Superstorm Sandy: Christian Relief Organizations Ready for Massive Deployment
Several Christian disaster relief organizations, including those focused on providing emotional support to victims, announced yesterday that they are ready to head into the heavily damaged areas of northeastern United States in the wake of Hurricane Sandy. As the storm made landfall a little after 8 p.m. EDT, it was declared a post-tropical cyclone with damaging winds reaching lower hurricane strength.
"Three mobile office units will leave Charlotte tomorrow morning headed into the devastation left by Hurricane Sandy," stated the Billy Graham Rapid Response team Monday afternoon. "We will have teams on the ground within 24 hours of the hurricane's passing. Please pray for safety in travel for the chaplain coordinators who will be driving the mobile units, and the volunteer chaplains coming from around the country."...
Lloyd wrote: Yes, do what you think fit. But if you neglect to insure yourself when you have the opportunity, don't expect the Federal government or the Billy Graham Rapid Response team or the Ysgrifennydd Gwladol Cymru to bale you out when you take on water.
Thank you Lloyd, but my trust is in a higher authority than all those which you mentioned.
Lloyd wrote: --- Mike - it's not a prooftext for insurance. The parable teaches what the parable teaches. He that hath ears to hear, let him hear.
Indeed. You brought up insurance for a reason. You posted those particular verses for a reason. What I was interested in finding out, was what is the relationship between them in the context of the discussion? I assume there is one?
John UK wrote: Okay, so you don't have God telling you to take out insurance. That's fine, it's your life. You do what you think fit.
Yes, do what you think fit. But if you neglect to insure yourself when you have the opportunity, don't expect the Federal government or the Billy Graham Rapid Response team or the Ysgrifennydd Gwladol Cymru to bale you out when you take on water.
Mike - it's not a prooftext for insurance. The parable teaches what the parable teaches. He that hath ears to hear, let him hear.
Lloyd wrote: And I take it you are inconsistent in your demand for inane prooftexting.
Okay, so you don't have God telling you to take out insurance. That's fine, it's your life. You do what you think fit.
Insure your life, insure your possessions, insure your goldfish, insure your kindle, insure your vehicles, insure your stocks and shares, insure your insurance policy, insure your right thumb, whatever. It's no skin off my forehead.
Lloyd wrote: --- God made man in his own image, but not with his divine attributes. God created man with a rational mind, and taught him to be prudent and wise. Therefore whosoever heareth these sayings of mine, and doeth them, I will liken him unto a wise man, which built his house upon a rock: And the rain descended, and the floods came, and the winds blew, and beat upon that house; and it fell not: for it was founded upon a rock. And every one that heareth these sayings of mine, and doeth them not, shall be likened unto a foolish man, which built his house upon the sand: And the rain descended, and the floods came, and the winds blew, and beat upon that house; and it fell: and great was the fall of it.
What do you think, Lloyd, is the foolish man who builds his house on sand less foolish for having insurance, or the same foolish as before the flood?
John UK wrote: I take it you don't have a biblical example for taking out insurance.
And I take it you are inconsistent in your demand for inane prooftexting. Take the beam out of your own eye sir.
God made man in his own image, but not with his divine attributes. God created man with a rational mind, and taught him to be prudent and wise.
Therefore whosoever heareth these sayings of mine, and doeth them, I will liken him unto a wise man, which built his house upon a rock: And the rain descended, and the floods came, and the winds blew, and beat upon that house; and it fell not: for it was founded upon a rock. And every one that heareth these sayings of mine, and doeth them not, shall be likened unto a foolish man, which built his house upon the sand: And the rain descended, and the floods came, and the winds blew, and beat upon that house; and it fell: and great was the fall of it.
In vetoing a bill in 1887 that would have appropriated $10,000 in aid for Texas farmers struggling through a drought, [Grover] Cleveland (D) wrote:
"I can find no warrant for such an appropriation in the Constitution; and I do not believe that the power and duty of the General Government ought to be extended to the relief of individual suffering which is in no manner properly related to the public service or benefit. A prevalent tendency to disregard the limited mission of this power and duty should, I think, be steadfastly resisted, to the end that the lesson should be constantly enforced that, though the people support the Government, the Government should not support the people."
Jim Lincoln wrote: --- Republicans! Nincompoop of the first order excerpt from, "A Big Storm Requires a Big Government"
What if the Big Government is flat broke, Jim? I know you like to play pretend, but can the whole nation continue to do so?
Of course emergency management should be handled by those nearest and most connected with the emergency. You have a problem with that? This may even mean asking the fed gov for help. But it is telling that you, like liberals in general, think the fed should involve itself first, take over the situation, tell everyone what they can and should do, as if by magic Washington knows more what is needed than the locals.
Jim Lincoln wrote: First of all, I'm glad to see Christian organizations trying to reach out and help the Northeast. Not directly related to this article, but organizations that try to help unwed mothers and those in difficulty not to have abortions provide an excellent service. When it comes to disasters of this magnitude, you really do get lame-brained ideas from Republicans! Nincompoop of the first order excerpt from, A big storm requires big government
Apparently the nincompoop read his constitution 10th amendment, The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people. Maybe Jim missed that we are a nation with a laws that should be followed. The democrats sure don't get it
First of all, I'm glad to see Christian organizations trying to reach out and help the Northeast. Not directly related to this article, but organizations that try to help unwed mothers and those in difficulty not to have abortions provide an excellent service.
When it comes to disasters of this magnitude, you really do get lame-brained ideas from Republicans!
NYT Editorial wrote: Disaster coordination is one of the most vital functions of "big government," which is why Mitt Romney wants to eliminate it. At a Republican primary debate last year, Romney was asked whether emergency management was a function that should be returned to the states. He not only agreed, he went further.
"Absolutely," he said. "Every time you have an occasion to take something from the federal government and send it back to the states, that's the right direction. And if you can go even further and send it back to the private sector, that's even better."
Dr. Alan Cairns | 2/2/2009
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excerpt from, "A Big Storm Requires a Big Government"
