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THE SIN OF SILENCE--A DEFINING MOMENT [GREAT SOBERING Refs to Hitler's Germany]
OUR SAVIOR'S LUTHERAN CHURCH, HOUSTON TX ^ | 6 SEPT 2000 | SR PASTOR LAURENCE WHITE

Posted on 11/01/2004 8:28:54 AM PST by Quix

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This contains many of the sorts of things from the pastor's sermon excerpted this morning on FOCUS ON THE FAMILY. Let us be diligent to pray and put all the legs to our prayers we can the last hours of this election.

God be with us all and with our Republic.

1 posted on 11/01/2004 8:29:00 AM PST by Quix
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To: Quix

ping to read later


2 posted on 11/01/2004 8:32:27 AM PST by Puddleglum (If O'Neill worked for Nixon, who was Kerry working for? Ho Chi Min?)
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To: Quix

Prayer BUMP!


3 posted on 11/01/2004 8:32:30 AM PST by sr4402
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To: Puddleglum

Thanks.

If this pastor's stirring words fail to motivate us to our best last minute prayers and actions,

then perhaps the individual is dead or near dead--or his values and priorities are deadly.


4 posted on 11/01/2004 8:37:42 AM PST by Quix (PRAY! ENERGIZE CONSERVATIVE VOTERS! CHALLENGE REASONABLE LIBERALS W FACTS!)
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To: sr4402

THANKS.

INDEED!


5 posted on 11/01/2004 8:39:54 AM PST by Quix (PRAY! ENERGIZE CONSERVATIVE VOTERS! CHALLENGE REASONABLE LIBERALS W FACTS!)
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To: Quix

Yes,but Hitler also claimed to be a Christian,and to be against atheism. He lied.


6 posted on 11/01/2004 8:40:45 AM PST by voteconstitutionparty
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To: Quix

Sad, but real!

I have felt these past 10 years, or so, are our dark days of this Republic. So many things have brought to mind Germany in the 1930's.

There is no one left but a few of us "Old Folks" to sound the alarm. It is ignored. It will pass and we will be defeated, again... The misguided of this country, and the Traitors who seek personal gains, will cause the collapse of this, once, great America.

God have mercy on us, praise to God!

We have ventured past the cross roads - only time, too soon, will tell.


7 posted on 11/01/2004 8:46:43 AM PST by olinr
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To: voteconstitutionparty

Satan is a liar and the father of lies.

That's probably a good clue as to who a lot of politicians are following . . .

Some lie about as often and easy as their breathing.

And with such 'smiles!'

God have mercy on us and our Republic!


8 posted on 11/01/2004 8:48:15 AM PST by Quix (PRAY! ENERGIZE CONSERVATIVE VOTERS! CHALLENGE REASONABLE LIBERALS W FACTS!)
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To: olinr

Too true.

But I decided decades ago, that WHEN it came to this--I would wish and was determined to go down

as having

STOOD UP to tyranny and evil

and if killed, at least to have been killed for

STANDING UP FOR GOD, RIGHTEOUSNESS AND THE HONORABLE VALUES of our founding and of our Lord God, Almighty.

I have expected that my names have been on Fosterizing lists for a long time. I'm not about to change now.

Let me cry all the louder and more frequently and faithfully the darker the hour becomes.

How can we do less when our Lord did so much more in our behalf!

Besides, he that saves his life shall lose it; he that loses his life for Christ shall gain it eternally.

And, as Jim Elliott said:

HE IS NO FOOL WHO LOSES WHAT HE CANNOT KEEP TO GAIN WHAT HE CANNOT LOSE. paraphrase.


9 posted on 11/01/2004 8:52:06 AM PST by Quix (PRAY! ENERGIZE CONSERVATIVE VOTERS! CHALLENGE REASONABLE LIBERALS W FACTS!)
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To: Quix

Yes, I like you will not wavier. I have had high security clearances in this country so I cannot hide. I will not hide. I will stand alone, or beside you until the last breath is taken. We must and will continue to sound the alarm to the young.

I must go and wait. I voted last week, absentee, for GWB, expecting him to be the benevolent dictator, as he must. The hate, lies and smearing by the traitors on the left, and some on the right, as well as the MSM have crossed the line. They know it, do we?


10 posted on 11/01/2004 9:00:01 AM PST by olinr
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To: olinr

VERY WELL SAID.

THANKS.

Heading to the college . . . please keep this bumped as often as you feel led to, if convenient.

BLESSINGS,


11 posted on 11/01/2004 9:20:23 AM PST by Quix (PRAY! ENERGIZE CONSERVATIVE VOTERS! CHALLENGE REASONABLE LIBERALS W FACTS!)
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To: dd5339

READ THIS! Then fwd to Karl.


12 posted on 11/01/2004 9:20:59 AM PST by Vic3O3 (Jeremiah 31:16-17 (KJV))
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To: Vic3O3

THANKS TONS!

BLESSINGS TO YOU AND YOURS.


13 posted on 11/01/2004 9:23:22 AM PST by Quix (PRAY! ENERGIZE CONSERVATIVE VOTERS! CHALLENGE REASONABLE LIBERALS W FACTS!)
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To: Quix

Thank you for the post.

Would that Pastor White's sermon (cry of agony) be read by all Americans today.


14 posted on 11/01/2004 10:07:08 AM PST by Paperdoll ((on the cutting edge ....on my knees .....Don't forget to fast and pray today!)
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To: Quix


BTTT


15 posted on 11/01/2004 10:09:30 AM PST by Paperdoll ((on the cutting edge ....on my knees .....Don't forget to fast and pray today!)
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To: Puddleglum
This moving speech is not all true. Both my parents were German my Father was from Bavaria and my Mother was from what what is part of Poland now.

