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Thursday, February 7,2013
The Winkler County News
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of faith such as conservative Catholics and evangelicals, to forecast how
Secretary of State Kerry will act (or not act) on this issue? It is a critical
issue for many Americans because the freedom to believe and worship, not
only as an individual but as a part of a community, is the foundation of what
scholars call a “bundle of liberties”: speech, property ownership, assembly
and the press are all integrally related to freedom of religion. Where there
is no freedom of religion, there are no other “first freedoms.” Conversely,
America’s greatest challenges on the international stage — China, Russia,
Pakistan, North Korea and Iran — are all violators of individual religious
liberty.
What, then, of the new secretary of state? Mr. Kerry has long been
a senior member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, which
scrutinizes all U.S. diplomacy, down to the budget for organizations like
the State Department’s IRF office and the separate U.S. Commission on
International Religious Freedom, another product of the 1998 IRF Act.
For decades, Mr. Kerry has shown no interest in the issue of religious
freedom or prisoners of conscience languishing abroad in foreign prisons
for their faith. It simply does not appear that this issue is on his radar as a
matter of national security, global human rights or the rule of law. Perhaps
even more telling is that the issue appears to be entirely disconnected from
Mr. Kerry’s notion of Christian faith.
A year ago, Mr. Kerry gave the commencement address at Gordon
College, a Christian university near Boston. The speech is an important
window into Mr. Kerry’s view of his own vocation and his notion of how
faith and action intersect. In the address, Mr. Kerry discussed his own
experiences, from being the son of a diplomat to serving in Vietnam to
many years in the Congress. He also mentioned he knew that his Catholic
faith should inspire action in his chosen field of public service.
This begs the question: What kind of action did Mr. Kerry call on
the next generation of Gordon graduates to pursue? Mr. Kerry specifically
spoke about the poor, about religious tolerance, about the just war
tradition and about commonalities among the major faiths. “Every religion
embraces a form of the Golden Rule, and the supreme importance of
charity, compassion and human improvement.” He challenged the Gordon
graduates to make a difference: “What I’ve spoken of today — fighting
poverty and disease, taking care of the earth, waging only just wars, and
mutual understanding and respect among all faiths (even lack of faith) —
are godly tasks.”
What he did not talk about was religious liberty. Amazingly — and
it would have been red meat to some in the audience — the chairman of
the Senate Foreign Relations Committee said nothing about America’s role
championing religious liberty abroad, about the nexus of religion and other
freedoms, about religion as the fundamental human right, and about the
challenge of confronting America’s enemies on this critical issue. The issue
was not simply passed over, it was deliberately neglected.
Champions of religious liberty should immediately begin asking the
new secretary of state about how he views the intersection of religion and
U.S. vital interests, and how he plans to advance the cause of religious
liberty and human freedom worldwide as he takes the helm at Foggy
Bottom.
Eric Patterson is associate professor and dean of the Robertson School
of Government at Regent University and author of “Politics in a Religious
World: Building a Religiously Informed U.S. Foreign Policy” (Continuum,
2011).
(Reprinted from The Washington Times)
New:
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Mr. Lew places the goal that much
further out of reach. As a budget
official and as White House chief of
staff, Mr. Lew deemed entitlement
spending untouchable.
A recent Bloomberg News
story recounts how, during
budget negotiations in 2011,
Senate Republicans proposed that
reductions in Medicaid spending be
a part of any budget deal. Mr. Lew
was apoplectic: “No!” he screamed
into the phone. “We’re not going to
do that.” So much for “seriousness.”
Mr. Lew’s lack of diplomacy
and rigid defense of ever-growing
entitlement programs has reportedly
led congressional Republicans
to view him as impossible to
negotiate with. With Mr. Lew as
the administration’s point man
for economic policy, prepare for
another four years of partisan
gridlock and trench warfare, while
our most pressing fiscal issues go
unaddressed.
As a U.S. military veteran,
I’m concerned by the implications
of unchecked spending for our
nation’s long-term security. Adm.
