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I think the point was that several, as in 10 or 11, bankers, as in the big banks, C, JPM, GS, killed themselves in the last 6 months, many in a 2 month period. I suppose you could die this young if you have a punch bowl of coke in front of you, but the theory I'm getting most is they know something bad is coming.

At FR, we, of course, know something bad is coming every day. Obama has 3 more years.

I got calls every 15 minutes the last few days. They had 512 area codes. Many said Stockman this and that was terrible, beat women, took dope, type calls. Didn't tell me WHO to vote for, just Sockman was bad. Then I would get another 512 call and it was the wonderful fearless Cornyn to save us all. He spent as much to attack Stockman as yea me.

In my county, Cornyn got 45%, which would have gotten us a run off.

I kept all that stuff for a decade and a half on my hard drive, but finally gave up and formatted C: and just let it go. I had several years of newspaper articles on the State Patrol and dope and murder. All gone.

Most people voting today were in diapers while Waco was burning and Juanita Broderick was raped. A reminder is definitely called for. If only someone besides the Examiner would do it. They will end up with Hillary standing next to a space alien while explaining Vince Fosters death.

You are missing the point of my post. If Joesph wasn't married to Mary, why would he want a divorce? The whole point of my post was to say Christians have no clue about Jewish wedding customs. Many non believers say Mary was a whore and Jesus a bastard, not realizing Mary was married( in Jewish eyes), when pregnant. Joesph was the one that knew she had not been with him and that she shouldn't have been with anyone as the wedding hadn't been consummated yet.

Besides, my post wasn't addressed to you.

If you study Jewish weddings, She was a wife when she agreed to marry Joesph. The deal is made, the dowry paid, wine is drunk, and a paper signed. She was considered married even though the wedding wasn't consummated.

This is why I keep harping to anyone that listens, that to be a Christian, you should desire to learn about our Lord and Savior because he is a Jew and we are not. It explains so much in the Bible that Christians just don't understand. By being Christian, you have agreed to marry Christ and have taken His name. The wedding will happen at the Rapture, but we are betrothed to Him right now. If you were to follow idols now, you have committed adultery to Christ. You belong to Him and Him alone. There are many that even deny the Rapture will happen. How else will we go to the Bridegroom to have the wedding feast spoken of in the Bible? It is all explained if you understand a Jewish wedding Feast.

I think my point was they weren't really Christians. Can Christ be held responsible for pagans making up rules as they go along. Many people that attend church are just as lost as anyone else, but bring disrepute on the church because they don't tip well? What if they start a conversation with the waiter about how they fornicate with their boyfriend on Saturday, but he won't call them on Monday? What do you think a lost church member's advice would be?

I agree a "true Christian" would leave a generous tip to give a favorable image to a waiter, but that is so far down the radar for most churches, it's not even funny. Most people in the pews today are fornicating, committing adultery, stealing software, cheating people in business, and almost any other sin you can think of off the top of your head. Now we can't even figure out if homosexuality is really forbidden in Scripture and is a Baby a blessing or curse from God.

If you are trying to get someone to tip better, maybe they should hear 20 more messages on tithing, cause they don't do that either. If they would steal from God, why would a waiter expect anything else?

My burden has always been for the church even more than the lost. If the church is healthy, the lost will get saved. We can't even get so called Christians to read and study their Bibles. Most are relying of wives tales to build some facsimile of the Christian life and have NO IDEA what Scripture says about any subject. If someone claims Christ's name, at some point they may have to actually read the Bible.

IMO, not all that many people have been lost because a pew warmer didn't leave a generous tip. If you seek more info from them, it's usually a bad encounter from someone closer to them that soured them. The bad tipper may have added to their opinion, but I can't believe that would be the sole cause. If the food was fast and good, would you never return because of a rude waiter?

BTW, my wife and daughter were both waitresses at one point. They have the same war stories about "Christians". They did their jobs as it were to Christ, were humble and courteous, and were well compensated for their labor. A table of 15 Christians was often better than 15 athletes after a high school game. As many tables that stiffed her, their were even more that paid well. At the end of the week she was well paid for her work. It was just as common for the other wait staff to steal from her jar as a Christian table to tip poorly. God made sure she was compensated well in the end. You can't force someone to do something they don't want to do just because they go to church. A pastor could preach on tipping and representing the name of Christ every Sunday for a year, but if you aren't saved, you can't hear any more than the person that won't tithe.

I recently gave a Wed Night message about Leviticus 18:22. My point wasn't that homosexuality is a sin, but that by the country making it legal, the "land would vomit us out". Sexual sin is different than regular sin. If I steal, I sin against God, but if I commit adultery, I sin against my own flesh. Homosexuality is called an "abomination" along with bestiality and defiles the land we live in. There are only a couple of uses in the Bible of "vomit out". The other is in Revelation and has to do with "lukewarm" Christians. As I was making the notes for the message I Google'd "gays and Churches". The number of churches performing gay marriages, of course, has skyrocketed, but what caught my attention was the number of churches that are now led by gay ministers, have gay deacons, and teach that Sodom was destroyed because they weren't "nice" to the angels, not that they wanted to have sex with them.

Real Christian churches are on the wain, no matter what the attendance roles say. There are even Baptist churches in Texas, no less, that have ordained gay deacons.

I'm sure tipping is an important topic to come from the pulpit, but somehow I think Religion has bigger fish to fry right now. How could someone council the person on suicide grief if they aren't even saved themselves? IMO, Angels are nailing signs with "Ichabod" printed over the doors of many churches today.

