Refuse the sedation given by Spin-Doctor, Barack Obama.
Refuse the intimidation by tyrant, Barack Obama.
Refuse the lies from prevaricator, Barack Obama.

On Language

Ever since the Logos was betrayed by errant mortals, and the evil deed was sealed at Babel, human language has suffered in all its forms. However, from my view as a 55-year-old philosopher and author, we seem to be torturing it nearly to death in recent years. One example is the acceptance of illegal (or undocumented) clusters of words posing as sentences. As I attempted to read an article in Psychology Today on dealing with difficult people (yes, this was a mistake from the onset), I was greeted by a seeming plethora of incomplete sentences, a breezy tone, and the decline of Western civilization.

What can one say, one do? Fight back and write back. Prize literacy; be different; make people miserable who care not royal fig for God's gift of language, spoken and written. Never give up on the Logos.

“What the Court did not do on its last day in session I will do on my first day if elected President of the United States. And that is I will act to repeal Obamacare....Obamacare was bad policy yesterday. It's bad policy today. Obamacare was bad law yesterday. It’s bad law today.” – Mitt Romney

Doug Groothuis in Longmont, CO

Tomorrow (Wednesday) at 12:15, we will be meeting for our study on Reasons to Believe. 

Dr. Douglas R. Groothuis, chairperson of the Philosophy Department at Denver Seminary will be teaching on The Argument from Morality to God.  Doug is world renown as the author of 12 books including Christian Apologetics: A Comprehensive Case for Biblical Faith (InterVarsity, 2011).  We will take a special love offering to help pay for Dr. Groothuis’ expenses.

Please bring your Bibles, notebooks, and a lunch if you wish.  We will have coffee and water for you. 

We are meeting at Front Range Christian Fellowship, 10667 Parkridge Avenue (Parkridge and Main), in the auxiliary house located across Parkridge from the church.  The church is easily found as it is across Main Street from the North Super WalMart.  Instead of turning right at the light on Parkridge into WalMart, turn left.  Front Range is on your immediate right.  You can park in the church parking lot and walk across the street to the ministry house.

We will see you there!

Glennis J. Henry

Legal Assistant

The Sonnesyn Law Firm

655 4th Ave. Suite B

Longmont, CO  80501

303.776.5077

sonnesyn@qwestoffice.net

A Nation in Peril

A nation, under God, that:

Kills its own unborn with impunity since 1973

Cannot secure its own national borders

Does not pay its own debts and thus
in-debts the next generations because of its fiscal irresponsibility

Fails to keep and reward a strong military to protect its freedoms and responsibilities

Sexualizes everything and
legitimizes the perverse by redefining marriage, and
re-invents what cannot be changed: created male and female

Conscripts its own children for statist indoctrination and
does not teach the essentials of Judeo-Christian civilization and
the essence of learning

Pits people against each other according to their incomes by incentives to envy

Thinks the state can be compassionate, when it takes what would otherwise
be given and used more profitably by all...

Has a plethora of churches that refuse to speak out and stand up for Truth,
come what may

Forgets or spurns its own best and founding principles

has no future
apart from repentance, reformation, and renewal
(Psalm 80).

Reality Check:

1. The Islamic Brotherhood is not "moderate." It is a ruse and well established doctrine of Islam to deceive the infidel. See Mark Gabriel, Islam and Terrorism and Inside the Mind of an Islamic Terrorist.
2. The Islamic Brotherhood fights for a Muslim world under sharia law: the entire planet. This is part of Islam.
3. Our President is either clueless or complicit in supporting this anti-Christian, anti-Western, anti-human rights group. It is probably the latter.

Why ObamaCare is unconstitutional and, as such, very dangerous to individual liberty. 

Analysis and Controversy

The accurate analysis of persons and ideas will elicit controversy in a fallen world, since so many are so wrong about so much so often.

The old plan and purpose of teaching the young what they truly need to know survives only in the private sector.

—Jacques Barzun

Scars

Recognizing things
for what they are
Will save you countless scares
but give you may more.

Pick your wounds, carefully.

The word "porn"

Twice now--twice mind you--I have seen the word "porn" used to mean "indulgence." The first, which frightened and disgusted me, was in Ross Douthat's book, Bad Religion. Just now I see the phrase on Facebook, "book porn," and it did not refer to dirty books. What is happening?

Apparently, pornography is now so common and so accepted as a form of sensory stimulation that it can stand in for non-sexual forms of enjoyment. This is simply sickening. Pornography is wrong, sinful, and degrading to all involved. It is pathetic voyeurism, which can quickly become addictive and pathological, ruining mind, lives, and marriages.

"Book porn"? No, God help us. "Book pleasure"? Yes, God bless us.

Endeavor

The Christian life should be a ceaseless quest to become serious about God. Impediments to this greatest of all endeavors are everywhere--within and without.

Yet God is ever where--and, for the Christian, is a teaching presence within as well as without.

Tomorrow (Wednesday) at 12:15, we will be meeting for our study on Reasons to Believe. 

Dr. Douglas R. Groothuis, chairperson of the Philosophy Department at Denver Seminary will be teaching on Deposed Royalty: Pascal's argument for Christianity.  Attached is a teaser, Chapter 8 of Doug’s book On Pascal.  Doug is world renown as the author of 12 books including Christian Apologetics: A Comprehensive Case for Biblical Faith (InterVarsity, 2011).  We will take a special love offering to help pay for Dr. Groothuis’ expenses.

