J. Grant Swank, Jr.


Biblical ethicists defy left-of-left government intrusion if the latter prods believers to deny their values.


These stalwarts are in the line of Jesus overturning temple tables, sending merchants fleeing. Jesus defied the power structure in favor of hallowing His Father’s House of Prayer.


Christians through centuries have defied evildoers. They have stood for the God of the Bible while secularists threatened them with harm.


So it is today those adhering to scriptural morals inform a secularist-prone government to move over. These godly disciples will not bend to unbelievers’ demands. They will serve God as God.


“Because we honor justice and the common good,” it states, “we will not comply with any edict that purports to compel our institutions to participate in abortions, embryo-destructive research, assisted suicide or euthanasia or any other anti-life act; nor will we bend to any rule purporting to force us to bless immoral sexual partnerships, treat them as marriages or the equivalent, or refrain from proclaiming the truth, as we know it, about morality and immorality and marriage and the family.”


The document referred to is the Manhattan Declaration per Washington Times’ Julia Duin.


It is bolstered by evangelicals, Roman Catholics and Orthodox leaders in particular. Moralists of all stripes agree with its mission.


Prison Fellowship founder Charles Colson and Princeton University professor Roman Catholic Robert P. George spearheaded this Christian witness. Scores of others join them.


As Barack Hussein Obama, Marxist Muslim, continues to gather about him anti-Christian cohorts, particularly as czars in his shadow government, Christians do what Jesus told them to do.


Jesus instructed His grace children not to hide their lights under bushels. Jesus told His own they were the salt of the earth. Jesus Himself defended heaven’s moral base against the odds, finally being murdered for doing so.


Jesus instructed that in every age His saved ones are to be in the world but not of the world, hence Christians take their testimony into the marketplaces. For that some have been persecuted, others martyred. Nevertheless, Jesus followers boldly hold to His example worldwide.


“There are at least 224 million Christians in the United States, according to the Web site Adherents.com.


“The document, which was drafted over the summer, is being released at a time of high stress for many of the groups that signed it. The Archdiocese of Washington is under fire for saying it will not comply with a pending D.C. law that would force the Catholic Church to give health benefits or adoption services to same-sex couples.”


For biblical ethicists there is no thought of compromise, no matter how threatened. Allegiance is having none other than the God of the Word. His law comes first; defending it is paramount.


Read “Religious leaders vow civil disobedience on anti-life issues” at http://washingtontimes.com/news/2009/nov/21/religious-leaders-vow-civil-disobedience/

J. Grant Swank, Jr.


Barack Hussein Obama and family sat under this cultic lecturer’s diatribes for twenty years:


The following is from a Jeremiah Wright sermon, "And God Said to Moses: I Hate Those Honkey-A-- Crackers" as posted at IMAO's website: http://www.imao.us/archives/009779.html


Now this is outright blasphemy against Christ. Read it and call it what it is - the spirit of antiChrist:


"Now some tell me that we shouldn't be for killing the honkeys. We should just turn the other cheek. Who says this? That cracker Jesus!


"Well, answer me this: Has Jesus ever been called a [n-word]? Did anyone invent AIDS to kill Jesus?


"Well, maybe Jesus should not be lecturing the black man on what he should and should not be doing. As we speak, the government is working on plans to send all black people to Venus! That's right: NASA is going to send us to Venus where it is inhospitable to life and we will all die.


"So what does Jesus have to say about that? Nothing! God bless Jesus? No. God [expletive] Jesus!


"To hell with him! Throw his cracker a-- out of here!"


The sermon begins with this opening paragraph: "When Moses finally escaped the Egyptians, he turned to God and asked, 'There could surely be no one as bad at those people?'


"God said to Moses, 'Yes there are. Beware the honkeys. Beware the crackers. Especially beware the Jews. I hate all those people. Frankly, if you blow up their buildings, that's okay with me.'"


Jeremiah Wright is no Christian preacher. Diatribe as above is satanic. Any biblical clergyperson will vouch for that. There is no question when a biblical believer reads that kind of madness. It is satanic.


I do not believe then that Muslim B. Hussein Obama did not hear that kind of blasphemy over the two decades he sat in that sanctuary. Michelle heard it also. They both listened and took it in.


Why then did Muslim B. Hussein Obama remain there?


Because he thought, with the congregation numbering into the thousands, it would be politically advantageous to his future.


And it was. With that he became popular in Illinois which led to him making it to the US Congress.


In being politically opportunistic by joining that political plant called a "church," Muslim Obama had likewise to join hands with Nation of Islam Louis Farakkhan for the latter was within Muslim Obama's political district.


In being friends to Farrakhan and that Muslim conclave, Muslim Obama employed some of those in NOI on his Congressional and campaign staff.


Muslim Obama tolerated outright blasphemy, the misuse of the name of Jesus, the maligning of the ministry and incarnation of the Son of God.


For that, Muslim Obama will pay a dear price at the Judgment Seat of Christ. His soul is in grave danger of damnation.


Adding to his political opportunism by aligning with a mentor blasphemer and Islamic organizations, Muslim Obama also damns his soul by endorsing killing infants in wombs, sodomy, human stem cell research, and erasing the Judeo-Christian heritage from the US in favor of melding all religions into one.


All of the above is absolutely counter to God's Word.


Read more at the IMAO's website: http://www.imao.us/archives/009779.html

By J. Grant Swank, Jr.


