My Opinion of the New Immigration Law in Arizona

I am vehemently against the new law in AZ.

This is a classic example of problem - reaction - solution.

Who created the immigration crisis? the government did! Here is how:

1. By giving free government handouts to illegals such as free education, food stamps, welfare, wic, and medical care.

2. By conducting official business, schooling, and voting in Spanish, thereby allowing foreigners to come here and fully function without learning English.

3. By making it extremely costly and difficult to immigrate legally (see the Declaration of Independence*).

4. By destroying the farming industry in Mexico by heavily subsidizing American farmers and paying them to grow unprofitable crops, thereby making it impossible for farmers in other countries who are not propped up by the government to compete.

They CREATED the problem, and now they are supposedly the SAVIOUR to fix the problem by taking away civil rights?!?! The rights enumerated in the constitution are endowed by the creator and apply to all human beings, regardless of nationality or citizenship.

Here is the real solution to the "immigration crisis:"

1. Stop all government handouts including, but not limited to, welfare, food stamps, WIC, public school, medical care, etc.

2. Offer government forms and voting only in the official language of English.

3. Make it very easy and inexpensive to immigrate legally.*

4. Stop subsidizing American farmers to grow corn that they sell for less money than it took for them to produce it.

If these 4 steps were enacted, the vast majority of the illegals would go home on their own! The ones who stayed would have to pay their own way, so who cares if they are here! I don't care if that whole country moves up here, as long as they learn English, pay their own way, and become Americans. In fact, it would stimulate the economy. But right now, the illegals are a drain on the economy because of GOVERNMENT HANDOUTS!

*"He has endeavored to prevent the population of these states; for that purpose obstructing the laws for naturalization of foreigners; refusing to pass others to encourage their migration hither, and raising the conditions of new appropriations of lands." - Excerpt from the Declaration of Independence

BP Agent Gets Owned in Court (Pastor Anderson Trial Excerpt 1)

I do NOT "support our troops"

This video is sickening. Please invest 17:47 to watch this entire video. How can anyone think this is legitimate warfare?! Americans will reap what they have sown when our government turns on us, and our troops bring back this kind of "warfare" to the United States. God help us all! This video made me sick to my stomach, and at one point I started crying.



This kind of "urban warfare" is completely without dignity and without honor.

Stranded in the Snow!!!

Yesterday, I drove through a snowstorm all the way from El Paso, TX, to Santa Rosa, NM, only to get there and find the I-40 eastbound onramp shut down. I was trying to get to Amarillo, TX, to do a job, and I had even already booked a hotel for the night in Amarillo.

I decided to try to take an alternative route (famous last words) and found myself travelling alone on a lonesome highway in the middle of nowhere. At first things were going pretty well, but then I kept running into some very deep patches of snow and snow drifts. My Hyundai Sonata 4-cylinder car was miraculously able to keep going through all the snowy roads, but I just wasn't sure how long this would last. My cellphone and GPS still had signal so at least I was able to make sure that I wasn't getting super-far from the interstate or civilization.

After about 35 miles I noticed a ranch house by the side of the road with the lights on, so I pressed reset on the odometer trip counter so that if I got stuck I would know how far back it was. The road seemed to be getting better, and I was cruising right along, but then all of the sudden I came plowing into some really deep snow on an uphill incline and got completely stuck right in the middle of the road. It was 9:00pm.

I spent about 40 minutes trying to dig myself out, so that I could at least reverse back the way I came and get to the ranch house, but there was no use. I finally realized that it wasn't going to work, and that it was only getting later, colder, and windier the longer I waited. I switched into survival-mode and layered on every piece of clothing that I had with me in the car. I hadn't even planned on spending a night out of town when I left the house, but thankfully I still had some extra clothes with me in the car (having a messy car sometimes pays off because you always have what you need for survival). I then packed my laptop, cellphone, and GPS into my backpack and set out.

I abandoned the car and set out for the ranch house which my odometer told me was 1 and 1/2 miles away (had I not known exactly where I was going it would have been safer to stay with the car until morning). The house was very well lit so I hoped that I wasn't waking anyone up when I knocked on their door after 10 o'clock at night.

A young couple came to the door and were a little bit shocked to see ANYONE out in the middle of nowhere where they lived in this kind of weather! The young man called his dad who lived 8 miles away to bring over his 4-wheel drive to come and pull my car out. It took us a little while, but we finally were able to pull the car out. I then drove it about 10 miles to the rancher's house where I was put up in a nice guest house for the night.

