C H R I S T M A S 2025

January 3, 2026 By Leave a Comment

(I shared this at Church In The Park on Sunday, before Christmas)

CHRISTMAS 2025
O holy night, the stars are brightly shining;
It is the night of the dear Savior’s birth.
Long lay the world in sin and error pining,
Till He appeared and the soul felt its worth.
A thrill of hope, the weary world rejoices,
For yonder breaks a new and glorious morn!
Fall on your knees! O hear the angel voices!
O night divine! O night when Christ was born!
O night, O holy night, O night divine!

Truly He taught us to love one another;
His law is love and His gospel is peace.
Chains shall He break, for the slave is our brother,
And in His name all oppression shall cease.
Sweet hymns of joy in grateful chorus raise we,
Let all within us praise His holy name.
Christ is the Lord! O praise His name forever!
His pow’r and glory evermore proclaim!
His pow’r and glory evermore proclaim!

Away in a manger, no crib for a bed,
The little Lord Jesus laid down His sweet head;
The stars in the heavens looked down where He lay,
The little Lord Jesus asleep on the hay.

Be near me, Lord Jesus; I ask Thee to stay
Close by me forever, and love me, I pray.
Bless all the dear children in Thy tender care,
And fit us for heaven, to live with Thee there.

Have you been to Jesus for the cleansing pow’r?
Are you washed in the blood of the Lamb?
Are you fully trusting in His grace this hour?
Are you washed in the blood of the Lamb?

☆ ☆ Have you been to Jesus ? ☆ ☆

  • to the manger to worship ?
  • to the cross to repent ?
  • to the grave ? ? ?
    — Jesus’ grave is not the end of story
    — Jesus’ grave has no memorial
    — Jesus’ grave is EMPTY
    — Jesus’ empty grave means victory
  • Because He lives, I can face tomorrow,
    Because He lives, all fear is gone;
    Because I know He holds the future,
    My life is worth the living just because He lives.

“For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him should not perish but have everlasting life.”

“We love Him because He first loved us.”

“I love the Lord because He hears my prayers and answers them.
Because He bends down and listens, I will pray as long as I live.”

I love you Lord,
And I lift my voice
To worship You.
O my soul, rejoice.
Take joy, my King,
In what You hear;
May it be a sweet, sweet sound
In Your ear.

Blessed assurance,
Jesus is mine.
Oh what a foretaste
Of glory divine.
Heir of salvation,
Purchase of God,
Born of His Spirit,
Washed in His blood.
This is my story, this is my song,
praising my Savior all the day long.

☆ BLESSED ASSURANCE ☆

Will you get this blessed assurance, this Peace—
— Peace from Jesus
— Peace with Jesus
— Peace in Jesus
— Peace of Jesus
— Peace, only if you have Jesus

“Peace I leave with you; My peace I give to you. I do not give to you as the world gives. Do not let your hearts be troubled; do not be afraid.”

Jesus leaves us with His Peace.
The world leaves us with peace, that leaves.

My Christmas wish for you—in this last song:

☆ ☆ ☆ Far away in the depths of my spirit tonight
Rolls a melody sweeter than psalm;
In celestial-like strains it unceasingly falls
O’er my soul like an infinite calm.

Peace, peace! wonderful peace,
Coming down from the Father above,
Sweep over my spirit forever, I pray,
In fathomless billows of love. ☆ ☆ ☆

“The peace of God, which surpasses all understanding, will guard your hearts and minds through Christ Jesus.”

BLESSED CHRISTMAS TO ALL !

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DESPERATE TO UNDERSTAND

December 28, 2025 By Leave a Comment

Man wants to understand God.

Man desperately tries to understand God.

Man thinks that more words to explain God will help us understand God.

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Man wants God to fit our thinking.

Man wants God to be like us.

We assign human factors to God. *

Man wants to make God to be in our image.

Since Almighty God does not, will not, fit the many terms (boxes) we have created for Him—and since man knows there is God—and since man must have a god, man is compelled to create gods that do fit what we say god should be.

