ConservativeChristianRepublican-Report - 20090423

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"Daily Motivations"

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"Daily Devotions" (KJV and/or NLT)

Are You Robbing God? You shall not steal (Exodus 20:15). We're all selfish to some degree. But don't let that keep you from striving to give yourself to others and to the Lord.

"I am the LORD, your God, the Holy One of Israel, your Savior." (Isaiah 43:3)



"The Patriot Post"

"The apportionment of taxes on the various descriptions of property is an act which seems to require the most exact impartiality; yet there is, perhaps, no legislative act in which greater opportunity and temptation are given to a predominant party to trample on the rules of justice. Every shilling which they overburden the inferior number is a shilling saved to their own pockets." -- James Madison, Federalist No. 10

"An unlimited power to tax involves, necessarily, a power to destroy; because there is a limit beyond which no institution and no property can bear taxation." -- John Marshall, McCullough v. Maryland, 1819

"Don’t fire unless fired upon. But if they want a war let it begin here." -- Captain John Parker, commander of the militiamen at Lexington, Massachusetts, on sighting British Troops (attributed), 19 April 1775

"What a glorious morning this is!" -- Samuel Adams to John Hancock at the Battle of Lexington, Massachusetts, 19 April 1775



"Liberty Counsel"

April 21, 2009

Florida Supreme Court to Hear Argument in Florida Bar Case Regarding Homosexual Adoption

www.LC.org

Tomorrow the Florida Supreme Court will hear oral argument in the case of Liberty Counsel v. The Florida Bar. Earlier this year Liberty Counsel filed a petition at the Florida Supreme Court, arguing that the Bar should remain neutral in the state's homosexual adoption controversy.

Mat Staver will present argument on behalf of Liberty Counsel. You can watch the argument live online at 10:00 a.m. ET tomorrow at www.wfsu.org/gavel2gavel/index.php.

Liberty Counsel filed a Petition with the Court after the Bar’s Family Law Section received approval from the Bar to file an amicus brief asking a state court of appeal to overturn a Florida law banning homosexual adoption. The Florida Supreme Court has designated Liberty Counsel v. The Florida Bar as a high profile case. All the documents in this case are available on the Court's web site.

A video of the argument will also be archived online at wfsu.org.

Read more about this case in in our News Release.

Read our Petition and Reply Brief to the Florida Supreme Court.

Today On Liberty Live

On today's Liberty Live, from 4-5 p.m. ET (3-4 p.m. CT), Mat Staver will host and Matt Barber will co-host. Today's topic will be the impending danger of so-called "Hate Crimes" laws which is scheduled for a vote this week. Tell your friends to listen and learn how to stop this threat to free speech and religion.

Watch, call-in and join our online Liberty Live blog at American Family Radio's Talk Network. Our call-in number during the live broadcast weekdays at 4-5 p.m. ET and 3-4 p.m. CT is (866) 963-2037. You can text your questions or comments during the show to (662) 255-5008. You can also email your comments after the show to LibertyLive@LC.org.

Liberty Counsel does not charge clients for representation, so we depend on individuals, groups and churches who care about advancing religious freedom, the sanctity of human life and the traditional family. Liberty Counsel is recognized by the IRS as a 501(c)(3) tax-exempt organization that accepts tax-deductible donations. You can donate or order resources from the Liberty Counsel online store.

Please help inform as many people as possible by forwarding this Liberty Alert to your entire e-mail list of family and friends, and encourage them to subscribe.

Mathew D. Staver - Founder and Chairman
Anita L. Staver - President
Liberty Counsel - 1-800-671-1776
PO Box 540774 - Orlando, FL 32854



Liberty Counsel

April 22, 2009

Federal Appeals Court to Hear Argument on Ten Commandments in Foundations Display

www.LC.org

Tomorrow a three-judge panel of a federal Court of Appeals in Cincinnati, Ohio will hear a case involving a Foundations of American Law and Government display. Mat Staver will present the oral argument on behalf of Grayson County at 9:00 a.m. on Thursday.

In 2002, the ACLU filed suit challenging the Ten Commandments contained in the historical display, includes the Mayflower Compact, the Declaration of Independence, the Magna Carta, the Star-Spangled Banner, the Ten Commandments, the National Motto, the Preamble to the Kentucky Constitution, the Bill of Rights, and a picture of Lady Justice, with an explanation of the significance of each document.

