Showing posts with label Teen Challenge. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Teen Challenge. Show all posts

Saturday, July 26, 2014

Illegal Immigration and Gangs: Some Day Our Cities Will Burn Because We Did Not Protect Our Borders

Illegal Immigration and Gangs: Some Day Our Cities Will Burn Because We Did Not Protect Our Borders - shtfplan.com

Excerpt from this article:

"Did you know that the number of illegal immigrants that enter Texas each week is greater than the number of babies being born to citizens of that state?  The mainstream media is shining the spotlight very brightly on all of the children that are coming over, and there is a reason for that.  They are trying to tug on our heartstrings.  But there is another part of the story that you aren’t hearing much about.  By refusing to protect our borders, Barack Obama has allowed hundreds of thousands of gang members to illegally enter the United States and settle in our major cities.  In many communities, gang activity is already wildly out of control, and someday our cities will burn because of the foolishness of the federal government."
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Recommended reading (my posts)

Remembering "The Cross and the Switchblade"

Recommended sermons:

Our Nation Laid in God's Balance, by Dr. Joel Beeke

Amos 3 (1978), by Rev. Corneli Pronk

Saturday, May 10, 2014

America's Prisoners Cost You $80 Billion a Year

America's Prisoners Cost You $260 a Year - newser.com

"A new report from a branch of the Brookings Institution notes that the US spent $80 billion on incarceration in 2010, an expense that translates into each American paying $260 per year to house our criminals. That's up from $77 per US resident in 1980, reports CBS News. With violent crime rates down, what's behind the increase?"
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"As a young lawyer from the books that I'd read,
I thought justice and law were the same.
But I soon put such juvenile thoughts from my head
and I studied the rules of the game." - unknown

There are people who need to be in prison - forever! (like the one Ann Coulter talks about in Lockett & Load). But there are many many more that could - and I believe should - be safely transitioned back into society. Drug offenders are just one category of prisoners that I believe could be released early. I'm not talking about letting drug dealers out early - no, throw the book at them. But the addict whose only crime is that he or she chose to get addicted to heroin or cocaine rather than prescription drugs doesn't need to be in prison!

Ann Coulter says in one of her books: "Of course prison works. It keeps people who commit crimes off the streets because they are in prison. Let's run the numbers: The recidivism rate for armed robbers behind bars is...hmmm, looks like zero percent!" (Source: One of Ann coulter's books!).

While I often agree with Ann Coulter, I think we part company here. The problem with the American judicial system (which still may be the best in the world!) is that it favors those with money and resources. If that were not the case, our President would have been locked up long ago (See: 76 Times Obama's White House Ilegally and Unethically Abused Its Power, as Documented by Sen. Ted Cruz, Should Obama Grant More Pardons?, & Bill Clinton and the Rape that won't Go Away).

Recommended reading:

Should Obama Grant More Pardons? (my post)
Pardon Me? Obama, Bill Ayers, and Crack Cocaine - wnd.com
Alcoholics Anonymous (AA) in the Crosshairs (my post)
High Crimes and Misdemeanors: The Case Against Bill Clinton, by Ann Coulter

The Perpetual Prisoner Machine: How America Profits from Crime, by Joel Dyer
Mean Justice: A True Account of a Town's Terror, A Prosecutor's Power, and a Betrayal of Innocence, by Pulitzer Prize winning author, Edward Hume
Pat Boone is a Wanted Man!
The World's Biggest Crooks! - lewrockwell.com
Prisonfellowship.org

Tuesday, April 1, 2014

Pat Boone is a Wanted Man!

Pat Boone is a Wanted Man - newser.com

Excerpt from this article:

"Singer, Tea Party activist, and birther Pat Boone can add one more title to his long list: wanted man. There's a warrant out for the 79-year-old after he was subpoenaed to appear in court and failed to show up, TMZ reports. It all relates to a luxury cruise ship's condos..."
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Rock star Ozzie Osborn once said about Pat Boone that he was "the best neighbor a person could ever have."  Although Pat Boone has led a controversial life at times (who hasn't?), unlike Ozzie Osborn I don't think Pat Boone has Sold his Soul for Rock and Roll (see the You Tube clips of this "Rockumenatry, Part 12, 3, & 4 or you can purchase this 10 hour video by going to Good Fight Ministries)

I do respect Pat Boone's politics and I probably see eye to eye with him on the "Birther" issue (See my post: Of Course the Government is Lying About 9/11!). But what really comes to my mine when I think of Pat Boone is that he portrayed David Wilkerson in the true life story called The Cross and the Switchblade.

I'm sure when Pat gets to heaven, he is going to meet a lot of people who either found salvation through that great movie, or were were deeply touched by it.

Recommended Movie:

The Cross and the Switchblade, staring Pat Boone and Eric (Chips!) Estrada

Saturday, January 18, 2014

New York Gov. Cuomo: Pro-Life, Pro-Gun, Pro-Marriage Conservatives Have No Place in New York!

New York Gov. Cuomo: Pro-Life, Pro-Gun, Pro-Marriage Conservatives Have No Place in New York - breitbart.com

 Excerpt from this article:

"On Friday, New York Governor Andrew Cuomo (D), who has been widely discussed as a possible 2016 presidential candidate, told Susan Arbetter of The Capitol Pressroom that 'extreme conservatives' should leave the state. He said that 'extreme conservatives who are right-to-life, pro-assault-weapon, anti-gay' have 'no place in the state of New York.'”-------------------------------------------------- 

Pro-Life. Pro-Gun. Pro-Marriage. The late David Wilkerson, the founder of Teen Challenge, was all that and more when he left his pregnant and small church to go to New York City to minister to the gangs.  If you haven't seen The Cross and the Switchblade, you're in for a real treat.

Recommended reading:

The Cross and the Switchblade (the book), by David Wilkerson 

Run Baby Run, by Nicki Cruz


Recommended sermon:

A Warning to America, by Keith Daniels of South Africa

How I Found Christ?

 How I Found Christ? by Charles Spurgeon (1834-1892)