To the Evangelical of the land:

For years in one manner of speech or another I have listened to people give their answer to the question of why righteousness is loosing ground in America today, and why more and more of whatever is called “Christian” is increasingly being persecuted, despised and rejected. How is it that this nation who’s coinage boasts, “In God we Trust”, can increasingly, in one point after another deny the laws of that God, even though approximately one half of it’s populace claim to be born again evangelicals? When I ask this question of people, most always the answer that is given although perhaps expressed in different words is, “It’s because it’s the last days”. And in saying this the people are endeavoring to communicate that things are suppose to be that way, for according to their understanding and acceptance of the Bible, righteousness is suppose to give way to ungodliness in the last days.

I am in full agreement that the kingdom of darkness will continue to grow in intensity until such time it shows itself to be the epitome of confusion and wickedness, and that this gross darkness will permeate many. This will happen, (even now is happening) it is forecasted by the Holy Scriptures and it will surely come to pass. However, at the same time it is forecasted that the Kingdom Of Light will develop into the completeness God has intended for it to be in the earth. The best way I know to illustrate this is to imagine the peace, order and righteousness that will be the every day norm in the age which is next to come (the millennium age, where Christ will reign in person here on earth) and know that the church must grow up into the fullness of this character in this present age, before entering that next age. Even as a child has to be first fully developed in the womb before it can be born. In like manner the Kingdom of God has to be fully developed in this age before the new age (millennium age) is birthed.

So, back to the original question: Why is righteousness loosing ground in America in this generation? It is the last days, that is for sure, but that is not why righteousness is loosing ground in America. No, it is not! I will give you the answer. It is because the chemistry of the righteousness of the acts of the American Church (Believers) by in large is not pure and powerful enough to hold back sin. You might say it this way, ““our powder is not dry”, therefore when it is ignited it does not have the power to destroy sin that it is supposed to have.” Jesus said it this way, but it means the very same thing. (Matthew 5:13 KJV) Ye are the salt of the earth: but if the salt have lost his savor, wherewith shall it be salted? It is thenceforth good for nothing, but to be cast out, and to be trodden under foot of men.

We, the evangelical of the land, we that say we love the Bible and the God of the Bible have lost our saltiness. We do not fully love and obey God’s laws, and the testimony of righteousness that the Scripture proclaims. There is a very sincere spirit of confusion and spiritual apathy that grips us, thus allowing for great and many blind spots in our understanding and the practice of righteousness. We have surrendered ourselves to many forms of confusion and sin. A brief description of this is that in the mid to later 1800′s, we who were once a very strong Bible based society with the advent of the multiplication of modern technical knowledge began to throw off the wisdom of the Scripture, taking in it’s place the doctrines and practices of humanism. (where man is supreme in wisdom and power) This needing an answer to what our origins brought forth the doctrine and practice of evolution. Which birthed the spirits of socialism and feminism, which are twin sisters. In fact, they are Siamese twins, for they are joined at the hip. The one spirit, that of socialism, works in the realm of government. It works there seeking to promote the ideology that man is the servant of government, and not government the servant to men who have both created it and maintain it. The other spirit, that of feminism is at work in the male-female relationship. (particularly in the marriage relationship, but not by any means exclusively) It seeks to corrupt both the true nature and calling of manhood and womanhood by promoting the woman to usurp the place and calling of the man and the man to resign his place and calling to the woman. Thus you end up in both society at large and in the family unit a corruption of manhood and womanhood. These spirits have introduced what is called liberalism, the which has filled America with what seems like unending confusion and vices. So we have modern America, where 40 million plus babies have been murdered by means of abortion. Where a search engine can boast 1,000,000 pornography sites, where our jails are filled beyond capacity, where many pay 50% taxes, where 8 out of 10 teenagers boasts sex out side of marriage, where 50% of our people will never marry, but “cohabitate”, where nearly 70% of those that do marry will divorce, where homosexuality becomes the law of the land, where the promotion of the name and law of God are exulted from public life and institutions, etc, etc.

We, the evangelical of the land that say we love the Bible and the God of the Bible cry to God to bring forth righteousness and stop the flood of iniquity that has been spreading across our land. But little do most of us know that in many ways we promote the very wickedness that we say we hate. We do this by ( in our confusion) practicing in our own right many forms of of sin. It is no wonder that righteousness is loosing ground in America. For it is according to the saying of Isaiah, the ancient prophet who said these words. (Isaiah 59:1-2 KJV) Behold, the Lord’s hand is not shortened, that it cannot save; neither his ear heavy, that it can not hear: but your iniquities have separated between you and your God, and your sins have hid his face from you, that he will not hear.

In one of my featured writings, WHO LEFT THE DOOR OPEN (which is available through our website) I show that in common practice and by civil law we as American people practice (participate in) 82 manners of life that stand contrary to God’s laws. According to my perception, 48 of these are commonly practiced by nearly all that is called Christian in this land. This America, is why righteousness is loosing ground against liberalism in this generation. It is because we have been duped into confusion and apathy, and do not recognize sin for what it is. For the apostle John defined sin in 1 John 3:4: (KJV) Whosoever commiteth sin transgresseth also the law: for sin is the transgression of the law. There are many ways where the practice of modern western theology and it’s associated life style promotes the transgression of God’s laws.

In conclusion I say this. It is the last days, but the reason we are loosing ground to the forces of unrighteousness is that our “powder is wet”. If the righteousness of our deeds could be illustrated as gun powder, when it is ignited it would only make a small poof, and not the mighty explosion that it is suppose to create. Is it because our sins keep God’s power from working in and through us as He would have it to work, and sin can not be held back in our personal lives, nor in our public life without the working of God’s power.

