Dear Beloved in Christ,
 
It is by the grace of God that I received Christ in my life, knowing the truth and the truth have set me free, having known the truth; I had no choice than to do what is lawful and right in the sight of God for eternal life and in the sight of man for witness of God & his mercies and glory upon my life.
I am Mrs.Edwards the wife of Mr. Spelling Edwards, my husband worked with the Chevron Texaco in Egypt for twenty years before he died in the year 2002.We were married for ten years without a child. My Husband died after a brief illness that lasted for only four days. Before his death we were both born again Christians.
Since his death I decided not to re-marry or get a child outside my matrimonial home which the Bible is against. When my late husband was alive he deposited the sum of ($6, 000, 000,00) with a Bank in Nigeria. Presently, this money is still with the Bank and the management just wrote me as the beneficiary to come forward to sign for the release of this money or rather issue a letter of authorization to somebody to receive it on my behalf if I can not come over.
Presently, I'm in a hospital in Ghana where I have been undergoing treatment for esophageal cancer. I have since lost my ability to talk and my doctors have told me that I have only a few weeks to live. It is my last wish to see this money distributed to charity organizations anywhere in the World. Because relatives and friends have plundered so much of my wealth since my illness, I cannot live with the agony of entrusting this huge responsibility to any of them.
Please, I beg you in the name of God to help me Stand and collect the Funds from the Bank and as soon as the fund enter your account take 30% of the total money, while 70% will be for work of God.
I want a person that is God fearing that will use this money to fund churches, orphanages and widows propagating the word of God and to ensure that the house of God is maintained. The Bible made us to understand that blessed is the hand that giveth. I took this decision because I don't have any child that will inherit this money and my husband's relatives are not Christians and I don't want my husband's hard earned money to be misused by unbelievers. I don't want a situation where this money will be used in an ungodly manner. Hence the reason for taking this bold decision. I am not afraid of death hence I know where I am going. I know that I am going to be in the bosom of the Lord. Exodus {14 VS14} says that the lord will fight my case and I shall hold my peace. I don't need any telephone communication in this regard because of my soundless voice and presence of my husband's relatives around me always. I don't want them to kn! ow about this ! d evelopment. W it
As soon as I receive your reply I shall give you the contact to the Bank in Nigeria where the money is been deposited. I will also issue you a letter of authority and deposited certificate of claim that will prove you as the new beneficiary of this fund.
Psalm 23
Your in Christ,
Mrs.Edwards

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Somewhere in the middle of my four day spree I filled up my motorhome with 10% ethanol fuel...not too much later I vapor-locked because of that self-same ethanol and lost an hour of travel time waiting for the engine to cool down.

Needless to say I was unimpressed with ethanol.

While all residents may ask to be called by a preferred first name rather than their legal one, the policy says males who believe they are female must be called "she" and females who believe they are male must be referred to as "he." Staff must use the preferred name and pronoun in any documents they file.

There've been numerous stories recently about new laws under consideration in Florida, California, Colorado, and the New England states where public restrooms and locker rooms are being opened beyond the traditional -- and quite frankly logical, rational, reasonable, etc. -- definitions.

And as we've been doing for decades, we're exporting our cultural degeneration to the rest of the world. Here's a story out of Thailand I saw recently:

For teen boys who prefer to dress as girls at one rural high school in Thailand, taking a bathroom break no longer means choosing between "male" and "female" restrooms. There's now a "transvestite toilet."

For a very interesting read about where this is all headed, check out this article about the clash of gay rights and religious liberties over at NPR. It's sorta long, but well worth the read. Pay particular attention to Act Three.

• A father was having trouble with his 12-year-old daughter's internet use and ordered her to stop surfing. She disobeyed and posted inappropriate pictures of herself, so he grounded her from going on a school outing. Sounds reasonable so far, right? Too bad they live in Canada, where the girl was able to retain an attorney and find a judge to rule that staying home from an outing was "excessive" punishment for the crime <via WND>.

• Again in Canada, a case of suspected sexual abuse was opened for an 11-year-old autistic girl...because the case worker saw a psychic who told her a girl with the initial "V" was being abused. There was no other evidence besides the psychic's, um, report, but the mother had to defend herself in an investigation <via WND>.

• And finally, a couple has been sentenced to three months in jail...for homeschooling. No, for now this couple isn't from California <although we might be seeing that story soon>, they're German <via WND>.
  

Aberdeen is home to the thickest accent in Scotland so my teaching partner and I were really relieved to find the church we chose had a visiting Brit as interim pastor. We had difficulty understanding the announcements and singing, but at least we heard the sermon...so you can perhaps imagine how well our students did with their immersion experience. But I digress.

