R.S. Helms Commentary

DANA ASHLIE - WHAT IS GOING ON... REALLY...

2020-05-09T10:37:00.001-07:00

2020-05-07T11:56:00.000-07:00

No Quarantine on Religious Freedom

Posted Tuesday, May 5, 2020 | By Outside Contributor

Reposted on R.S. Helms Commentary by R.S. Helms

It’s not a date most people have circled on their calendars. But whether they know it or not, May 4, 2017, was the day most Americans were set free. Free from government-imposed anti-religious mandates, court battles, and fines. Free from jail threats, harassment, and closures. After eight long years of an administration at war with religious freedom, President Trump leaned over a piece of paper in the Rose Garden and vowed, “We will not allow people of faith to be targeted, bullied, or silenced anymore.”

It was the first step of a thousand this administration has taken to reverse the devastating trends of the Obama years. Now, three years into his executive order on religious liberty, Americans don’t have to live in fear of the federal government. For once, Washington is an ally — not an enemy, at least on religious freedom. He’s proven it with meat packers, cake bakers, nuns, and Air Force colonels. Then he sided with health workers, adoption agencies, private schools, and federal contractors. Because for President Trump, restoring religious freedom wasn’t just a box he checked on his campaign promise whiteboard. It was a deeply personal mission to restore what Americans had lost.

Even now, in a time of unprecedented, nationwide suffering, this administration hasn’t let a challenge like a coronavirus distract it from the commitment it made more than 1,000 days ago: to protect what America stands for. The Trump team has been adamant, even from the earliest days of this outbreak: “the Constitution is not suspended in times of crisis.” If ever we needed faith, the administration has insisted, it’s now.

And thanks to Trump’s Department of Justice, local churches are getting the help they need to practice it. When local officials have used the lockdown to put the squeeze on churches, Attorney General William Barr’s staff has been on the ground, pushing back. “Expect action,” DOJ’s Kerri Kupec warned any would-be tyrants. And they got it. Just last week, in a shot across the bow, the nation’s chief law enforcer said all eyes were on the states. Any threats to freedom, Barr insisted, and his attorneys would be there in a flash to intervene.

If they were unconvinced, at least two incidents should have proven the DOJ’s sincerity. In Mississippi, where churches were being ticketed for drive-in services, Barr himself ordered his staff to file a “statement of interest” in the case — which essentially, DOJ’s Eric Dreiband explained on “Washington Watch,” tells the court which way the department thinks they should rule. Fortunately, the court listened and agreed that the city can’t single out churchgoers for harsher treatment than anyone else.

Over this past weekend, Dreiband’s staff was busy again — this time in Virginia, where police (under liberal Governor Ralph Northam’s direction) threated a pastor with jail time for holding a 16-person church service on Palm Sunday. State officials say that the Lighthouse church somehow violated the Virginia Constitution. Hardly, the DOJ insists, since the pastor insisted on “rigorous social-distancing and personal-hygiene protocols.” As far as Barr’s team is concerned, the criminal treatment of these churches is unacceptable. “The Commonwealth of Virginia has offered no good reason for refusing to trust congregants who promise to use care in worship in the same way it trusts accountants, lawyers, and other workers to do the same,” DOJ’s Dreiband argued in a statement.

Elsewhere, liberals in places like Kansas City, Missouri, seem intent on getting the administration’s attention with ridiculous monitoring measures like detailed registries on anyone who enters a church. Supposedly, the mayor’s new 10/10/10 rule is meant to keep tabs on non-essential businesses and other entities that open to the public. But some Christians are crying foul, since — conveniently — other gathering places, like grocery stores, are exempt. It’s just another power-grab in a long list of battles this administration will keep on fighting.

As frustrating as these flashpoints might be, they’re another example of just how much Americans have to be grateful for. Six years ago, our government wouldn’t be defending these churches — they’d be teaming up against them! Now, under just three years of this administration, we’ve seen a dramatic change in how freedom is regarded in this country. But this progress isn’t etched in stone. All it takes is one election for everything to go back to the way it was — when Americans were punished for their faith or excluded from the public square, rather than welcomed and protected by our government. Even now, with all of the uncertainty swirling around us, we need to stay focused on what’s at stake. And what’s at stake — for believers — is everything.

For more on this administration’s legacy on religious freedom, check out my new Washington Times op-ed on the three-year anniversary of the president’s executive order.

Reprinted with Permission from - Family Research Council by - Tony Perkins

Lawmakers Probe NIH (National Institutes of Health) Over Chinese Espionage Targeting U.S. Medical Research

2020-05-02T12:00:00.001-07:00

Lawmakers Probe NIH (National Institutes of Health) Over Chinese Espionage Targeting U.S. Medical Research

2020-04-26T07:16:00.001-07:00

Reblogged R.S. Helms Commentary --- From Canada Free Press.

Welcome To The Twilight Zone

One of my favorite episodes of The Twilight Zone is Monsters Are Due On Maple Street. On a peaceful suburban street, strange occurrences, purposely caused by hidden aliens, stoke the residents’ paranoia to a disastrous intensity. Once friendly neighbors start accusing one another and then, inevitably, begin killing each other.

We are now living in a sort of twilight zone, a science fiction horror movie. Many of us are being told to spy on each other, monitor one another, report any deviancy, take pictures. We have been ordered to close our churches, our schools, our restaurants, our businesses, no family dinners or get-togethers, use social distancing, practically everyone needs a haircut. Our president, who is not totally immune to misinformation, is actually being advised that the economic lockdown and the social distancing should continue until 2022. My God, is everyone nuts?

• 2020-04-25 • Ray DiLorenzo

COVID-19 The Answer To Maurice Strong’s Autobiographical Question, ‘Where on Earth Are We Going’?

In his autobiography ‘Where On Earth Are We Going’, Canadian United Nations Environment guru, the late Maurice Strong wrote a perfect description of the kind of brinksmanship the world is facing today.

The brinkmanship came along with a virulent virus that left the entire world in lockdown in its wake.

• 2020-04-25 • Judi McLeod

Mr. President, tear down this wall of unemployment

It’s time, sir. Time to let the American work force go back to work.

As of today, 26.4 million previously employed Americans are out of work. They are now dependent on Federal checks to sustain their families. That’s roughly one in six previously employed Americans, now jobless.

The infallibility of the medico Wizards of Smart has been discredited—except, of course, by the liberal media.

• 2020-04-25 • Lee Cary

A $1.6 Trillion Bribe for Dem Primary Voters

2019-07-12T10:12:00.001-07:00

A $1.6 Trillion Bribe for Dem Primary Voters

reblogged from sultanknish.blogspot.com ... great post and thanks

R.S. Helms

A Government Environmentalist Experiment in Brainwashing Parents Through Children in North Carolina

2019-05-23T08:52:00.001-07:00

A Government Environmentalist Experiment in Brainwashing Parents Through Children in North Carolina

Reblogged this from Sultan Knish, on the Web FYI

Socialism USA

2019-03-05T10:43:00.000-08:00

Socialism is our National Emergency

SOCIALISM IS OUR NATIONAL EMERGENCY!

R.S. Helms

Socialism, the resurgence of socialism is in my studied opinion is not actually a resurgence, but inadvertently exposed during the 2016 and the 2018 political campaigns. What happened with some of the comments during the Clinton – Sanders primary DNC presidential campaign, both mentioned some of the socialist utopias. Bernie more than Hillary because he wears his socialism like a fine hat, Hillary on the other hand, was more clandestine in her socialist ambitions, playing so because of Obama’s blatant display of total disregard for the Nation, the Constitution, and the people. His total ambition to divide and conquer our nation in the name of the North American Socialist Union which he would then control and work his way to the UN Secretary General in his blind ambition to rule the world, as the Global Socialist Union.

That was not the idea of the Muslim from Kenya before he made the splashes in Chicago politics with ACORN and George Soros, Bill Ayers (the theoretician of Marxism as he led the Weather Underground). It was Bill Ayers that implemented the Saul Alinsky ideologies into the ACORN group, and socialism was well into its resurgence then.

Now we have socialists coming out of the woodwork which has been called Democratic Socialists. Several socialist groups already exist in the United States and have done so for decades. They have grown steadily developing their ideologies, and of course, the MSM have their agenda to help even when lies suit them and their purpose better than the truth. Problem with socialismand that is for conservative and Christian authors, bloggers and all conservative communications. Liberal-socialists and Republican establishment politicians will control the content … even in our books. So, if you have a book ready, you had better get your agent and get them busy with selling your book to the right publisher.

I listen to several sermons on Sunday, I have a couple of preachers that I like as their messages always apply to life, our lives as we have to live it in these turbulent times of chaos in our nation. Our nation that was founded on Christian principals as most of the founders were Christian of a few sects who settled in their own Boroughs in most part, but there were other sects and non-Christians there as well, just in a large minority, and thus the infamous Jefferson letter about a wall between government and religion, it was initiated by the Danbury Baptist Church’s concern that being a minority in his state of Connecticut that they would be run out, or politically persecuted. Jefferson’s letter simply was to state that the federal government could not step inand that they could not establish or disestablish any religion. However, since the ’60s the Atheists have created major damage to the Christian faith in the United States, using Justice Black’s opinion on Church and State, and the Socialist group the ACLU.

Fact is, the United States was founded as a Christian Nation our Constitution and its Preamble reflect it. Our laws, ethics, integrity, morals, reflected throughout the history of our nation. It is not any wonder that it is my studied opinion that this nation was given as a safe haven for Christ’s Protestant church. Not always doing the right thing, but then the church is the people and Christian or not, people don’t do the right thing most of the time. As a nation, we should have been learning by our mistakes and as the church,we should have been learning from our mistakes. But evil pride and the nature of man has only splintered the nation and broken the church.

Meanwhile, socialism has been able to move ahead through the aid of liberalism, liberal theology, social justice, and our worthless liberal congress. I know some of the representatives and Senators are fine people with some integrity and values, however, we still have a majority of the citizens and the church that still hold on to the value that makes this the greatest nation on earth.

Yes, I am a Trump supporter and glad that I am, although I have my doubts that he will be able to complete what we made him promise to middle America. Some he has kept even with all the obstruction from the Shadow Government (the Swamp and Deep State), and he wanted to get things done bi-partisan but that should have never even been considered from day one. He began by changing his demeanor to be more presidential and with class, except with his war against fake news, and that war just might cost him reelection in 2020, because, the “never Trump” socialists and RINOs have joined with the press to bring him down. But in the long run, he has just kept on keeping on, like the little pink bunny.

Unfortunately, like the little pink bunny, the socialists just keep on going, beating their drums of resistance and Argumentum Ad Infinitumcycling from one fake issue to another. Well perhaps fake is too strong of a word if we are looking at the big picture because some of what they claim is based on a half-truth, no truth, and totally manufactured lies with no link to reality at all. And that is what the mainstream media find their material to run with. It is the reason that we hear what they say and callsit and them stupid.

Stupid like a fox as long as they can get their lies passed among the conservative on social media it actually becomes a weapon against us. It becomes Ad Nauseam and if we continue to respond beyond the first comment and share on social media, we are playing their game and doing the propaganda for them. It is what Trump did during the campaign he picked a big fight with them and then would make totally out of context comments focusing perceived truth, and the outrage would spread like wildfire fueled on gasoline. The Socialists are doing the same thing with us and it keeps on going and going and going and going, … we are their best propagandists.

Since President Trump called the socialists out during the State of the Union address, because a half dozen of them have been recently elected and several socialists have elected to seek the office of the President in 2020, so now that the old DNC has been exposed as mostly socialists and some even communists who have been purposing the Obama agenda in making the US into the North American Union (North American Socialist Union). But by pointing out the Socialists that have come out of the closet, he uncovered the whole stinking mess and the rest are in denial, sort of.

May God have mercy toward our nation, may God have mercy on us, his children. I look for more socialist confrontation not only against the President and Vice President, but conservative Congressmen/women will be in the crosshairs along with the rest of us. I pray that God will intercede on the behalf of our nation and of His church. Amen, amen and the peace of God be with us all.

Socialism in our nation has been like the little choo-choo chugging along and it came to a steep mountain, and down in its little puffer-belly it didn’t think it could, but it had to try even in the face of certain failure. The little puffer-belly started to say … “I think I can – I think I can – I think I can, I believe I can – I believe I can – I believe I can, I know I can – I know I can – I know I can…” and he did, he made it over the mountain. Well socialism has made it over the mountain, slowly over decades, but it made it over, and with George HW Bush’s allegiance to the UN and aligning his agenda with their agenda, that little puffer-belly of socialism started to have a problem with the downgrade, Clinton tried to control the momentum of the downhill plunge, George W Bush lost the brakes, and Obama put more fuel to it until it went totally out of control bringing chaotic division amongst the people.

Socialism took over the Democratic Party back in the day of Franklin D. Roosevelt and his “New Deal” and the UN Charter. Now that Hillary didn’t make it to the Whitehouse to continue on where Obama left off, we have them squealing like a stuck hog, because Trump is doing what Obama did to the conservative, only with more provocation when he went on National TV and said how he was being opposed in Congress “I have a telephone and a pen” telling the nation he could do what he wanted, and that was the power of his office. That is what he did. And was unopposed by the socialist (liberals) in Washington.

He would not have even been elected the first go around if a real conservative would have run against him, but he had the good fortune to run against another socialist McCain, at the least a RINO, who was trying to make the Republican Party into a “New Republican Party” (progressive globalism) and the opposite of conservatism. Then along came Mitt, who had it won even without trying, that is until their last debate and RINO (globalist) Mitt gave Obama the win, with simple ridicule over naval ships. An unexpected ploy in a valid point that Obama switched to ridicule old Mitt, and like it was almost a preplanned game, he manufactured a feeble grin and a stammered “I am aware of that”… and went on a very defensive and elusive argument, loosing not only the debate but his whole campaign, a campaign that now seems to have been a farce and manufactured failure from the start.

It would be my studied opinionif I would give it much thought if any, it would just enhance my loathing for Romney he sold the election to the socialists, allowing the Obama to try to finish what he started in 09; “To fundamentally change our nation.” and he almost, yes, he ALMOST. Succeeded, but, as they say, “Almost only counts in horseshoes and hand grenades.” Thank the ever-merciful God for not allowing Clinton or Obama, to continue during a time of chaos on every front, which was all manufactured and fast-tracked by Obama, Soros, The UN, Clinton, and the socialist in the shadow government and in Congress, including the RINOs who nearly destroyed the conservative Republican party.

