Not An Infidel!

I AM NOT AN INFIDEL

I would like to point out that America was based on forms of Christianity. 85% of American people have Christian faith backgrounds. America has always been the vast majority of "Christian faith". I am appalled to hear Muslims with Islamic Faith come to MY COUNTRY and tell me I'm an infidel. Excuse me, the last time I checked, it's the Muslims of the Islamic faith who are "infidels" in my country America.

If I was living in the Middle East, I would be called an "infidel". However, I DON'T live in the Middle East. I was born and raised in America just like my ancestors were. Do NOT come to my country and try to call me an infidel in my own land. It is YOU, ISLAMIC FAITH MUSLIMS who are the INFIDELS occupying American Soil.

You do not own America at all and never will. America will not become an Islamic Nation. There will never be Sharia Law in our judicial system. If you do not like the laws of America, GET OUT and don't let the door hit you from behind.

Iranians Converting to Christ

I read this on another site and thought I should post this. Now, if anyone has anything different than this, please let me know. This article was written Jan. 5th 2007.

In 1990, there were only three known Christians in Kazakhstan and no Christians in Uzbekistan, but now more than 15,000 in Kazakhstan and 30, 000 in Uzbekistan. There were only 500 Christians in Iran on 1979, but more than one million Iranians believing Jesus Christ today, most of whom meet in underground house churches. See the rest here, http://www.islam-watch.org/LeavingIslam/Muslims2Christianity.htm

FBI:Extremists Driving School Busses

By LARA JAKES JORDAN - Associated Press Writer

WASHINGTON(AP) Suspected members of extremist groups have signed up as school bus drivers in the United States, counterterror officials said Friday, in a cautionary bulletin to police. An FBI spokesman said, "Parents and children have nothing to fear."

Asked about the alert notice, the FBI's Rich Kolko said, "There are no threats, no plots and no history leading us to believe there is any reason for concern," although law enforcement agencies around the country were asked to watch out for kids' safety.

The bulletin, parts of which were read to The Associated Press, did not say how often foreign extremists have sought to acquire licenses to drive school buses, or where. It was sent Friday as part of what officials said was a routine FBI and Homeland Security Department advisory to local law enforcement.

It noted "recent suspicious activity" by foreigners who either drive school buses or are licensed to drive them, according to a counterterror official.

Foreigners under recent investigation include "some with ties to extremist groups" who have been able to "purchase buses and acquire licenses," the bulletin says.

But Homeland Security and the FBI "have no information indicating these individuals are involved in a terrorist plot against the homeland," it says. The memo also notes: "Most attempts by foreign nationals in the United States to acquire school bus licenses to drive them are legitimate."

Kolko said the bulletin was sent merely as an educational tool to help local police identify and respond to any suspicious activity.

One counterterror official, who spoke on condition of anonymity because of the sensitivity of the issue, said the government felt it was likely that the foreigners investigated were merely employed as bus drivers, and did not intend to use them as part of any terror plot.

I pray that the Lord will keep our children safe and protect us from those who wish to do us harm. Lord, you are our rock, our strength and our true inspiration. Those who love you will always be faithful in your love by spreading the message of salvation.

Prayer Request Needed

By RUSS BYNUM - Associated Press Writer

BRUNSWICK, Ga.(AP) A week of searching for a missing 6-year-old in coastal Georgia ended with heartbreak for the boy's father and dozens of police and volunteers who looked for the youngster.

The body of Christopher Barrios was found Thursday afternoon, stuffed in a black plastic trash bag by the side of a road three miles from his Glynn County trailer park.

"You suspected all along in your heart, it's just not the outcome you want," said volunteer searcher Mari Charnock, who dabbed at tears after the boy was found dead. "At least we know, though. At least it's over."

Glynn County Police Chief Matt Doering said he escorted the boy's father, Mike Barrios, to the scene to see the body at the father's request.

"That was the hardest part," Doering said. "When it's your only son that has been killed and you want to go look for the last time, that's tough."

Many of the volunteers, several wearing T-shirts printed with the boy's photo, hugged and sobbed as Doering broke the news.

