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Republican presidential nominee John Mc-Cain is warning Americans that Demo-cratic rival Barack Obama will increase

federal spending and raise the taxes of small business owners in order to ldquospread the wealthrdquo

In their final presiden-tial debate McCain repeatedly mocked Obama for recently telling an Ohio plumb-er that he would raise the manrsquos taxes so he could ldquospread the wealthrdquo to lower-in-come Americans

McCain promised to balance the federal budget in four years

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McCain Obama Highlight Differences on Abortion amp Taxes

By Jim Brown and once again challenged Obama to support a spend-ing freeze

ldquoYou notice every time Senator Obama says lsquoWe need to spend more We need to

spend more Thatrsquos the an-swerrsquo Why do we always have to spend morerdquo McCain asked ldquoWhy canrsquot we have transpar-ency accountability re-form of these agencies of government Maybe thatrsquos why hersquos asked for sought and proposed $860 billion worth of new spending and wants to raise peoplersquos taxes in a time of incredible diffi-culty and challenge and heartacherdquo

Last One Turn Out The Lights Marines Quietly Begin Leaving

When Marine Maj Gen John Kelly deployed to Iraq in February the

violence had fallen so low in An-bar province that he began fig-uring out how to start closing bases and pre-pare to go home

In the last 10 months the Marines in Fallujah have done what was unthinkable before the surge began mdash they have quietly trans-ferred out of one of An-bar provincersquos largest cities FOX News has learned in an exclusive interview with Kelly from Fallujah that 80 percent of the move is complete In February there were 8000 Marines liv-ing at Fallujah base Now there are about 3000 left By Nov 14 there will be none

Click here to read about violence in the City of MosquesldquoWe will shut down the command function here and I will move

my staff has already started to moverdquo Kelly the commander of Multinational Force-West told FOX News in an exclusive inter-view via satellite ldquoWe will turn the lights off hererdquo

They will hand the Fallujah base over to their Iraqi counterparts on Nov 14 having relocated them-selves and thousands of combat vehicles to the desert base of Al Asad to the west Marines will no longer be seen in city centers such as Fallujah mdash a major step

toward leaving Iraq and one step closer to Iraqrsquos goal of having US troops out of its population cen-ters by mid-2009 mdash one of the key

points enshrined in the Sta-tus of Forces Agreement be-ing reviewed on Capitol Hill today

On Wednesday to little fan-fare the Marines quietly closed down Al Qaim base near the Syrian border Now it is run by Iraqis

In Fallujah where the US Marines once had three large mess halls to feed troops they are now down to one The Marines have qui-etly disassembled the entire infrastructure of the base

ldquoWe probably had several thou-sand of those large metal contain-ers mdash tractor-trailer containersrdquo Kelly said ldquoI bet we donrsquot have 200 of them here nowrdquo

Of the thousands of vehicles once parked at the base now there are only 300 left Their transfer oc-

CONTINUED ON PAGE 4

By Jennifer Griffing

OCTOBER 2008

ldquoIrsquom not President Bushrdquo McCain 101508

CONTINUED ON PAGE 13

I John 54 ldquoFor whatsoever is born of God overcometh the world and this is the victory that overcometh the world even our faithrdquo

We must understand here that when the Bible mentions ldquothe worldrdquo it is referring to a foreign system of thought behavior and consequences It is a way of living in the earth today

In Romans 122 the Bible commands us not to be conformed to this worldly system to this fashion or this age but rather to be transformed God is literally saying there is another system of thought behavior and blessings that you can operated in and it comes by renewing your mind to His Word

If we are going to escape and over-come the conformity that the pres-sure of this worlds system is con-stantly putting on us we are going to have to learn to live our life by faith in Jesus Christ and what He says in His Word This is Gods system of living in the earth today

Now the worlds system of operating has consequences These conse-quences are clearly seen In the earth we have disease sickness poverty lack emotional turmoil mental illnesses all forms of selfishness debauchery and the like All of these fruits if you will are the result of worldly ways of thinking acting and believing

We donrsquot deny that there are things like viruses and deadly forces at work in the earth today But what I John 54 de-clares is that faith is our answer to overcoming these things Faith is the victory that not only overcomes the way the worlds system operates but it will also overcomes the fruit that the worlds system produces

Rev John G Lake was a man who ministered in a place where a deadly plague was killing thousands of people He lived in the midst of it and was ministering the healing power of God Many had died yet many people who should have died lived

Now the scientific community of the day was confused as to why Rev John G Lake wasnrsquot dying from the plague

So a group of them went and studied Rev Lake The scientists placed a portion of the plagued filled foam from a dead mans mouth on Rev Lakersquos hand Then put them both under a microscope to see what would happen What they saw was amazing When the virus touched Lakes body the virus died instead of infecting the area it touched

What was empowering Rev Lake What was the key that enabled him to overcome that disease Thatrsquos right it was FAITH

I John 54 tells us that faith is the victory that overcomes the sickness and disease that is trying to kill you That is trying to imprison you That is trying to take away the liberty and freedom that Jesus Christ died on the Cross for you to experience

In Hebrews Chapter 11 we begin reading how to live by faith During the first few verses we read where our elders actually obtained good reports by faith

In fact the very first thing that was obtained by faith was the universe that you and I are living in right now God is a God of faith He looked into nothing and said ldquoLIGHT BErdquo and LIGHT WAS

He knows how to operate in faith Now God is trying to help you and I operate in that same faith as well

In Ephesians 51 we read ldquoAnd be ye followers of God as dear childrenrdquo The word ldquofollowerrdquo here means ldquoto imitate or to copyrdquo

God knows how this thing works He is the one who created this system of faith In fact there is nothing good in this earth that will manifest without faith Everything that is good in this

earth will come to you and I by operating in and through Gods system of faith

So faith is the thing that obtains good reports

SICKNESS IS NOT A GOOD REPORT FOR YOUR BODY

HEALTH AND HEALING IS A GOOD REPORT FOR YOUR BODY

Living by faith will obtain the good report of health and healing for your body

2 Corinthians 57 commands us to walk by faith ldquo(regulate our lives and condut ourselves hy our conviction or beliefwith trust and holy fervor thus we walk) not by sight or appearance

The worlds system is based on conducting your behavior on believing what you see What you hear what you feel what you experience through your five physical senses

Romans 1017 on the other hand tells us that faith comes by hearing and hearing by the Word of God

The Word of God says in Psalm 1032-3 that the Lord is the One Who forgives all our iniquities and Who heals ALL our diseases

When you and I choose to believe to have faith in what the Word says about our situation and allow that Word and our faith in that Word to influence the way we think and act that is when we begin to overcome

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Oh I long for the time saith the Lord ldquoI long for

My children to know and to understand the Eden that Irsquove developed for their lives

And so many for so long have done without when there was no need to have gone sick and hungry when there was no reason for it have done with-out and had the devil steal and rob them and take away from them and steal their children steal their livelihoods

ldquoAnd all the time had they only known I was there to bless and carry out in their lives and they cry out to Me and say lsquoWell Lord why didnrsquot you do itrsquo I had to return and say lsquoI did yoursquore not receiving it

Yoursquore not taking it yoursquore not coming up to the faith that it

takes to know that I died for you That I was raised from the dead for you thatI since that hour since the day I went into My ministry on the earthrsquordquo saith the Lord ldquoI have never ever yet done any-thing for Myself and Myself alone

I gave Myself for you I am giving Myself for you and I will forever give Myself for you We are in this together I am your Lord I am your savior I am your blessing I have provided it Now would you open your heart and al-low Me to move in with the abundance and the Eden that I have planned for your liferdquo

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Although McCain pointedly told Senator Obama ldquoIrsquom not President Bushrdquo Obama re-turned to his strategy of linking the Arizona senator to the current president ldquoIf Irsquove oc-casionally mistaken your policies for George Bushrsquos policies itrsquos because on the core economic issues that matter to the Ameri-can people -- on tax pol-icy on energy policy on spending priorities you have been a vigorous supporter of President Bushrdquo

For the first time in a presidential debate Mc-Cain assailed Obama for his ardent support of abortion including his opposition to the Born Alive Infant Protec-tion Act McCain noted Obama not only voted against legislation providing medical care for victims of botched abortions but also has a record of support-ing a gruesome abortion procedure banned by Congress in 2003 ldquoThen there was another bill before the Sen-ate Judiciary Committee in the state of Illinois not that long ago where he voted against a ban on partial-birth abortionreally one of the bad procedures a terrible [one] Then on the floor of the Illinois State Senate he voted lsquopresentrsquo I donrsquot know how you vote lsquopresentrsquo on something like that I donrsquot know how you vote lsquopresentrsquo on some of thatrdquo the Arizona senator stated ldquoI donrsquot know how you align yourself with the ex-treme aspect of the pro-abortion movement in Americardquo

Obama quickly dismissed McCainrsquos criti-cism ldquoIf it sounds incredible that I would vote to withhold life-saving treatment from an infant itrsquos because itrsquos not truerdquo Accord-ing to Obama there was already a law on the books in Illinois that required life-sav-ing treatment for infants who survived an abortion Obama said he supports a ban

on late-term abor-tions as long as there is an excep-tion for a motherrsquos health and life

One political ana-lyst says although it may have been a little bit late in the presidential cam-paign for John Mc-Cain to tell Barack Obama ldquoI am not President Bushrdquo

polling shows it was one of the high points of the evening

Donna Wiesner Keene a senior fellow with the Independent Womenrsquos Voice says McCain may have hit a home-run with that statement ldquoHersquos had the coattails of George Bush and George W Bush and hersquos had that as an impediment ldquoWiesner Keene con-tends ldquoThe people didnrsquot understand a lot of those policies Some of them they disagreed with And I think John McCain said lsquoLook here Irsquom a different person Why donrsquot you evaluate me for mersquo A lot of people really thought that was good and I love the way he stated it -- just lsquoI am not George Bushrsquordquo

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A Florida baby who was born and died in an abortion clinic will finally be buried today in Ft Lauderdale

Cheryl Sullinger of Operation Rescue explains the African-American baby named Shanice Denise Osbourne was born alive two years ago at an abortion clinic Christian Newswire reports that Shanicersquos mother went to the clinic after experiencing some discomfort and the clinic staff decided to deliver the baby When Shanice was born her mother noticed her gasping for air for nearly five minutes while the clinic staff panicked Abortionist Belkis Gonzales then put the baby in a biohazard bag and put her on the clinicrsquos roof ldquoto conceal her body from policerdquo Allegedly there was no attempt to save Shanicersquos life

ldquoThat baby was swept into a biohazard bag with some caustic chemicals and tossed up on the roof of that abortion clinic to dierdquo Sullinger explains ldquoIt was done in a panic I think by clinic workers because the people who delivered this baby alive during an abortion were not medical doctors they were

unlicensed women who just happened to be working at the clinic at the timerdquo Doctors performed an autopsy that Shan-icersquos lungs ldquocontained gas bubbles and floatedrdquo which proved she was alive and breathing at birth Meanwhile an investiga-tion may soon bear fruit ldquoWe have every confidence there will be criminal charges in this case by the end of next monthrdquo Sullinger contends

She rejoices that the clinic has been closed It was owned by Gonzales a wom-an with no medical background Sullinger says Dr Alan Keyes will give the eulogy at Shanicersquos funeral

Troy Newman president of Operation Rescue is thankful Shanice will ldquofinally be laid to rest with the dignity and love she was denied in her short liferdquo and hopes her killers will be brought to justice He adds that the public is encouraged to attend the funeral in hopes that the African-American community will stop the ldquoexploitation and decimation of their community by predatory abortionistsrdquo

Born Alive Baby Killed at Abortion Clinic Gets Proper Funeral

I BELIEVE

Continued from page one

FREEDOM Page 5

PASTORS CORNER

James 318 ldquoAnd the fruit of Righteous-ness is sown in peace of them that make peacerdquo

The Amplified version of this passage of scripture reads ldquoNow the harvest of righteousness (of conformity to Godrsquos will in thought and deed) is [the fruit of the seed] sown in peace hellip lsquo

What is the harvest of righteousness I t is true freedom It is conforming to Godrsquos will in thought and in deed The will of God is the very Righteousness of God So then righteousness in a person is the harvest the fruit the result of a seed that was sown in peace

Every seed sown always produces a harvest Where there is a seed sown there is a harvest on its way If you want to 1 Know Godrsquos will amp then 2 experience Gods will in your life it must start with a par-ticular seed sown

What is the seed that we must sow The Word of God In Mark chapter 4 Jesus tells us that the Word of God is the seed a person must sow in their heart For example Peter tells us that we are born again not by a corruptible seed but by an incorruptible seed which is the Word of God

If we are going to experience the harvest of salvation in our life than we must plant the seed of Gods Word in our heart concerning salvation We must receive in our heart the Seed Jesus Christ as our Lord and Savior if we are going to experiance tthe harvest of salvation

On that same note if we want a harvest of healing in our life then we must plant the seed of Gods Word concerning heal-ing

You see Gods Word is His will Isaiah 558 declares ldquoFor My thoughts are not your thoughts neither are My ways your ways saith the Lordrdquo

Some people try to tell us that we can never know what God wants or what He will do That is not true He plainly tells us in this passage of scripture that the rea-son we do not know His way is because we do not know His thoughts

The word ldquowayrdquo here means ldquothe

course of life or the path you are on or the type of journey you are taking in liferdquo

The path or journey your are taking and the experiences you encounter can be the path that God walks in and enjoys or it can be a path where evil resides It is all up to you and I

God is inferring here that If you think His thoughts than your ways will be His ways

Romans 122 tells us ldquoAnd be not conformed to this world (their way their path of life) but be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind that ye may prove (or live out) what is that good and acceptable and perfect will of Godrdquo

The will of God is His Word

Jeremiah 18 tells us that when we mediate in His Word then we will be able to observe to DO that Word

You see it is as we allow the Word of God to trans-form our thinking we al-lowi his Word to become our thoughts When our thoughts become His thoughts then our ways will become His Ways

When our ways become his ways we will produce in our lives a harvest of righteous-ness Praise God

Again a Harvest of Righteousness is con-formity to His will in thought and in deed

When 1 Peter 224 (ldquoBy His stripes ye were healedrdquo) becomes your main thought concerning sickness and disease than you will begin to think that you are the healed and you will begin living your life like you are healed As a result you will then begin walking down the path of heal-ing and divine health instead of one that is plagued with sickness and disease

When Romans 618 ldquoBeing then made free from sinhelliprdquo begins dominating your thought life then you will begin to act as if you are free from that temptation and sin which would so easily catches you and controls you You will begin living sin free in a sin infected world

Glory to God begin planting the seeds of Gods word in your heart and mind Begin thinking His thoughts and you will begin producing a harvest of righteousness a harvest of freedom in your life today

Rev Rory Synoground Founder and President of

Rory Synoground Ministries International and Pastor of

Freedom Christian Center Austin MN

A Harvest of Righteousness

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[I]mmediately after he was brought from [the field] a mesnotsage was sent informing me of the sad event accompanied by a request from General Ham-ilton that I would come to him for the purpose of administering the Holy Communion I went I proceeded to converse with him on the subject of his receiving the Communion and told him that with respect to the qualifications of those who wished to become par-takers of that holy ordinance my inquires could not be made in lannotguage more expressive than that which was used by our [own] Church ndash [I asked] ldquoDo you sincerely re-pent of your sins past Have you a lively faith in Godrsquos mercy through Christ with a thankful remembrance of the death of Christ And are you disposed to live in love and charity with all menrdquo He lifted up his hands and said ldquoWith the utmost sincerity of heart I can answer those ques-tions in the affirmative ndash I have no ill will against Col Burr I met him with a fixed resolution to do him no harm ndash I forgive all that happenedrdquo The Communion was then administered which he received with great devotion and his heart afterwards appeared to be perfectly at rest I saw him again this morning when with his last faltering words he ex-pressed a strong confidence

in the mercy of God through the intercession of the Redeemer I remained with him until 2 orsquoclock this afternoon when death closed the awful scene ndash he expired with-out a struggle and almost with-out a groan By reflecting on this melancholy event let the humble believer be encouraged ever to hold fast that precious faith which is the only source of true consola-tion in the last extremity of nature [And l]et the infidel be persuaded to abandon his opposition to that Gospel which the strong inquisi-tive and comprehensive mind of a Hamilton embraced

One other consequence of Ham-iltonrsquos untimely death was that it permanently halted the formanottion of a religious society Hamilton had proposed Hamilton suggest-ed that it be named the Christian Constitutional Society and listed two goals for its formation first the support of the Christian religion and second the support of the Constitution of the United States

This ornotganization was to have numerous clubs throughout each state which would meet regu-larly and work to elect to office those who reflected the goals of the Christian Constitutional Society

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Sensible of the importance of Christian piety and virtue to the order and happiness of a state I cannot but earnestly commend to you every measure for their sup-port and encouragement

He called on the entire state to pray ldquothat universal happiness may be established in the world [and] that all may bow to the scepter of our Lord Jesus Christ and the whole earth be filled with His gloryrdquo

He also called on the State of Mas-sachusetts to pray

that all nations may bow to the scepter of our Lord and Savior Je-sus Christ and that the whole earth may be filled with his glory

that the spiritual kingdom of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ may be continually increasing until the whole earth shall be filled with His glory to confess their sins and to implore forgiveness of God through the merits of the Savior of the World

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that the kingdom of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ may be estab-lished in peace and righteousness

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that with true contrition of heart we may confess our sins resolve to for-sake them and implore the Divine forgiveness

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John Hart

JUDGE LEGISLATOR SIGNER OF THE DECLARATION

[T]hanks be given unto Almighty God therefore and knowing that it is ap-pointed for all men once to die and after that the judgment [Hebrews 927] principally I give and rec-ommend my soul into the hands of Almighty God who gave it and my body to the earth to be buried in a decent and Christian like manner to receive the same again at the general resurrection by the mighty power of God

VOTER ISSUE GUIDE

Patrick Henry

REVOLUTIONARY GENERAL LEGISLATOR ldquoTHE VOICE OF LIBERTYrdquo RATIFIER OF THE U S CONSTITUTION GOVER-NOR OF VIRGINIA

Being a Christianhellip is a charac-ter which I prize far above all this world has or can boast

The Biblehellip is a book worth more than all the other books that were ever printed

Righteousness alone can exalt America as a nation Whoever thou art remember this and in thy sphere practice virtue thyself and encourage it in others

The great pillars of all govern-ment and of social life [are] vir-tue morality and religion

Continued In The Next Issue of FREEDOM

FREEDOMPage 8

By Katharine Mieszkowski

Obamarsquos Muslim Ties Called Into Question

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The head of a terrorism watch-dog group says Barack Obamarsquos new Muslim out-

reach director should have never taken part in a meeting last month in Northern Virginia that was attended by two Muslim leaders who support terrorist groups

NBC News reports that Obamarsquos Mus-lim outreach director Minha Husaini spoke to a small group of Muslim leaders and po-tential Obama supporters at a hotel in Springfield Virginia on Septem-ber 15 One of the Muslim leaders attending the meeting was Mahdi Bray of the Muslim American Soci-ety Bray once equated the Israeli assassination of a Hamas leader as ldquoan unlawful cowardly and dangerous act of state-sponsored terrorismrdquo

Joe Kaufman chairman of the group Americans Against Hate notes Bray and other leaders of the group are supporters of the terror-

ist groups Hamas and Hezbollah ldquoThe organization has just recent-ly used the Internet to call for the murder of Jews and the waging of war against non-Muslimsrdquo he

contends ldquoItrsquos cer-tainly not an organiza-tion that anyone from a political campaign should be attending a meeting withrdquo

Another Muslim lead-er who attended the September meeting

was Nihad Awad executive direc-tor of the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) which was listed by the government as an unindicted co-conspirator in a terrorism financing case

The Obama campaign claims its Muslim outreach director would not have attended the event had it known beforehand who all the attendees were However a par-ticipant at the meeting contends the Obama camp was aware that top CAIR officials would be in at-tendance

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lsquoJoe the Plumberrsquo Upstages Candidates

The man known as lsquoJoe the Plumberrsquo is getting just as much or more attention

than the presidential candidates since Wednesday nightrsquos debate

Joe Wurzelbacher a Christian grabbed the spotlight when Sen John McCain cited him as an example of someone who can ex-pect to suffer under Sen Barack Obamarsquos economic policy

Wurzelbach-er 34 said he was un-derwhelmed with Obamarsquos position on taxes He recently confronted the Illinois senator over his plan to ldquospread the wealth aroundrdquo by taxing higher income earners He contends that Obamarsquos plan would hurt him if he chose to buy the plumbing business he has been saving up for

ldquoOne Irsquom not wealthyrdquo he said ldquoThis is something that Irsquom going to have to make payments on in order to purchaserdquo

ldquoAnd for him to think that he has

a say in how I spend my money itrsquos my discretion that I give to the church that I give to charities that I give to friends or family members Itrsquos not the govern-mentrsquos placerdquo he said

He continued ldquoTo step in and say lsquoyoursquore making a little too much I want to make it fairrsquo - lifersquos not fairrdquo

The Ohio plumber has since been flooded with requests for interviews for the me-dia about his remarks Wurzelbach-er has also weighed in with a Chris-tian perspec-tive on the Iraq war

ldquoEverything that Americans take for granted I mean these guys havenrsquot had it - now theyrsquove got it Thatrsquos an incredible thing I donrsquot know if you guys are Chris-tians or not but thatrsquos like some-one coming to Jesus and being saved These guys have free-domrdquo he said

Although he is outspoken on the issues Wurzelbacher will not say who he will vote for

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Have you ever been in a race or relay game at school Do you remember what it was like at the starting line With seconds away from the word ldquogordquo do you think it would be a good idea to be looking around you wondering about what you are going to eat for dinner Or what if you were worried about how you looked and decided you wanted to comb your hair No I donrsquot think that would be a good idea to do such things - not if you wanted to win the race that is At the starting line it is best to keep your attention on the race and the finish line Baseball is like this Have you ever seen a baseball game before Have you noticed how the pitcher keeps his eyes and all of his attention on the batter who is up The person batting is his aim or target He shuts out all the cheers from the fans He doesnrsquot think about what he is going to eat for dinner The only thing he sees and thinks about is his target the batter Whatrsquos your target What do you spend your time thinking about and looking forward to doing Is it just to play with your friends all day Or is your aim to watch a favorite TV show These things arenrsquot wrong

to do but they shouldnrsquot be all that you want to do Why not make it your target to spend time with Jesus Our Bible verse today commands us that we should keep our eyes on Jesus How do you think that you can do that Well let me tell you a story about a group of Godrsquos people in the Old Testament that were being disobedient God was bringing them to a better land but along the journey the people grumbled and complained They were not being thankful Because of their disobedience snakes came into their camp They were scared They got bitten by the snakes They then cried to their leader Moses to help them God told Moses to make a big brass snake and put it high on a pole for all the people to see Those that were obedient and looked at the brass snake would not die God would help them and forgive them Thatrsquos the same for us today As we keep our eyes on Jesus He will help us and keep us safe Continue to read your Bible Continue to pray By doing so you are making Jesus your target

FREEDOM Page 9

Early one morning a mother went in to wake up her son ldquoWake up son Itrsquos time to go to

schoolrdquo

ldquoBut why Mom I donrsquot want to gordquo

ldquoGive me two reasons why you donrsquot want to gordquo

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schoolrdquo

ldquoWell for one yoursquore 42 years old And for another yoursquore the

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There are some ministries that spiritu-ally are just like caliche They arenrsquot good ground for your seed So before you give pray about where that gift should go Donrsquot rely on your own judgments Donrsquot reason it out and say ldquoWell this preacher over here is screaming and crying and saying hersquos going under so I guess Irsquoll give to himrdquo

You go to the Lord of the tithe and find out where He wants you to put your money Hersquos the only one who can direct you to truly good ground every time

C Water It Once your good seed is in good ground keep watering it with the Word of God Speak faith over it all week long Call forth the growth of that seed by ldquocalling things that be not as though they wererdquo (Rom 417) It may just be a little seed but you need to start call-ing it grown

You may say ldquoWell brother I believe in telling things like they arerdquo You wonrsquot ever see any growth in your life then because spiritual things grow as words are released Thatrsquos Godrsquos way

Charles Capps says the one who ldquotells things like they arerdquo is like the guy who went out on the porch to give his dog a bone When he got out there he found the dog wasnrsquot there - just the cat So he started saying ldquoHere kitty kitty kittyrdquo His neighbor said ldquoI thought you wanted to give that bone to the dogrdquo ldquoI didrdquo answered his friend ldquobut I like to say it like it is - and the cat not the dog is the one thatrsquos hererdquo

Donrsquot be like that guy Call the dog Hersquoll come Water your seed with words of faith Donrsquot call poverty if you donrsquot want poverty Call yourself prosperous Call that need met Before long yoursquoll be so full of joy and so full of expectan-cy that even the watering will be fun

Plant the seed Find good soil Water it Then as Mark 427 says all you have to do is ldquosleep and rise night and day and the seed will spring and grow uprdquo

ldquoBut I donrsquot understand how that worksrdquo you say It doesnrsquot mat-ter Just do it Plant and water Sleep and rise Sure enough one of these mornings yoursquoll wake up to an abundant harvest

Source One Word From God Can Change Your Finances by Kenneth

and Gloria Copeland Excerpt permission granted by Har-

rison House Publishers

can come against you and suc-ceedmdashthatrsquos what I call power

Page 10 FREEDOM

Right now many of

us are fac-ing needs Big needs Needs so great that without the direct intervention of God they canrsquot possi-bly be met Because of that we need to be more certain than ever before that we understand - and abide by - Godrsquos laws of abundance Those laws are extremely important but praise God theyrsquore not complicated In fact theyrsquore as simple as ABC

A Decide to Plant In Mark 4 Jesus compared the work-ings of the kingdom of God to planting seeds in the earth ldquoWhen the seed is sownrdquo He said ldquoit grows up and becomes greaterrdquo (v 32) Notice He didnrsquot say that when the seed is sown it occasionally grows up and becomes greater Or it grows up and becomes greater if itrsquos Godrsquos will He said ldquoIt grows up and becomes greaterrdquo Period

Godrsquos economy isnrsquot like ours It isnrsquot up one day and down the other Itrsquos always the same and it always works perfectly If you have good earth good seed and good water you will have growth Itrsquos inevitable The laws of God will produce that increase every single time So if yoursquore facing a need donrsquot panic - plant a seed

That seed may take the form of time money or some other resource you have to give But no matter what form it takes you need to understand that the gift itself isnrsquot really your seed Therersquos no life in it Itrsquos just the husk

There are people whorsquove planted husks for years But because they didnrsquot put any life in them nothing ever came up So donrsquot just plunk a husk in the offering bucket when it goes by Put life in it first Praise and worship God over it Say ldquoLord Irsquom offering You my goods to do Your work with and as I bring You my goods I bring myself I give myself to You spirit soul and bodyrdquo

Pray over that seed Fill it with faith worship and the Word Then it will be ready to plant

B Find Good Ground Out in West Texas on my grandfa-therrsquos farm there were big white patches of caliche Itrsquos the most worth-less dirt in the world when it comes to planting seed It wonrsquot grow anything I donrsquot care how fine your seed is if you plant it in caliche you wonrsquot get a crop

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Music News--wwwtvulivecomSkillet is gearing up for the release of their live CDDVD combo ldquoComatose Comes Aliverdquo and they are also recording brand new music They have posted an online we-bcam in their studio so you can take a peek at their recording sessions for the new al-

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Three Ways To Guard You Thought Life

Protection We guard our home car skin and even time but some-times we neglect to guard one of the most important areasmdashour thought life We need to place a guard over our thought life

Herersquos How 1 Take control Donrsquot allow your thoughts to wander like an out-of-control car Grab hold of the steer-ing wheel The Word of God says to take captive every thought and to bring it into the obedience of Christ (2 Cor 105) You may not be able to control every thought that comes in but you can deter-mine whether or not it stays

2 Guard your gate Whatrsquos the gate of your mind Itrsquos your eyes and ears Donrsquot put junk into your thought life by throwing open the gate Filter what comes in Remember the computer term GIGO garbage in garbage out

3 Thought replacement When thoughts of fear or doubt come your way replace them with love and faith You cannot have two complete thoughts in your mind at the same time For good thought replacement ideas see Philippi-

ans 48

Five Roads to Popularity With-out Losing Your Reputation

Everyone wants to be popular Popu-larity isnrsquot a bad thing In fact Jesus was very popular during much of His ministry He never compromised His character or morals to gain accep-tance You can become popular by making both bad choices and good ones

Here are five roads to popularity while maintaining your integrity 1 Be a kind person You will never be short on friends

2 When you do something do it with all your might Excellence draws a crowd

3 Promote others and their accom-plishments not your own God will then be able to exalt you

4 Dare to dream big and pray for the seemingly impossible People are drawn to those filled with hope and faith

5 Stand up for what is right Our world today is desperately searching for real heroes

Four Reasons You Should Be Cool

God wants you to be cool accept-ed and favored The Scripture says ldquoLet not mercy and truth forsake you bind them around your neck write them on the tablet of your heart and so find favor and high esteem in the sight of God and manrdquo (Prov 334 NKJV) You can enjoy favor acceptance and popularity with both God and people Here are 4 reasons why you should be cool

1 Cool accepted people have the ability to influence others for good That includes a witness of your Christian faith

2 Cool favored people have con-fidence to do things others believe to be impossible or improbable

3 Accepted people find it easy and natural to show others Godrsquos love

4 Cool people stand up for truth and donrsquot need everyone to agree with them

Source Every Teenagerrsquos Little Black Book of Hard to Find Information Excerpt permission granted by Harrison House Publishers

EXCERTS FROM Every Teenagerrsquos Little Black Book of Hard to Find Information

by Blaine Bartel

Visiting Northeast Pennsylvania for the first time Republican vice presidential nominee Sarah Palin

touted the new economic plan running mate John McCain unveiled Tuesday while invoking the name of the late Gov Robert P Casey as a champion of children with mental dis-abilities

Mrs Palin also called up the regionrsquos coal-pro-ducing past by jabbing at another Scranton na-tive Democratic vice presidential nominee Joe Biden for once being critical of clean-coal tech-nology as an alternative energy source

Mrs Palin told a raucous crowd at River-front Sports that Mr McCain would turn American anger and frustration over the current economic crisis into reform

The new economic plan would get the nation ldquothrough a time of testingrdquo and put ldquothe economy back on trackrdquo she said

ldquoUnder this plan wersquoll help American families keep their homes and save fam-ily neighborhoods and bring stability to our housing marketrdquo Mrs Palin said

The plan seeks to reduce to 10 percent the tax on senior-citizen withdrawals from retirement accounts in 2008 and 2009 re-duce to 75 percent the capital gains tax in 2009 and 2010 and quintuple deductions of capital losses It is meant to supplement Mr McCainrsquos call last week for a $300 bil-

lion government purchase of troubled mort-gagesMrs Palinrsquos 29-minute speech was frequently interrupted with applause or chants of ldquoSarah Sarah Sarahrdquo She was accompanied by her

husband Todd whom she called Alaskarsquos ldquofirst duderdquo and Martin Buser the four-time champion of the Iditarod the famed dog sled race

Singer Lee Greenwood opened the program by sing-ing the national anthem and his well-known ldquoGod Bless the USArdquo

Behind Mrs Palin supporters many wearing red held signs stating ldquoHunters Cling to Sar-

ahrdquo ldquoReal People Vote Palinrdquo and ldquoPro-Life Pro-Family Pro-Palinrdquo

The visit was the third by the Republican ticket to the region since July and highlighted the campaignrsquos focus on attracting disenchanted Democrats who had supported New York Sen Hillary Clinton

Signs announcing the presence of a Scran-ton-based group calling itself ldquoDemocrats for McCainrdquo dotted the crowd

For more than a week statewide polls have showed Mr McCain trailing Democratic presi-dential nominee Barack Obama by double-dig-it margins in Pennsylvania The daily five-day tracking poll by Muhlenberg College had Mr Obama up 51 percent to 38 percent through Monday the 12th consecutive day with a dou-ble-digit margin

With slumping poll numbers Mr McCain

By Borys Krawczeniuk Scranton Times-Tribune

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Palin Promises Tax-Cut Package VP Candidate Rallies Crowd On Economic

amp Social Issues

Christians on Wall Street Praying amp Hoping

Wall Street is in one of the most volatile economic downturns in US his-

tory The temptation to panic is high So how are Christians who work on Wall Street reacting to the crisis As CBN News discovered they are cling-ing to the rock that can not be moved

The market has just opened on the New York Stock Exchange and already investors are bracing for what promises to be another tumultuous day

But Wall Street is more than just stocks and bonds buying and selling - itrsquos also a place where

many Christians work and even pray And now they are praying like never before

Help us to lift you up in this place we need you here more than everrdquo one man prayed

Longest Run-ning Prayer Meeting in the US

Wall Street is the home of

the longest running prayer meet-ings in the country It started in 1977 after a few believers decided there was a need

Financial adviser Vaughn Weimer has been an active member since the early 1980rsquos

ldquoIrsquove been hearing from almost all

of my clients during the last two weeksrdquo Weimer told CBN News ldquoNo onersquos panicked yet No onersquos fallen over in a faint yetrdquo

Weimer says he believes God is going to redeem Wall Street and just like the historic Fulton Street revival make this a place of prayer once again

ldquoThere was a time here when at Noon every business shut down while people prayedrdquo Weimer recalled ldquoWe have a heart and a vision for that to happen again for those who work here every dayrdquo

Anthony DiMaio used to work on the floor of the NYSE and now runs a ministry known as BOLD The ministryrsquos mission is to reach out to New Yorkrsquos financial district with a message of spiri-tual relevance He believes God is using this economic crisis to get people to look up

ldquoWe all know that the fastest way to reach anybody is through their pocket bookrdquo DiMaio said ldquoAnd so if God wants to get your attention hersquoll get it thererdquo

Trinity Church A Place of Refuge

Standing like a beacon in the dark night of Wall Streetrsquos soul is Trinity Church For almost 200 years Trinityrsquos cross has wel-comed those coming into New Yorkrsquos harbor seeking freedom However in the last few weeks more people are seeking refuge of a different kind behind the churchrsquos front door

ldquoThe people sitting in the pews at our daily worship are either directly affected by having lost a job or they are afraid of losing a jobrdquo

the Rev Canon Anne Mallonnee told CBN News

Mallonnee says she recently ministered to one such woman overcome with anxiety

ldquoBeing able to pray with her and have her just reconnect with that peace of God which surpasses all of this turmoil and have her be able to leave more centered and confident that God is with her in thisrdquo Mallonnee said

But not all those affected by the financial crisis are on Wall Street Pastor Terry Smith of the Life Christian Church in West Orange New Jersey says about 25 percent of his parishioners work in New Yorkrsquos financial district A fact that could affect the churchrsquos bottom line It could also affect the churchrsquos plans for building a new facility

ldquoThere are people who have planned to give major gifts who are concerned about their capacity to do that right nowrdquo Smith explained ldquoTheir hearts are to do it I think God is going to help them to be able to do it but this is a real concern for usrdquo

Smith believes whatrsquos happen-ing on Wall Street is not neces-sarily Godrsquos punishment

ldquoThis kind of a crisis reminds us that we are not self-suffi-cient - regardless of how hard we work and how much we invest and how hard we try to prepare for the future re-ally we need himrdquo Smith said ldquoAnd itrsquos in our weakness that we discover how strong he isrdquo

Both Ray Craig and Raji Manasseh attend Smithrsquos church and work for major Wall Street banks They are deter-mined to be a light in the midst of the storm

ldquoThis is an opportunity for us

Wall Street Praying Continuned

Page 12

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curred at night between 9 pm and 5 am over the past 10 months so as not to disturb Iraqi drivers and clog the roads

They dubbed it ldquoOperation Rudy Gi-ulianirdquo because they were cleaning the streets up and returning Fallujah to normalcy mdash taking down barbed wire and tearing down checkpoints and Jersey walls that made Anbar look like a war zone

ldquoThere is almost no barbed wire left anywhere in Fal-lujahrdquo Kelly said An Iraqi no longer sees barbed wire when traveling in and around the city

Between 300 and 400 con-crete barriers that divided the city were removed by Navy Seabees

One of the big changes Kelly made when he took command in Anbar was to remove fixed checkpoints and Iraqi vehicles no longer had to pull off to the side when a military convoy was on the road His troops risked car bombs but the gamble paid off in what had once been Iraqrsquos most dangerous province The new road rules instantly low-ered the tension between military and locals Soon he transitioned to moving military convoys only at night so they would not encounter locals This also stymied many of the insurgents laying IEDs or road-side bombs which they often had done at night

Another change for the better since Kelly arrived in February He pushed the central government to provide more fuel to the people of Anbar so the mostly Sunni popu-lation is now happier In February Anbaris were receiving only 8 per-cent of their allocation of fuel from the central government of Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki Now itrsquos 90 percent mdash eliminating one of their

main gripes

But perhaps the biggest sign that the situation has changed for the better for Sunnis living in Anbar With the help of the Ma-rines and the Iraqi police nearly 100 percent of the eligible vot-ing population were registered a month ago to vote in upcoming provincial elections

ldquoThey seem to add another polit-ical party every dayrdquo Kelly said ldquoWe didnrsquot have a single security violation of any kind Theyrsquore at least going to give the electoral process a shot hellip at least going to give democracy a chancerdquo

The Sunnis who fueled a large part of Iraqrsquos insurgency boycot-

ted the last election for Parliament with only 3 percent of Sunnis par-ticipating Now they feel they have a stake in the government

ldquoThis is an amazing indicator as to where this province isrdquo Kelly saidHe and the Marines no longer use violence as an indicator of how much progress they have made

Two years ago they had 400 attacks mdash roadside bombs or shootings mdash at US forces every week In February it was down to 30 attacks per week Now it is down to under 12 attacks per week There hasnrsquot been a

Marine death in a few months

Troop numbers have dropped as well mdash down by 40 percent since February About 26000 Marines still serve in Anbar

ldquoIn Anbar there is no longer an insurgencyrdquo Kelly said ldquoUnless someone does something stupid (for instance if the Coalition were to accidentally kill a large number of civilians) this place will not go back to the way it wasrdquo

In football terms Kelly says the Marines are ldquoin the last 10 yards of this fightrdquo

ldquoCould it go back I donrsquot think sordquo he said firmly ldquoWe are winning this thingrdquo

Last One Turn Out The Lights Marines Quietly Begin Leaving

ldquoWe are winning

this thingrdquo Major General

John Kelly

Page 13

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Palin Promises Tax-Cut Package VP Candidate Rallies Crowd On Economic

amp Social Issues

has made a more concerted effort to recapture his footing in the state the past week

He and Mrs Pal-in cam-paigned

together Wednesday in Bethlehem She hit a Pittsburgh fundraiser Fri-day and then a Johnstown rally and a Philadelphia Flyers hockey game Saturday Mr McCain arrived in Phil-adelphia on Monday and unveiled his new economic plan Tuesday in Blue Bell a Philadelphia suburb

The Scranton crowd Tuesday was larger than the one that greeted Mrs Clinton and Mr Biden in the same venue Sunday

The McCain-Palin campaign esti-mated Tuesdayrsquos crowd at 5800 and said it was based on a Secret Service door count but the crowd appeared to be closer to 4500 peo-ple The smaller estimate by The Times-Tribune was based on the number of rows of risers a typical rowrsquos occupancy and a per-person count of the depth and width of the standing audience

Mrs Palin never mentioned Mrs Clinton But she brought up Gov Casey while talking about her son Trig who has Down syndrome

and promising to bring attention to ldquochildren with special needsrdquo as vice president

ldquoIt was the great Pennsylvania governor Robert Casey a son of Scranton who said rdquo Mrs Palin said pausing as the mention drew a mix of applause and boos ldquoHe was asked once how society should treat the most vulnerable among us such as children with special needs And he said Itrsquos simple you put them first in linersquo

ldquoSee Gov Casey understood that these children can inspire a special love and thatrsquos a love that this world needs more of Our children are not a problem theyrsquore a priorityrdquo

Mrs Palin did not specifically men-tion abortion or Mr Caseyrsquos cru-sade against it but said ldquoI do be-lieve that the truest measure of any society is how we treat those who are least able to defend and speak for themselves Who is more vul-nerable who is more innocent than a childrdquo

Trig taught her ldquothat everyone be-longs in the circle of protectionrdquo she said ldquoAnd that every child has something to contribute to the world if we give them that chancerdquoAs she pushed Mr McCainrsquos plan to expand all forms of energy in-cluding alternative ones Mrs Pal-in mocked Mr Biden for trashing clean-coal technology[ ]

Proposition 8 on the Cali-fornia ballot

which would negate a state Supreme Court ruling legalizing homosexual ldquomar-riagerdquo appears to be gaining strength

Previous polls have shown the traditional marriage supporters trail-ing but a new one by a San Fran-cisco CBS television station shows Prop 8 is ahead 47 to 42 percent ldquoTen percent are still undecided It means itrsquos still a close race but the shift still seems to be taking placerdquo says Randy Thomasson of Save-Californiacom

The pro-family activist believes success will depend on two

factors -- encouraging people to vote and getting Christians to vote according to the Bible Thomasson is hopeful pastors will take an active role as the election nears

ldquoTheyrsquove got to be men of God who are bold and courageous and say lsquoGod says marriage is only for a man and womanrsquordquo he adds ldquoWe all must be Christians not just people who say theyrsquore Christians and do not fol-low Christ in this matterrdquo

Thomasson attributes the new poll results in part to a new television commercial that does an effective job of selling the traditional view of marriage as well as the homosexual activists imposing acceptance of their lifestyle on everyone else

By Borys Krawczeniuk Scranton Times-Tribune

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I AM HERE FOR YOU GOD

FREEDOM

1 The Fossil RecordEvolutionists have constructed the Geologic Column in order to illustrate the supposed progression of ldquoprimitiverdquo life forms to ldquomore complexrdquo systems we observe today Yet ldquosince only a small percentage of the earthrsquos surface obeys even a portion of the geologic column the claim of their having taken place to form a continuum of rocklifetime over the earth is therefore a fantastic and imaginative contrivance1rdquo ldquo[T]he lack of transitional series cannot be explained as being due to the scarcity of material The deficiencies are real they will never be filledrdquo2 This supposed column is actually saturated with ldquopolystrate fossilsrdquo (fossils extending from one geologic layer to another) that tie all the layers to one time-frame ldquo[T]o the unprejudiced the fossil record of plants is in favor of special creationrdquo 3

2 Decay of Earthrsquos Magnetic Field Dr Thomas Barnes Emeritus Professor of Physics at the University of Texas at El Paso has published the definitive work in this field4 Scientific observations since 1829 have shown that the earthrsquos magnetic field has been measurably decaying at an exponential rate demonstrating its half-life to be approximately 1400 years In practical applica-tion its strength 20000 years ago would approximate that of a mag-netic star Under those conditions many of the molecules neces-sary for life processes could not form These data demonstrate that earthrsquos entire history is young within a few thousand of years

3 The Global Flood The Biblical record clearly describes a global Flood during Noahrsquos day Additionally there are hundreds of Flood traditions handed down through cultures all over the world 5 ME Clark and Henry Voss have demonstrated the scientific validity of such a Flood providing the sedimentary layering we see on every continent 6 Secular scholars report very rapid sedimentation and periods of great carbonate deposition in earthrsquos sedimentary layers7 It is now pos-sible to prove the historical reality of the Biblical Flood8

4 Population StatisticsWorld population growth rate in recent times is about 2 per year Practicable application of growth rate throughout human history would be about half that number Wars disease famine etc have wiped out approximately one third of the population on average every 82 years Starting with eight people and applying these growth rates since the Flood of Noahrsquos day (about 4500 years ago) would give a total human population at just under six billion people However application on an evolution-ary time scale runs into major difficulties Starting with one ldquocouplerdquo just 41000 years ago would give us a total population of 2 x 1089 9 The universe does not have space to hold so many bodies

5 Radio HalosPhysicist Robert Gentry has reported isolated radio halos of polonuim-214 in crystalline granite The half-life of this element is 0000164 seconds To record the existence of this element in such short time span the granite must be in crystalline state instantaneously10 This runs counter to evolutionary estimates of 300 million years for granite to form

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Russia to Sell Arms to Iran amp Venezuela

Russia turned up its nose at the United States Thursday by announcing plans to sell

military equipment to both Iran and Venezuela

The head of the state arms ex-porter said Russia was negotiating to sell new anti-aircraft systems to Iran despite American objections

ldquoContacts between our countries are continuing and we do not see any reason to suspend themrdquo Ana-toly Isaikin general director of Ro-soboronexport told Russian news agency Ria-Novosti at an arms fair in South Africa

Reports have circulated for some time that Russia is preparing to sell its S-300 surface-to-air mis-sile system to Iran offering greater protection against a possible US or Israeli attack on the Islamic

republicrsquos nuclear facilities The missiles have a range of more than 93 miles and can intercept jets ap-proaching at low altitudes

Russia has already delivered 29 Tor-M1 missile systems under a $700 million deal with Iran in 2005Sergei Chemezov the head of state-owned Russian Technologies also disclosed that Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez wanted to buy anti-aircraft systems armored personnel carriers and new SU-35 fighter jets when they come into production in 2010

The US plans to place an anti-missile shield in eastern Europe to deter surprise attacks from Iran have outraged Russia which believes the system in Poland and the Czech Republic is aimed at weakening its defenses

time of confusion and of peril Jesus said ldquoMy sheep hear my voicerdquo (John 1027)Begin to assess Have you been living for yourself or living for God ldquoBut seek first the Kingdom of God and His righteousness and all these things shall be added to yourdquo (Matthew 633) Godrsquos ways are always better for us than our own waysRemember even if you lose your job you havenrsquot lost your identity Who you are goes beyond a re-sume or a personal network You are a child of God and when you make Jesus the Lord of your life He promises that He has good plans for you ldquoPlans to prosper you not to harm you plans to give you hope and a futurerdquo (Jer 2911)

to step out of our professional suits and ties and be a friend to a lot of our colleagues who arenrsquot Chris-tiansrdquo Craig told CBN News

ldquoMy wife and I have always be-lieved that God is the ultimate source of our income and our provi-sion and that he provides for us first and foremostrdquo Manasseh saidd

Nobody knows just how long this financial upheaval will last But for those who put their trust -- not in bull markets but in Christ - the ride promises to be a little less bumpyAre You Anxious About the Mar-kets

DiMaio offers this advice if you are anxious about whatrsquos happening on Wall StreetBegin to listen to what God is speaking to you right now in this

Christians on Wall Street Praying amp Hoping

GOODYEAR

JESUS IS LORD

continued from page12

I John 54 ldquoFor whatsoever is born of God overcometh the world and this is the victory that overcometh the world even our faithrdquo

We must understand here that when the Bible mentions ldquothe worldrdquo it is referring to a foreign system of thought behavior and consequences It is a way of living in the earth today

In Romans 122 the Bible commands us not to be conformed to this worldly system to this fashion or this age but rather to be transformed God is literally saying there is another system of thought behavior and blessings that you can operated in and it comes by renewing your mind to His Word

If we are going to escape and over-come the conformity that the pres-sure of this worlds system is con-stantly putting on us we are going to have to learn to live our life by faith in Jesus Christ and what He says in His Word This is Gods system of living in the earth today

Now the worlds system of operating has consequences These conse-quences are clearly seen In the earth we have disease sickness poverty lack emotional turmoil mental illnesses all forms of selfishness debauchery and the like All of these fruits if you will are the result of worldly ways of thinking acting and believing

We donrsquot deny that there are things like viruses and deadly forces at work in the earth today But what I John 54 de-clares is that faith is our answer to overcoming these things Faith is the victory that not only overcomes the way the worlds system operates but it will also overcomes the fruit that the worlds system produces

Rev John G Lake was a man who ministered in a place where a deadly plague was killing thousands of people He lived in the midst of it and was ministering the healing power of God Many had died yet many people who should have died lived

Now the scientific community of the day was confused as to why Rev John G Lake wasnrsquot dying from the plague

So a group of them went and studied Rev Lake The scientists placed a portion of the plagued filled foam from a dead mans mouth on Rev Lakersquos hand Then put them both under a microscope to see what would happen What they saw was amazing When the virus touched Lakes body the virus died instead of infecting the area it touched

What was empowering Rev Lake What was the key that enabled him to overcome that disease Thatrsquos right it was FAITH

I John 54 tells us that faith is the victory that overcomes the sickness and disease that is trying to kill you That is trying to imprison you That is trying to take away the liberty and freedom that Jesus Christ died on the Cross for you to experience

In Hebrews Chapter 11 we begin reading how to live by faith During the first few verses we read where our elders actually obtained good reports by faith

In fact the very first thing that was obtained by faith was the universe that you and I are living in right now God is a God of faith He looked into nothing and said ldquoLIGHT BErdquo and LIGHT WAS

He knows how to operate in faith Now God is trying to help you and I operate in that same faith as well

In Ephesians 51 we read ldquoAnd be ye followers of God as dear childrenrdquo The word ldquofollowerrdquo here means ldquoto imitate or to copyrdquo

God knows how this thing works He is the one who created this system of faith In fact there is nothing good in this earth that will manifest without faith Everything that is good in this

earth will come to you and I by operating in and through Gods system of faith

So faith is the thing that obtains good reports

SICKNESS IS NOT A GOOD REPORT FOR YOUR BODY

HEALTH AND HEALING IS A GOOD REPORT FOR YOUR BODY

Living by faith will obtain the good report of health and healing for your body

2 Corinthians 57 commands us to walk by faith ldquo(regulate our lives and condut ourselves hy our conviction or beliefwith trust and holy fervor thus we walk) not by sight or appearance

The worlds system is based on conducting your behavior on believing what you see What you hear what you feel what you experience through your five physical senses

Romans 1017 on the other hand tells us that faith comes by hearing and hearing by the Word of God

The Word of God says in Psalm 1032-3 that the Lord is the One Who forgives all our iniquities and Who heals ALL our diseases

When you and I choose to believe to have faith in what the Word says about our situation and allow that Word and our faith in that Word to influence the way we think and act that is when we begin to overcome

Page 2 FREEDOM

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FREEDOM Page 3

PROPHECY WATCH

Oh I long for the time saith the Lord ldquoI long for

My children to know and to understand the Eden that Irsquove developed for their lives

And so many for so long have done without when there was no need to have gone sick and hungry when there was no reason for it have done with-out and had the devil steal and rob them and take away from them and steal their children steal their livelihoods

ldquoAnd all the time had they only known I was there to bless and carry out in their lives and they cry out to Me and say lsquoWell Lord why didnrsquot you do itrsquo I had to return and say lsquoI did yoursquore not receiving it

Yoursquore not taking it yoursquore not coming up to the faith that it

takes to know that I died for you That I was raised from the dead for you thatI since that hour since the day I went into My ministry on the earthrsquordquo saith the Lord ldquoI have never ever yet done any-thing for Myself and Myself alone

I gave Myself for you I am giving Myself for you and I will forever give Myself for you We are in this together I am your Lord I am your savior I am your blessing I have provided it Now would you open your heart and al-low Me to move in with the abundance and the Eden that I have planned for your liferdquo

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Redemption and restora-tion is what I do And if yoursquoll believe Me for it if yoursquoll begin to confess it every day if you will begin to call it over your life over your family over your bank account and over your physical body and over your mind I will restorerdquoHallelujah

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For this is the victory that over-cometh the world even our faith The problem in the past has been an attempt at praise and worship with no faith

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And when My people expect for Me to inhabit your praise then when you exercise your faith in praise and worship no thing in the world order can overcome faith praise and worship

So lift your voice and rejoice Lift your voice and rejoicerdquo

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Although McCain pointedly told Senator Obama ldquoIrsquom not President Bushrdquo Obama re-turned to his strategy of linking the Arizona senator to the current president ldquoIf Irsquove oc-casionally mistaken your policies for George Bushrsquos policies itrsquos because on the core economic issues that matter to the Ameri-can people -- on tax pol-icy on energy policy on spending priorities you have been a vigorous supporter of President Bushrdquo

For the first time in a presidential debate Mc-Cain assailed Obama for his ardent support of abortion including his opposition to the Born Alive Infant Protec-tion Act McCain noted Obama not only voted against legislation providing medical care for victims of botched abortions but also has a record of support-ing a gruesome abortion procedure banned by Congress in 2003 ldquoThen there was another bill before the Sen-ate Judiciary Committee in the state of Illinois not that long ago where he voted against a ban on partial-birth abortionreally one of the bad procedures a terrible [one] Then on the floor of the Illinois State Senate he voted lsquopresentrsquo I donrsquot know how you vote lsquopresentrsquo on something like that I donrsquot know how you vote lsquopresentrsquo on some of thatrdquo the Arizona senator stated ldquoI donrsquot know how you align yourself with the ex-treme aspect of the pro-abortion movement in Americardquo

