BLESSINGS-WISE
- All glory to our Heavenly Father!
What they're saying. 
We
have had many responses to our
announcement about our retirement, and below are more
of those.
***I
was at your website and saw that you have retired.
I hate to hear it. Both of you were so
gracious when you came to our small church (
New
Beginnings
Baptist
Church
,
Keller
,
Texas
). I had hoped to book you some time at our
new church, but that is ok. You two have
served in a wonderful way and I wish you the best.
If for any reason you are in the DFW area I would
love to see you again. May the Lord
continue to bless you and watch over you.
***I
am so proud for you, Our Prayers will be for your
new Part in Gods plan, I know there is one. I have
enjoyed reading these Newsletters over the Months
and it is almost as though I was with you, Maybe
this has something to do with being Part of the
same Body, the body of Christ. ....Keep up the
Wonderful work, and Even though we never Got to
meet , you are in our Hearts, Maybe someday we
will cross paths as My Daughter likes to Sing and
we can't put God and what he Does in a Box.
*** So
sorry about your retirement but I hear ya. God has
blessed you and your ministry and the others who
have been there to hear it. Sometimes God just
tells us to slow down and listen. Blessings
to you both and your families.
***
Thanks for the memories…good luck and may God
continue to bless you!!!
***
Sorry to read that you're retiring from traveling,
although I fully understand. I no
longer want to do the interim ministry - too long
away from home at one time. We're
content to be here in Florida and serving the Lord
in a VERY small geriatric church. We
have very much enjoyed your ministry and hosting
you in several of the churches I've served over
the past almost 10 years. I trust
you're not going to stop singing and playing as
well as traveling! We wish God's
blessings upon you both.
***
Never got to hear you, loved your newsletters,
loved the Truth you carried with you, I am Sad you
must stop, but I understand the flesh will let us
down, even those who walk in Spirit and Truth, So
look to the finisher of your Faith for what is
next and know it must be of more need to him than
what you were doing, he knows best what his plan
is...I will Pray for You, and Ask that you Pray
for Me too.
*** Sorry to hear you have to retire. My
son and I heard you at Epiphany Lutheran Church in
Eagle Lake. Minnesota a year or so ago.
We still listen to Stupid Cupid whenever we need a
laugh in the car. God bless you both
and we'll keep you both in our prayers.
*** Oh, I am just so sorry to hear about your
physical ailments! Being "on up
there" myself, I understand fully! Just
know in your heart that you have been a tremendous
blessing to EVERYONE to whom you have ministered,
and ALSO know that your first walk in Heaven will
be on the streets of gold, lined with the literal
thousands you have touched through your ministry! I
am sure your "Well DONE" will be
glorious indeed! Enjoy the memories of
what the Lord has done for you and given you, and
we will enjoy the memories of what we have
received. May God bless you both with
many more years of loving service, whatever that
may be! We love you and will certainly
be praying for your health!
*** On
behalf of all at AmeriKids Christian Center, we
are going to miss the chance of you ever coming to
St. Louis again for a concert. On the other
hand - HAPPY RETIREMENT!!...God bless you both.
We love you.
KJV-WISE
- This column is a regular feature of our
e-newsletters. We maintain that the Authorized
King James Version of the Bible is the only
pure Word of God.
Here
is a question for your perusal. How do you
recognize the New Age bible versions?
The
book called Toward a World Religion for a New
Age, tells us Satan's plan. It says
"When an appropriate, common vocabulary [and
those are the key words, "common
vocabulary"] is developed, each group can
help toward a world religion." To this
end, New Age literature has changed the names
Buddha, Krishna, Lucifer, and all the national and
occult gods, to "the Christ," "the
Lord," "the One," and "the
Spirit."
All
the new bible versions, with the
exception of the King James Version, are
unknowingly making changes and gradually evolving
to conform to this one-world religion. So we
see Jesus Christ, Jehovah, and the Holy
Spirit, disappearing and becoming "the
Christ," "the Lord," "the
One" (capital "O), and "the
Spirit." As we look through the Old
Testament in these new versions, Exodus 6:3 for
example, Jehovah has completely disappeared
because the New Agers do not like Jehovah.
