Shopping for God

Posted on July 21, 2011 by Chaplain Dan

God created us, we do not create God

Many people go to the grocery store, when they are looking for God.  They get a shopping cart and go up and down the aisles looking for what they want in a god.

They select what they want from the shelves.  “I want a God who is going to make me healthy.”  “I want a God who is going to make me rich.”  “I want a God who is going to make me famous.”  “I want a God who is going to make my wife and family love me.”

Next, they take all their ingredients home, mix them together and bake them in the oven.  Then they take it out of their oven and worship it.  When their god doesn’t do what they wanted, they get mad at the real God.

The problem is that they were following an idol that they made.  It was not the real God at all.  Their anger is misplaced.

God made us, we do not make God.  God tells us who He is in the Bible, we do not tell God who He is. God created the heavens and the earth.  God makes the rules.  God is free to do what He wants.  We need to please God.  God has no obligation to please us.

God is not a secret.  He gave us the Bible, so we would know who He is, what He has done and how to live a life that pleases Him.  The good news is that God does love us and wants us to walk in a close relationship with Him.

1 The earth is the LORD’s, and all its fullness,
The world and those who dwell therein.
2 For He has founded it upon the seas,
And established it upon the waters.

3 Who may ascend into the hill of the LORD?
Or who may stand in His holy place?
4 He who has clean hands and a pure heart,
Who has not lifted up his soul to an idol,
Nor sworn deceitfully.
5 He shall receive blessing from the LORD,
And righteousness from the God of his salvation.
_Psalm24:1-5

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Being gay is not unchangeable

Posted on July 19, 2011 by Chaplain Dan

When presented with the facts that there are thousands of former homosexuals and homosexuality is not biologically based, those promoting evil often run from logic and hide behind emotions.

The following article is from Randy Thomasson’s website, SavingCalifornia.com.  Randy has been shinning the light of truth on Satan’s deceptions and trying to stop the promotion of evil in California’s public schools.  In this article, Randy Thomasson is summarizing a radio debate with the California Teacher’s union president who used teacher’s union dues to get a law passed in California that requires gender chaos to be promoted in schools.

The biggest and most immoral government union in California is the 340,000-member California Teachers Association (CTA). Extorting and giving millions of dollars to promote homosexual “marriages,” homosexual-bisexual-transsexual “curriculum,” and to oppose parental notification for abortion on the ballot, the CTA is also a big supporter of SB 48, “LGBT” role models, which Jerry Brown signed into law on July 14, 2011.

So you can imagine my gladness that on liberal KPBS Radio in San Diego, I had the privilege of going head-to-head with CTA President Dean Vogel. But get this: On the air, Vogel said he didn’t want to discuss the origins of homosexuality or the high HIV and STD rates of homosexuals. Also piling on me was the host, Maureen Cavanaugh, who said many in her audience were offended when I reported there is no “gay gene,” but there are thousands of former homosexuals. Hear it now | Resign from the teachers’ union |  See our SB 48 veto letter showing no need for more “LGBT” “anti-bullying” laws

Earlier in the debate, Vogel, who’s a big promoter of the “LGBT” agenda, admitted that the purpose of SB 48 is to make every child in California public schools communicate to homosexuals, bisexuals, and transsexuals that “they’re not abnormal.”

Yet, after I stated the scientific and logical truth – that homosexuality is neither natural nor healthy and is not inherited, thus it was not appropriate to include among races and ethnicities in curriculum – CTA’s Vogel had the arrogance to conclude that I was not discussing the subject “thoughtfully,” but was being “ideological.”

What a contrast between fact and fiction. I was being scientific and logical, while the CTA president was blindly and ideologically refusing to care or think about homosexuality’s non-biological origins, homosexuality’s health risk, the obvious risks to children from “LGBT” indoctrination, and the existence of God-given parental rights (he ignored a direct question about that from the host).

Listen now to this revealing 10-minute radio “discussion”

On the recording, you’ll also hear from the San Diego County Office of Education representative, who, at the end of her segment, discloses that, while “LGBT”-affirming textbooks will take awhile to be approved and printed, supplemental materials implementing SB 48’s “LGBT” role models mandate will start being taught to children as soon as January. She agreed her office “has a big job to do” to change the curriculum, and will “work closely with our statewide network and history-based organizations…to provide access to supplemental resources in the interim.”

The kicker of it all was the host introducing the next segment. Although she was zero interested in the science confirming that homosexuality is not biologically based, and seemed to disrespect the HIV data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Maureen Cavanaugh introduced the next segment, saying, “Coming up, the first scientific results are in from the hominem voyage to the Great Pacific Garbage Patch.”