Obama quickly dismissed McCainrsquos criti-cism ldquoIf it sounds incredible that I would vote to withhold life-saving treatment from an infant itrsquos because itrsquos not truerdquo Accord-ing to Obama there was already a law on the books in Illinois that required life-sav-ing treatment for infants who survived an abortion Obama said he supports a ban

on late-term abor-tions as long as there is an excep-tion for a motherrsquos health and life

One political ana-lyst says although it may have been a little bit late in the presidential cam-paign for John Mc-Cain to tell Barack Obama ldquoI am not President Bushrdquo

polling shows it was one of the high points of the evening

Donna Wiesner Keene a senior fellow with the Independent Womenrsquos Voice says McCain may have hit a home-run with that statement ldquoHersquos had the coattails of George Bush and George W Bush and hersquos had that as an impediment ldquoWiesner Keene con-tends ldquoThe people didnrsquot understand a lot of those policies Some of them they disagreed with And I think John McCain said lsquoLook here Irsquom a different person Why donrsquot you evaluate me for mersquo A lot of people really thought that was good and I love the way he stated it -- just lsquoI am not George Bushrsquordquo

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A Florida baby who was born and died in an abortion clinic will finally be buried today in Ft Lauderdale

Cheryl Sullinger of Operation Rescue explains the African-American baby named Shanice Denise Osbourne was born alive two years ago at an abortion clinic Christian Newswire reports that Shanicersquos mother went to the clinic after experiencing some discomfort and the clinic staff decided to deliver the baby When Shanice was born her mother noticed her gasping for air for nearly five minutes while the clinic staff panicked Abortionist Belkis Gonzales then put the baby in a biohazard bag and put her on the clinicrsquos roof ldquoto conceal her body from policerdquo Allegedly there was no attempt to save Shanicersquos life

ldquoThat baby was swept into a biohazard bag with some caustic chemicals and tossed up on the roof of that abortion clinic to dierdquo Sullinger explains ldquoIt was done in a panic I think by clinic workers because the people who delivered this baby alive during an abortion were not medical doctors they were

unlicensed women who just happened to be working at the clinic at the timerdquo Doctors performed an autopsy that Shan-icersquos lungs ldquocontained gas bubbles and floatedrdquo which proved she was alive and breathing at birth Meanwhile an investiga-tion may soon bear fruit ldquoWe have every confidence there will be criminal charges in this case by the end of next monthrdquo Sullinger contends

She rejoices that the clinic has been closed It was owned by Gonzales a wom-an with no medical background Sullinger says Dr Alan Keyes will give the eulogy at Shanicersquos funeral

Troy Newman president of Operation Rescue is thankful Shanice will ldquofinally be laid to rest with the dignity and love she was denied in her short liferdquo and hopes her killers will be brought to justice He adds that the public is encouraged to attend the funeral in hopes that the African-American community will stop the ldquoexploitation and decimation of their community by predatory abortionistsrdquo

Born Alive Baby Killed at Abortion Clinic Gets Proper Funeral

I BELIEVE

Continued from page one

FREEDOM Page 5

PASTORS CORNER

James 318 ldquoAnd the fruit of Righteous-ness is sown in peace of them that make peacerdquo

The Amplified version of this passage of scripture reads ldquoNow the harvest of righteousness (of conformity to Godrsquos will in thought and deed) is [the fruit of the seed] sown in peace hellip lsquo

What is the harvest of righteousness I t is true freedom It is conforming to Godrsquos will in thought and in deed The will of God is the very Righteousness of God So then righteousness in a person is the harvest the fruit the result of a seed that was sown in peace

Every seed sown always produces a harvest Where there is a seed sown there is a harvest on its way If you want to 1 Know Godrsquos will amp then 2 experience Gods will in your life it must start with a par-ticular seed sown

What is the seed that we must sow The Word of God In Mark chapter 4 Jesus tells us that the Word of God is the seed a person must sow in their heart For example Peter tells us that we are born again not by a corruptible seed but by an incorruptible seed which is the Word of God

If we are going to experience the harvest of salvation in our life than we must plant the seed of Gods Word in our heart concerning salvation We must receive in our heart the Seed Jesus Christ as our Lord and Savior if we are going to experiance tthe harvest of salvation

On that same note if we want a harvest of healing in our life then we must plant the seed of Gods Word concerning heal-ing

You see Gods Word is His will Isaiah 558 declares ldquoFor My thoughts are not your thoughts neither are My ways your ways saith the Lordrdquo

Some people try to tell us that we can never know what God wants or what He will do That is not true He plainly tells us in this passage of scripture that the rea-son we do not know His way is because we do not know His thoughts

The word ldquowayrdquo here means ldquothe

course of life or the path you are on or the type of journey you are taking in liferdquo

The path or journey your are taking and the experiences you encounter can be the path that God walks in and enjoys or it can be a path where evil resides It is all up to you and I

God is inferring here that If you think His thoughts than your ways will be His ways

Romans 122 tells us ldquoAnd be not conformed to this world (their way their path of life) but be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind that ye may prove (or live out) what is that good and acceptable and perfect will of Godrdquo

The will of God is His Word

Jeremiah 18 tells us that when we mediate in His Word then we will be able to observe to DO that Word

You see it is as we allow the Word of God to trans-form our thinking we al-lowi his Word to become our thoughts When our thoughts become His thoughts then our ways will become His Ways

When our ways become his ways we will produce in our lives a harvest of righteous-ness Praise God

Again a Harvest of Righteousness is con-formity to His will in thought and in deed

When 1 Peter 224 (ldquoBy His stripes ye were healedrdquo) becomes your main thought concerning sickness and disease than you will begin to think that you are the healed and you will begin living your life like you are healed As a result you will then begin walking down the path of heal-ing and divine health instead of one that is plagued with sickness and disease

When Romans 618 ldquoBeing then made free from sinhelliprdquo begins dominating your thought life then you will begin to act as if you are free from that temptation and sin which would so easily catches you and controls you You will begin living sin free in a sin infected world

Glory to God begin planting the seeds of Gods word in your heart and mind Begin thinking His thoughts and you will begin producing a harvest of righteousness a harvest of freedom in your life today

Rev Rory Synoground Founder and President of

Rory Synoground Ministries International and Pastor of

Freedom Christian Center Austin MN

A Harvest of Righteousness

PART ONE 2 CD SERIES

HOW FAITH WORKS is a teaching series that Pastor Rory ministered on at Healing School In Part One Pastor Rory answers the question of WHY WE NEED FAITH And He also teaches on the THREE THINGS YOU NEED to receive anything from God These two anointed teachings will inspire you to begin living a life of Faith

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FREEDOMPage 6

Wa l l B u i l d e r s

The Rev Benjamin Moore re-ported

[I]mmediately after he was brought from [the field] a mesnotsage was sent informing me of the sad event accompanied by a request from General Ham-ilton that I would come to him for the purpose of administering the Holy Communion I went I proceeded to converse with him on the subject of his receiving the Communion and told him that with respect to the qualifications of those who wished to become par-takers of that holy ordinance my inquires could not be made in lannotguage more expressive than that which was used by our [own] Church ndash [I asked] ldquoDo you sincerely re-pent of your sins past Have you a lively faith in Godrsquos mercy through Christ with a thankful remembrance of the death of Christ And are you disposed to live in love and charity with all menrdquo He lifted up his hands and said ldquoWith the utmost sincerity of heart I can answer those ques-tions in the affirmative ndash I have no ill will against Col Burr I met him with a fixed resolution to do him no harm ndash I forgive all that happenedrdquo The Communion was then administered which he received with great devotion and his heart afterwards appeared to be perfectly at rest I saw him again this morning when with his last faltering words he ex-pressed a strong confidence

in the mercy of God through the intercession of the Redeemer I remained with him until 2 orsquoclock this afternoon when death closed the awful scene ndash he expired with-out a struggle and almost with-out a groan By reflecting on this melancholy event let the humble believer be encouraged ever to hold fast that precious faith which is the only source of true consola-tion in the last extremity of nature [And l]et the infidel be persuaded to abandon his opposition to that Gospel which the strong inquisi-tive and comprehensive mind of a Hamilton embraced

One other consequence of Ham-iltonrsquos untimely death was that it permanently halted the formanottion of a religious society Hamilton had proposed Hamilton suggest-ed that it be named the Christian Constitutional Society and listed two goals for its formation first the support of the Christian religion and second the support of the Constitution of the United States

This ornotganization was to have numerous clubs throughout each state which would meet regu-larly and work to elect to office those who reflected the goals of the Christian Constitutional Society

John Hancock

SIGNER OF THE DEC-LARATION OF INDEPEN-DENCE PRESIDENT

OF CONGRESS REVOLUTION-ARY GENERAL GOVERNOR OF MASSACHUSETTS

Sensible of the importance of Christian piety and virtue to the order and happiness of a state I cannot but earnestly commend to you every measure for their sup-port and encouragement

He called on the entire state to pray ldquothat universal happiness may be established in the world [and] that all may bow to the scepter of our Lord Jesus Christ and the whole earth be filled with His gloryrdquo

He also called on the State of Mas-sachusetts to pray

that all nations may bow to the scepter of our Lord and Savior Je-sus Christ and that the whole earth may be filled with his glory

that the spiritual kingdom of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ may be continually increasing until the whole earth shall be filled with His glory to confess their sins and to implore forgiveness of God through the merits of the Savior of the World

to cause the benign religion of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ to be known understood and prac-ticed among all the inhabitants of the earth to confess their sins before God and implore His forgiveness through the merits and mediation

of Jesus Christ our Lord and Savior

that He would finally overrule all

The Founding Fathers on Jesus Christianity amp The Bible

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Author and historian David Barton is the Founder and President of WallBuilders a national pro-family organization which distributes historical legal and statistical information and helps citizens become active in their local schools and communities WallBuilders is a name taken from the Bible book of Nehemiah And just as Nehemiah led a grassroots movement in Jerusalem to rebuild the walls of that city and restore its strength and honor so too WallBuilders seeks to energize the grassroots today to rebuild that which makes America strongmdashits constitutional moral and religious foundations

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events to the advancement of the Redeemerrsquos kingdom and the es-tablishment of universal peace and good will among men

that the kingdom of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ may be estab-lished in peace and righteousness

among all the nations of the earth

that with true contrition of heart we may confess our sins resolve to for-sake them and implore the Divine forgiveness

through the merits and mediation of Jesus Christ our Savior And fi-nally to overrule all the commotions in the world to the spreading the true religion of our Lord Jesus Christ in its purity and power among all the people of the earth

John Hart

JUDGE LEGISLATOR SIGNER OF THE DECLARATION

[T]hanks be given unto Almighty God therefore and knowing that it is ap-pointed for all men once to die and after that the judgment [Hebrews 927] principally I give and rec-ommend my soul into the hands of Almighty God who gave it and my body to the earth to be buried in a decent and Christian like manner to receive the same again at the general resurrection by the mighty power of God

VOTER ISSUE GUIDE

Patrick Henry

REVOLUTIONARY GENERAL LEGISLATOR ldquoTHE VOICE OF LIBERTYrdquo RATIFIER OF THE U S CONSTITUTION GOVER-NOR OF VIRGINIA

Being a Christianhellip is a charac-ter which I prize far above all this world has or can boast

The Biblehellip is a book worth more than all the other books that were ever printed

Righteousness alone can exalt America as a nation Whoever thou art remember this and in thy sphere practice virtue thyself and encourage it in others

The great pillars of all govern-ment and of social life [are] vir-tue morality and religion

Continued In The Next Issue of FREEDOM

FREEDOMPage 8

By Katharine Mieszkowski

Obamarsquos Muslim Ties Called Into Question

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The head of a terrorism watch-dog group says Barack Obamarsquos new Muslim out-

reach director should have never taken part in a meeting last month in Northern Virginia that was attended by two Muslim leaders who support terrorist groups

NBC News reports that Obamarsquos Mus-lim outreach director Minha Husaini spoke to a small group of Muslim leaders and po-tential Obama supporters at a hotel in Springfield Virginia on Septem-ber 15 One of the Muslim leaders attending the meeting was Mahdi Bray of the Muslim American Soci-ety Bray once equated the Israeli assassination of a Hamas leader as ldquoan unlawful cowardly and dangerous act of state-sponsored terrorismrdquo

Joe Kaufman chairman of the group Americans Against Hate notes Bray and other leaders of the group are supporters of the terror-

ist groups Hamas and Hezbollah ldquoThe organization has just recent-ly used the Internet to call for the murder of Jews and the waging of war against non-Muslimsrdquo he

contends ldquoItrsquos cer-tainly not an organiza-tion that anyone from a political campaign should be attending a meeting withrdquo

Another Muslim lead-er who attended the September meeting

was Nihad Awad executive direc-tor of the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) which was listed by the government as an unindicted co-conspirator in a terrorism financing case

The Obama campaign claims its Muslim outreach director would not have attended the event had it known beforehand who all the attendees were However a par-ticipant at the meeting contends the Obama camp was aware that top CAIR officials would be in at-tendance

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lsquoJoe the Plumberrsquo Upstages Candidates

The man known as lsquoJoe the Plumberrsquo is getting just as much or more attention

than the presidential candidates since Wednesday nightrsquos debate

Joe Wurzelbacher a Christian grabbed the spotlight when Sen John McCain cited him as an example of someone who can ex-pect to suffer under Sen Barack Obamarsquos economic policy

Wurzelbach-er 34 said he was un-derwhelmed with Obamarsquos position on taxes He recently confronted the Illinois senator over his plan to ldquospread the wealth aroundrdquo by taxing higher income earners He contends that Obamarsquos plan would hurt him if he chose to buy the plumbing business he has been saving up for

ldquoOne Irsquom not wealthyrdquo he said ldquoThis is something that Irsquom going to have to make payments on in order to purchaserdquo

ldquoAnd for him to think that he has

a say in how I spend my money itrsquos my discretion that I give to the church that I give to charities that I give to friends or family members Itrsquos not the govern-mentrsquos placerdquo he said

He continued ldquoTo step in and say lsquoyoursquore making a little too much I want to make it fairrsquo - lifersquos not fairrdquo

The Ohio plumber has since been flooded with requests for interviews for the me-dia about his remarks Wurzelbach-er has also weighed in with a Chris-tian perspec-tive on the Iraq war

ldquoEverything that Americans take for granted I mean these guys havenrsquot had it - now theyrsquove got it Thatrsquos an incredible thing I donrsquot know if you guys are Chris-tians or not but thatrsquos like some-one coming to Jesus and being saved These guys have free-domrdquo he said

Although he is outspoken on the issues Wurzelbacher will not say who he will vote for

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Have you ever been in a race or relay game at school Do you remember what it was like at the starting line With seconds away from the word ldquogordquo do you think it would be a good idea to be looking around you wondering about what you are going to eat for dinner Or what if you were worried about how you looked and decided you wanted to comb your hair No I donrsquot think that would be a good idea to do such things - not if you wanted to win the race that is At the starting line it is best to keep your attention on the race and the finish line Baseball is like this Have you ever seen a baseball game before Have you noticed how the pitcher keeps his eyes and all of his attention on the batter who is up The person batting is his aim or target He shuts out all the cheers from the fans He doesnrsquot think about what he is going to eat for dinner The only thing he sees and thinks about is his target the batter Whatrsquos your target What do you spend your time thinking about and looking forward to doing Is it just to play with your friends all day Or is your aim to watch a favorite TV show These things arenrsquot wrong

to do but they shouldnrsquot be all that you want to do Why not make it your target to spend time with Jesus Our Bible verse today commands us that we should keep our eyes on Jesus How do you think that you can do that Well let me tell you a story about a group of Godrsquos people in the Old Testament that were being disobedient God was bringing them to a better land but along the journey the people grumbled and complained They were not being thankful Because of their disobedience snakes came into their camp They were scared They got bitten by the snakes They then cried to their leader Moses to help them God told Moses to make a big brass snake and put it high on a pole for all the people to see Those that were obedient and looked at the brass snake would not die God would help them and forgive them Thatrsquos the same for us today As we keep our eyes on Jesus He will help us and keep us safe Continue to read your Bible Continue to pray By doing so you are making Jesus your target

FREEDOM Page 9

Early one morning a mother went in to wake up her son ldquoWake up son Itrsquos time to go to

schoolrdquo

ldquoBut why Mom I donrsquot want to gordquo

ldquoGive me two reasons why you donrsquot want to gordquo

ldquoWell the kids hate me for one and the teachers hate me toordquo

ldquoOh thatrsquos no reason not to go to school Come on now and get readyrdquo

ldquoGive me two reasons why I should go to

schoolrdquo

ldquoWell for one yoursquore 42 years old And for another yoursquore the

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There are some ministries that spiritu-ally are just like caliche They arenrsquot good ground for your seed So before you give pray about where that gift should go Donrsquot rely on your own judgments Donrsquot reason it out and say ldquoWell this preacher over here is screaming and crying and saying hersquos going under so I guess Irsquoll give to himrdquo

You go to the Lord of the tithe and find out where He wants you to put your money Hersquos the only one who can direct you to truly good ground every time

C Water It Once your good seed is in good ground keep watering it with the Word of God Speak faith over it all week long Call forth the growth of that seed by ldquocalling things that be not as though they wererdquo (Rom 417) It may just be a little seed but you need to start call-ing it grown

You may say ldquoWell brother I believe in telling things like they arerdquo You wonrsquot ever see any growth in your life then because spiritual things grow as words are released Thatrsquos Godrsquos way

Charles Capps says the one who ldquotells things like they arerdquo is like the guy who went out on the porch to give his dog a bone When he got out there he found the dog wasnrsquot there - just the cat So he started saying ldquoHere kitty kitty kittyrdquo His neighbor said ldquoI thought you wanted to give that bone to the dogrdquo ldquoI didrdquo answered his friend ldquobut I like to say it like it is - and the cat not the dog is the one thatrsquos hererdquo

Donrsquot be like that guy Call the dog Hersquoll come Water your seed with words of faith Donrsquot call poverty if you donrsquot want poverty Call yourself prosperous Call that need met Before long yoursquoll be so full of joy and so full of expectan-cy that even the watering will be fun

Plant the seed Find good soil Water it Then as Mark 427 says all you have to do is ldquosleep and rise night and day and the seed will spring and grow uprdquo

ldquoBut I donrsquot understand how that worksrdquo you say It doesnrsquot mat-ter Just do it Plant and water Sleep and rise Sure enough one of these mornings yoursquoll wake up to an abundant harvest

Source One Word From God Can Change Your Finances by Kenneth

and Gloria Copeland Excerpt permission granted by Har-

rison House Publishers

can come against you and suc-ceedmdashthatrsquos what I call power

Page 10 FREEDOM

Right now many of

us are fac-ing needs Big needs Needs so great that without the direct intervention of God they canrsquot possi-bly be met Because of that we need to be more certain than ever before that we understand - and abide by - Godrsquos laws of abundance Those laws are extremely important but praise God theyrsquore not complicated In fact theyrsquore as simple as ABC

A Decide to Plant In Mark 4 Jesus compared the work-ings of the kingdom of God to planting seeds in the earth ldquoWhen the seed is sownrdquo He said ldquoit grows up and becomes greaterrdquo (v 32) Notice He didnrsquot say that when the seed is sown it occasionally grows up and becomes greater Or it grows up and becomes greater if itrsquos Godrsquos will He said ldquoIt grows up and becomes greaterrdquo Period

Godrsquos economy isnrsquot like ours It isnrsquot up one day and down the other Itrsquos always the same and it always works perfectly If you have good earth good seed and good water you will have growth Itrsquos inevitable The laws of God will produce that increase every single time So if yoursquore facing a need donrsquot panic - plant a seed

That seed may take the form of time money or some other resource you have to give But no matter what form it takes you need to understand that the gift itself isnrsquot really your seed Therersquos no life in it Itrsquos just the husk

There are people whorsquove planted husks for years But because they didnrsquot put any life in them nothing ever came up So donrsquot just plunk a husk in the offering bucket when it goes by Put life in it first Praise and worship God over it Say ldquoLord Irsquom offering You my goods to do Your work with and as I bring You my goods I bring myself I give myself to You spirit soul and bodyrdquo

Pray over that seed Fill it with faith worship and the Word Then it will be ready to plant

B Find Good Ground Out in West Texas on my grandfa-therrsquos farm there were big white patches of caliche Itrsquos the most worth-less dirt in the world when it comes to planting seed It wonrsquot grow anything I donrsquot care how fine your seed is if you plant it in caliche you wonrsquot get a crop

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Three Ways To Guard You Thought Life

Protection We guard our home car skin and even time but some-times we neglect to guard one of the most important areasmdashour thought life We need to place a guard over our thought life

Herersquos How 1 Take control Donrsquot allow your thoughts to wander like an out-of-control car Grab hold of the steer-ing wheel The Word of God says to take captive every thought and to bring it into the obedience of Christ (2 Cor 105) You may not be able to control every thought that comes in but you can deter-mine whether or not it stays

2 Guard your gate Whatrsquos the gate of your mind Itrsquos your eyes and ears Donrsquot put junk into your thought life by throwing open the gate Filter what comes in Remember the computer term GIGO garbage in garbage out

3 Thought replacement When thoughts of fear or doubt come your way replace them with love and faith You cannot have two complete thoughts in your mind at the same time For good thought replacement ideas see Philippi-

ans 48

Five Roads to Popularity With-out Losing Your Reputation

Everyone wants to be popular Popu-larity isnrsquot a bad thing In fact Jesus was very popular during much of His ministry He never compromised His character or morals to gain accep-tance You can become popular by making both bad choices and good ones

Here are five roads to popularity while maintaining your integrity 1 Be a kind person You will never be short on friends

2 When you do something do it with all your might Excellence draws a crowd

3 Promote others and their accom-plishments not your own God will then be able to exalt you

4 Dare to dream big and pray for the seemingly impossible People are drawn to those filled with hope and faith

5 Stand up for what is right Our world today is desperately searching for real heroes

Four Reasons You Should Be Cool

God wants you to be cool accept-ed and favored The Scripture says ldquoLet not mercy and truth forsake you bind them around your neck write them on the tablet of your heart and so find favor and high esteem in the sight of God and manrdquo (Prov 334 NKJV) You can enjoy favor acceptance and popularity with both God and people Here are 4 reasons why you should be cool

1 Cool accepted people have the ability to influence others for good That includes a witness of your Christian faith

2 Cool favored people have con-fidence to do things others believe to be impossible or improbable

3 Accepted people find it easy and natural to show others Godrsquos love

4 Cool people stand up for truth and donrsquot need everyone to agree with them

Source Every Teenagerrsquos Little Black Book of Hard to Find Information Excerpt permission granted by Harrison House Publishers

EXCERTS FROM Every Teenagerrsquos Little Black Book of Hard to Find Information

by Blaine Bartel

Visiting Northeast Pennsylvania for the first time Republican vice presidential nominee Sarah Palin

touted the new economic plan running mate John McCain unveiled Tuesday while invoking the name of the late Gov Robert P Casey as a champion of children with mental dis-abilities

Mrs Palin also called up the regionrsquos coal-pro-ducing past by jabbing at another Scranton na-tive Democratic vice presidential nominee Joe Biden for once being critical of clean-coal tech-nology as an alternative energy source

Mrs Palin told a raucous crowd at River-front Sports that Mr McCain would turn American anger and frustration over the current economic crisis into reform

The new economic plan would get the nation ldquothrough a time of testingrdquo and put ldquothe economy back on trackrdquo she said

ldquoUnder this plan wersquoll help American families keep their homes and save fam-ily neighborhoods and bring stability to our housing marketrdquo Mrs Palin said

The plan seeks to reduce to 10 percent the tax on senior-citizen withdrawals from retirement accounts in 2008 and 2009 re-duce to 75 percent the capital gains tax in 2009 and 2010 and quintuple deductions of capital losses It is meant to supplement Mr McCainrsquos call last week for a $300 bil-

lion government purchase of troubled mort-gagesMrs Palinrsquos 29-minute speech was frequently interrupted with applause or chants of ldquoSarah Sarah Sarahrdquo She was accompanied by her

husband Todd whom she called Alaskarsquos ldquofirst duderdquo and Martin Buser the four-time champion of the Iditarod the famed dog sled race

Singer Lee Greenwood opened the program by sing-ing the national anthem and his well-known ldquoGod Bless the USArdquo

Behind Mrs Palin supporters many wearing red held signs stating ldquoHunters Cling to Sar-

ahrdquo ldquoReal People Vote Palinrdquo and ldquoPro-Life Pro-Family Pro-Palinrdquo

The visit was the third by the Republican ticket to the region since July and highlighted the campaignrsquos focus on attracting disenchanted Democrats who had supported New York Sen Hillary Clinton

Signs announcing the presence of a Scran-ton-based group calling itself ldquoDemocrats for McCainrdquo dotted the crowd

For more than a week statewide polls have showed Mr McCain trailing Democratic presi-dential nominee Barack Obama by double-dig-it margins in Pennsylvania The daily five-day tracking poll by Muhlenberg College had Mr Obama up 51 percent to 38 percent through Monday the 12th consecutive day with a dou-ble-digit margin

With slumping poll numbers Mr McCain

By Borys Krawczeniuk Scranton Times-Tribune

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Palin Promises Tax-Cut Package VP Candidate Rallies Crowd On Economic

amp Social Issues

Christians on Wall Street Praying amp Hoping

Wall Street is in one of the most volatile economic downturns in US his-

tory The temptation to panic is high So how are Christians who work on Wall Street reacting to the crisis As CBN News discovered they are cling-ing to the rock that can not be moved

The market has just opened on the New York Stock Exchange and already investors are bracing for what promises to be another tumultuous day

But Wall Street is more than just stocks and bonds buying and selling - itrsquos also a place where

many Christians work and even pray And now they are praying like never before

Help us to lift you up in this place we need you here more than everrdquo one man prayed

Longest Run-ning Prayer Meeting in the US

Wall Street is the home of

the longest running prayer meet-ings in the country It started in 1977 after a few believers decided there was a need

Financial adviser Vaughn Weimer has been an active member since the early 1980rsquos

ldquoIrsquove been hearing from almost all

of my clients during the last two weeksrdquo Weimer told CBN News ldquoNo onersquos panicked yet No onersquos fallen over in a faint yetrdquo

Weimer says he believes God is going to redeem Wall Street and just like the historic Fulton Street revival make this a place of prayer once again

ldquoThere was a time here when at Noon every business shut down while people prayedrdquo Weimer recalled ldquoWe have a heart and a vision for that to happen again for those who work here every dayrdquo

Anthony DiMaio used to work on the floor of the NYSE and now runs a ministry known as BOLD The ministryrsquos mission is to reach out to New Yorkrsquos financial district with a message of spiri-tual relevance He believes God is using this economic crisis to get people to look up

ldquoWe all know that the fastest way to reach anybody is through their pocket bookrdquo DiMaio said ldquoAnd so if God wants to get your attention hersquoll get it thererdquo

Trinity Church A Place of Refuge

Standing like a beacon in the dark night of Wall Streetrsquos soul is Trinity Church For almost 200 years Trinityrsquos cross has wel-comed those coming into New Yorkrsquos harbor seeking freedom However in the last few weeks more people are seeking refuge of a different kind behind the churchrsquos front door

ldquoThe people sitting in the pews at our daily worship are either directly affected by having lost a job or they are afraid of losing a jobrdquo

the Rev Canon Anne Mallonnee told CBN News

Mallonnee says she recently ministered to one such woman overcome with anxiety

ldquoBeing able to pray with her and have her just reconnect with that peace of God which surpasses all of this turmoil and have her be able to leave more centered and confident that God is with her in thisrdquo Mallonnee said

But not all those affected by the financial crisis are on Wall Street Pastor Terry Smith of the Life Christian Church in West Orange New Jersey says about 25 percent of his parishioners work in New Yorkrsquos financial district A fact that could affect the churchrsquos bottom line It could also affect the churchrsquos plans for building a new facility

ldquoThere are people who have planned to give major gifts who are concerned about their capacity to do that right nowrdquo Smith explained ldquoTheir hearts are to do it I think God is going to help them to be able to do it but this is a real concern for usrdquo

Smith believes whatrsquos happen-ing on Wall Street is not neces-sarily Godrsquos punishment

ldquoThis kind of a crisis reminds us that we are not self-suffi-cient - regardless of how hard we work and how much we invest and how hard we try to prepare for the future re-ally we need himrdquo Smith said ldquoAnd itrsquos in our weakness that we discover how strong he isrdquo

Both Ray Craig and Raji Manasseh attend Smithrsquos church and work for major Wall Street banks They are deter-mined to be a light in the midst of the storm

ldquoThis is an opportunity for us

Wall Street Praying Continuned

Page 12

continued on page 14

continued on page 16

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curred at night between 9 pm and 5 am over the past 10 months so as not to disturb Iraqi drivers and clog the roads

They dubbed it ldquoOperation Rudy Gi-ulianirdquo because they were cleaning the streets up and returning Fallujah to normalcy mdash taking down barbed wire and tearing down checkpoints and Jersey walls that made Anbar look like a war zone

ldquoThere is almost no barbed wire left anywhere in Fal-lujahrdquo Kelly said An Iraqi no longer sees barbed wire when traveling in and around the city

Between 300 and 400 con-crete barriers that divided the city were removed by Navy Seabees

One of the big changes Kelly made when he took command in Anbar was to remove fixed checkpoints and Iraqi vehicles no longer had to pull off to the side when a military convoy was on the road His troops risked car bombs but the gamble paid off in what had once been Iraqrsquos most dangerous province The new road rules instantly low-ered the tension between military and locals Soon he transitioned to moving military convoys only at night so they would not encounter locals This also stymied many of the insurgents laying IEDs or road-side bombs which they often had done at night

Another change for the better since Kelly arrived in February He pushed the central government to provide more fuel to the people of Anbar so the mostly Sunni popu-lation is now happier In February Anbaris were receiving only 8 per-cent of their allocation of fuel from the central government of Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki Now itrsquos 90 percent mdash eliminating one of their

main gripes

But perhaps the biggest sign that the situation has changed for the better for Sunnis living in Anbar With the help of the Ma-rines and the Iraqi police nearly 100 percent of the eligible vot-ing population were registered a month ago to vote in upcoming provincial elections

ldquoThey seem to add another polit-ical party every dayrdquo Kelly said ldquoWe didnrsquot have a single security violation of any kind Theyrsquore at least going to give the electoral process a shot hellip at least going to give democracy a chancerdquo

The Sunnis who fueled a large part of Iraqrsquos insurgency boycot-

ted the last election for Parliament with only 3 percent of Sunnis par-ticipating Now they feel they have a stake in the government

ldquoThis is an amazing indicator as to where this province isrdquo Kelly saidHe and the Marines no longer use violence as an indicator of how much progress they have made

Two years ago they had 400 attacks mdash roadside bombs or shootings mdash at US forces every week In February it was down to 30 attacks per week Now it is down to under 12 attacks per week There hasnrsquot been a

Marine death in a few months

Troop numbers have dropped as well mdash down by 40 percent since February About 26000 Marines still serve in Anbar

ldquoIn Anbar there is no longer an insurgencyrdquo Kelly said ldquoUnless someone does something stupid (for instance if the Coalition were to accidentally kill a large number of civilians) this place will not go back to the way it wasrdquo

In football terms Kelly says the Marines are ldquoin the last 10 yards of this fightrdquo

ldquoCould it go back I donrsquot think sordquo he said firmly ldquoWe are winning this thingrdquo

Last One Turn Out The Lights Marines Quietly Begin Leaving

ldquoWe are winning

this thingrdquo Major General

John Kelly

Page 13

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Palin Promises Tax-Cut Package VP Candidate Rallies Crowd On Economic

amp Social Issues

has made a more concerted effort to recapture his footing in the state the past week

He and Mrs Pal-in cam-paigned

together Wednesday in Bethlehem She hit a Pittsburgh fundraiser Fri-day and then a Johnstown rally and a Philadelphia Flyers hockey game Saturday Mr McCain arrived in Phil-adelphia on Monday and unveiled his new economic plan Tuesday in Blue Bell a Philadelphia suburb

The Scranton crowd Tuesday was larger than the one that greeted Mrs Clinton and Mr Biden in the same venue Sunday

The McCain-Palin campaign esti-mated Tuesdayrsquos crowd at 5800 and said it was based on a Secret Service door count but the crowd appeared to be closer to 4500 peo-ple The smaller estimate by The Times-Tribune was based on the number of rows of risers a typical rowrsquos occupancy and a per-person count of the depth and width of the standing audience

Mrs Palin never mentioned Mrs Clinton But she brought up Gov Casey while talking about her son Trig who has Down syndrome

and promising to bring attention to ldquochildren with special needsrdquo as vice president

ldquoIt was the great Pennsylvania governor Robert Casey a son of Scranton who said rdquo Mrs Palin said pausing as the mention drew a mix of applause and boos ldquoHe was asked once how society should treat the most vulnerable among us such as children with special needs And he said Itrsquos simple you put them first in linersquo

ldquoSee Gov Casey understood that these children can inspire a special love and thatrsquos a love that this world needs more of Our children are not a problem theyrsquore a priorityrdquo

Mrs Palin did not specifically men-tion abortion or Mr Caseyrsquos cru-sade against it but said ldquoI do be-lieve that the truest measure of any society is how we treat those who are least able to defend and speak for themselves Who is more vul-nerable who is more innocent than a childrdquo

Trig taught her ldquothat everyone be-longs in the circle of protectionrdquo she said ldquoAnd that every child has something to contribute to the world if we give them that chancerdquoAs she pushed Mr McCainrsquos plan to expand all forms of energy in-cluding alternative ones Mrs Pal-in mocked Mr Biden for trashing clean-coal technology[ ]

Proposition 8 on the Cali-fornia ballot

which would negate a state Supreme Court ruling legalizing homosexual ldquomar-riagerdquo appears to be gaining strength

Previous polls have shown the traditional marriage supporters trail-ing but a new one by a San Fran-cisco CBS television station shows Prop 8 is ahead 47 to 42 percent ldquoTen percent are still undecided It means itrsquos still a close race but the shift still seems to be taking placerdquo says Randy Thomasson of Save-Californiacom

The pro-family activist believes success will depend on two

factors -- encouraging people to vote and getting Christians to vote according to the Bible Thomasson is hopeful pastors will take an active role as the election nears

ldquoTheyrsquove got to be men of God who are bold and courageous and say lsquoGod says marriage is only for a man and womanrsquordquo he adds ldquoWe all must be Christians not just people who say theyrsquore Christians and do not fol-low Christ in this matterrdquo

Thomasson attributes the new poll results in part to a new television commercial that does an effective job of selling the traditional view of marriage as well as the homosexual activists imposing acceptance of their lifestyle on everyone else

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I AM HERE FOR YOU GOD

FREEDOM

1 The Fossil RecordEvolutionists have constructed the Geologic Column in order to illustrate the supposed progression of ldquoprimitiverdquo life forms to ldquomore complexrdquo systems we observe today Yet ldquosince only a small percentage of the earthrsquos surface obeys even a portion of the geologic column the claim of their having taken place to form a continuum of rocklifetime over the earth is therefore a fantastic and imaginative contrivance1rdquo ldquo[T]he lack of transitional series cannot be explained as being due to the scarcity of material The deficiencies are real they will never be filledrdquo2 This supposed column is actually saturated with ldquopolystrate fossilsrdquo (fossils extending from one geologic layer to another) that tie all the layers to one time-frame ldquo[T]o the unprejudiced the fossil record of plants is in favor of special creationrdquo 3

2 Decay of Earthrsquos Magnetic Field Dr Thomas Barnes Emeritus Professor of Physics at the University of Texas at El Paso has published the definitive work in this field4 Scientific observations since 1829 have shown that the earthrsquos magnetic field has been measurably decaying at an exponential rate demonstrating its half-life to be approximately 1400 years In practical applica-tion its strength 20000 years ago would approximate that of a mag-netic star Under those conditions many of the molecules neces-sary for life processes could not form These data demonstrate that earthrsquos entire history is young within a few thousand of years

3 The Global Flood The Biblical record clearly describes a global Flood during Noahrsquos day Additionally there are hundreds of Flood traditions handed down through cultures all over the world 5 ME Clark and Henry Voss have demonstrated the scientific validity of such a Flood providing the sedimentary layering we see on every continent 6 Secular scholars report very rapid sedimentation and periods of great carbonate deposition in earthrsquos sedimentary layers7 It is now pos-sible to prove the historical reality of the Biblical Flood8

4 Population StatisticsWorld population growth rate in recent times is about 2 per year Practicable application of growth rate throughout human history would be about half that number Wars disease famine etc have wiped out approximately one third of the population on average every 82 years Starting with eight people and applying these growth rates since the Flood of Noahrsquos day (about 4500 years ago) would give a total human population at just under six billion people However application on an evolution-ary time scale runs into major difficulties Starting with one ldquocouplerdquo just 41000 years ago would give us a total population of 2 x 1089 9 The universe does not have space to hold so many bodies

5 Radio HalosPhysicist Robert Gentry has reported isolated radio halos of polonuim-214 in crystalline granite The half-life of this element is 0000164 seconds To record the existence of this element in such short time span the granite must be in crystalline state instantaneously10 This runs counter to evolutionary estimates of 300 million years for granite to form

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Russia to Sell Arms to Iran amp Venezuela

Russia turned up its nose at the United States Thursday by announcing plans to sell

military equipment to both Iran and Venezuela

The head of the state arms ex-porter said Russia was negotiating to sell new anti-aircraft systems to Iran despite American objections

ldquoContacts between our countries are continuing and we do not see any reason to suspend themrdquo Ana-toly Isaikin general director of Ro-soboronexport told Russian news agency Ria-Novosti at an arms fair in South Africa

Reports have circulated for some time that Russia is preparing to sell its S-300 surface-to-air mis-sile system to Iran offering greater protection against a possible US or Israeli attack on the Islamic

republicrsquos nuclear facilities The missiles have a range of more than 93 miles and can intercept jets ap-proaching at low altitudes

Russia has already delivered 29 Tor-M1 missile systems under a $700 million deal with Iran in 2005Sergei Chemezov the head of state-owned Russian Technologies also disclosed that Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez wanted to buy anti-aircraft systems armored personnel carriers and new SU-35 fighter jets when they come into production in 2010

The US plans to place an anti-missile shield in eastern Europe to deter surprise attacks from Iran have outraged Russia which believes the system in Poland and the Czech Republic is aimed at weakening its defenses

time of confusion and of peril Jesus said ldquoMy sheep hear my voicerdquo (John 1027)Begin to assess Have you been living for yourself or living for God ldquoBut seek first the Kingdom of God and His righteousness and all these things shall be added to yourdquo (Matthew 633) Godrsquos ways are always better for us than our own waysRemember even if you lose your job you havenrsquot lost your identity Who you are goes beyond a re-sume or a personal network You are a child of God and when you make Jesus the Lord of your life He promises that He has good plans for you ldquoPlans to prosper you not to harm you plans to give you hope and a futurerdquo (Jer 2911)

to step out of our professional suits and ties and be a friend to a lot of our colleagues who arenrsquot Chris-tiansrdquo Craig told CBN News

ldquoMy wife and I have always be-lieved that God is the ultimate source of our income and our provi-sion and that he provides for us first and foremostrdquo Manasseh saidd

Nobody knows just how long this financial upheaval will last But for those who put their trust -- not in bull markets but in Christ - the ride promises to be a little less bumpyAre You Anxious About the Mar-kets

DiMaio offers this advice if you are anxious about whatrsquos happening on Wall StreetBegin to listen to what God is speaking to you right now in this

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JESUS IS LORD

continued from page12

FREEDOM Page 3

PROPHECY WATCH

Oh I long for the time saith the Lord ldquoI long for

My children to know and to understand the Eden that Irsquove developed for their lives

And so many for so long have done without when there was no need to have gone sick and hungry when there was no reason for it have done with-out and had the devil steal and rob them and take away from them and steal their children steal their livelihoods

ldquoAnd all the time had they only known I was there to bless and carry out in their lives and they cry out to Me and say lsquoWell Lord why didnrsquot you do itrsquo I had to return and say lsquoI did yoursquore not receiving it

Yoursquore not taking it yoursquore not coming up to the faith that it

takes to know that I died for you That I was raised from the dead for you thatI since that hour since the day I went into My ministry on the earthrsquordquo saith the Lord ldquoI have never ever yet done any-thing for Myself and Myself alone

I gave Myself for you I am giving Myself for you and I will forever give Myself for you We are in this together I am your Lord I am your savior I am your blessing I have provided it Now would you open your heart and al-low Me to move in with the abundance and the Eden that I have planned for your liferdquo

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Redemption and restora-tion is what I do And if yoursquoll believe Me for it if yoursquoll begin to confess it every day if you will begin to call it over your life over your family over your bank account and over your physical body and over your mind I will restorerdquoHallelujah

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Although McCain pointedly told Senator Obama ldquoIrsquom not President Bushrdquo Obama re-turned to his strategy of linking the Arizona senator to the current president ldquoIf Irsquove oc-casionally mistaken your policies for George Bushrsquos policies itrsquos because on the core economic issues that matter to the Ameri-can people -- on tax pol-icy on energy policy on spending priorities you have been a vigorous supporter of President Bushrdquo

For the first time in a presidential debate Mc-Cain assailed Obama for his ardent support of abortion including his opposition to the Born Alive Infant Protec-tion Act McCain noted Obama not only voted against legislation providing medical care for victims of botched abortions but also has a record of support-ing a gruesome abortion procedure banned by Congress in 2003 ldquoThen there was another bill before the Sen-ate Judiciary Committee in the state of Illinois not that long ago where he voted against a ban on partial-birth abortionreally one of the bad procedures a terrible [one] Then on the floor of the Illinois State Senate he voted lsquopresentrsquo I donrsquot know how you vote lsquopresentrsquo on something like that I donrsquot know how you vote lsquopresentrsquo on some of thatrdquo the Arizona senator stated ldquoI donrsquot know how you align yourself with the ex-treme aspect of the pro-abortion movement in Americardquo

Obama quickly dismissed McCainrsquos criti-cism ldquoIf it sounds incredible that I would vote to withhold life-saving treatment from an infant itrsquos because itrsquos not truerdquo Accord-ing to Obama there was already a law on the books in Illinois that required life-sav-ing treatment for infants who survived an abortion Obama said he supports a ban

on late-term abor-tions as long as there is an excep-tion for a motherrsquos health and life

One political ana-lyst says although it may have been a little bit late in the presidential cam-paign for John Mc-Cain to tell Barack Obama ldquoI am not President Bushrdquo

polling shows it was one of the high points of the evening

Donna Wiesner Keene a senior fellow with the Independent Womenrsquos Voice says McCain may have hit a home-run with that statement ldquoHersquos had the coattails of George Bush and George W Bush and hersquos had that as an impediment ldquoWiesner Keene con-tends ldquoThe people didnrsquot understand a lot of those policies Some of them they disagreed with And I think John McCain said lsquoLook here Irsquom a different person Why donrsquot you evaluate me for mersquo A lot of people really thought that was good and I love the way he stated it -- just lsquoI am not George Bushrsquordquo

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A Florida baby who was born and died in an abortion clinic will finally be buried today in Ft Lauderdale

Cheryl Sullinger of Operation Rescue explains the African-American baby named Shanice Denise Osbourne was born alive two years ago at an abortion clinic Christian Newswire reports that Shanicersquos mother went to the clinic after experiencing some discomfort and the clinic staff decided to deliver the baby When Shanice was born her mother noticed her gasping for air for nearly five minutes while the clinic staff panicked Abortionist Belkis Gonzales then put the baby in a biohazard bag and put her on the clinicrsquos roof ldquoto conceal her body from policerdquo Allegedly there was no attempt to save Shanicersquos life

ldquoThat baby was swept into a biohazard bag with some caustic chemicals and tossed up on the roof of that abortion clinic to dierdquo Sullinger explains ldquoIt was done in a panic I think by clinic workers because the people who delivered this baby alive during an abortion were not medical doctors they were

unlicensed women who just happened to be working at the clinic at the timerdquo Doctors performed an autopsy that Shan-icersquos lungs ldquocontained gas bubbles and floatedrdquo which proved she was alive and breathing at birth Meanwhile an investiga-tion may soon bear fruit ldquoWe have every confidence there will be criminal charges in this case by the end of next monthrdquo Sullinger contends

She rejoices that the clinic has been closed It was owned by Gonzales a wom-an with no medical background Sullinger says Dr Alan Keyes will give the eulogy at Shanicersquos funeral

Troy Newman president of Operation Rescue is thankful Shanice will ldquofinally be laid to rest with the dignity and love she was denied in her short liferdquo and hopes her killers will be brought to justice He adds that the public is encouraged to attend the funeral in hopes that the African-American community will stop the ldquoexploitation and decimation of their community by predatory abortionistsrdquo

Born Alive Baby Killed at Abortion Clinic Gets Proper Funeral

I BELIEVE

Continued from page one

FREEDOM Page 5

PASTORS CORNER

James 318 ldquoAnd the fruit of Righteous-ness is sown in peace of them that make peacerdquo

The Amplified version of this passage of scripture reads ldquoNow the harvest of righteousness (of conformity to Godrsquos will in thought and deed) is [the fruit of the seed] sown in peace hellip lsquo

What is the harvest of righteousness I t is true freedom It is conforming to Godrsquos will in thought and in deed The will of God is the very Righteousness of God So then righteousness in a person is the harvest the fruit the result of a seed that was sown in peace

Every seed sown always produces a harvest Where there is a seed sown there is a harvest on its way If you want to 1 Know Godrsquos will amp then 2 experience Gods will in your life it must start with a par-ticular seed sown

What is the seed that we must sow The Word of God In Mark chapter 4 Jesus tells us that the Word of God is the seed a person must sow in their heart For example Peter tells us that we are born again not by a corruptible seed but by an incorruptible seed which is the Word of God

If we are going to experience the harvest of salvation in our life than we must plant the seed of Gods Word in our heart concerning salvation We must receive in our heart the Seed Jesus Christ as our Lord and Savior if we are going to experiance tthe harvest of salvation

On that same note if we want a harvest of healing in our life then we must plant the seed of Gods Word concerning heal-ing

You see Gods Word is His will Isaiah 558 declares ldquoFor My thoughts are not your thoughts neither are My ways your ways saith the Lordrdquo

Some people try to tell us that we can never know what God wants or what He will do That is not true He plainly tells us in this passage of scripture that the rea-son we do not know His way is because we do not know His thoughts

The word ldquowayrdquo here means ldquothe

course of life or the path you are on or the type of journey you are taking in liferdquo

The path or journey your are taking and the experiences you encounter can be the path that God walks in and enjoys or it can be a path where evil resides It is all up to you and I

God is inferring here that If you think His thoughts than your ways will be His ways

Romans 122 tells us ldquoAnd be not conformed to this world (their way their path of life) but be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind that ye may prove (or live out) what is that good and acceptable and perfect will of Godrdquo

The will of God is His Word

Jeremiah 18 tells us that when we mediate in His Word then we will be able to observe to DO that Word

You see it is as we allow the Word of God to trans-form our thinking we al-lowi his Word to become our thoughts When our thoughts become His thoughts then our ways will become His Ways

When our ways become his ways we will produce in our lives a harvest of righteous-ness Praise God

Again a Harvest of Righteousness is con-formity to His will in thought and in deed

When 1 Peter 224 (ldquoBy His stripes ye were healedrdquo) becomes your main thought concerning sickness and disease than you will begin to think that you are the healed and you will begin living your life like you are healed As a result you will then begin walking down the path of heal-ing and divine health instead of one that is plagued with sickness and disease

When Romans 618 ldquoBeing then made free from sinhelliprdquo begins dominating your thought life then you will begin to act as if you are free from that temptation and sin which would so easily catches you and controls you You will begin living sin free in a sin infected world

Glory to God begin planting the seeds of Gods word in your heart and mind Begin thinking His thoughts and you will begin producing a harvest of righteousness a harvest of freedom in your life today

Rev Rory Synoground Founder and President of

Rory Synoground Ministries International and Pastor of

Freedom Christian Center Austin MN

A Harvest of Righteousness

PART ONE 2 CD SERIES

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Wa l l B u i l d e r s

The Rev Benjamin Moore re-ported

[I]mmediately after he was brought from [the field] a mesnotsage was sent informing me of the sad event accompanied by a request from General Ham-ilton that I would come to him for the purpose of administering the Holy Communion I went I proceeded to converse with him on the subject of his receiving the Communion and told him that with respect to the qualifications of those who wished to become par-takers of that holy ordinance my inquires could not be made in lannotguage more expressive than that which was used by our [own] Church ndash [I asked] ldquoDo you sincerely re-pent of your sins past Have you a lively faith in Godrsquos mercy through Christ with a thankful remembrance of the death of Christ And are you disposed to live in love and charity with all menrdquo He lifted up his hands and said ldquoWith the utmost sincerity of heart I can answer those ques-tions in the affirmative ndash I have no ill will against Col Burr I met him with a fixed resolution to do him no harm ndash I forgive all that happenedrdquo The Communion was then administered which he received with great devotion and his heart afterwards appeared to be perfectly at rest I saw him again this morning when with his last faltering words he ex-pressed a strong confidence

in the mercy of God through the intercession of the Redeemer I remained with him until 2 orsquoclock this afternoon when death closed the awful scene ndash he expired with-out a struggle and almost with-out a groan By reflecting on this melancholy event let the humble believer be encouraged ever to hold fast that precious faith which is the only source of true consola-tion in the last extremity of nature [And l]et the infidel be persuaded to abandon his opposition to that Gospel which the strong inquisi-tive and comprehensive mind of a Hamilton embraced

One other consequence of Ham-iltonrsquos untimely death was that it permanently halted the formanottion of a religious society Hamilton had proposed Hamilton suggest-ed that it be named the Christian Constitutional Society and listed two goals for its formation first the support of the Christian religion and second the support of the Constitution of the United States

This ornotganization was to have numerous clubs throughout each state which would meet regu-larly and work to elect to office those who reflected the goals of the Christian Constitutional Society

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Sensible of the importance of Christian piety and virtue to the order and happiness of a state I cannot but earnestly commend to you every measure for their sup-port and encouragement

He called on the entire state to pray ldquothat universal happiness may be established in the world [and] that all may bow to the scepter of our Lord Jesus Christ and the whole earth be filled with His gloryrdquo

He also called on the State of Mas-sachusetts to pray

that all nations may bow to the scepter of our Lord and Savior Je-sus Christ and that the whole earth may be filled with his glory

that the spiritual kingdom of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ may be continually increasing until the whole earth shall be filled with His glory to confess their sins and to implore forgiveness of God through the merits of the Savior of the World

to cause the benign religion of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ to be known understood and prac-ticed among all the inhabitants of the earth to confess their sins before God and implore His forgiveness through the merits and mediation

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that He would finally overrule all

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Author and historian David Barton is the Founder and President of WallBuilders a national pro-family organization which distributes historical legal and statistical information and helps citizens become active in their local schools and communities WallBuilders is a name taken from the Bible book of Nehemiah And just as Nehemiah led a grassroots movement in Jerusalem to rebuild the walls of that city and restore its strength and honor so too WallBuilders seeks to energize the grassroots today to rebuild that which makes America strongmdashits constitutional moral and religious foundations

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events to the advancement of the Redeemerrsquos kingdom and the es-tablishment of universal peace and good will among men

that the kingdom of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ may be estab-lished in peace and righteousness

among all the nations of the earth

that with true contrition of heart we may confess our sins resolve to for-sake them and implore the Divine forgiveness

through the merits and mediation of Jesus Christ our Savior And fi-nally to overrule all the commotions in the world to the spreading the true religion of our Lord Jesus Christ in its purity and power among all the people of the earth

John Hart

JUDGE LEGISLATOR SIGNER OF THE DECLARATION

[T]hanks be given unto Almighty God therefore and knowing that it is ap-pointed for all men once to die and after that the judgment [Hebrews 927] principally I give and rec-ommend my soul into the hands of Almighty God who gave it and my body to the earth to be buried in a decent and Christian like manner to receive the same again at the general resurrection by the mighty power of God

VOTER ISSUE GUIDE

Patrick Henry

REVOLUTIONARY GENERAL LEGISLATOR ldquoTHE VOICE OF LIBERTYrdquo RATIFIER OF THE U S CONSTITUTION GOVER-NOR OF VIRGINIA

Being a Christianhellip is a charac-ter which I prize far above all this world has or can boast

The Biblehellip is a book worth more than all the other books that were ever printed

Righteousness alone can exalt America as a nation Whoever thou art remember this and in thy sphere practice virtue thyself and encourage it in others

The great pillars of all govern-ment and of social life [are] vir-tue morality and religion

Continued In The Next Issue of FREEDOM

FREEDOMPage 8

By Katharine Mieszkowski

Obamarsquos Muslim Ties Called Into Question

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The head of a terrorism watch-dog group says Barack Obamarsquos new Muslim out-

reach director should have never taken part in a meeting last month in Northern Virginia that was attended by two Muslim leaders who support terrorist groups