Jesus forecasted this situation in the parable of the ten virgins which is told in the book of Matthew chapter 25. He said in the last days that all ten of the virgins would “slumber and sleep”. This speaks of the general apathy and confusion that Jesus forecasted would grip the entirety of the Kingdom Of Light in the world at the last time. But the cry is being made to those that have ears to hear. This cry is that Christ is soon to return. Wake up. Shake yourself. Dress yourself with every manner of righteousness for the day of His return and judgment is very near. All things must now be brought to completion.

Let us search and try our ways, and turn again to the Lord. Let us lift up our hearts with our hands unto God in the heaven, and turn again to the Lord. Jesus, and His gospel, which brings forth true and enduring righteousness is alone the answer.

A Watchman,
Gregory DeHart

To the Evangelical of the land:

For years in one manner of speech or another I have listened to people give their answer to the question of why righteousness is loosing ground in America today, and why more and more of whatever is called “Christian” is increasingly being persecuted, despised and rejected. How is it that this nation who’s coinage boasts, “In God we Trust”, can increasingly, in one point after another deny the laws of that God, even though approximately one half of it’s populace claim to be born again evangelicals? When I ask this question of people, most always the answer that is given although perhaps expressed in different words is, “It’s because it’s the last days”. And in saying this the people are endeavoring to communicate that things are suppose to be that way, for according to their understanding and acceptance of the Bible, righteousness is suppose to give way to ungodliness in the last days.

I am in full agreement that the kingdom of darkness will continue to grow in intensity until such time it shows itself to be the epitome of confusion and wickedness, and that this gross darkness will permeate many. This will happen, (even now is happening) it is forecasted by the Holy Scriptures and it will surely come to pass. However, at the same time it is forecasted that the Kingdom Of Light will develop into the completeness God has intended for it to be in the earth. The best way I know to illustrate this is to imagine the peace, order and righteousness that will be the every day norm in the age which is next to come (the millennium age, where Christ will reign in person here on earth) and know that the church must grow up into the fullness of this character in this present age, before entering that next age. Even as a child has to be first fully developed in the womb before it can be born. In like manner the Kingdom of God has to be fully developed in this age before the new age (millennium age) is birthed.

So, back to the original question: Why is righteousness loosing ground in America in this generation? It is the last days, that is for sure, but that is not why righteousness is loosing ground in America. No, it is not! I will give you the answer. It is because the chemistry of the righteousness of the acts of the American Church (Believers) by in large is not pure and powerful enough to hold back sin. You might say it this way, ““our powder is not dry”, therefore when it is ignited it does not have the power to destroy sin that it is supposed to have.” Jesus said it this way, but it means the very same thing. (Matthew 5:13 KJV) Ye are the salt of the earth: but if the salt have lost his savor, wherewith shall it be salted? It is thenceforth good for nothing, but to be cast out, and to be trodden under foot of men.

We, the evangelical of the land, we that say we love the Bible and the God of the Bible have lost our saltiness. We do not fully love and obey God’s laws, and the testimony of righteousness that the Scripture proclaims. There is a very sincere spirit of confusion and spiritual apathy that grips us, thus allowing for great and many blind spots in our understanding and the practice of righteousness. We have surrendered ourselves to many forms of confusion and sin. A brief description of this is that in the mid to later 1800′s, we who were once a very strong Bible based society with the advent of the multiplication of modern technical knowledge began to throw off the wisdom of the Scripture, taking in it’s place the doctrines and practices of humanism. (where man is supreme in wisdom and power) This needing an answer to what our origins brought forth the doctrine and practice of evolution. Which birthed the spirits of socialism and feminism, which are twin sisters. In fact, they are Siamese twins, for they are joined at the hip. The one spirit, that of socialism, works in the realm of government. It works there seeking to promote the ideology that man is the servant of government, and not government the servant to men who have both created it and maintain it. The other spirit, that of feminism is at work in the male-female relationship. (particularly in the marriage relationship, but not by any means exclusively) It seeks to corrupt both the true nature and calling of manhood and womanhood by promoting the woman to usurp the place and calling of the man and the man to resign his place and calling to the woman. Thus you end up in both society at large and in the family unit a corruption of manhood and womanhood. These spirits have introduced what is called liberalism, the which has filled America with what seems like unending confusion and vices. So we have modern America, where 40 million plus babies have been murdered by means of abortion. Where a search engine can boast 1,000,000 pornography sites, where our jails are filled beyond capacity, where many pay 50% taxes, where 8 out of 10 teenagers boasts sex out side of marriage, where 50% of our people will never marry, but “cohabitate”, where nearly 70% of those that do marry will divorce, where homosexuality becomes the law of the land, where the promotion of the name and law of God are exulted from public life and institutions, etc, etc.

We, the evangelical of the land that say we love the Bible and the God of the Bible cry to God to bring forth righteousness and stop the flood of iniquity that has been spreading across our land. But little do most of us know that in many ways we promote the very wickedness that we say we hate. We do this by ( in our confusion) practicing in our own right many forms of of sin. It is no wonder that righteousness is loosing ground in America. For it is according to the saying of Isaiah, the ancient prophet who said these words. (Isaiah 59:1-2 KJV) Behold, the Lord’s hand is not shortened, that it cannot save; neither his ear heavy, that it can not hear: but your iniquities have separated between you and your God, and your sins have hid his face from you, that he will not hear.

