National Religious Broadcasters Using Oneness Modalist Heretic TD Jakes To Get Out The Vote

Driving to work this morning viewing the effects of the terrible thunderstorms that spared my neighborhood but hard hit the one right next to mine, I was listening to Christian radio. Out of the blue comes TD Jakes’ booming voice. In it, he first speaks of how much he loves America and so forth. I immediately thought of Jakes doing this to exploit anger over Barack Hussein Obama, Michelle Obama, and Jeremiah Wright’s considerably less than jingoistic statements and actions. Then he went into his exhortation spiel for people to register and get out to vote. 

First, I see Lifeway Bookstores, owned by the Southern Baptist Convention, selling TD Jakes’ doctrinal error (oneness pentecostalism and the Word of Faith/prosperity doctrine are but a few of his MANY problems) and now the National Religious Broadcasters are using this guy. I had been using the NRB as a sort of a refuge from the blatant charismania that you will find on The Word Network, Trinity Broadcasting Network, Daystar, etc. So I just ignored the heavy Pat Robertson presence on the channel, as well as their “white Europeans are the descendants of the children of Israel … the Danube River is so named because of the tribe of Dan” show that comes on early in the morning. I also ignored their embrace of the Ellen White Seventh Day Adventist cult. So I suppose that I cannot cast NRB aside on Jakes’ account, since the ones that I just named are hardly better – if anything some might be worse – or else I would be reacting out of a personal dislike for Jakes rather than on principle. (On the other hand, Slice of Laodicea has criticized NRB, albeit for different reasons, such as this post stating that not one red cent of NRB’s $5 BILLION IN ASSETS is being used to defend the faith from Oprah Winfrey.)

Incidentally, speaking of TD Jakes and PR spots, he has another one out (I did not catch the sponsor!) promoting single sex education, saying that “boys need their own schools so that they will be able to, you know, romp and stuff (his choice of words not mine!) and that boys learn differently from girls and needed their own classrooms in order to be accommodated. So … it looks like Jakes is not that far removed from Jeremiah Wright’s separatist doctrines after all? 

I have to be honest, back when I was part of the religious right and allowing my worldview to be shaped by the Washington Times and the National Review, I was in full agreement. But now … I just recall reading about this inner city public school that went all male. Sure, the discipline problems decreased and the test scores went up. But when they interviewed the boys that attended the school, EVERY SINGLE ONE OF THEM WANTED THEM TO BRING THE GIRLS BACK! Why? Because, er … BOYS LIKE GIRLS! Or at least they are supposed to anyway. Perhaps now that T.D. Jakes is on board with the new world order’s gay rights agenda (and yes this is relevant … perhaps due to his son) he thinks it is OK. To me, the whole single sex education thing … who wants it? Certainly not the kids. Not the administrators or teachers. Parents go for it only because they are desperate for any hook or angle to improve the failing school systems that the government is ruining on purpose. Not even the old fashioned religious sorts – of which I am one – think that it is a good idea anymore, where you were supposed to keep boys and girls separate in their little boarding or finishing schools (where they were supposed to look OH SO CUTE in their little uniforms I guess) UNTIL GRADUATION DAY WHEN YOU MARRY THEM OFF.

Sorry people, but society has changed. Not all of the changes have been for the good, but methinks that one of the most important things for a boy to learn from school is how to treat a lady and how to behave yourself in their presence. For some of us guys, those things do not come naturally, and you only learn them through trial and error. Especially error. (If you don’t learn to handle competition and rejection in junior high and high school, how on earth are you supposed to handle being turned down for jobs, promotions, college choices, etc. later in life?) So … HOW ON EARTH ARE THEY SUPPOSED TO LEARN THOSE THINGS IF THERE ARE NO GIRLS AROUND TO LEARN THEM FROM? 

Like I said, TD Jakes may have his own reasons for wanting to turn your local public school into Morehouse College or similar, and whatever they are I oppose them 100%. All the more reason why the Southern Baptist Convention should not be selling this guy’s books and NRB shouldn’t be using him for their get out the vote campaign. But I suppose that this oneness anti – Trinitarian heretic is just too good at making money and moving public opinion for these people to pass up. That is, unless they are actually along with Jakes, on his side. After all, the Southern Baptists refuse to do anything about the likes of New Age heretic Erwin McManus and Council on Foreign Relations worker Rick Warren (and Richard Land too?), and as stated earlier, Al Sharpton Al Gore global warming propagandist partner Pat Robertson is a major partner with the NRB. 

Blaspheming Jesus Christ By Saying Nothing

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(Isaiah 53:7; Matthew 26:62-63; Psalms 22:6-8; Matthew 27:39-40)
Blaspheming Jesus while Christians say nothing. For many who reject the
Bible as Truth and Jesus Christ as their Savior, blaspheming our Lord is
something they do without conscience or any fear of repercussions.
Entertainers like Carlin, Maher, Rosie, and many others, have openly mocked
and blasphemed Christ their entire careers to the laughs and cheers of those
who listen to them. Others have used their God given gifts and talents to
publicly blaspheme the Lord through books, motion pictures, music, and art.
As the years have rolled by and the nation gets further away from God and
Biblical values, the blaspheming of Jesus gets more frequent, more bold, and
more disgusting. Men have used their imaginations to creatively blaspheme
the Lord in every possible way while Christians sit back in silence.

Paul Verhoeven, the director of “Basic Instinct” and other motion pictures,
will soon be releasing a biography of Jesus where he makes the shocking
claim that Christ probably was the son of Mary and a Roman soldier who raped
her during the Jewish uprising in Galilee and says that Christ was not
betrayed by Judas Iscariot, one of the 12 original apostles of Jesus, as the
New Testament states. Verhoeven, who is Catholic and holds a doctorate in
mathematics and physics from the University of Leiden, was a regular
attendee of the Jesus Seminar. The seminar, something I have warned people
about for years, calls into question miracles and statements attributed to
Jesus in the Bible and rejects the divinity of Christ.

