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What I committed to God tonight

Tuesday, May 3, 2016, 9:48 pm | Randy Thomasson

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This evening I didn’t watch any painful political news. Instead, I went to Costco and bought some organic, God-made food that we needed.

As I waited in the check-out line, I looked at the marquee above the food court. All processed, even fake “food.”

Then I looked at three young children sitting in three different shopping carts facing their parents. The two oldest, who had to be around 4 years old, had android phones in their hands. One girl was even tapping at it. The third girl was younger and had no electronic device but was gazing around with big eyes.

And I committed three things to God:

1. I pledged myself to my Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, to love and serve Him and live for Him despite the world following the flesh and power and the pleasure of sin instead of following Creator God and His holy word and enjoying His favor.

2. I pledged myself to seek godly things — including godly food — not the destructive, processed and fake “food” of the world that hurts the body.

3. And I pledged myself to think and pray how I could do more for children like the ones sitting in the shopping carts. Whether you consider them a blank slate or depraved from birth, they’ve been born into a culture that is more dark, pagan, and dangerous than ever in this nation. They need to be rescued!

If you want to encourage me and our Campaign for Children and Families team to keep going — and growing — to shine the light of God’s truth in courageous and practical, tangible ways in our culture, I would appreciate your vote of confidence at this time.

keep_the_faith_wooden_crossOn this night and in these sobering times, will you also recommit yourself to serve God and love people?

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When He opened the fifth seal, I saw under the altar the souls of those who had been slain for the word of God and for the testimony which they held. And they cried with a loud voice, saying, “How long, O Lord, holy and true, until You judge and avenge our blood on those who dwell on the earth?”
The Revelation of Jesus Christ 6:9-10

 

Election 2016: Are born-again Christians denying God’s word?

Tuesday, February 23, 2016, 7:17 pm | Randy Thomasson

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

It’s a foundational problem that has me very concerned.

South Carolina’s February 20 exit polls show that half of professing born-again Christians are denying God’s values as their priority. The exit polls also showed that, of those Christians who say it matters most that a candidate “shares my values” or “shares my religious beliefs,” these family-values voters were confused — and split their votes between moral, half-moral/half-immoral, and immoral candidates.

The solution? Christian voters need to know that, among the 3 top Republican presidential candidates, the facts fairly and accurately show that Donald Trump SUPPORTS MUCH, Marco Rubio SUPPORTS PART, and Ted Cruz OPPOSES ALL of the unnatural, unhealthy, unbiblical, tyrannical homosexual-bisexual-transsexual agenda that’s greatly harming children and families and our culture.

Just the facts: Both Trump and Rubio oppose a constitutional amendment protecting man-woman marriage, say that all 50 states must perform homosexual “weddings,” support open homosexuality and transsexuality in the U.S. military, and have either attended or would attend a homosexual “wedding.” See the documentation of the Report Card on the Natural Family.

Hear my SaveCalifornia.com Radio Minute, “Avoid idolatry in the presidential race”

Here’s the South Carolina exit poll showing “Christians” all over the place:

Very conservative (38% of South Carolina Republican voters)
Cruz 35%
Trump 29%
Rubio 19%

Born-again or evangelical Christian (72% of South Carolina Republican voters)
Trump 33%
Cruz 27%
Rubio 22%

White evangelical or white born-again Christians (67% of South Carolina Republican voters)
Trump 34%
Cruz 26%
Rubio 21%

Matters “a great deal” that a candidate shares your religious beliefs (43% of South Carolina Republican voters)
Cruz 32%
Trump 27%
Rubio 20%

Matters “a great deal or somewhat” that a candidate shares your religious beliefs (76% of South Carolina Republican voters)
Trump 31%
Cruz 27%
Rubio 22%

“Shares my values” matters most in deciding how you voted today (37% of South Carolina Republican voters; if all of these also claimed to be “born-again Christians, 37% is a little more than half of the 72% of South Carolina Republican voters who claim to be born-again or evangelical Christians)
Cruz 34%
Rubio 27%
Trump 8%

Which candidate would best handle Supreme Court nominations
Cruz 28%
Trump 28%
Rubio 19%

TAKE QUICK ACTION: Please inform professing Christians who say they care about moral values or care about the word of God. Send them our “truth detector” reporting the family-values differences between Trump, Rubio, and Cruz. See and share the Report Card on the Natural Family. Send it to morally-conservative pastors and radio hosts too!

jesuschristasdepictedinrelevationThe Dead Church
“And to the angel of the church in Sardis write, ‘These things says He who has the seven Spirits of God and the seven stars: “I know your works, that you have a name that you are alive, but you are dead. Be watchful, and strengthen the things which remain, that are ready to die, for I have not found your works perfect before God. Remember therefore how you have received and heard; hold fast and repent. Therefore if you will not watch, I will come upon you as a thief, and you will not know what hour I will come upon you. You have a few names even in Sardis who have not defiled their garments; and they shall walk with Me in white, for they are worthy. He who overcomes shall be clothed in white garments, and I will not blot out his name from the Book of Life; but I will confess his name before My Father and before His angels.
“He who has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the churches.”’