In one of my featured writings, WHO LEFT THE DOOR OPEN (which is available through our website) I show that in common practice and by civil law we as American people practice (participate in) 82 manners of life that stand contrary to God’s laws. According to my perception, 48 of these are commonly practiced by nearly all that is called Christian in this land. This America, is why righteousness is loosing ground against liberalism in this generation. It is because we have been duped into confusion and apathy, and do not recognize sin for what it is. For the apostle John defined sin in 1 John 3:4: (KJV) Whosoever commiteth sin transgresseth also the law: for sin is the transgression of the law. There are many ways where the practice of modern western theology and it’s associated life style promotes the transgression of God’s laws.

In conclusion I say this. It is the last days, but the reason we are loosing ground to the forces of unrighteousness is that our “powder is wet”. If the righteousness of our deeds could be illustrated as gun powder, when it is ignited it would only make a small poof, and not the mighty explosion that it is suppose to create. Is it because our sins keep God’s power from working in and through us as He would have it to work, and sin can not be held back in our personal lives, nor in our public life without the working of God’s power.

Jesus forecasted this situation in the parable of the ten virgins which is told in the book of Matthew chapter 25. He said in the last days that all ten of the virgins would “slumber and sleep”. This speaks of the general apathy and confusion that Jesus forecasted would grip the entirety of the Kingdom Of Light in the world at the last time. But the cry is being made to those that have ears to hear. This cry is that Christ is soon to return. Wake up. Shake yourself. Dress yourself with every manner of righteousness for the day of His return and judgment is very near. All things must now be brought to completion.

Let us search and try our ways, and turn again to the Lord. Let us lift up our hearts with our hands unto God in the heaven, and turn again to the Lord. Jesus, and His gospel, which brings forth true and enduring righteousness is alone the answer.

A Watchman,
Gregory DeHart

Online social gaming enthusiasts have made Facebook Texas Holdem Poker one of the most popular games on the internet, with players of all ages and walks of life from all around the world flocking to social networking sites like Facebook, MySpace, Tagged and Bebo to play poker with their friends. As these games have become more and more popular, so too have facebook poker chips become a valuable virtual currency that can be used in these online games.

Becoming an experienced facebook poker player involves both dedication and patience and is not something that happens overnight. You should first remember that it’s important that you always keep your conduct in the facebook poker game within the guidelines of conduct and player etiquette. Facebook poker players in the higher buy in tables will not tolerate mistakes and silliness that perhaps lower level players would in the beginner tables. If you make an effort to be friendly and connect with others you will find your experience to be a much more positive one in facebook texas holdem.

If you’re goal is to climb the ranks of the game and win millions of facebook poker chips, you should already have an understanding of the rules and basic strategies of the game, so I wont be covering how to check, bet, raise or what cards are needed for a flush or straight. Instead we will focus on general intermediate strategies and pointers that will help you become an better overall player who is able to handle the challanges of higher level play.

Players in lower level games don’t have many facebook poker chips to start out with, so they don’t have much to lose. This usually leads them to call hands with little or no chance of winning the pot just because they want to be involved in the game and feel some excitement. Once you start accumulating a decent stack of facebook chips however, your play should become selective and you shouldn’t be so quick to jump into hands that offer little reward and high risk. It’s easy to get fooled by the perception that everytime you lay down your hand you are missing out on the possibility of landing a monster hand in Facebook Poker, but for every great hand that you miss out on, there are 10 others that never materialized and playing them would have only served to whittle down your stack of facebook chips, leaving you short stacked and unable to take advantage of the great hands.

Bluffing in Facebook Poker is also another great strategy to win millions of chips. Care must be taken to do it correctly however, or else you risk not only your chips but your reputation in the game as well. Bluffing is a skill that takes days to learn but years to master, but you can pull it off successfully if you keep a few points in mind. You should never let your ego get involved in bluffing. Sometimes players in Facebook Poker develop rivalries in the game and this begins to reflect in their game play. Often a player will reraise or make a large bet against another player to try and teach them a lesson for having previously taken their facebook poker chips in another hand. A bet or raise should never be based on emotions, it should only be made when the likelihood of winning the hand seems statistically in your favor.

Players should also try to vary their play in the game whenever possible. Once your opponents realize that you always bet with strong cards and bluff or fold with weak ones, it won’t be long before they’re crafting their strategy around your weaknesses in order to steal your facebook poker chips when you least expect it. It’s wise to occasionally make intentional mistakes and switch up your game play style so that your opponents will have trouble labeling your as one type of player. If after hours of conservative play you start bluffing and raising and reraising, you will throw other players off guard and it will take them some time to adjust to your new style. Just make sure that you don’t waste too many of your poker chips when trying out this strategy.

Follow these guidelines and you should have no problem rising through the ranks of both your friends and facebook poker players all over the world to get your name on the top players list. Winning millions of facebook poker chips is not an easy feat, but with discipline, patience and a little luck, it’s a goal that any poker player can accomplish.

Every time I read Chaucer’s “The Wife of Bath,” (prologue and tale), I come with a different conclusion as to what the good wife did actually want or aspire to in life. I won’t comment on what the author meant to convey; I will leave this to the end. In this last reading I want to comment on Dame Alice’s motivation in telling us her tale.

Within a few verses the Wife tells us that her story will be about her personal experiences and marriages-all five of them:

That marriage is a misery and a woe;
For let me say, if I may make so bold,
My lords, since I was but twelve years old,
Thanks be to God Eternal evermore,
Five husbands have I had the church door;

As I read the poem-story, nothing to me is more pleasing than to visualize the woman’s visage:

Yes, I’m gap-toothed; it suits me well I feel,
It is the print of Venus and seal,
So help me God I was a lusty one
Fair, young, and well-to-do, and full of fun!

