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Thursday, October 2, 2008
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Be Yourself
Today's Daily Soap {Scripture | Observation | Application | Prayer}
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- S: He went on to tell a story to the guests around the table. Noticing how each had tried to elbow into the place of honor, he said, "When someone invites you to dinner, don't take the place of honor. Somebody more important than you might have been invited by the host. Then he'll come and call out in front of everybody, 'You're in the wrong place. The place of honor belongs to this man.' Red-faced, you'll have to make your way to the very last table, the only place left. "When you're invited to dinner, go and sit at the last place. Then when the host comes he may very well say, 'Friend, come up to the front.' That will give the dinner guests something to talk about! What I'm saying is, If you walk around with your nose in the air, you're going to end up flat on your face. But if you're content to be simply yourself, you will become more than yourself." Luke 14:7-11 [MSG]
- O: We reap greater rewards from just being ourselves than from trying to please everyone else.
- A: The world today is full of pretense. So many people are so busy trying to be someone else -- to please everyone and be something they really aren't -- that we often know people (or know of people) long before we actually really know them. Often this can actually be true in the closest of relationships, like marriage. Imagine not knowing some of your spouse's deepest secrets because he/she has always tried to please you and make you happy, even to the extent of never letting you really get to know them. Wouldn't it be so much better to really get to know someone -- the good and the bad -- than to be misled by their pretense? Whether it be family, friends, casual work acquaintances, or the politicians we elect to serve and represent us -- give me the real thing. We are so much more likely to pleased with ourselves and with others if we can all just be ourselves.
- P: Father, help me to be the me that You want me to be -- to rise above pretense and let the real me shine through.
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A Call To Arms
I think it goes without saying that Senator McCain took Barack Obama to school last week in the first Presidential debate. I don't know how anyone who watched the debate could say otherwise. Obama spent more time stammering, interrupting, and turning red than he did actually providing any useful information to the voters. Senator McCain was very articulate and amazingly prepared for someone who was off doing the job he's paid to do in Washington, DC, as a United States Senator.By the same token, I expect to see Governor Palin giving the human gaffe machine that is Joe Biden a political lesson tomorrow evening in the first (and only) Vice Presidential debate, regardless of the fact that the cards are already stacked against her. It has been well reported that the VP Debate Moderator, PBS's Gwen Ifill, has written a pro-Obama book to be released at the time of the next Presidential inauguration in January. It would take a fool to believe that this Obama-phile could possibly be unbiased in her moderation of tomorrow's debates.
This is a call to arms! It is up to the conservative base to speak out now, before the debate, about the impossibility of a fair debate tomorrow night. We must speak out now, before it can be considered a reaction to the results of the debate. We must speak openly and loudly, everywhere that we have a voice, that the Vice Presidential debate is already skewed in favor of the Obama campaign.
Take it to work. Tell your friends. Send it to everyone in your email address book. Post it on every website where you have posting privileges. Post it on Twitter, Facebook, MySpace. And comment about it on every post you see about the debates every place that you can.
Then, when Governor Palin shows Joe Biden for the bumbling oaf that he is, not only will the Governor win the debate, but she will have done so against the odds, and there will be no doubting it. We have less than 36 hours to get the word out about this travesty in the debate system.
In addition, I encourage you to join one of the many live blogging events that will be available online tomorrow evening during the debate. But I challenge you: instead of visiting one of the conservative, right-friendly live blogs, join the left-leaning live blogs events. Openly support your candidate in the forum. Make it clear to them that the debate moderator is not impartial. Be so outspoken about the situation and the process of the event that they want to kick you out of their forum.
Are you in?
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VP Debate A Predetermined Folly
This is a travesty! Sean Hannity and Glenn Beck have been saying frequently that journalism is dead. I'm sure that none of us want to believe that. None of us want to accept the fact that the so-called "journalists" who are "reporting" on events in the current financial crisis and the Presidential campaigns might actually have already decided upon whom they wish to see in the White House come January. I think this makes it painfully clear.
This kind of one-sided, partisan reporting should not be allowed in our society. Surely, she has freedom of speech and can speak her mind about whatever topic she chooses. But she should not be sponsored in doing so in a forum that is intended to help voters become more aware of the candidates. This is a travesty!
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VP debate moderator Ifill releasing pro-Obama bookClearly, Gwen Ifill should be pulled from moderation of the upcoming Vice Presidential debate tomorrow evening. She has crossed the line from independent journalist to committed, supportive biographer. She clearly stands in support of Barack Obama and, if she is allowed to sit in moderation of tomorrow night's debate, will certainly deliver the tough questions to Governor Palin while coddling Joe Biden, in favor of her beloved Obama.
The moderator of Thursday's vice-presidential debate is writing a book to come out about the time the next president takes the oath of office that aims to "shed new light" on Democratic candidate Barack Obama and other "emerging young African American politicians" who are "forging a bold new path to political power."
This kind of one-sided, partisan reporting should not be allowed in our society. Surely, she has freedom of speech and can speak her mind about whatever topic she chooses. But she should not be sponsored in doing so in a forum that is intended to help voters become more aware of the candidates. This is a travesty!
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Hitler Had Nothing on Obama!
The comments with the YouTube video say that this was recorded in someone's home. The woman leading the children is a music teacher. From a school. What else can they poison our children's minds with?Direct video link.
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