INDULGENCES AND LAST RITES – – – WHAT’S THE DIFFERENCE ?

January 25, 2023 By Leave a Comment

Over 500 years ago the Catholic Church pressured the common people to buy pieces of paper that ‘guaranteed’ forgiveness for their dead relatives and deliverance from purgatory (hell).

The church (the pope) utilized this scheme to fund another cathedral.

Thank God for Martin Luther, a Catholic priest, for exposing this evil, and it stopped.

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Or did it ?

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The Catholic Church changed only just enough to avoid total, widespread revolution.

Their fundamental teachings and practices remain intact, even today.

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Faithful Catholics go to mass blindly with mostly meaningless rituals, give lots of money to fund and maintain the elaborate superstructure, and receive the church’s word that they are right with God, from the cradle to the grave, literally.

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Indulgences—from day one, continued today, without the piece of paper—called last rites.

Forgiveness for the dead, pronounced by authority of the Catholic Church, unbiblical, unabated.

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What about the other churches of today?

How many churches give people false hope, false assurance of heaven, by the words spoken to them from the leader, and by words spoken over them from their first days in the cradle, to their last day, in the casket.

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Every baby celebration in the church and every funeral in the church must be an opportunity to tell everyone present of their need for forgiveness from Jesus—the only way for assurance of heaven.

Filed Under: Educational, Faith Based, Inspirational, Political---Cultural

TEMPLE CITY COUNCIL.

January 21, 2023 By Leave a Comment

Comments before the Temple, Texas City Council, posted on this site. Type each title in the search bar.

Current as of this date—more added later.

LGBT LIBRARY DISPLAY

DIVERSITY

POLITICIAN vs STATESMAN

PRAY and VOTE

MIDDLE GROUND—CONSEQUENCES

TRUTH ON THE SCAFFOLD

NO BETTER

Filed Under: Educational, Faith Based, Inspirational, Political---Cultural

TEN WAYS TO LOSE THE WAR ON TERROR

January 7, 2023 By

ONE—–Negotiate

TWO—–“Investigate”

THREE—–Delay

FOUR—–Divert

FIVE—–Downsize

SIX—–Apologize

SEVEN—–Patronize

EIGHT—–Legitimize

NINE—–Compromise

TEN—–Deny the Obvious

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ONE—–Negotiate—sounds like a way to avoid war—never works for winning.

TWO—–“Investigate”—a way to buy time for p/r and the enemy—never works for winning.

THREE—–Delay—gives the illusion of patience and gives the enemy time to refuel—never works for winning.

FOUR—–Divert—make something else the issue, other than the enemy’s stated goal—never works for winning.

FIVE—–Downsize—reduce the military, to be less threatening to the enemy—never works for winning.

SIX—–Apologize—be sorry for strength that offends and makes a target—never works for winning.

SEVEN—–Patronize—appease, be nice, so they will be nice in return—never works for winning.

EIGHT—–Legitimize—sympathize with false reasons for their dissatisfaction—never works for winning.

NINE—–Compromise—not confrontation, make a deal to make them happy—never works for winning.

TEN—–Deny the Obvious—repeat of history does not apply, the world is better now, we don’t have enemies dedicated to killing us, we must avoid war, high-tech will save us—never works for winning.

Filed Under: Educational, Political---Cultural, Time

PIONEERS AND US (10)

January 7, 2023 By Leave a Comment

Did the pioneers have something inside, that we don’t have today?

Yes, several things—one at a time here.

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Pioneers had a consistent set of values and beliefs that they were bound and determined to pass on to the next generation, intact.

It was a package—with God, family, work, the 3R’s, right and wrong, Bible, morality—known and universally sanctioned in the home and in the community.

It is referred to as ‘the old school.’

Today we scarcely even know what that package is, to pass on, much less how to pass it on.

Question before us, not faced by pioneers:

What will happen when the few people who can remember the old school are gone?

Filed Under: Educational, Faith Based, Family, Inspirational, Political---Cultural, Time

PIONEERS AND US (9)

January 7, 2023 By Leave a Comment

Did the pioneers have something inside, that we don’t have today?

Yes, several things—one at a time here.

Pioneers accepted hard times, and welcomed hard work, as part of life.

They did not spend so much (time, effort, money) seeking or expecting life to be easier—like we do.

Filed Under: Educational, Financial, Inspirational, Political---Cultural, Time

LESSER OF TWO EVILS – – – OR THREE ?

January 7, 2023 By Leave a Comment

In America, with our freedom to vote, we may have to choose between “the lesser of two evils” sometimes.

That phrase is often used to just complain that there is not a perfect, or ideal, candidate to vote for.

But there is a third evil in every election—usually greater that the greater of the two evils on the ballot.

The third evil, the greater evil than the other two, is not voting.

Relinquishing the right to vote gives up any legitimate right to complain, to constitutionally “redress grievances.”