In Texas, you just have to be in fear of your life. If he's flashing and walking towards you, you don't have to wait for him to draw down on you and say "Hey, I'm going to shoot you!". That's implied.

If the kid didn't show his gun and was walking over to you, he may have been just wanting to find out what you said if he didn't hear you. How frightening would that be? The gun flash was the threat and the cop neutralized it.

No bill.

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There is only one Advocate and Mediator, Christ Jesus. Read 1 Tim, paying close attention to “doctrines of demons”. What denominations forbid to marry?

Well, here we go again. I know there were problems with the Bible series and they were fully discussed everywhere in detail. I haven't seen the movie yet, but am sure a Hollywood actress will take liberties with the story I know.

It's just hard for me to get really exercised over the whole deal because I'm so thankful that they are doing the story in the first place. If you look at movie history, The Ten Commandments were a long time ago. Moses went on to the great NRA meeting in the sky and Mel Gibson, the Jew hater, wrote, directed and financed "the Passion", a story about a Jew and His Jewish family, and the home of the Jews. Everybody loved both movies and of course, they are a facsimile of the story depicted in the Bible.

People,.... we need to stop griping! When we get a movie about Jesus or God, or some other Biblical story, please stop nitpicking. If the story doesn't stray so far that it is just heretical, then take it and move on. If a story says Jesus is the same as Mohamed or Buddha, we should gripe and let it be know what the problem is. But I can go to one denomination and then go to another and you quickly see why their are multiple denominations. Billy Graham knew this and for 50 years never strayed from a salvation message. There was no meat from BG, but there was truckloads of milk. The average movie goer has no clue what is actually in the Bible so why not just give them a taste of Jesus and they will want more and find out for themselves. I will take a Hollywood simile of Jesus over "Wolf on Wall Street" any day. I think we are expecting non trained, well intentioned people to write movies that pass muster in seminary. It's just not going to happen. Anytime I wanted to, I could come to FR and start a war between Catholics and Baptists, Jews and Evangelicals, Muslims and Christians. Just look at posts about Jehovah Witnesses and Mormons here. We can fight it out daily and try to convert FR members and quote Bible verses all day long, but we know what we are getting here. A 17 year old with a single mother, that has never gone to church and has no Bible other than an app on their phone needs to be exposed to SOMETHING positive. Each blog I read is FULL of posts talking of people looking to the "Sky Wizard that grants wishes for a special few" and even worse when speaking of our Lord. They have NO CLUE and no way of EVER being exposed to anything of God.

As I said, I haven't seen it yet, but anything reverential about Jesus and His life, death, and resurrection, for me anyway, is welcome. If someone is moved in the theater, maybe they will seek out the rest of it from a place of real worship where they can be taught the more meatier things of Scripture. If we disparage people trying to bring Scripture the the big screen, then be ready for the old standby of movies made with handheld video cams with local actors paid for from a 250 member church.

The problem isn't so much the sinner, as we all sin and are required to repent. The problem is explained in Lev. 18: 22. If we, as a nation recognize sodomy as legal, in our country, then we defile the land God gave us and the LAND will vomit it's people out. There has always been sin, and more especially, sodomy, but sexual sin such as sodomy and bestiality cannot be condoned. The sexual sins have different effects added other than just as a sin against God. Adultery and fornication are said to be sins against your own flesh. A sin such as stealing or lying is said to be sins against God.

God not only destroyed Sodom and Gomorrah, He destroyed their lands also. Even plants and animals do not live there today. What we are doing today endangers everyone, not just the sinner involved.

Romans 1:32 explains, after listing a pretty complete listing of sins, if you condone these certain activities, you are just as guilty as the sinner performing the sins. If you condone abortion, which is murder, and sodomy, you are a participant in said sin, according to God. Why wouldn't he destroy you and your neighbors if He judges THE LAND as guilty. It involves more than just a sinner repenting for stealing or lying. A homosexual can repent for his sin, but the land also MUST repent, or be judged.

Voted yesterday. The last I could find showed Cornyn ahead of Stockman and Stoval wasn’t even mentioned. The best we can hope for is a run off with Stockman. Cornyn is going to be rough to beat. Course I thought that with Dewhurst vs Cruz until Palin came to Texas. 30-40 points in one week rise for Cruz.

Local markets have some time allotted for the SB. They appear no where but close to you in your local area. I thought the same thing about a car ad that was in Silsbee Tx. I said NO WAY they have the dough for this, but there it was.

All of this stuff is fluff. The only thing in question was, did GZ act in self defense? It was proven in court that he did. TM stalked him and attacked GZ. GZ feared for his life and acted as anyone would. ALL THE REST IS CRAP FOR TV TALKING HEADS.

I have been looking for a definitive list of Tea Party backed candidates to vote for in the primaries. This is a big problem that the lists differ down ballot and are hard to find. I don't even know what group is a real Tea Party group.

If we are to get rid of RINO's, we need a central list of people to vote for in the primaries. After the primary. it's too late, you get what you get. I'm losing Stockman as a congressman, and there is 9-10 others running for his spot. I also want to put some judges in the right places. Just having an "R" after your name is not enough for me.

Does anybody have any sugestions for East Texas candidates, especially dist. 36?

I'll be voting for Brian Babin otherwise, just because I know him. That doesn't mean he won't be a go along to get along guy cause I've never seen him under fire.