Without God’s intervention … well,I will leave you to guess. I will leave you to read my book when it is published (I hope soon – just have to find an Agent) … but you can start doing your own research, starting with FDR's New Deal, the UN Charter, and all the social programs he used the power of the “phone and pen” executive power to put into effect. Why? to nudge the people who were coming out of the great depression to rely on government, even for work and retirement With programs like the Social Security Act, (Congress) WPA, Welfare for families with children, which added more agencies, and expanded the power of the federal government over the people, FDR’s New Deal targeted the most vulnerable citizens and made them more dependent and trapped by that dependency on the federal government.

Socialism then has been a force to be reckoned with and although from time to time it has been focus of various political activist groups to expose the socialism and communism, and the left who wore the crown of liberalism as some sort of great badge for liberating the masses from capitalism and conservatism who had been morphing into socialism since the 1800s and a shift of speed with FDR. Now we have full-blown running the Shadow Government and the socialist/globalists which is the greater part of Congress. We have the Liberalist church eating away at the biggest threat to the socialist/globalist (equates into what we have been calling liberal for decades). But they are all Communist without total Marxism … yet

They all suffer from Christian phobia (We may call it Christianophobic) real Christianity brings terror to their inner soul. I read some interesting stuff in an opinion by Consumer Advocate Tim Bolen, it was a humorous piece of a real serious nature. It was about the way the Democratic Party “Name-Calling” or the way to use “ridicule” according to Saul Alinsky’s Rules for Radicals handbook. Thus, they ridicule by phobias the first to use phobias in “name calling” and using big words in arguments some of which they don’t even know the meaning, some have no meaning but have been manufactured by the MSM and the activist pick it up on the morning broadcast and use it in their confrontations with Conservatives and Christians.

In his article, he recommended the same by hitting them with words like sesquipedalian (google it) but when they start with their big words just say that word, roll your eyes, and walk away. Let them suffer from patriot-phobia.

(https://bolenreport.com/democratic-party-name-calling-desperate-response-to-irrefutable-argument/) the address or just search for the Bolen Report.

But do me a favor and research socialism in the United States.

Well, this has been a long article and I will let you get on with your research.

R.S. Helms

What's Bad for the Media is Good for America

2019-02-15T10:04:00.001-08:00

What's Bad for the Media is Good for America Reblogged by R.S. Commentary ... Can't say I am supprised Now if they would just get rid of the Propaganda on the TV we would be in good shape.

A New National Security Strategy for America

2019-01-17T13:29:00.001-08:00

Reblogged this on Blogger.com

A New National Security Strategy for America

2018-12-27T14:54:00.000-08:00

“If My People who are called by My name will humble themselves, and pray and seek My face, and turn from their wicked ways, then I will hear from heaven, and will forgive their sin and heal their land.” (2 Chronicles 7:14)

Welcome to Prayer Warriors, and our first project. It is really my project and I am inviting Christians to join me in a 30-day intercessory prayer project that’s what makes it “our project”. A project of love, love for our nation as a free republic, love for our fellow Americans and the love and faith we have in our Lord. He taught us that no matter how big the problem we face, in sincere faithful prayer all things are possible.

With the power and possibilities of sincere fervent prayer even restoring our nation and reviving biblical Christianity. However, as I have said many times, one will not be fixed without the other being fixed. God can and will fix both if enough of his people confess and repent from their wicked ways and humble themselves and pray. The promise of God is that He will hear from heaven and heal their land. The promise is for the Jew as well as for the Christian, for Israel as well as the American and the United States.

It is my studied opinion, that certain problems require additional preparations, as in Matthew Chapter 17. The Miracle of Transfiguration… it is well to read the whole chapter; however, I would like to focus on verses 14 – 21 and the healing of the epileptic boy that the disciples couldn’t heal in Jesus’ absence.

Mt.17:14 – 21 … 14). And when they had come to the multitude, a man came to Him, kneeling down to Him and saying, 15).‘Lord, have mercy on my son, for he is an epileptic and suffers severely; for he often falls into the fire and often into the water.’ 16). ‘So I brought him to Your disciples, but they could not cure him.’” 17). Then Jesus answered and said, “O faithless and perverse generation, how long shall I be with you? How long shall I bear with you? Bring him here to Me.” 18). And Jesus rebuked the demon, and it came out of him; and the child was cured from that very hour. 19). Then the disciples came to Jesus privately and said, “Why could we not cast it out?” 20). So Jesus said to them, “Because of your unbelief: for assuredly, I say to you, if you have faith as a mustard seed, you will say to this mountain, ‘Move from here to there,’ and it will move; and nothing will be impossible for you.” 21). “However, this kind does not go out except by prayer and fasting.” (NKJV)… V. 21 … some manuscripts omit this verse from Matthew, the reason is not clear, however, it is possible the phrase was added from Mk. 9:29 by a copyist. However, the thrust of the quote is that some encounters with severe demonic oppression must be undertaken out of most profound spiritual preparation and caution and spiritual resources which can be marshaled.

So, for this project we have to recruit as many warriors as possible who believe the word of God, who don’t fudge on their belief that the word of God (Bible) is inspired, inerrant, infallible, that we are disciples of Christ, a royal priesthood and are on a mission to take the Gospel of Jesus Christ to all people of the world. We must be ‘born again believers’ standing firm in the faith. We must check our faith barometer. We must commit to 30 days of prayer, the commitment is to Jesus so if we make that commitment to be prayer warriors we must take it serious, the commitment to fellow prayer partners of this project is one of encouragement, to each other and to provide hope in the promise of God so we have to sincerely humble ourselves, read scripture and pray it back to God, agreeing with him about what the scripture reveals to us, and what it means to our situation as the born again believer in what was founded as a Christian nation. we must fervently pray especially for our Christian church. (Bible Thumping – Jesus worshipping Christian Church). we must fight against liberal theology regardless of what degree it is. Pray for each partner of the project and start now praying that God send us more and more warriors.

Pastors who will lead prayer groups for revivals … it has to start somewhere. Lord start it with us, with our commitment, equip us to help accomplish what God wants to do with the church and His people. God bless all who visit this page, and pray for us and the needs as posted, and those who commit to pray for 30 days or perhaps reaffirm and commit for more. God bless those who want to guide or lead a church or church men or women’s group to pray for revival.

For pastors who want to do a revival, lock-in, youth groups, … Christian churches must take a stand for our Nation, and other Nations where Christianity wants to exist even after socialism has messed them up so far. You can never hope to exist freely in a communist country. Do your research, as to the craziness of our government to the craziness of liberal Christianity and the horde of Islam. People can believe what they want, as long as I am as free as them to believe what I believe.

It is time to get serious about our freedom, it is disappearing very fast, so is our constitutional government, our religious freedom. Right along with all morals, social respect and ethics. So, the call to seriously commit to fervent prayer.

May God bless you and keep you.

R.S. Helms

Pastor SBC Retired.

Messages of Revelation

2018-12-08T15:19:00.001-08:00

The Loveless Church

We come to the First Church in the list of Seven, (Rev. 2:1 – 7), However, if you recall some of the introduction in chapter one, it is the Lord Jesus’ revelation to His servant John and in verse three, “Blessed is he who reads and those who hear the words of this prophecy, and keep those things which are written in it; for the time is near.”

So, what does “is near” mean? Well God knew just how long it would take Christianity to run its faithful and committed course and He didn’t make me or anyone privy to how long it would actually be until the end of its age and sufferings, of its persecution. We do know that Jesus will come in the clouds and those who sleep in the Lord will rise first, then those of us who are still struggling along, will meet them in the air, in a twinkling of an eye. That will be the close of the church age, when Christ collects His church.

Chapter two verse l: -- 7: “To the angel of the church of Ephesus write, these things says He who holds the seven stars in His right hand, who walks in the midst of the seven lampstands: -- 2) ‘I know your works, your labor, your patience, and that you cannot bear those who are evil. And you have tested those who say they are apostles and are not, and have found them liars;’ – 3)’and you have persevered and have patience, and have labored for My name’s sake and have not become weary.’ – 4) ‘Nevertheless I have this against you, that you have left your first love.’ – 5) ‘Remember therefore from where you have fallen; repent and do the first works, or else I will come to you quickly and remove your lampstand from its place – un-less you repent.’ 6) ‘But this you have, that you hate the deeds of the Nicolaitans, which I also hate.’ 7) ‘He who has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the churches. To him who overcomes I will give to eat from the tree of life, which is in the midst of the Paradise of God.’”

First, we are to understand that Jesus commends the church on the good that they have done and are currently doing. yet, with verse four God has a ‘Nevertheless’ as He strikes with the sword against their condition, they have left their first love. And the sword condemns this condition of falling from their first love, that love we have when we first surrender to Jesus as Lord of our lives, and the commitment we surrendered our soul to the kingship of our Lord Jesus.

We love Jesus because He loved us first, and for the born-again Christian, at the very moment of our rebirth, at the time of adoption and the death of the old nature, being justified in our new life, inside we fall in love with our Savior. Now, although that is correct and sounds wonderful, I do believe Jesus was referring to the First Commandment as Christians see it. “I am the Lord thy God – Thou shalt have no other gods before me.” One of the costs of the free gift of our salvation.

Jesus is God the Son – the incarnate God, Jesus who walked among His people, His creation. By grace through faith in Jesus we are redeemed to God and justified. God simply wants to be first in our lives and we are beside ourselves that God would want to be first in my life, He wants us, His church, to love him because He loves us, loves us enough to die for us of course, we love Him more than life; it is understandable that the church has become almost deniably obsessed in protecting our salvation as solely a free gift of God’s grace. Of which it is but it does cost us our lives as we knew them. I am proud that I chose the offer of grace and in return my surrender, my total surrender to His finite love.

Nonetheless, we all get caught up in the world in work, sleep time, church and that is where most of the problems lay, we spend – say, 40 hours a week working (providing we can get by on a 40-hour week. Then we spend around 56 hours sleeping, and we give God around 5 hours a week if we are not on staff, or say a Sunday school teacher, choir member, maybe a Deacon as well.

That should put a top member of the congregation with 10 – 14 hours for God plus prayer time, and the rest of 168-hour week for or in the world the world, and it begins to reflect in our lives and the rightful position of God in our lives, our minds have a lot more input of the world than of God. When we consider our condition or the condition of our church, we may want to get brutally honest with our self, because only you and God know the truth.

Before we first loved God, we are the center of our lives, after we are born again, we start our journey and work hard at putting the old man away, and we work even harder of putting God in the center of our lives, putting Jesus center and on his throne of our lives, our existence. We work hard, very hard as we start our Christian walk, our love for the Savior soars like the eagle then levels off somewhat as we float on the winds of God’s grace.

Then one day we look around and find we have been losing altitude unaware, we find our peace not so peaceful, we find that there have been unnoticed changes, Jesus is not found on the throne in life’s center and we are not on the submissive side as we were, but closer to the throne, now occupied by other worldly things like money, work, leisure enticements. We find anxiety and guilt for not paying attention to the things of God, and trouble in our lives is becoming serious.

We have not crashed our spiritual love in Jesus, and it is here that we can avert the nose dive of recession through cultural allurements and the wisdom of the world. Not keeping a real handle on the old nature, which although is claimed dead, when we are born again, all things made new, and for a while they are, they are until the demonic strength of the human nature’s appetites slowly erode our passion for the Lord, and unless we catch the slipping away, we will be overcome by the things of the world.

When we confess and repent and really experience the work of Christ, the work of Christ on the cross, the Death, Burial and resurrection, the motive for His horrific sacrifice, we find our rescue there at the cross. One Christian Counseling course explains this as identifying with the cross. I call it more of having God opening our eyes and ears, which He can do rather boldly, and the longer we ignore God’s little prodding’s the more intrusive and fouler they may become.

First, let me affirm my belief on something that has been denied and fervently rebuked by liberal political activists who along with other liberal organizations have come against fundamental Christianity, overtly since the 60s, but for some time in order to justify lifestyles that are less than simply sinful but vile evil sins, the whole thing of abortion dividing women, Christian women, Homosexuality dividing Christian churches and denominations. These divisions come with the bullying and intimidation of the media, the Hollywood elites, the UN and even the from President Obama. This in turn caused many Christians to seek a comfortable church, where they would not be under fire and persecution from the liberals. They found it in liberal theology.

We see a liberal church filled with people in a comfort zone, a comfortable church which had once done a lot of good works for Jesus, it involved most of them, but today, we have the comfortable. With 20 percent of the body doing 80 percent of the Lord’s work. At first, we probably had most of the people doing great work for Jesus’s name sake. While Pastoring, I become acquainted with a problem for Pastors as they were trying to figure out how to enlist volunteers for the various committees and duties of the church. That “rule of thumb” problem is simple and works its problematic nightmare nearly everywhere (except in liberalism), and that is 20% of the members do 80% of the work, and giving as well, it may not be the same ones … giving and working, because it seems we have the workers and the givers, most of the 20% are both, the smaller the church the greater the number of those who are committed.

Those who are genuinely committed to our Lord, don’t seek a comfortable church where they can be ministered to feel good in the community, and not be under the liberal attack and persecution. I use the present tense, because it is continuing on and probably will go on for years. One of the problems of the church falling from where it once was, is that the normal battle between Bible-believing Protestant churches and denominations, which in most part was the application of the various doctrinal and theological positions, most of which Bible believing Christians could agree to disagree on. Point is that most in-fighting was inconsequential to salvation.

Somewhere in or around the turn of the nineteenth century liberal theology was born in order to protect Christianity from the philosophers. But, he erroneously lumped Bible authority into his thought of the church learning to experience the total dependency on God and have nothing to do with any outside authority including the authority or the inerrancy and infallibility of the Word of God. Over the next dozen or so liberal theologians it simply went from bad to worse.

Original sin, then sin, the Virgin Birth, the Resurrection, Salvation by Grace through Faith alone, it is now God Consciousness and works or everyone will eventually all will be saved. Sorry folks but that is where liberal theology has taken the church. A brief study of liberal theology can show how it evolved over the years to now it is morphing into socialist theology along the lines of Karl Marx … perhaps, they may think that it will help later when most of the world will be ruled by a global socialist union.