In 2005, this same appeals court upheld the same display in Mercer County, Kentucky, which Liberty Counsel also defended. Since 2005, the ACLU has lost every case involving the Ten Commandments at the federal courts of appeals. Two of those involved Liberty Counsel cases, defending the same Foundations of Law and Government display.

Please pray for the argument on Thursday and for another victory in this case against the ACLU.

Read our News Release for more details.

Today On Liberty Live

Don't miss a day of Liberty Live with host Mat Staver and co-host Matt Barber. See the show archives and sign up for our podcast.

Watch, call-in and join our online blog at www.LC.org. Our call-in number for during the live broadcast (4-5 ET) is (866) 963-2037. You can text your questions or comments during the show to (662) 255-5008. You can also email your comments after the show to LibertyLive@LC.org.

Please help inform as many people as possible by forwarding this Liberty Alert to your entire e-mail list of family and friends, and encourage them to subscribe.

Liberty Counsel does not charge clients for representation, so we depend on individuals, groups and churches who care about advancing religious freedom, the sanctity of human life and the traditional family. Liberty Counsel is recognized by the IRS as a 501(c)(3) tax-exempt organization that accepts tax-deductible donations. Donate or order resources from the Liberty Counsel online store.

Mathew D. Staver - Founder and Chairman
Anita L. Staver - President
Liberty Counsel - 1-800-671-1776
PO Box 540774 - Orlando, FL 32854



"Find Law"

Senate Report Shows Military Debate Over Detainee Interrogation Tactics

INQUIRY INTO THE TREATMENT OF DETAINEES IN U.S. CUSTODY
(U.S. Senate Armed Servs. Committee, Apr. 22, 2009) - The Senate Armed Services Committee today released a report from last November revealing opposition by a number of military lawyers and commanders to the Bush administration's efforts to redefine the limits of military interrogation practices used by the U.S. military in Iraq and Afghanistan. Read more...

http://news.lp.findlaw.com/hdocs/docs/torture/detaineetrtmnt42209rptsenate.html

Related Resources
• Tortured Evidence and Terrorist Blacklists (FindLaw's Writ)
• 3 Lawyers Face Scrutiny for Torture Advice (AP)



"The Web"

Dear God, I pray for the cure of cancer. Amen

Dear God, I pray for the cure of cancer. Amen

All you are asked to do is keep this circulating.
Even if it's to one more person.

In memory of anyone you know that has been struck down by cancer or is still living with it.

A Candle Loses Nothing by Lighting Another Candle.

Please Keep This Candle Going!

There will be a cure soon.

Thank you



One Of God's Main Jobs Is Making People

GOD

One of God's main jobs is making people. He makes these to put in place of the ones that die so there will be enough people to take care of things here on earth. He doesn't make grownups. Just babies. I think because they are smaller and easier to make. That way He doesn't have to take up His valuable time teaching them to talk and walk. He can just leave that up to the mothers and fathers. I think it works out pretty good.

God's second most important job is listening to prayers. An awful lot of this goes on, and some people, like preachers and things, pray other times besides bedtime. God doesn't have time to listen to the radio or TV on account of this. As He hears everything, not only prayers, there must be a terrible lot of noise into His ears, unless He has thought of a way to turn it off.

God sees everything and hears everything and is everywhere. Which keeps Him pretty busy. So you shouldn't go wasting His time by going over your parents head and ask for something they said you couldn't have.

Atheists are people who don't believe in God. I don't think there are any In Chula Vista. At least there aren't any who come to our church.

Jesus is God's son. He used to do all the hard work like walking on water and doing miracles and trying to teach people about God who didn't want to learn. They finally got tired of Him preaching to them and they crucified Him. But He was good and kind like His Father and He told His Father that they didn't know what they were doing and to forgive them and God said OK. His dad (God) appreciated everything He had done and all His hard work on earth, so He told Him He didn't have to go out on the road anymore. He could stay in heaven. So He did. And now he helps His Dad out by listening to prayers and seeing which things are important for God to take care of and which ones He can take care of Himself without having to bother God with. Like a secretary, only more important, of course. You can pray anytime you want and they are sure to hear because They've got It worked out so one of them is on duty all the time.

