Sunday, November 6, 2011

SORRY PASTOR, I CAN'T COME

Sorry Pastor, I just don’t have any time to come to church on Wednesday nights. Is that right? O that’s right; You go to the gym three nights a week for two hours, Thursday night out with the boys and Friday night date night and Saturday night is movie nights.

Amazing how cheesy the excuses we offer when we hear them back to ourselves. This reminds me of the story Jesus told: “A certain man gave a great supper and invited many, 17 and sent his servant at supper time to say to those who were invited, 'Come, for all things are now ready.' 18 But they all with one accord began to make excuses. The first said to him, 'I have bought a piece of ground, and I must go and see it. I ask you to have me excused.' 19 And another said, 'I have bought five yoke of oxen, and I am going to test them. I ask you to have me excused. 20 Still another said, 'I have married a wife, and therefore I cannot come” (Luke 14:16-21).

Sad, when Jesus finished telling the story, the end result was that those who made the excuse never made it to the wedding. Worse, the story was a metaphor about preparing your life to go to heaven and the wedding was the “Marriage Supper” (a Bible metaphor for heaven).

The next time someone reminds you about Wednesday night service, whatever you do, do not offer a cheesy excuse. Drop one of the other “none eternal issues” and get to church on a Wednesday night Bible class.

By Dr Tim McClure

Tuesday, September 20, 2011

YEAR OF ANOINTING

He, like all other Jewish man who turned thirty, came to the House of God on his first Sabbath after he turned thirty as was the custom of all Jewish men. For as long as seemingly time would tell, the Hebraic teaching offered the standard that a male child who was born, stayed under his mother’s care until he turned twelve. Then he would shift his tutorage from his mother to his father. The boy would then learn his father’s trade and learn the art of leadership through submission, responsibility, accountability and productivity.


When this same “boy” would come of age – 30, he would then be recognized as an independent grown, trained man who would then chose to become what he had dreamed of and felt he was born to do. Whether this career was following his father’s occupation or not, he had the power to choose – but only if it were in connection with the dream and vision he held his whole life. Some young Hebrew man would choose a field that was rejected and questioned by his family such as Joseph, Elisha, David and John the Baptist. But the choice was there’s.

When Jesus walked into the temple that day as all Hebrew men who turned thirty, he was about to decree his purpose and calling in life to his family and the world. The Hebrew boys were taught that there was a Bible verse that could describe their very reason and calling in life. Many would find one and memorize it and quote it to others for years, while some would keep it to themselves till that day in the Temple when they would announce it to their people.

The Temple Priest would offer the men who turned thirty the opportunity to come to the podium and read their verse and expound on what the purpose in life held for them. Unlike the bar mitzvah at age 12, this “Manhood” declaration was no party, simply a decree. When Jesus walked to the podium that day, he opened the Bible to Isaiah 61 and read, “The Spirit of the Lord is upon me because he has anointed me to preach…” His decree was to the point, He was born to preach, heal, save, deliver and set free all those incarcerated by sin.

We here at Promiseland (formally Bible Truth) Church are celebrating our Anniversary this month. We’re finishing our 30th year of Spiritual birth and moving into our defined calling. Promiseland is now a grown man. No longer can we sit back and allow Mom or Dad to decide for us. No longer can we simply wish life were better. No longer can we sit by dreaming of what it could be like. Today, we must walk to the podium and declare to the world what WORK we will give our lives to accomplish.

Like Jesus, we all were born to die for a cause. What cause is yours? What burden compels you? What dream awakens you? What passion moves you forward daily? From Promiseland beginning, we knew we were not here to follow the model of a “normal” church. We exist to get into the dirty ditches of sin, sickness, brokenness and failure and pull men and women from the clutches of hell. We came into this world to fight the devil for souls. Our voice would become their voice. Our ears would hear God for them. Our hands would be the hands of God to touch them. Our eyes would gain the revelations of God and explain them. PROMISELAND, this year is our Year of Anointing.
© 2011 By Dr Tim McClure

A NEW BIKE
I was visiting a friend in their home one afternoon. While I was talking to them, their four-year-old little girl, Michelle, tugged on my pants leg and excitedly exclaimed, "I got a new bicycle. Do you want to see it?" I said, "Sure, Michelle." So off to the backyard we went. Upon getting there, I saw a brand-new girl's bicycle. "Wow, Michelle! That's a beautiful bicycle, Can you ride it?" "Yeah, I can ride it," she said, and then with a sad face she pouted, "but it's broke." I looked at the new bicycle and couldn't see anything wrong with it, so I asked her, "What's wrong with it?" "I don't know," she shrugged, "but every time I ride it, it falls down!"

NEW
Take a tour of the ALL NEW Promiseland Church web site: http://www.promiseland.org/
* New Format – New Pictures – New Layout
* Audio – listen – Events Page – Latest Happing in and around Promiseland.
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COMING EVENTS
September 2011 – Anointing – Theme for August, 10:30 AM Sunday’s
Sept – Youth JAM Night – Friday @ Café 7-9 PM call Kent 321-750-9925
Sept - Wednesday nights – “Think like Jesus” Pastor Dan. - 7-8:15 PM
Sept – 4 Giveaway Sunday Kickoff – For more information, go to www.promiseland.org/events
Sept 16, 18 – Fusion Groups - @ a place near you – call 321-216-8030
Sept 24-25 – Anniversary– Guest Pastor Anthony Knotts Sat 7pm Sun 10:30am

October 2011 – Commitment – Theme for Oct, 10:30 AM Sunday’s
Oct – Youth JAM Night – Friday @ Café 7-9 PM call Kent 321-750-9925
Oct - Wednesday nights – “Selling like Jesus” Pastor Tim Jr. - 7-8:15 PM
Oct 2 – Give Away Rewards – Promiseland 10:30 AM
Oct 21, 23 – Fusion Groups - @ a place near you – call 321-216-8030
Oct 23– Pastor Appreciation Sunday - Promiseland 10:30 AM
Oct 30 – Commitment Sunday - Promiseland 10:30 AM
Promiseland Church
1855 Lansing St. Melbourne, FL 32935

http://www.promiseland.org/

Tuesday, September 6, 2011

FRAGRANCE OF GOD’S PRESENCE

Roger, Jerry, Mark & the rest arrived for the family reunion. They all hadn’t seen each other for more than 2 years. As Jerry walked into the room, little Bobby ran up to give his Uncle Jerry a hug. As Jerry picked Bobby up & hugged him, he looked at him and said, “Boy you smell just like your Uncle Ray. He must have already hugged you; you have his cologne smell on you.” We’ve all been there. Walk into a room from long ago and that same smell brings back memories. I used to be able to walk into my grandmother’s house and tell you who had been there – especially one of my Mom’s friends who used to wear that Wow perfume (when you smell it you said, Wow what is that?) I used to work with a man in Maryland hanging drywall who bathed with a refreshing soap sent; on the construction site in the morning, you knew when he came in one of the condos because you could smell him fifty yards away.


When making the Holy Anointing Oil, God instructed Moses to blend the pure sweet olive oil with a mixture of spices. The perfect blend of the exact weight amount would stir together for a fine perfume aroma that would linger for hours, sometimes days. Moses instructed the priest to use this Holy Anointed Oil to anoint the furniture of the Tabernacle. Upon week after week of use, the certain aromatic blend became associated with the supernatural working of God. Later, upon smelling the sweet aroma of the Holy Anointing Oil, literally everyone began to associate it with the “Fragrance of God.” When Solomon pinned the story about Messiah romancing his bride, Solomon wrote of our Savior “smelling his sweet perfume” (Song 4:10).

