In yesterday's edition of the Port Angeles Digest page I made some remarks about a city council candidate's foreign accent. That I could barely understand what he was trying to say. After some thought I didn't like what I posted it sounded like I was being a bully, so I deleted those lines I posted, I just mishandled that story. I was trying to make a point that if you are running for office you need to be clearly understood. Like I said, I mishandled that and I corrected the error. I don't like being made to look like I am some mean spirited person. I just wished a written report was given along side the video I watched on the PORT O Call webpage, would have made it clear what Shan Pak, had to say During that function that PORT O CALL was putting on. I know how it feels in being not understood clearly. So with that I apologize if I came across being a meanie.
My Grumbling pays off!
All Call, Oh What a Night!
Port O Call, Smart Awareness and the Justice Restoration Group we want to share some of the thoughts expressed and worthwhile comments from various people.
(Someone must have read my report, because just today I took a look at the Port O Call webpage and found this article about the rally they sponsored earlier in April how about that. At times my grumbling pays off!)
OTHER NEWS COMMENTARIES
Baltimore's Hero Mom Under Fire
I read an opinion piece this week by liberal writer Joan Walsh decrying the presumed jubilation of "white America" and the media over a mother's public spanking of her son for participating in the Baltimore riots.---NEWS MAX/ David Limbaugh
If Only Al Sharpton’s Mother Gave Him a Good Smack Upside the Head
My colleagues Paula Boylard and Michael Walsh have declared Baltimore’s Mother of the Year, Toya Graham, a “bad parent” for slapping her rioting teenager upside the head. The essence of their argument: had she raised him better from the beginning, with good, solid biblical values, he wouldn’t have been there in the first place. That’s taking Bible-thumping to a new, bizarre level.----PJMEDIA
Obama Official Admits Religious Institutions May Be Punished
The biggest news from [Tuesday’s] Supreme Court arguments isn’t news at all to conservatives: Same-sex “marriage” is a threat to religious freedom. For once, that revelation didn’t come from one of the lawyers on our side but from the Obama administration’s own attorney. ---PATRIOT POST
The Challenge: Silent Toward God
With tax season still lingering in our minds and a new election cycle on the horizon, it’s easy to find ourselves annoyed with laws and politicians and discouraged about the direction of our country.---THE PATRIOT POST
Hill and Bill can’t hide from shady deals exposed in ‘Clinton Cash’
The Clintons have been playing the political press for idiots.---NY POST
For Baltimore post-riots, a role for clergy
During Monday's riots in Baltimore, more than a dozen clergy members helped end the violence. Police have only begun to work with faith-based institutions, which can also help reform the police.---CSMONITOR
The 'Upgrading' of Bruce Jenner
The last year could be described as The Year of Transgender Propaganda. The Hollywood and news media push on the latest frontier of "gender fluidity" demonstrates the libertine left's absolute arrogance that the LGBT revolution is an unstoppable juggernaut.---CNSN/ Bozell
Rev. Graham: Indiana ‘Surrendered' to 'Sexually Immoral Agenda of Gays and Lesbians’ – U.S. ‘Has Forgotten and Forsaken God’
“Make no mistake: This is a watershed moment in the battle for the moral soul of our nation,” said Rev. Graham in his column for the May issue of Decision magazine. “Media, government and business all aligned their influence to override the initial legislation and severely weaken genuine protections for people of faith.”---CNSN/ Chapman
Here’s 14 Fun Facts About Hillary Clinton’s First Democratic Challenger for President
Sen. Bernie Sanders, who has represented Vermont as an independent in the House and Senate for nearly 25 years, has provided Hillary Rodham Clinton with a challenger for the Democratic nomination for president.---DAILY SIGNAL
Searching for Space to Destroy
Major new contributions to a city’s crumbling condition.
A prisoner riding in the same police van as Freddie Gray says the Baltimore drug dealer spent his time “banging against the walls,” reports the Washington Post. That’s an apt metaphor for Baltimore’s response to Gray’s death.---AMERICAN SPECTATOR
"Wolf Hall" and the burden of wielding power in hellish times
"Wolf Hall,” the Man Booker Prize-winning historical novel about the court of Henry VIII — and most dramatically, the conflict between Thomas Cromwell and Sir Thomas More — is now a TV series (presented on PBS). It is maddeningly good.---NY DAILY NEWS/ KRAUTHAMMER
From ‘Hamlet’ to Hillary
IF Hillary Clinton goes the distance, she may have Shakespeare to thank.---NT TIMES/ Bruni
Charlie Hebdo cartoonists: heroes or racists? The answer's not that simple
Is Charlie Hebdo racist? And how can you tell a racist cartoon from one that merely references racial stereotypes?---LA TIMES/ Crain
Sheriff Clarke: Baltimore cops ‘offered up as human sacrifices’ to ‘an angry mob’
Milwaukee County Sheriff David Clarke said on Friday that he would not “silently stand by” and watch as Baltimore police officers were “offered up as human sacrifices” by State’s Attorney Marilyn Mosby.----WASHINGTON TIMES/Ernst
Want millennials back in the pews? Stop trying to make church ‘cool.’