You should always go to Sunday School because it makes God happy and if there's anybody you want to make happy, it's God. Don't skip Sunday School to do something you think will be more fun like going to the beach. This is wrong! And besides the sun doesn't come out at the beach until noon, anyway.

If you don't believe in God, besides an Atheist, you will be very lonely, because your parents can't go everywhere with you like camp, but God can. It's good to know He's around when you're scared of the dark or when you can't swim very good and you get thrown in real deep water by big kids. But you shouldn't always think of what God can do for you. I figure God put me here and He can take me back anytime He pleases.

And that's why I believe in God.

Written by third grade student In Chula Vista, CA.



A Shift in Policy Toward Cuba

We should have expected this "change". After all, you must remember Communist Dictator Fidel Castro endorsed Barack Obama on May 28, 2008 for US President as reported in many editions of the media including the "Daily Squib": "Fidel Castro Endorses Obama" http://www.dailysquib.co.uk/?c=117&a=1348 - oyh

Even before he spent several days meeting with leaders from Latin America last week, President Barack Obama signaled that he wanted to change U.S. policy toward Cuba.

"The policy we've had in place for 50 years hasn't worked the way we wanted it to," Obama said earlier in April. "The Cuban people are not free."

Obama does not plan to lift the major economic embargo on Cuba, which has been in place for 48 years and drastically restricts trade between the two countries. But he is making it easier for Cuban-Americans with relatives in Cuba to travel to the island, and to send money to their family members there.

Obama said he sees the move as an interim step toward preparing for a completely new relationship between the nations when the aging Castro brothers are no longer in power in Congress.

Most Members of Congress - even Republicans who have taken a hard line on Cuba for decades - seem reasonably comfortable with Obama's policy shift. But some liberal Democrats in Congress want to go several steps further and have introduced bills to allow unrestricted travel between the two countries and lift the trade embargo altogether.

Tell President Obama and Congress where you stand on this issue.

Write Your Lawmaker

What do you think?



A BUCKET OF SHRIMP

It happened every Friday evening, almost without fail, when the sun resembled a giant orange and was starting to dip into the blue ocean.

Old Ed came strolling along the beach to his favorite pier. Clutched in his bony hand was a bucket of shrimp. Ed walks out to the end of the pier, where it seems he almost has the world to himself. The glow of the sun is a golden bronze now.

Everybody's gone, except for a few joggers on the beach. Standing out on the end of the pier, Ed is alone with his thoughts...and his bucket of shrimp.

Before long, however, he is no longer alone. Up in the sky a thousand white dots come screeching and squawking, winging their way toward that lanky frame standing there on the end of the pier..

Before long, dozens of seagulls have enveloped him, their wings fluttering and flapping wildly. Ed stands there tossing shrimp to the hungry birds. As he does, if you listen closely, you can hear him say with a smile, 'Thank you. Thank you.'

In a few short minutes the bucket is empty. But Ed doesn't leave.

He stands there lost in thought, as though transported to another time and place. Invariably, one of the gulls lands on his sea-bleached, weather-beaten hat - an old military hat he's been wearing for years.

When he finally turns around and begins to walk back toward the beach, a few of the birds hop along the pier with him until he gets to the stairs, and then they, too, fly away. And old Ed quietly makes his way down to the end of the beach and on home.

If you were sitting there on the pier with your fishing line in the water, Ed might seem like 'a funny old duck,' as my dad used to say. Or, 'a guy that's a sandwich shy of a picnic,' as my kids might say. To onlookers, he's just another old codger, lost in his own weird world, feeding the seagulls with a bucket full of shrimp.

To the onlooker, rituals can look either very strange or very empty. They can seem altogether unimportant ......maybe even a lot of nonsense.

Old folks often do strange things, at least in the eyes of Boomers and Busters.

Most of them would probably write Old Ed off, down there in Florida. That's too bad. They'd do well to know him better.

His full name: Eddie Rickenbacker. He was a famous hero back in World War II. On one of his flying missions across the Pacific, he and his seven-member crew went down. Miraculously, all of the men survived, crawled out of their plane, and climbed into a life raft.

Captain Rickenbacker and his crew floated for days on the rough waters of the Pacific. They fought the sun. They fought sharks. Most of all, they fought hunger. By the eighth day their rations ran out. No food. No water. They were hundreds of miles from land and no one knew where they were.

