Jesus Christ IS God's Gift For Us

How do we get our heads around a free gift, something like when a stranger stands on a street corner and hands you a $100 bill? You did nothing to earn it but you take it probably willingly, but most likely you'd be thinking maybe it's a fake or, someone will soon come out from behind a tree and say, "Smile, you're on Candid Camera"...
Well the fact that Jesus Christ died on a cross to take the full brunt of all of our sins is hard to comprehend, after all why would anyone do that for us? Well, no ordinary bloke would, however, Jesus IS God and He has His own way of doing things, totally different to the way we do things and I'm rapt about that because I can put my faith in Him who knows everything and who truly does have the Whole World In His Hands. The peace and the joy truly knowing that, is just one of the freedom gifts that comes with the Christian tag attached to me.
Christmas Day rolls around every year and it is a wonderful occasion for other's to hear about Jesus and His birth and short life on earth. However, what the world needs to know more about is that He is still here, as the Holy Spirit, living in the believer's who are spreading the Good News about the Saviour of The World.
HAVE A JOYOUS CHRISTMAS EVERYONE AND MAY YOU TOO COME TO KNOW THE ONE I KNOW

The 3- Inch Bird

Young son recounted the doings of the family cat found to be stashing two of it's birds inside the house this morning...son finds the '3-inch bird' first with hundreds of feathers scattered everywhere and he is wondering if the birds have the bird flu. When I ask, why? he says because he is feeling itchy all over...and cos the birds are kinda, coughing. When gingerly, I ask, why are they coughing, he says they're like, chirping err, err real loud and that the 15-cm bird's head was in the cat's mouth but then it slipped out and then out of the cat's paws and went straight out the doors...I'm left thinking bird flu would be a better option for some birdies.

A Millstone Round The Neck

The Lord Jesus Christ says if someone causes His people to sin they might as well commit suicide, choose to have a millstone placed round their neck and be cast into the deepest sea.
Another prostitute has been brutally murdered in New Zealand and it is obvious that a life isn't worth much to many people, the murder stats are certainly reflecting that.
It is just as well Jesus Christ came to earth to be our Saviour, we only have to accept Him in Faith, if we do we are assured of eternal life, if we choose not to then we continue on to eternal death and destruction, the millstone round our neck and cast in to hell. The ultimate sin, the sin of unbelief.

A Bloggin Minute:The Children are Eating Dog Faeces, arn't they?

A Bloggin MinuteWell yes, one did, forced to, over a seven-week period by his mother and two of her friends.http://www.stuff.co.nz/stuff/0,2106,3490069a12855,00.html
This type of horrendous crime against children is becoming all too frequent in our small country with a population of only 4Million. It never used to be like this. Things have progressively declined morally since homosexuality was legalised in this country in 1984 and our liberal abortion laws enable thousands of baby New Zealander's to be murdered each year. Recently, the liberal Labour Government has also allowed Civil Unions, the closest they could get, at the moment, to homosexual and lesbian marriage, and they have legalised prostitution and pimping openly on our streets and brothel operating and keeping, in our neighbourhoods. We have drug runners using our soft-touch country now as a major trafficking route, yes it's open slather in what 'was' affectionately known as, Godzone!
I heard a talk-back radio host say,".. but we have the lowest unemployment in the world and the immigrant's coming here are saying this country is so great". Well, they would say that wouldn't they when the countries they are leaving are currently worse than our own, but will they be worse much longer? Or, will our country be worn-down completely? and then where will we go, to India perhaps? South Africa, Zimbabwe, China, how's about Thailand...

A Bloggin Minute: Wearing Down

A Bloggin Minute: Wearing Down(New Zealand) Parliament loses opportunity to protect marriage

Yesterday, Parliament voted 73-47 to defeat the Marriage (Gender Clarification) Bill that would have defined in legislation that marriage is between one man and one woman. This Bill would have sent a clear message that the traditional definition of marriage is valued and protected in this country.

Parties treated the vote as a conscience issue, although there were some clear voting patterns. All Labour MPs, except one voted against the Bill; National MPs were split 36 in favour of the Bill and 12 opposed; New Zealand First were split, five in favour and two opposed; Jim Anderton, the Green and Maori MPs opposed the Bill; and all United Future MPs and both Act MPs voted in support of the legislation.

Many MPs were convinced by the argument that this legislation is unnecessary because marriage is already defined in our courts as a union between one man and one woman. Whilst technically true, this argument missed the real need for and importance of this Bill.