It was a fairly stressful episode in my life, and one thing my teaching partner and I did was institute routine whenever we weren't working. We got home to our flat around four, completely exhausted from the day's efforts, and flipped on Oprah. After that hour I'd drag myself off the couch to make dinner while she watched Star Trek, then she'd clean while we watched another American show I can't quite remember.

• Closer to home, a couple in Ohio requested time in their local library to offer a financial planning seminar, using a room available to any and all non-profit organizations. Unfortunately they planned to quote the Bible occasionally in their discussions, an admission so heinous their request was refused. Maybe they should have said they were going to have a discussion on pornography -- that would have garnered them a top spot on the reservations list.
  

• Wonderful news out of England where a mother attempted to abort her baby, then found a few weeks later that the procedure hadn't worked. The language in this article surprised me -- the author continually referred to the baby surviving the abortion procedure, the son of the woman, etc. Don't they know it's supposed to be called a fetus, a by-product of conception? But I guess the Webster definition doesn't really apply anymore -- you call it a baby or a by-product based on whether or not the mother wants it. Yeah, that makes sense...

• And finally, England tries again for outrageous story of the week, and succeeds. A man got to laughing so hard at something on the telly that he fell off his couch, whereby the neighbor called the police because he thought something was wrong. The police came and eventually pepper-sprayed and arrested the aforementioned laugher after he got mad and tried to shut the door on them.
  

]]> http://as4me.com/blog/2008/06/religulous.html http://as4me.com/blog/2008/06/religulous.html Weird News Tue, 10 Jun 2008 13:32:36 -0700 via WorldNetDaily:

A Canadian human rights tribunal ordered a Christian pastor to renounce his faith and never again express moral opposition to homosexuality, according to a new report.

In a decision dated May 30 in the penalty phase of the quasi-judicial proceedings run by the Alberta Human Rights Tribunal, evangelical pastor Stephen Boisson was banned from expressing his biblical perspective of homosexuality and ordered to pay $5,000 for "damages for pain and suffering" as well as apologize to the activist who complained of being hurt.

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Saturday we had spurts of rain and one brief hailstorm, but Sunday broke beautiful and sunny and the mountains were calling to me. I struck off just after noon on a little hike, telling my parents to expect me back by four at the latest but probably sooner. As witness to the fact I was expecting a short hike, I only took two small bottles of water and no food, although I did take a sweatshirt in case the rain started up again. Oh, and the ever-present mace I carry that makes dad feel better, although I did hope not to have to test the efficacy of mace against a rattlesnake... :p

• ...the $8.8 billion in giving from American religious institutions to developing countries was $1.5 billion more than the total giving from all private sources in 30 of the world's major industrialized democratic countries combined.

• When consolidating all assistance funds flowing from the United States to developing countries, the total is $129.8 billion. This is the total of government aid, philanthropy, and remittances -- funds sent directly by private individuals to other private parties in developing countries, often family members. A far second in total giving behind the United States is the United Kingdom at $20.7 billion.

• Barack Obama spoke at the commencement ceremony at Wesleyan University the other day. He talked about national service and, recalling John F. Kennedy, committed to doubling the size of the Peace Corps if elected president. From what I see and what the data shows, Americans don't need government to make them care, contribute, and volunteer. If anything, they need less government so they'll retain and keep control of more of what they produce and subsequently share with those in need.
  

Therefore God gave them over in the sinful desires of their hearts to sexual impurity for the degrading of their bodies with one another. They exchanged the truth of God for a lie, and worshiped and served created things rather than the Creator—who is forever praised. Amen. Because of this, God gave them over to shameful lusts. Even their women exchanged natural relations for unnatural ones. In the same way the men also abandoned natural relations with women and were inflamed with lust for one another. Men committed indecent acts with other men, and received in themselves the due penalty for their perversion. Romans 1:24-27

• An English teen was told to remove the English flag he had spread out in the back of his car because it could be considered racist toward immigrants or risk a 30 pound fine. And yes, he was driving in England.

• A woman with a 2-foot high swimming pool was told by local health and safety officers that she needed to get a lifeguard or purchase special insurance. 

• A man wearing an Optimus Prime <a Transformers robot> t-shirt was refused access to a flight at Heathrow until he agreed to change the shirt. Apparently the picture of the robot's arm/gun was deemed too much of a threat to the flight. 

• And finally, two American Christians were threatened with arrest on the charge of a "hate crime" for passing out leaflets in a predominantly Muslim area of England.