Wake up call.

Dear Ms. Feinstein,
Instead of wasting my tax money trying to steal my guns from me, why don't you use your power to arrest Erick Holder for the murders that were committed with the illegal guns he gave to the Mexican drug lords (remember one of those murders were one of OUR border patrol agents). You can also prosecute Hillary Clinton for the murders and cover ups that cost us the lives of 4 American citizens. You can also arrest Barrack Obama for his part in both of these tragedies, and for his efforts in covering up all of these murders. When you get these criminals in their jail cells please join them, since many Americans have died from not being able to protect themselves because you banned their guns.
In closing, I will not tell you, that you can have my guns when you take them away from the criminals. I will tell you that you may never have any of my guns, PERIOD. If you do not understand why, please find a dictionary and have someone read to you what the phrase "SHALL NOT BE INFRINGED" means.
Thank you,
American Citizen, Modern Patriot, and VOTER.

If I Were the President

 In 1965 national radio commentator Paul Harvey, wrote a piece entitled "If I were the Devil". In the commentary he explained the ways that he (if he was the Devil) would destroy this country. In his wisdom he predicted the state our country would be in today... 48 years later. I have kept that commentary in my mind, since the first time I heard it. I often think back to some of the points he makes in it, when I am preparing a sermon, as a reminder as to the condition our country and world are in. You can hear it for yourself in the video below:



   

I have been thinking about the words that Mr. Harvey spoke so many years ago, and I began pondering the idea "If I were President". I would like to share my thoughts on the subject. 

 

If I were President, the first thing I would do is to have the words "Follow Me" and "We The People" etched into my bathroom mirror. I would do this to be a daily reminder, that as President I don't have all of the answers and I am to allow God to be my guide, and that I don't work for the powerful but am a servant to the citizen. I know if I was ever President that I would not have gotten to that point alone, that God would have had to guide me to the position and the only way I could stay on course would be to make him my constant. Every decision would be made in accordance to His Word. If I were President, I would understand that I am a servant, a protector, a leader I would be a shepherd to the American citizen, not a puppet to the powerful. The two phrases on my mirror would be a constant reminder of my two guides to serve the country; The Bible and The Constitution. 

If I were President, I wouldn't allow people to become over burdened with taxes, so I could repay campaign contributions. I would not force working families to choose between filling their gas tanks and their cabinets while others rape the system for handouts. I would make the so called "safety net" programs, just that; safety nets. If you needed unemployment or food assistance you could get them. You could get them for 6 months and only 6 months, while you work at the chance for the American Dream. That same dream that countless people have risked their lives to get to this country, so they can have a chance at. The chance to work to become successful. I would protect the person that was on hard times by not letting them become a target for the politician that buys votes by promising free benefits. I would  protect them from thinking they are a victim and the "benefits" are there only chance in life. 

 

If I were President, I would take away the myth that we can tax our way to prosperity, by cutting waste in our system. As a southerner I love pork, I love it smoked for hours, pulled and placed on a bun with some spicy BBQ sauce. I do not like it when it fills bills to the point where no one even knows what the original bill was for. Yes, I would be what so many would call a bad President because I would give the rich tax breaks, after all I bet you have never been hired by a poor person for a job. Without all of the wasteful spending we wouldn't need higher taxes, so I could have our Government start to learn an idea that was taught to them by their Grandparents, live on what you make. 

 

If I were President, I would give the House of Representatives one 2 year term in office. The Senate would have one 3 year term, and I as President would have one 4 year term, that way each one of us would go back home and face the people that hired us to go to Washington and do a job for them. I would do that to keep all of the Politicians from getting addicted to the power that fills the air in their offices. 

 

If I were President, I would make jails tough and schools profitable. Children would be taught to be the World leaders that Americans once were, and criminals would be taught to hate their surroundings so when they did pay their debt, they would always stay debt free! 

 

Yes, if I were President I would change a lot of things, because you see when Mr. Harvey tried to warn us of the Devil's intentions in 1965, we didn't listen and if we want our country back we have to change.   