“In the wake of 9/11, my meetings with Arab and Pakistani Americans … have a more urgent quality, for the stories of detentions and FBI questioning and hard stares from neighbors have shaken their sense of security and belonging,” he laments. “I will stand with them should the political winds shift in an ugly direction.”


That is what Barack Obama wrote in his book, “Audacity.”


Now you can be sure that when Obama is in the White House, something “ugly” will occur to offend the nation’s “Arab and Pakistani Americans”—in other words, Muslims.


So whose side will Obama then take?


He will side with the Muslims per his own public statement in his book. There is no question. It is right there.


That is not the closet Muslim which he’s been. That’s the out-in-the-open Muslim hinted about even present-tense.


“I will stand with them. . .”


That is why he stands with them in the pro-Islam sanctuary called Trinity United Church of Christ. That’s why Obama embraces Jeremiah Wright’s pro-Muslim crowning of Nation of Islam Louis Farrakhan.


That’s why Obama, with his Muslim childhood schooling, endorses the mosque-cleric-like angry yelling of Wright’s pulpit delivery.


That’s why Obama states in “Audacity” that Judeo-Christian heritage will recede as an all-religions country emerges. Obviously, from his siding with Muslims, Muslims in particular will have the upper hand in the new America.


It is scary to read just that one paragraph in his book about siding with the Muslims if matters turn “ugly.”


One can be certain that Muslims reading that paragraph will see to it that some offense will strike their sensitivities once The Boy sits in the Oval Office. Their squeals will trigger their discontent thereby triggering Obama the Muslim to spring forth.


Muslim Obama has already given us warning in his book. If we are too stupid to get it, then we are going to suffer the consequences of not being informed.


Contributor's website: http://jgrantswankjr.blogspot.com/

J. Grant Swank, Jr.


America has always been under attack.


Communists said they’d bury us.


Remember those days when we were instructed as school children to duck under the desks if we heard the alarms? Civil Defense quarters were broadcast so we could find shelter. Some built underground bunkers in their front yards.


Then came along our own opulence. As a Christian given to frugal lifestyle, I became alarmed as America became more and more enamored with its toys. We were beleaguered by our own materialistic lusts.


Things were gods. Money was the Promised Land. And boasting of tangibles was the all-in-all creed. I pondered if we would implode because of our money success—monster homes, for example.


Add to this the “increase of sin,” as Jesus prophesied in Matthew 24. He said it would be one of the prime signs of the close of the Church Age.


Now sin abounds as that which is right. People opt for living together rather than marriage. It is posh to have that significant other. Same-sex ‘marriage’ is the legitimate right.


Sanctuaries empty. Churches close. Clergy trespass. Denominations go left with immoral doctrines.


In the Church of the Nazarene, the holiness denomination in which I was raised, website NazNet, for instance, has Moderator Hans Deventer champion a Bible that is fraught with errors. This is totally against the reliable divine revelation that was preached since the church’s start.


Deventer is joined by Moderator Scott Cundiff who believes in the same errant Scripture. Site Founder and Moderator Dave McClung does nothing to bring these two persons in line with holiness beliefs, though he states repeatedly that the site is Nazarene-friendly. It is not. It is just the opposite.


Read NAZNET DISTORTS at http://naznetdistorts.blogspot.com/


So we have had threats all along as a biblically originated nation. The thirteen colonies were composed of believers who taught Scripture to school children. Some preachers were renegades; but by and large village pastors delivered sermons regarding biblical truth as God’s Word—without question.


This is the only country on the planet that had such an origin. No other nation had settlers who carried their Bibles, kept the Lord’s Day holy, held to scriptural morality and taught judgment day accountability.


Heaven and hell were real. Jesus was Redeemer. Salvation was through conversion to Jesus. And the God of the Book was the Mighty God.


Of course there were theological liberals who opposed that biblical base; but by and large believers seeking religious freedom in the New World held to the Word’s eternal verities.


In this present age, we have as a citizenry created our own enemies in opulence, outright sinful lifestyles and a steady disregard for the Bible.


But we are still here. Why?


God has continued to show mercy because of the righteous remnant. Their prayers, added to the early colonies’ intercessory prayers, keep divine grace upon America.


It is God’s holy nature to honor is own persona. He cannot go against His caring personhood; consequently, the Republic still stands.


The newest threat to the United States is the Oval Office’s Marxist Muslim and his shadow government/czars impregnating evil government. He is out to destroy our democracy, in that sense beheading the infidels. He has long publicly witnessed that he is Muslim, though too many have never recognized that as fact.


In his left of left policies now set forth with the majority of Democrats in Congress, he is fully intent in obliterating the nation.


Nevertheless, God is still on His throne. God tops Satan.


Therefore, since Allah is Satan, the Koran was scribed by demons, and Islam is a hellish cult, God continues to defend His righteous remnant. His grace children, by simple faith, believe in that with their entire beings.


Consequently, this latest threat from a cult and its devotee, Barack Hussein Obama, will not do away with this Republic. God will level His wrath against those who would obliterate the only country planted in biblical truth.


Read “How Long will God Intervene?” at http://www.magic-city-news.com/J_Grant_Swank_61/How_Long_will_God_Intervene12456.shtml

J. Grant Swank, Jr.


So try Khalid Sheik Mohammed in a federal civilian court.


Why?


Read: “Some strange ideological impulse—rather than common sense and respect for the rule of law—is driving the Obama administration to give special treatment to the perpetrator of one of the greatest war crimes ever committed against the United States” per CNSNEWS.com’s Terence P. Jeffrey.


