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Obama Hears Church Sermon About Humility
August 24, 2008 1:41 PM
This morning at the First Lutheran Church in Eau Claire, Wis., Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill., heard a sermon about humility.
Pastor John Kerr sermonized for the congregation -- Obama sitting on the aisle in the fourth row -- about Romans 12:1-8 and the importance of being humble.
"For by the grace given me I say to every one of you: Do not think of yourself more highly than you ought, but rather, think of yourself with sober judgment, in accordance with the measure of faith God has given you," reads the text. "We have different gifts, according to the grace given us. If a man's gift is prophesying, let him use it in proportion to his faith. If it is serving, let him serve; if it is teaching, let him teach; if it is encouraging, let him encourage; if it is contributing to the needs of others, let him give generously; if it is leadership, let him govern diligently; if it is showing mercy, let him do it cheerfully."
In his 13-minute sermon, Kerr said it was important not to become "cocky" because one is a good singer or public speaker. The apostle urges his readers, Kerr said, "not to think of yourself more highly than you ought to think."
- jpt
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"None of Obama's proclamations on our energy future are remotely achievable in the time frames he asserts."
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The ambitious "post-partisan", protege of Exelon et al., even voted for Cheney's energy bill.
Meanwhile, speaking of foreign policy, from AP:
"With food prices rising, one of India's poorest states is considering adding rat meat to the menus of state-run canteens, a move officials in Bihar say could help provide cheap protein for the state's 80 million people, most of whom live off the land as poor sharecroppers or subsistence farmers. "
Posted by: Belle Starr | Aug 24, 2008 10:41:12 PM
Obama has no humility. How many people has he thrown under the bus?
Let's see:
Grandma "a typical white woman"
Obama's Brother Bama living on a dollar a month.
Jeremiah Wright Obama's Pastor and mentor for twenty years The angry and racist man, "was not the man he knew", Obama said
Father Pfleger Obama's friend and mentor Obama: "deeply disappointed in
Father Pfleger's divisive, backward-looking rhetoric".
Bill Ayers who was "just a guy in his neighborhood" the unrepentant domestic terrorist bomber who it turns out has long term ties with Obama going back to 1998
Hillary Clinton who Obama did not even bother to consider as his VP and to twist the knife even further sent out a 3AM notice about the pick because of Clinton's famous 3AM ad that asked who would you want in the White house to pick up the phone at 3Am .
I am sure you can all remember more.
Posted by: mary | Aug 24, 2008 10:38:28 PM
More information about how well Biden did in college (top of his class - yeah right)
Prior to law school while an undergraduate at the University of Delaware, Biden's first three semesters, his grades were C's or D's, with three exceptions: two A's in physical education courses, a B in a course on ''Great English Writers'' and an F in R.O.T.C.
Wonder if the "F" in R.O.T.C was why he never went to Vietnam?
Posted by: susie | Aug 24, 2008 10:37:36 PM
I wish Obama had a little humility when it came to doing something concrete to help bring down the prices of gas at the pump which would help the blue collar worker Obama says he is so concerned about. Instead, Obama keeps touting his pie and the sky plans for energy that will do nothing to bring the price of gas down. In fact if Obama's plans ever get a chance to see the light of day they will make all of our energy costs go higher and we will all be waiting in lines for due to the shortages caused by Obama's call for "Wind Fall" tax increases for the oil industry. That is what happened in the 70"s when Carter tried these bone headed policies.
None of Obama's proclamations on our energy future are remotely achievable in the time frames he asserts. Obama's idea of change is change we can do without.
Posted by: mary | Aug 24, 2008 10:21:18 PM
All we heard during the primary season from Obama and his blog squad was the RULES say MI and FL do not count.
Posted by: geevill | Aug 24, 2008 10:19:37 PM
"13 minute sermon? Obviously Lutheran preachers don't get paid by the word like their Baptist counterparts do."
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Twelve minutes is the standard sermon length (even for Baptists who have ordinary traditional churches, instead of drive-ins, skating rinks, or whatever).
Hurray for John Kerr, Interim Senior Pastor at First Lutheran in Eau Claire (it looks like there are eight Lutheran churches in Eau Claire) -- who had one shot at The CHANGEling, and seems to have used it perfectly (apparently departing from the Lectionary to do so).
Posted by: Belle Starr | Aug 24, 2008 10:13:56 PM
It's the ol' Democrat bait n' switch. Let the press did up all the dirt on Obama, make Hillary look twice as competent, then pull the rug out from Obama and nominate Hillary. Then Obama can go back to Chicago and write more books, "I Was the One: Jus' Nobody Knew It", "How to Lose an Election, For Dummies", and "Change is Good: 50 Pennies and My Experience Got Me a Cup of Coffee."