Not the one-world government with the Anti-Christ, but the UN’s Global Socialist Union. The way things are going socially and with the American culture, now so lawless, no moral values, integrity gone, and a war against the church from outside and from inside. The lure of the world and its evil lawlessness has truly taken a hard-deep bite from the church and there is truly those who are born again believers who have left the biblical theology as they slipped from their intimate love relationship with Jesus and have sought the tolerance of liberal theology churches. knowing that liberal’s subculture will leave them alone and not mock their belief. They join the ranks that the liberals call tolerant. Tolerant of most things evil, as long as the elites call them okay. They have joined the ranks of those that have changed their view of the Bible being the inspired word of God, inerrant and infallible. Those who deny the virgin birth, the resurrection and being born anew by grace through the atoning work of Jesus Christ on the cross. These are the ones slipping away from their first love in Christ Jesus.

There was once a great Evangelist Dr. A.T. Pierson, and when he was asked: “Don’t you think the world is getting converted already?” his reply, “Well, I admit that the world has become a little churchy, but the church has become immensely worldly.”

The church at Ephesus was slipping away from Jesus, our first love, and the church has continued to slip, under the rise of and re-establishment of liberal theology, liberation theology. It has been allowed by God, I guess to keep us on our toes; only one problem of keeping us on our toes is that we have to have the ears to hear what the Spirit is saying to the church. We are being destroyed from within and it seems like no one really cares. In general, there are only few preachers who preach the Bible against the wiles of liberalism in its various forms.

Conservative biblical churches are being torn apart by liberalism, post modernism … and the liberal global or one world government’s push through liberalism/socialism. Liberal theology and political liberalism mold well into socialism, and when the church begins to fall away from Jesus and the inspired, inerrant, infallible word of God, they believe the lies of the false prophets, teachers and politicians of the world.

He who has an ear let him hear what the Spirit is saying to the Christian church. He who has an ear let him hear what the Spirit is saying to the Christian.

R.S. Helms

2018-11-12T10:56:00.000-08:00

Guess Crow Tastes Rather Foul

How do I write such disappointment in the way the “Republicans” have rallied and responded to the critical need to get out and vote? Like my last post indicated: “You can stand in a garage, but that does not make you a Cadillac, and you can call yourself a Christian Patriot by that don’t make you a Patriot or a Christian. what the voting is showing is that there is one thing for sure, we either have more socialist than ever thought or the Christian Patriots are more apathetic than they pretend to be.

I am sure that there was a ton of voter fraud and rigged polling stations even hacked stations, otherwise, we would not have lost and that is a hard-studied opinion, (I’ll leave the evidence gathering to other, better equipped, smarter people than me).

I will have to live with a loss if indeed that is the case and try hard not to go burn down my neighborhood, although that is what the Democrats would do. I will try to contain my disdain for liberalism and just plain evil people and communicate with the Freedom Caucus and hopefully, my Representative will still be there, even if we lose the House.

If we do wind up with the loss and by some miscarriage of grace, Nancy Pelosi retakes Speaker we won’t be that much worse off than when Ryan and the RINOs were in place. What it means is that everything Trump started and wanted to start will go up with a poof.

I don’t think Trump will resort to telling the people “I have a phone and a pen.” I don’t foresee massive parades of conservative women marching nude, or costumed as giant vaginas, and riots burning down poor neighborhoods. You do understand, conservative women have more self-respect than does the liberal socialists.

Notice, I have already started to control my deep disdain. My overwhelming disappointment is much harder to control, so, I will attempt to confine most of my writing to concern liberalism in the church and how liberal politics and liberal theology has broken the Church. I do believe I will rewrite some of my previous posts on the Seven Sins, on the Seven Churches, on Liberal Theology and Biblical Systematic Theology.

God, Jesus, The Holy Spirit, and the Bible where God reveals Himself to us His creation, perhaps in our fever to see this nation fixed we have somehow begun to drift from God’s leadership. Perhaps, just perhaps, we need to keep God in His rightful place, the center of our lives and not move Him to the side while we attempt to fix our corrupted Nation, we should not lose our passion for fixing our nation and removing the evil corruption in politics but be the vessel which He uses to fix the Church.

Perhaps, He may know they have to be done at the same time, or what progress is made in one will be negated by the other. If we fix the Church, corruption will negate the fix with just the same way they originally broke it. If the nation is restored, then the liberal theology church will pander to the liberal socialist politicians and put them back in power to save their sinful, vile disgusting imitation of true Christianity.

My battle is a Holy War, one of which I know the end, but these battles I fight are two fronted yet the same battle against liberalism. The fronts of political socialism and the vile liberalism that has broken the Christian church in America and the western free world and some battles we win and some we don’t. Of course, we have been fighting this Holy War since Adam sinned against God in the Garden of Eden, sure there are those who will blame Eve, but she was simply the vehicle of Temptation it was God who instructed Adam thou shalt not, assuredly Eve was there and heard as well, However, it was Adam who was accountable for the sin, not the help-mate God provided.

Oh yes, God provided a help-mate … not a slave or rug – And that will preach very well, not as the liberal Christians have tried to use it against men and the church for forever. Liberalism has mocked the Word of God (Bible) and misused and abused it to the point that they have taken away the inerrancy, infallibility, Authority and divine inspiration. Oh, and those who still “cling” to the Bible are some sort of back-woodsy folks of antiquity believing in an antique fantasy.

Liberal theology like liberal socialism is the weapon used by global socialists who apparently want to get ahead of God’s plan for a one-world Government, God’s plan reveals the Beast and the Anti-Christ. Liberalism wants to establish a Global Socialist Union before they put on display the Anti-Christ who will sit on the throne in the rebuilt Temple in Jerusalem. Power, Wealth, and a socialist Satanic religion. However, it won’t happen until God’s time.

So, as in the title of my last post, “You can stand in a garage but, it doesn’t make you a Cadillac; You can call yourself a Christian Patriot, but it doesn’t make you a Patriot and it doesn’t make you a Christian.”

Unless we like eating Crow pie, we have to arrive at the point of being both, arriving (Arrive – verb – reach a place at the end of a journey or a stage in a journey.) being a verb implies action, ah yes action like in the Christian community it would signify fruit, or good work for the Lord. For the patriot non-Christian their journey begins when they open their eyes to the brainwashing and the tactics used by liberalism to control Government, Taxes, Jobs, lives, lives dependent on a socialist government.

That journey as great and noble is a war against the ideologies of socialism and the ideologies of a free market, the free market of a free and sovereign nation, the leader of the world, with a constitutional government, a great nation, a world power, a nation divided by liberalism and at war with itself. This Journey of the patriot is battling the liberal socialist corruption and globalism and the politicians and a critical partner in the journey Christians are fighting against liberalism.

In our bull-headedness over the past 60 or so years, non-Christians and Christians have been at odds over a lot of seemingly non-relevant issues, and the two groups bump heads often about the issue of Christian moral values and principles which of course, is what the founders built the nation on … the Christian principles is why the rest of the world and our own people called us a Christian nation.

A survey conducted on the streets of various cities and towns across our nation, cities and towns involved not in politics but a bonified poll for demographics research by a major seminary. In the late 90s they asked random people of all ages beginning at the age of 12, The seminary pollsters found that over 90% of the people responded … “Christian,” when asked what religion they were … and gave this answer when asked how they knew they were Christian? … “Because I am American.” This changed the way I witnessed to people I met. I don’t know how many of those people were actually Christian, don’t much care about their motivation for saying they were Christian because they are Americans because that was not the point now was it? Point is, it took nearly two decades before people were brainwashed by liberal lies that we are not a Christian nation.

Nonetheless, most of that patriotic Christianity has been nearly washed away with 6 or so decades of decaying morals and patriotism which condition is rooted deep in the 60s, but over the past 4 decades has simply been beyond belief especially with Hillary Clinton and Obama. It is when the Republicans and Democratic radicals attempted to flip the parties to socialism, global socialism.

I believe that the Democrat party actually has gone socialist or even communist while the Republicans have, in part, failed to turn the party but left groups of socialists and globalist. Most people call them RINOs, and ‘never Trumper’s, but even they are not as vile and disgusting individuals. Thing is, we have a whole generation (millennials) with the majority in bankruptcy, moral bankruptcy.

Moral bankruptcy, and everything in between evil and vile demonic. Problem is, it has been a total Holy War against true Christianity and against America itself. These people are under some delusion, some evil delusion. The leaders and politicians simply think they are above the law. The press has lost all integrity and ethics … simply making up what they want and say and when called on it, it is something they claim a source even anonymous sources, and they sell their lies off as truth. The press is nothing more than gossips, and propaganda for monetary gain or political favor.

Stay tuned, as I examine the broken church, with an occasional political issue or story as our patriots uncover and confront the evil that seeps from the politicians and sub-culture groups. Groupies flocking around protests for a ten-spot even violent acts, and a lot of wide-mouth fakers who just happen to show up at a lot of events, what is it they call them? Ah yes, crisis and protest paid performers.

Thanks for reading

R.S. Helms

OVER-STUFFED BUREAURACY

2018-09-11T10:56:00.000-07:00

The Americans for Limited Government Foundation released a report written by Natalia Castro that finds rampant abuse and inefficiency within the U.S. Civil Service.

“In order to limit the government and drain the swamp, managers in the federal government must be able to fire poor performing employees on an expedited basis. Right now, the current system protects bad employees. What was supposed to be a merit system has turned into an entitlement system for insulated, unaccountable federal employees. To drain the swamp, we have to be able to fire the swamp,” Rick Manning, President of the Americans for Limited Government Foundation, said.

Castro outlined the history of positive reforms that prevented employees from being hired and fired on a partisan basis. However, the increased influence of unions gave employees extraordinary protection.

“In order for the American people to trust the effectiveness of the bureaucracy, protections were put in place to eliminate partisanship. Unfortunately, empowering unions has also meant disempowering leadership and creating an ineffective process for removing poor performers,” Castro writes.

It’s challenging, if not impossible, to fire an ineffective employee, Castro found. For instance:

The U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO) reports that it takes an average of 170 to 370 days to remove poor performing employees.
The Office of Personnel Management’s FedScope reveals that the public sector maintains a separations rate of 3.37 percent while the private sector, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics JOLTs Survey has a separation rate of 17.27 percent.
FedScope also reveals that the public sector termination for cause rate is 0.53 percent meaning that federal employees have a 99.47 percent chance of never being fired for cause.
The U.S. Department of Education in FY 2018 had the lowest termination rate for cause at 0.14 percent when only ten employees of over 3,900 were fired for cause. The U.S. Department of Homeland Security had the highest rate for cause at 1.04 percent when 1,810 employees out of a workforce of roughly 229,000 (2017 number) were fired.

Castro also provided examples of abuse within the civil service, for example:

A May 2016 Office of the Inspector General (OIG) investigation into a Dallas GS-13 EPA employee detailed a 10-year battle to remove the employee. The report explains, “In March 2006, the OIG Dallas Field Office was informed that a GS-13 EPA Enforcement Officer was cited by the Dallas Police Department for the improper use of emergency lights on his personal vehicle while also being a registered sex offender… The EPA employee also possessed a makeshift badge, which accompanied his administrative EPA Enforcement Officer credentials, which were displayed by the employee to the police officer. This led the police officer to believe that the employee was an EPA law enforcement officer. The EPA employee also used emergency lights affixed to his personal vehicle at an accident scene.”
The OIG investigation continued to uncover that the EPA employee had created at least 20 similar “EPA enforcement badges” and a bulletproof vest. This was the second time the employee had to be counseled by EPA officials for using emergency lights on his personal vehicle.
Unfortunately, the U.S. Attorney’s office still declined to prosecute the employee, instead moving him to an administrative position within the office.
It was not until August 2013 when the employee was arrested again for violating his parole that he was indefinitely suspended and, in January 2014, terminated. But that was only until the decision was overturned on appeal and the EPA was forced to re-hire the employee. The employee continued working for the agency until January 2015, a full year after the employee’s initial termination, when a settlement was reached. The employee agreed to resign in exchange for an undisclosed consideration.

Castro cited H.R. 559, the Modern Employment Reform, Innovation, and Transformation Act of 2017, (MERIT Act) sponsored by Congressman Barry Loudermilk (R-GA) as a solution for reform within all federal departments. If passed the bill would:

Increase agency management’s power to remove poor employees;
Expedite timelines; 7 – 21 days’ notice of action; simple presentation of cause with employees given opportunity to respond;
Cap appeal decision time at 30 days, after which the dismissal is upheld, unless declared otherwise;
Require that if the 30-day deadline is not met the U.S. Merit Systems Protection Board (MSPB) must report to Congress and the oversight committees in the House and Senate and explain non-compliance; and
Uphold whistleblower protections.

Reprinted with permission from - Caffeinated Thoughts - by Shane Vander Hart

2018-08-17T10:56:00.001-07:00

It's Finished!

Now I am looking of a good Agent.

Introduction

A Splintered Nation and A Broken Church is a book which will hopefully encourage the reader to get involved in restoring our nation to an independent sovereign Constitutional Republic. You must admit that our nation has been on a very long journey towards its demise, what started out to be a sovereign Constitutional Republic, with the founders being Protestant Christian, putting in place moral values, integrity, a Constitution demanding and guaranteeing freedom, equality, and a limited government for the people and by the people. The book sort of hop-scotches through the research concerning the history of our politics and political corruption, resting at times on some major misconceptions and turning points as corruption consumed the political landscape of our nation.

Do you find yourself wondering how and why we find our nation in the state that that it is? know when it started, know how simple political rivalry turned into political parties, with specific ideological agendas and how those agendas evolved into one global liberal socialist party, or socialism the new face of the Democratic Party. A long progression and evolution since its founder Andrew Jackson. With the election of Lincoln, a former Whig turned Republican to get elected, the Republican Party gained it permanency as most Whigs went Republicans. Nonetheless, both parties are corrupt and the common link of corruption is illicit gain both monetary and political power. The book explores the fullness of intent for their corruption and vile behavior, their vile corrupt conspiracy to control the people.

