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Dr. Robert Sumner passed away in December 2016. The Biblical Evangelist newspaper is no longer being published and the ministry of Biblical Evangelism has ceased operation. The remaining inventory of his books and gospel tracts was transferred to The Baptist Tabernacle of Los Angeles and may be ordered here. Off the Cuff, Part 3 A theologian he's not. Obama's beleaguered ex-pastor, was asked at the National Press Club fiasco, "Jesus said, 'I am the way, the truth, and the life. No man cometh unto the father but through me.' Do you believe this? And do you think Islam is a way to salvation?" His answer: "Jesus also said, 'Other sheep have I who are not of this fold.'" That has zippo to do with the issue. That quote is John 10:16 and our Lord had just finished saying He was the door (Vs.7) and if anyone tried to get in any other way he was the same as a thief and a robber (Vs.1)... It's an old story, true too often, that a pastor counsels a couple whose marriage is in trouble, then he zeroes in on the attractive wife. According to divorce lawyer Roosevelt Thomas, that is how Obama's ex-pastor got his wife. In the early 1980s, Mrs. Jeremiah Wright was Mrs. Delmer Reed (he was a former investigator for the Illinois Secretary of State). They had four sessions with Wright over a few months, she filed for divorce, Jeremiah and Ramah became a couple (an area youth leader called it "common knowledge"), then married. Not only Attorney Thomas, but friends of the couple, say Delmer believed Wright sabotaged his marriage... Burt Prelutsky probably got it right: “Liberals are always at their best chuckling at the ways of those they regard as hicks. That’s because liberals place far more importance on sophistication than on character, decency and value"... Well, it “almost” happened again. High schooler Ryan Schallenberger of Chesterfield (SC) was all set to imitate the Columbine killers with a bloody massacre at his school. Police recovered his journal outlining his plan, the audiotape he prepared for the media to play after the slaughter (he expected to die in it). The prosecutor said he “had the intellect, the means, and the materials to carry it out… Busy, busy, busy. Obama’s really been getting around. In a quote of a speech we heard, he said, “"Over the last 15 months, we've traveled to every corner of the Why do we have poor children in Okay, the kids want to be sure they are "right" for each other, so they shack up before marriage. Does it help or hinder? In their book, Living Together: Myths, Risks & Answers, Mike and Harriet McMannus found between 50-60 percent of all marriages start that way. They also discovered that 67 percent of those marriages end in divorce, compared to about 45 percent of normal first marriages. "Practice" sessions don't work. Or, to put it like the McManus' did: "If you give away the milk, he won't buy the cow... The number of shacked-up couples in Thomas Beatie is the "pregnant" man who, in spite of his transgender claims, is still just a woman. In fact, he is a “fake” male who conceived through artificial insemination... Do you think if some of our leaders in “Don’t ask; don’t tell!” A lot of liberals don’t agree with that policy of our military about Sodomites. Neither did General George Washington. He not only kicked them out of service “with infamy,” but The Patriot reported “… at least one instance in which Let the old master, Winston Churchill, give you sound advice: “It would be a great reform in politics if wisdom could be made to spread as easily and as rapidly as folly”… According to the Parents Television Council, who keep watch on such things for parents who can't (bless 'em), kiddies watching daytime programming on MTV and BET see stuff including "sexual, violent, profane or obscene ... once every 38 seconds." What they found in analyzing the stations for two weeks last December was so shocking they monitored them another week in March – and found it was worse! And the V-chip would have only blocked one of those programs. So much for parental protection... McDonald's is trying to have and eat its cake at the same time, using different responses to hide its new sinful Sodomite connections. Here's the truth, according to Don Wildmon and the AFA: (1) McDonald's joined the National Gay & Lesbian Chamber of Commerce (listed as a "corporate partner and organizational ally" on its website) and has an executive on the chamber's "8-member" board of directors; (2) A McDonald's executive, Vice-President Richard Ellis, is that one on the NGLCC's board of directors. But don't blame every local McDonald's for what the big brass is doing... Ah, the joys of gambling and winning! Has there ever been a lotto winner who profited in life? Alex Toth won $13 million in a Florida Lotto in 1990. He died broke in April, due to stand trial on filing false tax returns. He and wife Rhoda split last year when he went to a medical facility to be treated for mental problems... In Hillary Clinton's desperation to win Obama's friendship with William Ayers has been a problem for him. His retort has been that he