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First I want to remind you about a special event this weekend at Pastor Mark Tross’s Church…………
Ekklesia Outreach Presents Larry Huggins
Ekklesia Outreach Presents Guest MinisterAmbassador Larry Huggins,August 22-23 at Star Heights Recreation Ctr., 800 Polaris Blvd. Larry Huggins, D.D. is a Christian Ambassador in his 36th year of full-time ministry. His duties as a Christian Ambassador have taken him to thousands of cities, in scores of nations, and to all fifty states of the USA. Rev. Huggins has founded numerous churches and bible schools in the USA, Canada, Hong Kong, Jamaica, Nigeria, England and India. He is also the founder and director of The Commonwealth of Christ; a global ministry serving the International Christian Community since 1984. In 2008 Ambassador Huggins personally traveled to every state capital in the United States of America and had open, public communion with Christians of every denomination. This historical project was called the SEAL America Campaign –National Communion 2008. For more information on this event please call (505) 417-4332.
Please keep this effort in your prayers.
Last night before heading to bed…….I called Uncle Joe to see if he was watching the Twins. We both have been sadden by the teams performance the last couple of months. My 93 Uncle lives and dies with his Twins and now at least the Vikings have started to play to help out the terrible season the Twins have had. Anyhow, Joe asked me to read him scripture before he hit the hay………
I turned my Bible to………For I am not ashamed for the gospel of Christ, for it is the power of God to salvation for everyone who believes, for the Jew first and also for the Greek.For in it the righteousness of God is revealed from faith to faith; as it is written, “The just shall live by faith.”
Romans 1 16-17
Martin Luther called Romans “the chief part of the New Testament and…..truly the purest gospel.” God used the book to change the lives of Luther, John Wesley, John Calvin, William Tyndale, Saint Augustine, and millions of others.
Then I turned to James………
Come now, you who say, “today or tomorrow we will go to such and such a city, spend a year there, buy and sell, and make a profit.”
whereas you do not know what will happen tomorrow. For what is your life? It is even a vapor that appears for a little time and then vanishes away.
Instead you ought to say, “If the Lord wills, we shall live and do this or that.”
James 4 13-15
I think our leaders, or so called leaders need to read James.
At 2:30 yesterday KKIM broke this story…………..
Thanks to all of the KKIM listeners who called and wrote the Dept. of Education!!!! We had State Rep. Nora Espinoza on with us on NM News and Views sharing the good news….Another case where the People let their voices be heard………We need to keep making that happen as we go on……….
SANTA FE, – New Mexico’s state education secretary says she will not make any changes to a rule requiring the Pledge of Allegiance to be recited every day in public schools.
Secretary Veronica Garcia had been considering amending the rule to allow students to opt out of the pledge and tomake clear there would be no retaliation if they did so.
But Garcia said Friday that most school districts already have policies in place to address that. And she said matters related to students’ rights should be handled by local school districts.
Garcia also said changing the state rule could give the mistaken impression that the Pledge of Allegiance is not important in New Mexico’s classrooms.
We need to keep the pressure on the Gov. to address the law and Judges on the DWI issue here in New Mexico……..here is the craziest thing I have seen in awhile………(it seems I am saying that almost everyday)
Sentenced to 48 hours; freed in three
John Higgins’ Thursday booking photoAn Albuquerque DWI defense attorney convicted of DWI himself on Thursday and sentenced to 48 hours in jail served less than three hours before being released.
Higgins was arrested on suspicion of DWI back in January near 12th and Mountain Road after crashing his car into a curb.
He refused a breath test and was charged with aggravated DWI.
Video of the arrest showed Higgins arguing with and threatening officers and was shown during Higgins trial, which ended with a conviction Thursday afternoon.
Judge Sharon Walton immediately sentenced Higgins to 48 hours at the Metropolitan Detention Center, or MDC, followed by a year of probation.
Higgins attorney appealed the sentence to district court requesting that Higgins be allowed to remain free pending an appeal of the verdict.
Jail records show that Higgins was booked at 9:32 Thursday evening and released at midnight.
Heather Lough of MDC says the jail received a second order from District Court Judge Albert “Pat” Murdoch at about 4:00 Thursday afternoon releasing Higgins on his own recognizance under the supervision of the court’s pretrial services pending his appeal.
Walton says that, if Higgins’ appeal is turned down, she will have him serve the remaining 48 hours.
Judge Murdoch is all wet on this one. As we have suggested for months now the Gov. needs to get the Judges all together in a room and clamp down on them or remove them!!!
