Höllenstürm: Pray for Beka!!

Anführungsstrich des Tages!

"We all know what a camel is, a horse as designed by a committee."

- John Oswalt

"If an English delegation came to sue for peace it must kneel before the German standard for it was a question here of a victory of the monarchy over democracy."

- Kaiser Wilhelm II

"Democracy is nothing but tyranny of the majorities, the most execrable tyranny of all because it rests neither on the authority of a religion, nor on the nobility of race, nor on the prerogatives of talent or property. Its foundation is numbers and its mask is the name of the people."

- Pierre Joseph Proudhon

"The road leading to the Hell of leftist radicalism is not only broad, it is also fast and steep. Under such circumstances the brakes rarely work."

- Erik von Kuehnelt-Leddihn

"Better to be secure under one king, than exposed to violence from twenty millions of monarchs, though oneself be one of them." - Herman Melville

"I still would prefer to live under a lion's paw than under the teeth of a thousand rats who are my fellow citizens."

- Voltaire

"God forbid that we should ever be so miserable as to sink into a Republic."

- New York Gazette and Weekly Mercury, April 23, 1770

"I will go farther, I have no hope that our union can subsist except in the form of an absolute monarchy."

- Gouverneur Morris writing to Nathanael Green in 1781

Sunday, July 17, 2011

Pray for Beka!!

Yet more pics of my precious daughter ministering to those in Nepal. Please be praying though as she is dealing with some sinus issues. - R.C.K

Beka has been able to get antibiotics so please pray they do the job! - 7/18/2011

Beka said on 7/19/2011 via email to Nikki:

Gmail doesn't work the best on this comp so I couldn't quite respond to your email. Yes, i got the antibiotics and I am feeling so much better!! My gunk in the eyes are gone, sinus pressure is gone. Still blowing my nose but not as much. And it only cost $3 (dollars) so yea. So today we hiked for 4 hours today. It was very energy draining but the view was amazing!! We were sooo high up and the view over the valley was amazing! The million pics I took does not do it justice. I had a headache today but that was prob from lack of water and the elevation. But don't worry, I am fine.

Also, we had a "lice" problem the otehr day. We had to put mayo in our hair and vinager. Yea that was so much fun haha it was gross. But good news, last night, I was lice free (Not that I know if I had lice to begin with anyway). So I was happy :) I got daddy some dirt today and will prob get him some more when we get to pokhara. We are leaving early tomorrow morning and we will have a long bus ride. I dont know when I will get to get online but I will try asap when we get there. I love you guys! Thank everyone for the prayers. I am feeling so much better :)

Love Beka

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Procrustes

Procrustes

"It is the low drive for sameness and the hatred of otherness that characterizes all forms of leftism, which inevitably are totalitarian because, defying the divine diversity of the universe, these ideologies want to convert us by force to sameness -- sameness being the brother of equality. The leftist vision enjoins uniformity: the nation with one leader, one party, one race, one language, one class, one type of school, one law, one custom, one level of income, and so forth. Since nature provides diversity, this deadening sameness can be achieved only by brute force, by leveling, enforced assimilation, exile, genocide. All forms of totalitarianism, all leftist ideologies, reaching their culmination in the French, Russian, and German Revolutions, have gone that way -- with the aid of guillotine, gallows, gas chambers, and Gulag." The Principles of The Portland Declaration by Erik von Kuenelt-Leddihn.

The Apostle's Creed

I believe in God the Father almighty, creator of heaven and earth;

And in Jesus Christ, His only Son, our Lord, Who was conceived by the Holy Spirit, born of the Virgin Mary, suffered under Pontius Pilate, was crucified, dead and buried. He descended to Hell, on the third day rose again from the dead, ascended to heaven, sits at the right hand of God the Father almighty, thence He will come to judge the living and the dead;

I believe in the Holy Spirit, the Holy Catholic Church, the communion of saints, the forgiveness of sins, the resurrection of the body, and the life everlasting. Amen.

Nicene Creed

I believe in one God, the Father Almighty, Maker of heaven and earth, and of all things visible and invisible.

And in one Lord Jesus Christ, the only-begotten Son of God, begotten of the Father before all worlds; God of God, Light of Light, very God of very God; begotten, not made, being of one substance with the Father, by whom all things were made.