Also on the blaspheming Jesus front is B. Hussein Obama advisor Larry
Lessig, a Stanford University law professor, who includes in his lectures a
video of a ‘gay’ Jesus Christ sashaying nearly naked down a city street to
the tune of Gloria Gaynor’s “I Will Survive,” only to get run over by a bus,
( http://www.spike.com/video/2685131 ). Lessig stated that he used the
video over the last three years in the section of his talks which show
examples of ‘remix’ creativity. In addition to happily showing off
blasphemous images of Christ, Lessig is also known as a digital communist.
He believes there should be no such thing as intellectual property rights,
that patents and copyrights should be tossed.

Let there be no mistake, mocking Jesus is not a new phenomenon. There were
people who lived at the same time as our Lord who rejected Him, just like
there are people who reject Him today. We know from the Bible that in the
fulfillment of Scripture He was mocked and scorned in the last hours of his
life. So many of the supposed “lost books of the Bible” and these new
“gospels” are nothing more than the anti-Christian writings of men who
rejected the message of Christ and who He is. Those anti-Christian writings
have always existed throughout the last 2000 years, right up to today with
the modern day heretics like Dan Brown, the author of “The DaVinci Code” and
Michael Baigent , who wrote the equally blasphemous “Jesus Papers.” People
have mocked our Lord since the days He walked this earth.

What is new is the bold and fearless public attacks on our Lord throughout
the world today. I have told you often that the United States is no longer a
Christian nation. A classic example of that fact is the way those who hate
Jesus publicly mock Him. Just 10 years ago, no legitimate publisher would
print a book full of such vile lies about the Lord. Ten years ago, no law
school professor would be using such disgusting depictions of Christ in
their lectures. Ten years ago, a blasphemous book like “The DaVinci Code”
would have never sold tens of millions of copies like it has today. While
Madonna has made a career of mocking Christ and His church, even she has
taken her blasphemy to a new level by mocking the crucifixion.

I have done many Devotionals over these past 9 years on the boldness of
satan versus the timidity of Christians. Do you believe me now?

The natural question of course is what do we do about it? First, you can’t
blame those who put out these disgusting and blasphemous representations of
Jesus. Oh, don’t get me wrong, God WILL hold them accountable, but these are
people who have clearly rejected God, His Truth, and Jesus, so what do you
expect? They have given themselves over as instruments of unrighteousness so
they are actually only doing what comes naturally to them. How can you
really blame those who hate and reject the Lord from expressing that
rejection and hatred? Hear me carefully. They are not the problem, WE ARE
THE PROBLEM!

Maybe now you can understand why I hammer relentlessly on how Christians
have abandoned the marketplace for the comfort, safety, and oh yes, the
profitability of this Christian subculture we have created for ourselves. In
reality, we are in rebellion to God since the Bible doesn’t say separate
yourselves from the world, it actually COMMANDS us to do the exact opposite!
What we are seeing with the open and public mocking of Jesus is one of the
results of our abandoning the culture of our day and leaving it to the
devil. He operates virtually without any opposition so why are we surprised
that he has taken his hatred and scorn for Jesus to the extremes we witness
today? Let me warn you my friend, it is only going to get worse!

The answer to this blaspheming of our Lord is to get back into the
marketplace and start taking a stand for Christ. Each follower of the Lord
can do their part each day where you live, where you go to school or work,
where you shop, in the recreational activities you are involved in, and with
the people God brings across your path. You take your stand by living a
Godly and holy life. You take your stand by not being afraid to speak up for
our Lord when you are around people who are speaking against Him. You take
your stand by finding ways to serve Him You can’t stop the mockers, but you
can make sure their message of hatred for our Lord does not go
unchallenged!!!

I love you and care about you so much. For anyone who loves Jesus, it has to
break your heart to see how our Lord and Savior is portrayed by those who
hate Him. I have no doubt Jesus is looking down and saying “Father forgive
them, for they know not what they do.” The reality is, Paul Verhoeven ,
Larry Lessig, Madonna, Dan Brown, and all those who blaspheme Jesus will die
one day. At that moment they will be standing before God their Creator to be
judged. If they die rejecting the Lord, the Bible says they will be cast
into everlasting darkness.

I believe the last thing they will see, the picture that will be with them
as they suffer for all eternity, will be that of King Jesus, the One they
openly mocked and scorned!!! Pray for these lost souls. Without the Lord in
their heart, they have allowed their lives to be used as agents of satan.
Don’t forget that there was a man named Saul of Tarsus who persecuted the
early church, killed Christians, yet that same Saul was visited by Jesus one
day and his life gloriously transformed. He became Paul and went on to live
one of the greatest Christian lives ever documented.

I pray that this will be a wake-up call for all Believers today. A wake-up
call that we have got to get back into the marketplace where we live each
day and boldly, without shame or compromise proclaim our faith in Christ. If
this doesn’t motivate you, nothing will. For too long, we have been
intimidated into keeping our mouths shut while those who live in rebellion
to God speak loud and bold without fear or conscience to promote their
ungodly lives and choices. Maybe this will give you some insight into my
drive and passion for what we do each day here at Liveprayer. Our number one
goal is to bring the lost to the saving knowledge of Jesus Christ. Getting
people saved is the ultimate answer.

In addition to proclaiming the Gospel to the lost and bringing the hope of
Christ to the hurting, I am here to bring Biblical Truth back into the
marketplace. I can’t stop publishers from putting out disgusting lies about
our Lord, I can’t stop people from depicting our Lord in the most horrible
ways to make fun of Him, I can’t stop pop stars like Madonna from mocking
the crucifixion, I can’t stop people like Dan Brown from writing
anti-Christian books, but I can go out into that VERY SAME marketplace and
reach those VERY SAME people with the fact that their only hope and their
only answer is faith in Jesus Christ!

Those who hate our Lord are bold and courageous in taking their message of
hate to the masses. I challenge you today that if you love Jesus, you should
be even bolder and more courageous in taking the message of His love to
those same masses! While the world blasphemes our Lord, we have got to
praise Him!!!

