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Social medicine - the problem with it in America - Urgent!

Friday, November 20th, 2009

This Is Not A Drill. This Is the Real Thing.

Majority Leader Harry Reid is planning to ram through the massive government health care takeover bill with a crucial preliminary vote likely Saturday and a full Senate vote by next week.

More and more Americans oppose this 2,000-page fraudulent scheme, so House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, Reid and President Obama are trying to get it done quickly.

Call or email your Senators now! The Capitol switchboard is (202) 224-3121. To reach your senators by email, please click here: U.S. Senators.
• Ask them to vote NO on cloture on the Motion to Proceed.
• Tell your senators you want them to vote against any advancement of the health care takeover.

A cloture vote on a Motion to Proceed will probably take place by Saturday.
Sixty votes are needed on this vote, so if all 40 Republican senators oppose it and only one Democrat or Independent joins them, the bill is dead.
Several Democrats are seriously considering voting against the motion.

Call or email your Senators now! The Capitol switchboard is (202) 224-3121. To reach your senators by email, please click here: U.S. Senators.
Again, calls are needed now to your U.S. Senators! Especially in the following states where several Senators are wavering:
• Arkansas residents, must call:
Senator Pryor’s office (202) 224-2353
Senator Lincoln’s office (202) 224-4843
• Connecticut residents, must call:
Senator Lieberman’s office (202) 224-4041
• Indiana residents, must call:
Senator Bayh’s office (202) 224-5623
• Nebraska residents, must call:
Senator Nelson’s office (202) 224-6551
• West Virginia residents, must call:
Senator Byrd’s office (202) 224-3954
• North Dakota residents, must call:
Senator Dorgan’s office (202) 224-2551
Senator Conrad’s office (202) 224-2043

Call today!

Here’s What’s Wrong With the Bill

The Senate version will allegedly cost $849 billion. But that is a fraud, since it leaves out a quarter of a trillion dollar “fix” for Medicare payments to doctors over the next 10 years. The Senate already defeated that dishonest dodge, but Reid is right back trying it again. Also, every federal health care program has exceeded initial cost estimates by billions and billions of dollars. A full-scale takeover will bankrupt our nation.

The current bill is a chamber of horrors:
• New tax-supported subsidies to purchase private health plans that cover abortion on demand;
• Watered down abortion federal funding restrictions;
• Many new taxes, including taxes on medical device makers, a 5 percent tax on cosmetic surgeries, and penalties on American households with incomes over $200,000; a government-run “public option” health insurance plan that will destroy private insurance;
• A mandate for all Americans to purchase a government-approved plan or go to jail;
• A mandate for employers to offer insurance or pay a fine, which will spur many to pay the fine and end employee insurance plans;
• $500 billion in Medicare cuts for older Americans, thus introducing rationing;
• Subsidies for “end-of-life” counseling.
President Obama said last week that he wanted a bill that would not be “restricting women’s insurance choices.” He has promised Planned Parenthood that he would force taxpayers to fund “reproductive care,” i.e., abortions. Reid and Pelosi also want taxpayers to fund abortions.
The health care takeover attempt is full of paybacks to various leftwing constituencies. The bill would also change Medicaid eligibility rules that could put nearly 21 percent of the U.S. population on Medicaid, the federal-state medical funding plan for the poor, according to a study cited by the Heritage Foundation.

A Plan to Turn Us Into Government Serfs

A prime goal of the Left is to make as many Americans as possible dependent on government until the private sector is overwhelmed and we all become subjects, not free citizens.

Obama, Pelosi and Reid want to force socialized medicine on the nation. This is about far more than medical costs. It’s a way to turn us into government serfs who will be afraid to speak out against government erosion of our freedoms lest we jeopardize our loved ones’ access to government-controlled health care.

In communist and socialist nations, the people who get first-class care are those who cooperate with government party officials. If this scheme succeeds, our children and grandchildren will not grow up in a free country. It is that serious.

