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I am under the impression from previous readings of the Bible ... that there is a verse that states that whoever is in a place of authority was choosen by God to be in that office. In looking over the scriptures I have not found it. Romans 13:1-4, Hebrews 13;17. 1TIMOTHY 2:2, do not seem right.

February 2 The Compelling Force of the Call -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Woe is me if I do not preach the gospel! —1 Corinthians 9:16 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Beware of refusing to hear the call of God. Everyone who is saved is called to testify to the fact of his salvation. That, however, is not the same as the call to preach, but is merely an illustration which can be used in preaching. In this verse, Paul was referring to the stinging pains produced in him by the compelling force of the call to preach the gospel. Never try to apply what Paul...

February 1 The Call of God -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Christ did not send me to baptize, but to preach the gospel . . . —1 Corinthians 1:17 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Paul states here that the call of God is to preach the gospel. But remember what Paul means by "the gospel," namely, the reality of redemption in our Lord Jesus Christ. We are inclined to make sanctification the goal of our preaching. Paul refers to personal experiences only by way of illustration, never as the end of the matter. We are not commissioned to preach salvation or sanctification— we are commissioned to...

Wake up, Europe By Melanie Phillips. First published in the Jewish Chronicle, June 14 2002. It is commonly assumed by many that the Arab quarrel with the Jews is over Israel, and more particularly over Israel’s policies in the occupied territories and the settlements and towards the idea of a Palestinian state. This assumption surely puts the cart before the horse. At the root of the quarrel lies instead the Muslim perception of the humiliation of Islam by the west, of which the presumption to statehood by the Jewish people is both a symbol and a particularly intolerable affront. Two...

** The CIA Gets Back in the Game ** The CIA was in serious trouble. Then came September 11. How its getting in the game--in Afghanistan and beyond SUPPLIES MEANT FOR the Alpha or Bravo team sometimes land on the Echo or Foxtrot team. Last fall one frustrated spook, hiding at a secret drop zone near Kandahar, sent this coded message to his handlers: “waited three hours through all possible windows: only one airplane passed and kicked off one bundle: some bags of beans and rice ... and two bags of horse feed rpt horse feed. we do not have...

Friday, March 08, 2002 WASHINGTON — President Bush is mixing politics and policy on another trip to Florida, his eighth since taking office. In St. Petersburg, Fla., for a roundtable discussion with workers at a computer parts distributing firm, Bush will spotlight the corporate responsibility proposals he unveiled Thursday. Then, he will headline a fund-raiser expected to raise half a million dollars for the Florida Republican Party. Bush wants chief executive officers to personally vouch for their companies' financial statements, and to give up their bonuses if they're based on a misrepresentation of the company's true financial health. The 10-point ...

IT ONLY TAKES THE RIGHT LEADER BY DAVID H. HACKWORTH In 1950, the U.S. military was kind of like Gary Cooper in "High Noon": surrounded by bad guys, outgunned and not at all up for a shootout. The Soviet Union was making ugly noises all along the Iron Curtain; Yugoslavia's Tito was threatening to take Trieste; Red China scarfed up Tibet. Then North Korea slashed south with a powerful army, smashing everything that stood in its way. Our armed forces were at less than quarter strength of what they'd been just four years before, when we took out Hitler and ...

----------------------------------------------------------- Time we recognized our real heroes ---------------------------------------------------------- © 2001 WorldNetDaily.com Soldiering is dangerous business in peace as well as in war. If you don't think so, ask the aircrews who attacked Iraq's air-defense system last week. A pilot who flew that mission said, "Waves of Iraqi rockets and AAA would come up and explode ... then another wave would shoot all at once and light up the sky." Ask the families of soldiers Robert L. Olson, George P. Perry, Gregory I. Montgomery, Thomas E. Barber, Bob D. MacDonald and Rafael Olvera-Rodriguez, who all recently died on a training ...

This Dec 30, 2000 letter from Gorby is astonishing. W is making it clear via his appointments that the US is preparing for war. The Gorby letter makes us ask, "With Whom?" What W seems to be saying is that we are demanding American controlled globalization and drawing a line in the sand over it. So many overlapping interests and alliances but Gorby is right I think. NATO notwithstanding, this is ultimately a conflict between Europe and the US with China watching like a vulture. American arrogance is putrid. This does wonders for the right-wing weirdoes who placed Gorby totally ...

November 12 2000 EUROPE Scientists claim nothing will stop climate change Jonathan Leake and Guy Dennis SCIENTISTS have warned thousands of government officials and politicians gathering for international climate talks in the Hague that the rise in global temperatures is irreversible, and that the best they can hope for is to slow it down by a fraction of a degree. Their research shows that even if delegates implement all the proposals before them in full, this will cut only about six-hundredths of a degree from a temperature rise that could be as much as 5C by 2100. The warning comes ...

