If you go a day without eating, do you get hungry? If you go a day with out water to drink, will you get thirsty? Have you ever fasted? Have you ever went hungry?
We as human beings need food and water to survive! If we go without food or drink very long we get sick and have a hard time functioning!
Would you ever say, I hate going to the store and buying food so I'm never going to return there again!? I just don't like the people I meet there so I will not shop again!
You know I like grocery shopping. I like going to the store. I enjoy seeing people sometimes it is the only time I have seen them in several months. Sometimes I see someone I hadn't seen in years!
We humans are social beings. We need to have contact with others to stay mentally healthy! We need that interaction. Or we start having problems, like withdrawing into our selves. With out filling that social need, man will start to have mental problems. And once those problems start, they tend to keep us apart and separated so we end up having a hard time over coming our mental problems, thinking others will not accept us!
God new that man couldn't survive on physical food alone! He tells us in Matt4:4 "It is written, Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that proceedeth out of the mouth of God."
The word is not just a written book, it is a relationship, and action. God created man with the need for food and relationship to survive in this physical world! He also knew that man need something else to survive completely. Man wasn't just a physical being but a spiritual being as well. Mankind was given a Spirit unlike the rest of the animal world around him!
We are told in Hebrews to not forsake the assembling together! This helps us in two area's as Christians. It helps us with our mental health and spiritual health in having close family in Christ to share and communicate with, and in doing so, assembling together, we do as Hebrews 10 tells us to do!
Heb 10:23-25 Let us hold fast the profession of our faith without wavering; (for he is faithful that promised;) And let us consider one another to provoke unto love and to good works: Not forsaking the assembling of ourselves together, as the manner of some is; but exhorting one another: and so much the more, as ye see the day approaching.
We stay close as a family in our belief and help one another stay close to God and our Lord! Showing our love for one another in Christ and exhorting each other in our faith!
Many say they can worship and read at home by themselves, but in do so, they over look a much needed area of fellowship and staying health in our walk with God!
Just as you would become weak by not eating, and our health would go down hill, so does our spiritual health if we deprive ourselves from spiritual sustenance in the fellowship with the body of Christ!
Paul goes a little further with this idea in 1 Cor. 12, in saying we are all different parts of the same body and we need each other to survive!
1Co 12:14-27 For the body is not one member, but many. If the foot shall say, Because I am not the hand, I am not of the body; is it therefore not of the body? And if the ear shall say, Because I am not the eye, I am not of the body; is it therefore not of the body? If the whole body were an eye, where were the hearing? If the whole were hearing, where were the smelling? But now hath God set the members every one of them in the body, as it hath pleased him. And if they were all one member, where were the body? But now are they many members, yet but one body. And the eye cannot say unto the hand, I have no need of thee: nor again the head to the feet, I have no need of you. Nay, much more those members of the body, which seem to be more feeble, are necessary: And those members of the body, which we think to be less honorable, upon these we bestow more abundant honor; and our uncomely parts have more abundant comeliness. For our comely parts have no need: but God hath tempered the body together, having given more abundant honor to that part which lacked: That there should be no schism in the body; but that the members should have the same care one for another. And whether one member suffer, all the members suffer with it; or one member be honored, all the members rejoice with it. Now ye are the body of Christ, and members in particular.
A while back I heard about a man that got hurt in a field while working to take in his crop. He lost his foot, and a by passer saw him and helped. A sheriff's deputy went back to the field and found the foot. By getting the foot to the hospital on time, the doctors were able to reattach it and it survived and the man walks on it today. As a part of the body we need to be connected the same as that foot or we will die spiritually!
Arteries and veins carry our blood through our body, in the same way they carry the Holy Spirit that which gives life, through the body of Christ! Those arteries and veins represent Fellowship within the Body of Christ! We need that connection with each other to have those veins and arteries connected so the Holy Spirit can flow through us to one another, to other parts of the body!
No not everyone is as honored as the other! Some think they are better than the other, but we know they can not survive without us all! Sometimes we see people as hypocrites, they don't seem to be what we expect of Christians! Churches are just that, a place for sinners to go! We are all sinners and fall short! If it were not for Christ and what he did for us, we would all be lost!
