Tuesday, April 26, 2005

Encourager Conference May 1-5


Dr. Paige Patterson
As the eighth president of Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary, Paige Patterson brings 28 years of experience in the education of pastors and missionaries. The focus of his ministry is made up of an intense commitment to evangelism. He will be bringing the evening messages.


Dr. David Allen
David Allen served as senior pastor of MBBC from 2000-2005 and currently is the Dean of the School of Theology at Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary. He will be bringing the messages at the noon services.


Chad Fletcher
Chad Fletcher, the worship pastor at MBBC, will be leading praise and worship for all the services.

Wednesday, April 13, 2005

Dr. Phil's test

Your total score is 50

Interpretation of Results
Others see you as fresh, lively, charming, amusing, practical, and always interesting; someone who's constantly in the center of attention, but sufficiently well-balanced not to let it go to their head. They also see you as kind, considerate, and understanding; someone who'll always cheer them up and help them out.

Friday, April 08, 2005

we might as well be Sodom and Gamora

I write this to show you what an awful state we are in, as Americans. When police are arresting those that are trying to bring relief with water or ice chips to someone who’s hydration was taken (leaving her to die of starvation and dehydration), something is terribly wrong.

Michael Schiavo claimed malpractice and won 1,000,000 dollars. 700,000 dollars for Terri’s rehab and 300,000 dollars for him personally to assist her.

At that trial, he testified under oath that it was his desire to care for Terri for the rest of her life. At that case he made no mention of any comments by her that she wouldn’t want to live in such a state.

Later however, Michael shares with the Schindler family and to the courts that Terri had indicated one time when they were newly married that she would never want to live like that.

Her family and friends disputed that since she was a devout Roman Catholic, she wouldn’t have wanted to be taken off the feeding tube or hydration.

Florida statutes state:
1. diagnosed to be in a perpetual vegetative state with no hope of recovery
2. if it has been so stated in writing by the patient

This is what the press wasn’t telling us:
Barbara Weller, an attorney for Terri Schiavo's parents, essentially told Terri, "You had better say you want to live or they will kill you. Just say you want to live." Terri responded with a drawn out, "IIIIII," then screamed out "waaaaaaaa" so loudly that a police officer stationed outside the room came in.

“Just as what happened in Germany prior to Hitler’s rise to power, when euthanasia and abortions were legalized, it is conceivable that we are being prepared and desensitized to the horrible deaths of innocents, in preparation to accept genocide. You can see other examples of how we’ve turned away from modern cases, Rwanda, Africa, etc., where tens upon thousands of people are being murdered by Islamists.”

The lawyer on Michael’s side is very much a part in euthanasia and he says by looking into a persons eyes, he can tell whether or not they want to live or die and if he “sees” they want to die, he will assist you in killing yourself.

Michael was also very good friends with the judge in that case. Judge Greer should never have been able to reside over that case.

This really hacks me off! I mean Michael was basically given permission by the government to murder his wife! Gosh! What else?! And the "great" state of California is thinking about making euthanaisa legal...In case you're wondering what Euthanasia is, it's:
Nazi euphemism for the deliberate killings of institutionalized physically, mentally, and emotionally handicapped people. The euthanasia program began in 1939, with German non-Jews as the first victims. The program was later extended to Jews.