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Monday, August 31, 2009
Powerful Staggering Interview with Leonard Ravenhill
You really should watch this video. It is an answer to what ails the church in America.
Here is an answer that a woman in our church has. She has written a book to bring America to prayer.
America Take Five
Her name is Michele Vento and she is available to come and help your church to enter into this prayer for America and other places.
Saturday, August 29, 2009
A Great Question of Life
Matthew 28:16 - Mark 1:1 (KJV) 16Then the eleven disciples went away into Galilee, into a mountain where Jesus had appointed them. 17And when they saw him, they worshipped him: but some doubted. 18And Jesus came and spake unto them, saying, All power is given unto me in heaven and in earth. 19Go ye therefore, and teach all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost: 20Teaching them to observe all things whatsoever I have commanded you: and, lo, I am with you alway, even unto the end of the world. Amen.
I want to ask a great question of life for the believer in the Lordship of Jesus Christ. If Jesus said He has ALL authority in heaven and in the earth, and He did,then my question for you is this: How much authority does satan have in heaven, in the earth and even under the earth? (Phil 2)
Make a comment on your answer.
Blessings on ya!
Pastor Kitner
I want to ask a great question of life for the believer in the Lordship of Jesus Christ. If Jesus said He has ALL authority in heaven and in the earth, and He did,then my question for you is this: How much authority does satan have in heaven, in the earth and even under the earth? (Phil 2)
Make a comment on your answer.
Blessings on ya!
Pastor Kitner
Friday, August 28, 2009
Concerning Prayer in School - click here snopes
Here is an e-mail someone sent to me today. It is true and the idea conveyed in it is important to us and our Constitutional rights. It also shows the moral decline in our nation.
Blessings on ya!
Pastor Kitner
I FIND IT INTERESTING THAT A HIGH SCHOOL PRINCIPAL CAN SEE THE PROBLEM, BUT OUR SOCIETY CANNOT.
Subject: Tennessee Football !
This is a statement that was read over the PA system at the football game at Roane County High School , Kingston , Tennessee , by school Principal, Jody McLeod
"It has always been the custom at Roane County High School football games, to say a prayer and play the National Anthem, to honor God and Country."
Due to a recent ruling by the Supreme Court, I am told that saying a Prayer is a violation of Federal Case Law. As I understand the law at this time, I can use this public facility to approve of sexual perversion and call it "an alternate life style," and if someone is offended, that's OK.
I can use it to condone sexual promiscuity, by dispensing condoms and calling it, "safe sex.." If someone is offended, that's OK.
I can even use this public facility to present the merits of killing an unborn baby as a "viable! Means of birth control." If someone is offended, no problem...
I can designate a school day as "Earth Day" and involve students in activities to worship religiously and praise the goddess "Mother Earth" and call it "ecology.."
I can use literature, videos and presentations in the classroom that depicts people with strong, traditional Christian convictions as "simple minded" and "ignorant" and call it "enlightenment.."
However, if anyone uses this facility to honor GOD and to ask HIM to Bless this event with safety and good sportsmanship, then Federal Case Law is violated..
This appears to be inconsistent at best, and at worst, diabolical.
Apparently, we are to be tolerant of everything and anyone, except GOD and HIS Commandments.
Nevertheless , as a school principal, I frequently ask staff and students to abide by rules with which they do not necessarily agree. For me to do otherwise would be inconsistent at best, and at worst, hypocritical... I suffer from that affliction enough unintentionally. I certainly do not need to add an intentional transgression.
For this reason, I shall "Render unto Caesar that which is Caesar's," and refrain from praying at this time.
"However, if you feel inspired to honor, praise and thank GOD and ask HIM, in the name of JESUS, to Bless this event, please feel free to do so. As far as I know, that's not against the law----yet."
One by one, the people in the stands bowed their heads, held hands with one another and began to pray.
They prayed in the stands.. They prayed in the team huddles. They prayed at the concession stand and they prayed in the Announcer's Box!
The only place they didn't pray was in the Supreme Court of the United States of America- the Seat of "Justice" in the "one nation, under GOD."
Somehow, Kingston , Tennessee Remembered what so many have forgotten. We are given the Freedom OF Religion, not the Freedom FROM Religion. Praise GOD that HIS remnant remains!
JESUS said, "If you are ashamed of ME before men, then I will be ashamed of you before MY FATHER.."
Blessings on ya!
Pastor Kitner
I FIND IT INTERESTING THAT A HIGH SCHOOL PRINCIPAL CAN SEE THE PROBLEM, BUT OUR SOCIETY CANNOT.
Subject: Tennessee Football !
This is a statement that was read over the PA system at the football game at Roane County High School , Kingston , Tennessee , by school Principal, Jody McLeod
"It has always been the custom at Roane County High School football games, to say a prayer and play the National Anthem, to honor God and Country."
Due to a recent ruling by the Supreme Court, I am told that saying a Prayer is a violation of Federal Case Law. As I understand the law at this time, I can use this public facility to approve of sexual perversion and call it "an alternate life style," and if someone is offended, that's OK.
I can use it to condone sexual promiscuity, by dispensing condoms and calling it, "safe sex.." If someone is offended, that's OK.
I can even use this public facility to present the merits of killing an unborn baby as a "viable! Means of birth control." If someone is offended, no problem...
I can designate a school day as "Earth Day" and involve students in activities to worship religiously and praise the goddess "Mother Earth" and call it "ecology.."
I can use literature, videos and presentations in the classroom that depicts people with strong, traditional Christian convictions as "simple minded" and "ignorant" and call it "enlightenment.."
However, if anyone uses this facility to honor GOD and to ask HIM to Bless this event with safety and good sportsmanship, then Federal Case Law is violated..
This appears to be inconsistent at best, and at worst, diabolical.
Apparently, we are to be tolerant of everything and anyone, except GOD and HIS Commandments.
Nevertheless , as a school principal, I frequently ask staff and students to abide by rules with which they do not necessarily agree. For me to do otherwise would be inconsistent at best, and at worst, hypocritical... I suffer from that affliction enough unintentionally. I certainly do not need to add an intentional transgression.
For this reason, I shall "Render unto Caesar that which is Caesar's," and refrain from praying at this time.
"However, if you feel inspired to honor, praise and thank GOD and ask HIM, in the name of JESUS, to Bless this event, please feel free to do so. As far as I know, that's not against the law----yet."
One by one, the people in the stands bowed their heads, held hands with one another and began to pray.
They prayed in the stands.. They prayed in the team huddles. They prayed at the concession stand and they prayed in the Announcer's Box!
The only place they didn't pray was in the Supreme Court of the United States of America- the Seat of "Justice" in the "one nation, under GOD."
Somehow, Kingston , Tennessee Remembered what so many have forgotten. We are given the Freedom OF Religion, not the Freedom FROM Religion. Praise GOD that HIS remnant remains!
JESUS said, "If you are ashamed of ME before men, then I will be ashamed of you before MY FATHER.."