“. . .ideological impulse. . .”


Richard Morris stated the Obama motive being an “ideological” one.


What these two men are saying when using the term “ideological” is Muslim. It is the theology of the Koran. It is what Allah would have Obama do.


Now to figure out the fine line details as to what verse or verses in the Koran are behind Obama’s thought patterns is another matter.


But suffice it to say that it his cultic underpinning that is evangelizing this preposterous, outlandish display in Manhattan. We all know by now the fleshed out voluminous reasons why this Mohammed scene should never happen.


But what is particularly significant is to try to figure out the Marxist Muslim Obama’s intent that drives such brash, public insanity.


Thinking persons know that when all is said and done in Obama’s activities to right and left, it is his allegiance to Allah that governs all.


His Protestant membership in Trinity United Church of Christ (Congregational) is a cover for his real religion.


It is Islam as he himself has stated publicly: OBAMA STATES HE IS MUSLIM at http://www.renewamerica.com/columns/swank/091107


Let the UCC fade as Islam looms largely, more so each day.


Read ISLAMIC TIMELINE FOR GLOBAL RULE http://www.allvoices.com/contributed-news/4569807-islamic-timeline-for-global-rule

J. Grant Swank, Jr.


Compare then and now. We are now reaping the rot that was sown in weeds back then:


“When Moses finally escaped the Egyptians, he turned to God and asked, ‘There could surely be no one as bad at those people?’ God said to Moses, ‘Yes there are. Beware the honkeys. Beware the crackers. Especially beware the Jews. I hate all those people. Frankly, if you blow up their buildings, that’s okay with me.’


God hates the Jews. Wright said it. That is bold, orthodox Muslim preaching. So blow up Jews’ buildings. That’s Muslim Muslim Muslim written all over it.


“We believe in white supremacy and black inferiority and believe it more than we believe in God,” Jeremiah Wright preached.


And this: “How many children of biracial parents can make it in a world controlled by racist ideology?”


I don’t believe Barack Obama saying he never sat under Jeremiah Wright’s preaching rant sermons against America. It is simply impossible to believe that considering Wright’s hatred for America and whites especially.


Obama is lying in order to become President.


When reading Wright’s sermonic sentences, Wright sounds very much like a mosque cleric.


All the more that I believe Obama to be a Muslim mask. I believe that wife Michelle likewise is a Muslim mask. I believe that they wholeheartedly agree with Wright’s anger against the USA, his hatred against whites and are covering all that up to get into the White House.


Here are some of Wright’s Muslim-like sermonic sentences:


“The government gives them the drugs, builds bigger prisons, passes three-strike laws and wants them to sing God Bless America.


“No! No No!


“God damn America … for killing innocent people.


“God damn America for threatening citizens as less than humans.


“God damn America as long as she tries to act like she is God and supreme.”


Obamas heard those sentences and many more like them. I have been a Christian preacher for nearly half a
century. I know what sermonic themes I have accented over the years. Wright had his accents as well. They are dittoed for a congregation that in fact was brainwashed cultic style. Obamas were a part of that.


Here are more of Wright’s Muslim-like sermonic sentences:


“We bombed Hiroshima. We bombed Nagasaki. And we nuked far more than the thousands in New York and the Pentagon and we never batted an eye.


“We have supported state terrorism against the Palestinians and black South Africans, and now we are indignant because of stuff we have done overseas is now brought back into our own backyard. America is chickens coming home to roost.”


In my preaching files, I was preaching my understanding of the Bible. Wright does the same. But he twists the Bible toward blackism. In that, his congregation was fed unreasonable, anti-American tirades in the guise of biblical preaching.


Obamas were a part of the listeners’ intake. They sat in the pews. They did not walk out when Wright was raving mad. The congregation frequently stands to its feet, claps in favor of Wright, and chimes in with Amens and such enthusiastic support.


Obamas would have been party to that over twenty years. Here are more Muslim-like sermonic sentences:


“The government lied about inventing the HIV virus as a means of genocide against people of color. The government lied.”


Then turning to Barack Obama as potential US President, Wright said the following:


“There is a man here who can take this country in a new direction,” Wright said during his Jan. 13 sermon.


During a Christmas sermon, Wright tried to compare Obama’s upbringing to Jesus at the hands of the
Romans.


“Barack knows what it means living in a country and a culture that is controlled by rich white people,” Wright said.


“Hillary would never know that.


“Hillary ain’t never been called a n-----. Hillary has never had a people defined as a non-person.”


Wright preached against “the white value system.” Obamas heard that over and over again. It’s part of sermons and literature and Bible studies. Obamas could not have missed it.


Wright had more to say about Hillary. And this was couched in a so-called Christian sermon from a Christian pulpit from the Trinity United Church of Christ—one of the most liberal denominations in the world.


“Hillary is married to Bill, and Bill has been good to us. No he ain’t! Bill did us, just like he did Monica Lewinsky. He was riding dirty.”


And more:


“We’ve got more black men in prison than there are in college. Racism is alive and well.


“Racism is how this country was founded and how this country is still run. No black man will ever be considered for president, no matter how hard you run Jesse [Jackson] and no black woman can ever be considered for anything outside what she can give with her body.”


Racism is in Wright’s blood. It has been transferred to his loyal congregation. It had to be relayed likewise to Obamas or they would have left that church ages ago. Instead, they stayed. They stayed because they believed what Wright was preaching. It was the cultic clutch on hundreds in the pews.


“America is still the No. 1 killer in the world. . . .