was eight years old when Ayers and his 'Weather Underground' did their bombing (Pentagon, the U.S. Capitol, historic statues, police stations). True. What is also true is that he launched his political career at a 1995 meeting in the Ayers home and was age 40 (considered mature by most) when Ayers publicly declared he had no regrets about setting bombs, adding a lament that he didn’t do more!... Barack Obama was a member of Trinity United Methodist for 20 years and had no idea where his pastor stood (or so he insists). I can't imagine someone being a member of Jerry Falwell's church for 20 months (or even 20 weeks – do I hear 20 days) and not knowing where he stood. Or any other Bible pastor for that matter... The son of the late Ronald Reagan, Michael, puts it like this: “Barack Obama is not an idiot. He is a brilliant orator who exudes charm and arouses near-worship from his host of giddy, hypnotized supporters. He is also a committed socialist and a talented salesman for his brand of Marxist snake oil. Beware of camels bearing gifts, and politicians promising utopia”... Mrs. Obama offered this Communism 101 gem: “The truth is, in order to get things like universal health care and a revamped education system, then someone is going to have to give up a piece of their pie so that someone else can have more.” You know, take from the ‘haves’ to give to the ‘have nots’... Up-date on the Good questions for honest readers from Columnist Walter Williams: “Here are my questions: In 1970, when environmentalists were making predictions of man-made global cooling and the threat of an ice age and millions of Americans starving to death, what kind of government policy should we have undertaken to prevent such a calamity? When Ehrlich predicted that Johan Huibers, a Dutch creationist, after three years of building, has opened a half-scale replica of Noah’s Would the public finance a Christian school? No way, José. So why are taxpayers funding an Islam school in How do leaders like this get elected? Senate Majority leader Harry Reid on taxes: “I don’t think we force [taxation]. In fact, quite to the contrary. Our system of government is a voluntary tax system." Tell me that again next April 15th... The tragedy of Myanmar (where famous Baptist missionaries, Adoniram and Ann Judson labored so long and courageously when it was called Burma), hit by a cyclone in May, is a catastrophe involving tens of thousands, not a dozen or two as in some Arkansas tornado (not that we would minimize that). Our last word showed some 100,000 dead or missing. Yet the greatest blessing would be to rid the poverty-stricken nation of the cruel, murderous military junta that rules it with a despotic suppression of dissent... Congrats to the Kansas Jayhawks for taking home all the marbles in the NCAA basketball championship. Coach Bill Self and several of his assistants are professing Christians – and so are several players... Speaking of basketball, Mrs. Clinton, on ABC’s “Good Morning America,” said if What is We have often referred to sin as ‘insanity.’ Here’s another example: in our area is one of the finest quarterback’s to come down the pike in a coon’s age. Thanks to an undercover officer’s infiltration at his high school, the star got busted in a drug sting. With a big future in sports ahead of him (universities were fighting for his services), that is now all down the tube. The top football program in the state, Virginia Tech, immediately withdrew the “full scholarship” offer it had made to him. Yes, sin (in any form) is insanity!... Cal Thomas put it like this: “Government ... now resembles an irresponsible parent, spending the children’s wages and inheritance as if there were no tomorrow”… In the Florida battle about teaching origins in public schools, the director of public policy for that state's ACLU (just those letters should tell you what is coming), Courtney Strickland, in putting down creationism, asserted, "Calling something science does not necessarily make it science." Exactly. That's what we've been saying about evolution for years. And evolution has absolutely no scientific proof... I am not questioning Barak Obama’s sincerity, but I am saying, based on how he describes his faith, that his understanding of Christianity and mine are poles apart… When presidential candidate Mike Huckabee ran an ad last December with what appeared to be a cross in the background (it was a bookshelf), the media went wild over ‘injecting religion into politics.’ But have you seen Mr. Obama’s ad featuring him in a church pulpit, a huge cross in the background and the banner, “Faith. Hope. Change”? (Oops; Obama deleted the familiar “love” and put in his own campaign slogan instead). Where is the liberal outcry? Since Obama is a liberal, you haven’t heard any – and you won’t!... Chuck Norris, of Ranger Walker fame, was the convocation speaker at Sin is expensive! Related twins "divorce" and "out of wedlock motherhood" cost American taxpayers at least $112 billion annually, so revealed a study by four public policy and research groups. In short, it would be to our financial advantage if preachers started thundering forth from out pulpits again against such sins, as did our faithful forefathers... Exercise in futility: Congressman Michael McCaul (R-TX) introduced legislation to bar any use of federal monies (spell that "p-o-r-k) to name any project for a sitting member of Congress. Our prediction: it will never even get to the floor for debate... Bill and Hillary Clinton’s tax returns for 2000-2007 show an income of more than $100 million. Claiming to have given a tithe to charity, investigation shows that of that charity, $80,000 went to the Clinton Birthplace Foundation and $10,256,741 went to the Clinton Family Foundation (which, undoubtedly, is their favorite 'charity') and where Bill is president, Hillary is Secretary/Treasurer and Chelsea is director – and the CEO is Gloria Clinton, who receives an annual wage of $252,000)... Ain’t it the truth? As Walter Williams put it: "Most of the great problems we face are caused by politicians creating solutions to problems they created in the first place"… Poor Al. According to WorldNetDaily, over 31,000 American scientists – including over 9,000 Ph.D.s in fields like climatology, atmospheric science and other related specialties – signed a statement rejecting the idea of any global warming due to human interference. They said there was "no convincing scientific evidence" for the claims. Not only "poor Al," but "poor John McCain," who just recently climbed on that bandwagon... SBC baptisms dropped to their lowest level in two decades. The percentage decline was almost 5.5 percent. Membership in SBC churches also dropped. Of no comfort, is the fact that most denominations are experiencing the same trend... Ever hear of Brenda Biesterfeld? She was a librarian with the Tulare County Library (CA). We emphasize was because she got unceremoniously fired. Her crime? She found a dirty 39-year-old man downloading child porn on library computers. A good citizen, she both told the library and the police. The library fired her for not following library guidelines when she alerted police. Our view: she should get a medal, reinstatement, back pay, and a reward. And the library administrators should be fired!… Thomas Jefferson warned: “Were we directed from John Stuart Mill, British philosopher and Member of Parliament reminded us: "War is an ugly thing, but not the ugliest of things; the decayed and degraded state of moral and patriotic feeling which thinks nothing is worth a war, is worse"… Another federal jurist shows his unfamiliarity with the Constitution he is supposedly defending. U.S. District Judge Joseph H. McKinley ordered And what about those 3rd graders in Waycross (GA) who plotted to attack their teacher? The group brought duct tape, handcuffs, a broken steak knife and other items (including materials for cleaning up afterward). The plan was to knock her out with a crystal paperweight, bind her with the tape, handcuff her, and stab her with the knife. You know, just like they do on TV… Ted “Religion if for losers” Turner, the billionaire who once wrote his own version of the Ten Commandments, has apologized for some of his past inane remarks – in a measure, after a fashion, that is! He said he regretted “anything I said about religion that was negative,” explaining he has become more tolerant in his advanced age. In fact, he bragged: “It’s been a long time since anybody caught me saying something stupid." We suggest, since there are no impossible cases, Christians continue to pray for his salvation… Attention Floridians: The proposed amendment on your November ballot says, "Inasmuch as marriage is the legal union of only one man and one woman as husband and wife, no other legal union that is treated as marriage or the substantial equivalent thereof shall be valid or recognized." Christians should know how to vote on this!... Rich Lowery has summed up the Obama rules for the presidential campaign: “He can’t be called a ‘liberal’ (‘the same names and labels they pin on everyone,’ as Obama puts it); his toughness on the war on terror can’t be questioned (‘attempts to play on our fears’); his extreme positions on social issues can’t be exposed (‘the same efforts to distract us from the issues that affect our lives’ and ‘turn us against each other’); and his Chicago background, too, is off-limits (‘pouncing on every gaffe and association and fake controversy’). Besides that, it should be a freewheeling and spirited campaign.” Is this the man who calls his opponent John McBush?