Learn this lesson

Have you noticed how on the topic of homosexuality, the liberal establishment often asks, “How does that harm you?” They want you to say God’s word is against it (which is true), so that they can dismiss you as being “ideological” or having a “religious bias.”

But when you get back to the main subject and bring out the two gods of liberalism – “Reason” and “Science” – they recoil in fear. They are covering their ears because they can’t stand the prospect of science or logic proving them wrong. Their tactic is to cease to be logical, fall into emotionalism, and engage in ad hominem personal attacks to try to change the subject.

Lesson: Change the debate and reach reasonable people with the truth by using the science which demonstrates homosexuality is neither natural nor healthy. Thus, the foundation of official “civil rights status” on the basis of homosexuality falls apart, and so do all the “sexual orientation” laws. For, in the United States, all adult citizens have the same legal and constitutional rights, but not “civil rights” based on behavior. A “civil right” cannot be changeable and must be “immutable.” Yet since homosexuality, bisexuality, and transsexuality are behaviors, they don’t qualify for special “civil rights status,” which legitimately belongs to immutable race, for example. Get empowered by the facts at SaveCalifornia.com’s “Not Born This Way” page

Deliver those who are being taken away to death,
And those who are staggering to slaughter, Oh hold them back.
If you say, “See, we did not know this,”
Does He not consider it who weighs the hearts?
And does He not know it who keeps your soul?
And will He not render to man according to his work?
Proverbs 24:11-12 NASB

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Harry Potter … Hero or villan?

Posted on July 16, 2011 by Chaplain Dan

What the Bible says about Sorcery / Witchcraft / Mediums

God is opposed to sorcery and calls it an abomination.  God kicked people out of their homes and land for being involved in sorcery.  God warns His people not to do the same thing as those who God is punishing.

9 “When you come into the land which the LORD your God is giving you, you shall not learn to follow the abominations of those nations. 10 There shall not be found among you anyone who makes his son or his daughter pass through the fire, or one who practices witchcraft, or a soothsayer, or one who interprets omens, or a sorcerer, 11 or one who conjures spells, or a medium, or a spiritist, or one who calls up the dead. 12 For all who do these things are an abomination to the LORD, and because of these abominations the LORD your God drives them out from before you. 13 You shall be blameless before the LORD your God. 14 For these nations which you will dispossess listened to soothsayers and diviners; but as for you, the LORD your God has not appointed such for you. (Deuteronomy 18:9-14)

God curses and seeks to destroy those who turn to mediums.  He compares it to prostitution.

6 “And the person who turns to mediums and familiar spirits, to prostitute himself with them, I will set My face against that person and cut him off from his people. 7 Consecrate yourselves therefore, and be holy, for I am the LORD your God. 8 And you shall keep My statutes, and perform them: I am the LORD who sanctifies you. (Leviticus 20:6-8 )

God tells His people to stay separate from mediums. God expects those in authority to put them to death.

26 And you shall be holy to Me, for I the LORD am holy, and have separated you from the peoples, that you should be Mine.
27 “A man or a woman who is a medium, or who has familiar spirits, shall surely be put to death; they shall stone them with stones. Their blood shall be upon them.” (Leviticus 20:26-27)

Giving respect to mediums defiles you

31 “Give no regard to mediums and familiar spirits; do not seek after them, to be defiled by them: I am the LORD your God. (Leviticus 19: 31 )

Jesus warns everyone not to scorn or take what He says lightly.  Jesus will shame them.

38 For whoever is ashamed of Me and My words in this adulterous and sinful generation, of him the Son of Man also will be ashamed when He comes in the glory of His Father with the holy angels.” (Mark 8:38)

Jesus, the Life Giver, promises that sorcerers will go to hell and be burned with fire.

6 And Jesus said to me, “It is done! I am the Alpha and the Omega, the Beginning and the End. I will give of the fountain of the water of life freely to him who thirsts. 7 He who overcomes shall inherit all things, and I will be his God and he shall be My son. 8 But the cowardly, unbelieving, abominable, murderers, sexually immoral, sorcerers, idolaters, and all liars shall have their part in the lake which burns with fire and brimstone, which is the second death.” (Revelation 21:6-8 )

Jesus promises to bless those who keeps God’s commandments.  Jesus also promises keep sorcerers out of heaven.

Jesus Testifies to the Churches
12 “And behold, I am coming quickly, and My reward is with Me, to give to every one according to his work. 13 I am the Alpha and the Omega, the Beginning and the End, the First and the Last.”
14 Blessed are those who do His commandments, that they may have the right to the tree of life, and may enter through the gates into the city. 15 But outside are dogs and sorcerers and sexually immoral and murderers and idolaters, and whoever loves and practices a lie.  (Revelation 22:12-15)

God killed king Saul as punishment for consulting a medium.

