Guest Blogger - Mike Huckabee
First, I’d like to sincerely thank Doug Robertson for allowing me this opportunity to contribute. I’ll admit I was more than a bit surprised at the invitation. After all, he does moderate my comments (I have yet to see one posted), and he has been less than kind toward me from time to time. Still, I appreciate the chance to share with your readers today, so I thank you, Doug.
These days I don’t have as much time as I would like to dial up the Interweb. So when I do have occasion to connect with my online friends, I try to avoid politics as much as possible and instead share from my heart. That’s why today, I am not asking for your vote, or trying to convince you why I should be your next president.
No, on this Sabbath Day, I would like to put politics aside and instead focus on something of much greater significance. A message that I also shared with the congregation of a down-home country megachurch in South Carolina just this morning … the importance of humility and trusting in Jesus to open the gates to heaven.
The criteria to get into heaven is you have to be not good, but perfect. That’s the real challenge in it.
On that day, when I pull up, I’ll be asked, “Do you have what it takes to get in?”
And if I ask, “Well, what does it take to get in?”
“Gotta be perfect.”
Well, I’m afraid I don’t have that, but you know what? I won’t be there alone that day. Somebody is going to be with me. His name is Jesus, and He’s promised that He would never leave me or forsake me!
I’ll admit, it felt really good to be back behind the pulpit again, sharing the Gospel and fellowshipping with the Body of Christ, exclusive of political agenda. A welcome reprieve from the campaign trail, I must say.
Of course, it would have been unnecessary to bother asking for their votes anyway. Preaching to the choir, that would be! (Ha Ha) Anyway, I already know that those fine disciples in South Carolina will be led by the Holy Spirit in making the right choice.
I have faith that they, like me, recognize the urgency of getting this nation back on the straight and narrow, taking it back for Christ as the Almighty intended.
Like I said at a Baptist convention back in 1998, the reason I got into politics in the first place was because I knew government didn’t have the real answers, that the real answers lie in accepting Jesus Christ into our lives.
Nonetheless, I’m sure my message has already been heard loudly and clearly by the faithful, so it was indeed a blessing to forego campaigning this morning and instead simply minister God’s Word to the people.
Pastor Hamlet, though, was kind enough to encourage the folks to vote according to Biblical principles, which was a not-so-subtle nod in my direction, I’m sure. I think he may even have given me a wink at the time, but I can’t swear to that.
That was nice of him, and I appreciated it, although I really wasn’t there to toot my own candidacy horn. It was actually kind of embarrassing, what with the South Carolina primaries coming up in just a few days and all. I’m sure my face was as red as a beet.
In conclusion, I would like to say thank you to all for reading, with a special shout out to the wonderful people in South Carolina. See y’all real soon!
And, of course, thank you again, Doug. I will be praying that you accept the Lord Jesus Christ as your personal savior before Super Tuesday.
Faith, Family, Freedom! And may God bless America! ~ Mike
[Doug here. Is it just me, or does anyone else tend to think that if Huck was Muslim, he’d probably be an Islamic extremist?]
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January 13th, 2008 at 8:28 pm
“Is it just me, or does anyone else tend to think that if Huck was Muslim, he’d probably be an Islamic extremist?”
It’s not just you, religious extremists scare the hell out of me. I guess that’s what they’re trying to do. I hope he’s aware that there are some people who are nonbelievers. It seems to me all he has to offer is his knowledge of the bible. That’s not enough to be elected President of the United States. Then again, it may be enough for some.
January 13th, 2008 at 10:07 pm
I fear it may be enough for too many! God bless him for his biblical knowledge and convinctions, I have mine, too! But using that as a platform to run as President? I don’t think so. Extremism is scarier than hell, from any side. Thanks, rainlillie!
January 13th, 2008 at 10:34 pm
Nonbelievers are in the minority. I get that. I don’t expect the president to set forth an agenda that only speaks to me.
(Though I must admit that the selfish side of me is in love with the idea).
What I do expect is seperation of church and state.
January 13th, 2008 at 11:54 pm
That’s exactly the point, separation of church and state. I don’t care what, if any, beliefs one might have, but it ought not have any bearing on the governance of “we the people.” Period.
January 14th, 2008 at 5:19 am
The Huckster poses a true threat because — unlike Pat Robertson when he ran for president — he has a real chance of winning. The Armageddon prophecies of the Reagan era — the atheistic Soviet Union as THE threat to God’s people — have been reinterpreted into Islam as THE threat to Christianity. (The United States, as you know, is a Christian nation — just ask Roy Moore!) In my parent’s day it was Fascism, with Hitler or Mussolini as the Antichrist. The players may change but the game remains the same. Religious fervor can be a powerful political tool.
January 15th, 2008 at 4:09 pm
True and scary, but I have faith.
January 15th, 2008 at 6:34 pm
I can’t help but wonder whose faith will win…Diane’s or Huckabee’s.
January 16th, 2008 at 1:28 am
Never mind that there are people like me, Huckabee. I’ve *tried* to believe in Jesus. I had a Lutheran childhood. I didn’t leave Sunday School preaching, and when I became Catholic, I became the kind of person I hate: a Hypocritical Zealot. Have you ever met anyone who’s thought you weren’t Christian SLAM it down your mental throat? I was that person. And I was the worst kind of hypocrite. I DIDN’T believe in Christ. I can’t. He was a man, a teacher, and yes, he died and rose again. But he is not a god.
I’ve tried to believe in him as more than a magician–taught by the Magi who found him at his mother’s knee two years after his birth. I can’t. After seeing a friend call by whistling a storm, it’s all too obvious that organized religion just gets in the way of our true nature.
I thank you, Mr. Huckabee, for not asking me to vote for you. It wouldn’t work. It wouldn’t have before, and it has NO chance of working now. Our forefathers heard God loud and clear when they wrote out the Declaration.
“Freedom of Religion.”
That’s what America is, and a Fundamentalist Christian, who thinks his faith is shared by all Americans, won’t respect ANYONE, not even his country, while in office.
I won’t bother wishing you luck, or praying that you get elected. I won’t even try to cast spells to make you win. You will kill this country deadder than it already is, and make it intolerable for everyone who DOESN’T share your belief.
Christianity is not the be-all and end-all to organized faith. God did that once, with Catholicism, Mr. Huckabee. Protestant and Fundamental Christians aren’t fully Christian, and they CAN’T be. And, even Catholicism isn’t Christian. All current organized religions’ roots lie in PAGANISM.
I’ve done MY research, Mr. Huckabee, because who and what I have faith in is ikmportant to me. Have YOU done YOURS?
January 16th, 2008 at 4:05 pm
“a Fundamentalist Christian, who thinks his faith is shared by all Americans, won’t respect ANYONE, not even his country, while in office.”
Amen, A. Shelton! Now he’s also babbling about amending the constitution to better match God’s standards. He’s rather delusional.
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January 16th, 2008 at 11:08 pm
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March 18th, 2008 at 3:59 am
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