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Run Kid Run - Freedom
From the album Love At The Core

All my chains I can’t disengage
and I don’t believe that I want to
One hand sings your praise the other brings me shame
I have sel?shness to blame

Chorus:
And I’m singing for freedom
I know I’m not the only one
praying to the one
who can bring me this freedom
I’m ready for change

Broken down I lay
I keep holding my chains
No longer bound but here I stay
I scream Father please
I need rescuing I need You and You alone

Chorus:

Still You patiently await
yet I won’t just let go
I see You and You alone
saying come follow me despair has come so you can see
release

And so I’m singing for freedom
and so I’m singing for freedom
The time has come separation lost the war to love
Take my hand grace has found you where you once began
Your alive your alive in the waking of new life
Take my hand in the end there’s only love
There’s only love

There’s only singing for freedom
I know I’m not the only one
praying to the one
who can bring me this freedom
and I’m ready for I’m ready for
Father please I need rescuing
I need You and You alone

 

 

This song is amazing. We all need the freedom that only God can give us. When I sing along with this song I feel so refreshed that I am actually telling Him how much I, WE, need him. This world is a rough and tumble place and we need freedom from the pain of this world.

 

By the way... I would like to say Thank you to the Jonas Brothers for their courage in their beliefs of wearing the purity rings!!! WOW, what a positive role model for kids in this age of open sexuality and sin....Also, GO JORDAN SPARKS for taking up for them at the VMA's!! That is awesome, ok, she could have gone about it a little differently,but seriously, YOU GO GIRL, and thanks for sticking up for people who know what they stand for instead of being mindlessly led by the ways of the world.

Peace of the Lord <><

Written by an Australian Dentist....and too good to delete....

To Kill an American
You probably missed this in the rush of news, but there was actually a report
that someone in Pakistan had published in a newspaper, an offer of a reward to
anyone who killed an American, any American.

So an Australian dentist wrote an editorial the following day to let everyone
know what an American is. So they would know when they found one. (Good one,
mate!!!!)


'An American is English, or French, or Italian, Irish, German, Span ish, Polish,
Russian or Greek. An American may also be Canadian, Mexican, African, Indian,
Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Australian, Iranian, Asian, or Arab, or Pakistani or
Afghan.


An American may also be a Comanche, Cherokee, Osage, Blackfoot, Navaho, Apache,
Seminole or one of the many other tribes known as native Americans.


An American is Christian, or he could be Jewish, or Buddhist, or Muslim. In
fact, there are more Muslims in America than in Afghanistan the only difference
is that in America they are free to worship as each of them chooses.


An American is also free to believe in no religion. For that he will answer only
to God, not to the government, or to armed thugs claiming to speak for the
government and for God.


An American lives in the most prosperous land in the history of the world.


The root of that prosperity can be found in the Declaration of Independence ,
which recognize s the God given right of each person to the pursuit of happiness.


An American is generous. Americans have helped out just about every other nation
in the world in their time of need, never asking a thing in return.


When Afghanistan was over-run by the Soviet army 20 years ago, Americans came
with arms and supplies to enable the people to win back thei r country!


As of the morning of September 11, Americans had given more than any other
nation to the poor in Afghanistan . Americans welcome the best of
everything...the best products, the best books, the best music, the best food,
the best services. But they also welcome the least.


The national symbol of America , The Statue of Liberty , welcomes your tired and
your poor, the wretched refuse of your teeming shores, the homeless, tempest
tossed. These in fact are the people who built America


Some of them were working in the Twin Towers the morning o f September 11, 2001
earning a better life for their families. It's been told that the World Trade
Center victims were from at least 30 different countries, cultures, and first
languages, including those that aided and abetted the terrorists.

So you can try to kill an American if you must. Hitler did. So did General Tojo
, and Stalin , and Mao Tse-Tung, and other blood-thirsty tyrants in the world.
But, in doing so you would just be killing yourself . Because Americans are not
a particular people from a particular place. They are the embodiment of the
human spirit of freedom. Everyone who holds to that spirit, everywhere, is an
American.

