Letters to the Editor 09-09-2005
July 28, 2016 at 4:25 p.m.
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- Punishing Homosexuals - Sodom Destroyed By Si - Disasters Are Warnings - Fall Is Beautiful - Mustangs Awesome
Punishing Homosexuals
Editor, Times-Union:We cannot thumb our nose at God and not expect judgment.
How have we done this? By saying we don't want you in our schools. We don't want your commandments on display in public places. We want to live by our own rules.
The homosexual says, I want a different lifestyle. He sent AIDS but you keep right on. AIDS has killed millions. Some churches have even ordained homosexual ministers.
Abortion -Êhow many babies are killed every year? There is a commandment that says "Thou Shalt Not Kill." How many people are murdered in this country every year -Êthree or four times the number killed in Iraq since the war began.
9-11 was a wake-up call to repentance. God gave us a short time to see what would happen - no repentance.
2004 - three hurricanes hit Florida. The worse disaster to hit our country.
2005 - Katrina hits our country.
Don't you think someone is trying to tell us something?
Here is some scripture you might like to read: Judgment -ÊRevelations 14:7; Repent -ÊRevelations 9:21.
You haven't seen anything yet -ÊRevelations 16:18-21
Dale Beery
Claypool
Sodom Destroyed By Si
Editor, Times-Union:It's a fact that the Bible has scriptures that can give a person the faith to believe that one can be as sinful as one wants to be, while believing that God continues to show his love.
One of these scriptures is found in Isaiah chapter 64, where it says that God's people at that time had righteousness that was as a filthy rag. If those people at that time were good enough for God's love while having "filthy ragged righteousness," why can't today's God's people also have had such "righteousness" and still be loved by God?
But were those former God's children good enough for God's love? If they would have been, why did God allow their cities to become wilderness and desolations?
If it isn't possible to have one without the other, shouldn't it be expected that many more cities of this great nation will become wildernesses and desolations just as the cities of those former people became so they can continue to have faith to believe their "righteousness" is good enough for God's love?
If it isn't possible to have one without the other, shouldn't it be expected that many more cities of this great nation will become wildernesses and desolations?
And don't forget why Sodom was destroyed. If there would have been a few more righteous human beings in that city, it wouldn't have become a wilderness and desolation.
Robert Stichter
Milford
Disasters Are Warnings
Editor, Times-Union:As we travel through Nappanee, or another Indiana town with Amish and Mennonite residents in the countryside, we see hitching posts, and rails for their horses and buggies when they come to town. Reading a story about a man who used to hitch his horse before a saloon down in Texas, one morning the saloon keeper failed to see the horse hitched before his saloon around the usual time. He walked out front, looked up the street, and saw the horse hitched before the church. Then he saw the man coming toward him, and greeted him with "Good Morning, why are you hitched in front of the church, and not here?" The man answered, "Well, last night I was converted in the church revival meeting, and I've changed hitching posts."
Today, in the deep south, and here at home also, there needs to be some changes made in hitching posts. Sometimes it takes a hurricane, a tsunami, or some other catastrophe which helps people realize what is eternally important for life, and to make a change in "hitching posts." Where is your, where is my hitching post?
C.L. Hendrix
Winona Lake, via e-mail
Fall Is Beautiful
Editor, Times-Union:Recently, I heard on TV that in South Bend, the city ordinance is planning on letting people know that no one is allowed to burn leaves, and the city won't collect them; furthermore, citizens of the town will have to pay to have their leaves hauled away. Well, you may be certain that whoever is behind this little scheme is out to make a "pile" from the ordeal, and I don't mean a pile of the stuff that you clean up with a rake.
Now, they swear that breathing smoke from burning leaves is very detrimental to one's health. Well, through the years when we senior citizens burned leaves in the fall, it didn't kill us. We didn't die of lung cancer from the smoke; in fact, unless we accidentally received a good, heavy whiff of smoke from the leaves, we never even became ill. And as for burning leaves becoming a fire hazard, folks kept close watch over their leaf burning; therefore, they didn't burn down the neighborhood.