Who, for us men for our salvation, came down from heaven, and was incarnate by the Holy Spirit of the virgin Mary, and was made man; and was crucified also for us under Pontius Pilate; He suffered and was buried; and the third day He rose again, according to the Scriptures; and ascended into heaven, and sits on the right hand of the Father; and He shall come again, with glory, to judge the quick and the dead; whose kingdom shall have no end.

And I believe in the Holy Ghost, the Lord and Giver of Life; who proceeds from the Father; who with the Father and the Son together is worshipped and glorified; who spoke by the prophets.

And I believe one holy catholic and apostolic Church. I acknowledge one baptism for the remission of sins; and I look for the resurrection of the dead, and the life of the world to come. Amen.

What Is Left? By Erik von Kuehnnelt-Leddihn

WHAT IS LEFT?

1. Materialism: economic, biological, sociological.

2. Messianism assigned to one group: a nation, a race, a class.

3. Centralization: elimination of local administrations, traditions, characteristics, etc.

4. Totalitarianism: pervasion of all spheres of life by one doctrine

5. Brute force and terror, not authority, an endogenous force

6. Ideological one-party state

7. Complete state control of education

8. Socialism: the opposite of personalism

9. Provider (Welfare) State: from the cradle to the grave

10. Militarism (not bellicosity): conscription, people's armies, levee in masse

11. Rigid ideology enforced by the state: complete anti-image of "The Enemy."

12. Antimonarchical leader system: the leader (Fuhrer, Duce, Vozhd')

13. Antiliberalism: hatred of freedom

14. Antitraditionalism: against the historic past, against "reaction"

15. Territorial expansionist tendencies as form of self-realization

16. Exclusiveness: no other deities tolerated

17. Elminiation of corpos intermedairs (intermediary bodies)

18. Conformity of mass media: press, radio, television

19. Elimination or relativizing of private property: where it survives in name, it is totally under state control; the entrepreneur is merely the steward of his "property"

20. Persecution, subjection, or control of all religious bodies

21. "Right is what benefits the People" (Hitler); "Right is what benefits the Party" (Partiynost', Lenin)

22. Hatred of minorities

23. Glorification of the majority and the "average man"

24. Glorification of revolution, revolt, upheaval

25. Plebeianism: fight against the former elites

26. Hunt for "traitors"; resentment against emigrants

27. Populism and "uniformism" (people's courts, people's cars, etc.)

28. Ideological roots in French Revolution

29. Constant reference to democratic principles

30. Dynamic monolithism: state, society, people become one

31. Coordination through slogans, powems, songs, symbols, phrases

32. Secular rites replacing religious rites

33. Conformism as vital principle

34. Incitement of mass hysteria

35. Technology in the service of power

36. Freedom - below the belt

37. Everything for, everything through the state, nothing against the state (Mussolini)

38. Totally politicized life: tourism, sports, recreation

39. Nationalism or internationalism as against patriotism

40. Struggle against extraordinary people, against "privileges"

41. Total mobilization of envy in the interest of party and state

WHAT IS RIGHT?

1. The opposite of all the above or its absence.

Leftism characterizes all the three Great Revolutions: the French (1789), the Russian (1917), and the German (1933). But recall that political parties or systems are rarely 100 percent right or left, but an admixture of both.

Anführungsstrich des Tages!

"The Lord our God delights in variety."

- Herman Borchardt

"Now, one of the things that has fascinated me is the way the text of the Bible, and particularly the Old Testament, was handed down from generation to generation. That text was looked upon as very sacred. It was so sacred that when a scribe prepared to copy a manuscript he was required to wash his hands. He was not supposed to let soiled hands touch holy things. The reverse took place when he finished; he washed his hands, because hands that had holiness on them were not supposed to touch common things."

- Dr. Dennis Kinlaw

"The heart of the wise man beats on his right side, the heart of the fool on his left."

- Ecclesiastes, 10, 2

"A child hates the person who gives him everything he wants."

- African Proverb

"A planned economy is implicit in the spirit of democracy."

- The City of Man (1940)

"Man is a creature who lives not by bread alone, but primarily by catchwords."

- R.L. Stevenson, Virginibus puerisque

"The lights are going out all over Europe, and we shall not see them lit again in our lifetime."

