It is getting harder to be a Christian today around the world.
It will be getting harder to be a Christian in America.
As this happens, it will be getting easier to tell who is a Christian.
SMOOTH SAILING
April 22, 2015 By Leave a Comment
In the Christian life, smooth sailing is not always a confirmation.
It is more often a caution, a warning, a red flag.
Problem is, the caution usually goes unheeded.
Smooth sailing carries more weight than any suggestion that there is something not good about good times.
There is a lot that I could say to make the point, from The Book, but here I will just summarize with one comment that is not so smooth.
If the enemy of your soul has not attacked you lately, perhaps it is because he doesn’t need to.
EMPTY WHEN FULL—(trash, garbage, good)
April 22, 2015 By Leave a Comment
I wrote the above on the lid of a wastebasket, for obvious reasons.
Fact is, overflowing trash cans are a pet peeve of mine (including when it’s my own).
But as I read that label a number of times, I thought of multiple meanings and valid applications for life.
Trash belongs somewhere—in the trash.
If we do not provide a place for trash, it creates a problem, a mess, and soon interferes with our life.
Trash cans, waste baskets, “circular files,” garbage cans, dumpsters, garbage trucks, landfills; these give a designated place to put stuff that we should not save.
If these “containers” are not emptied when they get full (or covered as landfills), the trash spills over into our lives again, or the garbage smell interferes with our quality of life.
Unwanted trash and smelly garbage must obviously be dealt with regularly.
But consider the above title applied to good things in life.
If we are blessed and full, it is vital to not just stay that way.
For life’s greatest blessings, we must give as we have received.
“Unto whom much is given, much will be required.”
Unfortunately, most of the time the more we get, the more we want to get, and the more we try to get. We build bigger houses and bigger storage buildings.
What if we emptied ourselves when full of many good things, and emptied our homes, and gave away everything we don’t need? Then we could even use some of the empty space for someone who doesn’t have a home.
And one more thought.
What if we think we are filled with all the good in the world and don’t need anything, especially advice from the previous paragraph?
We all need to first empty ourselves of everything we think is so good, so we can be filled with the good that comes from God, which we desperately need.
“You say, ‘I am rich, and increased with goods, and have need of nothing’; and do not know that you are wretched, and miserable, and poor, and blind, and naked. I counsel you to buy of me gold tried in the fire, that you may be rich.” —–Jesus
IT IS SAD – – – IT IS ABOUT POWER
April 17, 2015 By Leave a Comment
The militant gay agenda—
IT IS SAD
1)
It is sad for many gay people because it hurts them—their lifestyle is not satisfying because it is not natural.
They are not content with their relationships, so many have very high numbers of partners.
Their higher than average suicide rates reveal desperately unfulfilled lives.
Their average reduced life span reveals the consequences of bad choices.
They never have enough to feel complete, and so they force acceptance of their lifestyle on everyone else, in attempts to fill the void in their own lives.
2)
It is sad for many gay people because it hurts children and families.
Children need a mother and a father.
Children need to just be children when they are young, and not faced with assorted sexuality to satisfy adults’ need to impose it on them prematurely.
The end goal and result of the militant gay agenda hurts all families.
3)
It is sad for many gay people and all people in the culture that embrace this because it destroys nations.
The militant gay agenda is on the wrong side of history.
Families with a mother and a father raising their children to likewise have families of their own are the absolute, essential building blocks of any stable society and nation.
This fact has been true in all human history, and it will not be changed now.
IT IS ABOUT POWER
1)
It is about power to push little children into a prison of confusion about what they are, preventing them from understanding who they were obviously created to be.
Under the banner of “gay rights”, the militant gay agenda robs the rights of children to grow up naturally.
The gay lifestyle is unsustainable, so they aggressively recruit, with force.
2)
It is about power to threaten schools, businesses, churches, Christians, and governments to change according to the militant gay agenda.
None of their demands, when met, are ever enough to satisfy the desperate need for more power.
The end result of this power grab—they will never reach their goal of happiness, of true gay.
The end result of this power grab—total devastation—for the gay people as well as the entire culture.
Most of the people caught up in pursuing this power do not realize that they are being used by others intent on destroying the very country that gives them freedom to pursue their “rights”.
3)
It is about power to shake their fist in the face of the Creator.
God created everything—the universe, man, woman, sex, family, government, church—and He wrote the rules.
We have the power—to choose—to break God’s laws.
God does not force anyone to follow His design for marriage, sex, and family.
So all the people supporting the militant gay agenda in any fashion, even by silence, have complete freedom to do so.
