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Join the Ed Boston Podcast Network tonight at 7 pm eastern as we pay tribute to a wonderful man of God – the Rev. Billy Graham. During this live podcast, we will look at his life, his legacy, and some of his “favorites”.
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Starting with an article posted here last week titled – Can We Mourn About The Florida Tragedy Properly? Please!!!!, I feel led to call for American’s to come together, but not in the old COEXIST way, but growing together in the love of Christ.
Let me mention, the article is directed at the church – those who call themselves followers of Jesus. If you don’t relate to that, you are free to read, and I hope you can take some, if not all of this to heart – but this is directed strictly at Christians.
First, we need to pray this scripture from 2 Chronicles 7:14 if my people, who are called by my name, will humble themselves and pray and seek my face and turn from their wicked ways, then I will hear from heaven, and I will forgive their sin and will heal their land.
Next, we need to look inwardly and ask ourselves what can I do – right now – to humble myself and seek the face of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ about this topic.
Then, we need to wipe away the barriers that divide us. We should be Christians first, and then those of us calling the United States home need to call ourselves Americans. No hyphens, no denominations, no race, nothing the separates us, we are AMERICANS first and that’s it.
One of the problems our country has is that even the church does things that divide not the world, but God’s church. We have white churches, black churches, hispanic churches, gay churches, and even denominations at times that HATE other denominations.
Racism, and any kind of hate, has no business in our world! I know there are plenty of things in our past that can and do divide us. Stop looking in the mirror and look forward. The past cannot be changed, but the future can change RIGHT NOW – and only you can change it. It’s not about what race we are, in the video below, Mandisa tells us we all “Bleed The Same”. Take the time to listen to the words, and start thinking this way.
Step back from the topic for just a second and let me address some things that are sure to be said.
Finally, what I am saying, is that if we want to have America to be healed by the Lord, God Almighty, then we must move forward from this point in history on, and Do The Right Thing!
These three songs with videos are perfect, Bleed the Same by Mandisa with Toby Mac and Kirk Franklin; Love Broke Thru by Toby Mac; and We Believe by The Newsboys. I encourage you to watch the videos (they all tell a great story) while you listen too the music.
We can’t expect God to heal our nation, if we aren’t willing to put forth the effort on our own.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9i
Friend of the podcast and personal friend, Jeff Jarrett is heading to the WWE Hall of Fame it was just announced. Here is the release from WWE.com.
You can also follow this breaking story at Wrestling News Blog.
This awesome news for a wonderful man, who is not afraid to share his faith.
My post, This Is Disgusting, But Par For The Course From “The View”seems to be holding true with the opinions of several different people. The Vice-President himself had these comments during a C-Span interview when asked about the situation:
Vice President Mike Pence delivered a jaw-dropping rebuke of ABC News after “The View” host Joy Behar compared Christianity to mental illness.
“To have ABC maintain a broadcast forum that compared Christianity to mental illness is just wrong,” Pence said Wednesday on C-SPAN. “It is simply wrong for ABC to have a television program that expresses that kind of religious intolerance.”
Pence said on C-SPAN that his faith is the most important thing in his life.
“My faith sustains me in all that I do,” he said.
The vice president said “The View” hosts insulted the “vast majority of the American people who cherish faith.”
“It demonstrates how out of touch some in the mainstream media are with the faith and values of the American people that you could have a major network like ABC permit a forum for invective against religion like that,” he said.
Watch VP Pence’s comments on C-Span below:
//www.c-span.org/video/standalone/?c4715081
Pastor Robert Jeffress had the following article on his website, Pathway To Victory:
Courtesy: Fox News Insider:
Dr. Robert Jeffress went off on the co-hosts of “The View” for mocking Vice President Mike Pence’s Christian faith on Tuesday.
It all started when “The View” played a clip from “Celebrity Big Brother,” in which former White House staffer Omarosa Manigault Newman said the Vice President “thinks Jesus tells him to say things.”
Sunny Hostin expressed concern about Pence’s religious fervor and said she doesn’t want her Vice President “speaking in tongues.”
