This Sunday In My Church

June 30, 2013

6th Sunday after Pentecost

Prelude: O God, Our Faithful God [Johannes Brahms]

Call to Worship

Opening Hymn: Guide Me, O Thou Great Jehovah [CWM Rhondda]

Call to Confession

Prayer of Confession

Assurance of Pardon

Response of Thanksgiving: Gloria Patri

Sharing the Peace

Children’s Sermon

Anthem: What Shall I Render to My God [Early American Hymn Tune]

                                 [Arr. Austin Lovelace]

First Reading: 2 Kings 2:1-2, 6-14

Sung Psalm 77:1-2, 11-20

Second Reading: Luke 9:51-62

Sermon: No Buts

Sermon Hymn: O Jesus, I Have Promised [Angel’s Story]

Pastoral Prayer

The Lord’s Prayer

Affirmation of Faith: The Apostles’ Creed

Offering Invitation

Offertory: O Master, Let Me Walk With Thee

The Doxology

Prayer of Dedication

Closing Hymn: O Beautiful for Spacious Skies [Materna]

Charges and Benediction

Benedictory Response: Go My Childeren

Closing Voluntary: Fuga Sonata No 6 [Felix Mendelssohn]

 

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One less rare bird to see

You’ve heard of ‘You can’t make this stuff up?’ That was made for this situation. Powerline calls it: Greatest. Headline. Ever. http://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2013/06/greatest-headline-ever.php

Here’s the headline:

“Rare bird last seen in Britain 22 years ago reappears – only to be killed by wind turbine in front of a horrified crowd of birdwatchers.”

Yes, a rare bird was spotted in the Scottish Hebrides so a group of birdwatchers from around the world went to see it. While they were watching, the bird was killed by a wind turbine. The bird had not been spotted by a human being anywhere in 22 years.

While not an endangered species, sightings of the White-throated Needletail are quite rare in the UK, since it’s primary breeding and migratory grounds are in the far east and India. So when one was spotted on the the Isles of Harris it caused quite an interest with birdwatchers who flocked to the island to see it.

 

http://wattsupwiththat.com/2013/06/28/imagine-the-outrage-from-environmentalists-if-it-had-been-an-oil-derrick/  There’s video at WattsUpWithThat, not not of the killing itself but of the dead bird and the birdwatchers checking it.

England’s James Delingpole has long fought the wind farm glut in Great Britain and the threat to birds they pose. Critics have often dismissed his anger by pointing out that the birds are “ordinary” such as seagulls. Well, a bird is a bird and nobody asks if any birds hurt or killed by an oil spill are “ordinary.” Delingpole asks about the White-throated Needletail, http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/jamesdelingpole/100223770/this-bird-rare-enough-for-you-greenies/

Here’s an amateur birdwatcher video of the bird flying right before it was killed:

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World perspective

h/t http://www.smalldeadanimals.com

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Future IRS victim spotted in Greater Cincy

pic taken in the parking lot of Buckhead Restaurant in Newport, Kentucky, right across the river from Cincinnati.

In fact, if you live in Northern Kentucky, the best way to get to this Ohio River waterfront restaurant is cross over to Cincy on one bridge and quickly take another bridge back to Kentucky. The old days of Northern Kentucky being the poor sin area for Cincy residents is way past. Instead of gambling, brothels, bars and organized crime corruption, Northern Kentucky is a bustling area fueled by corporate offices and upscale housing. I’m always shocked by the booming construction; not many small farms left.

Thanks to my nephew for the NoKY way to spell “OBAMA.”

Northern Kentucky is also the site of a strong Tea Party presence. They offer lots of education events, including showings of the movie FrackNation and advice on Concealed Carry licenses, and serve as a watchdog for big government. Right now, they’re trying to clear up a question of library tax increases, and members have ended up in court to get a legal opinion. The Tea Party folks have won the first round but the suits are headed to appeals courts.

They’re also fighting back against Common Core and Governor  Bashear’s ObamaCare health exchange formation. One local member to the state health exchange is an insurance salesman. He’s also chairman of the Boyd County Democratic Party, which I’m sure is a total coincidence.

Here’s a link to the Northern Kentucky Tea Party, plus county units and their activities.

http://www.nkyteaparty.org/eblast/

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Is this the best James Taranto funny ever?

You’ll notice my James Taranto blogroll link to his daily Wall Street Journal column. Right now he’s involved in a word war with goofy Senator Claire McCaskill [D-MO] over a military case and her dismissal of a WaronMen. Here at PullMyChain, we sure think there’s a war on men in general and that goes double for white men. Men are collateral damage for government takeover of our nation and have to be neutered.  McCaskill is dumber than a bag of rocks but she’s a good little Dem hack so there’s always that to consider.

She got elected in 2006 because actor Michael J Fox didn’t take his Parkinson’s meds and taped a shaky ad for her and her support of the bill to legalize embryonic stem cell research. Yeh, I know Fox is likable and all that but he admitted the ploy after the election. Yeh I know virtually all stem cell research done today is adult stem cells or synthetic stem cells but hey, being a liberal means you never have to apologize because the MSM won’t ask inconvenient questions.