In His love and service,
Your friend and brother in Christ,
Bill Keller bkeller@liveprayer.com
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On Barack Obama’s Universalism, John Edward, Homosexuality, McDonald’s And Fitna

*By Pastor Bill Keller

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McDonalds, John Edward, Obama, and FITNA. Today is an interesting day since
there are several different news items that I want to share with you. Each
is important since they all represent critical issues I have been dealing
with for years in the Daily Devotional. They are the mainstream acceptance
of homosexuality, those who claim to talk to the dead and people who claim
to be psychics, the lie that many think there are many roads which lead to
God, and the false religion of Islam. These news items simply reinforce
that these issues are not going away and how important it is to have a voice
in the marketplace to tell the Truth about each one.

It was recently announced that McDonalds Vice President of Communications,
Richard Ellis, has been named to the Board of the National Gay and Lesbian
Chamber of Commerce. McDonalds is listed on the website of the National Gay
and Lesbian Chamber of Commerce as a “corporate partner and organization
ally” for an undisclosed financial contribution. Ellis state, “I’m thrilled
to join the National Gay & Lesbian Chamber of Commerce team and ready to get
to work. I share the NGLCC’s passion for business growth and development
within the LGBT community and I look forward to playing a role in moving
these important initiatives forward.”

Last week, I shared a Devotional with you that made the claim we have lost
the war to stop the sin of homosexuality from becoming accepted by the
mainstream. You don’t get any more mainstream than McDonalds, and it is
clear that the hamburger giant is more worried about having a relationship
with those who choose to engage in deviant forms of sex than with people of
faith. This stamp of approval by one of the world’s most visible
corporations, is another clear example of the fact that homosexuality is now
viewed by society as an acceptable choice. Like I have told you many times,
nobody fears the Christian community any longer since we are so fragmented
and have no unifying voice.

Our buddy John Edward is back. He is like Jason in those horror movies.
Edward has resurfaced in the strangest of places, the Home Shopping Network.
I have warned people for years about this charlatan who claims to be able to
talk to the dead. John Edward is at best a highly polished carnival act,
and at worst, operating in demonic powers. He is now on HSN, hawking 10
DVDs of his lies for $90. How sad it is to see people who are searching for
answers, looking for true hope, fall into the clutches of this con man who
leads them away from the real Truth, the Bible, and the real answer, Jesus.

My friend, the Bible condemns those who claim to be psychics, since only God
knows the future. The Bible tells us to not turn to mediums or seek out
spiritualists, or you will be defiled by them. We know that satan is an
“angel of light” and can do many deceptive things. However, the Word of God
tells us the dead no longer have any part of this life. John Edward and
those like him are NOT of God, they are enemies of God and tools of satan.
They are spiritual frauds who God speaks harshly against in the Bible. As a
matter of fact, in the OT people like Edward were commanded to be put to
death. This is how dangerous they are to others in the eyes of God.

Our friend, Senator B. Hussein Obama (for the record, it is his name, I
didn’t give it to him, his parents did), certainly didn’t even learn in 20
years of sitting in the pews at Trinity United Church of Christ what most
elementary school Sunday School students are taught. In a campaign stop
recently in Greensboro, North Carolina, Senator Obama told the audience that
he believes he “can have everlasting life” because Jesus Christ died for his
sins. But he then told a questioner that he believes Jews and Muslims who
live moral lives are just as much “children of God” as he is. He went on to
add that his late mother didn’t share his faith but was a kind and generous
person, so he’s “sure she’s in heaven.”

Sen. Obama has sadly bought into this universalistic lie from hell I warn
you about often, the dangerous lie the New Age gurus and the high priestess
of the New Age movement Oprah is telling millions, and that there are many
roads that lead to God, that faith in Jesus is NOT the only way to be saved.
I hate to break this to the Senator, but if his mother died without
accepting Jesus into her heart and life by faith, then like all who reject
Christ she is NOT in Heaven, but in the flames of hell for all eternity.
This is not a game! I try to tell people all the time that what we do each
day is literally battle satan for the souls of men. Satan wants people to
believe this lie that you can get to Heaven without Jesus, but he knows it
is a lie and that those who buy that lie will be with him in hell for all
eternity.

This is so critical since now this lie is being preached from many pulpits.
You have Christian churches now who endorse this notion that God will
understand and as long as you are a “good person” and do your best, you will
make it to Heaven. The Bible proclaims that there is NONE that is good, no
not one. It says that we have ALL sinned and fallen short of the glory of
God. God has given us His plan, His ONLY PLAN for salvation, and that is by
putting our faith in Jesus Christ, since it was Jesus who died as the
payment for our sins. There are not many roads that lead to God, only one,
faith in Jesus Christ. There is no other name by which men are saved!

Lastly is FITNA, the movie about Islam produced by Dutch politician Geert
Wilders. I have done dozens of press interviews the past few days after the
UK video hosting company LiveLeak chose to pull the movie from their servers
due to the death threats their employees were getting. Liveprayer had a
copy and I had it on my website, on my servers, the only website in the
world that had the movie in its entirety. The press all wanted to know why
I would put such a movie on a Christian website, a movie that many claim is
anti-Muslim.

What Wilders did was excellent, in that he took the very words Muslims
follow in their teachings, and showed them following those words as they
carried out their acts of hatred and killing. These are not a few isolated
acts of terror, but how Muslims worldwide operate. It is visual proof of
what this false religion of hate and death is really all about, and that is
why they are doing everything they can to hide it from the world. It has
only been in the past few years with the advent of 24/7 cable news, advanced
satellite technology, and the Internet, that people around the world,
especially here in the United States, are being exposed to how this false
religion has operated during its 1400 year history.

Let me give you a great contrast between the false religion of Islam and the
Christian faith. People are born into or intimidated into joining the false
religion of Islam. People CHOOSE to become a follower of Christ. Islam is
about hate and death. Christianity is about love and life. People need to
wake up and understand the nature of this very real threat to not just the
Untied States, but to the entire world.

I love you and care about you so much. Today is a great reminder of a
number of issues I have been talking to you about for many years now. As
you can see, they are still pressing issues since the church has chosen to
ignore them and continues to focus mainly on preaching to the choir in the
comfort, safety, and profitability of the “Christian trough,” while the
world around us is dying and going to hell. Homosexuality is now mainstream
because the church didn’t have the guts to speak out against this sin.
Sadly, you now have many churches who instead of speaking the Truth about
this sin, have simply accepted and condoned homosexuality to be like the
rest of our fallen world.