The President’s Circus tent is starting to come down………….This man’s inexperience is showing so much. He is being exposed……….
Obama’s ‘big bang’ could go bust
By Mike Allen and Jim VandeHei
Politico
Updated: 08/21/2009 02:34:45 PM CDT
President Barack Obama listens to a question as he speaks about health care during a town hall meeting at Central High School in Grand Junction, Colo. Saturday, Aug. 15, 2009.(AP Photo/Alex Brandon) (AP)
Barack Obama’s “big bang” is beginning to backfire, as his plans for rapid, once-in-a-generation overhauls of energy, financial regulation and health care are running into stiff resistance, both in Washington and around the country.
The Obama theory was simple, though always freighted with risk: Use a season of economic anxiety to enact sweeping changes the public likely wouldn’t stomach in ordinary times. But the abrupt swing in the public’s mood, from optimism about Obama’s possibility to concern he may overreaching, has thrown the White House off its strategy and forced the president to curtail his ambitions.
Some Democrats point to a decision in June as the first vivid sign of trouble for Obama. These Democrats say the White House, in retrospect, made a grievous mistake by muscling conservative Democrats in swing districts to vote for a cap-and-trade energy bill that was very unpopular among their constituents.
Many of those members were pounded back home because Democrats passed a bill Republicans successfully portrayed as a big tax increase on consumers. The result: many conservative Democrats were gun -shy about taking any more risky votes — or going out on a limb on health care.
The other result: The prospects for winning final passage of a cap-and-trade bill this year are greatly diminished. And, while most Democrats still predict a health care bill will pass this year, it is likely to be a shadow of what Obama once had planned.
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majority-makers are the freshman and sophomores from conservative districts where there’s this narrative building about giveaways, buyouts and too much change at once,” said a top House Democratic strategist, who requested anonymity to discuss internal politics candidly. “There’s this big snowball building in those districts. That’s why those folks are so scared.”
David Axelrod, Obama’s political architect, said it was “very clear early in the transition” that Obama would have to attack a number of festering issues simultaneously.
“The times demanded it,” he said in an interview. “We didn’t have the luxury of taking things sequentially, year after year, and hoping we got there. That’s the reason that all these major issues had been deferred for decades: Change is hard.”
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Axelrod said the president is “looking forward to an active fall” when he returns from next week’s vacation on Martha’s Vineyard, and is not as worried about the outlook as the denizens of Washington, where “every day is election day.”
But the “big bang” theory of governance, as some White House insiders called it, is not without risk and consequences.
By doing so much, so fast, Obama gave Republicans the chance to define large swaths of the
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debate. Conservatives successfully portrayed the stimulus bill as being full of pork for Democrats. Then Obama lost control of the health care debate by letting Republicans get away with their bogus claims about “death panels.” The GOP also has successfully raised concerns that the Obama plan is a big-government takeover of health care — and much of Middle America bought the idea, according to polls.
By doi ng so much, so fast, Obama never sufficiently educated the public on the logic behind his policies. He spent little time explaining the biggest bailouts in U.S. history, which he inherited but supported and expanded. And then he lost crucial support on the left by not following up quickly with new and stricter rules for Wall Street.
On Friday, New York Times columnist Paul Krugman echoed a concern widely shared among leading liberals. “I don’t know if administration officials realize just how much damage they’ve done themselves with their kid-gloves treatment of the financial industry, just how badly the spectacle of government-supported institutions paying giant bonuses is playing.”
By doing so much so fast, Obama jammed the circuits on Capitol Hill. Congress has a hard time doing even one big thing well at a time. Congress is good at passing giveaways and tax cuts, but has not enacted a transformative piece of social legislation since President Bill Clinton’s welfare reform of 1996.
“There’s a reason things up here were built to go slowly,” said another Democratic aide.
By doing so doing so much, so fast, he has left voters — especially independents — worried that he got an overblown sense of his mandates and is doing, well, too much too fast. A Washington Post-ABC News poll published Friday found that independents’ confidence in Obama’s ability to make the right decisions had dropped 20 points since the inauguration, from 61 percent to 41 percent.=0 A
Axelrod and others argue Obama had no choice but to tackle all of these issues at once. That might be true for a stimulus bill and the bank and auto bailouts — but that case is harder to make for energy and health care, which have been the focus of intense debate for decades past and probably will be for decades to come.
Go-big-or-go-home isn’t the only theory of the case that a new president can adopt. The most promising alternative is to build public support over time by showing competence and success, then using that to leverage bigger things.