Tuesday, August 25, 2009
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By the comfort wherewith we ourselves are comforted of God
2 Corinthians 1:1 - 6 (KJV) 1Paul, an apostle of Jesus Christ by the will of God, and Timothy our brother, unto the church of God which is at Corinth, with all the saints which are in all Achaia: 2Grace be to you and peace from God our Father, and from the Lord Jesus Christ. 3Blessed be God, even the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of mercies, and the God of all comfort; 4Who comforteth us in all our tribulation, that we may be able to comfort them which are in any trouble, by the comfort wherewith we ourselves are comforted of God. 5For as the sufferings of Christ abound in us, so our consolation also aboundeth by Christ. 6And whether we be afflicted, it is for your consolation and salvation, which is effectual in the enduring of the same sufferings which we also suffer: or whether we be comforted, it is for your consolation and salvation.
In the trials and tribulations of life, what have you come through? How has God comforted you and enabled you to be of some comfort to others?
I have been through a major heart surgery - a quad bypass and major cancer surgery as well and all in one year. God gave me the grace and a Word that sustained me through everything even to this day after all the surgery and recovery time. That is why I am making myself available to go to whomever necessary to help people understand that God is with them. And that He is able to bring them through the roughest rapids of life that there is and still take them forward in their journey of this life. God comforted me in so many ways and I want to share how He did it with me and encourage others that He will do it for them also.
Let me challenge you also to share, with someone else, what God has done for you in your time of needing comfort and help. There is a blessing waiting to happen in your life.
Blessings on Ya!
Pastor Kitner
I can be contacted at sonforu@verizon.net
In the trials and tribulations of life, what have you come through? How has God comforted you and enabled you to be of some comfort to others?
I have been through a major heart surgery - a quad bypass and major cancer surgery as well and all in one year. God gave me the grace and a Word that sustained me through everything even to this day after all the surgery and recovery time. That is why I am making myself available to go to whomever necessary to help people understand that God is with them. And that He is able to bring them through the roughest rapids of life that there is and still take them forward in their journey of this life. God comforted me in so many ways and I want to share how He did it with me and encourage others that He will do it for them also.
Let me challenge you also to share, with someone else, what God has done for you in your time of needing comfort and help. There is a blessing waiting to happen in your life.
Blessings on Ya!
Pastor Kitner
I can be contacted at sonforu@verizon.net
Saturday, August 22, 2009
Meditate on The Word of God
Meditate on The Word of God
I want to encourage those that are called the church to take to heart what the Bible says about meditating on the Word of God. A lot of what God is saying to the church is missed simply because the believer does not take the time to stop and ponder the Word that they hear or read. For example here is a Bible verse that is well known and is quoted:
Acts 1:8 (KJV) 8But ye shall receive power, after that the Holy Ghost is come upon you: and ye shall be witnesses unto me both in Jerusalem, and in all Judaea, and in Samaria, and unto the uttermost part of the earth.
What is the power and what does it involve in our lives? I have spent the last 3 weeks going over what is involved in the power that we receive after the Holy Spirit comes upon us. “Dunamis” is explosive power or power that is used to change something radically. Miracle power etc.. What we have been looking at is the broader scope of the power both inside and outside of the believer. We have at least one or possibly 2 more weeks to go in our expanded view of this verse.
When you stop to consider the far reaching aspects of the power released to us, in us, and through us, you are able to understand the great commission and the role the believer has in the salvation of others world-wide. You can see the feasibility of preaching the Gospel of the kingdom in all the world for a witness.
Take time to understand who you are in Christ, what you have in Christ, and what you can do in Christ. Your rewards will be great.
Blessings on Ya!
Pastor Kitner
I want to encourage those that are called the church to take to heart what the Bible says about meditating on the Word of God. A lot of what God is saying to the church is missed simply because the believer does not take the time to stop and ponder the Word that they hear or read. For example here is a Bible verse that is well known and is quoted:
Acts 1:8 (KJV) 8But ye shall receive power, after that the Holy Ghost is come upon you: and ye shall be witnesses unto me both in Jerusalem, and in all Judaea, and in Samaria, and unto the uttermost part of the earth.
What is the power and what does it involve in our lives? I have spent the last 3 weeks going over what is involved in the power that we receive after the Holy Spirit comes upon us. “Dunamis” is explosive power or power that is used to change something radically. Miracle power etc.. What we have been looking at is the broader scope of the power both inside and outside of the believer. We have at least one or possibly 2 more weeks to go in our expanded view of this verse.
When you stop to consider the far reaching aspects of the power released to us, in us, and through us, you are able to understand the great commission and the role the believer has in the salvation of others world-wide. You can see the feasibility of preaching the Gospel of the kingdom in all the world for a witness.
Take time to understand who you are in Christ, what you have in Christ, and what you can do in Christ. Your rewards will be great.
Blessings on Ya!
Pastor Kitner
Thursday, August 20, 2009
Victory by Surrender
Victory by Surrender from Granger Community on Vimeo.
Are you moved by this dramatic monologue?
Credits
Actor - Greg Teghtmeyer (a volunteer at Granger)
Soundtrack - Dustin Maust (using stock files)
Script - Kristin Baker
Worship leader - Seth Bible
Song - We Win! by David Crowder Band
Blessings On Ya!
Pastor Kitner
Raising Kids Who Pray - click here
Raising Kids Who Pray Allowing children to pray “out of the box” and straight from the heart By Cheryl Sacks | Wednesday, May 27, 2009 | 6:19 PM EDT
From PurposeDriven.com
"For all their innocence, children’s prayers, though not as articulate as adults’, are worth listening to. Children, it turns out, share many of our same concerns."
Blessings on Ya!
Pastor Kitner
From PurposeDriven.com
"For all their innocence, children’s prayers, though not as articulate as adults’, are worth listening to. Children, it turns out, share many of our same concerns."
Blessings on Ya!
Pastor Kitner
Wednesday, August 19, 2009
Thoughts on Our Bible College, etc. Education System
Perhaps the education system of the worlds environment controls to much of the classroom experience in the Bible schools, colleges and seminaries of the church. The driving force and bottom line in the classroom experience is, more students, for more support, so more students come to our school. Accreditation is the thing or so it would seem. That leads to academics that can replace the Spirit of the Lord and how He, through the Holy Spirit, might lead in the education of the person being taught.
There needs to be a rethinking of the fact that we are in the world and not of it. The training of the twelve was not in the Rabbinical school of the day. The 12 were taught first hand by Jesus and He said that the Holy Spirit would lead into all truth and that the Holy Spirit would bring all things to remembrance that Jesus had taught them.
Just my 2 cents worth. What do you think?
Blessings on ya!
Pastor Kitner
There needs to be a rethinking of the fact that we are in the world and not of it. The training of the twelve was not in the Rabbinical school of the day. The 12 were taught first hand by Jesus and He said that the Holy Spirit would lead into all truth and that the Holy Spirit would bring all things to remembrance that Jesus had taught them.
Just my 2 cents worth. What do you think?
Blessings on ya!
Pastor Kitner
Two denominations — two very different directions - click here
There has been some very different results in how the church is progressing. What I find alarming also is the fact that there are denominations at all. The Bible reveals that there are divisions in the church that ought not to be. Read the Gospel of John and see what the prayer of Jesus is and let me know if you think the church has arrived at this point yet. There are only believers in the Lord Jesus Christ and non-believers. Men have polluted the stream of the water of life with their divisions. Could this be a reason for the Gospel of the kingdom, being so slowly preached around the world given the technology that we have today?
What are your thoughts?