NBC News reports that Obamarsquos Mus-lim outreach director Minha Husaini spoke to a small group of Muslim leaders and po-tential Obama supporters at a hotel in Springfield Virginia on Septem-ber 15 One of the Muslim leaders attending the meeting was Mahdi Bray of the Muslim American Soci-ety Bray once equated the Israeli assassination of a Hamas leader as ldquoan unlawful cowardly and dangerous act of state-sponsored terrorismrdquo

Joe Kaufman chairman of the group Americans Against Hate notes Bray and other leaders of the group are supporters of the terror-

ist groups Hamas and Hezbollah ldquoThe organization has just recent-ly used the Internet to call for the murder of Jews and the waging of war against non-Muslimsrdquo he

contends ldquoItrsquos cer-tainly not an organiza-tion that anyone from a political campaign should be attending a meeting withrdquo

Another Muslim lead-er who attended the September meeting

was Nihad Awad executive direc-tor of the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) which was listed by the government as an unindicted co-conspirator in a terrorism financing case

The Obama campaign claims its Muslim outreach director would not have attended the event had it known beforehand who all the attendees were However a par-ticipant at the meeting contends the Obama camp was aware that top CAIR officials would be in at-tendance

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lsquoJoe the Plumberrsquo Upstages Candidates

The man known as lsquoJoe the Plumberrsquo is getting just as much or more attention

than the presidential candidates since Wednesday nightrsquos debate

Joe Wurzelbacher a Christian grabbed the spotlight when Sen John McCain cited him as an example of someone who can ex-pect to suffer under Sen Barack Obamarsquos economic policy

Wurzelbach-er 34 said he was un-derwhelmed with Obamarsquos position on taxes He recently confronted the Illinois senator over his plan to ldquospread the wealth aroundrdquo by taxing higher income earners He contends that Obamarsquos plan would hurt him if he chose to buy the plumbing business he has been saving up for

ldquoOne Irsquom not wealthyrdquo he said ldquoThis is something that Irsquom going to have to make payments on in order to purchaserdquo

ldquoAnd for him to think that he has

a say in how I spend my money itrsquos my discretion that I give to the church that I give to charities that I give to friends or family members Itrsquos not the govern-mentrsquos placerdquo he said

He continued ldquoTo step in and say lsquoyoursquore making a little too much I want to make it fairrsquo - lifersquos not fairrdquo

The Ohio plumber has since been flooded with requests for interviews for the me-dia about his remarks Wurzelbach-er has also weighed in with a Chris-tian perspec-tive on the Iraq war

ldquoEverything that Americans take for granted I mean these guys havenrsquot had it - now theyrsquove got it Thatrsquos an incredible thing I donrsquot know if you guys are Chris-tians or not but thatrsquos like some-one coming to Jesus and being saved These guys have free-domrdquo he said

Although he is outspoken on the issues Wurzelbacher will not say who he will vote for

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Have you ever been in a race or relay game at school Do you remember what it was like at the starting line With seconds away from the word ldquogordquo do you think it would be a good idea to be looking around you wondering about what you are going to eat for dinner Or what if you were worried about how you looked and decided you wanted to comb your hair No I donrsquot think that would be a good idea to do such things - not if you wanted to win the race that is At the starting line it is best to keep your attention on the race and the finish line Baseball is like this Have you ever seen a baseball game before Have you noticed how the pitcher keeps his eyes and all of his attention on the batter who is up The person batting is his aim or target He shuts out all the cheers from the fans He doesnrsquot think about what he is going to eat for dinner The only thing he sees and thinks about is his target the batter Whatrsquos your target What do you spend your time thinking about and looking forward to doing Is it just to play with your friends all day Or is your aim to watch a favorite TV show These things arenrsquot wrong

to do but they shouldnrsquot be all that you want to do Why not make it your target to spend time with Jesus Our Bible verse today commands us that we should keep our eyes on Jesus How do you think that you can do that Well let me tell you a story about a group of Godrsquos people in the Old Testament that were being disobedient God was bringing them to a better land but along the journey the people grumbled and complained They were not being thankful Because of their disobedience snakes came into their camp They were scared They got bitten by the snakes They then cried to their leader Moses to help them God told Moses to make a big brass snake and put it high on a pole for all the people to see Those that were obedient and looked at the brass snake would not die God would help them and forgive them Thatrsquos the same for us today As we keep our eyes on Jesus He will help us and keep us safe Continue to read your Bible Continue to pray By doing so you are making Jesus your target

FREEDOM Page 9

Early one morning a mother went in to wake up her son ldquoWake up son Itrsquos time to go to

schoolrdquo

ldquoBut why Mom I donrsquot want to gordquo

ldquoGive me two reasons why you donrsquot want to gordquo

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There are some ministries that spiritu-ally are just like caliche They arenrsquot good ground for your seed So before you give pray about where that gift should go Donrsquot rely on your own judgments Donrsquot reason it out and say ldquoWell this preacher over here is screaming and crying and saying hersquos going under so I guess Irsquoll give to himrdquo

You go to the Lord of the tithe and find out where He wants you to put your money Hersquos the only one who can direct you to truly good ground every time

C Water It Once your good seed is in good ground keep watering it with the Word of God Speak faith over it all week long Call forth the growth of that seed by ldquocalling things that be not as though they wererdquo (Rom 417) It may just be a little seed but you need to start call-ing it grown

You may say ldquoWell brother I believe in telling things like they arerdquo You wonrsquot ever see any growth in your life then because spiritual things grow as words are released Thatrsquos Godrsquos way

Charles Capps says the one who ldquotells things like they arerdquo is like the guy who went out on the porch to give his dog a bone When he got out there he found the dog wasnrsquot there - just the cat So he started saying ldquoHere kitty kitty kittyrdquo His neighbor said ldquoI thought you wanted to give that bone to the dogrdquo ldquoI didrdquo answered his friend ldquobut I like to say it like it is - and the cat not the dog is the one thatrsquos hererdquo

Donrsquot be like that guy Call the dog Hersquoll come Water your seed with words of faith Donrsquot call poverty if you donrsquot want poverty Call yourself prosperous Call that need met Before long yoursquoll be so full of joy and so full of expectan-cy that even the watering will be fun

Plant the seed Find good soil Water it Then as Mark 427 says all you have to do is ldquosleep and rise night and day and the seed will spring and grow uprdquo

ldquoBut I donrsquot understand how that worksrdquo you say It doesnrsquot mat-ter Just do it Plant and water Sleep and rise Sure enough one of these mornings yoursquoll wake up to an abundant harvest

Source One Word From God Can Change Your Finances by Kenneth

and Gloria Copeland Excerpt permission granted by Har-

rison House Publishers

can come against you and suc-ceedmdashthatrsquos what I call power

Page 10 FREEDOM

Right now many of

us are fac-ing needs Big needs Needs so great that without the direct intervention of God they canrsquot possi-bly be met Because of that we need to be more certain than ever before that we understand - and abide by - Godrsquos laws of abundance Those laws are extremely important but praise God theyrsquore not complicated In fact theyrsquore as simple as ABC

A Decide to Plant In Mark 4 Jesus compared the work-ings of the kingdom of God to planting seeds in the earth ldquoWhen the seed is sownrdquo He said ldquoit grows up and becomes greaterrdquo (v 32) Notice He didnrsquot say that when the seed is sown it occasionally grows up and becomes greater Or it grows up and becomes greater if itrsquos Godrsquos will He said ldquoIt grows up and becomes greaterrdquo Period

Godrsquos economy isnrsquot like ours It isnrsquot up one day and down the other Itrsquos always the same and it always works perfectly If you have good earth good seed and good water you will have growth Itrsquos inevitable The laws of God will produce that increase every single time So if yoursquore facing a need donrsquot panic - plant a seed

That seed may take the form of time money or some other resource you have to give But no matter what form it takes you need to understand that the gift itself isnrsquot really your seed Therersquos no life in it Itrsquos just the husk

There are people whorsquove planted husks for years But because they didnrsquot put any life in them nothing ever came up So donrsquot just plunk a husk in the offering bucket when it goes by Put life in it first Praise and worship God over it Say ldquoLord Irsquom offering You my goods to do Your work with and as I bring You my goods I bring myself I give myself to You spirit soul and bodyrdquo

Pray over that seed Fill it with faith worship and the Word Then it will be ready to plant

B Find Good Ground Out in West Texas on my grandfa-therrsquos farm there were big white patches of caliche Itrsquos the most worth-less dirt in the world when it comes to planting seed It wonrsquot grow anything I donrsquot care how fine your seed is if you plant it in caliche you wonrsquot get a crop

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Music News--wwwtvulivecomSkillet is gearing up for the release of their live CDDVD combo ldquoComatose Comes Aliverdquo and they are also recording brand new music They have posted an online we-bcam in their studio so you can take a peek at their recording sessions for the new al-

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Three Ways To Guard You Thought Life

Protection We guard our home car skin and even time but some-times we neglect to guard one of the most important areasmdashour thought life We need to place a guard over our thought life

Herersquos How 1 Take control Donrsquot allow your thoughts to wander like an out-of-control car Grab hold of the steer-ing wheel The Word of God says to take captive every thought and to bring it into the obedience of Christ (2 Cor 105) You may not be able to control every thought that comes in but you can deter-mine whether or not it stays

2 Guard your gate Whatrsquos the gate of your mind Itrsquos your eyes and ears Donrsquot put junk into your thought life by throwing open the gate Filter what comes in Remember the computer term GIGO garbage in garbage out

3 Thought replacement When thoughts of fear or doubt come your way replace them with love and faith You cannot have two complete thoughts in your mind at the same time For good thought replacement ideas see Philippi-

ans 48

Five Roads to Popularity With-out Losing Your Reputation

Everyone wants to be popular Popu-larity isnrsquot a bad thing In fact Jesus was very popular during much of His ministry He never compromised His character or morals to gain accep-tance You can become popular by making both bad choices and good ones

Here are five roads to popularity while maintaining your integrity 1 Be a kind person You will never be short on friends

2 When you do something do it with all your might Excellence draws a crowd

3 Promote others and their accom-plishments not your own God will then be able to exalt you

4 Dare to dream big and pray for the seemingly impossible People are drawn to those filled with hope and faith

5 Stand up for what is right Our world today is desperately searching for real heroes

Four Reasons You Should Be Cool

God wants you to be cool accept-ed and favored The Scripture says ldquoLet not mercy and truth forsake you bind them around your neck write them on the tablet of your heart and so find favor and high esteem in the sight of God and manrdquo (Prov 334 NKJV) You can enjoy favor acceptance and popularity with both God and people Here are 4 reasons why you should be cool

1 Cool accepted people have the ability to influence others for good That includes a witness of your Christian faith

2 Cool favored people have con-fidence to do things others believe to be impossible or improbable

3 Accepted people find it easy and natural to show others Godrsquos love

4 Cool people stand up for truth and donrsquot need everyone to agree with them

Source Every Teenagerrsquos Little Black Book of Hard to Find Information Excerpt permission granted by Harrison House Publishers

EXCERTS FROM Every Teenagerrsquos Little Black Book of Hard to Find Information

by Blaine Bartel

Visiting Northeast Pennsylvania for the first time Republican vice presidential nominee Sarah Palin

touted the new economic plan running mate John McCain unveiled Tuesday while invoking the name of the late Gov Robert P Casey as a champion of children with mental dis-abilities

Mrs Palin also called up the regionrsquos coal-pro-ducing past by jabbing at another Scranton na-tive Democratic vice presidential nominee Joe Biden for once being critical of clean-coal tech-nology as an alternative energy source

Mrs Palin told a raucous crowd at River-front Sports that Mr McCain would turn American anger and frustration over the current economic crisis into reform

The new economic plan would get the nation ldquothrough a time of testingrdquo and put ldquothe economy back on trackrdquo she said

ldquoUnder this plan wersquoll help American families keep their homes and save fam-ily neighborhoods and bring stability to our housing marketrdquo Mrs Palin said

The plan seeks to reduce to 10 percent the tax on senior-citizen withdrawals from retirement accounts in 2008 and 2009 re-duce to 75 percent the capital gains tax in 2009 and 2010 and quintuple deductions of capital losses It is meant to supplement Mr McCainrsquos call last week for a $300 bil-

lion government purchase of troubled mort-gagesMrs Palinrsquos 29-minute speech was frequently interrupted with applause or chants of ldquoSarah Sarah Sarahrdquo She was accompanied by her

husband Todd whom she called Alaskarsquos ldquofirst duderdquo and Martin Buser the four-time champion of the Iditarod the famed dog sled race

Singer Lee Greenwood opened the program by sing-ing the national anthem and his well-known ldquoGod Bless the USArdquo

Behind Mrs Palin supporters many wearing red held signs stating ldquoHunters Cling to Sar-

ahrdquo ldquoReal People Vote Palinrdquo and ldquoPro-Life Pro-Family Pro-Palinrdquo

The visit was the third by the Republican ticket to the region since July and highlighted the campaignrsquos focus on attracting disenchanted Democrats who had supported New York Sen Hillary Clinton

Signs announcing the presence of a Scran-ton-based group calling itself ldquoDemocrats for McCainrdquo dotted the crowd

For more than a week statewide polls have showed Mr McCain trailing Democratic presi-dential nominee Barack Obama by double-dig-it margins in Pennsylvania The daily five-day tracking poll by Muhlenberg College had Mr Obama up 51 percent to 38 percent through Monday the 12th consecutive day with a dou-ble-digit margin

With slumping poll numbers Mr McCain

By Borys Krawczeniuk Scranton Times-Tribune

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Palin Promises Tax-Cut Package VP Candidate Rallies Crowd On Economic

amp Social Issues

Christians on Wall Street Praying amp Hoping

Wall Street is in one of the most volatile economic downturns in US his-

tory The temptation to panic is high So how are Christians who work on Wall Street reacting to the crisis As CBN News discovered they are cling-ing to the rock that can not be moved

The market has just opened on the New York Stock Exchange and already investors are bracing for what promises to be another tumultuous day

But Wall Street is more than just stocks and bonds buying and selling - itrsquos also a place where

many Christians work and even pray And now they are praying like never before

Help us to lift you up in this place we need you here more than everrdquo one man prayed

Longest Run-ning Prayer Meeting in the US

Wall Street is the home of

the longest running prayer meet-ings in the country It started in 1977 after a few believers decided there was a need

Financial adviser Vaughn Weimer has been an active member since the early 1980rsquos

ldquoIrsquove been hearing from almost all

of my clients during the last two weeksrdquo Weimer told CBN News ldquoNo onersquos panicked yet No onersquos fallen over in a faint yetrdquo

Weimer says he believes God is going to redeem Wall Street and just like the historic Fulton Street revival make this a place of prayer once again

ldquoThere was a time here when at Noon every business shut down while people prayedrdquo Weimer recalled ldquoWe have a heart and a vision for that to happen again for those who work here every dayrdquo

Anthony DiMaio used to work on the floor of the NYSE and now runs a ministry known as BOLD The ministryrsquos mission is to reach out to New Yorkrsquos financial district with a message of spiri-tual relevance He believes God is using this economic crisis to get people to look up

ldquoWe all know that the fastest way to reach anybody is through their pocket bookrdquo DiMaio said ldquoAnd so if God wants to get your attention hersquoll get it thererdquo

Trinity Church A Place of Refuge

Standing like a beacon in the dark night of Wall Streetrsquos soul is Trinity Church For almost 200 years Trinityrsquos cross has wel-comed those coming into New Yorkrsquos harbor seeking freedom However in the last few weeks more people are seeking refuge of a different kind behind the churchrsquos front door

ldquoThe people sitting in the pews at our daily worship are either directly affected by having lost a job or they are afraid of losing a jobrdquo

the Rev Canon Anne Mallonnee told CBN News

Mallonnee says she recently ministered to one such woman overcome with anxiety

ldquoBeing able to pray with her and have her just reconnect with that peace of God which surpasses all of this turmoil and have her be able to leave more centered and confident that God is with her in thisrdquo Mallonnee said

But not all those affected by the financial crisis are on Wall Street Pastor Terry Smith of the Life Christian Church in West Orange New Jersey says about 25 percent of his parishioners work in New Yorkrsquos financial district A fact that could affect the churchrsquos bottom line It could also affect the churchrsquos plans for building a new facility

ldquoThere are people who have planned to give major gifts who are concerned about their capacity to do that right nowrdquo Smith explained ldquoTheir hearts are to do it I think God is going to help them to be able to do it but this is a real concern for usrdquo

Smith believes whatrsquos happen-ing on Wall Street is not neces-sarily Godrsquos punishment

ldquoThis kind of a crisis reminds us that we are not self-suffi-cient - regardless of how hard we work and how much we invest and how hard we try to prepare for the future re-ally we need himrdquo Smith said ldquoAnd itrsquos in our weakness that we discover how strong he isrdquo

Both Ray Craig and Raji Manasseh attend Smithrsquos church and work for major Wall Street banks They are deter-mined to be a light in the midst of the storm

ldquoThis is an opportunity for us

Wall Street Praying Continuned

Page 12

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curred at night between 9 pm and 5 am over the past 10 months so as not to disturb Iraqi drivers and clog the roads

They dubbed it ldquoOperation Rudy Gi-ulianirdquo because they were cleaning the streets up and returning Fallujah to normalcy mdash taking down barbed wire and tearing down checkpoints and Jersey walls that made Anbar look like a war zone

ldquoThere is almost no barbed wire left anywhere in Fal-lujahrdquo Kelly said An Iraqi no longer sees barbed wire when traveling in and around the city

Between 300 and 400 con-crete barriers that divided the city were removed by Navy Seabees

One of the big changes Kelly made when he took command in Anbar was to remove fixed checkpoints and Iraqi vehicles no longer had to pull off to the side when a military convoy was on the road His troops risked car bombs but the gamble paid off in what had once been Iraqrsquos most dangerous province The new road rules instantly low-ered the tension between military and locals Soon he transitioned to moving military convoys only at night so they would not encounter locals This also stymied many of the insurgents laying IEDs or road-side bombs which they often had done at night

Another change for the better since Kelly arrived in February He pushed the central government to provide more fuel to the people of Anbar so the mostly Sunni popu-lation is now happier In February Anbaris were receiving only 8 per-cent of their allocation of fuel from the central government of Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki Now itrsquos 90 percent mdash eliminating one of their

main gripes

But perhaps the biggest sign that the situation has changed for the better for Sunnis living in Anbar With the help of the Ma-rines and the Iraqi police nearly 100 percent of the eligible vot-ing population were registered a month ago to vote in upcoming provincial elections

ldquoThey seem to add another polit-ical party every dayrdquo Kelly said ldquoWe didnrsquot have a single security violation of any kind Theyrsquore at least going to give the electoral process a shot hellip at least going to give democracy a chancerdquo

The Sunnis who fueled a large part of Iraqrsquos insurgency boycot-

ted the last election for Parliament with only 3 percent of Sunnis par-ticipating Now they feel they have a stake in the government

ldquoThis is an amazing indicator as to where this province isrdquo Kelly saidHe and the Marines no longer use violence as an indicator of how much progress they have made

Two years ago they had 400 attacks mdash roadside bombs or shootings mdash at US forces every week In February it was down to 30 attacks per week Now it is down to under 12 attacks per week There hasnrsquot been a

Marine death in a few months

Troop numbers have dropped as well mdash down by 40 percent since February About 26000 Marines still serve in Anbar

ldquoIn Anbar there is no longer an insurgencyrdquo Kelly said ldquoUnless someone does something stupid (for instance if the Coalition were to accidentally kill a large number of civilians) this place will not go back to the way it wasrdquo

In football terms Kelly says the Marines are ldquoin the last 10 yards of this fightrdquo

ldquoCould it go back I donrsquot think sordquo he said firmly ldquoWe are winning this thingrdquo

Last One Turn Out The Lights Marines Quietly Begin Leaving

ldquoWe are winning

this thingrdquo Major General

John Kelly

Page 13

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Palin Promises Tax-Cut Package VP Candidate Rallies Crowd On Economic

amp Social Issues

has made a more concerted effort to recapture his footing in the state the past week

He and Mrs Pal-in cam-paigned

together Wednesday in Bethlehem She hit a Pittsburgh fundraiser Fri-day and then a Johnstown rally and a Philadelphia Flyers hockey game Saturday Mr McCain arrived in Phil-adelphia on Monday and unveiled his new economic plan Tuesday in Blue Bell a Philadelphia suburb

The Scranton crowd Tuesday was larger than the one that greeted Mrs Clinton and Mr Biden in the same venue Sunday

The McCain-Palin campaign esti-mated Tuesdayrsquos crowd at 5800 and said it was based on a Secret Service door count but the crowd appeared to be closer to 4500 peo-ple The smaller estimate by The Times-Tribune was based on the number of rows of risers a typical rowrsquos occupancy and a per-person count of the depth and width of the standing audience

Mrs Palin never mentioned Mrs Clinton But she brought up Gov Casey while talking about her son Trig who has Down syndrome

and promising to bring attention to ldquochildren with special needsrdquo as vice president

ldquoIt was the great Pennsylvania governor Robert Casey a son of Scranton who said rdquo Mrs Palin said pausing as the mention drew a mix of applause and boos ldquoHe was asked once how society should treat the most vulnerable among us such as children with special needs And he said Itrsquos simple you put them first in linersquo

ldquoSee Gov Casey understood that these children can inspire a special love and thatrsquos a love that this world needs more of Our children are not a problem theyrsquore a priorityrdquo

Mrs Palin did not specifically men-tion abortion or Mr Caseyrsquos cru-sade against it but said ldquoI do be-lieve that the truest measure of any society is how we treat those who are least able to defend and speak for themselves Who is more vul-nerable who is more innocent than a childrdquo

Trig taught her ldquothat everyone be-longs in the circle of protectionrdquo she said ldquoAnd that every child has something to contribute to the world if we give them that chancerdquoAs she pushed Mr McCainrsquos plan to expand all forms of energy in-cluding alternative ones Mrs Pal-in mocked Mr Biden for trashing clean-coal technology[ ]

Proposition 8 on the Cali-fornia ballot

which would negate a state Supreme Court ruling legalizing homosexual ldquomar-riagerdquo appears to be gaining strength

Previous polls have shown the traditional marriage supporters trail-ing but a new one by a San Fran-cisco CBS television station shows Prop 8 is ahead 47 to 42 percent ldquoTen percent are still undecided It means itrsquos still a close race but the shift still seems to be taking placerdquo says Randy Thomasson of Save-Californiacom

The pro-family activist believes success will depend on two

factors -- encouraging people to vote and getting Christians to vote according to the Bible Thomasson is hopeful pastors will take an active role as the election nears

ldquoTheyrsquove got to be men of God who are bold and courageous and say lsquoGod says marriage is only for a man and womanrsquordquo he adds ldquoWe all must be Christians not just people who say theyrsquore Christians and do not fol-low Christ in this matterrdquo

Thomasson attributes the new poll results in part to a new television commercial that does an effective job of selling the traditional view of marriage as well as the homosexual activists imposing acceptance of their lifestyle on everyone else

By Borys Krawczeniuk Scranton Times-Tribune

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1 The Fossil RecordEvolutionists have constructed the Geologic Column in order to illustrate the supposed progression of ldquoprimitiverdquo life forms to ldquomore complexrdquo systems we observe today Yet ldquosince only a small percentage of the earthrsquos surface obeys even a portion of the geologic column the claim of their having taken place to form a continuum of rocklifetime over the earth is therefore a fantastic and imaginative contrivance1rdquo ldquo[T]he lack of transitional series cannot be explained as being due to the scarcity of material The deficiencies are real they will never be filledrdquo2 This supposed column is actually saturated with ldquopolystrate fossilsrdquo (fossils extending from one geologic layer to another) that tie all the layers to one time-frame ldquo[T]o the unprejudiced the fossil record of plants is in favor of special creationrdquo 3

2 Decay of Earthrsquos Magnetic Field Dr Thomas Barnes Emeritus Professor of Physics at the University of Texas at El Paso has published the definitive work in this field4 Scientific observations since 1829 have shown that the earthrsquos magnetic field has been measurably decaying at an exponential rate demonstrating its half-life to be approximately 1400 years In practical applica-tion its strength 20000 years ago would approximate that of a mag-netic star Under those conditions many of the molecules neces-sary for life processes could not form These data demonstrate that earthrsquos entire history is young within a few thousand of years

3 The Global Flood The Biblical record clearly describes a global Flood during Noahrsquos day Additionally there are hundreds of Flood traditions handed down through cultures all over the world 5 ME Clark and Henry Voss have demonstrated the scientific validity of such a Flood providing the sedimentary layering we see on every continent 6 Secular scholars report very rapid sedimentation and periods of great carbonate deposition in earthrsquos sedimentary layers7 It is now pos-sible to prove the historical reality of the Biblical Flood8

4 Population StatisticsWorld population growth rate in recent times is about 2 per year Practicable application of growth rate throughout human history would be about half that number Wars disease famine etc have wiped out approximately one third of the population on average every 82 years Starting with eight people and applying these growth rates since the Flood of Noahrsquos day (about 4500 years ago) would give a total human population at just under six billion people However application on an evolution-ary time scale runs into major difficulties Starting with one ldquocouplerdquo just 41000 years ago would give us a total population of 2 x 1089 9 The universe does not have space to hold so many bodies

5 Radio HalosPhysicist Robert Gentry has reported isolated radio halos of polonuim-214 in crystalline granite The half-life of this element is 0000164 seconds To record the existence of this element in such short time span the granite must be in crystalline state instantaneously10 This runs counter to evolutionary estimates of 300 million years for granite to form

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Russia to Sell Arms to Iran amp Venezuela

Russia turned up its nose at the United States Thursday by announcing plans to sell

military equipment to both Iran and Venezuela

The head of the state arms ex-porter said Russia was negotiating to sell new anti-aircraft systems to Iran despite American objections

ldquoContacts between our countries are continuing and we do not see any reason to suspend themrdquo Ana-toly Isaikin general director of Ro-soboronexport told Russian news agency Ria-Novosti at an arms fair in South Africa

Reports have circulated for some time that Russia is preparing to sell its S-300 surface-to-air mis-sile system to Iran offering greater protection against a possible US or Israeli attack on the Islamic

republicrsquos nuclear facilities The missiles have a range of more than 93 miles and can intercept jets ap-proaching at low altitudes

Russia has already delivered 29 Tor-M1 missile systems under a $700 million deal with Iran in 2005Sergei Chemezov the head of state-owned Russian Technologies also disclosed that Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez wanted to buy anti-aircraft systems armored personnel carriers and new SU-35 fighter jets when they come into production in 2010

The US plans to place an anti-missile shield in eastern Europe to deter surprise attacks from Iran have outraged Russia which believes the system in Poland and the Czech Republic is aimed at weakening its defenses

time of confusion and of peril Jesus said ldquoMy sheep hear my voicerdquo (John 1027)Begin to assess Have you been living for yourself or living for God ldquoBut seek first the Kingdom of God and His righteousness and all these things shall be added to yourdquo (Matthew 633) Godrsquos ways are always better for us than our own waysRemember even if you lose your job you havenrsquot lost your identity Who you are goes beyond a re-sume or a personal network You are a child of God and when you make Jesus the Lord of your life He promises that He has good plans for you ldquoPlans to prosper you not to harm you plans to give you hope and a futurerdquo (Jer 2911)

to step out of our professional suits and ties and be a friend to a lot of our colleagues who arenrsquot Chris-tiansrdquo Craig told CBN News

ldquoMy wife and I have always be-lieved that God is the ultimate source of our income and our provi-sion and that he provides for us first and foremostrdquo Manasseh saidd

Nobody knows just how long this financial upheaval will last But for those who put their trust -- not in bull markets but in Christ - the ride promises to be a little less bumpyAre You Anxious About the Mar-kets

DiMaio offers this advice if you are anxious about whatrsquos happening on Wall StreetBegin to listen to what God is speaking to you right now in this

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Although McCain pointedly told Senator Obama ldquoIrsquom not President Bushrdquo Obama re-turned to his strategy of linking the Arizona senator to the current president ldquoIf Irsquove oc-casionally mistaken your policies for George Bushrsquos policies itrsquos because on the core economic issues that matter to the Ameri-can people -- on tax pol-icy on energy policy on spending priorities you have been a vigorous supporter of President Bushrdquo

For the first time in a presidential debate Mc-Cain assailed Obama for his ardent support of abortion including his opposition to the Born Alive Infant Protec-tion Act McCain noted Obama not only voted against legislation providing medical care for victims of botched abortions but also has a record of support-ing a gruesome abortion procedure banned by Congress in 2003 ldquoThen there was another bill before the Sen-ate Judiciary Committee in the state of Illinois not that long ago where he voted against a ban on partial-birth abortionreally one of the bad procedures a terrible [one] Then on the floor of the Illinois State Senate he voted lsquopresentrsquo I donrsquot know how you vote lsquopresentrsquo on something like that I donrsquot know how you vote lsquopresentrsquo on some of thatrdquo the Arizona senator stated ldquoI donrsquot know how you align yourself with the ex-treme aspect of the pro-abortion movement in Americardquo

Obama quickly dismissed McCainrsquos criti-cism ldquoIf it sounds incredible that I would vote to withhold life-saving treatment from an infant itrsquos because itrsquos not truerdquo Accord-ing to Obama there was already a law on the books in Illinois that required life-sav-ing treatment for infants who survived an abortion Obama said he supports a ban

on late-term abor-tions as long as there is an excep-tion for a motherrsquos health and life

One political ana-lyst says although it may have been a little bit late in the presidential cam-paign for John Mc-Cain to tell Barack Obama ldquoI am not President Bushrdquo

polling shows it was one of the high points of the evening

Donna Wiesner Keene a senior fellow with the Independent Womenrsquos Voice says McCain may have hit a home-run with that statement ldquoHersquos had the coattails of George Bush and George W Bush and hersquos had that as an impediment ldquoWiesner Keene con-tends ldquoThe people didnrsquot understand a lot of those policies Some of them they disagreed with And I think John McCain said lsquoLook here Irsquom a different person Why donrsquot you evaluate me for mersquo A lot of people really thought that was good and I love the way he stated it -- just lsquoI am not George Bushrsquordquo

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A Florida baby who was born and died in an abortion clinic will finally be buried today in Ft Lauderdale

Cheryl Sullinger of Operation Rescue explains the African-American baby named Shanice Denise Osbourne was born alive two years ago at an abortion clinic Christian Newswire reports that Shanicersquos mother went to the clinic after experiencing some discomfort and the clinic staff decided to deliver the baby When Shanice was born her mother noticed her gasping for air for nearly five minutes while the clinic staff panicked Abortionist Belkis Gonzales then put the baby in a biohazard bag and put her on the clinicrsquos roof ldquoto conceal her body from policerdquo Allegedly there was no attempt to save Shanicersquos life

ldquoThat baby was swept into a biohazard bag with some caustic chemicals and tossed up on the roof of that abortion clinic to dierdquo Sullinger explains ldquoIt was done in a panic I think by clinic workers because the people who delivered this baby alive during an abortion were not medical doctors they were

unlicensed women who just happened to be working at the clinic at the timerdquo Doctors performed an autopsy that Shan-icersquos lungs ldquocontained gas bubbles and floatedrdquo which proved she was alive and breathing at birth Meanwhile an investiga-tion may soon bear fruit ldquoWe have every confidence there will be criminal charges in this case by the end of next monthrdquo Sullinger contends

She rejoices that the clinic has been closed It was owned by Gonzales a wom-an with no medical background Sullinger says Dr Alan Keyes will give the eulogy at Shanicersquos funeral

Troy Newman president of Operation Rescue is thankful Shanice will ldquofinally be laid to rest with the dignity and love she was denied in her short liferdquo and hopes her killers will be brought to justice He adds that the public is encouraged to attend the funeral in hopes that the African-American community will stop the ldquoexploitation and decimation of their community by predatory abortionistsrdquo

Born Alive Baby Killed at Abortion Clinic Gets Proper Funeral

I BELIEVE

Continued from page one

FREEDOM Page 5

PASTORS CORNER

James 318 ldquoAnd the fruit of Righteous-ness is sown in peace of them that make peacerdquo

The Amplified version of this passage of scripture reads ldquoNow the harvest of righteousness (of conformity to Godrsquos will in thought and deed) is [the fruit of the seed] sown in peace hellip lsquo

What is the harvest of righteousness I t is true freedom It is conforming to Godrsquos will in thought and in deed The will of God is the very Righteousness of God So then righteousness in a person is the harvest the fruit the result of a seed that was sown in peace

Every seed sown always produces a harvest Where there is a seed sown there is a harvest on its way If you want to 1 Know Godrsquos will amp then 2 experience Gods will in your life it must start with a par-ticular seed sown

What is the seed that we must sow The Word of God In Mark chapter 4 Jesus tells us that the Word of God is the seed a person must sow in their heart For example Peter tells us that we are born again not by a corruptible seed but by an incorruptible seed which is the Word of God

If we are going to experience the harvest of salvation in our life than we must plant the seed of Gods Word in our heart concerning salvation We must receive in our heart the Seed Jesus Christ as our Lord and Savior if we are going to experiance tthe harvest of salvation

On that same note if we want a harvest of healing in our life then we must plant the seed of Gods Word concerning heal-ing

You see Gods Word is His will Isaiah 558 declares ldquoFor My thoughts are not your thoughts neither are My ways your ways saith the Lordrdquo

Some people try to tell us that we can never know what God wants or what He will do That is not true He plainly tells us in this passage of scripture that the rea-son we do not know His way is because we do not know His thoughts

The word ldquowayrdquo here means ldquothe

course of life or the path you are on or the type of journey you are taking in liferdquo

The path or journey your are taking and the experiences you encounter can be the path that God walks in and enjoys or it can be a path where evil resides It is all up to you and I

God is inferring here that If you think His thoughts than your ways will be His ways

Romans 122 tells us ldquoAnd be not conformed to this world (their way their path of life) but be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind that ye may prove (or live out) what is that good and acceptable and perfect will of Godrdquo

The will of God is His Word

Jeremiah 18 tells us that when we mediate in His Word then we will be able to observe to DO that Word

You see it is as we allow the Word of God to trans-form our thinking we al-lowi his Word to become our thoughts When our thoughts become His thoughts then our ways will become His Ways

When our ways become his ways we will produce in our lives a harvest of righteous-ness Praise God

Again a Harvest of Righteousness is con-formity to His will in thought and in deed

When 1 Peter 224 (ldquoBy His stripes ye were healedrdquo) becomes your main thought concerning sickness and disease than you will begin to think that you are the healed and you will begin living your life like you are healed As a result you will then begin walking down the path of heal-ing and divine health instead of one that is plagued with sickness and disease

When Romans 618 ldquoBeing then made free from sinhelliprdquo begins dominating your thought life then you will begin to act as if you are free from that temptation and sin which would so easily catches you and controls you You will begin living sin free in a sin infected world

Glory to God begin planting the seeds of Gods word in your heart and mind Begin thinking His thoughts and you will begin producing a harvest of righteousness a harvest of freedom in your life today

Rev Rory Synoground Founder and President of

Rory Synoground Ministries International and Pastor of

Freedom Christian Center Austin MN

A Harvest of Righteousness

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Wa l l B u i l d e r s

The Rev Benjamin Moore re-ported

[I]mmediately after he was brought from [the field] a mesnotsage was sent informing me of the sad event accompanied by a request from General Ham-ilton that I would come to him for the purpose of administering the Holy Communion I went I proceeded to converse with him on the subject of his receiving the Communion and told him that with respect to the qualifications of those who wished to become par-takers of that holy ordinance my inquires could not be made in lannotguage more expressive than that which was used by our [own] Church ndash [I asked] ldquoDo you sincerely re-pent of your sins past Have you a lively faith in Godrsquos mercy through Christ with a thankful remembrance of the death of Christ And are you disposed to live in love and charity with all menrdquo He lifted up his hands and said ldquoWith the utmost sincerity of heart I can answer those ques-tions in the affirmative ndash I have no ill will against Col Burr I met him with a fixed resolution to do him no harm ndash I forgive all that happenedrdquo The Communion was then administered which he received with great devotion and his heart afterwards appeared to be perfectly at rest I saw him again this morning when with his last faltering words he ex-pressed a strong confidence

in the mercy of God through the intercession of the Redeemer I remained with him until 2 orsquoclock this afternoon when death closed the awful scene ndash he expired with-out a struggle and almost with-out a groan By reflecting on this melancholy event let the humble believer be encouraged ever to hold fast that precious faith which is the only source of true consola-tion in the last extremity of nature [And l]et the infidel be persuaded to abandon his opposition to that Gospel which the strong inquisi-tive and comprehensive mind of a Hamilton embraced

One other consequence of Ham-iltonrsquos untimely death was that it permanently halted the formanottion of a religious society Hamilton had proposed Hamilton suggest-ed that it be named the Christian Constitutional Society and listed two goals for its formation first the support of the Christian religion and second the support of the Constitution of the United States

This ornotganization was to have numerous clubs throughout each state which would meet regu-larly and work to elect to office those who reflected the goals of the Christian Constitutional Society

John Hancock

SIGNER OF THE DEC-LARATION OF INDEPEN-DENCE PRESIDENT

OF CONGRESS REVOLUTION-ARY GENERAL GOVERNOR OF MASSACHUSETTS

Sensible of the importance of Christian piety and virtue to the order and happiness of a state I cannot but earnestly commend to you every measure for their sup-port and encouragement

He called on the entire state to pray ldquothat universal happiness may be established in the world [and] that all may bow to the scepter of our Lord Jesus Christ and the whole earth be filled with His gloryrdquo

He also called on the State of Mas-sachusetts to pray

that all nations may bow to the scepter of our Lord and Savior Je-sus Christ and that the whole earth may be filled with his glory

that the spiritual kingdom of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ may be continually increasing until the whole earth shall be filled with His glory to confess their sins and to implore forgiveness of God through the merits of the Savior of the World

to cause the benign religion of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ to be known understood and prac-ticed among all the inhabitants of the earth to confess their sins before God and implore His forgiveness through the merits and mediation

of Jesus Christ our Lord and Savior

that He would finally overrule all

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Author and historian David Barton is the Founder and President of WallBuilders a national pro-family organization which distributes historical legal and statistical information and helps citizens become active in their local schools and communities WallBuilders is a name taken from the Bible book of Nehemiah And just as Nehemiah led a grassroots movement in Jerusalem to rebuild the walls of that city and restore its strength and honor so too WallBuilders seeks to energize the grassroots today to rebuild that which makes America strongmdashits constitutional moral and religious foundations

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events to the advancement of the Redeemerrsquos kingdom and the es-tablishment of universal peace and good will among men

that the kingdom of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ may be estab-lished in peace and righteousness

among all the nations of the earth

that with true contrition of heart we may confess our sins resolve to for-sake them and implore the Divine forgiveness

through the merits and mediation of Jesus Christ our Savior And fi-nally to overrule all the commotions in the world to the spreading the true religion of our Lord Jesus Christ in its purity and power among all the people of the earth

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JUDGE LEGISLATOR SIGNER OF THE DECLARATION

[T]hanks be given unto Almighty God therefore and knowing that it is ap-pointed for all men once to die and after that the judgment [Hebrews 927] principally I give and rec-ommend my soul into the hands of Almighty God who gave it and my body to the earth to be buried in a decent and Christian like manner to receive the same again at the general resurrection by the mighty power of God

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Patrick Henry

REVOLUTIONARY GENERAL LEGISLATOR ldquoTHE VOICE OF LIBERTYrdquo RATIFIER OF THE U S CONSTITUTION GOVER-NOR OF VIRGINIA

Being a Christianhellip is a charac-ter which I prize far above all this world has or can boast

The Biblehellip is a book worth more than all the other books that were ever printed

Righteousness alone can exalt America as a nation Whoever thou art remember this and in thy sphere practice virtue thyself and encourage it in others

The great pillars of all govern-ment and of social life [are] vir-tue morality and religion

Continued In The Next Issue of FREEDOM

FREEDOMPage 8

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The head of a terrorism watch-dog group says Barack Obamarsquos new Muslim out-

reach director should have never taken part in a meeting last month in Northern Virginia that was attended by two Muslim leaders who support terrorist groups

NBC News reports that Obamarsquos Mus-lim outreach director Minha Husaini spoke to a small group of Muslim leaders and po-tential Obama supporters at a hotel in Springfield Virginia on Septem-ber 15 One of the Muslim leaders attending the meeting was Mahdi Bray of the Muslim American Soci-ety Bray once equated the Israeli assassination of a Hamas leader as ldquoan unlawful cowardly and dangerous act of state-sponsored terrorismrdquo

Joe Kaufman chairman of the group Americans Against Hate notes Bray and other leaders of the group are supporters of the terror-

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contends ldquoItrsquos cer-tainly not an organiza-tion that anyone from a political campaign should be attending a meeting withrdquo

Another Muslim lead-er who attended the September meeting

was Nihad Awad executive direc-tor of the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) which was listed by the government as an unindicted co-conspirator in a terrorism financing case

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lsquoJoe the Plumberrsquo Upstages Candidates

The man known as lsquoJoe the Plumberrsquo is getting just as much or more attention

than the presidential candidates since Wednesday nightrsquos debate

Joe Wurzelbacher a Christian grabbed the spotlight when Sen John McCain cited him as an example of someone who can ex-pect to suffer under Sen Barack Obamarsquos economic policy

Wurzelbach-er 34 said he was un-derwhelmed with Obamarsquos position on taxes He recently confronted the Illinois senator over his plan to ldquospread the wealth aroundrdquo by taxing higher income earners He contends that Obamarsquos plan would hurt him if he chose to buy the plumbing business he has been saving up for

ldquoOne Irsquom not wealthyrdquo he said ldquoThis is something that Irsquom going to have to make payments on in order to purchaserdquo

ldquoAnd for him to think that he has

a say in how I spend my money itrsquos my discretion that I give to the church that I give to charities that I give to friends or family members Itrsquos not the govern-mentrsquos placerdquo he said

He continued ldquoTo step in and say lsquoyoursquore making a little too much I want to make it fairrsquo - lifersquos not fairrdquo

The Ohio plumber has since been flooded with requests for interviews for the me-dia about his remarks Wurzelbach-er has also weighed in with a Chris-tian perspec-tive on the Iraq war

ldquoEverything that Americans take for granted I mean these guys havenrsquot had it - now theyrsquove got it Thatrsquos an incredible thing I donrsquot know if you guys are Chris-tians or not but thatrsquos like some-one coming to Jesus and being saved These guys have free-domrdquo he said

Although he is outspoken on the issues Wurzelbacher will not say who he will vote for

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Have you ever been in a race or relay game at school Do you remember what it was like at the starting line With seconds away from the word ldquogordquo do you think it would be a good idea to be looking around you wondering about what you are going to eat for dinner Or what if you were worried about how you looked and decided you wanted to comb your hair No I donrsquot think that would be a good idea to do such things - not if you wanted to win the race that is At the starting line it is best to keep your attention on the race and the finish line Baseball is like this Have you ever seen a baseball game before Have you noticed how the pitcher keeps his eyes and all of his attention on the batter who is up The person batting is his aim or target He shuts out all the cheers from the fans He doesnrsquot think about what he is going to eat for dinner The only thing he sees and thinks about is his target the batter Whatrsquos your target What do you spend your time thinking about and looking forward to doing Is it just to play with your friends all day Or is your aim to watch a favorite TV show These things arenrsquot wrong

to do but they shouldnrsquot be all that you want to do Why not make it your target to spend time with Jesus Our Bible verse today commands us that we should keep our eyes on Jesus How do you think that you can do that Well let me tell you a story about a group of Godrsquos people in the Old Testament that were being disobedient God was bringing them to a better land but along the journey the people grumbled and complained They were not being thankful Because of their disobedience snakes came into their camp They were scared They got bitten by the snakes They then cried to their leader Moses to help them God told Moses to make a big brass snake and put it high on a pole for all the people to see Those that were obedient and looked at the brass snake would not die God would help them and forgive them Thatrsquos the same for us today As we keep our eyes on Jesus He will help us and keep us safe Continue to read your Bible Continue to pray By doing so you are making Jesus your target

FREEDOM Page 9

Early one morning a mother went in to wake up her son ldquoWake up son Itrsquos time to go to

schoolrdquo

ldquoBut why Mom I donrsquot want to gordquo

ldquoGive me two reasons why you donrsquot want to gordquo

ldquoWell the kids hate me for one and the teachers hate me toordquo

ldquoOh thatrsquos no reason not to go to school Come on now and get readyrdquo

ldquoGive me two reasons why I should go to

schoolrdquo

ldquoWell for one yoursquore 42 years old And for another yoursquore the

Principalrdquo

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by Cheri J Ekbom

Who won the first human race

Either Adam or Eve It isnrsquot recorded

Where does

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What do you call a fish that chews with his mouth

open See food

Why did the cookie go to

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Put a little boogie in it

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There are some ministries that spiritu-ally are just like caliche They arenrsquot good ground for your seed So before you give pray about where that gift should go Donrsquot rely on your own judgments Donrsquot reason it out and say ldquoWell this preacher over here is screaming and crying and saying hersquos going under so I guess Irsquoll give to himrdquo

You go to the Lord of the tithe and find out where He wants you to put your money Hersquos the only one who can direct you to truly good ground every time

C Water It Once your good seed is in good ground keep watering it with the Word of God Speak faith over it all week long Call forth the growth of that seed by ldquocalling things that be not as though they wererdquo (Rom 417) It may just be a little seed but you need to start call-ing it grown

You may say ldquoWell brother I believe in telling things like they arerdquo You wonrsquot ever see any growth in your life then because spiritual things grow as words are released Thatrsquos Godrsquos way

Charles Capps says the one who ldquotells things like they arerdquo is like the guy who went out on the porch to give his dog a bone When he got out there he found the dog wasnrsquot there - just the cat So he started saying ldquoHere kitty kitty kittyrdquo His neighbor said ldquoI thought you wanted to give that bone to the dogrdquo ldquoI didrdquo answered his friend ldquobut I like to say it like it is - and the cat not the dog is the one thatrsquos hererdquo

Donrsquot be like that guy Call the dog Hersquoll come Water your seed with words of faith Donrsquot call poverty if you donrsquot want poverty Call yourself prosperous Call that need met Before long yoursquoll be so full of joy and so full of expectan-cy that even the watering will be fun

Plant the seed Find good soil Water it Then as Mark 427 says all you have to do is ldquosleep and rise night and day and the seed will spring and grow uprdquo

ldquoBut I donrsquot understand how that worksrdquo you say It doesnrsquot mat-ter Just do it Plant and water Sleep and rise Sure enough one of these mornings yoursquoll wake up to an abundant harvest

Source One Word From God Can Change Your Finances by Kenneth

and Gloria Copeland Excerpt permission granted by Har-

rison House Publishers

can come against you and suc-ceedmdashthatrsquos what I call power

Page 10 FREEDOM

Right now many of

us are fac-ing needs Big needs Needs so great that without the direct intervention of God they canrsquot possi-bly be met Because of that we need to be more certain than ever before that we understand - and abide by - Godrsquos laws of abundance Those laws are extremely important but praise God theyrsquore not complicated In fact theyrsquore as simple as ABC

A Decide to Plant In Mark 4 Jesus compared the work-ings of the kingdom of God to planting seeds in the earth ldquoWhen the seed is sownrdquo He said ldquoit grows up and becomes greaterrdquo (v 32) Notice He didnrsquot say that when the seed is sown it occasionally grows up and becomes greater Or it grows up and becomes greater if itrsquos Godrsquos will He said ldquoIt grows up and becomes greaterrdquo Period

Godrsquos economy isnrsquot like ours It isnrsquot up one day and down the other Itrsquos always the same and it always works perfectly If you have good earth good seed and good water you will have growth Itrsquos inevitable The laws of God will produce that increase every single time So if yoursquore facing a need donrsquot panic - plant a seed

That seed may take the form of time money or some other resource you have to give But no matter what form it takes you need to understand that the gift itself isnrsquot really your seed Therersquos no life in it Itrsquos just the husk

There are people whorsquove planted husks for years But because they didnrsquot put any life in them nothing ever came up So donrsquot just plunk a husk in the offering bucket when it goes by Put life in it first Praise and worship God over it Say ldquoLord Irsquom offering You my goods to do Your work with and as I bring You my goods I bring myself I give myself to You spirit soul and bodyrdquo

Pray over that seed Fill it with faith worship and the Word Then it will be ready to plant

B Find Good Ground Out in West Texas on my grandfa-therrsquos farm there were big white patches of caliche Itrsquos the most worth-less dirt in the world when it comes to planting seed It wonrsquot grow anything I donrsquot care how fine your seed is if you plant it in caliche you wonrsquot get a crop

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Three Ways To Guard You Thought Life

Protection We guard our home car skin and even time but some-times we neglect to guard one of the most important areasmdashour thought life We need to place a guard over our thought life

Herersquos How 1 Take control Donrsquot allow your thoughts to wander like an out-of-control car Grab hold of the steer-ing wheel The Word of God says to take captive every thought and to bring it into the obedience of Christ (2 Cor 105) You may not be able to control every thought that comes in but you can deter-mine whether or not it stays

2 Guard your gate Whatrsquos the gate of your mind Itrsquos your eyes and ears Donrsquot put junk into your thought life by throwing open the gate Filter what comes in Remember the computer term GIGO garbage in garbage out

3 Thought replacement When thoughts of fear or doubt come your way replace them with love and faith You cannot have two complete thoughts in your mind at the same time For good thought replacement ideas see Philippi-

ans 48

Five Roads to Popularity With-out Losing Your Reputation

Everyone wants to be popular Popu-larity isnrsquot a bad thing In fact Jesus was very popular during much of His ministry He never compromised His character or morals to gain accep-tance You can become popular by making both bad choices and good ones

Here are five roads to popularity while maintaining your integrity 1 Be a kind person You will never be short on friends

2 When you do something do it with all your might Excellence draws a crowd

3 Promote others and their accom-plishments not your own God will then be able to exalt you

4 Dare to dream big and pray for the seemingly impossible People are drawn to those filled with hope and faith

5 Stand up for what is right Our world today is desperately searching for real heroes

Four Reasons You Should Be Cool

God wants you to be cool accept-ed and favored The Scripture says ldquoLet not mercy and truth forsake you bind them around your neck write them on the tablet of your heart and so find favor and high esteem in the sight of God and manrdquo (Prov 334 NKJV) You can enjoy favor acceptance and popularity with both God and people Here are 4 reasons why you should be cool

1 Cool accepted people have the ability to influence others for good That includes a witness of your Christian faith

2 Cool favored people have con-fidence to do things others believe to be impossible or improbable

3 Accepted people find it easy and natural to show others Godrsquos love

4 Cool people stand up for truth and donrsquot need everyone to agree with them

Source Every Teenagerrsquos Little Black Book of Hard to Find Information Excerpt permission granted by Harrison House Publishers

EXCERTS FROM Every Teenagerrsquos Little Black Book of Hard to Find Information

by Blaine Bartel

Visiting Northeast Pennsylvania for the first time Republican vice presidential nominee Sarah Palin

touted the new economic plan running mate John McCain unveiled Tuesday while invoking the name of the late Gov Robert P Casey as a champion of children with mental dis-abilities

Mrs Palin also called up the regionrsquos coal-pro-ducing past by jabbing at another Scranton na-tive Democratic vice presidential nominee Joe Biden for once being critical of clean-coal tech-nology as an alternative energy source

Mrs Palin told a raucous crowd at River-front Sports that Mr McCain would turn American anger and frustration over the current economic crisis into reform

The new economic plan would get the nation ldquothrough a time of testingrdquo and put ldquothe economy back on trackrdquo she said

ldquoUnder this plan wersquoll help American families keep their homes and save fam-ily neighborhoods and bring stability to our housing marketrdquo Mrs Palin said

The plan seeks to reduce to 10 percent the tax on senior-citizen withdrawals from retirement accounts in 2008 and 2009 re-duce to 75 percent the capital gains tax in 2009 and 2010 and quintuple deductions of capital losses It is meant to supplement Mr McCainrsquos call last week for a $300 bil-

lion government purchase of troubled mort-gagesMrs Palinrsquos 29-minute speech was frequently interrupted with applause or chants of ldquoSarah Sarah Sarahrdquo She was accompanied by her

husband Todd whom she called Alaskarsquos ldquofirst duderdquo and Martin Buser the four-time champion of the Iditarod the famed dog sled race

Singer Lee Greenwood opened the program by sing-ing the national anthem and his well-known ldquoGod Bless the USArdquo

Behind Mrs Palin supporters many wearing red held signs stating ldquoHunters Cling to Sar-

ahrdquo ldquoReal People Vote Palinrdquo and ldquoPro-Life Pro-Family Pro-Palinrdquo

The visit was the third by the Republican ticket to the region since July and highlighted the campaignrsquos focus on attracting disenchanted Democrats who had supported New York Sen Hillary Clinton

Signs announcing the presence of a Scran-ton-based group calling itself ldquoDemocrats for McCainrdquo dotted the crowd