So I hope you will think on not only your physical health but your spiritual health and see the need to fellowship with the rest of your spiritual body. It is then we can show them love by accepting them even if and when they are hard to accept! God accepts them!
Blessings,
Rev. Charles
Monday, February 18, 2008
Friday, February 08, 2008
Money? Romney left the race, is Hillary far behind?
Ok, Romney chose to leave the race for the presidency after not having a good showing in the Supper Tuesday primaries. McCain seemed to be the big winner out of Supper Tuesday. Huckabee came out with a surprise in winning Southern strong Evangelical voting states on the Republican side. It seems that McCain has it locked in for the nomination on the republican ticket, but he is going to have a hard time winning without the right wing Evangelical movement that elected both Reagan and the Bushes! If they stay home on November 4th he will loss! His only hope is that Huckabee joins him on the ticket as his VP and that Evangelicals will then support the McCain/Huckabee ticket. It seems that is what is working in the republican party towards! Not that I would support it! I don't really care for Huckabee myself! What scares me in that presidency is that McCain is in his 70's, and I know they say his mother is in her 90'sand still out and around on her own, but that speaks for the women in the McCain family not the men! How old was his father when he died? Do we really want Huckabee to be president? Huckabee would be set up to run for the presidency in 4 years, even if McCain lives that long! For this reason alone, I could probably vote for a Clinton in the White House again.
It is because of this I am hoping and praying that Obama is the Democratic nominee.
Not to the money issue. After the last poll closed on Supper Tuesday to the next day, Obama raised over 5 million dollars. By that time Hillary had only raised approx. 1.5 million and had to give her campaign and influx of cash by loaning it $5 million of her own money! Do we see a problem here? That gave her the ability to say the next day that they had raised approx 6.5 million and them later in the week a little over 7 million, of course 5 million came from her!
We have three primaries coming upon this next Tuesday that if pollsters are right, and they have been wrong in the past, and Hillary is sure hoping they are wrong this time around too! Obama will take all three, D.C., Maryland and Virgina. Mean while this weekend on Saturday we will find out about Louisiana Primary 67 delegates, Nebraska Caucus 31 delegates, Washington Caucus 97 delegates, Virgin Islands Other 9 delegates. Obama seems to do much better in caucus states too.
Maine Sunday Feb.10th, Hawaii and Wisconsin Feb. 19th, And then it is the next big Tuesday, March 4th with:
Ohio Primary 161 delegates
Rhode Island Primary 32 delegates
Texas Primary 228 delegates
Vermont Primary 23 delegates
Texas is going to be the big prize but by them if Hillary hasn't won any thing big, Texas may not help her, but bring it to a draw, where neither has the delegates it needs to win the nomination out right!
Wyoming Saturday March 8th,
Mississippi Tuesday March 11th,
Pennsylvania Primary 188 delegates April 22nd,
Oh, yea, now in the mean time, we could have caucus's in Michigan and Florida to chose delegates and give Obama time to visit and campaign there, so he could take a large majority of those delegates, which is Hillary's worst nightmare! She wants the delegates that have already been chose for her, to be seated, which won't or better not happen, as that would through the next presidential primary season in 2012? out the door with the National DNC and it's rules, and they will have no power or any meaning or control over when states hold their caucus's or Primaries. You will see 7 to possibly even 20 states vie for one of the front spots to hold their caucus or primary earlier or near the Iowa caucus!
So we watch Feb. 10th to see how it goes, and if thereis a clear winner by that time! We hope so, and we hope it is Obama! Obama will be the hardest for the republicans to beat! And Hillary could just inspire the republicans to get out to vote in record numbers to just voe against her!
It is because of this I am hoping and praying that Obama is the Democratic nominee.
Not to the money issue. After the last poll closed on Supper Tuesday to the next day, Obama raised over 5 million dollars. By that time Hillary had only raised approx. 1.5 million and had to give her campaign and influx of cash by loaning it $5 million of her own money! Do we see a problem here? That gave her the ability to say the next day that they had raised approx 6.5 million and them later in the week a little over 7 million, of course 5 million came from her!