Control and power have established the Shadow Government that is a huge and grossly oversized bureaucracy of unelected officials, departments and agencies that control the people by regulations, the Shadow Government is protected by corrupt politicians of both parties, primarily the global socialists… the new face of the Democrat Party. President Trump ran with the Ideal of draining the Swamp, thinking it meant both the “Deep State” and corrupt Congress. However, the Swamp is the corrupt Democrats and the RINOs who have moved in the direction of money and political power. The size of our government is a mockery of what the founders envisioned in the Constitution. The book looks at the liberal conspiracy against the Protestant church since the 1960s and why should the liberals with the objective of taking control of the nation and now the ultimate objective of a North American Socialist Union and a powerful part of the Global Socialist Union. Research has revealed problematic conditions existed that could not be ignored but must be eliminated or made of no relevance, and that is where Protestant Christianity comes into the picture. The church is broken into two main theologies, liberal and evangelical or liberal and biblical theologies, regardless, the research reveals the division which liberal theology denies, the truth of the Bible it teaches about sin. The Bible is the basis of our moral values, integrity and the character of our culture is Christianity. However. from the time of Franklin D. Roosevelt’s United Nation’s Charter and the liberal activists of the 1960s exposes the real conspiracy of socialism 2009-16 as it was accelerated by Barack Obama, or Barry whatever the only President in our history who demonized the Bible believing Christians.

The research links politics and the church. It also links the Civil Liberties Act, originated with the Kennedy brothers, then the assassination of John allowed Johnson to implement the Act and take it for his accomplishment and opening the door for minority groups such as the ACLU, LGBT, NAACP, Communist Party of America, and the liberal Press, Nation of Islam, all of which were recruiting people groups for Democrat votes. All a little pushy and all joining in against the church, the Second Amendment, law enforcement, border security, The Boy Scouts, the Military, our Flag and all patriot or Christian expression even Christian cake decorators. However, it was the church and Christian values, ethics, integrity woven into the American Dream. The use of political correctness and the freedom of speech is for liberals only. Black-white-red-yellow-whatever, racism is the biggest tool in the liberal box, intolerance and sexual abuse, (the most hypocritical tools) and further against the church is the favorite of bigotry and a fantasy God and fantasy religion. A lie is now the truth, and vile activity including thuggery violence and breaking the law is only wrong if you are a Christian or conservative.

Things really accelerated since George HW Bush and his push for the socialist union and the UN. There has never been a viler and more lawless as Bill and Hillary Clinton, then George W. with his revenge war on Iraq, when he should have gone to Afghanistan. Obama brought a new attempt to destroy the nation in civil unrest, and violent thuggery. The real eye opener is in research, not what is reported in the “Mainstream News” and liberal social networking. Researching exposes links, and it is up to the researcher to explore those links, see where your candidate stands then vote, and yes, your vote does count. Secondly, by the nature of the beast proper research will give the individual an opinion, and everyone needs a studied opinion to help discern the players and the direction they are headed. I pray the book encourages you to research and be educated enough to protect your mind against the onslaught of evil wrong, against the socialist agenda for your freedom. In this book I hope you find enough material to spark your interest to step back and do your own research. Stand for the truth and don’t compromise on the truth or your faith, even though they call you closed minded, therefore, you won’t be suckered into believing the lies.

When you reject the truth, you will believe lies. You will become a slave to liberal socialism.

Sex, Lies and the Deep State

2018-07-12T11:20:00.001-07:00

The Deep State … (Shadow Government), really needs to be put out of business! it is actually an enemy against the United States and our Constitution and we the people. We need to demand that congress rid itself of the Deep State and the congressional bottom feeders. Congress Liberals and RINOs need to have the plug pulled on their swamp.

Sex, Lies and the Deep State

GREAT AWAKENING

2018-05-11T08:49:00.001-07:00

We Need Another Great Awakening

Reblogged on R.S. Helms Commentary from WOW! Magazine

Is Jordan Peterson the avatar of a 21st century Great Awakening?

by Bookworm

The Jordan Peterson event I attended was a "happening" that made me think Americans are craving a spiritual Great Awakening that will bind us as a nation.

For some time now I have had running through my brain the thought that America needs a Great Awakening along the lines of the First Great Awakening in 1730s and 1740s. Large segments of America are suffering from spiritual malaise.

America's inner cities are in a state of despair and disrepair, plagued by high crime, high poverty, missing fathers, and a general sense of apocalyptic failure. The inner cities, though, are only the most visible symptom of a nationwide disease of the soul.

In small cities across America's heartland, people who watched their jobs vanish, their communities disintegrate, and their status as worthwhile individuals dribble away have turned to drink and drugs. Once shiny little town are now squalid ghettos.

Although they are dressed better and have more money, many of America’s youth show the same signs of moral and spiritual decay. Both males and white people are told that they are inherently evil, making redemption impossible. Across the spectrum of genders, colors, and socio-economic status, young people are relentlessly indoctrinated into believing that their country is a greedy, oppressive place, guilty of sins past and present, and that the world is facing an apocalyptic ending as boiling seas rise and inundate parched land.

This darkness in the American soul is the inevitable end point of 50 years of cultural Marxism pounding relentlessly away in all of our institutions. We're currently in free-fall mode, but the bottom is getting rapidly closer -- and if you want to get a glimpse into this bottom, look to Europe, which is years ahead of us when it comes to surrendering its institutions over to the cultural Marxists.

England, which gave us the ideas of individual liberty and free speech has become an Orwellian nation in which speech is tightly policed, honest citizens are disarmed (and "disknifed," although the acid still flows freely), the borders are opened to people whose values are antithetical to traditional British notions about freedom, and the cultural institutions have allied themselves with the most oppressive ideologies, whether Islam or Marxism.

England is not alone, although it's the most interesting to watch given that our Bill of Rights is a direct descendant of England's 1689 Bill of Rights. The cultural Marxist claim that western civilization is inherently flawed thanks to colonialism, racism, and sexism (all of which are the poisonous fruit of the Judeo-Christian tradition), has battered Western European nations into a suicidal level of intellectual submission.

The European ruling classes believe that their nations can redeem themselves only through catastrophically destructive immigration policies. This same ruling class also believes that, when the knives flash and the blood flows, no matter the carnage on the streets, the leaders will be protected behind the high walls they've erected for themselves in their mansions and elite enclaves. They're wrong, of course, but that false sense of security is what allows them to use their people as a human sacrifice on the altar of cultural Marxism.

Keep in mind that we in America know that immigration is not inherently bad. For centuries, we successfully invited into our country people who valued our institutions and wanted to assimilate so that they could experience all the blessings a free citizenry can enjoy.

Today, though, both at home and abroad, too many new immigrants have a different attitude. Many have been infected with Marxism, so they seek Western benefits without contributing to Western weal. Especially in Europe, many immigrants are coming as conquerors, not seekers. The millions who are flooding that continent, whether legally or illegally, despise the very culture that is welcoming them and intend to destroy it. Talk about using fire to purify past sins.

Having had 50 years to wreak havoc on the Western tradition, the cultural Marxists are very close to bringing our institutions to dangerous tipping points. Now that our systems face imminent collapse, we do not have 50 years to fix the problem. We need to fix it now.

The Trump administration is making significant headway undoing the political damage the Obama administration caused, but how does one undo generations of self-loathing amongst Americans? How does one tell young people that this is a great country, with equality of opportunity for those willing to work hard? How does one help the despairing drug addicts break free? How does one get people trained in anger and hatred to stop and look at the blessings around them?

Those questions are what left me ruminating for weeks now about America's first Great Awakening, which started almost 300 years ago. That awakening was a Protestant religious revival that swept like wildfire through the colonies. That first awakening was followed by several others that lasted into the 20th century (with the Reverend Martin Luther King leading what was probably the last of the awakenings). It's the first, though, the one that took place from the mid-1730s through the early 1740s, that was so necessary for the American experiment.

The leaders of this first Great Awakening were George Whitefield, John Wesley, and Jonathan Evans, all of whom were evangelical preachers. Although there were different nuances to their teachings, their core message was the same: We are all sinners, but each individual is a child of God, capable of redemption through honestly acknowledging sin, establishing a personal relationship with God and, through that relationship, reforming ourselves to become better people. This was not a faith predicated on ritual but on individual salvation. It is the ultimate in rugged individualism, because each person has a conversation directly with God and is answerable to God for his or her behavior.

It's highly unlike that there would have been an American Revolution without the Great Awakening. These ideas of individual worth inevitably meant that people had inherently, unalienable rights, the foundational idea behind the American Revolution. Subsequent awakenings furthered the idea of individual liberty, giving rise to the abolitionist movement, industrial reforms, the end of child labor and, as I suggested above, the Civil Rights movement.

So where does Jordan Peterson fit in this rumination? I'll start with a personal anecdote to explain.

Last night I attended Jordan Peterson's appearance in San Francisco, which was the sixth stop on his book tour. (For those who don't know, his book 12 Rules for Life: An Antidote to Chaos is a massive best seller.) Peterson spent two galvanizing hours explaining to the audience some of the nuances and ideas behind six of the rules in the book.

Peterson is a great speaker. He's the college lecturer everyone dreamed of having: Clear, interesting, energetic, erudite, funny and, above all, honest. This is a man who speaks his truth (and, indeed, one of his rules is "Tell the truth" or, if you're not sure what the truth is, at least don't lie). For two hours, with passion and wit, he shared incredibly complex, important ideas with us, riffing through religion, literature, psychology, common sense, and politics. He is a polymath who used his incredibly breadth of knowledge to infuse new life into ideas about self-improvement.

What matters greatly is that Peterson is not offering the cheap and easy self-improvement, self-realization, and self-actualization that characterized the 1970s, and that still haunts the self-help aisle in any library or bookstore. Al Franken perfectly summed up that type of self-improvement with Stuart Smalley's catch-phrase, "I'm good enough, I'm smart enough and, gosh darn it!, people like me." Vapid affirmations are part of what weakened the American psyche, paving the way for safe spaces, triggering, and the politics of perpetual offense.

For Peterson, recognizing that you are an individual worthy of respect is only the beginning. That idea isn't the end of the self-examination, but only the beginning: Every person inherently being a worthy child of God but it's after acknowledging this reality that the real work begins. To optimize your potential, says Peterson, you have to stand up straight, organize your surroundings, treat yourself with dignity and respect, choose friends who value and cultivate the best in you not the worst, raise likable children, and have to make yourself a better person every day. These were just some of the messages Peterson gave the crowd.

Peterson ended his talk by telling us two things that transcend the individual and that affect society as a whole: (1) people must do the hard work of making themselves right before they can impose themselves on the world and (2) they must tell the truth or, if they cannot tell the truth, the must not lie.

The first notion is aimed at evil doers -- people such as the Sandy Hook or Parkland School killers -- who embrace and cultivate their unhappiness and bitterness until it grows to be such a force that they are determined to impose it upon the world. Peterson says that we have an ethical obligation to fix ourselves and not become that person.

I see this concept as consistent with Dennis Prager's insistence that happiness is a serious problem. As a religious man, Prager believes God gave humans the unique ability to think their way to happiness. In this we differ from animals, who can only react to their immediate circumstances. Because we have this special gift, it is wasteful and disrespectful to God, to ourselves, and to those in our orbit, not to cultivate it. Only when you have squared yourself away ethically, when you have optimized your abilities and your values, should you start trying to manage the affairs of others.

The second notion Peterson raised is that truth is the dividing line between order and chaos. Peterson begins with the first words in the Bible because, separate from its religious meaning, the Bible also represents the core Western myth around which we've built our culture (the same culture that the Left seeks to destroy). In Genesis's first chapter, God confronts chaos, speaks truth ("light," "sky," "water," "land"), and by doing so creates order and meaning in the world.

Lies are chaotic. Truth is clarifying. To the extent that we speak the truth, we align ourselves with reality and order. This is why, Peterson says, it is so important that we have free speech. Government coerced speech too often forces people to live in world of lies, lies that will inevitably collapse, bringing the system down with them. These lies also force people into moral contortions that pave the way to Auschwitz, the Gulags, and the re-education camps. Government has the power to invade the most inviolable core of every individual. That is the fundamental evil of Marxism. At least, that was my takeaway.

Incidentally, Peterson's speech was only about 1% political. Because his focus is the individual, he only lashed out at Marxism, both political and cultural, precisely because it infringes on the individual, invariably in harmful ways.

For a better and more accurate rendering of Peterson's thoughts, I highly recommend his book. Alternatively, feel free to spend time watching his videos. I'm a very inadequate Peterson translator.

But I still haven't gotten to that Great Awakening, have I? Well, now that I've laid the predicate, I'm finally ready to make my point.

The event was held in a venue that seats three thousand people at a guess. Although I knew that the event was sold out, I hadn't forgotten that it was a book tour, not a rock concert or some other hyped Leftist event. It was just an author going on the road to sell his book. How exciting could it be? As it turns out, very exciting.

I arrived 45 minutes early and the place was already swarming with hundreds of people streaming into the building. I've lived in the Bay Area most of my life and I've never seen a more diverse group of people. There were more men than women, but not by a large margin. There were people of all races: white, black, Hispanic, Asian, and Middle Eastern (although San Francisco demographics were such that most were white or Asian). The oldest people I saw were easily in their 80s and the youngest were in their teens. Clothing and hairstyles told me that there were business people there, along with students, punks, suburban types, preppies, hippies, and hipsters. There were also people from across the gender spectrum who came, not to revile Peterson for refusing to allow the Canadian government to coerce his speech about gender, but to hear what he had to say about living a better life.

A friend of mine who attended was struck by the crowd as well:

The audience was made up of older people, younger people, couples, gay men, etc. I tried to find the neo-Nazis that the mainstream media seems to say is around, but didn't see any ;-). There was solid security out front. One of the first positive signs was when the venue announced a no-tolerance policy for heckling. Everyone cheered and clapped. I was concerned about security going to the event when I had seen in-person and online how Dave Rubin (who was there, and opened the show) and Dr. Peterson have been treated by certain activist groups on campus. I was pleased that it was a considerate and polite and enthusiastic group of about 3000 people.

Since I'm not shy, I approached a group of three people -- a long-haired, swarthy man in a suit; a computer programmer type; and a gender fluid person with a buzz cut -- and said to them, "Hi, I notice you're all younger than I am and I'm wondering what attracted you to this event." What all three had to say was that they were drawn to Peterson because he is a polymath who relies on myriad sources to help make sense of the world, because he offers genuinely useful advice for them to improve their lives, and because he speaks the truth.

The last point was really important to them. In a world of endless words and messages, they crave truth. The gender fluid person turned out to be a police detective -- and I believe this detective was probably female, which is how I thought of her and the pronoun I'll apply to her. She said that one of the greatest frustrations in her job is that she cannot speak the truth about the criminal demographic. This politically correct silence hamstrings her ability to function as a detective, prevents her from helping people protect themselves from criminals, and -- significantly -- makes it impossible to prevent people from becoming criminals. That Jordan Peterson demands truth from others and speaks it himself was incredibly significant to her.

