Making a Difference in your Life, in the Parts that are for Keeps!
Does your course seem cloudy today?
Are you facing some fire in your life tonight?
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Remember how God led His people through the day with a cloud.
Remember how God led His people through the night with a fire.
They couldn’t see through the cloud.
They couldn’t see through the fire.
They didn’t need to.
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Just follow the cloud and the fire—trust God that He is leading you by the cloud and by the fire in your life today.
(Inspired by American Family Radio and “Pilgrim’s Progress” movie)
“Laugh like there’s a picnic* for the whole world—and then go invite them.”—–afr.net
“Oh, tell the world that you’re a Christian; Be not ashamed His name to bear.”
*picnic—heaven, with Jesus
Three physical attacks per day on Christian churches—largely unreported by the downstream media.
Many more spiritual attacks on Christian churches—largely unrecognized by the church.
When Obama came to office, he made a world apology tour—he apologized publicly in other countries, saying America is not so great, in fact, we’re sorry for being so bad.
When Trump came to office, he made a world apologetics tour—he boldly made a public defense around the world that America is truly great, and great again, and shook the world with renewed respect and fear of America, as it should be.
Thank God for long-awaited leadership for the United States of America and leadership for the free world.
“We don’t really have control over whether we are successful or not—we do have total control over whether we are faithful.”—–Don Wildmon (founder, American Family Association and American Family Radio)
The principle of making a deal by first proposing something beyond what you hope for, so you can compromise to something you can live with, is now playing out in the field of democrat presidential hopefuls.
Their attempts to outdo each other with outlandish ideas plunging us headlong into socialism overnight, leave most sane Americans wondering what planet they came from (someone needs to mention that you have to be born here to be president).
They don’t seem to have a coordinated approach (except for their universal, unifying media), and some even step in it deeper than their own party leaders can clean up, but maybe, it’s a matter of conditioning the people with relentless pounding of crazy now, so that when they face reality in the new year, they can back off and sound ‘normal’ in comparison.
What a way to deal.
? Sustainable Energy ?
When crude oil first gushed from wells over a century ago, they yelled out “black gold.”
As they say, truer words were never spoken.
Worldwide standards of living have risen with fossil fuels, lifting third worlds from poverty, and booming the economies of developed countries to this day.
This is true sustainable energy, for another century or more—plenty of time to develop alternatives, if it becomes necessary.
The promise (or threat) to make fossil fuels go away and replace them with wind and solar NOW, is basically fool’s gold (aka path to tyranny).
I love ‘free’ energy (except free after ‘someone’ pays for it), and I support wind and solar power funded by free enterprise.
“Sustainable Energy” by definition must be sustained by the industry.
“Government Subsidized Sustainable Energy” is an oxymoron.
In this case, ‘oxymoron’ lives up to the derivation of the word itself—what you get when you cross an ox and a moron.
Who pays for ‘free stuff’?
+People with resources who see others in need and choose to help by sharing some of their abundance.
+Christians who follow Jesus’ command to feed and care for the poor and needy.
+Benevolent organizations that choose to use some of their resources from voluntary contributions to help others in need.
+Taxpayers (slaves) that make involuntary “contributions” to governments that give handouts to people (to control both).
Who profits from ‘free stuff’?
+Politicians—campaigning/promising the people ‘free, free, and more free.’
+Wealthy—funding/controlling the politicians.
+Dictators—surviving/eliminating all threats to power.
+Enemies—seizing/exploiting the weakened state of a people growing dependent on government, giving up freedom and free will.
(Seems like an appropriate time to re-post this item from last December, with alternate title added)
PELOSI’S PERPLEXITY
Dear Nancy,
Please do not start something in January.
Donald might finish it.
And “it” would be us.
Sincerely,
Barack and Hillary
The Bible passages about the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit are not difficult.
The word ‘trinity’ and all the other created words surrounding it are impossible.
If we just skipped the word ‘trinity’ and ‘co-equal’ and ‘co-eternal’ and ‘is’ and ‘is not’ and ‘same’ and ‘different’ and ‘three-dimensions’ and ‘tri’ and ‘unity’ and ‘essence’ and ‘1+1+1=3’ and ‘1+1+1=1’ and ‘persons’ and ‘water, ice, and steam’ and ‘light, heat, radiation from one sun’ and ‘no illustration is perfect’ and ‘triangle’ and ‘pyramid’ and ‘height, width, depth’ and ‘look like, sound like, behave like, but not . . .’ and ‘not three gods’ and ‘one god’ and . . . and . . . and . . . , then we could focus much better on encouraging people to read what is actually in the Bible.
The above collection illustrates the point of ridiculous futility created by inventing the word ‘trinity.’
All that came from just one article titled,
“The following clearly and briefly explains the Trinity . . . three gods or one?”
I must say, “absurd.”
And, ten videos with the following titles “How I Explain the Trinity,” “How to Explain the Trinity to An Unbeliever,” “The Trinity Explained,” “Share Jesus: the Trinity Explained In Under 3 Minutes,” “Explaining the Trinity to Children,” “Christian ‘Trinity’ Explained In 3 Minutes (Father, Spirit, Son) Part One,” “3 Minute Theology 1.1: What Is the Trinity?” “What Is the Trinity?” “How Can I Best Explain the Holy Trinity to a Child?” “How to Explain the Trinity: by Jeff Durbin” were sufficient to make me quit without watching any.
To make my point of ridiculous—I simply typed “explain the trinity,” and over 38,000,000 results showed up—that’s thirty-eight million—besides the eleven I refer to here.
Theologians have created lots of ridiculous stuff, but I think this tops them all.
Why doesn’t anyone else see the obvious, like the kids’ book, The Emperor Has No Clothes?
The article then went on to quote a lot of Bible verses about the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit.
Not one of the verses was complicated or hard to understand or believe, just as written.
So why don’t we just use the Bible verses, and not the man-made gobbledygook?
If we could simply let go of the invented word ‘trinity’ and the unbelievable time and effort and umpteen millions of books and articles and illustrations unsuccessfully ‘explaining’ the word ‘trinity,’ it could so free the church for the mission of the church, that it would rival the revolution of the Reformation.
No credible case can be made for maintaining the use of the word ‘trinity’ and its monumental mystic manipulations by man, that get us not one step closer to God—EXCEPT that “we’ve always done it this way,” the ‘trinity,’ that is.
Well, actually, we haven’t always done it that way. Some theologians had a meeting and came up with the word ‘trinity.’
Not Jesus, not Paul, not in the Bible, not helpful at all, not defensible at all.
I believe a very strong case can be made for the damage caused by creating the word ‘trinity’ and the distractions it has caused, as a great deal of time, wasted time, is spent explaining and defending the ‘trinity’ as a given assumption without question—precious time borrowed from sharing the simple Word of God.
Profound, theological, Biblical summary:
God does not fit in a three-sided box.
(Analogy—if you teach enough public school students that evolution is a fact, you end up with generations that believe it is a fact.)
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