For more than a week statewide polls have showed Mr McCain trailing Democratic presi-dential nominee Barack Obama by double-dig-it margins in Pennsylvania The daily five-day tracking poll by Muhlenberg College had Mr Obama up 51 percent to 38 percent through Monday the 12th consecutive day with a dou-ble-digit margin

With slumping poll numbers Mr McCain

By Borys Krawczeniuk Scranton Times-Tribune

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Palin Promises Tax-Cut Package VP Candidate Rallies Crowd On Economic

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Christians on Wall Street Praying amp Hoping

Wall Street is in one of the most volatile economic downturns in US his-

tory The temptation to panic is high So how are Christians who work on Wall Street reacting to the crisis As CBN News discovered they are cling-ing to the rock that can not be moved

The market has just opened on the New York Stock Exchange and already investors are bracing for what promises to be another tumultuous day

But Wall Street is more than just stocks and bonds buying and selling - itrsquos also a place where

many Christians work and even pray And now they are praying like never before

Help us to lift you up in this place we need you here more than everrdquo one man prayed

Longest Run-ning Prayer Meeting in the US

Wall Street is the home of

the longest running prayer meet-ings in the country It started in 1977 after a few believers decided there was a need

Financial adviser Vaughn Weimer has been an active member since the early 1980rsquos

ldquoIrsquove been hearing from almost all

of my clients during the last two weeksrdquo Weimer told CBN News ldquoNo onersquos panicked yet No onersquos fallen over in a faint yetrdquo

Weimer says he believes God is going to redeem Wall Street and just like the historic Fulton Street revival make this a place of prayer once again

ldquoThere was a time here when at Noon every business shut down while people prayedrdquo Weimer recalled ldquoWe have a heart and a vision for that to happen again for those who work here every dayrdquo

Anthony DiMaio used to work on the floor of the NYSE and now runs a ministry known as BOLD The ministryrsquos mission is to reach out to New Yorkrsquos financial district with a message of spiri-tual relevance He believes God is using this economic crisis to get people to look up

ldquoWe all know that the fastest way to reach anybody is through their pocket bookrdquo DiMaio said ldquoAnd so if God wants to get your attention hersquoll get it thererdquo

Trinity Church A Place of Refuge

Standing like a beacon in the dark night of Wall Streetrsquos soul is Trinity Church For almost 200 years Trinityrsquos cross has wel-comed those coming into New Yorkrsquos harbor seeking freedom However in the last few weeks more people are seeking refuge of a different kind behind the churchrsquos front door

ldquoThe people sitting in the pews at our daily worship are either directly affected by having lost a job or they are afraid of losing a jobrdquo

the Rev Canon Anne Mallonnee told CBN News

Mallonnee says she recently ministered to one such woman overcome with anxiety

ldquoBeing able to pray with her and have her just reconnect with that peace of God which surpasses all of this turmoil and have her be able to leave more centered and confident that God is with her in thisrdquo Mallonnee said

But not all those affected by the financial crisis are on Wall Street Pastor Terry Smith of the Life Christian Church in West Orange New Jersey says about 25 percent of his parishioners work in New Yorkrsquos financial district A fact that could affect the churchrsquos bottom line It could also affect the churchrsquos plans for building a new facility

ldquoThere are people who have planned to give major gifts who are concerned about their capacity to do that right nowrdquo Smith explained ldquoTheir hearts are to do it I think God is going to help them to be able to do it but this is a real concern for usrdquo

Smith believes whatrsquos happen-ing on Wall Street is not neces-sarily Godrsquos punishment

ldquoThis kind of a crisis reminds us that we are not self-suffi-cient - regardless of how hard we work and how much we invest and how hard we try to prepare for the future re-ally we need himrdquo Smith said ldquoAnd itrsquos in our weakness that we discover how strong he isrdquo

Both Ray Craig and Raji Manasseh attend Smithrsquos church and work for major Wall Street banks They are deter-mined to be a light in the midst of the storm

ldquoThis is an opportunity for us

Wall Street Praying Continuned

Page 12

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curred at night between 9 pm and 5 am over the past 10 months so as not to disturb Iraqi drivers and clog the roads

They dubbed it ldquoOperation Rudy Gi-ulianirdquo because they were cleaning the streets up and returning Fallujah to normalcy mdash taking down barbed wire and tearing down checkpoints and Jersey walls that made Anbar look like a war zone

ldquoThere is almost no barbed wire left anywhere in Fal-lujahrdquo Kelly said An Iraqi no longer sees barbed wire when traveling in and around the city

Between 300 and 400 con-crete barriers that divided the city were removed by Navy Seabees

One of the big changes Kelly made when he took command in Anbar was to remove fixed checkpoints and Iraqi vehicles no longer had to pull off to the side when a military convoy was on the road His troops risked car bombs but the gamble paid off in what had once been Iraqrsquos most dangerous province The new road rules instantly low-ered the tension between military and locals Soon he transitioned to moving military convoys only at night so they would not encounter locals This also stymied many of the insurgents laying IEDs or road-side bombs which they often had done at night

Another change for the better since Kelly arrived in February He pushed the central government to provide more fuel to the people of Anbar so the mostly Sunni popu-lation is now happier In February Anbaris were receiving only 8 per-cent of their allocation of fuel from the central government of Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki Now itrsquos 90 percent mdash eliminating one of their

main gripes

But perhaps the biggest sign that the situation has changed for the better for Sunnis living in Anbar With the help of the Ma-rines and the Iraqi police nearly 100 percent of the eligible vot-ing population were registered a month ago to vote in upcoming provincial elections

ldquoThey seem to add another polit-ical party every dayrdquo Kelly said ldquoWe didnrsquot have a single security violation of any kind Theyrsquore at least going to give the electoral process a shot hellip at least going to give democracy a chancerdquo

The Sunnis who fueled a large part of Iraqrsquos insurgency boycot-

ted the last election for Parliament with only 3 percent of Sunnis par-ticipating Now they feel they have a stake in the government

ldquoThis is an amazing indicator as to where this province isrdquo Kelly saidHe and the Marines no longer use violence as an indicator of how much progress they have made

Two years ago they had 400 attacks mdash roadside bombs or shootings mdash at US forces every week In February it was down to 30 attacks per week Now it is down to under 12 attacks per week There hasnrsquot been a

Marine death in a few months

Troop numbers have dropped as well mdash down by 40 percent since February About 26000 Marines still serve in Anbar

ldquoIn Anbar there is no longer an insurgencyrdquo Kelly said ldquoUnless someone does something stupid (for instance if the Coalition were to accidentally kill a large number of civilians) this place will not go back to the way it wasrdquo

In football terms Kelly says the Marines are ldquoin the last 10 yards of this fightrdquo

ldquoCould it go back I donrsquot think sordquo he said firmly ldquoWe are winning this thingrdquo

Last One Turn Out The Lights Marines Quietly Begin Leaving

ldquoWe are winning

this thingrdquo Major General

John Kelly

Page 13

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Palin Promises Tax-Cut Package VP Candidate Rallies Crowd On Economic

amp Social Issues

has made a more concerted effort to recapture his footing in the state the past week

He and Mrs Pal-in cam-paigned

together Wednesday in Bethlehem She hit a Pittsburgh fundraiser Fri-day and then a Johnstown rally and a Philadelphia Flyers hockey game Saturday Mr McCain arrived in Phil-adelphia on Monday and unveiled his new economic plan Tuesday in Blue Bell a Philadelphia suburb

The Scranton crowd Tuesday was larger than the one that greeted Mrs Clinton and Mr Biden in the same venue Sunday

The McCain-Palin campaign esti-mated Tuesdayrsquos crowd at 5800 and said it was based on a Secret Service door count but the crowd appeared to be closer to 4500 peo-ple The smaller estimate by The Times-Tribune was based on the number of rows of risers a typical rowrsquos occupancy and a per-person count of the depth and width of the standing audience

Mrs Palin never mentioned Mrs Clinton But she brought up Gov Casey while talking about her son Trig who has Down syndrome

and promising to bring attention to ldquochildren with special needsrdquo as vice president

ldquoIt was the great Pennsylvania governor Robert Casey a son of Scranton who said rdquo Mrs Palin said pausing as the mention drew a mix of applause and boos ldquoHe was asked once how society should treat the most vulnerable among us such as children with special needs And he said Itrsquos simple you put them first in linersquo

ldquoSee Gov Casey understood that these children can inspire a special love and thatrsquos a love that this world needs more of Our children are not a problem theyrsquore a priorityrdquo

Mrs Palin did not specifically men-tion abortion or Mr Caseyrsquos cru-sade against it but said ldquoI do be-lieve that the truest measure of any society is how we treat those who are least able to defend and speak for themselves Who is more vul-nerable who is more innocent than a childrdquo

Trig taught her ldquothat everyone be-longs in the circle of protectionrdquo she said ldquoAnd that every child has something to contribute to the world if we give them that chancerdquoAs she pushed Mr McCainrsquos plan to expand all forms of energy in-cluding alternative ones Mrs Pal-in mocked Mr Biden for trashing clean-coal technology[ ]

Proposition 8 on the Cali-fornia ballot

which would negate a state Supreme Court ruling legalizing homosexual ldquomar-riagerdquo appears to be gaining strength

Previous polls have shown the traditional marriage supporters trail-ing but a new one by a San Fran-cisco CBS television station shows Prop 8 is ahead 47 to 42 percent ldquoTen percent are still undecided It means itrsquos still a close race but the shift still seems to be taking placerdquo says Randy Thomasson of Save-Californiacom

The pro-family activist believes success will depend on two

factors -- encouraging people to vote and getting Christians to vote according to the Bible Thomasson is hopeful pastors will take an active role as the election nears

ldquoTheyrsquove got to be men of God who are bold and courageous and say lsquoGod says marriage is only for a man and womanrsquordquo he adds ldquoWe all must be Christians not just people who say theyrsquore Christians and do not fol-low Christ in this matterrdquo

Thomasson attributes the new poll results in part to a new television commercial that does an effective job of selling the traditional view of marriage as well as the homosexual activists imposing acceptance of their lifestyle on everyone else

By Borys Krawczeniuk Scranton Times-Tribune

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1 The Fossil RecordEvolutionists have constructed the Geologic Column in order to illustrate the supposed progression of ldquoprimitiverdquo life forms to ldquomore complexrdquo systems we observe today Yet ldquosince only a small percentage of the earthrsquos surface obeys even a portion of the geologic column the claim of their having taken place to form a continuum of rocklifetime over the earth is therefore a fantastic and imaginative contrivance1rdquo ldquo[T]he lack of transitional series cannot be explained as being due to the scarcity of material The deficiencies are real they will never be filledrdquo2 This supposed column is actually saturated with ldquopolystrate fossilsrdquo (fossils extending from one geologic layer to another) that tie all the layers to one time-frame ldquo[T]o the unprejudiced the fossil record of plants is in favor of special creationrdquo 3

2 Decay of Earthrsquos Magnetic Field Dr Thomas Barnes Emeritus Professor of Physics at the University of Texas at El Paso has published the definitive work in this field4 Scientific observations since 1829 have shown that the earthrsquos magnetic field has been measurably decaying at an exponential rate demonstrating its half-life to be approximately 1400 years In practical applica-tion its strength 20000 years ago would approximate that of a mag-netic star Under those conditions many of the molecules neces-sary for life processes could not form These data demonstrate that earthrsquos entire history is young within a few thousand of years

3 The Global Flood The Biblical record clearly describes a global Flood during Noahrsquos day Additionally there are hundreds of Flood traditions handed down through cultures all over the world 5 ME Clark and Henry Voss have demonstrated the scientific validity of such a Flood providing the sedimentary layering we see on every continent 6 Secular scholars report very rapid sedimentation and periods of great carbonate deposition in earthrsquos sedimentary layers7 It is now pos-sible to prove the historical reality of the Biblical Flood8

4 Population StatisticsWorld population growth rate in recent times is about 2 per year Practicable application of growth rate throughout human history would be about half that number Wars disease famine etc have wiped out approximately one third of the population on average every 82 years Starting with eight people and applying these growth rates since the Flood of Noahrsquos day (about 4500 years ago) would give a total human population at just under six billion people However application on an evolution-ary time scale runs into major difficulties Starting with one ldquocouplerdquo just 41000 years ago would give us a total population of 2 x 1089 9 The universe does not have space to hold so many bodies

5 Radio HalosPhysicist Robert Gentry has reported isolated radio halos of polonuim-214 in crystalline granite The half-life of this element is 0000164 seconds To record the existence of this element in such short time span the granite must be in crystalline state instantaneously10 This runs counter to evolutionary estimates of 300 million years for granite to form

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Russia to Sell Arms to Iran amp Venezuela

Russia turned up its nose at the United States Thursday by announcing plans to sell

military equipment to both Iran and Venezuela

The head of the state arms ex-porter said Russia was negotiating to sell new anti-aircraft systems to Iran despite American objections

ldquoContacts between our countries are continuing and we do not see any reason to suspend themrdquo Ana-toly Isaikin general director of Ro-soboronexport told Russian news agency Ria-Novosti at an arms fair in South Africa

Reports have circulated for some time that Russia is preparing to sell its S-300 surface-to-air mis-sile system to Iran offering greater protection against a possible US or Israeli attack on the Islamic

republicrsquos nuclear facilities The missiles have a range of more than 93 miles and can intercept jets ap-proaching at low altitudes

Russia has already delivered 29 Tor-M1 missile systems under a $700 million deal with Iran in 2005Sergei Chemezov the head of state-owned Russian Technologies also disclosed that Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez wanted to buy anti-aircraft systems armored personnel carriers and new SU-35 fighter jets when they come into production in 2010

The US plans to place an anti-missile shield in eastern Europe to deter surprise attacks from Iran have outraged Russia which believes the system in Poland and the Czech Republic is aimed at weakening its defenses

time of confusion and of peril Jesus said ldquoMy sheep hear my voicerdquo (John 1027)Begin to assess Have you been living for yourself or living for God ldquoBut seek first the Kingdom of God and His righteousness and all these things shall be added to yourdquo (Matthew 633) Godrsquos ways are always better for us than our own waysRemember even if you lose your job you havenrsquot lost your identity Who you are goes beyond a re-sume or a personal network You are a child of God and when you make Jesus the Lord of your life He promises that He has good plans for you ldquoPlans to prosper you not to harm you plans to give you hope and a futurerdquo (Jer 2911)

to step out of our professional suits and ties and be a friend to a lot of our colleagues who arenrsquot Chris-tiansrdquo Craig told CBN News

ldquoMy wife and I have always be-lieved that God is the ultimate source of our income and our provi-sion and that he provides for us first and foremostrdquo Manasseh saidd

Nobody knows just how long this financial upheaval will last But for those who put their trust -- not in bull markets but in Christ - the ride promises to be a little less bumpyAre You Anxious About the Mar-kets

DiMaio offers this advice if you are anxious about whatrsquos happening on Wall StreetBegin to listen to what God is speaking to you right now in this

Christians on Wall Street Praying amp Hoping

GOODYEAR

JESUS IS LORD

continued from page12

FREEDOM Page 5

PASTORS CORNER

James 318 ldquoAnd the fruit of Righteous-ness is sown in peace of them that make peacerdquo

The Amplified version of this passage of scripture reads ldquoNow the harvest of righteousness (of conformity to Godrsquos will in thought and deed) is [the fruit of the seed] sown in peace hellip lsquo

What is the harvest of righteousness I t is true freedom It is conforming to Godrsquos will in thought and in deed The will of God is the very Righteousness of God So then righteousness in a person is the harvest the fruit the result of a seed that was sown in peace

Every seed sown always produces a harvest Where there is a seed sown there is a harvest on its way If you want to 1 Know Godrsquos will amp then 2 experience Gods will in your life it must start with a par-ticular seed sown

What is the seed that we must sow The Word of God In Mark chapter 4 Jesus tells us that the Word of God is the seed a person must sow in their heart For example Peter tells us that we are born again not by a corruptible seed but by an incorruptible seed which is the Word of God

If we are going to experience the harvest of salvation in our life than we must plant the seed of Gods Word in our heart concerning salvation We must receive in our heart the Seed Jesus Christ as our Lord and Savior if we are going to experiance tthe harvest of salvation

On that same note if we want a harvest of healing in our life then we must plant the seed of Gods Word concerning heal-ing

You see Gods Word is His will Isaiah 558 declares ldquoFor My thoughts are not your thoughts neither are My ways your ways saith the Lordrdquo

Some people try to tell us that we can never know what God wants or what He will do That is not true He plainly tells us in this passage of scripture that the rea-son we do not know His way is because we do not know His thoughts

The word ldquowayrdquo here means ldquothe

course of life or the path you are on or the type of journey you are taking in liferdquo

The path or journey your are taking and the experiences you encounter can be the path that God walks in and enjoys or it can be a path where evil resides It is all up to you and I

God is inferring here that If you think His thoughts than your ways will be His ways

Romans 122 tells us ldquoAnd be not conformed to this world (their way their path of life) but be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind that ye may prove (or live out) what is that good and acceptable and perfect will of Godrdquo

The will of God is His Word

Jeremiah 18 tells us that when we mediate in His Word then we will be able to observe to DO that Word

You see it is as we allow the Word of God to trans-form our thinking we al-lowi his Word to become our thoughts When our thoughts become His thoughts then our ways will become His Ways

When our ways become his ways we will produce in our lives a harvest of righteous-ness Praise God

Again a Harvest of Righteousness is con-formity to His will in thought and in deed

When 1 Peter 224 (ldquoBy His stripes ye were healedrdquo) becomes your main thought concerning sickness and disease than you will begin to think that you are the healed and you will begin living your life like you are healed As a result you will then begin walking down the path of heal-ing and divine health instead of one that is plagued with sickness and disease

When Romans 618 ldquoBeing then made free from sinhelliprdquo begins dominating your thought life then you will begin to act as if you are free from that temptation and sin which would so easily catches you and controls you You will begin living sin free in a sin infected world

Glory to God begin planting the seeds of Gods word in your heart and mind Begin thinking His thoughts and you will begin producing a harvest of righteousness a harvest of freedom in your life today

Rev Rory Synoground Founder and President of

Rory Synoground Ministries International and Pastor of

Freedom Christian Center Austin MN

A Harvest of Righteousness

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Wa l l B u i l d e r s

The Rev Benjamin Moore re-ported

[I]mmediately after he was brought from [the field] a mesnotsage was sent informing me of the sad event accompanied by a request from General Ham-ilton that I would come to him for the purpose of administering the Holy Communion I went I proceeded to converse with him on the subject of his receiving the Communion and told him that with respect to the qualifications of those who wished to become par-takers of that holy ordinance my inquires could not be made in lannotguage more expressive than that which was used by our [own] Church ndash [I asked] ldquoDo you sincerely re-pent of your sins past Have you a lively faith in Godrsquos mercy through Christ with a thankful remembrance of the death of Christ And are you disposed to live in love and charity with all menrdquo He lifted up his hands and said ldquoWith the utmost sincerity of heart I can answer those ques-tions in the affirmative ndash I have no ill will against Col Burr I met him with a fixed resolution to do him no harm ndash I forgive all that happenedrdquo The Communion was then administered which he received with great devotion and his heart afterwards appeared to be perfectly at rest I saw him again this morning when with his last faltering words he ex-pressed a strong confidence

in the mercy of God through the intercession of the Redeemer I remained with him until 2 orsquoclock this afternoon when death closed the awful scene ndash he expired with-out a struggle and almost with-out a groan By reflecting on this melancholy event let the humble believer be encouraged ever to hold fast that precious faith which is the only source of true consola-tion in the last extremity of nature [And l]et the infidel be persuaded to abandon his opposition to that Gospel which the strong inquisi-tive and comprehensive mind of a Hamilton embraced

One other consequence of Ham-iltonrsquos untimely death was that it permanently halted the formanottion of a religious society Hamilton had proposed Hamilton suggest-ed that it be named the Christian Constitutional Society and listed two goals for its formation first the support of the Christian religion and second the support of the Constitution of the United States

This ornotganization was to have numerous clubs throughout each state which would meet regu-larly and work to elect to office those who reflected the goals of the Christian Constitutional Society

John Hancock

SIGNER OF THE DEC-LARATION OF INDEPEN-DENCE PRESIDENT

OF CONGRESS REVOLUTION-ARY GENERAL GOVERNOR OF MASSACHUSETTS

Sensible of the importance of Christian piety and virtue to the order and happiness of a state I cannot but earnestly commend to you every measure for their sup-port and encouragement

He called on the entire state to pray ldquothat universal happiness may be established in the world [and] that all may bow to the scepter of our Lord Jesus Christ and the whole earth be filled with His gloryrdquo

He also called on the State of Mas-sachusetts to pray

that all nations may bow to the scepter of our Lord and Savior Je-sus Christ and that the whole earth may be filled with his glory

that the spiritual kingdom of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ may be continually increasing until the whole earth shall be filled with His glory to confess their sins and to implore forgiveness of God through the merits of the Savior of the World

to cause the benign religion of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ to be known understood and prac-ticed among all the inhabitants of the earth to confess their sins before God and implore His forgiveness through the merits and mediation

of Jesus Christ our Lord and Savior

that He would finally overrule all

The Founding Fathers on Jesus Christianity amp The Bible

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Author and historian David Barton is the Founder and President of WallBuilders a national pro-family organization which distributes historical legal and statistical information and helps citizens become active in their local schools and communities WallBuilders is a name taken from the Bible book of Nehemiah And just as Nehemiah led a grassroots movement in Jerusalem to rebuild the walls of that city and restore its strength and honor so too WallBuilders seeks to energize the grassroots today to rebuild that which makes America strongmdashits constitutional moral and religious foundations

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events to the advancement of the Redeemerrsquos kingdom and the es-tablishment of universal peace and good will among men

that the kingdom of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ may be estab-lished in peace and righteousness

among all the nations of the earth

that with true contrition of heart we may confess our sins resolve to for-sake them and implore the Divine forgiveness

through the merits and mediation of Jesus Christ our Savior And fi-nally to overrule all the commotions in the world to the spreading the true religion of our Lord Jesus Christ in its purity and power among all the people of the earth

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JUDGE LEGISLATOR SIGNER OF THE DECLARATION

[T]hanks be given unto Almighty God therefore and knowing that it is ap-pointed for all men once to die and after that the judgment [Hebrews 927] principally I give and rec-ommend my soul into the hands of Almighty God who gave it and my body to the earth to be buried in a decent and Christian like manner to receive the same again at the general resurrection by the mighty power of God

VOTER ISSUE GUIDE

Patrick Henry

REVOLUTIONARY GENERAL LEGISLATOR ldquoTHE VOICE OF LIBERTYrdquo RATIFIER OF THE U S CONSTITUTION GOVER-NOR OF VIRGINIA

Being a Christianhellip is a charac-ter which I prize far above all this world has or can boast

The Biblehellip is a book worth more than all the other books that were ever printed

Righteousness alone can exalt America as a nation Whoever thou art remember this and in thy sphere practice virtue thyself and encourage it in others

The great pillars of all govern-ment and of social life [are] vir-tue morality and religion

Continued In The Next Issue of FREEDOM

FREEDOMPage 8

By Katharine Mieszkowski

Obamarsquos Muslim Ties Called Into Question

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The head of a terrorism watch-dog group says Barack Obamarsquos new Muslim out-

reach director should have never taken part in a meeting last month in Northern Virginia that was attended by two Muslim leaders who support terrorist groups

NBC News reports that Obamarsquos Mus-lim outreach director Minha Husaini spoke to a small group of Muslim leaders and po-tential Obama supporters at a hotel in Springfield Virginia on Septem-ber 15 One of the Muslim leaders attending the meeting was Mahdi Bray of the Muslim American Soci-ety Bray once equated the Israeli assassination of a Hamas leader as ldquoan unlawful cowardly and dangerous act of state-sponsored terrorismrdquo

Joe Kaufman chairman of the group Americans Against Hate notes Bray and other leaders of the group are supporters of the terror-

ist groups Hamas and Hezbollah ldquoThe organization has just recent-ly used the Internet to call for the murder of Jews and the waging of war against non-Muslimsrdquo he

contends ldquoItrsquos cer-tainly not an organiza-tion that anyone from a political campaign should be attending a meeting withrdquo

Another Muslim lead-er who attended the September meeting

was Nihad Awad executive direc-tor of the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) which was listed by the government as an unindicted co-conspirator in a terrorism financing case

The Obama campaign claims its Muslim outreach director would not have attended the event had it known beforehand who all the attendees were However a par-ticipant at the meeting contends the Obama camp was aware that top CAIR officials would be in at-tendance

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lsquoJoe the Plumberrsquo Upstages Candidates

The man known as lsquoJoe the Plumberrsquo is getting just as much or more attention

than the presidential candidates since Wednesday nightrsquos debate

Joe Wurzelbacher a Christian grabbed the spotlight when Sen John McCain cited him as an example of someone who can ex-pect to suffer under Sen Barack Obamarsquos economic policy

Wurzelbach-er 34 said he was un-derwhelmed with Obamarsquos position on taxes He recently confronted the Illinois senator over his plan to ldquospread the wealth aroundrdquo by taxing higher income earners He contends that Obamarsquos plan would hurt him if he chose to buy the plumbing business he has been saving up for

ldquoOne Irsquom not wealthyrdquo he said ldquoThis is something that Irsquom going to have to make payments on in order to purchaserdquo

ldquoAnd for him to think that he has

a say in how I spend my money itrsquos my discretion that I give to the church that I give to charities that I give to friends or family members Itrsquos not the govern-mentrsquos placerdquo he said

He continued ldquoTo step in and say lsquoyoursquore making a little too much I want to make it fairrsquo - lifersquos not fairrdquo

The Ohio plumber has since been flooded with requests for interviews for the me-dia about his remarks Wurzelbach-er has also weighed in with a Chris-tian perspec-tive on the Iraq war

ldquoEverything that Americans take for granted I mean these guys havenrsquot had it - now theyrsquove got it Thatrsquos an incredible thing I donrsquot know if you guys are Chris-tians or not but thatrsquos like some-one coming to Jesus and being saved These guys have free-domrdquo he said

Although he is outspoken on the issues Wurzelbacher will not say who he will vote for

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Have you ever been in a race or relay game at school Do you remember what it was like at the starting line With seconds away from the word ldquogordquo do you think it would be a good idea to be looking around you wondering about what you are going to eat for dinner Or what if you were worried about how you looked and decided you wanted to comb your hair No I donrsquot think that would be a good idea to do such things - not if you wanted to win the race that is At the starting line it is best to keep your attention on the race and the finish line Baseball is like this Have you ever seen a baseball game before Have you noticed how the pitcher keeps his eyes and all of his attention on the batter who is up The person batting is his aim or target He shuts out all the cheers from the fans He doesnrsquot think about what he is going to eat for dinner The only thing he sees and thinks about is his target the batter Whatrsquos your target What do you spend your time thinking about and looking forward to doing Is it just to play with your friends all day Or is your aim to watch a favorite TV show These things arenrsquot wrong

to do but they shouldnrsquot be all that you want to do Why not make it your target to spend time with Jesus Our Bible verse today commands us that we should keep our eyes on Jesus How do you think that you can do that Well let me tell you a story about a group of Godrsquos people in the Old Testament that were being disobedient God was bringing them to a better land but along the journey the people grumbled and complained They were not being thankful Because of their disobedience snakes came into their camp They were scared They got bitten by the snakes They then cried to their leader Moses to help them God told Moses to make a big brass snake and put it high on a pole for all the people to see Those that were obedient and looked at the brass snake would not die God would help them and forgive them Thatrsquos the same for us today As we keep our eyes on Jesus He will help us and keep us safe Continue to read your Bible Continue to pray By doing so you are making Jesus your target

FREEDOM Page 9

Early one morning a mother went in to wake up her son ldquoWake up son Itrsquos time to go to

schoolrdquo

ldquoBut why Mom I donrsquot want to gordquo

ldquoGive me two reasons why you donrsquot want to gordquo

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There are some ministries that spiritu-ally are just like caliche They arenrsquot good ground for your seed So before you give pray about where that gift should go Donrsquot rely on your own judgments Donrsquot reason it out and say ldquoWell this preacher over here is screaming and crying and saying hersquos going under so I guess Irsquoll give to himrdquo

You go to the Lord of the tithe and find out where He wants you to put your money Hersquos the only one who can direct you to truly good ground every time

C Water It Once your good seed is in good ground keep watering it with the Word of God Speak faith over it all week long Call forth the growth of that seed by ldquocalling things that be not as though they wererdquo (Rom 417) It may just be a little seed but you need to start call-ing it grown

You may say ldquoWell brother I believe in telling things like they arerdquo You wonrsquot ever see any growth in your life then because spiritual things grow as words are released Thatrsquos Godrsquos way

Charles Capps says the one who ldquotells things like they arerdquo is like the guy who went out on the porch to give his dog a bone When he got out there he found the dog wasnrsquot there - just the cat So he started saying ldquoHere kitty kitty kittyrdquo His neighbor said ldquoI thought you wanted to give that bone to the dogrdquo ldquoI didrdquo answered his friend ldquobut I like to say it like it is - and the cat not the dog is the one thatrsquos hererdquo

Donrsquot be like that guy Call the dog Hersquoll come Water your seed with words of faith Donrsquot call poverty if you donrsquot want poverty Call yourself prosperous Call that need met Before long yoursquoll be so full of joy and so full of expectan-cy that even the watering will be fun

Plant the seed Find good soil Water it Then as Mark 427 says all you have to do is ldquosleep and rise night and day and the seed will spring and grow uprdquo

ldquoBut I donrsquot understand how that worksrdquo you say It doesnrsquot mat-ter Just do it Plant and water Sleep and rise Sure enough one of these mornings yoursquoll wake up to an abundant harvest

Source One Word From God Can Change Your Finances by Kenneth

and Gloria Copeland Excerpt permission granted by Har-

rison House Publishers

can come against you and suc-ceedmdashthatrsquos what I call power

Page 10 FREEDOM

Right now many of

us are fac-ing needs Big needs Needs so great that without the direct intervention of God they canrsquot possi-bly be met Because of that we need to be more certain than ever before that we understand - and abide by - Godrsquos laws of abundance Those laws are extremely important but praise God theyrsquore not complicated In fact theyrsquore as simple as ABC

A Decide to Plant In Mark 4 Jesus compared the work-ings of the kingdom of God to planting seeds in the earth ldquoWhen the seed is sownrdquo He said ldquoit grows up and becomes greaterrdquo (v 32) Notice He didnrsquot say that when the seed is sown it occasionally grows up and becomes greater Or it grows up and becomes greater if itrsquos Godrsquos will He said ldquoIt grows up and becomes greaterrdquo Period

Godrsquos economy isnrsquot like ours It isnrsquot up one day and down the other Itrsquos always the same and it always works perfectly If you have good earth good seed and good water you will have growth Itrsquos inevitable The laws of God will produce that increase every single time So if yoursquore facing a need donrsquot panic - plant a seed

That seed may take the form of time money or some other resource you have to give But no matter what form it takes you need to understand that the gift itself isnrsquot really your seed Therersquos no life in it Itrsquos just the husk

There are people whorsquove planted husks for years But because they didnrsquot put any life in them nothing ever came up So donrsquot just plunk a husk in the offering bucket when it goes by Put life in it first Praise and worship God over it Say ldquoLord Irsquom offering You my goods to do Your work with and as I bring You my goods I bring myself I give myself to You spirit soul and bodyrdquo

Pray over that seed Fill it with faith worship and the Word Then it will be ready to plant

B Find Good Ground Out in West Texas on my grandfa-therrsquos farm there were big white patches of caliche Itrsquos the most worth-less dirt in the world when it comes to planting seed It wonrsquot grow anything I donrsquot care how fine your seed is if you plant it in caliche you wonrsquot get a crop

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Music News--wwwtvulivecomSkillet is gearing up for the release of their live CDDVD combo ldquoComatose Comes Aliverdquo and they are also recording brand new music They have posted an online we-bcam in their studio so you can take a peek at their recording sessions for the new al-

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Three Ways To Guard You Thought Life

Protection We guard our home car skin and even time but some-times we neglect to guard one of the most important areasmdashour thought life We need to place a guard over our thought life

Herersquos How 1 Take control Donrsquot allow your thoughts to wander like an out-of-control car Grab hold of the steer-ing wheel The Word of God says to take captive every thought and to bring it into the obedience of Christ (2 Cor 105) You may not be able to control every thought that comes in but you can deter-mine whether or not it stays

2 Guard your gate Whatrsquos the gate of your mind Itrsquos your eyes and ears Donrsquot put junk into your thought life by throwing open the gate Filter what comes in Remember the computer term GIGO garbage in garbage out

3 Thought replacement When thoughts of fear or doubt come your way replace them with love and faith You cannot have two complete thoughts in your mind at the same time For good thought replacement ideas see Philippi-

ans 48

Five Roads to Popularity With-out Losing Your Reputation

Everyone wants to be popular Popu-larity isnrsquot a bad thing In fact Jesus was very popular during much of His ministry He never compromised His character or morals to gain accep-tance You can become popular by making both bad choices and good ones

Here are five roads to popularity while maintaining your integrity 1 Be a kind person You will never be short on friends

2 When you do something do it with all your might Excellence draws a crowd

3 Promote others and their accom-plishments not your own God will then be able to exalt you

4 Dare to dream big and pray for the seemingly impossible People are drawn to those filled with hope and faith

5 Stand up for what is right Our world today is desperately searching for real heroes

Four Reasons You Should Be Cool

God wants you to be cool accept-ed and favored The Scripture says ldquoLet not mercy and truth forsake you bind them around your neck write them on the tablet of your heart and so find favor and high esteem in the sight of God and manrdquo (Prov 334 NKJV) You can enjoy favor acceptance and popularity with both God and people Here are 4 reasons why you should be cool

1 Cool accepted people have the ability to influence others for good That includes a witness of your Christian faith

2 Cool favored people have con-fidence to do things others believe to be impossible or improbable

3 Accepted people find it easy and natural to show others Godrsquos love

4 Cool people stand up for truth and donrsquot need everyone to agree with them

Source Every Teenagerrsquos Little Black Book of Hard to Find Information Excerpt permission granted by Harrison House Publishers

EXCERTS FROM Every Teenagerrsquos Little Black Book of Hard to Find Information

by Blaine Bartel

Visiting Northeast Pennsylvania for the first time Republican vice presidential nominee Sarah Palin

touted the new economic plan running mate John McCain unveiled Tuesday while invoking the name of the late Gov Robert P Casey as a champion of children with mental dis-abilities

Mrs Palin also called up the regionrsquos coal-pro-ducing past by jabbing at another Scranton na-tive Democratic vice presidential nominee Joe Biden for once being critical of clean-coal tech-nology as an alternative energy source

Mrs Palin told a raucous crowd at River-front Sports that Mr McCain would turn American anger and frustration over the current economic crisis into reform

The new economic plan would get the nation ldquothrough a time of testingrdquo and put ldquothe economy back on trackrdquo she said

ldquoUnder this plan wersquoll help American families keep their homes and save fam-ily neighborhoods and bring stability to our housing marketrdquo Mrs Palin said

The plan seeks to reduce to 10 percent the tax on senior-citizen withdrawals from retirement accounts in 2008 and 2009 re-duce to 75 percent the capital gains tax in 2009 and 2010 and quintuple deductions of capital losses It is meant to supplement Mr McCainrsquos call last week for a $300 bil-

lion government purchase of troubled mort-gagesMrs Palinrsquos 29-minute speech was frequently interrupted with applause or chants of ldquoSarah Sarah Sarahrdquo She was accompanied by her

husband Todd whom she called Alaskarsquos ldquofirst duderdquo and Martin Buser the four-time champion of the Iditarod the famed dog sled race

Singer Lee Greenwood opened the program by sing-ing the national anthem and his well-known ldquoGod Bless the USArdquo

Behind Mrs Palin supporters many wearing red held signs stating ldquoHunters Cling to Sar-

ahrdquo ldquoReal People Vote Palinrdquo and ldquoPro-Life Pro-Family Pro-Palinrdquo

The visit was the third by the Republican ticket to the region since July and highlighted the campaignrsquos focus on attracting disenchanted Democrats who had supported New York Sen Hillary Clinton

Signs announcing the presence of a Scran-ton-based group calling itself ldquoDemocrats for McCainrdquo dotted the crowd

For more than a week statewide polls have showed Mr McCain trailing Democratic presi-dential nominee Barack Obama by double-dig-it margins in Pennsylvania The daily five-day tracking poll by Muhlenberg College had Mr Obama up 51 percent to 38 percent through Monday the 12th consecutive day with a dou-ble-digit margin

With slumping poll numbers Mr McCain

By Borys Krawczeniuk Scranton Times-Tribune

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amp Social Issues

Christians on Wall Street Praying amp Hoping

Wall Street is in one of the most volatile economic downturns in US his-

tory The temptation to panic is high So how are Christians who work on Wall Street reacting to the crisis As CBN News discovered they are cling-ing to the rock that can not be moved

The market has just opened on the New York Stock Exchange and already investors are bracing for what promises to be another tumultuous day

But Wall Street is more than just stocks and bonds buying and selling - itrsquos also a place where

many Christians work and even pray And now they are praying like never before

Help us to lift you up in this place we need you here more than everrdquo one man prayed

Longest Run-ning Prayer Meeting in the US

Wall Street is the home of

the longest running prayer meet-ings in the country It started in 1977 after a few believers decided there was a need

Financial adviser Vaughn Weimer has been an active member since the early 1980rsquos

ldquoIrsquove been hearing from almost all

of my clients during the last two weeksrdquo Weimer told CBN News ldquoNo onersquos panicked yet No onersquos fallen over in a faint yetrdquo

Weimer says he believes God is going to redeem Wall Street and just like the historic Fulton Street revival make this a place of prayer once again

ldquoThere was a time here when at Noon every business shut down while people prayedrdquo Weimer recalled ldquoWe have a heart and a vision for that to happen again for those who work here every dayrdquo

Anthony DiMaio used to work on the floor of the NYSE and now runs a ministry known as BOLD The ministryrsquos mission is to reach out to New Yorkrsquos financial district with a message of spiri-tual relevance He believes God is using this economic crisis to get people to look up

ldquoWe all know that the fastest way to reach anybody is through their pocket bookrdquo DiMaio said ldquoAnd so if God wants to get your attention hersquoll get it thererdquo

Trinity Church A Place of Refuge

Standing like a beacon in the dark night of Wall Streetrsquos soul is Trinity Church For almost 200 years Trinityrsquos cross has wel-comed those coming into New Yorkrsquos harbor seeking freedom However in the last few weeks more people are seeking refuge of a different kind behind the churchrsquos front door

ldquoThe people sitting in the pews at our daily worship are either directly affected by having lost a job or they are afraid of losing a jobrdquo

the Rev Canon Anne Mallonnee told CBN News

Mallonnee says she recently ministered to one such woman overcome with anxiety

ldquoBeing able to pray with her and have her just reconnect with that peace of God which surpasses all of this turmoil and have her be able to leave more centered and confident that God is with her in thisrdquo Mallonnee said

But not all those affected by the financial crisis are on Wall Street Pastor Terry Smith of the Life Christian Church in West Orange New Jersey says about 25 percent of his parishioners work in New Yorkrsquos financial district A fact that could affect the churchrsquos bottom line It could also affect the churchrsquos plans for building a new facility

ldquoThere are people who have planned to give major gifts who are concerned about their capacity to do that right nowrdquo Smith explained ldquoTheir hearts are to do it I think God is going to help them to be able to do it but this is a real concern for usrdquo

Smith believes whatrsquos happen-ing on Wall Street is not neces-sarily Godrsquos punishment

ldquoThis kind of a crisis reminds us that we are not self-suffi-cient - regardless of how hard we work and how much we invest and how hard we try to prepare for the future re-ally we need himrdquo Smith said ldquoAnd itrsquos in our weakness that we discover how strong he isrdquo

Both Ray Craig and Raji Manasseh attend Smithrsquos church and work for major Wall Street banks They are deter-mined to be a light in the midst of the storm

ldquoThis is an opportunity for us

Wall Street Praying Continuned

Page 12

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curred at night between 9 pm and 5 am over the past 10 months so as not to disturb Iraqi drivers and clog the roads

They dubbed it ldquoOperation Rudy Gi-ulianirdquo because they were cleaning the streets up and returning Fallujah to normalcy mdash taking down barbed wire and tearing down checkpoints and Jersey walls that made Anbar look like a war zone

ldquoThere is almost no barbed wire left anywhere in Fal-lujahrdquo Kelly said An Iraqi no longer sees barbed wire when traveling in and around the city

Between 300 and 400 con-crete barriers that divided the city were removed by Navy Seabees

One of the big changes Kelly made when he took command in Anbar was to remove fixed checkpoints and Iraqi vehicles no longer had to pull off to the side when a military convoy was on the road His troops risked car bombs but the gamble paid off in what had once been Iraqrsquos most dangerous province The new road rules instantly low-ered the tension between military and locals Soon he transitioned to moving military convoys only at night so they would not encounter locals This also stymied many of the insurgents laying IEDs or road-side bombs which they often had done at night

Another change for the better since Kelly arrived in February He pushed the central government to provide more fuel to the people of Anbar so the mostly Sunni popu-lation is now happier In February Anbaris were receiving only 8 per-cent of their allocation of fuel from the central government of Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki Now itrsquos 90 percent mdash eliminating one of their

main gripes

But perhaps the biggest sign that the situation has changed for the better for Sunnis living in Anbar With the help of the Ma-rines and the Iraqi police nearly 100 percent of the eligible vot-ing population were registered a month ago to vote in upcoming provincial elections

ldquoThey seem to add another polit-ical party every dayrdquo Kelly said ldquoWe didnrsquot have a single security violation of any kind Theyrsquore at least going to give the electoral process a shot hellip at least going to give democracy a chancerdquo

The Sunnis who fueled a large part of Iraqrsquos insurgency boycot-

ted the last election for Parliament with only 3 percent of Sunnis par-ticipating Now they feel they have a stake in the government

ldquoThis is an amazing indicator as to where this province isrdquo Kelly saidHe and the Marines no longer use violence as an indicator of how much progress they have made

Two years ago they had 400 attacks mdash roadside bombs or shootings mdash at US forces every week In February it was down to 30 attacks per week Now it is down to under 12 attacks per week There hasnrsquot been a

Marine death in a few months

Troop numbers have dropped as well mdash down by 40 percent since February About 26000 Marines still serve in Anbar

ldquoIn Anbar there is no longer an insurgencyrdquo Kelly said ldquoUnless someone does something stupid (for instance if the Coalition were to accidentally kill a large number of civilians) this place will not go back to the way it wasrdquo

In football terms Kelly says the Marines are ldquoin the last 10 yards of this fightrdquo

ldquoCould it go back I donrsquot think sordquo he said firmly ldquoWe are winning this thingrdquo

Last One Turn Out The Lights Marines Quietly Begin Leaving

ldquoWe are winning

this thingrdquo Major General

John Kelly

Page 13

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Palin Promises Tax-Cut Package VP Candidate Rallies Crowd On Economic

amp Social Issues

has made a more concerted effort to recapture his footing in the state the past week

He and Mrs Pal-in cam-paigned

together Wednesday in Bethlehem She hit a Pittsburgh fundraiser Fri-day and then a Johnstown rally and a Philadelphia Flyers hockey game Saturday Mr McCain arrived in Phil-adelphia on Monday and unveiled his new economic plan Tuesday in Blue Bell a Philadelphia suburb

The Scranton crowd Tuesday was larger than the one that greeted Mrs Clinton and Mr Biden in the same venue Sunday

The McCain-Palin campaign esti-mated Tuesdayrsquos crowd at 5800 and said it was based on a Secret Service door count but the crowd appeared to be closer to 4500 peo-ple The smaller estimate by The Times-Tribune was based on the number of rows of risers a typical rowrsquos occupancy and a per-person count of the depth and width of the standing audience

Mrs Palin never mentioned Mrs Clinton But she brought up Gov Casey while talking about her son Trig who has Down syndrome

and promising to bring attention to ldquochildren with special needsrdquo as vice president

ldquoIt was the great Pennsylvania governor Robert Casey a son of Scranton who said rdquo Mrs Palin said pausing as the mention drew a mix of applause and boos ldquoHe was asked once how society should treat the most vulnerable among us such as children with special needs And he said Itrsquos simple you put them first in linersquo

ldquoSee Gov Casey understood that these children can inspire a special love and thatrsquos a love that this world needs more of Our children are not a problem theyrsquore a priorityrdquo

Mrs Palin did not specifically men-tion abortion or Mr Caseyrsquos cru-sade against it but said ldquoI do be-lieve that the truest measure of any society is how we treat those who are least able to defend and speak for themselves Who is more vul-nerable who is more innocent than a childrdquo

Trig taught her ldquothat everyone be-longs in the circle of protectionrdquo she said ldquoAnd that every child has something to contribute to the world if we give them that chancerdquoAs she pushed Mr McCainrsquos plan to expand all forms of energy in-cluding alternative ones Mrs Pal-in mocked Mr Biden for trashing clean-coal technology[ ]

Proposition 8 on the Cali-fornia ballot

which would negate a state Supreme Court ruling legalizing homosexual ldquomar-riagerdquo appears to be gaining strength

Previous polls have shown the traditional marriage supporters trail-ing but a new one by a San Fran-cisco CBS television station shows Prop 8 is ahead 47 to 42 percent ldquoTen percent are still undecided It means itrsquos still a close race but the shift still seems to be taking placerdquo says Randy Thomasson of Save-Californiacom

The pro-family activist believes success will depend on two

factors -- encouraging people to vote and getting Christians to vote according to the Bible Thomasson is hopeful pastors will take an active role as the election nears

ldquoTheyrsquove got to be men of God who are bold and courageous and say lsquoGod says marriage is only for a man and womanrsquordquo he adds ldquoWe all must be Christians not just people who say theyrsquore Christians and do not fol-low Christ in this matterrdquo

Thomasson attributes the new poll results in part to a new television commercial that does an effective job of selling the traditional view of marriage as well as the homosexual activists imposing acceptance of their lifestyle on everyone else

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1 The Fossil RecordEvolutionists have constructed the Geologic Column in order to illustrate the supposed progression of ldquoprimitiverdquo life forms to ldquomore complexrdquo systems we observe today Yet ldquosince only a small percentage of the earthrsquos surface obeys even a portion of the geologic column the claim of their having taken place to form a continuum of rocklifetime over the earth is therefore a fantastic and imaginative contrivance1rdquo ldquo[T]he lack of transitional series cannot be explained as being due to the scarcity of material The deficiencies are real they will never be filledrdquo2 This supposed column is actually saturated with ldquopolystrate fossilsrdquo (fossils extending from one geologic layer to another) that tie all the layers to one time-frame ldquo[T]o the unprejudiced the fossil record of plants is in favor of special creationrdquo 3

2 Decay of Earthrsquos Magnetic Field Dr Thomas Barnes Emeritus Professor of Physics at the University of Texas at El Paso has published the definitive work in this field4 Scientific observations since 1829 have shown that the earthrsquos magnetic field has been measurably decaying at an exponential rate demonstrating its half-life to be approximately 1400 years In practical applica-tion its strength 20000 years ago would approximate that of a mag-netic star Under those conditions many of the molecules neces-sary for life processes could not form These data demonstrate that earthrsquos entire history is young within a few thousand of years

3 The Global Flood The Biblical record clearly describes a global Flood during Noahrsquos day Additionally there are hundreds of Flood traditions handed down through cultures all over the world 5 ME Clark and Henry Voss have demonstrated the scientific validity of such a Flood providing the sedimentary layering we see on every continent 6 Secular scholars report very rapid sedimentation and periods of great carbonate deposition in earthrsquos sedimentary layers7 It is now pos-sible to prove the historical reality of the Biblical Flood8

4 Population StatisticsWorld population growth rate in recent times is about 2 per year Practicable application of growth rate throughout human history would be about half that number Wars disease famine etc have wiped out approximately one third of the population on average every 82 years Starting with eight people and applying these growth rates since the Flood of Noahrsquos day (about 4500 years ago) would give a total human population at just under six billion people However application on an evolution-ary time scale runs into major difficulties Starting with one ldquocouplerdquo just 41000 years ago would give us a total population of 2 x 1089 9 The universe does not have space to hold so many bodies

5 Radio HalosPhysicist Robert Gentry has reported isolated radio halos of polonuim-214 in crystalline granite The half-life of this element is 0000164 seconds To record the existence of this element in such short time span the granite must be in crystalline state instantaneously10 This runs counter to evolutionary estimates of 300 million years for granite to form

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Russia to Sell Arms to Iran amp Venezuela

Russia turned up its nose at the United States Thursday by announcing plans to sell

military equipment to both Iran and Venezuela

The head of the state arms ex-porter said Russia was negotiating to sell new anti-aircraft systems to Iran despite American objections

ldquoContacts between our countries are continuing and we do not see any reason to suspend themrdquo Ana-toly Isaikin general director of Ro-soboronexport told Russian news agency Ria-Novosti at an arms fair in South Africa

Reports have circulated for some time that Russia is preparing to sell its S-300 surface-to-air mis-sile system to Iran offering greater protection against a possible US or Israeli attack on the Islamic

republicrsquos nuclear facilities The missiles have a range of more than 93 miles and can intercept jets ap-proaching at low altitudes

Russia has already delivered 29 Tor-M1 missile systems under a $700 million deal with Iran in 2005Sergei Chemezov the head of state-owned Russian Technologies also disclosed that Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez wanted to buy anti-aircraft systems armored personnel carriers and new SU-35 fighter jets when they come into production in 2010

The US plans to place an anti-missile shield in eastern Europe to deter surprise attacks from Iran have outraged Russia which believes the system in Poland and the Czech Republic is aimed at weakening its defenses

time of confusion and of peril Jesus said ldquoMy sheep hear my voicerdquo (John 1027)Begin to assess Have you been living for yourself or living for God ldquoBut seek first the Kingdom of God and His righteousness and all these things shall be added to yourdquo (Matthew 633) Godrsquos ways are always better for us than our own waysRemember even if you lose your job you havenrsquot lost your identity Who you are goes beyond a re-sume or a personal network You are a child of God and when you make Jesus the Lord of your life He promises that He has good plans for you ldquoPlans to prosper you not to harm you plans to give you hope and a futurerdquo (Jer 2911)

to step out of our professional suits and ties and be a friend to a lot of our colleagues who arenrsquot Chris-tiansrdquo Craig told CBN News

ldquoMy wife and I have always be-lieved that God is the ultimate source of our income and our provi-sion and that he provides for us first and foremostrdquo Manasseh saidd

Nobody knows just how long this financial upheaval will last But for those who put their trust -- not in bull markets but in Christ - the ride promises to be a little less bumpyAre You Anxious About the Mar-kets

DiMaio offers this advice if you are anxious about whatrsquos happening on Wall StreetBegin to listen to what God is speaking to you right now in this

Christians on Wall Street Praying amp Hoping

GOODYEAR

JESUS IS LORD

continued from page12

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Wa l l B u i l d e r s

The Rev Benjamin Moore re-ported

[I]mmediately after he was brought from [the field] a mesnotsage was sent informing me of the sad event accompanied by a request from General Ham-ilton that I would come to him for the purpose of administering the Holy Communion I went I proceeded to converse with him on the subject of his receiving the Communion and told him that with respect to the qualifications of those who wished to become par-takers of that holy ordinance my inquires could not be made in lannotguage more expressive than that which was used by our [own] Church ndash [I asked] ldquoDo you sincerely re-pent of your sins past Have you a lively faith in Godrsquos mercy through Christ with a thankful remembrance of the death of Christ And are you disposed to live in love and charity with all menrdquo He lifted up his hands and said ldquoWith the utmost sincerity of heart I can answer those ques-tions in the affirmative ndash I have no ill will against Col Burr I met him with a fixed resolution to do him no harm ndash I forgive all that happenedrdquo The Communion was then administered which he received with great devotion and his heart afterwards appeared to be perfectly at rest I saw him again this morning when with his last faltering words he ex-pressed a strong confidence

in the mercy of God through the intercession of the Redeemer I remained with him until 2 orsquoclock this afternoon when death closed the awful scene ndash he expired with-out a struggle and almost with-out a groan By reflecting on this melancholy event let the humble believer be encouraged ever to hold fast that precious faith which is the only source of true consola-tion in the last extremity of nature [And l]et the infidel be persuaded to abandon his opposition to that Gospel which the strong inquisi-tive and comprehensive mind of a Hamilton embraced

One other consequence of Ham-iltonrsquos untimely death was that it permanently halted the formanottion of a religious society Hamilton had proposed Hamilton suggest-ed that it be named the Christian Constitutional Society and listed two goals for its formation first the support of the Christian religion and second the support of the Constitution of the United States

This ornotganization was to have numerous clubs throughout each state which would meet regu-larly and work to elect to office those who reflected the goals of the Christian Constitutional Society