McCaskill got re-elected in 2012 because Todd Akin fell into the MSM trap of telling them his evangelistic fervor against abortion. Akin couldn’t have done one tiny whit to stop abortion if he got elected but the Dems and their MSM turned it into a – horrors! – WaronWomen, forgetting a little something called the Supreme Court, not to mention a Senate controlled by Dems and a pro-abort president. Thanks to his refusal to drop out of the race post-gaffe, McCaskill reversed a 16-point poll deficit to a victory and helped re-elect Obama win, too. So she’s a hero to the Dems.  http://online.wsj.com/article/best_of_the_web_today.html

Back to humor. The funny line for me in today’s Taranto column concerns his habit of noting quirks in  news stories and then making up funny headlines to go with those straight  stories/headlines. Here’s this; is it the best ever?

Obama Ate Them
“Where Are All the Watchdogs?”–headline, NationalJournal.com, June 26

Remember this from last summer? Good times…

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With friends like Hillary Clinton, who needs enemies?

I found it disgusting that Hillary Clinton kept referring to “our friend Chris” while discussing murdered US Ambassador to Libya Christopher Stevens. The new released diary of Stevens – now that the election’s over, what a coincidence – proves that he was scared to death, had reason to be scared to death, and Hillary didn’t give a crap. Maybe if she had been doing her h job, instead of traveling all over the world to dance with girls at ‘Celebrate Girls’ events, the Benghazi Four might be alive today.

Oh, and thanks to Candy Crowley, too.

In a chilling note shortly before he was killed, U.S. ambassador Chris Stevens  complained about “never ending security threats” in Libya, according to excerpts  of what was purported to be Stevens’ diary. 

Read more:  http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2013/06/26/stevens-reportedly-warned-libya-security-threats-in-final-diary-entry/#ixzz2XWek3WgG

Now the main suspect being questioned in the murders is being released. Well, why not? It’s not as if Hillary, Barack and the Chicago Gang want any truth to come out about Benghazi. The last thing they want is to pursue the killers.

http://www.jammiewf.com/2013/benghazi-suspect-released-by-libyans/

Libya’s government earlier this month released a key terror suspect who U.S. officials say was involved in planning the Sept. 11 terrorist attack on U.S. diplomatic and intelligence facilities in Benghazi.

Faraj al Chalabi, (also spelled Shibli) an al Qaeda terrorist also linked to the 1994 terrorist murder of two German tourists, was detained by the Tripoli government in March

You know the quote about a hero only dies once but a coward dies a thousand deaths?

The Obama DC cowards have to spend the rest of their lives covering up the truth and the world knows it. Listen to this terrorist monster mock the Obama gang for their lies about the stupid video they tried to fool the American voters with. Hey, they got re-elected so I guess the lies worked, huh? Thanks for your part in the coverup, Candy Crowley and MSM.

Regarding his questioning by U.S. officials on Stevens’ death, al Chalabi said: “They pretended to know everything, because they were rigid in their questioning, but the truth is that until now, the Americans do not know who carried out this attack which led to the death of their ambassador or who destroyed their consulate; they are confused. At times they say that it happened against the backdrop of a popular attack over the film that offends the prophet, peace be upon him, and at other times they say it was planned. If it was planned, they do not know who did it.”

The Obama Gang is skilled at taking out political foes but they were rank amateurs when it came to Libya. We had no business going in there, and failed to secure the weapons from the al Qaeda rebels.

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Step outta line, the man come and take you away

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Obama pays back green donors, spoon feeds base, kicks redstates

Ugh what a mean-spirited and downright dumb climate speech President Obama gave yesterday. He ridicules AGW skeptics as Flat Earth Society members. More punkish division from a man who promised to be a uniter. He’s not just going after coal. He’s going after that new Greenie Scare, Carbon Pollution, which doesn’t even exist. There’s not a shred a proof that carbon, which is essential to life on this planet, has ever harmed earth or ever can harm earth. In fact, carbon dioxide has been much higher than it is today, without adverse circumstances.

Here’s a roundup of news on the climate speech, delivered during an economic slowdown.

Just since Jan. 1, 2013, ABC, CBS and NBC morning and evening news programs have  aired 92 stories about “climate change” or “global warming.” Not a single one of  those stories mentioned the “warming  plateau” reported even by The New York Times on June 10. The Times wrote,  “The rise in the surface temperature of earth has been markedly slower over the  last 15 years than in the 20 years before that. And that lull in warming has  occurred even as greenhouse gases have accumulated in the atmosphere at a record  pace.”

Most people don’t realize that global warming claims are not based on actual measurements but on computer models. The models can’t even predict past weather or temperatures, let alone the future.

