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A Word from Pastor:
Linda McMahon was Trump's choice to head and dismantle the Department of Education. In her testimony before Senate hearings, she gave her prescription of the sad state of American education:
"So what's the remedy?" she asked rhetorically. "Fund education freedom, not government-run systems. Listen to parents, not politicians. Build up careers, not college debt. Empower states, not special interests. Invest in teachers, not Washington bureaucrats."
New Yorkers should be particularly concerned. Concerned parents in the upstate New York Penfield school district were shut down at a school board meeting recently after expressing concern over a perverted book being used with children as young as five years of age. The book at the center of the controversy was "The Rainbow Parade: A Celebration of LGBTQIA+ Identities and Allies." (When will they ever run out of letters for gender identities?) The illustrated book contains drawings of naked people, and even two wearing leather 'bondage' attire.
Pray that all the sewage gets washed from the streets of America. And from Kindergarten to college. The status quo needs to go. Jesus opinion about such an "educator": "It would be better for a millstone to be hung around his neck and that he were drowned in the depths of the sea." (Matthew 18:6) "You who love the Lord, hate evil! He protects the lives of His godly ones; He rescues them from the hand of the wicked." (Psalm 9:10)
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A Word from Pastor:
The book of Deuteronomy (so named because it is the repeated commandments of God to His people who are called by His Name as He delivered them from bondage) records Moses' farewell address to God's people. "The LORD (Yahweh) ordered you to keep the Ten Commandments and wrote them on two stone tablets as you stood at the foot of the mountain while from the burning mountain flames shot up into heaven. Keep the commandments of the LORD your God, Who said, 'As long as you live don't forget, or fail to keep in mind, but tell your children and grandchildren what you saw at Horeb (Mt. Sinai) so they can learn to fear Me as long as they live on earth and so teach their children. Be careful and don't forget: listen, learn and do them. I wish they always had a heart to fear Me and do everything I order, so that they and their children would always prosper.'
Moses continued: "In every way do as the LORD your God orders. If you act corruptly and serve an idol, you will quickly perish from the land--be completely wiped out. Then, when these things happen to you in later years, search for the LORD your God and listen to Him, and you will come back. The LORD your God is a merciful God." (Deuteronomy 4 & 5, selected verses)
It doesn't sound like these were ten suggestions or options or that they had an expiration date. It also is evident that Moses anticipated that Israel would fail and gave them a road back to God. As strict as God is, He is also merciful to those who return in humility, repentance and faith.
How are we doing? "Listen -- Learn -- Do" There is no "prosperity Gospel" apart from loyalty and obedience to the God of the Bible. And when we stray, come back to the Father of the prodigal son. God is merciful and forgiving
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A Word from Pastor:
God Himself inscribed and gave Moses the Ten Commandments on two tablets of stone. (Deuteronomy 4:13) We typically see the Commandments pertaining to our relationship with God on one tablet and our relationships toward our fellow man on the other. There are no commandments/mandates relating to our use of animals, the environment, climate control, solar or wind energy, or other WOKE pet projects.
I personally doubt that the commandments toward God were on one tablet and the commandments toward man were on the other (as is usually depicted in Roman numerals or in always abbreviated form for the God-ward ones). Why abbreviated? Because the commandments referring to our relationship to God have many times as many words And those referring to God are listed first. Similarly, in the New Testament version of commands to love God and man, the former includes the words "with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your strength and with all your mind." The latter is briefly "Love your neighbor as yourself." (Luke 10:27) That should indicate which is God's priority. (Many people think being good just involves how they treat people.) On the contrary, how we revere God is preeminent and foundational. See Deuteronomy 5:7-21 and Exodus 20:1-17)
The Commandments begin with God's command to "listen to the laws and regulations I'm telling you today. Learn them and be careful to do them." And concludes with Moses' command to "Be careful to do just as the LORD your God orders you without turning right or left. In every way do as the LORD your God orders, so that you may live and all may be well with you." (Deuteronomy 5:1 & 33)
Listen - Learn - Do!
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A Word from Pastor:
Senator Josh Hawley (R.-Mo.) is campaigning to return prayer to schools. Nice idea. But who is going to lead the prayer our children pray? And to what God/god will they be praying?
