Posted on 01/07/2008 6:59:08 AM PST by mnehring
WINDHAM, N.H., Jan. 6 -- A pastor from Texas was scheduled to deliver the sermon Sunday at a church here called the Crossing.
But instead this small evangelical congregation heard from a different special guest: Baptist minister and 2008 presidential candidate Mike Huckabee, who delivered a sermon of more than 20 minutes on how to be part of "God's Army" in the middle school cafeteria where the congregation meets.
"When we become believers, it's as if we have signed up to be part of God's Army, to be soldiers for Christ," Huckabee told the enthusiastic audience....
...."When you give yourself to Christ, some relationships have to go," he said. "It's no longer your life; you've signed it over."
Likening service to God to service in the military, Huckabee said "there is suffering in the conditioning for battle" and "you obey the orders."
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Huckabee sounds like another person born in Hope, Arkansas, attending religious congregations for political purposes.
I cannot for the life of me remember the name of that other person though.
Now will the Left go bonkers over his pulpit appearance? Like Jesse Jackass and Al Sharptone?......Oh wait, they didn’t.......
This guy has no senses. I hope he exits ASAP.
Just heard a clip of Huck saying we must unite behind him. If he would GTHO we just might do that.
Go away Hackabee.
No..it sounds like he gave a sermon at a church.
I dont like Hucks record. I dont like his following that voted for him in Iowa simply because of abortion. To the New Wave Evangelicals, that is the only issue important..not the war, not immigration or anytthing else. As a result, they have torn apart the party these past 20 years.
As far as Huckies faith? Thats his business and none of ours.
But I do like his fair tax issue.
He can neither see, nor hear, nor taste, nor feel ~ that's what you said, right?
On the other hand, this blind, lame, halt, horribly handicapped individual can make his way unassisted up to the pulpit and deliver a sermon.
Bet he could find his way OK to the cake and coffee after the service too.
Verily I say unto you, there is a new Roosevelt walking the land (or riding a scooter, or whatever it is FDR would have done in these modern times).
More to the point, the secular independents and ‘moderately religeous’ *cringe* at this kind of stuff. He’s absolutely unelectable in the general.
Not just secular independents and ‘moderate religious’, I am a Christian Conservative and I cringe at this stuff. I don’t see a whole lot of difference in this and TBS begging for money ‘because God told you to give’ or selling holy sweat..
One does not have to hide ones’ Christianity to run for office, and a preacher is just as valid candidate as an actor, a peanut farmer, a baseball team owner, etc...maybe more so.
People need to get over their bigotry and accept that the corporate conservatives have had their viselike grip on the nomination process broken.
Agree completely. So why won’t Huckster let it be his private business? Because he needs to divide Christians, to bamboozle them into thinking that he really is one of them, and he is doing this as part of a calculated political strategy. This phony religious stuff is going to cause us real problems if he isn’t stopped.
This is the man who asked *o so innocently* whether Mormons believed that Jesus and Satan are brothers. Oh, and this is the guy who lied about “the only guy up here with a theology degree” when in fact his education was in media communications. Huckster is such a fraud! A flat out liar! Here is video of his lies re the surge in Iraq:
Wait a minute.
On Leno he stated the reason he left the pulpit to go into government, was to “get out of stands” and get to work on the part of the poor and disadvantaged?
So government works better than the church?? This is his philosophy.
And now he is using the pulpit that he degraded as just being “in the stands”, to get votes?
I liked his childish stab at romney last night when Romney asked him a question and Hickabee to ld him that Wallace was the moderator not Romney, then wallace asked him Romney’s question. Ha ha.
I also liked the flat out avoidance to answering the net vs. bet tax question. I do not like Romney over FDT but Hickabee is an a_s clown.
What bigotry has Huckabee been subjected?
He is not my choice for many reasons, primarily his record as Governor and his propensity to lie about that record as well as his nasty thin skinned personality! I don’t remember any previous R presdidential candidate that hid his Christianity...do you?
I have heard his sermons online and he is actually a good preacher. He starts off his sermons by telling everyone that he is not there to talk politics and he delivers a pretty good message.
What candidate have values voters not gotten nominated, that they wanted?
Who, and in what year?
He is running for Pastor of the US and will create a Dept. of Rapture.
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