“We are deeply involved in the importing of drugs, the exporting of guns, and the training of professional killers.


“We bombed Cambodia, Iraq and Nicaragua, killing women and children while trying to get public opinion turned against Castro and Ghadhafi.


“We put [Nelson] Mandela in prison and supported apartheid the whole 27 years he was there. We believe in white supremacy and black inferiority and believe it more than we believe in God.”


White supremacy. Black inferiority. Those were two of the most believed political creeds held to by that congregation. And it was because Wright molded the church’s thinking agianst whites and into blackism.


Obamas had to get in on all of this. Obama lies when he says that all of these beliefs of Wright are now foreign to his understanding. That is simply impossible to believe.


Obama lies to further his campaign. Lies are permitted Muslims as trophies to Allah. I believe that Obama lies, holding that as a Muslim he has that right.


“We supported Zionism shamelessly while ignoring the Palestinians and branding anybody who spoke out against it as being anti-Semitic. . . . We care nothing about human life if the end justifies the means.”


The end for Muslims that justifies the means is Islam World Rule. I believe that Obama is in league with Islam World Rule and sleeper cells throughout the USA. There is too much evidence over twenty years’ listening to Wright to not think that real.


“We started the AIDS virus . . . We are only able to maintain our level of living by making sure that Third World people live in grinding poverty. . . .”


America started AIDS.


America is to be held accountable for worldwide poverty.


That’s vintage Wright sermonic content. It is a pity that a congregation was so brainwashed over years. Wright has molded them into the Muslim mold.


Obama says he never heard those kinds of words from Wright. That is a lie. It has to be a lie. Wright did not change his sermonic content from Sunday to Sunday.


Instead, he built his large congregation by such hateful “messages” and created an anger-based following, more a political center than a church. It certainly was not a Christian church.


In another sermon, Reverend Wright suggested that the song “God Bless America” should be substituted with “God Damn America.”


He has also suggested that we deserved what we got on 9/11.


More from Wright:


“That’s right: NASA is going to send the black man to Venus where it is inhospitable to life and we will all die.”


And still more from the Muslim-like preacher:


“When Moses finally escaped the Egyptians, he turned to God and asked, ‘There could surely be no one as bad at those people?’ God said to Moses, ‘Yes there are. Beware the honkeys. Beware the crackers. Especially beware the Jews. I hate all those people. Frankly, if you blow up their buildings, that’s okay with me.’


God hates the Jews. Wright said it. That is bold, orthodox Muslim preaching. So blow up Jews’ buildings. Muslim Muslim Muslim written all over it.


“How many children of biracial parents can make it in a world controlled by racist ideology?


“Children born to parents who are of two different races do not have a snowball’s chance in hell of making it in America, especially if the momma was white and the daddy was black. A child born to that union is an unfortunate statistic in a racially polarized society,” he said.


“But, if you use your mind, instead of a lost statistic in a hate-filled universe, you just may end up a law student at Harvard University. In fact, if you use your mind, you might end up as the editor of the Harvard Law Review. If you use your mind, instead of [being] a statistic destined for the poor house, you just may end up a statesman destined for the … Yes, we can!” Wright said, using the popular Obama slogan to bring the crowd to its feet in cheers.


Rev. Otis Moss will follow the recently retired Wright. Moss said that the congregation was fortunate to have had a pastor who accented politics and not a prosperity gospel.


“While other ministers and ministries have allowed the winds of the current culture and market to reshape the gospel into formulaic catchphrases and false hopes of financial success, Dr. Wright, you have etched out a unique homiletic of recovery and redemption,” Moss said.

J. Grant Swank, Jr.


When Sarah Palin was on a book signing stop, MSNBC's HARDBALL Chris Matthews and colleague staff interviewed some persons standing in line for Palin’s signature.


Matthews, having confessed to the world that when he ponders Barack Hussein Obama, he gets a thrill running up his leg. What doctor could fix that? Perhaps a sex psychiatrist. But then again, maybe Mathew doesn’t want therapy.


Matthews, having dreamed of Obama in fantasy venues, said to all that it is quite proper to cry when wooing the persona of Barack Hussein Obama.


Now Matthews, having become mesmerized by the Oval Office occupant, slams Palin’s cheering section for being too white. Too white?


That’s right. On Matthews’ news blab, he kept pronouncing that it was a wonder that
so many white mortals were there at the line stand in.


This is Matthews the blatant racist. He should slide off the screen.


What if FOXNews had said that they wondered why so many blacks showed up for whatever Obama event he starred in, would not the planet have split in half?


If conservative telecasters had underlined the estimate numbers of blacks present at an Obama rally, all hell would have broken lose. Conservatives would have been whip lashed into the ocean.


However, liberals can get by with whatever transgression they conjure.


So goes the double standard. That’s the black and white of it.

J. Grant Swank, Jr.


In the 1967 Six Day War, Israel gained control of the Sinai Peninsula, Gaza Strip, the West Bank, East Jerusalem, and Golan Heights.


Israel should never give up any of this turf. Israelis have bartered some of it away. It should remain today as it was on June 11.


My wife and I were in Israel in 1966, passing from Jordan into Israel. We went through the Mandelbaum Gate, prayed at the Wailing Wall, visited holy sites, including Gordon’s Calvary where we observed the communion sacrament with friends.


Since then it has pained me to think Israel would lose any of that land fought for. I believe it was a miracle that they won that war in six days.


