May21

Help!

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Help!

If you are a reader of Cross Chek, a subscriber, or past subscriber who no longer gets my blog, or someone who has commented to my blog I need your help.

Here is the deal. I have written almost 150 blog articles and rarely do I see any comments back, even when I have specifically asked for comments. I just thought no one was commenting–it seems that is not the case.

We had dinner with some friends on Friday and in the course of the evening somehow my blog or an article came up. I happened to mention nobody commented on that blog. My friend told me he had commented to several of my articles. I never got his comment, or any others.

He also told me he didn’t get my blogs anymore even though he had subscribed to them. I told him to go out and resubscribe.

I have no idea what is going on and getting live help from WordPress is like trying to get Holder’s Justice Department to uphold the laws on the books.

How can you help?

A couple of easy things, just a couple of clicks to help.

First if you were a subscriber that just suddenly quit getting my blog, re-subscribe – click on the Sign Me Up button which I moved to the top of the right sidebar. As a subscriber you should get e-mail notices each time I publish from WordPress, my blog publisher/host, not from me.

However from time to time I do send out my own e-mail notifications to my special friends on blogs I think are especially important or newsworthy just as I did on this blog.

Second send a comment to this blog. Just write “I helped” . . . then, for those that get my e-mail notice, shoot me back an e-mail with the word “Commented.” That way if the WordPress system does not notify me, I will still be able to track who “commented.”

If I cannot get this cleared up, then perhaps I will move my blog to another host, but I will let ya”ll know first.

Thanks for reading, it means a lot. More importantly, it is my objective to share things that might be beneficial to you. I strive to bring right thought, ideas, and perspective to your lives and the comments you make do the same for me in reverse and adds a measure of accountability.

As one wag on WBT radio in Charlotte says, “Agreement is not required.”

God Bless you all.

Apr25

Best Buy. . . Isn’t

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Best Buy. . . Isn’t

Ready for that new big screen TV? Maybe you need a new laptop or printer, how about a refrigerator or another Rihanna or Red Hot Chili Peppers music video or CD?

It doesn’t matter what the price tag says or if that TV is $100 less than anybody else—if you buy it at Best Buy it is way, way, too expensive.

Whadyatalkin’ about Edwards? Listen up and I’ll ‘splain.

Best Buy has been struggling financially and especially now after the departure of their CEO under a cloud for personal misconduct. But they clearly have lots of money to give away to America’s enemies as first reported by Mark J. Fink

           The struggling retail giant recently used profits from American consumers to fund the annual banquet of a group closely linked to Hamas. The Minnesota chapter of the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) recently listed Best Buy as a “Platinum Sponsor.” Best Buy has refused to rule out future support for CAIR through numerous messages to its public relations department.

Forbes reports that Best Buy missed their 4th quarter earnings mark and laying off people and closing 50 stores.

CAIR is an arm of the radical Muslim Brotherhood and you may recall was named as an unindicted co-conspirator by the United States government for funding Hamas. Make no mistake as trial documents proved, both CAIR and their antecedent the Islamic Association for Palestine’s goal is to turn America into a Muslim nation using stealth jihad.

The Head of CAIR, Ibrahim Hooper has stated “I wouldn’t want to create the impression that I wouldn’t like the government of the United States to be Islamic sometime in the future.” That is their goal folks–God help us.

What can I do Edwards? Here it is all laid out perty.

  1. Sign the petition. Nearly 5,000 people signed the pledge within 24 hours to boycott Best Buy until it rescinds its support for CAIR . Add your name to the list.
  2. Call or e-mail and let them know:
  • Best Buy Public Relations Department: 612-292-NEWS (6397) or NewsCenter@bestbuy.com.
  • Susan Busch, Director of Public Relations: susan.busch@bestbuy.com.
  • Lisa Hawks, Deputy Director of Public Relations: lisa.hawks@bestbuy.com.

Please Don’t Wait — Do it NOW. For your children and grandchildren

For their America and ours.

Apr22

Charles Colson ~ 1930 – 2012

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Charles Colson ~ 1930 – 2012

In Memoriam

Charles Colson was a complex individual—an ex-Marine, an attorney, politician, a king maker of sorts, and a true patriot in the mold of our founding fathers. But Chuck was much more. He was also a preacher, teacher, author, man of God, an entrepreneur, a CEO, and a mover-and-shaker. He was also a great ambassador and apologist for Christ.

Chuck died in the flesh yesterday afternoon, Saturday, April 21st, 2012 and went Home to be with The Lord, his Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ.

By now most people in the United States know the story of Colson’s extraordinary evolution from Special Counsel to the President under Nixon to a new creation in Christ. Colson never did anything part way, so when he gave his life to God he committed it totally. From that commitment came several ministries, beginning with Prison Fellowship.

God providentially used Chuck Colson to help draw me back to Himself. While I became a Christian at seventeen I was never discipled. My early college days were mostly party and little college. I then went into the Army and I moved away from God. When I got home from the service I worked and got involved in racing sports cars and later stock cars. I moved still farther away from God.

One night an EE Team (Evangelism Explosion) knocked on my door. My girlfriend Betty (now my wife), had just finished dinner. I let the E.E. Team in and that night we both rededicated our lives to Christ. This was in the mid-seventies.

Watergate and Nixon were but a memory, but Colson’s first book Born Again had come out. Shortly after that Chuck’s second book was released, Loving God. one of the things that really impacted me at that time was a theme quote from Loving God. Colson wrote: “Loving God – really loving Him — means living out His commands no matter what the cost.“[1]

Of course this was not original to Colson, but came straight from the Bible. There are probably hundreds of quotes telling us to love God; one is found in Deuteronomy 11: 22 and another in Matthew 22: 37. For me Chuck Colson had a way of taking profound philosophical and theological issues and making them understandable.

He also epitomized and preached balance between politics, life, and God or church. By that I mean too many Christians yet today just want to keep their faith in a box, untouched by the world, but never touching the world. Jesus and the apostles were always engaging in and with the world; debating the leaders of their time the Pharisees and Sadducees.

In 1990 Betty and I drove down to Yorba Linda (CA). The Nixon Library was to be dedicated and it was there I got to meet Chuck Colson, my unknowing discipler. I would like to say I talked to him for some time, but that was not the case. We were going through the reception line with many others. Nevertheless I did shake his hand and greet him and I will look forward to seeing him again on the other side of the River where there is no time.

Colson was one of the drafters of the Manhattan Declaration and one of the original signers. You too can sign it, along with my me and over 500,000 other signers. Chuck Colson loved America and realized the depth of trouble this country is in. Chuck believed the Bible taught civil disobedience was permissible when necessary; indeed mandated by God. I believe that is the case as well.

In one of his last broadcast this was his plea.

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[1] Charles Colson, Loving God (Grand Rapids, Zondervan Publishing, 1983), 137.