When the Bible portrays God to us in similes such as “God’s fragrance” the Bible is merely trying to help us identify with God through our senses. Since we humans are limited inside our bodies, we are forced to understand God through means that our humanity can relate. Thus, when the Bible uses language such as “smell God’s fragrance, See God’s hands at work, feel the touch of His Spirit or hear the voice of God or taste and see the Lord is good;” the Bible is allowing us to understand God in our personal world. Even Paul wrote; “For the invisible things of God are clearly seen, being understood by the things that are made” (Rom 1:20).

God’s very presence can be sensed by our inner spirit man through the metaphor of our sense of smell. Just as we can sense certain atmospheres by the smell, so can we sense God’s presence. Just as we can sense rain is about to come through the smell of rain in the air, so can we sense the moving of God’s Holy Spirit about to pour out upon a church service. Just as we can smell someone is cooking, so can we sense God is preparing something to nourish us with.

Just like we have the sense of smell to interpret what is near or around us, we also have the inner spiritual ability to sense when a good presence is around us and an evil presence is near. Paul taught us that we are to “have our senses exercised” in order to judge good and evil (Heb 5:14). Just like we can develop our sense of smell to detect certain fragrances, so must we develop our spiritual senses to detect the supernatural presence of God when he comes into our midst.
© 2011 by Dr Tim McClure

Friday, August 26, 2011

POWER OF GIVING

Just when I think I have learned all there is concerning money, giving, tithes and offerings, wham, I discover volumes of Scriptures and stories about giving I never knew before. It is amazing how controlling “money” is in the lives of so many. A poem was written describing money telling her story;
“Dug from the mountainside, washed from the glen,
Servant am I, or the master of men.
Steal me I curse you, earn me I bless you,
Grasp me and hoard me, A friend shall possess you.
Live for me, die for me, Covet me, take me,
Angel or Devil, I am what you make me” (author unknown).
Someone wrote: “Money will buy a bed but not sleep, Books but not brains, Food but not appetite, Finery but not beauty, A house but not a home, Luxuries but not culture, Medicine but not health, Amusements but not happiness, A crucifix but not a Savior, and A church but not a heaven.”
I have found it very unique that of all ministry, Jesus only trained his disciples to evaluate giving. It was the widow’s mite, the smallest coin, compared to the rich man’s bag of gold that Jesus called his disciple’s attention to. The amount each person giving isn’t what I find unique. However, it is that Jesus sat over in the corner and observed the people’s giving. And what is more unique was that Jesus took time to teach his disciples about the giving process. Jesus did not do so with worship, prayer, preaching or any of the other ministry practices; Only giving. Our action with money displays our spiritual condition.
A person has departed from God if they have not given tithes and offerings (Mal. 3:7). God shows how one has departed from Him by robbing God. To rob someone is defined as: “stealing from to deprive one of something unjustly, to take that which is not rightfully one’s own, take something by underhand means, defraud, Cheat, trick, deceive, swindle.” No wonder Jesus watched people give.
Tithes and offering giving is an institution God created. All that a Christian is, has and all that may come to him is a gift from God. Tithe should be paid out of a devotional relationship with God. Tithing is an act of recognizing an authority higher than yourself. Tithing is an act of love and thanksgiving for material things received from God. Tithing is an act of confession of obligations to God who has been your helper in time of need. Tithing is an act of returning to God 10% of that which he has given to you. Tithing is an act of payment of your obligation as member of His Church for the support of His cause.
Tithing is the key to divine blessings. Jacob left Canaan empty and returned with much cattle and many servants after he started paying his tithe. If God gets His part, your part will go further than without God (Mal. 3:10, Lu. 6:38, 2 Cor. 9:6.
Tithing is an expression of gratitude. One who does not tithe does not consider any of the above things mentioned: They are not grateful, don't feel obligated to God, cares not for His cause, recognizes no higher authority than self and cares not for God's blessing. Those who fail to pay tithe not only robs God but hinders the spread of the glorious gospel. God's work requires money, tithing is God's way of financing His cause.
How much money would a public school system receive if it depended on the passing of a hat at a local PTA meeting to foot its bills? How would our Federal Gov. make out if it depended on its income to carry on our national activities by taking up a collection at Memorial and Independence Day parades?
God has a working method raising money to carry His work that method is "Tithing". God has ordained no other way for providing of the evangelizing of the world and maintaining of His Church other than by tithes and offerings. When tithing and offering is practiced, it is a blessing to the Lost, the Church, and the Individual. The Lost is reached, the Church is supported and the Giver is blessed. When tithe and offerings is not practiced, the Lost is not reached, the Church suffers and the Individual loses.
C.S. Lewis said in expressing the spirit of the early church, Acts. 4:32-35 "I am afraid the only safe rue is to give more that we can spare, if our expenditure on comforts, luxuries, amusements, etc, is up to the standard common among those with the same income as our own, we are probably giving too little. If our charities do not at all pinch or hamper us, I should say they are too small."
Many want to receive much with giving little. A certain family had gone to church; on the way home the father criticized the sermon, the mother found fault with the organist, and the eldest daughter talked about the singing. But the subject was suddenly dropped when the small boy of the family spoke up and said, "Daddy, I think it was a mighty good program for just one dollar."
Giving is a service. In giving we are ministering to others, supplementing needs and fulfilling God's Great Commission. We are contributing to the spiritual health of the community. When we give to God, we are ministering to the unsaved we are participating is seeing unsaved people come to God.
“God, break to the needy sweet charity's bread,
for giving is living, the angel said,
And must I be giving again and again?
My peevish and pitiless answer ran,
oh, no said the angel, piercing me through,
Just give till the Lord stops giving to you.”

© 2011 by PT McClure

Friday, August 12, 2011

LOST IN THE CEREMONIES

PROMISELAND NEWSLETTER 8-11

You can almost hear the parade of noise and clatter of conversations emanating from the company of friends and family of Mary. All attention was upon the services, parties and excitement of it all. They seemed to have forgotten Jesus, the main attraction. Luke writes, “They, supposing [Jesus] to have been in the company, went a day's journey and they sought him among their kinsfolk and acquaintance” (Luke 2:44). Somehow, Jesus got lost in the ceremonies. Somehow, festivities, candles, rituals and celebrations overshadowed the most important subject of the whole celebration – Jesus.
How can we go an entire day and not miss Jesus? How can we sing, shout, dance and still lose sight of Jesus? Obviously, Joseph was too busy explaining to his family the plans he had already proposed for his new “J&J Carpentry” business. Everyone was noticeably excited, especially Mary. “Perhaps you can start a franchise and begin marketing J&J Carpentry Shops all over Judea,” remarked one of his dear friends. “What a great idea,” Joseph thought, until Mary turned to run it by Jesus.
“Jesus? Jesus? Where is Jesus” Mary questioned? “Oh, he is with his friends,” answered Joseph. The whole day had slipped by without anyone noticing Jesus not being in their presence. How could it be that after days of celebration, they lose track of Jesus? After days of religious services centering upon Jesus, an entire day passes and no one recognizes Jesus was missing. How could they go to the Temple, pray, worship and participate in service, and not even notice that Jesus was not there with them? Jesus, the focus of attention, became lost in the ceremony. The excitement of celebration clouded the reason for the service in the first place. Jesus wasted no time in starting his life’s purpose, while his family had lost sight of his true work. Jesus was not found in their service. How can we lose sight of the most valued subject of all that we are doing? Is it possible that we can go about out day and forget the very source our celebrations?
How often has Jesus become lost in our home? How many times has He become lost in our church? How often has the many benefits we’ve received from Jesus gotten lost in our daily routine? How many offering plates have passed by us without giving our Tithe? How many lonely, lost men and women have been overlooked at our altars? How many tragedies have been avoided by God’s covering but we have failed to notice? I’m afraid, that while we have sung our songs, preached our sermons and performed our rituals, we have lost the true meaning of church.
I am afraid that we, like Mary and Joseph have become lost in our daily celebrations of our families and materials but lost track of God’s provision. I fear lest we continue to go about our enjoyable lives, celebrating our children, careers, homes and cars but forget to see the Jesus who has made it all possible. Did you go to church last week without paying your tithe? Did you go to your job this past week in a nation of 20% unemployment and not give God thanks? Have we Christians lost sight of the One who has made all our blessings possible?
Please, this month make sure you get to church every Sunday and thank God for his covering. Please, make sure you set aside 10% Tithe to give to God that you can have a church to worship in. Please, make sure you share your faith and do your part to grow your church. Because if we fail to do so, one day we may find that Jesus is no longer in our crowd. Because one day, we may drive to church and find it boarded up because there was no money to keep it open.

