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FROM THE PASTORS HEART…
School is out and VBS is on. We have started doing VBS in the evenings because we can get more workers and it is cooler. I thank the lord for those who are wiling to take the time to work in VBS. I can remember as a boy riding to VBS in the back seat of an old 47 Ford where there was room behind the seat up next to the back window. There was a ledge there where a little five year old kid could ride in a car full of kids. In all the years I was in VBS I never got to carry either flag in the processional but I think I got to carry the Bible once. At the time my dad was the music director of the church and my mom played the piano. I think I missed out on those special positions because they didn't want to be showing preference to a staff member’s kid even if he was just a volunteer staff member. Now it is fond memories. Back then it was frustration, but I got through it all.
My the times have changed since those days. I heard on the radio that they are trying to make it mandated that homosexual themed books be required reading in kindergarten, first, and second grade. If you read the requirements for government pre-school Head Start programs, there are homosexual indoctrination requirements there already. When Ellen Degenerus was mocking Sally on national TV for saying homosexuals are starting indoctrination with children as early as two years old, the crowd's laughter showed how ignorant most people are to what has been going on for a long time. Not only are our schools becoming training grounds for deviant lifestyles, they also train kids in anti-Christian worldviews. If you can remember it was not too long ago that elementary school teachers were teaching Transcendental Meditation to kids while having them bring fruit offerings to Hindu gods. Now in the name of multi-cultureless schools are setting aside days to teach Muslim practices in our public schools while anything close to hinting of Christianity is shunned for fear of a law suit. Of course the greatest practice of religious indoctrination in our public schools is teaching naturalistic evolution. Under the guise of science they are training children how to think of beginnings without the need for God. Their whole paradigm is if everything can be explained by natural processes then it goes without saying that God is no longer necessary. Thank God for Christian teachers who do not go along with these trends and provide an alternate role model for kids in their classes.
With these and many other things going on like government take over of private industries, hate crimes legislation in the Senate Judiciary committee, and the coming attempt to overthrow, through the Supreme Court, California's Proposition 8 that keeps traditional marriage as the law of the state, all of these give me deep and abiding concerns for the direction our nation is now taking. I pray every morning for God to have mercy on our nation. The time has come though for God's people to put feet to our prayers. The best way to do so is to write, e-mail, or call our state and national elected officials to let them know where we stand on every issue. I believe the Moral Majority is still the majority in this land. Many have allowed themselves to get side-tracked by bad economic publicity, but the economy is not our problem. The real problem is the moral free fall of our nation that God can no longer bless. As I have said before, if we will get the morals right God will take care of our economic prosperity. We need to be a voice to that end.
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