“They’re not coming after you—they’re coming after me. You need to be standing in the way.”
—–Poster of a young child in human sex trafficking
“. . . IN THE WAY”
August 2, 2023 By Leave a Comment
DISCERN – – – AND JUDGE
August 2, 2023 By Leave a Comment
“For the time is come that judgment must begin at the house of God: and if it first begin at us, what shall the end be of them that obey not the gospel of God?“—–His Book
Discernment and judgment starts in the house of God, but it doesn’t stop there.
It’s time for Christians to . . .
– do something besides surviving.
– remember we have an offensive weapon, the Bible, besides all the defensive, protective armor.
– overcome the cultural accusation, criticism, intimidation to not judge.
– strengthen and encourage each other and pray together for faith, wisdom, and boldness to stand up, speak up, and make a difference—be different, so others will say of us, “They have been with Jesus.”
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What did Jesus say besides “Judge not . . . “?’
That’s only part of what He said then, plus more specifics on addressing and fixing wrongs in others.
“Judge not, so that you will not be judged—BECAUSE the same standards for discerning [understanding right and wrong when you see it] and judging [speaking up to address specific right and wrong to specific people] also apply to you.”
That is why Jesus made such a graphic deal about a log and a speck in the eye.
“First remove the log in your own eye; then you will see clearly to remove the speck in another’s eye.”
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Interesting observation—so many of Jesus’ illustrations and sayings stick with us thousands of years because they carry weight, because He carries authority.
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Remove the log in our own eye, to see clearly and judge and speak up to remove what is wrong and obstructing sight in others.
It will not be easy, not fun, not popular, we may not win—but we must not hesitate, not compromise, not back away, not be silent.
GIFTED . . .
August 2, 2023 By Leave a Comment
Gifted . . .
– with a voice
– with communication
– with freedoms
– with a platform
– with an audience
– with discernment
– with truth
– with boldness
– with . . .
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Now, what are you going to do ‘with’ it ?
– clearly and forcefully identify everything that’s wrong around us.
Now, what are you going to do ‘about’ it ?
– tell about Jesus and be an example.
Now, what are you doing ‘for’ the people losing their freedom and suffering for following Jesus ?
– “Remember those in bonds, as though you were suffering with them.”
– “Share in the fellowship of His suffering.”
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Now, what is the bottom line following Jesus today ?
– “You have not yet resisted to the point of shedding blood, striving against sin.”
– “We should lay down our lives for the brethren (all fellow believers).”
TRUTH – – – ALL THINGS TRANS
July 26, 2023 By Leave a Comment
Report, protest, condone, decry, defend, promote all things trans.
Reporting of all things trans makes it sound like just another news item taking its turn on the front page, for now.
And the reporting makes people believe it just another news item, for now.
Just don’t talk straight about the obvious, the elephant in the room.
Actually, there are two elephants avoided in the reporting of all things trans.
ONE, the activist trans agenda is not a passing news item, temporary, for now.
The forces pushing trans, and the powers behind the reported scenes, are using it to bring down America.
TWO, the reality of human sexuality is hidden, or downplayed in the news—under-reported stories of horrible things in women’s bathrooms and locker rooms, are made to sound like just another story.
If we don’t talk about what’s really going on—that is, normal male sex drives using trans to gain access to females—more people will go along with the push for endorsement of trans ‘rights’.
It’s just like hiding the horrific reality inside Planned Parenthood ‘clinics’ to keep people going along with abortion.
Our culture talks about everything else, and displays all things sexual about lgbt, in our face—except this:
How about interviews on the news with guys claiming trans and acting on it—how about them describing their fantasies, then their anticipation, then their real-life experience undressing with women, LEGALLY, and their feelings through the experience.
Legally legal, now ? how absurd ! ! !
Morally legal, never ! ! !
Desirable, yes, forever.
Honest, with the Truth.
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What to do ?
CONTROL ?
RESTRICT ?
MANDATE MORALITY ?
CHUNK THAT ?
MANDATE ANARCHY ?
DONE THAT ?