© By Dr Tim McClure
(From Beyond Church Walls, 2011, Truth Publication)
(for more articles, see my blog): http://drtimmcclure.blogspot.com

Mansion is not ready:
Billy Graham, Benny Hinn and Oral Roberts were all flying together to do a crusade when the plane suddenly crashed, killing all three. Upon arriving to heaven, Saint Peter said, “We were not expecting you this soon and your mansion’s are not ready yet.” Peter thought to himself and didn’t know what to do. He couldn’t send them back and they couldn’t stay there yet. So Peter called the devil and asked him if he wouldn’t mind keeping them for a week until they finished their mansion. He reluctantly consented.
After the fifth day, Satan called Peter and said, “Look you got to get these guys now.” Peter said, “What’s wrong?” Satan said, “Well Billy Graham has won half of hell to Christ. Benny has healed everyone and Oral Roberts has raised enough money to air condition the whole place.”

NEW
Take a tour of the ALL NEW Promiseland Church web site: www.promiseland.org
* New Format – New Pictures – New Layout
* Audio – listen – Events Page – Latest Happing in and around Promiseland.
* Check it out – Tell a friend … more updates coming…

COMING EVENTS

August 2011 – Value – Theme for August, 10:30 AM Sunday’s
Aug – Wednesday nights – How to Stop what’s Stopping You 7-8:15 PM
Aug – Youth JAM Night – Friday @ Café 7-9 PM call Kent 321-750-9925
Aug – 6 Community Concert – Lipscomb Park @ 4-8 PM 321-750-9925
Aug 19, 21 – Fusion Groups - @ a place near you – call 321-216-8030
Aug 28 – Deliverance Sunday –@ Promiseland 10:30 AM

September 2011 – Blessings – Theme for August, 10:30 AM Sunday’s
Sept – Youth JAM Night – Friday @ Café 7-9 PM call Kent 321-750-9925
Sept – 4 Giveaway Sunday – $100’s of Gift cards given out- Promiseland 10:30 AM. The one who brings the most visitors can win FREE $Gift cards. $100 1st prize, $50 2nd prize & many more. For more information, go to www.promiseland.org/events
Sept 16, 18 – Fusion Groups - @ a place near you – call 321-216-8030
Sept 24-25 – Anniversary– Guest Pastor Anthony Knotts – Sat 6 PM Sun 10:30 AM

Promiseland Church
1855 Lansing St. Melbourne, FL 32935
www.promiseland.org
http://drtimmcclure.blogspot.com/

Monday, July 18, 2011

NINE ESSENTIAL CHANGES THAT RELEASE SUCCESS

Change the way you THINK. Think forward, not backward. Think ahead towards a plan, goal or a dream. Think positive. Think creatively. Think with knowledge toward wisdom.

Change the way you SPEAK. Let your yeah be yeah and your nay be nay. Speak the truth in love. Speak with confidence. Speak positively. Speak honestly and with integrity. Speak only with knowledge, never assumption.

Change the way you SEE. See in retrospect only to improve on your forward vision. Always take the look ahead of you, never behind you. See the best, never the worst in yourself and others. See with the vision of expectation. See the future, not the past.

Change the way you ACT. Act only in the manner of the character you desire to become, not what you were. Act with respect and honor towards yourself and others. Act in a way that a child or a grandmother could appreciate. Act with enthusiasm.

Change the way you DRESS. Dress for success. Dress the way you want to become, not what you are or were. Dress in the attire that best defines where you’re going. Dress with respect of those inside and outside of your familiar world. Dress with dignity.

Change the way you PRAY. Pray specific. Pray in faith and assurance. Pray to God, not to man. Pray to be heard, not to be seen. Pray positively, not negatively. Pray to encourage, not engage. Pray to impact, not to impress.

Change the way you WORSHIP. Worship upwards, not downwards. Worship with joy. Worship with excitement and enthusiasm. Worship with a thanksgiving heart. Offer praise to those who deserve it and your praise to God will be accepted. Offer reverence to those who deserve it, not to those who demand it.

Change the way you PLAY. Have fun with life. Play with your spouse or significant loved one. Play with your children and grandchildren. Play with your friends who you enjoy mutual respect. Play on purpose. Play regularly. Plan your play times. Make sure your entertainment is playful and your play is entertaining.

Change the way you GIVE. Commit now to Give the Tithe to the house of God or man of God that offers you a spiritual covering. Give to God what is in your hand and God will give you what is in his hand. Give cheerfully. Give in faith. Give generously. Give from your heart.

By Dr Tim McClure

Thursday, July 7, 2011

THE JESUS MINISTRY

As Jesus entered the elaborate decorated home of Levi, he couldn’t help but notice the well-dressed pious priests who were already seated at the fully dressed dinner table, which Levi prepared in honor of Christ. This was no ordinary dinner, nor was it a simple family meal with a few invited guests. No, this was an all out, to the hilt, great feast. Luke records, “And Levi made him a great feast in his own house; and there was a great company of publicans and of others that sat down with them” (Luke 5:29).
Jesus was amazed to see so many Gentiles present at a Jewish feast. Of course, they were referred to as “Publicans” by the Jewish hierarchy in public, but sinners in private. Sinners for dinner was the price Pharisees had to pay in order to gain privileges from the Roman Government, who by the way was in charge of things those days. Jesus soon learned that it was not uncommon to witness Publicans and Pharisees together over elaborate dinners. Business only, you see, in hopes to gain more political power within the Jewish infrastructure that Rome set up. Even though Pharisees and Publicans were together at the same feast, it did not mean they liked each other. The Scribes especially harbored a disdain for these Gentile rulers, who because of them the Scribes’ Hebraic duties were hindered.
The scribes and Pharisees were not well respected by the Jewish community, due to their hypocritical nature. The compromising characters gained the Jewish leaders little respect in Rome except for a few hired spies and conspirators. The Pharisees made no real change, or difference with the populous. All they had to offer was a pious prayer in the market place, or a pretentious presentation of religion among the people. Oh yes, these Pharisees mastered the art of performing their rites, but couldn’t seem to do what was right in regard to justice, judgment or mercy.
Jesus walked over to the table, at Levi’s bidding, and passed the proposed seat prepared for him. He smiled as he greeted the many publicans and their friends. Striking up a conversation with them, one publican moved over to make room for Jesus. He wasted no time telling these Gentiles about the prophecies of Isaiah, how that “the Gentiles shall come to thy light, and kings to the brightness of thy rising” (Isa 60:3). You could see these Publicans lean over the table, straining to hear every word, while the Pharisees and Scribes fumed. Levi gazed back and forth at Jesus and the Pharisees, noticing the rising disgust of the Scribes.
One Scribe got up from the table and found one of Jesus’ disciples and began to complain. Soon a Pharisee or two joined in with a complaint. Suddenly, the Pharisees and Scribes were murmuring against Jesus to His disciples, saying, “Why do ye eat and drink with publicans and sinners?” (Luke 5:30). It didn’t take a prophet to see that the traditions of the Pharisees were not working to reconcile the world back to God. Jesus’ ministry centered first around the lost and hurting. Being excused from the table, Jesus walked right into the controversial debate and said, “They that are whole need not a physician; but they that are sick. I came not to call the righteous but sinners to repentance” (Luke 5:31-32).