They needed a miracle. That afternoon they had a simple devotional service and prayed for a miracle. They tried to nap. Eddie leaned back and pulled his military cap over his nose. Time dragged. All he could hear was the slap of the waves against the raft.

Suddenly, Eddie felt something land on the top of his cap. It was a seagull!

Old Ed would later describe how he sat perfectly still, planning his next move. With a flash of his hand and a squawk from the gull, he managed to grab it and wring its neck. He tore the feathers off, and he and his starving crew made a meal - a very slight meal for eight men - of it. Then they used the intestines for bait. With it, they caught fish, which gave them food and more bait......and the cycle continued. With that simple survival technique, they were able to endure the rigor of the sea until they were found and rescued (after 24 days at sea...).
Eddie Rickenbacker lived many years beyond that ordeal, but he never forgot the sacrifice of that first lifesaving seagull. And he never stopped saying, 'Thank you.' That's why almost every Friday night he would walk to the end of the pier with a bucket full of shrimp and a heart full of gratitude.

Reference: (Max Lucado, In The Eye of the Storm, pp.221, 225-226)

PS: Eddie was also an Ace in WW I and started Eastern Airlines.

This has been verified at: http://www.truthorfiction.com/rumors/r/rickenbacker..htm



"The e-mail Bag"

AM THANKFUL

I AM THANKFUL FOR THE WIFE
WHO SAYS IT'S HOTDOGS TONIGHT,
BECAUSE SHE IS HOME WITH ME
AND NOT OUT WITH SOMEONE ELSE.

I AM THANKFUL FOR THE HUSBAND
WHO IS ON THE SOFA BEING A COUCH POTATO,
BECAUSE HE IS HOME WITH ME
AND NOT OUT AT THE BARS.

I AM THANKFUL FOR THE TEENAGER
WHO IS COMPLAINING ABOUT DOING THE DISHES
BECAUSE THAT MEANS SHE IS AT HOME
AND NOT ON THE STREETS.

I AM THANKFUL FOR THE TAXES
THAT I PAY
BECAUSE IT MEANS
THAT I AM EMPLOYED.

I AM THANKFUL FOR THE MESS
TO CLEAN AFTER A PARTY
BECAUSE IT MEANS
THAT I HAVE BEEN SURROUNDED BY FRIENDS.

I AM THANKFUL FOR THE CLOTHES
THAT FIT A LITTLE TOO SNUG
BECAUSE IT MEANS
I HAVE ENOUGH TO EAT.

I AM THANKFUL FOR MY SHADOW
THAT WATCHES ME WORK
BECAUSE IT MEANS
I AM OUT IN THE SUNSHINE.

I AM THANKFUL FOR A LAWN
THAT NEEDS MOWING,
WINDOWS THAT NEED CLEANING,
AND GUTTERS THAT NEED FIXING,
BECAUSE IT MEANS
I HAVE A HOME.

I AM THANKFUL FOR ALL THE COMPLAINING
I HEAR ABOUT THE GOVERNMENT
BECAUSE IT MEANS
THAT WE HAVE FREEDOM OF SPEECH.

I AM THANKFUL FOR THE PARKING SPOT
I FIND AT THE FAR END OF THE PARKING LOT
BECAUSE IT MEANS
I AM CAPABLE OF WALKING
AND THAT I HAVE BEEN
BLESSED WITH TRANSPORTATION.

I AM THANKFUL FOR MY HUGE HEATING BILL
BECAUSE IT MEANS
I AM WARM.

I AM THANKFUL FOR THE LADY
BEHIND ME IN CHURCH
THAT SINGS OFF KEY
BECAUSE IT MEANS
THAT I CAN HEAR.

I AM THANKFUL FOR THE PILE
OF LAUNDRY AND IRONING
BECAUSE IT MEANS
I HAVE CLOTHES TO WEAR.

I AM THANKFUL FOR WEARINESS AND ACHING MUSCLES
AT THE END OF THE DAY
BECAUSE IT MEANS
I HAVE BEEN CAPABLE OF WORKING HARD.

AND...

I AM THANKFUL FOR THE ALARM
THAT GOES OFF IN THE EARLY MORNING HOURS
BECAUSE IT MEANS
THAT I AM ALIVE.