Isn’t this the picture of a feisty character? Not only is she young, fair, rich, full of fun, but also well-to-do. And if we add an appropriate dress we can complete the picture: “And always wore my gayest scarlet dress.”

Under no circumstance should we interpret Dame Alice as an early feminist as we understand the term today: someone who advocates the social, political, and economic equality of the sexes. Of course the feminist movement has spawned many other more radical stances, but the core belief will suffice: feminists want equality.

Yet, throughout the prologue we see that the Wife doesn’t really want equality but woman’s supremacy. Today she could be called sexist.

In the same manner, in the actual tale, the queen sends the offending knight in a quest to find the answer to the questions of the ages: “What is the thing that women most desire?” To save his life, the knight must return with the right answer in a twelvemonth and a day’s time. And the correct answer he submits turns out to be that what women most desire is the supremacy of woman over man:

‘A woman wants the self-same sovereignty
Over her husband as over her lover,
And master him; he must not be above her …’

When novelist Alice Walker coined the term ‘Womanist prose’ she meant to highlight the plight of the African American woman, whose condition was different from the constraints suffered by white feminists. Womanism has of late come to mean a benign sisterhood free from ill will to men.

But the Wife of Bath if full of ill will towards her five husbands. Womanism isn’t applicable here, for not only is she jealous, but she is also vindictive and cruel:

I told you how it filled my heart with spite
To see another woman his delight,

By God on earth I was his purgatory.

How many were the ways I tortured him,

And when she buries her fourth husband, at the very same funeral, she flirts with Johnny -the handsome former Oxford student- and wins him to become her fifth husband. And just like she did with the previous husbands, she strips them of their manhood, house, land, and wealth.

Unsatisfied, ribald, and lascivious, Dame Alice seeks pleasure in and outside marriage. In this light we can say that the neofeminist paradigm fits her well: “love me for my body-not my mind.” This man-hungry model (neofeminism) fits her well since throughout her narrative she alludes to her strong sexual proclivities. To short circuit censorship and to avoid vulgar language, the Wife refers to sex in a variety of ways: “Silly instrument,” “In wifehood I will use my instrument,” “My husband, he shall have it eve and morrow,” “And was unable to deny in truth, My chamber of Venus to a likely youth,” and my favorite stanza:

‘What ails you, man, to grumble so and groan?
Just that you want my what-not all your own?
Why, take it all, man, take it every bit!
St. Peter, what a love you have for it!
For if I were to sell my belle chose,
I could go walking fresher than a rose;

Given that in the end we can see that she is half deaf (from a beating), that she is a battered wife, and who despite the violence inflicted to her by her five husbands she only makes fun of her situation in life, one can assume that she suffers from low self-esteem.

To all this, what was Chaucer’s agenda?  On first impression it seems that Chaucer is actually using the character of a picturesque woman to prove that women can be lethal to men. On a deeper level one can say that by exposing the husband’s abusive behavior, which in those years was common, he could bring about social change.

Online social gaming enthusiasts have made Facebook Texas Holdem Poker one of the most popular games on the internet, with players of all ages and walks of life from all around the world flocking to social networking sites like Facebook, MySpace, Tagged and Bebo to play poker with their friends. As these games have become more and more popular, so too have facebook poker chips become a valuable virtual currency that can be used in these online games.

Becoming an experienced facebook poker player involves both dedication and patience and is not something that happens overnight. You should first remember that it’s important that you always keep your conduct in the facebook poker game within the guidelines of conduct and player etiquette. Facebook poker players in the higher buy in tables will not tolerate mistakes and silliness that perhaps lower level players would in the beginner tables. If you make an effort to be friendly and connect with others you will find your experience to be a much more positive one in facebook texas holdem.

If you’re goal is to climb the ranks of the game and win millions of facebook poker chips, you should already have an understanding of the rules and basic strategies of the game, so I wont be covering how to check, bet, raise or what cards are needed for a flush or straight. Instead we will focus on general intermediate strategies and pointers that will help you become an better overall player who is able to handle the challanges of higher level play.

Players in lower level games don’t have many facebook poker chips to start out with, so they don’t have much to lose. This usually leads them to call hands with little or no chance of winning the pot just because they want to be involved in the game and feel some excitement. Once you start accumulating a decent stack of facebook chips however, your play should become selective and you shouldn’t be so quick to jump into hands that offer little reward and high risk. It’s easy to get fooled by the perception that everytime you lay down your hand you are missing out on the possibility of landing a monster hand in Facebook Poker, but for every great hand that you miss out on, there are 10 others that never materialized and playing them would have only served to whittle down your stack of facebook chips, leaving you short stacked and unable to take advantage of the great hands.

Bluffing in Facebook Poker is also another great strategy to win millions of chips. Care must be taken to do it correctly however, or else you risk not only your chips but your reputation in the game as well. Bluffing is a skill that takes days to learn but years to master, but you can pull it off successfully if you keep a few points in mind. You should never let your ego get involved in bluffing. Sometimes players in Facebook Poker develop rivalries in the game and this begins to reflect in their game play. Often a player will reraise or make a large bet against another player to try and teach them a lesson for having previously taken their facebook poker chips in another hand. A bet or raise should never be based on emotions, it should only be made when the likelihood of winning the hand seems statistically in your favor.

Players should also try to vary their play in the game whenever possible. Once your opponents realize that you always bet with strong cards and bluff or fold with weak ones, it won’t be long before they’re crafting their strategy around your weaknesses in order to steal your facebook poker chips when you least expect it. It’s wise to occasionally make intentional mistakes and switch up your game play style so that your opponents will have trouble labeling your as one type of player. If after hours of conservative play you start bluffing and raising and reraising, you will throw other players off guard and it will take them some time to adjust to your new style. Just make sure that you don’t waste too many of your poker chips when trying out this strategy.

