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To those in the “know”, they already know.  To the rest who just think they know, why guess.  I’m gone from The American Family Radio network. Sad to say so.  

But, I won’t be forgettin’ any time soon the mission and ministry of that fine place.  Of all of the pro-family, pro-life groups that are out there, FINE groups, AFA/AFR always stood head and shoulders above the rest.  Why? Do I think that they are better than the others? Certainly not!  It has to do with mission.  AFA has always been an activist group.  Meaning……that they are focused on giving the information to the American Church so that THEY can be motivated to ACT (hence that weird word, “ACTivist”) and make changes in our world.  Brother Don Wildmon started this work 35 years ago and it’s going on just fine still today.

And I’m going on to whatever the Lord has for me.  I sure hope it’s a lot more preaching, cause that’s what I’m really tooled for.  Preaching, proclaiming God’s word. 

God bless you.  Stay with me. The BusterBlog ain’t going no where!

Later………………….

Russell D. Moore, the President-elect of the Southern Baptist Ethics & Religious Liberty Commission, recently wrote an article in the Christian Post asking the question, “Should Christians Boycott Starbucks?”.  He answers his own question with a resounding, “NO”!

StarBucks has same sex marriage as an openly proactive aspect of their core values.  Dr. Moore mentions that a highly respected pro-marriage group is boycotting Starbucks because of that stance.  He reflects that he believes it is not proper for Christians to do so. at least in this case.  MANY, including some of my supposed friends, have assumed that Dr. Moore is talking about AFA in his article.  He may be, I can’t answer for him on that.  BUT, I can catagorically state that AFA/AFR has never called for a boycott of Starbucks.  With an action alert, we have informed the public about the testy exchange between the CEO of Starbucks and one of their Conservative stock holders.  The same exchange that Dr. Moore’s article is based on.

I take issue with his reasoning for why it is wrong for Christians to participate in a boycott of StarBucks.  Even though, again, I am not part of a boycott or of a group that is boycotting Starbucks.  As of this moment, the ONLY boycott that the AFA is conducting is with Home Depot.  You can read about that at “boycottTHEhomeDepot.com”.

He accuses Christians who would participate in a boycott of Starbucks as, “exposing…our worst tendencies..”, and of, “fighting like the devil to please the Lord”. I suggest that Dr. Moore feels this way because he does not understand the total motivation for doing a boycott.

A boycott, in Dr. Moore’s understanding, is nothing more than a battle of economic power.  He sees using the tool of a boycott as a way of simply hurting the company economically as a method of bullying them into adopting “our” view.   If we can muscle them with enough economic power to force them to stop what they’re doing, that makes us the majority.  So we are forcing them to adopt our “majority” view.  That’s his first mistake.  He says that, “a boycott assumes that the rightness of a marriage definition is constituted by a majority with power….”, since we are hammering that point away as the only right way to believe by our attempt to hurt them by our place in the “supposed” majority with economic power.

I will concede that IF we were to boycott, we would be using the tool of economic strength to make a point.  But not the point that Dr. Moore says we are trying to make.

I see a greater good that is done toward the members of the Christian community though the information and execution of a boycott.  And that greater good is far more desirable than “hurting the company”.   As a Christian, I shouldn’t have the desire to “hurt (a) company” with a boycott or anything else.  As a follower of God’s Word, I am to do good to those who despise me and I’m to love my enemies.  A desire to simply “hurt” a company would be undesirable as a Christian.

However, I see the greater good as informing Christian consumers about trying to  do something better with their economic “power”  than to enable a company with the power to a accomplish something that we Christians would  disagree with.

We all lament the distasteful and sometimes even unGodly way our tax dollars are spent.  None of us would want our tax dollars to be used to pay for abortions.  But what can you do about tax appropriation other than use the fear of the ballot box to either elect someone else or motivate currently elected officials to do differently? But that is exactly what we do and how we do it.  And it is right to do so! That’s the same kind of “muscle” in a boycott.

A boycott gives the consumer the personal power they could never exercise with their taxes; The ability to control the influence of their financial power!

If I am a believer in the Biblical definition and symbolism of traditional/natural marriage, then I don’t want any of my money to help pay for the promotion and legalization of same sex marriage!  IF a company is using their profits from retail sales to promote an unGodly ideal, then it is a great benefit to me to know about it! Why?  So I can give my financial resources to someone else who won’t use my dollars to promote and support unGodly causes!