There were pastors that from the pulpit denounced Hitler and Nazism from the get go -- most notibly Deiterich Bahnhoffer (Excuse the spelling) he was mowed down with nazi machine guns in from of his Church in Berlin.

We are told of the 6 million Jews that went to the Nazi death camps there is another figure for Christains that were gassed electrocued backed in ovens and lowered in elevators in water and electrocute that number was 12 million.

Many know the story of Corey Tenboom (The hiding place) for their crime of hiding and helping the Jews the entire family was sent to concenttration camps all died there except Corey.

It is all too true that many Christains stood by on Chrystal Naacht but these were CINO's Christains in name only -- that comprise the largest parts of what is called the Church today.

Jesus said that in the Church that there would be wheat and tares. Now if in the day of Jesus and the Apostles when the greatest and most enlightened preaching was done there were tares -- how much of a higher present of tares and CINO's are there now when many churches do not preach and teach the Gospel but preach instead the watered down traditions and doctrines of men?

But even in the cold backslidden european conditions of World-War-Two amoung 200 million CINO's 200 million Tares that attended churches 12 million stood up and opposed the nazi's so much so that they were exterminated for their faith.

I was told years ago that that there is a memorial in Israel for the twelve million Christains that gave their lies on behalf of the jews and opposed nazism.

For the remaining CINO's the tares -- Jesus said that upon his return they would be gathered up first -- and burned.

Another passage Jesus said all that shall offend shall be removed first

Another passage Jesus said it shall be as the days of Noah -- where all unrighteousness shall be swept from the earth

These twelve million were hero's of the faith -- like our vets, like our war death their sacrifices giving up houses lands husbands wives and children should never be foregotten -- but then hey they were only Christains so what does it matter.

The real story is that the Church when the storm could of Nazism first surfaced did not double their efforts to chreach the Gospel and reach out to the young minds of their day.

When they didn't nazism did -- instead of church youth groups learning the love of God and Growing in grace there were the hitler youth that were filled with hate and we have seen the films of them playing on artillery pieces etc.

Today we have the same thing with the rising storm clouds of islam -- we have a complacent church that is filled with darkness self and the world that preaches a gospel of wealth and riches that build imperial palaces for churches and has their preachers ride in loaded lincolns and leer jets -- for these CINO's and tares everlasting judgement is waiting in the wings as they have fiddled for the last two generations the world has fallen notch by notch to islam. So what if a hundred million Christains have been slaughtered over the last four decades in africa the middle east and asia -- we are wealthy increased with good and have need of nothing.

What will these ministers say when europe and canada have fallen? What have they said as God was kicked out of our schools and out of government and out of society?

They talked some the talk but did nothing to stem the tide to fight it in politics is futile -- to preach the Gospel and change lives that what was to be done.

Darkness is coming to europe and then entire world -- darkness such as not been seen since the roman presecutions before Cristainity became a fashionable religion of worldliness. And a tool has been fashioned that shall show no pity to wealth or riches.

If you beleive you should fear these words -- there should be an unmistableable witness of the spirit in your gut that tells you this is so. If you don't beleive this is the time to get yourself right with God we have come to a lamentalble point in history where governments can be flipped in a moment -- the world trade center put America western culture and the Church on notice. Bush has responded but has the church? or as the writter lamented will they just sit by until muslims come for them?

They are coming.

16 posted on 11/01/2004 10:13:13 AM PST by Rocketman
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To: Quix
The Nazis ordered nearly 200 Jewish synagogues burned all across Germany on a single night on November 9, 1938. Hundreds of small shops were looted and or burned and hundreds of innocent Jews were attacked, beaten, and/or raped and dozens were murdered. The police and fire deparments stood by and allowed these criminal acts to take place, only moving to protect the property of people who were not Jews. The total number of synagogues destroyed was 191. Given the propensity of the Germans for mathematical excellence, I cannot believe that this number was arrived at by accident.

View of Map of Kristallnacht Here

Read More About Kristallnacht

While I had read of Kristallnacht before, I had no idea of the manner that this riot of rape and destruction was carefully organized. That map is truly shocking to view.

17 posted on 11/01/2004 10:31:03 AM PST by ex-Texan
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Tony, if you could send out the Lutheran ping.

I have been praying, and will continue praying, that God fearing men and women be elected tomorrow. But I fear that we have missed our chance. Infanticide will continue no matter who is elected president. We continue in our petty schemes and the number of babies fed to Moloch keeps going up.

I have been reading Bonhoeffer since a few weeks before the Beslen massacre. It continues to strike me to the heart.

I fear that the west has turned its back on God, and I fear what we have turned our face to.
18 posted on 11/01/2004 11:15:54 AM PST by redgolum (Molon labe)
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To: Rocketman; Quix
While most of my family was out of Germany before the darkness took over, there were a few that were left. Many died on both sides of the fences.

You are right that 12 million died standing for Christ, but how many turned their backs to Him? I think that is the point of the article. The Church had few true shepherds then, as now. Pray the time is not to late.

As for me and my house, we shall serve the Lord.

And I will not go quietly.
19 posted on 11/01/2004 11:23:29 AM PST by redgolum (Molon labe)
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To: Rocketman

Actually Bonhoeffer was not gunned down in front of his church. http://www3.sympatico.ca/sylvia.paul/ghill_dbonhoeffer.htm


20 posted on 11/01/2004 11:25:14 AM PST by Vic3O3 (Jeremiah 31:16-17 (KJV))
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