EDUCATION – – – SMALLER IS BETTER

January 28, 2023 By Leave a Comment

About 25 years ago I was meeting with the school superintendent in the rural community of Riesel, Texas, to talk about their playground.

We had a well-rounded conversation about education—one of my top passions.

He quoted a professor from an east Texas university, shedding light on education focus:

“Give me your existing education budget, and let me build two-room schoolhouses all over the district, and education will improve.”

Amazing, there are variations of that concept gaining credence and momentum across the country–home school, co-ops, Christian schools, education pods, school choice.

Filed Under: Education, Faith Based, Financial, Inspirational, Political---Cultural

MAKE THE GOVERNMENT HAPPY ?

January 28, 2023 By Leave a Comment

You take your taxes to the post office, on time, for the post mark, and you say,

“Just to make/keep the government happy.”

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Is that statement . . .

+True?

or

+An Oxymoron?

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

ASK A BUSY PERSON

January 28, 2023 By Leave a Comment

“If you want to get something done right, ask a busy person.”

That is good and fine, because anyone who does things right for other people, will be in demand with a full schedule.

The problem is when you find yourself doing things right for others, and therefore busy—too busy.

How do you apply the principle to the things you need to get done, for yourself?

People who require your services because they know you will do things right, are not likely to sacrifice their need so you can get your projects done first.

You’re on your own, and no matter how many times you hear “prioritize” and “learn to just say ‘no’,” it does not help.

I don’t like to write articles without offering answers that “make a difference in your life,” but I can’t claim I’ve got it together on this one.

Filed Under: Time

ORGANIZED ANARCHY

January 28, 2023 By Leave a Comment

How in the world does all the reported chaos develop so rapidly everywhere around us?

Can it all be organic, springing up on its own, spontaneously, without something, or someone behind it?

Who is coordinating the headlong plunge into disaster, intentionally, on purpose, with a hell-bent goal of destruction?

And how in the world does this unseen leader get so many people to support evil campaigns, to march for murder, to vote for godless politicians passionate for evil policies?

The devil is the one.

Anyone who denies this national/international community organizer—this anarchy organizer—anyone who is a spiritual denier, is in fact the perfect recruit for satan’s evil agenda “to kill, steal, and destroy.”

While it looks like the devil is winning, does that mean God and good are losing?

God does not lose—never has—never will.

His timing is not ours.

“God’s mills grind slowly,

But they grind exceeding small.

While with patience He may linger,

Yet in justice He grinds all.”

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

PRAY – VICTORY – PRAY – – – UNTIL . . .

January 28, 2023 By Leave a Comment

We face stuff.

We pray.

We have victory.

We praise.

We face more stuff.

We pray more.

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You know, we don’t ‘arrive’ as long as we’re alive, here.

And we won’t know ‘alive’ until we’re there.

Filed Under: Educational, Faith Based, Inspirational, Time

“THE WIND DIED DOWN”

January 28, 2023 By Leave a Comment

“The wind died down, and immediately there was a great calm.”

How long does it take for storms on water to die down?

Not immediately.

With the storms in our life—we cry out to Jesus to calm them.

He tells us, “Call upon Me in the day of trouble . . .”

+Sometimes He calms them quickly.

+Sometimes He calms them slowly.

He tells us, “. . . I will deliver you, . . .”

When He delivers us, we thank Him profusely.

He tells us, “. . . and you will glorify Me.”

“Call upon Me in the day of trouble,

I will deliver you,

And you will glorify Me.”

+Sometimes He calms us, instead.

“Sometimes He calms the storm,

Sometimes He calms His child.”

Some times He changes our circumstances.

All times His purpose is to change us.

To change us, He must first get our attention.

To get our attention, He can use anything—good, bad, ugly.

Then, when He has our attention, He asks, “Now, how long will I have your attention?”

You see, the only way God can change us—He must get our undivided attention, and keep our attention long enough to develop a relationship with us.

A changed life with Jesus is not just an event—it is an ongoing, daily lifestyle.

Practice walking with Jesus—then, when trouble comes, you won’t have to run to catch up.

Filed Under: Faith Based, Inspirational, Time

INDULGENCES AND LAST RITES – – – WHAT’S THE DIFFERENCE ?

January 25, 2023 By Leave a Comment

Over 500 years ago the Catholic Church pressured the common people to buy pieces of paper that ‘guaranteed’ forgiveness for their dead relatives and deliverance from purgatory (hell).

The church (the pope) utilized this scheme to fund another cathedral.

Thank God for Martin Luther, a Catholic priest, for exposing this evil, and it stopped.

– – –

Or did it ?

– – –

The Catholic Church changed only just enough to avoid total, widespread revolution.

Their fundamental teachings and practices remain intact, even today.