Be Blessed
Pastor Kitner
What are your thoughts?
Be Blessed
Pastor Kitner
How to improve your life in the Lord. - click here
Quote of the Day from Life's Healing Choices
Voluntarily submit to every change God wants to make in my life and humbly ask Him to remove my character defects.
The Holy Spirit is at work producing in you what only He can produce. The Holy Spirit produces the fruit of the Spirit in you. This is the very character and nature of Christ. I must decrease and He must increase.
Galatians 5:22 - 6:1 (KJV) 22But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering, gentleness, goodness, faith, 23Meekness, temperance: against such there is no law. 24And they that are Christ’s have crucified the flesh with the affections and lusts. 25If we live in the Spirit, let us also walk in the Spirit. 26Let us not be desirous of vain glory, provoking one another, envying one another. 1Brethren, if a man be overtaken in a fault, ye which are spiritual, restore such an one in the spirit of meekness; considering thyself, lest thou also be tempted.
Blessings on Ya!
Pastor Kitner
Voluntarily submit to every change God wants to make in my life and humbly ask Him to remove my character defects.
The Holy Spirit is at work producing in you what only He can produce. The Holy Spirit produces the fruit of the Spirit in you. This is the very character and nature of Christ. I must decrease and He must increase.
Galatians 5:22 - 6:1 (KJV) 22But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering, gentleness, goodness, faith, 23Meekness, temperance: against such there is no law. 24And they that are Christ’s have crucified the flesh with the affections and lusts. 25If we live in the Spirit, let us also walk in the Spirit. 26Let us not be desirous of vain glory, provoking one another, envying one another. 1Brethren, if a man be overtaken in a fault, ye which are spiritual, restore such an one in the spirit of meekness; considering thyself, lest thou also be tempted.
Blessings on Ya!
Pastor Kitner
Monday, August 17, 2009
Sexy Survey by Anne Jackson - full article click here
Modesty Survey By Jeff Leake
This has some interesting things shown about church and the way some folks dress.
Check it out.
Blessings on Ya!
Pastor Kitner
This has some interesting things shown about church and the way some folks dress.
Check it out.
Blessings on Ya!
Pastor Kitner
I can help your church!
I am available to preach or speak at churches etc. Just call, e-mail or write to me at.
First Assembly of God
987 Old Wm. Penn Hwy.
Blairsville, Pa. 15717
724-459-6797 -- leave a message and return number to call you back.
E-Mail address first_assembly@verizon.net
I can share how God brought me through both a 4 bypass heart operation and rectal cancer. God is good all the time and all the time God is good.
Blessings on Ya!
Pastor Charles Kitner
First Assembly of God
987 Old Wm. Penn Hwy.
Blairsville, Pa. 15717
724-459-6797 -- leave a message and return number to call you back.
E-Mail address first_assembly@verizon.net
I can share how God brought me through both a 4 bypass heart operation and rectal cancer. God is good all the time and all the time God is good.
Blessings on Ya!
Pastor Charles Kitner
Children Go Where I Send Thee by Tennessee Ernie Ford - click here
Tennessee Ernie Ford was a wonderful singer and had a TV show of his own that we all loved.
This is worth watching.
Nothing was edited back in those days! Ernie's son, Brian, sitting next to Ernie, is priceless.
If you like Tennessee Ernie Ford, you'll love this! For all you young folks who don't know who he is, you really missed something - he was great. Enjoy!!
WATCH THE LITTLE BOY.......HE IS PRICELESS
Thank you Men of God web site for the posting.
Blessings on Ya!
Pastor Kitner
One Time Event Affects Eternity
One time events can be far reaching events. Sometimes we think that everything has to be an ongoing thing. Events carry labels such as "First Annual--" or "Third Annual--" etc. Wethink perhaps that it carries more weight if it is done on an annual basis. Well that may be true in some cases but not in all cases. Read below of the one time event that still carries with it the eternal redemption of all who believe.
Hebrews 9:8 - 15 (KJV) 8The Holy Ghost this signifying, that the way into the holiest of all was not yet made manifest, while as the first tabernacle was yet standing: 9Which was a figure for the time then present, in which were offered both gifts and sacrifices, that could not make him that did the service perfect, as pertaining to the conscience; 10Which stood only in meats and drinks, and divers washings, and carnal ordinances, imposed on them until the time of reformation. 11But Christ being come an high priest of good things to come, by a greater and more perfect tabernacle, not made with hands, that is to say, not of this building; 12Neither by the blood of goats and calves, but by his own blood he entered in once into the holy place, having obtained eternal redemption for us. 13For if the blood of bulls and of goats, and the ashes of an heifer sprinkling the unclean, sanctifieth to the purifying of the flesh: 14How much more shall the blood of Christ, who through the eternal Spirit offered himself without spot to God, purge your conscience from dead works to serve the living God? 15And for this cause he is the mediator of the new testament, that by means of death, for the redemption of the transgressions that were under the first testament, they which are called might receive the promise of eternal inheritance.
Hebrews 9:27 - 10:1 (KJV) 27And as it is appointed unto men once to die, but after this the judgment: 28So Christ was once offered to bear the sins of many; and unto them that look for him shall he appear the second time without sin unto salvation. 1For the law having a shadow of good things to come, and not the very image of the things, can never with those sacrifices which they offered year by year continually make the comers thereunto perfect.
Jesus Christ died once for all for all times.
Hebrews 9:8 - 15 (KJV) 8The Holy Ghost this signifying, that the way into the holiest of all was not yet made manifest, while as the first tabernacle was yet standing: 9Which was a figure for the time then present, in which were offered both gifts and sacrifices, that could not make him that did the service perfect, as pertaining to the conscience; 10Which stood only in meats and drinks, and divers washings, and carnal ordinances, imposed on them until the time of reformation. 11But Christ being come an high priest of good things to come, by a greater and more perfect tabernacle, not made with hands, that is to say, not of this building; 12Neither by the blood of goats and calves, but by his own blood he entered in once into the holy place, having obtained eternal redemption for us. 13For if the blood of bulls and of goats, and the ashes of an heifer sprinkling the unclean, sanctifieth to the purifying of the flesh: 14How much more shall the blood of Christ, who through the eternal Spirit offered himself without spot to God, purge your conscience from dead works to serve the living God? 15And for this cause he is the mediator of the new testament, that by means of death, for the redemption of the transgressions that were under the first testament, they which are called might receive the promise of eternal inheritance.
Hebrews 9:27 - 10:1 (KJV) 27And as it is appointed unto men once to die, but after this the judgment: 28So Christ was once offered to bear the sins of many; and unto them that look for him shall he appear the second time without sin unto salvation. 1For the law having a shadow of good things to come, and not the very image of the things, can never with those sacrifices which they offered year by year continually make the comers thereunto perfect.
Jesus Christ died once for all for all times.
Saturday, August 15, 2009
A Time to Relax Enjoyed.
My wife and I just came back from a short visit to our daughters place in the Winchester Virginia area. The drive was great with beautiful scenery and pleasant weather.
It was a get away for a few days from our hectic schedules and a time of relaxing as well as visiting our daughter and son-in-law. They have a foster child that they are taking care of and she is so prescious. She is actually from Russia and her circumstances are unique to say the least.She is so open to the good things in life. I left her her own personal Bible with devotionals for women in it. Sometimes just a change of scenery and a change from the routine of the everyday life can be so refreshing. We came back rested and ready to go again.