I would like to recommend that you study the Jewish Feasts and Festivals. The OT make it clear that these are God's feasts and not mans. If you follow the Jewish religious calendar,( not the secular calendar), It answers many Scriptures found in the NT. We all need to understand that Passover was when the death angel passed over the families with lamb's blood on their door posts in Egypt. Even children are taught this story in Sunday School. Low and behold, We then learn that Jesus became the Lamb that was slaughtered on Passover and His blood saves us when we have applied it to our "doorposts" which is our heart. In the OT, God was signifying that He was reserving certain days for His work and the "seasons" would give us a hint as to His future plans. Of course, Jesus was "Unleavened Bread", and He was "The First Fruits of the dead". 50 days later, The Holy Spirit was dispensed on Pentecost. The first Pentecost, the Law was given on Mt. Sinai, the second, the Holy Spirit was given. In the first, 3000 died, in the second, 3000 were saved. All those days have been fulfilled Biblicaly and only 3 Feasts remain. The next to fall would be the Feast of Yom Teruah, or "Trumpets". A detailed study of these Feast Days answers many questions believers may have about the future. "The day no one knows" is a 2 day period that happens on Trumpets. It's like telling a person from Japan, "I'll call you next turkey day". He has no clue what we mean, but an American would know easily. People have turned inside out and churches have split over someone saying the Rapture will come on some future Yom Teruah. Living Water, Trumpets, Light of the world, and several other familiar words are all themes found in God's Feast Days. Yom Kippur, of course is Judgement day, and Tabernacles is the 1000 year reign of Christ on Earth. Jesus was born on Tabernacles and everything in His life of significance was on a feast Day. If you asked a Jew about the 3 posts wrapped in swaddling cloth set up in the Temple courtyard burning, he would say "Oh, that's the light of the world!"

I can't give you a 6 hour Bible study in a few lines on a blog, but it's safe to say EVERY Christian should at least be exposed to what Jesus believed and practiced because he was a practicing Jew. If He fulfilled every "jot and tittle" in the Bible while on Earth, it makes sense to me He will be faithful to fulfill the future commitments made in the last 3 Feast days.

Another point to make about the Rapture's timing is, God uses certain words in the Bible to denote His feelings towards us so that we may understand His emotions and intent. He uses the word "adultery" to denote His disgust with Israel following other gods and calls then an adulterous nation. He uses "sons and daughters" to show His feelings toward His children as we are fathers as He is a Father. He used the term "Bride" to show us His feeling toward the Church. We need to ask ourselves if we would leave our wives in harms way as the total wrath of God is poured out on the Earth. If a Groom loves His Bride, would He not fetch them out of the trouble to come? Why would He say He loves us and leave us here to be beheaded by the beast? He at least made a path of escape for Noah and family, why not his beloved?

People say I'm saying Christians will have it easy, but that's not true. The devil can dispense his own misery and is so doing even today. We are not guaranteed safety here and Jesus said the world persecutes Him, why would we get anything different? But that's NOT the wrath of God, they are totally different. If God placed these wheels in motion back in Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus, ect, and held true with supplying His Lamb, shedding His blood, and dispensing the Holy Spirit in order, and on certain days, I have no doubt He will not change things up just to keep us in the dark.

As far as the "Thief" reference, You have to keep in mind the world belongs to Satan and stays that way until Jesus come back to redeem it. He will call us out for our protection before He claims title to the land. Of course God is capable of anything, but people forget that He is also tied to His Word. The Word was written before the foundation of the world and it is an unchangeable script that will be finished to the last period on the page. Satan knows his part and will perform his duties as God decreed from the beginning. There is no plan "B". I've read the verses people refer to for mid trib and post trib theories, but I'm convinced in pre trib. I believe the Holy Spirit has revealed it to me just as I'm sure the others believe the holy Spirit has reveals some unknowable truth to them. I think the foundation stone is, I believe God loves me and my family and will be faithful to remove me from danger before He pours out His wrath on the earth. I can't imaging a loving Bridegroom leaving His Bride behind to suffer with the people deserving of death.

Another reference would be to the people that are His that are left behind. When lukewarm and no Christians are left behind to suffer tribulation, they will know what happened to their family and friends because they had heard the story, but failed to believe. When the Church leaves, There is no more "grace" period to come to the Lord without payment. You either will take the mark, or be murdered to be saved. When the beast has your loved ones with a knife to their throat, will you take the mark or claim Christ and let them perish. When it comes right down to it, the knife will be at your throat and you will feel the blade slicing you flesh and you will make up your mind then to live forever or rot in hell. Pretty different choice than what we have today. The souls under the alter mentioned in Revelation will be these people. They are naked and have no white robes because the wedding already happened at Rapture. The sacrifice of Jesus on the cross will not be held lightly. Everyone has the chance now to claim His blood and leave before the wrath. If you miss the train outta here, the only way off this rock is by your murder. If you save your life you will lose it and if not, you will be saved.

Stockman is my congressman. Frankly, he's kinda a lose cannon. I like him as a congressman, but fear him as Senator. I will be voting for him as a Senator, however, because I want a change and promised Cornyn he would be out if he voted for cloture. His office assured me he was against Obamacare but voting for cloture was NOT a vote for Obamacare. The top of my head blew off and I was screaming on the phone. I assured him I wasn't that stupid. I told him he had better go to school on Cruz and BACK him publicly or he would be out in Nov.

Since then he is already bathing the air with adds here in Texas. Stockman won't have Cornyn money, but he has the Blogs. Stockamn was a big influence waay back when Clinton was abusing women and lying under oath. He was big on the Waco investigation. He doesn't seem to back down to RINO's. He was eventually labeled a kook and I think gerrymandered out of office. I was happy to vote for him again when I got the chance, but am nervous about him being a Senator. I would rather have a loose cannon than a predictable RINO.

Frankly, I will be interested in what Palin and Tea Party people back. She gave us Cruz and I think she will be carefull who she puts her name on. If Stockman doesn't get lavish backing before the Primary, I will be nervous.

