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‘Today we mourn the passing of a beloved old friend, ‘Common Sense’, who has been with us for many years.. No one knows for sure how old he was, since his birth records were long ago lost in bureaucratic red tape. He will be remembered as having cultivated such valuable lessons as:
Knowing when to come in out of the rain; why the early bird gets the worm; Life isn’t always fair; and maybe it was my fault.
Common Sense lived by simple, sound financial policies (don’t spend more than you can earn) and reliable strategies (adults, not children, are in charge). His health began to deteriorate rapidly when well-intentioned but overbearing regulations were set in place. Reports of a 6-year-old boy charged with sexual harassment for kissing a classmate; teens suspended from school for using mouth wash after lunch; and a teacher fired for reprimanding an unruly student, only worsened his condition. Common Sense lost ground when parents attacked teachers for doing the job that they themselves had failed to do in disciplining their unruly children.
It declined even further when schools were required to get parental consent to administer sun lotion or an Aspirin to a student; but could not inform parents when a student became pregnant and wanted to have an abortion. Common Sense lost the will to live as the churches became businesses; and criminals received better treatment than their victims. Common Sense took a beating when you couldn’t defend yourself from a burglar in your own home and the burglar could sue you for assault. Common Sense finally gave up the will to live, after a woman failed to realise that a steaming cup of coffee was hot. She spilled a little in her lap, and was promptly awarded a huge settlement …
Common Sense was preceded in death, by his parents, Truth and Trust. His wife, Discretion, his daughter, Responsibility, his son, Reason. He is survived by his 4 stepbrothers; I Know My Rights; I Want It Now; Someone Else Is To Blame; I’m A Victim. Not many attended his funeral because so few realised he was gone.

~Source Unkown

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Jud 1:3  Beloved, when I gave all diligence to write unto you of the common salvation, it was needful for me to write unto you, and exhort you that ye should earnestly contend for the faith which was once delivered unto the saints

I doubt very seriously that the author of this passage ever intended this thought to be used to trash University Presidents, complain of their slaries, make unfounded accusations of of suspicious motives regarding staff cutbacks or personal vacations. Yet that is exactly what one of our brothers in the convention is doing. It seems that rather than being concerned for the gospel and the church he was called to Pastor, he has taken a demotion to the SBC gossip.

Pastor John Leigh Towns in September 1843 said “When false teachers are among us,….should we not, the united Baptists, cleave to our union, repel invasion, put down this hideous error, and drive away this monster of evil origin from the purity of the sanctuary?……we exhort you to your duty, but yet, we beseech you to do it with meekness and mildness if you can, but forcibly if you must; mark such as walk disorderly, reclaim them if you can, but when you cannot, put such away form you.”

Dealing with false teachers is a commandment from Christ. And such should be dealt with expediently. But this political bickering that goes on in the convention at the hands of those who simply disagree with non-essential issues like women in the ministry or personal perceptions of the use of tongues, needs to come to an end. Of course already having been censured and forced to resign a position doesn’t seem to persuade some. Outside of being censured by his very own church it is our job to lift this unrepentant pastor up in prayer and wait for his change of heart and change of behavior. May God send him someone he knows intimately and trusts to reveal to him by scripture and reasoning his ungodlyl behavior.

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WICHITA, Kan. – A judge has refused to toss out the criminal case against a doctor accused of violating Kansas’ late-term abortion law.

Sedgwick County Judge Clark Owens on Wednesday denied a defense request to dismiss charges against Dr. George Tiller of Wichita or throw out evidence because of the conduct of former prosecutor Phill Kline.
Owens found that Kline’s conduct during the investigation of Tiller did not warrant such action.
Tiller is scheduled to go to trial on March 16 on 19 misdemeanor charges alleging he failed to obtain a second opinion for some late-term abortions from an independent physician, as required by Kansas law.
Kline began investigating clinics when he served as Kansas’ attorney general from 2003 to 2007.

http://www.onenewsnow.com/Legal/Default.aspx?id=428370

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by A. W. Tozer

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The loneliness of the Christian results from his walk with God in an ungodly world, a walk that must often take him away from the fellowship of good Christians as well as from that of the unregenerate world. His God-given instincts cry out for companionship with others of his kind, others who can understand his longings, his aspirations, his absorption in the love of Christ; and because within his circle of friends there are so few who share his inner experiences he is forced to walk alone.

The unsatisfied longings of the prophets for human understanding caused them to cry out in their complaint, and even our Lord Himself suffered in the same way.

The man [or woman] who has passed on into the divine Presence in actual inner experience will not find many who understand him. He finds few who care to talk about that which is the supreme object of his interest, so he is often silent and preoccupied in the midst of noisy religious shoptalk. For this he earns the reputation of being dull and over-serious, so he is avoided and the gulf between him and society widens.

He searches for friends upon whose garments he can detect the smell of myrrh and aloes and cassia out of the ivory palaces, and finding few or none he, like Mary of old, keeps these things in his heart.

It is this very loneliness that throws him back upon God. His inability to find human companionship drives him to seek in God what he can find nowhere else.”

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From Man – The Dwelling Place of God, Chapter 39:  “The Saint Must Walk Alone”

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