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Dr. Robert Sumner passed away in December 2016. The Biblical Evangelist newspaper is no longer being published and the ministry of Biblical Evangelism has ceased operation. The remaining inventory of his books and gospel tracts was transferred to The Baptist Tabernacle of Los Angeles and may be ordered here. Incidents and Illustrations “YOU’LL NEED A NEW NOSE!” It wasn’t very presidential, but it proved effective. When the only child (dearly beloved, obviously) of the sitting president at the time, Margaret Truman (later Daniel), sang in a concert at Constitution Hall in In fact, one critic, Paul Hume of the local Washington Post, had the gall to suggest “she cannot sing very well,” then adding the consummate insult, “She is flat a good deal of the time.” And he concluded that she possessed “no professional finish.” That earned him a note from the Oval Office. In it, Harry “the buck stops here” Truman told Mr. Hume, “I’ve just read your lousy review.” Indicating he might not have liked it (!), the president said, “I have never met you, but if I do you’ll need a new nose.” The response from daughter Margaret, who thought that concert one of her better ones, was, “I’m glad to see that chivalry is not dead.” The really interesting thing was that after writing the note, but before mailing, Truman discussed it with his aides. Almost to a person they recommended not sending it. Telling about it later in her biography of her father, she wrote that he “was annoyed to find that they all thought it was a mistake. They felt it damaged his image as president and would only add to his political difficulties.” She recalled that a week later, after a staff meeting, Truman demanded they all follow him to the mail room where clerks had stacked literally thousands of letters on the issue. They also had a chart to show percentages for and against the president’s missile. She said, “Slightly over 80 percent favored Dad’s defense of me. Most of the letter writers were mothers who said they understood exactly how Dad felt and would have expected their husbands to defend their daughters the same way.” The president gloated, “The trouble with you guys is you just don’t understand human nature.” Actually, the best way to come to an accurate understanding of human nature is to read the Word of God. It is described there in all its beautiful and horrible detail. HANGING OUT WITH THE WRONG CROWD! (You might call this “looking for Christian perfection in all the wrong places!”) Hollywood actress Sandra Bullock plays Leigh Anne Tuohy in the film, The Blind Side (it earned over $100 million its first few weeks in theaters), based on a true story of how the well-to-do Memphis Tuohy family took in a homeless black youth and eventually adopted him. The boy, Michael Oher, made All-American at the We know nothing about Blind other than what we’ve read (the last movie we attended was in late July of 1940, when we went into the theater as a 17-year-old to get out of our “floating tent” during a violent rain storm while on a camping trip in the Adirondack Mountains; the rest of the night we stayed in a 24-hour diner. Today we don’t have a clue what that film was about.) The Blind (it refers to the all-white family being color blind) heroine says she finally met Leigh Anne in person and found there really are some Christians who practice what they preach. The Tuohy family, incidentally, are members of the Grace Evangelical Church in Memphis and they, Sandra says, showed her an authentic religious faith, giving her at long last, “faith in those who say they represent a faith." Bullock says she distrusted professing Christians until she met the Tuohys because they preach too much. She says, “I know I'm a pretty decent human being … I might not go to church everyday, but I know I do the right thing or try to. You're going to church and you're still sleeping around on your wife ... how are you better than I am? So I finally met people who walk the walk." Which, as you know, is typically what people outside the church say to defend themselves (Sandra’s favorite drinks are tequila and Heineken and Rolling Rock beers). She didn’t marry until 40 because she took marriage “seriously” and wanted to “do it right.” She finally wed Jesse James (previously married and divorced from porn star Janine Lindemulder) on Poor Sandra, who apparently never met a real Christian before – and she, obviously, is no spring chicken – finally met one. We meet folks like the Touhys all the time. They don’t sleep around on their husband/wife and they walk the walk, practicing what they preach. We are not trying to lessen credit for the Touhys – who sound like really great folks – but to emphasize that Sandra has been running with the wrong crowd all these years (if, at this late date in her life, they are the first real ones she has met)! According to columnist Star Parker, Mike attended a few years at Briarcrest Christian School and his IQ went from a measured 80 to a measured 100 to 110, something causing the psychologists who tested him to be dumbfounded (that isn’t supposed to happen; IQs aren’t supposed to change, as the shrinks noted, “IQ was meant to be a given, like the size of one’s feet”). But Parker noted this to make an astute application: “Michael Oher achieved this. But he couldn't have done it without a Christian school