Grace unto you, and peace,
from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.

The Salvation Army, as probation officer or probate officer to an estate, is as foolish as promoting war instead of peace, ignorance instead of understanding.

For the record, I'm not anti-Salvation Army, rather the only thing I'm anti is ignorance, y(our)s, my own included therein.

For when we probate (do a study of inquiry):
http://www.godshew.org/GodShew4.htm#Probate
especially probating the will of God:
http://www.godshew.org/ShewBread5.htm#willx2
we find that God will have grace, not law
we find that God will have mercy, not sacrifice
we find that God will have peace, not war
Such is also "immutable" x 2, not option-all at all;
So until we get it: understanding, we're groundead.

We find (via seek and ye shall find) the will of God is the same in both the old and new testaments (Ps 40; Hos 6; Mt 9; Heb 10). God never changes nor does his (immutable = unchangable) will change. Rather we all change, from (blind) faith to (seeing) faith, from (law) glory to (grace) glory, from Sinai(law) to Sion(grace) and by taking the grace walk through the valley of the shadow of death (http://www.godshew.org/GraceWalk.htm) from dead end grace + law = life + death, to the living end of His grace = life, the eternal sort.

As one web site,
entitled: Salvation Army as Probation Officer (http://atheism.about.com/b/a/2004_02_11.htm) reveals: The Bush administration would like to have religious organizations deliver government services - even if the organization evangelizes and even if the organization discriminates on the basis of religion or religious beliefs. That's already happening in some places, like Florida where the Salvation Army has contracted with various counties to supervise people let out of prison on probation. Well, that's being challenged in court.

Not only is the Salvation Army acting as probation officer for law courts, but also actively $oliciting estates and acting as executor of such estates. And since they have a "WAR" CRY rather than a PEACE CRY, they're acting "contrary" to the will of God, which declares he "IS" our peace (Eph 2) who hath ABOLISHED the law (once, and for all). Such is working "contrary" to us, "against" us (Col 2).

Hello,
is anyone there, or am I speaking into a vacuum?

As I've said before, what war (?) are the Salvation Army folk (and others such like) waging if he (already) "is" our peace; And it plainly states in my Bible how he is our peace, which came about by abolition of law? The war is over, and the war is won by one (for all), notably the second of two one man scenarios in Rom 5, notably the last of two Adams in 1Cor 15, which is His grace of such allegoric law/grace, which is (already) come.

That Jesus Christ is (already) come: 1Jn 4

The "grace" (mercy, peace) of our Lord Jesus Christ with you all. Amen.

Three Wishes: Grace Mercy Peace.

Grace unto you...
from God our Father...

What sort of "week" (seven days is as 7,000 yrs if one day is as a 1,000 yrs) is the Salvation Army Week? It's a week (seven days) of "War" Crying, and troll tolling, and sacrificing of children, by parents and ministers, who force them to become child soldiers in a law -vs- grace war that's already won by one: Jesus Christ. He "is" our "peace" (not our war nor our peace + war), who hath abolished the law, and God did "rest", not war, on the seventh day.

Hence there remaineth a "rest" (peace) to the people of God, "of God" allegorically being of Grace, since that God is "the God of all grace" (no law at all) and such firstly "pure" wisdom from "above" (Grace unto you... from God our Father) is then peace-able (first of seven things pure grace is in James 3:17).

The "grace" of our Lord Jesus Christ with you all. Amen.

Three Wishes: Grace Mercy Peace.

One Christmas I took note of how much money the SA kettles raked in. It was over $100,000.

I also drove a street person to pick up his Christmas box from the SA, noted there was nothing in such that was not donated, including the labor, the food, the gifts. So where did the money go from the kettles?

The same 'used to' hold true with their Thrift Stores, getting all free, even the labor, and then selling it back to poor folk at nearly new wholesale prices, only freely giving to those who grovelled.

TgooLJCwya. Amen.
Daniel Miles