13 So Saul died for his unfaithfulness which he had committed against the LORD, because he did not keep the word of the LORD, and also because he consulted a medium for guidance. 14 But he did not inquire of the LORD; therefore He killed him, and turned the kingdom over to David the son of Jesse. (I Chronicles 10:13-14)

When God is glorified, believers burn their magic and spell books

11 Now God worked unusual miracles by the hands of Paul, 12 so that even handkerchiefs or aprons were brought from his body to the sick, and the diseases left them and the evil spirits went out of them. 13 Then some of the itinerant Jewish exorcists took it upon themselves to call the name of the Lord Jesus over those who had evil spirits, saying, “We exorcise you by the Jesus whom Paul preaches.” 14 Also there were seven sons of Sceva, a Jewish chief priest, who did so.
15 And the evil spirit answered and said, “Jesus I know, and Paul I know; but who are you?”
16 Then the man in whom the evil spirit was leaped on them, overpowered them, and prevailed against them, so that they fled out of that house naked and wounded. 17 This became known both to all Jews and Greeks dwelling in Ephesus; and fear fell on them all, and the name of the Lord Jesus was magnified. 18 And many who had believed came confessing and telling their deeds. 19 Also, many of those who had practiced magic brought their books together and burned them in the sight of all. And they counted up the value of them, and it totaled fifty thousand pieces of silver. 20 So the word of the Lord grew mightily and prevailed. (Acts 19:11-20)

“Do not bring a detestable thing into your house or you, like it, will be set apart for destruction. Utterly abhor and detest it, for it is set apart for destruction “(Deuteronomy 7: 26)

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Satan’s Meeting (Busyness)

Posted on July 15, 2011 by Chaplain Dan

From an old family friend: Harold Pruett

SATAN’S MEETING:

Satan called a worldwide convention of demons. In his opening address he said, “We can’t keep Christians from going to church.” “We can’t keep them from reading their Bibles and knowing the truth.” “We can’t even keep them from forming an intimate relationship with their Saviour.” “Once they gain that connection with Jesus, our power over them is broken.” “So let them go to their churches; let them have their covered dish dinners, BUT steal their time, so they don’t have time to develop a relationship with Jesus Christ.” “This is what I want you to do,” said the devil: “Distract them from gaining hold of their Saviour and maintaining that vital connection throughout their day!” “How shall we do this?” his demons shouted. “Keep them busy in the nonessentials of life and invent innumerable schemes to occupy their minds,” he answered. “Tempt them to spend, spend, spend, and borrow, borrow, borrow.” “Persuade the wives to go to work for long hours and the husbands to work 6-7 days each week, 10-12 hours a day, so they can afford their empty lifestyles.”

“Keep them from spending time with their children.” “As their families fragment, soon, their homes will offer no escape from the pressures of work!” “Over-stimulate their minds so that they cannot hear that still, small voice.” “Entice them to play the radio or cassette player whenever they drive, and “to keep the TV, VCR, CDs and their PCs going constantly in their home, and see to it that every store and restaurant in the world plays non-biblical music constantly.” “This will jam their minds and break that union with Christ.” “Fill the coffee tables with magazines and newspapers.” “Pound their minds with the news 24 hours a day.” “Invade their driving moments with billboards.” “Flood their mailboxes with junk mail, mail order catalogs, sweepstakes, and every kind of newsletter and promotional offering free products, services and false hopes.” “Keep skinny, beautiful models on the magazine covers and TV so their husbands will believe that outward beauty is what’s important, and they’ll become dissatisfied with their wives.” “Keep the wives too tired to love their husbands at night.” “Give them headaches too!” “If they don’t give their husbands the love they need, they will begin to look elsewhere.” “That will fragment their families quickly!” “Give them Santa Claus to distract them from teaching their children the real meaning of Christmas.” “Give them an Easter bunny so they won’t talk about His resurrection and power over sin and death.” “Even in their recreation, let them be excessive, and have them return exhausted. “Keep them too busy to go out in nature and reflect on God’s creation. Send them to amusement parks, sporting events, plays, concerts, and movies instead.” “Keep them busy, busy, and busy!”

“And when they meet for spiritual fellowship, involve them in gossip and small talk so that they leave with troubled consciences.” “Crowd their lives with so many good causes they have no time to seek power from Jesus.” “Soon they will be working in their own strength, sacrificing their health and family for the good of the cause.” “It will work!” “It will work!” It was quite a plan!

The demons went eagerly to their assignments causing Christians everywhere to get busier and more rushed, going here and there, having little time for their God or their families, having no time to tell others about the power of Jesus to change lives. Question is, has the devil been very successful in accomplishing his mission, what do you think? You be the judge!!!!!

Does “BUSY” mean: B-eing U-nder S-atan’s Y-oke?

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