John Hancock

SIGNER OF THE DEC-LARATION OF INDEPEN-DENCE PRESIDENT

OF CONGRESS REVOLUTION-ARY GENERAL GOVERNOR OF MASSACHUSETTS

Sensible of the importance of Christian piety and virtue to the order and happiness of a state I cannot but earnestly commend to you every measure for their sup-port and encouragement

He called on the entire state to pray ldquothat universal happiness may be established in the world [and] that all may bow to the scepter of our Lord Jesus Christ and the whole earth be filled with His gloryrdquo

He also called on the State of Mas-sachusetts to pray

that all nations may bow to the scepter of our Lord and Savior Je-sus Christ and that the whole earth may be filled with his glory

that the spiritual kingdom of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ may be continually increasing until the whole earth shall be filled with His glory to confess their sins and to implore forgiveness of God through the merits of the Savior of the World

to cause the benign religion of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ to be known understood and prac-ticed among all the inhabitants of the earth to confess their sins before God and implore His forgiveness through the merits and mediation

of Jesus Christ our Lord and Savior

that He would finally overrule all

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Author and historian David Barton is the Founder and President of WallBuilders a national pro-family organization which distributes historical legal and statistical information and helps citizens become active in their local schools and communities WallBuilders is a name taken from the Bible book of Nehemiah And just as Nehemiah led a grassroots movement in Jerusalem to rebuild the walls of that city and restore its strength and honor so too WallBuilders seeks to energize the grassroots today to rebuild that which makes America strongmdashits constitutional moral and religious foundations

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that the kingdom of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ may be estab-lished in peace and righteousness

among all the nations of the earth

that with true contrition of heart we may confess our sins resolve to for-sake them and implore the Divine forgiveness

through the merits and mediation of Jesus Christ our Savior And fi-nally to overrule all the commotions in the world to the spreading the true religion of our Lord Jesus Christ in its purity and power among all the people of the earth

John Hart

JUDGE LEGISLATOR SIGNER OF THE DECLARATION

[T]hanks be given unto Almighty God therefore and knowing that it is ap-pointed for all men once to die and after that the judgment [Hebrews 927] principally I give and rec-ommend my soul into the hands of Almighty God who gave it and my body to the earth to be buried in a decent and Christian like manner to receive the same again at the general resurrection by the mighty power of God

VOTER ISSUE GUIDE

Patrick Henry

REVOLUTIONARY GENERAL LEGISLATOR ldquoTHE VOICE OF LIBERTYrdquo RATIFIER OF THE U S CONSTITUTION GOVER-NOR OF VIRGINIA

Being a Christianhellip is a charac-ter which I prize far above all this world has or can boast

The Biblehellip is a book worth more than all the other books that were ever printed

Righteousness alone can exalt America as a nation Whoever thou art remember this and in thy sphere practice virtue thyself and encourage it in others

The great pillars of all govern-ment and of social life [are] vir-tue morality and religion

Continued In The Next Issue of FREEDOM

FREEDOMPage 8

By Katharine Mieszkowski

Obamarsquos Muslim Ties Called Into Question

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The head of a terrorism watch-dog group says Barack Obamarsquos new Muslim out-

reach director should have never taken part in a meeting last month in Northern Virginia that was attended by two Muslim leaders who support terrorist groups

NBC News reports that Obamarsquos Mus-lim outreach director Minha Husaini spoke to a small group of Muslim leaders and po-tential Obama supporters at a hotel in Springfield Virginia on Septem-ber 15 One of the Muslim leaders attending the meeting was Mahdi Bray of the Muslim American Soci-ety Bray once equated the Israeli assassination of a Hamas leader as ldquoan unlawful cowardly and dangerous act of state-sponsored terrorismrdquo

Joe Kaufman chairman of the group Americans Against Hate notes Bray and other leaders of the group are supporters of the terror-

ist groups Hamas and Hezbollah ldquoThe organization has just recent-ly used the Internet to call for the murder of Jews and the waging of war against non-Muslimsrdquo he

contends ldquoItrsquos cer-tainly not an organiza-tion that anyone from a political campaign should be attending a meeting withrdquo

Another Muslim lead-er who attended the September meeting

was Nihad Awad executive direc-tor of the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) which was listed by the government as an unindicted co-conspirator in a terrorism financing case

The Obama campaign claims its Muslim outreach director would not have attended the event had it known beforehand who all the attendees were However a par-ticipant at the meeting contends the Obama camp was aware that top CAIR officials would be in at-tendance

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lsquoJoe the Plumberrsquo Upstages Candidates

The man known as lsquoJoe the Plumberrsquo is getting just as much or more attention

than the presidential candidates since Wednesday nightrsquos debate

Joe Wurzelbacher a Christian grabbed the spotlight when Sen John McCain cited him as an example of someone who can ex-pect to suffer under Sen Barack Obamarsquos economic policy

Wurzelbach-er 34 said he was un-derwhelmed with Obamarsquos position on taxes He recently confronted the Illinois senator over his plan to ldquospread the wealth aroundrdquo by taxing higher income earners He contends that Obamarsquos plan would hurt him if he chose to buy the plumbing business he has been saving up for

ldquoOne Irsquom not wealthyrdquo he said ldquoThis is something that Irsquom going to have to make payments on in order to purchaserdquo

ldquoAnd for him to think that he has

a say in how I spend my money itrsquos my discretion that I give to the church that I give to charities that I give to friends or family members Itrsquos not the govern-mentrsquos placerdquo he said

He continued ldquoTo step in and say lsquoyoursquore making a little too much I want to make it fairrsquo - lifersquos not fairrdquo

The Ohio plumber has since been flooded with requests for interviews for the me-dia about his remarks Wurzelbach-er has also weighed in with a Chris-tian perspec-tive on the Iraq war

ldquoEverything that Americans take for granted I mean these guys havenrsquot had it - now theyrsquove got it Thatrsquos an incredible thing I donrsquot know if you guys are Chris-tians or not but thatrsquos like some-one coming to Jesus and being saved These guys have free-domrdquo he said

Although he is outspoken on the issues Wurzelbacher will not say who he will vote for

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Have you ever been in a race or relay game at school Do you remember what it was like at the starting line With seconds away from the word ldquogordquo do you think it would be a good idea to be looking around you wondering about what you are going to eat for dinner Or what if you were worried about how you looked and decided you wanted to comb your hair No I donrsquot think that would be a good idea to do such things - not if you wanted to win the race that is At the starting line it is best to keep your attention on the race and the finish line Baseball is like this Have you ever seen a baseball game before Have you noticed how the pitcher keeps his eyes and all of his attention on the batter who is up The person batting is his aim or target He shuts out all the cheers from the fans He doesnrsquot think about what he is going to eat for dinner The only thing he sees and thinks about is his target the batter Whatrsquos your target What do you spend your time thinking about and looking forward to doing Is it just to play with your friends all day Or is your aim to watch a favorite TV show These things arenrsquot wrong

to do but they shouldnrsquot be all that you want to do Why not make it your target to spend time with Jesus Our Bible verse today commands us that we should keep our eyes on Jesus How do you think that you can do that Well let me tell you a story about a group of Godrsquos people in the Old Testament that were being disobedient God was bringing them to a better land but along the journey the people grumbled and complained They were not being thankful Because of their disobedience snakes came into their camp They were scared They got bitten by the snakes They then cried to their leader Moses to help them God told Moses to make a big brass snake and put it high on a pole for all the people to see Those that were obedient and looked at the brass snake would not die God would help them and forgive them Thatrsquos the same for us today As we keep our eyes on Jesus He will help us and keep us safe Continue to read your Bible Continue to pray By doing so you are making Jesus your target

FREEDOM Page 9

Early one morning a mother went in to wake up her son ldquoWake up son Itrsquos time to go to

schoolrdquo

ldquoBut why Mom I donrsquot want to gordquo

ldquoGive me two reasons why you donrsquot want to gordquo

ldquoWell the kids hate me for one and the teachers hate me toordquo

ldquoOh thatrsquos no reason not to go to school Come on now and get readyrdquo

ldquoGive me two reasons why I should go to

schoolrdquo

ldquoWell for one yoursquore 42 years old And for another yoursquore the

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Either Adam or Eve It isnrsquot recorded

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There are some ministries that spiritu-ally are just like caliche They arenrsquot good ground for your seed So before you give pray about where that gift should go Donrsquot rely on your own judgments Donrsquot reason it out and say ldquoWell this preacher over here is screaming and crying and saying hersquos going under so I guess Irsquoll give to himrdquo

You go to the Lord of the tithe and find out where He wants you to put your money Hersquos the only one who can direct you to truly good ground every time

C Water It Once your good seed is in good ground keep watering it with the Word of God Speak faith over it all week long Call forth the growth of that seed by ldquocalling things that be not as though they wererdquo (Rom 417) It may just be a little seed but you need to start call-ing it grown

You may say ldquoWell brother I believe in telling things like they arerdquo You wonrsquot ever see any growth in your life then because spiritual things grow as words are released Thatrsquos Godrsquos way

Charles Capps says the one who ldquotells things like they arerdquo is like the guy who went out on the porch to give his dog a bone When he got out there he found the dog wasnrsquot there - just the cat So he started saying ldquoHere kitty kitty kittyrdquo His neighbor said ldquoI thought you wanted to give that bone to the dogrdquo ldquoI didrdquo answered his friend ldquobut I like to say it like it is - and the cat not the dog is the one thatrsquos hererdquo

Donrsquot be like that guy Call the dog Hersquoll come Water your seed with words of faith Donrsquot call poverty if you donrsquot want poverty Call yourself prosperous Call that need met Before long yoursquoll be so full of joy and so full of expectan-cy that even the watering will be fun

Plant the seed Find good soil Water it Then as Mark 427 says all you have to do is ldquosleep and rise night and day and the seed will spring and grow uprdquo

ldquoBut I donrsquot understand how that worksrdquo you say It doesnrsquot mat-ter Just do it Plant and water Sleep and rise Sure enough one of these mornings yoursquoll wake up to an abundant harvest

Source One Word From God Can Change Your Finances by Kenneth

and Gloria Copeland Excerpt permission granted by Har-

rison House Publishers

can come against you and suc-ceedmdashthatrsquos what I call power

Page 10 FREEDOM

Right now many of

us are fac-ing needs Big needs Needs so great that without the direct intervention of God they canrsquot possi-bly be met Because of that we need to be more certain than ever before that we understand - and abide by - Godrsquos laws of abundance Those laws are extremely important but praise God theyrsquore not complicated In fact theyrsquore as simple as ABC

A Decide to Plant In Mark 4 Jesus compared the work-ings of the kingdom of God to planting seeds in the earth ldquoWhen the seed is sownrdquo He said ldquoit grows up and becomes greaterrdquo (v 32) Notice He didnrsquot say that when the seed is sown it occasionally grows up and becomes greater Or it grows up and becomes greater if itrsquos Godrsquos will He said ldquoIt grows up and becomes greaterrdquo Period

Godrsquos economy isnrsquot like ours It isnrsquot up one day and down the other Itrsquos always the same and it always works perfectly If you have good earth good seed and good water you will have growth Itrsquos inevitable The laws of God will produce that increase every single time So if yoursquore facing a need donrsquot panic - plant a seed

That seed may take the form of time money or some other resource you have to give But no matter what form it takes you need to understand that the gift itself isnrsquot really your seed Therersquos no life in it Itrsquos just the husk

There are people whorsquove planted husks for years But because they didnrsquot put any life in them nothing ever came up So donrsquot just plunk a husk in the offering bucket when it goes by Put life in it first Praise and worship God over it Say ldquoLord Irsquom offering You my goods to do Your work with and as I bring You my goods I bring myself I give myself to You spirit soul and bodyrdquo

Pray over that seed Fill it with faith worship and the Word Then it will be ready to plant

B Find Good Ground Out in West Texas on my grandfa-therrsquos farm there were big white patches of caliche Itrsquos the most worth-less dirt in the world when it comes to planting seed It wonrsquot grow anything I donrsquot care how fine your seed is if you plant it in caliche you wonrsquot get a crop

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Music News--wwwtvulivecomSkillet is gearing up for the release of their live CDDVD combo ldquoComatose Comes Aliverdquo and they are also recording brand new music They have posted an online we-bcam in their studio so you can take a peek at their recording sessions for the new al-

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Three Ways To Guard You Thought Life

Protection We guard our home car skin and even time but some-times we neglect to guard one of the most important areasmdashour thought life We need to place a guard over our thought life

Herersquos How 1 Take control Donrsquot allow your thoughts to wander like an out-of-control car Grab hold of the steer-ing wheel The Word of God says to take captive every thought and to bring it into the obedience of Christ (2 Cor 105) You may not be able to control every thought that comes in but you can deter-mine whether or not it stays

2 Guard your gate Whatrsquos the gate of your mind Itrsquos your eyes and ears Donrsquot put junk into your thought life by throwing open the gate Filter what comes in Remember the computer term GIGO garbage in garbage out

3 Thought replacement When thoughts of fear or doubt come your way replace them with love and faith You cannot have two complete thoughts in your mind at the same time For good thought replacement ideas see Philippi-

ans 48

Five Roads to Popularity With-out Losing Your Reputation

Everyone wants to be popular Popu-larity isnrsquot a bad thing In fact Jesus was very popular during much of His ministry He never compromised His character or morals to gain accep-tance You can become popular by making both bad choices and good ones

Here are five roads to popularity while maintaining your integrity 1 Be a kind person You will never be short on friends

2 When you do something do it with all your might Excellence draws a crowd

3 Promote others and their accom-plishments not your own God will then be able to exalt you

4 Dare to dream big and pray for the seemingly impossible People are drawn to those filled with hope and faith

5 Stand up for what is right Our world today is desperately searching for real heroes

Four Reasons You Should Be Cool

God wants you to be cool accept-ed and favored The Scripture says ldquoLet not mercy and truth forsake you bind them around your neck write them on the tablet of your heart and so find favor and high esteem in the sight of God and manrdquo (Prov 334 NKJV) You can enjoy favor acceptance and popularity with both God and people Here are 4 reasons why you should be cool

1 Cool accepted people have the ability to influence others for good That includes a witness of your Christian faith

2 Cool favored people have con-fidence to do things others believe to be impossible or improbable

3 Accepted people find it easy and natural to show others Godrsquos love

4 Cool people stand up for truth and donrsquot need everyone to agree with them

Source Every Teenagerrsquos Little Black Book of Hard to Find Information Excerpt permission granted by Harrison House Publishers

EXCERTS FROM Every Teenagerrsquos Little Black Book of Hard to Find Information

by Blaine Bartel

Visiting Northeast Pennsylvania for the first time Republican vice presidential nominee Sarah Palin

touted the new economic plan running mate John McCain unveiled Tuesday while invoking the name of the late Gov Robert P Casey as a champion of children with mental dis-abilities

Mrs Palin also called up the regionrsquos coal-pro-ducing past by jabbing at another Scranton na-tive Democratic vice presidential nominee Joe Biden for once being critical of clean-coal tech-nology as an alternative energy source

Mrs Palin told a raucous crowd at River-front Sports that Mr McCain would turn American anger and frustration over the current economic crisis into reform

The new economic plan would get the nation ldquothrough a time of testingrdquo and put ldquothe economy back on trackrdquo she said

ldquoUnder this plan wersquoll help American families keep their homes and save fam-ily neighborhoods and bring stability to our housing marketrdquo Mrs Palin said

The plan seeks to reduce to 10 percent the tax on senior-citizen withdrawals from retirement accounts in 2008 and 2009 re-duce to 75 percent the capital gains tax in 2009 and 2010 and quintuple deductions of capital losses It is meant to supplement Mr McCainrsquos call last week for a $300 bil-

lion government purchase of troubled mort-gagesMrs Palinrsquos 29-minute speech was frequently interrupted with applause or chants of ldquoSarah Sarah Sarahrdquo She was accompanied by her

husband Todd whom she called Alaskarsquos ldquofirst duderdquo and Martin Buser the four-time champion of the Iditarod the famed dog sled race

Singer Lee Greenwood opened the program by sing-ing the national anthem and his well-known ldquoGod Bless the USArdquo

Behind Mrs Palin supporters many wearing red held signs stating ldquoHunters Cling to Sar-

ahrdquo ldquoReal People Vote Palinrdquo and ldquoPro-Life Pro-Family Pro-Palinrdquo

The visit was the third by the Republican ticket to the region since July and highlighted the campaignrsquos focus on attracting disenchanted Democrats who had supported New York Sen Hillary Clinton

Signs announcing the presence of a Scran-ton-based group calling itself ldquoDemocrats for McCainrdquo dotted the crowd

For more than a week statewide polls have showed Mr McCain trailing Democratic presi-dential nominee Barack Obama by double-dig-it margins in Pennsylvania The daily five-day tracking poll by Muhlenberg College had Mr Obama up 51 percent to 38 percent through Monday the 12th consecutive day with a dou-ble-digit margin

With slumping poll numbers Mr McCain

By Borys Krawczeniuk Scranton Times-Tribune

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Palin Promises Tax-Cut Package VP Candidate Rallies Crowd On Economic

amp Social Issues

Christians on Wall Street Praying amp Hoping

Wall Street is in one of the most volatile economic downturns in US his-

tory The temptation to panic is high So how are Christians who work on Wall Street reacting to the crisis As CBN News discovered they are cling-ing to the rock that can not be moved

The market has just opened on the New York Stock Exchange and already investors are bracing for what promises to be another tumultuous day

But Wall Street is more than just stocks and bonds buying and selling - itrsquos also a place where

many Christians work and even pray And now they are praying like never before

Help us to lift you up in this place we need you here more than everrdquo one man prayed

Longest Run-ning Prayer Meeting in the US

Wall Street is the home of

the longest running prayer meet-ings in the country It started in 1977 after a few believers decided there was a need

Financial adviser Vaughn Weimer has been an active member since the early 1980rsquos

ldquoIrsquove been hearing from almost all

of my clients during the last two weeksrdquo Weimer told CBN News ldquoNo onersquos panicked yet No onersquos fallen over in a faint yetrdquo

Weimer says he believes God is going to redeem Wall Street and just like the historic Fulton Street revival make this a place of prayer once again

ldquoThere was a time here when at Noon every business shut down while people prayedrdquo Weimer recalled ldquoWe have a heart and a vision for that to happen again for those who work here every dayrdquo

Anthony DiMaio used to work on the floor of the NYSE and now runs a ministry known as BOLD The ministryrsquos mission is to reach out to New Yorkrsquos financial district with a message of spiri-tual relevance He believes God is using this economic crisis to get people to look up

ldquoWe all know that the fastest way to reach anybody is through their pocket bookrdquo DiMaio said ldquoAnd so if God wants to get your attention hersquoll get it thererdquo

Trinity Church A Place of Refuge

Standing like a beacon in the dark night of Wall Streetrsquos soul is Trinity Church For almost 200 years Trinityrsquos cross has wel-comed those coming into New Yorkrsquos harbor seeking freedom However in the last few weeks more people are seeking refuge of a different kind behind the churchrsquos front door

ldquoThe people sitting in the pews at our daily worship are either directly affected by having lost a job or they are afraid of losing a jobrdquo

the Rev Canon Anne Mallonnee told CBN News

Mallonnee says she recently ministered to one such woman overcome with anxiety

ldquoBeing able to pray with her and have her just reconnect with that peace of God which surpasses all of this turmoil and have her be able to leave more centered and confident that God is with her in thisrdquo Mallonnee said

But not all those affected by the financial crisis are on Wall Street Pastor Terry Smith of the Life Christian Church in West Orange New Jersey says about 25 percent of his parishioners work in New Yorkrsquos financial district A fact that could affect the churchrsquos bottom line It could also affect the churchrsquos plans for building a new facility

ldquoThere are people who have planned to give major gifts who are concerned about their capacity to do that right nowrdquo Smith explained ldquoTheir hearts are to do it I think God is going to help them to be able to do it but this is a real concern for usrdquo

Smith believes whatrsquos happen-ing on Wall Street is not neces-sarily Godrsquos punishment

ldquoThis kind of a crisis reminds us that we are not self-suffi-cient - regardless of how hard we work and how much we invest and how hard we try to prepare for the future re-ally we need himrdquo Smith said ldquoAnd itrsquos in our weakness that we discover how strong he isrdquo

Both Ray Craig and Raji Manasseh attend Smithrsquos church and work for major Wall Street banks They are deter-mined to be a light in the midst of the storm

ldquoThis is an opportunity for us

Wall Street Praying Continuned

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curred at night between 9 pm and 5 am over the past 10 months so as not to disturb Iraqi drivers and clog the roads

They dubbed it ldquoOperation Rudy Gi-ulianirdquo because they were cleaning the streets up and returning Fallujah to normalcy mdash taking down barbed wire and tearing down checkpoints and Jersey walls that made Anbar look like a war zone

ldquoThere is almost no barbed wire left anywhere in Fal-lujahrdquo Kelly said An Iraqi no longer sees barbed wire when traveling in and around the city

Between 300 and 400 con-crete barriers that divided the city were removed by Navy Seabees

One of the big changes Kelly made when he took command in Anbar was to remove fixed checkpoints and Iraqi vehicles no longer had to pull off to the side when a military convoy was on the road His troops risked car bombs but the gamble paid off in what had once been Iraqrsquos most dangerous province The new road rules instantly low-ered the tension between military and locals Soon he transitioned to moving military convoys only at night so they would not encounter locals This also stymied many of the insurgents laying IEDs or road-side bombs which they often had done at night

Another change for the better since Kelly arrived in February He pushed the central government to provide more fuel to the people of Anbar so the mostly Sunni popu-lation is now happier In February Anbaris were receiving only 8 per-cent of their allocation of fuel from the central government of Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki Now itrsquos 90 percent mdash eliminating one of their

main gripes

But perhaps the biggest sign that the situation has changed for the better for Sunnis living in Anbar With the help of the Ma-rines and the Iraqi police nearly 100 percent of the eligible vot-ing population were registered a month ago to vote in upcoming provincial elections

ldquoThey seem to add another polit-ical party every dayrdquo Kelly said ldquoWe didnrsquot have a single security violation of any kind Theyrsquore at least going to give the electoral process a shot hellip at least going to give democracy a chancerdquo

The Sunnis who fueled a large part of Iraqrsquos insurgency boycot-

ted the last election for Parliament with only 3 percent of Sunnis par-ticipating Now they feel they have a stake in the government

ldquoThis is an amazing indicator as to where this province isrdquo Kelly saidHe and the Marines no longer use violence as an indicator of how much progress they have made

Two years ago they had 400 attacks mdash roadside bombs or shootings mdash at US forces every week In February it was down to 30 attacks per week Now it is down to under 12 attacks per week There hasnrsquot been a

Marine death in a few months

Troop numbers have dropped as well mdash down by 40 percent since February About 26000 Marines still serve in Anbar

ldquoIn Anbar there is no longer an insurgencyrdquo Kelly said ldquoUnless someone does something stupid (for instance if the Coalition were to accidentally kill a large number of civilians) this place will not go back to the way it wasrdquo

In football terms Kelly says the Marines are ldquoin the last 10 yards of this fightrdquo

ldquoCould it go back I donrsquot think sordquo he said firmly ldquoWe are winning this thingrdquo

Last One Turn Out The Lights Marines Quietly Begin Leaving

ldquoWe are winning

this thingrdquo Major General

John Kelly

Page 13

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Palin Promises Tax-Cut Package VP Candidate Rallies Crowd On Economic

amp Social Issues

has made a more concerted effort to recapture his footing in the state the past week

He and Mrs Pal-in cam-paigned

together Wednesday in Bethlehem She hit a Pittsburgh fundraiser Fri-day and then a Johnstown rally and a Philadelphia Flyers hockey game Saturday Mr McCain arrived in Phil-adelphia on Monday and unveiled his new economic plan Tuesday in Blue Bell a Philadelphia suburb

The Scranton crowd Tuesday was larger than the one that greeted Mrs Clinton and Mr Biden in the same venue Sunday

The McCain-Palin campaign esti-mated Tuesdayrsquos crowd at 5800 and said it was based on a Secret Service door count but the crowd appeared to be closer to 4500 peo-ple The smaller estimate by The Times-Tribune was based on the number of rows of risers a typical rowrsquos occupancy and a per-person count of the depth and width of the standing audience

Mrs Palin never mentioned Mrs Clinton But she brought up Gov Casey while talking about her son Trig who has Down syndrome

and promising to bring attention to ldquochildren with special needsrdquo as vice president

ldquoIt was the great Pennsylvania governor Robert Casey a son of Scranton who said rdquo Mrs Palin said pausing as the mention drew a mix of applause and boos ldquoHe was asked once how society should treat the most vulnerable among us such as children with special needs And he said Itrsquos simple you put them first in linersquo

ldquoSee Gov Casey understood that these children can inspire a special love and thatrsquos a love that this world needs more of Our children are not a problem theyrsquore a priorityrdquo

Mrs Palin did not specifically men-tion abortion or Mr Caseyrsquos cru-sade against it but said ldquoI do be-lieve that the truest measure of any society is how we treat those who are least able to defend and speak for themselves Who is more vul-nerable who is more innocent than a childrdquo

Trig taught her ldquothat everyone be-longs in the circle of protectionrdquo she said ldquoAnd that every child has something to contribute to the world if we give them that chancerdquoAs she pushed Mr McCainrsquos plan to expand all forms of energy in-cluding alternative ones Mrs Pal-in mocked Mr Biden for trashing clean-coal technology[ ]

Proposition 8 on the Cali-fornia ballot

which would negate a state Supreme Court ruling legalizing homosexual ldquomar-riagerdquo appears to be gaining strength

Previous polls have shown the traditional marriage supporters trail-ing but a new one by a San Fran-cisco CBS television station shows Prop 8 is ahead 47 to 42 percent ldquoTen percent are still undecided It means itrsquos still a close race but the shift still seems to be taking placerdquo says Randy Thomasson of Save-Californiacom

The pro-family activist believes success will depend on two

factors -- encouraging people to vote and getting Christians to vote according to the Bible Thomasson is hopeful pastors will take an active role as the election nears

ldquoTheyrsquove got to be men of God who are bold and courageous and say lsquoGod says marriage is only for a man and womanrsquordquo he adds ldquoWe all must be Christians not just people who say theyrsquore Christians and do not fol-low Christ in this matterrdquo

Thomasson attributes the new poll results in part to a new television commercial that does an effective job of selling the traditional view of marriage as well as the homosexual activists imposing acceptance of their lifestyle on everyone else

By Borys Krawczeniuk Scranton Times-Tribune

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1 The Fossil RecordEvolutionists have constructed the Geologic Column in order to illustrate the supposed progression of ldquoprimitiverdquo life forms to ldquomore complexrdquo systems we observe today Yet ldquosince only a small percentage of the earthrsquos surface obeys even a portion of the geologic column the claim of their having taken place to form a continuum of rocklifetime over the earth is therefore a fantastic and imaginative contrivance1rdquo ldquo[T]he lack of transitional series cannot be explained as being due to the scarcity of material The deficiencies are real they will never be filledrdquo2 This supposed column is actually saturated with ldquopolystrate fossilsrdquo (fossils extending from one geologic layer to another) that tie all the layers to one time-frame ldquo[T]o the unprejudiced the fossil record of plants is in favor of special creationrdquo 3

2 Decay of Earthrsquos Magnetic Field Dr Thomas Barnes Emeritus Professor of Physics at the University of Texas at El Paso has published the definitive work in this field4 Scientific observations since 1829 have shown that the earthrsquos magnetic field has been measurably decaying at an exponential rate demonstrating its half-life to be approximately 1400 years In practical applica-tion its strength 20000 years ago would approximate that of a mag-netic star Under those conditions many of the molecules neces-sary for life processes could not form These data demonstrate that earthrsquos entire history is young within a few thousand of years

3 The Global Flood The Biblical record clearly describes a global Flood during Noahrsquos day Additionally there are hundreds of Flood traditions handed down through cultures all over the world 5 ME Clark and Henry Voss have demonstrated the scientific validity of such a Flood providing the sedimentary layering we see on every continent 6 Secular scholars report very rapid sedimentation and periods of great carbonate deposition in earthrsquos sedimentary layers7 It is now pos-sible to prove the historical reality of the Biblical Flood8

4 Population StatisticsWorld population growth rate in recent times is about 2 per year Practicable application of growth rate throughout human history would be about half that number Wars disease famine etc have wiped out approximately one third of the population on average every 82 years Starting with eight people and applying these growth rates since the Flood of Noahrsquos day (about 4500 years ago) would give a total human population at just under six billion people However application on an evolution-ary time scale runs into major difficulties Starting with one ldquocouplerdquo just 41000 years ago would give us a total population of 2 x 1089 9 The universe does not have space to hold so many bodies

5 Radio HalosPhysicist Robert Gentry has reported isolated radio halos of polonuim-214 in crystalline granite The half-life of this element is 0000164 seconds To record the existence of this element in such short time span the granite must be in crystalline state instantaneously10 This runs counter to evolutionary estimates of 300 million years for granite to form

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Russia to Sell Arms to Iran amp Venezuela

Russia turned up its nose at the United States Thursday by announcing plans to sell

military equipment to both Iran and Venezuela

The head of the state arms ex-porter said Russia was negotiating to sell new anti-aircraft systems to Iran despite American objections

ldquoContacts between our countries are continuing and we do not see any reason to suspend themrdquo Ana-toly Isaikin general director of Ro-soboronexport told Russian news agency Ria-Novosti at an arms fair in South Africa

Reports have circulated for some time that Russia is preparing to sell its S-300 surface-to-air mis-sile system to Iran offering greater protection against a possible US or Israeli attack on the Islamic

republicrsquos nuclear facilities The missiles have a range of more than 93 miles and can intercept jets ap-proaching at low altitudes

Russia has already delivered 29 Tor-M1 missile systems under a $700 million deal with Iran in 2005Sergei Chemezov the head of state-owned Russian Technologies also disclosed that Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez wanted to buy anti-aircraft systems armored personnel carriers and new SU-35 fighter jets when they come into production in 2010

The US plans to place an anti-missile shield in eastern Europe to deter surprise attacks from Iran have outraged Russia which believes the system in Poland and the Czech Republic is aimed at weakening its defenses

time of confusion and of peril Jesus said ldquoMy sheep hear my voicerdquo (John 1027)Begin to assess Have you been living for yourself or living for God ldquoBut seek first the Kingdom of God and His righteousness and all these things shall be added to yourdquo (Matthew 633) Godrsquos ways are always better for us than our own waysRemember even if you lose your job you havenrsquot lost your identity Who you are goes beyond a re-sume or a personal network You are a child of God and when you make Jesus the Lord of your life He promises that He has good plans for you ldquoPlans to prosper you not to harm you plans to give you hope and a futurerdquo (Jer 2911)

to step out of our professional suits and ties and be a friend to a lot of our colleagues who arenrsquot Chris-tiansrdquo Craig told CBN News

ldquoMy wife and I have always be-lieved that God is the ultimate source of our income and our provi-sion and that he provides for us first and foremostrdquo Manasseh saidd

Nobody knows just how long this financial upheaval will last But for those who put their trust -- not in bull markets but in Christ - the ride promises to be a little less bumpyAre You Anxious About the Mar-kets

DiMaio offers this advice if you are anxious about whatrsquos happening on Wall StreetBegin to listen to what God is speaking to you right now in this

Christians on Wall Street Praying amp Hoping

GOODYEAR

JESUS IS LORD

continued from page12

FREEDOM Page 7

Author and historian David Barton is the Founder and President of WallBuilders a national pro-family organization which distributes historical legal and statistical information and helps citizens become active in their local schools and communities WallBuilders is a name taken from the Bible book of Nehemiah And just as Nehemiah led a grassroots movement in Jerusalem to rebuild the walls of that city and restore its strength and honor so too WallBuilders seeks to energize the grassroots today to rebuild that which makes America strongmdashits constitutional moral and religious foundations

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that the kingdom of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ may be estab-lished in peace and righteousness

among all the nations of the earth

that with true contrition of heart we may confess our sins resolve to for-sake them and implore the Divine forgiveness

through the merits and mediation of Jesus Christ our Savior And fi-nally to overrule all the commotions in the world to the spreading the true religion of our Lord Jesus Christ in its purity and power among all the people of the earth

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[T]hanks be given unto Almighty God therefore and knowing that it is ap-pointed for all men once to die and after that the judgment [Hebrews 927] principally I give and rec-ommend my soul into the hands of Almighty God who gave it and my body to the earth to be buried in a decent and Christian like manner to receive the same again at the general resurrection by the mighty power of God

VOTER ISSUE GUIDE

Patrick Henry

REVOLUTIONARY GENERAL LEGISLATOR ldquoTHE VOICE OF LIBERTYrdquo RATIFIER OF THE U S CONSTITUTION GOVER-NOR OF VIRGINIA

Being a Christianhellip is a charac-ter which I prize far above all this world has or can boast

The Biblehellip is a book worth more than all the other books that were ever printed

Righteousness alone can exalt America as a nation Whoever thou art remember this and in thy sphere practice virtue thyself and encourage it in others

The great pillars of all govern-ment and of social life [are] vir-tue morality and religion

Continued In The Next Issue of FREEDOM

FREEDOMPage 8

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The head of a terrorism watch-dog group says Barack Obamarsquos new Muslim out-

reach director should have never taken part in a meeting last month in Northern Virginia that was attended by two Muslim leaders who support terrorist groups

NBC News reports that Obamarsquos Mus-lim outreach director Minha Husaini spoke to a small group of Muslim leaders and po-tential Obama supporters at a hotel in Springfield Virginia on Septem-ber 15 One of the Muslim leaders attending the meeting was Mahdi Bray of the Muslim American Soci-ety Bray once equated the Israeli assassination of a Hamas leader as ldquoan unlawful cowardly and dangerous act of state-sponsored terrorismrdquo

Joe Kaufman chairman of the group Americans Against Hate notes Bray and other leaders of the group are supporters of the terror-

ist groups Hamas and Hezbollah ldquoThe organization has just recent-ly used the Internet to call for the murder of Jews and the waging of war against non-Muslimsrdquo he

contends ldquoItrsquos cer-tainly not an organiza-tion that anyone from a political campaign should be attending a meeting withrdquo

Another Muslim lead-er who attended the September meeting

was Nihad Awad executive direc-tor of the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) which was listed by the government as an unindicted co-conspirator in a terrorism financing case

The Obama campaign claims its Muslim outreach director would not have attended the event had it known beforehand who all the attendees were However a par-ticipant at the meeting contends the Obama camp was aware that top CAIR officials would be in at-tendance

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lsquoJoe the Plumberrsquo Upstages Candidates

The man known as lsquoJoe the Plumberrsquo is getting just as much or more attention

than the presidential candidates since Wednesday nightrsquos debate

Joe Wurzelbacher a Christian grabbed the spotlight when Sen John McCain cited him as an example of someone who can ex-pect to suffer under Sen Barack Obamarsquos economic policy

Wurzelbach-er 34 said he was un-derwhelmed with Obamarsquos position on taxes He recently confronted the Illinois senator over his plan to ldquospread the wealth aroundrdquo by taxing higher income earners He contends that Obamarsquos plan would hurt him if he chose to buy the plumbing business he has been saving up for

ldquoOne Irsquom not wealthyrdquo he said ldquoThis is something that Irsquom going to have to make payments on in order to purchaserdquo

ldquoAnd for him to think that he has

a say in how I spend my money itrsquos my discretion that I give to the church that I give to charities that I give to friends or family members Itrsquos not the govern-mentrsquos placerdquo he said

He continued ldquoTo step in and say lsquoyoursquore making a little too much I want to make it fairrsquo - lifersquos not fairrdquo

The Ohio plumber has since been flooded with requests for interviews for the me-dia about his remarks Wurzelbach-er has also weighed in with a Chris-tian perspec-tive on the Iraq war

ldquoEverything that Americans take for granted I mean these guys havenrsquot had it - now theyrsquove got it Thatrsquos an incredible thing I donrsquot know if you guys are Chris-tians or not but thatrsquos like some-one coming to Jesus and being saved These guys have free-domrdquo he said

Although he is outspoken on the issues Wurzelbacher will not say who he will vote for

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Have you ever been in a race or relay game at school Do you remember what it was like at the starting line With seconds away from the word ldquogordquo do you think it would be a good idea to be looking around you wondering about what you are going to eat for dinner Or what if you were worried about how you looked and decided you wanted to comb your hair No I donrsquot think that would be a good idea to do such things - not if you wanted to win the race that is At the starting line it is best to keep your attention on the race and the finish line Baseball is like this Have you ever seen a baseball game before Have you noticed how the pitcher keeps his eyes and all of his attention on the batter who is up The person batting is his aim or target He shuts out all the cheers from the fans He doesnrsquot think about what he is going to eat for dinner The only thing he sees and thinks about is his target the batter Whatrsquos your target What do you spend your time thinking about and looking forward to doing Is it just to play with your friends all day Or is your aim to watch a favorite TV show These things arenrsquot wrong

to do but they shouldnrsquot be all that you want to do Why not make it your target to spend time with Jesus Our Bible verse today commands us that we should keep our eyes on Jesus How do you think that you can do that Well let me tell you a story about a group of Godrsquos people in the Old Testament that were being disobedient God was bringing them to a better land but along the journey the people grumbled and complained They were not being thankful Because of their disobedience snakes came into their camp They were scared They got bitten by the snakes They then cried to their leader Moses to help them God told Moses to make a big brass snake and put it high on a pole for all the people to see Those that were obedient and looked at the brass snake would not die God would help them and forgive them Thatrsquos the same for us today As we keep our eyes on Jesus He will help us and keep us safe Continue to read your Bible Continue to pray By doing so you are making Jesus your target

FREEDOM Page 9

Early one morning a mother went in to wake up her son ldquoWake up son Itrsquos time to go to

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There are some ministries that spiritu-ally are just like caliche They arenrsquot good ground for your seed So before you give pray about where that gift should go Donrsquot rely on your own judgments Donrsquot reason it out and say ldquoWell this preacher over here is screaming and crying and saying hersquos going under so I guess Irsquoll give to himrdquo

You go to the Lord of the tithe and find out where He wants you to put your money Hersquos the only one who can direct you to truly good ground every time

C Water It Once your good seed is in good ground keep watering it with the Word of God Speak faith over it all week long Call forth the growth of that seed by ldquocalling things that be not as though they wererdquo (Rom 417) It may just be a little seed but you need to start call-ing it grown

You may say ldquoWell brother I believe in telling things like they arerdquo You wonrsquot ever see any growth in your life then because spiritual things grow as words are released Thatrsquos Godrsquos way

Charles Capps says the one who ldquotells things like they arerdquo is like the guy who went out on the porch to give his dog a bone When he got out there he found the dog wasnrsquot there - just the cat So he started saying ldquoHere kitty kitty kittyrdquo His neighbor said ldquoI thought you wanted to give that bone to the dogrdquo ldquoI didrdquo answered his friend ldquobut I like to say it like it is - and the cat not the dog is the one thatrsquos hererdquo

Donrsquot be like that guy Call the dog Hersquoll come Water your seed with words of faith Donrsquot call poverty if you donrsquot want poverty Call yourself prosperous Call that need met Before long yoursquoll be so full of joy and so full of expectan-cy that even the watering will be fun

Plant the seed Find good soil Water it Then as Mark 427 says all you have to do is ldquosleep and rise night and day and the seed will spring and grow uprdquo

ldquoBut I donrsquot understand how that worksrdquo you say It doesnrsquot mat-ter Just do it Plant and water Sleep and rise Sure enough one of these mornings yoursquoll wake up to an abundant harvest

Source One Word From God Can Change Your Finances by Kenneth

and Gloria Copeland Excerpt permission granted by Har-

rison House Publishers

can come against you and suc-ceedmdashthatrsquos what I call power

Page 10 FREEDOM

Right now many of

us are fac-ing needs Big needs Needs so great that without the direct intervention of God they canrsquot possi-bly be met Because of that we need to be more certain than ever before that we understand - and abide by - Godrsquos laws of abundance Those laws are extremely important but praise God theyrsquore not complicated In fact theyrsquore as simple as ABC

A Decide to Plant In Mark 4 Jesus compared the work-ings of the kingdom of God to planting seeds in the earth ldquoWhen the seed is sownrdquo He said ldquoit grows up and becomes greaterrdquo (v 32) Notice He didnrsquot say that when the seed is sown it occasionally grows up and becomes greater Or it grows up and becomes greater if itrsquos Godrsquos will He said ldquoIt grows up and becomes greaterrdquo Period

Godrsquos economy isnrsquot like ours It isnrsquot up one day and down the other Itrsquos always the same and it always works perfectly If you have good earth good seed and good water you will have growth Itrsquos inevitable The laws of God will produce that increase every single time So if yoursquore facing a need donrsquot panic - plant a seed

That seed may take the form of time money or some other resource you have to give But no matter what form it takes you need to understand that the gift itself isnrsquot really your seed Therersquos no life in it Itrsquos just the husk

There are people whorsquove planted husks for years But because they didnrsquot put any life in them nothing ever came up So donrsquot just plunk a husk in the offering bucket when it goes by Put life in it first Praise and worship God over it Say ldquoLord Irsquom offering You my goods to do Your work with and as I bring You my goods I bring myself I give myself to You spirit soul and bodyrdquo

Pray over that seed Fill it with faith worship and the Word Then it will be ready to plant

B Find Good Ground Out in West Texas on my grandfa-therrsquos farm there were big white patches of caliche Itrsquos the most worth-less dirt in the world when it comes to planting seed It wonrsquot grow anything I donrsquot care how fine your seed is if you plant it in caliche you wonrsquot get a crop

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Three Ways To Guard You Thought Life

Protection We guard our home car skin and even time but some-times we neglect to guard one of the most important areasmdashour thought life We need to place a guard over our thought life

Herersquos How 1 Take control Donrsquot allow your thoughts to wander like an out-of-control car Grab hold of the steer-ing wheel The Word of God says to take captive every thought and to bring it into the obedience of Christ (2 Cor 105) You may not be able to control every thought that comes in but you can deter-mine whether or not it stays

2 Guard your gate Whatrsquos the gate of your mind Itrsquos your eyes and ears Donrsquot put junk into your thought life by throwing open the gate Filter what comes in Remember the computer term GIGO garbage in garbage out

3 Thought replacement When thoughts of fear or doubt come your way replace them with love and faith You cannot have two complete thoughts in your mind at the same time For good thought replacement ideas see Philippi-

ans 48

Five Roads to Popularity With-out Losing Your Reputation

Everyone wants to be popular Popu-larity isnrsquot a bad thing In fact Jesus was very popular during much of His ministry He never compromised His character or morals to gain accep-tance You can become popular by making both bad choices and good ones

Here are five roads to popularity while maintaining your integrity 1 Be a kind person You will never be short on friends

2 When you do something do it with all your might Excellence draws a crowd

3 Promote others and their accom-plishments not your own God will then be able to exalt you

4 Dare to dream big and pray for the seemingly impossible People are drawn to those filled with hope and faith

5 Stand up for what is right Our world today is desperately searching for real heroes

Four Reasons You Should Be Cool

God wants you to be cool accept-ed and favored The Scripture says ldquoLet not mercy and truth forsake you bind them around your neck write them on the tablet of your heart and so find favor and high esteem in the sight of God and manrdquo (Prov 334 NKJV) You can enjoy favor acceptance and popularity with both God and people Here are 4 reasons why you should be cool

1 Cool accepted people have the ability to influence others for good That includes a witness of your Christian faith

2 Cool favored people have con-fidence to do things others believe to be impossible or improbable

3 Accepted people find it easy and natural to show others Godrsquos love

4 Cool people stand up for truth and donrsquot need everyone to agree with them

Source Every Teenagerrsquos Little Black Book of Hard to Find Information Excerpt permission granted by Harrison House Publishers

EXCERTS FROM Every Teenagerrsquos Little Black Book of Hard to Find Information

by Blaine Bartel

Visiting Northeast Pennsylvania for the first time Republican vice presidential nominee Sarah Palin

touted the new economic plan running mate John McCain unveiled Tuesday while invoking the name of the late Gov Robert P Casey as a champion of children with mental dis-abilities

Mrs Palin also called up the regionrsquos coal-pro-ducing past by jabbing at another Scranton na-tive Democratic vice presidential nominee Joe Biden for once being critical of clean-coal tech-nology as an alternative energy source

Mrs Palin told a raucous crowd at River-front Sports that Mr McCain would turn American anger and frustration over the current economic crisis into reform

The new economic plan would get the nation ldquothrough a time of testingrdquo and put ldquothe economy back on trackrdquo she said

ldquoUnder this plan wersquoll help American families keep their homes and save fam-ily neighborhoods and bring stability to our housing marketrdquo Mrs Palin said

The plan seeks to reduce to 10 percent the tax on senior-citizen withdrawals from retirement accounts in 2008 and 2009 re-duce to 75 percent the capital gains tax in 2009 and 2010 and quintuple deductions of capital losses It is meant to supplement Mr McCainrsquos call last week for a $300 bil-

lion government purchase of troubled mort-gagesMrs Palinrsquos 29-minute speech was frequently interrupted with applause or chants of ldquoSarah Sarah Sarahrdquo She was accompanied by her

husband Todd whom she called Alaskarsquos ldquofirst duderdquo and Martin Buser the four-time champion of the Iditarod the famed dog sled race

Singer Lee Greenwood opened the program by sing-ing the national anthem and his well-known ldquoGod Bless the USArdquo

Behind Mrs Palin supporters many wearing red held signs stating ldquoHunters Cling to Sar-

ahrdquo ldquoReal People Vote Palinrdquo and ldquoPro-Life Pro-Family Pro-Palinrdquo

The visit was the third by the Republican ticket to the region since July and highlighted the campaignrsquos focus on attracting disenchanted Democrats who had supported New York Sen Hillary Clinton

Signs announcing the presence of a Scran-ton-based group calling itself ldquoDemocrats for McCainrdquo dotted the crowd

For more than a week statewide polls have showed Mr McCain trailing Democratic presi-dential nominee Barack Obama by double-dig-it margins in Pennsylvania The daily five-day tracking poll by Muhlenberg College had Mr Obama up 51 percent to 38 percent through Monday the 12th consecutive day with a dou-ble-digit margin

With slumping poll numbers Mr McCain

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Palin Promises Tax-Cut Package VP Candidate Rallies Crowd On Economic

amp Social Issues

Christians on Wall Street Praying amp Hoping

Wall Street is in one of the most volatile economic downturns in US his-

tory The temptation to panic is high So how are Christians who work on Wall Street reacting to the crisis As CBN News discovered they are cling-ing to the rock that can not be moved

The market has just opened on the New York Stock Exchange and already investors are bracing for what promises to be another tumultuous day

But Wall Street is more than just stocks and bonds buying and selling - itrsquos also a place where

many Christians work and even pray And now they are praying like never before

Help us to lift you up in this place we need you here more than everrdquo one man prayed

Longest Run-ning Prayer Meeting in the US

Wall Street is the home of

the longest running prayer meet-ings in the country It started in 1977 after a few believers decided there was a need

Financial adviser Vaughn Weimer has been an active member since the early 1980rsquos

ldquoIrsquove been hearing from almost all

of my clients during the last two weeksrdquo Weimer told CBN News ldquoNo onersquos panicked yet No onersquos fallen over in a faint yetrdquo

Weimer says he believes God is going to redeem Wall Street and just like the historic Fulton Street revival make this a place of prayer once again

ldquoThere was a time here when at Noon every business shut down while people prayedrdquo Weimer recalled ldquoWe have a heart and a vision for that to happen again for those who work here every dayrdquo

Anthony DiMaio used to work on the floor of the NYSE and now runs a ministry known as BOLD The ministryrsquos mission is to reach out to New Yorkrsquos financial district with a message of spiri-tual relevance He believes God is using this economic crisis to get people to look up

ldquoWe all know that the fastest way to reach anybody is through their pocket bookrdquo DiMaio said ldquoAnd so if God wants to get your attention hersquoll get it thererdquo

Trinity Church A Place of Refuge

Standing like a beacon in the dark night of Wall Streetrsquos soul is Trinity Church For almost 200 years Trinityrsquos cross has wel-comed those coming into New Yorkrsquos harbor seeking freedom However in the last few weeks more people are seeking refuge of a different kind behind the churchrsquos front door

ldquoThe people sitting in the pews at our daily worship are either directly affected by having lost a job or they are afraid of losing a jobrdquo

the Rev Canon Anne Mallonnee told CBN News

Mallonnee says she recently ministered to one such woman overcome with anxiety

ldquoBeing able to pray with her and have her just reconnect with that peace of God which surpasses all of this turmoil and have her be able to leave more centered and confident that God is with her in thisrdquo Mallonnee said

But not all those affected by the financial crisis are on Wall Street Pastor Terry Smith of the Life Christian Church in West Orange New Jersey says about 25 percent of his parishioners work in New Yorkrsquos financial district A fact that could affect the churchrsquos bottom line It could also affect the churchrsquos plans for building a new facility

ldquoThere are people who have planned to give major gifts who are concerned about their capacity to do that right nowrdquo Smith explained ldquoTheir hearts are to do it I think God is going to help them to be able to do it but this is a real concern for usrdquo

Smith believes whatrsquos happen-ing on Wall Street is not neces-sarily Godrsquos punishment

ldquoThis kind of a crisis reminds us that we are not self-suffi-cient - regardless of how hard we work and how much we invest and how hard we try to prepare for the future re-ally we need himrdquo Smith said ldquoAnd itrsquos in our weakness that we discover how strong he isrdquo

Both Ray Craig and Raji Manasseh attend Smithrsquos church and work for major Wall Street banks They are deter-mined to be a light in the midst of the storm

ldquoThis is an opportunity for us

Wall Street Praying Continuned

Page 12

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curred at night between 9 pm and 5 am over the past 10 months so as not to disturb Iraqi drivers and clog the roads

They dubbed it ldquoOperation Rudy Gi-ulianirdquo because they were cleaning the streets up and returning Fallujah to normalcy mdash taking down barbed wire and tearing down checkpoints and Jersey walls that made Anbar look like a war zone

ldquoThere is almost no barbed wire left anywhere in Fal-lujahrdquo Kelly said An Iraqi no longer sees barbed wire when traveling in and around the city

Between 300 and 400 con-crete barriers that divided the city were removed by Navy Seabees

One of the big changes Kelly made when he took command in Anbar was to remove fixed checkpoints and Iraqi vehicles no longer had to pull off to the side when a military convoy was on the road His troops risked car bombs but the gamble paid off in what had once been Iraqrsquos most dangerous province The new road rules instantly low-ered the tension between military and locals Soon he transitioned to moving military convoys only at night so they would not encounter locals This also stymied many of the insurgents laying IEDs or road-side bombs which they often had done at night

Another change for the better since Kelly arrived in February He pushed the central government to provide more fuel to the people of Anbar so the mostly Sunni popu-lation is now happier In February Anbaris were receiving only 8 per-cent of their allocation of fuel from the central government of Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki Now itrsquos 90 percent mdash eliminating one of their

main gripes

But perhaps the biggest sign that the situation has changed for the better for Sunnis living in Anbar With the help of the Ma-rines and the Iraqi police nearly 100 percent of the eligible vot-ing population were registered a month ago to vote in upcoming provincial elections

ldquoThey seem to add another polit-ical party every dayrdquo Kelly said ldquoWe didnrsquot have a single security violation of any kind Theyrsquore at least going to give the electoral process a shot hellip at least going to give democracy a chancerdquo

The Sunnis who fueled a large part of Iraqrsquos insurgency boycot-

ted the last election for Parliament with only 3 percent of Sunnis par-ticipating Now they feel they have a stake in the government

ldquoThis is an amazing indicator as to where this province isrdquo Kelly saidHe and the Marines no longer use violence as an indicator of how much progress they have made

Two years ago they had 400 attacks mdash roadside bombs or shootings mdash at US forces every week In February it was down to 30 attacks per week Now it is down to under 12 attacks per week There hasnrsquot been a

Marine death in a few months

Troop numbers have dropped as well mdash down by 40 percent since February About 26000 Marines still serve in Anbar

ldquoIn Anbar there is no longer an insurgencyrdquo Kelly said ldquoUnless someone does something stupid (for instance if the Coalition were to accidentally kill a large number of civilians) this place will not go back to the way it wasrdquo

In football terms Kelly says the Marines are ldquoin the last 10 yards of this fightrdquo

ldquoCould it go back I donrsquot think sordquo he said firmly ldquoWe are winning this thingrdquo

Last One Turn Out The Lights Marines Quietly Begin Leaving

ldquoWe are winning

this thingrdquo Major General

John Kelly

Page 13

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Palin Promises Tax-Cut Package VP Candidate Rallies Crowd On Economic

amp Social Issues

has made a more concerted effort to recapture his footing in the state the past week

He and Mrs Pal-in cam-paigned

together Wednesday in Bethlehem She hit a Pittsburgh fundraiser Fri-day and then a Johnstown rally and a Philadelphia Flyers hockey game Saturday Mr McCain arrived in Phil-adelphia on Monday and unveiled his new economic plan Tuesday in Blue Bell a Philadelphia suburb