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Faithful Catholics go to mass blindly with mostly meaningless rituals, give lots of money to fund and maintain the elaborate superstructure, and receive the church’s word that they are right with God, from the cradle to the grave, literally.

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Indulgences—from day one, continued today, without the piece of paper—called last rites.

Forgiveness for the dead, pronounced by authority of the Catholic Church, unbiblical, unabated.

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What about the other churches of today?

How many churches give people false hope, false assurance of heaven, by the words spoken to them from the leader, and by words spoken over them from their first days in the cradle, to their last day, in the casket.

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Every baby celebration in the church and every funeral in the church must be an opportunity to tell everyone present of their need for forgiveness from Jesus—the only way for assurance of heaven.

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

TEMPLE CITY COUNCIL.

January 21, 2023 By Leave a Comment

Comments before the Temple, Texas City Council, posted on this site. Type each title in the search bar.

Current as of this date—more added later.

LGBT LIBRARY DISPLAY

DIVERSITY

POLITICIAN vs STATESMAN

PRAY and VOTE

MIDDLE GROUND—CONSEQUENCES

TRUTH ON THE SCAFFOLD

NO BETTER

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

MORE TERRIFYING THAN . . . A LIFE-THREATENING STORM

January 21, 2023 By Leave a Comment

Jesus’ disciples lost all faith in survival and thought they were going to drown in a sudden storm on the Sea of Gallilee.

Waves were getting in the boat.

Seasoned fishermen can die just like anyone else, and they were scared to death.

– – –

Oh, but Jesus was with them, so they should not have been afraid.

Yes, just like us—we know Jesus is with us, but we still lose it when the waves come overboard.

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But Jesus was asleep, and waking Him meant admitting they were at their wits end, embarrassing.

And, just like us—sometimes it feels like Jesus may as well be sleeping in our storm-tossed boat, and in our attempted self-sufficiency we delay calling out to Him.

– – –

Did Jesus save the disciples?

Yes, that day he saved their lives.

He had a mission for them.

That mission included opposition that threatened their very lives—not by a storm on water, but at the hands of men who hated their message that Jesus is the way, the only way.

And Jesus did not save them then.

They gave their lives, and Jesus gave them perfect LIFE in heaven—the ultimate “Peace be still, and the waves and wind died down, and suddenly there was a great calm.”

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When we “Call on Him in the day of our trouble”—whether right away or delayed—“He will deliver us, and we will glorify Him.”

Sometimes (but not always) we get to glorify Him for deliverance here.

Always, forever, we get to glorify Him in heaven, in the presence of Jesus (and those same disciples that were so scared, more than once).

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Oh, the title above—

What really terrified the disciples more than the storm was the realization when Jesus instantly made the wind and waves obey.

WHO IS THIS REALLY, IN OUR BOAT, that we are following?

We left everything.

Where is He taking us?

Little did they know, yet, but it was starting to sink in.

May it be so for you and me today.

– – –

You fearful saints, fresh courage take;

The storms you so much dread

Are filled with mercy and shall break

In blessings on your head.

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

TRUTH ON THE SCAFFOLD

January 20, 2023 By 2 Comments

(Comments addressed to Temple, Texas City Council meeting 1-19-23)

“Truth forever on the scaffold—–Wrong forever on the throne.

Yet that scaffold sways the future,—–And behind the dim unknown

Standeth God within the shadow,—–Keeping watch above His own.”

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Truth was on the scaffold during covid.—–Truth is coming out now, all over.

– – –

Masking was wrong.

+Masking devastated education.

+Smiles were banned by masking.

+Communication was curtailed.

– – –

‘Social’ Distancing was a misnomer—–What should have been called medical distancing, social distancing separated people’s relationships, to create suspicion and distrust—–Division, the hallmark of marxism.

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The forced ‘vaccine’ (so called) was illegal, harmful—– now, truth, and the mandate is banned.

– – –

Hydroxychloroquin and Ivermectin were effective, and banned.

– – –

The covid shutdown closed churches, and churches complied, and didn’t recover.

– – –

Truth may be on the scaffold during the current pandemic of dei—–Yet that scaffold sways the future.

You do not need to wait for the future to know the truth about dei with its dire consequences, just as sure as the irrecoverable damage done to all of us from the covid shutdown.

You realize the current inflation came from the government shutdown for covid and the stimulus checks of manufactured money to cover their disaster—with natural consequences.

– – –

The covid shutdown, lgbt, dei ‘enlightenment’, crt, socialism, marxism—they are all simply a war against truth, against God, and against God’s people.

– – –

Catering just a little to dei means bowing down to dei and to the forces that are using dei to destroy America.

How do you destroy America?—–Destroy the American church.

How do you destroy America?—–Weaken city councils to not stand against dei and drag queen shows and whatever they come up with next.

Filed Under: Education, Faith Based, Financial, Health, Political---Cultural
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