I have a funeral to do on Sunday afternoon at 1:30 PM. It is of a lady that I have helped to wade through some issues of life and one that loved the Lord. So the funeral won't be so hard to do because it can point the way of salvation to those that attend the funeral.
I also have someone filling in for me in the pulpit on Sunday as well. They will be speaking from the book of Revelation. This will be done also every third Sunday of the month.
It was a get away for a few days from our hectic schedules and a time of relaxing as well as visiting our daughter and son-in-law. They have a foster child that they are taking care of and she is so prescious. She is actually from Russia and her circumstances are unique to say the least.She is so open to the good things in life. I left her her own personal Bible with devotionals for women in it. Sometimes just a change of scenery and a change from the routine of the everyday life can be so refreshing. We came back rested and ready to go again.
I have a funeral to do on Sunday afternoon at 1:30 PM. It is of a lady that I have helped to wade through some issues of life and one that loved the Lord. So the funeral won't be so hard to do because it can point the way of salvation to those that attend the funeral.
I also have someone filling in for me in the pulpit on Sunday as well. They will be speaking from the book of Revelation. This will be done also every third Sunday of the month.
Wednesday, August 12, 2009
A 92 year old preacher speaks
Author is unknown to me:
While watching a little TV on Sunday instead of going to church, I watched a church in Atlanta honoring one of its senior pastors who had been retired many years. He was 92 at that time and I wondered why the church even bothered to ask the old gentleman to preach at that age.
After a warm welcome, introduction of this speaker, and as the applause quieted down, he rose from his high back chair and walked slowly, with great effort and a sliding gait to the podium. Without a note or written paper of any kind he placed both hands on the pulpit to steady himself and then quietly and slowly he began to speak.....
"When I was asked to come here today and talk to you, your pastor asked me to tell you what was the greatest lesson ever learned in my 50-odd years of preaching. I thought about it for a few days and boiled it down to just one thing that made the most difference in my life and sustained me through all my trials. The one thing that I could always rely on when tears and heartbreak and pain and fear and sorrow paralyzed me... the only thing that would comfort was this verse..........
"Jesus loves me this I know.
For the Bible tells me so.
Little ones to Him belong,
we are weak but He is strong.....
Yes, Jesus loves me....
The Bible tells me so."
When he finished, the church was quiet.. You actually could hear his foot steps as he shuffled back to his chair. I don't believe I will ever forget it.
A pastor once stated, "I always noticed that it was the adults who chose the children's hymn 'Jesus Loves Me' (for the children of course) during a hymn sing, and it was the adults who sang the loudest because I could see they knew it the best."
"Senior version of Jesus Loves Me"
Here is a new version just for us who have white hair or no hair at all.. For us over middle age (or even those almost there) and all you others, check out this newest version of Jesus Loves Me.
JESUS LOVES ME
Jesus loves me, this I know,
Though my hair is white as snow
Though my sight is growing dim,
Still He bids me trust in Him.
(CHORUS)
YES, JESUS LOVES ME.. YES, JESUS LOVES ME..
YES, JESUS LOVES ME, FOR THE BIBLE TELLS ME SO.
Though my steps are oh, so slow,
With my hand in His I'll go
On through life, let come what may,
He'll be there to lead the way.
(CHORUS)
When the nights are dark and long,
In my heart He puts a song..
Telling me in words so clear,
"Have no fear, for I am near."
(CHORUS)
When my work on earth is done,
And life's victories have been won.
He will take me home above,
Then I'll understand His love.
(CHORUS)
I love Jesus, does He know?
Have I ever told Him so?
Jesus loves to hear me say,
That I love Him every day.
(CHORUS)
God Bless Us All!!!
Pastor Kitner
While watching a little TV on Sunday instead of going to church, I watched a church in Atlanta honoring one of its senior pastors who had been retired many years. He was 92 at that time and I wondered why the church even bothered to ask the old gentleman to preach at that age.
After a warm welcome, introduction of this speaker, and as the applause quieted down, he rose from his high back chair and walked slowly, with great effort and a sliding gait to the podium. Without a note or written paper of any kind he placed both hands on the pulpit to steady himself and then quietly and slowly he began to speak.....
"When I was asked to come here today and talk to you, your pastor asked me to tell you what was the greatest lesson ever learned in my 50-odd years of preaching. I thought about it for a few days and boiled it down to just one thing that made the most difference in my life and sustained me through all my trials. The one thing that I could always rely on when tears and heartbreak and pain and fear and sorrow paralyzed me... the only thing that would comfort was this verse..........
"Jesus loves me this I know.
For the Bible tells me so.
Little ones to Him belong,
we are weak but He is strong.....
Yes, Jesus loves me....
The Bible tells me so."
When he finished, the church was quiet.. You actually could hear his foot steps as he shuffled back to his chair. I don't believe I will ever forget it.
A pastor once stated, "I always noticed that it was the adults who chose the children's hymn 'Jesus Loves Me' (for the children of course) during a hymn sing, and it was the adults who sang the loudest because I could see they knew it the best."
"Senior version of Jesus Loves Me"
Here is a new version just for us who have white hair or no hair at all.. For us over middle age (or even those almost there) and all you others, check out this newest version of Jesus Loves Me.
JESUS LOVES ME
Jesus loves me, this I know,
Though my hair is white as snow
Though my sight is growing dim,
Still He bids me trust in Him.
(CHORUS)
YES, JESUS LOVES ME.. YES, JESUS LOVES ME..
YES, JESUS LOVES ME, FOR THE BIBLE TELLS ME SO.
Though my steps are oh, so slow,
With my hand in His I'll go
On through life, let come what may,
He'll be there to lead the way.
(CHORUS)
When the nights are dark and long,
In my heart He puts a song..
Telling me in words so clear,
"Have no fear, for I am near."
(CHORUS)
When my work on earth is done,
And life's victories have been won.
He will take me home above,
Then I'll understand His love.
(CHORUS)
I love Jesus, does He know?
Have I ever told Him so?
Jesus loves to hear me say,
That I love Him every day.
(CHORUS)
God Bless Us All!!!
Pastor Kitner
Tuesday, August 11, 2009
Truth - Can You Handle it?
Time is short - choose you this day whom you will serve. Do you love the truth?
2 Thessalonians 2:3 - 12 (KJV) 3Let no man deceive you by any means: for that day shall not come, except there come a falling away first, and that man of sin be revealed, the son of perdition; 4Who opposeth and exalteth himself above all that is called God, or that is worshipped; so that he as God sitteth in the temple of God, showing himself that he is God. 5Remember ye not, that, when I was yet with you, I told you these things? 6And now ye know what withholdeth that he might be revealed in his time. 7For the mystery of iniquity doth already work: only he who now letteth will let, until he be taken out of the way. 8And then shall that Wicked be revealed, whom the Lord shall consume with the spirit of his mouth, and shall destroy with the brightness of his coming: 9Even him, whose coming is after the working of Satan with all power and signs and lying wonders, 10And with all deceivableness of unrighteousness in them that perish; because they received not the love of the truth, that they might be saved. 11And for this cause God shall send them strong delusion, that they should believe a lie: 12That they all might be damned who believed not the truth, but had pleasure in unrighteousness.