The Scranton crowd Tuesday was larger than the one that greeted Mrs Clinton and Mr Biden in the same venue Sunday

The McCain-Palin campaign esti-mated Tuesdayrsquos crowd at 5800 and said it was based on a Secret Service door count but the crowd appeared to be closer to 4500 peo-ple The smaller estimate by The Times-Tribune was based on the number of rows of risers a typical rowrsquos occupancy and a per-person count of the depth and width of the standing audience

Mrs Palin never mentioned Mrs Clinton But she brought up Gov Casey while talking about her son Trig who has Down syndrome

and promising to bring attention to ldquochildren with special needsrdquo as vice president

ldquoIt was the great Pennsylvania governor Robert Casey a son of Scranton who said rdquo Mrs Palin said pausing as the mention drew a mix of applause and boos ldquoHe was asked once how society should treat the most vulnerable among us such as children with special needs And he said Itrsquos simple you put them first in linersquo

ldquoSee Gov Casey understood that these children can inspire a special love and thatrsquos a love that this world needs more of Our children are not a problem theyrsquore a priorityrdquo

Mrs Palin did not specifically men-tion abortion or Mr Caseyrsquos cru-sade against it but said ldquoI do be-lieve that the truest measure of any society is how we treat those who are least able to defend and speak for themselves Who is more vul-nerable who is more innocent than a childrdquo

Trig taught her ldquothat everyone be-longs in the circle of protectionrdquo she said ldquoAnd that every child has something to contribute to the world if we give them that chancerdquoAs she pushed Mr McCainrsquos plan to expand all forms of energy in-cluding alternative ones Mrs Pal-in mocked Mr Biden for trashing clean-coal technology[ ]

Proposition 8 on the Cali-fornia ballot

which would negate a state Supreme Court ruling legalizing homosexual ldquomar-riagerdquo appears to be gaining strength

Previous polls have shown the traditional marriage supporters trail-ing but a new one by a San Fran-cisco CBS television station shows Prop 8 is ahead 47 to 42 percent ldquoTen percent are still undecided It means itrsquos still a close race but the shift still seems to be taking placerdquo says Randy Thomasson of Save-Californiacom

The pro-family activist believes success will depend on two

factors -- encouraging people to vote and getting Christians to vote according to the Bible Thomasson is hopeful pastors will take an active role as the election nears

ldquoTheyrsquove got to be men of God who are bold and courageous and say lsquoGod says marriage is only for a man and womanrsquordquo he adds ldquoWe all must be Christians not just people who say theyrsquore Christians and do not fol-low Christ in this matterrdquo

Thomasson attributes the new poll results in part to a new television commercial that does an effective job of selling the traditional view of marriage as well as the homosexual activists imposing acceptance of their lifestyle on everyone else

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1 The Fossil RecordEvolutionists have constructed the Geologic Column in order to illustrate the supposed progression of ldquoprimitiverdquo life forms to ldquomore complexrdquo systems we observe today Yet ldquosince only a small percentage of the earthrsquos surface obeys even a portion of the geologic column the claim of their having taken place to form a continuum of rocklifetime over the earth is therefore a fantastic and imaginative contrivance1rdquo ldquo[T]he lack of transitional series cannot be explained as being due to the scarcity of material The deficiencies are real they will never be filledrdquo2 This supposed column is actually saturated with ldquopolystrate fossilsrdquo (fossils extending from one geologic layer to another) that tie all the layers to one time-frame ldquo[T]o the unprejudiced the fossil record of plants is in favor of special creationrdquo 3

2 Decay of Earthrsquos Magnetic Field Dr Thomas Barnes Emeritus Professor of Physics at the University of Texas at El Paso has published the definitive work in this field4 Scientific observations since 1829 have shown that the earthrsquos magnetic field has been measurably decaying at an exponential rate demonstrating its half-life to be approximately 1400 years In practical applica-tion its strength 20000 years ago would approximate that of a mag-netic star Under those conditions many of the molecules neces-sary for life processes could not form These data demonstrate that earthrsquos entire history is young within a few thousand of years

3 The Global Flood The Biblical record clearly describes a global Flood during Noahrsquos day Additionally there are hundreds of Flood traditions handed down through cultures all over the world 5 ME Clark and Henry Voss have demonstrated the scientific validity of such a Flood providing the sedimentary layering we see on every continent 6 Secular scholars report very rapid sedimentation and periods of great carbonate deposition in earthrsquos sedimentary layers7 It is now pos-sible to prove the historical reality of the Biblical Flood8

4 Population StatisticsWorld population growth rate in recent times is about 2 per year Practicable application of growth rate throughout human history would be about half that number Wars disease famine etc have wiped out approximately one third of the population on average every 82 years Starting with eight people and applying these growth rates since the Flood of Noahrsquos day (about 4500 years ago) would give a total human population at just under six billion people However application on an evolution-ary time scale runs into major difficulties Starting with one ldquocouplerdquo just 41000 years ago would give us a total population of 2 x 1089 9 The universe does not have space to hold so many bodies

5 Radio HalosPhysicist Robert Gentry has reported isolated radio halos of polonuim-214 in crystalline granite The half-life of this element is 0000164 seconds To record the existence of this element in such short time span the granite must be in crystalline state instantaneously10 This runs counter to evolutionary estimates of 300 million years for granite to form

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Russia to Sell Arms to Iran amp Venezuela

Russia turned up its nose at the United States Thursday by announcing plans to sell

military equipment to both Iran and Venezuela

The head of the state arms ex-porter said Russia was negotiating to sell new anti-aircraft systems to Iran despite American objections

ldquoContacts between our countries are continuing and we do not see any reason to suspend themrdquo Ana-toly Isaikin general director of Ro-soboronexport told Russian news agency Ria-Novosti at an arms fair in South Africa

Reports have circulated for some time that Russia is preparing to sell its S-300 surface-to-air mis-sile system to Iran offering greater protection against a possible US or Israeli attack on the Islamic

republicrsquos nuclear facilities The missiles have a range of more than 93 miles and can intercept jets ap-proaching at low altitudes

Russia has already delivered 29 Tor-M1 missile systems under a $700 million deal with Iran in 2005Sergei Chemezov the head of state-owned Russian Technologies also disclosed that Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez wanted to buy anti-aircraft systems armored personnel carriers and new SU-35 fighter jets when they come into production in 2010

The US plans to place an anti-missile shield in eastern Europe to deter surprise attacks from Iran have outraged Russia which believes the system in Poland and the Czech Republic is aimed at weakening its defenses

time of confusion and of peril Jesus said ldquoMy sheep hear my voicerdquo (John 1027)Begin to assess Have you been living for yourself or living for God ldquoBut seek first the Kingdom of God and His righteousness and all these things shall be added to yourdquo (Matthew 633) Godrsquos ways are always better for us than our own waysRemember even if you lose your job you havenrsquot lost your identity Who you are goes beyond a re-sume or a personal network You are a child of God and when you make Jesus the Lord of your life He promises that He has good plans for you ldquoPlans to prosper you not to harm you plans to give you hope and a futurerdquo (Jer 2911)

to step out of our professional suits and ties and be a friend to a lot of our colleagues who arenrsquot Chris-tiansrdquo Craig told CBN News

ldquoMy wife and I have always be-lieved that God is the ultimate source of our income and our provi-sion and that he provides for us first and foremostrdquo Manasseh saidd

Nobody knows just how long this financial upheaval will last But for those who put their trust -- not in bull markets but in Christ - the ride promises to be a little less bumpyAre You Anxious About the Mar-kets

DiMaio offers this advice if you are anxious about whatrsquos happening on Wall StreetBegin to listen to what God is speaking to you right now in this

Christians on Wall Street Praying amp Hoping

GOODYEAR

JESUS IS LORD

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The head of a terrorism watch-dog group says Barack Obamarsquos new Muslim out-

reach director should have never taken part in a meeting last month in Northern Virginia that was attended by two Muslim leaders who support terrorist groups

NBC News reports that Obamarsquos Mus-lim outreach director Minha Husaini spoke to a small group of Muslim leaders and po-tential Obama supporters at a hotel in Springfield Virginia on Septem-ber 15 One of the Muslim leaders attending the meeting was Mahdi Bray of the Muslim American Soci-ety Bray once equated the Israeli assassination of a Hamas leader as ldquoan unlawful cowardly and dangerous act of state-sponsored terrorismrdquo

Joe Kaufman chairman of the group Americans Against Hate notes Bray and other leaders of the group are supporters of the terror-

ist groups Hamas and Hezbollah ldquoThe organization has just recent-ly used the Internet to call for the murder of Jews and the waging of war against non-Muslimsrdquo he

contends ldquoItrsquos cer-tainly not an organiza-tion that anyone from a political campaign should be attending a meeting withrdquo

Another Muslim lead-er who attended the September meeting

was Nihad Awad executive direc-tor of the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) which was listed by the government as an unindicted co-conspirator in a terrorism financing case

The Obama campaign claims its Muslim outreach director would not have attended the event had it known beforehand who all the attendees were However a par-ticipant at the meeting contends the Obama camp was aware that top CAIR officials would be in at-tendance

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lsquoJoe the Plumberrsquo Upstages Candidates

The man known as lsquoJoe the Plumberrsquo is getting just as much or more attention

than the presidential candidates since Wednesday nightrsquos debate

Joe Wurzelbacher a Christian grabbed the spotlight when Sen John McCain cited him as an example of someone who can ex-pect to suffer under Sen Barack Obamarsquos economic policy

Wurzelbach-er 34 said he was un-derwhelmed with Obamarsquos position on taxes He recently confronted the Illinois senator over his plan to ldquospread the wealth aroundrdquo by taxing higher income earners He contends that Obamarsquos plan would hurt him if he chose to buy the plumbing business he has been saving up for

ldquoOne Irsquom not wealthyrdquo he said ldquoThis is something that Irsquom going to have to make payments on in order to purchaserdquo

ldquoAnd for him to think that he has

a say in how I spend my money itrsquos my discretion that I give to the church that I give to charities that I give to friends or family members Itrsquos not the govern-mentrsquos placerdquo he said

He continued ldquoTo step in and say lsquoyoursquore making a little too much I want to make it fairrsquo - lifersquos not fairrdquo

The Ohio plumber has since been flooded with requests for interviews for the me-dia about his remarks Wurzelbach-er has also weighed in with a Chris-tian perspec-tive on the Iraq war

ldquoEverything that Americans take for granted I mean these guys havenrsquot had it - now theyrsquove got it Thatrsquos an incredible thing I donrsquot know if you guys are Chris-tians or not but thatrsquos like some-one coming to Jesus and being saved These guys have free-domrdquo he said

Although he is outspoken on the issues Wurzelbacher will not say who he will vote for

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Have you ever been in a race or relay game at school Do you remember what it was like at the starting line With seconds away from the word ldquogordquo do you think it would be a good idea to be looking around you wondering about what you are going to eat for dinner Or what if you were worried about how you looked and decided you wanted to comb your hair No I donrsquot think that would be a good idea to do such things - not if you wanted to win the race that is At the starting line it is best to keep your attention on the race and the finish line Baseball is like this Have you ever seen a baseball game before Have you noticed how the pitcher keeps his eyes and all of his attention on the batter who is up The person batting is his aim or target He shuts out all the cheers from the fans He doesnrsquot think about what he is going to eat for dinner The only thing he sees and thinks about is his target the batter Whatrsquos your target What do you spend your time thinking about and looking forward to doing Is it just to play with your friends all day Or is your aim to watch a favorite TV show These things arenrsquot wrong

to do but they shouldnrsquot be all that you want to do Why not make it your target to spend time with Jesus Our Bible verse today commands us that we should keep our eyes on Jesus How do you think that you can do that Well let me tell you a story about a group of Godrsquos people in the Old Testament that were being disobedient God was bringing them to a better land but along the journey the people grumbled and complained They were not being thankful Because of their disobedience snakes came into their camp They were scared They got bitten by the snakes They then cried to their leader Moses to help them God told Moses to make a big brass snake and put it high on a pole for all the people to see Those that were obedient and looked at the brass snake would not die God would help them and forgive them Thatrsquos the same for us today As we keep our eyes on Jesus He will help us and keep us safe Continue to read your Bible Continue to pray By doing so you are making Jesus your target

FREEDOM Page 9

Early one morning a mother went in to wake up her son ldquoWake up son Itrsquos time to go to

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There are some ministries that spiritu-ally are just like caliche They arenrsquot good ground for your seed So before you give pray about where that gift should go Donrsquot rely on your own judgments Donrsquot reason it out and say ldquoWell this preacher over here is screaming and crying and saying hersquos going under so I guess Irsquoll give to himrdquo

You go to the Lord of the tithe and find out where He wants you to put your money Hersquos the only one who can direct you to truly good ground every time

C Water It Once your good seed is in good ground keep watering it with the Word of God Speak faith over it all week long Call forth the growth of that seed by ldquocalling things that be not as though they wererdquo (Rom 417) It may just be a little seed but you need to start call-ing it grown

You may say ldquoWell brother I believe in telling things like they arerdquo You wonrsquot ever see any growth in your life then because spiritual things grow as words are released Thatrsquos Godrsquos way

Charles Capps says the one who ldquotells things like they arerdquo is like the guy who went out on the porch to give his dog a bone When he got out there he found the dog wasnrsquot there - just the cat So he started saying ldquoHere kitty kitty kittyrdquo His neighbor said ldquoI thought you wanted to give that bone to the dogrdquo ldquoI didrdquo answered his friend ldquobut I like to say it like it is - and the cat not the dog is the one thatrsquos hererdquo

Donrsquot be like that guy Call the dog Hersquoll come Water your seed with words of faith Donrsquot call poverty if you donrsquot want poverty Call yourself prosperous Call that need met Before long yoursquoll be so full of joy and so full of expectan-cy that even the watering will be fun

Plant the seed Find good soil Water it Then as Mark 427 says all you have to do is ldquosleep and rise night and day and the seed will spring and grow uprdquo

ldquoBut I donrsquot understand how that worksrdquo you say It doesnrsquot mat-ter Just do it Plant and water Sleep and rise Sure enough one of these mornings yoursquoll wake up to an abundant harvest

Source One Word From God Can Change Your Finances by Kenneth

and Gloria Copeland Excerpt permission granted by Har-

rison House Publishers

can come against you and suc-ceedmdashthatrsquos what I call power

Page 10 FREEDOM

Right now many of

us are fac-ing needs Big needs Needs so great that without the direct intervention of God they canrsquot possi-bly be met Because of that we need to be more certain than ever before that we understand - and abide by - Godrsquos laws of abundance Those laws are extremely important but praise God theyrsquore not complicated In fact theyrsquore as simple as ABC

A Decide to Plant In Mark 4 Jesus compared the work-ings of the kingdom of God to planting seeds in the earth ldquoWhen the seed is sownrdquo He said ldquoit grows up and becomes greaterrdquo (v 32) Notice He didnrsquot say that when the seed is sown it occasionally grows up and becomes greater Or it grows up and becomes greater if itrsquos Godrsquos will He said ldquoIt grows up and becomes greaterrdquo Period

Godrsquos economy isnrsquot like ours It isnrsquot up one day and down the other Itrsquos always the same and it always works perfectly If you have good earth good seed and good water you will have growth Itrsquos inevitable The laws of God will produce that increase every single time So if yoursquore facing a need donrsquot panic - plant a seed

That seed may take the form of time money or some other resource you have to give But no matter what form it takes you need to understand that the gift itself isnrsquot really your seed Therersquos no life in it Itrsquos just the husk

There are people whorsquove planted husks for years But because they didnrsquot put any life in them nothing ever came up So donrsquot just plunk a husk in the offering bucket when it goes by Put life in it first Praise and worship God over it Say ldquoLord Irsquom offering You my goods to do Your work with and as I bring You my goods I bring myself I give myself to You spirit soul and bodyrdquo

Pray over that seed Fill it with faith worship and the Word Then it will be ready to plant

B Find Good Ground Out in West Texas on my grandfa-therrsquos farm there were big white patches of caliche Itrsquos the most worth-less dirt in the world when it comes to planting seed It wonrsquot grow anything I donrsquot care how fine your seed is if you plant it in caliche you wonrsquot get a crop

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Music News--wwwtvulivecomSkillet is gearing up for the release of their live CDDVD combo ldquoComatose Comes Aliverdquo and they are also recording brand new music They have posted an online we-bcam in their studio so you can take a peek at their recording sessions for the new al-

bum Along with the webcam they have also posted a blog full of updates about the live CDDVD which includes a track listing for the CD and DVD and some other details

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Three Ways To Guard You Thought Life

Protection We guard our home car skin and even time but some-times we neglect to guard one of the most important areasmdashour thought life We need to place a guard over our thought life

Herersquos How 1 Take control Donrsquot allow your thoughts to wander like an out-of-control car Grab hold of the steer-ing wheel The Word of God says to take captive every thought and to bring it into the obedience of Christ (2 Cor 105) You may not be able to control every thought that comes in but you can deter-mine whether or not it stays

2 Guard your gate Whatrsquos the gate of your mind Itrsquos your eyes and ears Donrsquot put junk into your thought life by throwing open the gate Filter what comes in Remember the computer term GIGO garbage in garbage out

3 Thought replacement When thoughts of fear or doubt come your way replace them with love and faith You cannot have two complete thoughts in your mind at the same time For good thought replacement ideas see Philippi-

ans 48

Five Roads to Popularity With-out Losing Your Reputation

Everyone wants to be popular Popu-larity isnrsquot a bad thing In fact Jesus was very popular during much of His ministry He never compromised His character or morals to gain accep-tance You can become popular by making both bad choices and good ones

Here are five roads to popularity while maintaining your integrity 1 Be a kind person You will never be short on friends

2 When you do something do it with all your might Excellence draws a crowd

3 Promote others and their accom-plishments not your own God will then be able to exalt you

4 Dare to dream big and pray for the seemingly impossible People are drawn to those filled with hope and faith

5 Stand up for what is right Our world today is desperately searching for real heroes

Four Reasons You Should Be Cool

God wants you to be cool accept-ed and favored The Scripture says ldquoLet not mercy and truth forsake you bind them around your neck write them on the tablet of your heart and so find favor and high esteem in the sight of God and manrdquo (Prov 334 NKJV) You can enjoy favor acceptance and popularity with both God and people Here are 4 reasons why you should be cool

1 Cool accepted people have the ability to influence others for good That includes a witness of your Christian faith

2 Cool favored people have con-fidence to do things others believe to be impossible or improbable

3 Accepted people find it easy and natural to show others Godrsquos love

4 Cool people stand up for truth and donrsquot need everyone to agree with them

Source Every Teenagerrsquos Little Black Book of Hard to Find Information Excerpt permission granted by Harrison House Publishers

EXCERTS FROM Every Teenagerrsquos Little Black Book of Hard to Find Information

by Blaine Bartel

Visiting Northeast Pennsylvania for the first time Republican vice presidential nominee Sarah Palin

touted the new economic plan running mate John McCain unveiled Tuesday while invoking the name of the late Gov Robert P Casey as a champion of children with mental dis-abilities

Mrs Palin also called up the regionrsquos coal-pro-ducing past by jabbing at another Scranton na-tive Democratic vice presidential nominee Joe Biden for once being critical of clean-coal tech-nology as an alternative energy source

Mrs Palin told a raucous crowd at River-front Sports that Mr McCain would turn American anger and frustration over the current economic crisis into reform

The new economic plan would get the nation ldquothrough a time of testingrdquo and put ldquothe economy back on trackrdquo she said

ldquoUnder this plan wersquoll help American families keep their homes and save fam-ily neighborhoods and bring stability to our housing marketrdquo Mrs Palin said

The plan seeks to reduce to 10 percent the tax on senior-citizen withdrawals from retirement accounts in 2008 and 2009 re-duce to 75 percent the capital gains tax in 2009 and 2010 and quintuple deductions of capital losses It is meant to supplement Mr McCainrsquos call last week for a $300 bil-

lion government purchase of troubled mort-gagesMrs Palinrsquos 29-minute speech was frequently interrupted with applause or chants of ldquoSarah Sarah Sarahrdquo She was accompanied by her

husband Todd whom she called Alaskarsquos ldquofirst duderdquo and Martin Buser the four-time champion of the Iditarod the famed dog sled race

Singer Lee Greenwood opened the program by sing-ing the national anthem and his well-known ldquoGod Bless the USArdquo

Behind Mrs Palin supporters many wearing red held signs stating ldquoHunters Cling to Sar-

ahrdquo ldquoReal People Vote Palinrdquo and ldquoPro-Life Pro-Family Pro-Palinrdquo

The visit was the third by the Republican ticket to the region since July and highlighted the campaignrsquos focus on attracting disenchanted Democrats who had supported New York Sen Hillary Clinton

Signs announcing the presence of a Scran-ton-based group calling itself ldquoDemocrats for McCainrdquo dotted the crowd

For more than a week statewide polls have showed Mr McCain trailing Democratic presi-dential nominee Barack Obama by double-dig-it margins in Pennsylvania The daily five-day tracking poll by Muhlenberg College had Mr Obama up 51 percent to 38 percent through Monday the 12th consecutive day with a dou-ble-digit margin

With slumping poll numbers Mr McCain

By Borys Krawczeniuk Scranton Times-Tribune

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Palin Promises Tax-Cut Package VP Candidate Rallies Crowd On Economic

amp Social Issues

Christians on Wall Street Praying amp Hoping

Wall Street is in one of the most volatile economic downturns in US his-

tory The temptation to panic is high So how are Christians who work on Wall Street reacting to the crisis As CBN News discovered they are cling-ing to the rock that can not be moved

The market has just opened on the New York Stock Exchange and already investors are bracing for what promises to be another tumultuous day

But Wall Street is more than just stocks and bonds buying and selling - itrsquos also a place where

many Christians work and even pray And now they are praying like never before

Help us to lift you up in this place we need you here more than everrdquo one man prayed

Longest Run-ning Prayer Meeting in the US

Wall Street is the home of

the longest running prayer meet-ings in the country It started in 1977 after a few believers decided there was a need

Financial adviser Vaughn Weimer has been an active member since the early 1980rsquos

ldquoIrsquove been hearing from almost all

of my clients during the last two weeksrdquo Weimer told CBN News ldquoNo onersquos panicked yet No onersquos fallen over in a faint yetrdquo

Weimer says he believes God is going to redeem Wall Street and just like the historic Fulton Street revival make this a place of prayer once again

ldquoThere was a time here when at Noon every business shut down while people prayedrdquo Weimer recalled ldquoWe have a heart and a vision for that to happen again for those who work here every dayrdquo

Anthony DiMaio used to work on the floor of the NYSE and now runs a ministry known as BOLD The ministryrsquos mission is to reach out to New Yorkrsquos financial district with a message of spiri-tual relevance He believes God is using this economic crisis to get people to look up

ldquoWe all know that the fastest way to reach anybody is through their pocket bookrdquo DiMaio said ldquoAnd so if God wants to get your attention hersquoll get it thererdquo

Trinity Church A Place of Refuge

Standing like a beacon in the dark night of Wall Streetrsquos soul is Trinity Church For almost 200 years Trinityrsquos cross has wel-comed those coming into New Yorkrsquos harbor seeking freedom However in the last few weeks more people are seeking refuge of a different kind behind the churchrsquos front door

ldquoThe people sitting in the pews at our daily worship are either directly affected by having lost a job or they are afraid of losing a jobrdquo

the Rev Canon Anne Mallonnee told CBN News

Mallonnee says she recently ministered to one such woman overcome with anxiety

ldquoBeing able to pray with her and have her just reconnect with that peace of God which surpasses all of this turmoil and have her be able to leave more centered and confident that God is with her in thisrdquo Mallonnee said

But not all those affected by the financial crisis are on Wall Street Pastor Terry Smith of the Life Christian Church in West Orange New Jersey says about 25 percent of his parishioners work in New Yorkrsquos financial district A fact that could affect the churchrsquos bottom line It could also affect the churchrsquos plans for building a new facility

ldquoThere are people who have planned to give major gifts who are concerned about their capacity to do that right nowrdquo Smith explained ldquoTheir hearts are to do it I think God is going to help them to be able to do it but this is a real concern for usrdquo

Smith believes whatrsquos happen-ing on Wall Street is not neces-sarily Godrsquos punishment

ldquoThis kind of a crisis reminds us that we are not self-suffi-cient - regardless of how hard we work and how much we invest and how hard we try to prepare for the future re-ally we need himrdquo Smith said ldquoAnd itrsquos in our weakness that we discover how strong he isrdquo

Both Ray Craig and Raji Manasseh attend Smithrsquos church and work for major Wall Street banks They are deter-mined to be a light in the midst of the storm

ldquoThis is an opportunity for us

Wall Street Praying Continuned

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curred at night between 9 pm and 5 am over the past 10 months so as not to disturb Iraqi drivers and clog the roads

They dubbed it ldquoOperation Rudy Gi-ulianirdquo because they were cleaning the streets up and returning Fallujah to normalcy mdash taking down barbed wire and tearing down checkpoints and Jersey walls that made Anbar look like a war zone

ldquoThere is almost no barbed wire left anywhere in Fal-lujahrdquo Kelly said An Iraqi no longer sees barbed wire when traveling in and around the city

Between 300 and 400 con-crete barriers that divided the city were removed by Navy Seabees

One of the big changes Kelly made when he took command in Anbar was to remove fixed checkpoints and Iraqi vehicles no longer had to pull off to the side when a military convoy was on the road His troops risked car bombs but the gamble paid off in what had once been Iraqrsquos most dangerous province The new road rules instantly low-ered the tension between military and locals Soon he transitioned to moving military convoys only at night so they would not encounter locals This also stymied many of the insurgents laying IEDs or road-side bombs which they often had done at night

Another change for the better since Kelly arrived in February He pushed the central government to provide more fuel to the people of Anbar so the mostly Sunni popu-lation is now happier In February Anbaris were receiving only 8 per-cent of their allocation of fuel from the central government of Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki Now itrsquos 90 percent mdash eliminating one of their

main gripes

But perhaps the biggest sign that the situation has changed for the better for Sunnis living in Anbar With the help of the Ma-rines and the Iraqi police nearly 100 percent of the eligible vot-ing population were registered a month ago to vote in upcoming provincial elections

ldquoThey seem to add another polit-ical party every dayrdquo Kelly said ldquoWe didnrsquot have a single security violation of any kind Theyrsquore at least going to give the electoral process a shot hellip at least going to give democracy a chancerdquo

The Sunnis who fueled a large part of Iraqrsquos insurgency boycot-

ted the last election for Parliament with only 3 percent of Sunnis par-ticipating Now they feel they have a stake in the government

ldquoThis is an amazing indicator as to where this province isrdquo Kelly saidHe and the Marines no longer use violence as an indicator of how much progress they have made

Two years ago they had 400 attacks mdash roadside bombs or shootings mdash at US forces every week In February it was down to 30 attacks per week Now it is down to under 12 attacks per week There hasnrsquot been a

Marine death in a few months

Troop numbers have dropped as well mdash down by 40 percent since February About 26000 Marines still serve in Anbar

ldquoIn Anbar there is no longer an insurgencyrdquo Kelly said ldquoUnless someone does something stupid (for instance if the Coalition were to accidentally kill a large number of civilians) this place will not go back to the way it wasrdquo

In football terms Kelly says the Marines are ldquoin the last 10 yards of this fightrdquo

ldquoCould it go back I donrsquot think sordquo he said firmly ldquoWe are winning this thingrdquo

Last One Turn Out The Lights Marines Quietly Begin Leaving

ldquoWe are winning

this thingrdquo Major General

John Kelly

Page 13

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Palin Promises Tax-Cut Package VP Candidate Rallies Crowd On Economic

amp Social Issues

has made a more concerted effort to recapture his footing in the state the past week

He and Mrs Pal-in cam-paigned

together Wednesday in Bethlehem She hit a Pittsburgh fundraiser Fri-day and then a Johnstown rally and a Philadelphia Flyers hockey game Saturday Mr McCain arrived in Phil-adelphia on Monday and unveiled his new economic plan Tuesday in Blue Bell a Philadelphia suburb

The Scranton crowd Tuesday was larger than the one that greeted Mrs Clinton and Mr Biden in the same venue Sunday

The McCain-Palin campaign esti-mated Tuesdayrsquos crowd at 5800 and said it was based on a Secret Service door count but the crowd appeared to be closer to 4500 peo-ple The smaller estimate by The Times-Tribune was based on the number of rows of risers a typical rowrsquos occupancy and a per-person count of the depth and width of the standing audience

Mrs Palin never mentioned Mrs Clinton But she brought up Gov Casey while talking about her son Trig who has Down syndrome

and promising to bring attention to ldquochildren with special needsrdquo as vice president

ldquoIt was the great Pennsylvania governor Robert Casey a son of Scranton who said rdquo Mrs Palin said pausing as the mention drew a mix of applause and boos ldquoHe was asked once how society should treat the most vulnerable among us such as children with special needs And he said Itrsquos simple you put them first in linersquo

ldquoSee Gov Casey understood that these children can inspire a special love and thatrsquos a love that this world needs more of Our children are not a problem theyrsquore a priorityrdquo

Mrs Palin did not specifically men-tion abortion or Mr Caseyrsquos cru-sade against it but said ldquoI do be-lieve that the truest measure of any society is how we treat those who are least able to defend and speak for themselves Who is more vul-nerable who is more innocent than a childrdquo

Trig taught her ldquothat everyone be-longs in the circle of protectionrdquo she said ldquoAnd that every child has something to contribute to the world if we give them that chancerdquoAs she pushed Mr McCainrsquos plan to expand all forms of energy in-cluding alternative ones Mrs Pal-in mocked Mr Biden for trashing clean-coal technology[ ]

Proposition 8 on the Cali-fornia ballot

which would negate a state Supreme Court ruling legalizing homosexual ldquomar-riagerdquo appears to be gaining strength

Previous polls have shown the traditional marriage supporters trail-ing but a new one by a San Fran-cisco CBS television station shows Prop 8 is ahead 47 to 42 percent ldquoTen percent are still undecided It means itrsquos still a close race but the shift still seems to be taking placerdquo says Randy Thomasson of Save-Californiacom

The pro-family activist believes success will depend on two

factors -- encouraging people to vote and getting Christians to vote according to the Bible Thomasson is hopeful pastors will take an active role as the election nears

ldquoTheyrsquove got to be men of God who are bold and courageous and say lsquoGod says marriage is only for a man and womanrsquordquo he adds ldquoWe all must be Christians not just people who say theyrsquore Christians and do not fol-low Christ in this matterrdquo

Thomasson attributes the new poll results in part to a new television commercial that does an effective job of selling the traditional view of marriage as well as the homosexual activists imposing acceptance of their lifestyle on everyone else

By Borys Krawczeniuk Scranton Times-Tribune

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1 The Fossil RecordEvolutionists have constructed the Geologic Column in order to illustrate the supposed progression of ldquoprimitiverdquo life forms to ldquomore complexrdquo systems we observe today Yet ldquosince only a small percentage of the earthrsquos surface obeys even a portion of the geologic column the claim of their having taken place to form a continuum of rocklifetime over the earth is therefore a fantastic and imaginative contrivance1rdquo ldquo[T]he lack of transitional series cannot be explained as being due to the scarcity of material The deficiencies are real they will never be filledrdquo2 This supposed column is actually saturated with ldquopolystrate fossilsrdquo (fossils extending from one geologic layer to another) that tie all the layers to one time-frame ldquo[T]o the unprejudiced the fossil record of plants is in favor of special creationrdquo 3

2 Decay of Earthrsquos Magnetic Field Dr Thomas Barnes Emeritus Professor of Physics at the University of Texas at El Paso has published the definitive work in this field4 Scientific observations since 1829 have shown that the earthrsquos magnetic field has been measurably decaying at an exponential rate demonstrating its half-life to be approximately 1400 years In practical applica-tion its strength 20000 years ago would approximate that of a mag-netic star Under those conditions many of the molecules neces-sary for life processes could not form These data demonstrate that earthrsquos entire history is young within a few thousand of years

3 The Global Flood The Biblical record clearly describes a global Flood during Noahrsquos day Additionally there are hundreds of Flood traditions handed down through cultures all over the world 5 ME Clark and Henry Voss have demonstrated the scientific validity of such a Flood providing the sedimentary layering we see on every continent 6 Secular scholars report very rapid sedimentation and periods of great carbonate deposition in earthrsquos sedimentary layers7 It is now pos-sible to prove the historical reality of the Biblical Flood8

4 Population StatisticsWorld population growth rate in recent times is about 2 per year Practicable application of growth rate throughout human history would be about half that number Wars disease famine etc have wiped out approximately one third of the population on average every 82 years Starting with eight people and applying these growth rates since the Flood of Noahrsquos day (about 4500 years ago) would give a total human population at just under six billion people However application on an evolution-ary time scale runs into major difficulties Starting with one ldquocouplerdquo just 41000 years ago would give us a total population of 2 x 1089 9 The universe does not have space to hold so many bodies

5 Radio HalosPhysicist Robert Gentry has reported isolated radio halos of polonuim-214 in crystalline granite The half-life of this element is 0000164 seconds To record the existence of this element in such short time span the granite must be in crystalline state instantaneously10 This runs counter to evolutionary estimates of 300 million years for granite to form

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Russia to Sell Arms to Iran amp Venezuela

Russia turned up its nose at the United States Thursday by announcing plans to sell

military equipment to both Iran and Venezuela

The head of the state arms ex-porter said Russia was negotiating to sell new anti-aircraft systems to Iran despite American objections

ldquoContacts between our countries are continuing and we do not see any reason to suspend themrdquo Ana-toly Isaikin general director of Ro-soboronexport told Russian news agency Ria-Novosti at an arms fair in South Africa

Reports have circulated for some time that Russia is preparing to sell its S-300 surface-to-air mis-sile system to Iran offering greater protection against a possible US or Israeli attack on the Islamic

republicrsquos nuclear facilities The missiles have a range of more than 93 miles and can intercept jets ap-proaching at low altitudes

Russia has already delivered 29 Tor-M1 missile systems under a $700 million deal with Iran in 2005Sergei Chemezov the head of state-owned Russian Technologies also disclosed that Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez wanted to buy anti-aircraft systems armored personnel carriers and new SU-35 fighter jets when they come into production in 2010

The US plans to place an anti-missile shield in eastern Europe to deter surprise attacks from Iran have outraged Russia which believes the system in Poland and the Czech Republic is aimed at weakening its defenses

time of confusion and of peril Jesus said ldquoMy sheep hear my voicerdquo (John 1027)Begin to assess Have you been living for yourself or living for God ldquoBut seek first the Kingdom of God and His righteousness and all these things shall be added to yourdquo (Matthew 633) Godrsquos ways are always better for us than our own waysRemember even if you lose your job you havenrsquot lost your identity Who you are goes beyond a re-sume or a personal network You are a child of God and when you make Jesus the Lord of your life He promises that He has good plans for you ldquoPlans to prosper you not to harm you plans to give you hope and a futurerdquo (Jer 2911)

to step out of our professional suits and ties and be a friend to a lot of our colleagues who arenrsquot Chris-tiansrdquo Craig told CBN News

ldquoMy wife and I have always be-lieved that God is the ultimate source of our income and our provi-sion and that he provides for us first and foremostrdquo Manasseh saidd

Nobody knows just how long this financial upheaval will last But for those who put their trust -- not in bull markets but in Christ - the ride promises to be a little less bumpyAre You Anxious About the Mar-kets

DiMaio offers this advice if you are anxious about whatrsquos happening on Wall StreetBegin to listen to what God is speaking to you right now in this

Christians on Wall Street Praying amp Hoping

GOODYEAR

JESUS IS LORD

continued from page12

Have you ever been in a race or relay game at school Do you remember what it was like at the starting line With seconds away from the word ldquogordquo do you think it would be a good idea to be looking around you wondering about what you are going to eat for dinner Or what if you were worried about how you looked and decided you wanted to comb your hair No I donrsquot think that would be a good idea to do such things - not if you wanted to win the race that is At the starting line it is best to keep your attention on the race and the finish line Baseball is like this Have you ever seen a baseball game before Have you noticed how the pitcher keeps his eyes and all of his attention on the batter who is up The person batting is his aim or target He shuts out all the cheers from the fans He doesnrsquot think about what he is going to eat for dinner The only thing he sees and thinks about is his target the batter Whatrsquos your target What do you spend your time thinking about and looking forward to doing Is it just to play with your friends all day Or is your aim to watch a favorite TV show These things arenrsquot wrong

to do but they shouldnrsquot be all that you want to do Why not make it your target to spend time with Jesus Our Bible verse today commands us that we should keep our eyes on Jesus How do you think that you can do that Well let me tell you a story about a group of Godrsquos people in the Old Testament that were being disobedient God was bringing them to a better land but along the journey the people grumbled and complained They were not being thankful Because of their disobedience snakes came into their camp They were scared They got bitten by the snakes They then cried to their leader Moses to help them God told Moses to make a big brass snake and put it high on a pole for all the people to see Those that were obedient and looked at the brass snake would not die God would help them and forgive them Thatrsquos the same for us today As we keep our eyes on Jesus He will help us and keep us safe Continue to read your Bible Continue to pray By doing so you are making Jesus your target

FREEDOM Page 9

Early one morning a mother went in to wake up her son ldquoWake up son Itrsquos time to go to

schoolrdquo

ldquoBut why Mom I donrsquot want to gordquo

ldquoGive me two reasons why you donrsquot want to gordquo

ldquoWell the kids hate me for one and the teachers hate me toordquo

ldquoOh thatrsquos no reason not to go to school Come on now and get readyrdquo

ldquoGive me two reasons why I should go to

schoolrdquo

ldquoWell for one yoursquore 42 years old And for another yoursquore the

Principalrdquo

LAUGH OUT LOUD

by Cheri J Ekbom

Who won the first human race

Either Adam or Eve It isnrsquot recorded

Where does

the ginger-bread man

sleep Under a

cookie sheet

What do you call a fish that chews with his mouth

open See food

Why did the cookie go to

the hospital Because he felt crummy

How do you make a hankie dance

Put a little boogie in it

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There are some ministries that spiritu-ally are just like caliche They arenrsquot good ground for your seed So before you give pray about where that gift should go Donrsquot rely on your own judgments Donrsquot reason it out and say ldquoWell this preacher over here is screaming and crying and saying hersquos going under so I guess Irsquoll give to himrdquo

You go to the Lord of the tithe and find out where He wants you to put your money Hersquos the only one who can direct you to truly good ground every time

C Water It Once your good seed is in good ground keep watering it with the Word of God Speak faith over it all week long Call forth the growth of that seed by ldquocalling things that be not as though they wererdquo (Rom 417) It may just be a little seed but you need to start call-ing it grown

You may say ldquoWell brother I believe in telling things like they arerdquo You wonrsquot ever see any growth in your life then because spiritual things grow as words are released Thatrsquos Godrsquos way

Charles Capps says the one who ldquotells things like they arerdquo is like the guy who went out on the porch to give his dog a bone When he got out there he found the dog wasnrsquot there - just the cat So he started saying ldquoHere kitty kitty kittyrdquo His neighbor said ldquoI thought you wanted to give that bone to the dogrdquo ldquoI didrdquo answered his friend ldquobut I like to say it like it is - and the cat not the dog is the one thatrsquos hererdquo

Donrsquot be like that guy Call the dog Hersquoll come Water your seed with words of faith Donrsquot call poverty if you donrsquot want poverty Call yourself prosperous Call that need met Before long yoursquoll be so full of joy and so full of expectan-cy that even the watering will be fun

Plant the seed Find good soil Water it Then as Mark 427 says all you have to do is ldquosleep and rise night and day and the seed will spring and grow uprdquo

ldquoBut I donrsquot understand how that worksrdquo you say It doesnrsquot mat-ter Just do it Plant and water Sleep and rise Sure enough one of these mornings yoursquoll wake up to an abundant harvest

Source One Word From God Can Change Your Finances by Kenneth

and Gloria Copeland Excerpt permission granted by Har-

rison House Publishers

can come against you and suc-ceedmdashthatrsquos what I call power

Page 10 FREEDOM

Right now many of

us are fac-ing needs Big needs Needs so great that without the direct intervention of God they canrsquot possi-bly be met Because of that we need to be more certain than ever before that we understand - and abide by - Godrsquos laws of abundance Those laws are extremely important but praise God theyrsquore not complicated In fact theyrsquore as simple as ABC

A Decide to Plant In Mark 4 Jesus compared the work-ings of the kingdom of God to planting seeds in the earth ldquoWhen the seed is sownrdquo He said ldquoit grows up and becomes greaterrdquo (v 32) Notice He didnrsquot say that when the seed is sown it occasionally grows up and becomes greater Or it grows up and becomes greater if itrsquos Godrsquos will He said ldquoIt grows up and becomes greaterrdquo Period

Godrsquos economy isnrsquot like ours It isnrsquot up one day and down the other Itrsquos always the same and it always works perfectly If you have good earth good seed and good water you will have growth Itrsquos inevitable The laws of God will produce that increase every single time So if yoursquore facing a need donrsquot panic - plant a seed

That seed may take the form of time money or some other resource you have to give But no matter what form it takes you need to understand that the gift itself isnrsquot really your seed Therersquos no life in it Itrsquos just the husk

There are people whorsquove planted husks for years But because they didnrsquot put any life in them nothing ever came up So donrsquot just plunk a husk in the offering bucket when it goes by Put life in it first Praise and worship God over it Say ldquoLord Irsquom offering You my goods to do Your work with and as I bring You my goods I bring myself I give myself to You spirit soul and bodyrdquo

Pray over that seed Fill it with faith worship and the Word Then it will be ready to plant

B Find Good Ground Out in West Texas on my grandfa-therrsquos farm there were big white patches of caliche Itrsquos the most worth-less dirt in the world when it comes to planting seed It wonrsquot grow anything I donrsquot care how fine your seed is if you plant it in caliche you wonrsquot get a crop

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Three Ways To Guard You Thought Life

Protection We guard our home car skin and even time but some-times we neglect to guard one of the most important areasmdashour thought life We need to place a guard over our thought life

Herersquos How 1 Take control Donrsquot allow your thoughts to wander like an out-of-control car Grab hold of the steer-ing wheel The Word of God says to take captive every thought and to bring it into the obedience of Christ (2 Cor 105) You may not be able to control every thought that comes in but you can deter-mine whether or not it stays

2 Guard your gate Whatrsquos the gate of your mind Itrsquos your eyes and ears Donrsquot put junk into your thought life by throwing open the gate Filter what comes in Remember the computer term GIGO garbage in garbage out

3 Thought replacement When thoughts of fear or doubt come your way replace them with love and faith You cannot have two complete thoughts in your mind at the same time For good thought replacement ideas see Philippi-

ans 48

Five Roads to Popularity With-out Losing Your Reputation

Everyone wants to be popular Popu-larity isnrsquot a bad thing In fact Jesus was very popular during much of His ministry He never compromised His character or morals to gain accep-tance You can become popular by making both bad choices and good ones

Here are five roads to popularity while maintaining your integrity 1 Be a kind person You will never be short on friends

2 When you do something do it with all your might Excellence draws a crowd

3 Promote others and their accom-plishments not your own God will then be able to exalt you

4 Dare to dream big and pray for the seemingly impossible People are drawn to those filled with hope and faith

5 Stand up for what is right Our world today is desperately searching for real heroes

Four Reasons You Should Be Cool

God wants you to be cool accept-ed and favored The Scripture says ldquoLet not mercy and truth forsake you bind them around your neck write them on the tablet of your heart and so find favor and high esteem in the sight of God and manrdquo (Prov 334 NKJV) You can enjoy favor acceptance and popularity with both God and people Here are 4 reasons why you should be cool

1 Cool accepted people have the ability to influence others for good That includes a witness of your Christian faith

2 Cool favored people have con-fidence to do things others believe to be impossible or improbable

3 Accepted people find it easy and natural to show others Godrsquos love

4 Cool people stand up for truth and donrsquot need everyone to agree with them

Source Every Teenagerrsquos Little Black Book of Hard to Find Information Excerpt permission granted by Harrison House Publishers

EXCERTS FROM Every Teenagerrsquos Little Black Book of Hard to Find Information

by Blaine Bartel

Visiting Northeast Pennsylvania for the first time Republican vice presidential nominee Sarah Palin

touted the new economic plan running mate John McCain unveiled Tuesday while invoking the name of the late Gov Robert P Casey as a champion of children with mental dis-abilities

Mrs Palin also called up the regionrsquos coal-pro-ducing past by jabbing at another Scranton na-tive Democratic vice presidential nominee Joe Biden for once being critical of clean-coal tech-nology as an alternative energy source

Mrs Palin told a raucous crowd at River-front Sports that Mr McCain would turn American anger and frustration over the current economic crisis into reform

The new economic plan would get the nation ldquothrough a time of testingrdquo and put ldquothe economy back on trackrdquo she said

ldquoUnder this plan wersquoll help American families keep their homes and save fam-ily neighborhoods and bring stability to our housing marketrdquo Mrs Palin said

The plan seeks to reduce to 10 percent the tax on senior-citizen withdrawals from retirement accounts in 2008 and 2009 re-duce to 75 percent the capital gains tax in 2009 and 2010 and quintuple deductions of capital losses It is meant to supplement Mr McCainrsquos call last week for a $300 bil-

lion government purchase of troubled mort-gagesMrs Palinrsquos 29-minute speech was frequently interrupted with applause or chants of ldquoSarah Sarah Sarahrdquo She was accompanied by her

husband Todd whom she called Alaskarsquos ldquofirst duderdquo and Martin Buser the four-time champion of the Iditarod the famed dog sled race

Singer Lee Greenwood opened the program by sing-ing the national anthem and his well-known ldquoGod Bless the USArdquo

Behind Mrs Palin supporters many wearing red held signs stating ldquoHunters Cling to Sar-

ahrdquo ldquoReal People Vote Palinrdquo and ldquoPro-Life Pro-Family Pro-Palinrdquo

The visit was the third by the Republican ticket to the region since July and highlighted the campaignrsquos focus on attracting disenchanted Democrats who had supported New York Sen Hillary Clinton

Signs announcing the presence of a Scran-ton-based group calling itself ldquoDemocrats for McCainrdquo dotted the crowd

For more than a week statewide polls have showed Mr McCain trailing Democratic presi-dential nominee Barack Obama by double-dig-it margins in Pennsylvania The daily five-day tracking poll by Muhlenberg College had Mr Obama up 51 percent to 38 percent through Monday the 12th consecutive day with a dou-ble-digit margin

With slumping poll numbers Mr McCain

By Borys Krawczeniuk Scranton Times-Tribune

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Palin Promises Tax-Cut Package VP Candidate Rallies Crowd On Economic

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Christians on Wall Street Praying amp Hoping

Wall Street is in one of the most volatile economic downturns in US his-

tory The temptation to panic is high So how are Christians who work on Wall Street reacting to the crisis As CBN News discovered they are cling-ing to the rock that can not be moved

The market has just opened on the New York Stock Exchange and already investors are bracing for what promises to be another tumultuous day

But Wall Street is more than just stocks and bonds buying and selling - itrsquos also a place where

many Christians work and even pray And now they are praying like never before

Help us to lift you up in this place we need you here more than everrdquo one man prayed

Longest Run-ning Prayer Meeting in the US

Wall Street is the home of

the longest running prayer meet-ings in the country It started in 1977 after a few believers decided there was a need

Financial adviser Vaughn Weimer has been an active member since the early 1980rsquos

ldquoIrsquove been hearing from almost all

of my clients during the last two weeksrdquo Weimer told CBN News ldquoNo onersquos panicked yet No onersquos fallen over in a faint yetrdquo

Weimer says he believes God is going to redeem Wall Street and just like the historic Fulton Street revival make this a place of prayer once again

ldquoThere was a time here when at Noon every business shut down while people prayedrdquo Weimer recalled ldquoWe have a heart and a vision for that to happen again for those who work here every dayrdquo

Anthony DiMaio used to work on the floor of the NYSE and now runs a ministry known as BOLD The ministryrsquos mission is to reach out to New Yorkrsquos financial district with a message of spiri-tual relevance He believes God is using this economic crisis to get people to look up

ldquoWe all know that the fastest way to reach anybody is through their pocket bookrdquo DiMaio said ldquoAnd so if God wants to get your attention hersquoll get it thererdquo

Trinity Church A Place of Refuge

Standing like a beacon in the dark night of Wall Streetrsquos soul is Trinity Church For almost 200 years Trinityrsquos cross has wel-comed those coming into New Yorkrsquos harbor seeking freedom However in the last few weeks more people are seeking refuge of a different kind behind the churchrsquos front door

ldquoThe people sitting in the pews at our daily worship are either directly affected by having lost a job or they are afraid of losing a jobrdquo

the Rev Canon Anne Mallonnee told CBN News

Mallonnee says she recently ministered to one such woman overcome with anxiety

ldquoBeing able to pray with her and have her just reconnect with that peace of God which surpasses all of this turmoil and have her be able to leave more centered and confident that God is with her in thisrdquo Mallonnee said

But not all those affected by the financial crisis are on Wall Street Pastor Terry Smith of the Life Christian Church in West Orange New Jersey says about 25 percent of his parishioners work in New Yorkrsquos financial district A fact that could affect the churchrsquos bottom line It could also affect the churchrsquos plans for building a new facility

ldquoThere are people who have planned to give major gifts who are concerned about their capacity to do that right nowrdquo Smith explained ldquoTheir hearts are to do it I think God is going to help them to be able to do it but this is a real concern for usrdquo

Smith believes whatrsquos happen-ing on Wall Street is not neces-sarily Godrsquos punishment

ldquoThis kind of a crisis reminds us that we are not self-suffi-cient - regardless of how hard we work and how much we invest and how hard we try to prepare for the future re-ally we need himrdquo Smith said ldquoAnd itrsquos in our weakness that we discover how strong he isrdquo

Both Ray Craig and Raji Manasseh attend Smithrsquos church and work for major Wall Street banks They are deter-mined to be a light in the midst of the storm

ldquoThis is an opportunity for us

Wall Street Praying Continuned

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curred at night between 9 pm and 5 am over the past 10 months so as not to disturb Iraqi drivers and clog the roads

They dubbed it ldquoOperation Rudy Gi-ulianirdquo because they were cleaning the streets up and returning Fallujah to normalcy mdash taking down barbed wire and tearing down checkpoints and Jersey walls that made Anbar look like a war zone

ldquoThere is almost no barbed wire left anywhere in Fal-lujahrdquo Kelly said An Iraqi no longer sees barbed wire when traveling in and around the city

Between 300 and 400 con-crete barriers that divided the city were removed by Navy Seabees

One of the big changes Kelly made when he took command in Anbar was to remove fixed checkpoints and Iraqi vehicles no longer had to pull off to the side when a military convoy was on the road His troops risked car bombs but the gamble paid off in what had once been Iraqrsquos most dangerous province The new road rules instantly low-ered the tension between military and locals Soon he transitioned to moving military convoys only at night so they would not encounter locals This also stymied many of the insurgents laying IEDs or road-side bombs which they often had done at night

Another change for the better since Kelly arrived in February He pushed the central government to provide more fuel to the people of Anbar so the mostly Sunni popu-lation is now happier In February Anbaris were receiving only 8 per-cent of their allocation of fuel from the central government of Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki Now itrsquos 90 percent mdash eliminating one of their

main gripes

But perhaps the biggest sign that the situation has changed for the better for Sunnis living in Anbar With the help of the Ma-rines and the Iraqi police nearly 100 percent of the eligible vot-ing population were registered a month ago to vote in upcoming provincial elections

ldquoThey seem to add another polit-ical party every dayrdquo Kelly said ldquoWe didnrsquot have a single security violation of any kind Theyrsquore at least going to give the electoral process a shot hellip at least going to give democracy a chancerdquo

The Sunnis who fueled a large part of Iraqrsquos insurgency boycot-

ted the last election for Parliament with only 3 percent of Sunnis par-ticipating Now they feel they have a stake in the government

ldquoThis is an amazing indicator as to where this province isrdquo Kelly saidHe and the Marines no longer use violence as an indicator of how much progress they have made

Two years ago they had 400 attacks mdash roadside bombs or shootings mdash at US forces every week In February it was down to 30 attacks per week Now it is down to under 12 attacks per week There hasnrsquot been a

Marine death in a few months

Troop numbers have dropped as well mdash down by 40 percent since February About 26000 Marines still serve in Anbar

ldquoIn Anbar there is no longer an insurgencyrdquo Kelly said ldquoUnless someone does something stupid (for instance if the Coalition were to accidentally kill a large number of civilians) this place will not go back to the way it wasrdquo

In football terms Kelly says the Marines are ldquoin the last 10 yards of this fightrdquo

ldquoCould it go back I donrsquot think sordquo he said firmly ldquoWe are winning this thingrdquo

Last One Turn Out The Lights Marines Quietly Begin Leaving

ldquoWe are winning

this thingrdquo Major General

John Kelly

Page 13

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Palin Promises Tax-Cut Package VP Candidate Rallies Crowd On Economic

amp Social Issues

has made a more concerted effort to recapture his footing in the state the past week

