Posted on 06/30/2011 7:28:33 PM PDT by moonshinner_09
Four men were arrested, and drugs, guns and money were seized in a simultaneous search of three houses in the Lynden and Custer areas Thursday morning, June 30, according to the Whatcom County Sheriff's Office.
The arrests were the result of a six-month Northwest Regional Drug Task Force investigation into county methamphetamine and cocaine sales. During the investigation, task force agents made multiple purchases of those drugs from two suspects and identified several homes associated with drug sales.
Luis Seja-Pardo, 30, and Howell Jose Varela-Rubi, 20, were arrested at a home in the 7900 block of Enterprise Road. About a pound of methamphetamine was found at the house, along with a loaded handgun, seven shotguns and rifles and $1,000 in cash. Half a pound of cocaine was found buried in the ground near the home, according to the Sheriff's Office.
Seja-Pardo and Varela-Rubi were arrested for investigation into delivery of methamphetamine, possessing cocaine with intent to deliver and maintaining a vehicle or premises for drug trafficking.
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Lynden is a sort of “Little Holland”.
So, this county’s website is www.whatcom.com?
Yes, it’s a wonderful town. Our church is in Lynden.
Which CRC do you attend?
Ever tried salty licorice?
Our church... Actually soon to federate with URC or Free Reformed...
On the other hand, the entire Houston, TX metroplex (third largest in the country) has only two very, very small CRC congregations
Just great... now who is going to pick our lettuce?
That's nothing compared to the Souix Center, IA area.
This article caught my eye because the 7900 block of Enterprise - we pass it every Sunday on the way to church. There are only two or three homes that could be since it's farmland. At any rate, good riddance to these meth producers, pedaling their life-destroying wares for their own petty gain. Will be looking carefully next time we drive by.
There are a lot of wonderful Christian churches all over Texas. Any Chrisitian who is more interested on what goes on inside a chrurch rather than the name on the outside of the building will have no trouble finding a welcoming church home in Texas. Sadly, the same cannot be said about many CRCs.
You know how many churches have an "alter call" and make it seem like believing on Jesus is the easiest thing in the world? Some call that "easy believism", contradicting the command to "take up thy cross." The NRC is the polar opposite: "hard-believism".
I do not disagree on either count.
It really is easier than most think. The problem with too many CRCs is the overemphasis/misconstrued total depravity thing.
There is a reason the CRC provides financial support to three psychiatric hospitals.
Yet, God's standard is so very high (perfection), it condemns us! That's what the Law does: it's a schoolmaster, driving us to our knees on account of our sins, instructing us in righteousness, how God would have us live. The Law cannot save, it is most true. That state, when we have been stripped naked of our own righteousness, is where God must bring us, tilling the soil of our hearts as it were to receive the seed of the Gospel - a seed that blossoms into everlasting life. Then our hearts are changed and we will want to keep the Law - not to please men, not to save ourselves, but from a heart of gratitude. And that, my friend, is good for society.
Imagine a society wherein most dealt honestly ("Thou shalt not steal; thou shalt not lie"), strove for chastity ("Thou shalt not commit adultery"), honored those in authority ("Honor thy father and mother, that thy days may be long."), revered God's name, remembered His sabbath, and loved Him wholeheartedly. A blessed society?
God would bless us indeed! We look to the right "leader" as our salvation, but the answer may reside in us instead. I still cling to the promise 2 Chronicles 7:14:
If my people, who are called by my name, will humble themselves and pray and seek my face and turn from their wicked ways, then I will hear from heaven, and I will forgive their sin and will heal their land.
Glad to have this conversation, and boy I've strayed off-topic!
Ping!
Good posts. Moved away but once lived on Front St. Good memories of LCS and friends on Double Ditch. Favorite times tho were on Pine.
Luis Seja-Pardo, 30, and Howell Jose Varela-Rubi, 20, don’t sound like typical residents of Lynden, at least not when my BIL’s mother and dad lived there.
Lovely town, very nice church ladies, very close to the Canadian border...
and now infested with ILLEGAL F’N ALIENS !!
What I like about communities like Lynden is this: The Christian faith is the "norm". One can quote Scripture pretty freely and not be concerned about offending. Wish we could live in or near Lynden and that my kids could attend LCS. Lynden has problems too, of course, but on the whole... a little oasis of faith.
The Christian faith was once the "norm" in America, and is why (pursuant to 2 Chronicles 7:14) why for so long we enjoyed the divine beneficence.
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