Hurting people continue to turn to scam artists and false hope merchants
like John Edward in their time of need, because he at least acts like he
cares about them and is part of their world. High profile Christians like
B. Hussein Obama propagate the lie from hell that you don’t really need to
accept Jesus as your Savior by faith to make it to Heaven. People are
asleep or totally apathetic about the real threat Islam is to this nation
and world, and have been bullied into believing that there are simply a
handful of Muslims who perpetrate all of these violent acts of terror around
the world. The fact is, all Muslims read from the same holy book and follow
the teachings of their murdering pedophile false prophet Muhammad.

I pray today that you are stirred to take your stand in this lost world for
Christ. God has called each of His children to do their part where He has
you planted for this season. Staying silent is no longer an option, since
that is how this nation has turned from Biblical Truth to the lies of the
world and from honoring the God of the Bible to rejecting Him for the false
gods and idols of the world. May the Lord give you a spirit of boldness and
fearlessness as you declare His Truth to the lost and hurting, and tell
everyone you know that their only hope for this life and all eternity is
faith in Jesus Christ!

In His love and service,
Your friend and brother in Christ,
Bill Keller bkeller@liveprayer.com

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Al Sharpton And Pat Robertson To Appear Together In Global Warming Ad For Al Gore

People, if I TRIED to make up things pertaining to the current wicked state of the world – with people calling themselves Christians contributing to a heavy part of it – I would not be able to come up with anything like this. The nugget describing the various people (including Nancy Pelosi and Newt Gingrich) in this $300 million dollar ad campaign that they honestly claim is “being largely funded with profits from the movie An Inconvenient Truth” (which only made $15 million in the U.S. … even “Fahrenheit 9/11″, the highest grossing documentary ever barely made $100 million in the US!). Republicans and Democrats, liberals and conservatives, religious right and religious left all sitting in a tree … the article below proves that all of these people, who are heavily involved with the Council on Foreign Relations and other similar organizations, are on the same side. Now we know that John McCain, who has been promoting this agenda for some time now in return for his shot at going from being a back bench senator to someone that people have actually heard of, has joined up with these people. And we also know Barack Obama’s connections to them, and those of his wife. Hillary Clinton? Married to Bill, so enough said!

Gore: I am no ‘Boss Tweed’

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What Does The Bible Say About Racism? Try Galatians 3:28!

“There is neither Jew nor Greek, slave nor free, male nor female, for you
are all one in Christ Jesus.” Galatians 3:28

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Genesis 1:26,27, Deuteronomy 10:17, Acts 10:34, Romans 2:11, Galatians
3:28

What does God say about racism? Like in all matters of life, when we need
the Truth, the real answers, we have to go to our final authority in all
matters, the Bible. One of the greatest weapons of satan is division. The
enemy has figured out every way imaginable to divide men. Since virtually
the beginning of the human experience, man has fallen into satan’s trap of
division based on the color of a person’s skin or their ethnic origin.
While racism has always been an issue in this country, the fact is it is an
issue in every country. This divisive mindset is not unique to the United
States. Sadly, in some form it is practiced everywhere on the planet.

Since the racially incendiary remarks by B. Hussein Obama’s pastor of 20
years, Dr. Jeremiah Wright, became such a big part of the Presidential
campaign a few weeks ago, it has sparked a national dialogue on race. A few
weeks ago Senator Obama gave a speech on race that was lauded by many.
Those who made such a big deal over his speech were most likely swayed by
the fact he was dealing so openly with a taboo subject few will talk about.
However, his speech was hollow, self serving, and nothing more than a
political move to do damage control because of his close association with
Dr. Wright.

B. Hussein Obama’s race speech did NOTHING to help people or this nation
deal with this scourge, since the victory over racism isn’t going to come
from the flowery words of a politician whose only motive and goal is to get
elected President. No my friend, if people and this nation are going to
truly get victory over racism, it has got to come from an understanding of
what God says about this issue and by people who are willing to follow what
God says in the Bible.

If Senator Obama had intended to really take a leadership role on the race
issue, educate the nation and provide real answers for how to get victory
over this inhumane way people treat others who are different than they are,
then he would have told people what God says about racism. God says MUCH
about this issue, but Senator Obama didn’t find it worth including even one
verse of Scripture.

*THIS IS WHY I TELL YOU SO OFTEN THAT IT WILL NOT BE A POLITICIAN, BUT A MAN GOD HAS CALLED TO LEAD PEOPLE IN THE WAYS OF RIGHTEOUSNESS!!!

The fact is, there is only one race, the human race! People may have white
skin, black skin, brown skin, yellow skin, red skin, or any other color
skin, they may have different ethnic backgrounds, but they are all part of
the same race, the human race! The Bible says that ALL MEN are created in
the image of God. God created all men equal. I tell you frequently that
satan is the great perverter. It is satan, not God, who seeks to divide men
by their skin color, ethnicity, financial means, and any other way you can
dream up to divide people. God created men equal to live in harmony with
one another. It is satan who introduced division into the human experience.

In God’s plan of redemption, there is no division. John 3:16 says that God
so loved the world, ALL men. It says that WHOSOEVER BELIEVES. That is a
universal call to ALL MEN regardless the color of their skin or where they
live. In 1 John 2:2, it talks about how Jesus laid down his life for
EVERYONE. Everyone means ALL MEN, the entire human race. This satanically
inspired way we have of dividing ourselves through racism, prejudice, and
discrimination all make a mockery of what Christ did on the cross. He
faithfully and obediently went to that cross to die for the sins of ALL
MANKIND.

That is why all of the black pastors I know repudiate the false black
liberation theology Dr. Jeremiah Wright has been teaching for over 3
decades. Wright is actually a student of James Cone who made this perverse
theology popular in the 60s that teaches the Bible is the basis for blacks
to be liberated from social, political, economic, and religious bondage. B.
Hussein Obama is a liar when he states he never heard the types of comments
made by Dr. Wright the media has been playing, since that is the
foundational teaching of the black liberation theology Wright has been
preaching in Chicago for over 30 years.