There is a fine line, parallel, between theologians creating extra-biblical terms to explain the God of the Bible
AND
Pagans creating hundreds of obviously ridiculous gods to worship and make sacrifice to please their god(s).

In reality, which is more ridiculous—having the Truth and adding to it—or not having the Truth and inventing it ?
And, important point, pagans are not limited to places where they actually craft wood and stone and metal objects to worship.
‘Theologians’ of all stripes create their explanations for what they worship—and then worship their explanations.

The educated God (god) scholars have invented boxes for each of their well-defined doctrines—
—and man, by nature, buys it

THE ONLY BOX FIT FOR GOD IS THE BIBLE ! ! !

They vehemently defend their ‘sacred doctrines’ like they come straight from the Bible.
How about just organic “straight from the Bible” ?

Proof of straight from the Bible or not—Does the average listener know which words from the theologians are God’s Words and which are man’s words ?

That distinction is blurred !—
—MUCH TO OUR SPIRITUAL DETRIMENT!

AND, accepting theologians’ wording as ‘gospel truth’ leads to more depending on their words—more than digging in God’s Word.

  • person, “three persons, one essence”, “unity and diversity”, “revealed truth” not in the Bible “that invites believers into a deeper relationship with God”
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HARD IS NOT THE EXCEPTION

December 20, 2025 By Leave a Comment

Hard is not the exception—it is the rule in this life.

We have it easy now—easier than the rest of the world—easier than the rest of history.

SO,
Is America the exception to the rule ?

America is exceptional in history.
But did America become exceptional without hard ?

We live in the ‘. . . prosperity, apathy . . .’ stage of nations—

From great bondage,
to great faith,
to great courage,
to great strength,
to great victory,
to great freedom,
to great blessings,
to great prosperity,
to great apathy,
to great dependence,
to great bondage.

‘prosperity, apathy’
It is clearly played out before us now.

So—is the dramatic, scarey transition to the stage of ‘dependence and bondage’—is it inevitable ?

Question facing us now:
Will this hour, Can this hour of our history turn out to be the biggest exception of all ?—bigger than our past success, miraculous success, like never before, ever in any nation ? !

IS IT POSSIBLE TO TURN BACK FROM THE BRINK ?
TURN BACK TO WHERE WE STARTED ?
TURN BACK TO GOD ?
☆ REVIVAL (but that’s not all)
☆ AWAKENING (personal repentance, public, national)

We see current signs of revival—
—at serious odds with current signs of demise—
—shaping up for the greatest conflict in our 300-400 year history—
—greater than the Revolutionary War, WWI, WWII, our Civil War—
—these enormous tests in our past pale compared to the present impending Civil War.

Add just one even greater evil ingredient that we didn’t have in previous wars, including the Civil War—killing babies.

Israel did that too, in the promised land.
They came back.
Because they are God’s chosen people.
America does not have that same status, but we were anointed and blessed by God like no other nation.

Clearly, America is at the crossroads.

Will we continue plunging headlong into bondage ?
Or will we turn to God in personal repentance, personal change—national repentance, national change ?

We are living in Pre-Civil War II, in real time.
This will not go away !

Filed Under: Faith Based, Political---Cultural

☆TO SAVE AMERICA ?

December 6, 2025 By Leave a Comment

If Trump wants one act to save America—cancel all immigration of muslims, because their goal is to take over the US and destroy it.

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

GOOD MUSLIMS

December 6, 2025 By Leave a Comment

When Obama lied, he was just being a good muslim.

Apply to all ‘good’ muslims speaking today.

Apply to all advocates who say islam is a ‘peaceful religion’.

Truth about muslims:
Peaceful, friendly, negotiating, neighborly—when islam is not in control.

Truth about muslims:
CANCEL peaceful, friendly, negotiating, neighborly—when islam takes control ANYWHERE.

Muslims have a book.

XXX — It tells them how to be a good muslim.

XXX — It tells them to lie.