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Did anyone notice how they used the pope’s words to justify their position? The pope is trying to be more “tolerant”, but is encouraging the lefties to continue to persecute the church. If they believe the pope can be cornered, he will be cornered. He must make it plain as day that open sin cannot be condoned in the church. Otherwise, sin will overtake Catholics as it has Lutherans, Episcopalians, Anglicans, Methodists, et al.

You are so far off base, I shouldn't even return a comment. The whole point of my comment to gorush was he went to a Catholic church and wasn't filled. He now sits home and is a non believer. My point was try somewhere else.

Now you are all sideways because you are busy defending a church instead of seeking God. Stop, take a breath and re read my comments with an open mind. I don't care if gorush goes to a Catholic church or a Baptist church, he should be seeking God. If a person walks in a church building and people are mean to him, if they don't welcome him, if he isn't allowed to ask questions, he may be in the wrong place. His early years spent as an alter boy weren't fulfilling to him. Slavishly following some traditions isn't the way to find God. Maybe the priest touched him in the wrong place, I don't know. All I know is he isn't in church today and is sour on all things Godly. Only the Holy Spirit can call you to Jesus, but if he believes the Catholic church is the only way, he may be doomed to hell if he believes Catholics have some sort of corner of Jesus. Jesus said you would have to answer for keeping one of His from coming to Him. BTW, I was commenting with gorush, not you.

I'm guessing you are Catholic and perceive some slight against the Catholic Church. I said NOTHING against the Catholic Church. If Catholics don't float your boat, get in some different water. I just hated to see gorush remain out of church thinking everything is like his experience in the Catholic Church.

You come back with this after calling me “unchristian”? I’m very able to have a civil conversation, but I’m not a doormat.

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So what you are saying is you would rather gorush not go to any church and not find God unless he finds it in the Catholic Church? How very closed minded of you.

He may not like Catholics because of judgmental Pharisee's like you. Every Church has them. If you read his statement again and not hyperventilate over mine, he said he couldn't find what he wanted in a Catholic Church. That's no excuse for never looking for God because one Church was not his cup of tea. I've followed God long enough to know you can't force God down someone's throat. There used to be a denomination that put people in racks and burned them at the stake if they didn't like the local priest.

P.S. for The Paul family.

There is much that Ron and Rand say that attract conservatives, but if you just look below the surface, they see NO advantage in support for Israel. I don't want to call them outright Anti-Semites, but they view it as "slanted" to support one country over another and, up until the black messiah, we have supported Israel out in the open and that upsets a libertarian. If they are, in fact, Anti-Semite, then they have a problem with their Christian walk. As Christians, we were adopted, or grafted in, with God's people. God made it plain that He would NEVER turn his back on Israel and bless those that bless them. It doesn't matter if they are being disciplined by God, they are still God's people. There may be individual Jews that make us angry, but we are still family.

IMO, us turning our backs on Israel is bringing a curse upon America as we speak. The fact that we are weakening our sodomy laws is another harbinger. If God takes His blessing from America, it would be possible for a few men with box cutters to kill more Americans than the Japanese did at Pearl Harbor or the strongest economy in the world could collapse over night,.....Oh, been there done that.

The further we retreat from God, the farther He is from us.

During the Duck Dynasty kerfuffle, I had a vision. I could see in my minds eye, America, standing on a high wire over a canyon with hell fire at the bottom and a man weaving back and forth trying to keep his balance, with a raised fist, shaking it at God, and screaming, "What are you going to do about this!" "I'm not afraid of you!"

God's people, here in the US, are NOT praying for their own country and people. They don't understand and fear God anymore, IMO. EVERY CHURCH, of every denomination, should have prayer teams praying for America to turn from it's evil ways. I think it's obvious, we aren't. God has no choice but to bring America to it's knees to bring God back into daily life. I remember right after 9-11, almost every house had a flag out front and many people went back to church. That lasted about 3 months. Obviously, we haven't learned our lesson yet. Without God, we won't be able to win against stone age people with sticks, if God withdraws His blessing. I think Viet Nam proved that. We never lost a battle, yet we lost the war. I still remember the Mag cover stating God was dead. The age of free love, drugs, abortion, and removal of prayer from school, had a high cost. Accepting sodomy, 55 million dead babies, a Muslim president with no Social Security number, accepting an adulterous president that lied under oath, the list is growing daily and we haven't repented yet. God will bring His children to repentance. We have been hearing the love of God so long we have forgotten that Fear of God is the beginning of knowledge. He disciplines because He loves. If your son was playing Russian roulette, would you not do what it took to save him?

I think the discussion we should be having here is the difference between a Libertarian and a conservative. Many of us feel betrayed by so called "conservatives" when they show their libertarian leanings, but many don't really understand what a libertarian is. Being gay neutral isn't even on the libertarian radar, but for a conservative, it is a deal breaker. Moral issues are a big thing for a conservative because they believe God punishes or rewards according to His Laws, but a libertarian can't see the connection and concentrates on "How does it affect me?" Ergo S.E. Cupp will speak eloquently on a tax cut, but supports Gladd because she is an atheist. This confuses conservatives, but when you understand libertarians, you get what you paid for. Libertarians have been fooled into thinking the Founders were libertarians and their belief in God was just an incidental side issue. Stossel will look you in the face and tell you he doesn't believe, but supports your right to believe as long as it doesn't interfere with him. So when you have a pedophile homosexual taking your son camping in the Boy Scouts, he doesn't see the problem.