… On the other hand, Jonah Goldberg says: “We pick presidents for their judgment and values. Anything that gives us a clue as to what those might be is not only fair game, it is the game”… This study wasn’t conducted by a religious group! The University of Minnesota School of Public Health, after interviewing nearly 800 adolescents (ages 15-18) concluded TVs in bedrooms aren’t healthy! Of girls, 62% had one and researchers found them getting less exercise (1.8 hours weekly compared with 2.5 hours for the “withouts”), ate fewer veggies, drank more sweetened beverages, and dined with family less often. They found the “with” boys had lower grade-point averages, at less fruit, and dined less with family than the “withouts”… Former Congressman Davy Crockett on government handouts: “We have the right, as individuals, to give away as much of our own money as we please in charity; but as members of Congress we have no right so to appropriate a dollar of the public money"... Speaking of health killers, some outfit calling itself Here’s to Beer purchased full-page ads (we saw it in USA Today, a paper to which we do not subscribe but read when we receive it “free” in motels) praising the 75th anniversary of Prohibition’s repeal. The most objectionable part was using the picture of Uncle Sam from World War II days (“Uncle Sam Wants YOU!”) holding out four frosty, foamy mugs and making a play on that patriotic slogan, “I Want BREW.” They should be ashamed, but brewers are never ashamed of their uncouthness nor the misery their products cause Americans… Who is the biggest senatorial “porker” (WV’s Byrd, take a back seat) for fiscal year 2009? Senator Hillary Clinton (D-NY) leads by grabbing $2.3 billion (yes, that is billion, not million), more than threes time the one in second place. If you want contrast, Senator John McCain didn’t ask for a dime from the federal pork barrel… John McCain said he would appoint judges in the mold of Chief Justice John Roberts, Associate Justice Samuel Alito, and former Chief Justice William Rehnquist (i.e., strict constitutionalists), not jurists who consider the Constitution a living document and who would "legislate from the bench." His opponent voted against confirming both Roberts and Alito. (Rehnquist was voted on the court in 1972, before Obama was out of training pants – well, that is an exaggeration, but he was only ten!)... Why are we fed a daily dose of liberal baloney in our news? The answer is easy: the ones whipping up the meals are liberal to the core. The annual survey by Pew Reach Center for the People and the Press show 6% of national journalists call themselves conservative (Accuracy in Media thinks it is lower than this!), 24% say they are liberal, 8% very liberal, and 53% moderate. As we learn in religious circles, ‘moderate’ is a cover for those not wanting to admit being ‘liberal’… The ANWR battle goes on. As noted in our last issue, that area in “Wise men in our civilization have argued for centuries that four conditions must be met to justify war: It must counter a great and certain threat, it must be a last resort, it must have a reasonable chance of success, and it cannot be anticipated to cause more harm than it prevents. Leaving According to George Barna's polling group, one third of Americans have been divorced at least once. Among Evangelicals, who should be at the bottom of any divorce list, over one-fourth have been divorced at least once. In the political realm the figures are liberals (37%), moderates (33%), and conservatives (28%)... What a lousy record: The Democrat Party in the House of Representatives is not exactly a beehive of pro-life activity. A total of 197 of them "earned" ratings of "0" from the National Right to Life Committee. An exception was This will "ruin" abortion in Contrast the “ Congrats to Alaska Governor Sarah Palin, a strong conservative and pro-life advocate. She and her hubby Todd welcomed their fifth child the other day. They knew months before the birth that the boy had Down’s syndrome, but chose not to join the 80% of other In Booker T. Washington (1856-1915), a black who never asked anyone for anything but who did so much for Americans of every color, put it like this about his brothers: “There is a class of colored people who make a business of keeping the troubles, the wrongs, and the hardships of the Negro race before the public. Having learned that they are able to make a living out of their troubles, they have grown into the settled habit of advertising their wrongs – partly because they want sympathy and partly because it pays. Some of these people do not want the Negro to lose his grievances, because they do not want to lose their jobs.” Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton come to mind... Considering the alternatives and his own record on abortion, it is no surprise that the National Right to Life Committee endorsed John McCain for president… No surprise here, either: the nation's leading "baby killing as a right" group, the NARAL Pro-Choice America, has endorsed one of America's leading pro-killing politicians, Barack Obama, for President... For your information: The following United States Senators voted against making English our ‘official language: Akaska (D-HI); Bayh (D-IN); Biden (D-DE; Bingaman (D-NM); Boxer (D-CA); Cantwell (D-WA); Clinton (D-NY); Dayton (D-MN); Dodd (D- MN); Domenici (R-NM); Durbin (D-IL); Feingold (D-WI); Feinstein (D-CA); Harkin (D-IA); Inouye (D-HI); Jeffords (I-VT); Kennedy - (D- MA); Kerry (D-MA); Kohl (D-WI)); Lautenberg (D-NJ); Leahy (D-VT); Levin (D-MI); Lieberman (I-CT); Menendez (D-NJ); Mikulski (D-MD); Murray (D-WA); Obama (D-IL); Reed (D-RI); Reid (D-NV); Salazar (D-CO); Sarbanes (D-MD); Schumer (D-NY); Stabenow (D-MI). 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