Once inside the auditorium, I felt, for the first time in my life, that I was at what the hippies used to call a "happening." Something profound and meaningful was taken place in this audience. Nobody was a stranger. People were talking excitedly to each other, not just about Peterson, but about other people who have brought meaning and truth to their lives. One of those people is Dave Rubin, who was there to introduce Peterson and, after the talk, to sit down with Peterson and ask him audience-submitted questions. People were thrilled to be in the same room as Rubin, because he's also a truth seeker. In addition, they talked about Joe Rogan and Ben Shapiro. They mentioned Sam Harris and Eric Weinstein. They applauded Candace Owens and Kanye West.

Speaking of all those people, with incredible timing, just two days ago the New York Times ran an article about the so-called "Dark Web." That sounds ominous, but it's not. The Dark Web consists of a loose federation of people, from conservative Jews to Sanders-supporting atheists, all of whom share a desire to speak the truth about important issues and to do so in a spirit of shared intellectual inquiry. All of them, no matter how far to the Left their political orientation, believe that the dominant culture in the West is stifling both speech and thought, even as it as a Manichean view of America that labels people as good or evil and then casts the "evil" people to eternal perdition. Dark Webbies believe this trend must end or America and the free West will end.

People are resonating to this truth speaking. They are resonating to being spoken to with respect and having serious and uplifting demands made upon them at an individual level, whether these demands are practical or ethical. They are resonating to having intellectuals speak to them directly, rather than interacting with them as pre-determined groups, whether victims or victimizers, oppressed or oppressors.

I'm not alone in my impression about the deeper important the Peterson phenomenon shows. Again, this is my friend's take:

I have come to appreciate his work because he seems to both be working on providing individual people with concrete tools to take steps in their lives to make their lives better, to re-establish the importance of individual responsibility and he is also attempting to revitalize and maybe re-establish the roots of Western Civilization. That seems like a huge task, but my view is that there is confusion and unhappiness in the West among individuals because the validity of Western Civilization has been called into question extensively by the left. When people don't understand their role in life, nor do they have clear roles laid out for them, it can make them wander without purpose or direction and that is a recipe for unhappiness that can spiral down into hellish consequences.
In addition, he has stood firm against government compelled speech in Canada, which is why the Social Justice Warriors hate him. He is very strong and firm in his stance against curtailing the freedoms of individuals.
Which brings me to the hopeful view that I have after attending. He and Rubin are interested in freedom, individual rights and free intellectual inquiry. They bring humor and respect to their show, and that will always win out. The regressive left that Peterson is not shy of condemning has fear, intimidation, censorship and the denial of common sense and individual experience on their side. When you have freedom, happiness and humor on your side you will win.
When the house lights went up, I turned to go up the stairs and saw a young man behind me. He was letting me pass ahead of him. He had a wide smile on his face and his eyes were shining with happiness.

At the evening's end, an audience member posed a question to Peterson: "Should we be worried that you're becoming a cult?" Peterson thought carefully before answering. He concluded that the conditions for a cult do not exist despite his newfound fame: He's not isolating people from family and friends, he's not controlling their conduct, he's not separating them from their wealth, and he's not physically placing them in a compound. Most importantly, he's addressing them as individuals and encouraging them to achieve their highest individual potential as a prerequisite for becoming successful members of a healthy society. That is the antithesis of cultism.

As I watched scanned the packed auditorium -- keeping in mind that Rubin noted that he and Peterson had already spoken to 20,000 equally happy people in just five appearances -- I suddenly thought, "I am at a revival meeting of another Great Awakening." This is not a God-centered awakening, although it's clear that Peterson believes that traditional faith is a vehicle to improvement. Nevertheless, I was witness to a spiritual revival that is reaching out to people across the political, social, racial, and gender categories that currently divide Americans. In a riven society plagued by self-doubt, self-loathing, and existential despair, Peterson and other members of the "Dark Web" offer the possibility of individual salvation.

Bookworm | May 10, 2018 at 8:05 pm | Tags: Free Speech, GEORGE WHITEFIELD, GREAT AWAKENING, JOE ROGAN, JOHN WESLEY, JONATHAN EVANS, JORDAN PETERSON, Sandy Hook, SELF-IMPROVEMENT | Categories: Culture | URL: https://wp.me/pwc4W-4va

FDA all it takes is good management

2018-05-10T10:08:00.001-07:00

FDA GOING IN RIGHT DIRECTION

FDA vs Experimental Stem Cell Drug lawsuits, investigations, and online ads

By Uriel | May 10, 2018 | Dept of Justice (DOJ), DOMESTIC ISSUES:, Donald J. Trump, Drug Use, Food & Drug Admin (FDA), Health

President Trump’s choice for FDA Commissioner was Dr. Scott Gottlieb. He was no stranger to FDA nor the inner workings of the field of medicine having acted in several capacities over the years in the field and in government. His qualifications were impressive as well as extensive and involved government work as well, not even the liberals could object to much about him.

According to MedCity News on December 26,2017 the man hit the office at high-speed to help get the backlog and procedures out of stasis to process applications faster and improve investigative procedures.

“Dr. Gottlieb’s first year as FDA Commissioner, he has chaperoned the agency through a blockbuster 2017 with 46 novel drug approvals to date. The final tally is the highest seen this century, surpassing the previous record holder 2015, which clocked in at 45. Both were more than double 2016’s sad tally of 22 new molecular entities (NMEs) approved.”

So is it that this is just “politics” or is there actually a sound basis for having FDA approve new drugs and oversee all? Overall, it isn’t about politics but about safety and procedures. Part of the problem has always been the length of time required to get a drug to market. Apparently Dr. Gottlieb now has a handle on that process and is making progress far beyond those of the last eight years.

One area of expertise for Dr. Gottlieb is stem cell research. In November, the FDA released new guidelines, asserting its authority over clinics, and says it will begin cracking down on those selling dangerous stem cell treatments.

Stem cell research has been around since 1968. Since that time stem cell research, trials, production, therapy, and results have been moving forward in many ways. Some have been well-documented and some research has been faked by seemingly qualified research analysis. Stem cell research has now progressed dramatically and there are countless research studies published each year in scientific journals.

Adult stem cells are already being used to treat many conditions such as heart disease and leukaemia. Researchers still have a long way to go before they completely control the regulation of stem cells. The potential is overwhelmingly positive and with continued support and research, scientists will ideally be able to harness the full power of stem cells. However, rogue groups continue to test the boundary between clinically FDA certified and experimental with no safeguards and unapproved methodology.

Back in July 2012, in the case of United States of America v. Regenerative Sciences, LLC the DC Court of Appeals ruled that their stem cell “therapy” was to be considered a product and therefore required FDA approval. Their product, Regenexx-C, was for the treatment of arthritis and orthopedic injury that involved extraction and culture of mesenchymal stem cells from the same patient which were later reinjected. After the decision the makers of Regenexx-C moved out of the U.S. to a more lenient country and placed a ban on being purchased for US markets.

Was it the right choice for the health of the patient? According to the company making Regenexx their success rate is good. This may force those wealthy enough or willing to go into deep debt to travel to their location for treatment. It also might deny solutions to other patients who don’t have the same resources here in the states.

This isn’t the only instance nor will it be the last where FDA and companies wanting to “make money” off their products clash. More than a few companies had moved out of the US over the years over issues of approval. Some have found a good market in the new country, others have bilked desperate people out of millions of dollars. In the reverse, there have been occasions when FDA approved some drug but other countries have banned the same product. Which has people questioning what they know versus what FDA approves.

The thing is leadership of FDA is a key factor in decision-making as in any government agency. And, like any other agency, it has been afflicted at times with bias and with politics. Overall though the purpose of FDA is important to insure that quality, qualifications, and procedures used will actually benefit the vulnerable patients. There have been miscalculations and recalls even with drugs that took years waiting for approval. So FDA is not foolproof but then no agency of government ever is. However, even if it is only right some of the time, it does provide a measure of relief to know that a drug has met the minimum of standards.

In April 2018, the FDA after months of warnings had DoJ issue formal complaints in Florida and California on several defendants manufacture of “stromal vascular fraction” (SVF) products from patient adipose (fat) tissue, which the companies then market as stem cell-based treatments for a host of serious conditions and diseases. Desperate people, mostly elderly, have flocked to those locations to try to get relief or get cured.

Sun Sentinel in Florida had done an investigative report back in the first days of December 2017 on the use of the product. They just released a new article on May 10th which details further what they discovered. Their investigation resulted in some serious issues not just for drug approval but for its online aspects as well:

— Some of these clinics’ medical procedures are questionable, experts say, such as injecting patients with experimental stem cell solutions in both eyes at the same time, risking blindness.

— Florida clinics use online seminars, high-tech websites and listings in the federal database ClinicalTrials.gov to market their treatments to patients. They tout Florida sunshine and tourist attractions such as fine hotels, beaches and unique shopping districts.

— Some stem cell clinics use hard-sell tactics and lead patients to rake together thousands of dollars, as insurance doesn’t cover stem cell treatments.

— State and federal regulators rarely have stepped in to stop these advertising and medical practices.

Sun’s efforts may have paid off as the DoJ and FDA have focused complaints on US Stem Cell Clinic LLC, of Sunrise, Florida, US Stem Cell, Inc., and company officers Kristin Comella and Theodore Gradel. A separate complaint was filed the same day in the Central District of California against California Stem Cell Treatment Center Inc., of Rancho Mirage and Beverly Hills, California, Cell Surgical Network Corporation, and company owners Elliot Lander, M.D. and Mark Berman, M.D.

LA Times on April 24, 2018 ran an article about Kristin Comella. They described her this way:

“Comella, 41, who is the founder and president of the academy — crowd-pleasing, shot through with what sounded like serious science, delivered with the superficial credibility of a PhD from an unaccredited offshore university. Her pitch has made her a sought-after speaker at health industry conferences and gatherings of .longevity enthusiasts such as the annual Revolution against Aging and Death Festival, or RAADFest.

The biotech firm, Florida-based U.S. Stem Cell Inc., disclosed earlier this month that the Securities and Exchange Commission subpoenaed its financial records and other documents in connection with what the company says is a formal “fact-finding inquiry.” U.S. Stem Cell declined to provide any further details of the probe, and the SEC declined to comment.

Regulatory scrutiny of this entire field is long overdue. The FDA has been signaling for nearly a year that it takes its responsibility seriously. FDA Commissioner Scott Gottlieb and agency official Peter Marks wrote last month in an article for the New England Journal of Medicine that giving patients these treatments risks “serious adverse events” and warned of the drawbacks of “propagating products with dubious clinical efficacy and possible risks.”

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It could be that Trump’s choice for FDA Commissioner is proving to be a good one who intends to put action to ideas rather than mouth off and make promises. It could be these people were already under review by DoJ and that FDA was acting quickly and efficiently to shut down the companies (for a government agency). It might be only coincidental that the Sun article ran the first week in December, but hey good investigative reporting can help speed actions along once in a while.

I wonder if the FDA has a way to analyze prior companies turned down to see if their products did move overseas and if they did finally prove through their efforts that their products were worth bringing back into the US? Also, one that questions why foreign countries have actually banned things that the FDA approved and move to get them off our markets as well if they find the reasoning sound.

It’s a shame that the same level of investigative journalism isn’t still available on the MSM these days instead of just Anti-Trump canned rhetoric.

–Uriel–

Shooting Down Gun Control Memes

2018-02-21T06:04:00.001-08:00

Shooting Down Gun Control Memes

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JUNK SCIENCE ...

2017-11-28T09:45:00.000-08:00

Climate Change Alarmism Is ‘Garbage In, Garbage Out,’ Retired NASA Physicist Says

Posted Monday, November 27, 2017 | By Collaborative Correspondent | 3 Comments

HOUSTON—Unvalidated climate models that don’t correspond with physical data and the requirements of the scientific method contribute to unfounded climate alarmism, a retired NASA physicist said at the Heartland Institute’s recent America First Energy Conference.

Since America’s national security depends in part on energy security, unsubstantiated claims about global warming that prevent policymakers from making “rational decisions” with regard to the development of U.S. energy resources have become a national security threat, said Hal Doiron, a 16-year NASA veteran.

The “propaganda” underpinning climate alarmism is “causing tremendous political bottlenecks” that prevent government officials from “doing the right thing” on energy, he said.
Doiron, who helped develop the Apollo Lunar Module’s landing dynamics software during NASA’s moon missions, also expressed concern that the U.S. military has been directly affected by climate alarmist claims separated from sound science.

He criticized the Navy for “preparing for something that is unreasonable and would cost too much money” in the form of “extreme sea-level rise,” which has not been borne out by rigorous scientific study.

Doiron defines unvalidated climate models as those that do not agree with physical data. Public policy and military planning should be based only on models validated by physical data, he said.
“At NASA, we have a policy: You can’t make a design decision on a spacecraft or rocket that is not validated,” he said. “You don’t make critical decisions based on ‘garbage in, garbage out.’ Yet our government has been doing that with respect to climate alarm, because too many academics in universities are writing papers, drawing conclusions from models that don’t agree with physical data.”

Doiron is part of a group called “The Right Climate Stuff,” which includes engineers and scientists from across generations who have taken part in NASA’s most high-profile missions dating back to Apollo.

The group has produced its own “rigorous, earth surface temperature model using conservation-of-energy principles” that operates similarly to the way the surface and internal temperature of a spacecraft is analyzed, the Right Climate Stuff team explains on its website.
The reports produced from the analysis provide more “realistic projections” of the rise in the earth’s surface temperature over the next 150 years that show severe anti-fossil fuel regulations are not justified, Doiron and other former NASA team members contend.

“The scientific method requires that your hypothesis and theories be confirmed by physical data,” he said. “Computer models are not physical data, although I think many in academia don’t understand that.”

When unvalidated models are compared with validated models based on physical evidence, the validated models predict much less global warming, Doiron said. Moreover, the fact that unvalidated models often don’t agree with each other should be a “big, red flag.”
The retired NASA physicist is calling for U.S. policymakers to establish official data on two key metrics; specifically, “the true sensitivity of surface temperature to greenhouse gases” and a “reasonable projection of greenhouse emissions and [the] concentrations rise in our atmosphere.”
Doiron and his team have developed “a new metric” called “transient climate sensitivity,” which measures how much warming can be seen with a doubling of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere in the “way that it’s actually happening,” based on a “very small amount of [carbon dioxide] each year.”

