HOW'S THAT AGAIN MADAM SPEAKER? - Just a Minute Radio for 01-22-10

            Howdy on Friday – AGAIN!

 

            I’m glad it’s here… it’s been a *very heavy* news week with the earthquake in Haiti – aftershocks – and the aftershocks from the Voterquake in the Bay State that pried a Senate seat out of the Democrat Party’s hands for  the first time in more than 50 years. Teddy’s brother was President and his other brother in DC was Attorney General when the third Kennedy brother went to the Senate.  Yeah…. I’m for tradition and all that – but I’m also for reality.  Realizing we are *all* in the same boat.  Sinners… and only as we are ‘saved by Grace’ as the Bible accurately says – do we have any claim to righteousness – and that is totally in response to the salvation offered by Christ.

 

            Sorry if that strikes someone as intolerant… it isn’t but, in America you’re entitled to have your opinion.  I’m just amazed, quite frankly, at the slippery, sliding, bell-curve scale we use to measure people by. It’s atrocious.  Former Senator Edwards … is he any worse than someone who crashes a car with a young girl into a tidal stream and leaves her there.  I’m not the judge.  You’re not the judge.  God is the judge and HE judges righteously.  Therefore it behooves us to attend to the words He has left us, obey them, and when we fail – as we all will on our own, that’s our nature, -- beg forgiveness in the way in which God provides.

 

            I’m not writing a theological textbook here, and I certainly allow for differences in how we understand what God says through the Scriptures – but there are certain things that demand repentance, confession, forsaking and restitution – far too much for me or for most of us to fully comprehend in a lifetime of trying.  But it’s not unattainable!  Salvation is freely offered and available to all who will believe.  All the same, as King David can tell you – in the Bible – there are some things irreversible.  That’s reality – that’s the truth.

 

            It wasn’t my intent to go there today – but in doing the research for today’s program I ran across so much crazy, inconsistent, downright wrong thinking and expression… well it just came out.  Write me about it if you like. I’ll do my best to answer every letter.

 

            Cordially, IN HIM

 

            Jack

 

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HOW’S THAT AGAIN MADAM SPEAKER?

Just A Minute – Speaker Nancy Pelosi, regaining her equilibrium after the Massachusetts voters fired a strong shot across the Democrat leadership’s bow on Tuesday.  Now she says she lacks the votes to ram the Senate's version of health-care reform, through the House.           

She did not address the idea of ‘swallowing’ the Senate’s version at all.  It contains several ‘poison-pills’ for conservatives and “blue dog” Democrats while rendering a devastating blow to President Obama’s lynchpin issue. 

          Pelosi, whose Democrat seat in San Francisco is apparently not under threat, spoke to reporters after House Democrats held another closed-door session during which several members reportedly ranted in frustration with the Senate's version.

Her apparent acquiescence, practically means hope is on the ropes for an  immediate White House-effort to ram the Senate version through the lower chamber.  She said rather, (quote) it’s time to ‘pause and reflect.’  That’s a far cry from her earlier assurance votes would swing in her favor.  "I don't see the votes for it at this time," She said…

My comment… Praise the Lord for His answer.

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