ConservativeChristianReport-Report - 20081027

From: "Daily Motivations"

The first step toward change is awareness. The second step is acceptance. -- Nathaniel Braden


Welcome to a special edition of Leadership Lessons - straight from the desk of Santa Claus.

Dear Santa:

Making sure our organization doesn’t fall prey to the kind of unethical practices I constantly read about in newspapers is a big concern for me. The way I see it, leaders must provide the ethical examples for others to follow. What can I tell other leaders to help them understand the importance of their role model responsibilities?
Anguishing in Atlanta

Dear Anguishing: You’re absolutely right. All leaders must be the models of ethics and integrity-based behaviors for others to follow. When facing that same challenge, I always turn to my key resource: Leading To Ethics. Here are two excerpts to share with your fellow leaders:

You’re Being Watched!

As a leader, you have a strong influence on the thoughts and behaviors of your employees – perhaps much stronger than you think. And one of your most critical leadership responsibilities is to model the behavior you expect from others. To do otherwise is hypocrisy. Fact is, you must earn the right to expect employees to perform with integrity by being an ethics champion yourself.

To a large degree, you operate in a fish bowl. Employees are constantly watching you – and learning from you. They rightfully assume that it’s okay and appropriate to do whatever you do.

What Lessons Are You Giving?

Take a moment to reflect on the lessons you’re providing to your people:

Do you follow ALL the rules and procedures of your organization?
Do you treat (and think about) EVERYONE with dignity and respect?

Do you always tell the truth?

Do you always keep your promises and commitments?

Do you typically place others’ best interests before your own?

Do you typically give your best effort and avoid “cutting corners”?

Do you avoid using organizational resources for personal purposes?

Do you stand up for what’s right and act to stop misconduct by others?

These, and scores of behaviors just like them, set the pace for your work group, identify your personal integrity, and determine how you will ultimately be judged as a leader.



From: "The Patriot Post"

"That the people have a right to keep and bear arms; that a well-regulated militia, composed of the body of the people trained to arms, is the proper, natural, and safe defense of a free state; that standing armies, in time of peace, are dangerous to liberty, and therefore ought to be avoided, as far as the circumstances and protection of the community will admit; and that, in all cases, the military should be under strict subordination to, and governed by, the civil power." -- Recommended Bill of Rights from the Virginia Ratifying Convention,
27 June 1778

"States, like individuals, who observe their engagements, are respected and trusted: while the reverse is the fate of those who pursue an opposite conduct." -- Alexander Hamilton



From: "The Web"

"In the face of leadership flaws, too many people assume cynical perspectives, rather than do the hard work of building relationships in which they can have more positive influence." -- Ira Chaleff

"If you stand up and be counted, from time to time you may get yourself knocked down. But remember this: A man flattened by an opponent can get up again. A man flattened by conformity stays down for good." -- Thomas J. Watson, Jr.

"No man will make a great leader who wants to do it all himself, or to get all the credit for doing it." -- Andrew Carnegie



From: "Richard A. Viguerie"

IF OBAMA BECOMES PRESIDENT. . ..

What's on his 'To Do' list? With the help of Speaker Pelosi and Majority Leader Reid, what would President Obama do?

We at ConservativeHQ.com set out to compile a list:

· What will they do to "spread the wealth around"?

· What will they do to force workers to join unions?

· What will they do to force taxpayers to support abortion?

· What will they do to promote illegal immigration?

· What else will they do to America?

If this list frightens you, forward this e-mail to everyone on your list!

From the voting records and speeches of Barack Obama, Nancy Pelosi, and Harry Reid, we have put together a list of items we believe are likely to be on their TO DO list.

It's an open-ended list, and we'd like to hear from you with your suggestions. Can you think of things to be added?

The MAINSTREAM media (NBC, CBS, ABC, CNN, NPR, New York Times, Washington Post, Los Angeles Times, Time, Newsweek, etc.) have lost all claim to objectivity. They are doing everything they can to help elect Obama and give Democrats stronger control of Congress.

Because most of the national media have become an arm of the Democratic campaign, it is up to those of us who don't support their radical left-wing agenda to do the work that the mainstream media refuses to do.

If tens of thousands of us decide to act as grassroots publishers and get this information to others, we will reach more people than the mainstream media.

All you need to do to be a grassroots publishing mogul is think of a list of people that you can send this information to using the post office, faxes, and e-mails.

If you make copies of this and send via postal mail, fax, or e-mail to 100 people, and if only 10% of those 100 also become a grassroots publisher and send to 100 people, that's 1,000 people you've reached.

Then, if 10% of those 1,000 send to 100 people, that's 10,000 people you've reached by being a grassroots publisher.

Now, if we just take it one more step and 10% of those 10,000 become like you, a grassroots publisher, then you've reached 100,000 Americans probably in less than a week by just sending this e-mail to 100 people. Of course, if you were to send it to hundreds of people today, within a week, your grassroots publishing efforts could reach hundreds of thousands.