So imagine if Obama had focused on fixing the economy, and chosen presidential power over congressional accommodation and constructed his American Recovery and Reinvestment Act as a true, immediate stimulus without the pork and paybacks.
He then could have pushed through tougher regulation of financial institutions, making it clear people were paying for their sins, and would have a much harder time doing it again. This would have delighted the left and perhaps bought Obama more durable support among independents. Instead, the left thinks he’s beholden to investment banks, and much of the public sees no consequences for the financial mess.
Add in some serious budget cuts, and Obama would have positioned himself as a new kind of liberal with the courage to tame Washington and Wall Street, as promised. Under this scenario, Obama might be getting more credit for the economic recovery that appears to0Abe under way. This would have positioned him to win health care reform starting next year — a mighty achievement, and clear vindication against the doubters. Some White House officials said they are skeptical of moving controversial bills in an election year, when lawmakers are often more timid.
White House officials say they never seriously considered a more incremental approach to the year, though they did privately discuss trying to get regulation of the financial sector done right after the stimulus bill. There was too much disagreement among Democrats at the time over how far to go with regulation to proceed.
If the current strategy fails, the same person who got much of the credit for the crisp first 100 days will get some of the blame: White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel. It was Emanuel who has strongly advocated the “big-bang” approach, declaring during the transition: “You never want a serious crisis to go to waste. Now, what I mean by that, it’s an opportunity to do things you think you could not do.”
The confidence of Obama’s aides was bolstered by their fresh memory that a similar approach had worked very effectively for then-President George W. Bush after the 9/11 attacks. With the public on edge, Bush was able to enact restrictive policies under the banner of protecting American soil, and build an entire new department of government that voters otherwise might have opposed. The economic meltdown would be Obama’s 9/11 — the predicate for swe eping legislation that he wanted to enact anyway.
Just past halftime in his first year, the president has won passage of a long list of bills that the White House points to as proof of their approach. In addition to the stimulus, Obama signed major bills on tobacco, pay equity, children’s health insurance, national service and the mortgage rescue.
If he gets health care and either energy overhaul or financial regulation this year, it would be hard to argue the “big-bang” plan wasn’t a success.
Former Rep. Lee Hamilton, D-Ind., now president and director of the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, cautions that any verdict on Obama would be “kind of like judging a major surgical operation in the middle of the operation.”
With Obama reaching the defining season of his freshman year, Hamilton said the current agenda reminds him of the scale of the Great Society programs Congress was tackling when he came to Congress in 1965. “This president thinks big but I also think he acts pragmatically,” Hamilton said. “So many things in a congressional session come together at the last few hours, the last few weeks.”
But sometimes they just come undone.
Having been raised in the American Lutheran Church in Windom, Minnesota this story makes me so sad……..Does not the Church read Romans? What Bible are they reading?
Lutherans vote to allow sexually active gays as clergy by 68 percent margin
By Patrick Condon
Associated Press
Updated: 08/21/2009 06:54:49 PM CDT
Members Pastor Orinda Hawkins-Brinkley, Diane Yeager. Marj Ellis and Steven Schnittke along with other members of the Evangelical Lutheran Church of America (ELCA) stop for a moment of prayer Friday morning Aug . 21, 2009 during their assembly at the Minneapolis Convention Center. (AP Photo/Dawn VIllella) (Associated Press: Dawn Villella))
The nation’s largest Lutheran denomination took openly gay clergy more fully into its fold Friday, as leaders of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America voted to lift a ban that prohibited sexually active gay and lesbian people from serving as ministers.
Under the new policy, individual ELCA congregations will be allowed to hire homosexuals as clergy as long as they are in a committed relationships. Until now, gays and lesbians had to remain celibate to serve as clergy.
The change passed with the support of 68 percent of about 1,000 delegates at the ELCA’s national assembly. It makes the group, with about 4.7 million members in the U.S., one of the largest U.S. Christian denominations yet to take a more gay-friendly stance.
“I have seen these same-gender relationships function in the same way as heterosexual relationships — bringing joy and bl essings as well as trials and hardships,” the Rev. Leslie Williamson, associate pastor at Trinity Lutheran Church in Des Plaines, Ill., said during the hours of debate. “The same-gender couples I know live in love and faithfulness and are called to proclaim the word of God as are all of us.”
Conservative congregations will not be forced to hire gay clergy. Nevertheless, opponents of the shift decried what they saw as straying from clear Scriptural direction, and warned that it could lead some congregations and individual churchgoers to split off from the ELCA.