Please bring your Bibles, notebooks, and a lunch if you wish.  We will have coffee and water for you. 

We are meeting at Front Range Christian Fellowship, 10667 Parkridge Avenue (Parkridge and Main), in the auxiliary house located across Parkridge from the church.  The church is easily found as it is across Main Street from the North Super WalMart.  Instead of turning right at the light on Parkridge into WalMart, turn left.  Front Range is on your immediate right.  You can park in the church parking lot and walk across the street to the ministry house.

We will see you there!

Glennis J. Henry

Legal Assistant

The Sonnesyn Law Firm

655 4th Ave. Suite B

Longmont, CO  80501

303.776.5077

sonnesyn@qwestoffice.net

Ten Reasons to Vote Obama

1. You want a global government--or at least global regulatory institutions--that eclipses American sovereignty and trump the Constitution.

2. You want tax money to support embryonic stem cell research; in other words, killing human embryos in the hopes that these lethal experiments will yield something good for those who made it into maturity.

3. You want more executive orders that contravene the other two branches of government.

4. You want Judges (federal and Supreme Court) who take the Constitution to be a wax nose that they can turn any way they want, given their liberated perspectives.

5. You want the American military to shrink to the point of no longer being the strongest in the world, thus moving us toward another Pearl Harbor. 

6. You want the first family to continue to flaunt tax dollars with their extravagant vacations. 

7. You want a President who cannot think on his feet and is petulant when anyone dares to challenge His Highness.

8. You want the state to reach deeper and deeper into your personal life, telling you what to eat, what medical treatments you may have, where you can drill, and much more.

9. You want incompetent, nasty, and corrupt Cabinet members such as Eric Holdier.

10. You want illegal aliens to receive amnesty and voting rights.

Communism

When Communism fell in Eastern Europe, millions of us rejoiced.

Our celebration was premature.

Two decades later Communism is back from the dead and, like a zombie from a B-movie horror flick, it is harder to kill than ever. But we are not helpless -- here's what you personally can do to help stop this deadly idea in its tracks.

Leftists all over the world are trying to reclaim Communism from the ash heap of discarded ideas. They're taking it mainstream and hoping you won't notice until it's too late.

But these leftists will only succeed if they can keep you from asking one penetrating question: "Why was the 20th century history's bloodiest?"

Those who have lived through the 20th century saw some of the world's worst ideas on display. Whole societies attempted to live by Nietzsche's mantra: "God is dead." The results were murderous.

Responsible for more deaths than even the Nazis, Communist regimes were the picture of tyranny and suffering. It's hard to imagine the terror that has resulted from Marx and Lenin's distorted understanding of humanity and the nature of the world.

So you think Communism is dead? Consider these facts.

A quick look at today's political landscape shows that like a zombie, the ideas of Marx and Lenin are back from the dead -- and harder to kill than ever.

Twenty-one percent of the earth's population is under Communist rule. Meanwhile, Europe's quasi-socialist economies are floundering, and the governments of emerging countries are steadily gobbling up more of the private sector. In the U.S. the state's encroachment in the private sphere grows daily, making our dysfunctional government even more powerful.

In a media environment hostile to the very mention of Communism, how do we spot these faulty ideas and warn others?

Equip yourself and your friends now with Summit's "Zombie Communism Package."

Thankfully, faithful commentators like Summit founder Dr. David Noebel, Dr. Fred Schwarz, Dr. Jim Bowers, and Curtis Bowers have highlighted the steady march of Marxist-Leninist thought into the 21st century, and we're offering their insights to you in the Summit Zombie Communism Package.

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Locked Out

I recently locked myself out of my own house. What a terrible feeling and condition that is.

Perhaps, though, we lock ourselves out from the truth. Thus, we feel panicked and helpless, because we cannot enter where we belong. But there is a Key: the Bible.

Clowns

Most people give away respect far too liberally-- and then we are left with a world filled to the brim with highly respected clowns.--Sarah Geis.

My Letter to Harper's on one of their essays

Dear Editor:

Barabar Ehrenrich's essay, "The Animal Cure," exhibits poor reasoning and bad history. She dismisses belief in gods by presupposing philosophical materialism and by appealing to cognitive science to explain the origin of this false belief. Appealing to very speculative theories in cognitive science is of no more help than Freud's old projection argument against religion. They are both stellar examples of the genetic fallacy: an idea can be discredited merely by citing its psychological origin. However, there may be natural reasons why someone attains a true belief in the supernatural. Only if the existence of a supernatural realm is independently defeated by argument should one try to explain how this supposedly false belief arises. Further, what if we find the cognitive science basis for belief in atheism? Would that, in itself, discredit it? Concerning history (Christianity's approach to animals), neither the Bible nor any of the historic creeds or counsels of Christianity equate animals with demons. Rather, animals are creatures of God, although not made in the divine image as are humans. God pronounces them "good" in The Book Genesis.

Best,

Doug Groothuis

Say the Pledge Today, Flag Day

"I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America, and to the republic for which it stands, one nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all."

Section 4 of the Flag Code states:

The Pledge of Allegiance to the Flag: "I pledge allegiance to the Flag of the United States of America, and to the Republic for which it stands, one Nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all.", should be rendered by standing at attention facing the flag with the right hand over the heart. When not in uniform men should remove any non-religious headdress with their right hand and hold it at the left shoulder, the hand being over the heart. Persons in uniform should remain silent, face the flag, and render the military salute."

Preaching--Apologetics!

Christian Apologetics was given a short and sweet review in Preaching Magazine.