Better yet, why not give parents a choice in the school they send their children without financially channeling them in one direction? Monopolies are not American. We have choices where we access other goods and services, why does the government channel all education funds to/through one type of school?
Where there is choice in any commodity, the quality goes up and the cost goes down. In states where there is school choice, there are fiscal benefits worth an estimated $1.70 to $2.64 for every dollar spent on a school choice program. Tax payers benefit and all types of schools adapt and improve to attract/keep students.
About 2/3 of Americans of all parties and races support school vouchers, charter schools, and tax-credit scholarships. More than 70% support Educational Savings Accounts.
School choice programs are implemented and growing in many states. Currently New York is lagging behind, paying $30,000 per student for mediocre outcomes. Children at OSNAS pay $10-$12 thousand or less if needed with limited government support. The federal Department of Education is being dismantled. The time has come for localized control with parents in the drivers seat.
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A Word from Pastor:
Many parents and children in public schools (including teachers in public schools who end up sending their kids here) visit our school (OSNAS) looking for an alternative to "free" gov-ed we all pay for (in money and outcomes). Other parents choose to pay more for a house and ongoing higher tax to live in neighboring districts so their children can go to a more "prestigious" school. To them I suggest paying less for an equivalent house in our lower tax district and use all the money you keep saving to send your child(ren) to the best school right in your neighborhood, which is us.
One blessing of Covid is it has opened the eyes of parents to the ungodly, unpatriotic, inferior education and character formation that predominates in most schools. Similarly, one blessing (perhaps the only blessing) of the Biden years is the exposure of just how pervasive, untransparent, dishonest, incompetent, insane, warped, twisted wasteful unbiblical, evil and infectious the entire WOKE culture is, including the government, mass media, liberal churches, education system, etc.
If I/we have been suckered in to imbibing from their goblets of poison Kool-Aid in any way, may the good Lord deliver, forgive, heal, restore me/us. Thus says the LORD: "My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge . . . and since you have forgotten the law of your God, I also will forget your children." (Hosea 4:6)
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A Word from Pastor:
God gave us two reasons the Israelites were obligated to keep His Commandments. The first is listed as a preface to all the commandments: "I AM the LORD, your God, who took you out of Egypt, where you were slaves." (Deuteronomy 5:6 & Exodus 20:1) This was reiterated in relation to the commandment to keep the Sabbath Day holy: "Remember you were a slave in Egypt and the LORD your God took you out of it with a strong hand and an outstretched arm; that is why the LORD your God has ordered you to keep the day of rest." (Deuteronomy 5:1) As New Testament believers we have even more reason to observe "the Lord's Day" (Acts 20:7, 1 Corinthians 16:2, Revelation 1:10) for worship and rest, for God Himself paid the awful price of His death on the cross and rose again on that day, delivering us from slavery to sin, death and the devil.
The second reason for the Sabbath is to remember that God is the Creator of all there is, including us: "In six days He LORD made the heavens and the earth, the sea, and everything in them, and on the seventh day He rested. This is why the LORD blessed the rest day and made it holy." (Exodus 20:11)
God is our Creator and Redeemer, and Giver of all we have and hope to have. We honor Him as we observe one day a week for rest and worship. "Remember the Sabbath Day to keep it holy." (Exodus 20:8, Deuteronomy 5:12) God records in Scripture many promises of blessings and many threats of curses for how we honor or dishonor God in this way.
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A Word from Pastor:
In Jesus' Parable of the Final Judgment in Matthew 25, there are only two possible outcomes. Either you are "blessed to enter the Father's Kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the world," or you go "into the eternal fire prepared for the devil and his angels." God has prepared a just and appropriate eternal destination for Satan, who is primarily responsible for six thousand years of all the evil and misery in this fallen world. Those to whom Christ ultimately says "Depart from Me you cursed" will go into the same irreversible condition as Satan himself. God must consider them very guilty and deserving--and His opinion is the only one that matters. That's a very heavy sentence, to say the least--which should cause only the most godless and spiritually obtuse to not tremble. And that's why it was necessary for God Himself to pay the humongous price for our ransom on the cross. How one responds to Christ and His Church (even to "the least of these My brethren") will be the decisive issue. Where do you stand with Christ and His Church?