Bass reverberates through the auditorium floor as a heavily bearded worship leader pauses to invite the congregation, bathed in the light of two giant screens, to tweet using #JesusLives----WASHINGTON POST
How to take Christ out of Christianity
"Christianity is the dominant religion in the United States, but the cultural experience of Christianity here varies at least as widely as its practice does across denominations, families and individuals. " ---WASHINGTON POST
BOLI's cake crusaders' proposed judgment in Sweet Cakes discrimination case is excessive: Editorial
It's easy to sympathize with Rachel and Laurel Bowman-Cryer over the embarrassment and outrage they felt when a Gresham bakery chose to decline their business rather than make a cake for the lesbian couple's wedding. --THE OREGONIAN
(They picked a bakery run by Christians on purpose to harass them, and force their twisted way of life on others plain and simple, what I can't stand are these dirty tricks being played by people who claim that they have no intentions in forcing themselves on anyone. There were other bakeries they could have gone, but they choose this because they wanted to make a seen, harass the owners for what they believe.)
A fine line between bullying and free speech
In her response to news that the man she accused of sexual assault was suing their university over the way it — and she — harassed him after he was exonerated, Emma Sulkowicz claimed that what she was doing was art.---WASHINGTON EXAMINER
A Century Later, a New Look at the Sinking of the Lusitania
Owning a fragment of history — a Gettysburg bullet, a Coolidge campaign button — is fun, so in 1968 Gregg Bemis became an owner of the Lusitania. ---NATIONAL REVIEW/Will
Censorship is at play in Baltimore’s crisis
BALTIMORE BURNS, shops are looted, rioters attack firefighters with bottles and bricks. And amid all the violence and ruin, what drives the chattering class into a froth of indignation? That anyone would use the word “thugs” to describe the vandals and criminals reducing Baltimore to rubble.----THE BOSTON GLOBE
No, Calling the Baltimore Rioters ‘Thugs’ Does Not Make You a Racist
"The mayor of Baltimore, who will spend the rest of her days living light-years from the word “Churchillian,” recently apologized for two gaffes. First, she walked back her statement that she gave rioters space to “destroy.” That’s not what she meant, Stephanie Rawlings-Blake said."---NATIONAL REVIEW
Glenn Beck: If Gay Marriage Is Legalized, 50 Percent of Congregants Will ‘Fall Away From Their Churches Within Five Years---THE BLAZE
"“What does your church do if they are currently saying ‘No, we aren’t going to marry same-sex couples.’ What happens?” Beck asked on his radio program. “They lose their tax exempt status and a lot of them will fall away.”
NY Times Blamed Reagan/Bush for LA Riots, But No Blame in Baltimore
Is President Obama responsible for the Baltimore riots? If you take a look at how The New York Times portrayed the reaction to the Los Angeles riots of 1992, apparently so ----NEWS BUSTERS
MSNBC’s Roberts Surprisingly Presses Baltimore Attorney on Freddie Gray Case
On Saturday’s Today, fill-in host Thomas Roberts interviewed Baltimore state attorney Marilyn Mosby about the recent charges filed against 6 Baltimore police office for the death of Freddie Gray and actually pressed her on the case as well as her qualifications to lead the investigation. ---NEWS BUSTERS
INSPIRATIONAL MESSAGE
From Gospel Way:
How Were People under the Old Testament forgiven?
Anyone who is saved, no matter when they lived, will be saved by Jesus. Heb. 9:15 says that, though Jesus is the mediator of the new covenant (Moses was the mediator of the Old Covenant), yet Jesus' death was also the redemption for the transgressions under the first covenant. So Jesus died for both the people before He lived and the people after He lived.
However, what that means is that people who lived under the Old Covenant did not have a means of lasting forgiveness as a part of the covenant under which they lived. By contrast, our forgiveness is available to us as part of the new covenant which we have now. This is the sense in which the law came by Moses but grace and truth came by Jesus Christ (John 1:17). Under the Old Covenant, people had laws to live by, but they had no sacrifice that could take away their sins permanently. Instead their sins were remembered every year. Study Heb. chap. 10, esp. v1-18. So they lacked grace in the sense that the means of their forgiveness had not yet come.
When Jesus came and died, He removed the Old Covenant (all of it) -- Col. 2:14,16 -- and instituted the New Testament (Heb. 10:9,10; 9:16,17). Under the New Covenant we still have laws and commands to obey. These are the commands and laws of the New Covenant, not those of the Old Covenant (1 Cor. 14:37; Matt. 28:18-20; Heb. 1:1,2; John 14:15; 1 John 5:3). But the difference is that, when we sin, we have a means of forgiveness as a part of the very covenant under which we live. We do not have to look forward to some future event to obtain our forgiveness.
People under the Old Covenant had no lasting forgiveness under their covenant. The only way they could ultimately be forgiven was for their covenant to be removed and replaced by the New Covenant (Heb. 8:7-13). Salvation for all people, regardless of when they lived, is available only through Jesus.
To learn more about the removal of the Old Testament law, see our online article about the Old Testament for Today at our Bible Instruction web site at www.gospelway.com/instruct/.
(c) Copyright David E. Pratte, 2/5/2005
DAILY DEVOTIONAL
rejoicing in hope, patient in tribulation, continuing steadfastly in prayer;
Romans 12:12 NKJV