Mike Mullen, former chairman of
the Joint Chiefs of Staff, has warned
repeatedly that the national debt is
“the single biggest threat to our
national security.”
As Adm. Mullen has argued,
“a nation with our current levels of
unsustainable debt cannot hope to
sustain for very long its superiority
from a military perspective, or its
influence in world affairs.”
Looking at the Lew nomination
through that lens, I foresee a future
in which both our economic
strength and national security will
be sacrificed in favor of endless,
unchecked streams of spending
on health care, retirement and
debt. That’s no vision for a global
superpower — but it’s the vision
that Mr. Lew appears to hold.
Senators should think long and
hard before confirming Mr. Lew to
the position of Treasury secretary.
We can’t afford more of his poor
judgments.
Pete Hegseth is the CEO of
Concerned Veterans for America,
and the former executive director of
Vets for Freedom.
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ATTEND CHURCH
ROCK CHURCH
Rev. W. C. Kenan
School Street
UNITED PENTECOSTAL
CHURCH
Rev. Obed Hernandez
North on E. Ave. -- Kermit
LAHERMOSA
PENTECOSTAL CHURCH
120 S. Main-Kermit
CHURCH OF JESUS CHRIST
OF LATTER DAY SAINTS
Eric & Access Road
Monahans, Tx.
FAITH MISSIONARY
BAPTIST CHURCH
Pastor - Joe Freeman
112 Maple-Kermit
ST. THOMAS & JOSEPH
CATHOLIC PARISH
Father Rodolfo Lacerna
838 Bellaire Rd. - Kermit
TRINITY CHRISTIAN CHURCH
(Disciples of Christ)
Rev. Gene Brown - Kermit
Church Service - 9:30 a.m.
Sunday School -10:30 a.m.
FUENTES DEAGUAVIVA
320 S. Pine-432-208-0947
Servicios - Domingo 10 a.m.
Miercoles 7:30 p.m.
Pastors Hector & Blanca Polanco
GRACE TEMPLE
BAPTIST CHURCH
John Curry, Pastor
220 South Olive - Kermit
WESTSIDE CHURCH
OF CHRIST
James Alexander, Minister
914 W. Campbell - Kermit
FREEWILL
BAPTIST CHURCH
Pastor, Charles Jones
1015 W. Campbell - Kermit
ST. PETER’S
EPISCOPAL CHURCH
School & Cecil Streets - Kermit
Services 11:30 a.m.
COMMUNITY CHURCH
Rev. Michael Walker
302 S. Poplar - Kermit
IGLESIA EVANGELICA
DEHOY
Bro. Johathan Castilla
618 Park Ave. - Kermit
Sunday Services -11:00 AM & 3:00
CHURCH OF GOD
OF PROPHECY
Pastor Syble Stone
N. Ash & Dallas - Kermit
Sunday Morning Worship -10:45 a.m.
Sunday Evening - 6 p.m.
Wednesday Eve. Bible Study - 7 p.m.
A Generation who did
not know the Lord!
By Rev. Dudley Mullins
Pastor First Baptist Church
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REV. DUDLEY MULLINS
In Judges 2:10 (NKJV), we
find these words, “When all that
generation had been gathered to
their fathers, another generation
arose after them who did not know
the Lord nor the work which He
had done for Israel.” Joshua’s
generation had gone. The mighty
warrior had died at one hundred
and ten years of age. Finally, all
the elders and all the spiritual
leaders who were with him in that
generation also died. There arose
a generation who did not know
the Lord nor the work which He
had done on their behalf. In many
ways it parallels where we stand
today.
Following World War II
America was a great and powerful
nation. All the world respected
her. God was pouring out His
blessings on her. During those
turbulent years of war America
was a praying nation. Mothers
prayed for their sons in harm’s
way. Prayers were offered in the
halls of government. America’s
churches were well attended. In
the fifties and sixties churches
grew and blossomed and so did
the nation. This was a generation
who was serious about their
relationship with the Lord. God
had delivered them from their
enemies and they were going to
serve Him. I wouldn’t have called
us a Christian nation, but we were
a nation where Christians were
serious about who they were and
made an impact upon society.