© By Dr Tim McClure
(From Beyond Church Walls, 2011, Truth Publication)
www.beyondchurchwalls.com (coming)

THE SECRET TO BECOMING WEALTHY

There were two things about the 98 year old Verna Oller that just about anyone in her little town Long Beach, Washington could tell you: Verna was feisty and frugal. So frugal she never went to a hair dresser, ever. Why, she could cut her own hair for free. She even refused to buy shoe laces, instead she improvised with a zipper from wore out coat. She would buy her clothes at a thrift store. Verna never made much money earning an hourly wage filleting fish till she was in her 70’s. She cut her own firewood until she was in her 90’s.
But Verna Oller had a secret that no one knew of except her closest two friends, Carolyn and Guy Glenn, whom she entrusted to carry out her wish. Guy revealed the secret that shocked her town and the nation: Guy said Verna went to the library religiously and studied for herself how to become wealthy. Oller read Barrons and the Wall Street Journal voraciously until she became a master investor. That’s right, the shocking secret of Verna Oller’s multi-million dollar wealth secret was her passion to LEARN how to become wealthy.
Nobody knew Oller's knack for playing the market except for her friends,
In 2007 footage from the two-minute video, Oller urges the Glenns' son to buy AT&T stock, bragging about her large return. Apparently she had plenty of other profitable ideas as well. Not bad for a small-town gal with no formal education. No one gave her the money. Verna didn’t demand her old boss or company to take care of her. She didn’t have family to have support her. No, she didn’t adopt the Socialist philosophy that the government is supposed to pay her housing, food, medical or long term care. No, the Mastermind secret Verna Oller left us is: The only real way to become wealthy as a “peasant” is to LEARN HOW.
The amazing story of Verna Oller is that she didn’t start learning how to become wealthy until she was a “Senior Citizen.” And what is totally amazing is that she gained all the education one would need to become a multi-millionaire FREE. That’s right, FREE from her local library. Fact is all the millions of money you could or would ever want is all out there awaiting you to find it, and anyone can HOW through knowledge. The mastermind secret to getting wealth, lots of it is not for the already rich, nor for the famous or the “Fat Cats” on Wall Street. No, not just those with the silver spoon in their mouth can amass wealth. The average little old lady with zippers for shoe strings can become RICH. And the Secret to Amassing such wealth is FREE to those who READ.
Verna Oller, little old lady from Long Beach, Washington when she died left her small town $4.5 million. Verna Oller was a proud cheapskate to the very end of her 98 years -- and the children of Long Beach, Washington will forever be grateful. The sassy former fish filleter amassed $4.5 million through savvy stock picks -- and she donated all of it to her town so it could build the swimming pool she never had as a kid. She also had some left over for scholarships and teaching grants. What if every little town had a Verna Oller? Better yet, why don’t you become a Verna Oller?

By Dr Tim McClure
drtimmcclure@aol.com

Monday, June 27, 2011

HOLY GHOST BLOW OUT

Sunday morning at Promiseland this past June 26, 2011 started out like we usually do. Great friendly greeting of everyone who walks through the doors. Fellowship and fun social conversations throughout the building. Others visiting the Information counter in the back of the church to get the latest information of what is coming. Maybe get a nice cup of coffee and share the latest testimony of what God has been doing.
Then this Sunday was a bit different. The music began to rumble while Pastor Tim Jr took the microphone and began to pray and edify the congregation. Quickly the whole church came to attention and suddenly everyone was on their feet responding to the anointed challenging prayer, exhortation. In just a few minutes it looked like everyone had their hands raised and joining in the prayer, exhortation. About that time, Tim Jr was back on the drums the praise team launched into a stand on your feet, clap your hands praise song.
About the third song, Senior Pastor McClure took to the platform and began to join the praise team in singing and explaining the difference between Praise and Worship. "Worship is a vertical intimate interaction with God personally” Pastor McClure explained. Worship comes from the Hebrew word meaning to lay prostrate, or to come up under. It is a meaning as to surrender or submit up under God. True worship is an intimate relationship with God saying to him, I surrender to you and submit my life to you” Pastor McClure continued.
Praise on the other hand is a horizontal interaction with the others as unto God” Pastor McClure spoke. True praise is giving God thanks by saying to others what God has done in your life and how awesome the Lord is through the personal experiences that one has experienced. At the same time Pastor was motivating the congregation in their worship, the praise team was singing in the back ground “No other name” while the congregation was clapping their hands, singing and responding to Pastor’s explanation of what they were actually doing in the heavenlies while they were in service praising God.
Before long, you could see the many come out of their pews and into the aisles, some dancing, others hands raised, while some had their arms around someone else helping them touch the throne of God. What normally takes about thirty minutes of praise and worship, continued on for an hour and then another half hour. The whole service became engulfed into a “Glory Charged” atmosphere where one altar cal after another was released. First for those who needed a job, come down and we will lay hands on you for your miracle. Then for those who needed a break through from the enemy who was holding them back from their deliverance. Then for those who needed to be healed from some sickness or disease. After an hour and a half of power packed presence, we were walking out saying, “Wow we had a Holy Ghost Blow Out” today.

www.Promiseland.org

Saturday, June 18, 2011

DADDY'S HOME

Chanda, my first daughter wasn’t even a year old till my wife would meet me at the door when I came home from a hard day’s work with her loving mantra; “Daddy’s home.” Holding little baby Chanda, my wife would hold her up and say, “Daddy’s home” which put the biggest smile across my face as all the pain and sore muscles vanished.
A couple years later, Tim Jr. was born and then nine years after that, Aleena was born. It wasn’t long till I was met at the door every time I would come home from work with the “Daddy’s home” chant. What started off to be a cute saying, turned into a McClure ritual. No sooner than I would drive up in the drive way, or walk through the door, the pattering of feet would rise and the cry “Daddy’s home” would come.
Even though I would be dog tired and feeling bad at times, I was always healed by the cheerful mantra, “Daddy’s home.” It started in the house when I would came in. Then the children would meet me at the opened door. Later, I would be greeted at the truck or car with the jumping children, crying, “Daddy’s home.”
After the children grew up, then it became a competition. My wife would run to the door when she heard the truck pull into the driveway shouting “Me first.” Then the children would race attempting to beat her to the car or door to get the first hug and kiss. It’s been near 36 years now and still there are days when I step through the door, I hear the imaginary mantra, “Daddy’s home.”
There is no greater feeling in the world for a man than the feeling of knowing he’s loved. The greatest feeling is to know that there is someone at the door waiting for you. Even when all the children are in their own home, still if I walk through the door and pause for a second, I swear I can hear a faint cry, “Daddy’s home.”
For over 38 years, I have not left the house without first kissing my wife. Sometimes, there may be a slip up and one forgets to leave or arrive without such a welcome. However, someone quickly reminds each other of the ritual.
June 19, 2011 is Father’s Day. Though this may be the only day out of the year that we specifically honor every father, it is not the only time that we love and appreciate every father. Let me welcome each and every father to Promiseland Church with a celebrated mantra; “Daddy’s home.” Please, accept our love, embrace and honor this your day for all the Fathers. From all of us here at Promiseland, may you have a blessed, “Daddy’ home” day.