That’s something that can be measured and verified against available physical data, he said. But because policymakers, including military planners, are not operating from reasonable projections, they are not in a position to adequately plan for the future, Doiron cautioned.
Another way climate change alarmism has worked to undermine America’s national security standing is by consuming too much of the military budget at the expense of military readiness, a top naval commander said during the panel discussion.

Adm. Thomas Hayward, who retired from the Navy as chief of naval operations and a member of the Joint Chiefs of Staff after serving as commander of the 7th Fleet and commander in chief of the Pacific Fleet, also addressed the Heartland Institute’s energy conference and sounded concerns.
For the past six to eight years, Hayward said, climate change has been given “a higher priority” than the readiness of the Navy’s fleet. During that time, the Defense Department has spent $100 billion on “just climate change,” while the Navy has spent “$58 billion chasing what is called the ‘green fleet.’”
That means many Navy vessels are using biofuels, but Hayward wonders how many ports around the world are equipped to accommodate Navy vessels that rely on a high percentage of biofuels, and he worries how that would work in a combat situation.

This report has been modified to state correctly how much Hayward said the Defense Department has spent on climate change.

From - The Daily Signal - by Kevin Mooney

Listen as Hillary Clinton Explains Why She’s Above the Law – Fix This Nation .com

2017-11-25T08:31:00.001-08:00

Listen as Hillary Clinton Explains Why She’s Above the Law – Fix This Nation .com

2017-09-28T20:15:00.000-07:00

I Must Say...

With the most recent go-around of attacks on the presidency of our nation, rather, against the Trump administration and the patriotic conservatives which most have a conservative Christian faith. A faith that believes in the inerrancy, infallibility and the authority of the Bible. The conservative patriots who are now called ‘nationalists’ who believe that the nation is a sovereign nation, and the greatest sovereign nation in the world.

In our history, we have had our fair shares of deep troublesome valleys of which we the people have managed to overcome. That is until liberalism has taken a new partner, a partner most foul, it is ‘globalism’ or in my studied opinion it should be called ‘Global Socialist Union’ (in order not to give the current activities to elude to the ‘one world government and one world church’ of the “Antichrist and the Beast” of the book of Revelation, which would only give opportunity to further use the Bible passages to belittle Christians as believing in fairy tales.

I believe that we live in the last days, just as Christ said that the day is near, which was over two thousand years ago. It is true that we live in the last days, and we are now witnessing the beginning of the climax of the Church age, and Christ could simply be separating the goats from the sheep. Just a studied opinion on my part, however, I do not want to give cause for the anti-Christian and anti-Bible liberals to bash solid conservative Christianity or fundamental Christianity, however, I will boldly and if necessary, aggressively stand firm in my faith.

Over the past decade, the aggression against conservatism became more and more accelerated especially over the past nine years. Eight, even more than ever in the war to control the world and the people who dwell here.

However, during the course of our nation’s history our sovereignty and the sovereignty of the western world has continued to be more at risk, and what would have been manufactured issues over government policies the more focused the battle became. It is what happens when social liberals stay in power too long, allowing them to put in place a deep state, or shadow government unequaled in any Socialist nation and we just happen to be a sovereign democratic republic, with our unfailing constitution; there lays the necessity for a radical liberal “shadow government.”

The shadow government is the bureaucracy the leadership of the agencies of the government of the departments, where the heads are appointed by the president, and until Trump he had the prerogative to fire them, except now the liberals and RINOs have decided that they must have a committee hearing and protect the corrupt leadership. Which at this point … Obama used his last term imbedding the moles, leaks, and obstructionists in a fine-tuned Shadow government and it was by his own admission that he did it to remain in control of the government regardless who took the Oval office.

Money, next we have the unquenchable lust for money. Greed motivated politicians who are in the business of deceit and cheating their way to votes. Most are the most despicable bottom feeders that the swamp can grow. Aw and the shadow government gets ultra-rich by one of the over 200 primary Soros organizations, and it’s seven plus secondary organizations. Of course, some of that is filtered down to liberal and RINO politicians, in addition to what the key Soros organization (Open Society Foundation) puts out there in direct contributions to the super-PACs. No telling how much is direct deposit to an untraceable off-shore account.

Where I lose some of my confidence in the Trump agenda is when I see how the hundreds of organizations supported by the Open Society Foundation, are activated as protest issues, and how the network interacts with each other and obstruct, even subvert the law and the course of constitutional process.

It is not Soros alone but we have the Koch Brothers, Rockefellers, JP Morgan, Hurst, Rupert Murdoch, Astor, and more, with the lessors being Clintons, Bush, McCain, Obama, and a host of politician puppets, a great number of Congress, some of the SCOUS, and congressional leadership. When people start to do their research, they make a mistake, of not following the money, none of the Shadow Government, or corrupt politicians who protect them, can operate in a lucrative financial vacuum. You see, the political power has an unquenchable thirst for money and will do anything to get it. However, the illicit trail of individual wealth, is almost impossible to connect.

We have to identify the sources of the money, then follow it down through the various organizations and foundations super-PACs or even crony corporate interests.

When one stands back and takes in the whole view, we see the forest and not just the up-close trees, problem is the forest we see is as terrifying as an evil mythical dark forest. Our fear arises from the shear dark density, in our real-life maze of corruption and sedition it is overwhelming to try to figure out what connects at any given political issue or liberal outrage protest. Like freedom of speech, freedom to be a homosexual, freedom of the press, and the list goes on, however, the Constitutional Amendments guarantee these freedoms, one thing that the liberals fail to do, and that is to interpret the Constitutional and Amendments properly, and fail to pay the price for those freedoms, … personal responsibility.

The Soros Open Society Foundation, The Clinton Foundation, Gates Family Foundation, McCain Family Foundation, all freely give grants to liberal globalist organization, and have front organizations that distribute money to civil liberty activist groups. Soros’ Open Society Foundation and his Tides Foundation have the bulk of the controlling organizations and receive money from foreign interests, in a pay as you go scheme sort of like the Clinton Foundation’s pay as you go for political favors scheme that bought and paid for political leaders to work in their favor. I am in the process to see what strings were pulled over the manufactured outrage that is about to bring down the NFL, perhaps through the players union, but something had to threaten the coaches, owners, and the NFL to join the bogus issues of the players disrespectful protests, wonder what ever that could be. their protest issue against the police, against oppression, all the racial issues that Obama and Al Sharpton promoted for racial division have been proven to have no factual truth, what is true is the Black on Black crimes in the ghettos, ghettos controlled by the liberal socialist organizations like the Center for Popular Democracy Action Fund, and Center for Popular Democracy, led by Soros, and staffed by the former ACORN leadership, it actually was formed in 2012 and consists of old chapters of ACORN.

The whole bit about BLM is to keep law enforcement out of the ghettos where the gangs and drug cartel run free and fancy, the real victims here is not the thugs and dealers, but the black families that are doing their best to survive, but are often robbed for their food stamp card, yet they are expected to take care of the kids of the addicts and gang thugs. The community organizers keep the shackles on the impoverished black and white, Mexican and illegal aliens, to garner votes for the liberal politicians. There are several groups sharing $80 million seed money, while other organizations fund the various protests paying the participants in the protests. Many participants are kept quite busy with the various issues, and of course the Soros funded ACLU is their legal counsel. We can see the black racists part in the NFL player demonstrations, the unity of the teams and players is by union pressure. Ref: Washington Free Beacon http//freebeacon.com and Discover The Networks

Try these and other groups that expose the corruption and liberal socialist networks. Useful information.

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R.S. Helms

2017-09-02T10:24:00.000-07:00

The Gulf Coast Flood Crisis

R.S. Helms 8-30-2017

Thinking of the victims.

First,and foremost … I send my prayers and deepest heartfelt sympathy to the victims who have been adversely effected by this storm, and a special prayer for the families and friends of those who lost their lives in this catastrophic storm, May God comfort you during your mourning and grief.

Truly, a disaster that that may show a truer picture of America, and who Americans are.

I know nothing about the word disaster that could have any sort of a good side. However, the Bible says: “All things work together for good to them that love the Lord and are called according to his purpose” Rom.8:28. Every dark cloud has a silver lining, which simply means that it is our attitude that shapes how we respond to things that are not pleasant. Instead of looking at what good could come from bad situations we stay focused on the negative, which prolongs our recovery and drastically reduces our objective thinking.

Living along the Gulf Coast, in Huston, or perhaps Port Author, Galveston, down to Freeport don’t mean that the people are bad or more sinful than any other part of the world. It does not mean God is punishing them for voting for Trump, (as some TV people say.) God’s natural laws allow for storms such as this to form, they have been doing it since the time of Noah, and foul weather, even extreme weather serves its purpose in nature, some disagree but that is why we are Americans, and we need so desperately to reclaim what is the core of our American culture and character.

This storm… Harry, the press has all but forgotten all devastated areas except Huston, and Port Author, in terms of airtime, like the weather channel is more concerned about counting Huston raindrops, regardless of how big of a story it is, but it does not warrant 90% of the air time less commercials. Truth is Huston and Port Arthur are part of the same area, and more people involved and more likely to blame the storm on Global Warming or Trump voters, both are FAKE News.

An update and notifications is more than sufficient to keep one’s mind on the negativity of such a horrific event. But one thing they cannot miss, is the total display of what it means to be American. And this is one event that proves liberalism wrong. That the American spirit is still very much alive, regardless what you see on TV and the internet.

People of all colors and creeds helping people of all color and creeds. And the liberals are going nuts over the unity of American people in the time of real crisis. Meanwhile, in California ANTIFA is showing what terrorism is all about, and the democrats are only a few loud mouth’s away from self-destruction. It is not only in Huston, it is all of the flooded areas.

But the Unity of people coming together to help other people are more than locals, they are coming from all over the US to help. Organizing all over the US to pitch in and help out those in need, even Israel is sending what they can in search and rescue. That need is going to last for months if not years, and it will be there. Only the far-right terrorist groups like ANTIFA and the Skinheads, will be rioting, with the far-left terrorist groups like the BLM, Black Panthers, Nation of Islam, LGBT, and illegal alien thugs will be terrorizing the streets. Others will join the effort to help those in need.

All of the above mentioned should be classified as “Terrorist Organizations,” like Obama put “Evangelical Christians on the Terror Watch List.

Through the education, and workplace unions, and people like the black racist Sharpton, and leftist civil liberties activists, they have moved the hatred between the races, religion, and now the American history. But they could not keep the lid on brotherly love and caring people left and right. Black and white, when situations like Katrina, Sandy, and now Harvey, people really show the American Spirit, they forget about the press and unite, people helping people… Americans helping Americans.

This time was at a time of total division on all fronts, while the apex of hatred rages across the nation the destruction of the nation suffered a catastrophic blow by the real American value of ‘love your neighbor as you love yourself.’ That Christian-American value has no color, creed, nor political party, and regardless of how the political progressives have come against the American values, the deep values of our fellow citizens who love this nation and the American people has shown through the darkness of liberalism, once again.

There is no justification greater for the outpouring care and giving, than what was witnessed during this tragic and devastating crisis. Although the liberals are giving their greatest efforts to do what they do best switch and bait through the corrupt media, and phony corrupt politicians, liberal and RINOs trying to get air time and nudging the liberal agenda of hate and racism to overshadow what America is all about.

Peel back the layers of years of propaganda and dumbing down of Americans, we can see the racist history of the Democratic party in history, with the Democratic South, being the main players of the Confederate States of America, and the main players of keeping the Jim Crow laws in the south after reconstruction, and flip flopping of Kennedy, and Ted, on civil liberties, which Johnson enacted nearly immediately when he assumed office, that touchy bit that just don’t seem to go away is the KKK, and committing the black Americans to the Washington Plantation, with continued promises to keep them locked to the Plantation’s poverty, while brain-washing them with the cost of a free cell phone.

The tearing down of any history of the civil war, is just the liberal globalist and RINO globalists agenda to turn America, however, not even Obama could remove a deep rooted American value of unity which is continually displayed in the time of crisis. It is these times of crisis that real Americans come together and truly show what America is all about.

Not the manufactured Obama American values.

God bless America, and God bless all those who are unselfishly involved in giving aid and comfort to those effected in the Gulf Coast Flooding, now and in years to come.

Thanks .... R.S. Helms

Finding the Truth

2017-08-14T14:55:00.000-07:00

Finding the Truth

While rewriting the introduction to my book, I started the morning by looking at headlines in my emails which in most part was simply reruns of liberal fake news, and the conservative habit of helping the liberal’s distribution of their propaganda. We fail to research who actually wrote the story, that is when they actually ascribe their name and date to it. We fail to do the proper research for the truth.

We, at times, simply trust in sources that we have followed because they posted a story that was pro-conservative or pro-patriotic, and are not what they make themselves out to be. We need to research who made the original post, and get to know the credibility of truth, otherwise we are simply and blindly falling victim to a liberal scheme to distribute bits and pieces of propaganda. Infiltration of our ranks is rampant and very effective.

Research is a necessity of finding the truth. Otherwise we only have a subjective truth which may only be truth to the writer’s ego, or a half-truth at best. It is really quite hard to research truth, and remain objectionable. The human nature has too many appetites for objectionable rational deduction in finding the truth.

This book has a primary purpose of encouraging and challenging all citizens, not simply the conservatives, patriots, and Biblical Christians to objectionably do their own research for the truth. To stand up, wide awake, and bravely face the opposition, and human comfort appetite, and seek the truth.

This book will most likely fall victim to opposition’s accusations of being a “conspiracy theorist” madness, but that is okay, as long as people are able to read it, and seek the truth. My objective is to stop liberalism that has shattered our nation and splintered our Christian faith, through evil corruption. And is easily found with research from the time of our second president, John Adams. The rest of our presidents left the feeling of a twinge of corruption in some degree, if nothing more than seriously failing to enforce the Constitution, which all but a few have failed to do properly.

Regardless of their good, failing to fulfill their oath of office, to defend and protect the Constitution of the United States and to enforce its mandates is actually a reason to question if they were free of corruption. Great Americans like Jefferson, Madison, all the way to Lincoln failed to end slavery and the slave trade, without compromising the Constitution by an Act, which failed to uniformly put our black brothers and sisters on an equal basis, with equal rights, and equal access. And after the coming of power of the Republican-Democrat Party against the Federalist, and Whigs, political party ideologies bred corruption to remain in power at the expense of We the People.

