The Wal-Mart Jesus…
Posted by Pastor Kurt | Filed under Christianity In Crisis, My Family, The Moral Decline, Web Clips
The new Wal-Mart Supercenter just opened up in my town, and man, what a sight! It’s a mammoth structure of utilitarian architecture that houses everything from a grocery to a garden center, along with every dry good you can imagine from fashion wear to office supplies. And people just flock there because it’s one-stop shopping, famous low prices, and a quick get in and get out affair. It is an amazing achievement in the history of American consumerism.
Oh, and don’t forget about the official Smiley Face mascot greeting you on every sign. It just makes you feel all warm and fuzzy inside as you spend your money to save money.
The only problem is that the former Wal-Mart building in town is now vacant since the retail giant moved its local operation to the new Supercenter facility. Hard to believe that twenty years ago this smaller Wal-Mart store was the shining Camelot on the hill for local shoppers. Now it’s just a castle ruin, an empty shell of its former glory as the company moves on to bigger and better things. Alas, a sign of the times, I’m afraid.
Tags: Christian, Consumerism, Wal-Mart
Obama side-steps the abortion question…
Posted by Pastor Kurt | Filed under Christianity In Crisis, My Faith, The Moral Decline, Web Clips
DALLAS - U.S. Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama side-stepped a pointed query about abortion on Saturday by mega-pastor Rick Warren during a televised forum.
Asked at what point a baby gets human rights, Obama, who strongly supports abortion rights, said: whether you’re looking at it from a theological perspective or a scientific perspective, answering that question with specificity is above my pay grade.
He went on to reiterate his view that it was important to reduce the number of unwanted pregnancies.
Republican presidential candidate John McCain, who followed Obama onto the stage of the nationally televised event, was more blunt and more emphatic.
He said a baby’s human rights began at the moment of conception I have a 25-year pro-life record.
A ‘Dark Night’ for Our Society…
Posted by Pastor Kurt | Filed under My Free Time, Randomness, The Moral Decline, Video
* NOTE: In this post I refer to Heath Ledger’s death as a suicide. The official report of his death is accident, resulting from the abuse of prescription medications.
This week, all the buzz has been about the new Batman movie ‘Dark Night’. The new Batman movie has been described as dark and disturbing because of the character ‘The Joker’ played by Heath Ledger which is portrayed as a psychopath who kills without regard or reason. Including impaling a pencil through a person’s head, surgically implanting a bomb in a man, lighting fire to a stack of money tied up to a man and slicing open people’s faces
The ‘Dark Night’ movie has been made more interesting because of the actor Heath Ledger. Many movie goers are watching this film with morbid interest knowing that Heath Ledger committed suicide shortly after he finished filming the Batman movie. Some have said that Heath Ledger’s character, the Joker was such a dark and demented character, that it played a significant role in Heath Ledger’s death.
Once again the entertainment crowd has placed the subject of suicide to the frontage of the societal spectrum. Heath Ledger will probably become a folk hero similar to Elvis Presley and James Dean. The famous picture “Boulevard of Broken Dreams” will now have Mr. Ledger sitting next to Marilyn Monroe.
What is most unbelievable is that Heath Ledger just might win an Academy Award for his performance. That would be typical of our society, honoring a person who killed himself. Our young people will see the coolness of Heath Ledger’s ‘Joker’, painting their faces to look like the character, thinking about how awesome it was for Heath to go out on top. There is nothing cool about killing yourself, God has given us the gift of life and we do not appreciate it. Many of our young people have been tricked into believing that death is better than life.
Our world has become a world without hope a world that thrives off of darkness. Death is interesting, death makes money. The more disturbing a movie is, the more tickets it sells. Good is bad and bad is good.
Tags: Batman, Dark Night, Death, Heath Ledger, Joker, Suicide
This Upsets Me…
Posted by Pastor Kurt | Filed under Christianity In Crisis, Randomness, The Moral Decline
T.D. Jakes is a well respected minister and I have enjoyed some of the sermons I have heard him preach, but the tagline on his book is absolutely repulsive. ‘Tapping the power of the Holy Spirit in YOU!’ C’mon! The Holy Spirit is not a genie in a lamp that you can rub anytime you need him.
Tags: Books, Release Your Anointing, T.D. Jakes
A Course In Miracles - Just Another Cult…
Posted by Pastor Kurt | Filed under Humor Helps, Kingdom of the Cults, My Free Time, The Moral Decline, Video, Web Clips
Is ‘A Course In Miracles’ a cult? Lets see the evidence.
- In ‘A Course In Miracles’ their is no world its all in your imagination.
- In ‘A Course In Miracles’ their is no death its all in your imagination.
- In ‘A Course In Miracles’ sin is not real.
- In ‘A Course In Miracles’ the pain and guilt you have is something you have made up in your mind.
- In ‘A Course In Miracles’ God is not a person, but a eternal creating energy.
- In ‘A Course In Miracles’ you are in complete control of your destiny and purpose.
- In ‘A Course In Miracles’ you are perfect and without defect.
This is just another new age cult. The same rhetoric with a new spin. The same old shanty with a fresh coat of paint. In 2008 as a Christian you better be able to separate truth from error.
…because they received not the love of the truth, that they might be saved. And for this cause God shall send them strong delusion, that they should believe a lie: That they all might be damned who believed not the truth, but had pleasure in unrighteousness. 2 Thessalonians 2:10-12
Tags: A Course in Miracles, Cult, Cults, new age, occult, Unleashed, Video
California what Have You Done?
Posted by Pastor Kurt | Filed under Quotes, Randomness, The Moral Decline
Have ye not read, that he which made them at the beginning made them male and female, And said, For this cause shall a man leave father and mother, and shall cleave to his wife: and they twain shall be one flesh? Wherefore they are no more twain, but one flesh. What therefore God hath joined together, let not man put asunder. Jesus
Tags: California, Gay, Jesus, Marriage
More on the California Court Saying “No Constitutional Right to Homeschool”
Posted by Pastor Kurt | Filed under Christianity In Crisis, The Moral Decline
Posted by: Rich Shipe” on March 11th, 2008
Less than two weeks ago, a California appeals court declared in Re Rachel L
that the vast majority of parents in California may only choose between
public and private school because they are unqualified to teach their
children. Tens of thousands of children in California are currently
homeschooled, but this fact was unconvincing for these three judges,
who boldly proclaimed that “parents do not have a constitutional right
to home school their children,” unless they are certified by the state
to teach.
Tags: California Homeschool Ruling, Education
Chuck E. Cheese Birthday Marred by Brawling Moms
Posted by Pastor Kurt | Filed under The Moral Decline
NATICK, Mass. — A child’s birthday party at a Chuck E. Cheese restaurant in Massachusetts was cut short when a fight broke out between two mothers.
The mother of the 9-year-old birthday boy apparently became enraged because the other woman’s son was “hogging” an arcade game, Natick, Mass., police said.
Catherine Aliaga, 38, and Tarsha Williams, 33, both of Boston, will be summoned into court to answer charges of simple assault and battery stemming from the scuffle, Sgt. Paul Thompson said.
Thompson told the MetroWest Daily News that police received a number of 911 calls about the fight Saturday night.
He said what started as a birthday celebration turned into a “birthday melee.”