“This will cause an ever greater loss in members and
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finances. I can’t believe the church I loved and served for 40 years can condone what God condemns,” said the Rev. Richard Mahan, pastor at St. Timothy Lutheran Church in Charleston, W.Va. “Nowhere in Scripture does it say homosexuality and same-sex marriage is acceptable to God. Instead, it says it is immoral and perverted.”
David Keck, a delegate from the Southern Ohio Synod, said he feared that by embracing partnered gays as clergy that the ELCA was heading down a road that would ultimately
Former Republican Governor of Minnesota Al Quie speaks in opposition of allowing gay clergy to lead churches unless they remain celibate while debating during the Evangelical Lutheran Church of America (ELCA) convention. (Associated Press: Dawn VIllella)
lead to “the blessing of same-sex unions as the policy of this church,” he said.
Mahan said he believed a majority of his congregation would want to now break off from the ELCA.
Other leaders indicated they might leave as well; the Rev. Tim Housholder, pastor of St. Luke’s Lutheran Church in Cottage Grove described himself during the debate as a rostered ELCA pastor “at least for a few more hours.” The Rev. Marshall Hahn, pastor at St. Olaf Lutheran Parish in Dubuque, Iowa, said he’d need to talk to his bishop “to discuss what this means for my future with this church.”
In September, Lutheran CORE — the group that led the fight against the changes — is holding a convention in Indianapolis to discuss the next steps. It also encouraged ELCA members and congregations to direct finances away from ELCA church-wid e organizations and toward “faithful ministries within and outside of the ELCA.”
Other Christian denominations in the United States have struggled to remain united in the face of such debates. In 2003, the 2 million-member Episcopal Church of the United States consecrated its first openly gay bishop, a move that alienated American Episcopalians from its worldwide parent church, the Anglican Communion. The divide has led to the formation of the more conservative Anglican Church in North America, which claims 100,000 members.
But ELCA supporters of its change said that failure to ratify it ran just as great a risk of alienating large portions of the membership, particularly those from younger generations.
The Rev. Katrina Foster, pastor at Fordham Evangelical Lutheran Church in the Bronx, said that Lutherans heard similar warnings about flouting Scripture when they made past changes that are now seen as successful — chiefly, the ordination of women.
“We can learn not to define ourselves by negation,” said Foster, who is a lesbian. “By not only saying what we are against, which always seems to be the same — against gay people. We should be against poverty. I wish we were as zealous about that.”
Tim Mumm, a gay man and an assembly delegate from Whitewater, Wis., said the Scripture that guides opponents of the more liberal policy was written by mortals, at a much earlier time, and doesn’t reflect what many Christians now believe.
“I b elieve for me to marry a woman would be wrong — even sinful,” Mumm said. “I don’t believe God intended to put me and others in a no-win situation.”
Some ELCA congregations had already been flouting the ban on noncelibate gay priests by hiring pastors in gay relationships. Some synods looked the other way, while others removed such priests from their rosters.
It was such divisions and inconsistencies in enforcement that an ELCA task force aimed to finesse when it began several years ago to draw up the ministry recommendations and a broader social statement on human sexuality, which passed earlier this week.
Under the new policy, heterosexual clergy and professional lay workers will still have to abstain from sex outside marriage. The proposed change would cover those in “lifelong, monogamous, same-gender relationships.”
How have we come to this??????
(CNN) — A controversial bill that California legislators say would allow the early release of more than 27,000 inmates from crowded prisons will be taken up by the state Assembly on Monday.
Inmates at Mule Creek State Prison in Ione, California, interact in a gym modified to house them in August 2007.
The Senate on Thursday passed the corrections package 21-19, after Senate President Pro Tem Darrell Steinberg, D-Sacramento, assured senators the changes would protect the public from the most violent offenders.
The legislation also would direct more resources toward parolees, he said.
Senate Republicans say the bill would undermine public safety. All 15 Senate Republicans voted against the measure.
Both houses of the legislature are controlled by Democrats.
Consideration of the bill comes as California faces a mid-September deadline for reducing its prison population by about 40,000 inmates. A special panel of three federal judges issued the order, contending the crowded prison system violates prisoners’ constitutional rights.
The judges said they will make the reductions themselves if the state fails to act.
The measure would save the financially strapped state $524.5 million, according to a statement from Steinberg’s office.
When coupled with budget revisions that lawmakers made in July, the total corrections savings would be $1.2 billion, he said. That is the amount that Republican Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger wants as part of his efforts to cut state spending and balance the budget.
