Stunner of the week: UN wants prostitution legalized

Read this story from CNSNews.com--and ask yourself why we shouldn't ask the UN to locate somewhere else (and while we're at it, stop our government from sending this international joke our money). Let's see how feminist groups will respond to THIS proposed exploitation of women.

Congressman wants U.S. schools turned to Muslim madrassas: ACLU, where are you?

O where o where is the ACLU? O where o where can it be? Try muttering a prayer to Jesus at a high school football game, and a team of their lawyers are penning threatening lawsuit letters and heading to the courthouse with an armful of injunctions to stop this “mingling of church and state.”

But what about when it’s Islam involved? Never is heard a discouraging word from the high and mighty defenders of “civil liberties” and their allies in Americans United for Separation of Church and State.

Check this article out, with video included, where a US congressman from Indiana openly admits he and his wife are pushing Muslim based education into the public schools in Indianapolis.

Let’s see the “defenders of liberty” jump to the front of THIS battle (personally, I’m not holding my breath).

Obamacare: do your homework NOW

With the Supreme Court's atrocious ruling upholding President Obama's "health care" law (which will wind up providing neither), it's past time to get educated about what we face--unless Obama and his henchmen are thrown out of office in November.
Here's an excellent overview of Chief Justice John Robert's stupefying "reasoning" to justify his pivotal decision, from The Wall Street Journal.

Coming trends, based on what is happening now under the UK's National Health Service: doctors purposely ending elderly lives to free up hospital beds, and bureaucrats banning life-extending cancer drugs available in other countries.

Numerous links on what we face under Obamacare can be found at Joel Rosenberg's blog.

Seeking silence before God

Psalm 46:10: Be still, and know that I am God: I will be exalted among the heathen, I will be exalted in the earth. (KJV)

In stillness and simplicity
In the silence of the heart I see
The mystery of eternity
Who lives in side of me
In stillness and simplicity
I hear the Spirit's silent plea
That You, oh Lord, are close to me
In stillness and simplicity
You're the Word Who must be heard
By those who listen quietly
Is the reason we're not still
To hear You speak because
We don't believe You will
In stillness and simplicity
I lose myself in finding Thee
Oh Lord, You mean so much to me
In stillness and simplicity
So, seek the One who dwells in you
The kingdom that within is true
That innermost reality
In stillness and simplicity

When I thought about this verse during the morning service, this song from Michael Card came to mind. Now I’m aware that this verse, in context, is God telling the nations opposed to Israel to, as Smith’s Literal Translation says, “Desist, and know that I am God …” Still, does not God also speak this to our hearts, to the thoughts, desires and noise that constantly war for our attention? Many Christians miss the “stillness and simplicity” with the constant noise to which we subject ourselves.

A recently-published book talks about how constant, excessive noise endangers our health—and how even several European cities are trying to deal with this problem. I also wonder if the constant noise we as believers experience each day—even in churches—in the same way harm our spiritual life. I’m not at all against loud music in church or using different media to proclaim God’s Word. But when are we taught to simply come before God in silence, in a place where we can escape the noise and distractions (outside the Catholic and Orthodox traditions)? And while I’m aware that distracting thoughts will come our way while we spend time in this silence, I believe that standing on the verse above, and speaking it to those distracting thoughts, will bring us back to “stillness and simplicity.” Even using recited prayer in this instance can help us.

I’m reminded of Peter receiving that life-changing vision in Acts 10:10. I could not picture him going into that trance without being in a place of quietness before God. And we see Jesus responding to Nathanael’s time of quietness in John 1:48: “…Before that Philip called thee, when thou wast under the fig tree, I saw thee.” The fig tree was a place for Jews to escape the noise and distractions of their house, to pray and meditate. Jesus told Nathanael He saw him there—and I believe Jesus’ special presence await us there, “in stillness and simplicity.”

Quote of the week

"I expect to die in bed. My successor will die in prison, and his successor will die a martyr in the public square."--Francis Cardinal George, former president of the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops, on the increasing persecution of American Christians, particularly the Catholic Church, by the Obama administration (from the New Oxford Review, May 2012 issue).

Game, set, match ... to President Romney

After seeing this Newsweek cover, all I could think was ...congratulations Mitt Romney, on being elected the 45th President of the United States in January 2013.

Honesty quote of the week

“We’re not really set up to cover the extreme Left.”--A Southern Poverty Law Center spokesman, on why a plot to blow up a Cleveland bridge by five people affiliated with Occupy Wall Street movement didn't warrant tracking of the movement. You can read the hilarious interview by Charles Cooke of The National Review here. Keep in mind, this is the same organization that labels Christian ministries such as Focus on the Family as "hate groups." I guess left wing groups aren't capable of hate? The quote is a gem for another reason: does this not accurately reflect the mentality of the mainstream media? (hat tip to Drudge Report)