Now Barack Hussein Obama wants less of Israel and more of Arab earth. Why not? Go figure.


Therefore, Obama is dissed at Israel officialdom not going the Obama Way. Best wishes to Israel on that score. May they stay their course.


Israel, no larger than New Jersey, is recorded in the Old Testament as the land “flowing with milk and honey.” God has smiled upon that navel of the planet while other geographies have more acreage. This is in keeping with God’s fondness of the small and insignificant.


How many times in biblical history did God call upon the little person, the out-of-the-way places, by which to open His will? Bethlehem, for instance, is biblically scored as not very important in mortal eyes. But there deity housed Himself in flesh.


David was a nobody; yet God chose him as Israel’s king.


Nazareth. Well, what good can come out of Nazareth?


Therefore, when I think of Israel, I pray for that part of the world specifically for I know King Christ will return to the Mount of Olives, establishing His millennial reign. It will be back to the little place that the Second Person of the Trinity will rule the planet. In the meantime, I ask God to keep Israel intact.


The other day I was shopping at the mall. I came upon a kiosk manned by two young Israeli’s selling their goods. I chatted with these fellows, finding them especially interesting.


I told them I had visited their country and to that their faces lit up. They were so pleased to be talking to an American who had walked their streets. With that, I invited them to our home. I expect them to visit us one of these evenings.


There is something quite dear about Israel to the soul of the Christian.


Therefore, when I see Israel threatened so rudely, I feel the hurt. The rest of the world turns on them. All through the years, America basically has stood by Israel. But now with a Muslim President, we cannot expect that.


Therefore, I intercede all the more for the Holy Land. I pray that Mount Moriah will remain intact, its holy places not destroyed by Islamic bulldozers, as they have been doing in recent times, focusing on Solomon’s original temple site.


May Jerusalem always remain Israel’s capital city. May it prepare itself for the advent of Christ’s holiness.


Read “Israel Defies Obama with New Settlement Construction” at http://www.newsmax.com/newsfront/israel_obama_settlement/2009/11/17/287567.html

J. Grant Swank, Jr.

 
In the Lakes Region there is this sixtyish gas station clerk who is predictably courteous. It doesn't matter what the lousy weather, the line up of customers or the complainers, she still smiles and serves.


I quietly have taken special note of her--over time. And the research always comes out the same: she is consistently kind and giving. Interesting but not unusual in the neighborhood where I hang my hat.


This mystery woman reminds me of Vi.


Vi was the one who put out the gorgeous, round, luscious fruits in a huge color-splashed bowl. There it was in the center of our morning table--along with the pastries, cereals, hot beverages and whatever else the Massies requested the night before.


Vi saw to it that vacationers Priscilla and Grant were treated exceptionally well. It was "simply her way," Herb and Pearl informed us. And with that, they were most fortunate to have Vi as their housekeeper.


Montego Bay could not have been more outlandishly pleasant that spring. So days we went sightseeing with our host and hostess--he being the retired overseer of the entire island's road system.


Consequently, we got to explore enticing nooks and crannies off the beaten path. Then evenings we laid back at the Bay, closing out our excursions with a full meal set forth by none other than our faithful, meticulous Vi.


"Come join us for Bible," Herb would invite Vi. So she did. We--the five of us--had our devotions together: Bible, prayer and a bit of chatter centering on God's ways with our lives.


The next day was the same: a variety of island birds exchanging messages outside our bedrooms windows, sunlight smiling through those artfully carved air passages in the walls, and that Picasso-like breakfast table--not only lush with exotic tastes but overflowing with happy colors.


In the center of it all--Vi.


Her faith was a simple trust. In that, Vi lived out her love for Jesus. That love was shown practically in her consistent kindness of serving.
 

Then the years slipped by. From Kingston (their second home) came Herb and Pearl's note. Included in much familial detail was the news that heaven had added one. Vi had been taken from Jamaica to serve other tables. Massies were sad but the angels were delighted.


When we have company for dinner and our table needs cleared of its dishes, I often look at my wife to say, "Where's Vi?" Then we chuckle. And then we pause, thanking God that we ever crossed island paths with the likes of one named Vi.


Sometimes friends say to me, "I don't know what this old world's coming to!" And of course we can all read between the lines on that one.


But when I hear that lament, I often think back to past-tense Vi. And then I remember present-tense sixtyish gas station clerk. So with that I conclude that the world's probably like it's always been--some bad, but some good, too.


Well, then, what's the good ones' secret? How can they do it--serving, breathing out an unadorned kindness, reliable in their love? Why don't they cave in? Why don't they leap into the bank lobby and shoot-em-up?


Jesus opened up secret's door a long time ago when He washed His disciples' feet. "Wash one another's feet. For I have given you an example. The servant is not greater than his lord. Neither he that is sent greater than he that sent him. If you know these things, you are happy if you do them." (John 13:14-17)

 
"Happy if you do them."



Yessirree. I think Vi learned that a long, long time ago.

J. Grant Swank, Jr.


When Bill O’Reilly asked Sally Quinn questions regarding Sarah Palin’s faith on The Factor, Quinn was all over the answer board.


Quinn went on and on about her recent visit with Rick Warren, touting his bestseller, “The Purpose Driven Life,” and commending him and his wife for being so nice. So what’s that got to do with O’Reilly’s question about Palin? Nothing.


Quinn then went on about Palin giving birth to a Down syndrome child but in interviews Palin saying that she knew she could have chosen abortion.