The fact is the Bible DOES teach liberation theology, LIBERATION FROM SIN!!!
It was not written to people with dark skin, but to all people regardless of
their skin color. We are all part of the human race, which means we are all
born with the sin of Adam, we all sin during our life, and that is why Jesus
went to the cross. He gave His very life on that cross as the payment for
the sins of all mankind, that through faith in Him men might be find freedom
from their sins. There is nothing in the Bible to support this false black
liberation theology Dr. Wright preaches, since the liberation theology of
the Bible is about the freedom from sin for ALL MEN!

You also have the Biblical example of Jesus during His earthly ministry.
Again, racism is not a new phenomena to the United States in our brief 232
year history. Forms of racism have been part of the human expedience since
the very beginning. Jesus commanded us in John 13:34 to love each other as
He loves us. He used people of other ethnic backgrounds often in His
parables. One of the most powerful is the story of the Good Samaritan. If
you remember, the Jewish religious leaders passed by the man who had been
robbed and beaten and laying on the side of the road, leaving him to die.
It was the Samaritan, the non-Jew, who honored God by stopping and
ministering to the needs of the injured man. Don’t forget, it was Jesus who
told his followers to make disciples of EVERY NATION, reaffirming the value
of all men.

I love you and care about you so much. If B. Hussein Obama had wanted to
give a real speech on racism to move hearts and lead people in this issue,
THIS is the message he should have delivered. It would have been a message
from God’s Word that laid the Biblical foundation all men are created equal
and those who seek to divide men by the color of their skin are not of God,
but of satan! It would not have been the self serving, politically crafted
words to try and help him weasel out of his 20 year association with a
pastor and church that preaches and teaches division based on the color of a
person’s skin. Dividing men by skin color, ethnicity, are the works of the
devil.

Those who truly seek to serve and follow the Lord are not looking to divide
men but unite them. A true follower of Christ understands that God created
all men equal, that we are all part of the human race. Racism, prejudice,
and discrimination are NOT of God, since we are hurting someone God created
and loves and Jesus died for! Sadly, 11 am on Sunday morning is the most
segregated hour of the week in this nation. That is truly a shame since the
one sanctuary from racism should be the church. Yet sadly, most churches
don’t lead the culture, they allow the culture to lead them. So rather than
modeling what God says about this issue, in far too many churches, they
perpetuate this ungodly attitude men have for other men who look different
than them.

They better wake up since when we die, and stand at the gates of Heaven,
there won’t be a line for whites, or a line for blacks, or a line for
Asians, or a line for Hispanics, or a line for those from the Middle East,
just like there won’t be a line for Catholics, or Baptists, or Methodists,
or Pentecostals. No my friend, when you take your last breath there will
only be two lines. One for those who have put their faith in Jesus Christ
and one for those who have rejected Christ. The Bible proclaims those who
reject Christ will be cast into the flames of hell for all eternity, and
those who know Jesus will be welcomed into their eternal home with God their
Creator in Heaven. At that moment, Galatians 3:38 will be realized, “There
is neither Jew nor Greek, slave nor free, male nor female, for you are all
one in Christ Jesus!”

In His love and service,
Your friend and brother in Christ,
Bill Keller bkeller@liveprayer.com

***ARE YOU 100% CERTAIN WHERE YOU WILL SPEND ETERNITY? The fact is you will die one day. At that moment, you will either spend eternity with the Lord or be cast into everlasting darkness forever separated from God your creator. To know for certain you will be forever with Jesus, go to: http://www.liveprayer.com/bdy_salvatn.cfm

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Videos Of James Cone Creator Of Jeremiah Wright’s Black Liberation Theology

For Second Video Click Here!  Strange Fruit: The Cross and the Lynching Tree (October 2006)

James Carville Says Bill Richardson Choosing Obama Over Clinton Is Like Judas Betraying Jesus Christ!

See evidence that the people that alleged Methodist Church Sunday school teacher Hillary Clinton surrounds herself with honestly do not love or fear Jesus Christ in this link:

Carville Compares Hillary Clinton to Jesus Christ

Full story here: Clinton, Richardson, Obama

I still say that the Council on Foreign Relations types prefer Obama, but things like this makes me wonder if the real goal is to force evangelical Christians to accept John McCain. But soft … that fits their agenda too, which is to get evangelical Christians to weaken and compromise their faith through politics. So, getting evangelical Christians to invest their faith and vote in McCain despite knowing full well that it is wrong only to have the fellow lose to Obama anyway … what better way to use Christians to advance the anti – Christ agenda and do further harm to the evangelical Christian faith in America using the false political/military/economic god?

Still, it does seem like whenever Obama gets into real trouble, something happens to bail him out, doesn’t it?

Black Church Summit and Awards Banquet At Texas Christian University Will Honor Jeremiah Wright!

Texas Christian University Divinity School Will Honor Jeremiah Wright

Barack HUSSEIN Obama Says No Gun Shops Within Five Miles of Schools But Pornography Shops Okay

(Look, I know that I have been hammering Barack HUSSEIN Obama a lot lately while neglecting John “I will attack Iran and keep us in Iraq for 100 years” McCain and Hillary “ice queen” Clinton. I am sorry, it is not an indication of political preference or lack thereof, but merely a matter of what I have happened to run across lately. Certainly plenty of evidence that John “I joined a Baptist church before the election to increase my vote share in South Carolina” McCain and Hillary “now that they aren’t voting for me I am free to let those inner city Negroes know how much I feared them growing up in suburban Chicago!” Clinton are against Jesus Christ is out there, and when I come across it I will relay it!)