Cpl. Jesse Cook of the Department of Natural Resources and his colleague, Sgt. John Harwell, were aiding in the search and spotted tire tracks on the road curving off toward the tree line. They pulled over and saw the trash bag among the trees and brush about 15 feet from the road. They alerted detectives when they got close enough to notice flies and a strong odor coming from the bag.

"It was obvious," Cook said. "But if you weren't looking for it, you probably would've thought it was just a trash bag."

Police had spent days chasing false tips from four suspects they arrested earlier in the week, including a convicted child molester who lived in the same mobile home park where Christopher was last seen playing alone on a swing set the evening of March 8.

If anyone who reads this article could please say a prayer for this young boy's family, it would be greatly appreciated. It is so hard to lose a child especially at such a young age. My prayers and condolences are with this family in their time of grief. May the Lord love, bless and keep them safe.

Converts to Christianity

Iranian Imam Receives Christ Via Satellite TV, Escapes Country

Four More Imams May Be Believers

By Mark Ellis http://www.thereligionofpeace.com/

TULSA, OKLAHOMA — One of the top Islamic leaders in Iran accepted Christ and left the country after facing death threats and imprisonment, according to an Iranian pastor living in the U.S.

The imam watched satellite programming supplied by TBN Nejat TV (www.nejattv.org), according to Reza Safa, founder and president of Harvesters World Outreach. TBN Nejat TV is the first all-Christian network in the Persian language, broadcasting 24/7 into Iran and other Middle Eastern countries.

The imam called one of the phone counselors connected to TBN Nejat TV and prayed to receive Christ in early February. “The man has been watching our TV programs for the past two years,” Safa noted. “He said he has believed since he began watching the programs but his salvation was sealed through his confession.”

“This man knows all the verses of the Qur’an by heart,” he added. “After he began watching, doubt began in his heart about the Islamic faith.” The man spent nine months in prison after he questioned the violence of radical Islam. Following his release from prison, he faced numerous death threats and escaped the country.

Several other religious leaders may follow suit. “He knows four other high-ranking imams that are in the same condition and want to leave Iran,” Safa said.

The imam who fled left everything behind. “His salary was 700,000 of their monetary units every month,” Safa noted. “He was honored and respected, but when the gospel came to him he lost everything,” he noted. “Now he is a poor refugee in a foreign country.”

“God is shaking the foundation of Islam in Iran,” Safa said. “We have been praying for some of the main government officials to come to Christ and God is answering us,” he noted. “I pray God will open more doors for us to send the gospel to the Middle East.”

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Muslims converts face ostracism in France
http://www.zeenews.com/znnew/articles.asp?rep=2&aid=352375&sid=ZNS

Muslims are converting to Christianity in their thousands in France but face exclusion from their families and even death threats.

Most Muslims hide their conversion and Protestant ministers do their utmost to protect new converts.

It is estimated that every year in the world some six million Muslims convert to Christianity.

The Muezzin call to prayer. But here in France it is no longer reaching all Muslim ears.

Around 15,000 Muslims each year are converting to Christianity - around 10,000 to Catholicism and 5,000 to Protestantism.

It is often a difficult and painful choice - one that can leave them excluded from their Muslim families and friends.

Pastor Schluster knows what a real taboo conversion is in the Arab world. His job is to support converts by meeting them to reassure them and help them face the isolation from their families.

Pastor Antoine Schluster, official representative of Protestant Federation for New Convert Immigrants, said "True, a conversion is not easy for the Muslims whether they are practising or not. Simply because Islam influences their daily life. And therefore they immediately have a sense of betrayal."

Comedian Siad Oujibou used to pray five times a day but found his questions about death and his desire for a God closer to him than Allah moved him to convert.

He is now a Christian pastor. But he has faced many reprisals and humiliations from his family and was even under a sentence of death.

Said Oujibou, Protestant Pastor, comedian and convert, said "We are under this law if we change our faith. In certain countries would be condemned to death because we have converted. But I haven't changed my religion. I don't believe in religion, I believe in God. And God and religion are two very different things."

Many Muslims in France hide their conversion but the trend is continuing. World wide around six million Muslims a year convert to Christianity.

Achy Illness

Hello everyone, just wanted to touch base with you and let you know that I'm still alive after being very sick. I've been feeling extremely achy, feverish and coughing. It's been this way the past 3 days and it's driving me nutso. All I can do is crawl under my electric blanket and go to sleep. Hope everyone has a blessed day. God Bless you all!