Corruption overshadowed politics, and a lot of pandering for votes went on, even with the most well intended politician. Because after John Adams it seemed foundational, that government was to control the people not to serve the people. Political manipulation still abounds, and continues to move forward, however, the majority of the people were rocked by political manipulation with the election of Barrack Hussein Obama. Since then it has been a bloody war just to keep our nation free and the Constitution intact.

The splintering of our Christian faith started with small superficial fractures within the denominations, and enhanced with the Atheist persecution of those who believe in God, Jesus Christ, and the Bible. The works of liberalism soon created big cracks between the denominations, and the denominations and Christians who sought public opinion over biblical doctrine.

The sermon yesterday was given by a professor of theology at the Malaysia Baptist Seminary. His academic accomplishments are outstanding and he is visiting our pastor as a stay-over before a three-week seminar as he is working on his Doctorate.

He based his sermon on the scriptures from the book of Deuteronomy, Chapter one: Verses 6 – 8., “6) The Lord our God spake unto us in Horeb, saying, Ye have dwelt long enough in this mount: 7) Turn you, and take your journey, and go to the mount of the Amorites, and unto all the places nigh thereunto, in the plain, in the hills, and in the vale, and in the south, and by the seaside, to the land of the Canaanites, and unto Lebanon, unto the great river, the river Euphrates.

8) Behold, I have set the land before you: go in and possess the land before you: go in and possess the land which and Lord sware unto your fathers, Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, to give unto them and to their seed after them.”

The young Asian professor equated it to his call to be a Missionary to Nepal. Not unlike many Christians who know the experience of a genuine call, will tell a tale of getting ahead of God, God seems to bring us to a spot, in our commitment to the ministry, and then says to us: it’s time to take a break, and drink a cup of water, and ready yourself to go forward when I say it is time. Well, in many cases while waiting on God to prepare us to move, we find ourselves in a comfort zone.

However good (excellent) his sermon was, it was inspiring my grey-cells in a more subjective way. It fit into what I was considering and researching while writing my book, and how this scripture is relevant to my opinion, so, the following is not his sermon but my thoughts as the scriptures may apply to my opinion.

The churches comfort zone; especially in America where it is easy to fall into a social comfort zone, and our churches are quite prone to be victimized by our human nature, a comfort zone of preaching, and a comfort zone of playing church.

The more comfortable we become, the more we don’t want change, and then throw in a bit of persecution to move us a bit out of our comfort zone, and our comfortable social standing in the community. Yes, there was a period of time when successful job resumes included the standing of “Deacon” or Elder, or some ministry in the church, it’s true, social standing in the community which included being a model Christian was – well a feather in the hat, so to speak.

Our Seminaries are pumping out liberal Christian theologians at an alarming rate, and conservative theologians are focused on “how to grow a big church” over how to serve and involve God’s people in the work of the church, and of how to be a good witness for Jesus. They have a mind-set that to grow a mega church, the church must be politically correct and socially acceptable. Phooey!

For the past several years I have posted studies on the Seven Churches of Asia Minor, as found in the book of Revelation, Chapter one – three. It is time the church started to listen to Jesus Christ the head of the church, with ears that hear what the Spirit is saying to the church.

God gave America to the Christian church as a safe and secure harbor, for us to prepare the church to move forward, however, the church has not been paying attention, and found in this safe and secure place, (the overwhelming flourishing of the faith), a place to rest with little persecution, and it became our comfort zone and a place for our human appetites to flourish as well, and flourish they have.

Over the past four or five decades the church started to get buffered some, and the people were nudged from their place of comfort. With each nudge, there was a vacuum and as ever slight it may have been it was filled with secularism, that fine hair-line crack which over the past couple of decades has managed to splinter the church. Instead of taking the biblical doctrines to the community, we compromised those sacred doctrines so the world could corrupt the church, first with the church leadership, then the people.

Jesus told Niodemus the Pharisee of the Sanhedrin, who inquired of Jesus about how to get to heaven, and Jesus said “Ye Must be ‘BORN AGAIN.’” what is more commonly taught in liberal theology today is that through our kind deeds and good works, God’s infinite grace, that everyone will be taken to heaven, or everyone will be saved.

It is my studied opinion that God set his arm against sin, all sin, and as soon as the preachers started to compromise on the sin issue it would not be long before the biblical doctrine of salvation would be compromised and the sacrifice of Jesus on the cross, would no longer be sufficiently necessary in redemption. That redemption would be more of an entitlement of mankind.

Redemption ONLY come by Repentance of Sin, Confession of Sin, Accepting Jesus as Lord and Savior and a personal commitment for follow Him. The biblical doctrine of salvation is this, … By the grace of God, through faith in Jesus Christ, we are saved. That is why the Christian worships in the spirit, and in thanksgiving.

I have mentioned in my book and in other writing and sermons, a wonderfully gifted and anointed preacher, Dr. Sheppard of Wales, who said in one of his sermons to those of us gathered together at the Music Evangelism Foundation’s annual conference in Colorado Springs. Pastor Sheppard, said: “The little sins of great men become the great sins of little men.”

It is my studied opinion, that the corruption of politicians, becomes the corruption of the people. I believe corruption in any form or degree is sin, sin against the citizens of the nation, and sin against God. The “eye-wink” corruption of our elected officials; be it at the local, state, or federal level, is the little sins of the politicians, and it’s okay for them to fudge a little bit, according to political correctness. However, if the same behavior is from the citizens it is not acceptable, unless you belong to the liberal Democratic party.

Liberalism as we know it today is corrupt and evil. Liberalism has effected Christianity as well as the citizens of the United States. It has nearly destroyed the Constitution, through using congressional loop-holes created by the corrupt to skirt the parameters of the Constitution to create case law and congressional law, that is as unconstitutional as hanging a fellow without due process. Yet it becomes law, and simply is the ignition point of the out of control corruption in our politics, and in our Christian churches.

Liberalism attracted Christians of all denominations who were suffering from superficial persecution. Being called some sort of phobic or forcing our religion upon people, is not glamorous and uncomfortable but no reason to corrupt the Bible, and Jesus, to be politically correct to avoid the name calling, and frivolous ACLU lawsuits. COULD IT BE, that God is still in the process of enabling us to move forward when he is ready to give us the order to move? What God has now is an unprepared Christianity to be witness to 600 people groups who have not been given the opportunity to hear the Gospel of Jesus Christ. In other words, we, as Christians, are actually moving backwards in America.

God has been calling us away from our comfort zones for a long time, but we found our comfort zone and have always been unprepared, unprepared as US citizens, and as biblical Christians. And we wonder why we are in the condition we are in. We in our comfort zone seem to be shocked to hear from God – in liberal churches the people are shocked that God has finally said stand on your feet and walk. People are shocked to hear preachers address the sin problem in the church, at times they are so shocked they fire the pastor for pointing out the sins of the congregation. People it is time to listen, if you are Christian or not. Corruption is what it is, and don’t take the word of corrupt politicians, that they are actually representing you, they are not, some are and since the election of Trump we see more and more self-serving corrupt politicians being exposed.

If you want to live in freedom, and have the opportunity to be happy and pursue your American dream you need to realize as the citizens … the We the People … have to wake up and understand the sin of corruption and liberalism has put us into a comfort zone, and we need to move from under its evil spell and move to where it is uncomfortable, that is still your choice.

For the Christian, many have found a comfort zone in liberalism, easy church, you really need to wake up and revisit your salvation, you need to reestablish the Authority of God’s word in your life, listen to what God says to us in his word, make his word your infallible, inerrant word – His revelation of who He is and What He expects, otherwise we have no concept of how we should walk with Him. Liberal pastors will have to give an account to God for the ones who just think they are saved, if indeed the pastor is saved. Liberal theology is heresy at best, and does affect you’re your salvation.

It is not me to judge anyone’s salvation, but I am concerned about its validity if it is not within the prerequisites of scripture. It is my studied opinion that a born-again Christian cannot accept liberal theology.

Dr. Sheppard also said this: “If you don’t believe any part of the Bible you cannot believe any of it.” A Christians cannot pick and choose even to misuse the Bible to their liking, it is either all true or none of it is true.

Corruption has been the little sins not being addressed because of fear. Integrity is doing the right thing in spite of fear. Just thought that I would include that for our non-Christian friends, who really want to make a difference, who really want freedom, who really want and cherish the opportunity to pursue life, happiness, and their American dream enough to move our nation out of the comfort zone of no values, no ethical policies, hit and miss constitutional rights, to become a slave to globalism. Globalism will not produce peace, will not improve climate change, because it will be ruled by people who think more of their human appetites, and live in the deadly sins for the world to live in peace.

If I am wrong and liberalism is true; at the end of the day, I have nothing to lose. If I am right and liberalism is wrong; at the end of the day liberalism has eternity lost.

Thanks for reading,

R.S. Helms.

Liberal Corruption Runs Deep and Wide

2016-12-18T15:42:00.001-08:00

Liberal Corruption Runs Deep and Wide.

I am sure you have noticed the condition of our once Great Nation, the Christian church, and the World we live in… that is unless you live somewhere that is so far off the grid that your neighbors live in caves, and wear bones in their noses. The world, (in most part), has become a dumbed down flock of sheep who are following yippy—skippy after a world order pied piper, which we so fondly call the UN. The world is in a mess and has been for centuries, so I would like to stay a bit closer to home than the whole world.

For nearly forty years’ liberalism has been rolling downhill like a snowball on its way to utopia; gathering up everything good and forming it into the well packed icy-cold huge snowball to hell, not utopia, like the corrupt politicians keep playing on their lyres and tin flutes the sweet music of deception. People in our nation have been brought under an evil delusion of liberalism.

There are few politicians that have left more of a positive legacy for the USA than what become more and more a negative. Simply because “We The People” have allowed ourselves to be lured into the throng of once God believing, God fearing, people who lived our lives under the conviction of our hearts and the commitment to our values, character, and integrity which has almost vanished now. It has been a slow process to transform the minds and will of a multitude of Americans to join in the now overwhelming throng of people, who find it easy to follow yippy-skippy after vile and evil people down that broad road leading to destruction.

However, none have been so calculated and evil as our president Obama and his administration, joined by the RINO establishment liberal Republicans who are nothing more than pawns in the hands of globalism. I do not recall a time when such vile and evil ideologies have hurt the United States as has this Obama administration. He and his anti-American, anti-Christian agenda has been calculated and disguised as inapt, and stupid – none of which, are in the least bit true, he is smart, or so it should appear.

But then maybe I am giving too much credit to a narcissistic wan-a-be ruler than the world has yet seen, his narcissistic delusion is too impatient to be smart, and shown him to be too dumb to carry out the will of his master George Soros, (it has magnified his costs by billions of dollars – my opinion,). Nonetheless, this piece of buzzard vomit who tried to interfere in the Israeli (Netanyahu) Election, and the Brexit vote in England – with his people on the ground and millions if not billions of tax-payer money,- had better think twice about getting on Trump, or even Putin, but better look in his mirror and maybe think about leaving the United States, before he and Hillary, the Bushes, McConnell, McCain, Reid, Pelosi, Boehner, and over a hundred members of congress including Rubio, get hammered under the RICO Act for Treason. (wishful thinking on my part).

There is room for repentance yes, however consider the word repentance, that means a sincere – heart and head – decision to change direction, and go in the opposite – doing your level best to change your mind and heart 180 degrees! If that is not in place there is no forgiveness, and so far, all I have seen is more lies and more lies with nothing to prosecute a case. All mouth for the unethical lying media! (That’s how they make their money… including Fox News anchors). This nation is in the septic pool of vile slime wrought on by liberal Marxist politicians pandering to the so-called impoverished citizens with promises on promises and not delivering.

The Civil Liberties Act is an unnecessary piece of liberal garbage; why? because it is written for the liberal agenda, and the tail wag the dog sort of crap that has been going on since the Kennedy Brothers. It is not just with the Democrats, but with establishment RINOs who have been trying since Reagan to take over the Republican Party, with their new definition of Conservative. It is more than uncomprehensive, how our elected officials go lazy and brain-dead when they get elected to office.

The Liberals and RINOs have bloated the bureaucracy of local state and federal governments, going global while this nation has been moving backwards, borrowing money from China, Russia, Japan, and God knows who else to send to countries who want to kill us, go against the will of the people, of our allies with dirty illegal politics because of a narcissistic mentality pushing for their own political gain, here and at the UN.

Globalization at the expense of our sovereignty, our economy, our children’s safety and education, our seniors who have been robbed of our retirement, and now the thieves don’t want to pay it back, so we eliminate the program … (McConnell – McCain), give the money to the illegal aliens, and Muslims. Persecute Christians with manufactured BS until it has split denominations and weakened others, people have left great churches for a more ‘comfortable and easy religion’ called liberal Christian theology, which is more than we have space for here.

We have become a nation of laziness and dependency on government, one of the greatest liberal Democratic presidents, once made a phrase internationally popular… “Ask not what your country can do for you; but what you can do for your country.” He loved his country, and was against the communist agenda of Communist Russia. His problem was the Conservative Christian Republican from Selma Alabama, and the Democratic South’s continued segregation, the man started a movement … a movement of real black Americans who were tired of the Jim Crow mentality of the Democratic KKK and the Democratic chains holding the black American to the plantation.

His Dream was that one day, men would be judged by their “character” not the color of their skin. That American hero was Dr. Martin Luther King a conservative preacher. Not now, we have Al Sharpton and Jessie Jackson, the NAACP, the Black Panthers, and now the Black Lives Matters, who have shattered Dr. Kings Dream; why? for a free ride, and Obama-phone. All for liberalism. The media have sold their souls to liberal socialism. The ACLU and IRS are the enforcers of the Global liberal socialist Union wrought on by the UN… the gift of FDR, who wrote the Charter, and his wife was the first Ambassador (central committee representative) from the US.

The pied piper of liberalism has moved on America with its sweet tune of deception, and destruction. We have allowed the LBGT to bully its way into the classrooms of our children, and allowed the ACLU to remove anything Christian from the public square because of the Supreme Court creating case law and manufacturing the wrong interpretation of the constitution, which a liberal-RINO congress either don’t care, have no backbone, or are too lazy to straighten out; meanwhile our values, ethics, and integrity continues to go down the sewer to that great septic pool of liberal America. I for one would call for a congressional investigation into the biggest fraud that has ever been perpetrated against the American people and the Christian church.