“It’s one thing to talk to Jesus. It’s another thing when Jesus talks to you,” Joy Behar said, adding that hearing voices is a “mental illness.”
Jeffress wondered on “America’s Newsroom” what would have happened to Behar if she had mocked a devout Muslim.
“ABC would have fired her in a nanosecond. To the left, when it comes to attacking conservative Christians, it is always open season.”
He pointed out that many liberals preach the importance of tolerance, but when it comes to beliefs with which they disagree, they can often be the least tolerant.
He said Christians are tired of being bullied in the public square for their faith, and the 2016 election was in some ways a reaction to these types of “despicable attacks.”
Watch the video with Pastor Jeffress on Fox News
Fox News contributor Tomi Lahren slams ‘The View’ co-host Joy Behar for ridiculing Vice President Pence’s conservative Christian faith.
Par For The Course – definition: par for the course is a noun – something to be expected
While the following story may be “par for the course, that doesn’t make it acceptable! Christians should be highly upset with the the characterization that being a Christian is a “mental illness”.
Note that Mike Pence is from the same hometown that I am, and I have talked to him on numerous occasions. I don’t claim to know everything about him, but I have followed his political career from the very beginning.
I will make my comments to the story below in the article with bold red. Please remember that these comment will be my OPINION. Take a look!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RNpm_NglrJQ
The women of ABC News’ “The View” took a shot a Vice President Mike Pence’s Christian faith on Tuesday, mocking the former governor of Indiana for talking to Jesus and even calling it a “mental illness.” From Merriam-Webster.com – Definition of mental illness: any of a broad range of medical conditions (such as major depression, schizophrenia, obsessive compulsive disorder, or panic disorder) that are marked primarily by sufficient disorganization of personality, mind, or emotions to impair normal psychological functioning and cause marked distress or disability and that are typically associated with a disruption in normal thinking, feeling, mood, behavior, interpersonal interactions, or daily functioning
It all started when they played a clip from “Celebrity Big Brother,” in which former White House staffer Omarosa Manigault Newman discussed the vice president. Who makes Omarosa an expert on Vice-President Pence? My guess is that she barely knows him.
“As bad as you think Trump is, you would be worried about Pence… everyone that is wishing for impeachment might want to reconsider their life,” she said in the clip. “I am Christian, I love Jesus, but he thinks Jesus tells him to say things.” How would she know what Jesus tells anyone other than herself?
The talk-show panelists pondered what Omarosa’s motive was, before Sunny Hostin chimed in, “I think what’s interesting is that she said Jesus tells Mike Pence things to say.” I think that most Christian would agree that Jesus talks to us through His word, and some will believe (in my opinion rightly so) that they hear from Jesus directly. Does that make me mentally ill?
Hostin declared that Pence is a “hated figure” in Indiana, claiming she knows firsthand because she attended law school in the state. I can’t find the dates that Hostin attended law school at Notre Dame. She was born in 1969 so if she was in her early 20’s then she would have been there somewhere around the mid 90’s. Pence ran for office in the House of Representatives for the first time (an lost) in 1988, and didn’t start his time in Congress until 2001 in a district in Southern Indiana. Notre Dame is in the very Northern most point in the state. Maybe she had heard of Mike Pence while at Notre Dame, but I’m thinking she knew little to nothing about him at that time.
“He’s not very popular at all,” she said. “I think when you have a Mike Pence who now sort of puts this religious veneer on things and calls people ‘values voters,’ I think we’re in a dangerous situation.” Let’s see – Mike Pence was elected and served in Congress from 2001 to 2013. That would mean he was voted into office in his district 6 different times. He served as Governor of the state of Indiana from 2013-2017 and was running for re-election when President Trump named Pence as his running mate in the 2016 election. Granted, he made some decisions that were very unpopular, but it’s hard to reconcile Hostin’s OPINION that he is “hated and not very popular” with the FACT that he won election on 7 different occasions.