Again, calls are needed now to your U.S. Senators.
Ask them to vote NO on cloture on the Motion to Proceed. Tell your senators you want them to vote against any advancement of the health care takeover.

ACTION
Call or email your Senators now! The Capitol switchboard is (202) 224-3121. To reach your senators by email, please click here: U.S. Senators.
Thank you for making your voice heard!

Sincerely in Christ,

Robert Knight
Senior Writer and Washington, D.C. Correspondent
To learn more about the government health care takeover plan and its threat to freedom, please request our DVD The Health Care Lie!
Robert Knight is Senior Writer and Washington, D.C. Correspondent for Coral Ridge Ministries and the author of Fighting For America’s Soul.

Here’s one example: Republican Senator Charles Grassley has taken two million dollars from the health care sector. How can he represent the health concerns of any constituents from Iowa? Why can’t other senators (such as our own Wyden and Wu) stand up and tell him that? Why is he even involved in this vote with that record?

Note: I’m not against social medicine. The social medicine system in Switzerland saved my life in 1989. What I am against is a medical system that doesn’t work run by the insurance and pharmaceutical companies.

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John Eldredge on Tour

Sunday, May 10th, 2009
John Eldredge (mega-selling author of Wild at Heart, Sacred Romance, and others) is speaking on a tour now, and in the Portland area May 16. John is taking his sequel to Wild at Heart, which was The Way of the Wild at Heart (2006) and releasing it in a shorter and less expensive version. This evening is part of a tour that is launching the sale of the of this book. Although he will be speaking primarily to men, John feels it is important for women to be there as well so as to better understand the man’s heart. For more information see Fathered by God. fatheredbygod

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The recession will last how long?

Thursday, April 23rd, 2009

The latest TIME magazine showed the results of a survey of people on this question. Some 12% said six months. Some 53% said 1-2 years. Some 25% said more than three years or either we are in a long-term decline. I think the latter group is correct. You want to know why?

First, the guys that got us in this mess are still there. In Congress Chris Dodd, Barney Frank, Roy Blunt, and Judd Gregg got over 20 million dollars in lobbyist money the last few years and made sure the bailout they created kept the Wall Street Executives wealthy and happy with lots of money, bonuses, and parachutes at the expense of using our tax payer money. GM got taxpayer money so they could buy placement ads for their Hummer on CSI:Miami. The rest of Congress has turned their backs to this and have done nothing. They keep bailing out AIG with your taxpayer money because AIG holds their pensions. Nothing has changed. As long as these people are not held responsible, no one - and I mean no one - has any faith in the system.

In all fairness, there are people in Washington investigating and plan prosecutions. Meanwhile, the bad guys enjoy your tax money. Also, do you really think it will change? Or is this another Libbygate where the real baddies go free?

And it’s not just the government. Our educational systems have failed. In my church, most families home school, use the church school, or send their kids to Christian schools. The health system, business system, and even a lot of the churches haven’t figured what is going on yet.

The paradigm the world is moving into is a major shift from where we have been. To understand this, look at a quote from Pierre Teilhard de Chardin that he made about 1930 or 1931.

“For the Observers of the Future, the greatest event will be the sudden appearance of a collective human conscience and a human work to make.”

What does that mean? Even back then, Teilhard saw a global consciousness emerging, and now the Internet has become the tool for initiating this change. President Obama saw this and understood it when he ran for President. I’m not saying Obama is the answer. We’re on a Titanic that hit the iceberg and we are trying to turn it around and get home. President Obama is right in one thing, however. If the ship gets turned around, it won’t be President Obama that turns it. It will be our collective consciousness hearing the words that the Holy Spirit is speaking to the Church and then with us willing to take the risks necessary to make a difference.

