Help Does Not Come From a $700 Billion Bailout

In an “ah-ha” moment while reading through a couple Psalms the other night I realized my help does not come from a $700 billion bailout. Then, I understood that there absolutely was a reason for that pastor to have been hammering out a point in that sermon long ago or maybe not so long ago.

Hope you have a chance to visit my devotional blog where my “revelation” is posted. At the time of this writing, stocks were down 300 points…so, from that end, the news is not great. But we can find hope in something else besides a bailout.

Our help is in the name of the Lord, who made heaven and earth. – Psalms 124:8

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The Prize Fight: Palin v. Biden

OK…we’ve had the undercard, McCain v. Obama…it was a decent debate. You’ve had a chance to score it…if not you can go to another place I hang out, BlogCatalog for a discussion on who won the first debate.

Now, anyone want to give opening odds on the Main Event? Barracuda v. Old Dawg? Pit Bull v. Smokin’ Joe Biden?

Thursday is the debate…watch the TV ratings on the greatest match since Ali v. Frazer, The Greatest v. Smokin’ Joe Frazer, Pretty Boy v. the Dog…

Palin…Biden…you decide!

You can comment here or at BlogCatalog.

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Virginia Governor Buckles Under Secular Pressure

Virginia Governor Tim Kaine takes This Week’s Top Scrooge honors for not defending the freedom of speech rights of police chaplains in his state. Instead, he succumbed to church and state paranoia and opposed chaplains who pray “in Jesus’ name.”

This Week’s Top Scrooge – September 26, 2008

By ALEXANDER

Here’s a short letter a friend of mine wrote to Kaine:

Affiliation: Private Citizen
Subject: Praying in Jesus’ name

Dear Governor Kaine,
Please rescind your “non-sectarian prayer policy”. This country was founded as a Christian nation. One of its foundations is freedom of speech, and another is freedom of religion (not freedom “from” religion). Your policy is un-American, unconstitutional and un-Christian.

I’m keeping it short and sweet this week. The full story as well as contact information can be found at Virginia Police Chaplains Resign Over No Jesus Policy.

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Virginia Police Chaplains Resign Over No Jesus Policy

Five chaplains lose jobs for praying ‘in Jesus’ name’. Former Navy Chaplain Gordon Klingenschmitt urges Virginia Governor Tim Kaine to stop persecuting Christians.

CHURCH AND STATE
September 25,2008

By ALEXANDER

RICHMOND, Virginia – Chaplains remain under fire when praying “in Jesus’ name” as evidenced recently by the sudden resignation of five Virginia State Police Chaplains.

Police Superintendent Col. W. Steven Flaherty reportedly created then enforced a strict “non-sectarian” prayer policy at all public gatherings, censoring and excluding Christian prayers. Flaherty then accepted the resignation of five chaplains who refused to deny Jesus or violate their conscience by watering down their prayers, according to a press release issued by former Navy Chaplain Gordon Klingenschmitt.

Klingenschmitt was also fired in 2007 for praying “in Jesus name” in uniform. He said Virginia Governor Tim Kaine is defending his administration for forcing the sudden resignation of the Virginia State Police Chaplains.

“Governor Kaine campaigned like a Christian to get our votes. But now, instead of governing like a Christian, or respecting his own chaplains’ First Amendment rights, his administration forced the resignation of five police chaplains, simply because they prayed publicly ‘in Jesus’ name,’” Klingenschmitt said. “These five chaplains lost their jobs for honoring Christ.

“They’re heroes of the faith, because they refused to deny Jesus when ordered to by the Kaine administration.”

House Republican Leader Morgan Griffith and Delegate Charles W. Carrico, (R-Grayson) both issued public statements defending the chaplains, questioning Governor Kaine’s role in terminating the chaplains, and vowing to introduce legislation protecting police chaplains’ right to pray according to their own conscience.

The chaplains’ resignations have set off political finger pointing. Klingenschmitt states in his news release: “Defending Flaherty’s persecution of Christian Chaplains, Governor Kaine pretended he himself was being persecuted, saying through his spokesman: ‘It is disappointing that Del. Griffith would make such a political attack on Gov. Kaine about his faith.’”

Klingenschmitt adds: “And now Governor Kaine pretends he’s the martyr, because we question why his administration forced them to resign for praying to Jesus? He’s still got a job, they don’t. Governor Kaine isn’t the martyr, he’s the persecutor.”

Klingenschmitt urges calls to Governor Kaine’s office at 804-786-2211, to insist the chaplains be reinstated and the policy reversed. The governor can also be emailed through his web-site:
http://www.governor.virginia.gov/AboutTheGovernor/contactGovernor.cfm

More information on Klingenschmitt’s chaplain advocacy group can be found at www.PrayInJesusName.org.

Chaplain Klingenschmitt is available for interviews at 719-360-5132 cell or chaplaingate@yahoo.com

News release can be found at ChristianNewsWire.

Christian Actor’s Wife Was Body Double For Kissing Scene

Fireproof star tells it like it is…

For those of you new to TheScroogeReport, this story is a “good thing”…no scroogery here.

This from FoxNews.com:

When it comes to smooching, Kirk Cameron only has lips for his wife.

The former star of the TV sitcom “Growing Pains” refused to kiss the actress who played his wife in his new movie “Fireproof,” he told the “Today” show on Monday.

“I have a commitment not to kiss any other woman,” he told the morning show. So his real wife, actress Chelsea Noble, was the body double for the onscreen kiss.

“So when I’m kissing my wife, we’re actually husband and wife honoring marriage behind the scenes,” Cameron told “Today.”

The former child star became an evangelical Christian at 17 and is involved in The Way of the Master ministries.

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LA CHURCH & STATE EXAMINER:
Christian college club exists on campus ‘unofficially’