Posted by: Emm | Aug 24, 2008 10:03:55 PM
Obama lied about his long term ties to Ayers "hes just a guy in my neighborhood" and the media ignored it. Will the media also ignore Obama's ties to some of the most notorious gangs in Chicago?
Posted by: Tim | Aug 24, 2008 9:42:34 PM
13 minute sermon? Obviously Lutheran preachers don't get paid by the word like their Baptist counterparts do.
Posted by: Rick Schwartz | Aug 24, 2008 9:24:27 PM
Now, Barack Obama surrogates are tempering the expectations for his "acceptance speech", because the bar has been set too high (lol).
Obama needs to call on Steven Spielberg or his Hollywood connections to create a Convention Production equal to the Ten Commandments, with all the bright lights and stairway to heaven...
Because it would take an "act of God" to get him elected!
Hillary's supporters are gonna take him down, down down, to the gates of hell!
Posted by: BJ | Aug 24, 2008 9:11:11 PM
Hillary supporters will not be denied. Get out the popcorn. Fasten your seatbelts. Next week it's going to be a very bumpy ride.
Posted by: JoAnn Walker | Aug 24, 2008 8:51:15 PM
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Really Joann, what do you think is going to happen.
Posted by: oo | Aug 24, 2008 9:02:23 PM
"Obama first refused to count the delegates from MI and FLA during the Primary... but now that he thinks he's the presumptious nominee, HE wants them all to count so he can inflate his ego further by having bigger numbers."
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This is one of the worst political blunders Obama has made...... and HE has made a BUNDLE of them!!!
Posted by: eyes wide open | Aug 24, 2008 8:58:38 PM
Hey Debra, re:
Love that....Rev. John Kerr must have known his celebrity guest would be in the pews....perfect sermon, then BO goes out to a crowd of 300 and says Hell no, regarding spending on the war.
I'm just glad he sat in a real church today and not the hall of hatred he's attended for 20 years.
- Can you see him twisting in confusion... 'that isn't the book I used to know' (it burns, it burns). I'm sure he told the pastor later 'Uh, I think you had the wrong book, try the sermon on the mount in the secular humanism version bible' or Qutb, My Struggle, something to pep it up...
Posted by: candy | Aug 24, 2008 8:56:36 PM
For Maureen.....
Hillary supporters will not be denied. Get out the popcorn. Fasten your seatbelts. Next week it's going to be a very bumpy ride.
Posted by: JoAnn Walker | Aug 24, 2008 8:51:15 PM
How ironic that the most arrogant man in Washington listened to a sermon on humility. LOL
Posted by: Cory | Aug 24, 2008 8:23:50 PM
It was a Lutheran Church - haven't you ever heard of Garrison Keillor and 'A Prairie Home Companion'?
Posted by: Tom J | Aug 24, 2008 8:02:01 PM
America was founded on cockiness.
Posted by: Danny | Aug 24, 2008 7:50:45 PM
-I've been on various news reading web sites where we play a drinking game for every time Obama says "I". If you really played the game the way it should be played, a person would be dead from alcohol poisoning.-
Too funny. I guess he is big on the first person narrative. Bet there will be a couple of books out after he loses in November: Book 1, "I the Candidate"; Book 2, "Why I lost".
Posted by: hype bites supreme | Aug 24, 2008 7:30:45 PM
It's so good to be a new independent -- I no longer feel I have to turn myself around like a pretzel to defend the disgusting antics of people like Obama, Biden and the silliness of it all, like those lefty blogs making complete fools of themselves as they defend a guy who no longer mirrors any of their ideas, but they just can't let go of Mr. Hopey-Changey -- how embarrassing for them.
Posted by: free at last | Aug 24, 2008 7:24:44 PM
It's just a tad too late for that message of "humility" for Barack Obama... his head is now way above the clouds, too far for words to reach!
Obama first refused to count the delegates from MI and FLA during the Primary... but now that he thinks he's the presumptious nominee, HE wants them all to count so he can inflate his ego further by having bigger numbers.
WELL, I've got news for him! Hillary's name is still up there... so technically, IF all the FLA and MI delegates vote for her, and her pledged delegates stick to her, she can still WIN the nomination!!!
Wouldn't THAT he cathartic?
Even with the naming of his VP, all Obama got was a 2-point "bump" in the polls, so he's now ahead John McCain by 4 points!
Posted by: BJ | Aug 24, 2008 6:48:21 PM
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