- Sir Edward Grey, August 13, 1914

"Among the calamities of war may be rightly remembered the diminution of the love of truth."

- Samuel Johnson

"Thus we stumbled into what it became fashionable to call the "Bore War" -without arms, without faith and without heart."

- Lord Boothby

"Ah!" exclaimed the baron with his wickedest leer, "What for is my conclusion good? You Americans believe yourselves to be excepted from the operation of general laws. You care not for experience."

- Henry Adams, Democracy (1882)

The Chalcedonian creed

We, then, following the holy Fathers, all with one consent, teach people to confess one and the same Son, our Lord Jesus Christ, the same perfect in Godhead and also perfect in manhood;

truly God and truly man, of a reasonable [rational] soul and body;

consubstantial [co-essential] with the Father according to the Godhead, and consubstantial with us according to the Manhood;

in all things like unto us, without sin;

begotten before all ages of the Father according to the Godhead, and in these latter days, for us and for our salvation, born of the Virgin Mary, the Mother of God, according to the Manhood;

one and the same Christ, Son, Lord, only begotten, to be acknowledged in two natures, inconfusedly, unchangeably, indivisibly, inseparably;

the distinction of natures being by no means taken away by the union, but rather the property of each nature being preserved, and concurring in one Person and one Subsistence, not parted or divided into two persons, but one and the same Son, and only begotten God (μονογενῆ Θεὸν), the Word, the Lord Jesus Christ;

as the prophets from the beginning [have declared] concerning Him, and the Lord Jesus Christ Himself has taught us, and the Creed of the holy Fathers has handed down to us.

Athanasian Creed

Whosoever will be saved, before all things it is necessary that he hold the catholic faith; Which faith except every one do keep whole and undefiled, without doubt he shall perish everlastingly. And the catholic faith is this: That we worship one God in Trinity and Trinity in Unity; neither confounding the persons nor dividing the substance. For there is one person of the Father, another of the Son, and another of the Holy Spirit. But the Godhead of the Father, of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit is all one, the glory equal, the majesty coeternal. Such as the Father is, such is the Son, and such is the Holy Spirit. The Father uncreated, the Son uncreated, and the Holy Spirit uncreated. The Father incomprehensible, the Son incomprehensible, and the Holy Spirit incomprehensible. The Father eternal, the Son eternal, and the Holy Spirit eternal. And yet they are not three eternals but one eternal. As also there are not three uncreated nor three incomprehensible, but one uncreated and one incomprehensible. So likewise the Father is almighty, the Son almighty, and the Holy Spirit almighty. And yet they are not three almighties, but one almighty. So the Father is God, the Son is God, and the Holy Spirit is God; and yet they are not three Gods, but one God. So likewise the Father is Lord, the Son Lord, and the Holy Spirit Lord; and yet they are not three Lords but one Lord. For like as we are compelled by the Christian verity to acknowledge every Person by himself to be God and Lord; so are we forbidden by the catholic religion to say; there are three Gods or three Lords. The Father is made of none, neither created nor begotten. The Son is of the Father alone; not made nor created, but begotten. The Holy Spirit is of the Father and of the Son; neither made, nor created, nor begotten, but proceeding. So there is one Father, not three Fathers; one Son, not three Sons; one Holy Spirit, not three Holy Spirits. And in this Trinity none is afore or after another; none is greater or less than another. But the whole three persons are coeternal, and coequal. So that in all things, as aforesaid, the Unity in Trinity and the Trinity in Unity is to be worshipped. He therefore that will be saved must thus think of the Trinity. Furthermore it is necessary to everlasting salvation that he also believe rightly the incarnation of our Lord Jesus Christ.

For the right faith is that we believe and confess that our Lord Jesus Christ, the Son of God, is God and man. God of the substance of the Father, begotten before the worlds; and man of substance of His mother, born in the world. Perfect God and perfect man of a reasonable soul and human flesh subsisting. Equal to the Father as touching His Godhead, and inferior to the Father as touching His manhood. Who, although He is God and man, yet He is not two, but one Christ. One, not by conversion of the Godhead into flesh, but by taking of that manhood into God. One altogether, not by confusion of substance, but by unity of person. For as the reasonable soul and flesh is one man, so God and man is one Christ; Who suffered for our salvation, descended into hell, rose again the third day from the dead;

He ascended into heaven, He sits on the right hand of the Father, God Almighty; from thence He shall come to judge the quick and the dead. At whose coming all men shall rise again with their bodies; and shall give account of their own works. And they that have done good shall go into life everlasting and they that have done evil into everlasting fire. This is the catholic faith, which except a man believe faithfully he cannot be saved.