I would rather encourage Christians to use their economic power to help someone more congruent with their beliefs.  Dr. Moore apparently sees no harm in continuing to give our support to those who WILL use that profit from the business generated by the Christian community to promote and support evil.  He choses rather, he says, to sit with a lost man and share the Gospel over a frothy Venti latte! With no apparent care that the combined profits from purchases like his sweet drink, will be used to make the immoral redefinition of marriage a reality!  Whatever happened to being a faithful steward of our resources?  Will God be ok with us willfully making a purchase, or purchases from a business that we KNOW will use that same money we are stewards over to help create an “in your face” action against God?

He declares that if we boycott, we are, “frantic, shrill, or outraged….” and resort to, “Gentile tactics of lording over others with political majorities or economic power”.  But “winners”, in his estimation, are able to take something he calls, “the long view”, which is, in his mind, clearly the more acceptable approach. And this is where, I believe without meaning to or with malice, Dr. Moore clearly insinuates that many of us laboring in such ministries are for some reason, missing the mark entirely!

The “long view” to him, would be to focus on change by holding fast to the Gospel, by explaining our exalted view of marriage, and by serving our neighbors around us.  We further will win this argument, he says, by not boycotting but by explaining!  Explaining to our friends why we don’t divorce and how the beautiful symbolism of marriage is all about Christ and His church.  These are all tactics that NO ONE would disagree with, and in fact, many of us are doing faithfully! The hurtful insinuation is that Dr. Moore assumes that if one were to boycott, you couldn’t be doing any of these other vaulted activities as well!

But in fact, we and many other ARE!  We have been. And yet we face an increasingly hateful world, just like Jesus said we would. And same sex marriage legalization and support does more than just redefine marriage.  It forces us to stop talking about what the Bible has to say about homosexuality (I offer Canada as an example). It opens up the door to teaching my kindergarden grandsons that same sex attraction is ok and should be explored.  WHY, in God’s precious Name, would I ever want to help PAY FOR THAT OUTCOME?

It must NEVER be about ONLY witnessing and praying when it comes to changing culture.  But the effort to change culture should NEVER be absent prayer and witness, either!  Jesus taught BOTH approaches are desired when attempting to change.  We are to 1) Not be conformed to the culture l(Rom. 12:1, 2); 2) Share the Gospel with ALL creation (Matt. 28; Mark 16; Luke 24);  3) Be salt and light in our world for others to SEE our Godly behavior and thus offer praise to God who has so directed us to live accordingly (Matt. 5:13-16); and 4) We are told to “Resist the Devil!” (1 Peter 5:9); 5) We are told to “overcome evil with Good!” (Rom. 12:21) and thus a boycott should not just be about NOT doing business with the bad guy, but should be informative about brothers in the Lord who could use our business instead!.

Boycotts give ME power to use my money in ways that benefit what I most believe in.  It helps me NOT support others who fight for what I don’t believe in.

Dr. Moore says to exercise our “majority financial control” over a business is just to hurt them.  Again, he couldn’t be further from right about that.  The GOAL is NOT to HURT them but to CHANGE them.  And that is what Christians should be busy about doing, changing our society.  Since we are changed once “IN” Christ ourselves, we will want to change society for the better as well.  If in the process of taking moral control of my money I can persuade a company to be neutral in moral issues as a business model, then I have accomplished the major part of my boycott model.

I do not believe that is being like the “devil” or in “shrill outrage” hurting anyone.  I rather choose to believe that I am promoting to those who know not, what the mind of Christ is like.  That’s why we must never “hurt” anyone in malice or purpose.  We should boycott ONLY to inform others and to better our world for all.

Tomorrow, Tuesday and again on Wednesday, the Supreme Court of the United States is hearing the two land mark cases on same sex marriage.  What was California’s “Prop 8″ case and the constitutionality of the law of the land, DOMA, the Defense of Marriage Act that President Clinton signed into law.

If the SCOTUS rules favorably toward same sex marriage, the impact of those decisions will have the same weight of the Roe vs. Wade case had on abortion.

Please pray that God will be merciful to us as a country. That He will overlook our arrogant fist swinging before Him regarding what He says clearly in His Word.

Pray, dear Friends, pray!