November 12 2000 EUROPE French BSE Crisis Worsens... French BSE crisis worsens Jonathan Leake and Wayne Bodkin Fury on the farms: Am I Mad? says the sign in this protest in Bernay, western France Photograph: Mehdi Fedouach © FEARS over the safety of French beef rose again this weekend after the country's most senior scientific adviser on BSE confirmed that large amounts of infected meat were still likely to be entering the human food chain, putting anyone eating beef at risk of developing variant CJD. Professor Jeanne Brugère-Picoux, an adviser to the French government on BSE and related diseases, said ...

GOVERNMENT GANG SEDUCES SKEPTICS MORPHING GOOD GUYS INTO BAD By: Erik Jay I hate it when this happens. You know, you start reading some writers' op-eds, and they have all the right enemies and disdain the same PC crapola you do. You exchange a couple of letters, perhaps, and start getting comfortable with these new allies. Or so you think. Then all of a sudden they turn out to be Gary North "Reconstructionists" promoting a return to street corner stonings of adulteresses; or fringe wackos who trace our national malaise to an unbroken line of superpowerful "insiders" who have infiltrated ...

Updated: Saturday, Jun. 3, 2000 at 15:40 CDT Who owns the halls of Congress these days? Serious observers worry lest the deluge of big campaign gifts cross that invisible line between buying preferred "access" to legislators and actually buying votes. Casual private conversations among Capitol Hill insiders during the week prior to House passage of the China trade bill would have confirmed their worst fears. Evidence of influence was ubiquitous, unabashed and flagrant. Seldom (I hesitate to say never) has a bill been more intensively or expensively lobbied. A taxi driver, picking me up at the Capitol Wednesday afternoon of ...

Senate Finance Committee accepts China trade bill (06/8/2000) PNTR vote faces Senate delay (06/7/2000) Republican senator hints at China trade bill delay (05/29/2000) US House approves historic China trade bill (05/25/2000) US Senate Finance Committee members on Wednesday agreed to accept a landmark China trade bill passed by the House of Representatives and seek quick passage by the full Senate, a spokeswoman said. Finance Committee members met informally behind closed doors on Wednesday to review the bill, which would grant China permanent normal trade relations as part of its bid to join the World Trade Organisation, passed by the ...

SAN QUENTIN-IZED AMERICA By: Erik Jay Proposed federal legislation touted as the latest "drug war cure" is once again far worse than the disease. HR2987, an anti-methamphetamine-lab law, is an outrageous attack on our constitutionally-protected liberties, specifically our rights under the 4th and 5th Amendments; but more generally, in a move that is both sinister and eerie, it is a direct frontal assault on the very meaning of America. There is no enemy so powerful or overwhelming that we must alter the very fabric of our national character to defeat it. Not even San Quentin's maximum security cell blocks ...

SAN QUENTIN-IZED AMERICA By: Erik Jay Proposed federal legislation touted as the latest "drug war cure" is once again far worse than the disease. HR2987, an anti-methamphetamine-lab law, is an outrageous attack on our constitutionally-protected liberties, specifically our rights under the 4th and 5th Amendments; but more generally, in a move that is both sinister and eerie, it is a direct frontal assault on the very meaning of America. There is no enemy so powerful or overwhelming that we must alter the very fabric of our national character to defeat it. Not even San Quentin's maximum security cell blocks ...

A Judge's Attempt at Redacting America Dr. James Hirsen May 24, 2000 One of the significant principles of effective government propaganda is the repackaging of the past to fit the goals and objectives of a prevailing regime. Modification and even outright destruction of recorded truths are time-honored practices that tyrants have utilized to maintain authority and control. In a similar vein, the nation's judiciary has been delivering its own brand of fact adjustment. Indeed, a new zenith has been reached in a court ruling that involves the state of Kentucky. Federal District Judge Jennifer Coffman recently engaged in the ultimate ...

2000.06.06¡@1:59am Taiwan time updated US Against Conflict in Taiwan Strait: Think Tank Taipei, June 5 (CNA) The US government will not encourage any conflict in the Taiwan Strait and should continue to sell defensive weapons to Taiwan, according to former US Deputy Defense Secretary John J. Hamre in Taipei on Monday. Hamre arrived in Taipei on Sunday to attend the Seventh Taipei Roundtable, a meeting on the new challenges for the millennium that is scheduled to open on Wednesday. Hamre, who is president and CEO of the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS), a Washington-based think tank, arrived ...

PNTR - The Rise of China, the Fall of America Zoh Hieronimus The successful passage of the China PNTR (Permanent Normal Trading Relations) vote, while close, was in some respects not very close at all. The long time agenda of those interested in destroying the nation’s sovereignty and consolidating authority into fewer and fewer hands, with power over more and more people’s lives, has simply been advanced. Despite anyone’s efforts to package this movement of economic fascism and eventual political harmonization into global socialism as benefiting the people of America, the NAFTA has already proven that cheaper manufacturing elsewhere does ...

Barbara Stanley What ever gave you the idea that I was so stupid that I could not see through you? What is it about you elitists which allows you to believe you safely dwell in such a clay tower? All the power you think you have now? We both know for you enough is never, well, enough. You need all those interns because you wouldn't know what to do with a real adult love. You need all those fawning sycophants because you think it will fill you up, but it's just a vaporous dream and worthless support.This is the price ...