XXX — It tells them to be peaceful—fake, phony, false, faux peace, to gain power.

XXX — It tells them to kill non-muslims when they can.

XXX — It tells them to crush Christians, Jews, Americans, Israelis, Capitalism, Democracy, Freedom, Women’s Rights, Family, when they take control ANYWHERE.

XXX — It tells them directly the plans of satan, from the pit of hell, from demonic allah.

XXX — It tells them how to enlist millions more to go to hell.

XXX — It is the playbook of satan, with all the strategies of “the father of lies”.

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TODD STARNES ON MIKE JOHNSON

December 1, 2025 By Leave a Comment

“Mike Johnson is operating as Speaker of the House like he’s the pastor of a seeker-sensitive church.”

Filed Under: Political---Cultural

WHEN GOD IS MAD

November 29, 2025 By Leave a Comment

What does it look like when God is mad ?

Well, this is not hypothetical, as in, What would it look like if God got mad ?

This is how it happened:

“The Lord saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and that every intent of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually. And the Lord was sorry that He had made man on the earth, and He was grieved in His heart. So the Lord said, ‘I will destroy man whom I have created from the face of the earth, both man and beast, creeping thing and birds of the air, for I am sorry that I have made them.’ “
“The earth was corrupt before God, and the earth was filled with violence.”
“So God looked upon the earth, and indeed it was corrupt; for all flesh had corrupted their way on the earth.”

He was sorry, and He was mad.
The full description of what God did follows:

Talk about rearranging the deck chairs on the Titanic, as it went down under water.
Just a few survivors, in just a few lifeboats.

God rearranged the entire earth as it went down under water.
Just a few survivors, in just one lifeboat, Noah’s ark.

To make sure we get the facts straight about the wickedness of man and the response of God with the flood—note the repetition.

“I Myself am bringing floodwaters on the earth, to destroy from under heaven all flesh in which is the breath of life; everything that is on the earth shall die.”

“After seven days I will cause it to rain on the earth forty days and forty nights, and I will destroy from the face of the earth all living things that I have made.”

“And it came to pass after seven days that the waters of the flood were on the earth.”

“Noah was six hundred years old when the floodwaters came on the earth.”

“In the six hundredth year of Noah’s life, in the second month, the seventeenth day of the month, on that day all the fountains of the great deep were broken up, and the windows of heaven were opened. And the rain was on the earth forty days and forty nights.”

“Now the flood was on the earth forty days.”

It really happened.
God had His reasons.
God vented His anger on the earth, the likes of which we haven’t seen since.

Other times God wiped out thousands of people on the spot.

Then He commanded His people to do the same.
Oh My ! Now that’s tough !
We do best to obey, whether we understand or not.
Just make sure it is the command of God we obey.
Cancel any hope of addressing God with human reasoning.
Repeat:
Cancel any hope of addressing God with human reasoning.

If He gives us compassion, reasoning (on His terms), we better take it.
“Come now, and let us reason together,” says the LORD, “Though your sins are like scarlet, They shall be as white as snow; Though they are red like crimson, They shall be as wool.”

Do we get it—His holiness—His justice ?
We can get just a taste of it.

We’re made in God’s image, so apply our response over wrong done against us—apply that to God, proper or not:
“I don’t get mad; I get even.”
God does both—but under perfect control, not like us.
God does both—but with complete, perfect vindication, not like us.
(Better re-read that paragraph, carefully.)

When God gets mad, God gets even.
You don’t want to get in His way.
Never even mention you want justice from God.
Plead for mercy.
“God, be merciful to me, a sinner” is the only way to come before God and “go home justified.”

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GOD’S DIET RESTRICTIONS – – – WHY ?

November 26, 2025 By Leave a Comment

God gave His Hebrew people specific diet restrictions, which we find burdensome, even onerous.
We say, “What for ?”

Some formulate diets based on selected parts of the Old Testament, and say they have a better life.

Then Peter has his vision where God says to not call anything unclean, especially Gentiles.