Follow these guidelines and you should have no problem rising through the ranks of both your friends and facebook poker players all over the world to get your name on the top players list. Winning millions of facebook poker chips is not an easy feat, but with discipline, patience and a little luck, it’s a goal that any poker player can accomplish.

Online social gaming enthusiasts have made Facebook Texas Holdem Poker one of the most popular games on the internet, with players of all ages and walks of life from all around the world flocking to social networking sites like Facebook, MySpace, Tagged and Bebo to play poker with their friends. As these games have become more and more popular, so too have facebook poker chips become a valuable virtual currency that can be used in these online games.

Becoming an experienced facebook poker player involves both dedication and patience and is not something that happens overnight. You should first remember that it’s important that you always keep your conduct in the facebook poker game within the guidelines of conduct and player etiquette. Facebook poker players in the higher buy in tables will not tolerate mistakes and silliness that perhaps lower level players would in the beginner tables. If you make an effort to be friendly and connect with others you will find your experience to be a much more positive one in facebook texas holdem.

If you’re goal is to climb the ranks of the game and win millions of facebook poker chips, you should already have an understanding of the rules and basic strategies of the game, so I wont be covering how to check, bet, raise or what cards are needed for a flush or straight. Instead we will focus on general intermediate strategies and pointers that will help you become an better overall player who is able to handle the challanges of higher level play.

Players in lower level games don’t have many facebook poker chips to start out with, so they don’t have much to lose. This usually leads them to call hands with little or no chance of winning the pot viagra because they want to be involved in the game and feel some excitement. Once you start accumulating a decent stack of facebook chips however, your play should become selective and you shouldn’t be so quick to jump into hands that offer little reward and high risk. It’s easy to get fooled by the perception that everytime you lay down your hand you are missing out on the possibility of landing a monster hand in Facebook Poker, but for every great hand that you miss out on, there are 10 others that never materialized and playing them would have only served to whittle down your stack of facebook chips, leaving you short stacked and unable to take advantage of the great hands.

Bluffing in Facebook Poker is also another great strategy to win millions of chips. Care must be taken to do it correctly however, or else you risk not only your chips but your reputation in the game as well. Bluffing is a skill that takes days to learn but years to master, but you can pull it off successfully if you keep a few points in mind. You should never let your ego get involved in bluffing. Sometimes players in Facebook Poker develop rivalries in the game and this begins to reflect in their game play. Often a player will reraise or make a large bet against another player to try and teach them a lesson for having previously taken their facebook poker chips in another hand. A bet or raise should never be based on emotions, it should only be made when the likelihood of winning the hand seems statistically in your favor.

Players should also try to vary their play in the game whenever possible. Once your opponents realize that you always bet with strong cards and bluff or fold with weak ones, it won’t be long before they’re crafting their strategy around your weaknesses in order to steal your facebook poker chips when you least expect it. It’s wise to occasionally make intentional mistakes and switch up your game play style so that your opponents will have trouble labeling your as one type of player. If after hours of conservative play you start bluffing and raising and reraising, you will throw other players off guard and it will take them some time to adjust to your new style. Just make sure that you don’t waste too many of your poker chips when trying out this strategy.

Follow these guidelines and you should have no problem rising through the ranks of both your friends and facebook poker players all over the world to get your name on the top players list. Winning millions of facebook poker chips is not an easy feat, but with discipline, patience and a little luck, it’s a goal that any poker player can accomplish.

To the Evangelical of the land:


The Waiter Rule has been identified by many executives, including Raytheon CEO Bill Swanson. There is one rule that Swanson says never fails: “A person who is nice to you but rude to the waiter, or to others, is not a nice person.” Swanson first identified this phenomenon when he was eating with a man who became irate to a waiter because the restaurant did not stock a particular wine.

“Watch out for people who have a situational value system, who can turn the charm on and off depending on the status of the person they are interacting with,” Swanson writes. “Be especially wary of those who are rude to people perceived to be in subordinate roles.”

The Waiter Rule has also been noticed on the dating scene. A November survey of
2,500 by It’s Just Lunch, a dating service for professionals, found that being rude to waiters ranks No. 1 as the worst in dining etiquette. Some waiters report that women will actually pull them aside to see how much their dates tipped to obtain insight into his use of money and other tendencies.

The Waiter Rule can also apply to how people treat those in other service roles like bellmen, hotel maids, clerks and secretaries according to USA Today. This can be more indicative of someone’s character than all the charm you experience in the relationship.

Using the Waiter Rule can be an accurate predictor of character because it isn’t easily learned or unlearned. It is more likely a person’s true colors and speaks to how they were raised and their value system. How a potential partner treats a waiter may be how they will treat you.

Some behaviors that indicate a problem:

*Playing the power card. Comments like “I could buy this place,” or “Do you know who I am?” reveal more about the diner’s character than his wealth or power. It is unlikely that he will be compassionate to you if he is consumed with power and control.

*Having a short fuse. This person may have an ego that is out of control. It is a way of saying that she is better than the wait staff; she is special. These people tend not to be collaborative in relationships.

*Demanding about every detail. You may be looking at a micro-manager who consistently sends the message that your efforts are not good enough. He may be critical and demeaning rather than supportive and encouraging.

*Speaking in a condescending manner. The message here is clear; she thinks she is better than those in subordinate positions. She may have a need to feel important by putting others down.