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Republicans said the bill would lead to the release of about 27,000 prisoners, while Democrats estimated it would reduce the prison population by 27,300 in the 2009-10 fiscal year and 37,000 during fiscal year 2010-11.
“It is undeniable that the real failure of our criminal justice system is that it fails to distinguish between violent offenders and nonviolent offenders,” Steinberg said.
“Of course, we want to keep violent criminals off our streets and out of our communities, and this reform package is a necessary step to do that because it concentrates our incarceration efforts on the violent criminals and ensures that nonviolent offenders have more contact with parole officers,” he said.
Some nonviolent offenders could serve shorter sentences.
According to Steinberg, each parole officer in California is responsible for about 70 parolees, many of whom recommit crimes and go back to jail. If the legislation is passed, the ratio would be reduced to 45 to 1, he said.
“They [parole officers] cannot adequately supervise those who are the most at risk and those who are the most risk to the public safety,” Steinberg said. With a lesser workload, the officers also can make more home visits and arrange more meetings with the people they supervise, the lawmaker said.
Senate Republicans called the legislation a threat to public safety.
“Among the inmates who could be eligible for early release under the Democrat plan include felons convicted of human trafficking, stalking, identity theft, violent child abuse and threatening to use a weapon of mass destruction,” the Republican Caucus said in a written statement.
“Unfortunately, this proposal exploits a fiscal crisis in order to advance a dangerous liberal agenda that seeks to undo successful anti-crime laws,” said Senate Republican Leader Dennis Hollingsworth of Murrieta.
GOP lawmakers in the Senate also strongly opposed the creation of what they described as “an unelected and unaccountable sentencing commission that would be given broad authority to alter important public safety laws.”
The legislation would establish a 16-member Sentencing Commission that would put in place new sentencing guidelines by July 1, 2012. Unless vetoed by the legislature and governor, the guidelines would become effective January 1, 2013.
The 13 voting members of the commission would include the chief justice of the California Supreme Court, a judge appointed by the chief justice, the state public defender and the secretary of the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation. A crime victim would be among the three ex-officio members.
California Assembly Speaker Karen Bass, D-Los Angeles, issued a statement early Friday morning, explaining that the assembly recessed around midnight and will reconvene Monday.
On Thursday and into Friday morning, she said in the statement, “we have been taking into account many of the concerns raised by law enforcement, and are working toward a bill that the people of California can agree makes sense,” and that process will continue through the weekend.
“Our target remains a responsible approach that will achieve our public safety and budgetary goals, and allow us to prevent the wholesale release of prisoners by federal judges.”
“Relieving prison overcrowding and reducing recidivism are monumental challenges, but they are challenges that we will not retreat from,” Schwarzenegger told an audience of prosecutors in June.
And if they don’t want to live in the United States………..so be it……….
HONOLULU – Hawaii welcomed its entry as the 50th state with a new postage stamp Friday but independence supporters marked the day with passionate protest — including an effigy of Uncle Sam being beaten and Hawaii’s star cut out from the U.S. flag.
State leaders called Friday’s events a “commemoration” of Hawaii’s 50 years of statehood rather than a “celebration” out of respect to Native Hawaiians and their unresolved claims since the 1893 overthrow of the Hawaiian kingdom.
A few hundred Native Hawaiians marched through the street of downtown Honolulu with an effigy of a 15-foot Uncle Sam holding machine guns and riding in a tank made of cardboard. They chanted in Hawaiian, blew on conch shells, waved ti leaves, carried upside-down Hawaii state flags and yelled, “We are not Americans! We want our country back!”
“Genocide” and “imperialist” were written across the cardboard machine guns.
At the end of the march, protesters knocked off Uncle Sam’s hat, which contained a U.S. flag from which they cut out a star that represented Hawaii. They lit the star on fire and held it up to a crowd yelling “freedom.”
“We were never the 50th state,” said Kaleo Farias, one of protesters that cut the U.S. flag. “It was an illusion, fabrication, something that was told to us that never happened. … We’re not part of the United States.”
The events commemorating Hawaii’s 1959 admission into the union have been light on flag-waving and para des. Instead, they have focused on the state’s economic future with panel discussions on tourism, alternative energy and Hawaiian rights.
And this is the World we live, for August 22, 2009 God Bless, Dewey and Sharon and family
Let us pray………..
Lord, We thank you for our right to voice our opinions in the United States of America, the country You founded! May we as your children keep on being the salt and light of the world as You tell us to be. We pray for the Church’s that are ignoring Your word Father. In the name of Jesus, AMEN!
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