We learned last week that Vice President Biden’s February trip to England and Paris was staggeringly expensive.  His hotel bill from England was around $460,000. And his hotel bill from Paris was $560,000 (I’m rounding figures).  And now, today, the Weekly Standard reveals again that the Paris LIMO BILL was nearly $322,000!

And don’t give me the, “He’s VP and must travel and needs lots of staff and security….”  Those were nightly bills.  And I thought that the VP had a VP type of “beast” vehicle to ride around in?

Extravagance! And we hear that the FIrst Family has taken yet ANOTHER expensive vacation!

Mr. President, when you lecture the country about, “Shared sacrifice….” the lack of credibility due to your administration’s hypocrisy is astounding!

hy-poc’ri-sy

Noun.  Insincerity by virtue of pretending to have qualities or beliefs that you do not really have.

What an interesting way of defining the word.

Like…..maybe pretending to be a champion of “Tolerance” by promoting total INtolerance against Christian’s beliefs?

Like maybe pretending to be for JUSTICE, all the while wanting UNjust actions to be taken against people who simply believe differently than you?

Pretending to have beliefs that you really don’t have.  A good daily check up from the neck up for all.

http://www.theblaze.com/stories/2013/03/22/filth-heres-how-snubbed-members-of-knesset-are-responding-to-obamas-jerusalem-speech/

I want you to read this article from Star Parker, a good friend of the Ministry here

She explains clearly how new background checks won’t make a hill of beans difference!

Read it here:

Thanks to CHristian Post.com for sharing this article.

I said it!  Call me a Prophet.  They’re doing it just like I said they would!

Gun control.  Or, to be more exact, AMMO CONTROL!

I knew that it would be very difficult for them to simply walk out of their hallowed chambers and legislate away all of our guns.  They will try to legislate a few of them away.  Because after all, there is that pesky 2nd Amendment standing in the way!  Whatever gun confiscation scheme they try, they know that there are many waiting in the wings to run to a Court Room with real challenges of such bills.

But, they will, AND they HAVE reasoned, that the 2nd Amendment says NOTHING about AMMO!  ”Yeah, that’s the ticket,” I can hear them scream with glee!  ”Let’s legislate the tar out of the ammo and we’ll solve the problem”.  They will give us legislation that speaks to their concerns, either by taxing ammunition to the hilt, in ways that the American consumer could not handle,  OR, they will choose to outlaw ammo altogether!

Well,  I’ve said that this very approach would happen, and it is now coming to fruition before our very eyes!

There’s a state legislator in Florida that wants to force everyone who buys ammunition to FIRST complete a two week, anger management course.  What if we aren’t angry?  I’m NOT angry…….now!  BUT, I’m sure we  ALL will be and will most likely need that anger management course if they force us to do something like that before we can buy ammo!

Another state legislator wants to limit ALL ammo purchases to a maximum of ONE BOX per year.  One box of ammo per year!  A society that is limited in this fashion by her law givers is a criminal’s paradise!

It’s a shame, a real shame that our Constitution is being spat upon in ways like these!  YES!  That Constitution says that, “The RIGHT of the PEOPLE to keep and bear arms, shall NOT BE INFRINGED…..”!  And yet, we have the uninformed and absolute ignorant running just as fast as they can to infringe that right of ours before we can have time to shout, “Wait…..wait a minute now….!”

My daughter texted me the other day and asked if there was some special reason why there was a long line at the ammo counter at the local hunting store?  I told her that I could give her about 4 or 5 reasons why.  Some of the better ones, I’ve just shared with you, here.

Recently, a few radical souls on the left have taken a HEADLINE about a story I did the other day and made me the object of scorn over it. And as they are prone to do, they did  it by placing their focus on the headline itself, rather than the actual words I spoke within context.  The “context” of one’s words can make a real difference!

The story was about a new diagnosis from the American Psychiatric Association.  I forget exactly what the new, “out of the blue” diagnosis was called.  But the essence was that to be overtly anxious about an actual, physical ailment could get you classified as mentally ill.  In other words, say you had lung cancer (what took the life of my dear father!).  And because of that condition, you were overtly focused on it, you were too consumed with your treatments, with your pain, with your future.  So to be overly consumed with anxiety over this physical condition you have would qualify you for this new condition, this new “mental illness”.  You would now be mentally ill because they say so, if you meet these qualifications!