Quinn read into Palin’s abortion remarks that Palin might finally have concluded to go for that. Instead, the obvious reasoning concerning Palin’s comments was that she briefly was tempted with the abortion
choice but, knowing her faith base, soon buried that option.


Quinn would have her stretching out her angst until it was pitted into desert sands.


Quinn then questioned Palin’s free will versus predestination. Where Quinn thought she was going on that track cannot be picked up by rational mortals. She was smilingly stupid at that juncture so that logical TV watchers would have thrown a shoe through their screens.


Quinn was snide all the way through O’Reilly’s interview, maintaining that pretty smile that was crusted cold. It appeared she was more motivated to show off her fashionable garb than succinctly responding to O’Reilly.


Quinn, a woman, did no favor for genuinely analyzing another woman now in the spotlight. Typical of feminists.


O’Reilly kept coming back to Palin’s simple Christian faith. Quinn decidedly was about shredding O’Reilly’s thesis by positing Palin as an unrefined complicated doctrinal mess.


When biblical believers hear Palin, they know her Christian faith is indeed fundamental; that is what spins secularists on their heads. Nevertheless, Palin is Palin. And Palin is a scriptural disciple who sincerely believes what she has learned the Christian way.


Too bad that liberals like Quinn don’t get it. Too bad that feminists don’t get it.


That all the more reveals the definite split Palin will continue to create throughout America as her pre-campaign revs up. The biblical believers versus secularists will shoot crevices across the Republic’s crust from coast to coast.


Let the crust begin.


Read “Palin's Pentecostal faith: liberals will pounce” at http://www.renewamerica.com/columns/swank/091118


Read  WOMEN ENDORSING PALIN? IT’LL BE SLICE-N-DICE at http://grantswank.blogtownhall.com/2009/11/18/women_endorsing_palin_it%E2%80%99ll_be_slice-n-dice.thtml

J. Grant Swank, Jr.


Women should support women.


That’s what feminists preach. They write it as a part of their creed. It’s basic.


Not however when it comes to Sarah Palin. She will not get the support of America’s women in total. Not on your life.


Instead, Palin will split women in two camps just as she will divide Americans into two opposing segments: believers versus secularists.


Women who are liberals will slam, dunk and bury Palin. They will pick her apart more than liberal males. Take for example The View. The liberals there cannot tolerate Palin.


So it will go throughout Hollywood’s celebrities, coast-to-coast politicians and theologically liberal churchwomen. They will slice and dice. They will not care a twit that she is female. And females against a female get out the claws like no other animal.


Because Palin is morally based on the Bible, secularist females will tear her apart. Feminism’s creed states just the opposite. But hang the creed.


Feminism is basically an opportunist swing anyhow. It stands for LIBERAL. Period. Anything conservative—politically or theologically—is chewed meat.


Watch Palin become more and more popular with America’s moralists and then you will witness daily Battle Royal. Liberal women will mount stallions, button up dueling garb and go after Palin’s heart—right there in the bull’s eye.


All the more, feminism’s hypocrisy will come to the fore just as it did during the McCain-Palin run for the White House. Females who despised Palin let it be known by screeching it from the witchtops.


I cannot get out of my head the look on Barbara Walter’s face every time Palin was brought up then. She was restrained but it was obvious that her trying for equality-for-all was wearing thin.


The other three panelists liberal bound held Walter’s position to the close. Their faces turned to stone.


If Palin goes further than putting on the table her book, she better wear thick protective gear. Or else she can continue to do what she does best: hold her convictions solid and let God shoot level the enemy.


I think she will choose the latter.


Read PALIN TO RIGHTLY DIVIDE USA ALL THE MORE at http://truthinconviction.us/weblog.php?id=P3263


Read PALIN’S PENTECOSTAL FAITH: LIBERALS WILL POUNCE at http://truthinconviction.us/weblog.php?id=P3262

J. Grant Swank, Jr.


Sarah Palin, if running for President, surely will divide this Republic all the more into two definite segments—fiercely opposing segments.


Already we have two primary segments: believers and secularists.


Believers are those moralists who hold to the God of the Bible, particularly the New Testament God in Christ. It may be via Roman Catholicism, evangelical Protestantism, Orthodox Christians, or non-church members who hold to biblical ethics.


Secularists are exampled by Joy Behar on The View. She is with conviction a non-believer who holds that this life is all there is. No deity. No hereafter. No judgment accountability. This is it; write your own (im)morals.


George W. Bush’s interviews regarding his faith brought out remarks that he read the Bible, prayed to Christ, believed in the hereafter, and other basics common to biblical believers.


This infuriated secularists. They charged him with swords and knives aplenty. Likewise Laura.


But with Sarah Palin, Pentecostal, all the more swords will cut and slash. Interviewers from a secularist-based media will pound away till blood flows in her boulevards. Headlines will misquote her. Liberal press will cut her to ribbons.


Therefore, if there was a divide in the Republic with Bush, all the more so with Palin. Will she make it through a campaign let alone a sit-down in the White House? That is a tough question to answer.


But one thing Palin cannot afford to do is to compromise who she is. And who she is is known now by thinking moralists. Thinking moralists know their faith, ethic, biblical mooring and its practical lifestyle. They are also tuned into buzzwords that reveal truth or double-talk.


Therefore, if Palin compromises her ethic, it will be picked up immediately by genuine moralists. And they will not let her get by with hypocrisy.


For instance, when Bush invited Muslims to a Ramadan dinner in the White House at which time he lifted high the Koran, announcing its placement in the White House library, knowledgeable biblical believers shot him down—and appropriately so.