Just when I began to think that there was a viable political female candidate I received the following in my morning email -

Palin's Anti-Pagan Coreligionists

Here I was thinking to myself that the chances of a modern Pagan angle to the Republican VP pick of Alaska's Sarah Palin would be truly minimal. Sure, you had her support of aerial wolf hunting (a cruel method that violates the ethic of "fair chase"), and her drill-happy attitudes towards ANWR, but nothing explicitly anti-Pagan had emerged. But a number of bloggers, most notably Bruce Wilson at Talk2Action, have been digging into Palin's religious background and found some disturbingly anti-Pagan connections.

"Sarah Palin's churches are actively involved in a resurgent movement that was declared heretical by the Assemblies of God in 1949. This is the same 'Spiritual Warfare' movement that was featured in the award winning movie, "Jesus Camp," which showed young children being trained to do battle for the Lord. At least three of four of Palin's churches are involved with major organizations and leaders of this movement, which is referred to as The Third Wave of the Holy Spirit or the New Apostolic Reformation. The movement is training a young "Joel's Army" to take dominion over the United States and the world."

These "Third Wave" Christians believe in supernatural powers, demon possession, curses, and ongoing spiritual warfare. Most of them are loosely grouped around C. Peter Wagner, founder of the World Prayer Center, and coiner of the term "Third Wave". Wagner believes that one of the greatest opponents to Third Wave Christian dominance is The Goddess.

"Several
of their top prophets and generals of intercession spent weeks in intensive prayer to "confront the Queen of Heaven." This queen is considered by them to be one of the most powerful demons over the earth and is the Great Harlot of Mystery Babylon in Revelation ... Wagner and his group also claim that the Queen of Heaven is Diana, the pagan god of the biblical book Ephesians and the god of Mary veneration in the Roman Catholic Church."http://www.wildhunt .org/2008/ 09/palins- anti-pagan- coreligionists. html

I remember watching the documentary on this Jesus Camp and frankly it scared the crap out of me.  Smacked WAY too much on brainwashing, sort of a Neo-Nazi type with religious trappings.  I’ve got that shiver in my bones, that dej’ avu feeling that we’ve been down this trap laden primrose path before - and the resulting witch hunts aren’t pretty.  And while I remind myself that this country was founded on religious freedom I also remember that this sure doesn’t sound like it.

Okay, I admit it. I am shocked by the mean-spirited posts I keep seeing about Sarah Palin’s decision to keep her little son even though he has Down’s Syndrome. AND because they blame her for sacrificing her daughter on the altar of her Abstinence policy by “forcing” her to have her baby.

 

First of all, her daughter could have had an abortion herself if she didn’t want the child, because you can do that in America. But instead, she and her “baby daddy” (a term I find denigrating and disrespectful) are going to get married! Very commendable in my opinion. Their child will have TWO parents! I know, I’m too old fashioned for this world today, but I still think it is better for two struggling parents to do their best to raise a child, and LOTS of children were conceived BEFORE marriage, and it didn’t “RUIN” their parents’ lives, OR THEIR OWN!!!

 

When my children were younger, before they were of the age to engage in sexual intercourse, I talked to them at length about responsibility. I told them clearly that if one of them got pregnant, or got someone else pregnant, then they were going to be parents, and I was going to be a grandparent! Period!

 

How dare we teach our children that murder of an unborn baby is an acceptable method of “fixing” their mistakes? That abortion would be an acceptable form of “birth-control”?

 

And how dare we judge another because she DIDN’T have an abortion??? Because she DIDN’T make her daughter have an abortion for being unmarried and getting pregnant??

 

HAVE WE GONE JUST PLAIN NUTS???

 

Forget religion! How about common decency??? Maybe decency just isn’t common any longer in our glorious FREE COUNTRY!

 

No matter Palin’s politics (I am neither Republican nor Democrat, as most know already), there are some things that should not be the domain of small-minded, foul-mouthed do-nothings! And Sarah Palin has my congratulations for keeping her commitment to the RIGHT TO LIFE!

 

Rev. Cathian