The church is not as powerful in the earth as it ought to be because of the compromise of the truth. When Jesus sent the Holy Spirit, He is called the Spirit of truth. Do we walk in the Spirit thus walk in truth or do we compromise the truth for the sake of someone to feel good for a short time?
We need to be lovers of truth!
If there is to be a revival and an awakening it must be to truth and repentence.
Who do we serve?
Romans 12:1 - 3 (KJV) 1I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, that ye present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable unto God, which is your reasonable service. 2And be not conformed to this world: but be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind, that ye may prove what is that good, and acceptable, and perfect, will of God. 3For I say, through the grace given unto me, to every man that is among you, not to think of himself more highly than he ought to think; but to think soberly, according as God hath dealt to every man the measure of faith.
Truth is eternal and if there is a downside it is only to those that are serving the flesh and will not come to truth.
We are to be seperated unto the Lord and we are called not to compromise even if it means our physical death. As it has been said, there is no king but Jesus! Remember the three Hebrew children that were thrown into the firey furnace.. they were thrown in but......
Part of the working out of our own salvation has to do with making decisions to do what is right regardless of what the world thinks of it. We are not called to fit in but we are called out of this world and are in it but not of it.
2 John 1:1 - 4 (KJV) 1The elder unto the elect lady and her children, whom I love in the truth; and not I only, but also all they that have known the truth; 2For the truth’s sake, which dwelleth in us, and shall be with us for ever. 3Grace be with you, mercy, and peace, from God the Father, and from the Lord Jesus Christ, the Son of the Father, in truth and love. 4I rejoiced greatly that I found of thy children walking in truth, as we have received a commandment from the Father.
Walk in truth!
Blessings on Ya!
Pastor Kitner
2 Thessalonians 2:3 - 12 (KJV) 3Let no man deceive you by any means: for that day shall not come, except there come a falling away first, and that man of sin be revealed, the son of perdition; 4Who opposeth and exalteth himself above all that is called God, or that is worshipped; so that he as God sitteth in the temple of God, showing himself that he is God. 5Remember ye not, that, when I was yet with you, I told you these things? 6And now ye know what withholdeth that he might be revealed in his time. 7For the mystery of iniquity doth already work: only he who now letteth will let, until he be taken out of the way. 8And then shall that Wicked be revealed, whom the Lord shall consume with the spirit of his mouth, and shall destroy with the brightness of his coming: 9Even him, whose coming is after the working of Satan with all power and signs and lying wonders, 10And with all deceivableness of unrighteousness in them that perish; because they received not the love of the truth, that they might be saved. 11And for this cause God shall send them strong delusion, that they should believe a lie: 12That they all might be damned who believed not the truth, but had pleasure in unrighteousness.
The church is not as powerful in the earth as it ought to be because of the compromise of the truth. When Jesus sent the Holy Spirit, He is called the Spirit of truth. Do we walk in the Spirit thus walk in truth or do we compromise the truth for the sake of someone to feel good for a short time?
We need to be lovers of truth!
If there is to be a revival and an awakening it must be to truth and repentence.
Who do we serve?
Romans 12:1 - 3 (KJV) 1I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, that ye present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable unto God, which is your reasonable service. 2And be not conformed to this world: but be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind, that ye may prove what is that good, and acceptable, and perfect, will of God. 3For I say, through the grace given unto me, to every man that is among you, not to think of himself more highly than he ought to think; but to think soberly, according as God hath dealt to every man the measure of faith.
Truth is eternal and if there is a downside it is only to those that are serving the flesh and will not come to truth.
We are to be seperated unto the Lord and we are called not to compromise even if it means our physical death. As it has been said, there is no king but Jesus! Remember the three Hebrew children that were thrown into the firey furnace.. they were thrown in but......
Part of the working out of our own salvation has to do with making decisions to do what is right regardless of what the world thinks of it. We are not called to fit in but we are called out of this world and are in it but not of it.
2 John 1:1 - 4 (KJV) 1The elder unto the elect lady and her children, whom I love in the truth; and not I only, but also all they that have known the truth; 2For the truth’s sake, which dwelleth in us, and shall be with us for ever. 3Grace be with you, mercy, and peace, from God the Father, and from the Lord Jesus Christ, the Son of the Father, in truth and love. 4I rejoiced greatly that I found of thy children walking in truth, as we have received a commandment from the Father.
Walk in truth!
Blessings on Ya!
Pastor Kitner
Monday, August 10, 2009
I am Looking for New Opportunities
I am available to preach or speak at churches etc. Just call, e-mail or write to me at.
First Assembly of God
987 Old Wm. Penn Hwy.
Blairsville, Pa. 15717
724-459-6797 -- leave a message and return number to call you back.
E-Mail address first_assembly@verizon.net
First Assembly of God
987 Old Wm. Penn Hwy.
Blairsville, Pa. 15717
724-459-6797 -- leave a message and return number to call you back.
E-Mail address first_assembly@verizon.net
Sunday, August 9, 2009
What's in Your Hand
What is in your hand? That is the question that God asked Moses and it is the question that He is asking you today as you read this post.
How you respond to God is what will determine the course of your life. If you lay it all down then God will make it come alive for you but if you hold it then it will remain dead. When Moses threw the staff down it turned into a living thing and God said to pick it back up. From that time on the staff of Moses was called the rod of God. It was used to do what ever God wanted to accomplish through Moses from that point as well.
We would do good to throw down what ever is in our hand so God can make it come alive and then we can accomplish whatever God wants done.
THINK ABOUT IT and don't hold anything back from God.
Blessings on Ya!
Pastor kitner
How you respond to God is what will determine the course of your life. If you lay it all down then God will make it come alive for you but if you hold it then it will remain dead. When Moses threw the staff down it turned into a living thing and God said to pick it back up. From that time on the staff of Moses was called the rod of God. It was used to do what ever God wanted to accomplish through Moses from that point as well.
We would do good to throw down what ever is in our hand so God can make it come alive and then we can accomplish whatever God wants done.
THINK ABOUT IT and don't hold anything back from God.
Blessings on Ya!
Pastor kitner
Saturday, August 8, 2009
Temple Institute - click here
Want to learn about the Temple then check out the Temple Institute web site.
Blessings on Ya!
Pastor Kitner
Blessings on Ya!
Pastor Kitner
General Council Videos - click here for more videos
This video is long but it is worth listening to. It is the entire Rick Warren session at the 2009 General Council of the A/G
Official A/G website
Friday, August 7, 2009
How is America going to end? click here
America news an Awakening Spiritually and mentally. The floor, like on what used to be the Rotor Kennywood Park, is dpoping and the people are sticking to the sides as the nations spins round and round.
Blessings on Ya!
Pastor Kitner
Pray for an American and world wide awakening. Check this out and sign up to pray.
America Take Five
Blessings on Ya!
Pastor Kitner
Pray for an American and world wide awakening. Check this out and sign up to pray.
America Take Five
Rick Warren and Scott Wilson interview about Twitter
Twitter: Does it have value to those in ministry?
Check it out here today.
Blessings on ya!
Pastor Kitner
The Trip of a Lifetime - click here
Travel along with Janet Paschal to see what this trip is all about.