When Bush told a visiting Muslim leader that many paths lead to God, knowledgeable biblical believers let not a moment go by without informing the President that he was so utterly incorrect.


These two faith failures will long be remembered by those who know the solid faith they hold as eternal truth. Eternal verities cannot be sliced through. They cannot be used opportunistically for this or that. They are God-given; therefore, even the President of the United States cannot sheer off truth’s solidity.


If Palin tries for the numbers’ game by playing politically correct in any venue, she’s done. Secularists will immediately drive home her inconsistency. Moralists will drive home her weakness.


She cannot afford inconsistencies or weakness. She sounds solid now. She must sound solid all the way through to whatever.


In doing so, she will divide the American people all the more into two fighting segments—secularists versus biblical believers.

J. Grant Swank, Jr.


Sarah Palin will be quizzed about political this and that. But when she runs for Oval Office, if she does, and it surely does appear as if it’s in her adrenaline swing, her being Christian will be shredded.


She is not only Christian in the biblical definition, but also “evangelical” when it comes to tags.


And not only “evangelical,” but charismatic/pentecostal.


That issue alone will swab the deck. The atheists, agnostics and generic secularists will warp and woof. They will holler and screech. They will write and scrawl. They will pull up the sewer tops from every evangelical and pentecostal persona in the past century.


Further, they will take especially the pentecostal beliefs and strew them from coast to coast, then every continent. They will misplace them, misstate them, malign them and nail them to hell’s front door.


The bloody war that awaits evangelicals and charismatics in particular is not yet envisioned by the general biblical believers. But it will be forthcoming if she goes further than marketing her book.


Her local church will be swarmed with reporters. Her pastor will have to hide from media. Every churchgoer there in her hometown will likewise be buttonholed. Some will speak clearly regarding doctrine. Others won’t have a clue and so will stir up the theological pot to dirt.


Then First Dude will be quizzed till he’ll flee on dogsled. Palin children will be asked if they agree or disagree with family faith, especially the matriarch’s claim.


The Bible verses relating to miracles, the Second Coming and speaking in tongues will make front page fodder, mostly screwed up to the nth.


Imagine what Katie Couric will do with the Word.


Those truly interested in the topic will be twittering and emailing and posting till their fingers fall off. In the meantime, God will oversee the mayhem and wonder what happened when Sarah Palin decided to run run run.


The circus has not even started yet. Wait till they pitch the Big Tent.

J. Grant Swank, Jr.


NazNet Moderator Hans Deventer: “NazNet is an online forum, it's not a church.”


Incorrect.


NazNet appears as an “online forum.” But in reality when checking out its base line on theology, it acts like a church.


NazNet presents its own doctrines, such, for instance, being Deventer’s belief statements. They include that there is no eternal torment in hell as Christ informs. Instead, Deventer states that the unsaved are zapped via “annihilation.”


Now Deventer right there puts forth a churchly faith statement as churches do. Consequently, Deventer is not only holding forth on an “online forum” but pitting his “doctrines” against the holiness Church of the Nazarene, the latter posted on NazNet as being friends with NazNet.


Further, Deventer and fellow Moderator Scott Cudliff state doctrinal beliefs thusly: the Bible has errors in it. Yes. That’s what they hold faith in. It is not the infallible inerrant Word of God, a divine who knows how to reveal without flaw.


When these two Moderators give forth with that kind of theology, they are not in keeping with the Church of the Nazarene. In fact, they become theological enemies to Nazarenes. That evangelical Protestant denomination believes deity is equipped to tell His own proclamations flawlessly.


As one reads through NazNet, the unmistakable conclusion reached is that Founder and Moderator Dave McClung definitely pits his site against the Church of the Nazarene.


He is forming his own competitive Internet-church to the Church of the Nazarene. If the Nazarene General Superintendents don’t confront this head-on, they are not fulfilling their responsibilities.


In addition, Deventer doctrinally proclaims his belief that “eternal life” as defined by Christ is not everlasting. That poses the question as to whether Deventer has any acumen by which to define terms understood by others as meaning what they mean.


Just importantly, this kind of heresy weave throughout NazNet would put that site in the form of a church. It is a church without buildings. But it does have officialdom and creeds. It does have means by which to communicate those creeds.


So NazNet preaches that heaven is not without end. Hell is not eternal torment. The Scriptures are not reliable.


But there is more: Deventer teaches that infant baptism is divinely approved accurate, more so than adult believers’ baptism. The New Testament states just the opposite; but who cares? We have Deventer.


So now NazNet has its own definition of a sacrament. That surely does move into the churchly venue.


Will the Church of the Nazarene leadership own up to this opposing “church”, doing so as to state publicly that the denomination disavows any “friendly tie” to NazNet? NazNet delights in repeatedly claiming to be Nazarene-friendly. Oh yes, very much so.


Will Nazarenes realize that when reading NazNet they are being drawn into a church as defined by the site’s own doctrinal statements?


Further, a former Moderator Chaplain Barbara Moulton even went so far as to inform me about her position on a moral issue. It was homosexuality.


She, a chaplain, stated she would not witness to the scriptural position on the topic, that is, she would not support God’s stance in public. In other words, she would play coward at that juncture.


I then would take that as a churchly position taken by one of NazNet’s top names, though now she has bowed out of the site, per Dave McClung absenting her from the masthead and also his latest post of “Making NazNet an even friendlier place”.