That is why every healthy, stable society that has any hope of enduring, sets rules—strong rules, clearly communicated rules, rules understood by all (including those who would like to break the rules), consistently enforced rules, rules based on the Ten Commandments (whether the society knows it or not).
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Where does this backbone come from for law and order for sex ?
+++You can go to the the One who made sex and wrote the rule book, and follow it, follow Him.
+++You can go to history, find what people did to make strong societies, and follow them.
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If you must resist these restrictions, then you can do the opposite, with natural consequences.
+++Get rid of God and His rule book, The Bible.
+++Re-write or erase history.
Hmmm—sounds exactly like America—currently racing to write our epitaph for the history books—and we think we are so smart, so enlightened, so progressive.
WHAT’S THE DIFFERENCE ?
July 26, 2023 By Leave a Comment
In light of the administration’s ‘concern’ that someone might get hurt from encountering razor wire on the Rio Grande—
Question:
What’s the difference between razor wire on the river, and razor wire at our prisons ?
Answer:
Those crossing the river are there illegally.
Those in our prisons are there legally.
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Our government is obligated legally (by our laws) to keep the illegal aliens out, and to keep the legal prisoners in.
HOW TO BE UNPOPULAR TODAY
July 8, 2023 By Leave a Comment
+Criticize important people.
+Get specific calling out sin.
+Preach the Bible—and practice what you preach.
+”Love the sinner, hate the sin”—tell the sinner what his sin is.
+Read about John the Baptist—and follow.
+Read about Joseph—and follow.
+Quote many things Jesus said—quote them over and over—without disclaimers, additions, or adaptations.
+Follow Daddy—he did the above, faithfully, consistently—paid the price.
So, what do we want to do—get along with everybody, or cause trouble ?
What are we supposed to do ?
Can I decide what I’m going to be like—can I decide if I’m going to be liked.
Can I decide if I’m going to confront trouble (get blamed for causing trouble)—can I decide if I’m going to avoid trouble ?
Answer is yes and no.
We cannot decide every situation we will face, or how it will turn out, or if we can steer clear of stuff we don’t want to deal with.
But we can decide what principles we will build our life on for facing everything—specifically, who we will build our life on.
The decision comes down to this—can I figure out my life myself, and count on me for all that comes—or do I need Jesus in charge of all of it ?
If I accept Jesus in charge of all my life, I can count on two things:
ONE—He will lead me where He wants me to go, and I don’t have to figure it all out.
TWO—He promised to be with me through it all.
Life is not always neat and clean and the way we want it, even for a Christian—not a buffet.
“There is something wrong with a person who gets along with everybody.”
—–Adrian Rogers
“We are not called to be nice; sometimes we are called to be confrontational.”
—–Sandy Rios
“I have not come to bring peace, but a sword, . . . and one’s foes will be members of one’s own household.”—-Jesus
Lots of people in history, and lots of people in the world today, find that following Jesus is not easy—not simple like going to church in America where life is good.
Yes, it may be easy to accept what Jesus did for us and ask Him to take us to heaven.
But there’s a whole lot more that He has to say about the cost of living for Him then.
Followers of Jesus in other parts of the world are not shielded from the hard parts of the Christian life, and the hard words, the straight talk in the Bible—like we are in America.
In many places today, when a person decides to become a Christian, other believers immediately explain what it may cost—in family rejection, in economic hardship, in alienation from friends, in physical attacks and beatings and injuries and brutal murder.
It’s amazing that we never tell new believers in America about the price they may have to pay for following Jesus.
So, millions of Christians know absolutely nothing about ‘the rest of the story’, that there is more, and it’s tough.
We select Bible verses that fit with living in our comfortable culture, and we totally miss or avoid the unpleasant things Jesus promised and His followers experienced throughout the Bible and through history.
We are left to conclude by default that there is something wrong with verses like the one quoted above.
It’s too much trouble to study deeper and understand why those words are there—especially to avoid how they could come true in my life.
I could add my commentary on Jesus’ words about a sword and division, along with thousands of others who may or may not be smarter than me.
But that’s not where the answers, the real secrets, are found in the Christian life.