The
new versions repeatedly replace the word "God,"
or "only begotten Son," with
"The One." When you read
New Age books like, The Bhagavad-Gita, or
The Tibetan Book of the Dead, or the
Luciferian The Secret Doctrine, you will
see that "the One" is the god of the
pagans and the New Age. Ms. Riplinger was so
shocked and saddened to see this change in the new
versions; but again, this is the "appropriate
common vocabulary" that they are talking
about, used to soften people up for the final
one-world bible and one world religion.
Is
your "bible" part of this New Age plan?
(from Which
Bible Is God's Word? by Gail Riplinger, pages
34 and 35)
HEALTH-WISE
- "Beloved, I wish above all
things that thou mayest...be in health..."
III John 2
We
have talked and talked about the danger of diet
sodas, aspartame being the particularly guilty
ingredient, and now comes some further
information. As you read this, and you are
still drinking Diet Coke or Diet Dr. Pepper or
Diet Pepsi, please read carefully. Your
health is literally at stake. This is Part
One of a Two Part series.
George
Carlin, Diet Coke With Aspartame & Cardiac
Death
Dr. Betty Martini, D.Hum.
6-27-8
George
Carlin was known as a great stand up comic. Carlin
hosted the first broadcast of "Saturday Night
Live" in October 1975. He starred as a
cabdriver in his own sitcom, "The George
Carlin Show" which ran from 1993 to 1995.
Carlin had a very bad habit, he was addicted to
Diet Coke with aspartame. He suffered several
heart attacks, one at Dodger Stadium during a
baseball game. He died of heart failure on Sunday,
June 22nd.
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In a
nutshell aspartame (NutraSweet/Equal/E951/Canderel,
etc.) triggers an irregular heart rhythm,
interacts with cardiac medication, virtually all
medication for that matter because of damage to
the mitochondria or life of the cell, damages the
cardiac conduction system and causes sudden death.
On
2/5/08 the New York Times published an article on
a new study: "Symptoms: Metabolic Syndrome Is
Tied to Diet Soda" Wrote Nicholas Bakalar,
"Researchers have found a correlation between
drinking diet soda and metabolic syndrome - the
collection of risk factors for cardiovascular
disease"... "This is interesting,"
said Lyn M. Steffen, an associate professor of
Epidemiology at the University of Minnesota and
co-author of the paper" .. Further she said,
"Why is it happening? Is it some kind of
chemical in the diet soda, or something about the
behavior of diet soda drinkers?" I called Dr.
Steffen and let her know what aspartame does to
the heart and sent her this paper by Dr. H. J.
Roberts, and others, which explains in detail:
ASPARTAME INDUCED ARRHYTHMIAS AND SUDDEN
DEATH
By H. J. Roberts, MD, FACP, FCCP
(c)2004
by H. J. Roberts, M.D.
A recent extensive review of sudden death in young
athletes (1) made no mention of aspartame as a
primary cause or suspected contributory factor,
especially when demonstrable pathology was absent.
This issue has assumed great public health
importance because "diet" products
containing this chemical are being consumed by
over two-thirds of the population - especially
weight-conscious persons.
I have
repeatedly reported the serious cardiovascular, 'neuropsychiatric,
metabolic and other adverse effects of aspartame
products. (2-4) Among the first 1200 aspartame
reactors in my data base, 193 (16%) had
symptomatic arrhythmia's, 85 (7%) atypical chest
pain, and 64 (5%) recent or aggravated
hypertension.
One hypertensive patient developed complete heart
block within hours after consuming his first diet
cola.
Another had undergone unsuccessful radio frequency
ablations in the heart before awareness of having
aspartame disease.
Pheochromocytoma was suspected in several
aspartame reactors.
The issue of sudden death related to aspartame and
its breakdown products has been raised a number of
times, particularly among previously well
individuals using such products... Including
pilots and drivers , (3,4,6) and athletes. I have
detailed the release of norepinephrine,
epinephrine, dopamine and free methanol by
aspartame; a host of pertinent-related
pathophysiologic conditions, (e.g., cumulative
formaldehyde adducts derived from aspartame in
tissue proteins and nucleic aids; excessive
insulin release); direct oropharyngeal absorption
from gum, "breath fresheners" and other
products; and the increasing problem of aspartame
addiction. (4-7)
The likelihood of pulmonary hypertension induced
by the vasoconstrictive effects of aspartame
products also has been considered. (5) It is
relevant that unexplained dyspnea was experienced
by 110 aspartame reactors, usually with prompt
improvement after abstinence. Moreover, primary
pulmonary hypertension was found at autopsy in a
27 year old female aspartame reactor.