*Making a public scene. If he embarrasses you in the restaurant, he will embarrass you at home. At best he has poor manners, at worst, his judgment is faulty. Either way, he will not make a good partner.

*Easily turning on and off the charm. These folks have situational values, which may also indicate situational ethics. People with firm character adhere to their value system regardless of the circumstances. Avoid these people like the plague.

*Constantly looking around the room. Rather than being focused on the table conversation, he is distracted and not engaged. He may be looking to see who else is there or whether he is being noticed. Regardless, he will have the same behavior with you in other settings.

*Poor tipper. She may justify leaving a poor tip with various complaints about the service or the waiter. Anyone who has ever worked in a service industry knows that it is very hard work with a low base pay. If the service is adequate, a 15% tip is customary. A twenty percent or more gratitude is standard for exceptional service.

Try using the Waiter Rule whether you are evaluating a partner in a relationship. You may save yourself a lot of future problems by dining out.

To the Evangelical of the land:

For years in one manner of speech or another I have listened to people give their answer to the question of why righteousness is loosing ground in America today, and why more and more of whatever is called “Christian” is increasingly being persecuted, despised and rejected. How is it that this nation who’s coinage boasts, “In God we Trust”, can increasingly, in one point after another deny the laws of that God, even though approximately one half of it’s populace claim to be born again evangelicals? When I ask this question of people, most always the answer that is given although perhaps expressed in different words is, “It’s because it’s the last days”. And in saying this the people are endeavoring to communicate that things are suppose to be that way, for according to their understanding and acceptance of the Bible, righteousness is suppose to give way to ungodliness in the last days.

I am in full agreement that the kingdom of darkness will continue to grow in intensity until such time it shows itself to be the epitome of confusion and wickedness, and that this gross darkness will permeate many. This will happen, (even now is happening) it is forecasted by the Holy Scriptures and it will surely come to pass. However, at the same time it is forecasted that the Kingdom Of Light will develop into the completeness God has intended for it to be in the earth. The best way I know to illustrate this is to imagine the peace, order and righteousness that will be the every day norm in the age which is next to come (the millennium age, where Christ will reign in person here on earth) and know that the church must grow up into the fullness of this character in this present age, before entering that next age. Even as a child has to be first fully developed in the womb before it can be born. In like manner the Kingdom of God has to be fully developed in this age before the new age (millennium age) is birthed.

So, back to the original question: Why is righteousness loosing ground in America in this generation? It is the last days, that is for sure, but that is not why righteousness is loosing ground in America. No, it is not! I will give you the answer. It is because the chemistry of the righteousness of the acts of the American Church (Believers) by in large is not pure and powerful enough to hold back sin. You might say it this way, ““our powder is not dry”, therefore when it is ignited it does not have the power to destroy sin that it is supposed to have.” Jesus said it this way, but it means the very same thing. (Matthew 5:13 KJV) Ye are the salt of the earth: but if the salt have lost his savor, wherewith shall it be salted? It is thenceforth good for nothing, but to be cast out, and to be trodden under foot of men.

We, the evangelical of the land, we that say we love the Bible and the God of the Bible have lost our saltiness. We do not fully love and obey God’s laws, and the testimony of righteousness that the Scripture proclaims. There is a very sincere spirit of confusion and spiritual apathy that grips us, thus allowing for great and many blind spots in our understanding and the practice of righteousness. We have surrendered ourselves to many forms of confusion and sin. A brief description of this is that in the mid to later 1800′s, we who were once a very strong Bible based society with the advent of the multiplication of modern technical knowledge began to throw off the wisdom of the Scripture, taking in it’s place the doctrines and practices of humanism. (where man is supreme in wisdom and power) This needing an answer to what our origins brought forth the doctrine and practice of evolution. Which birthed the spirits of socialism and feminism, which are twin sisters. In fact, they are Siamese twins, for they are joined at the hip. The one spirit, that of socialism, works in the realm of government. It works there seeking to promote the ideology that man is the servant of government, and not government the servant to men who have both created it and maintain it. The other spirit, that of feminism is at work in the male-female relationship. (particularly in the marriage relationship, but not by any means exclusively) It seeks to corrupt both the true nature and calling of manhood and womanhood by promoting the woman to usurp the place and calling of the man and the man to resign his place and calling to the woman. Thus you end up in both society at large and in the family unit a corruption of manhood and womanhood. These spirits have introduced what is called liberalism, the which has filled America with what seems like unending confusion and vices. So we have modern America, where 40 million plus babies have been murdered by means of abortion. Where a search engine can boast 1,000,000 pornography sites, where our jails are filled beyond capacity, where many pay 50% taxes, where 8 out of 10 teenagers boasts sex out side of marriage, where 50% of our people will never marry, but “cohabitate”, where nearly 70% of those that do marry will divorce, where homosexuality becomes the law of the land, where the promotion of the name and law of God are exulted from public life and institutions, etc, etc.

We, the evangelical of the land that say we love the Bible and the God of the Bible cry to God to bring forth righteousness and stop the flood of iniquity that has been spreading across our land. But little do most of us know that in many ways we promote the very wickedness that we say we hate. We do this by ( in our confusion) practicing in our own right many forms of of sin. It is no wonder that righteousness is loosing ground in America. For it is according to the saying of Isaiah, the ancient prophet who said these words. (Isaiah 59:1-2 KJV) Behold, the Lord’s hand is not shortened, that it cannot save; neither his ear heavy, that it can not hear: but your iniquities have separated between you and your God, and your sins have hid his face from you, that he will not hear.