Blessings on Ya!
Pastor Kitner
Blessings on Ya!
Pastor Kitner
Pa Awake - click here
Check this out. It is a powerful promotional video for a Statewide Day of Worship & Prayer on Sept 26, 2009 12:00-6:00.
Wednesday, August 5, 2009
Dems confess hopes to eliminate private healthcare
Click on the above title to see where the Democrates want healthcare to go.
Monday, August 3, 2009
Questions to ask your Senators and Representative about ObamaCare - Click here
Dear Charles,
My friend Gary Bauer has proposed some questions for you to ask your Senators and Representative about ObamaCare. I'm asking all AFA supporters to get a group together and go to your Senators and Representative offices and ask these questions. Most Senators and Representatives have Townhall meetings in their district during their August break. Get the schedule and attend the meetings. Urge others to do the same. Have different groups at different locations to ask these questions to make sure the Congressman is consistent.
Here are Gary's recommendations. Yesterday, President Obama conceded that there probably won't be a vote on healthcare reform until "the end of September or the middle of October." That means you have August to attend town hall meetings with your representative and senators, stop by their congressional offices, write letters to the editor and educate your friends and family members about the dangers of socialized medicine. To help you in that effort, we’ve produced a short list of key concerns and questions, which are copied below. Please share this report with like-minded folks and those who may be undecided and willing to listen. Thank you for everything you do to defend our shared values in your community!
1. ABORTION
Pro-choice groups, like NARAL and Planned Parenthood, are demanding that abortion be covered in any healthcare reform bill. In a recent interview with Politico, Laurie Rubiner, vice president for public policy and advocacy at Planned Parenthood, defends this demand by saying, "the alternative would be slashing benefits for millions of women who currently have [private] coverage for abortions..." In addition, key administration officials refuse to rule out abortion coverage. When asked on Fox News Sunday whether taxpayer money would go to pay for abortions, White House Budget Director Peter Orszag replied, "I am not prepared to say explicitly that right now. It's obviously a controversial issue, and it's one of the questions that is playing out in this debate."
Pro-life senators on the Senate's Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee forced a roll call vote on the issue when Senator Barbara Mikulski (D-MD) attempted to add an amendment to the healthcare bill that would, in her words, "include women's health clinics that provide comprehensive services...deemed medically necessary or appropriate." She admitted that such "health clinics" would include Planned Parenthood. The pro-life amendment to prohibit funding of abortion lost 11-to-12.
Question for your Congressmen: Will you oppose any healthcare reform bill that uses my tax dollars to pay for abortions?
2. EUTHANASIA
In a recent New York Post column, Betsy McCaughey, a former lieutenant governor of New York and health care expert, wrote:
"One troubling provision of the House bill compels seniors to submit to a counseling session every five years (and more often if they become sick or go into a nursing home) about alternatives for end-of-life care (House bill, p. 425-430). The sessions cover highly sensitive matters such as whether to receive antibiotics and 'the use of artificially administered nutrition and hydration.' This mandate invites abuse, and seniors could easily be pushed to refuse care."
Question for your Congressmen: Will you oppose any healthcare reform bill that in any way promotes euthanasia?
3. COST
The United States faces a debt crisis. According to many analysts, including Senator Judd Gregg (who is so respected by President Obama that he offered Gregg the post of Secretary of Commerce), the Obama budget will give us $11 trillion of debt at the end of five years and $17 trillion of debt at the end of ten years. (Source: PolitiFact.com)
Question for your Congressmen: Why is Congress and the president pushing through a healthcare bill that would cost another trillion dollars over the next ten years? Shouldn't we concentrate on getting the debt under control first?
4. RATIONING CARE
According to a July 15th report by The Hill, "The House bill would be paid for by roughly $500 billion in Medicare and Medicaid cuts..." These "cuts" would come as millions of Americans are retiring. Logic suggests that if we are "cutting" hundreds of billions of dollars healthcare would have to be limited or rationed in someway to accommodate more people. And seniors would be most affected by Medicare cuts.
In addition, advisors to President Obama, such as Dr. Ezekiel Emanuel, brother of White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel, have suggested that healthcare should be rationed to certain individuals. Dr. Emanuel once wrote that "services provided to individuals who are irreversibly prevented from being or becoming participating citizens...should not be guaranteed. An obvious example is not guaranteeing health services to patients with dementia."
(Source: http://www.ncpa.org/pdfs/Where_Civic_Republicanism_and_Deliberative_Democracy_Meet.pdf)
Question for your Congressmen: How can government promise to do more with less? Will you oppose any healthcare reform bill that in any way limits my access to healthcare or medicines recommended by my doctor?
5. MORE BURDENS ON SMALL BUSINESSES
Despite a 9.5% (and rising) unemployment rate, the healthcare bill in the House imposes a new 8% payroll tax on small businesses with payrolls of $400,000 or more that don't provide health insurance for their employees. This is in addition to the current 15% payroll tax. What this means is that any employer with a payroll of $400,000 dollars or higher will have to pay at least 25% above the salary just to hire someone. Common sense tells you that any struggling small business will likely lay off workers to avoid this additional tax. On the other hand, if the tax is cheaper than the cost of health insurance, larger businesses may opt to cancel their health insurance, forcing employees into the government’s "public option," and simply pay the 8% fine. (Source: Wall Street Journal, July 15, 2009)
Question for your Congressmen: Why are you imposing additional mandates and taxes on small businesses, which create the overwhelming majority of new jobs, in the middle of a severe recession?
6. QUALITY CARE
American healthcare is better than that in European countries with socialized medicine. The German breast cancer mortality rate is 52% higher than in the United States. Prostate cancer mortality is 604% higher in the United Kingdom and 457% higher in Norway than in the United States. Canadian healthcare lags behind the United States too. Canadian patients wait twice as long to see a specialist for hip surgery or cancer than we do in the United States. Most Americans say they are satisfied with the U.S. health care system, but more than 70% of Germans, Canadians, Australians, New Zealanders and Britons say that their systems need "fundamental change" or "complete rebuilding." (Source: National Center for Policy Analysis.)
In an editorial on July 26th, the Washington Post criticized President Obama for not "leveling about the consequences of change" when it comes to healthcare costs versus quality. Here's what the Post wrote: "The Congressional Budget Office estimates that new technology accounts for about half the increase in health-care costs over the past several decades. This, for the most part, is a good thing. Adjusted for inflation, health-care spending per person is six times what it was 40 years ago. But no one today would settle for 1960s-style medicine."
Question for your Congressmen: Why are you trying to force us in the direction of more government involvement in healthcare when everywhere government-run healthcare has been tried, quality declines and care is rationed?
7. THE PEOPLE ARE BEING IGNORED
According to a recent poll, just 23% of voters believe healthcare reform legislation will lower costs, while 53% believe it will lead to more expensive care. By a margin of 50% to 23%, voters believe that "reform" legislation will make the quality of care decline. And while voters believe they will get worse care at higher costs, 78% also believe that healthcare reform will result in middle class tax hikes. In addition, a recent Fox News poll found that 91% of those surveyed have health insurance, 84% said that the quality of their health insurance was either excellent or good and 83% said the quality of health care they receive from their private insurance is either good or excellent. And only 12% of those surveyed said reforming health care was the most important issue Congress should be working on right now. (Source: Rasmussen Reports, July 28, 2009 and Fox News poll July 23, 2009.)