The lack of familiarity of most physicians and
medical examiners with the foregoing
considerations can have serious legal
consequences. A case in point is that of a young
woman (also a Sunday School teacher) who has been
sentenced to serve 50 years in a Virginia prison
for allegedly poisoning her husband with methyl
alcohol. Elevated methanol blood concentrations
were found postmortem in this body
builder/basketball player who drank ten diet
drinks and other aspartame products daily. She
remains incarcerated despite affidavits indicating
that 10% of aspartame becomes free methyl alcohol
after consumption.
The need for clinicians and corporate-neutral
investigators to evaluate the contributory role of
aspartame in cardiopulmonary disorders and sudden
death, and drug interactions with aspartame, is
underscored by the frequency of persons dying
unexpectedly being categorized as "death due
to causes yet to be determined." One
interested resident of Orange county (California)
found 192 persons listed in this category between
July 11 and November 15, 2003 according to the
Orange county Register.
References:
* Maron BJ, Sudden death in young athletes, N Engl
J Med 2003;349:1064-1075
*
Roberts HJ, Reactions to aspartame containing
products: 551 cases, J Appl Nutr l988;40:86-94
*
Roberts HJ, Aspartame (NutraSweet): Is It Safe?
Philadelphia, The Charles Press, 1989.
*
Roberts HJ, Aspartame Disease: An Ignored
Epidemic. West Palm Beach, Sunshine Sentinel
Press, 2001
*
Roberts HJ, Aspartame-induced dyspnea and
pulmonary hypertension, Townsend Letter for
Doctors & Patients 2003; 237 (January): 64-65
*
Roberts HJ, Ignored Health Hazards for Pilots and
Drivers. West Palm Beach, Sunshine Sentinel Press,
1998.
*
Roberts HJ, Aspartame (NutraSweet) addiction,
Townsend Letter for Doctors & Patients, 2900;
198 (January): 52-57
H. J. Roberts, MD, FACP, FCCP
Palm
Beach Institute for Medical Research
P. O.
Box 17799
West
Palm Beach, Florida 33416 USA
_________________________________________________
You
will note that Dr. Roberts wrote this paper
because so many young athletes are dropping dead.
Some may remember athlete Steve Bechler's death in
West Palm Beach. Tim Sullivan said in the San
Diego Union Tribune in Feb, 2003, that whether
Steve Bechler's passing (23 year old Baltimore
Oriole pitcher) should prompt baseball to ban
ephedra-based products is a more complicated
matter, one that raises questions of civil rights
and individual responsibilities, and about the gap
between medical opinion and governmental
regulations. But while Steve Bechler's death was
blamed on ephedra this no doubt was another Diet
Coke with aspartame death. At the time of his
death, H. J. Roberts, M.D. who also lives in West
Palm Beach immediately called the Broward County
medical examiner, Dr. Joshua Perper, and asked him
how many diet drinks was Bechler drinking. Dr.
Perper didn't even know why he asked. The Idaho
Observer wrote the story, Aspartame Poisoning
Cover for Ephedra. It was finally disclosed Steve
Belcher had a weight problem, he would go without
eating for a couple of days and then drink diet
pop with aspartame all day. He had a family
history of heart problems and aspartame destroys
the heart. After researching the issue it's
obvious that Steve Bechler did not die because he
was using ephedra, it was just another aspartame
death! Even Dr. Perper could only conclude that
ephedrine "probably contributed" to his
death but this doctor was not knowledgeable of
aspartame's effect on the heart nor did he know
that Steve Belcher was using it.
Obviously ephedra could interact with aspartame
but then virtually all drugs interact with
aspartame. But the FDA used this aspartame death
to remove another supplement. Are they going to
take all the drugs off the market because they
interact with aspartame? Shouldn't they ban
aspartame instead? John W. Olney, M.D., was asked
by the Ephedra Education Council to review some of
the FDA cases. Go to (http://www.ephedrafacts.com)
for the full report. The adverse event reports Dr.