That was the context of my discussion.  IN CONTEXT, I was relating to how they now have a “disease” that was easy to pin to someone as an actual, mental illness simply because you were concerned or anxious about a real disease!  That’s truly scary.  It’s not out of the question to worry about how mental illness being diagnosed inappropriately these days if you listen to the President’s plans for gun control.

In those executive orders he suggested he would implement,  was much about Doctors asking patients about their gun ownership, and consequently the reporting of that ownership to the Centers for Disease Control.  Now, if the doctor is going to start asking you about your gun ownership, and the police are going to start coming into your home to see how you are storing your weapons (another law presented in Washington state this past week), it’s NOT a giant leap to think that they might tie a diagnosis of mental illness to someone based solely on some aspect of them being gun owners!  Maybe someone has “too many” guns, or “too many bullets” in their home. Does this now mean that they could be mentally ill?   Well, if they are now calling anxiety about a physical illness a mental illness, then anything is possible!   I guess if the Psy doctors declare in some paper that a new mental illness exists if you are someone who has too many guns, or love your guns, or have too many bullets, etc, then “mentally ill” you are!

That was the context in which I said, “The government could one day decide to diagnose Christianity or radical conservatism as a mental illness”.  I did NOT just blurt out, “Obama’s going to call us Christians mentally ill and throw us in an institution somewhere to get us out of the way!”  I actually had a reasoned discussion about a new, easily diagnosed mental illness to start with.  That was the CONTEXT that a negative headline wouldn’t show!

You see, when you get the CONTEXT, the assumption about my words doesn’t sound quite so sinister!

RIght Wing Watch has written a post about me, again, in which they complain about a broadcast where I mentioned the many nasty names the left uses for us.  My story was actually about the new psychological illness that has just appeared out of no where, “somatic anxiety disorder”.  Any one who is overtly anxious about a physcial illness, could be classified as having this “disorder” and thus because of that, be classified as “mentally ill”!

My “conspiracy” as RWW called my reasoning again, was that it would be very easy for anyone to be diagnosed with this “disorder”.  So, perhaps, just perhaps, this might be a tool int he hands of the left to be used against Christians and Conservatives as well.  I also argued that it could be something used against legal gun owners.  If you get classified as having a mental illness, then you can’t legally buy a gun!

I simply mentioned that perhaps this is why the left calls us by such negative terms: “far right wing nut jobs”, or “right wing extremists” and other glowing terms of endearment!

So, here’s the deal. RWW said that I of all people should never be concerned about the “names” we are called.  After all look at the many names I’ve used against the left, they say.  But they are terms that I believe ACCURATELY describe their idealogical positions!  I never speak ugly names to be ugly.  If my descriptions appear ugly, then it actually might be an indictment against them

For instance, “Christophobic” is a term that implies the worldview they have that is antagonistic against Christ and Christians.  And they are! (how many examples do we have to provide?!)

I’ve coined the term, “Heterophobic” to counter their unfair and constant use of the term “Homophobic” against anyone who simply disagrees with homosexual positions, like being against same sex marriage.  These terms are descriptive of WHO they are and WHAT they BELIEVE.  

Another term I’ve coined is, “Conservaphobic” to describe their ultimate fear and hatred of all things Conservative!  A descriptive term that is perfect for defining their anti-conservative idealogical positions.

“Progressive” is another term I’ve used, which is one they use themselves.

“Foul mouthed name calling, hate-filled” are terms they quote from me as well. Again, those are seemingly perfect for describing what they DO because of WHO they ARE.  (Would you like to see some of the Twitter posts they’ve sent me on an almost daily basis?  I believe I’d win my case with the presentation of the first evidence alone in any court of law!

So, I ask, “you’ve got to be kiddin’ me!”?   Their track record in name calling is well documented and undeniable.

(Now, I’m an honest guy, so in all honesty, Right Wing Watch has not themselves called me these names.  Their reports are picked up by homo-friendly bloggers who have, BECAUSE of what they’ve written about me, called me those names. That’s a fact and I’m certainly glad to be clear about it.  They instigate and promote the ugly name calling by those who do!)

Because they generate so much hatred towards me and the ministry I serve, they really shouldn’t complain about some descriptive terms I’ve used from time to time to identify them and the bloggers and activists they inspire!

However, I’m still very grateful!  God is SO good!  RWW takes many of my broadcasts and blog posts and re-prints them to many others who otherwise never would have seen/heard them.  I’m thankful for that.

I hope they keep on helping me spread the word!

John 3:30