“IN TIMES LIKE THESE . . . “

December 23, 2014 By Leave a Comment

2014 ?   2015 ? ?   2016 ? ? ?

IN TIMES LIKE THESE

2014 ?   2015 ? ?   2016 ? ? ?

YOU NEED A SAVIOR.

“In the fullness of time,

God sent forth His Son,

Made of a woman,

Made under the law,

To redeem them

That were under the law.”

AND THAT IS HOW WE CAN SAY

M E R R Y   C H R I S T M A S

 

IN TIMES LIKE THESE

YOU NEED A SAVIOR.

IN TIMES LIKE THESE

YOU NEED AN ANCHOR.

IN TIMES LIKE THESE

BE VERY SURE

YOUR ANCHOR HOLDS

AND GRIPS THE SOLID ROCK.

THAT ROCK IS JESUS,

YES, HE’S THE ONE.

THAT ROCK IS JESUS,

THE ONLY ONE.

IN TIMES LIKE THESE

BE VERY SURE

YOUR ANCHOR HOLDS

AND GRIPS THE SOLID ROCK.

(text from my Christmas card)

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GOD IS DEAD ?

December 23, 2014 By Leave a Comment

God Is Dead . . .

They tried that once,

and it lasted three days ! ! !

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THE BIBLE – – –

December 14, 2014 By Leave a Comment

—THE BIBLE—

—-I AM GOD—-

——-AND——–

—I APPROVE—

THIS MESSAGE

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DON’T YOU JUST HATE IT WHEN . . .

December 14, 2014 By Leave a Comment

Don’t you just hate it when . . .

. . . you miss a good deal?

. . . you get a good deal you can’t afford?

. . . you can’t answer your cell phone?

. . . a good phone call is dropped?

Don’t you just hate it when . . .

. . . all the news is gloom and doom?

. . . people you know get cancer?

. . . people are intolerant?

. . . Christians judge?

Don’t you just hate it when . . .

. . . your best friend betrays you?

. . . people don’t accept your lifestyle?

. . . people cram their religion down your throat?

. . . people cut your throat if you don’t accept their religion?

Don’t you just hate it when . . .

. . . preachers yell fire and brimstone?

Don’t you just hate it when . . .

. . . you end up in hellfire because you didn’t accept Jesus when you had the chance?

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LEVEL IS NOT A RANGE

November 29, 2014 By Leave a Comment

Obedience is not a range.

Timing of obedience is not a range.

Answer to any addition or multiplication fact is not a range.

Truth is not a variable.

The Bible is not a variable.

God is not an opinion—neither yours nor mine.

Life is not a buffet.

Following Jesus is not easy.

A Christian is not exempt from persecution.

Martyrdom is not the end.

The U. S. Constitution is not trash.

Patriotism is not out of date.

The Ten Commandments are not out of date.

History is not tolerant—past or present.

Experience is not at the mercy of argument.

Science is not a consensus.

Opinion is not fact—(Opinions of elite or masses do not change facts)

Evolution is not a discovery—(Evolution is an invention).

Work is not a curse.

Faithfulness is not rewarded when we expect.

Morality is not mush.

God is not late—(God will not miss payday).

“. . . government is not the solution to our problem . . .” —–Reagan

America without God is not America.

The right side of history is not decided by current majority.

Marriage is not man’s idea.

Marriage is not man’s definition.

“Be not deceived; God is not mocked.”

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“BE THANKFUL”

November 25, 2014 By 1 Comment

Be Thankful—Bible’s Order

“And be thankful; for this is the will of God in Christ Jesus concerning you.”

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PEACEFUL ?

November 17, 2014 By 1 Comment

Just say Caesar is god, and then you can worship anything else you want.

Then Christians were burned, thrown to lions, and forced underground.

Peaceful ? ?

 

Hitler met with the church leaders and told them to trust him.  “I’ll take care of the church.”

Then he “took care of” the church alright.

And Europe.

And a whole lot of Americans.

And a whole lot more Jews.

Peaceful  ? ? ?

 

Who cares if the Japanese worship their emperor?

Who cares if that makes them crazy fanatics?

Then they bomb Pearl Harbor.

Kamikazes kill Americans.

Iwo Jima—needs no comment.

Peaceful ? ? ? ?

 

9-11.

Thousands of Americans killed.

