Coffee With Jim Holmes

09/29/2014

A New View On The War On Terror

With some of the commentary I’m hearing today my mind has raced to things I have seen in my prison ministry. There needs to be an all prison chaplain programs groupings of the many different religions represented in the prison population. This can range from Christian, Native Indian, Hindu and Muslim. In the Muslim group there is a small section of peaceful worshipers. However, the majority of the Muslims have classified as radical and violent. They are treated as gangs by the guards and administration. Even the peaceful worshipers usually are proselytized into these more radical factions.

Chaplains in these institutions are stuck with the situations. And they deal with them as well as they can. As do the other departments of the prisons. However, most prisons Chaplaincy programs contain Muslim groups. The description of the average number of radical inmates on the average is accurate. Even in the Federal Prison Camps the Muslim groups maintain the same average.
Different prisons have different types of inmates. However, most prisons Chaplaincy programs contain Muslim groups. The description of the average number of radical inmates on the average is accurate. Even in the Federal Prison Camps the Muslim groups maintain the same average.
Most of the Muslim groups will eventually one day be coming out of prison. They have learned many different skills; as have most inmates. However, these particular inmates will be set by belief to attack Americans and primarily Christians. This has been a festering sore for a long time. The War on Terror will have taken a gigantic turn and be waged here in the homeland. Are we ready for this?

07/16/2014

An old friend of mine, Tommy Morse, emailed this to me. It's self-explanatory.

Wall Street Journal sizes Up Obama




WSJ Calls Obama a Dummy!!!!!!!!!!!!



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Street Journal Sizes Up Obama


A "deadly" article regarding Obama, at the Wall Street Journal, which today is the most widely circulated newspaper in America ..

Article from the Wall Street Journal - by Alan Caruba:

"I have this theory about Barack Obama. I think he's led a kind of make-believe life in which money was provided and doors were opened because at some point early on somebody or some group (George Soros anybody?) took a look at this tall, good looking, half-white, half-black, young man with an exotic African/Muslim name and concluded he could be guided toward a life in politics where his facile speaking skills could even put him in the White House.

In a very real way, he has been a young man in a very big hurry. Who else do you know has written two memoirs before the age of 45? "Dreams of My Father" was published in 1995 when he was only 34 years old. The "Audacity of Hope" followed in 2006. If, indeed, he did write them himself. There are some who think that his mentor and friend, Bill Ayers, a man who calls himself a "communist with a small 'c'" was the real author.

His political skills consisted of rarely voting on anything that might be deemed controversial. He went from a legislator in the Illinois legislature to the Senator from that state because he had the good fortune of having Mayor Daley's formidable political machine at his disposal.

He was in the U.S. Senate so briefly that his bid for the presidency was either an act of astonishing self-confidence or part of some greater game plan that had been determined before he first stepped foot in the Capital. How, many must wonder, was he selected to be a 2004 keynote speaker at the Democrat convention that nominated John Kerry when virtually no one had ever even heard of him before?

He outmaneuvered Hillary Clinton in primaries. He took Iowa by storm. A charming young man, an anomaly in the state with a very small black population, he oozed "cool" in a place where agriculture was the antithesis of cool. He dazzled the locals. And he had an army of volunteers drawn to a charisma that hid any real substance.

And then he had the great good fortune of having the Republicans select one of the most inept candidates for the presidency since Bob Dole. And then John McCain did something crazy. He picked Sarah Palin, an unknown female governor from the very distant state of Alaska . It was a ticket that was reminiscent of 1984's Walter Mondale and Geraldine Ferraro and they went down to defeat.

The mainstream political media fell in love with him. It was a schoolgirl crush with febrile commentators like Chris Mathews swooning then and now over the man. The venom directed against McCain and, in particular, Palin, was extraordinary.

Now,
5 full years into his presidency, all of those gilded years leading up to the White House have left him unprepared to be President. Left to his own instincts, he has a talent for saying the wrong thing at the wrong time. It swiftly became a joke that he could not deliver even the briefest of statements without the ever-present Tele-Prompters.

