let's lighten the mood a little bit
Everybody (including me) is so serious all of a sudden! Let's lighten things up a little bit with my 10 strongest opinions (I am a pretty opinionated guy, after all). Kind of like a Letterman Top 10 List! Here we go with Hondo's 10 most strongly held beliefs:
10. The 1975-76 Cincinnati Reds was the greatest baseball team of all time. Their Most Important Player (contrary to popular opinion) was 1B Tony Perez. Rose, Bench and Morgan got more media attention, but Perez was the "straw that stirred the drink." After the Reds traded Perez for the '77 season, they immediately circled the drain, and didn't make it back to the World Series until 1990.
9. Guys like Eric Clapton, Jimi Hendrix, Carlos Santana and Joe Walsh are rightly considered to be historic guitar players and great makers of music, but, daggone, where's the love for Toy Caldwell? He ranks every bit as high as any of these other legends.
8. Jim Rockford (James Garner) and Barney Fife (Don Knotts) are the 2 greatest TV characters of all time. Brenda Johnson (Kyra Sedgewick from The Closer) and Vic Mackey (Michael Chiklis of The Shield) are 3rd and 4th.
7. There is nothing in the world as fun as sitting outdoors and watching a baseball game. Any baseball game.
6. Old Comiskey was the greatest ballpark I have ever watched a game in, followed closely by old Bush Stadium in Indianapolis.
5. Ronald Reagan was the greatest president of the 20th Century. He ended stagflation, he restored American pride and hope after the disastrous Carter administration, he lowered taxes, he strengthened our military and our national defense, and he ended the Cold War. All in a day's work for a great conservative! In all of history, only George Washington and Abraham Lincoln rank above Reagan.
4. Our Founding Fathers were Christians, not Deists. They built this country on the rock-solid teachings of the Bible.
3. We as a country have a choice. Do we follow the principles of Reagan conservatism towards peace and prosperity, towards life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness? Or do we follow the principles of modern liberalism towards socialism, secular progressivism, economic disaster, crippled national security, and one-world government under the United Nations?
2. I believe in God's love for us, the Good News of Jesus Christ, the foundational principles of the American republic, the wisdom of our Founding Fathers, the clear-thinking common sense of Reagan conservatism, and the relationship between all of the above.
1. Romans 10:4-10 (The Message): The earlier revelation was intended simply to get us ready for the Messiah, who then puts everything right for those who trust him to do it. Moses wrote that anyone who insists on using the law code to live right before God soon discovers it's not so easy--every detail of life regulated by fine print! But trusting God to shape the right living in us is a different story--no precarious climb up to heaven to recruit the Messiah, no dangerous descent into hell to rescue the Messiah. So what exactly was Moses saying?
The word that saves is right here, as near as the tongue in your mouth, as close as the heart in your chest. It's the word of faith that welcomes God to go to work and set things right for us. This is the core of our preaching. Say the welcoming word to God--"Jesus is my Master"--embracing, body and soul, God's work of doing in us what He did in raising Jesus from the dead. That's it. You're not "doing" anything; you're simply calling out to God, trusting Him to do it for you. That's salvation. With your whole being you embrace God setting things right , and then you say it, right out loud: "God has set everything right between Him and me."
10. The 1975-76 Cincinnati Reds was the greatest baseball team of all time. Their Most Important Player (contrary to popular opinion) was 1B Tony Perez. Rose, Bench and Morgan got more media attention, but Perez was the "straw that stirred the drink." After the Reds traded Perez for the '77 season, they immediately circled the drain, and didn't make it back to the World Series until 1990.
9. Guys like Eric Clapton, Jimi Hendrix, Carlos Santana and Joe Walsh are rightly considered to be historic guitar players and great makers of music, but, daggone, where's the love for Toy Caldwell? He ranks every bit as high as any of these other legends.
8. Jim Rockford (James Garner) and Barney Fife (Don Knotts) are the 2 greatest TV characters of all time. Brenda Johnson (Kyra Sedgewick from The Closer) and Vic Mackey (Michael Chiklis of The Shield) are 3rd and 4th.