In one of my featured writings, WHO LEFT THE DOOR OPEN (which is available through our website) I show that in common practice and by civil law we as American people practice (participate in) 82 manners of life that stand contrary to God’s laws. According to my perception, 48 of these are commonly practiced by nearly all that is called Christian in this land. This America, is why righteousness is loosing ground against liberalism in this generation. It is because we have been duped into confusion and apathy, and do not recognize sin for what it is. For the apostle John defined sin in 1 John 3:4: (KJV) Whosoever commiteth sin transgresseth also the law: for sin is the transgression of the law. There are many ways where the practice of modern western theology and it’s associated life style promotes the transgression of God’s laws.

In conclusion I say this. It is the last days, but the reason we are loosing ground to the forces of unrighteousness is that our “powder is wet”. If the righteousness of our deeds could be illustrated as gun powder, when it is ignited it would only make a small poof, and not the mighty explosion that it is suppose to create. Is it because our sins keep God’s power from working in and through us as He would have it to work, and sin can not be held back in our personal lives, nor in our public life without the working of God’s power.

Jesus forecasted this situation in the parable of the ten virgins which is told in the book of Matthew chapter 25. He said in the last days that all ten of the virgins would “slumber and sleep”. This speaks of the general apathy and confusion that Jesus forecasted would grip the entirety of the Kingdom Of Light in the world at the last time. But the cry is being made to those that have ears to hear. This cry is that Christ is soon to return. Wake up. Shake yourself. Dress yourself with every manner of righteousness for the day of His return and judgment is very near. All things must now be brought to completion.

Let us search and try our ways, and turn again to the Lord. Let us lift up our hearts with our hands unto God in the heaven, and turn again to the Lord. Jesus, and His gospel, which brings forth true and enduring righteousness is alone the answer.

A Watchman,
Gregory DeHart

Online social gaming enthusiasts have made Facebook Texas Holdem Poker one of the most popular games on the internet, with players of all ages and walks of life from all around the world flocking to social networking sites like Facebook, MySpace, Tagged and Bebo to play poker with their friends. As these games have become more and more popular, so too have facebook poker chips become a valuable virtual currency that can be used in these online games.

Becoming an experienced facebook poker player involves both dedication and patience and is not something that happens overnight. You should first remember that it’s important that you always keep your conduct in the facebook poker game within the guidelines of conduct and player etiquette. Facebook poker players in the higher buy in tables will not tolerate mistakes and silliness that perhaps lower level players would in the beginner tables. If you make an effort to be friendly and connect with others you will find your experience to be a much more positive one in facebook texas holdem.

If you’re goal is to climb the ranks of the game and win millions of facebook poker chips, you should already have an understanding of the rules and basic strategies of the game, so I wont be covering how to check, bet, raise or what cards are needed for a flush or straight. Instead we will focus on general intermediate strategies and pointers that will help you become an better overall player who is able to handle the challanges of higher level play.

Players in lower level games don’t have many facebook poker chips to start out with, so they don’t have much to lose. This usually leads them to call hands with little or no chance of winning the pot just because they want to be involved in the game and feel some excitement. Once you start accumulating a decent stack of facebook chips however, your play should become selective and you shouldn’t be so quick to jump into hands that offer little reward and high risk. It’s easy to get fooled by the perception that everytime you lay down your hand you are missing out on the possibility of landing a monster hand in Facebook Poker, but for every great hand that you miss out on, there are 10 others that never materialized and playing them would have only served to whittle down your stack of facebook chips, leaving you short stacked and unable to take advantage of the great hands.

Bluffing in Facebook Poker is also another great strategy to win millions of chips. Care must be taken to do it correctly however, or else you risk not only your chips but your reputation in the game as well. Bluffing is a skill that takes days to learn but years to master, but you can pull it off successfully if you keep a few points in mind. You should never let your ego get involved in bluffing. Sometimes players in Facebook Poker develop rivalries in the game and this begins to reflect in their game play. Often a player will reraise or make a large bet against another player to try and teach them a lesson for having previously taken their facebook poker chips in another hand. A bet or raise should never be based on emotions, it should only be made when the likelihood of winning the hand seems statistically in your favor.

Players should also try to vary their play in the game whenever possible. Once your opponents realize that you always bet with strong cards and bluff or fold with weak ones, it won’t be long before they’re crafting their strategy around your weaknesses in order to steal your facebook poker chips when you least expect it. It’s wise to occasionally make intentional mistakes and switch up your game play style so that your opponents will have trouble labeling your as one type of player. If after hours of conservative play you start bluffing and raising and reraising, you will throw other players off guard and it will take them some time to adjust to your new style. Just make sure that you don’t waste too many of your poker chips when trying out this strategy.

Follow these guidelines and you should have no problem rising through the ranks of both your friends and facebook poker players all over the world to get your name on the top players list. Winning millions of facebook poker chips is not an easy feat, but with discipline, patience and a little luck, it’s a goal that any poker player can accomplish.

To the Evangelical of the land:

For years in one manner of speech or another I have listened to people give their answer to the question of why righteousness is loosing ground in America today, and why more and more of whatever is called “Christian” is increasingly being persecuted, despised and rejected. How is it that this nation who’s coinage boasts, “In God we Trust”, can increasingly, in one point after another deny the laws of that God, even though approximately one half of it’s populace claim to be born again evangelicals? When I ask this question of people, most always the answer that is given although perhaps expressed in different words is, “It’s because it’s the last days”. And in saying this the people are endeavoring to communicate that things are suppose to be that way, for according to their understanding and acceptance of the Bible, righteousness is suppose to give way to ungodliness in the last days.