Beck is running into a conundrum because he prides himself as a libertarian, but he puts weight on his faith. He is setting himself up for a test of his faith he can't answer just yet. I have been though this myself. I have tried to be libertarian several times in my life, but eventually it becomes about more than a tax cut. When you say you are Christian first, you must be willing to turn on anybody or anything to follow Christ. I think it can be easily proved that God rejects homosexuality by any number of Bible verses that describe what He thinks of the practice. In Leviticus 18:22, He even says the LAND will vomit you out if you allow the abomination in your country. A homosexual is a sinner, just as we all are, and requires repentance and the Blood of Jesus to cover, for forgiveness, but if America allows the practice in law, I fear for America and God's judgement.

This thinking is waaaay over a libertarians thought process. If a homo is locked in a bedroom with their partner, they can't fathom what anyone would find objectionable and look at fellow conservatives as bigots. Beck is talking himself into a corner, but doesn't realize it yet. To keep his wide open to sin and filth stance, he must confront the Word of God with a raised fist, and declare, "I don't care what you think!" He says his faith is dear to him and saved his life. If that's true, he must make a choice and it would be a shame to pick Gladd. If he chooses God, you should expect the Duck Dynasty response of utter condemnation from the world.

If you look at the totality of libertarians, you find most are atheists, or they are in the same conundrum Beck is in now. You can't square Christ and libertarianism. S.E Cupp and Stossel have no problems because they don't believe in God. Eventually Beck will be destroyed, or disillusioned. He can't stay where he is.

You have written the conundrum of the libertarians pretty well. I've tried to be libertarian a few times, but I always fail and fall back to just conservative because I'm a Christian. We have the right to demand government in the bedroom because God demands it.

A libertarian says you can do what you want as long as it hurts no one else, but homosexuality hurts America. Read Leviticus 18: 22. God will "vomit" us out of the land He gave us if we allow sexual abomination here. That affects me and mine. Many libertarians believe abortion is a woman's choice. It is murder, pure and simple. She doesn't have the right any more than I would have the right to kill all the Jews or murder blacks, just because I felt like it. Many libertarian ideas, I still hold, but to lose my moral compass for some false principled ideal, no can do.

Our Founders were conservatives, not libertarians as some would suggest. Many were ministers and even the so called lay person knew the Bible better than most preachers today. Our system was borne out of the Bible. Most libertarians aren't even Christians. God gives us plenty of rules and libertarians don't want ANY. The "new" movement in TV libertarians is a fad that will pass. It lures you in and then reality put it to the test and it WILL fail, as always. Republicans welcome them in, but then put them in the corner, like Rand Paul. Rand will not get more than 15% in the primaries. Beck is a man that woke up after alcohol and is searching for truth. He's close, but no cigar.

It looks like if it were that common they would give a Cat Scan to every criminal to check for tumors. Maybe with an operation, we could clear out most of our jails and send them home. Most people I've seen however, that have a "mean streak" just listen to the voice in their head that tells them to trust no one, nothing wrong with me, you're the problem, I know how to fix the problem, BANG! If you read the 4 Gospels, Jesus spent much of His time casting demons out. Most Christians seem to skip over those parts and think it doesn't happen today. When you say "demons" people get uncomfortable and want to skip on by. Perhaps a better wording might be evil spirit. Satan's job is to steal, kill, and destroy. He can hide a demon in there with you and you think it's you telling yourself to cut your wife up in bits and bury her in the yard. He can convince you it's the right thing to do even though you may not even be able to kill a chicken to eat. Drug addicts almost always have personal problems, looking for pity, crying out for help, and take drugs to hurt the people that love them. That voice tells them to take more and more till someone pays attention. Many times they hurt themselves to hurt the person that hurt them. Alcoholics= same thing.

Jesus Christ can come in, if invited, to clear out the evil and replace it with the Holy Spirit, to comfort you and console you, build you up, and teach you. That is basically the 12 step program. You have to want help, realize you can't do it on your own, and ask for a higher power to help you. Our flesh is weak and the devil knows it. It is a war going on in the spirit world and we are just pawns stuck between good and evil. As much as we try, usually we listen to evil and shun good. We are so weak without God.

I'm sure it could be a tumor also. I just haven't seen any.

You don’t understand demons and how they work. Demons can make you do almost anything if you don’t know Jesus. They look for a weak spot and move in. Islam is the religion Satan uses to sanctify murder and violence. If you give your life over to Satan’s religion, you will have signs of insanity. The demons keep you from a right mind until they destroy your life. Same with drugs and alcohol. Tell them to stop, beg them, even while they are in the ER almost dying and they come back to the demon. You can’t reason with them because they can only hear and obey the demon speaking in their head. Jesus is the only one I’ve seen able to set men free. If you go to battle unarmed, you will lose.

I pretty much agree with post #5. I use Fibs, but that's not all I look at. Filling gaps is one thing to look at. Fib levels another. Double tops and double bottoms work many times. Back test with Fib levels and see if the levels line up and trade accordingly. If you sell on a level and it is bought out or beats on earnings, it could rocket higher and you kick yourself. If it misses earnings or the CEO does a perp walk, the Fib levels won't work. Pick a non volatile company that is boring, you might have some luck.

I also use an option open interest indicator to guess the range for a stock. If stock ABC has 11,000 calls open @50 and 12,000 puts open @45, and the rest of the strikes have just a few hundred open interest, IMO, the price for the stock will generally be trapped between $45-$50 on expiry day. If the stock is say, $45.25 today, a call could be bought today in hopes the stock would be headed for $50 in the next few weeks. If the stock is $49.50, I would look to sell the call if you have one and buy a $45 put and anticipate the stock to head south. Don't try to make every dime, a $2-$3 dollar move in the stock should make you a profit and get out. If you guess wrong, you lose the price of the put or call and your out.