Far worse, however, is his capacity to want to "wish away" some terrible realities, not the least of which is the Islamist intention to destroy America and enslave the West. Any student of history knows how swiftly Islam initially spread. It knocked on the doors of Europe, having gained a foothold in Spain .

The great crowds that greeted him at home or on his campaign "world tour" were no substitute for having even the slightest grasp of history and the reality of a world filled with really bad people with really bad intentions.

Oddly and perhaps even inevitably, his political experience, a cakewalk, has positioned him to destroy the Democrat Party's hold on power in Congress because in the end it was never about the Party. It was always about his communist ideology, learned at an early age from family, mentors, college professors, and extreme leftist friends and colleagues.

Obama is a man who could deliver a snap judgment about a Boston police officer who arrested an "obstreperous" Harvard professor-friend, but would warn Americans against "jumping to conclusions" about a mass murderer at Fort Hood who shouted "Allahu Akbar." The absurdity of that was lost on no one. He has since compounded this by calling the Christmas bomber "an isolated extremist" only to have to admit a day or two later that he was part of an al Qaeda plot.

He is a man who could strive to close down our detention facility at Guantanamo even though those released were known to have returned to the battlefield against America . He could even instruct his Attorney General to afford the perpetrator of 9/11 a civil trial when no one else would ever even consider such an obscenity. And he is a man who could wait three days before having anything to say about the perpetrator of yet another terrorist attack on Americans and then have to elaborate on his remarks the following day because his first statement was so lame.

The pattern repeats itself. He either blames any problem on the Bush administration or he naively seeks to wish away the truth.

Knock, knock. Anyone home? Anyone there? Barack Obama exists only as the sock puppet of his handlers, of the people who have maneuvered and manufactured this pathetic individual's life.

When anyone else would quickly and easily produce a birth certificate, this man spent over a million dollars to deny access to his. Most other documents, the paper trail we all leave in our wake, have been sequestered from review. He has lived a make-believe life whose true facts remain hidden.

We laugh at the ventriloquist's dummy, but what do you do when the dummy is President of the United States .

We the people are coming!

Your Everyday Freedom Is Not Free, Your Military Paid For It!

Those that voted for him have sold the country down the river. My, how they must be proud of themselves.
[Many of them are still totally blind to what he is really like. If you criticize him for his none policies you are a RACIST!!!]


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06/19/2014

For those that could not find it or did not read a better edit, here is how it appears on my blog. This is the last cmobination blog I will be writing, I think.

IN MY HUMBLE OPINION

Ephesians 4:8: “When he ascended on high, he led captives in his train and gave gifts to men." NIV
Most present-day Christians that I know believe that as Christ ascended He led sinners from the captivity of sin and as He did he gathered gifts from heaven and dispersed them then and is dispersing them now to believers.

Now I believe and I many friends, that believe with me that all men are instilled with gifts and talents that may not be for the purposes of God, but was part of his original creation. I am speaking of all those things that we feel innately, that we have the ability to do. Then when these human traits are exposed in a person and that person is led from captivity or as most Christians state are saved to live now and with Christ eternally in place. That person will move higher are better in his gifting’s. Success is not measured by how much money you make or high you rise in your occupation. It is measured by a person’s commitment to God and His teachings. That person is at peace with himself and his fellow man. When we step off into something that we have no business in we create chaos and turmoil. And most Christians believe that the purveyor of chaos and turmoil is the evil adversary, the devil.

Well, with this in mind I Believe in; Obama has led this nation right to the point that many believe he wanted too. I partially believe he had goals in mind that were to weaken the country; and bring us into the image that he has for us. But I believe there is something that we are not looking at entirely I have heard some other commentators speak of it. But I’m not sure enough attention has been paid to it.

