December 21, 2002 journal, family homelessness, Jesus loves you buses, skeleton with a sign.  Joshua Hanson left today with his group driving one of 3 buses #303 to Tampa, Fla., 2 of the total of 4 will go to Hendersonville with one on to Kansas City.   #305 is painted on both sides by Andy Gambrell, a trained artist from Furman University has painted the 4 horsemen on one side and the 4 angels standing on the 4 corners of the earth on the other side. Family’s homeless was on TV today reporting a rapid growth in the number of family homelessness because of economic conditions here in America.  Every person deserves a house to live in and yes we can afford it.  We cannot not afford it.  Like the girl said in the movie with Chevy Chase, “It would be good to have a house that does not move around”.

Our economic system is wrong because it breeds greed first to make a few people rich on the inside. We are a calculating country putting a price tag on wages and price on people.

If people did not have to work on a public job to make a living then they would be free to help build houses for others like Habitat for Humanity does now.  Our ancestors built each other's houses and barns and gathered crops and cut wood for winter to burn for heat to stay warm.  They share the food and common commodities as one family in Christ should.

The New Testament Christians shared everything alike in one common pool so that every one could live equally and have enough but now we are commercialized.  We are grossly exploited for what we are worth which is a bad system in these days of Antichrist power.

Bob Jones the third was on Larry King last night about the Trent Lott deal.  The liberal press is trying to get all of the mileage out of this thing they can before they lay it to rest.

I saw a pickup truck today with a driver wearing a skeleton mask and a big sign erected in the body of the truck accusing John somebody of stealing his wife and calling him a sorry lowdown good for nothing crooked cheat.  The sign said "Sue me John".  It looked like a political sign but maybe in reverse.  This vehicle was traveling through the busiest part of town and I wonder if John knew about it.  I do not know John but I would suggest he be more careful than fool around with a sign painter or an artist, seriously, this person may of been hurting himself more that he is hurting John but I'm sure it made John uncomfortable.  We are living in days when morals are of little concern in public, it's a free-for-all.  At the coming of the Lord all immorality will be done away with and holiness will rule on earth.  A report on television of a man who lost his eyesight due to a lightning strike regained it by being put into an oxygen chamber about 50 times for treatment normally for drowning victims.  After 50 treatments the man regained his sight and a new treatment is discovered.  Jack Van Impe tonight reported the settlement between the Lutheran and Catholic Church after 500 hundred years saying the issue was over doctrine of salvation by Grace.  Nothing is settled and I'm not surprised that the Lutheran church has compromised the position of their founder whom name they bear.  There were 95 complaints pinned to the church door in Wittenberg Germany 1517 against the Catholic Church.  Someone lookup to see if any of them was over the issue of salvation doctrine.  One of them was for selling indulgences and they still do that in a sense by forgiving sin manually.  I had some debate with Joshua over the name Jesus not being original but gravitating from the Hebrew word Yesu.  Then I made the decision to give them buses because I felt like they were witnessing in places I could not go. May they use them to witness boldly the Word of God.  It is a shame for any family to be homeless and the shame is on the nation and not on the people.  Our society is built by those keeping secrets as to who will succeed, let us now come out of this bondage committing all to the Lord God.  The lottery power ball was $215 million but no one won.