Today, we had the unique and wonderful experience of attending a "Preventing Abuse Conference" in Van Nuys, California hosted by Tony Nassif, President of Preventing Abuse.
We have been involved in church work and missionary evangelism most of our lives.
We have heard about "Human Trafficking, Pornography, Drugs and Child Abductions," but today, this conference exposed the situation not happening in Thailand or Cambodia, but what is happening in our own backyard.
On tonight's news, we hear that they have a confession of the killer of Etan Patz, a 6 year old boy who was missing 30 years ago. If only that had been the only case. But today, as we listened to Tiffany Leeper, Shelley Lubben, Anne Bissel and Oscar Mejia, we discovered that 1 million children are reported missing every year and many of these missing children especially girls are forced into prostitution, modern day human slavery.
We had heard about the chilling interview of Ted Bundy just before he was executed. But it truly didn't hit home until we actually viewed the interview today. Ted Bundy, on death row for the murder and torture of some 28 women and others, confessed that he was raised in a good home. His parents were Christians and they all went to church regularly. However, he became addicted to pornography and once that spirit got hold of him, it became a secret obsession. No one knew. On the outside, he looked in every way a normal all American Boy. But inside, evil thoughts and impulses were growing to the point where he did what he did to fulfill a lust of the eyes that was manifested in the flesh.
And more shockingly, after talking with other fellow inmates, Ted Bundy said that 75% of them confessed that they too started with an addiction to pornography which led them to a life of raping and crime.
If families would realize that within their home computer is a big fat demon called pornography, we should make every effort to insure that demon does not make its way into our homes via unmonitored internet usage. Parents can program computers to block content not intended for children under the age of 18. Parents can program cable TV to block any channels that might have inappropriate content.
What is scary is that children are being exposed to pornography via their parents' neglect to monitor their cable TV, the internet, watching violent, sexual and bloody movies and TV programs, including the nightly news.
We are living in a cocoon as was predicted years ago by Faith Popcorn, author of the Popcorn Report. I'm okay -- so nothing else matters. But eventually it will not be okay, as crime hits even innocent people. Today Brian Banks was exhonerated after spending six years of his life in prison, for being falsely accused of rape by a classmate who received $900,000 in compensation from the school district as she was a minor. She lied. What happened? Where did she learn it was okay to lie at the expense of an innocent soul?
We need to "educate, motivate and activate," people to do something and the church to lift up this problem to God almighty in united prayer! This is time for us to Cry for America! Cry America before we lose the final moral strand of decency when it comes to what goes into our souls through our eyes! Tony Nassif, the President of "Preventing Abuse Foundation," says Together we can make a difference.
Please visit his website: www.preventingabuse.org -- If you can, contribute something!
Google: "Girls Against Porn & Human Trafficking" (GAP)
Google: "The Truth Behind the Fantasy of Porn"
Google: "Souled Out," by Tania Fiolleau
Google: "Memoirs of a Sex Industry Survivor," by Anne Bissel
These women left the industry not on their own strength, but with the strength of their new found relationship with Jesus Christ that gave them the fortitude to walk away and not turn back.
Thank you Tony Nassif and staff for the work you do!
Thursday, May 24, 2012
Monday, May 14, 2012
Divine Providence
If you are like most average Americans, you were shocked when President Obama announced that he was in favor of gay marriage, but we were not surprised. In this very intense election season when the winning could be all about the money, there is one voting block of people who seem to have all the big bucks and that is the gay community and their supporters. This is the one group of "me" folks that have used their talents and abilities to amass huge sums of money from the arts, entertainment and media. Yes they are very talented and they get paid well.
It is safe to say that many in the entertainment industry may be closet homosexuals but not public, due to the fact that the millions of heterosexual fans may be turned off and would stop going to their movies. When you know someone is gay and they are making love to a woman your brain starts to freeze up. And instead of it being romantic, it looks funny.
That doesn't mean you are bashing them at all. It just means that mother nature has instill in all of us the male gene and the female gene in which 85% are naturally activated. I love it now that people are boycotting movies with foul language. 85% of normal people don't talk that way and do consider it crude and vulgar.
There is a supernatural force that is greater than our ideas and our opinions. It is called Divine Providence. Whether you like it or not, Divine Providence is the hand that controls mother nature, historical events and our future. If history repeats itself, the lessons that have been learned through the disasters and tragic events of history should remind us that Divine Providence will allow HIS creation to go only so far in moral and spiritual degradation until HIS hand steps in and starts the correction.
Historic events whether you believe they are true or not shows us mortals that when we cross the line, when we purposefully ignore God's edicts, when we think we are invincible, it is only a matter of time, when the wheels of nature slowly wind down our way and we are snuffed out like a blade of grass under the auspices of a mighty lawnmower.
History has proven itself over and over again. Without God's Divine Protection, people suffer.
Garden of Eden - Adam and Eve lived in the luxury of innocence. They were deceived into believing that no matter what, their idyllic existence would last forever. When sin entered, they exited into a harsh cold, scary, unfriendly world only to live and die in regret. They would live to see their beloved son, murdered by his brother.
They would live to see the world in tragedy and horror.
Tower of Babel - Again the people thought they were above God's laws and ways and on their own abilities they could achieve anything. Together a mighty community grew. They were intelligent. They were powerful. They were creative. They could reach heaven. But Divine Providence was watching and laughing. Suddenly each group was struck with a different language and the walls of communication were instantly removed and left a project undone, and people in confusion.