The Faithful Church
“And to the angel of the church in Philadelphia write, ‘These things says He who is holy, He who is true, “He who has the key of David, He who opens and no one shuts, and shuts and no one opens”: “I know your works. See, I have set before you an open door, and no one can shut it; for you have a little strength, have kept My word, and have not denied My name. Indeed I will make those of the synagogue of Satan, who say they are Jews and are not, but lie—indeed I will make them come and worship before your feet, and to know that I have loved you. Because you have kept My command to persevere, I also will keep you from the hour of trial which shall come upon the whole world, to test those who dwell yon the earth. Behold, I am coming quickly! Hold fast what you have, that no one may take your crown. He who overcomes, I will make him a pillar in the temple of My God, and he shall go out no more. I will write on him the name of My God and the name of the city of My God, the New Jerusalem, which comes down out of heaven from My God. And I will write on him My new name.
“He who has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the churches.'”
Jesus Christ in Revelation 3:1-13

Correction from the Father of our Country

Monday, February 15, 2016, 12:42 pm | Randy Thomasson

Gilbert_Stuart_George_WashingtonA strong Christian, George Washington was first President of the United States (1789–97), the Commander-in-Chief of the Continental Army during the American Revolutionary War, and one of the Founding Fathers of the United States. He presided over the convention that drafted the current United States Constitution and during his lifetime was called the “father of his country.”

In the midst of the American civil war between liberals and conservatives, the immoral and the moral, and now a new schism among Republicans dumbing down the meaning of “conservative,” the Father of our County has much to teach us about good government:

GOOD GOVERNMENT SPRINGS FROM THE CHRISTIAN RELIGION BASED ON THE BIBLE
“Let us with caution indulge the supposition that morality can be maintained without religion. Reason and experience both forbid us to expect that national morality can prevail in exclusion of religious principle.”

SECOND TO THE BIBLE, THE WRITTEN WORDS AND ORIGINAL INTENT OF THE UNITED STATES CONSTITUTION IS THE SUPREME LAW OF THE LAND (NOT JUDGES)
“The Constitution is the guide which I never will abandon.”

THE PEOPLE (OR THE PEOPLE’S ELECTED REPRESENTATIVES) ARE THE ONLY ONES WHO CAN AMEND THE CONSTITUTION (NOT JUDGES)
“The basis of our political system is the right of the people to make and to alter their constitutions of government.”

JUDGES THAT STRIKE DOWN THE PEOPLE’S WRITTEN LAWS ARE UNCONSTITUTIONAL THEMSELVES
“Laws made by common consent must not be trampled on by individuals.”

HAVING A STRONG (NOT IMMORAL) MILITARY IS THE BEST WAY TO AVOID WAR
“Discipline is the soul of an army. It makes small numbers formidable; procures success to the weak, and esteem to all. … To be prepared for war is one of the most effective means of preserving peace.”

THE MORAL SPLIT BETWEEN PARTIES MEANS WE ARE NO LONGER A CHRISTIAN NATION
“The alternate domination of one faction over another, sharpened by the spirit of revenge natural to party dissension, which in different ages and countries has perpetrated the most horrid enormities, is itself a frightful despotism. But this leads at length to a more formal and permanent despotism.”

PRESERVING RELIGIOUS FREEDOM IS A TOP PRIORITY OF GOOD GOVERNMENT
“I beg you be persuaded that no one would be more zealous than myself to establish effectual barriers against the horrors of spiritual tyranny, and every species of religious persecution.”

FREEDOM OF SPEECH IS ANOTHER TOP PRIORITY
“If the freedom of speech is taken away then dumb and silent we may be led, like sheep to the slaughter.”

NO ELECTED OFFICIAL OR PUBLIC SERVICE SHOULD CUSS
“The foolish and wicked practice of profane cursing and swearing is a vice so mean and low that every person of sense and character detests and despises it.”

HONESTY IS A VIRTUE WE SHOULD DEMAND AND EXPECT IN ELECTED OFFICIALS
“I hope I shall possess firmness and virtue enough to maintain what I consider the most enviable of all titles, the character of an honest man.”

A PUBLIC OFFICIAL MUST PROMOTE THE PUBLIC’S GOOD ABOVE HIS OWN
“I have no other view than to promote the public good, and am unambitious of honors not founded in the approbation of my Country.”

TRUE CHRISTIANITY DOES THE RIGHT THING IN GOVERNMENT
“I am persuaded, you will permit me to observe, that the path of true piety is so plain as to require but little political direction.”

A GODLESS PEOPLE CANNOT SHAPE OR MAINTAIN GOOD GOVERNMENT
“Mankind, when left to themselves, are unfit for their own government.”

Quotes of Founding Father George Washington, 1st U.S. President (1789–1797)

WashingtonFebruary22BannerWASHINGTON’S BIRTHDAY TIMELINE:
> February 1732 – George Washington is born. The Julian “old style” calendar, which was used at the time, marks his birth date as February 11.
> 1752 – The Gregorian “new style” calendar is adopted, putting Washington’s birthday on February 22.
> 1789-1797 – Washington’s birthday is celebrated on both days while he is president.
> 1885 – February 22 is designated as a federal holiday to honor Washington’s birthday.
> 1968 – Congress passes the Monday Holidays Act. Existing federal holidays will now be observed on Mondays, to give government workers three day weekends. After much debate, Congress rejects combining Washington’s and Lincoln’s into one Monday called “Presidents’ Day.” The bill goes into effect in 1971. Source
> The bill went into effect in 1971 and deemed that “Washington’s Birthday” would be moved from February 22 to the third Monday in February. Source