Posted on 12/20/2015 4:51:06 AM PST by Alas Babylon!
The Talk Shows
December 20th, 2015
Guests to be interviewed today on major television talk shows:
FOX NEWS SUNDAY (Fox Network): Republican presidential candidate Carly Fiorina; Rep. Adam Schiff, D-Calif.
MEET THE PRESS (NBC): Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders; John Podesta, Clinton’s campaign chairman; House Speaker Paul Ryan, R-Wis.
FACE THE NATION (CBS): Republican presidential candidates Marco Rubio and Jeb Bush.
THIS WEEK (ABC): Sanders; Republican presidential candidates Donald Trump and Chris Christie; Jennifer Palmieri, communications director for Democrat Hillary Clinton’s presidential campaign.
STATE OF THE UNION (CNN): Republican presidential candidate Rand Paul; Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky.
Sharyl Attkisson's Full Measure 1. Breaking Bad: a lurid tale of drugs, sex and taxpayer waste; 2. The Cadillac tax: It's not about your car, but your health care coverage, that may soon be taxed; 3. Swatting: A new and serious online prank that sends SWAT teams to unsuspecting gamers homes; 4. London Embassy Waste
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM NBC's "Meet the Press"
1:00 PM - 2:00 PM ABC's "This Week"
2:00 PM - 3:00 PM "Fox News Sunday"
3:00 PM - 4:30 PM CNN's "State of the Union"
4:30 PM - 5:00 PM CBS's "Face The Nation"
Listen at the link above WHILE you FReep!
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“The Sunday Morning Bray”, by Bray!
And thou, child, shalt be called the prophet of the Highest: for thou shalt go before the face of the Lord to prepare his ways; To give knowledge of salvation unto his people by the remission of their sins, Through the tender mercy of our God; whereby the dayspring from on high hath visited us, Luke 1:76-78 KJV
Christmas is such an amazing time of the year. For the Christian this is the most holy of all holy days which gives them hope for the future as well as embracing their pasts. It brings joy and peace as they celebrate the greatest gift man has ever received. What makes Christmas so special for Christians is that it encapsulates the entire faith of a believer. It is the most impossible story ever told and has withstood the world’s scrutiny for 2000 years.
For a Christian they have to believe without a doubt there is a God who created the world in an organized way with science revealing God rather than dispel him. They also need to believe God is perfection and has perfect love for his creation and would provide a path to eternal relationship with him rather than struggling to reach him. The ways of God are not the ways of man and man can never cross that divide.
The proof of his love and man’s faith, God provided the way with the most unlikely path for man to follow, he sent his son through a virgin birth. This is the ultimate test for mankind to believe that a woman could conceive a child without the seed of a man. It defies logic and common sense, although it is a perfect symbol of Christ as he was described throughout the Old Testament. This not only tests God’s love of man, but man’s ability to have enough faith in his perfect gift to believe and follow him. This is what brings hope and joy to the entire Christian world.
Christmas and Christ stands in contrast to the rest of the cult worship. How empty can your life be when you have to earn your way into heaven or whichever New Age equivalent the rest of the world has to attain. Everyone worships some god even if they deny it or profess to not believe in gods or religion, their mind requires a worship of a god and it only is a matter of which they choose.
The emptiest of Godless worship is atheism or agnosticism which says you are so sure of yourself there is no God you will profess to everyone you know he does not exist. They believe they are the top of the evolutionary chain and the only thing higher is a group of men. The most fundamental become incensed others believe in God and feel they are sent to the earth from their primordial soup to ruin Christmas for everyone who believes in Christ.
Their faith is tenfold what a Christian believes. They have to believe in a basically unproven belief that man came from random selection and even though there is no proof of one transitional species they believe there were billions of transitional species which eventually transitioned into man.
This makes the virgin birth elementary since there would have to be billions of virgin births before reproductive organs evolved for evolution to occur. Then after believing all of that your highest goal is to attain the height of good person by whatever standard you choose. Atheism is a truly empty faith which tries to hold people down to their emptiness leading to dust.
