Amen
May God Bless you and your family. My wife and I are just a few days short of celebrating our 48th wedding anniversary. I still see my wife as the twenty year old sweetheart I married. God has blessed me more than I deserve. Your thoughts on Newt Gingrich are well written. I am going to keep a copy for my files. Thank you.
Way too long, but the writer captures the calculus that is Newt’s candidacy: man has lived a long time in the public eye, has done a lot of good, had made a lot of mistakes, has a ton of knowledge.
I have yet to see a single anti-Gingrich editorial that was honest about both sides of the ledger. And there are two sides to the ledger no doubt.
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There is no other kind. Great post.
An insider needs the insiders support because he has nothing outside of that. That’s Romney.
Newt can and does stand on his own. Gifted indeed - no one could dispute that and remain credible. He loves this country and thus studied her immensely - that’s patriotism. Now he wants the oath of office to bring this beautiful country of ours to it’s former shining glory by and for Our Constitution/our foundation.
This pastor, the author, has a heart of flesh and is as wise as he is realistic.
I very much agree with the following: “I am astounded that Barak Obama and his ideological colleagues have been able to inflict so much damage on this nation in a remarkably short time. Weak previous Republican and other Democrat leaders have not helped the nation either.
We are in a genuine emergency. This is not just another election. This is it. We will see America begin to turn now, or it is over.”
Too many people are STILL seeing this only in political or economic terms. It is MUCH larger.
I think this guy just wrote another book of the Bible. That was some screed.
Being forwarded to all my mail contacts whether they want it or not. ;)
bookmarking...
This San Diego pastor has taken the time to write eloquently and honestly about Newt Gingrich.
The above is just a small excerpt.
22. SERIOUSNESS OF THE SITUATION
I am SOOO grateful for this article. And the seriousness of the situation is what I was referring to in my reply to an article earlier today regarding Newt’s statement about arresting rogue judges who legislate from the bench.
It’s crunch time! We no longer have time to play pattycake. A pantywaist candidate or POTUS will not suffice. We need a POTUS who KNOWS what to do, and has the stones to DO it! Go Newt!
Awesome!
Thanks.
Is that melodrama? Is that an overstatement? Is that just “Chicken Little” crying that the “sky is falling?” No, it is not. It is reality.
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Newt is the answer.
Only a person who, like Ronald Reagan, has, on his own, intensely studied the ideas of liberty, as articulated by the founders, embraced them as being "self-evident" truths endowed by the Creator, is capable of leading America back from the brink of becoming just another failed nation, despite its noble birth in the minds of a noble generation.
This writer has summarized well the reasons why, it seems, Newt Gingrich, historian and author of "Rediscovering God in America," may be just the person whose gifts may help new generations rediscover the ideas of liberty and reject the counterfeit ideas of tyranny which threaten their futures.
Coincidentally, if he gets them started, technology has made it possible for them to prove whether his directions are valid. All they need to do is click the mouse on their computer, and read the Founders' writings, documents and speeches, as well as the seedbed of ideas which preceded them.
Very Good article. I will copy this for future reference.
Forgiveness is the single most important issue in the life of a believer.
Jesus forgave and remembers no more, as far as the East is from the West, all of our sin.
We are to be LIKE HIM.
What an interesting insight.
So much thoughtful analysis worth reading in its entirety.
I found these paragraphs worth repeating here:
“Allow me to ratchet up a bit. I have spent more time with Mr. Gingrich on this issue than 99.9% of the people who will read this email. I have dealt with people with moral failures, sins and mistakes since 1969, when I accepted my first job as a (youth) pastor, 42 years ago. I am not a novice at dealing with people needing to walk from unrighteousness to uprightness. Out of respect for confidentiality, I will not reveal more about my conversations with Mr. Gingrich. But I need to make a summary statement on this: At the risk of being misunderstood, I would suggest that I am in a better (pastoral and otherwise) position to evaluate his present status than most. I have grown weary of “long distance” attackers who have not invested any time with him privately on these issues, yet who consider themselves to be self-appointed experts on his actual spiritual condition. They need to know “his heart,” and they badly need a fundamental course in hamartiology (the doctrine of sin) and soteriology (doctrine of salvation).”
“In my evaluating his present spiritual status, I made an unusual request of Mr. Gingrich. I asked him if I could worship with him – at his church, the Basilica, in Washington, DC. I am an avowed Protestant evangelical. Mr. Gingrich worships in a Catholic Church. Our worship preferences are substantially different. But we worship the same God – Father, Son and Holy Spirit. Why did I want to worship with him – at his church? You can learn much about a person when you worship with them. You can, if you are spiritually attuned, sense much. I observed him in this tender environment.”
We are past the point that politics alone can reverse the tide. This battle has to be fought and won simultaneously on the moral and spiritual plain otherwise we are fighting a battle that has already been lost.
This war is moral and spiritual before it is political. Lose the moral order and it no longer matters who wins what election.
It doesn't matter much what the constitution says if the people who interpret it, and the people who elect them, have lost their souls and can no longer understand the spirit behind the written words.
That said, I agree with Garlow's piece. Almost word for word.