Peaceful ? ? ? ? ?

 

Americans shot everywhere.

Americans beheaded abroad.

Americans beheaded at home.

In the name of Allah.

Peaceful ? ? ? ? ? ?

 

And now, as though we haven’t surrendered enough, publicly, we invite Muslims to pray in our National Cathedral, our country’s Christian church in our capital.

Anyone with a bit of history knows they claim for Islam every piece of property where they hold such an event.

The best case scenario is that the leaders of the National Cathedral think that compromise with Islam will provide protection.  Problem is, that never happens with this ideology.

The worse case scenario is that the leaders of the National Cathedral think that connection with Islam will provide protection.  Problem is, that means surrendering to this ideology.

The National Cathedral is no longer a Christian church, if Muslims are welcome to pray in it.

“What fellowship does evil have with good, or light with darkness?”

Peaceful ? ? ? ? ? ? ?

 

For the people involved in these decisions and statements, it is a fork in the road.

It raises the question of sanity, or else collaboration with the enemy, saying this evil is peaceful or workplace violence.

This enemy is the enemy of our souls, and the enemy of the soul of America.

We cannot afford any more compromise—in our government—in our churches.

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WORRY—OR—PRAY—TODAY

October 22, 2014 By Leave a Comment

When we are up against the wall— a paraphrase from His Book:

Not anxious.

Pray, in all this.

Plead with God.

Thanks, in this.

Tell God what we want.

He made today.

He gave today to all of us.

We know the beginning of today.

We don’t know the end of today.

Jesus knows.

Jesus loves us.

Jesus holds us.

Joy today.

Gladness today, in Him.

(from the beginning of the day of my sister-in-law’s cancer surgery)

 

“Be anxious for nothing,

But in everything by prayer

And supplication

With thanksgiving

Let your requests be made known to God.”

“The God of peace will keep your hearts and minds in Christ Jesus.”

“This is the day the Lord has made;

We will rejoice and be glad in it.”     —–His Book

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MONEY—TO THE GLORY OF GOD

October 22, 2014 By Leave a Comment

Put in the form of hard questions:

Do our finances bring glory to God when they look hopeless in advance?

And then, God has to do something miraculous, or else?

Put another way:

Is a Christian who is seeking to serve God in everything, supposed to always have money to spare in the bank?

Best answer:

God does not call us to be successful in the eyes of the world; He calls us to be faithful servants, stewards of what belongs to Him—and it all belongs to Him.

The only thing that counts in the end is whether I hear Him say to me, “Well done, good and faithful servant.”

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COUNT IT ALL LOSS—COUNT IT ALL JOY

October 14, 2014 By Leave a Comment

If you think this is something spiritual coming up, you’re right.

But it is also everyday real life practical, just as surely as the sun came up today and you need to eat.

After you get past the attempted complaints of contradictions in the Bible, and you buy into the truth of Jesus’ words, you still have to face numerous oxymorons in life and in the Bible.

The title above is prompted by two such oxymorons that fly in the face of typical human reasoning and effort.

I have come to believe that God lays out principles which contradict our thinking, so that all success in life is not to our credit, and even all failure in life is for His glory.  Perhaps the hardest place to learn this is in America.

COUNT IT ALL LOSS:

“The former things I counted as gain to me; those I count as loss for Christ.”

“Indeed, I count all things but loss for the excellency of the knowledge of Christ Jesus my Lord; for whom I have suffered the loss of all things, and do count them but dung, that I may win Christ.”

Sounds like we have to choose:

—Success according to the world

or

—Follow Jesus, and give up success according to the world

Oh, by the way, the Bible also says not many smart people, not many powerful people, not many respected in the world, are called and respond, but God chooses the foolish according to the world to confound the worldly wise.

Jesus said it is hard for a rich man to enter the kingdom of heaven.

And Jesus said not many people, period, will enter the kingdom of heaven.

COUNT IT ALL JOY:

“My brothers, count it all joy when you fall into all kinds of trouble; know that the trying of your faith works patience.  But let patience have her perfect work, so you will be perfectly complete and lack nothing.”

I agree, this doesn’t make sense—until we follow Jesus and give Him control of everything.

And even then we often ask “Why?”—until we get to heaven and find out it was all much more that worth it all.

Until then we have His promises in the Bible that guarantee both our outcome and our strength for today.

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