7. There is nothing in the world as fun as sitting outdoors and watching a baseball game. Any baseball game.
6. Old Comiskey was the greatest ballpark I have ever watched a game in, followed closely by old Bush Stadium in Indianapolis.
5. Ronald Reagan was the greatest president of the 20th Century. He ended stagflation, he restored American pride and hope after the disastrous Carter administration, he lowered taxes, he strengthened our military and our national defense, and he ended the Cold War. All in a day's work for a great conservative! In all of history, only George Washington and Abraham Lincoln rank above Reagan.
4. Our Founding Fathers were Christians, not Deists. They built this country on the rock-solid teachings of the Bible.
3. We as a country have a choice. Do we follow the principles of Reagan conservatism towards peace and prosperity, towards life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness? Or do we follow the principles of modern liberalism towards socialism, secular progressivism, economic disaster, crippled national security, and one-world government under the United Nations?
2. I believe in God's love for us, the Good News of Jesus Christ, the foundational principles of the American republic, the wisdom of our Founding Fathers, the clear-thinking common sense of Reagan conservatism, and the relationship between all of the above.
1. Romans 10:4-10 (The Message): The earlier revelation was intended simply to get us ready for the Messiah, who then puts everything right for those who trust him to do it. Moses wrote that anyone who insists on using the law code to live right before God soon discovers it's not so easy--every detail of life regulated by fine print! But trusting God to shape the right living in us is a different story--no precarious climb up to heaven to recruit the Messiah, no dangerous descent into hell to rescue the Messiah. So what exactly was Moses saying?
The word that saves is right here, as near as the tongue in your mouth, as close as the heart in your chest. It's the word of faith that welcomes God to go to work and set things right for us. This is the core of our preaching. Say the welcoming word to God--"Jesus is my Master"--embracing, body and soul, God's work of doing in us what He did in raising Jesus from the dead. That's it. You're not "doing" anything; you're simply calling out to God, trusting Him to do it for you. That's salvation. With your whole being you embrace God setting things right , and then you say it, right out loud: "God has set everything right between Him and me."
posted by hondo at 2:16 PM
3 Comments:
HONDO , lightening things up a bit, done wroted:
"Our Founding Fathers were Christians, not Deists. They built this country on the rock-solid teachings of the Bible."
You sure do got a sense of humor, Hondo!
Folks, here's just one example of the truth:
A Treaty between the United States and Tripoli (Barbary). Authored by American diplomat Joel Barlow in 1796, the following treaty was sent to the floor of the Senate, June 7, 1797, where it was read aloud in its entirety and unanimously approved. John Adams, having seen the treaty, signed it and proudly proclaimed it to the Nation.
" Art. 11. As the Government of the United States of America is not, in any sense, founded on the Christian religion; as it has in itself no character of enmity against the laws, religion, or tranquillity, of Mussulmen; and, as the said States never entered into any war, or act of hostility against any Mahometan nation, it is declared by the parties, that no pretext arising from religious opinions, shall ever produce an interruption of the harmony existing between the two countries."
Much as you wish to Christ that it were so, you cain't cover up the truth with lies, Mr Liar.
The treaty was with a Muslim nation, and it would not have worked if this article had not been stated.
Like Jefferson after him, Adams was accomodating the politics of the day. He was, as are most in Washington today, pragmatic. That does not change the history they lived through. They were the ones bending the truth for political reasons.
Instead of noting the opinions of one diplomat (which Congress approved, for the reasons stated above) we need to go back to the original documents and the biographies of the original leaders.
God bless you, Henry, for stating the truth. Tripoli was indeed a Muslim country that was very suspicious of Christianity (sound familiar?). It seems that Great Britain had been in the habit of attacking ships from Tripoli. Britain said that, as a "Christian Nation" (they did indeed have an official Church of England) they were duty-bound to sink Muslim ships. The U.S. was attempting to assure Tripoli that we were not a Christian nation in the same way that England was. We were a nation founded upon the principles of Christianity, but there wasn't an "official" American Church. The treaty was a great example of diplomatic double-speak, worded in that way solely for the purpose of "smoothing out" the representatives from Tripoli.
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