By Dr Tim McClure

Sunday, June 12, 2011

NO MORE EXCUSES

Luke 14:16-19
Then He said to him, "A certain man gave a great supper and invited many 17 and sent his servant at supper time to say to those who were invited, 'Come, for all things are now ready.' 18 But they all with one accord began to make excuses. The first said to him, 'I have bought a piece of ground, and I must go and see it. I ask you to have me excused .' 19 And another said, 'I have bought five yoke of oxen, and I am going to test them. I ask you to have me excused.

EXCUSES is defined as; seek to remove from blame, exemption or release from obligation, duty. The Greek in the Bible is; par-ahee-teh'-om-ahee meaning; to place a reason above, subordinate request to another interest. We all have made “Excuse.”
First what is the destructive force of excuse and why? As defined, excuses are a removal of blame or guilt (by placing a higher reason above the request). In this case, God healed man on Sabbath (Vs 1-3). God made request for deliverance (Vs 4-6). Then God taught you Subordinate your wants to needs (Vs 7-11) Wedding invitation; don’t sit in the “Party seating” = you not focus & if they invite you to higher OK. Then invitation to Great Super (Vs 15-24). All stories focus on One’s Deliverance is greater than what you lose. Jesus used this occasion to teach one of the most powerful essential lessons to all of us; namely “BREAKING EXCUSES.”
WHY? Because Excuses is a devised plan of the devil: 1) attempts to release one from guilt, 2) rejects personal responsibility, 3) Excuses exults self above salvation. Let me show you the 5 Steps Jesus gave for we to Break Excuses off our lives.

Five STEPS TO BREAKING EXCUSES

Luke 14:20-23 0 Still another said, 'I have married a wife, and therefore I cannot come.' 21 So that servant came and reported these things to his master. Then the master of the house, being angry, said to his servant, 'Go out quickly into the streets and lanes of the city, and bring in here the poor and the maimed and the lame and the blind.' 22 And the servant said, 'Master, it is done as you commanded, and still there is room.' 23 Then the master said to the servant, 'Go out into the highways and hedges, and compel them to come in, that my house may be filled.
1. ANGER – You must get fed up with incompetence, irresponsibility. Anger is the highest emotion = gives you all the fuel you need to take charge. We need high power to overcome selfish chains of superiority. “Let him who thinks he stands, take heed, lest he fall (1 Cor 10:12). Be angry & sin not (Ep 4:26). Excuses are the tools of the weak and incompetent. Used to build monuments of nothingness. Those who excel in it seldom excel in anything else but excuses.
2. GO QUICKLY – Take action NOW. Procrastination is the womb of excuses. Jesus was teaching that if any of us is ever to break the chain of excuses that is stopping us from our God given goal, we must act quickly. Now perform the doing of it (2 Cor 8:11). Most people live and die without their music ever being played. No action, no change. Limited action, limited change. Take action, Change occurs. Until you spread your wings, you’ll never know how far you can fly. Go beyond yourself. Lance Armstrong: “Pain is temporary, quitting lasts forever.
3. BRING THE POOR – See beyond yourself. Excuses elevate self above, To break these chains we must see the big picture. Reach outside of your own world and touch a life, heal the sick, save the lost and you will be FREED from excuses. Luke 14:13-14 invite the poor, the maimed, the lame, the blind. 14 And you will be blessed. Jesus knew that if we help those worse than ourselves we could not be irresponsible, we must sacrifice. Look at that little baby and make excuse why you don’t have time; No, you will pay the price. Hungry baby, deceived teen, abused woman = You will reject cheap excuses & do your DUTY. Opportunities are never lost; someone will always take up what others fail to take.
4. COMPEL – get passionate, outrageous insistence, strong arm (G). "to put constraint upon, 'necessity', to constrain, whether by force or persuasion"; Jesus "constrained" the disciples to get into a boat (Matt 14:22). Saul of Tarsus "strove" to make saints blaspheme (Acts 26:11) "compelled"; Peter "compelled" Gentiles to live as Jews (Gal 2:14); Paul was "constrained" to appeal to Caesar (Acts 28:19). Whether you think you can or think you cannot, you’re right.
5. FILLED – Ultimate purpose of life. Jesus knew that if we were going to Break the chains of Excuses off of us, we must have an ultimate purpose above ourselves. When fulfilling your divine duty, obey your heavenly call hits home so hard that the devil puts Excuses in your mouth, look up and see the BIG picture and your excuses will flee. When we can see how God is to get glory through our fulfilling our Duty, all excuses will sound so cheap. Why compare yourself with others? NO one in the entire world can do a better job of being you than YOU.

Failure is often the result of continual excuses that justify un-involvement and selfishness, while success always is a product of personal responsibility. Excuses only reveal our weaknesses and demonstrate our unwillingness to take action. In fact, believing we are incapable of greatness is merely a cover-up for avoiding personal responsibility. Worse, excuses subordinates God’s ability to work in our lives.
NO MORE EXCUSES – 1) Get fed up with irresponsibility, 2) Take action NOW, 3) Reach beyond yourself and help someone worse off, 4) Get passionate about life, 5) Realize that your Big or Little part in life is all about God getting Glory through YOU.

By Dr Tim McClure

Saturday, May 21, 2011

BEWARE OF FALSE PROPHETS

CBS News reported this evening; “Rapture prediction fails, doomsday averted. If you're reading this, Family Radio Network owner Harold Camping's much-ballyhooed prediction that the world would end on May 21, 2011 did not come true.” Many major News outlet reported yesterday of Harold Camping’s second failed bizarre prediction of the End of the World. Amazing, literally no one has ever heard of Harold Camping in the Christian world let alone the secular world but still almost all the News agencies thought it “relevant news” to air Camping’s strange ramblings.
As you read through the Web, you’ll find hundreds of agnostics dancing with excitement to the tune of humiliating faith off the back of uneducated men like Camping. Why did the News agencies take $billions of dollars of air time to report another weird prediction of Harold Camping knowing the media doesn’t believe? Was it to warn or inform the world? Or was it to use an opportunity to lampoon the Christian faith? The Bible even charges us that there would come those who would use occasions like this to proclaim to each other, “Where is the promise of his coming? For since the fathers fell asleep, all things continue as they were from the beginning of creation” (2 Peter 3:4).
Rather than waste my time repudiating Harold Camping and his Heretical notions, allow me to set the record straight for the two billion Christians who believe in the Bible and some form of prophecy. Without belaboring your time with the Biblical Thesis about Eschatology, please accept my simplistic few words to state my case. First and foremost, NO man, not a Jew, Christian, Priest, Reverend, Clergy, Prophet, Apostle, Preacher or Pope can usurp the Authority of the Bible and contradict the Bible. “No prophecy of the Scriptures are of any private interpretation” (2 Pet 1:20).
Second, we are admonished not to receive anyone, not a prophet, worker of miracles or whoever that offers us a word or prophecy that is contrary from the Bible (Duet 13). Moses went on to say that God will use such deceivers to “prove us” whether we believe the [Bible] or superstitions. Jesus even thought “many false prophets will rise up and deceive many” (Matt 24:11). It is not to say that there are real and true prophets today, but NO true man of God will ever usurp his “prophecy” above the Bible and declare his word equal to the Bible or God.
Jesus said, “But of that day and hour no one knows , not even the angels of heaven, but My Father only” (Matt 24:36-37). Very simple and straight forward. No one really means no one. Not even Harold Camping. Don’t allow angry men like Camping who has a grudge against the church or the News Media who are propagators of everything against Jesus to manipulate your faith or confidence in God or the Bible. Jesus warned us that this would come and these such events would take place – all in the name of trying to “shake your faith.”
By Dr Tim McClure