There are many things I look at while trading and you have to look at all of them and agree that your thesis is right. I don't know anyone that can use one signal and stay solvent very long. I've been trading since Nixon and retired at 50, 12 years ago. Still trading today.

I looked at it as a descriptive movie about a true event. There was a lot of “Hollywood” in it, but that’s why they call it Hollywood. I know Seals are tough, but the laws of Physics still apply to even Seals. Some of the falls would not be survivable and the RPG’s hit waaay too close to survive. We like to look at it as a patriotic endeavor but Hollywood looks at it as “money”. I have no problem with that. I would rather have more of this than more zombies and homo’s on drugs crying about mistreatment. They know the formula works, but they would rather put out some other puke than salute the flag. Even Disney has given over to the dark side, IMO.

No one has seen Jesus that is alive today. There are no pictures of Jesus, only imagined likenesses. The only description of Jesus in the Bible is that He is nondescript.

Having said that,...Prayers up for your wife’s recovery and treatment.

Things like this get my attention for whatever reason. Just like angels are babies with wings or women in nightgowns. Any angels we are told about are male men, not babies with wings or women. There are so many misconceptions by Christians not reading the Bible, it's getting critical, IMO. People that die don't become angels, they are saints. You frankly don't want to be an angel. Jesus didn't die for angels, He died for you. The angels long to look into our Salvation, they don't understand it. So may misconceptions about the Holy Spirit and many other subjects. People that say they see Mary in buttered toast or a Popsicle melting on concrete just make Christians look foolish.

I heard some very good advice from a TV preacher one day. He said If you are going to remain a Christian, at some point you will have to read the Bible.

Reading the books of Psalms and Isaiah will give you the most descriptive verses on Jesus in the Bible while Jesus was on the Earth, especially Isaiah 53:2. Of course, Revelation will describe Him as He returns in His glorified body, but nowhere does it say how tall He is, what He looks like, or even His hair color. Jews were to never cut their beards and the Bible says men should not have long hair. Most pics of Jesus show a European with long blonde hair and trimmed beard.

You are most welcome. Anytime I can be of help.

My daughter is a cop in Texas. She has no taser. They won't let anyone on her force have a taser. They think it's too violent. She can beat them with her Asp, or her Glock .40, that's pretty much it. She now has a 12 ga in her car and will soon get an AR15 for the trunk, but no taser.

There are highly paid officials that make these decisions.

I forgot, she also has pepper spray, but that only works on children.

I can assure you, I don't hate you and I'm not trying to convert you to anything. I was trying to have a conversation with you. Many times, when someone has become disillusioned with something, talking with someone else can help introduce you to something maybe you hadn't thought of before. The Holy Spirit is the one that does the converting, I certainly can't. I was 43 when I was born again, so I can identify with someone who thought a certain way for most of his adult life only to find out late in life how mistaken I was on many subjects.

I would hate for you to go though your entire life agnostic and never know a life in Christ. Believe me, there is no hate here. I realize it a journey you must go through yourself, in your own way. I hope that doesn't mean no one can ever talk to you about it.

...."Don't be so quick to reject the church".....

How did you get the idea that I reject the church? I don't reject the church, I just don't believe the "church" is a building with a bunch of gold and silver with robes and incense. The church is people. The point I was trying to make was he had a bad introduction to life in Christ by being an alter boy and all the ritualistic behaviors kept him from meeting with Christ. Christ doesn't want slaves, He wants true love. If rituals and speaking a dead language gets in the way, that's a shame and he should seek God where he can find Him.

..."No one knows, that's why it is called Faith"....

I disagree,.......I know. I've seen and heard. My faith is not blind.

I think one of the problems with religion is people insist you believe like they do and many have no clue. The idea of Salvation is to have a PERSONAL relationship with God. He loves you and gave His life to save you from hell. To think that being Catholic has something to do with this is just wrong. There are many Catholics that are saved and love God, but just as many love the Catholic Church and wouldn't recognize God if he was in the pew next to them. All the rituals and robes with Latin and incense has nothing to do with your personal walk with the One that loves you. You should be in a church, but that church should be the one that you get closest to God with.

If you are interested in Spiritual things, pray to Him and He will reveal Himself to you in an unmistakable way. The problem with agnostics and atheists is they are really "dead" spiritually and can't hear God as he is Spirit. The only prayer He can hear from you is the prayer calling Him into your life. If you pray to win the lottery or save your sick child, He can't hear you unless you are alive to Him. Spending 6 years as an alter boy listening to Latin has nothing to do with building a relationship with God. You get the relationship, then serve Him willingly.

As I was reading your reply, I had a vision come to my head that if I were in a coma for 10 years and woke up today and switched on the TV and saw what was going on in government, I would immediately go prostrate on the floor and pray God would forgive whatever we have done to earn this. I think Christians are having the boiling frog syndrome. If it takes 10 years, we must be all right. Sorta like the guy that commits adultery and doesn’t get hit with lightning as he goes to his car. Must be alright with God.

...."Too many signs are telling we are past the point of no return"......

You may very well be correct, but my God is a mighty God and there is nothing to hard for Him. If everything is in His hands, if we do repent, He can reverse things quickly. The problem with Christians today is disbelief. They can't put together something that may have happened 10 years ago with a tragedy yesterday. The idea of prophesy is to warn His people in advance, sometimes hundreds of years in advance. Who would have guessed Nineveh would repent immediately. It's about belief. Belief saves you in more ways than one. If this message is repeated in several churches in several churches over the next year, maybe the Body would repent and turn in time to save or land. However, if we see more churches accepting this life style, our destruction is already etched in stone. Remember also that God ALWAYS has a remnant. Just as Noah and family was saved and Lot and family was saved, God always shows mercy when given the chance.