He and Mrs Pal-in cam-paigned

together Wednesday in Bethlehem She hit a Pittsburgh fundraiser Fri-day and then a Johnstown rally and a Philadelphia Flyers hockey game Saturday Mr McCain arrived in Phil-adelphia on Monday and unveiled his new economic plan Tuesday in Blue Bell a Philadelphia suburb

The Scranton crowd Tuesday was larger than the one that greeted Mrs Clinton and Mr Biden in the same venue Sunday

The McCain-Palin campaign esti-mated Tuesdayrsquos crowd at 5800 and said it was based on a Secret Service door count but the crowd appeared to be closer to 4500 peo-ple The smaller estimate by The Times-Tribune was based on the number of rows of risers a typical rowrsquos occupancy and a per-person count of the depth and width of the standing audience

Mrs Palin never mentioned Mrs Clinton But she brought up Gov Casey while talking about her son Trig who has Down syndrome

and promising to bring attention to ldquochildren with special needsrdquo as vice president

ldquoIt was the great Pennsylvania governor Robert Casey a son of Scranton who said rdquo Mrs Palin said pausing as the mention drew a mix of applause and boos ldquoHe was asked once how society should treat the most vulnerable among us such as children with special needs And he said Itrsquos simple you put them first in linersquo

ldquoSee Gov Casey understood that these children can inspire a special love and thatrsquos a love that this world needs more of Our children are not a problem theyrsquore a priorityrdquo

Mrs Palin did not specifically men-tion abortion or Mr Caseyrsquos cru-sade against it but said ldquoI do be-lieve that the truest measure of any society is how we treat those who are least able to defend and speak for themselves Who is more vul-nerable who is more innocent than a childrdquo

Trig taught her ldquothat everyone be-longs in the circle of protectionrdquo she said ldquoAnd that every child has something to contribute to the world if we give them that chancerdquoAs she pushed Mr McCainrsquos plan to expand all forms of energy in-cluding alternative ones Mrs Pal-in mocked Mr Biden for trashing clean-coal technology[ ]

Proposition 8 on the Cali-fornia ballot

which would negate a state Supreme Court ruling legalizing homosexual ldquomar-riagerdquo appears to be gaining strength

Previous polls have shown the traditional marriage supporters trail-ing but a new one by a San Fran-cisco CBS television station shows Prop 8 is ahead 47 to 42 percent ldquoTen percent are still undecided It means itrsquos still a close race but the shift still seems to be taking placerdquo says Randy Thomasson of Save-Californiacom

The pro-family activist believes success will depend on two

factors -- encouraging people to vote and getting Christians to vote according to the Bible Thomasson is hopeful pastors will take an active role as the election nears

ldquoTheyrsquove got to be men of God who are bold and courageous and say lsquoGod says marriage is only for a man and womanrsquordquo he adds ldquoWe all must be Christians not just people who say theyrsquore Christians and do not fol-low Christ in this matterrdquo

Thomasson attributes the new poll results in part to a new television commercial that does an effective job of selling the traditional view of marriage as well as the homosexual activists imposing acceptance of their lifestyle on everyone else

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1 The Fossil RecordEvolutionists have constructed the Geologic Column in order to illustrate the supposed progression of ldquoprimitiverdquo life forms to ldquomore complexrdquo systems we observe today Yet ldquosince only a small percentage of the earthrsquos surface obeys even a portion of the geologic column the claim of their having taken place to form a continuum of rocklifetime over the earth is therefore a fantastic and imaginative contrivance1rdquo ldquo[T]he lack of transitional series cannot be explained as being due to the scarcity of material The deficiencies are real they will never be filledrdquo2 This supposed column is actually saturated with ldquopolystrate fossilsrdquo (fossils extending from one geologic layer to another) that tie all the layers to one time-frame ldquo[T]o the unprejudiced the fossil record of plants is in favor of special creationrdquo 3

2 Decay of Earthrsquos Magnetic Field Dr Thomas Barnes Emeritus Professor of Physics at the University of Texas at El Paso has published the definitive work in this field4 Scientific observations since 1829 have shown that the earthrsquos magnetic field has been measurably decaying at an exponential rate demonstrating its half-life to be approximately 1400 years In practical applica-tion its strength 20000 years ago would approximate that of a mag-netic star Under those conditions many of the molecules neces-sary for life processes could not form These data demonstrate that earthrsquos entire history is young within a few thousand of years

3 The Global Flood The Biblical record clearly describes a global Flood during Noahrsquos day Additionally there are hundreds of Flood traditions handed down through cultures all over the world 5 ME Clark and Henry Voss have demonstrated the scientific validity of such a Flood providing the sedimentary layering we see on every continent 6 Secular scholars report very rapid sedimentation and periods of great carbonate deposition in earthrsquos sedimentary layers7 It is now pos-sible to prove the historical reality of the Biblical Flood8

4 Population StatisticsWorld population growth rate in recent times is about 2 per year Practicable application of growth rate throughout human history would be about half that number Wars disease famine etc have wiped out approximately one third of the population on average every 82 years Starting with eight people and applying these growth rates since the Flood of Noahrsquos day (about 4500 years ago) would give a total human population at just under six billion people However application on an evolution-ary time scale runs into major difficulties Starting with one ldquocouplerdquo just 41000 years ago would give us a total population of 2 x 1089 9 The universe does not have space to hold so many bodies

5 Radio HalosPhysicist Robert Gentry has reported isolated radio halos of polonuim-214 in crystalline granite The half-life of this element is 0000164 seconds To record the existence of this element in such short time span the granite must be in crystalline state instantaneously10 This runs counter to evolutionary estimates of 300 million years for granite to form

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Russia turned up its nose at the United States Thursday by announcing plans to sell

military equipment to both Iran and Venezuela

The head of the state arms ex-porter said Russia was negotiating to sell new anti-aircraft systems to Iran despite American objections

ldquoContacts between our countries are continuing and we do not see any reason to suspend themrdquo Ana-toly Isaikin general director of Ro-soboronexport told Russian news agency Ria-Novosti at an arms fair in South Africa

Reports have circulated for some time that Russia is preparing to sell its S-300 surface-to-air mis-sile system to Iran offering greater protection against a possible US or Israeli attack on the Islamic

republicrsquos nuclear facilities The missiles have a range of more than 93 miles and can intercept jets ap-proaching at low altitudes

Russia has already delivered 29 Tor-M1 missile systems under a $700 million deal with Iran in 2005Sergei Chemezov the head of state-owned Russian Technologies also disclosed that Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez wanted to buy anti-aircraft systems armored personnel carriers and new SU-35 fighter jets when they come into production in 2010

The US plans to place an anti-missile shield in eastern Europe to deter surprise attacks from Iran have outraged Russia which believes the system in Poland and the Czech Republic is aimed at weakening its defenses

time of confusion and of peril Jesus said ldquoMy sheep hear my voicerdquo (John 1027)Begin to assess Have you been living for yourself or living for God ldquoBut seek first the Kingdom of God and His righteousness and all these things shall be added to yourdquo (Matthew 633) Godrsquos ways are always better for us than our own waysRemember even if you lose your job you havenrsquot lost your identity Who you are goes beyond a re-sume or a personal network You are a child of God and when you make Jesus the Lord of your life He promises that He has good plans for you ldquoPlans to prosper you not to harm you plans to give you hope and a futurerdquo (Jer 2911)

to step out of our professional suits and ties and be a friend to a lot of our colleagues who arenrsquot Chris-tiansrdquo Craig told CBN News

ldquoMy wife and I have always be-lieved that God is the ultimate source of our income and our provi-sion and that he provides for us first and foremostrdquo Manasseh saidd

Nobody knows just how long this financial upheaval will last But for those who put their trust -- not in bull markets but in Christ - the ride promises to be a little less bumpyAre You Anxious About the Mar-kets

DiMaio offers this advice if you are anxious about whatrsquos happening on Wall StreetBegin to listen to what God is speaking to you right now in this

Christians on Wall Street Praying amp Hoping

GOODYEAR

JESUS IS LORD

continued from page12

There are some ministries that spiritu-ally are just like caliche They arenrsquot good ground for your seed So before you give pray about where that gift should go Donrsquot rely on your own judgments Donrsquot reason it out and say ldquoWell this preacher over here is screaming and crying and saying hersquos going under so I guess Irsquoll give to himrdquo

You go to the Lord of the tithe and find out where He wants you to put your money Hersquos the only one who can direct you to truly good ground every time

C Water It Once your good seed is in good ground keep watering it with the Word of God Speak faith over it all week long Call forth the growth of that seed by ldquocalling things that be not as though they wererdquo (Rom 417) It may just be a little seed but you need to start call-ing it grown

You may say ldquoWell brother I believe in telling things like they arerdquo You wonrsquot ever see any growth in your life then because spiritual things grow as words are released Thatrsquos Godrsquos way

Charles Capps says the one who ldquotells things like they arerdquo is like the guy who went out on the porch to give his dog a bone When he got out there he found the dog wasnrsquot there - just the cat So he started saying ldquoHere kitty kitty kittyrdquo His neighbor said ldquoI thought you wanted to give that bone to the dogrdquo ldquoI didrdquo answered his friend ldquobut I like to say it like it is - and the cat not the dog is the one thatrsquos hererdquo

Donrsquot be like that guy Call the dog Hersquoll come Water your seed with words of faith Donrsquot call poverty if you donrsquot want poverty Call yourself prosperous Call that need met Before long yoursquoll be so full of joy and so full of expectan-cy that even the watering will be fun

Plant the seed Find good soil Water it Then as Mark 427 says all you have to do is ldquosleep and rise night and day and the seed will spring and grow uprdquo

ldquoBut I donrsquot understand how that worksrdquo you say It doesnrsquot mat-ter Just do it Plant and water Sleep and rise Sure enough one of these mornings yoursquoll wake up to an abundant harvest

Source One Word From God Can Change Your Finances by Kenneth

and Gloria Copeland Excerpt permission granted by Har-

rison House Publishers

can come against you and suc-ceedmdashthatrsquos what I call power

Page 10 FREEDOM

Right now many of

us are fac-ing needs Big needs Needs so great that without the direct intervention of God they canrsquot possi-bly be met Because of that we need to be more certain than ever before that we understand - and abide by - Godrsquos laws of abundance Those laws are extremely important but praise God theyrsquore not complicated In fact theyrsquore as simple as ABC

A Decide to Plant In Mark 4 Jesus compared the work-ings of the kingdom of God to planting seeds in the earth ldquoWhen the seed is sownrdquo He said ldquoit grows up and becomes greaterrdquo (v 32) Notice He didnrsquot say that when the seed is sown it occasionally grows up and becomes greater Or it grows up and becomes greater if itrsquos Godrsquos will He said ldquoIt grows up and becomes greaterrdquo Period

Godrsquos economy isnrsquot like ours It isnrsquot up one day and down the other Itrsquos always the same and it always works perfectly If you have good earth good seed and good water you will have growth Itrsquos inevitable The laws of God will produce that increase every single time So if yoursquore facing a need donrsquot panic - plant a seed

That seed may take the form of time money or some other resource you have to give But no matter what form it takes you need to understand that the gift itself isnrsquot really your seed Therersquos no life in it Itrsquos just the husk

There are people whorsquove planted husks for years But because they didnrsquot put any life in them nothing ever came up So donrsquot just plunk a husk in the offering bucket when it goes by Put life in it first Praise and worship God over it Say ldquoLord Irsquom offering You my goods to do Your work with and as I bring You my goods I bring myself I give myself to You spirit soul and bodyrdquo

Pray over that seed Fill it with faith worship and the Word Then it will be ready to plant

B Find Good Ground Out in West Texas on my grandfa-therrsquos farm there were big white patches of caliche Itrsquos the most worth-less dirt in the world when it comes to planting seed It wonrsquot grow anything I donrsquot care how fine your seed is if you plant it in caliche you wonrsquot get a crop

The ABCrsquos of Abundance

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bum Along with the webcam they have also posted a blog full of updates about the live CDDVD which includes a track listing for the CD and DVD and some other details

Page 11FREEDOM

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Three Ways To Guard You Thought Life

Protection We guard our home car skin and even time but some-times we neglect to guard one of the most important areasmdashour thought life We need to place a guard over our thought life

Herersquos How 1 Take control Donrsquot allow your thoughts to wander like an out-of-control car Grab hold of the steer-ing wheel The Word of God says to take captive every thought and to bring it into the obedience of Christ (2 Cor 105) You may not be able to control every thought that comes in but you can deter-mine whether or not it stays

2 Guard your gate Whatrsquos the gate of your mind Itrsquos your eyes and ears Donrsquot put junk into your thought life by throwing open the gate Filter what comes in Remember the computer term GIGO garbage in garbage out

3 Thought replacement When thoughts of fear or doubt come your way replace them with love and faith You cannot have two complete thoughts in your mind at the same time For good thought replacement ideas see Philippi-

ans 48

Five Roads to Popularity With-out Losing Your Reputation

Everyone wants to be popular Popu-larity isnrsquot a bad thing In fact Jesus was very popular during much of His ministry He never compromised His character or morals to gain accep-tance You can become popular by making both bad choices and good ones

Here are five roads to popularity while maintaining your integrity 1 Be a kind person You will never be short on friends

2 When you do something do it with all your might Excellence draws a crowd

3 Promote others and their accom-plishments not your own God will then be able to exalt you

4 Dare to dream big and pray for the seemingly impossible People are drawn to those filled with hope and faith

5 Stand up for what is right Our world today is desperately searching for real heroes

Four Reasons You Should Be Cool

God wants you to be cool accept-ed and favored The Scripture says ldquoLet not mercy and truth forsake you bind them around your neck write them on the tablet of your heart and so find favor and high esteem in the sight of God and manrdquo (Prov 334 NKJV) You can enjoy favor acceptance and popularity with both God and people Here are 4 reasons why you should be cool

1 Cool accepted people have the ability to influence others for good That includes a witness of your Christian faith

2 Cool favored people have con-fidence to do things others believe to be impossible or improbable

3 Accepted people find it easy and natural to show others Godrsquos love

4 Cool people stand up for truth and donrsquot need everyone to agree with them

Source Every Teenagerrsquos Little Black Book of Hard to Find Information Excerpt permission granted by Harrison House Publishers

EXCERTS FROM Every Teenagerrsquos Little Black Book of Hard to Find Information

by Blaine Bartel

Visiting Northeast Pennsylvania for the first time Republican vice presidential nominee Sarah Palin

touted the new economic plan running mate John McCain unveiled Tuesday while invoking the name of the late Gov Robert P Casey as a champion of children with mental dis-abilities

Mrs Palin also called up the regionrsquos coal-pro-ducing past by jabbing at another Scranton na-tive Democratic vice presidential nominee Joe Biden for once being critical of clean-coal tech-nology as an alternative energy source

Mrs Palin told a raucous crowd at River-front Sports that Mr McCain would turn American anger and frustration over the current economic crisis into reform

The new economic plan would get the nation ldquothrough a time of testingrdquo and put ldquothe economy back on trackrdquo she said

ldquoUnder this plan wersquoll help American families keep their homes and save fam-ily neighborhoods and bring stability to our housing marketrdquo Mrs Palin said

The plan seeks to reduce to 10 percent the tax on senior-citizen withdrawals from retirement accounts in 2008 and 2009 re-duce to 75 percent the capital gains tax in 2009 and 2010 and quintuple deductions of capital losses It is meant to supplement Mr McCainrsquos call last week for a $300 bil-

lion government purchase of troubled mort-gagesMrs Palinrsquos 29-minute speech was frequently interrupted with applause or chants of ldquoSarah Sarah Sarahrdquo She was accompanied by her

husband Todd whom she called Alaskarsquos ldquofirst duderdquo and Martin Buser the four-time champion of the Iditarod the famed dog sled race

Singer Lee Greenwood opened the program by sing-ing the national anthem and his well-known ldquoGod Bless the USArdquo

Behind Mrs Palin supporters many wearing red held signs stating ldquoHunters Cling to Sar-

ahrdquo ldquoReal People Vote Palinrdquo and ldquoPro-Life Pro-Family Pro-Palinrdquo

The visit was the third by the Republican ticket to the region since July and highlighted the campaignrsquos focus on attracting disenchanted Democrats who had supported New York Sen Hillary Clinton

Signs announcing the presence of a Scran-ton-based group calling itself ldquoDemocrats for McCainrdquo dotted the crowd

For more than a week statewide polls have showed Mr McCain trailing Democratic presi-dential nominee Barack Obama by double-dig-it margins in Pennsylvania The daily five-day tracking poll by Muhlenberg College had Mr Obama up 51 percent to 38 percent through Monday the 12th consecutive day with a dou-ble-digit margin

With slumping poll numbers Mr McCain

By Borys Krawczeniuk Scranton Times-Tribune

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amp Social Issues

Christians on Wall Street Praying amp Hoping

Wall Street is in one of the most volatile economic downturns in US his-

tory The temptation to panic is high So how are Christians who work on Wall Street reacting to the crisis As CBN News discovered they are cling-ing to the rock that can not be moved

The market has just opened on the New York Stock Exchange and already investors are bracing for what promises to be another tumultuous day

But Wall Street is more than just stocks and bonds buying and selling - itrsquos also a place where

many Christians work and even pray And now they are praying like never before

Help us to lift you up in this place we need you here more than everrdquo one man prayed

Longest Run-ning Prayer Meeting in the US

Wall Street is the home of

the longest running prayer meet-ings in the country It started in 1977 after a few believers decided there was a need

Financial adviser Vaughn Weimer has been an active member since the early 1980rsquos

ldquoIrsquove been hearing from almost all

of my clients during the last two weeksrdquo Weimer told CBN News ldquoNo onersquos panicked yet No onersquos fallen over in a faint yetrdquo

Weimer says he believes God is going to redeem Wall Street and just like the historic Fulton Street revival make this a place of prayer once again

ldquoThere was a time here when at Noon every business shut down while people prayedrdquo Weimer recalled ldquoWe have a heart and a vision for that to happen again for those who work here every dayrdquo

Anthony DiMaio used to work on the floor of the NYSE and now runs a ministry known as BOLD The ministryrsquos mission is to reach out to New Yorkrsquos financial district with a message of spiri-tual relevance He believes God is using this economic crisis to get people to look up

ldquoWe all know that the fastest way to reach anybody is through their pocket bookrdquo DiMaio said ldquoAnd so if God wants to get your attention hersquoll get it thererdquo

Trinity Church A Place of Refuge

Standing like a beacon in the dark night of Wall Streetrsquos soul is Trinity Church For almost 200 years Trinityrsquos cross has wel-comed those coming into New Yorkrsquos harbor seeking freedom However in the last few weeks more people are seeking refuge of a different kind behind the churchrsquos front door

ldquoThe people sitting in the pews at our daily worship are either directly affected by having lost a job or they are afraid of losing a jobrdquo

the Rev Canon Anne Mallonnee told CBN News

Mallonnee says she recently ministered to one such woman overcome with anxiety

ldquoBeing able to pray with her and have her just reconnect with that peace of God which surpasses all of this turmoil and have her be able to leave more centered and confident that God is with her in thisrdquo Mallonnee said

But not all those affected by the financial crisis are on Wall Street Pastor Terry Smith of the Life Christian Church in West Orange New Jersey says about 25 percent of his parishioners work in New Yorkrsquos financial district A fact that could affect the churchrsquos bottom line It could also affect the churchrsquos plans for building a new facility

ldquoThere are people who have planned to give major gifts who are concerned about their capacity to do that right nowrdquo Smith explained ldquoTheir hearts are to do it I think God is going to help them to be able to do it but this is a real concern for usrdquo

Smith believes whatrsquos happen-ing on Wall Street is not neces-sarily Godrsquos punishment

ldquoThis kind of a crisis reminds us that we are not self-suffi-cient - regardless of how hard we work and how much we invest and how hard we try to prepare for the future re-ally we need himrdquo Smith said ldquoAnd itrsquos in our weakness that we discover how strong he isrdquo

Both Ray Craig and Raji Manasseh attend Smithrsquos church and work for major Wall Street banks They are deter-mined to be a light in the midst of the storm

ldquoThis is an opportunity for us

Wall Street Praying Continuned

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curred at night between 9 pm and 5 am over the past 10 months so as not to disturb Iraqi drivers and clog the roads

They dubbed it ldquoOperation Rudy Gi-ulianirdquo because they were cleaning the streets up and returning Fallujah to normalcy mdash taking down barbed wire and tearing down checkpoints and Jersey walls that made Anbar look like a war zone

ldquoThere is almost no barbed wire left anywhere in Fal-lujahrdquo Kelly said An Iraqi no longer sees barbed wire when traveling in and around the city

Between 300 and 400 con-crete barriers that divided the city were removed by Navy Seabees

One of the big changes Kelly made when he took command in Anbar was to remove fixed checkpoints and Iraqi vehicles no longer had to pull off to the side when a military convoy was on the road His troops risked car bombs but the gamble paid off in what had once been Iraqrsquos most dangerous province The new road rules instantly low-ered the tension between military and locals Soon he transitioned to moving military convoys only at night so they would not encounter locals This also stymied many of the insurgents laying IEDs or road-side bombs which they often had done at night

Another change for the better since Kelly arrived in February He pushed the central government to provide more fuel to the people of Anbar so the mostly Sunni popu-lation is now happier In February Anbaris were receiving only 8 per-cent of their allocation of fuel from the central government of Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki Now itrsquos 90 percent mdash eliminating one of their

main gripes

But perhaps the biggest sign that the situation has changed for the better for Sunnis living in Anbar With the help of the Ma-rines and the Iraqi police nearly 100 percent of the eligible vot-ing population were registered a month ago to vote in upcoming provincial elections

ldquoThey seem to add another polit-ical party every dayrdquo Kelly said ldquoWe didnrsquot have a single security violation of any kind Theyrsquore at least going to give the electoral process a shot hellip at least going to give democracy a chancerdquo

The Sunnis who fueled a large part of Iraqrsquos insurgency boycot-

ted the last election for Parliament with only 3 percent of Sunnis par-ticipating Now they feel they have a stake in the government

ldquoThis is an amazing indicator as to where this province isrdquo Kelly saidHe and the Marines no longer use violence as an indicator of how much progress they have made

Two years ago they had 400 attacks mdash roadside bombs or shootings mdash at US forces every week In February it was down to 30 attacks per week Now it is down to under 12 attacks per week There hasnrsquot been a

Marine death in a few months

Troop numbers have dropped as well mdash down by 40 percent since February About 26000 Marines still serve in Anbar

ldquoIn Anbar there is no longer an insurgencyrdquo Kelly said ldquoUnless someone does something stupid (for instance if the Coalition were to accidentally kill a large number of civilians) this place will not go back to the way it wasrdquo

In football terms Kelly says the Marines are ldquoin the last 10 yards of this fightrdquo

ldquoCould it go back I donrsquot think sordquo he said firmly ldquoWe are winning this thingrdquo

Last One Turn Out The Lights Marines Quietly Begin Leaving

ldquoWe are winning

this thingrdquo Major General

John Kelly

Page 13

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Palin Promises Tax-Cut Package VP Candidate Rallies Crowd On Economic

amp Social Issues

has made a more concerted effort to recapture his footing in the state the past week

He and Mrs Pal-in cam-paigned

together Wednesday in Bethlehem She hit a Pittsburgh fundraiser Fri-day and then a Johnstown rally and a Philadelphia Flyers hockey game Saturday Mr McCain arrived in Phil-adelphia on Monday and unveiled his new economic plan Tuesday in Blue Bell a Philadelphia suburb

The Scranton crowd Tuesday was larger than the one that greeted Mrs Clinton and Mr Biden in the same venue Sunday

The McCain-Palin campaign esti-mated Tuesdayrsquos crowd at 5800 and said it was based on a Secret Service door count but the crowd appeared to be closer to 4500 peo-ple The smaller estimate by The Times-Tribune was based on the number of rows of risers a typical rowrsquos occupancy and a per-person count of the depth and width of the standing audience

Mrs Palin never mentioned Mrs Clinton But she brought up Gov Casey while talking about her son Trig who has Down syndrome

and promising to bring attention to ldquochildren with special needsrdquo as vice president

ldquoIt was the great Pennsylvania governor Robert Casey a son of Scranton who said rdquo Mrs Palin said pausing as the mention drew a mix of applause and boos ldquoHe was asked once how society should treat the most vulnerable among us such as children with special needs And he said Itrsquos simple you put them first in linersquo

ldquoSee Gov Casey understood that these children can inspire a special love and thatrsquos a love that this world needs more of Our children are not a problem theyrsquore a priorityrdquo

Mrs Palin did not specifically men-tion abortion or Mr Caseyrsquos cru-sade against it but said ldquoI do be-lieve that the truest measure of any society is how we treat those who are least able to defend and speak for themselves Who is more vul-nerable who is more innocent than a childrdquo

Trig taught her ldquothat everyone be-longs in the circle of protectionrdquo she said ldquoAnd that every child has something to contribute to the world if we give them that chancerdquoAs she pushed Mr McCainrsquos plan to expand all forms of energy in-cluding alternative ones Mrs Pal-in mocked Mr Biden for trashing clean-coal technology[ ]

Proposition 8 on the Cali-fornia ballot

which would negate a state Supreme Court ruling legalizing homosexual ldquomar-riagerdquo appears to be gaining strength

Previous polls have shown the traditional marriage supporters trail-ing but a new one by a San Fran-cisco CBS television station shows Prop 8 is ahead 47 to 42 percent ldquoTen percent are still undecided It means itrsquos still a close race but the shift still seems to be taking placerdquo says Randy Thomasson of Save-Californiacom

The pro-family activist believes success will depend on two

factors -- encouraging people to vote and getting Christians to vote according to the Bible Thomasson is hopeful pastors will take an active role as the election nears

ldquoTheyrsquove got to be men of God who are bold and courageous and say lsquoGod says marriage is only for a man and womanrsquordquo he adds ldquoWe all must be Christians not just people who say theyrsquore Christians and do not fol-low Christ in this matterrdquo

Thomasson attributes the new poll results in part to a new television commercial that does an effective job of selling the traditional view of marriage as well as the homosexual activists imposing acceptance of their lifestyle on everyone else

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1 The Fossil RecordEvolutionists have constructed the Geologic Column in order to illustrate the supposed progression of ldquoprimitiverdquo life forms to ldquomore complexrdquo systems we observe today Yet ldquosince only a small percentage of the earthrsquos surface obeys even a portion of the geologic column the claim of their having taken place to form a continuum of rocklifetime over the earth is therefore a fantastic and imaginative contrivance1rdquo ldquo[T]he lack of transitional series cannot be explained as being due to the scarcity of material The deficiencies are real they will never be filledrdquo2 This supposed column is actually saturated with ldquopolystrate fossilsrdquo (fossils extending from one geologic layer to another) that tie all the layers to one time-frame ldquo[T]o the unprejudiced the fossil record of plants is in favor of special creationrdquo 3

2 Decay of Earthrsquos Magnetic Field Dr Thomas Barnes Emeritus Professor of Physics at the University of Texas at El Paso has published the definitive work in this field4 Scientific observations since 1829 have shown that the earthrsquos magnetic field has been measurably decaying at an exponential rate demonstrating its half-life to be approximately 1400 years In practical applica-tion its strength 20000 years ago would approximate that of a mag-netic star Under those conditions many of the molecules neces-sary for life processes could not form These data demonstrate that earthrsquos entire history is young within a few thousand of years

3 The Global Flood The Biblical record clearly describes a global Flood during Noahrsquos day Additionally there are hundreds of Flood traditions handed down through cultures all over the world 5 ME Clark and Henry Voss have demonstrated the scientific validity of such a Flood providing the sedimentary layering we see on every continent 6 Secular scholars report very rapid sedimentation and periods of great carbonate deposition in earthrsquos sedimentary layers7 It is now pos-sible to prove the historical reality of the Biblical Flood8

4 Population StatisticsWorld population growth rate in recent times is about 2 per year Practicable application of growth rate throughout human history would be about half that number Wars disease famine etc have wiped out approximately one third of the population on average every 82 years Starting with eight people and applying these growth rates since the Flood of Noahrsquos day (about 4500 years ago) would give a total human population at just under six billion people However application on an evolution-ary time scale runs into major difficulties Starting with one ldquocouplerdquo just 41000 years ago would give us a total population of 2 x 1089 9 The universe does not have space to hold so many bodies

5 Radio HalosPhysicist Robert Gentry has reported isolated radio halos of polonuim-214 in crystalline granite The half-life of this element is 0000164 seconds To record the existence of this element in such short time span the granite must be in crystalline state instantaneously10 This runs counter to evolutionary estimates of 300 million years for granite to form

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Russia to Sell Arms to Iran amp Venezuela

Russia turned up its nose at the United States Thursday by announcing plans to sell

military equipment to both Iran and Venezuela

The head of the state arms ex-porter said Russia was negotiating to sell new anti-aircraft systems to Iran despite American objections

ldquoContacts between our countries are continuing and we do not see any reason to suspend themrdquo Ana-toly Isaikin general director of Ro-soboronexport told Russian news agency Ria-Novosti at an arms fair in South Africa

Reports have circulated for some time that Russia is preparing to sell its S-300 surface-to-air mis-sile system to Iran offering greater protection against a possible US or Israeli attack on the Islamic

republicrsquos nuclear facilities The missiles have a range of more than 93 miles and can intercept jets ap-proaching at low altitudes

Russia has already delivered 29 Tor-M1 missile systems under a $700 million deal with Iran in 2005Sergei Chemezov the head of state-owned Russian Technologies also disclosed that Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez wanted to buy anti-aircraft systems armored personnel carriers and new SU-35 fighter jets when they come into production in 2010

The US plans to place an anti-missile shield in eastern Europe to deter surprise attacks from Iran have outraged Russia which believes the system in Poland and the Czech Republic is aimed at weakening its defenses

time of confusion and of peril Jesus said ldquoMy sheep hear my voicerdquo (John 1027)Begin to assess Have you been living for yourself or living for God ldquoBut seek first the Kingdom of God and His righteousness and all these things shall be added to yourdquo (Matthew 633) Godrsquos ways are always better for us than our own waysRemember even if you lose your job you havenrsquot lost your identity Who you are goes beyond a re-sume or a personal network You are a child of God and when you make Jesus the Lord of your life He promises that He has good plans for you ldquoPlans to prosper you not to harm you plans to give you hope and a futurerdquo (Jer 2911)

to step out of our professional suits and ties and be a friend to a lot of our colleagues who arenrsquot Chris-tiansrdquo Craig told CBN News

ldquoMy wife and I have always be-lieved that God is the ultimate source of our income and our provi-sion and that he provides for us first and foremostrdquo Manasseh saidd

Nobody knows just how long this financial upheaval will last But for those who put their trust -- not in bull markets but in Christ - the ride promises to be a little less bumpyAre You Anxious About the Mar-kets

DiMaio offers this advice if you are anxious about whatrsquos happening on Wall StreetBegin to listen to what God is speaking to you right now in this

Christians on Wall Street Praying amp Hoping

GOODYEAR

JESUS IS LORD

continued from page12

Music News--wwwtvulivecomSkillet is gearing up for the release of their live CDDVD combo ldquoComatose Comes Aliverdquo and they are also recording brand new music They have posted an online we-bcam in their studio so you can take a peek at their recording sessions for the new al-

bum Along with the webcam they have also posted a blog full of updates about the live CDDVD which includes a track listing for the CD and DVD and some other details

Page 11FREEDOM

GenerationExtreme

youth group

A PLACE TO BELONG A PLACE TO BE REAL A PLACE TO BE FREE

WE MEET EVERY WEDNESDAY NIGHT700PM at

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Three Ways To Guard You Thought Life

Protection We guard our home car skin and even time but some-times we neglect to guard one of the most important areasmdashour thought life We need to place a guard over our thought life

Herersquos How 1 Take control Donrsquot allow your thoughts to wander like an out-of-control car Grab hold of the steer-ing wheel The Word of God says to take captive every thought and to bring it into the obedience of Christ (2 Cor 105) You may not be able to control every thought that comes in but you can deter-mine whether or not it stays

2 Guard your gate Whatrsquos the gate of your mind Itrsquos your eyes and ears Donrsquot put junk into your thought life by throwing open the gate Filter what comes in Remember the computer term GIGO garbage in garbage out

3 Thought replacement When thoughts of fear or doubt come your way replace them with love and faith You cannot have two complete thoughts in your mind at the same time For good thought replacement ideas see Philippi-

ans 48

Five Roads to Popularity With-out Losing Your Reputation

Everyone wants to be popular Popu-larity isnrsquot a bad thing In fact Jesus was very popular during much of His ministry He never compromised His character or morals to gain accep-tance You can become popular by making both bad choices and good ones

Here are five roads to popularity while maintaining your integrity 1 Be a kind person You will never be short on friends

2 When you do something do it with all your might Excellence draws a crowd

3 Promote others and their accom-plishments not your own God will then be able to exalt you

4 Dare to dream big and pray for the seemingly impossible People are drawn to those filled with hope and faith

5 Stand up for what is right Our world today is desperately searching for real heroes

Four Reasons You Should Be Cool

God wants you to be cool accept-ed and favored The Scripture says ldquoLet not mercy and truth forsake you bind them around your neck write them on the tablet of your heart and so find favor and high esteem in the sight of God and manrdquo (Prov 334 NKJV) You can enjoy favor acceptance and popularity with both God and people Here are 4 reasons why you should be cool

1 Cool accepted people have the ability to influence others for good That includes a witness of your Christian faith

2 Cool favored people have con-fidence to do things others believe to be impossible or improbable

3 Accepted people find it easy and natural to show others Godrsquos love

4 Cool people stand up for truth and donrsquot need everyone to agree with them

Source Every Teenagerrsquos Little Black Book of Hard to Find Information Excerpt permission granted by Harrison House Publishers

EXCERTS FROM Every Teenagerrsquos Little Black Book of Hard to Find Information

by Blaine Bartel

Visiting Northeast Pennsylvania for the first time Republican vice presidential nominee Sarah Palin

touted the new economic plan running mate John McCain unveiled Tuesday while invoking the name of the late Gov Robert P Casey as a champion of children with mental dis-abilities

Mrs Palin also called up the regionrsquos coal-pro-ducing past by jabbing at another Scranton na-tive Democratic vice presidential nominee Joe Biden for once being critical of clean-coal tech-nology as an alternative energy source

Mrs Palin told a raucous crowd at River-front Sports that Mr McCain would turn American anger and frustration over the current economic crisis into reform

The new economic plan would get the nation ldquothrough a time of testingrdquo and put ldquothe economy back on trackrdquo she said

ldquoUnder this plan wersquoll help American families keep their homes and save fam-ily neighborhoods and bring stability to our housing marketrdquo Mrs Palin said

The plan seeks to reduce to 10 percent the tax on senior-citizen withdrawals from retirement accounts in 2008 and 2009 re-duce to 75 percent the capital gains tax in 2009 and 2010 and quintuple deductions of capital losses It is meant to supplement Mr McCainrsquos call last week for a $300 bil-

lion government purchase of troubled mort-gagesMrs Palinrsquos 29-minute speech was frequently interrupted with applause or chants of ldquoSarah Sarah Sarahrdquo She was accompanied by her

husband Todd whom she called Alaskarsquos ldquofirst duderdquo and Martin Buser the four-time champion of the Iditarod the famed dog sled race

Singer Lee Greenwood opened the program by sing-ing the national anthem and his well-known ldquoGod Bless the USArdquo

Behind Mrs Palin supporters many wearing red held signs stating ldquoHunters Cling to Sar-

ahrdquo ldquoReal People Vote Palinrdquo and ldquoPro-Life Pro-Family Pro-Palinrdquo

The visit was the third by the Republican ticket to the region since July and highlighted the campaignrsquos focus on attracting disenchanted Democrats who had supported New York Sen Hillary Clinton

Signs announcing the presence of a Scran-ton-based group calling itself ldquoDemocrats for McCainrdquo dotted the crowd

For more than a week statewide polls have showed Mr McCain trailing Democratic presi-dential nominee Barack Obama by double-dig-it margins in Pennsylvania The daily five-day tracking poll by Muhlenberg College had Mr Obama up 51 percent to 38 percent through Monday the 12th consecutive day with a dou-ble-digit margin

With slumping poll numbers Mr McCain

By Borys Krawczeniuk Scranton Times-Tribune

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Palin Promises Tax-Cut Package VP Candidate Rallies Crowd On Economic

amp Social Issues

Christians on Wall Street Praying amp Hoping

Wall Street is in one of the most volatile economic downturns in US his-

tory The temptation to panic is high So how are Christians who work on Wall Street reacting to the crisis As CBN News discovered they are cling-ing to the rock that can not be moved

The market has just opened on the New York Stock Exchange and already investors are bracing for what promises to be another tumultuous day

But Wall Street is more than just stocks and bonds buying and selling - itrsquos also a place where

many Christians work and even pray And now they are praying like never before

Help us to lift you up in this place we need you here more than everrdquo one man prayed

Longest Run-ning Prayer Meeting in the US

Wall Street is the home of

the longest running prayer meet-ings in the country It started in 1977 after a few believers decided there was a need

Financial adviser Vaughn Weimer has been an active member since the early 1980rsquos

ldquoIrsquove been hearing from almost all

of my clients during the last two weeksrdquo Weimer told CBN News ldquoNo onersquos panicked yet No onersquos fallen over in a faint yetrdquo

Weimer says he believes God is going to redeem Wall Street and just like the historic Fulton Street revival make this a place of prayer once again

ldquoThere was a time here when at Noon every business shut down while people prayedrdquo Weimer recalled ldquoWe have a heart and a vision for that to happen again for those who work here every dayrdquo

Anthony DiMaio used to work on the floor of the NYSE and now runs a ministry known as BOLD The ministryrsquos mission is to reach out to New Yorkrsquos financial district with a message of spiri-tual relevance He believes God is using this economic crisis to get people to look up

ldquoWe all know that the fastest way to reach anybody is through their pocket bookrdquo DiMaio said ldquoAnd so if God wants to get your attention hersquoll get it thererdquo

Trinity Church A Place of Refuge

Standing like a beacon in the dark night of Wall Streetrsquos soul is Trinity Church For almost 200 years Trinityrsquos cross has wel-comed those coming into New Yorkrsquos harbor seeking freedom However in the last few weeks more people are seeking refuge of a different kind behind the churchrsquos front door

ldquoThe people sitting in the pews at our daily worship are either directly affected by having lost a job or they are afraid of losing a jobrdquo

the Rev Canon Anne Mallonnee told CBN News

Mallonnee says she recently ministered to one such woman overcome with anxiety

ldquoBeing able to pray with her and have her just reconnect with that peace of God which surpasses all of this turmoil and have her be able to leave more centered and confident that God is with her in thisrdquo Mallonnee said

But not all those affected by the financial crisis are on Wall Street Pastor Terry Smith of the Life Christian Church in West Orange New Jersey says about 25 percent of his parishioners work in New Yorkrsquos financial district A fact that could affect the churchrsquos bottom line It could also affect the churchrsquos plans for building a new facility

ldquoThere are people who have planned to give major gifts who are concerned about their capacity to do that right nowrdquo Smith explained ldquoTheir hearts are to do it I think God is going to help them to be able to do it but this is a real concern for usrdquo

Smith believes whatrsquos happen-ing on Wall Street is not neces-sarily Godrsquos punishment

ldquoThis kind of a crisis reminds us that we are not self-suffi-cient - regardless of how hard we work and how much we invest and how hard we try to prepare for the future re-ally we need himrdquo Smith said ldquoAnd itrsquos in our weakness that we discover how strong he isrdquo

Both Ray Craig and Raji Manasseh attend Smithrsquos church and work for major Wall Street banks They are deter-mined to be a light in the midst of the storm

ldquoThis is an opportunity for us

Wall Street Praying Continuned

Page 12

continued on page 14

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curred at night between 9 pm and 5 am over the past 10 months so as not to disturb Iraqi drivers and clog the roads

They dubbed it ldquoOperation Rudy Gi-ulianirdquo because they were cleaning the streets up and returning Fallujah to normalcy mdash taking down barbed wire and tearing down checkpoints and Jersey walls that made Anbar look like a war zone

ldquoThere is almost no barbed wire left anywhere in Fal-lujahrdquo Kelly said An Iraqi no longer sees barbed wire when traveling in and around the city

Between 300 and 400 con-crete barriers that divided the city were removed by Navy Seabees

One of the big changes Kelly made when he took command in Anbar was to remove fixed checkpoints and Iraqi vehicles no longer had to pull off to the side when a military convoy was on the road His troops risked car bombs but the gamble paid off in what had once been Iraqrsquos most dangerous province The new road rules instantly low-ered the tension between military and locals Soon he transitioned to moving military convoys only at night so they would not encounter locals This also stymied many of the insurgents laying IEDs or road-side bombs which they often had done at night

Another change for the better since Kelly arrived in February He pushed the central government to provide more fuel to the people of Anbar so the mostly Sunni popu-lation is now happier In February Anbaris were receiving only 8 per-cent of their allocation of fuel from the central government of Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki Now itrsquos 90 percent mdash eliminating one of their

main gripes

But perhaps the biggest sign that the situation has changed for the better for Sunnis living in Anbar With the help of the Ma-rines and the Iraqi police nearly 100 percent of the eligible vot-ing population were registered a month ago to vote in upcoming provincial elections

ldquoThey seem to add another polit-ical party every dayrdquo Kelly said ldquoWe didnrsquot have a single security violation of any kind Theyrsquore at least going to give the electoral process a shot hellip at least going to give democracy a chancerdquo

The Sunnis who fueled a large part of Iraqrsquos insurgency boycot-

ted the last election for Parliament with only 3 percent of Sunnis par-ticipating Now they feel they have a stake in the government

ldquoThis is an amazing indicator as to where this province isrdquo Kelly saidHe and the Marines no longer use violence as an indicator of how much progress they have made

Two years ago they had 400 attacks mdash roadside bombs or shootings mdash at US forces every week In February it was down to 30 attacks per week Now it is down to under 12 attacks per week There hasnrsquot been a

Marine death in a few months

Troop numbers have dropped as well mdash down by 40 percent since February About 26000 Marines still serve in Anbar

ldquoIn Anbar there is no longer an insurgencyrdquo Kelly said ldquoUnless someone does something stupid (for instance if the Coalition were to accidentally kill a large number of civilians) this place will not go back to the way it wasrdquo

In football terms Kelly says the Marines are ldquoin the last 10 yards of this fightrdquo

ldquoCould it go back I donrsquot think sordquo he said firmly ldquoWe are winning this thingrdquo

Last One Turn Out The Lights Marines Quietly Begin Leaving

ldquoWe are winning

this thingrdquo Major General

John Kelly

Page 13

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Palin Promises Tax-Cut Package VP Candidate Rallies Crowd On Economic

amp Social Issues

has made a more concerted effort to recapture his footing in the state the past week

He and Mrs Pal-in cam-paigned

together Wednesday in Bethlehem She hit a Pittsburgh fundraiser Fri-day and then a Johnstown rally and a Philadelphia Flyers hockey game Saturday Mr McCain arrived in Phil-adelphia on Monday and unveiled his new economic plan Tuesday in Blue Bell a Philadelphia suburb

The Scranton crowd Tuesday was larger than the one that greeted Mrs Clinton and Mr Biden in the same venue Sunday

The McCain-Palin campaign esti-mated Tuesdayrsquos crowd at 5800 and said it was based on a Secret Service door count but the crowd appeared to be closer to 4500 peo-ple The smaller estimate by The Times-Tribune was based on the number of rows of risers a typical rowrsquos occupancy and a per-person count of the depth and width of the standing audience

Mrs Palin never mentioned Mrs Clinton But she brought up Gov Casey while talking about her son Trig who has Down syndrome

and promising to bring attention to ldquochildren with special needsrdquo as vice president

ldquoIt was the great Pennsylvania governor Robert Casey a son of Scranton who said rdquo Mrs Palin said pausing as the mention drew a mix of applause and boos ldquoHe was asked once how society should treat the most vulnerable among us such as children with special needs And he said Itrsquos simple you put them first in linersquo

ldquoSee Gov Casey understood that these children can inspire a special love and thatrsquos a love that this world needs more of Our children are not a problem theyrsquore a priorityrdquo

Mrs Palin did not specifically men-tion abortion or Mr Caseyrsquos cru-sade against it but said ldquoI do be-lieve that the truest measure of any society is how we treat those who are least able to defend and speak for themselves Who is more vul-nerable who is more innocent than a childrdquo

Trig taught her ldquothat everyone be-longs in the circle of protectionrdquo she said ldquoAnd that every child has something to contribute to the world if we give them that chancerdquoAs she pushed Mr McCainrsquos plan to expand all forms of energy in-cluding alternative ones Mrs Pal-in mocked Mr Biden for trashing clean-coal technology[ ]

Proposition 8 on the Cali-fornia ballot

which would negate a state Supreme Court ruling legalizing homosexual ldquomar-riagerdquo appears to be gaining strength

Previous polls have shown the traditional marriage supporters trail-ing but a new one by a San Fran-cisco CBS television station shows Prop 8 is ahead 47 to 42 percent ldquoTen percent are still undecided It means itrsquos still a close race but the shift still seems to be taking placerdquo says Randy Thomasson of Save-Californiacom

The pro-family activist believes success will depend on two

factors -- encouraging people to vote and getting Christians to vote according to the Bible Thomasson is hopeful pastors will take an active role as the election nears

ldquoTheyrsquove got to be men of God who are bold and courageous and say lsquoGod says marriage is only for a man and womanrsquordquo he adds ldquoWe all must be Christians not just people who say theyrsquore Christians and do not fol-low Christ in this matterrdquo

Thomasson attributes the new poll results in part to a new television commercial that does an effective job of selling the traditional view of marriage as well as the homosexual activists imposing acceptance of their lifestyle on everyone else

By Borys Krawczeniuk Scranton Times-Tribune

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1 The Fossil RecordEvolutionists have constructed the Geologic Column in order to illustrate the supposed progression of ldquoprimitiverdquo life forms to ldquomore complexrdquo systems we observe today Yet ldquosince only a small percentage of the earthrsquos surface obeys even a portion of the geologic column the claim of their having taken place to form a continuum of rocklifetime over the earth is therefore a fantastic and imaginative contrivance1rdquo ldquo[T]he lack of transitional series cannot be explained as being due to the scarcity of material The deficiencies are real they will never be filledrdquo2 This supposed column is actually saturated with ldquopolystrate fossilsrdquo (fossils extending from one geologic layer to another) that tie all the layers to one time-frame ldquo[T]o the unprejudiced the fossil record of plants is in favor of special creationrdquo 3

2 Decay of Earthrsquos Magnetic Field Dr Thomas Barnes Emeritus Professor of Physics at the University of Texas at El Paso has published the definitive work in this field4 Scientific observations since 1829 have shown that the earthrsquos magnetic field has been measurably decaying at an exponential rate demonstrating its half-life to be approximately 1400 years In practical applica-tion its strength 20000 years ago would approximate that of a mag-netic star Under those conditions many of the molecules neces-sary for life processes could not form These data demonstrate that earthrsquos entire history is young within a few thousand of years

3 The Global Flood The Biblical record clearly describes a global Flood during Noahrsquos day Additionally there are hundreds of Flood traditions handed down through cultures all over the world 5 ME Clark and Henry Voss have demonstrated the scientific validity of such a Flood providing the sedimentary layering we see on every continent 6 Secular scholars report very rapid sedimentation and periods of great carbonate deposition in earthrsquos sedimentary layers7 It is now pos-sible to prove the historical reality of the Biblical Flood8

4 Population StatisticsWorld population growth rate in recent times is about 2 per year Practicable application of growth rate throughout human history would be about half that number Wars disease famine etc have wiped out approximately one third of the population on average every 82 years Starting with eight people and applying these growth rates since the Flood of Noahrsquos day (about 4500 years ago) would give a total human population at just under six billion people However application on an evolution-ary time scale runs into major difficulties Starting with one ldquocouplerdquo just 41000 years ago would give us a total population of 2 x 1089 9 The universe does not have space to hold so many bodies

5 Radio HalosPhysicist Robert Gentry has reported isolated radio halos of polonuim-214 in crystalline granite The half-life of this element is 0000164 seconds To record the existence of this element in such short time span the granite must be in crystalline state instantaneously10 This runs counter to evolutionary estimates of 300 million years for granite to form

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Russia to Sell Arms to Iran amp Venezuela

Russia turned up its nose at the United States Thursday by announcing plans to sell

military equipment to both Iran and Venezuela

The head of the state arms ex-porter said Russia was negotiating to sell new anti-aircraft systems to Iran despite American objections

ldquoContacts between our countries are continuing and we do not see any reason to suspend themrdquo Ana-toly Isaikin general director of Ro-soboronexport told Russian news agency Ria-Novosti at an arms fair in South Africa

Reports have circulated for some time that Russia is preparing to sell its S-300 surface-to-air mis-sile system to Iran offering greater protection against a possible US or Israeli attack on the Islamic

republicrsquos nuclear facilities The missiles have a range of more than 93 miles and can intercept jets ap-proaching at low altitudes

Russia has already delivered 29 Tor-M1 missile systems under a $700 million deal with Iran in 2005Sergei Chemezov the head of state-owned Russian Technologies also disclosed that Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez wanted to buy anti-aircraft systems armored personnel carriers and new SU-35 fighter jets when they come into production in 2010

The US plans to place an anti-missile shield in eastern Europe to deter surprise attacks from Iran have outraged Russia which believes the system in Poland and the Czech Republic is aimed at weakening its defenses

time of confusion and of peril Jesus said ldquoMy sheep hear my voicerdquo (John 1027)Begin to assess Have you been living for yourself or living for God ldquoBut seek first the Kingdom of God and His righteousness and all these things shall be added to yourdquo (Matthew 633) Godrsquos ways are always better for us than our own waysRemember even if you lose your job you havenrsquot lost your identity Who you are goes beyond a re-sume or a personal network You are a child of God and when you make Jesus the Lord of your life He promises that He has good plans for you ldquoPlans to prosper you not to harm you plans to give you hope and a futurerdquo (Jer 2911)

to step out of our professional suits and ties and be a friend to a lot of our colleagues who arenrsquot Chris-tiansrdquo Craig told CBN News

ldquoMy wife and I have always be-lieved that God is the ultimate source of our income and our provi-sion and that he provides for us first and foremostrdquo Manasseh saidd

Nobody knows just how long this financial upheaval will last But for those who put their trust -- not in bull markets but in Christ - the ride promises to be a little less bumpyAre You Anxious About the Mar-kets

DiMaio offers this advice if you are anxious about whatrsquos happening on Wall StreetBegin to listen to what God is speaking to you right now in this

Christians on Wall Street Praying amp Hoping

GOODYEAR

JESUS IS LORD

continued from page12

Visiting Northeast Pennsylvania for the first time Republican vice presidential nominee Sarah Palin

touted the new economic plan running mate John McCain unveiled Tuesday while invoking the name of the late Gov Robert P Casey as a champion of children with mental dis-abilities

Mrs Palin also called up the regionrsquos coal-pro-ducing past by jabbing at another Scranton na-tive Democratic vice presidential nominee Joe Biden for once being critical of clean-coal tech-nology as an alternative energy source

Mrs Palin told a raucous crowd at River-front Sports that Mr McCain would turn American anger and frustration over the current economic crisis into reform

The new economic plan would get the nation ldquothrough a time of testingrdquo and put ldquothe economy back on trackrdquo she said

ldquoUnder this plan wersquoll help American families keep their homes and save fam-ily neighborhoods and bring stability to our housing marketrdquo Mrs Palin said

The plan seeks to reduce to 10 percent the tax on senior-citizen withdrawals from retirement accounts in 2008 and 2009 re-duce to 75 percent the capital gains tax in 2009 and 2010 and quintuple deductions of capital losses It is meant to supplement Mr McCainrsquos call last week for a $300 bil-

lion government purchase of troubled mort-gagesMrs Palinrsquos 29-minute speech was frequently interrupted with applause or chants of ldquoSarah Sarah Sarahrdquo She was accompanied by her

husband Todd whom she called Alaskarsquos ldquofirst duderdquo and Martin Buser the four-time champion of the Iditarod the famed dog sled race

Singer Lee Greenwood opened the program by sing-ing the national anthem and his well-known ldquoGod Bless the USArdquo

Behind Mrs Palin supporters many wearing red held signs stating ldquoHunters Cling to Sar-

ahrdquo ldquoReal People Vote Palinrdquo and ldquoPro-Life Pro-Family Pro-Palinrdquo

The visit was the third by the Republican ticket to the region since July and highlighted the campaignrsquos focus on attracting disenchanted Democrats who had supported New York Sen Hillary Clinton

Signs announcing the presence of a Scran-ton-based group calling itself ldquoDemocrats for McCainrdquo dotted the crowd