We can list the continuing scandals that his administration is facing. And they are growing by the day. But what good does that do. The major problem that Obama and his Cabinet and Advisers have is ineptness, and I’ve been. Think back to the 2004 Democrat National Convention; and there was a very stately, polished, young African American, with very light skin at the podium. You easily became enraptured with his voice. He is telling you things that you like to hear. He is a young Senator freshly elected to the United States Senate. Where had this young man come from? How did he display such poise and confidence?

After graduating from law school (where he was an adjunct professor) he had been found in the streets of Chicago as a community organizer. His political star began to rise when he ran for the State Senate. Serving one term for the fine folks in his district in Chicago; he decided he could help them better by being a United States Senator. He was elected and started running for President of the United States of America. He probably was laying the speech at the 2004 Democrat Convention, as another rung on his meteoric rise to political fame. But his fame was only in Illinois and basically Chicago and possibly the Northeast. A well played political game had him elected to three offices even though he had had no political EXPERIENCE, with him serving only nine years in the first two. Nor had he had any administrative or managerial Experience.

Now this writer has no problem with a well played political plan, as long as it is legal. And I’m not implying that there was anything illegal in the campaigns that the Democrats ran for Obama. But everyone knows that he had very little input into it. Why you ask? Ok, I will ask you, do you know anyone that is capable of coming from a position of community organizer to being President of the United States in less than 10 years EXPERIENCE.

Now the above point can be argued in the opposing view. But in this case a 10 year straight shot to the presidency is a little rough to swallow; when there is no FOUNDATION for governing or managing. Now it has been suggested even in this article that Obama is being managed. I have never known a President in my lifetime that was not managed to some degree one way or another. And I have seen several. That is the American political system. But in most of the Presidents I have known in my lifetime: Truman, Eisenhower, Kennedy, Nixon, Ford, Carter, Reagan, Bush 41, Clinton Bush and Bush 43 had exhibited the capability of governing and/or managing. In 2008 Obama had done neither. And all we could get out of him now seem to be that he wanted to spread the wealth around.

Well while he has been attempting to use spread the wealth around; the nation and the world has gone to h____ in a handbasket. The nation is obvious. I know he inherited a financial mess that did not jump up overnight. It had been accruing through several of the previous Presidencies; all the way back to Jimmy Carter. Not many economists probably may agree with me (and I’m not an economist); but the mess that Jimmy Carter left us in has been attempted to be managed by the following after him. But recent Presidents have not had the boiling pot that Carter left us with. They had been trying to manage it, but probably did not want to bite into the Apple because they felt they would be committing political su***de. They had not wanted to do the hard things; make the hard decisions that could bring our spiraling debt under control. Maybe if they had he would have resolved many issues that exploded 2008 and 2009.

So the result was that when George Bush handed the reins of government over to Obama he was inexperienced, evidently did not have the gifts to govern. And it is clear now that the handlers of this particular President do not know how either. Example, this past weekend the President left Washington and spoken at a commencement then he played several rounds of golf. While all the time, Iraq was boiling over. At this very hour we have Americans in harm’s way that are civilians and not military. Now I know he moved the aircraft carrier and other assets and to the Persian Gulf this weekend. And I know with all the communications that a President has access to; he can have his fingers on all types of buttons. But what galls me is the fact that this is been building for over three years. Many analysts have been predicting this. Additionally, the optics of his absence shows his lack of engagement.

The above simply In My Opinion goes to prove his ineptness to govern. And the fact that his close circle of advisers had not seen this coming means that he surrounds himself with people that are inept at governing. Or maybe this is part of their plan for chaos. There are many fine generals and admirals in the service today that have told him or sent messages that this was about to happen. But Obama tended to ignore it because it didn’t fit his game plan. He had pulled out of Iraq; the war was over; and the entire world is at peace. Again and that miss on the part of his handlers, whoever they may be, proves that he has surrounded himself with inept officials.

For a long time and even in the beginning of my ministry I felt like that it would be a concerted effort on the part of somebody to set in motion actions that would signal the return of Christ. I have seen in two years how the world could fall into anarchy. How situations can be caused not by a direct act with the intent to bring the world to its knees. It’s like a husband that knows how to of push his wife’s buttons and make her mad and he does it. Or does it happen accidentally?