Then you have the man made religions like Islam, Scientology, Environmentalism, Marxism and Middle Eastern worships. These are all earth or star/moon worship and are all written by man without the one true God or his Son, Jesus. They force you to follow a set of tenets to make the church larger and by doing these things you can earn your way to heaven. In addition like all man made religions they have different levels of heaven so the more you do the higher you get.
Islam is the most brutal of these cults since the more fundamental you become the more you want to kill non-believers. This cult was written by a sadistic murderer who made Hitler into a choirboy. He believed you could conquer the world with the sword using a vast army of mass killers to force his religion by raping and pillaging. Where is the hope or joy in this religion as well as all of the religions that leave out the love of the Father? There is no hope, only a daily and yearly effort to reach the next level of accomplishment without ever reaching God.
The difference between all of these empty cults and Christianity is mercy and grace. This is what makes Christmas special and different than any other faith. God is perfect and man is evil so no matter how hard we try to reach God all we can offer are different levels of evil. Man has been corrupted and we see that corruption every day around the world with every evil imaginable. This is all we have to offer God and it will continually fall short.
God loves man perfectly so he fixed our imperfect gifts by sending his son as a baby through a perfect birth and he lived his life as man without sin. This made him a man who could reach God since he was without sin through a virgin birth. He was man and God in one making him the prefect sacrifice for man as was told in the Old Testament. This gave man a path to God through the blood of Jesus Christ. This is nothing man did or can do; it was everything God did for man.
This is what we celebrate, Jesus and the perfect gift given by the grace of God. There is nothing man did or can do to reach God or perfection. The only thing he can do is believe that God is perfection and only he could provide the perfect gift for man to reach him and did.
This gives Christians hope that they will be with him in spite of our evil he would love man so much they would be with him for eternity. This makes sense and brings joy and hope for all mankind if they will humble themselves to believe in this impossible story and ask for his Salvation. This is what is meant by Merry Christmas and why Christians love this holiday, since God gave man a way out of evil and will bring them into his perfection through a moment in time in Bethlehem which unites us all.
Merry Christmas
Note: The above opinion is not necessarily my own, but FReeper Bray’s. If you wish to discuss this, please ping Bray.
BTTT
I’d bet half the farm they won’t mention this:
Another immigration time bomb ...
300,000 cases of Chagas reported in U.S.( Unwilling to stop illegals who are bringing this disease)
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3372000/posts
[snippets]
... can be fatal if left untreated ... currently about 300,000 cases of Chagas in the U.S., but most of those people were infected in Latin America ... [and need Zero-care to survive].â€
In case is doesn't it's a Trump Twitter Tweet, saying he'll be on Fox and Friends at 8:00 AM Sunday (right now!).
Merry Christmas bud thanks for doing this thread week after week And to everyone here on FR the best of Christmas.
Ha!
You posted it quicker, but I had to type an extra sentence. AND I am hunt and peck typist.
And the description of Islam as a cult is right there.It's all it will ever be. When the highest reaches the ultimate pinnacle of a "religion" is " a good death" this "religion" ceases to be and should be designated a cult,IMHO a death-cult. The sooner Americans realize that the cult know as Islam is anything but a religion the better off we all will be.
“Cha·gas’ dis·ease
ˈSHäɡəs diˌzēz/
noun
a disease caused by trypanosomes transmitted by bloodsucking bugs, endemic in South America and causing damage to the heart and central nervous system.”
just in case you are wondering I know I was.....
The sooner we realize the game is and always has been chaos the better off we will all be and the easier a job Trump will have to institute our kind of “CHANGE”.
Thanks AB for your yoemans work every Sunday. Although I haven’t posted in a while I do lurk here on numerous occasions throughout the day. FR is my go to news source. To all my FReeper friends my you have a blessed Christmas.
The Cruz blackout continues apace.
Cruz being shut out by the establishment.
We know who they truly fear.
I think we’ve all come to the conclusion that it is Ted boycotting the “Gotcha” shows, rather than the shows blacking him out.
If ANYONE has seen a comment by Cruz or his campaign about not being invited to any Sunday show PLEASE post it!!!
I thought he sounded very reasonable, and yes, presidential.
Ted ain’t afraid of anybody...he was just on Fox News Greta Friday trying to educate her dumb rear end.
The establishment is scared of him.
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