I'm not pretending to be a prophet, but I believe God never changes and He never apologized for Sodom and their fate.

Just as an aside, I was looking up some of these verses on Google, and there is a whole cottage industry on the net to try to prove The Bible doesn't really say what it clearly says and Bible scholars for thousands of years have interpreted hundreds of verses wrong. There are whole movements based on the reason Sodom was destroyed was due to being impolite to the angles and it was a custom in that day to show courtesy to a guest. Another said the verses describe rape and not homosexual "love". If you are a homosexual searching the Scriptures looking for some excuse to not rebel against God, ( believe it or not there are many homosexual believers), then they tend to glom on to these charlatans hoping God really approves of their lifestyle because it is based on "love". I even saw Jews that denied the Jews were in bondage in Egypt because they haven't found any evidence in the desert of a large number of "campers". If the church didn't love these souls, all we would have to do is shut up and allow God to judge. Can you imagine God watching His child sticking a bobby pin in a light socket and not slap their hand? Revealing what God's Word says is the most important act of love any Christian could do for humanity. The evil one will twist and lie to hide God's Word from these weak souls. It stokes my anger to see this. Our reward,....to be called a Bible thumper. Quoting the verses in the Bible keeps my spin off of it and lets the hearer hear what God wants him to hear. Maybe salvation, maybe nothing.

...."We can never stay outta God’s radar- can we?".....

Not when He lives in your heart. In our youth group, we recently had a study on sex and what the Bible says. When the teacher told the teens that The Holy Spirit was there with them always, what do you think He thinks when you get in the back seat of the car on a date? It got very quiet in the room. IMO, every youth group should discuss this topic. Mom and Dad may never find out, but God knows, EVERYTHING. Many denominations sorta skip over the Holy Spirit and teach Jesus and Jehovah. Jesus said I must go away, but I will send another. Many people say Jesus is in my heart. The Holy Spirit never brings attention to Himself, but always points to Jesus, but Jesus is at the Right hand of God and the Spirit is with you always. The Holy Spirit is what brought you back to life after being dead from the Garden of Eden. Our Spirit died and the Holy Spirit brings life and communion with God.

Read vs 11-15. It's pretty plain that God wasn't finished punishing The Jews. God is always ready to forgive, but we must repent. God's outstretched hand is always a symbol of power. He can save you or destroy you with the same outstretched hand. If it is used to save you, He uses it to destroy your enemies. It is always a sign of His awesome power.

I'm not sure I can say this with authority, but I think the Bible always uses God's voice to create and His outstretched hand to destroy. I'm sure I will be corrected if that's not the case.

Your understanding is correct. God was still angry after He allowed the Jews to be attacked. The Jews didn't turn to God even after being struck. God will keep striking until you repent.

IMO, the attacks on 9-11 and the economic trouble will continue until we come back to God. We could be attacked any day and our money is hanging by a thread. If we turn on Israel and fail to help them, what use are we to God? Our acceptance of abortion and gay marriage is just a symptom of the utter blindness in America. Our arrogance tells us that we are somehow blessed by God when we may have had "Ichabod" pronounced on us decades ago.

America will not stand without the protection of God.

....."Very good comments. Except for one sentence:".....

I've looked the sentence over and over and I'm not an English major so their may be some other sentence structure I should have used.

The point is, when the talking heads were droning on about Phil, they had 15 different polls they discussed. One said 50% of evangelicals that were eligible to vote, didn't vote. Of the 50% that did vote, I have to imagine that many voted "for the working man" as they say. The point of Romans 1:30 is you will be held responsible if you APPROVE of the named sins in verses 29-31. I consider abortion, murder, and homosexuality fits sexual immorality.

We have people in my church and I'm sure you have some in your church that have bumper stickers on their bumpers that reveal they may not have discernment to know sticking scissors in the back of a baby's skull denotes murder.

I have spoken with several pastors and have been told everything from "It's like preaching to the choir", to "I don't want to cause division in the church". Many pastors don't think it's a problem while others don't want to lose a tither. Many school teachers, lawyers, union bosses, and such don't care to hear the truth so the pastors have just started to "preach down" to the easy stuff. Who doesn't want to hear Jesus loves you and come as you are? Some are even Deacons but vote for known abortion supporters. First the pastor needs to confront them with their rebellion to God, and if that doesn't change their mind, they should be removed and or sent home. The Church in Corinth were told to deal with this by throwing him out of the body after he was confronted with his sin and hope that he would repent and come back.

As Christians, we should vote for Godly people. If we don't even bother to vote, I don't understand what they expect to get from that but the world's evil. If there are no Godly candidates, run yourself. As far as the Catholics go, with a majority voting for Obama, there is definitely something wrong in the body if they think Obama wouldn't kill as many babies as possible. Let us also not forget that business has already been forced to service gay couples such as photographers and bakers. How long before some priest is forced to marry two men? All this because no one wants to preach the Word. The new pope has already shown so many wrong headed statements that have top be walked back, I think there is big trouble coming in the church.