It is My Humble Opinion that the world could enter the end times; not by a direct act of volition. But by the actions of people in each country that have drifted into a state of feed me take care of me from the crib to the grave. This allows inept people to get into positions of authority. Because they offer the handouts; even though there’s no way to pay for them.

I said earlier the beginning of this article that God gives gifts to men and women so that they can carry out both things that He wants them to do and things that they have a desire to do. I have seen the same, in many different levels of government. Men and women gifted for government, serving admirably, but also taking these gifts to do things along the lines of their desires. We cannot expect any better condition in our world or our nation; with people that do not know God and that do not know what it is to have gifts from God.
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06/19/2014

As many of you know I have been extremely ill since I created this page. But like I just told a friend if I get to feeling any better I would've sworn I was raptured

There is a notation onn my page J&H Ministries that indicates I am breaking up my political writings and my spiritual offerings. Also stated that I don't know but I'm smart enough to tell anybody anything about politics or spiritual affairs. But I hope you can take something good away.

But since I have been ill, I have also gotten older. And as a result I think my fingers have become fatter and my brain has definitely become older. So I'm using a dictation type device that allows, I believe, the Holy Spirit to come through even better than he did when I felt Jim flowing through my fingertips. These facts fingers causes frustration and the Holy Spirit is not the author of frustration.

And I do promise you that if you will follow me I will post something here and also own J&H Ministries weekly.

I thank all my dear friends that have prayed for me, and those that simply follow me, if I ever would write something. Well join me in this pronouncement; Satan I am taking back that which you have attempted to take from me. And further I tell you to clear the way; because I, the Father the Son and the Holy Spirit are coming through.

06/19/2014

I have decided that I'm going to divide my energies between this page for politics and J&H Ministries for my offerings of the spiritual nature I would've published this week's offerings probably on this page as well as J&H Ministries.

The truth is I don't know that I'm an expert enough in either field to be telling others what to think or believe. But now as I write I am using a dictation device which allows I believe the flow of the Holy Spirit in both the political and the spiritual offerings. My typing has been average all of my life, however, the older I get the bigger my fingers get. This causes great frustration, and does not allow my brain, which is older also, to let the Holy Spirit flow.

So be patient with me and join me on both pages and I promise to attempt to put something up on each one of them every week. Thank you for your wonderful friendship, wherever I know you from. Also of those that follow me that don't know me I thank you also. A writer's greatest reward is to know that he are she is read.

01/07/2014

THE BEGINNING OF ETERNITY
This is a post from Overseer Jerry Tomecek. Many of you recognize him as the Founder and Overseer of the Bay of the Holy Spirit. He produces many writings and some I re-post for you to read. I would say enjoy. But I need to say, read and take it to heart.

We walk through life essentially, with no expectations.

Learning from family, friends, & enemies in a multitude of experiences.

The end result is we die. Then, we are forgotten.

IS THIS ALL THERE IS?

The reality is, God created us to be in fellowship with him. Share, communicate and enjoy his vast universe and all its wonders.

He knows our frailty and shortcomings. All a result of the failure in the garden by Adam and Eve.

This sin (out of God’s will) had to be corrected for us to be returned to God’s fellowship.

Jesus came as the sacrifice for our redemption from Adam’s sin.

This cleansing affects our life, health and also our destiny.

OUR DESTINY IS TO BE A INTEGRAL PART OF GOD’S PLAN.

We have the tendency to want to be in charge of ourselves, circumstance and other people.

The result has been for people to kill, steal and destroy in order to exceed to their own purpose (flesh). Ignoring God’s providence and laws.

THIS IS NOT GOD’S PLAN.

We meander. Sometimes catching a glimpse of God’s purpose and plan.

The problem is one of desiring stuff (Mammon).

We completely turn ourselves into slaves. Forgetting God’s promise. We do what ever to acquire mammon and control of others.