The final question—What is the end result of this power grab?
History clearly states that God had the final volley in the militant gay culture war of Sodom.
The Bible is a rock, and it says:
“Whoever falls on this rock will be broken; but the one it falls upon will be ground into powder.”
FIRST AND SECOND AMENDMENTS – – – BOTH / AND
April 11, 2015 By Leave a Comment
Religious Freedom—NO “prohibiting the free exercise of religion”
Gun Freedom—“Right to BEAR arms shall not be abridged.”
True Americans must not emphasize either one of the above over the other.
We had to have both God and Guns to gain our freedom 240 years ago.
We must have both God and Guns to reclaim our freedom today.
PAGANS ACT LIKE . . .
April 11, 2015 By Leave a Comment
Pagans act like pagans.
AND
The devil is good at what he does.
GO ISRAEL ! ! !
April 11, 2015 By Leave a Comment
Keep the land, Israel—every bit of it where your boots set foot (like God told you to do 4000 years ago).
Israel should go ahead and reclaim all of its ORIGINAL borders.
SILENCE MEANS CONSENT
April 11, 2015 By Leave a Comment
“He who kills you will think he does God service.”
BHOB* cannot say “Islamic Terrorists” when Islamic Terrorists kill Christians.
BHOB* cannot say “Christians” when Islamic Terrorists kill Christians.
Silence means consent.
Only if we immediately acknowledge that BHOB* is working for the cause of our enemies, the Islamic Terrorists—only then will we have a chance of survival as a country and the leader of freedom in the world.
BHOB*—*Barack Hussein OBama—Say BHHHOB aloud and it sounds like the warning for Christians in the 2008 election: “Beware of sheep’s clothing.
AMERICA + and AMERICA –
March 15, 2015 By Leave a Comment
AMERICA – GOD + MATERIALISM + BHOB* + PPACA + IRS + FCC + DHS + DOJ + ACLU + AUSCS + LGBT + ISIS + ISIL + ISILA + MUSBRO + BHOB* + RINO’s + DEMS + MEDIA + CINO’s + COMFORT + APATHY + SATAN + . . . + BHOB* = SLAVERY, NOT AMERICA
AMERICA—Land of the Free, Home of the Brave
GOD—In God We Trusted—God Blessed America
MATERIALISM—“love of money”—“lovers of pleasures more than lovers of God”
BHOB*—*Barack Hussein OBama—Say BHHHOB aloud and it sounds like the warning for Christians in the 2008 election: “Beware of sheep’s clothing.
PPACA—Patient Protection Affordable Care Act
IRS—Internal Revenue Service
FCC—Federal Communications Commission
DHS—Department of Homeland Security
DOJ—Department of Justice
ACLU—American Civil Liberties Union
AUSCS—Americans United for Separation (? ? ?) of Church and State
LGBT—Lesbian Gay Bisexual Transgender
ISIS—Islamic State of Iraq and Syria
ISIL—Islamic State of the above and Lavant (includes all the land that belongs to Israel)
ISILA—Islamic State of the above and America
MUSBRO—Muslim Brotherhood
BHOB*—*Barack Hussein OBama—Say BHHHOB aloud and it sounds like the warning for Christians in the 2008 election: “Beware of sheep’s clothing.
RINOs—Republicans In Name Only
DEMS—Democrats
MEDIA—Downstream—Taking America Down
CINOs—Christians In Name Only
COMFORT—Slippery Slope to Apathy
APATHY—Over the Cliff to Bondage
SATAN—filling the vacuum—“comes to kill, steal, destroy” us
. . . —every unimaginable evil coming at us
BHOB*—*Barack Hussein OBama—Say BHHHOB aloud and it sounds like the warning for Christians in the 2008 election: “Beware of sheep’s clothing.
SLAVERY—The Price—Consequence of the Above
NOT AMERICA—God Have Mercy On Us All
A REMNANT WILL REMAIN FAITHFUL
“Be Faithful Unto Death, And I Will Give You A Crown Of Life.” —–Jesus
PUNISHMENT—PERSECUTION—SACRIFICE (reprint from 12-29-12)
March 10, 2015 By Leave a Comment
What do these three experiences have in common?
PUNISHMENT
PERSECUTION
SACRIFICE
Brace yourself, especially for the application.
All three involve suffering.
Punishment—you suffer, and it’s your fault.
Persecution—you suffer, and it’s not your fault.
Sacrifice—you suffer, and it’s your choice.
Application—using the above definition, ask yourself, “When was the last time I sacrificed for anything, or for anyone?”