So we feel a big relief to eat what we want.

Now, why all the restrictions and rules back then ?
It doesn’t mean there was something bad in the forbidden foods.
They were forbidden because God said, “Don’t eat !”
It was a test of obedience.

HMMM !
God said before, “Don’t eat this !”
There was not something bad in the forbidden fruit on the one tree in the middle of the garden, but it was forbidden to eat it—WITH CONSEQUENCES !

Today, we may not see anything bad in the forbidden fruit on God’s list.*
But if He spelled that list out in black and white and wrote it down for us to read and know—the truth—we do well to learn from history, from Adam and Eve, from Israel, and from . . . !

One more confirmation to “lean not on our own understanding”.

So what is the forbidden fruit—THE LIST—for us, today ?
“Flee fornication.”
“Flee youthful lusts.”
“Do not commit adultery.”
“Whoever looks on a woman to lust after her, has committed adultery with her already in his heart.”
“Avoid every appearance of evil.”
“Do not be unequally yoked with unbelievers – – – They will turn your children away from following Me.”
“Wives, submit to your husbands in the Lord.”
“Husbands, love your wives, as Christ loved the church, and gave himself for it.”
“So God created mankind in his own image; in the image of God he created them; male and female he created them.”
“A man shall leave his father and mother and be united to his wife, and they will become one flesh.”
“Be fruitful and multiply.”
“Do not permit a woman to teach, nor to use authority over a man, but to be in quietness.” (in the church)
“Come out from among unbelievers, and separate yourselves from them, says the LORD.”
“Do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, so that you may prove what is the good and acceptable and perfect will of the Lord.”
“What is required of [us] stewards—to be found faithful.”
“Be faithful unto death, and I will give you a crown of life.”

*until we experience the consequences
“Be sure your sins will find you out.”

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HATE GROUP++

November 23, 2025 By Leave a Comment

We need a judge to rule that any city council that bans private nativity displays on public property, by implying the Christians are hate groups—the judge ruling should ban the city council from meeting on public property because they are a hate group—they hate Christians and Christianity.

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

HALF ____ and HALF ____

November 19, 2025 By Leave a Comment

What happened to the United States when slavery was up to the states ?
“. . . half slave and half free”

Three years before the Civil War, Abraham Lincoln said,
“‘A house divided against itself, cannot stand.’ (Quoting Mark 3:25).
I believe this government cannot endure permanently half slave and half free.
I do not expect the Union to be dissolved – I do not expect the house to fall – but I do expect it will cease to be divided.
It will become all one thing or all the other.”

He was right !
A bloodbath proved that—that this republic could not endure half slave and half free.
The bloodbath fixed that—that this republic was no longer half slave.
Some were not happy.
The bloodbath did not fix everything.
Some are still not happy.
But slavery was abolished nationwide.

Today, with a far greater evil than slavery, this republic cannot endure half death and half life.
We had hoped the Supreme Court would fix our current division, but turning the life/death decision back to the states put us right where we were before the Civil War.
We have more death than ever.
We are more divided over life/death than ever.
The threat, and reality, of violence looms over America like the impending Civil War 165 years ago.

“. . . this government cannot endure permanently half slave and half free.”

. . . this republic cannot endure half death and half life.

Many are out and out working to destroy America right now, under the banner, the guise, of socialism vs capitalism.
It’s just like some blame the Civil War on economics.
No, the cause behind that conflict was slavery.
The cause behind this present conflict, this divine judgment, is the greatest evil of killing babies.
– – –
We are living in Pre-Civil War II, in real time.
This will not go away !

Either:
The United States will end abortion nationwide.
Or:
The United States of America will end as a nation.

One or the other.
Non-violently or violently.

What will determine the outcome ?
Who will determine the outcome ?

As in all our history from Jamestown on, to today—God-fearing Christians humbly and boldly asked their Maker for wisdom and strength to endure and stand against evil, to build the greatest nation ever on earth.
That is unchanged.
That will decide the outcome now.

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