Olney examined include those reviewed for FDA by
Doctors Ricaute and Stoll. Dr. Olney says out of
28 cases, there is not a single case that the
expert reviewers rated as having a highly probable
causal association with ingestion of Ephedra.
Didn't bother FDA at all, they could cover up
another aspartame death and grab another
supplement to please Big Pharma.
Dr. H. J. Roberts said in his position paper on
aspartame and cardiac symptoms (www.dorway.com
) under atypical chest pain: "More than 50
aspartame reactors experienced unexplained pain in
the chest. Many others have atypical pain
elsewhere in the body. A number underwent stress
tests and coronary angioplasty for suspected
coronary heart disease' they proved normal in the
majority."
Ephedra is off the market and the sudden cardiac
deaths of athletes continue to this day, as well
as others in the population including children.
Russell Blaylock, M.D., wrote this Athlete Alert
on the subject:
CHRISTMAS-WISE
- The Go Fish Guys at
I
remember when people used to say things like
Merry Christmas to each other. Everybody
said Merry Christmas, "Hey, Merry
Christmas to you, Mr. Lowenstein."
You
know why. Because it wasn't about a
religion. It was about something as a
culture that we thought was valuable that we
all do it together, even if I disagreed with
the religion behind it, because it was good
for all of us instead of just me.
What
do people say now - Happy Holidays. See,
I just say Happy Holidays 'cause I don't want
to say Christmas 'cause you don't believe
in Christmas, 'cause I don't want to offend
you . ! @ # #. It's called Christmas.
Well
I went to the coffee shop
To
get myself a mocha
The
lady at the counter said,
"Happy
Holidays."
I
said, "Thanks, lady
I
am pretty happy
But
there's only one holiday
That
makes me feel that way.
It's
called Christmas
What
more can I say
It's
about the birth of Christ
And
you can't take that away
You
can call it something else
But
that's not what it will be
It's
called Christmas with a capital C.
God's
got a law
And
we pretty much destroyed it
We're
gonna get judged
There's
no way to avoid it.
But
Jesus came down
To
take the punishment for me.
He
did it for you, too
So
now maybe you can see why
It's
called Christmas
What
more can I say.
It's
about the birth of Christ
And
you can't take that away.
You
can call it something else
But
that's not what it will be.
It's
called Christmas with a capital C.
Oh,
yes, we want to say Happy Holidays because we
don't want to leave anybody out. Really?
How come theres a ton of holidays in February?
Nobody ever says Happy Holidays in February?
They, say what it is. Happy Valentine's
Day. Do you believe in love?
But
nobody wants to say Christmas. I know
why, you do too. It's because it's got
Christ in it. And after 2,000 years,
He's still intimidating people.
You
see, when a religious person says, "I am
the Way," people don't want to hear it.
They don't. I say you've gotta say Merry
Christmas because it is. If you don't
believe in it, fine.
I've
got a flash for you. Christianity
happens to be the religious heritage of my
country, whether you like it or not. So
if you're not a Christian, or you don't like
it, and you don't want Christmas celebrated,
God bless you. But let me tell you
something, if you think you're going to stop
me from saying it because it offends you, Hey,
I've got a flash for you - PUT A HELMET ON!
It's my country too!"
MUSIC-WISE
- On the light-hearted
side:
Try
singing this for fun, to the tune of Jingle
Bells:
Christmas
bills, Christmas bills, Piled on the floor,
Everyday
the mailman comes to bring a dozen more!
Christmas
bills, Christmas bills, Scattered
everywhere.
When
will they discover that my bank account is
bare!
Dashing
off the checks, All in great amounts,
Mailing
them today, Knowing they will bounce!
Bill
collectors come, Notify my boss.
Now
they get my salary, My life's a total loss!
Christmas
bills, Christmas bills, Making me lament.
Now
I'm up against the wall from all those gifts
I sent!
Ohhhh!
Christmas bills, Christmas bills, I'll go
broke and then
When
next Christmas rolls around, I'll do it all
again!
LAUGH-WISE
- CHRISTMAS COOKIE RULES 
1.
If you eat a Christmas cookie fresh out
of the oven, it has no calories because
everyone knows that the first cookie is
the test and thus calorie free.