We have three primaries coming upon this next Tuesday that if pollsters are right, and they have been wrong in the past, and Hillary is sure hoping they are wrong this time around too! Obama will take all three, D.C., Maryland and Virgina. Mean while this weekend on Saturday we will find out about Louisiana Primary 67 delegates, Nebraska Caucus 31 delegates, Washington Caucus 97 delegates, Virgin Islands Other 9 delegates. Obama seems to do much better in caucus states too.
Maine Sunday Feb.10th, Hawaii and Wisconsin Feb. 19th, And then it is the next big Tuesday, March 4th with:
Ohio Primary 161 delegates
Rhode Island Primary 32 delegates
Texas Primary 228 delegates
Vermont Primary 23 delegates
Texas is going to be the big prize but by them if Hillary hasn't won any thing big, Texas may not help her, but bring it to a draw, where neither has the delegates it needs to win the nomination out right!
Wyoming Saturday March 8th,
Mississippi Tuesday March 11th,
Pennsylvania Primary 188 delegates April 22nd,
Oh, yea, now in the mean time, we could have caucus's in Michigan and Florida to chose delegates and give Obama time to visit and campaign there, so he could take a large majority of those delegates, which is Hillary's worst nightmare! She wants the delegates that have already been chose for her, to be seated, which won't or better not happen, as that would through the next presidential primary season in 2012? out the door with the National DNC and it's rules, and they will have no power or any meaning or control over when states hold their caucus's or Primaries. You will see 7 to possibly even 20 states vie for one of the front spots to hold their caucus or primary earlier or near the Iowa caucus!
So we watch Feb. 10th to see how it goes, and if thereis a clear winner by that time! We hope so, and we hope it is Obama! Obama will be the hardest for the republicans to beat! And Hillary could just inspire the republicans to get out to vote in record numbers to just voe against her!
Friday, February 01, 2008
Universal Health Care by Hillary and Feb. 31st, 2008 Debate
Ok, as I watched the debate, I hoped Hillary would answer Obama's question on her Universal Health Care! I didn't hear it!
OK what was the question Obama had? Obama said last night that Hillary still hadn't said now she would in force mandated health care, if someone didn't have health care? What kind of penalty would there be? Fines? take it directly out of their paycheck? take their income tax refund away?
Hillary's plan does waver some from having to have health care. You can request a waver!
Many articles today say in the title, that Obama and Hillary played nice at the debate! I would agree, that Obama played nice over all! He should of stuck to his guns so to speak in asking Hillary about the penalties for not having Health Care! I do think that Hillary played a little more hard ball then Obama! But that is to make up for her husbands quieting down!
To be equal in this debate on health care, Obama hasn't said how he would penalize parents that don't cover their children that coverage is mandated for in Obama's plan! Or at least I haven't seen anything on it or heard anything!
Insurance Companies have come out in favor of the Clinton or Edwards Health Care, with mandates for everyone to be covered!
And some have compared this to mandated insurance for car drivers! The problem is that even though there is mandates for insurance, and mandates is the only way insurance companies say the cost would come down! Why hasn't Auto Insurance gotten cheaper? Well it hasn't worked with car insurance! People still can't afford car insurance, why would anyone think mandating insurance would work in the long term or even in the short term!
People without insurance loss their license to drive but they still buy cars and drive them, but then they don't have a drivers license or insurance!
I find the question about allowing undocumented aliens getting drivers licenses laughable. It was asked it they support the states doing this, well, it is the state not the national government and unless Congress passes a law outlawing it, the states have the right to give them licenses! Do I agree with the states doing it, no, do I understand their motives for doing it? Yes!
But then I also believe that Insurance companies are just organized crime gone legal under the states and federal mandates! I can only remember the gangsters pro-traded in movies I watched growing up. and how some gangs are today! How they went around and told the business they wanted so much money from them a week for protection! If the business didn't pay, their windows were broken, and maybe their business was ransacked!
Well today they don't have to brake windows, the government mandates you pay them insurance money so if something happens you are covered! Car accident/house fire/burglary/illness/loan insurance! Where does it stop?