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A Word from Pastor:
Thank God more vocabulary dropped from taxpayer supported government websites since we got a new president.
Searches for âabortionâ on CDC website now direct users to look up âadoptionâ
In a move that some workers in the so-called âreproductive healthâ industry say is a âclear attemptâ to change how conversations around pregnancy are approached, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) website no longer returns search results for the word âabortionâ and instead suggests that users try searching the word âadoption.â
The change is just one of several in the CDCâs website that appeared after the site went offline shortly after President Donald Trumpâs inauguration in order to comply with executive orders issued by Trump.
Terms scrubbed or edited from the CDCâs website include thousands of references to âtransgenderâ individuals, so-called âLGBTQ+ health,â and diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI), as well as HIV testing guidelines for gender-confused people, recommendations for HIV medication, and resources on âLGBTQ+ youth health,â according to a Newsmax report.
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A Word from Pastor:
One of our faculty members who had taken psychology classes in college said that the goal was not to heal but to create a perpetual customer. A client healed is a client lost and a steady income stream forfeited. unfortunately, that appears to be the philosophy of many in the medical profession, (especially those dealing with transgender patients). Follow-up visits may be necessary at times, but never follow-ups, drugs, therapy sessions and medical bills are at least suspect. Caveat emptor, Let the buyer beware. Is the providers' goal extended dependency on treatments, sessions and drugs? Are they reasonably necessary?
Interestingly, Jesus never required a single follow up visit or treatment for any of His miraculous healings. He did, however, advise regularly worshipping and hearing God's Word, repentance and prayer, which are like breathing and daily bread for a Christian. "Heal me, O LORD, and I shall be healed; save me and I shall be saved, for You are my praise. Behold they say to me, 'Where is the Word of the LORD? Let it come!'" (Jeremiah 1:14-15)
Try to keep your weekly appointments with the Doctor of Souls at a God-honoring, Bible-based, Gospel-centered church. As Jesus told Martha, "Who was distracted by much serving, it's the one thing necessary." (Luke 10:38-42)
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A Word from Pastor:
As part of his parting statement of priorities, President Biden presented the Presidential Medal of Freedom to 19 recipients likely chosen by the Obama cabal that has been telling him what to do, say, and not be, do or say or where to go and not go for the past five years. Among the honorees were George Soros, Democratic mega-million dollar donor to elect district attorneys and judges who will not prosecute or require bail for criminals, terrorists, arsonists and rioters. Then there was Bill Nye, "The Science Guy" who debated (ineffectively) Ken Ham of Answers for Genesis, and Dr. Jane Goodall "whose research transformed our understanding (confusion) of primates and human evolution." Also Hillary Rodham Clinton for being a DEI trailblazer (unsuccessful). And David Rubenstein, who has been giving millions to Wokify the messages given at national historical landmarks. And Liz Cheney, the "Republican" anti-Trumper who participated in the kangaroo courts to politically eliminate him permanently. Then there were several Hollywood and athletic stars, including Denzel Washington and Lionel Messi, who admirably excused themselves from attending the private affair at the White House.
Some prestigious awards, like Nobel Peace Prizes, Pulitzer Prizes, Medals of "Freedom" are devalued by the type who give them and the type who receive them, and are better not received if given by the wrong people to many of the wrong people for the wrong reasons. At this point the only "medal" or award I care to receive will be given at the Day of Judgment by Jesus Christ. "We make it our aim to please Him. For we must all appear before the judgment seat of Christ, so that each one may receive what is due for what he has done in the body, whether good or evil." (2 Corinthians 5:9-10)
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Welcome to The Voice of Our Savior!
Our channel is a ministry that we at Our Savior Lutheran Church use to share the good news of Jesus Christ. This church belongs to our Savior, who paid for it with His blood, and who has commanded us, His people to: âGo, therefore, and make disciples of all people, baptizing them in the name of the Father, Son and Holy Spirit, and teaching them to obey everything I have commanded.â
We recommit ourselves to this task, trusting in our Savior to work through us as He promised, âLo, I am with you always, even to the end of the world.â Matthew 28:19-20