When similar legislation was passed in Australia last August, the Attorney General, Mr. Peter Ruddock stated it this way: "The bill is necessary because there is significant community concern about the possible erosion of the institution of marriage...The government has consistently reiterated the fundamental importance of the place of marriage in our society. It is a central and fundamental institution. It is vital to the stability of our society and provides the best environment for the raising of children."

This was an opportunity for our Parliament to show it's support for the place of marriage in New Zealand - an opportunity sadly lost.

(The above post was taken from an email from Maxim Institute, (http://www.maxim.org.nz) dated 8 December 2005. Real Issues #186. Sign up for them on the site.)

A Bloggin Minute: Wearing Down

A Bloggin Minute: Wearing DownSupreme Court to Consider Parents Rights
from the November 29, 2005 eNews issue. www.khouse.org
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The Supreme Court will hear a major case on the abortion issue this Wednesday. In 2003, Planned Parenthood took New Hampshire's new parental notification law to court, where it was overturned. The nation's highest court will now hear arguments to determine whether parents' rights over the medical care of their children has more importance than the rights of minor girls to get secret abortions.
New Hampshire's law is simple. It requires at least one parent to be notified, either in person or by certified mail, 48 hours before a minor daughter can legally obtain an abortion. It includes an exception to save the minor's life, as well as a judicial bypass if the girl can convince a judge that she is mature enough to make the decision on her own. A lower court struck down the law days before it was to take effect because it failed to include an exception for the "health" of the girl, and because the exception to save her life was deemed too narrow.
While health exceptions sound like good things, in reality they simply gut laws like this one. "Health" exceptions and "life" exceptions are completely different. If a girl is going to die because the growing embryo has remained inside her Fallopian tube, then an emergency procedure may be necessary before a parent can be notified. However, a child's "health" might include anything. According to the Supreme Court's definition in Doe v. Bolton (1973), "health" can include physical, psychological, emotional, familial, educational or financial "health". A health exception makes laws like these veritably useless.
The Supreme Court's decision in this case, Ayotte v. Planned Parenthood of Northern New England, will be extremely significant, and will have an effect on other laws that restrict abortions. Right now, thirty-four states have laws that require a parent to either be notified or to give their consent before their minor daughter goes through an abortion. Another nine states have passed similar laws, but have had them struck down by local courts.
This case will also cause the Supreme Court to revisit other abortion-related cases, including Stenberg v. Carhart (2000), in which the Supreme Court struck down Nebraska's partial birth abortion ban (5-4) because the law was vaguely worded and did not include a health exception. The case of Planned Parenthood v. Casey (1992), another parental/spousal notification case, will also be reconsidered.
Laws that require teenagers to notify their parents or guardians before getting abortions are just good policy. Nobody would argue that minor girls should be allowed to get their tonsils removed without parental consent. Parents have the primary responsibility over the health and welfare of their children. They will be the ones dealing with any harmful physical and emotional effects an abortion might have on their scared, young daughters. They have a right to know their daughter is planning to have an abortion and to have time to discuss with her other options she might not have considered.
"Laws like this are extremely important for protecting vulnerable children against coercion, deception, and the damaging emotional and physical consequences of abortion," said Jay Sekulow, Chief Counsel of the American Center of Law and Justice. "It makes no sense to permit children to undergo a medical procedure like abortion without their parents being notified. To permit children to get abortions without parental notification is not only legally flawed, but bad public policy. This is an important opportunity for the high court to step in and protect the health and well being of our children."

Related Links:
  •   Supreme Court Should Uphold Parental Notification Law for Children Seeking Abortions - ACLJ Press Release
  •   Ayotte v. Planned Parenthood of Northern New England - Duke Law
  •   Abortion Case Offers U.S. Chief Justice Chance to Reshape - Bloomberg

A Bloggin Minute: Wearing Down

A Bloggin Minute: Wearing DownA Judicial Assault on Parenthood
Michael Medved

In an appalling travesty of justice, the Washington State Supreme Court has ordered a husband and wife to share custody of their ten-year-old daughter with a third parent: a lesbian lover the mother rejected four years ago!

The two women lived together when the baby was born, but the mother left homosexuality to marry the biological father of the girl. The court, however, anointed the one-time lesbian lover as a "de facto parent" with the same rights as the mother--despite the fact that she never adopted the girl legally when they lived together.