Now here’s a tip if you are trying to get in there, change your life, make a difference, and need a job for it: If you are a professional, start with a membership in Linkedin.com and aggressively start your personal network. That doesn’t cost a dime. Then join a few groups on Linkedin.com that interest you. Make social networking work. Do all types of networking with and without the Internet. Then network with others in your church and build a network raising the consciousness in your church. Put your church group as a group on http://www.Linkedin.com. Pull the larger church into working with you. Then join Facebook, another social network. And then start publishing a blog (maybe use WordPress.com, it’s free). Remember, for this change we are in for the long haul and you need to be involved in changing things if things are going to be changed.

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The Recession 1 - We are not in Kansas any more

Tuesday, April 21st, 2009

“Toto, I’ve got a felling we’re not in Kansas anymore.”Dorothy, in The Wizard of Oz

No matter how one looks at our world, the nation, and our personal lives today, one thing is certain. Extremely major shifts are taking place at this point in history on a global scale, and it is essential for even our survival to understand these. Our institutions as we know them: government, medical, economic, educational, and even the church have often become nonfunctional. Unless you understand this shift and how to lead through this you are going to have a serious problem.

Unfortunately for most of us, we build an illusion around that somehow, in some way, things will keep on going. And we keep on going like we always gone. We stay in our illusion and try to muddle on. Like the old cliché, however, if you keep on doing what you always done, you will keep on getting what you’ve always got. Unless there is a sense of desperateness (dissatisfaction), it is difficult to initiate change. This sense of desperateness is already sweeping a nation.

I like the story in the Bible of blind Bartimaeus as Jesus is leaving Jericho on his way to Jerusalem for the last week of his life. As the man is screaming to Jesus for mercy, Jesus replies with what seems like a really stupid question.

“What do you want Me to do for you?” Mark 10:51

The reply of the man is the heart cry of each of us.

“Rabboni, that I may receive my sight.” Mark 10:51b

Each of us is trapped in our illusions and we can’t see what God is really doing and our part in the Kingdom Enterprise. Until we can see that and claim authority in our lives in terms of this, nothing changes and we remain trapped in our illusions. Jesus will give us that vision if we ask, just like He did with Bartimaeus.

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Healing: Rewiring the Brain

Friday, April 3rd, 2009

Paul Hegstrom's bookBefore puberty, the brain lacks much of certain important chemicals needed for decision making: serotonin, dopamine, and norepinephrine. When the child reaches puberty and the growth hormone begins to be released, these chemicals begin to be released. The brain then begins to function as an adult brain. The difference is that before puberty the child is simply responding behaviorally to the perceptions given to it and extracting these projected perceptions as reality. After these chemicals begin to be released, the child can begin to reason as an adult and can choose to shape their own view of reality.

“When I was a child, I spoke as a child. I understood as a child. I thought as a child; but when I became a man, I put away childish things.”
1 Corinthians 13:11

If the father speaks into the pre-puberty child, the father’s message is accepted as truth and becomes the lens through which the child sees the world – reality. If the father tells his son or daughter that they are not worth anything, the child assumes he or she is not worth anything as reality. Reality becomes seeing themselves as a failure and behaviorally they try to be a better failure. If they accidentally do something successfully, they learn from that to be a better failure next time. Realty and “Truth”, to them, is this failure image.

If the child does not the proper messages of reality during those pre-puberty years, the wounding is there and the adrenaline level rises. By puberty the adrenaline is there all the time and may override the proper release of the normal chemicals (serotonin, dopamine, and norepinephrine ) that need to emerge then. Very little of these chemicals are released. This can lead to serious damage in the adult life. The adult may seem to function at a constant elevated adrenaline level and show distorted forms of behavior, such as ADD or ADHD and other types of agoraphobia (anxiety disorder). Physically you see an adult; the reality is that the wounded adult is stuck as a child at the point where the wound occurred. And it is not just a moment in time that the brain remembers. The brain remembers patterns, so the wounded adult is acting against unresolved patterns and plays those patterns over and over again. There is a pseudo-personality.

