2008 Review

Homosexual Lifestyle Is Contrary To Biblical Lifestyle

This weekend Kari was told about a new band and that they were a Christian pop band and were in a long-term gay relationship.  Jason and DeMarco. So, I did some checking and this is what the couple claims and sadly there are churches in California that have been open to this teaching and have allowed them to perform and speak in the churches and even lead worship.  But there is a big problem with this.  You can not continue to choose to follow a sinful lifestyle and be a Christian.  You can be a nice guy, you can help others, you can even lead worship at a church.  But in the end, calling yourself a Christian does not make you one.

Matthew 7:21-23, “Not everyone who says to me, ‘Lord, Lord,’ will enter the kingdom of heaven, but only he who does the will of my Father who is in heaven. Many will say to me on that day, ‘Lord, Lord, did we not prophesy in your name, and in your name drive out demons and perform many miracles?’ Then I will tell them plainly, ‘I never knew you. Away from me, you evildoers!’”

Being a Christian means realizing that you are a sinner and that you need Christ’s sacrifice to have a realtionship with God and most importantly you repent from you sin and learn to live according to God’s ways and reject living the world’s ways.  Homosexuality is a sinful lifestyle and it follows the world’s ways not God’s.  So if you have chosen the path of homosexuality you are not a Christian.

I have posted below a clip from You Tube on the band.  I am posting about this because they are very wrong.

For the sake of time, I will link a position paper on Homosexuality that echos my views and understanding of scripture on this subject.

The Dog Ate It

Seriously that's the best excuses I have.  I haven't posted since I started my new job.  Back in October I left Nash Finch to work for Slumberland Furniture.  Since then I have been running full out trying to get a good start.  It has been an interesting transition.  Going from salary to commission was a bit scary, but in hind sight was a great move.  I actually received my first full commission check after being off the guaranteed base pay and I made more than I did at Nash Finch.  Most importantly, I love my new job.  I like coming to work and working with customers.  I like that the harder I work the more I get paid.  And in my first full month I was in 4th place in the store for total sales written.  And that's going up against 20 yr vets.  So I'm pretty happy with that.  So if you think about it please lift up a prayer for me that I would get good ups and favor in the marketplace.

 

I also have figured out how to post through email.  This way I can write in my down time at work.  So you will probably hear a lot more form me now.

 

Merry Christmas Everybody!

Posting by Email

I have been looking for a service to post by email and I think I found it.

Posted by email from Kurt’s posterous

An American Creed

I Do Not Choose to Be a Common Man

It is my right to be uncommon—if I can.

I seek opportunity—not security. I do not wish to be a kept citizen, humbled and dulled by having the state look after me.

I want to take the calculated risk; to dream and to build, to fail and to succeed.

I refuse to barter incentive for a dole. I prefer the challenges of life to the guaranteed existence; the thrill of fulfillment to the stale calm of utopia.

I will not trade freedom for beneficence nor my dignity for a handout. I will never cower before any master nor bend to any threat.

It is my heritage to stand erect, proud and unafraid; to think and act for myself, enjoy the benefit of my creations and to face the world boldly and say, “This I have done.”

By Dean Alfange

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*Originally published in This Week Magazine.
Later printed in The Reader’s Digest, October 1952 and January 1954.

The Honorable Dean Alfange was an American statesman born December 2, 1899, in Constantinople (now Istanbul). He was raised in upstate New York. He served in the U.S. Army during World War I and attended Hamilton College, graduating in the class of 1922.