WANDERING TRIBES

Man kind struggles to be in charge of self. Charismatic people ( 5 fold offices, political) have created self appointed theology.

Initially a following of people seek some stimulation from this person.

After a period of inactivity , these people, who initially responded drift away. Their commitment was dependent upon self fulfilment and self promotion.

Charismatic people have continued to keep their influence alive. Eventually these charlatans fade into oblivion.

PENETRATING THE FOG.

We watch the political deception. We see the money changers in the church.

Charlatans who see their security falling into a heap of corruption. Struggling to keep their deception alive. Calling it something it is not. Initiating their chattel into more deception, fear and misdirection.

The obviousness of the deception causes people who are aware and discerning to with draw from the circus(s) of deception.

Five fold ministries who forget their mandate become hucksters. Selling foods, with the implied thoughts, that preparing physically they can avoid the coming destruction. They have become merchants of deception.

YES, there are ministers who are fighting the good fight and do not condescend to the worlds way of doing business.

WHERE DOES YOUR ETERNITY LEAD YOU?

An eternal dirt nap or in the glorious presence of the creator of the Universe?

Pray for the Peace of Jerusalem

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01/03/2014

A couple of days ago, I put forth on Facebook a Happy New Year greeting. In it I spoke of Faith and drawing closer to God for happiness in the New Year 2014.
A friend of mine and a friend on FB asked me a pointed question, John Baxter. How do you develop your Faith? And I will add( to draw closer to God?) He said he had his own views but wanted to hear mine. A reasonable question; and I told him I would make a blog out of it. I will put it on my blog as well as here.
Now I know that I have a variety of FB friends. Some of us have known each other since before dirt. Of these I know many of us have come to a Faith in Christ or a deeper Faith since we knew each other back in the day as our kids say now. But there are some I’m sure that do not share this Faith or to the depth that I am referring to. And I know that I have some new friends here that really have no concept of what I’m about to say or have said in the past. That’s fine; I just hope we can remain friends. I have a book coming out in the Spring that expands these thoughts. The book may please that group of my friends better than the following.
But first, I’m going to put the quote by me from my New Year’s greeting.
(There seems to be a different air this year as we enter the 2014 as opposed even to last year. But anyone can as we surrender more of ourselves to God; have hope for our future. With hope comes happiness. Where does hope come from? Hope comes from Faith in the One who Loves you the Most. That one is God. To simply believe in God, may not bring the happiness you are looking for. The strength of that belief will determine how much happiness you can enjoy. 2014 is a fresh slate. Do not worry about 2013. Move on and develop your faith in God. Pursue the depths it can lead you to. Then and only then will find true and lasting happiness. God is there waiting on you.)
Sometime back I translated Hebrews 11:1 as “Faith is the Reality of things hoped and the evidence of things not seen.” I learned a little Greek in school; he sat behind me in class. No just kidding, I did take Greek in school in preparation for the ministry. However, through my old text books and dictionaries, I can do a little translation. And I do feel that the Reality does carry a better meaning today than when earlier translations say Evidence. It’s the same, but at least to me it’s a little more concrete rendering.
But using this as the basis of a thesis, “Faith is the Reality”; our faith for Salvation is the same as the faith for our healing. But many people say Salvation is far easier than faith for healing. I’m sure that there are many reasons for this but it is the same faith from the measure of faith given to you by God. The Bible goes on to quote Jesus in Mark 11:22-24 to have faith in God. However, later translations, with which I very much agree, say, ‘Have the Faith of God’.
You say okay, Jim, what do you mean by that? Look at Romans 4:17

Romans 4:17 says, "God ... calleth those things which be not as though they were." God's faith goes beyond sight. God's faith operates supernaturally, beyond the limitations of our natural faith. It is Reality.

Now to answer John’s question directly. I have gone around a mountain to get to the spot I wanted to be on this side of that mountain. But there is one scripture that does answer it very succinctly.