The wounded adult acts to please the message given to them as a child. You see multiple personality faults – difficulty in building intimacy, an authority to itself (can’t come under another authority, even God’s.), and failure to be any kind of team player. The wounded adult may turn to drugs to resolve the adrenaline overload, even turning to prescription drugs such as Valium or Prozac. Eventually even these drugs may not stop the overload.
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The good news is that the adult does not need to stay there. Dr. Paul Hegstrom has shown that it is possible to break out of those bindings. Seeing and embracing reality is a part of the healing process. Illusionary perceptions create reactive behavior. With the healing process, we take on active behavior. The Bible tells us that, with the help of the Holy Spirit, we can take an active part in this healing process.

“Do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, that you may prove what is that good and acceptable and perfect will of God.”
Romans 12:2

It not just that the missing chemicals start flowing, They do; but it is more than that. The entire brain is rewired. I’ve seen it happen. A key part in the process is for the wounded person has to start speaking the Word of God, or rhema, out loud. The mind believes what you speak. This spoken Word with the power of the Holy Spirit then becomes the authority and power for the necessary transformation.

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Love Your Enemies

Friday, January 30th, 2009

Love Your Enemies
By Chuck Colson
1/30/2009
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John Rucyahana Receives Wilberforce Award

In a large open area of a Rwandan prison, Anglican Bishop John Rucyahana spoke to a crowd of killers responsible for the 1994 genocide. “Close your eyes,” he instructed them. “Go back in your mind to 1994. What did you see?” he asked. “What did you smell? What did you hear?”

Many in the crowd began to weep. He told the men to see their victims’ faces. The sobs grew louder. “Now,” said Bishop John, “that which made you cry, that you must confess.”

It’s amazing enough that Bishop John, himself a Tutsi, would speak to the Hutu perpetrators of the genocide. It’s even more amazing when you consider that John’s own niece, Madu, was brutally raped and killed during the genocide. But Bishop John had a reason to reach out to these men in compassion—for he, too, had found forgiveness of his sins through Jesus Christ.

That compassion to love his would-be enemies is just one of the many reasons why we recently awarded Bishop John Rucyahana the William Wilberforce Award.

We present the award every year to a person who makes a difference in the face of formidable societal problems and injustices, no matter the opposition. Former recipients include people like Gary Haugen of the International Justice Mission; Benigno Aquino, the Philippine hero; Baroness Carolyn Cox; and Senator Sam Brownback. These are men and women who, as executive director of the Center for Justice and Reconciliation Dan Van Ness says, “challenge our comfortable assumptions.”

Bishop John’s faith does indeed challenge me. He found Christ while growing up as an exile from his native Rwanda. He puts it better than I’ve ever heard before: “I did not accept Jesus. Jesus graciously met me and accepted me.” This is a man who understands how we come empty-handed to Christ.

At a time when John wanted to pursue a degree, God led him and his wife, Beatrice, to start a school for 170 refugee children in Uganda. Today, some of those grown children serve in key posts in Rwanda.

Studying in the States during the 1994 genocide, Bishop John wanted desperately to go back to the ministry he had left behind in Uganda. But instead, he responded to God’s call to face the darkness by going back to his homeland—returning to Rwanda, finding bones bleached white by the sun littering the streets, open graves fouling the air. Still, Bishop John worked with others to establish Prison Fellowship Rwanda.

He helped start the Umuvumu Tree Project, which has brought together tens of thousands of perpetrators and victims of the genocide, offering offenders the opportunity to confess their crimes and victims the chance to forgive. Many have done so.

I wish I had time to share all the ways that Bishop John’s faith challenges our own. In addition to his work in Rwanda, he played a key role in founding the Anglican Mission in America. He encourages American Christians to be unashamed missionaries to their own society, reconciling their neighbors to Christ.

Imagine, African missionaries to us—yes, we need them.

But most of all, Bishop John is a shining example of what it means to love our enemies—and to overcome evil with good.