Super Size Please

Super Size Please

Here we are, in the year 2013! Many people feared we wouldn’t ever see it, but just like clockwork at midnight last night the calendar changed. Many people went to parties and celebrated the New Year, while others like me stayed home. We all have our New Year traditions that we hold true year after year. My New Years Day used to consist of one last day of deer hunting, (I’ve had to put that one away since moving to Montana, and our deer season is closed) then coming home to College football and dinner. Being a Georgia native the football and dinner, (which is black eyed peas and collard greens) is as big of part of my day, as the hunting was. The other thing almost everyone does today is to look forward to what they hope the New Year will bring. I have spent a good bit of time doing that today myself.

We as a country are at a scary time in our history, our Senate was in debate until well into the New Year arguing over how much our taxes needed to go up today so they would have more money to spend. Instead of looking at ways to cut spending to free up money Obama only wants more taxes. He is like the little bratty kid in the sandbox that thinks all of the toys belong to him, and no one else is allowed to touch them.

The other item we are facing this year is the battle over gun control. First let me explain one thing “gun control” has nothing to do with the gun, but with the control. I have always been against any new gun laws, and I believe some laws we already have needs to be abolished. We need the freedom to carry our guns (if we are legal to carry them) in more places. That would prevent more crime in the long run; after all I bet you never met a criminal that enjoyed hard work. That is why they look for areas where no one is allowed to carry guns to commit most of their crimes. They don’t want to have to do the extra work of fighting off armed victims.

I have come across people who don’t understand what the big deal about the ban would be. They think they only want to ban machine guns, but machine guns have been banned in the U.S.A. for average citizens (it takes months and “jumping through several hoops” to get a license for a Class III weapon) (machine gun) since the 1930’s. The big deal with any gun ban is our Government wants to take something away from the American citizen that is a Constitutional Right for him or her to have. How would you feel if Obama came on TV tonight, and said that large Family Bibles were too offensive for certain people, so he was going to use the full force of his office to ban them. You would be o.k. with that right? I mean you could still read your personal size Bible, but you really don’t need that “big” one. In this country we have the freedom of Religion, without size restrictions, and we have the right to keep and bear arms, without size restrictions also.

As an ordained preacher, I know the most important freedom we have as American citizens is the freedom of religion. I hold that freedom very near and dear to my heart and will never stand for any encroachment onto that freedom. In many other countries around the world people are forced to renounce Jesus Christ as Lord and Saviour, and to bow to a false god such as allah or other being. You are free to choose if you want to worship a false god or the True Living God here in America and no one will ever prevent you from doing so. That is your right. We are free to teach religion, we can teach anyone that Jesus is the only way to Heaven without having to fear that we were breaking any laws.

We have the freedom to say what we want. I am allowed to have my opinion in America. Have you ever wondered why you don’t see many blogs from China, or North Korea? Simple, the people of those countries don’t have the freedom to have an opinion, and to freely express them.

We have several important freedoms in America, freedoms that cannot be taken from us, as long as we the freedom to keep and bear arms. We insure our ability to preserve all of our freedoms when we stand ready and able to defend them.

So when it comes to my guns and the magazines for my guns I say:

SUPER SIZE PLEASE

One If By Land, Two If By Sea

One If by Land, Two if by Sea,
Three if by Pennsylvania Ave.

A “wake up call” filled the midnight air on that faithful April night in 1775, as the thunder of horse’s hooves echoed off of the cobblestones and as the rider sounded the alarm.

“The British are coming” was the reveille call that pierced the silent night, as if it was keeping beat with the “war drums” of the hooves slamming into the stones. Horse and rider raced through the night as if they were one being driven by an unfamiliar spirit that was unknown to them, but is known to every one of us. This was the night that the “American Spirit” was born.

I sit here tonight on New Year’s Eve and I think about that time in our history, and I wonder if Paul Revere had any doubts in his heart about the events that was unfolding all around him? Would he finish his ride, and be alone? Would the town people assume that the British would not really go through with the threats they had made, or if they had become complacent with their day to day lives to even notice or understand what was unfolding around them? I sit here and wonder what would have happened if it were today?

On December 14, 2012, our Nation was turned upside down by a satanic coward. I was riding with a coworker that morning to a meeting. We spent the 1 ½ hour drive by making small talk and chit chat, but for some reason we began to talk about the world we live in today. I made the comment that America would never see another D-Day. He asked what did I mean, and I explained that for the past 20 years or so we as a country have not been raising our boys to be men. We even go as far as to make growing into a man a bad thing. I pointed out that in high schools all across the country teenage boys are sent home if they have whiskers or stubble on their face, and told not to come back until they shave. It is like they should be ashamed that their bodies are developing into men. That would be like telling a girl she shouldn’t grow breast until she is out of school.