Filed Under: Educational, Political---Cultural

WHAT DO WE KNOW NOW – – – REALLY ?

January 4, 2023 By Leave a Comment

I can’t say I know it all or get excited about The Renaissance or The Enlightenment, that supposedly freed us from The (Dark) Middle Ages.

Man is always driven by the urge to do better than the past, to think we have arrived—and then, we do what we do best—we repeat history, especially the parts that produce tyranny, slavery, suffering, and massive murders.

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Philosophers influence educators and aspiring political leaders, and ideologues capitalize on the perfect moment to change the world.

And, except for the unique record of The United States of America, nearly all world-changers driven by the newest ideas, create repeated disasters instead of promised utopia.

“From each according to his ability—to each according to his needs.” Never works.

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+Communism worldwide—110 million murdered, particularly in Russia, China, Cambodia.

+Emperor worship in Japan—6 million killed.

+Dictatorship in North Korea—zero freedom, no light at night (satellite picture).

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“Eliminate imperfect people to maintain a perfect race.” Always reveals demonic evil.

+Nazism—20 million murdered.

+Eugenics eliminate inferior or unwanted, especially unborn—60 million murdered in America so far—70 million murdered in the world every year.

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It is no wonder the increased horrors of the last century, and those continuing today, and the new horrors on the horizon—it is no wonder this matches what the Bible says will happen without God in our knowledge.

Type in the search bar on the internet “in the last days” and find an abundance of passages that read like a current newspaper.

Let it sober you, to call on God, for these times.

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Beware of promises that hide the cost.

Promised utopia—at the cost of freedom, always !

And the people end up with neither utopia nor freedom, always !

And millions end up without life itself, always !

Filed Under: Educational, Faith Based, Political---Cultural, Time

SUCCESSFUL SALESMANSHIP

December 31, 2022 By Leave a Comment

+ ONE—Some products are successful simply because they are so good that they sell, regardless of the salesman or salesmanship.

+ TWO—Some products are successful because the salesmanship is just too good to pass it up.

+ THREE—Some products are successful because the salesmanship is just so relentlessly repetitive, that people believe it and repeat it and buy into it whether it’s true or not.

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Successful salesmanship apples to marketing physical products.

Successful salesmanship applies to marketing ideas and cultural values as well.

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++ ONE—‘The Old School’ was a package of information, values, skills, and beliefs that families and communities accepted as a given and committed to passing on intact to the next generation. Whether they had the best techniques or not (salesmanship), everyone involved would do their part to make sure children behaved and believed and grew up to maintain what mattered.

++ TWO—Cool and clever commercials work because they catch us and we remember them. People buy the products whether they live up to the commercials or not. Campaign slogans use tried and true phrases that win elections whether the truth was told or not. Some televangelists and prosperity preachers perfect the presentation of cool, and right or wrong, the money pours in.

++ THREE—The power of evil government officials and the ‘fourth branch of the government’, the media, combine to prove once again that if you tell a lie enough times, people believe it.

Filed Under: Educational, Faith Based, Family, Political---Cultural

GLOBALISM AND THE CHURCH – or – GLOBALISM VS THE CHURCH

December 31, 2022 By Leave a Comment

Rick Warren (labeled ‘America’s Pastor’) took the American church by storm with his runaway bestseller, THE PURPOSE DRIVEN LIFE.

Very few criticisms, if any.

And his church is the biggest in the Southern Baptist denomination.

I had reservations then, but he did include a lot of Bible verses.

Now, sadly, truth comes out, and reality crashes in all over the American church, including Rick Warren.

So many churches, leaders, ‘Christians’ are wavering and compromising with the culture in the country and the “reset” goal around the globe.

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Five minutes ago I heard a quote on American Family Radio (afr.net) on the program “Understanding The Times.”

“Globalism will only be possible if the American church goes along with it.”

Rick Warren said that at a recent meeting of the World Economic Forum—a speaker by invitation—a group organizing one-world government—a goal with one obstacle in their path, the Christian church.

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All I have to offer in return is this Bible verse:

“Whoever wants to be a friend of the world makes himself an enemy of God.”

Filed Under: Educational, Faith Based, Inspirational, Political---Cultural

(2) FATHER, SON, HOLY SPIRIT

December 31, 2022 By Leave a Comment

Read and listen to everything God tells us about Himself.

Open your “. . . heart and mind and soul and spirit”* “to trust in the Lord with ALL your . . .”* as you read and listen.

Open mind—without “leaning on your own understanding”* (or someone else’s).

Practice not fitting in words that man has added, that try to explain God better than He explains Himself.

Then, “I will show you great and mighty things which you do not know.”*

*Combining the Bible verses: Trust in the Lord with all your heart and mind and soul and spirit, without leaning on anyone’s understanding, and God will show you stuff you need to know, and understand, and do.

Filed Under: Educational, Faith Based, Inspirational
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