And that's where I am right now as I write this post!

In a few hours the rancher is going to have the worst part of the road back to Santa Rosa (the way I came in last night) somewhat cleared because his son is also heading that way later to go to a rodeo somewhere near Albuquerque. Then I can get on the I-40 westbound in Santa Rosa and head back to Phoenix (east is still closed).

I'm just going to have to do my job in Amarillo on another trip. In the words of the rancher who I'm staying with, I'm like the mouse who no longer wants the cheese, I just want out of the trap!

4th Sunday of 2010 (comments are now open)

I'm not sure why, but my blog wasn't allowing comments before. Now comments are open.

We had 44 in church this morning and 15-20 out soul-winning in the afternoon. I preached this morning about how Jesus and his disciples preached the Gospel to all the towns and small villages in Judaea during his earthly ministry, something that is mentioned MANY times in the 4 gospels.

http://www.blogger.com/post-create.g?blogID=1188521836105870276

After hours and hours of soul-winning, our church collectively had 29 people saved today! Our attendance in Sunday night church was 34.

A 15 year-old guy in our church, Gabriel, got saved and baptized 21 days ago (Chris and Victor knocked his door) and has been out door-to-door soul-winning with people from our church on 10 of the 21 days he's been saved! Only at Faithful Word! haha

This coming Saturday is our Small Town Soul-winning Marathon in Kearny, AZ! Listening to the above sermon from this morning will explain why and what we do.

We use Google Earth satellite images to see which streets have houses, and then we hand out street maps to everybody that are printed from Microsoft Streets and Trips. Then people report back once they have completed their map and we mark it off on the big map of the whole town.

Kearny is the biggest town we've done so far. The other five we did were towns ranging in size from a population of 1,500 - 2,500. Kearny is a little bit larger than that (the population is over 3,000), but the houses are close together.

On 3 of our marathons we completed the whole town in one day. On the other 2, just a few of us had to go back on another day to pick up the few streets we had missed.

We have some people come for an hour or two, some who come for half the day, and usually about half come for "the long haul!" We're trying to do 4 per year, but we skipped one at the end of 2009 because we were so busy. I'm excited about getting back into it, and I think this is going to be a very good town for it.

Here's a great website to get demographic and statistical info on towns:

http://www.city-data.com

You'll be shocked how much info there is! It tells you every possible stat about any town in America: population, income, ethnicity, even how they vote! It's pretty interesting, and it helps you get a feel for the town.

3rd Sunday of 2010

47 in attendance at church in the morning, 30 in the evening service, 44 saved through door-to-door soul-winning (that is an all time new record!) and 5 baptized after the service! In the am I preached on "Stepping Out in Faith," and in the pm I preached a sermon called "Only One Can Be Right."

Also one of the guys who got saved through soul-winning and baptized 2 weeks ago has been out soul-winning more than once this week himself with Victor who won him to the Lord. Saved, then baptized, then soul-winning! The cycle is complete!!!

Also, another man who has been going to our church for a couple of weeks now is going soul-winning for his first time with Brother Dave on Wednesday afternoon before the service.

This week I traveled to Washington DC and Virginia during the first half of the week, and the latter half of the week I stayed in AZ the whole time. On Saturday I had all 5 kids on my hands because my wife was taking her concealed weapon permit the entire day (8am-5pm). I decided to take all the kids to Sedona, a deer farm in Northern AZ, and Montezuma's Castle (a National Monument off the I-17). We left at about 5 in the morning and returned at about 6 in the evening.








We also brought along 2 friends from church: Richie Symes and Scott Brooke

2nd Sunday of 2010

Before I get into Sunday, on Wednesday (1/6/10), we had 31 in the service, 7 saved in the afternoon through door-knocking, and 4 people baptized after the service (3 from the door-knocking).

This Sunday our attendance was 44 in the morning service and 31 in the evening service. I preached on "The Doctrine of Baptisms" in the morning & "Changing the Meaning of Words" in the evening. Most of our church people went out soul-winning throughout the afternoon & we had 22 people saved total. Also, the 3 who got baptized on Wednesday night were back again this Sunday.

In the last week, I drove through 9 states: AZ, CA, AR, MS, AL, GA, TN, SC, NC. I drove about 2,575 miles. I slept in the car 2 nights and another night on a beanbag in an airport. What a crazy week!