For more than a week statewide polls have showed Mr McCain trailing Democratic presi-dential nominee Barack Obama by double-dig-it margins in Pennsylvania The daily five-day tracking poll by Muhlenberg College had Mr Obama up 51 percent to 38 percent through Monday the 12th consecutive day with a dou-ble-digit margin

With slumping poll numbers Mr McCain

By Borys Krawczeniuk Scranton Times-Tribune

Across from Theaters in Southbridge Mall Downtown Mason City

Mon amp Thurs 10-6Tues Wed Fri Sat 10-5

(641) 424-9820

If Yoursquore ThinkingOf Popping TheQuestion Now IsThe Time To See Our

Lovely Selection of engagement rings

FREEDOM

Palin Promises Tax-Cut Package VP Candidate Rallies Crowd On Economic

amp Social Issues

Christians on Wall Street Praying amp Hoping

Wall Street is in one of the most volatile economic downturns in US his-

tory The temptation to panic is high So how are Christians who work on Wall Street reacting to the crisis As CBN News discovered they are cling-ing to the rock that can not be moved

The market has just opened on the New York Stock Exchange and already investors are bracing for what promises to be another tumultuous day

But Wall Street is more than just stocks and bonds buying and selling - itrsquos also a place where

many Christians work and even pray And now they are praying like never before

Help us to lift you up in this place we need you here more than everrdquo one man prayed

Longest Run-ning Prayer Meeting in the US

Wall Street is the home of

the longest running prayer meet-ings in the country It started in 1977 after a few believers decided there was a need

Financial adviser Vaughn Weimer has been an active member since the early 1980rsquos

ldquoIrsquove been hearing from almost all

of my clients during the last two weeksrdquo Weimer told CBN News ldquoNo onersquos panicked yet No onersquos fallen over in a faint yetrdquo

Weimer says he believes God is going to redeem Wall Street and just like the historic Fulton Street revival make this a place of prayer once again

ldquoThere was a time here when at Noon every business shut down while people prayedrdquo Weimer recalled ldquoWe have a heart and a vision for that to happen again for those who work here every dayrdquo

Anthony DiMaio used to work on the floor of the NYSE and now runs a ministry known as BOLD The ministryrsquos mission is to reach out to New Yorkrsquos financial district with a message of spiri-tual relevance He believes God is using this economic crisis to get people to look up

ldquoWe all know that the fastest way to reach anybody is through their pocket bookrdquo DiMaio said ldquoAnd so if God wants to get your attention hersquoll get it thererdquo

Trinity Church A Place of Refuge

Standing like a beacon in the dark night of Wall Streetrsquos soul is Trinity Church For almost 200 years Trinityrsquos cross has wel-comed those coming into New Yorkrsquos harbor seeking freedom However in the last few weeks more people are seeking refuge of a different kind behind the churchrsquos front door

ldquoThe people sitting in the pews at our daily worship are either directly affected by having lost a job or they are afraid of losing a jobrdquo

the Rev Canon Anne Mallonnee told CBN News

Mallonnee says she recently ministered to one such woman overcome with anxiety

ldquoBeing able to pray with her and have her just reconnect with that peace of God which surpasses all of this turmoil and have her be able to leave more centered and confident that God is with her in thisrdquo Mallonnee said

But not all those affected by the financial crisis are on Wall Street Pastor Terry Smith of the Life Christian Church in West Orange New Jersey says about 25 percent of his parishioners work in New Yorkrsquos financial district A fact that could affect the churchrsquos bottom line It could also affect the churchrsquos plans for building a new facility

ldquoThere are people who have planned to give major gifts who are concerned about their capacity to do that right nowrdquo Smith explained ldquoTheir hearts are to do it I think God is going to help them to be able to do it but this is a real concern for usrdquo

Smith believes whatrsquos happen-ing on Wall Street is not neces-sarily Godrsquos punishment

ldquoThis kind of a crisis reminds us that we are not self-suffi-cient - regardless of how hard we work and how much we invest and how hard we try to prepare for the future re-ally we need himrdquo Smith said ldquoAnd itrsquos in our weakness that we discover how strong he isrdquo

Both Ray Craig and Raji Manasseh attend Smithrsquos church and work for major Wall Street banks They are deter-mined to be a light in the midst of the storm

ldquoThis is an opportunity for us

Wall Street Praying Continuned

Page 12

continued on page 14

continued on page 16

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curred at night between 9 pm and 5 am over the past 10 months so as not to disturb Iraqi drivers and clog the roads

They dubbed it ldquoOperation Rudy Gi-ulianirdquo because they were cleaning the streets up and returning Fallujah to normalcy mdash taking down barbed wire and tearing down checkpoints and Jersey walls that made Anbar look like a war zone

ldquoThere is almost no barbed wire left anywhere in Fal-lujahrdquo Kelly said An Iraqi no longer sees barbed wire when traveling in and around the city

Between 300 and 400 con-crete barriers that divided the city were removed by Navy Seabees

One of the big changes Kelly made when he took command in Anbar was to remove fixed checkpoints and Iraqi vehicles no longer had to pull off to the side when a military convoy was on the road His troops risked car bombs but the gamble paid off in what had once been Iraqrsquos most dangerous province The new road rules instantly low-ered the tension between military and locals Soon he transitioned to moving military convoys only at night so they would not encounter locals This also stymied many of the insurgents laying IEDs or road-side bombs which they often had done at night

Another change for the better since Kelly arrived in February He pushed the central government to provide more fuel to the people of Anbar so the mostly Sunni popu-lation is now happier In February Anbaris were receiving only 8 per-cent of their allocation of fuel from the central government of Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki Now itrsquos 90 percent mdash eliminating one of their

main gripes

But perhaps the biggest sign that the situation has changed for the better for Sunnis living in Anbar With the help of the Ma-rines and the Iraqi police nearly 100 percent of the eligible vot-ing population were registered a month ago to vote in upcoming provincial elections

ldquoThey seem to add another polit-ical party every dayrdquo Kelly said ldquoWe didnrsquot have a single security violation of any kind Theyrsquore at least going to give the electoral process a shot hellip at least going to give democracy a chancerdquo

The Sunnis who fueled a large part of Iraqrsquos insurgency boycot-

ted the last election for Parliament with only 3 percent of Sunnis par-ticipating Now they feel they have a stake in the government

ldquoThis is an amazing indicator as to where this province isrdquo Kelly saidHe and the Marines no longer use violence as an indicator of how much progress they have made

Two years ago they had 400 attacks mdash roadside bombs or shootings mdash at US forces every week In February it was down to 30 attacks per week Now it is down to under 12 attacks per week There hasnrsquot been a

Marine death in a few months

Troop numbers have dropped as well mdash down by 40 percent since February About 26000 Marines still serve in Anbar

ldquoIn Anbar there is no longer an insurgencyrdquo Kelly said ldquoUnless someone does something stupid (for instance if the Coalition were to accidentally kill a large number of civilians) this place will not go back to the way it wasrdquo

In football terms Kelly says the Marines are ldquoin the last 10 yards of this fightrdquo

ldquoCould it go back I donrsquot think sordquo he said firmly ldquoWe are winning this thingrdquo

Last One Turn Out The Lights Marines Quietly Begin Leaving

ldquoWe are winning

this thingrdquo Major General

John Kelly

Page 13

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507-573-1183

A Publication Company Inspiring Hope amp Faith

507-573-1168

Palin Promises Tax-Cut Package VP Candidate Rallies Crowd On Economic

amp Social Issues

has made a more concerted effort to recapture his footing in the state the past week

He and Mrs Pal-in cam-paigned

together Wednesday in Bethlehem She hit a Pittsburgh fundraiser Fri-day and then a Johnstown rally and a Philadelphia Flyers hockey game Saturday Mr McCain arrived in Phil-adelphia on Monday and unveiled his new economic plan Tuesday in Blue Bell a Philadelphia suburb

The Scranton crowd Tuesday was larger than the one that greeted Mrs Clinton and Mr Biden in the same venue Sunday

The McCain-Palin campaign esti-mated Tuesdayrsquos crowd at 5800 and said it was based on a Secret Service door count but the crowd appeared to be closer to 4500 peo-ple The smaller estimate by The Times-Tribune was based on the number of rows of risers a typical rowrsquos occupancy and a per-person count of the depth and width of the standing audience

Mrs Palin never mentioned Mrs Clinton But she brought up Gov Casey while talking about her son Trig who has Down syndrome

and promising to bring attention to ldquochildren with special needsrdquo as vice president

ldquoIt was the great Pennsylvania governor Robert Casey a son of Scranton who said rdquo Mrs Palin said pausing as the mention drew a mix of applause and boos ldquoHe was asked once how society should treat the most vulnerable among us such as children with special needs And he said Itrsquos simple you put them first in linersquo

ldquoSee Gov Casey understood that these children can inspire a special love and thatrsquos a love that this world needs more of Our children are not a problem theyrsquore a priorityrdquo

Mrs Palin did not specifically men-tion abortion or Mr Caseyrsquos cru-sade against it but said ldquoI do be-lieve that the truest measure of any society is how we treat those who are least able to defend and speak for themselves Who is more vul-nerable who is more innocent than a childrdquo

Trig taught her ldquothat everyone be-longs in the circle of protectionrdquo she said ldquoAnd that every child has something to contribute to the world if we give them that chancerdquoAs she pushed Mr McCainrsquos plan to expand all forms of energy in-cluding alternative ones Mrs Pal-in mocked Mr Biden for trashing clean-coal technology[ ]

Proposition 8 on the Cali-fornia ballot

which would negate a state Supreme Court ruling legalizing homosexual ldquomar-riagerdquo appears to be gaining strength

Previous polls have shown the traditional marriage supporters trail-ing but a new one by a San Fran-cisco CBS television station shows Prop 8 is ahead 47 to 42 percent ldquoTen percent are still undecided It means itrsquos still a close race but the shift still seems to be taking placerdquo says Randy Thomasson of Save-Californiacom

The pro-family activist believes success will depend on two

factors -- encouraging people to vote and getting Christians to vote according to the Bible Thomasson is hopeful pastors will take an active role as the election nears

ldquoTheyrsquove got to be men of God who are bold and courageous and say lsquoGod says marriage is only for a man and womanrsquordquo he adds ldquoWe all must be Christians not just people who say theyrsquore Christians and do not fol-low Christ in this matterrdquo

Thomasson attributes the new poll results in part to a new television commercial that does an effective job of selling the traditional view of marriage as well as the homosexual activists imposing acceptance of their lifestyle on everyone else

By Borys Krawczeniuk Scranton Times-Tribune

By Charlie Butts

06 Grand Prix 44k $9995 Many More to Choose Fromwwwthe-trading-postcom

TRADING POSTGordonsville MN 507-448-3302

Support For Traditional Marriage Pulls Ahead in Polls

Page 14

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Service Representative

AMELIA WELLS

507-573-1183email freedomrsmifreedomorg

continued from page 12

I AM HERE FOR YOU GOD

FREEDOM

1 The Fossil RecordEvolutionists have constructed the Geologic Column in order to illustrate the supposed progression of ldquoprimitiverdquo life forms to ldquomore complexrdquo systems we observe today Yet ldquosince only a small percentage of the earthrsquos surface obeys even a portion of the geologic column the claim of their having taken place to form a continuum of rocklifetime over the earth is therefore a fantastic and imaginative contrivance1rdquo ldquo[T]he lack of transitional series cannot be explained as being due to the scarcity of material The deficiencies are real they will never be filledrdquo2 This supposed column is actually saturated with ldquopolystrate fossilsrdquo (fossils extending from one geologic layer to another) that tie all the layers to one time-frame ldquo[T]o the unprejudiced the fossil record of plants is in favor of special creationrdquo 3

2 Decay of Earthrsquos Magnetic Field Dr Thomas Barnes Emeritus Professor of Physics at the University of Texas at El Paso has published the definitive work in this field4 Scientific observations since 1829 have shown that the earthrsquos magnetic field has been measurably decaying at an exponential rate demonstrating its half-life to be approximately 1400 years In practical applica-tion its strength 20000 years ago would approximate that of a mag-netic star Under those conditions many of the molecules neces-sary for life processes could not form These data demonstrate that earthrsquos entire history is young within a few thousand of years

3 The Global Flood The Biblical record clearly describes a global Flood during Noahrsquos day Additionally there are hundreds of Flood traditions handed down through cultures all over the world 5 ME Clark and Henry Voss have demonstrated the scientific validity of such a Flood providing the sedimentary layering we see on every continent 6 Secular scholars report very rapid sedimentation and periods of great carbonate deposition in earthrsquos sedimentary layers7 It is now pos-sible to prove the historical reality of the Biblical Flood8

4 Population StatisticsWorld population growth rate in recent times is about 2 per year Practicable application of growth rate throughout human history would be about half that number Wars disease famine etc have wiped out approximately one third of the population on average every 82 years Starting with eight people and applying these growth rates since the Flood of Noahrsquos day (about 4500 years ago) would give a total human population at just under six billion people However application on an evolution-ary time scale runs into major difficulties Starting with one ldquocouplerdquo just 41000 years ago would give us a total population of 2 x 1089 9 The universe does not have space to hold so many bodies

5 Radio HalosPhysicist Robert Gentry has reported isolated radio halos of polonuim-214 in crystalline granite The half-life of this element is 0000164 seconds To record the existence of this element in such short time span the granite must be in crystalline state instantaneously10 This runs counter to evolutionary estimates of 300 million years for granite to form

EVIDENCE FOR CREATION

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Page 15

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Thursdays 700pm Freedom Christian Center 108 E Oakland Ave Austin MN

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FurnitureM - F

9am- 5pm709 Main Street

Osage IA641-732-3472

BAKED GOODS bull JAM amp JELLIES bull CANDLES bull COFFEES

SPRI

NKLE

S bull D

RIED

FRU

IT bull

JAVA

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Osage Phone641-732-6315

STOP IN FOR HOTCINNAMON CARAMEL ROLLSAND FRESH GROUND COFFEE

NOODLES bull FRUIT bull CEREAL bull CHEESE

WHALENrsquoS AUTO REPAIR801 1st Ave SW Austin MN 55912 437-3229

COMPLETE CAR CAREldquoBring Us Your Motor Tune-Up and Brake Problemsrdquo

TIRES-BATTERIESACCESORIES

WHEEL ALIGNMENTCOMPUTER

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Quality ServiceIn Business Since 1980

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Custom Linux amp MicrosoftServers

Business ampHome

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Russia to Sell Arms to Iran amp Venezuela

Russia turned up its nose at the United States Thursday by announcing plans to sell

military equipment to both Iran and Venezuela

The head of the state arms ex-porter said Russia was negotiating to sell new anti-aircraft systems to Iran despite American objections

ldquoContacts between our countries are continuing and we do not see any reason to suspend themrdquo Ana-toly Isaikin general director of Ro-soboronexport told Russian news agency Ria-Novosti at an arms fair in South Africa

Reports have circulated for some time that Russia is preparing to sell its S-300 surface-to-air mis-sile system to Iran offering greater protection against a possible US or Israeli attack on the Islamic

republicrsquos nuclear facilities The missiles have a range of more than 93 miles and can intercept jets ap-proaching at low altitudes

Russia has already delivered 29 Tor-M1 missile systems under a $700 million deal with Iran in 2005Sergei Chemezov the head of state-owned Russian Technologies also disclosed that Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez wanted to buy anti-aircraft systems armored personnel carriers and new SU-35 fighter jets when they come into production in 2010

The US plans to place an anti-missile shield in eastern Europe to deter surprise attacks from Iran have outraged Russia which believes the system in Poland and the Czech Republic is aimed at weakening its defenses

time of confusion and of peril Jesus said ldquoMy sheep hear my voicerdquo (John 1027)Begin to assess Have you been living for yourself or living for God ldquoBut seek first the Kingdom of God and His righteousness and all these things shall be added to yourdquo (Matthew 633) Godrsquos ways are always better for us than our own waysRemember even if you lose your job you havenrsquot lost your identity Who you are goes beyond a re-sume or a personal network You are a child of God and when you make Jesus the Lord of your life He promises that He has good plans for you ldquoPlans to prosper you not to harm you plans to give you hope and a futurerdquo (Jer 2911)

to step out of our professional suits and ties and be a friend to a lot of our colleagues who arenrsquot Chris-tiansrdquo Craig told CBN News

ldquoMy wife and I have always be-lieved that God is the ultimate source of our income and our provi-sion and that he provides for us first and foremostrdquo Manasseh saidd

Nobody knows just how long this financial upheaval will last But for those who put their trust -- not in bull markets but in Christ - the ride promises to be a little less bumpyAre You Anxious About the Mar-kets

DiMaio offers this advice if you are anxious about whatrsquos happening on Wall StreetBegin to listen to what God is speaking to you right now in this

Christians on Wall Street Praying amp Hoping

GOODYEAR

JESUS IS LORD

continued from page12

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curred at night between 9 pm and 5 am over the past 10 months so as not to disturb Iraqi drivers and clog the roads

They dubbed it ldquoOperation Rudy Gi-ulianirdquo because they were cleaning the streets up and returning Fallujah to normalcy mdash taking down barbed wire and tearing down checkpoints and Jersey walls that made Anbar look like a war zone

ldquoThere is almost no barbed wire left anywhere in Fal-lujahrdquo Kelly said An Iraqi no longer sees barbed wire when traveling in and around the city

Between 300 and 400 con-crete barriers that divided the city were removed by Navy Seabees

One of the big changes Kelly made when he took command in Anbar was to remove fixed checkpoints and Iraqi vehicles no longer had to pull off to the side when a military convoy was on the road His troops risked car bombs but the gamble paid off in what had once been Iraqrsquos most dangerous province The new road rules instantly low-ered the tension between military and locals Soon he transitioned to moving military convoys only at night so they would not encounter locals This also stymied many of the insurgents laying IEDs or road-side bombs which they often had done at night

Another change for the better since Kelly arrived in February He pushed the central government to provide more fuel to the people of Anbar so the mostly Sunni popu-lation is now happier In February Anbaris were receiving only 8 per-cent of their allocation of fuel from the central government of Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki Now itrsquos 90 percent mdash eliminating one of their

main gripes

But perhaps the biggest sign that the situation has changed for the better for Sunnis living in Anbar With the help of the Ma-rines and the Iraqi police nearly 100 percent of the eligible vot-ing population were registered a month ago to vote in upcoming provincial elections

ldquoThey seem to add another polit-ical party every dayrdquo Kelly said ldquoWe didnrsquot have a single security violation of any kind Theyrsquore at least going to give the electoral process a shot hellip at least going to give democracy a chancerdquo

The Sunnis who fueled a large part of Iraqrsquos insurgency boycot-

ted the last election for Parliament with only 3 percent of Sunnis par-ticipating Now they feel they have a stake in the government

ldquoThis is an amazing indicator as to where this province isrdquo Kelly saidHe and the Marines no longer use violence as an indicator of how much progress they have made

Two years ago they had 400 attacks mdash roadside bombs or shootings mdash at US forces every week In February it was down to 30 attacks per week Now it is down to under 12 attacks per week There hasnrsquot been a

Marine death in a few months

Troop numbers have dropped as well mdash down by 40 percent since February About 26000 Marines still serve in Anbar

ldquoIn Anbar there is no longer an insurgencyrdquo Kelly said ldquoUnless someone does something stupid (for instance if the Coalition were to accidentally kill a large number of civilians) this place will not go back to the way it wasrdquo

In football terms Kelly says the Marines are ldquoin the last 10 yards of this fightrdquo

ldquoCould it go back I donrsquot think sordquo he said firmly ldquoWe are winning this thingrdquo

Last One Turn Out The Lights Marines Quietly Begin Leaving

ldquoWe are winning

this thingrdquo Major General

John Kelly

Page 13

ORDER YOUR SUBSCRIPTION TODAY Not subscribed to FREEDOM

Take the time and order your subscription NOW FREEDOM

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or write toFREEDOM PUBLICATIONS

108 E Oakland Ave Austin MN 55912

Continued from page one

507-573-1183

A Publication Company Inspiring Hope amp Faith

507-573-1168

Palin Promises Tax-Cut Package VP Candidate Rallies Crowd On Economic

amp Social Issues

has made a more concerted effort to recapture his footing in the state the past week

He and Mrs Pal-in cam-paigned

together Wednesday in Bethlehem She hit a Pittsburgh fundraiser Fri-day and then a Johnstown rally and a Philadelphia Flyers hockey game Saturday Mr McCain arrived in Phil-adelphia on Monday and unveiled his new economic plan Tuesday in Blue Bell a Philadelphia suburb

The Scranton crowd Tuesday was larger than the one that greeted Mrs Clinton and Mr Biden in the same venue Sunday

The McCain-Palin campaign esti-mated Tuesdayrsquos crowd at 5800 and said it was based on a Secret Service door count but the crowd appeared to be closer to 4500 peo-ple The smaller estimate by The Times-Tribune was based on the number of rows of risers a typical rowrsquos occupancy and a per-person count of the depth and width of the standing audience

Mrs Palin never mentioned Mrs Clinton But she brought up Gov Casey while talking about her son Trig who has Down syndrome

and promising to bring attention to ldquochildren with special needsrdquo as vice president

ldquoIt was the great Pennsylvania governor Robert Casey a son of Scranton who said rdquo Mrs Palin said pausing as the mention drew a mix of applause and boos ldquoHe was asked once how society should treat the most vulnerable among us such as children with special needs And he said Itrsquos simple you put them first in linersquo

ldquoSee Gov Casey understood that these children can inspire a special love and thatrsquos a love that this world needs more of Our children are not a problem theyrsquore a priorityrdquo

Mrs Palin did not specifically men-tion abortion or Mr Caseyrsquos cru-sade against it but said ldquoI do be-lieve that the truest measure of any society is how we treat those who are least able to defend and speak for themselves Who is more vul-nerable who is more innocent than a childrdquo

Trig taught her ldquothat everyone be-longs in the circle of protectionrdquo she said ldquoAnd that every child has something to contribute to the world if we give them that chancerdquoAs she pushed Mr McCainrsquos plan to expand all forms of energy in-cluding alternative ones Mrs Pal-in mocked Mr Biden for trashing clean-coal technology[ ]

Proposition 8 on the Cali-fornia ballot

which would negate a state Supreme Court ruling legalizing homosexual ldquomar-riagerdquo appears to be gaining strength

Previous polls have shown the traditional marriage supporters trail-ing but a new one by a San Fran-cisco CBS television station shows Prop 8 is ahead 47 to 42 percent ldquoTen percent are still undecided It means itrsquos still a close race but the shift still seems to be taking placerdquo says Randy Thomasson of Save-Californiacom

The pro-family activist believes success will depend on two

factors -- encouraging people to vote and getting Christians to vote according to the Bible Thomasson is hopeful pastors will take an active role as the election nears

ldquoTheyrsquove got to be men of God who are bold and courageous and say lsquoGod says marriage is only for a man and womanrsquordquo he adds ldquoWe all must be Christians not just people who say theyrsquore Christians and do not fol-low Christ in this matterrdquo

Thomasson attributes the new poll results in part to a new television commercial that does an effective job of selling the traditional view of marriage as well as the homosexual activists imposing acceptance of their lifestyle on everyone else

By Borys Krawczeniuk Scranton Times-Tribune

By Charlie Butts

06 Grand Prix 44k $9995 Many More to Choose Fromwwwthe-trading-postcom

TRADING POSTGordonsville MN 507-448-3302

Support For Traditional Marriage Pulls Ahead in Polls

Page 14

Want to talk with someone at

FREEDOM PUBLICATIONSContact our Customer

Service Representative

AMELIA WELLS

507-573-1183email freedomrsmifreedomorg

continued from page 12

I AM HERE FOR YOU GOD

FREEDOM

1 The Fossil RecordEvolutionists have constructed the Geologic Column in order to illustrate the supposed progression of ldquoprimitiverdquo life forms to ldquomore complexrdquo systems we observe today Yet ldquosince only a small percentage of the earthrsquos surface obeys even a portion of the geologic column the claim of their having taken place to form a continuum of rocklifetime over the earth is therefore a fantastic and imaginative contrivance1rdquo ldquo[T]he lack of transitional series cannot be explained as being due to the scarcity of material The deficiencies are real they will never be filledrdquo2 This supposed column is actually saturated with ldquopolystrate fossilsrdquo (fossils extending from one geologic layer to another) that tie all the layers to one time-frame ldquo[T]o the unprejudiced the fossil record of plants is in favor of special creationrdquo 3

2 Decay of Earthrsquos Magnetic Field Dr Thomas Barnes Emeritus Professor of Physics at the University of Texas at El Paso has published the definitive work in this field4 Scientific observations since 1829 have shown that the earthrsquos magnetic field has been measurably decaying at an exponential rate demonstrating its half-life to be approximately 1400 years In practical applica-tion its strength 20000 years ago would approximate that of a mag-netic star Under those conditions many of the molecules neces-sary for life processes could not form These data demonstrate that earthrsquos entire history is young within a few thousand of years

3 The Global Flood The Biblical record clearly describes a global Flood during Noahrsquos day Additionally there are hundreds of Flood traditions handed down through cultures all over the world 5 ME Clark and Henry Voss have demonstrated the scientific validity of such a Flood providing the sedimentary layering we see on every continent 6 Secular scholars report very rapid sedimentation and periods of great carbonate deposition in earthrsquos sedimentary layers7 It is now pos-sible to prove the historical reality of the Biblical Flood8

4 Population StatisticsWorld population growth rate in recent times is about 2 per year Practicable application of growth rate throughout human history would be about half that number Wars disease famine etc have wiped out approximately one third of the population on average every 82 years Starting with eight people and applying these growth rates since the Flood of Noahrsquos day (about 4500 years ago) would give a total human population at just under six billion people However application on an evolution-ary time scale runs into major difficulties Starting with one ldquocouplerdquo just 41000 years ago would give us a total population of 2 x 1089 9 The universe does not have space to hold so many bodies

5 Radio HalosPhysicist Robert Gentry has reported isolated radio halos of polonuim-214 in crystalline granite The half-life of this element is 0000164 seconds To record the existence of this element in such short time span the granite must be in crystalline state instantaneously10 This runs counter to evolutionary estimates of 300 million years for granite to form

EVIDENCE FOR CREATION

Belong Believe amp Be Free

FREEDOM CHRISTIAN CENTER108 E OAKLAND AVE AUSTIN MN 55912

CALL 507-573-1168 FOR MORE INFORMATION

FurnitureClothesCrafts

etc

Hot Chicken SoupChili

Hot Apple Cideramp Candy Apples

200pm - 700pmSale Time

M M

NOW OPEN

Jessica BPhotographyPACKAGES FOR CHILDREN FAMILIES

SENIORS SPECIAL EVENTS AND WEDDINGS

watch me grow feature 4 sessions for one low price a composite of babys first year

2137 Grand AvenueAlbert Lea MN 56007507-369-5186 or 507-383-0016JessicaBPhotographyyahoocom

Page 15

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Thursdays 700pm Freedom Christian Center 108 E Oakland Ave Austin MN

SO COME ON OVER WE LOOK FORWARD IN SEEING YOU HERE

I AM HERE FOR YOU GOD

FREEDOM

Dutch TraditionsHandcrafted

FurnitureM - F

9am- 5pm709 Main Street

Osage IA641-732-3472

BAKED GOODS bull JAM amp JELLIES bull CANDLES bull COFFEES

SPRI

NKLE

S bull D

RIED

FRU

IT bull

JAVA

HOT amp COLD BREAKFAST CEREALS

WelcomeOsage Shoppers

709 Main St

Osage Phone641-732-6315

STOP IN FOR HOTCINNAMON CARAMEL ROLLSAND FRESH GROUND COFFEE

NOODLES bull FRUIT bull CEREAL bull CHEESE

WHALENrsquoS AUTO REPAIR801 1st Ave SW Austin MN 55912 437-3229

COMPLETE CAR CAREldquoBring Us Your Motor Tune-Up and Brake Problemsrdquo

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Russia to Sell Arms to Iran amp Venezuela

Russia turned up its nose at the United States Thursday by announcing plans to sell

military equipment to both Iran and Venezuela

The head of the state arms ex-porter said Russia was negotiating to sell new anti-aircraft systems to Iran despite American objections

ldquoContacts between our countries are continuing and we do not see any reason to suspend themrdquo Ana-toly Isaikin general director of Ro-soboronexport told Russian news agency Ria-Novosti at an arms fair in South Africa

Reports have circulated for some time that Russia is preparing to sell its S-300 surface-to-air mis-sile system to Iran offering greater protection against a possible US or Israeli attack on the Islamic

republicrsquos nuclear facilities The missiles have a range of more than 93 miles and can intercept jets ap-proaching at low altitudes

Russia has already delivered 29 Tor-M1 missile systems under a $700 million deal with Iran in 2005Sergei Chemezov the head of state-owned Russian Technologies also disclosed that Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez wanted to buy anti-aircraft systems armored personnel carriers and new SU-35 fighter jets when they come into production in 2010

The US plans to place an anti-missile shield in eastern Europe to deter surprise attacks from Iran have outraged Russia which believes the system in Poland and the Czech Republic is aimed at weakening its defenses

time of confusion and of peril Jesus said ldquoMy sheep hear my voicerdquo (John 1027)Begin to assess Have you been living for yourself or living for God ldquoBut seek first the Kingdom of God and His righteousness and all these things shall be added to yourdquo (Matthew 633) Godrsquos ways are always better for us than our own waysRemember even if you lose your job you havenrsquot lost your identity Who you are goes beyond a re-sume or a personal network You are a child of God and when you make Jesus the Lord of your life He promises that He has good plans for you ldquoPlans to prosper you not to harm you plans to give you hope and a futurerdquo (Jer 2911)

to step out of our professional suits and ties and be a friend to a lot of our colleagues who arenrsquot Chris-tiansrdquo Craig told CBN News

ldquoMy wife and I have always be-lieved that God is the ultimate source of our income and our provi-sion and that he provides for us first and foremostrdquo Manasseh saidd

Nobody knows just how long this financial upheaval will last But for those who put their trust -- not in bull markets but in Christ - the ride promises to be a little less bumpyAre You Anxious About the Mar-kets

DiMaio offers this advice if you are anxious about whatrsquos happening on Wall StreetBegin to listen to what God is speaking to you right now in this

Christians on Wall Street Praying amp Hoping

GOODYEAR

JESUS IS LORD

continued from page12

Palin Promises Tax-Cut Package VP Candidate Rallies Crowd On Economic

amp Social Issues

has made a more concerted effort to recapture his footing in the state the past week

He and Mrs Pal-in cam-paigned

together Wednesday in Bethlehem She hit a Pittsburgh fundraiser Fri-day and then a Johnstown rally and a Philadelphia Flyers hockey game Saturday Mr McCain arrived in Phil-adelphia on Monday and unveiled his new economic plan Tuesday in Blue Bell a Philadelphia suburb

The Scranton crowd Tuesday was larger than the one that greeted Mrs Clinton and Mr Biden in the same venue Sunday

The McCain-Palin campaign esti-mated Tuesdayrsquos crowd at 5800 and said it was based on a Secret Service door count but the crowd appeared to be closer to 4500 peo-ple The smaller estimate by The Times-Tribune was based on the number of rows of risers a typical rowrsquos occupancy and a per-person count of the depth and width of the standing audience

Mrs Palin never mentioned Mrs Clinton But she brought up Gov Casey while talking about her son Trig who has Down syndrome

and promising to bring attention to ldquochildren with special needsrdquo as vice president

ldquoIt was the great Pennsylvania governor Robert Casey a son of Scranton who said rdquo Mrs Palin said pausing as the mention drew a mix of applause and boos ldquoHe was asked once how society should treat the most vulnerable among us such as children with special needs And he said Itrsquos simple you put them first in linersquo

ldquoSee Gov Casey understood that these children can inspire a special love and thatrsquos a love that this world needs more of Our children are not a problem theyrsquore a priorityrdquo

Mrs Palin did not specifically men-tion abortion or Mr Caseyrsquos cru-sade against it but said ldquoI do be-lieve that the truest measure of any society is how we treat those who are least able to defend and speak for themselves Who is more vul-nerable who is more innocent than a childrdquo

Trig taught her ldquothat everyone be-longs in the circle of protectionrdquo she said ldquoAnd that every child has something to contribute to the world if we give them that chancerdquoAs she pushed Mr McCainrsquos plan to expand all forms of energy in-cluding alternative ones Mrs Pal-in mocked Mr Biden for trashing clean-coal technology[ ]

Proposition 8 on the Cali-fornia ballot

which would negate a state Supreme Court ruling legalizing homosexual ldquomar-riagerdquo appears to be gaining strength

Previous polls have shown the traditional marriage supporters trail-ing but a new one by a San Fran-cisco CBS television station shows Prop 8 is ahead 47 to 42 percent ldquoTen percent are still undecided It means itrsquos still a close race but the shift still seems to be taking placerdquo says Randy Thomasson of Save-Californiacom

The pro-family activist believes success will depend on two

factors -- encouraging people to vote and getting Christians to vote according to the Bible Thomasson is hopeful pastors will take an active role as the election nears

ldquoTheyrsquove got to be men of God who are bold and courageous and say lsquoGod says marriage is only for a man and womanrsquordquo he adds ldquoWe all must be Christians not just people who say theyrsquore Christians and do not fol-low Christ in this matterrdquo

Thomasson attributes the new poll results in part to a new television commercial that does an effective job of selling the traditional view of marriage as well as the homosexual activists imposing acceptance of their lifestyle on everyone else

By Borys Krawczeniuk Scranton Times-Tribune

By Charlie Butts

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Page 14

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I AM HERE FOR YOU GOD

FREEDOM

1 The Fossil RecordEvolutionists have constructed the Geologic Column in order to illustrate the supposed progression of ldquoprimitiverdquo life forms to ldquomore complexrdquo systems we observe today Yet ldquosince only a small percentage of the earthrsquos surface obeys even a portion of the geologic column the claim of their having taken place to form a continuum of rocklifetime over the earth is therefore a fantastic and imaginative contrivance1rdquo ldquo[T]he lack of transitional series cannot be explained as being due to the scarcity of material The deficiencies are real they will never be filledrdquo2 This supposed column is actually saturated with ldquopolystrate fossilsrdquo (fossils extending from one geologic layer to another) that tie all the layers to one time-frame ldquo[T]o the unprejudiced the fossil record of plants is in favor of special creationrdquo 3

2 Decay of Earthrsquos Magnetic Field Dr Thomas Barnes Emeritus Professor of Physics at the University of Texas at El Paso has published the definitive work in this field4 Scientific observations since 1829 have shown that the earthrsquos magnetic field has been measurably decaying at an exponential rate demonstrating its half-life to be approximately 1400 years In practical applica-tion its strength 20000 years ago would approximate that of a mag-netic star Under those conditions many of the molecules neces-sary for life processes could not form These data demonstrate that earthrsquos entire history is young within a few thousand of years

3 The Global Flood The Biblical record clearly describes a global Flood during Noahrsquos day Additionally there are hundreds of Flood traditions handed down through cultures all over the world 5 ME Clark and Henry Voss have demonstrated the scientific validity of such a Flood providing the sedimentary layering we see on every continent 6 Secular scholars report very rapid sedimentation and periods of great carbonate deposition in earthrsquos sedimentary layers7 It is now pos-sible to prove the historical reality of the Biblical Flood8

4 Population StatisticsWorld population growth rate in recent times is about 2 per year Practicable application of growth rate throughout human history would be about half that number Wars disease famine etc have wiped out approximately one third of the population on average every 82 years Starting with eight people and applying these growth rates since the Flood of Noahrsquos day (about 4500 years ago) would give a total human population at just under six billion people However application on an evolution-ary time scale runs into major difficulties Starting with one ldquocouplerdquo just 41000 years ago would give us a total population of 2 x 1089 9 The universe does not have space to hold so many bodies

5 Radio HalosPhysicist Robert Gentry has reported isolated radio halos of polonuim-214 in crystalline granite The half-life of this element is 0000164 seconds To record the existence of this element in such short time span the granite must be in crystalline state instantaneously10 This runs counter to evolutionary estimates of 300 million years for granite to form

EVIDENCE FOR CREATION

Belong Believe amp Be Free

FREEDOM CHRISTIAN CENTER108 E OAKLAND AVE AUSTIN MN 55912

CALL 507-573-1168 FOR MORE INFORMATION

FurnitureClothesCrafts

etc

Hot Chicken SoupChili

Hot Apple Cideramp Candy Apples

200pm - 700pmSale Time

M M

NOW OPEN

Jessica BPhotographyPACKAGES FOR CHILDREN FAMILIES

SENIORS SPECIAL EVENTS AND WEDDINGS

watch me grow feature 4 sessions for one low price a composite of babys first year

2137 Grand AvenueAlbert Lea MN 56007507-369-5186 or 507-383-0016JessicaBPhotographyyahoocom

Page 15

Women of Prayer Fellowship GroupMe amp My Big Mouth

Thursdays 700pm Freedom Christian Center 108 E Oakland Ave Austin MN

SO COME ON OVER WE LOOK FORWARD IN SEEING YOU HERE

I AM HERE FOR YOU GOD

FREEDOM

Dutch TraditionsHandcrafted

FurnitureM - F

9am- 5pm709 Main Street

Osage IA641-732-3472

BAKED GOODS bull JAM amp JELLIES bull CANDLES bull COFFEES

SPRI

NKLE

S bull D

RIED

FRU

IT bull

JAVA

HOT amp COLD BREAKFAST CEREALS

WelcomeOsage Shoppers

709 Main St

Osage Phone641-732-6315

STOP IN FOR HOTCINNAMON CARAMEL ROLLSAND FRESH GROUND COFFEE

NOODLES bull FRUIT bull CEREAL bull CHEESE

WHALENrsquoS AUTO REPAIR801 1st Ave SW Austin MN 55912 437-3229

COMPLETE CAR CAREldquoBring Us Your Motor Tune-Up and Brake Problemsrdquo

TIRES-BATTERIESACCESORIES

WHEEL ALIGNMENTCOMPUTER

DIAGNOSTICSROAD SERVICEamp TOWING

CELESTIAL DREAMSFunRomanticAffordableRelieves StressInspirationalUnique Gift

ApartmentsHomes Hotels

Resorts Bamp Brsquos

CREATING BEAUTIFULSTARSCRAPES

Astonishing 3D virtual cosmic sky with stars planets glaxies and more

Call Today amp Sleep Under the Stars Tonight507-573-2556 wwwfreewebscomcelestialdreamz

Upgrades onOlder Systems

MailEmailServers

Used Systems

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641-713-21414350 Dancer Ave

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Custom BuiltComputers

Custom Linux amp MicrosoftServers

Business ampHome

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Russia to Sell Arms to Iran amp Venezuela

Russia turned up its nose at the United States Thursday by announcing plans to sell

military equipment to both Iran and Venezuela

The head of the state arms ex-porter said Russia was negotiating to sell new anti-aircraft systems to Iran despite American objections

ldquoContacts between our countries are continuing and we do not see any reason to suspend themrdquo Ana-toly Isaikin general director of Ro-soboronexport told Russian news agency Ria-Novosti at an arms fair in South Africa

Reports have circulated for some time that Russia is preparing to sell its S-300 surface-to-air mis-sile system to Iran offering greater protection against a possible US or Israeli attack on the Islamic

republicrsquos nuclear facilities The missiles have a range of more than 93 miles and can intercept jets ap-proaching at low altitudes

Russia has already delivered 29 Tor-M1 missile systems under a $700 million deal with Iran in 2005Sergei Chemezov the head of state-owned Russian Technologies also disclosed that Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez wanted to buy anti-aircraft systems armored personnel carriers and new SU-35 fighter jets when they come into production in 2010

The US plans to place an anti-missile shield in eastern Europe to deter surprise attacks from Iran have outraged Russia which believes the system in Poland and the Czech Republic is aimed at weakening its defenses

time of confusion and of peril Jesus said ldquoMy sheep hear my voicerdquo (John 1027)Begin to assess Have you been living for yourself or living for God ldquoBut seek first the Kingdom of God and His righteousness and all these things shall be added to yourdquo (Matthew 633) Godrsquos ways are always better for us than our own waysRemember even if you lose your job you havenrsquot lost your identity Who you are goes beyond a re-sume or a personal network You are a child of God and when you make Jesus the Lord of your life He promises that He has good plans for you ldquoPlans to prosper you not to harm you plans to give you hope and a futurerdquo (Jer 2911)

to step out of our professional suits and ties and be a friend to a lot of our colleagues who arenrsquot Chris-tiansrdquo Craig told CBN News

ldquoMy wife and I have always be-lieved that God is the ultimate source of our income and our provi-sion and that he provides for us first and foremostrdquo Manasseh saidd

Nobody knows just how long this financial upheaval will last But for those who put their trust -- not in bull markets but in Christ - the ride promises to be a little less bumpyAre You Anxious About the Mar-kets

DiMaio offers this advice if you are anxious about whatrsquos happening on Wall StreetBegin to listen to what God is speaking to you right now in this

Christians on Wall Street Praying amp Hoping

GOODYEAR

JESUS IS LORD

continued from page12

FREEDOM

1 The Fossil RecordEvolutionists have constructed the Geologic Column in order to illustrate the supposed progression of ldquoprimitiverdquo life forms to ldquomore complexrdquo systems we observe today Yet ldquosince only a small percentage of the earthrsquos surface obeys even a portion of the geologic column the claim of their having taken place to form a continuum of rocklifetime over the earth is therefore a fantastic and imaginative contrivance1rdquo ldquo[T]he lack of transitional series cannot be explained as being due to the scarcity of material The deficiencies are real they will never be filledrdquo2 This supposed column is actually saturated with ldquopolystrate fossilsrdquo (fossils extending from one geologic layer to another) that tie all the layers to one time-frame ldquo[T]o the unprejudiced the fossil record of plants is in favor of special creationrdquo 3

2 Decay of Earthrsquos Magnetic Field Dr Thomas Barnes Emeritus Professor of Physics at the University of Texas at El Paso has published the definitive work in this field4 Scientific observations since 1829 have shown that the earthrsquos magnetic field has been measurably decaying at an exponential rate demonstrating its half-life to be approximately 1400 years In practical applica-tion its strength 20000 years ago would approximate that of a mag-netic star Under those conditions many of the molecules neces-sary for life processes could not form These data demonstrate that earthrsquos entire history is young within a few thousand of years

3 The Global Flood The Biblical record clearly describes a global Flood during Noahrsquos day Additionally there are hundreds of Flood traditions handed down through cultures all over the world 5 ME Clark and Henry Voss have demonstrated the scientific validity of such a Flood providing the sedimentary layering we see on every continent 6 Secular scholars report very rapid sedimentation and periods of great carbonate deposition in earthrsquos sedimentary layers7 It is now pos-sible to prove the historical reality of the Biblical Flood8

4 Population StatisticsWorld population growth rate in recent times is about 2 per year Practicable application of growth rate throughout human history would be about half that number Wars disease famine etc have wiped out approximately one third of the population on average every 82 years Starting with eight people and applying these growth rates since the Flood of Noahrsquos day (about 4500 years ago) would give a total human population at just under six billion people However application on an evolution-ary time scale runs into major difficulties Starting with one ldquocouplerdquo just 41000 years ago would give us a total population of 2 x 1089 9 The universe does not have space to hold so many bodies

5 Radio HalosPhysicist Robert Gentry has reported isolated radio halos of polonuim-214 in crystalline granite The half-life of this element is 0000164 seconds To record the existence of this element in such short time span the granite must be in crystalline state instantaneously10 This runs counter to evolutionary estimates of 300 million years for granite to form

EVIDENCE FOR CREATION

Belong Believe amp Be Free

FREEDOM CHRISTIAN CENTER108 E OAKLAND AVE AUSTIN MN 55912

CALL 507-573-1168 FOR MORE INFORMATION

FurnitureClothesCrafts

etc

Hot Chicken SoupChili

Hot Apple Cideramp Candy Apples

200pm - 700pmSale Time

M M

NOW OPEN

Jessica BPhotographyPACKAGES FOR CHILDREN FAMILIES

SENIORS SPECIAL EVENTS AND WEDDINGS

watch me grow feature 4 sessions for one low price a composite of babys first year

2137 Grand AvenueAlbert Lea MN 56007507-369-5186 or 507-383-0016JessicaBPhotographyyahoocom

Page 15

Women of Prayer Fellowship GroupMe amp My Big Mouth

Thursdays 700pm Freedom Christian Center 108 E Oakland Ave Austin MN

SO COME ON OVER WE LOOK FORWARD IN SEEING YOU HERE

I AM HERE FOR YOU GOD

FREEDOM

Dutch TraditionsHandcrafted

FurnitureM - F

9am- 5pm709 Main Street

Osage IA641-732-3472

BAKED GOODS bull JAM amp JELLIES bull CANDLES bull COFFEES

SPRI

NKLE

S bull D

RIED

FRU

IT bull

JAVA

HOT amp COLD BREAKFAST CEREALS

WelcomeOsage Shoppers

709 Main St

Osage Phone641-732-6315

STOP IN FOR HOTCINNAMON CARAMEL ROLLSAND FRESH GROUND COFFEE

NOODLES bull FRUIT bull CEREAL bull CHEESE

WHALENrsquoS AUTO REPAIR801 1st Ave SW Austin MN 55912 437-3229

COMPLETE CAR CAREldquoBring Us Your Motor Tune-Up and Brake Problemsrdquo

TIRES-BATTERIESACCESORIES

WHEEL ALIGNMENTCOMPUTER

DIAGNOSTICSROAD SERVICEamp TOWING

CELESTIAL DREAMSFunRomanticAffordableRelieves StressInspirationalUnique Gift

ApartmentsHomes Hotels

Resorts Bamp Brsquos

CREATING BEAUTIFULSTARSCRAPES

Astonishing 3D virtual cosmic sky with stars planets glaxies and more

Call Today amp Sleep Under the Stars Tonight507-573-2556 wwwfreewebscomcelestialdreamz

Upgrades onOlder Systems

MailEmailServers

Used Systems

NewUsed Towers

CALL TODAY FOR A FREE ESTIMATE

641-713-21414350 Dancer Ave

St Ansgar IA

We Take PrideIn Our

Quality ServiceIn Business Since 1980

Custom BuiltComputers

Custom Linux amp MicrosoftServers

Business ampHome

NetworkingLaptoprsquos Secured Internet Offsite Back-ups Lightning Repair Data Back-ups

Russia to Sell Arms to Iran amp Venezuela

Russia turned up its nose at the United States Thursday by announcing plans to sell

military equipment to both Iran and Venezuela

The head of the state arms ex-porter said Russia was negotiating to sell new anti-aircraft systems to Iran despite American objections

ldquoContacts between our countries are continuing and we do not see any reason to suspend themrdquo Ana-toly Isaikin general director of Ro-soboronexport told Russian news agency Ria-Novosti at an arms fair in South Africa

Reports have circulated for some time that Russia is preparing to sell its S-300 surface-to-air mis-sile system to Iran offering greater protection against a possible US or Israeli attack on the Islamic

republicrsquos nuclear facilities The missiles have a range of more than 93 miles and can intercept jets ap-proaching at low altitudes

Russia has already delivered 29 Tor-M1 missile systems under a $700 million deal with Iran in 2005Sergei Chemezov the head of state-owned Russian Technologies also disclosed that Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez wanted to buy anti-aircraft systems armored personnel carriers and new SU-35 fighter jets when they come into production in 2010

The US plans to place an anti-missile shield in eastern Europe to deter surprise attacks from Iran have outraged Russia which believes the system in Poland and the Czech Republic is aimed at weakening its defenses

time of confusion and of peril Jesus said ldquoMy sheep hear my voicerdquo (John 1027)Begin to assess Have you been living for yourself or living for God ldquoBut seek first the Kingdom of God and His righteousness and all these things shall be added to yourdquo (Matthew 633) Godrsquos ways are always better for us than our own waysRemember even if you lose your job you havenrsquot lost your identity Who you are goes beyond a re-sume or a personal network You are a child of God and when you make Jesus the Lord of your life He promises that He has good plans for you ldquoPlans to prosper you not to harm you plans to give you hope and a futurerdquo (Jer 2911)

to step out of our professional suits and ties and be a friend to a lot of our colleagues who arenrsquot Chris-tiansrdquo Craig told CBN News

ldquoMy wife and I have always be-lieved that God is the ultimate source of our income and our provi-sion and that he provides for us first and foremostrdquo Manasseh saidd

Nobody knows just how long this financial upheaval will last But for those who put their trust -- not in bull markets but in Christ - the ride promises to be a little less bumpyAre You Anxious About the Mar-kets

DiMaio offers this advice if you are anxious about whatrsquos happening on Wall StreetBegin to listen to what God is speaking to you right now in this

Christians on Wall Street Praying amp Hoping

GOODYEAR

JESUS IS LORD

continued from page12

FREEDOM

Dutch TraditionsHandcrafted

FurnitureM - F

9am- 5pm709 Main Street

Osage IA641-732-3472

BAKED GOODS bull JAM amp JELLIES bull CANDLES bull COFFEES

SPRI

NKLE

S bull D

RIED

FRU

IT bull

JAVA

HOT amp COLD BREAKFAST CEREALS

WelcomeOsage Shoppers

709 Main St

Osage Phone641-732-6315

STOP IN FOR HOTCINNAMON CARAMEL ROLLSAND FRESH GROUND COFFEE

NOODLES bull FRUIT bull CEREAL bull CHEESE

WHALENrsquoS AUTO REPAIR801 1st Ave SW Austin MN 55912 437-3229

COMPLETE CAR CAREldquoBring Us Your Motor Tune-Up and Brake Problemsrdquo

TIRES-BATTERIESACCESORIES

WHEEL ALIGNMENTCOMPUTER

DIAGNOSTICSROAD SERVICEamp TOWING

CELESTIAL DREAMSFunRomanticAffordableRelieves StressInspirationalUnique Gift

ApartmentsHomes Hotels

Resorts Bamp Brsquos

CREATING BEAUTIFULSTARSCRAPES

Astonishing 3D virtual cosmic sky with stars planets glaxies and more

Call Today amp Sleep Under the Stars Tonight507-573-2556 wwwfreewebscomcelestialdreamz

Upgrades onOlder Systems

MailEmailServers

Used Systems

NewUsed Towers

CALL TODAY FOR A FREE ESTIMATE

641-713-21414350 Dancer Ave

St Ansgar IA

We Take PrideIn Our

Quality ServiceIn Business Since 1980

Custom BuiltComputers

Custom Linux amp MicrosoftServers

Business ampHome

NetworkingLaptoprsquos Secured Internet Offsite Back-ups Lightning Repair Data Back-ups

Russia to Sell Arms to Iran amp Venezuela

Russia turned up its nose at the United States Thursday by announcing plans to sell

military equipment to both Iran and Venezuela

The head of the state arms ex-porter said Russia was negotiating to sell new anti-aircraft systems to Iran despite American objections

ldquoContacts between our countries are continuing and we do not see any reason to suspend themrdquo Ana-toly Isaikin general director of Ro-soboronexport told Russian news agency Ria-Novosti at an arms fair in South Africa

Reports have circulated for some time that Russia is preparing to sell its S-300 surface-to-air mis-sile system to Iran offering greater protection against a possible US or Israeli attack on the Islamic

republicrsquos nuclear facilities The missiles have a range of more than 93 miles and can intercept jets ap-proaching at low altitudes

Russia has already delivered 29 Tor-M1 missile systems under a $700 million deal with Iran in 2005Sergei Chemezov the head of state-owned Russian Technologies also disclosed that Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez wanted to buy anti-aircraft systems armored personnel carriers and new SU-35 fighter jets when they come into production in 2010

The US plans to place an anti-missile shield in eastern Europe to deter surprise attacks from Iran have outraged Russia which believes the system in Poland and the Czech Republic is aimed at weakening its defenses

time of confusion and of peril Jesus said ldquoMy sheep hear my voicerdquo (John 1027)Begin to assess Have you been living for yourself or living for God ldquoBut seek first the Kingdom of God and His righteousness and all these things shall be added to yourdquo (Matthew 633) Godrsquos ways are always better for us than our own waysRemember even if you lose your job you havenrsquot lost your identity Who you are goes beyond a re-sume or a personal network You are a child of God and when you make Jesus the Lord of your life He promises that He has good plans for you ldquoPlans to prosper you not to harm you plans to give you hope and a futurerdquo (Jer 2911)

to step out of our professional suits and ties and be a friend to a lot of our colleagues who arenrsquot Chris-tiansrdquo Craig told CBN News

ldquoMy wife and I have always be-lieved that God is the ultimate source of our income and our provi-sion and that he provides for us first and foremostrdquo Manasseh saidd

Nobody knows just how long this financial upheaval will last But for those who put their trust -- not in bull markets but in Christ - the ride promises to be a little less bumpyAre You Anxious About the Mar-kets

DiMaio offers this advice if you are anxious about whatrsquos happening on Wall StreetBegin to listen to what God is speaking to you right now in this

Christians on Wall Street Praying amp Hoping

GOODYEAR

JESUS IS LORD

continued from page12