Someone has said this, “The
first generation is holy; the second
generation is religious; and the
third generation is godless.”
You might have had a
mother or father, a grandmother
or grandfather who loved the Lord
and served Him. But somehow,
their faith never made it down
to you. Someone has said that
God has no grandchildren. Every
person in every generation must
come to God for themselves
One thing that is difficult for
Christians is passing on our vision
and convictions to our children and
grandchildren. It is a challenging
task for any parent to hand their
faith down to the following
generations. I have known people
who raise their children going
to church and worshipping the
Lord. But now those children are
grown and gone and seldom enter
into a place of worship. Those
children’s children know nothing
of the Lord. To see children
living godly lives as long as their
godly parents live is something
that happens often, but to see that
faith passed down to the following
generation is rare.
Someone has said it like
this, “The second generation has
a natural tendency to accept the
status quo and to lose the vision of
the first generation. Too often the
second-generation experience is a
second-hand experience. Church
history is filled with examples
of it, and sadly, so are many
churches. The parent’s fervor for
the Lord Jesus Christ becomes
the children’s formalism and the
grandchildren’s apathy.”
The words of Judges are
shocking if we actually think
about them: “another generation
arose after them who did not know
the Lord nor the work which He
had done.” That generation had
heard of God’s power, but they
had never witnessed His might.
They knew all the stories, maybe
even sung all the songs of victory,
but they had never experienced
it for themselves. Generations
come and generations go that’s the
natural cycle of things. But every
generation has to experience the
Lord for itself. Every generation
has to have its own personal
relationship with God. Parents
can give their children the
fabric and the thread by which
it is possible to weave a robe of
convictions. You may get the
color of your eyes, the size of your
ears, from your parents but you
don’t get salvation handed down
by heredity. Every generation
must experience regeneration for
itself. Today, far too many have
a second-hand faith. It was real
to their parents, but it’s not real
to them. They may know all the
words. They may intellectually
know it all, but never experienced
it for themselves. Every
generation must experience the
Lord for themselves.
In my life time I have seen
several national events transpire
that caused America to take
notice and turn toward the Lord.
I have seen the assassination of
a President and other national
leaders, I have seen home grown
terrorists hit our heartland and
foreign grown terrorist shake
our nation, I have seen wars, but
as soon as the matter was settled
down our land turned back to the
same old sin and turned away from
the Lord. I have seen this happen
many times in my lifetime.
Moses warned the children
of Israel in Deut. 8:7-18 (NKJV),
“For the Lord your God is bringing
you into a good land, a land of
brooks of water, of fountains and
springs, that flow out of valleys
and hills; a land of wheat and
barley, of vines and fig trees and
pomegranates, a land of olive oil
and honey; a land in which you
will eat bread without scarcity,
in which you will lack nothing; a
land whose stones are iron and out
of whose hills you can dig copper.
When you have eaten and are full,
then you shall bless the Lord your
God for the good land which He
has given you. Beware that you
do not forget the Lord your God by
not keeping His commandments,
His judgments, and His statutes
which I command you today, lest-
-when you have eaten and are full,
and have built beautiful houses
and dwell in them; and when your
herds and your flocks multiply,
and your silver and your gold are
multiplied, and all that you have
is multiplied; when your heart is
lifted up, and you forget the Lord
your God who brought you out of
the land of Egypt, from the house
of bondage; .......then you say in
your heart, ‘My power and the
might of my hand have gained
me this wealth,’ And you shall
remember the Lord your God, for
it is He who gives you power to
get wealth, that He may establish
His covenant which He swore to
your fathers, as it is this day.
Anything neglected decays
including your faith!
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Tuesday Nights - 6 p.m.
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Wink
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Joe Carrasco
Ash at Winkler
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439 N. Mulberry - Kermit
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402 E. Bryan
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1101 Monahans Hwy
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Richard Ray, Pastor
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118 N. Sycamore - Kermit
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