2.
If you drink water after eating your
second cookie, it also has no calories
because the water cancels out the
cookie calories.
3.
If a friend comes over while you are
making your Christmas cookies and needs
to sample, you must sample with your
friend. Because your friend's first
cookie is calories free rule #1 is yours
also. It would be rude to let your
friend sample alone, and being the
friend that you are makes your cookie
calorie free.
4.
Any cookie calories consumed while
walking around will fall to your feet
and eventually fall off as you move.
This is due to gravity and the density
of the caloric mass.
5.
Any calories consumed during the
frosting of the Christmas cookies will
be used up because it takes many
calories to lick excess frosting from a
knife without cutting your tongue.
6.
Cookies colored red or green have very
few calories. Red ones have 3 and green
ones have 5 - one calorie forr each
letter. Make more red ones!
7.
Cookies eaten while watching Miracle on
34th Street have no calories
because they are part of the
entertainment package and not part of
one's personal fuel.
8.
As always, cookie pieces contain no
calories because the process of breaking
causes calorie leakage.
9.
Any cookies consumed from someone else's
plate has no calories since the calories
rightfully belong to the other person
and will cling to their plate. We all
know how calories like to CLING!
And
finally...
10.
Any cookies consumed while feeling
stressed have no calories because
cookies used for medicinal purposes
NEVER
have calories. It's a rule!
KID-WISE
- 
*** An
eye witness account from New York City, on a cold
day in December some years ago: A little
boy, about 10-years-old, was standing before a
shoe store on the roadway, barefooted, peering
through the window, and shivering with cold.
A lady approached the young boy and said, 'My, but
you're in such deep thought staring in that
window!" "I was asking God to give
me a pair of shoes," was the boy's reply.
The lady took him by the hand, went into the
store, and asked the clerk to get half a dozen
pairs of socks for the boy. She then asked
if he could give her a basin of water and a towel. He
quickly brought them to her. She took the
little fellow to the back part of the store and,
removing her gloves, knelt down, washed his little
feet, and dried them with the towel. By this
time, the clerk had returned with the socks and
gave them to him. She patted him on the head
and said, "No doubt, you will be more
comfortable now." As she turned to go,
the astonished kid caught her by the hand, and
looking up into her face, with tears in his
eyes, asked her, "Are you God's wife?"
***
Come with me to a third grade classroom...There
is a nine-year-old kid sitting at his desk and
all of a sudden, there is a puddle between his
feet and the front of his pants are wet.
He thinks his heart is going to stop because he
cannot possibly imagine how this has happened.
It's never happened before and he knows
that when the boys find out, he will never hear
the end of it. When the girls find out
they'll never speak to him again as long as he
lives.
The boy believes his heart is going to stop; he
puts his head down and prays this prayer,
"Dear God, this is an emergency! I
need help now. Five minutes from now I'm
dead meat."
He looks up from his prayer
and here comes the teacher with a look in her
eyes that says he has been discovered.
As the teacher is walking toward him, a
classmate named Susie is carrying a goldfish
bowl that is filled with water. Susie
trips in front of the teacher and inexplicably
dumps the bowl of water in the boy's lap.
The boy pretends to be angry, but all the while
is saying to himself, "Thank you, Lord!
Thank you Lord!"
Now all of a sudden, instead of being the object
of ridicule, the boy is the object of sympathy.
The teacher rushes him downstairs and gives him
gym shorts to put on while his pants dry out.
All the other children are on their hands and
knees cleaning up around his desk. The
sympathy is wonderful. But as life would
have it, the ridicule that should have been his,
has been transferred to someone else - Susie.
She tries to help, but they tell her to get out.
"You've done enough, you klutz!"
Finally, at the end of the day, as they are
waiting for the bus, the boy walks over to Suse
and whispers, "You did that on purpose,
didn't you?" Susie whispers back,
"I wet my pants once too."
May God help us see the opportunities that are
always around us to do good.
***One
day my young daughter and I were listening to an
old tune by Simon and Garfunke. When the
song finished, she asked me, "Well, did
he?"
"Did
he what?"
"Did
Parsley save Rosemary in time?" she asked.
***A
Sunday school teacher asked, "Johnny, do you
think Noah did a lot of fishing when he was on the
Ark?"