The Jesus Creed

I have been reading a book called "The Jesus Creed". It was written by Scot McKnight. The book talks about loving YHWH as well as loving others. So far, it is very good. His website is also on the book as well. It's www.scotmcknight.com.

I also watched a video on Paul Washer on Baptist-girls blog. It was so moving, so inspiring, and yet so true. It really makes you examine yourself and I would recommend watching the video in full.

Southern Language

May the Lord bless those people who have the "Southern draw". I feel I need to tell a story that happened to me years ago back when I was 19 years old. My younger sister and I decided to go to Georgia where my mother's relatives are. They live in the Northern part of Georgia, about 45 min from Tennessee border.

As I was driving, I got lost around the Univ of Tenn. I pulled into a gas station to ask a clerk if he could help me find this route I was to take. Well, after asking him, he replied to me "Go up 6 lots and make a laeft." I looked at him very confused and asked "6 lots?" He says "Yes, 6 lots" pointing at the stop lights. What he was trying to tell me was "Go up 6 lights and make a left".

Needless to say, I wasn't that used to the "Southern Slang/draw" and my sister laughed at me so hard, she was in tears. I told him "thank you" and I left. Meanwhile, looking in my rear view mirror and he was shaking his head like I was crazy. LOL

We finally arrived there and my cousin Angie asked if we (my sister & I) wanted to go shopping but we had to go to her house first. As we got in the car and she's driving, I asked her how far away was her house from her mom & dad's (my aunt & uncle). She says "It's just up yunder." 15 min later, we are still driving, she still says "it's just up yunder". Finally, I had to ask, "just how far is yunder?" We finally arrived about 5 min after I asked that. After she got what she needed, we went shopping.

The trip went well of course, and after being down there a week, I came home with a partial southern draw ya'll. LOL May the Lord bless each and every one of you.

The Way, The Truth, The Life

John 14............I Am the Way, and the Truth, and the Life

1) "Let not your hearts be troubled. Believe in God; believe also in me. 2) In my Father's house are many rooms. If it were not so, would I have told you that I go to prepare a place for you? 3) And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again and will take you to myself, that where I am you may be also. 4) And you know the way to where I am going." 5) Thomas said to him, "Lord, we do not know where you are going. How can we know the way?" 6) Jesus said to him, "I am the way, and the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me. 7) If you had known me, you would have known my Father also. From now on you do know him and have seen him."

8) Philip said to him, "Lord, show us the Father, and it is enough for us." 9) Jesus said to him, "Have I been with you so long, and you still do not know me, Philip? Whoever has seen me has seen the Father. How can you say, 'Show us the Father'? 10) Do you not believe that I am in the Father and the Father is in me? The words that I say to you I do not speak on my own authority, but the Father who dwells in me does his works. 11) Believe me that I am in the Father and the Father is in me, or else believe on account of the works themselves.

12)"Truly, truly, I say to you, whoever believes in me will also do the works that I do; and greater works than these will he do, because I am going to the Father. 13) Whatever you ask in my name, this I will do, that the Father may be glorified in the Son. 14) If you ask me anything in my name, I will do it.

End Times?

I hear so much about Global Warming and the destructive weather, one has to assume that our weather is going to get worse as years and days go by. I've read about the Tsunami's, Volcanoes erupting over in the Pacific Asian area and multiple earthquakes in that region as well. But here in the U.S., it seems that we've had multiple devastating Hurricanes in which residents are still trying to clean it up. Just had a bad one in Florida causing major damages across the state. We are having bad tornadoes ripping through the states destroying lives. We have floods in the northeastern part of America. Massachussetts had a massive flooding which destroyed many homes and a big bridge had collapsed. Today, I read where a massive tornado ripped through Alabama and Georgia killing at least 20. This past summer, a number of states who have never seen a 100 degree temperature saw it for the first time. According to alot of meterologists, it's only going to get worse this summer. We shall see.

There is something else that plays on my mind as well. Is this really the works of "global warming" or is this really the works of our Mighty Lord in Heaven? Especially when you think about what Moses had done in the land of Egypt to free the Israelites by the hand of our Mighty Lord.