Month: July 2007

Larry Kilgore running for U.S Senate now?

Larry Kilgore, as you may recall, ran for Texas Governor in the 2006 Republican primary.
As we should all know by now, Gov. Rick Perry won that race as well as the final race in November.
Now Kilgore hopes to win a seat in the U.S. Senate and has announced his plans to run against John Cornyn next year.
On his campaign website, Kilgore compares those who allow abortion to continue with the Nazis and Nazi sympathizers in Germany:

50 million babies have been murdered through US endorsed abortion. They need the protection that God’s law provides. Some Christian leaders in the US Empire are willing to compromise on child murder; just like many of the Nazi German pastors compromised on murder of the Jewish people. The Deutsche Christen (“German Christians”) became the voice of Nazi ideology within the Evangelical Church, even advocating the removal of the Old Testament from the Bible. While some Confessing Christians moved toward open resistance against the regime, more moderate Protestants (inside and outside the Confessing Church) made what they saw as necessary compromises. As the Nazi dictatorship tightened its hold, the Confessing Church itself became paralyzed. Dietrich Bonhoeffer was one of the few church leaders who stood in courageous opposition to the Fuehrer and his policies. Will you stand up in opposition to the US government and her policies?

Kilgore is also big on turning the U.S. into a theocracy and is also running on these issues:

  • Eliminate TX budget for Prisons. $2B
  • Eliminate TX budget for health & human services. $25.5B (2 Corinthians 9:6-14, 1 Timothy 5:3-16)
  • Eliminate TX budget for government indoctrination of children. (public education). $23B
  • Texans should become independent then stop paying US taxes. $123B
  • Texas should secede because the US has sealed its doom.
  • Immediate return of Texas National Guard troops from US conscription.

More interesting viewpoints from Kilgore:

What do you think of democracy?
Democracy and Terrorism: Two Faces Of The Same Evil.

Do our citizens who never learned to support themselves, just get put somewhere away from us until they die of exposure, starvation, illness, or the like?
If Christians refuse to help the poor, widows and orphans, than we do not deserve freedom. If a lazy man does not work, he should not eat. It is not the government’s job to feed and clothe people.

Does the story of the woman caught in adultery, forgiven and released (John 8:3-11) negate the death penalty?
If God forgave the New Testament adulterer just as He forgave Old Testament adulterers, in neither instance revoking His law. God has all authority to forgive the criminal and disregard temporal punishment. Contrariwise, Men must obey God and cannot ignore punishment.

Do we empty our prisons, and let the inmates fend for themselves at the citizen’s expense?
When the prisoners are freed, a judge will have to determine what Biblical punishment is appropriate. I hope that Christians will sensibly welcome these people into their churches, businesses & homes.

While it’s not publicized on his campaign website, it’s been suggested by one local blogger that Kilgore would institute the death penalty for homosexuals. That’s good – because we all know that sin is way worse than all the others.

OPEC threatens to reduce investments

From Treehugger:

The president of OPEC said Wednesday that repeated calls by industrialized countries to reduce dependence on oil could lead to a reduction in supplies from the cartel. ‘‘Today’s policy announcements could translate into scarcity of supplies in the future,’’ Mohamed Al Hamli, president of the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries, said at an energy conference. He noted that OPEC is made up of developing nations with limited resources, and it would be a ‘‘waste of badly needed funds’’ to invest heavily in oil production if demand is unclear.” What a clever man. He’s figured out the general idea behind OPEC customers seeking more efficient vehicles and increased reliance on renewable power. Must be why they made him OPEC President.

So in other words – if we stop using as much oil, they’ll start producing less oil? Glad to know Al Hamli is aware of the economic principal of supply and demand.

Laurie Blundell, 2 time champion tile layer


Laurie Blundell, 2 time champion tile layer
Originally uploaded by Jonathan D. Blundell.

We wrapped up the tile work at the Treadaway’s house yesterday. We ripped up the carpet in the hallway and laid tile in the hall and dining room.
We finished around 7 p.m. yesterday and now the main thing left will be installing a strip of molding in the living room and finishing some shoe molding in the hall, kitchen and dining room.
We bought stain for the kitchen shoe but we’re going to need a darker color to match the current cabinetry.
I think Josh, Laurie and I are all pretty sore today. If anyone has a hot tub they’re not using tonight in the Waxahachie area I’m sure we can find a couple folks interested in putting it to use.

reaching

Brother Nick Harris stepped in and filled in for Brian this week at encounter. Bro. Nick is Brian’s father-in-law and pastors Ovilla Road Baptist Church, which encounter is a mission church of.
He gave a great message on God reaching towards us, us reaching back in faith and in turn reaching out to others.
Be sure and check out the podcast online – if for nothing else, his story about his sleeping pills at the beginning.

church in a thrift store

Thomas is always a great source of finds and info on the web, especially for relevant/emergent church news.
In his latest he gives a brief look at Andrew Jones’ latest post about an alternative worship service at his local Salvation Army thrift store (Thomas and Andrew are both Salvationists):

But it got me thinking what i would do if i hosted an emerging church alt. worship event at a thrift shop. It could be a blast! I would totally use FOUND OBJECTS from the store itself. Teaching would be from the Bibles already on the shelf and any illustrations would be taken from books on the shelf. Costuming would be encouraged and perhaps an award (voucher) given to those with the thriftiest and yet funkiest outfit. Drinks would be poured out of found jars and jugs into found cups and mugs from the shelves. Children might want to play some found games. Everything is found in the shop. Nothing is imported in. An offering could be taken {in an old hat, of course) for Salvation Army and a blog post with all the details of the service uploaded to a blog so that others might catch the vision to start one up in their local Salvation Army charity store. Maybe its a really lame idea. But it might be trying.

I think that’s a great idea. I don’t know that we could get our church to fit inside a local thrift store, but the more I think about it, I don’t even know if we have a local thrift store that’s open regularly. I think Daniel’s Den is only open a few hours a week. Could be an interesting ministry/outreach to the community in Waxahachie for encounter. Hmmmm.
And in addition, Thomas shares this great image…

Looks like even more of the Sermon on the Mount is popping up in other places.
There are seven different posters in the series. There’s a link to download PDF’s of them all on the Electric Angel website but it doesn’t appear to be working right now. Doh.
But they also have pics showing more of their design work on Flickr.