"No,"
replied Johnny. "How could he, with
just two worms?"
THE
GOD OF SMALL THINGS-WISE - My
white shorts!
For
those of you who know about my "white
shorts" that I've had to wear, even in bitter
cold weather, comes this.
We
were at our daughter's house with the grandkids
for our Christmas celebration, and I had tried to
wear some long pants, but it just didn't
work, and they were hurting my legs. So my
granddaughter let me wear a pair of her black
soccer shorts while there. Hmmm - I hadn't
thought of that. So the next day Frankie and
I went looking for some black shorts in a sporting
goods store. We found a store going out of
business, and would you guess what we found -
black shorts, yep - and we weren't sure we could
afford them, but we decided we could handle the
$1.00 they cost us! Now is God awesome,
again, or what?
FYI-WISE -
NOEL!
Did
you ever wonder what a Noel is and why
the word appears only at Christmastime?
Noel means birth. The English
borrowed the word from the French, who adapted
it from Latin. Noel is always capitalized
because it signifies one particular birth - that
of Jesus Christ. And so we sing this
ancient, festive carol that declares, Noel, Sing
We Noel, or Birth, Sing We[the] Birth.
Human
history includes untold billions of births.
But this old carol recognizes only one.
The
birth of Jesus - it was the incarnation of God,
the entrance of the Creator into the creation.
What a birth this is! It is indeed
one-of-a-kind and so deserves a word to be
reserved for it only. Noel!
The
gospel, John, chapter 1, describes the Noel like
this:
In the beginning was the Word,
And the Word was with God,
And the Word was God.
And the Word was made flesh
And dwelt among us.
Noel,
sing We Noel!
P.S.
To "carol" originally meant to dance a
carol. These were festive circle dances
accompanied by singing. So later,
"carol" meant both to sing and dance a
carol. Eventually, to "carol"
meant merely to sing a carol.
MINISTRY-WISE
- Here is where we have been
ministering lately:
|
Saturday,
December 6 - Christmas concert for
senior adults at Indian Hills Church
of the Nazarene, Wichita, KS
Thursday,
December 11 - attend Haskell and JoLee
Cooley concert at Pawnee Avenue Church
of God, Wichita, KS
Friday,
December 12 - Sing a Christmas song at
a Haskell and JoLee concert for
Cornerstone Christian Church, Wichita,
KS
Sunday,
December 28 - minister at Vintage
Place, Derby, KS
Wednesday,
December 31 - private New Year's Eve
party, Derby, KS.
JANUARY
Sunday,
January 25 - minister at Vintage
Place, Derby, KS
|
FOOD-FOR-THOUGHT-WISE
- THE
SILENT SERMON 
A
member of a certain church, who previously had
been attending services regularly, stopped
going. After a few weeks, the pastor
decided to visit him. It was a chilly
evening. The pastor found the man at home
alone, sitting before a blazing fire.
Guessing the reason for his pastor's visit, the
man welcomed him, led him to a comfortable chair
near the fireplace and waited.
The
pastor made himself at home but said nothing.
In the grave silence, he contemplated the dance
of the flames around the burning logs.
After some minutes, the pastor took the fire
tongs, carefully picked up a brightly burning
ember and placed it to one side of the hearth
all alone.
Then
he sat back in his chair, still silent.
The host watched all this in quiet
contemplation. As the one lone ember's
flame flickered and diminished, there was a
momentary glow and then its fire was no more.
Soon it was cold and dead.
Not
a word had been spoken since the initial
greeting. The Pastor glanced at his watch
and realized it was time to leave. He
slowly stood up, picked up the cold, dead ember
and placed it back in the middle of the fire.
Immediately it began to glow, once more with the
light and warmth of the burning coals around it.
As
the pastor reached the door to leave, his host
said with a tear running down his cheek,
"Thank you so much for your visit and
especially for the fiery sermon. I shall
be back in church next Sunday."
LAST BLAST-WISE - I
would rather live my life as if there is a God,
and die to find out there isn't, than live my
life as if there isn't, and die to find out
there is." (author unknown)
FINAL
ADMONITION-WISE - " Thanks
be unto God for his unspeakable gift."
II Corinthians 9:15 KJV