Original link here. This is one of the rare times that I use discussion board material rather than news articles, web pages, or weblog entries, but it was too good to pass up!

http://campaignspot.nationalreview.com/post/?q=Y2IwYjAyNjhjY2RiOTdiOWMyYTJmMDMwYTg3ODMzMjc http://volokh.com/posts/1203747566.shtml http://volokh.com/archives/archive_2008_02_17-2008_02_23.shtml#1203389334 http://www.nytimes.com/2007/12/20/us/politics/20obama.html?_r=1&pagewanted=2&oref=slogin

Dave Kopel and David Bernstein note, Barack Obama proposed a few years ago a federal law against licensed firearms dealers operating within five miles of a school or park. As Kopel notes, “Every town I’ve ever visited which has more than a few dozen inhabitants has either a school or a park. Hypothesizing that the ban would apply to city parks (e.g., Central Park in New York City) but not to National Parks, pick a geographical region, and describe where a licensed firearms dealer could operate. Or pick a geographic point (e.g, Houston)and identify how far a peson would have to drive in order to get to the closest point where a gun store could legally be located. Extra credit for illustrative maps.”

As the commenters noted, this would effectively ban gun shops from most of the country, and just about every city.

However, Obama appears to find another kind of establishment to be perfectly fine operating near your children’s school:

Obama was also the sole present vote on a bill that easily passed the Senate that would require teaching respect for others in schools. He also voted present on a measure to prohibit sex-related shops from opening near schools or places of worship, which ultimately did not pass the Senate.

In both of those cases, his campaign said, he was trying to avoid mandates on local authorities.

The bill did not get the required three-fifths majority, so it did not in fact pass. (Mr. Obama voted “present” on the measure.)

Why on God’s green earth does Barack Obama object to mandates on local authorities for porn shops but not for gun stores? Or conversely, why does he feel it’s necessary to keep gun stores five miles from a school, but no limit on porn shops?

Not sure if this is the “si se puede” type of change we’re really looking for…

The More Perfect Union Of Barack HUSSEIN Obama (And Hillary Clinton And John McCain …)

From Pastor Bill Keller (bkeller@liveprayer.com):

For Believers, the important FACT to never forget is that the “more perfect union” Obama spoke of yesterday,  would be a union where people who choose to commit deviant sexual acts with the same sex are given special rights, while those who have no voice, innocent babies, are legally slaughtered.

MIKE HUCKABEE DEFENDS BARACK HUSSEIN OBAMA PASTOR JEREMIAH WRIGHT!

Huck on Wright and Obama’s Speech [David Freddoso]

On MSNBC today:

Obama has handled this about as well as anybody could…He made the point, and I think it’s a valid one, that you can’t hold a candidate responsible for everything that people around him may say or do. You just can’t, whether it’s me, whether it’s Obama, or anyone else. But he did distance himself from the very vitriolic statements…

It is interesting to me that there are some people on the Left who are having to be very uncomfortable with what Wright said when they were all over a Jerry Falwell or anyone on the Right who said things that they found very awkward or uncomfortable years ago. Many times, those were statements lifted out of the context of a larger sermon. Sermons, after all, are rarely written word for word by pastors like Rev. Wright, who are delivering them extemporaneously and caught up in the emotion of the moment. There are things that sometimes get said that, if you looked at them in print, you’d say, “Well, I wouldn’t have put it quite that way.

Huckabee added that he was not defending what Wright said, but I think he does let him and others off the hook a bit too easily. One would expect priests and pastors, as ministers of God, to take greater care in what they say than do politicians. Not that they have to say things people will like — often duty requires them to say things people will not like — but their authority comes with a greater, divine obligation to stay away from hatred and conspiratorial wackiness.

Huckabee also added the following reflection on race and its role in Wright’s statements.

…As easy as it is for those of us who are white to look back and say, “That’s a terrible statement,” I grew up in a very segregated South…We’ve got to cut some slack to people who grew up being called names, being told you have to sit in the balcony when you go into the movie, you have to go to the back door to go into the restaurant and you can’t sit out there with everyone else, there’s a separate waiting room in the doctor’s office, here’s where you sit on the bus. You know what? Sometimes people do have a chip on their shoulder and resentment. And you have to say, I probably would too.

Sure, it is 100% natural, Huckabee and Wright, to be resentful over ill treatment. But Christians are not called to be 100% natural. We are called to be born again in Jesus Christ and to hold every thought and action into captivity of Jesus Christ. The church is not the place to go to hold onto, nurse, and legitimize grievances against our brother and place them into some political context. The church is supposed to be where people are exhorted to forgive as God forgave us! If we, being sinners, cannot forgive sins against us, how can we expect God, who ever sinned, to forgive our sins against HIM?

Now I give Mike Huckabee all the credit in the world for helping integrate the Arkansas Southern Baptist Convention, starting with his own church in 1984. But by failing to represent the truth of how the true gospel of Jesus Christ requires a sacrifice of all that accept it (because if Jesus Christ was rejected and suffered how much more should we be in His Name, is the servant greater than his master?), Huckabee proves that he is no Christian leader no matter what his Iowa ads claimed.

The sad part about it is that a lot of black Republicans and conservatives are going to see these comments and shake their heads and say “see, this is why Huckabee should have been the GOP nominee, because he understands us and can speak to our issues in the Republican Party.” I do not disagree. As a matter of fact, I have no doubt that the very reason why a great many of the loathsome racists on talk radio, the “take the bone out of your nose” Rush Limbaugh contingent, so bitterly opposed Huckabee in large part for that reason. But friends, it does not take compassion and courage to understand and speak to black issues as a southern conservative white male in the Republican Party. No, it takes compassion and courage to talk about what Jesus Christ requires of every person no matter where you go, and what will happen to you (eternity in the lake of fire!) if you do not meet the requirement!

Jesus Christ did not get hung on a cross to bring justice to the black man in this world. Christ said that if His kingdom were of this world, His servants would have fought for Him to save Him from going to the cross! No, Christ’s kingdom is in the world to come, and it is in that world where racism, poverty, disease, oppression, etc. will be overcome! As great as David was, David’s men fought for him to preseve his life! Why? Because David’s kingdom was of this world! David’s kingdom did not eliminate racism, tribalism, poverty, disease, war, or death! David’s kingdom did not defeat sin and Satan! David’s kingdom did not cause the whole world to bow before YHWH! Why? Because David was not Jesus Christ. So when David died, he did not rise again.