Sodom and Gommorah - We read of this story historically, but it has happened time and time again. When the people become affluent, when they have all their needs met and they have leisure time to spare, they begin to indulge in opportunities and things that they would have never thought of before, when they had to work to survive and feed their families. God asked for 10 good men in the city of hundreds of thousands. He could not find even 2 good men. As you know Divine Providence destroyed the city by a meteor shower that plummeted the city until it was nothing but ashes. This happened in Pompeii via a volcano. This happened with the tsunami in Thailand. This happened in the Subic Bay area with Mt. Pinatubo. You might say it is coincidence. Maybe.
The Titanic - The name Titan is a derivitive of the Chaldean word Shitan, which comes from the Hebrew word Satan. It was said that not even God could sink the Titanic. Shall we challenge Divine Providence? Who will win?
Divine Providence
This nation invoked "Divine Providence" in the original contract for the establishment of the United States of America. It is not a contact with men. It is a contract with God. If you think that God does not exist then this is meaningless to you. However, if you believe in Divine Providence, then you need to take seriously the actions of our nation, and the leaders who are the voice of the people. The ending line in the Declaration of Independence says, "... And for the support of this declaration, with a firm reliance on the protection of Divine Providence, we mutually pledge to each other our lives, our fortunes and our sacred honor."
Shall we ignore our reliance on Divine Protection for the protection of our nation? Have the leaders of our nation turn their backs on Divine Providence laughing in His face believing that their fate is in their own hands?
If you are a believer in God and in Divine Providence, it is time to make your voice heard. We cannot abandon our ancestors, your ancestors' dream, who gave up everything for the founding of this nation to bring liberty to the captives including the slaves, women and millions of freedom seeking immigrants who left communism and dictatorship for the land of promise, the city on the hill, just to stand by and watch, due to the people continually doing evil in the sight of God, our nation destroyed when the Hand of Divine Providence is lifted and His Protection removed.
It is safe to say that many in the entertainment industry may be closet homosexuals but not public, due to the fact that the millions of heterosexual fans may be turned off and would stop going to their movies. When you know someone is gay and they are making love to a woman your brain starts to freeze up. And instead of it being romantic, it looks funny.
That doesn't mean you are bashing them at all. It just means that mother nature has instill in all of us the male gene and the female gene in which 85% are naturally activated. I love it now that people are boycotting movies with foul language. 85% of normal people don't talk that way and do consider it crude and vulgar.
There is a supernatural force that is greater than our ideas and our opinions. It is called Divine Providence. Whether you like it or not, Divine Providence is the hand that controls mother nature, historical events and our future. If history repeats itself, the lessons that have been learned through the disasters and tragic events of history should remind us that Divine Providence will allow HIS creation to go only so far in moral and spiritual degradation until HIS hand steps in and starts the correction.
Historic events whether you believe they are true or not shows us mortals that when we cross the line, when we purposefully ignore God's edicts, when we think we are invincible, it is only a matter of time, when the wheels of nature slowly wind down our way and we are snuffed out like a blade of grass under the auspices of a mighty lawnmower.
History has proven itself over and over again. Without God's Divine Protection, people suffer.
Garden of Eden - Adam and Eve lived in the luxury of innocence. They were deceived into believing that no matter what, their idyllic existence would last forever. When sin entered, they exited into a harsh cold, scary, unfriendly world only to live and die in regret. They would live to see their beloved son, murdered by his brother.
They would live to see the world in tragedy and horror.
Tower of Babel - Again the people thought they were above God's laws and ways and on their own abilities they could achieve anything. Together a mighty community grew. They were intelligent. They were powerful. They were creative. They could reach heaven. But Divine Providence was watching and laughing. Suddenly each group was struck with a different language and the walls of communication were instantly removed and left a project undone, and people in confusion.
Sodom and Gommorah - We read of this story historically, but it has happened time and time again. When the people become affluent, when they have all their needs met and they have leisure time to spare, they begin to indulge in opportunities and things that they would have never thought of before, when they had to work to survive and feed their families. God asked for 10 good men in the city of hundreds of thousands. He could not find even 2 good men. As you know Divine Providence destroyed the city by a meteor shower that plummeted the city until it was nothing but ashes. This happened in Pompeii via a volcano. This happened with the tsunami in Thailand. This happened in the Subic Bay area with Mt. Pinatubo. You might say it is coincidence. Maybe.
The Titanic - The name Titan is a derivitive of the Chaldean word Shitan, which comes from the Hebrew word Satan. It was said that not even God could sink the Titanic. Shall we challenge Divine Providence? Who will win?
Divine Providence
This nation invoked "Divine Providence" in the original contract for the establishment of the United States of America. It is not a contact with men. It is a contract with God. If you think that God does not exist then this is meaningless to you. However, if you believe in Divine Providence, then you need to take seriously the actions of our nation, and the leaders who are the voice of the people. The ending line in the Declaration of Independence says, "... And for the support of this declaration, with a firm reliance on the protection of Divine Providence, we mutually pledge to each other our lives, our fortunes and our sacred honor."
Shall we ignore our reliance on Divine Protection for the protection of our nation? Have the leaders of our nation turn their backs on Divine Providence laughing in His face believing that their fate is in their own hands?
If you are a believer in God and in Divine Providence, it is time to make your voice heard. We cannot abandon our ancestors, your ancestors' dream, who gave up everything for the founding of this nation to bring liberty to the captives including the slaves, women and millions of freedom seeking immigrants who left communism and dictatorship for the land of promise, the city on the hill, just to stand by and watch, due to the people continually doing evil in the sight of God, our nation destroyed when the Hand of Divine Providence is lifted and His Protection removed.
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