BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA: MORALITY VS. MAMMON 

The Boy Scouts of America is meeting for three days, starting this past Monday.   It will make a crucial decision about its acceptance of homosexuals. But several organizations and individuals are urging the board to hang on to its morality over money.

Though open homosexuals are currently barred as members and as leaders, there has been an effort within the 100-year-old organization to change that policy. Peter LaBarbera of Americans for Truth About Homosexuality (AFTAH) points specifically to two board members: Jim Turley of Ernst & Young and AT&T's Randall Stephenson.

 

Pray that the Boy Scouts of America will decide against allowing known homosexuals to be leaders in the Boy Scouts of America. Pray that the national leadership will value God's laws over mammon. The Boy Scouts of America has been a positive force in developing young men; therefore, pray that the organization would be protected from corruption and take healthy steps to shield scouts from every kind of sexual immorality.

 

"You shall not lie with a male as with a woman; it is an abomination." (Leviticus 18:22)

 

"But if anyone causes one of these little ones who believe in me to sin, it would be better for him to have a large millstone hung around his neck and to be drowned in the depths of the sea." (Matthew 18:6)

     

THE TIME TO WOO NEW VOTERS IS NOW

Twenty years ago, Bill Clinton was elected president by an electorate that was 87 percent white. In 2012, that fell to 72 percent. Explosive population growth among Asians and Hispanics is manifesting itself at the ballot box. They now account for 3 percent and io percent of the electorate, respectively. Young voters and African-Americans overwhelmingly favored President Obama both times he ran, many standing in line for hours to vote, and showing up months or years before that - in person and online - to help build an infrastructure that outmatched a GOP that to this day needs to get with the 1990s when it comes to technology.


Give thanks to God for a nation that has the right to express itself through a national voting system. Pray that our votes remain protected by a righteous system of procedures that are free from corruption. Pray that the Lord's wisdom and will would be faithfully represented by open elections in the coming years. Pray that all Americans will be imprinted by God's desire to bring this nation under His Sovereignty so that we might be blessed with His Word and way.

 

"Blessed is the nation whose God is the Lord, The people He has chosen as His own inheritance." (Psalm 33:12)

   

THE NUMBER OF THINK TANKS IS GROWING

Did you know that there are more than 6,000 think tanks globally, and about 2,000 in the United States? In the past two weeks, two major rankings of think tanks have been released.

A think tank is an organization where scholars and specialists seek to find solutions to problems and then promote their findings. Some think tanks deal with many public policy issues, and others concentrate on one or a few, such as medical care, defense, foreign policy or economic policy. The largest and best-known think tanks often have more than 100 employees with budgets of tens of millions of dollars, while most are small and specialized, with only a handful of employees.


Pray for God's wisdom to be called upon and used in addressing matters of national importance.

"God gave Solomon wisdom and very great insight, and a breadth of understanding as measureless as the sand on the seashore. Solomon's wisdom was greater than the wisdom of all the men of the East, and greater than all the wisdom of Egypt.... And his fame spread to all the surrounding nations. He spoke three thousand proverbs and his songs numbered a thousand and five. He described plant life, from the cedar of Lebanon to the hyssop that grows out of walls. He also taught about animals and birds, reptiles and fish. Men of all nations came to listen to Solomon's wisdom, sent by all the kings of the world, who had heard of his wisdom."
(1 Kings 4:29-34)
    

GOVERNMENT HOLDING BACK THE RECOVERY?   

You've heard this before: The government is holding the economy back. And it's true. The newly released numbers for economic growth in the fourth quarter [click here for graphs], which show the economy shrinking at an 0.1 percent annual rate, prove that. But exactly what the government is doing to hold the economy back might surprise you.

Typically, when people say the government is hurting the recovery, they mean that deficits are too high and uncertainty over future policy is scaring businesses. But there's little evidence of that.

 

Ask the Lord to give our financial officials His wisdom in formulating good strategies to improve our nation's financial infrastructure. Apart from the Lord, we as a nation cannot prosper and be a light unto the world.

 

"If you fully obey the Lord your God and carefully follow all his commands I give you today, the Lord your God will set you high above all the nations on earth. All these blessings will come on you and accompany you if you obey the Lord your God: You will be blessed in the city and blessed in the country. The fruit of your womb will be blessed, and the crops of your land and the young of your livestock-the calves of your herds and the lambs of your flocks. Your basket and your kneading trough will be blessed. You will be blessed when you come in and blessed when you go out." (Deuteronomy 28:1 - 6)

    

OBAMACARE BROKEN PROMISES       

As the federal government moves forward to implement President Obama's Affordable Care Act, the Department of Health and Human Services is slated to spend millions of dollars promoting the unpopular legislation. In the face of this publicity blitz, it is worth remembering that the law was originally sold largely on four grounds-all of which have become increasingly implausible.

 

* Lower health-care costs. One key talking point for ObamaCare was that it would reduce the cost of insurance, especially for non-group insurance. The president, citing the work of several health-policy experts, claimed that improved care coordination, investments in information technology, and more efficient marketing through exchanges would save the typical family $2,500 per year.
 

Pray that the will of the Lord and His ways will be honored in the resolution of national policy. Pray that the ObamaCare policies that do not honor God's Word would be removed from governmental laws and that the issues involving the payment for abortion through taxes in any form would be struck down.  

 

"You took your sons and daughters whom you bore to Me and sacrificed them...You slaughtered My children." (Ezekiel 16:20,21)

 

"He didn't kill me in the womb, with my mother as my grave." (Jeremiah 20:17)

            

HHS VIOLATIONS MANDATE STILL UNRESOLVED    

In response to the proposed rule changes to the Affordable Care Act's contraceptive mandate announced by the Department of Health and Human Services, Eric Scheidler and Monica Miller, co-directors of the nationwide Stand Up for Religious Freedom rallies held last year, issued the following statement:

"Nearly a year after promising to provide an 'accommodation' for religious employers who object to the HHS Mandate, the Obama administration has finally issued proposed new rules. While we await a full analysis of these proposed rule changes from legal experts, a first look at what the Obama administration is offering makes it clear that the objections of religious employers have not been taken seriously.

 

Susan B. Anthony List (SBA List) President Marjorie Dannenfelser slammed the policy "updates" announced to President Obama's HHS abortion-drug mandate.  


Give thanks to the Lord that there are active measures being set forth to make the public aware of the specific items in the Affordable Care Act that are contrary to God's Word and will.

 

"I have set before you life and death, blessings and curses. Now choose life, so that you and your children may live." (Deuteronomy 30:19)

     

NEW PERSONHOOD EFFORT IN COLORADO

Since the Colorado House has refused to recognize that an unborn baby is a human who deserves to be protected, an effort for a constitutional amendment to give the preborn human status is under way.

Early last July, Heather Surovik had just left her last prenatal checkup with the doctor's verdict: her son, Brady, would be born any day. But a vehicle driven by Gary Sheats, a drunk driver, rammed into her car, injuring Surovik, her mother and five-year-old son, and killing her eight-pound, two-ounce son.
 

Pray for the movement that is now underway in Colorado to find favor among the populous of Colorado. Pray that those who are building awareness in the state will find multitudes of citizens who will volunteer to spread the word and stand for righteousness.

 

"Do not shed innocent blood." (Jeremiah 7:6)

 

"Stand firm then, with the belt of truth buckled around your waist, with the breastplate of righteousness in place." (Ephesians 6:14)

    



 BOY SCOUTS
MORALITY VS. MAMMON


WOO
NEW VOTERS