Kopp Disclosure
(John 3:19-21)
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Steve Corbett is
the host of his own daily talk show on WILK Radio (980 AM) in NE
Pennsylvania from 3:00 - 7:00 p.m. (EST).
Listeners around
the globe listen/link to him via www.wilknewsradio.com.
I like him.
I don't always
agree with him; but that's never been a prerequisite for me liking
someone.
I like/love
Jesus; but don't always agree with Him in my depraved human kinda way if you know what I mean.
Steve makes me think; and as you may
know, that's a big part of what KD is
all about.
While it's still
legal, it's important to think about what's going on and then decide
how/if we're gonna...
For folks who
dare to refer to themselves as Christians, it's imperative to think how to
honor Him in an increasingly hostile-to-Him/His culture.
Anyway, Steve is
always saying, "You better listen!"
It's his way of
encouraging us to listen and think and then decide how/if we're gonna...
He's got that
prophetic edge: "You better listen...or..."
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Remember Pearl?
I've written
about her before.
She's the
lady-in-Carolina-blue-crushed-velvet who hated my beard because she had a bad
relationship with her son who had a beard and transferred...
Well, you may
recall I shaved it off to satiate her pathology, expected kudos, and got this
as she greeted me after worship the very next Sunday: "Now about your
moustache..."
It's been about 25
years since that happened; but
I've never told anybody the other side of that story with metaphors/meanings
that...
I'm not sure why
I'm telling it now - it probably has something to do with the confession in the
next section - but I am scratching
the surface of my relationship with Jesus and
lots of stuff's coming up as...
You may think
it's/I'm silly; but I, uh, think
it means something as part of my scratching and
desire/prayer/passion to encourage others to...
I had an
associate pastor back then - one of the best three to ever try to serve avec
moi - who wept when seeing my clean-shaven face and then blasted me for
betraying God.
The verdict was
accurate.
While studying in
Europe in the mid-70s, I took a truncated Nazirite vow to experience/express my
devotion to Him.
It included
facial hair.
My associate knew
that; so when I...
Truth is I broke
that vow - symptomatic of me breaking many...
That was about 25
years ago.
Just to let you know (Psst.
Go to the right column and click on...).
Now that I'm scratching the surface of my relationship with Him and listening/thinking a tad more than before,
I've renewed that vow; and whenever I even trim..., I think about how I too
often trim my relationship with...
You better listen!
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Election 2012
comes to mind.
Despite the
corporate optimism included in "Election 2012 Reality Check" (go to
the right column and click it on if you need a refresher), I was
inspired/indigested about my need to confess personal sin in how I voted - trimmed - on November 6
while Kopper took me for a walk on November 9.
Parenthetically, while I hope you'll
think a tad yourself, I'm just talking about my vote and my relationship with
Him and not suggesting I know more than anyone about anything related to
Election 2012 and not implying anything about your vote or... Catch the
drift? I may be wrong about what follows; but this is how I feel about my
vote after being inspired/indigested on November 9. It's hard enough for
me to work out my own salvation; so I'm not about to tell you how to work out
yours apart from urging all of us to listen, think, and then...
While I've always
said I kinda like both of 'em in a personal way and would like to have lunch or
a Yuengling with 'em, I only voted for one of 'em even though I live near
Chicago and could have voted for both of 'em if
you know what I mean.
I could not vote
for the guy who's an accomplice to mass murder. I know partial birth
murder is only one issue; but, for me, and I may be wrong, it's a really,
really, really big issue and... I've been to Yad Vashem many times.
I've read Dietrich Bonhoeffer and Martin Niemoller who read Jesus and...
Instead, I voted
for someone whose personal religion includes blasphemy against the Holy
Spirit. That was the inspiration/indigestion on November 9. I voted for someone whose personal
religion includes blasphemy against the Holy Spirit! I have
begged forgiveness ever since that early morning walk with Kopper.
Voting for the
lesser of two evils means still voting for...
I haven't read
anything in His book about embracing or voting for the lesser of...
Then He reminded
me of Gideon...and I thought again about trimming...
I don't know
about you; but I've trimmed so much over the years.
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Philip Schaff:
"Jesus' whole life was one unbroken act of self-consecration to the glory
of God and the eternal welfare of His fellow-men...The better and holier a man
is, the more he feels his need of pardon, and how far he falls short of his own
imperfect standard of excellence" (Apostolic
Christianity, 1910).
Martin Luther
King, Jr.: "God has a way of saying, 'Don't play with Me, Babylon.
Be still and know that I'm God. And if you don't stop your reckless
course, I'll rise up and break the backbone of your power.' And that can
happen to America. Every now and then I go back and read Gibbons' Decline and Fall of the Roman
Empire. And when I come and look at America, I say to myself,
the parallels are frightening" (The
Drum Major Instinct, 1968).
Isaiah: "Woe
to those who call evil good, and good evil; who put darkness for light, and
light for darkness" (inspired long enough ago that we should know better).
We better listen!
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Blessings and Love!
3 comments:
nice.
you're paying attention.
you're listening.
all the best,
Pastor Bob:
Just read your latest about your vote. Made me think about a conversation I had with my wife very early on in our marriage when we were expecting our first child. We were driving somewhere on a sunny afternoon. I was driving (like I said, this was early on in our marriage) and turned to her and said, "You know if something happens when you are giving birth and the doctors come in and tell me its either you or the baby I'm going to pick you." She didn't respond but she knew I meant it.
The point of the story is this: does that mean that I am for abortion or against it?
Your brother in Christ,
Bob K.,
Brother, you always make me think which, uh, I like and don't like and I know you know what I mean.
I'm gonna catch something for saying this but I'm a 99% pro-lifer.
I do understand those exceptional moments of "situation" ethics when we've got two bad choices and must immerse ourselves into intimacy with Him to make one of 'em and then pray that we were inspired not indigested.
Of course, whenever confronted - kindly in your note - with such conundrums and knowing I'm gonna mess up more than less, it makes me really, really, really thankful for Jesus and, again, I know you know what I mean.
Thanks, brother, for trying to keep me honest.
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