Andy Rooney and Prayer

Andy Rooney says:

I don't believe in Santa Claus, but I'm not going to sue somebody for singing a Ho-Ho-Ho song in December. I don't agree with Darwin, but I didn't go out and hire a lawyer when my high school teacher taught his Theory of Evolution.

Life, liberty or your pursuit of happiness will not be endangered because someone says a 30-second prayer before a football game. So what's the big deal? It's not like somebody is up there reading the entire Book of Acts. They're just talking to a God they believe in and asking him to grant safety to the players on the field and the fans going home from the game.

But it's a Christian prayer, some will argue.

Yes, and this is the United States of America, a country founded on Christian principles. According to our very own phone book, Christian churches outnumber all others better than 200-to-1. So what would you expect -- somebody chanting Hare Krishna?

If I went to a football game in Jerusalem, I would expect to hear a Jewish prayer...

If I went to a soccer game in Baghdad, I would expect to hear a Muslim prayer.

If I went to a ping pong match in China, I would expect to hear someone pray to Buddha..

And I wouldn't be offended. It wouldn’t bother me one bit.

When in Rome.....

But what about the atheists? Is another argument.

What about them? Nobody is asking them to be baptized. We're not going to pass the collection plate. Just humor us for 30 seconds. If that's asking too much, bring a Walkman or a pair of ear plugs. Go to the bathroom.. Visit the concession stand. Call your lawyer!

Unfortunately, one or two will make that call. One or two will tell thousands what they can and cannot do. I don't think a short prayer at a football game is going to shake the world’s foundations.

Christians are just sick and tired of turning the other cheek while our courts strip us of all our rights. Our parents and grandparents taught us to pray before eating, to pray before we go to sleep.

Our Bible tells us to pray without ceasing. Now a handful of people and their lawyers are telling us to cease praying.

God, help us. And if that last sentence offends you, well, just sue me.

The silent majority has been silent too long. It's time we tell that one or two who scream loud enough to be heard that the vast majority doesn't care what they want. It is time that the majority

Rules!

It's time we tell them, you don't have to pray; you don’t have to say the Pledge of Allegiance; you don't have to believe in God or attend services that honor Him. That is your right, and we will honor your right; but by golly, you are no longer going to take our rights away. We are fighting back, and we WILL WIN!

God bless us one and all ... Especially those who denounce Him,

God bless America, despite all her faults. She is still the greatest nation of all. God bless our service men who are fighting to protect our right to pray and worship God.

Let's make 2009

the year the silent majority is heard and we put God back as the foundation of our families and institutions . And our military forces come home from all the wars.

Keep looking up.

This was going around the internet

I hope that it brightens up your day.

Wednesday, June 10, 2009

A Pastor with GUTS!

Thought you might enjoy this interesting

prayer given in Kansas at

the opening session of their Senate. It seems

prayer still upsets some

people.. When Minister Joe Wright was asked to open

the new session of the Kansas Senate, everyone was expecting the usual generalities, but this is

what they heard:

Heavenly Father, we come before you today to ask

your forgiveness and to seek your direction and

guidance. We know Your Word says, 'Woe to those

who call evil good,' but that is exactly what we

have done.

We have lost our spiritual equilibrium and reversed

our values.

We have exploited the poor and called it

the lottery.

We have rewarded laziness and called it

welfare.

We have killed our unborn and called it

choice.

We have shot abortionists and called it

justifiable.

We have neglected to discipline our

children and called it building self esteem..

We have abused power and called it

politics.

We have coveted our neighbor's possessions

and called it ambition.

We have polluted the air with profanity and

pornography and called it freedom o expression.

We have ridiculed the time-honored values

of our forefathers and called it enlightenment.

Search us, Oh, God, and know our hearts

today; cleanse us from every sin and set us free.

Amen!

The response was immediate. A number of

legislators walked out during the prayer in

protest. In 6 short weeks, Central Christian

Church, where Rev. Wright is pastor, logged more than

5,000 phone calls with only 47 of those calls

responding negatively. The church is now receiving

international requests for copies of this prayer

from India , Africa and Korea

Commentator Paul Harvey aired this prayer on

his radio program, 'The Rest of the Story,'and

received a larger response to this program than any

other he has ever aired.

With the Lord's help, may this prayer sweep

over our nation and wholeheartedly become our

desire so that we again can be called 'one nation

under God.'

If possible, please pass this prayer on to

your friends. 'If you don't stand for something,

you will fall for everything.'

Think about this: If you forward this

prayer to everyone on your

e-mail list, in less than 30 days it would be

heard by the world.

How many people in your address book will

not receive this prayer.....do you have the guts to pass it on?

Joshua 1:9

Have I not commanded you? be of good courage; be not afraid,neither be dismayed: for the lord your God is with you where ever you go.

(he didn't ask us to be brave He commanded it; Think about it)

How Lord do I tell you of the gratitude I feel towards you?
You have blessed me in to many ways to number; you are so awesome it boggles the mind.
To think that out of all the billions of people on this planet; that you would bend your will towards me is so very humbling.
You have given me my home, my health, my income, my car, my family, and my friends; but most of all you gave me my Jesus, my Savior.
If I live to be a thousand years old I could never repay you for all you’ve done for me in my life, and yet still you bless me daily.
You are so wonderful to me.
Some days I forget you are there and I wander away from you.
But you are always there calling me back. You never have given up on me, and I think I love you all the more for it.
Sometimes lord my life is filled with doubt, but hen I remember that to believe in you is a choice. And I choose to believe!
It’s like Peter said “Lord, to whom shall we go? You have the words of eternal life.
I know only one way to look. I choose to look up.
As long as I keep my eyes on the cross I will not fall.
I may stumble some times but it’s only when I take my eyes off you.
Lord give me eyes that I may see. Give me ears that I may hear.
And direct my path that I may not stray.

Debra Gallagher

Lord I want to thank you for looking out for me.
I know that you have always been there for me in the back ground protecting me and over seeing everything that comes my way trying to trip me up.
You sent your Son to die for my sins so that I could live free and with out pain.
You have blessed me in too many ways to count; every day I wake up to a thousand new ways you have blessed me.
My life is good because of you.
My life is what I have made of it and all of the negative things in it are of my doing. You have provided every opportunity for me to succeed and continue to do so; I have only to open my heart and listen to know the way I should go.
I don’t always listen but I always know that you are there.
All things come together for the good of those who believe.
And Lord I do believe with all my heart that you are Lord of all and to follow you is not the best way to go. It is the only way to go.
Debra Gallagher