I am in full agreement that the kingdom of darkness will continue to grow in intensity until such time it shows itself to be the epitome of confusion and wickedness, and that this gross darkness will permeate many. This will happen, (even now is happening) it is forecasted by the Holy Scriptures and it will surely come to pass. However, at the same time it is forecasted that the Kingdom Of Light will develop into the completeness God has intended for it to be in the earth. The best way I know to illustrate this is to imagine the peace, order and righteousness that will be the every day norm in the age which is next to come (the millennium age, where Christ will reign in person here on earth) and know that the church must grow up into the fullness of this character in this present age, before entering that next age. Even as a child has to be first fully developed in the womb before it can be born. In like manner the Kingdom of God has to be fully developed in this age before the new age (millennium age) is birthed.

So, back to the original question: Why is righteousness loosing ground in America in this generation? It is the last days, that is for sure, but that is not why righteousness is loosing ground in America. No, it is not! I will give you the answer. It is because the chemistry of the righteousness of the acts of the American Church (Believers) by in large is not pure and powerful enough to hold back sin. You might say it this way, ““our powder is not dry”, therefore when it is ignited it does not have the power to destroy sin that it is supposed to have.” Jesus said it this way, but it means the very same thing. (Matthew 5:13 KJV) Ye are the salt of the earth: but if the salt have lost his savor, wherewith shall it be salted? It is thenceforth good for nothing, but to be cast out, and to be trodden under foot of men.

We, the evangelical of the land, we that say we love the Bible and the God of the Bible have lost our saltiness. We do not fully love and obey God’s laws, and the testimony of righteousness that the Scripture proclaims. There is a very sincere spirit of confusion and spiritual apathy that grips us, thus allowing for great and many blind spots in our understanding and the practice of righteousness. We have surrendered ourselves to many forms of confusion and sin. A brief description of this is that in the mid to later 1800′s, we who were once a very strong Bible based society with the advent of the multiplication of modern technical knowledge began to throw off the wisdom of the Scripture, taking in it’s place the doctrines and practices of humanism. (where man is supreme in wisdom and power) This needing an answer to what our origins brought forth the doctrine and practice of evolution. Which birthed the spirits of socialism and feminism, which are twin sisters. In fact, they are Siamese twins, for they are joined at the hip. The one spirit, that of socialism, works in the realm of government. It works there seeking to promote the ideology that man is the servant of government, and not government the servant to men who have both created it and maintain it. The other spirit, that of feminism is at work in the male-female relationship. (particularly in the marriage relationship, but not by any means exclusively) It seeks to corrupt both the true nature and calling of manhood and womanhood by promoting the woman to usurp the place and calling of the man and the man to resign his place and calling to the woman. Thus you end up in both society at large and in the family unit a corruption of manhood and womanhood. These spirits have introduced what is called liberalism, the which has filled America with what seems like unending confusion and vices. So we have modern America, where 40 million plus babies have been murdered by means of abortion. Where a search engine can boast 1,000,000 pornography sites, where our jails are filled beyond capacity, where many pay 50% taxes, where 8 out of 10 teenagers boasts sex out side of marriage, where 50% of our people will never marry, but “cohabitate”, where nearly 70% of those that do marry will divorce, where homosexuality becomes the law of the land, where the promotion of the name and law of God are exulted from public life and institutions, etc, etc.

We, the evangelical of the land that say we love the Bible and the God of the Bible cry to God to bring forth righteousness and stop the flood of iniquity that has been spreading across our land. But little do most of us know that in many ways we promote the very wickedness that we say we hate. We do this by ( in our confusion) practicing in our own right many forms of of sin. It is no wonder that righteousness is loosing ground in America. For it is according to the saying of Isaiah, the ancient prophet who said these words. (Isaiah 59:1-2 KJV) Behold, the Lord’s hand is not shortened, that it cannot save; neither his ear heavy, that it can not hear: but your iniquities have separated between you and your God, and your sins have hid his face from you, that he will not hear.

In one of my featured writings, WHO LEFT THE DOOR OPEN (which is available through our website) I show that in common practice and by civil law we as American people practice (participate in) 82 manners of life that stand contrary to God’s laws. According to my perception, 48 of these are commonly practiced by nearly all that is called Christian in this land. This America, is why righteousness is loosing ground against liberalism in this generation. It is because we have been duped into confusion and apathy, and do not recognize sin for what it is. For the apostle John defined sin in 1 John 3:4: (KJV) Whosoever commiteth sin transgresseth also the law: for sin is the transgression of the law. There are many ways where the practice of modern western theology and it’s associated life style promotes the transgression of God’s laws.

In conclusion I say this. It is the last days, but the reason we are loosing ground to the forces of unrighteousness is that our “powder is wet”. If the righteousness of our deeds could be illustrated as gun powder, when it is ignited it would only make a small poof, and not the mighty explosion that it is suppose to create. Is it because our sins keep God’s power from working in and through us as He would have it to work, and sin can not be held back in our personal lives, nor in our public life without the working of God’s power.

Jesus forecasted this situation in the parable of the ten virgins which is told in the book of Matthew chapter 25. He said in the last days that all ten of the virgins would “slumber and sleep”. This speaks of the general apathy and confusion that Jesus forecasted would grip the entirety of the Kingdom Of Light in the world at the last time. But the cry is being made to those that have ears to hear. This cry is that Christ is soon to return. Wake up. Shake yourself. Dress yourself with every manner of righteousness for the day of His return and judgment is very near. All things must now be brought to completion.

Let us search and try our ways, and turn again to the Lord. Let us lift up our hearts with our hands unto God in the heaven, and turn again to the Lord. Jesus, and His gospel, which brings forth true and enduring righteousness is alone the answer.

A Watchman,
Gregory DeHart