But Jesus Christ rose again! Because of Jesus Christ, born again Christians have the ability to rise above whatever evil treatment they receive, and not be a party to whatever wickedness or injustice that is part of society. Christians have the ability to love their enemies, to turn the other cheek, to heap coals of fire on the heads of those that spitefully speak lies against and misuse you by showing them kindness. That is the true gospel. But Huckabee is representing a false gospel where it is OK to remember and count the injustices that you have received at the hands of another while at the same time expecting God to forget your sins against Him!

The gospel of Jesus Christ deserved better than Mike Huckabee’s performance on MSNBC. Whether Huckabee goes back to the pulpit or not, we must hope and pray that this man does what the Bible requires of him in the future.

On Barack HUSSEIN Obama’s Apostate Pastor Jeremiah Wright

*By Pastor Bill Keller of Live Prayer. By the way, it was Keller that tipped me off to the fact that Oprah Winfrey had been a member of this “church” months ago, although the Los Angeles Times now claims that she stopped going. Interesting that people are just now coming around to this “story” AFTER Barack HUSSEIN Obama has all but wrapped up the Democratic nomination, as I dealt with this over a year ago: Lots Of Good Stuff On Barack HUSSEIN Obama’s September 11th – Justifying Church. Ah well. As Howard University graduate Jeremiah Wright is a liberation theology preacher, please read my entry The True Liberation Theology. As far as those of you that wish to claim that I have political motives for posting this devotional or attacking Barack HUSSEIN Obama in general, allow me to say that I personally see no substantive difference between Obama, Clinton, or McCain, and my position is that a Christian should not vote for any of them. I ran across the other day where Martin Luther stated that it was better to be governed by a wise Turk (Muslim) than a foolish Christian. That seems to fit the writings of Paul in Romans 13, especially when you consider the context: Rome was hardly a Christian or godly empire in any sense, yet Paul wrote to submit to proper authorities because all authority comes from God. But Obama, Clinton, and McCain do not meet the standards of “wise Turk” (or wise anything for that matter, let alone decent, moral, honest, truthful, etc.) in my humble estimation. Maybe the Constitution or Libertarian. I cannot consider the Green Party nominee Ralph Nader for regrettably he is pro – abortion.

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What kind of pastor condones the sin of homosexuality, killing babies, and preaches a gospel of racial division? The pastor for 20 years and spiritual mentor of Democratic Presidential candidate B. Hussein Obama! I found it amusing the past few days that all of the news media is focusing on the racially divisive and anti-American rhetoric of Dr. Jeremiah Wright, who for over 3 decades was the Senior Pastor of the Trinity United Church of Christ in Chicago, Illinois.For those who have been reading the Daily Devotional and/or watching the Liveprayer television program, I have told you about Dr. Wright for many years now, since he pastors the church Oprah called home and Senator Obama has been part of for the past 2 decades.Dr. Wright not only married Senator Obama and his wife and christened their 2 children, but he has also been the spiritual mentor to the Senator and helped shape his theological beliefs. He has been prominent in the news the past few days because the public has been horrified after being exposed to his racist and anti-American views that he has espoused for over 30 years in his church.

In trying to do damage control Friday, Senator Obama ended any affiliation Dr. Wright had with his Presidential campaign and the Senator went on numerous news programs stating that he was not aware Dr. Wright held these views. B. Hussein Obama is a liar!

As many of you know, I started my ministry in the city of Chicago in 1992.
Two of the members of my Board of Directors who have been with me since day one, are both black pastors of churches on the south side of Chicago. I
have had the joy and privilege to preach in several dozen black churches in
the Chicagoland area in the early days of my ministry. Anyone who has had
ANY dealing with the churches in Chicago know who Dr. Jeremiah Wright is and that he preaches a gospel of black separatism with anti-American views.

In theological circles it is known as “black liberation theology,” a perverse theology originally taught by James Cone that seeks to contribute to the liberation of black people from the perceived racism in the country and in Christianity.

Please hear me very clear. Black liberation theology is a perverse view of the Scriptures and the Gospel of Jesus Christ. It is a radical view held by a very small minority of black pastors. This is NOT representative of the black church or the overwhelming majority of black pastors who preach and teach the true Gospel of Jesus Christ without looking at it through the lens of color. Every black pastor I know condemns Dr. Wright and this perverse racist theology.

Sadly, to the non-churched masses and to white Americans who have little or no exposure to the black church, seeing and hearing Dr. Wright’s radical views of the world and the Scriptures, will cause them to assume this is the position held by all black churches. (My note: some black people in their zeal to defend Obama are stating precisely that.) Again, Dr. Wright is in a very small minority of pastors who hold to these perverted views and this is NOT representative of the black church or Christians who happen to be black.

Having said that, let me reiterate that B. Hussein Obama is a liar when he says he was not aware of these beliefs held by his pastor. That is impossible since everyone in Chicago knows about Dr. Wright and his radical and racially divisive theology. His teachings attracted many young, upwardly mobile, successful blacks who agree with his views on race and social issues. They joined his church not only for the spiritual experience,
but for the networking opportunities it provided. (My note: sadly, making them no different from most Christians regardless of race or theology.)

It was the perfect church home for Senator Obama, who had no Christian background or Biblical upbringing, and was a rising star in the Daley political machine in Chicago, It was the perfect church home and message for Senator Obama who was dealing with the social and economic challenges of blacks on the south side of Chicago early in his political career.

The United Church of Christ is a predominantly white and very liberal denomination that supports and condones sins like homosexuality and women killing their babies. Like many liberal denominations, it focuses on the
“social gospel,” dealing with the economically poor rather than the spiritually poor. (My note: although the Bible tells us to deal with the economically poor as well, it is both not either or, do not turn aside from God’s commandments to the right or to the left!) These types of churches focus on the financially down and out and needy, using the parts of the Bible that speak to helping those who are less fortunate, while brushing over the passages that speak to living a life holy and acceptable to God in accordance with His Word. This is where Senator Obama comes up with the laughable notion that the Sermon on the Mount teaches homosexuality is an acceptable choice as he recently stated in the news. In his bid for the White House, B. Hussein Obama has received great support from those in the gay and lesbian community since he will champion their desire to make gay marriage legal in all 50 states and to break down all barriers to gay adoption, as well as other issues favorable to giving those who choose to commit the sin of homosexuality special rights.Senator Obama also supports the legalizes slaughter of babies. He has been 100% consistent in his political career both in the Illinois Senate and the United States Senate, to support the legalized practice of infanticide. I wonder how he can go home at night, look at his two precious little girls, yet vote to support the legalized murder of babies. Again, this is all in line with the liberal theology and social gospel teachings of his pastor and church for the past 20 years.