and his caring Christian adopted parents who loved him and respected his uniqueness. “President Barack Obama's $4.5 billion in new education spending will not fix our education crisis. Government and moral relativism never has been the answer and never will be. “School choice and traditional values are the answers. It's freedom, not bureaucrats, that produces miracles. Michael Oher may be an exceptional individual, but his story need not be an exceptional story.” And that’s the way we see it, too! THUMBING CITY NOSES AT THE BILL OF RIGHTS! Gilbert (AZ) has long been known as a The local Good News church went to court and won an injunction (in the sense, although it never reach court level, the city agreed to change the code to call off the dogs). So that settled it, right? Not exactly! The city revised its code to let secular signs be up indefinitely, but if a church put up a sign advertising its Sunday services, it was only allowed to be erected the night before the service (after sunset) and must be taken down as soon as the service was over. In short, it is dark when the sign is put up and must be removed after six or seven hours of daylight. This is Anyway, the church went back to court and this time it reached the Ninth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals. As liberal and radical as that one is, it ordered the lower court to rethink its earlier decision about church signs. It noted the district court "did not address Good News' claim that the ordinance unfairly discriminates among forms of noncommercial speech." Hopefully the Gilbert powers-that-be will now behave. The city dads should be ashamed of themselves and at the next election “we the people” should “vote the rascals out.” GLOBAL WARMING? Anyone who has read this paper an issue or two knows we think the Gore/Obama position is a farce, totally pseudo science! Obama even has his own “supposedly ‘unofficial’ without-any-power-other-than-advise” climate czar. She is Carol Browner and she is the little woman who ordered the destruction of Environmental Protection Agency computer files even though a federal judge demanded the EPA to preserve all its records. In short, she belongs in the slammer! Last year the EPA squelched Alan Carlin’s dissent when he questioned using ‘outdated research’ on greenhouse gases’ effect on health. Later it tried to pull a YouTube video EPA lawyers Allan Zabel and Laurie Williams created that criticized cap and trade (known to most as cap and tax). In short, anyone who says a bad word about C&T is pulverized – or at least an attempt is made. And that is just for starters. As you know, Gore and his minions have been shouting (in face of rising opposition to their theories), “Science is settled.” Browner picked up that mantle recently, adding, "I'm sticking with the 2,500 scientists … These people have been studying this issue for a very long time and agree this problem is real." Big deal! As columnist Michelle Malkin noted, over 31,000 scientists – with 9,021 Ph.Ds in that number, over 2½ times Browner’s total scientists – signed “a petition sponsored by the Oregon Institute of Science and Medicine rejecting claims of human-caused global warming.” Like friend Malkin, “I’m sticking” with that crowd of real scientists.” We like what columnist Christopher G. Adamo called the matter: “a hoax bearing no more substance than the ‘Bermuda Triangle.’" SOCIETY CLIMBERS, GATE CRASHERS AND DUPES. This is sorta old news, but it was exciting while it lasted. We refer to White House gate crashers Tareq and Michelle Salahis. Talking about it in his weekly personal, Mark Alexander of The Patriot commented: “Like Obama himself, the Salahis got into the White House without qualification or a background check. Of course, the Salahis merely had to hoodwink three security checkpoint personnel, while the Obamas duped some 33 million voters. (Yes, I know, Obama received 66,882,230 votes, but at least half of those were from people who knew full well they were electing a socialist. The other half, however, were just temporarily mesmerized by Obama's ‘hope-n-change’ mantra.)” We also liked what comedian Argus Hamilton said about it: "The photos showed the husband, the wife and the president. If it's a crime to talk your way into the White House without a background check, all three of them could face charges." IS VOTING IMPORTANT? Thanks to decent people who stayed home – only 16.5 percent of registered voters showed up at the polls – pervert Annise Parker (openly, arrogantly lesbian) is the new mayor of After the victory she boasted, “This election has changed the world for the gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgendered community. Just as it is about transforming the lives of all Houstonians for the better, and that's what my administration will be about." Isn’t that basically what Obama told his Sodomite supporters when he won – and look what has happened! All over America fellow perverts sent funds to help with her election, but her win must still be chalked up to lazy decent people. While Okay, MICHAEL SCHIAVO, PINELLAS COUNTY (FL) CIRCUIT JUDGE GEORGE GREER, and all the others who cheered on the death of Terri Schiavo until the legal “execution” ordered by Judge Greer was completed on He was involved in a serious automobile accident back in 1983 that left him paralyzed. He was diagnosed as comatose, in a “persistent vegetative state” (PVS), as was Terri. Steven Laureys, a neurological expert, re-evaluated Rom’s case in 2006 and discovered he was totally aware of everything going on around him, but had absolutely no control of his body. He came back from the dead, so to speak, saying of those years, “I screamed, but there was nothing to hear … All that time I just literally dreamed of a better life.” He added, “Frustration is too small a word to describe what I felt.” Baptist Press, in reporting this story, said: “Laureys, who led the use of high-tech imaging at the Twenty-three years in a PVS state, but now “he is able to tap out messages on a computer and to read books while lying down, thanks to a special device over his bed.” He said, “I want to read, talk with my friends via the computer and enjoy my life now that people know I am not dead.” Remember, Terri, before being sentenced to death by starvation, showed more signs of life than Rom did! But Terri’s “husband,” Michael, wanted her dead so he could marry his mistress – by whom he had fathered children – and collect all the big bucks Terri’s decease would bring. Okay, Mike, enjoy your ill-gotten gains now because the next life may be “a tad” different. ONE OF THE MOST AMAZING THINGS in an amazing administration occurred when Secretary of Homeland Security Janet Napolitano, immediately following the Christmas Day “bomb an airplane” incident, said the episode proved “the system worked.” The truth was that the system totally failed and required the heroic effort of a passenger to save the day. The following day, Janet, whom columnist Mark Steyn calls “Janet Incompetano,” took a 180º degree turn and corrected her previous statement. Miss “Incompetano” is a former governor who apparently knows nothing – or next-to-nothing – about security, getting her post as a political pay-off from a president who seems to know nothing more about real security than Janet. Scary, isn’t it? WHO NEEDS TO REPENT? Frank Kameny is an elderly man (mid-80s) about to meet God and who, in 1957, was fired from his government job because of his sodomy. Since that time he has waged a battle against the Word of God and the God of the Bible, calling the latter a bigot, sinful, homophobic, immoral, a sinner who needs to repent. President Obama praised this pervert – who endorses sex with animals if the animal is willing, and calls Christians "facists” – as "a civil rights pioneer," thanking him for his "leadership." Someone needs to repent all right, but it isn’t God. (Personal suggestions: Kameny, Obama, even the Smithsonian – who honored Kameny in 2007.) If we were to praise him it would be for honestly admitting – something some professing Christians won't do – that God and the Bible are strongly opposed to sodomy in all its forms. TEMPEST OVER TEBOW! Sally Jenkins, a staff writer with the Washington Post, says bluntly, “I’m pro-choice” and “couldn’t disagree with [Tim] Tebow more,” but in a column the week of the Super Bowl she took after “the group-think, elitism and condescension” of the feminists at NOW like there was no tomorrow, describing them, correctly we might add, as stupid and noting “they aren't actually ‘pro-choice’ so much as they are pro-abortion.” Her beef? Their criticism of the Tebow halftime commercial, which none of them had seen, on the theme, "Celebrate Family, Celebrate Life,” something hard to dispute. Sally says, “Apparently NOW feels this commercial is an inappropriate message for She concluded: “Here's what we do need a lot more of: Tebows. Collegians who are selfless enough to choose not to spend summers poolside, but travel to impoverished countries to dispense medical care to children, as Tebow has every summer of his career. Athletes who believe in something other than themselves, and are willing to put their backbone where their mouth is. Celebrities who are self-possessed and self-controlled enough to use their wattage to advertise commitment over decadence.” What else does she think we need (referring to Tebow’s statement in answer to a press question during a SEC media day that he was saving himself for marriage): “Famous guys who aren't embarrassed to practice sexual restraint, and to say it out loud. If we had more of those, women might have fewer abortions. See, the best way to deal with unwanted pregnancy is to not get the sperm in the egg and the egg implanted to begin with, and that is an issue for men, too – and they should step up to that.” Oh, yes, she added for NOW’s benefit, “Abortion doesn't just involve serious issues of life, but of potential lives, Heisman trophy winners, scientists, doctors, artists, inventors, Little Leaguers – who would never come to be if their birth mothers had not wrestled with the stakes and chosen to carry those lives to term. And their stories are every bit as real and valid as the stories preferred by NOW.” In spite of all this, Sally still insisted: “Let me be clear again … It's my own belief that the state has no business putting its hand under skirts.” Let’s reword her declaration and see how it sounds: “It’s my own belief that the state has no business terminating the lives of helpless and innocent babies in their mother’s wombs, brain waves flashing, hearts beating, hands and feet already formed, and sex already determined.” It doesn’t sound the same, does it? |
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