Question for your Congressmen: Why are you and the White House rushing this bill through Congress and ignoring the concerns of the American people?
8. LOSS OF FREEDOM
The healthcare reform legislation under consideration in the House will eventually force all Americans into a government-approved plan. After a five-year grace period, every new insurance policy will have to comply with government mandates, and any policy changes – "altering co-pays, deductibles, or even switching coverage for this or that drug" – invalidates your previous coverage and forces you to choose a government "qualified" plan. In addition, the House plan mandates coverage for every individual. If you are self-employed or choose not buy insurance for whatever reason, the bill imposes a "healthcare tax" of 2.5% of your income. (Source: CNNMoney.com, July 24, 2009 and Bloomberg.com, July 15, 2009)
Question for your Congressmen: Why do you believe bureaucrats can make better decisions than me about what kind of health insurance I should have? And will you guarantee that any healthcare reform bill passed by Congress will always allow me to choose my own doctor?
9. RACIAL PREFERENCES
Do you care about the race of a doctor who is getting ready to operate on you? Of course not. Most Americans want their doctor to be the best professional available regardless of race or ethnic background. But congressional liberals have a different idea. On page 909 of the House bill, grants to medical schools will be awarded "to entities that have a demonstrated record of the following...training individuals who are from underrepresented minority groups or disadvantaged backgrounds." (Source: Investors Business Daily, July 27, 2009)
Question for your Congressmen: Why are you throwing affirmative action/racial set asides into a healthcare reform bill?
10. PRE-EXISTING CONDITIONS
President Obama has repeatedly said that "no insurance company will be allowed to deny you coverage because of a pre-existing medical condition." That sounds wonderful until you apply common sense, which is in short supply in Washington. What if we made a law that allowed you to buy car insurance after you got into an accident and that required the insurance company to pay for the damage? Wouldn’t many people just wait for an accident before buying insurance? Why wouldn’t many Americans wait until they were sick to buy health insurance?
Question for your Congressmen: Isn't it clear that this provision would drive up the cost of health insurance for everyone?
Sincerely,
Donald E. Wildmon,
Founder and Chairman
American Family Association
My friend Gary Bauer has proposed some questions for you to ask your Senators and Representative about ObamaCare. I'm asking all AFA supporters to get a group together and go to your Senators and Representative offices and ask these questions. Most Senators and Representatives have Townhall meetings in their district during their August break. Get the schedule and attend the meetings. Urge others to do the same. Have different groups at different locations to ask these questions to make sure the Congressman is consistent.
Here are Gary's recommendations. Yesterday, President Obama conceded that there probably won't be a vote on healthcare reform until "the end of September or the middle of October." That means you have August to attend town hall meetings with your representative and senators, stop by their congressional offices, write letters to the editor and educate your friends and family members about the dangers of socialized medicine. To help you in that effort, we’ve produced a short list of key concerns and questions, which are copied below. Please share this report with like-minded folks and those who may be undecided and willing to listen. Thank you for everything you do to defend our shared values in your community!
1. ABORTION
Pro-choice groups, like NARAL and Planned Parenthood, are demanding that abortion be covered in any healthcare reform bill. In a recent interview with Politico, Laurie Rubiner, vice president for public policy and advocacy at Planned Parenthood, defends this demand by saying, "the alternative would be slashing benefits for millions of women who currently have [private] coverage for abortions..." In addition, key administration officials refuse to rule out abortion coverage. When asked on Fox News Sunday whether taxpayer money would go to pay for abortions, White House Budget Director Peter Orszag replied, "I am not prepared to say explicitly that right now. It's obviously a controversial issue, and it's one of the questions that is playing out in this debate."
Pro-life senators on the Senate's Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee forced a roll call vote on the issue when Senator Barbara Mikulski (D-MD) attempted to add an amendment to the healthcare bill that would, in her words, "include women's health clinics that provide comprehensive services...deemed medically necessary or appropriate." She admitted that such "health clinics" would include Planned Parenthood. The pro-life amendment to prohibit funding of abortion lost 11-to-12.
Question for your Congressmen: Will you oppose any healthcare reform bill that uses my tax dollars to pay for abortions?
2. EUTHANASIA
In a recent New York Post column, Betsy McCaughey, a former lieutenant governor of New York and health care expert, wrote:
"One troubling provision of the House bill compels seniors to submit to a counseling session every five years (and more often if they become sick or go into a nursing home) about alternatives for end-of-life care (House bill, p. 425-430). The sessions cover highly sensitive matters such as whether to receive antibiotics and 'the use of artificially administered nutrition and hydration.' This mandate invites abuse, and seniors could easily be pushed to refuse care."
Question for your Congressmen: Will you oppose any healthcare reform bill that in any way promotes euthanasia?
3. COST
The United States faces a debt crisis. According to many analysts, including Senator Judd Gregg (who is so respected by President Obama that he offered Gregg the post of Secretary of Commerce), the Obama budget will give us $11 trillion of debt at the end of five years and $17 trillion of debt at the end of ten years. (Source: PolitiFact.com)
Question for your Congressmen: Why is Congress and the president pushing through a healthcare bill that would cost another trillion dollars over the next ten years? Shouldn't we concentrate on getting the debt under control first?
4. RATIONING CARE
According to a July 15th report by The Hill, "The House bill would be paid for by roughly $500 billion in Medicare and Medicaid cuts..." These "cuts" would come as millions of Americans are retiring. Logic suggests that if we are "cutting" hundreds of billions of dollars healthcare would have to be limited or rationed in someway to accommodate more people. And seniors would be most affected by Medicare cuts.
In addition, advisors to President Obama, such as Dr. Ezekiel Emanuel, brother of White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel, have suggested that healthcare should be rationed to certain individuals. Dr. Emanuel once wrote that "services provided to individuals who are irreversibly prevented from being or becoming participating citizens...should not be guaranteed. An obvious example is not guaranteeing health services to patients with dementia."
(Source: http://www.ncpa.org/pdfs/Where_Civic_Republicanism_and_Deliberative_Democracy_Meet.pdf)
Question for your Congressmen: How can government promise to do more with less? Will you oppose any healthcare reform bill that in any way limits my access to healthcare or medicines recommended by my doctor?
5. MORE BURDENS ON SMALL BUSINESSES
Despite a 9.5% (and rising) unemployment rate, the healthcare bill in the House imposes a new 8% payroll tax on small businesses with payrolls of $400,000 or more that don't provide health insurance for their employees. This is in addition to the current 15% payroll tax. What this means is that any employer with a payroll of $400,000 dollars or higher will have to pay at least 25% above the salary just to hire someone. Common sense tells you that any struggling small business will likely lay off workers to avoid this additional tax. On the other hand, if the tax is cheaper than the cost of health insurance, larger businesses may opt to cancel their health insurance, forcing employees into the government’s "public option," and simply pay the 8% fine. (Source: Wall Street Journal, July 15, 2009)
Question for your Congressmen: Why are you imposing additional mandates and taxes on small businesses, which create the overwhelming majority of new jobs, in the middle of a severe recession?
