USA Vets (and all that is good) vs.Target stores

Wasn't it just last Christmas that Target refused to let the Salvation Army ring their bells in front of their stores?

Dick Forrey of the Vietnam Veterans Association wrote.

"Recently we asked the local TARGET store to be a proud sponsor of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial Wall during our spring recognition event.

We received the following reply from the local TARGET management:

“Veterans do not meet our area of giving. We only donate to the arts, social action groups, gay & lesbian causes, and education."

So I'm thinking, if the Vietnam Veterans Memorial Wall and veterans in general, do not meet their donation criteria, then something is really wrong at this TARGET store. We were not asking for thousands of dollars, not even hundreds, just a small sponsorship for a memorial remembrance.

As a follow-up, I E-mailed the TARGET U.S. Corporate Headquarters and their response was the same. That's their national policy. Then I looked into the company further. They will not allow the Marines to collect for 'Toys for Tots' at any of their stores. And during the recent Iraq deployment, they would not allow families of employees who were called up for active duty to continue their insurance coverage while they were on military service.

Then as I dig further, TARGET is a French-owned corporation. Now, I'm thinking again. If TARGET cannot support American Veterans, then why should my family and I support their stores by spending our hard earned American dollars! And, have their profits sent to France.

Without the American Veterans, where would France be today? "They, most likely would be speaking German and trading in Deutsch Marks"

Sincerely,
Dick Forrey

Veterans Helping Veterans
Please send this on to everyone you know to let Target know we don’t need them either !

False Evidence Appearing Real (FEAR)

I recently saw a clever acrostic for the word "fear": False Evidence Appearing Real. Sometimes we frighten ourselves with our very own thoughts and become ourown worst enemy. Fear can jump-start the mind into overdrive, allowing our imaginations to paint vivid mental pictures of the worst possible outcomes. We can ignore certain fears throughout the course of a busy day, but they often intrude when we are trying to unplug in the evening. Even on fairly worry-free days, we can go to sleep immediately, only to have our fears show up in our dreams.

Even though we often think of fear as a purely mental phenomenon, it has devastating effects on our bodies as well. The skin sweats profusely, the heart beats rapidly, and the stomach knots tightly. Yet if fear's drastic effects are so clearly manifested, why do we continue to surrender to it?

This is not to say that all fear is always based on false evidence. Weare commanded to fear the Lord with trembling reverence, and even our joy is to be accompanied by that fear (Psalm 2:11). Fear is also alife-giving fountain that alarms us to the snares of genuine danger around us. What I am speaking of is fear in the ungodly sense, the all-consumingterror or worry that God promises to deliver us from. We often forget that this type of fear is not only an agony we can cast onto God, but also an offense that we must ask Him to forgive.

When we elevate the lies of the evil one over the truths of God, we must acknowledge this as sin. And if we will look closely, we will notice that the evil around us holds up a mirror to our very own souls, making us painfully aware that true evidence of evil is also within ourselves. What we should truly fear is our ability to justify--and even value--being paralyzed by sin when all along our Savior promises to rescue us from its crippling grasp.

Are you frightening yourself based on false evidence that is appearing real? Fear in our lives will never change if we look solely toward man-made remedies, a starting point that can never lavish serenity on our hearts. A secular solution alone can neither give the security that God can give, nor can it even define the evil within the human heart that only God can cure. As we acknowledge the true evidence of evil in our hearts, let us also allow God to sanctify us from it daily through the power of the Holy Spirit. A secular solution alone can neither give the security that God can give, nor can it even define the evil within the human heart that only God can cure. As we acknowledge the true evidence of evil in our hearts, let us allow God to sanctify us from it daily through the power of the Holy Spirit.

If you worry constantly due to ungodly fear, take a moment to meditate on these sweet words of Christ:

"Therefore I tell you, do not worry about your life, what you will eat or drink; or about your body, what you will wear… Who of you by worrying can add a single hour to his life? And why do you worry about clothes? See how the lilies of the field grow. They do not labor or spin. Yet I tell you that not even Solomon in all his splendor was dressed like one of these. If that is how God clothes the grass of the field, which is here today and tomorrow is thrown into the fire, will he not much more clothe you, O you of little faith? …Therefore do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about itself. Each day has enough trouble of its own"(Matthew 6:25-34).

Alison Thomas is an Associate Apologist with Ravi Zacharias International Ministries in Atlanta, Georgia.

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It is written in the Bible

"Be not deceived; God is not mocked: for whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also reap." (Galatians 6:7)

Here are some men and women who mocked God:

JOHN LENNON:
Some years before during his interview with an American Magazine, he said: "Christianity will end, it will disappear. I do not have to argue about that. I am certain. Jesus was ok, but his subjects were too simple, today we are more famous than Him" (1966). Lennon, after saying that theBeatles were more famous than Jesus Christ, was shot six times.

TANCREDO NEVES (President of Brazil):
During the Presidential campaign, he said if he got 500 votes from his party, not even God would remove him from Presidency. Sure he got the votes, but he got sick a day before being made President, then he died.

CAZUZA (Bi-sexual Brazilian composer, singer and poet):
During a show in Canec?( Rio de Janeiro ), whilst smoking his cigarette, he puffed out some smoke into the air and said: "God, that's for you." He died at the age of 32 of AIDS in a horrible manner.

THE MAN WHO BUILT TITANIC:
After the construction of Titanic, a reporter asked him how safe the Titanic would be. With an ironic tone he said: "Not even God can sink it" The result: I think you all know what happened to the Titanic.

MARILYN MONROE:
She was visited by Billy Graham during a presentation of a show. He is a preacher and Evangelist and the Spirit of God had sent him to preach to her. After hearing what the Preacher had to say, she said: "I don't need you’re Jesus" A week later, she was found dead in her apartment.

BON SCOTT:
The ex-vocalist of the AC/DC. On one of his 1979 songs he sang: "Don't stop me, I'm going own all the way, wow the highway to hell". On the 19th of February 1980, Bon Scott was found dead, he had been choked by his vomit.

CAMPINAS/SP IN 2005:
In Campinas, Brazil a group of friends, drunk, went to pick up a friend. The mother accompanied her to the car and was so worried about the drunkenness of her friends and she said to the daughter - holding her hand, who was already seated in the car: "MY DAUGHTER, GO WITH GOD AND MAY HE PROTECT YOU", She responded: ONLY IF HE (GOD) TRAVELS IN THE BOOT, COZ INSIDE HERE IT'S ALREADY FULL" Hours later, news came by that they had been involved in a fatal accident, everyone had died, the car could not be recognized what type of car it had been, but surprisingly, the boot (trunk) was intact. The police said there was no way the boot could have remained intact. To their surprise, inside the boot was a crate of eggs, none was broken.

Many more important people have forgotten that there is no other name that was given so much authority as the name of Jesus.Many have died, but only Jesus died and rose again, and he is still alive. JESUS!!!

If this artical was a joke, you would have sent it to everyone you know. So are you going to have courage to send this or tell your friends about this artical? I have done my part; Jesus said "If you get embarrassed about me, I will also get embarrassed about you before my father."What benefit does it have, if a man gains the whole world but loses his soul? What can man give in exchange of his soul? (Matthew 16:26)

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