Can we find ways to divide? #teamJesus #PKTulsa

Mark Driscoll Stokes John MacArthur's Strange Fire Conference With Impromptu Book Signing:

We have a long history of being a Church divided, starting in Corinthians when some wanted to be of Apollos to now when some want to be of Kenneth Hagin.

What does the Bible say?

Who owns the Church?

Do you go to church or come to Jesus?

If you are worshiping man, you will invite your friends to church.  If you love Jesus, you will invite your friends to Him.

Which will it be?

Here's Hope for America

Billy Graham will be celebrating his 95th birthday this November by sharing a new message called "The Cross" as part of My Hope America with Billy Graham, a nationwide evangelistic outreach.

Over the past several months, he has been working with a video crew in his home to film a brand-new telecast that will air beginning November 7—his 95th birthday—on FOX News Channel at 10 p.m. Eastern, TBN at 8 p.m., and other Christian networks, and also on local TV stations in a number of cities. It's a tremendously powerful program that has his message interwoven with captivating testimonies of lives changed by the living Christ.

Please join churches and Christians across the United States who are reaching out to their friends, family, coworkers, and neighbors who need to know Jesus Christ by inviting them into their homes or community gathering places to watch this powerful presentation of the Gospel.

Many will be combining this important evangelistic event with their love of Operation Christmas Child by hosting a shoebox packing party and a My Hope viewing so that guests can not only hear the Word of God, but also act on it.

I urge you to begin praying now for your family, friends, and neighbors. Ask God to begin working in their hearts, so they will be ready to accept your invitation.

Won't you join Christians across the country in sharing this life-saving message with those you care about most?

May God bless you,

Franklin Graham President, Samaritan's Purse

What Happened #Patriot

Back in January, the United States fiscal cliff  as reflected on Wikipedia, reports: "In the United States, the fiscal cliff was a simultaneous increase in tax rates and decrease of government spending through sequestration that would have occurred January 2013"

Fast forward to the current slippery slope:

"Congress averted that self-built precipice late Tuesday when the House voted to stave off widespread tax increases and deep spending cuts by accepting a brokered Senate compromise. 

It makes permanent the Bush administration's tax cuts for individuals earning less than $400,000 per year and couples earning less than $450,000.It raises rates on those who make more than that from 35% to 39.6%, bringing back a top tax bracket from the Clinton administration, and will raise roughly $600 billion in new revenues over 10 years, according to various estimates.

The bill also extends unemployment insurance and delays for two months the threat of sequestration -- a series of automatic, across-the-board cuts in federal spending." 

Yes, it did that and had additional spending placed into it.  According to the Heritage Foundation, the Fiscal Cliff Deal Added $47 Billion in Spending.  

Now the question is, for the Republicrats with the POTUS included, where's the leadership?

If this was YOUR house, you would cut off the cable TeeVee, you would not eat out as much, you would be kind to your neighbor, but since this is Congress, we see two instances where result in a 19.63% increase in revenue and 0.25% reduction in spending in January and now we have "-280B in revenues and +50B in spending".

In other words, we taxed and reduced on one side while reducing income and increasing spending on the other.  Please see the article about the "Surrender Caucus".

While no one decreases their personal income willingly without decreasing their personal spending, it appears Congress got close to that goal once but not this time.

With Mr. Obama, I can agree that that Congress should "focus on what the majority of Americans sent us here to do" and he should include himself in that quote. 

As I mentioned on Facebook, Sadly, come Christmas, unless Congress develops some guts or some other miracle, we will be exactly where we were 30 days ago.

Welcome to Kick the Can, DC style.

Did you elect your President and Congress to solve problems or play childish games?