I love fall. With its pleasant, balmy atmosphere and bright, colorful foliage to emblazon the landscape, it is my favorite time of year. Fall also means school, and nowadays, after a study period is over in the classroom, many of the kids remain after school to indulge in some sports event. In the old days, youngsters went home and often had chores to do, especially kids from the country who truly had their hands full helping their parents with chores around the farm. In the fall, after school, if there were no chores to do at home, we kids would hike to the woods where we had a frolicsome good time gathering nuts. We picked up all kinds of nuts: walnuts, hickory nuts, butternuts, hazelnuts -Êand after we had finished hulling the walnuts, our hands became so black from stain that one would think we had donned a pair of gloves.
The great Hoosier poet, James Whitcomb Riley, made the most of fall as he wrote that famous quote, "When the frost is on the pumpkin, and the fodder's in the shock." I can just envision the fields of yesterday, picturesque with corn shocks standing tall like so many tepees, encircled by big fat pumpkins.
Fall is also a season for taking a good stroll. In the fall, have you ever ambled down a quiet country road, your mind exuding veneration and reverence, while you felt at peace with yourself and the world? I feel that way whenever I walk through the wide-open country beneath a bright, azure sky, surrounded by the magnificence and grandeur of the colorful autumn countryside. That is the time when I feel as close to the Almighty as I can possibly get.
Don Kaiser
Warsaw
Mustangs Awesome
Editor, Times-Union:Kosciusko County Mustangs Football - want to remind every football fan about a fun source of low-cost entertainment. This Saturday at 7 p.m. our Mustangs will host a home football game on Fisher Field behind Lakeview Middle School on East Smith Street. They rent the field and pay referees so they have to charge a $5 admission, but it is well worth it. The Tiger Adult Booster Club provides concessions, so they make a little to help their programs. Please come out and watch a bunch of outstanding former high school players play a good brand of football for "the love of the game."
Joel Zehner
Navy/Orange Mustang Fan
Warsaw
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- Punishing Homosexuals - Sodom Destroyed By Si - Disasters Are Warnings - Fall Is Beautiful - Mustangs Awesome
Punishing Homosexuals
Editor, Times-Union:We cannot thumb our nose at God and not expect judgment.
How have we done this? By saying we don't want you in our schools. We don't want your commandments on display in public places. We want to live by our own rules.
The homosexual says, I want a different lifestyle. He sent AIDS but you keep right on. AIDS has killed millions. Some churches have even ordained homosexual ministers.
Abortion -Êhow many babies are killed every year? There is a commandment that says "Thou Shalt Not Kill." How many people are murdered in this country every year -Êthree or four times the number killed in Iraq since the war began.
9-11 was a wake-up call to repentance. God gave us a short time to see what would happen - no repentance.
2004 - three hurricanes hit Florida. The worse disaster to hit our country.
2005 - Katrina hits our country.
Don't you think someone is trying to tell us something?
Here is some scripture you might like to read: Judgment -ÊRevelations 14:7; Repent -ÊRevelations 9:21.
You haven't seen anything yet -ÊRevelations 16:18-21
Dale Beery
Claypool
Sodom Destroyed By Si
Editor, Times-Union:It's a fact that the Bible has scriptures that can give a person the faith to believe that one can be as sinful as one wants to be, while believing that God continues to show his love.
One of these scriptures is found in Isaiah chapter 64, where it says that God's people at that time had righteousness that was as a filthy rag. If those people at that time were good enough for God's love while having "filthy ragged righteousness," why can't today's God's people also have had such "righteousness" and still be loved by God?
But were those former God's children good enough for God's love? If they would have been, why did God allow their cities to become wilderness and desolations?
If it isn't possible to have one without the other, shouldn't it be expected that many more cities of this great nation will become wildernesses and desolations just as the cities of those former people became so they can continue to have faith to believe their "righteousness" is good enough for God's love?