           In an interview with Der Spiegel on June 20, German climate scientist Hans  von Storch of the Meteorological Institute of the University of Hamburg  pointed to the major problems of climate modeling. “So far, no one has been able  to provide  a compelling answer to why climate change seems to be taking a break. We’re  facing a puzzle. Recent CO2 emissions have actually risen even more steeply than  we feared. As a result, according to most climate models, we should have seen  temperatures rise by around 0.25 degrees Celsius (0.45 degrees Fahrenheit) over  the past 10 years. That hasn’t happened.In fact, the increase over the last 15  years was just 0.06 degrees Celsius (0.11 degrees Fahrenheit) — a value very  close to zero. This is a serious scientific problem that the Intergovernmental  Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) will have to confront when it presents its next  Assessment Report late next year,” he explained.

Read more:  http://newsbusters.org/blogs/julia-seymour/2013/06/25/networks-fail-mention-lull-warming-all-92-climate-change-stories#ixzz2XNm0vPce

Immediately after the speech, the White House sent out memos to green activist allies, suggesting they avoid any economic arguments with opponents. Really? What happened to all those promises of green jobs that Obama touted for his first 4 years as president? http://legalinsurrection.com/2013/06/environmental-activists-steer-clear-on-regulations-as-obama-wages-war-on-coal//#more

The rest of the world is snapping up coal. This is maddening. We import billions of dollars of goods from China or India or any number of countries that use our coal to manufacture goods that the EPA prevents us from using or manufacturing. If we can’t make it here, whether it’s clothes or computers, we should ban the import of these goods produced by coal-fired power there.  http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2013/06/25/world-ignores-obama-coal-war/

You can count on WattsUpWithThat to give an intelligent and comprehensive discussion of the speech: http://wattsupwiththat.com/2013/06/25/the-presidents-climate-action-plan-the-good-the-bad-and-the-ugly/

Lots of observers questioned the timing of the speech, suspecting it as an attempt to distract us from the avalanche of horrible Obama scandals. Here a Twitchy page: http://twitchy.com/2013/06/25/climate-change-squirrel-desperate-admin-pushes-job-killing-war-on-coal/

Like the hyperbolic liberals who yesterday ignored the success of the Voting Rights Act and persist in outdated racial stereotypes, Obama and greenies ignore the success of pollution standards and persist in outdated environmental stereotypes. The air and water of today is vastly superior to that of the 60’s and 70’s. Why won’t liberals let America celebrate success?

Read more:  http://newsbusters.org/blogs/julia-seymour/2013/06/25/networks-fail-mention-lull-warming-all-92-climate-change-stories#ixzz2XNkrdzwKGlobal warming is a scam.

 

 

 

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Lib hate on VRA ruling shows why we can’t have race dialogue

Oh for heaven’s sake. Nobody gutted the Voting Rights Act. An outdated and clumsy section that required certain states to seek DOJ approval on the slightest change in voting that was needed in 1965 is no longer needed. How strict was this section? If you moved the polling place 20 feet, some states had to get approval. When Kinston, NC wanted to make the town elections nonpartisan, they had to seek DOJ approval. It was denied, with the DOJ Civil Rights Unit saying residents of Kinston might not know who to vote for in a city council election without knowing who was Democrat or Republican. Um, Kinston has a majority black population and virtually all the town officials are black. These black officials unanimously wanted the change from partisan to nonpartisan city elections. Was the Holder DOJ looking out for Kinston or the Dems?

J Christian Adams, who used to work in the DOJ Civil Rights Unit, talks facts and knowledge without the hysteria. http://pjmedia.com/jchristianadams/2013/06/25/supreme-court-buries-section-5-of-voting-rights-act/

That liberal NPR chick on Bret Baier Special Report tonight blamed Boosh and the GOP for reauthorizing the Act in 2006 without modernizing and adjusting it. Are you kidding me? Take a look at some tweets from Dems, liberal MSM, and black leaders following the SCOTUS rule that Section 5 was no longer needed for those states. I remember when the VRA was passed; LBJ and Hubert Humphrey would be in shock that they created a permanent bureaucracy.

http://newsbusters.org/blogs/ken-shepherd/2013/06/25/hyperbole-much-cbs-legal-analyst-compares-voting-rights-act-ruling-dre  Yeh, it’s the Dred Scott decision all over again, blacks are 3/5 of a person, a ruling also mischaracterized by libs. This guy had multiple falsehoods and he’s a CBS legal analyst.

http://newsbusters.org/blogs/scott-whitlock/2013/06/25/hyperbolic-terry-moran-abc-right-now-there-no-voting-rights-act-oper No wonder they call him Terry Moron.

President Obama is “deeply disappointed.” What a hack. A Minnesota rep calls Justice Clarence Thomas “Uncle Tom” and then deletes the tweet, saying he didn’t know that was bad. http://michellemalkin.com/2013/06/25/wisconsin-rep-give-me-a-break-i-didnt-know-uncle-tom-is-a-racially-denigrating-term/

The Voting Rights Act is a huge success for American democracy, a piece of legislation that worked.  One section of it is no longer needed. Why can’t we celebrate that as a step forward for America?

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Make yourself clear

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