Hostin said she is a “faithful” Catholic but doesn’t want her vice president “speaking in tongues.” It’s obvious that as a Catholic she knows nothing about “speaking in tongues”, as the topic was what Pence heard from Jesus, not about how he spoke to Jesus. Personally knowing his hometown church and having been there a few occasions, I can assure you that there was no speaking in tongues done while I was there.
Joy Behar then said: “It’s one thing to talk to Jesus. It’s another thing when Jesus talks to you.” Pure sarcasm and vitriol.
Behar said hearing voices is a “mental illness” before Sherri Shepard offered a limited defense of Pence.
“As a Christian, that’s just par for the course,” Shepard said “You talk to Jesus, Jesus talks back. What concerns me is, how long is the conversation with Jesus?” Shepard acknowledges that Jesus talks to us, so why would it the length of that would be concerning. If Jesus talks to him for 30 that’s ok, but if it’s a minute or two or three or longer then that’s “concerning”?
Behar, an ABC News star, uncomfortably joked, “Can he talk to Mary Magdalene without his wife in the room?” This is probably the worst comment of the entire interview. Critics of the Bible has banded Mary Magdalene as a woman of ill repute, and the “without his wife in the room” part is making reference to Pence’s previous comments on how he keeps his vows to his wife.
Shepard then said that the key is “moderation” and anything that is “too much” is concerning. Again how is moderation and too much defined?
“Do we want our politics served to us with a religious veneer over them?” Hostin asked. “This administration is not a values-driven administration.” Let’s see – religious veneer and politics. Our founding documents and Constitution has religious veneer written all over them, and the Founding Fathers were mostly Christians (no matter what uninformed naysayers might tell you). If you watch the video, you will notice that the hosts couldn’t even agree on what values-driven is.
Finally, I find it very interesting, at the end of the segment, that Bahar commented that Pence would be much better that Trump. “I don’t think anyone could be worse than Trump. (garbled words) Say what you will about Mike Pence and his religiosity and everything else. I don’t think that he’s mentally ill even though he says that he is hearing voices. I don’t think he is that crazy”. So when it’s Pence alone, he and Christians are mentally ill and several other derogatory things, but when compared to Trump – Behar seems to think that Pence would do lots of things right. Total hypocrisy and I believe that ABC should discontinue allowing these women to spew there 1st Amendment protected venom.
The following story comes from the Billy Graham Evangelistic Association (BGEA):
From May 30 to June 3, 1973, an estimated 3.2 million people attended Billy Graham’s largest ever Crusade in Seoul, South Korea, with 1.1 million traveling—mostly by foot—to the final service on the airstrip at Yoi-do Plaza. Some 75,000 people submitted cards showing they made a decision for Christ because of that Crusade.
The historic plaza is less than 100 miles west of the Pyeongchang Olympic Stadium, where millions more have gathered for the Winter Games.
>> Scroll through several snapshots of the historic Crusade that forever changed South Korea and countless lives.
>> Read an account from John Pollock, one of the 1.1 million in attendance on the last day of the Crusade, June 3, 1973.
>> Learn more about how the Crusade began with local church leaders and Christian educators in Korea, and how it has continued impacting the country’s churches and culture even through today.
“Love one another,” Billy Graham told the crowd repeatedly after reading John 15:13.
“That is the message I want to leave you as I go back to America. Love one another in Korea.”
>> Hear more of Billy Graham’s message, “The Love of God.”
It’s time to change the background photo for our Scripture of the Day. We have two copies left of the DVD, Steve McQueen: American Icon that will be given as prizes.
Here’s how the contest will work. Everyone who submits a photo to be considered will have their name entered into a drawing for one of the DVDs. The other copy of the DVD will be the person whose picture is used for the new background. The background photo can be but does not have to be an original photo.
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Deadline for submissions is Friday, February 16th.
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On the latest Ed Boston Podcast Network show, Ed proudly was able to interview Jon Erwin. Jon, part of Erwin Brothers Entertainment shared about the movie – “Steve McQueen: American Icon”. Jon also mentions another project they have coming out on March 16th or 3:16 and that is none other than “I Can Only Imagine”.
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