Richard A. Viguerie
9625 Surveyor Court, Suite 400
Manassas, VA 20110
rav@conservativesbetrayed.com



From: "The email Bag"

Subject: Party differences

A young woman was about to finish her first year of college. Like so many among other liberal ideals, was very much in favor of higher taxes to support more government programs, in other words redistribution of wealth.

She was deeply ashamed that her father was a rather staunch Republican, a feeling she openly expressed. Based on the lectures that she had participated in, and the occasional chat with a professor, she felt that her father had for years harbored an evil, selfish desire to keep what he thought should be his.

One day she was challenging her father on his opposition to higher taxes on the rich and the need for more government programs. The self-professed objectivity proclaimed by her professors had to be the truth and she indicated so to her father. He responded by asking how she was doing in school.

Taken aback, she answered rather haughtily that she had a 4.0 GPA, and let him know that it was tough to maintain, insisting that she was taking a very difficult course load and was constantly studying, which left her no time to go out and party like other people she knew. She didn't even have time for a boyfriend, and didn't really have many college friends because she spent all her time studying.

Her father listened and then asked, 'How is your friend Audrey doing?' She replied, 'Audrey is barely getting by. All she takes are easy classes, she never studies, and she barely has a 2.0 GPA. She is so popular on campus; college for her is a blast. She's always invited to all the parties and lots of times she doesn't even show up for classes because she's too hung over.'

Her wise father asked his daughter, 'Why don't you go to the Dean's office and ask him to deduct 1.0 off your GPA and give it to your friend who only has a 2.0. That way you will both have a 3.0 GPA and certainly that would be a fair and equal distribution of GPA.'

The daughter, visibly shocked by her father's suggestion, angrily fired back, ' That's a crazy idea, and how would that be fair! I've worked really hard for my grades! I've invested a lot of time, and a lot of hard work! Audrey has done next to nothing toward her degree. She played while I worked my tail off!'

The father slowly smiled, winked and said gently, 'Welcome to the Republican party.'

If anyone has a better explanation of the difference between Republican and Democrat I'm all ears.




Brother Ed "Slim" Griffin, Hillcrest Baptist Church, Monroe, NC

You are in your car driving home. Thoughts wander to the game you want to see or meal you want to eat, when suddenly a sound unlike any you've ever heard fills the air. The sound is high above you. A trumpet? A choir? A choir of trumpets?

You don't know, but you want to know. So you pull over, get out of your car, and look up. As you do, you see you aren't the only curious one. The roadside has become a parking lot. Car doors are open, and people are staring at the sky. Shoppers are racing out of the grocery store. The Little League baseball game across the street has come to a halt. Players and parents are
searching the clouds. And what they see, and what you see, has never before been seen.

As if the sky were a curtain, the drapes of the atmosphere part. A brilliant light spills onto the earth. There are no shadows. None.

From every hue ever seen and a million more never seen. Riding on the flow is an endless fleet of angels. They pass through the curtains one myriad at a time, until they occupy every square inch of the sky.

North. South. East. West.

Thousands of silvery wings rise and fall in unison, and over the sound of the trumpets, you can hear the cherubim and seraphim chanting, Holy, holy, holy. The final flank of angels is followed by twenty-four silver-bearded elders and a multitude of souls who join the angels in worship.

Presently the movement stops and the trumpets are silent, leaving only the triumphant triplet: Holy, holy, holy. Between each word is a pause. With each word, a profound reverence. You hear your voice join in the chorus. You don't know why you say the words, but you know you must.

Suddenly, the heavens are quiet. All is quiet. The angels turn, you turn, the entire world turns and there He is. Jesus.

Through waves of light you see the silhouetted figure of Christ the King. He is atop a great stallion, and the stallion is atop a billowing cloud. He opens his mouth, and you are surrounded by his declaration:

I am the Alpha and the Omega.

The angels bow their heads. The elders remove their crowns. And before you is a Figure so consuming that you know, instantly you know: Nothing else matters.

Forget stock markets and school reports. Sales meetings and football games. Nothing is newsworthy. All that mattered, matters no more.... for Christ has come.

Please let me know the exact time you read this. It is mystical--honest. This morning when the Lord opened a window to Heaven, he saw me, and he asked: My child, what is your greatest wish for today?

I responded: 'Lord please; take care of the person who is reading this message, their family and their special friends. They deserve it and I love them very much'.

The love of God is like the ocean, you can see its beginnings but not its end.

This message works on the day you receive it.

To some it may sound dumb, but the person who sent this to me was impressed
with its timing. Let us see if it is true.

ANGELS EXIST, but sometimes, since they don't all have wings we call them
FRIENDS, SUCH AS YOU.