Monday, May 9, 2011

CHURCH IS MORE THAN A CATHEDRAL

There is no purer feeling and experience for a Christian than to get outside the church walls and “do Jesus stuff.” No Christian has ever experienced the true nature of Jesus in their life until they go beyond the safe church. When a believer walks beyond church walls and dare demonstrate their faith in public, then that believer will see, hear and feel the real Jesus in action. Your faith will soar. Your spirituality will erupt. Your anointing will pour out like a summer rain. The glory is like nothing you’ve ever felt.
I’m afraid that centuries of doing faith behind church walls have turned Christianity into a club for religious people. Church is not supposed to be a building we attend, but a life we live. Salvation is not something we believe, but a way that we live. We must do more than believe IN Jesus, we must be LIKE Jesus. The Bible is not supposed to simply be a book we read, but an example we mimic. Church is supposed to be the metaphor of the actual, living, breathing body of Jesus Christ.
After two millenniums the church has become known more of a building with stain glass and a steeple than a living body of Christ. Where did we get this building worship? Don’t get me wrong, we are commanded by Christ and the Apostles to assemble weekly to worship, but Church must be more than simply getting together. Yes, we are “not to forsake the assembling ourselves together and so much more as you see the day of God approaching” (Heb 10:25). Please tell me that the church has become no more than a religious Adult daycare. I cannot believe that the church was supposed to be a religious museum.
The gospel is meant to be “preached” (shared) with those who do not believe, not merely those who already believe. I don’t believe the church was meant to be a “Cathedral” or a Solomon’s Temple where only a select few Levi priests can enter and perform their day long ritual that 99% of the world never can see or experience. I see the church assembly to be modeled after Jesus and his followers. He would go to a place and mostly unbelievers would come and stay a while and hear him teach only to come back again and again until they either rejected or accepted Christ and his teaching (Matt 5-7).
Yes, Jesus would attend the Synagogue weekly, but in every case, the religious “Pharisees” would give him fits and sometimes try to kill him. I like to look at the church “building” as a “school house” where Christians hear the Word preached / taught in order to renew and build their faith, and learn how to share it. Jesus would teach daily saying, “Come learn of me” (Matt 11:29). Paul even explained that “we have so learned Christ” in order to know how we are to live (Eph 4:20-24).
After we attend a “school” and learn a trade, then we are to go out into the “real world” and put what we learned to practice. The same is with church. We are to first learn how we are to live and then go out and “demonstrate it” (1 John 2:6). Surely the Lord did not mean for we Christians to go behind church walls and sing, pray and preach to each other then keep it hidden behind church walls. We must take church out of church and practice what we preach.
More than ever, today is the time to for we Christians become “the temple of the Holy Ghost” (1 Cor 6:19). Getting Church out of church is a way of saying let us get what we have learned in the school house out into the work force. Let us take the grain out of the barn and sow it in the fields (Matt 13:38). The church was never meant to be a Cathedral where we relic the holy. The church was meant to be the extended body of Christ where we go out and make people whole-ly. Let us take the cross off our steeple and put one on our backs and go save someone.
By Dr Tim McClure (from Beyond Church Walls, coming soon).
(for more articles, see my blog): http://drtimmcclure.blogspot.com

David & Goliath Story
Angela, my daughter in law had bought a new Children’s Bible story book for Amiley, her 3 year old daughter. Sitting down with Amiley, Angela begin to read the story of David and Goliath to her. As she read about Goliath, Amiley said, “He’s the bad man, isn’t he mommy?” As Angela read onto the next page where David threw the rock and knocked Goliath down, Amiley paused and thought. She turned the page back to see Goliath. Seeing the picture of Goliath with his armor and big shield, Amiley asked, “What is that Mommy?” That is Goliath’s shield” Angela answered. “What is it for?” Amiley asked. It’s to keep from getting hit by things.” Amiley turned the page back to where Goliath was lying down on the ground and simply said, “It not work for him.”

COMING EVENTS

May 2011 – Multiplication – Theme for May, 10:30 AM Sunday’s
May – Wednesday nights – Mind Control- controlling power of faith 7-8 PM
May 8 – Mother’s Day – Promiseland 10:30 AM
May 20, 22 – Fusion groups – @ a place near you – call 321-216-8030
May 23 – Last day of School
May 29 – Sacrifice Sunday – Memorial Tribute- Promiseland @ 10:30 AM

June 2011 – Ministry – Theme for June, 10:30 AM Sunday’s
June 6 – July 29 - Surf Camp – for Kids 6 & up: www.grdesigns.com
June – Wednesday nights – all New Learning environment 7-8 PM
June 10 – Youth JAM Night – Friday @ Café 7-9 PM call Kent 321-750-9925
June 17, 19 – Fusion Groups - @ a place near you – call 321-216-8030
June 19 – Classic – Father’s Day celebration @ Promiseland 10:30 AM

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Thursday, May 5, 2011

PROFITS ARE BETTER THAN WAGES

Once you understand that profits are better than wages, then and only then will you become wealthy. Nobody will teach you this entrepreneurial principle from any government school. You will not learn this philosophy of success in any high school or a public college. I remember when I was 21 and broke. I wasn’t destitute, but I had too much month at the end of the money. I call this being broke.
Wages make you a living; which is fine. Profits make you a fortune; which is super fine. Fact is, you now have a choice to live fine or super fine. You now have a philosophy with “Profits are better than wages” to become wealthy and live super fine. Socialism and Communism taught the world that Capital belongs to the state and not to the people. This was evil as well as a lie. My “Uncle Harry” taught me to have two bicycles, One to ride and one to rent.
Socialism says that the people are too stupid to handle their own capital. The people must give the capital to the “All wise state” and they will take care of you. That philosophy destroyed every nation Communism philosophy touched. Let me ask you, has the “State” taken care of your grandparents, parents or anyone you know? Absolutely NOT! My father died with nothing in the bank. My mother was left to work cleaning houses up into her 70’s because she could not live on the $800 a month the “State” gave her to “live on.” NOT, more like to die on.
How long does it take to make a wage? In order to make a wage, you must lone out a whole lot of your time for just a little bit of the employer’s money. They call those who get money this way: “Wage earners.” That has become a code for an economic slave. How long do one have to work in order to become wealthy? With the present “Wage earner” system, one will work his whole life and never become wealthy. Most people today – even in America will die in the category of being POOR. We say it like this, “He died dead broke.”
Allow me to challenge you to look beyond the repetitive cycle the world and government offer you. Permit me to motivate you with a gleam in your eye for what can be and not simply what is. Concede to the possibility that you can use your talents, skills, knowledge and drive to earn profits instead of simply exchanging a lot of your time for a little bit of their money. Accept this proverb: “Profits are better than Wages.” Take these few words and put your mind toward the possibility that you could become wealthy over the next 10 years instead of just earning wages.