I am R.S. Helms and I am tired of the same old BS that has our country ready to be flushed.

CORRUPT NATION --- CORRUPT CHURCH

2016-11-28T11:36:00.000-08:00

It’s Time To Make the Church Great Again!

Some backbone needed! … Apply at the Cross of Jesus.

As I go through the email each day, I have started to eliminate 95% of it, because the election is over and the people have chosen President Elect Donald Trump. Nonetheless, the Mainstream Media (including Fox, Townhall, and the almost forgotten Blaze of the GB network), simply have the conservative Social Media, in most part simply going over the manufactured news, time and time again, and the more it goes forward the more fake it becomes. People need to simply see that liberal socialism is in serious trouble in the nation, and just make a stand for making America great again, then simply commit to boycott the organizations and business’ that keep this crap alive. If you do not react to their mindless stupidity, their evil values. Stop watching the liberal BS on TV they will not win.
For conservative fundamental Christians, we absolutely must drop the anxieties of the world; grow some spiritual backbone, because the Church of our Lord Jesus is in serious liberal trouble as well. Nevertheless, Jesus left us some wise counsel on how to deal with the broken church.
This is a sermon which I preached Sunday before last, and it brought a good response of true Christians, that I am posting it as an obligation of request.

Excited about what God is going to do with the Christian church

in our nation…

Sermon Preached by Rev. R.S. Helms… 11-20-2016– Community Baptist Church. W. Monroe LA.

There are some things that Christians should not talk about in church, or so it would seem. One is the vile godless condition of our political front. It is like a septic pool filled with toxic poison, that draws wretched mankind to drink of that poison, thinking that it is a fountain of utopia, a mystical world of bliss and peace; heralded by the enticing evil wicked beckoning call of the Sirens.
The nation has been under spiritual attack for a long, long time. and politics is perhaps, the number one thing that has been polluting the pool. Politics has been growing more and more corrupt and vile. But it did not get that way on its own, remember, this nation started out with an overwhelming majority of Christians, escaping the rule of the British Crown and the Anglican Church. They came in hope and promise of their religious liberty, which became a stumbling block to the accelerated corruption of a progressive government. The Christian values that put character in the very fiber of this nation. soon stood in the way of the political corruption’s progress.
The Christian church was listening to the choir on Sunday morning and for the rest of the week they were listening to the seductive call of the Sirens beckoning the saints to die in the septic pool of corruption, and that is what I would like to address this morning, and time is slipping by.
The intent of the message this morning is for you to look forward with an excited expectation of what God is going to do in his church across this nation, nonetheless, it requires committed and dedicated Christians to do the work.
It is what we may not see that is killing us. From what I see, Community Baptist Church, is a wonderfully blessed church, we have a pastor who truly loves the Lord and his people and solid in his biblical doctrines – he preaches the word in truth and in the Spirit, the people are not all stuffed with narcissistic pride. You, and look around you, you are real people who love the Lord Jesus, just regular people who love the Lord gathering together in such a sweet fellowship, and we are not alone, there are many more such churches just like us, we are of the majority in our denomination. But sometimes, it is the things that we don’t see in the Christian church that is dangerous to us. So, first the list of the churches of Asia Minor, two of which, Jesus had no quarrel with, he had no condemnation, only commendation, …
Revelation, chapters 2-3. Please. … if you will.
I love this church, and our Pastor Danny, and I find this church is more like the church at Philadelphia, only commendation, no condemnation, so this morning the Lord simply had me stop by on my journey, and give a caution, a caution to watch, and be very careful for we are headed for some good times and some rough times, as I believe God has something great for us to be part of, the revival and restoration of his people the church of Jesus Christ.

Jesus gives us a warning.

The first three chapters of revelation is where Jesus connects the beginning of the end, to the end of the church age, that time from the forming of the church, which took place at the ascension of Jesus. The seven churches represent seven actual churches, and metaphorically the church throughout time as it cycles through these conditions. It is used for the local church, and each individual Christian as they are the church.

The Seven Churches of Asia Minor and what they were noted for:

The church at Ephesus – The Loveless Church –loss of motivation, but mostly the loss of their love for Jesus.
Smyrna – The persecuted church – good works, and poverty for Christ’ sake. – No Condemnation.
Pergamos – The Compromising Church faithful to Christ – but Tolerance of those promiscuous persons who taught the doctrine of Balaam and the Nicolaitans.
Thyatira – The Corrupt Church – Tolerant of the false prophetess Jezebel and her wicked practices.
Sardis – The Dead Church – A reputation for life but, in reality, were dead.
Philadelphia – The Faithful Church – faithfulness to the word of Christ… no Condemnation
Laodicea – The Lukewarm Church – They were neither hot nor cold, and were sickening to the Lord.

These are the church conditions; the churches are both historical and typical. They refer primarily to the actual condition of the several churches indicated, and now are intended to be used for the instruction, encouragement, and warning of the Church and Churches throughout all time; or the Church age. They are the measuring plum, which God gave us to see what condition the Universal Church of Christ is in, our Denomination, our local church, and seriously our individual condition.

A month or so ago, I knew that this election would come down to one or the other candidate. It would not matter so much who would win, because I was thanking God for whoever won, I just was excited to have it over, knowing whichever the winner, God had a plan for the outcome. And now that it is finally over, except for the crying… God has a plan for the nation, and a plan for the church; both are opportunities. Both, are opportunities of restoration, revival, and even more so another great awakening.
Should the election have come to a different end, then God would allow the nation to continue in a seemingly death spiral; until our people woke from their slumber or delusion and cry out for god. But he would have the plan for the church the same plan for the church, either the outcome, Revival, to bring about an awakening – and I for one am so thankful that I have been allowed to see his mighty hand set to revive his church. – one could say I am excited in my thanksgiving because I know that God has a plan. We chose who the president would be, but I knew, that God would use whoever we chose because he had a plan for the church, and a plan for the nation. I am happy with the outcome because of what he is committed to do, and one of the most important to me, is he will protect our church. He will protect the church.
The Southern Baptist Convention had a split in 1991 over the claim of theological and philosophical differences, this division started 12 or so years earlier with the ‘moderate’-liberal faction. The split created the Cooperative Baptist Fellowship, and at that time it was called moderate/liberal Baptists. I will not get into all the Christian denominations in the nation; however, so that no one gets the idea that my beloved Southern Baptist Convention, is not without its share of liberalism, it should be known that our convention does have some liberal theologians, teaching in our seminaries, and in our leadership, perhaps it has to do with the political correctness that has been used to not only persecute Christians, but to get them to jump into liberal theology, or try to hold the flock from going liberal.
One thing I will say is that Jesus has given us the eyes to see, and the Holy Spirit has given us the ears to hear (spiritual ears), that we may understand and recognize what condition his church is in at any given time. In America and around the world, we have more than a multitude of “Christian” branches, groups, cults, denominations, and that is why I am so thankful that God put seven churches at the beginning of the book of Revelation and the Apostle John as the journalist (if you will).
Today we still have the seven churches in the Bible, and praise God we have the Holy Spirit who quickens our spirit and convicts us into participation; not of this world but of the Kingdom of God and merely as sojourners are we, on our way home.
Now two churches (remember the church is the people), that I will briefly look at this morning. I trust you will find a study Bible or commentary and look at these churches as conditions of today, and what God will require from his people to fix the broken Church, even if our church is not broken, we will need to pay attention and get excited about what God is going to do. Then again, he may do nothing, except let us continue along the broad path, the Bible tells us that the broad path leads to destruction. Personally, I pray for revival … revive us again lord Jesus!
I believe, there are people in this church, which are anxious … some a lot … some not so much, about not only the vileness of the campaign cycle, and now the unrest and vile thuggery of protesters. I can understand, — it takes a special godly man like brother Danny, to project the peace of God as he does. I don’t want to project anxiety, or fear – that is wrong, but perhaps hope in Jesus for those who feel anxious, and fearful of the future. God is still God, he is still on his throne, and still, he will quiet the raging sea.

The first Condition.

The churches at Pergamos and Thyatira, …

Pergamos: The Compromising Church. Why should I call it a compromising church? Well, my, my, my … it is a church that is faithful to Christ, nonetheless, at the same time is tolerant of those promiscuous people in the congregation.

Please notice that Jesus is telling Paul to write to the angel of the church not the world, it is a concern in the congregation. Not the nation. during the campaign, some of the notable Christian leaders, were making it known who they were supporting, and some were condemning them for giving Trump a slide, or tolerating his sin… well, — Trump was not running to be head of the Christian church, … and, we are commanded to be forgiving, his sin of lust is a forgivable sin. So, ask yourself, why would a Christian leader publicly denounce, pastors willing to forgive the actions of someone eleven years prior? But apparently, some are better than God and just will not forgive. They use words like tolerate sin, not knowing if Trump who is perhaps a different denomination (Presbyterian), and don’t feel he needs to confess his sin to anyone but God or like a whole lot of Christians don’t think their sin is sin. … but he could have done that at any time during the last eleven years. I don’t know and neither do they. One reason that we listen with the ears of God not those of some denominational leaders. Although they are supposed to be our leaders, and examples, they at times sound more like Pharisees.

b. King David, committed lust, he committed adultery, he committed murder. David confessed, to God, he confessed and repented of the wrong, and God forgave him and called David a “Man after my own heart” …

The church at Pergamos, was tolerating promiscuous persons within the congregation. This is what upsets Christ is to have his church compromising the faith, and allowing sin to be tolerated IN the church. The condition of the church, was allowing promiscuous persons, and or false teachings, it was allowing meat sacrificed to idols, it was a plea for freedom in the church to take part in the idolatrous rites, and for introducing heathen orgies into the Christian ceremonies. The doctrine of these antinomian teachers was “the doctrine of Balaam” because, like Balaam, they prostituted their influence to the seducing of God’s people into idolatry and impurity. The similarity of this doctrine and that of the Nicolaitans is obvious; —- but that of Nicolaus (which is equivalent to “conquering the people”) is intended as similar doctrines is only conjecture. Fact is, there were two sects side by side at Pergamum is the meaning of this passage; and though their doctrines were alike in being, to control the people by the people’s compromise.

Church, we need not compromise on the faith, nor on the word of God being inerrant and infallible. If you believe one verse, you must believe them all, if you fault one verse you must fault them all … oh well it is a good book and some of it may help me through this life. That is the difference in conservative “traditional orthodox” Christian theology, and liberal theology.

The second Church of my selection

Thyatira – The Corrupt Church. Again, we have the word Tolerance – Tolerance of the false prophetess Jezebel and her wicked practices. The church, condition, here projects the word suffer and there is a right and a wrong suffering, — a… the suffering of tribulations, or persecution, — and the suffering or tolerating — allowing a whole lot of wrong to go on. The church at Thyatira had both, and the rebuke is aimed at the wrong. The enduring of tribulation, (persecution) is commended, while the toleration, or enduring, of evil is rebuked. It is not said that Jezebel receives sympathy or encouragement, but merely that she is let alone; her wickedness is left unchecked, and that is sinful. It is not worthwhile to speculate as to who this individual woman is, she was there and she may be a person or a false doctrine. It is my studied opinion that Jezebel is not her real name but a symbolical name of reproach, and what her actual name and status was we have no way of knowing. Whatever, what is critical in this church is the suffering of this as false doctrine, akin to that of the Nicolaitans and to the doctrine of Balaam. Whatever the detailed difference may be, all three made ‘Christian liberty” a plea for antichristian license which claimed to be above the moral Law. And she taught and seduced. This is an independent statement and not be made to depend on the “thou sufferest.” In the original language, the word for seduce, and lead astray, is the same and used often in the ‘active’ sense, in Johns writing. Here it implies seduction into error of a very grave kind. Be it fornication (literally) or metaphorically to mean spiritual sense of idolatry. The Christian church needs to look at itself, and not fail Christ by allowing false doctrines and worldly influence and persecution to corrupt the foundations of our faith.

In closing,

Please remember, that compromise leads to corruption, and vice-versa, and as the church we must look past the plea of liberalism as Christian liberty; Christian compassion and tolerance, and hold fast to the doctrines of the word of God; if we compromise on one doctrine of the Bible we corrupt the whole thing. And that relates to our salvation by grace alone, in faith on the work of our Lord Jesus. You, yes each professing born again Christian must affirm the Bible as being the very word of God, without error — being infallible in its instruction and teaching, which is interpreted by the Holy Spirit… and so far it is still valid in the Southern Baptist Statement of Faith. … what you need to do is examine yourself and our church, and other churches and denominations to see if that is in their personal and church statement of faith. If it is not? Then why not? Where did you first compromise on your Christian faith? And why? … has the liberal world intimidated you to compromise on the Word of God? … thank God he is a God of second, third, fourth, 7 times 70 forgiving grace. Do not be afraid of the liberal world calling you hurtful names, and slandering you and your faith! It is time to pick up your cross and grow a backbone and stand firm in the faith of the Apostles! A bunch of liberal theologians, preachers of false prophecy, teachers of false doctrine, are not going to intimidate me! I will stand unto my death for the cause of Jesus and the justice of God … my faith in ‘the faith’ in the belief and conviction of the Holy Ghost on my heart.

Folks … we must fix The church — starting with me, then our church, then the universal church. it is broken and only God can fix it, but he will use only the willing, committed Christian the true disciple of Christ. The nation is badly broken, and it will take God, working through Trump, and a willing congress to fix it and make it great again; and it cannot happen unless the church goes into revival and sets the stage for a great awakening, when the delusional and misled people see God at work restoring His church, cleansing it from the liberal theological lies. then it can happen, and God will heal our land.

My sincere caution to our church is to examine ourselves, and cling to the Bible as our authority, it is inerrant and infallible and we are to test any other doctrines and church traditions by the scripture. We need to prepare our hearts for true Christian revival, unity, and the authority of God’s word. God said you are either with me or you are against me. There is no middle ground, you are not to be luke warm, or simply halfway committed to Jesus, it is critically important that each of us have a personal love relationship with Jesus, and if you have never surrendered to Jesus, if you have never known that personal love relationship with him, please take care of that business right now, you don’t know when we will be taken; and that will be too late. It is that urgent, and such a simple free thing to do. I will open the alter for you to come and pray, or to take care of business with God.

Deacon of the Week, would you please close in Prayer for us all.