If it isn't possible to have one without the other, shouldn't it be expected that many more cities of this great nation will become wildernesses and desolations?
And don't forget why Sodom was destroyed. If there would have been a few more righteous human beings in that city, it wouldn't have become a wilderness and desolation.
Robert Stichter
Milford
Disasters Are Warnings
Editor, Times-Union:As we travel through Nappanee, or another Indiana town with Amish and Mennonite residents in the countryside, we see hitching posts, and rails for their horses and buggies when they come to town. Reading a story about a man who used to hitch his horse before a saloon down in Texas, one morning the saloon keeper failed to see the horse hitched before his saloon around the usual time. He walked out front, looked up the street, and saw the horse hitched before the church. Then he saw the man coming toward him, and greeted him with "Good Morning, why are you hitched in front of the church, and not here?" The man answered, "Well, last night I was converted in the church revival meeting, and I've changed hitching posts."
Today, in the deep south, and here at home also, there needs to be some changes made in hitching posts. Sometimes it takes a hurricane, a tsunami, or some other catastrophe which helps people realize what is eternally important for life, and to make a change in "hitching posts." Where is your, where is my hitching post?
C.L. Hendrix
Winona Lake, via e-mail
Fall Is Beautiful
Editor, Times-Union:Recently, I heard on TV that in South Bend, the city ordinance is planning on letting people know that no one is allowed to burn leaves, and the city won't collect them; furthermore, citizens of the town will have to pay to have their leaves hauled away. Well, you may be certain that whoever is behind this little scheme is out to make a "pile" from the ordeal, and I don't mean a pile of the stuff that you clean up with a rake.
Now, they swear that breathing smoke from burning leaves is very detrimental to one's health. Well, through the years when we senior citizens burned leaves in the fall, it didn't kill us. We didn't die of lung cancer from the smoke; in fact, unless we accidentally received a good, heavy whiff of smoke from the leaves, we never even became ill. And as for burning leaves becoming a fire hazard, folks kept close watch over their leaf burning; therefore, they didn't burn down the neighborhood.
I love fall. With its pleasant, balmy atmosphere and bright, colorful foliage to emblazon the landscape, it is my favorite time of year. Fall also means school, and nowadays, after a study period is over in the classroom, many of the kids remain after school to indulge in some sports event. In the old days, youngsters went home and often had chores to do, especially kids from the country who truly had their hands full helping their parents with chores around the farm. In the fall, after school, if there were no chores to do at home, we kids would hike to the woods where we had a frolicsome good time gathering nuts. We picked up all kinds of nuts: walnuts, hickory nuts, butternuts, hazelnuts -Êand after we had finished hulling the walnuts, our hands became so black from stain that one would think we had donned a pair of gloves.
The great Hoosier poet, James Whitcomb Riley, made the most of fall as he wrote that famous quote, "When the frost is on the pumpkin, and the fodder's in the shock." I can just envision the fields of yesterday, picturesque with corn shocks standing tall like so many tepees, encircled by big fat pumpkins.
Fall is also a season for taking a good stroll. In the fall, have you ever ambled down a quiet country road, your mind exuding veneration and reverence, while you felt at peace with yourself and the world? I feel that way whenever I walk through the wide-open country beneath a bright, azure sky, surrounded by the magnificence and grandeur of the colorful autumn countryside. That is the time when I feel as close to the Almighty as I can possibly get.
Don Kaiser
Warsaw
Mustangs Awesome
Editor, Times-Union:Kosciusko County Mustangs Football - want to remind every football fan about a fun source of low-cost entertainment. This Saturday at 7 p.m. our Mustangs will host a home football game on Fisher Field behind Lakeview Middle School on East Smith Street. They rent the field and pay referees so they have to charge a $5 admission, but it is well worth it. The Tiger Adult Booster Club provides concessions, so they make a little to help their programs. Please come out and watch a bunch of outstanding former high school players play a good brand of football for "the love of the game."
Joel Zehner
Navy/Orange Mustang Fan
Warsaw
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