I spent a few minutes that day talking about everything that went wrong with the D-Day invasion, from the paratroopers missing their drop zones, to the beaches with no cover, to the stalemate in the hedgerows.

I think back to the stories I have been told by some of the men that were there that day on that beach. Stories about how they charged straight into the danger that lay ahead of them. How they would advance through the bodies of their fallen brothers, knowing that each inch they moved would be putting them an inch closer to their death. I asked one of the men that ordained me into the ministry, “how did y’all do it?” He gave a very simple complex reply, “It was what a man had to do.” You see the generations of men that we sent to battle that day were taught that at times a man has to fight. They were taught that life is at times hard and the odds will be against you, but you stand tall and defeat the odds. They were taught that when a bully picked on you in the school yard that you clinched your fist and you busted his nose as hard as you could, today we teach our boys to go tell a teacher.

I asked my co-worker on that ride, “Do you think Columbine would have happened in 1945?” Think about it for a minute, we used to teach a boy how to grow into a man. When I preached my Daddy’s funeral, I made the statement that “Daddy taught me how to be a man”, I learned that as a man I was to defend that which was right, and I was to protect the ones that I love. I believe that the same generation of men that stormed Omaha beach would have stormed those two cowards in Colorado.

When I turned on the news coverage of Sandy Hook, I made a simple comment to my wife, I asked her, “Where were the men?” The question had come from the conversation I had that morning, but as I sat and heard the reports of the teachers and staff that were in the school that day it was women’s names that were being reported, women that hid children in the classrooms, women who surrendered their lives to try protect the lives of the children that was entrusted to them, and the question kept ringing in my ears “Where were the men?”

Where were the men that were supposed to teach that boy how to grow to be a man? The Bible teaches us to train up a child in the way that he is to go, and when he is old he will not depart from it. Where was the man that was supposed to be his Daddy? I’m not excusing what he did; I’m not blaming Hollywood or video games, I’m not blaming bullies, I’m not even blaming the guns or the bullets for his rampage. Honestly,if I was in that school that morning, I would have died attacking him, or I would have killed him myself. The person that is to blame is his father. The one who was put in his life to teach and train him, but he was left for his mother to raise.

If we want to put an end to these school shootings, then we do need to put armed guards in the schools as a start, but most importantly we have to put the fathers back in the home. A woman cannot raise a boy to be a man; she can only raise him to be a woman. The Bible instructs the young man to shew a pattern of good works; that pattern is to come from the father.

We find ourselves at a crossroad in our country today where we have to ask the question that has been ringing in my ears for the last couple of weeks now, “Where are the men?”

I sat and watched the news coverage of Sandy Hook, and before the tears even had time to dry, wicked politicians took to the airwaves vowing to “ban the assault weapons used.” They promised to rid our country of the weapons that could inflict that much damage, so nothing like this could ever happen again. One thing they never look at is, the person is the weapon. If you attempt to harm my family on the street the weapon I will protect them with is me. The gun, knife, or fist I use is simply my tool. The passion to protect the ones I love and to defend what is right that burns deep inside of my soul is what gives this weapon it’s strength, not the tool used by it. It is better to die on my feet fighting than to lose a loved one or to lose that which is right.

If Paul Revere were alive today would he see three lanterns hanging in the church tower? Would his reveille call be “The grabbers are coming”? Would he find the common man ready to stand with him? Where are the men today?

There is an all out attack on our Constitutional Rights in our country today. Dianne Feinstein wants to completely disarm the American citizen. I know you are thinking to yourself right now that she just wants to ban certain types of guns, but in 1995 after getting the 1994 assault weapon ban passed she said “if I had 51 votes I would have taken all of the guns, Mr. and Mrs. American turn them all in.” (you can see the video here)

The lanterns are in the church window, the sound of hoof beats are echoing across the country tonight, our Rights are under attack and we are at risk at losing all of them if we refuse to hear the alarm. We will lose our Freedoms if we don’t stand. We will lose if we have to ask:

“Where Are The Men?” Our Right to Keep and Bear Arms, is the Right that Guarantees ALL of our other Freedoms.