I’ve been drinking Starbucks almost everyday for 4 years. I’m a coffee fanatic, I can’t drink “office coffee” anymore, it taste like dirt. Well over a year ago I moved on to dark coffee, French roast mainly. Sadly it’s lost it’s thrill. I need something harder, something that gives a kick, this is it. Allegro Extra Dark French. this is the actually description from the home page.
Flavor Description: Intense and smoky Roast Profile: Dark Roast (Extra Dark French) Origin: Blend
If we roasted these beans any darker they would burst into flames. Literally. As our darkest coffee, it is roasted to a deep black-purple color and at which point the beans lose around 25% of their original green weight. In order to roast to this over-the-top degree, we must start with super dense, high grown beans from some of the world’s highest elevation growing regions in the Americas.
The biggest problem facing America isn’t global warming, health care, tax reform, or even the war on terror. It’s moral pollution!
We have regressed into a country of consumers fueled by our shallow morals. We are caught up in the race to see who can keep up with the jones’. We have to have the newest, the best, most expensive thing out.
We exaggerate our accomplishment and spin our failures. We have become a country of half truths.
We have allowed our role models to become drug addicted actors, cheating athletes, and money hungry businessmen. We pay more attention to a celebrity DUI, then we do to the hero’s in our own cities serving their neighbors.
We have made calling people to repentance “hate speech”, and by making the gospel politically correct, we have handcuffed the one thing that could actually change our nation.
We have censored, fined, or banned anyone who doesn’t repeat the national talking points.
We are filling our bodies with high fructose corn syrup, filling our minds with gossip trash, filling our homes with glittery widgets and fancy gadgets, and filling our souls with despair.
It falls, apart, from the very start,
It falls, apart, seems like everything I touch,
Falls, apart, every thing around me,
Falls, apart, when I walk away from you/
I wish I could, but I don't,
Always keep the promises I've kept,
I wish I could, but I can't,
Always give, whatever I have left,
And now it's all so clear,
Doesn't anyone see what's happening here?....
It falls, apart, from the very start,
It falls, apart, seems like everything I touch,
Falls, apart, every thing around me,
Falls, apart, when I walk away from you
I know I should, but I don't always say,
What you want me to say,
I know I could, but I don't, always act, like everything's o.k.
And now it's all so clear,
Doesn't anyone see what's happening here?
It falls, apart, from the very start,
It falls, apart, seems like everything I touch,
Falls, apart, every thing around me,
Falls, apart, when I walk away from you
I just pick up this book from the library. I know a few people who have read it and recommend it. I’m only 1/3 of the way through it, but there have been some great ideas so far.
* God is not a Republician or a Democrat
* The problem is abortion isn’t just a pro-life, pro-choice conversation. The dialog has to include: Teen pregnancy, adoption reform, support for single women with low incomes, strengthen family values, and support for married parents in financial crisis.
*President Bush has bad theology. He believes in a God of charity, but not of justice
* The Politics of Jesus cause a problem for the religious right. Because the econmic agenda for the Republicians oppress so many low income families, and Jesus is clearly on the side of the poor.
I can’t seem to read more than 10 pages at a time, I get stuck asking myself questions. Like why do I assume that because I’m a Christian I have to vote for Republicans. Where did I get that from? or Why do the majority of Christians make elections about abortion and gay marriage? aren’t there other issues that are equally “Christian”. And why have Americans lost their voice in government? The majority of us are sheep that follow the Shepard. If our President says he loves God, seems “christian” on cnn, but decides war is the only way to govern our foreign policy, where is the church at?
What ever happen to judging a tree by the fruit it produces?
The great thing about governors, senators, and politicians is they leave behind a huge trail of fruit. All you have to do is look at their voting record, visit their website, and read a biography.
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