Read more at NAZNET DISTORTS at http://naznetdistorts.blogspot.com/

J. Grant Swank, Jr.


Marxist Muslim Barack Hussein Obama will be confronted by Senate Dems who oppose his baby killing when the health care debates fires up soon.


Obama and wife give no apologies for cheering on slaying of the womb innocents, though they photo themselves as the loving family with the caring father as head.


Lies lies lies abundant. Lies, by the way, are permitted by the Koran’s Allah to further Islam World Rule.


Obama, using the anti-Bible United Church of Christ (Congregational) as US cover for his Islamic devotion, continues the UCC furthering of infant slaughter.


But when pro-life Dems start declaring their convictions in the upcoming wrangle, then Obama will be faced with those of his own political kin who trounce his stance.


The House put strict restrictions on their version of the health care tumble. Will the Senate?


“’This is a horrible dilemma,’ said Larry Sabato, a political science professor at the University of Virginia. ‘The Democrats have to pass something – they have no choice,’ he said, adding that they have backed themselves into a corner by making healthcare reform a priority” per FT.com’s Anna Fifield in Washington.


The House passed a bill that “prevents abortion coverage in the public health insurance option but also prohibits private health insurers that have any customers receiving federal subsidies from offering abortion coverage to anyone else.”


Obama sidelines the abortion bit since walking into the Oval Office. But now he’ll have to speak up or be considered The Boy many consider him to be.


Read “Abortion clause raises problems for Obama´at http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/1da64700-d2dd-11de-af63-00144feabdc0.html


FOOTNOTE:


The Bible speaks of a fetus as a person, not simply tissue that can be discarded if found to be a bother or nuisance. Since the fetus is a person from the moment of conception, then the destroying of the fetus is killing a person.


“In the past, some people have mistakenly speculated that perhaps the body might be in the process of formation for some time, and then 'God breathes a soul into it.' They had it backward. The life that is present forms matter into a body for itself'” (Joseph Breig, "Life Forms Matter," The Catholic News, Jan. 24, 1974, p. 8).


"Your hands shaped me and made me. Will you now turn and destroy me? Remember that you molded me like clay. Will you now turn me to dust again? Did you not pour me out like milk ... and knit me together with bones and sinews? You gave me life and showed me kindness, and in your providence watched over my spirit" (Job 10:8-12 NIV).


"Before I was born the LORD called me; from my birth he has made mention of my name...and now the LORD says--he who formed me in the womb to be his servant..." (Isaiah 49:1, 5).


"The word of the LORD came to me, saying, ‘Before I formed you in the womb I knew you, before you were born I set you apart; I appointed you as a prophet to the nations’" (Jeremiah 1:4-5).


In the following passages we note that personality is ascribed to the unborn.


"For you created my inmost being; you knit me together in my mother's womb. I praise you because I am fearfully and wonderfully made; your works are wonderful, I know that fully well. My frame was not hidden from you when I was made in the secret place. When I was woven together in the depths of the earth, your eyes saw my unformed body. All the days ordained for me were written in your book before one of them came to be" (Psalm 139:13-16).


"Sons are a heritage from the LORD, children a reward from him" (Psalm 127:3).


Exodus 21:22-25 relates how Israel was to judge a circumstance relating to the death of the unborn:


"If men who are fighting hit a pregnant woman and she gives birth prematurely but there is no serious injury, the offender must be fined whatever the woman's husband demands and the court allows. But if there is serious injury, you are to take life for life, eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, foot for foot, wound for wound, bruise for bruise."


All of the latter deals with unintentional hurt that comes to a pregnant woman; how much more will divine penalty come upon those who intentionally discard the fetus? The Gospel of Luke ascribes personality to the fetus within Elizabeth:


"When Elizabeth heard Mary's greeting, the baby leaped in her womb, and Elizabeth was filled with the Holy Spirit... As soon as the sound of your greeting reached my ears, the baby in my womb leaped for joy" (1:41, 44).


Mere tissue does not leap for joy; only personhood leaps for joy. The Bible regards the fetus as having personality. In Galatians, Paul speaks of himself as a person while still in his mother's womb, but more a person consecrated by God for a holy mission (compare Jeremiah 1:5 for the same accent):


"But when God, who set me apart from birth, and called me by his grace, was pleased to reveal his Son in me so that I might preach him among the Gentiles..." (Gal. 1: 15-16).


Since the Bible regards the fetus as personality, then the aborting of the fetus is murdering personality.


Some verses from Scripture dealing with murder are then appropriate for study, such as Genesis 9:6: "Whoever sheds the blood of man, by man shall his blood be shed; for in the image of God has God made man." Also, read Exodus 23:7: "Have nothing to do with a false charge, and do not put an innocent or honest person to death, for I will not acquit the guilty." Note I Peter 4:15: "If you suffer, it should not be as a murderer..."


If the Republic returned to the biblical definition of personhood, we would defend every womb child.


John Adams said the following:


"Our Constitution was made only for a religious and moral people. It is wholly inadequate for the government of any other."


Andrew Jackson said the following:


"The BIBLE is the rock on which our Republic rests."


Daniel Webster:


"If we abide by the principles taught in the BIBLE, our country will go on prospering."


"For all the talk of freedom and self-determination, the abortion movement is at its heart a movement denying rights to a silent segment of humanity and soliciting public sanction, support and subsidy to its own cause" (Donald P. Shoemaker, ABORTION, THE BIBLE AND THE CHRISTIAN, Hayes Publishing Co., 1976, p. iv).