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For whom or what would you die or suffer?

Monday, May 27, 2013, 2:31 pm | Randy Thomasson

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Memorial Day means the most to those who’ve known someone who died in war.

But it can mean something significant to everyone if we’ll just think about it.

Honoring those who’ve given the ultimate sacrifice means we deeply appreciate people who have laid down their lives to protect us from evil. They substituted themselves for us. They died so that we could have liberty.

No greater love

And that’s the greatest love on earth – the sacrificial kind. Jesus Christ, the King and Savior of the world, explained it when He said about Himself, “Greater love has no one than this, than to lay down one’s life for his friends” (John 15:13 NKJV)

It makes me ask myself and ask you, for whom or what would I die or suffer?

Think about it. Hard work gets good things done. And suffering the flesh is a necessary part of becoming holy.

Remembering just wars

I’m convinced that World War II would not have been won on the side of Right unless the United States of America had chosen to enter it and win it. The cost of liberty was many U.S. soldiers died and many Americans suffered through rationing, hard work, and the loss of sons killed in battle.

But when the war ended, and the soldiers came home, and our nation “got back to normal,” Americans largely ignored the existence of evil on our own soil and in our own hearts. Houses, jobs, TV, pleasures, and labor-saving devices were the new pursuit.

Enslaved by lies

Living out traditional values instead of true Christianity, many parents in the late 1940s and early 50s birthed a new generation, of whom many rebelled in the late 1960s and early 70s. Remember the hippie movement? Lies about sex and drugs and God led millions astray, and gave birth to the harmful culture of moral relativism.

Fast forward to today. More than two generations have passed since we’ve made abortion on demand legal, made divorce easy and “guiltless” in the law, and made the carnal ethic of “if it feels good, do it” the deceiving master of our hearts.

Carnal consequences

Given this spiral down the proverbial toilet, is it so hard to see why America is more godless than godly? Pursuing comfort and avoiding suffering hasn’t taught our culture to love God or love children with His values. No, that was “too hard” and didn’t bring immediate gratification.

So what have been America’s just desserts for rebellion against her true King? Moral ruination of children, a generation that shocks us with new inventions of evil, and a people harming themselves with self-induced diseases and dying sooner than their parents. America is imploding from within.

Spirit over flesh

What’s the answer? The value of suffering is clear. For the Spirit to win, the flesh must be defeated. And for the highest love to be demonstrated, the greatest voluntary sacrifice must be given. Do you grasp it? Now is the time for sacrificial love for the sake of ourselves, our families, and our culture.

Again, for whom or what would you be willing to die or suffer? A correct perspective on true love and cultural renewal would make us, in the face of moral challenges, stop asking “Why me?” and begin asking “Why not me?” With faith in the Gospel and love for people, our willingness to “suffer” to do what’s right will be the beginning of changed minds, leading to changed lives.

“When Christ calls a man, he bids him come and die.”
Dietrich Bonhoeffer, pastor executed by Nazis, in his book, The Cost of Discipleship

What a California mother didn’t know

Monday, May 20, 2013, 5:47 pm | Randy Thomasson

harveymilkday_videofacts_200x160Monday, when I was on Bakersfield radio, Erin called in and said, as a parent of four children in the public schools and as a Christian, she’s angry about the sexual indoctrination of “Harvey Milk Gay Day.” She said no one had told her about it.

I told this caring mom there is no parental notification in the statewide “Milk” law, that any public school teacher can push “Milk’s” unnatural and unhealthy agenda on children as young as kindergarten, and that SaveCalifornia.com has not heard of any school district prohibiting “Harvey Milk Gay Day.”

Then Erin told me the most troubling part. She said that in the last two years her oldest child had started turning liberal because of what the public schools were teaching. I invited Erin to visit SaveCalifornia.com for our “Harvey Milk Gay Day” information and to also visit our special site RescueYourChild.com to see how her children are being sexually and liberally indoctrinated all year long.

With the help of people who donate to SaveCalifornia.com, our urgent warning about “Harvey Milk Gay Day” has been heard on paid media, seen and heard on earned media, and has reached more parents than last year.

