“For the man who has character – nothing else matters, for the man who doesn’t have character, nothing else matters.” Ben Franklin
“In a sort of ghastly simplicity we remove the organ and demand the function. We make men without chests and expect of them virtue and enterprise. We laugh at honor and are shocked to find traitors in our midst. We castrate and bid the geldings be fruitful.” C.S. Lewis, “The Abolition of Man”
“America is like a kite on a string seeking to fly ever higher and further never realizing that once the string is cut – all possibility for flight ceases. We have become men without chests, without character, and without Christ. The string has been severed” flip
“Our country is in danger, but not to be despaired of. Our enemies are numerous and powerful; but we have many friends determined to be free. And heaven and earth will aid the resolution. On you depend the fortunes of America. You are to decide the important question, on which rest the happiness and liberty of millions yet unborn. Act worthy of yourselves.” –Joseph Warren, Boston Massacre Oration, 1775
“If revival is being withheld from us it is because some idol remains still enthroned; because we still insist in placing our reliance in human schemes; because we still refuse to face the unchangeable truth that, ‘It is not by might, but by My Spirit.’” – Jonathan Goforth (February 10, 1859 – October 8, 1936, (Missionary to China)
Here’s the newsletter! ~ Flip
Invitation to OSA National Event, July 24th -31st, Rochester,NY
Dear Brothers and Sisters in Christ: Jerry Crawford and I are delighted to extend an invitation to you and yours to join us in contending for the Gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ and for Life in Rochester, NY this July 24-31st. For forty years the American Church has wandered in the wilderness, seeing a rise of Godlessness and 55 million children destroyed as a result of the United States forsaking our Biblical heritage and foundations. Yet the promise of Isaiah 60: 1-3 rings true. “Arise, shine, for your light has come, and the glory of the Lord rises upon you.2 See, darkness covers the earth and thick darkness is over the peoples, but the Lord rises upon you and his glory appears over you. Nations will come to your light, and kings to the brightness of your dawn.”
Could it be that OSA Rochester, NY will mark our passing through the Jordan and into the promised land of renewed hope, renewed righteousness and restoration? Come and be a part of what God will do! Rochester has been the site of historic revival during the C. G. Finney’s ministry in the mid 1800’s. Rochester was a vital station on the Underground Railroad and the home of former slave, freedman, abolitionist leader, and Christian, Fredrick Douglass. It’s time for the church to arise and contend again! It’s our turn now!
Mike Warren and Jerry Crawford, Rescue Rochester
There are not enough words in the English language to wrap themselves around the concept that, “the wages of sin is death…” (Romans 6:23). This Planned Parenthood promotional does it. A poor, worn out, old white woman who has chosen for herself most of her life and is now left with a vacuous nothing. She is all that she has got. There is nothing else for her. This is it. She has killed her children, lived her life as she saw fit, stayed fit, reached for all the gusto she could get, and now – in the twilight of her years – is left with… herself. So sad! ~ Flip
“Sin is only charming in the present or in the immediate future. It has no charm in the past. How fascinating is sin a moment before it is committed! How absolutely necessary it seems to our happiness. But when it slips into the past its pearly teeth become ugly fangs, its shapely hands become unshapely claws, its winsome tresses become writhing serpents, the sin of the future often seems as fair as an angel from heaven, but the sin of yesterday is as ugly as a fiend from hell. “ Clovis Chappell