By Dr Tim McClure
www.drtimmcclure.maxous.com

Monday, April 11, 2011

MIRACLE FROM MISERY

Virtually everyone knows the story of Helen Keller – the girl who was born both, Blind and Deaf. She was 7 years of age before she ever came in contact with any kind of training. At this time, Keller was worse than a wild animal – of which she was often called and treated as such. The Famous “Helen Keller” would have never been famous had it not been for a woman named Anne Sullivan.
Anne Sullivan was the daughter of Irish immigrant farmers Thomas Sullivan and Alice Cloesy; she had one brother, Jimmie, who was crippled from tuberculosis. Growing up, Anne was subject to poverty and physical abuse by her alcoholic father and at the age of five, trachoma struck Anne, leaving her almost blind. Two years later, her mother died and her father abandoned his children to an orphanage in Tewksbury where her brother died shortly thereafter. Despite being left in an orphanage with no formal educational facilities, Anne Sullivan prospered. When the state board of charities chairman, Frank Sanborn visited the Tewksbury orphanage; Anne literally threw herself in front of him crying, "Mr. Sanborn, I want to go to school."
After regaining her eyesight from a series of operations and graduating as class valedictorian in 1886 from the Perkins Institute for the Blind, she began teaching Helen Keller. When Sullivan first arrived, Helen was seven years old and highly undisciplined. Sullivan had to begin her teaching with lessons in obedience, followed by teachings of the manual and Braille alphabets. All who came in contact with them were amazed at the ability of Anne to reach Helen and Keller's heightened ability to grasp concepts unheard of by deaf and blind students before her. Alexander Graham Bell, Andrew Carnegie, Henry H. Rogers and John Spaulding were only a few who witnessed & supported.
If anyone would dare venture out upon a quest into the backgrounds & history of the famous, successful and accomplished in past generations, one would find many who came from horrific backdrops of obscurities and no doubt become inspired by the Miraculous from Misery and Misfortune. Only a few can assume to understand what many of the struggling know, go through or came from. And a few will dare witness Possibility – we call a Miracle in the Making.

Dr Tim McClure

Saturday, March 26, 2011

CHANGE IS ESSENTIAL

The U.S. Postal Service said on Thursday it would cut 7,500 jobs and close seven district offices and 2,000 post offices as it handles less mail and faces greater staff costs and competition from FedEx and United Parcel Service. "It's critical that we adjust our work force to match America's changing communications trends as mail volumes continue to decline," Postmaster General Patrick Donahoe said in a statement.

In November, the Postal Service reported a net loss of $8.5 billion for fiscal year 2010, its fourth consecutive year of losses. Joanne Veto, a spokeswoman for the Postal Service, said, "We know that we cannot look the same 10 years from now. The mail volume isn't there. We have to adjust to keep up with the mail and customer needs." She said the Postal Service would close 2,000 post offices around the United States over the next 12 months, while eliminating the 7,500 jobs. As of the end of January, the agency employed 583,000 people.

Sad, while Fed-X, UPS and hundreds of other communication giants have scurried just to stay in the info race, the “Government bureaucracy and Unions” have snail walk their way into bankruptcy. And worse, the bureaucrats refuse to turn over the “United States Postal” business to a privately owned company. It’s as if when you go to work for the government you become brain dead. It’s like they do not have to CHANGE because THEY are the government.

Let us all take this as a major “wake up call” lesson that change is an absolutely essential part of our modern culture now. If any of us, or business is ever to survive and better, succeed, we must maintain the posture of CHANGE.

By Dr Tim McClure

Wednesday, March 9, 2011

INTERNET KILL SWITCH

The complete Internet shutdown this week in Libya involved a new way to turn off web access for an entire country. Earlier this year, the total Internet blockade in Egypt backfired and emboldened the protesters. China is well known for blocking Internet services, but it’s not just China. Of course, having the government turn off the Internet could never happen in the United States. We couldn’t condemn the action in other countries while at the same time plan it here. No one would even suggest such a thing, right?

Wrong. The topic came up last June when Senators Joseph Lieberman, Susan Collins and Thomas Carper introduced the controversial “Protecting Cyberspace as a National Asset Act of 2010″. [PDF] One vague provision in the bill gave the president the power to “authorize emergency measures to protect the nation’s most critical infrastructure if a cyber vulnerability is being exploited or is about to be exploited.” It became known as the Internet “kill switch” bill even though the words ‘kill’ and ‘switch’ are not found in the bill. In fact, one report claims, in the event of a cyberwar, an Internet shutdown would cause more problems that it would prevent.

Joe Lieberman generously suggested the president is “not going to do it every day” (phew), but he did argue “we need the capacity for the president to say, Internet service provider, we’ve got to disconnect the American Internet from all traffic coming in from another foreign country, or we’ve got to put a patch on this part of it.” This sounds a lot like what might have been said inside Mubarak’s presidential palace.

It seems that with every passing day our very own government is behaving more and more like the Third World tyrant dictator while telling we the American people that they are “looking out for our best interest.” How can Egypt’s Mubarak, China’s Jintao or Libya’s Gaddafi action to use the Internet “Kill Switch” evil and anti civil rights, but the American’s president can use it and it is supposed to be “protecting our people?” The evil and blatant corruption is mind boggling to the normal mind. I say evil is evil, no matter what country it is in nor what government propagates it.

Dr Tim McClure

Sunday, February 20, 2011

HIDDEN TAXES YOU PAY EVERY DAY

Whether you're making a PBJ sandwich or an airline reservation, you're coming into close contact with invisible charges that make goods and services more expensive. Everyone knows there are federal taxes on tobacco and alcohol, but did you know the feds take a bite out of your afternoon candy bar? There are plenty of unexpected taxes that raise the price of goods and services -- sin taxes, import duties, user fees and excise taxes on things as varied as gas guzzlers, firearms, communications services and air travel. "The less visible a tax is, the less likely taxpayers will be aware of it, unsettled by it and advocate against it," says economist Jared Bernstein of the Economic Policy Institute in Washington, D.C. You may feel lucky in Las Vegas, hit the lottery or have a good day at the racetrack, but all winnings are taxable as regular income. There's a tax on the life insurance policy that your employer so generously gives you as a benefit if it is over $50,000. "Most of the hidden taxes pertain to products we buy rather than wages we earn," adds Pete Sepp, a spokesman for the National Taxpayers Union, a watchdog group in Washington, D.C.
Think going “American First” is better, well look closer and find the Government tax policy is part of the problem of destroying “America First.” Goods from brooms to bicycles may carry excise taxes to make them more expensive. It's one way the government keeps the price of imported products artificially high and makes it easier for domestic ones to compete for business. "You are paying more than you would otherwise pay," says Patrick Fleenor, an economist for the Tax Foundation, a Washington, D.C. group. Here are some items whose prices are jacked up with import taxes: Bicycles at 11%, School supplies 5%, Hammock 15%, Infant formula 18%, Linens 12%, Flashlights 18%, Brooms 32%, Girdles 24% and Peanut Butter 143%.
Our own Federal Government is manipulating our economy so much till there is almost no such thing as a “Free Market.” If you were forced to pay the Taxes on everything you buy separate from the “hide the tax in the total price” you would be calling and writing your representatives. If you were forced to pay your income taxes separate from the “hide the tax by withholdings, you would absolutely pitch a fit till the Government corruption would be seriously hindered. Here is one site to get information to make a difference: http://www.ntu.org/

Dr Tim McClure

Tuesday, January 18, 2011

LOOKING FOR A JOB?