This decision not only trashes the rights of biological parents, but also slights the significance of legal adoption. It grants special status to a homosexual relationship--even when discarded--while clearly ignoring the best interests of a child.

How would a ten year old benefit from a court-created third parent to whom she bears no biological or adoptive relationship?



Michael Medved is the host of The Michael Medved Show.

Michael Medved is the author of Right Turns: Unconventional Lessons from a Controversial Life.

Crave Te Kaikoura

A Bloggin MinuteThe blessings of having fisherman friends is especial when they bring you fish fresh from the ocean and last night we were given some cooked crayfish. I was hogging into one to break my fast this morning and in walks sonshine and tells me that what I am eating is s--t, I said no, it is just the gravy and he said it is s--t and I am beginning to lose my appetite, tis just as well the tail is long gone into my tummy so I place what is left of my koura's hardbelly into a plastic bag and tightly do it up and into the bin it went, I hope the weather isn't too hot between now and next rubbish day...back inside son is tucking in to the last x3 crays and discarding the bodies. They're back in the fridge where they'll be eaten, in private, later.

Wearing Down

I have noticed with the recent trend among the mostly liberal members of parliament here in New Zealand, a 'wearing down' of what we have considered good and upright people serving in important places in our social services departments. I include here our police force and anything else where Joe or Josephine Public has to go for help, for guidance, for an anchor, someone to look up to when you havn't got anyone to trust. Now, I have not always been a follower of Jesus Christ and so I have not always had Him as my built-in anchor, but I know that when the crap hits the fan we need the right people to look to, good solid upright citizens. Well, I mean no offence to anyone but the police have a current member who is upfront in a terrible heavy metal band that exudes violence from every pore and speaker, is this comfort for the needy?...and then there is Georgina, formerly George? Beyer, who the Labour Party lauds as the worlds first- transgendered -Member of Parliament, and now is the Chairperson of the Government's Social Services Committee. I don't doubt for a moment that she/ he is capable of doing that job as chair, however, as an anchor for so many of our people who are hitting the gutters big time, absolutely not. We need very straight people right now in every helping agency, kids can see right through the wishy-washy hairy-fairyness of these liberal's who delight in wearing down our right to righteous government.

An Aging Potato Masher

I've been around long enough to see many sizes and varieties of spud/potato/murphy, whatever you want to call em, and I've found them all different upon cooking/tasting. Some are tasteless, some have eyes that wern't there when first placed in the pot and some, well some just deserve a darn good mashing! So over the years I have variously mashed with a stainless steel masher, some with holes in em and some had aWlook to them but now I use a plastic one and it's a wee beaut, well so I thought. But after all these years of presuming I had acquired a nack with the spudata's mashings my son tells me his friend's mum makes the most delicious mashed potatoes and she uses lots of butter, milk and finishes her mashing with a good fork whip-around! I was hurt, I was, I just said, quietly to sonshine, Well, I have mashed many a spud in my days and I used to use the fork, the dollops of butter and much cream as well as milk in them but, now I am an aging potato masher, doing the mashings well past my prime and so, if you want that type of mash then do it yourself....oh no mum, said he, they're still edible and that's good enough for me.

..Oh And That's Lady Cadaver Over There..

On display in New York are some real bodies in various stages of decompose and I wonder, who would give permission to have people ogling them in that state? Would you? It is bad enough seeing mumified men, women and children in museums, hardly the final and private resting place an Egyptian had in mind surely...oh well if it will help people give up smoking when they see the totally yuck cancer-ridden cadaver in the exhibition then it will have served it's purpose.
I did look @ the picture of one exhibit in sporting pose and thought, well that will never be me cos I don't do sport.

Get Back Onto That Treadmill!

My worst fears came upon me @ the gym yesterday...a lady climbed aboard the treadmill beside me and proceeded to press those buttons and I saw out the corner of my eye that she was walkin mighty fast and then I realised she was trying to alter the speed, she was going 7.7 k's by this time and still walking-as-fast-as-her-legs-could-walk-her... next minute her arms were flailling all over the place and before I could turn my machine off to help her she had hit the tread and was plonked onto the carpet with her hands out-stretched onto the mill...I stopped her machine and asked her if she was okay and she replied, 'yes, I'm fine" and promptly got on again, just as as one is told to do when their horse has bucked them off, and away she went as if nothing had happened. I was more perplexed and have decided I will attend the gym @ 6:00am in future when older ladies are still tucked up in bed in their nighties :)

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