I agree with everything you say, except the part about a “nation” of believers. As believers, we are the body of Christ and make up His Bride. As individuals, everything you say is on the money. The God principle in discussion here is we, as believers, will suffer with the unjust if we allow our land to be defiled. If Iran is used to punish us, as Pharaoh was used to punish Israel, then believers will be destroyed in the mushroom just as the lost. The land we live in is being defiled as we speak. God’s promise is to “vomit” out,....now get this,.....His people, if they allow named abominations to occur. I will go to Heaven along with all saved souls, but our land is still lost. It won’t make a difference to me if I’m with Jesus, but don’t you have any burden for other souls? God is the same yesterday, today, and forever. I completely agree with Romans through Philemon, but the principle of losing your land hasn’t changed. The Bible is talking to believers all over the world not just Americans. My point is America is inviting His wrath. South Korea could keep functioning just fine if America became and afterthought. Dead Christians go to heaven no matter where they came from and how they die.

Also, I believe we have spent more money treating AIDS than cancer. That doesn’t even count all the other diseases caused by sodomy, like Hepatitis.

God bless you on your quest to study the Bible. You have already been shown the difference it makes to seek the Holy Spirit while reading Scripture. The Spirit is your teacher. You must be careful what a man teaches you. The Spirit will give you the correct discernment to understand the Truth. Many will tell you that you can't understand Spiritual things, but that is why we have the Holy Spirit in the first place. Keep it up and you will be astounded at what God will show you in His Word that the world has gotten wrong.

Just last night, Hanity was discussing unemployment insurance renewal and a woman started to quote the Bible completely out of context. She was basically saying Jesus was a communist and used the rich young ruler story to build her case. Hanity didn't challenger her that Jesus is talking to His church, not government and he could have asked her if she has sold everything to follow Jesus and if so, why are you for gay marriage and abortion knowing what Jesus says about that. I believe Hanity even went to Seminary, but dropped the ball. When you hear a Democrat quote Scripture, you have to listen with a grain of salt because they are so wrong on so many important Godly principles, they would have to repent on so many things to understand the real Truth. A good rule of thumb today is just ask if they are pro abortion or pro gay marriage. If they miss either one of those principles, how can you believe they have anything Godly to share with a Christian?

I have the book and have seen the DVD. It is just more conformation to me that we are indeed under God's Judgement. The politicians quoted the verses that showed Israel was indeed was in rebellion to God. To use that verse to rebuild the towers in NYC just shows how far the population has gone from God's knowledge. What they meant for an "uplifting" speech after a terrible defeat just boggles the mind that they had no idea what it meant. You would think a speech writer would have caught it or the pol himself, but they surround themselves with people that use Google to find Bible verses they want. Our commander in chief didn't even go to church for Christmas, so you have some idea how lukewarm he might be.

There are so many verses I have been reading that I just left out of the piece I wrote. Just go to Isaiah 1 and start to read there. God is pleading with Israel to change. He said "The ox knows it's owner and the donkey it's Master's crib. Even animals know who owns them and feeds them. Verse 5 says "Why would you be stricken again?" God doesn't want to teach the lesson again, but he will if he must. If you see no connection to God's protection and 9-11 and the economic downturn, how will we see the next catastrophe coming? God requires His children to discern and obey. If we don't read our Bibles and skip over the tough parts, you will miss the message that was paid for with Jewish blood and misery only to suffer it ourselves.

There is always hope. God will rescind His judgement if we repent. Jonah is a good story for that. God makes sure He is patient and fair in His punishment. Many people can't connect 9-11 to some past sin because it may take 5-10-even 50 years to take place. I just picked Clinton's infidelity and perjury as an example of the NATION sinning. People don't seem to think much about a whole country committing sin, ergo my reference to 26 states approving gay marriage. The sin goes beyond the sinner and defiles the land. We have had sodomy since Sodom and Gomorrah, but no one approves of such behavior until recently. As a nation, the choices we make collectively may doom even the saved to suffer.

When a Christian explores who they are in Christ, they should find that the Holy Spirit lives in them and He is God just as much as Jesus and Jehovah. That means we have power. We are God's soldiers involved in an eternal war against evil. As we all hunker down in our foxholes with our helmets pulled down over our eyes and our sword in it's sheath, we wonder why we are losing. Recognizing evil and casting it out is among our weapons and we just allow evil to run over into our country, into our churches, and finally into our family. Knowing the Bible and prayer are VERY powerful in battle. As we read Scripture, we see the devil use Scripture verses against Jesus and He defeated evil with the proper Scripture. Eve was defeated by listening to Satan twist what God had said.

It is time to call Christians to read their Bibles and pray to be able to defeat evil and save our country and families. God is a good God and gives good gifts to His children. We have not because we ask not. It is that simple.

What the MSM isn't telling the people is the money printing going on with the FED is the reason we are not still in the throws of depression. They print the money and buy US debt and that frees up money for stocks and homes. We are pretending that things are better, but they are actually worse and at some point "The chickens come home to roost". When you dump a truckload of money in your living room, most find a way to invest it for the future. At some point the money runs out, the dollar cashes and inflation get to the "Carter" levels. The FED can't hold these bonds forever and the congress continue to spend trillions.

Who will buy our debt if the FED doesn't? At what interest rate? I find it fascinating that NO ONE is discussing the fact that NO BONDS are bought by other countries. We are floating our own debt and no one seems frightened. If we were Argentina, or Spain, the world would be a buzz. How long will business be forced to run from ObamaCare? How will the US adjust to two 29 hour part time jobs making $10 an hour from 1 40 hr job making $25 an hour? All these questions are still out there waiting to be answered. At some point, we all know that the socialist utopia will fail,.....badly. Will it be political or bloodshed? How long will the steam pot boil before critical mass? Who would make long term plans with all this nervousness in the mix? At least as the US declines into the abyss, we will finally have gay marriage as we starve, freezing in the dark./sarc