But have they paid the coverage out they carried for people? For the most part no! Just ask people that lost homes during Katrina, or houses in California do to fire, who thought they were covered for replacement cost! Ask the family that lost their daughter just hours before the insurance company agreed to cover an operation she needed to save her life, but refused to up till just before she died! To little to late! So called for the insurance company to be held responsibly for her death and even that the executives should be charged with murder! Will it happen? NO! Who do you charge? The insurance adjuster that disqualified her surgery or the person over them that had the say on the matter or the ones over them! The old adage I was ony following orders!
The buck has to stop somewhere and this is where Clinton hasn't answered the question on, how will you enforce the mandated health coverage?
How do you fix a broken system? Sometimes you just have to do your best or start over from scratch!
And sometimes I wonder if we shouldn't just scrap the old system of medical insurance for a totally new one!
People will just do what they do in accidents, give phony names and information! Get ride of the car and get another one that isn't licensed or licensed under someone else's name!
There are to many questions on how well their plans will work! Something we won't know until they put it to work!
OK what was the question Obama had? Obama said last night that Hillary still hadn't said now she would in force mandated health care, if someone didn't have health care? What kind of penalty would there be? Fines? take it directly out of their paycheck? take their income tax refund away?
Hillary's plan does waver some from having to have health care. You can request a waver!
Many articles today say in the title, that Obama and Hillary played nice at the debate! I would agree, that Obama played nice over all! He should of stuck to his guns so to speak in asking Hillary about the penalties for not having Health Care! I do think that Hillary played a little more hard ball then Obama! But that is to make up for her husbands quieting down!
To be equal in this debate on health care, Obama hasn't said how he would penalize parents that don't cover their children that coverage is mandated for in Obama's plan! Or at least I haven't seen anything on it or heard anything!
Insurance Companies have come out in favor of the Clinton or Edwards Health Care, with mandates for everyone to be covered!
And some have compared this to mandated insurance for car drivers! The problem is that even though there is mandates for insurance, and mandates is the only way insurance companies say the cost would come down! Why hasn't Auto Insurance gotten cheaper? Well it hasn't worked with car insurance! People still can't afford car insurance, why would anyone think mandating insurance would work in the long term or even in the short term!
People without insurance loss their license to drive but they still buy cars and drive them, but then they don't have a drivers license or insurance!
I find the question about allowing undocumented aliens getting drivers licenses laughable. It was asked it they support the states doing this, well, it is the state not the national government and unless Congress passes a law outlawing it, the states have the right to give them licenses! Do I agree with the states doing it, no, do I understand their motives for doing it? Yes!
But then I also believe that Insurance companies are just organized crime gone legal under the states and federal mandates! I can only remember the gangsters pro-traded in movies I watched growing up. and how some gangs are today! How they went around and told the business they wanted so much money from them a week for protection! If the business didn't pay, their windows were broken, and maybe their business was ransacked!
Well today they don't have to brake windows, the government mandates you pay them insurance money so if something happens you are covered! Car accident/house fire/burglary/illness/loan insurance! Where does it stop?
But have they paid the coverage out they carried for people? For the most part no! Just ask people that lost homes during Katrina, or houses in California do to fire, who thought they were covered for replacement cost! Ask the family that lost their daughter just hours before the insurance company agreed to cover an operation she needed to save her life, but refused to up till just before she died! To little to late! So called for the insurance company to be held responsibly for her death and even that the executives should be charged with murder! Will it happen? NO! Who do you charge? The insurance adjuster that disqualified her surgery or the person over them that had the say on the matter or the ones over them! The old adage I was ony following orders!
The buck has to stop somewhere and this is where Clinton hasn't answered the question on, how will you enforce the mandated health coverage?
How do you fix a broken system? Sometimes you just have to do your best or start over from scratch!
And sometimes I wonder if we shouldn't just scrap the old system of medical insurance for a totally new one!
People will just do what they do in accidents, give phony names and information! Get ride of the car and get another one that isn't licensed or licensed under someone else's name!
There are to many questions on how well their plans will work! Something we won't know until they put it to work!
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