I say that any “pastor” and any “church” that supports slaughtering babies should never be referred to with those names. How can you call yourself a pastor, how can a church call itself a church, how can a person honestly call themselves a follower of Jesus Christ, and support a woman making the decision to kill her baby? That is inconsistent with the teachings of Christ and the Bible, and even most hard hearted heathens who deny the existence of God understands that it is murder!

I love you and care about you so much. My guess is that Senator Obama will soon leave Trinity UCC to appease his political detractors. The fact is, he is 20 years too late. He, like ALL who are part of that church and most who are not part of Trinity, knew of the perverse theology and racist, anti-American views of Dr. Jeremiah Wright. This is not revelation to anyone in Chicago. I have told you about Dr. Wright and that church for
many years now.

Senator Obama has to make the same decision we all have to make. It was Jesus who said you can’t serve two masters. Is our master Jesus or do we serve another master? If Jesus is his master, Senator Obama needs to denounce the sin of homosexuality and take a stand for life. If politics is his master, he will continue to support these sins.

At some point, each person has to decide if you love Jesus or if you love this world. We make that decision many times throughout the day when we choose to obey God or disobey Him. If we say we love the Lord, we will obey Him. If we say we love the Lord and disobey Him, we obviously don’t love Him enough since it was Jesus who said, “If you love Me, you will obey Me.” I pray today that Senator Obama will love Jesus enough to obey Him, and I pray that you and I will love Him enough to obey Him.

In His love and service,
Your friend and brother in Christ,
Bill Keller bkeller@liveprayer.com

***ARE YOU 100% CERTAIN WHERE YOU WILL SPEND ETERNITY? The fact is you will die one day. At that moment, you will either spend eternity with the Lord or
be cast into everlasting darkness forever separated from God your creator.
To know for certain you will be forever with Jesus, go to: http://www.liveprayer.com/bdy_salvatn.cfm***I am excited to let you know that the Liveprayer Daily Devotional is now
available via AUDIO each day. Simply go to http://www.liveprayer.com/Audio.cfm
Also, you can now listen to the Daily Devotional by phone by calling 1-727-342-5673

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Cory Booker: Oprah Winfrey’s Backup Plan In Case Barack HUSSEIN Obama Fails

Which means that he is actually the backup plan of whoever is behind Oprah Winfrey (the Council on Foreign Relations)! Now there are two interesting anecdotes about the race between Booker and his entrenched corrupt incompetent opponent Sharpe James in 2002.

1) His opponent defeated him by claiming that he wasn’t black enough, by sending police officers to harass Booker’s supporters and even close down their businesses, and claiming that Booker was homosexual.

2) At the time, Booker was supported by the local and national Republican Party as the pro – big business candidate. The Republican Party leadership of New Jersey endorsed him and gave him significant financial support, and the national neoconservative magazines talked up his candidacy and encouraged people to send him contributions. There was actually this minor racial controversy where black supporters of Sharpe James physically confronted the white female daughter of a high ranking New Jersey Republican official because she was on the streets campaigning for Booker, and ripped the things that she was holding pertaining to Booker out of her hands. The neoconservatives claimed that by virtue of his elite college education and pro – business approach, Booker was part of the new breed of black leaders that would save the black community. Oh yes, I almost forgot: CORY BOOKER SUPPORTS SCHOOL VOUCHERS! (By the way, the new governor of New York, David Paterson, also supports school vouchers).

Keep in mind: Booker’s loss in that 2002 mayor’s race was portrayed as a huge setback to BOTH the NEOCONSERVATIVE cause AND the cause of the “postracial progressive liberals”, the old Gary Hart crowd, that now backs Obama. It is said that the primary flaw of the old Gary Hart coalition (which includes George McGovern and Bill Bradley) was their inability to attract black voters. Well, their recruiting Barack HUSSEIN Obama – and people like him including but not limited to Booker – took care of that, didn’t it? Further, former Gary Hart trainee Martin O’Malley recognized this weakness and went to Baltimore, where he ultimately became mayor of that city and now governor of Maryland.

But as much progress as the Gary Hart crowd is now making, it is difficult to imagine their doing so without complicity from the GOP. Neoconservatives gave Obama rapturous praise exceeding that given to Obama by the DEMOCRATS based on his DNC speech in 2002 back when the fellow was a candidate that they were SUPPOSED to be trying to beat in a key Senate race in a vital state! Had the GOP begun tarring Obama as just another black Chicago Democrat back then (or basically … at any point since then) there is NO WAY the guy would be the leading candidate for the Democratic nomination right now.

And consider John McCain.  The primary reason why he is the GOP nominee is because of the almost unqualified praise that he has received from THE LEFT since 2000. The very people who were SUPPOSED to be trying to BEAT John McCain are the very ones who basically REFUSE to talk about certain things in the fellow’s background that voters should care about. Just like these same people refused to report George W. Bush’s long history of supporting abortion rights. It is amazing that the New York Times give a little space on their page suggesting that blacks would vote for John McCain if Obama did not win the nomination (an idea that I first heard floated on the Atlanta black political talk radi station using the logic that it would be OK to use John McCain, “a moderate Republican that wasn’t really that bad”, to pay back the Democrats). How many blacks would feel this way if they knew about McCain’s race – baiting Goldwater wannabe days?

Folks, we really are reaching a situation not unlike the ending of the George Orwell book “Animal Farm.” Put the neoconservatives and the neoliberals in the same room, and you increasingly cannot tell one from the other. And as a final shot: Muslim congressman Keith Ellison, former Million Man March organizer and Farrakhan supporter before joining “mainstream Islam”? He is part of the same Gary Hart “progressive” coalition as Obama. See his progressive states network Youtube video: www.youtube.com/watch?v=htPE_VCxP1M

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