And that’s where theologians stay on their merry-go-rounds century after century, for millennia.
I’m going to stick to the foundational principle for Bible Study—for Bible Answers.
Get your own Bible out, and dig (alone or in a group, with a leader or without).
I will continue to campaign and repeat this basic guide:
+Do not start with a statement of doctrine or theology, and then give Bible verses to back it up.
+Do start with a Bible verse, and then “search the Scriptures” to find other Bible verses that may explain or clarify or confront or challenge, to a deeper relationship with the Author.
It’s not about knowing the words of the Word, but knowing more closely the Word of the words.
Jesus is most delighted when we spend time directly with Him in the words of His Word.
—TEMPLE CITY COUNCIL
July 6, 2023 By Leave a Comment
Comments before the Temple, Texas City Council, posted on this site.
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LGBT LIBRARY DISPLAY
DIVERSITY
POLITICIAN vs STATESMAN
PRAY and VOTE
MIDDLE GROUND—CONSEQUENCES
TRUTH ON THE SCAFFOLD
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“WE’RE COMING AFTER YOUR CHILDREN”
? EASY ?
July 5, 2023 By Leave a Comment
Easy to become a Christian.
Not Easy to live for Jesus.
Easy to enjoy freedom.
Not Easy to gain freedom.
Easy to lose freedom.
Not Easy to regain freedom.
“Freedom will look easy when we
don’t have to die to get it.”
—–George Washington
“RADICALIZED”
July 1, 2023 By Leave a Comment
Makes me think of “africanized.”
Radicalized muslims.
Africanized honeybees.
Both become killers, terrorists.
Unstoppable suicide attackers.
Why are muslims especially likely to get radicalized ?
Because something inside is missing for muslims—a universal, deep, human need that islam cannot meet, because it is not found in their teaching.
This is the heart and center of the difference between islam and Christianity—forgiveness.
Without forgiveness, we become less than human, crazy, vulnerable to extreme ideas and behavior.
And this difference further explains why Christianity is their number one enemy—hatred, to annihilation of all followers of the true God, in the name of their false god, Allah, agent of satan.
Those who have never experienced forgiveness can’t tolerate those who have been forgiven.
JOHNSON GRASS, FIRE ANTS, KILLER BEES, AND ILLEGAL IMMIGRATION
July 1, 2023 By Leave a Comment
+JOHNSON GRASS
Actually, of the four invasions, Johnson Grass is the least problematic (that is, now, with chemicals), but it was a curse for farm kids like me who had to deal with it in long rows of maize with just a hoe.
My guess is there are very few today who know how far and deep those thick, white roots of Johnson Grass can go—and rise to live again if you don’t ‘get em all.’
+FIRE ANTS
Would someone (environmentalist or other) please tell me how anything in the world could possibly suffer if fire ants vanished, disappeared, ceased to exist, got nuked.
It can be done !
We did it before—one government project that worked—without chemicals, without harmful, unintended consequences—eradication of the devastating screwworm fly by releasing radiated male flies that bred ineffectively, and arrested the life cycle.
We had a fascinating personal experience on our farm with the final, successful stages of that massive operation, after perennial dealings with the suffering and loss in livestock.
+KILLER BEES
I guess killer bees are a bit trickier to eliminate, since they are so similar to regular honeybees, except for their attitude and actions that warrant their name.
It would be hard to kill killer bees without harming the good ones.
I know they are tracked and trapped, but the horror stories leave fear in anyone working outside.
I pray and depend on angels for protection from fire ants.
+ILLEGAL IMMIGRATION
The matter of illegal immigration has been built up to be something complicated, a monstrosity that nobody seems capable of stopping—now that it has grown so big, so out of hand, and everybody acts helpless.
Truth is, we have the laws and personnel to solve this invasion as well as any other, any time we decide to do so.
Obviously, we have not made that decision, and that is why we have such a problem on our hands, that will get much worse, quickly.
The invasion is intentional and carefully coordinated by the enemies of our country, just as surely as the pandemic, to weaken us for a takeover of America.
And this is all with complete cooperation from our own leadership, taking us down the road to surrender.