Posts Tagged ‘prayer’

High School Principal Takes a Bold Stand

Monday, November 1st, 2010

This is a statement that was read over the PA system at a football game at Roane County High School in Kingston, Tennessee  by school Principal, Jody McLeod … The speech was later read into the Congressional Record by Representative Zach Wamp of Tennessee.

Even that left wing leaning arm of socialism snopes.com confirms this one:  http://www.snopes.com/politics/religion/mcloud.asp

“It has always been the custom at Roane County High School football games, to say a prayer and play the National Anthem, to honor God and Country.”

Due to a recent ruling by the Supreme Court, I am told that saying a Prayer is a violation of Federal Case Law. As I understand the law at this time, I can use this public facility to approve of sexual perversion and call it “an alternate life style,” and if someone is offended, that’s OK.

I can use it to condone sexual promiscuity, by dispensing condoms and calling it, “safe sex.” If someone is offended, that’s OK.

I can even use this public facility to present the merits of killing an unborn baby as a “viable! means of birth control.” If someone is offended, no problem…

I can designate a school day as “Earth Day” and involve students in activities to worship religiously and praise the goddess “Mother Earth” and call it “ecology..”

I can use literature, videos and presentations in the classroom that depicts people with strong, traditional Christian convictions as “simple minded” and “ignorant” and call it “enlightenment..”

However, if anyone uses this facility to honor GOD and to ask HIM to Bless this event with safety and good sportsmanship, then Federal Case Law is violated.

This appears to be inconsistent at best, and at worst, diabolical. Apparently, we are to be tolerant of everything and anyone, except GOD and HIS Commandments.

Nevertheless , as a school principal, I frequently ask staff and students to abide by rules with which they do not necessarily agree. For me to do otherwise would be inconsistent at best, and at worst, hypocritical. I suffer from that affliction enough unintentionally. I certainly do not need to add an intentional transgression.

For this reason, I shall “Render unto Caesar that which is Caesar’s,” and refrain from praying at this time.

” However, if you feel inspired to honor, praise and thank GOD and ask HIM, in the name of JESUS, to Bless this event, please feel free to do so.. As far as I know, that’s not against the law—-yet.”

One by one, the people in the stands bowed their heads, held hands with one another and began to pray.

They prayed in the stands. They prayed in the team huddles. They prayed at the concession stand and they prayed in the Announcer’s Box!

The only place they didn’t pray was in the Supreme Court of the United States of America- the Seat of “Justice” in the “one nation, under GOD.”

Somehow, Kingston , Tennessee Remembered what so many have forgotten. We are given the Freedom OF Religion, not the Freedom FROM Religion. Praise GOD that HIS remnant remains!

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Pharaoh vs Obama

Friday, June 19th, 2009

This is said to be a Sermon from a church in Virginia recently. Gen 47: 13-27 … Maybe it is, and maybe it’s not. The message is true enough either way:

Good morning, brothers and sisters; it’s always a delight to see the pews crowded on  Sunday morning, and so eager to get  into God’s Word..  Turn with me in your Bibles, if you will, to the 47th chapter of  Genesis; we’ll begin our reading at  verse 13, and go through verse 27.

Brother Ray, would you stand and read that great passage for us?… Thank you  for that fine reading, Brother Ray.. So  we see that  economic hard times fell upon Egypt ,  and the people turned to the government  of Pharaoh to deal with this for  them.  And Pharaoh nationalized the grain harvest, and placed the grain  in 20 great storehouses that he had  built. So  the people brought  their money to Pharaoh, like a  great tax increase, and  gave it  all to him willingly in return  for grain.  And this went  on  until their money ran out, and  they were hungry again.

So when they went to Pharaoh after  that, they brought their livestock – their  cattle, their horses, their sheep, and  their donkey – to barter for grain, and verse 17 says that only took them  through the end of that year.

But the famine wasn’t over, was  it?

So the next year, the  people came before Pharaoh and admitted  they had nothing left, except their land and  their own lives.  “There is  nothing left in the sight of my lord  but our bodies and our land.  Why  should we die before your eyes, both we  and our land?  Buy us and our land for  food, and we with our land will be  servants to Pharaoh.”  So  they surrendered their homes, their  land, and their real estate  to Pharaoh’s government, and then sold  themselves into slavery to him, in  return for grain.

What can we  learn from this, brothers and sisters?

That turning to the government instead  of to God to be our provider in hard  times only leads to slavery? Yes.  That  the only reason government wants to be  our provider is to also become our  master?  Yes.

But look  how that passage ends, brothers and sisters!  Thus Israel settled in the land of  Egypt , in the land of Goshen . And  they gained possessions in it, and were fruitful  and multiplied greatly.”  God  provided for His people, just as  He always has!  They didn’t  end  up giving all their  possessions to the government, no, it  says they gained possessions!

But I also tell you a great truth  today, and an ominous one. We see the  same thing happening today – the  government today wants to “share the  wealth” once again, to take it from us  and redistribute it back to us.  It wants to take control  of healthcare, just as it has taken  control of education, and ration it  back to us, and when government rations it,  then government decides who gets it,  and how much, and what kind.

And if we go along with it, and do it  willingly, then we will wind up  no differently than the people of Egypt did  four thousand years ago –  as  slaves t o the government, and as slaves  to our leaders.

What Mr.  Obama’s government is doing now is no  different from what Pharaoh’s  government did then, and it will  end the same… And a lot of people  like to call Mr. Obama a “Messiah,”  don’t they?  Is he a Messiah? A savior?  Didn’t the Egyptians say, after Pharaoh  made them his slaves, “You have saved  our lives; may it please my lord, we  will be servants to Pharaoh”?

Well, I tell you this – I  know  the Messiah; the Messiah is a friend of  mine; and Mr. Obama is no Messiah!  No,  brothers and sisters, if Mr. Obama is a  character from the Bible, then he is  Pharaoh.

Bow with me in  prayer, if you will.

Lord, You  alone are worthy to be served, and we rely  on You, and You alone.  We confess  that the government is not our  deliverer, and never rightly will be.  We read  in the eighth chapter of 1 Samuel, when  Samuel warned the people of what a  ruler would do, where it says “And  in that day you will cry out because of  your king, whom you have chosen for  yourselves, but the LORD will not  answer you in that day.”  And  Lord, we  acknowledge that day has  come.  We cry out to you because of the ruler  that we have chosen for ourselves as a  nation. Lord, we pray for this nation.  We pray for revival, and we pray for deliverance  from those who  would be our masters.

Give us  hearts to seek You and hands to serve You,  and protect Your people from the  atrocities of  Pharaoh’s government.

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