The “so called” unemployment percentage in America is set at 9.6%. Among the major worker groups, the unemployment rates for adult men (9.4 percent) and whites (8.5 percent) declined in December. The unemployment rates for adult women (8.1 percent), teenagers (25.4 percent), blacks (15.8 percent), and Hispanics (13.0 percent) showed little change. The jobless rate for Asians was 7.2 percent, not seasonally adjusted. And if you use the “real” percentage of those who are out of work and not collecting unemployment compensation, it is 17%. The sad reality of this means that nearly 2 out of 10 people are unemployed. And with the condition of the economy, a “sunshine day” is not coming too fast either.
Now before you get all out of sorts with me for such grim gloomy news, let me use this reality to challenge you from a view you may not have thought of. Namely, getting a job today like you used to know is out of the picture. What I am trying to say is the old way of getting a job that perhaps you are used to is not working and for the most part will not work today. If you are going to get a job today in this economy, you will have to “Think outside the box” and do something far different than you have done or are used to doing.
My advice to any “job seekers” today in this economy is to; First, Be aggressive. You must “Go after it.” The days of companies putting a “Help Wanted” sign out is over. Forget waiting for someone to FIND you. They are not looking. Literally there are NO “Help Wanted” ads in any Newspaper anywhere. And the internet Help Wanted ads are slim to none. If you get hired today, you have to become aggressive and very forth right about it.
Second, you must become Unrelenting in your search to find a job and get hired. There is no room for passive shy people getting a job. Put your timidity aside and “Hit the pavement” EVERYDAY. I mean, you must get up early every morning like it’s a JOB itself and put in six, seven hours a day – everyday all week until you get what you need, or looking for. You must be persistent.
Thirdly, you must become Organized. Get your resume done correctly. DO NOT do a multi-page resume. Learn how to write a successful, quality resume that HR people are wanting to read (not what you want to say). Create a One page resume. Reduce a sentence down to one word. Make your resume a “Bullet Point” style read. Tweak your resume to fit each company you are submitting to. Make it sound like you are what they are looking for.
And lastly, Be informed. Find out every business in your county that has hired in the past 12 months. Find out the companies that are expanding or adding a new division to their operation. Go to the local bookstore, library, Job Bank and find out the Do’s and Don’ts of job interviews, resumes and how and why companies hire. In short, be informed. Go online and Google key words that will assist you in learning how to find and secure a job interview.
I promise you that if you will do what I outlined for you in these few short paragraphs, you will absolutely find a job and get hired. I challenge you to invest the next few weeks and apply my simple principles of finding and securing a job. And when you do, and get hired, then PLEASE call or email me your testimony so I can share it with the more than a thousand people who get my Newsletter or read my BLOG. Please, forward this article to any and as many people as you wish – you have my permission.
By Dr Tim McClure

Tuesday, January 11, 2011

ARIZONA SHOOTER’S EVIL BELIEFS

Jared Loughner wrote that the Mars rover landing was faked. He believed George Bush orchestrated the 9/11 terrorist attack. His favorite books include 'The Communist Manifesto' and 'Mein Kampf'. In fact, The Washington Post wrote that “Loughner's You Tube profile listed Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels's 'The Communist Manifesto' and Adolf Hitler's 'Mein Kampf' among his favorite books.” Even Mamta Popat with the AP wrote; “It seems clear based on Loughner's YouTube videos and MySpace page that he held a grudge against the U.S. government.”
Many today wish to write away the realities of “Evil beliefs” such as Adolf Hitler proposed in his book Mein Kampf (My Struggle) and Karl Marx Communist Manifesto. When you read these two books and then watch what they did in the name of their evil beliefs, you easily come to the conclusion that some beliefs are EVIL, not simply another opinion. When you research even further and see what and how these two men did in murdering millions of people to fulfill their demonic beliefs, you can conclude to nothing else other than they were EVIL. And their writings and beliefs were diabolical let alone birthed from Satan himself.
I know it seems everyone wishes to declare who and what Loughner is, but the fact remains none of us know the whole truth yet. However one fact remains true, Laughner read, heard and believed some of the most corrupt, twisted evil doctrines on this planet (Fascism and Communist Socialism). Whether Laughner was mentally insane, psychologically deranged or just plain evil, time will tell. But for sure, we all can conclude that such evil influences as Fascism and Communist Socialism will pollute, deceive and damage any person’s psyche in one way or another.
What is scary beyond reality is to hear, watch or read the corrupt attempts to use Laughner’s actions as a foundation to promote their political opinions or worse to cover up ideologies and destructive dogmas such as Fascism and Communist Socialism. John B. Watson, America’s Father of Behavioral Psychology wrote about the power of behavioral influences that can and do train anyone and everyone to “act out” what they have been raised to believe. Truth is, the power of indoctrination training will influence anyone to act out on their deep beliefs, no matter how evil and violent they are.
Don’t fall for the corrupt political and liberal media’s attempt to bash opposing views to their own by using Laughner’s actions by turning your attention off the real crime and evil. Today’s media seems bent on preaching a doctrine more than reporting the news. Don’t get side tracked off the real evil; killing people who opposes your views. Today’s mantra seems to present that if you can’t win in the debate of ideas, just kill your opponent. That is and has always been the doctrine of dictators and tyrants. Jesus won a million times more people to his cause than Hitler or Stalin without hurting or killing one single person while Fascism and Communism has killed millions or millions of people.
The bottom line is simple, what Loughner did was evil and wicked to the core. And to use this horrific evil as a platform to promote one’s views or to attack one’s political enemies is evil in of itself. My friend, it is twisted stories like we have seen, heard and read over the past few days is what has made 90% of Americans not trust or believe the main stream media nor politics. I pray and ask everyone to pray for the parents of Loughner for they do not deserve the heart broken trauma they are suffering. Pray for the victims and families as for they did not deserve such loss either. And please, take time to call your loved ones and tell them how much you love them and take time today to DO some loving act to share the Love and grace of truth.
By Dr Tim McClure, www.drtimmcclure.blogspot.com

Thursday, January 6, 2011

YEAR OF OPPORTUNITY

It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of doubt, it was the season of Light, it was the season of Darkness, it was the spring of hope, it was the winter of despair, we had everything before us, we had nothing before us, we were all going direct to Heaven, we were all going direct the other way. That is the opening lines of "A Tale of Two Cities" Charles Dickens; One of the most famous openings in English literature. The two cities are London and Paris. And it was during the time of the French Revolution, just 15 years after our Revolution. The lines serve as Prophecy of the very times we are living now.
Yes, we are surly living in a moment when for many it is the worst of times and for others it is the best of times. The paradox of this hour serves as one of the highest volatility in our nation. There has been a major rise of frustration and even anger over the belligerent aggressive thrust of political quest at the expense of the needs and desires of the American people. The raping and pillaging of the Federal Reserve system, Banks and Wall Street has decimated our economy. The polarization of our media and public has spawned enough rage, distrust and outright contempt till nerves have flared and respect gone.
My friends, we are living in the Times that Ezekiel and Daniel saw. We are living in the times that John wrote about on the Isle of Patmos. Your very life today, your days, your words, your thoughts and ideas are the Brick and Mortar that is building your future. Today, 2011 is the very moment we all must take a stand on letting go of whatever is making us stop. Let go of the pains, mistakes, failures, regrets and Yesterday. Today is a NEW DAY a New Year. This is your moment to start over. Christine McVee writes; “If you wake up and don't want to smile, If it takes just a little while, Open your eyes and look at the day, You'll see things in a different way.” Today is the moment to look ahead – raise your eye brows and see your future – see your faith – see your opportunity. My friend, You need a Prophecy. You need a tap on your shoulder from an angel to whisper in your ear about the opportunity God has given you in this year.
Over 100 studies of the best minds and researchers in America have revealed that the majority of people spend 90% of their time thinking about their past. Less than 3% of people think about the future. Faith is about the future not the past. Nowhere in the Bible do we find faith displayed for yesterday. Vision is always for your future, never your past. Prophecy means to fore tell (foresight). The first name for the Prophet was a “Seer.” He foresaw the future. A prophet would give a word about your future. God wants you to know that 2011 is your opportunity. You can chose to let 2011 consume you or you can look beyond the troubles and capture possibilities.
When Jesus told his disciples about their future and the blight of the world to come, he said; “Look Up” (Luke 21:28). We cannot live another day with our head down. Let us turn our Misery into a Miracle – first in our heart – then in our mind and then it will appear in our lives. Stop looking back over Yesterday wishing it were different, it will not change. Yesterday is GONE. Come on WAVE at your Yesterday and shout with me BY – BY. Now lift up your eyes and gaze into your tomorrows of opportunities and confess; “God has a great future for me” (Jer 29:11).
By Dr. Tim McClure (for more articles, see my blog): http://drtimmcclure.blogspot.com