Please share with everyone you know about the need to escape “Harvey Milk Gay Day” this Wednesday. SaveCalifornia.com is urging morally-sensitive parents to keep their kids home that day and to seriously consider permanently removing them from the dysfunctional, imploding, immoral government school system.

I’m scheduled for the syndicated Janet Mefferd Show Tuesday at 11:15 a.m. You can listen live here.

All real education is the architecture of the soul.
Bill Bennett, former U.S. Secretary of Education

The government Californians have chosen

Thursday, April 4, 2013, 6:47 pm | Randy Thomasson

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SaveCalifornia.com provides this solely for educational purposes
and does not support or oppose candidates for public office.

People make decisions every minute, either conscious or subconscious. But our decisions are ours, and ours alone.

As Jesus Christ said in Mark 7:21-23, “For from within, out of the heart of men, proceed evil thoughts, adulteries, fornications, murders, thefts, covetousness, wickedness, deceit, lewdness, an evil eye, blasphemy, pride [or arrogance], foolishness. All these evil things come from within and defile a man.”

Note that in this long list of sins, Jesus includes foolishness. Identifying foolishness as a sin may be a new concept for many. What is foolishness? I define it as doing something wrong when I should have known better or didn’t care to remember what was right. Being foolish is not as bad as being wicked, which is to know something is wrong and harmful and still do it anyway. But foolishness is still bad and still harmful and, to Jesus, still a sin. Here are other definitions of foolishness.

When it comes to voting, none of us should want to be foolish about God’s non-negotiable values, should we? Especially on these vital issues:

Innocent human beings. From conception, people are created in God’s image. This is why abortion, murder, manslaughter, suicide, and euthanasia are wrong. But this year, the Democrat legislators are pushing for nurses to torturously murder innocent preborn babies. Source

Sexual purity. God made sexual intimacy and sexual pleasure for marriage, to help a husband and wife bond and produce children. This is why all sexual pleasure outside of marriage – including homosexuality, bisexuality, and transsexuality – is eventually harmful to perpetrators, children, and society. But the Democrat lawmakers are pushing yet another sexual indoctrination bill – this time to promote cross-dressing and sex-changes by eliminating gender distinctions in government school restrooms, showers, and sports teams. Source

Family protection. God has commanded fathers to protect their families from harm. This means, if required, lethal defense against a home invader. Criminals have guns and bullets. Do you also want to have both a gun and ammunition to defend yourself and your family, if needed? The Democrat politicians want to make it harder for fathers and mothers to buy ammunition and also want to eliminate your opportunity to have as many bullets in your gun as criminals can have in their guns. A raft of anti-gun – instead of anti-crime — bills attack the Second Amendment rights of responsible, safe individuals concerned about home defense and protecting their family. Source

The bad news is with a two-thirds supermajority of Democrats in both the California State Senate and the California State Assembly, these harmful bills are virtually guaranteed to pass. Of course, in a system of representative government, bad bills are the result of voters’ foolishness.

At this unprecedented time in history, lobbying the California Legislature won’t stop bad bills that the majority party, the Democrats, want to pass. Instead of fighting these short-term battles that we cannot win, moral citizens should focus on the root problem — foolish voters in a foolish society.

Each one of us should take every opportunity we can to educate others about logical cause-and-effect problems and solutions; family values for a child’s best interest; God’s values in the Bible; or whatever Truth standard hearers will accept. We must bring forth both logical and factual evidence, using resources like these:

Abort73: The case against abortion

SaveCalifornia.com: Not born this way

Armstrong Williams: Imagine if only criminals had guns

Wallbuilders: Democrats & Republicans in their own words

For the record, Democrats have been in control of the California State Legislature for more than 50 years, with only three of those years when Republicans were in charge of the Assembly, the lower house. How do you like the laws of California? If you’re not sure, ask a general contractor, a small business owner, or a parent who’s left the government schools behind.

List of Speakers of the California State Assembly

President pro tempore of the California State Senate

When the righteous are in authority, the people rejoice;
But when a wicked man rules, the people groan.
Proverbs 29:2 NKJV