Seeking to understand those who we are serving.

Well our trip to Nepal is off to a great start. We’ve been here 5 days now and the ministry has already been very rich. From the moment we arrived, I could tell the team was immediately taken back by all the sights, sounds, and smells of Nepal. This was not quite what they had expected. The traffic on the narrow Kathmandu streets is chaotic to say the least. We find ourselves dancing around rickshaws and dodging motorcycles to cross the street. Walk just a block and you will experience waves of smells from burning trash, to burning incense, to perfumes, flowers, and diesel exhaust. Night falls around 7:30 and the local clubs blast their music out into the crowded streets, that is of course, if the power doesn’t go out.

We start our mornings with breakfast on the rooftop of our hostel. In the distance you can see the foothills of the Himalayas as we sit and eat our porridge. We spend an hour each morning in “quiet time” studying passages like Philippians, Proverbs, and Nehemiah, drawing out key ministry principles and attitudes. We spend time praying together as a team, taking time in silence to let God speak to us. Eventually we grab some lunch, load up our day packs and water bottles, and head our for ministry.

On our first day out we visited a famous Buddhist temple located high above the Kathmandu valley, unofficially known as the “Monkey Temple”, because the place is crawling with monkeys looking for tourists with food they can steal. We observed many of the Buddhist rituals they do as they seek “enlightenment”. The following day we visited the largest evangelical church in Kathmandu. They gave us headphones to hear the church service translated into English, but as I looked around I noticed many of the students had taken out their headphones, because they found themselves moved by hearing the Nepali people worshiping in their own language.

Yesterday we traveled to a Hindu temple known as Pashupati. There we witnessed Hindu cremation rituals as they burned the bodies of their deceased loved ones, and dumping the ashes into a river, hoping that would send them to heaven. It was a somber day, and the students had very little to say, but we were all thinking the same thing; this is a dark place full of people who desperately need hope. That same day we were also taken to a palace where a little girl was held because they believe she is the incarnation of a god. She stepped out and we saw her face. To the people around us they were seeing the face of a living god. To us, we were seeing the face of a young girl in captivity, much like the people who worshiped her.

While working to understand the spiritual lives and religious practices and beliefs of the Nepali people, we have begun to engage ourselves in two types of ministry here. The first, we have started calling “intentional shopping”. The students go out into the shopping district of “Thamel”, and go shopping. But as they shop around, they are working hard to meet people. Store owners, peddlers, restaurant servers, laundry and internet shop owners, rickshaw drivers, and even the hotel workers. Our students have been building relationships, getting names and phone numbers, learning about their families, sitting down for tea, and are openly sharing their faith. It has been amazing to hear their stories as they come back each night telling the team about the Nepali people they met and made friendships with.

The other type of ministry we have been doing is evangelism in the smaller villages outside of Kathmandu. As I type the team is preparing to spend the entire afternoon in a new village today. We start with a street performance with dancing, puppets and drama, and we spend the next hour our two having one on one conversations, presenting the gospel anyway we can. Some tell bible stories, some use gospel tracts, some open up their own bibles and share scripture, and some share stories from their own lives and testimonies. We must have drawn a crowd of 100-150 people at the village we went to yesterday. It was an exciting moment and our team rose to the occasion in an incredible way.

Our evenings are spent having dinner in the local restaurants and debriefing the day together as a team. We share stories, thoughts, questions, and encouragements with each other and finally shuffle off to bed exhausted from pouring ourselves out all day.

The rest of this week will consist of lots of village ministry, lots of “intentional shopping”, and on friday we are planning to visit a local orphanage. So far, the team has been very healthy and has great attitudes in everything we do. Rain is frequent, but short lived and has not succeeded in drowning out the work God has for us to do here.

We thank you for your prayers and encouragement. We know that while we are here in Nepal working hard to get the gospel out, there are many people lifting us up and have made many sacrifices so we could be here. It is on your shoulders that we stand and serve Christ in Nepal.

- Posted by Job Hammond July 12, 2011