Romans 10:17
New International Version (NIV
17 Consequently, faith comes from hearing the message, and the message is heard through the word about Christ.
What is this message and how do we hear it. It is the message of the saving and healing power of Jesus Christ. Healing is defined physically, emotionally and spiritually. If we act on the Measure of Faith that he has given all of us then we can have the Faith of God.
We do this by hearing the Word as it is preached. We do this by reading His Word daily and gleaning what He has for us that day. But it comes by being in the Word and being with people of God, studying His Word. This is why the scripture says, to not forsake the assembling of yourselves together. Hebrews 10:25.
Now I do not claim to know it all, so I copied from the Internet a study by the Acts 17:11 Bible Study that gives another look at faith and the scriptures surrounding it.

Believing The Truth
• Faith is believing in what is true. Faith has two elements: 1) being convinced of the truth, being certain of reality, having evidence of unseen things, and 2) believing, hoping in, embracing, seizing the truth.
Heb 11:1 (KJV) Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen.
Heb 11:1 (NIV) Now faith is being sure of what we hope for and certain of what we do not see.
Heb 11:1 (NEB) Faith... makes us certain of realities we do not see.
Heb 11:1 (M*f) Now faith means that we are confident of what we hope for, convinced of what we do not see.
Heb 11:1 (Wey) Now faith is a well-grounded assurance of that for which we hope, and a conviction of the reality of things which we do not see.
• While faith requires being convinced that what we believe in is true, just knowing the truth is only half of faith. God's word must be hoped for, embraced, seized!
Luke 17:5 (NIV) The apostles said to the Lord, "Increase our faith!" He replied, "If you have faith as small as a mustard seed, you can say to this mulberry tree, 'Be uprooted and planted in the sea,' and it will obey you."
• Believing is not exactly the same as faith. For belief to be faith, it must light on what is certainly true. Yet Scripture gives examples of situations where belief alone is required, even commanded. There's no time for evidence collection, to wait, to hear, for certainty. Just believe. Like Peter walking on the water--don't think, act! God even requires us to believe in him when, temporarily, the evidence looks bad. God requires belief and trust in moments of human weakness, but faith is what makes us strong. Faith is the state of being convinced about what we hope for.

05/11/2013

Obama vs. the Truth

I have not posted in quite some time. But except for cleaning up my office, I have run out of excuses for not writing. I have as many of you have, been thinking of the Benghazi events. I have been convinced by the Holy Spirit that we have been lied to from the beginning. The pictures were clear that this was not a loose fitting mob. But it was a well organized military style attack. I even told my wife this the first time they were aired.
But this is not an address on Benghazi; I want to use it as an analysis of the openness of the Obama administration. Why you ask? Because it bothers me; I want to feel that my government is truthful with me. Let’s look at the Benghazi issue.
We learned yesterday had been edited 12 times. While 12 does not seem like a lot. But it was put out by the intelligence community. And by the email traffic not yet made public yet, it appears that only 1 or 2 of the edits were by the Authors. Then you can ask who put out the final product with the balance of the edits? The White House wants us to believe that it was the intelligence community. However, yet to be released emails in their entirety say no. It was between the White House and the State Department, THE ADMINISTRATION.

04/10/2013

Well Tax season is about over. And the move away from Go Daddy as a host site is just about complete. Hopefully I can now start again on the writing ministry that Christ has started me on.

Several topics are in the ole' computer on top of my shoulders. Maybe I can use the my computer time to the putting those ideas on the page.

01/18/2013

RE: individual Face Book postings

I am posting this type of statement for the third time in a year. I do not participate in any games or other activities in Facebook, except the posting of notes that I might have for everyone's purview or sharing of someone else s' post. It comes up occasionally that support some out of the way things like beer or other things that do not fit within my personal lifestyle or profile.

I do support anything to do with the troops, conservative causes and 2nd Amendment rights.

But I do not have time for games or other activities here.

I do not want to offend anyone but I do not have the time and there are certain things I can not support because of my beliefs. I have stated these many in blogs and postings. If you have any questions, please send me a private message.