6. QUALITY CARE
American healthcare is better than that in European countries with socialized medicine. The German breast cancer mortality rate is 52% higher than in the United States. Prostate cancer mortality is 604% higher in the United Kingdom and 457% higher in Norway than in the United States. Canadian healthcare lags behind the United States too. Canadian patients wait twice as long to see a specialist for hip surgery or cancer than we do in the United States. Most Americans say they are satisfied with the U.S. health care system, but more than 70% of Germans, Canadians, Australians, New Zealanders and Britons say that their systems need "fundamental change" or "complete rebuilding." (Source: National Center for Policy Analysis.)
In an editorial on July 26th, the Washington Post criticized President Obama for not "leveling about the consequences of change" when it comes to healthcare costs versus quality. Here's what the Post wrote: "The Congressional Budget Office estimates that new technology accounts for about half the increase in health-care costs over the past several decades. This, for the most part, is a good thing. Adjusted for inflation, health-care spending per person is six times what it was 40 years ago. But no one today would settle for 1960s-style medicine."
Question for your Congressmen: Why are you trying to force us in the direction of more government involvement in healthcare when everywhere government-run healthcare has been tried, quality declines and care is rationed?
7. THE PEOPLE ARE BEING IGNORED
According to a recent poll, just 23% of voters believe healthcare reform legislation will lower costs, while 53% believe it will lead to more expensive care. By a margin of 50% to 23%, voters believe that "reform" legislation will make the quality of care decline. And while voters believe they will get worse care at higher costs, 78% also believe that healthcare reform will result in middle class tax hikes. In addition, a recent Fox News poll found that 91% of those surveyed have health insurance, 84% said that the quality of their health insurance was either excellent or good and 83% said the quality of health care they receive from their private insurance is either good or excellent. And only 12% of those surveyed said reforming health care was the most important issue Congress should be working on right now. (Source: Rasmussen Reports, July 28, 2009 and Fox News poll July 23, 2009.)
Question for your Congressmen: Why are you and the White House rushing this bill through Congress and ignoring the concerns of the American people?
8. LOSS OF FREEDOM
The healthcare reform legislation under consideration in the House will eventually force all Americans into a government-approved plan. After a five-year grace period, every new insurance policy will have to comply with government mandates, and any policy changes – "altering co-pays, deductibles, or even switching coverage for this or that drug" – invalidates your previous coverage and forces you to choose a government "qualified" plan. In addition, the House plan mandates coverage for every individual. If you are self-employed or choose not buy insurance for whatever reason, the bill imposes a "healthcare tax" of 2.5% of your income. (Source: CNNMoney.com, July 24, 2009 and Bloomberg.com, July 15, 2009)
Question for your Congressmen: Why do you believe bureaucrats can make better decisions than me about what kind of health insurance I should have? And will you guarantee that any healthcare reform bill passed by Congress will always allow me to choose my own doctor?
9. RACIAL PREFERENCES
Do you care about the race of a doctor who is getting ready to operate on you? Of course not. Most Americans want their doctor to be the best professional available regardless of race or ethnic background. But congressional liberals have a different idea. On page 909 of the House bill, grants to medical schools will be awarded "to entities that have a demonstrated record of the following...training individuals who are from underrepresented minority groups or disadvantaged backgrounds." (Source: Investors Business Daily, July 27, 2009)
Question for your Congressmen: Why are you throwing affirmative action/racial set asides into a healthcare reform bill?
10. PRE-EXISTING CONDITIONS
President Obama has repeatedly said that "no insurance company will be allowed to deny you coverage because of a pre-existing medical condition." That sounds wonderful until you apply common sense, which is in short supply in Washington. What if we made a law that allowed you to buy car insurance after you got into an accident and that required the insurance company to pay for the damage? Wouldn’t many people just wait for an accident before buying insurance? Why wouldn’t many Americans wait until they were sick to buy health insurance?
Question for your Congressmen: Isn't it clear that this provision would drive up the cost of health insurance for everyone?
Sincerely,
Donald E. Wildmon,
Founder and Chairman
American Family Association
Sunday, August 2, 2009
Is America a Christian nation? click here
What direction has America taken in the last several years even decades?
I believe that the average American has been and is deceived into thinking that this nation and its leaders can do no wrong. The good that once was called such is now being called evil and the evil that once was is now being called good.
America needs an awakening as to what truth really is. PRAY for AMERICANS!
Check this website out and sign up to pray and get the book. AMERICA TAKE 5
Think about it!
Pastor Kitner
I believe that the average American has been and is deceived into thinking that this nation and its leaders can do no wrong. The good that once was called such is now being called evil and the evil that once was is now being called good.
America needs an awakening as to what truth really is. PRAY for AMERICANS!
Check this website out and sign up to pray and get the book. AMERICA TAKE 5
Think about it!
Pastor Kitner
Endeavor to Walk in Love
Ephesians 5:1 - 2 (KJV) 1Be ye therefore followers of God, as dear children; 2And walk in love, as Christ also hath loved us, and hath given himself for us an offering and a sacrifice to God for a sweetsmelling savour.
2 John 1:5 - 6 (NIV) 5And now, dear lady, I am not writing you a new command but one we have had from the beginning. I ask that we love one another. 6And this is love: that we walk in obedience to his commands. As you have heard from the beginning, his command is that you walk in love.
As we walk in the love of God that has been shed abroad in our hearts, by the Holy Spirit, we begin to see that love is not out of our emotions and/or our feelings.
Love is much greater than just those things and that is why true love has power that is released in it. God's love has forgiveness built into it. Self serving love does not and loves with conditions placed in it. God's love is such that because He is Love that He loves regardless of ........ the church is to live out this kind of love. We tend to be very opinionated about people and make emotional evaluations instead of reacting with the Spirit of the Lord who dwells in us.
God bless you as you endeavor to walk in love....
PS there is only one fruit of the Spirit and it is all intertwined..love,joy,peace etc
Another PS We are not to reflect God's love as some teach, but when people see us they should see Jesus just as Jesus said if you have seen me you have seen the Father. In other words it is no longer I that liveth but Christ that liveth in me.
Thus love is lived out not reflected.
Love is powerful! Blessings on Ya!
Pastor Kitner
2 John 1:5 - 6 (NIV) 5And now, dear lady, I am not writing you a new command but one we have had from the beginning. I ask that we love one another. 6And this is love: that we walk in obedience to his commands. As you have heard from the beginning, his command is that you walk in love.
As we walk in the love of God that has been shed abroad in our hearts, by the Holy Spirit, we begin to see that love is not out of our emotions and/or our feelings.
Love is much greater than just those things and that is why true love has power that is released in it. God's love has forgiveness built into it. Self serving love does not and loves with conditions placed in it. God's love is such that because He is Love that He loves regardless of ........ the church is to live out this kind of love. We tend to be very opinionated about people and make emotional evaluations instead of reacting with the Spirit of the Lord who dwells in us.
God bless you as you endeavor to walk in love....
PS there is only one fruit of the Spirit and it is all intertwined..love,joy,peace etc
Another PS We are not to reflect God's love as some teach, but when people see us they should see Jesus just as Jesus said if you have seen me you have seen the Father. In other words it is no longer I that liveth but Christ that liveth in me.
Thus love is lived out not reflected.
Love is powerful! Blessings on Ya!
Pastor Kitner
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