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What the Obama Inaugural Means

Tuesday, January 20th, 2009

Watching the inaugural today was a very emotional experience for me. I lived in Washington, DC from 1962 to 1968. I walked that mall back then during that March on Washington (August of 1963) at the mall when King spoke and gave his I Have a Dream speech. The emotions of that moment still flood my mind. It is still amazing what happened from that astonishing non-violent action.

Then JFK was shot (November 1963) and I was caught up in the emotions of Washington with the loss of this leader with his vision of a coming Camelot and our responsibility to make it happen . Part of that vision was to put us on the moon. And that we did. I got to be a part of that vision. After three astronauts died when their capsule caught fire, my company sent me to Houston to check out things there for ideas on how to make those flights safer.

I remember walking the streets of a poor part of Washington one day much later and not seeing not a single person. Off in the distance somewhere I heard shouts. I finally found a lonely walker and asked what was happening. One of the Kennedys’ (probably Bobby Kennedy) was moving down the street in (probably an open) car, and the people were shouting greetings with hope in a coming Camelot.

Then Martin Luther King was shot in April of 1968. Again the emotions of another leader’s death shook the city. I was working at the coffeehouse of a church in the inner city that night, and calls were coming in to us that the city was burning just a few blocks from where we were. We stayed at the coffeehouse. And not even a single window was broken there that night as we worked.

Then, a few months later (June, 1968), we saw the death of Bobby Kennedy. Camelot never came.

Today, again, at this same mall we see the visions that these leaders held in the past beginning once again to break loose of the bondage that has held them for years. The most important thing about President Obama’s inaugural speech, however, is that the President only used the word “I” about three times. What really happens here in this change is up to us. It wasn’t “A change I can believe in” but “A change we can believe in”. The responsibility for leading is with us – not President Obama. What are you going to do about it?

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Disciplines for the New Year

Monday, December 29th, 2008

What gifts would you like to bring to the Christ-King? Pick from the list or create your own as the Spirit leads you.

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Catching the Wind

Monday, September 8th, 2008

Carl will be speaking on September 14th at Rolling Hillis Community Church, 3550 SW Borland Rd, Tualatin Oregon 97062. He will speak to the Young Singles class at 10:45 a.m. . Probably about 75 there, but anyone is welcome.

Title: Catching the Wind

One of the reasons our personal faith has so little authority in changing the world about us is that we have never really fully connected with God’s transcendent vision. We don’t see the reality. We see only the illusion.

Carl will share some examples from the Bible of where people were trapped by their illusions. He’ll also share some of his own story and how you can move out of those and reclaim your heart and dreams. You will also see some steps and strategies for moving to the reality God has for you and how to catch the wind.

Here are some relevant resources:

Books: (John Eldredge) Wild at Heart, Captivating, Waking the Dead, Epic Hegstrom, Paul , Broken Children, Grown-Up Pain: Understanding the Effects of Your Wounded Past. Search his name on Amazon.com for more. Also see the interviews:
http://www.sidroth.org/site/News2?abbr=rad_&page=NewsArticle&id=6205&security=1042&news_iv_ctrl=1185

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The Reality of Faith

Monday, February 11th, 2008

In reality, faith always springs from a relationship. You don’t have faith that it won’t rain for your party tomorrow or to win the lottery. Faith is the result of believing someone. It is an unconscious process of acting on something because we believe someone. If you scheduled that outdoor party tomorrow, it’s because the weatherman said it would not rain. You believed the weatherman. Faith is beyond reason. If we are acting on reason, it isn’t faith.

When I had that GBS, it wasn’t reasonable that I would walk again. The doctors said I would not. I had to step out in faith beyond reason. I had to be a proactive step on my part. And there was a relationship, and it wasn’t with the doctor. It was with God. If I had believed the doctors I would never have walked again.
(from The Illusion by Carl Townsend, (c) 2008

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