Our Footsteps: Stars and Stripes

Saturday, June 7, 2008

Stars and Stripes

Today was a big day for me. I was finally able to get my flag pole put up. I never had a flag pole in my yard. Flying an American flag is a necessity! It's like baseball, apple pie and Chevrolet.

This picture is obviously not my particular flag. These American flags fly proudly around the Washington Monument in our nations capital.

The box that my flag pole came in contained a fact sheet about the American flag. Here's a couple of items on that sheet:

The Pledge of Allegiance
I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America, and to the Republic for which it stands, one nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all.

Red: stands for hardiness and courage
White: Is the symbol of purity and innocence
Blue: is the color of vigilance, perseverance and justice.

The flag should only be flown from sunrise to sunset. It should not be displayed at all during stormy or rainy weather, unless for some very special reason.

I love my flag. Alot of people died for that flag.

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1). I believe that there is one God. I believe God consists of three persons, the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit.
2). I believe that God is holy, righteous, loving, and just.
3). I believe that mankind is separated from God by sin; that sin entered the world through Adam and death through sin.
4). I believe that, because of sin, man is condemned. Because of God’s utter hatred for sin, there is an eternal conscious punishment in hell for all those who do not come to God on His terms, dealing with their sin.
5). I believe that confessing our sins and confessing Jesus Christ as Lord is the only way to properly deal with the sin that has infected everyone. Jesus Christ paid our sin debt on the cross; reconciliation by substitution. There is nothing we can do to add to the finished work of Christ.
6). I believe in the security of the believer, that once he is truly born-again, there is nothing that would cause him to lose his salvation.
7). I believe that upon the death of a true believer in Christ, that he is ushered immediately into the presence of the Lord, where he will live in everlasting joy in Heaven, experiencing eternal fellowship with God.
8). I believe in believer’s baptism by immersion. I don’t believe baptism is necessary for salvation, but it is a beautiful outward profession of an inward possession.
9). I believe in a literal 6-day creation where God created the heavens and the earth and then rested on the seventh day.
10). I believe that the words written in the Bible are truth. I believe that the Bible is inerrant in its parts and in its whole. I believe that the 66 books that make up the canon of scripture make the Bible complete and that God inspired the words written therein. The things that were written down in the Bible are sufficient for every need we have. Not only is God’s Word sufficient, but it is far superior to any other method of handling the problems that man faces, since He has given us all things pertaining to life and godliness.