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Comment on ISLAM; NOT A TERRORIST RELIGION NOR CRUEL TO WOMEN by Ken Blue

Ken Blue — Fri, 03 Sep 2010 05:27:58 +0000

There is nothing misleading about the article. If Islam does not practice domestic cruelty, please explain the “mercy killings” and why are others silent about them. Do they agree, or are they fearful to speak up? Also, your use of the word “innocent” is misleading. Please explain what it means to be innocent under Islam.

Comment on DOES GOD HATE YOU by Kirk Hall

Kirk Hall — Thu, 02 Sep 2010 04:14:54 +0000

I’v been hearing the same thing. Thank you for keeping the truth.

Comment on SHOULD BAPTIST CHURCHES HAVE ALTARS? by Truman Klecker

Truman Klecker — Wed, 01 Sep 2010 21:24:11 +0000

Great post. Thanks!

Comment on ARE BAPTIST COWARDS by Craig

Craig — Wed, 01 Sep 2010 18:23:08 +0000

Thank you, Pastor, for putting scripural application into one of the most hotly contested areas of church life. Isn’t it amusing, yet tragic, how we take this subject and make an assumption that God’s opinion must match our own, without any biblical foundation to back it up. Hopefully we can follow your lead and dig into the word and pray before we start deciding, (and tagging our decision with God’s name), the kind of music we need in the church and selecting instruments we should or shouldn’t use.

Comment on ARE BAPTIST COWARDS by Lois McBride

Lois McBride — Tue, 31 Aug 2010 21:23:05 +0000

If you can use it to worship and praise God, then use it without fear or apologies.

Comment on ARE BAPTIST COWARDS by eddie sigmon

eddie sigmon — Tue, 31 Aug 2010 03:10:59 +0000

THE TOCQUEVILLE FRAUD
The Weekly Standard
November 13, 1995
By John J. Pitney, Jr.

Nowhere do they appear in Democracy in America, or anywhere else in Tocqueville. The authenticity of the passage came into question when first-year government students at Claremont McKenna College received an assignment: Find a contemporary speech quoting Tocqueville, and determine how accurately the speaker used the quotation. A student soon uncovered a recent Senate floor speech that cited the “America is great” line. He scoured Democracy in America, but could not find the passage. The professor looked, too – and it was not there.

Further research led to reference books that cautiously referred to the quotation as “unverified” and “attributed to de Tocqueville but not found in his works.”

And now, synthetic Tocqueville is appearing in the 1996 campaign. Pat Buchanan used the “America is great” line in the speech announcing his candidacy, and Phil Gramm invoked the flaming pulpits in his May address to Jerry Falwell’s Liberty University.

Why does faux Tocqueville thrive? It took only a modest effort to expose the quotation as a phony, so how could it have circulated so widely for so long? We could make a nasty crack about politicians who cannot tell Alexis de Tocqueville from Maurice Chevalier, but that would be irrelevant since they seldom write their own material anyway. The lyrics of politics come from staffers, whose tight deadlines often keep them from checking original sources. When they need a quotation (or a statistic or an anecdote), they lift it from a speech or an article by somebody else. That somebody probably got it from another piece, whose author got it from . . . you get the picture. Bad information tends to linger and spread.

Here is a personal brush. In 1992, I served on the staff of the Republican platform committee. We came across the “America is great” line in an old Reagan speech. Though we could not verify it, we still wanted to use it in the platform, so we attributed it to “an old adage.”

Of course, after decades of repetition, it has in fact become an old adage. It just isn’t Tocqueville’s.

Comment on JOB; THE QUESTION OF SUFFERING by Sammy

Sammy — Fri, 27 Aug 2010 00:38:42 +0000

“Job was a perfect man in chapter one; but he was a more perfect and much wiser man after chapter 42.” I’ve never seen that before! Thanks, Dr. Blue!

Comment on THE ALIAS by Tanya

Tanya — Wed, 25 Aug 2010 22:49:48 +0000

Oh Pastor Ken, thank you so much for this post. My husband and I have been in this small war with one of our neighbors. We think we know who it is, but we do not want to be to hasty and confront her if it is not this person. We have had our car vandilized, our front door egged, the cops called on us and because we home school, an anounamous call to the Superintendent of the local schools. I have felt so persicuted. I will keep your family in prayer if you could cover us with prayer. God bless you and such reassurance that we are not alone in this war. Tanya

Comment on JOB; THE QUESTION OF SUFFERING by Spencer Baker

Spencer Baker — Tue, 24 Aug 2010 18:22:01 +0000

Thanks for writting this article. This will be a help to anyone who is going through it. While at Pastor’s school in Meridian, i listened to one of the finest messages on suffering from Ken Bates. I would recommend it to anyone.

Comment on JOB; THE QUESTION OF SUFFERING by Sal and Barb

Sal and Barb — Tue, 24 Aug 2010 04:03:43 +0000

Because of what you are going through this carrys alot of weight and very helpful to explain especially the part of why suffering is in the world I can’t wait till God wipes away every tear! Even so Come Lord Jesus <3 Love and prayers to you!