the sort of casual activities that end up resulting in so many unwanted pregnancies."

Although there are softballs left and right here, I will only attack one. Sacredness of sex?....does he mean marriage? It sounds so close to the right thing, but it's the wrong thing....and with ideas having consequences and all, and bad ideas having bad ones...this can only lead to something like the protection of all forms of sexual immortality from prosecution of any kind....I wonder what happens to rape when "sex is sacred".....

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My response to this argument:

Tom writes:

"Many opponents of capital punishment cite the Sixth Commandment as prohibiting the death penalty, quoting it as, "You shall not kill." But if that's what it really says, then God would contradict himself, since there are many places throughout Scripture where His people are ordered to kill."

Since when did God have to justify himself to us to kill anyone?

Also,Isaiah 10:5.....just because God orders a killing doesn't somehow take the guilt of the killer away does it? No one but God is good, and so no one but He can kill/murder and remain good.

Tom writes:

"The state has a duty to punish wrongdoers. I could personally forgive the man who, say, stole my car, but nobody would then advocate letting him out of jail for that reason...."

How does that support capital punishment? It supports "life without parole."

Okay, you say we should have the Noahic reign of the sword...that doesn't sound like a deep respect for life. It sounds more like taking matters into your own hands (or substitute society)...because you make it clear that you don't advocate waiting for God's eternal recompense.

It's interesting that we don't read NT scripture referring to how the state had the responsibility to avenge the deaths of the apostles.

Here's the question do you always advocate the death penalty as a form of available punishment in society? Or only when it's held in the grip of Christian prosecutors?

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I haven't posted recently and I probably won't post for a few days....swamped with work and papers, and activities already....

God bless, stay strong.

For the Lord is our Judge. The Lord is our lawgiver. The Lord is our king. He will save us.
Isa 33:22