Making a Difference in your Life, in the Parts that are for Keeps!
Read part one first.
I never thought I’d see the day when the church takes (un)marching orders from the government.
How many churches do you see following all the rules from the government, even rules that single out churches, against the first amendment?
That is how many churches will follow the next mandate from the government—and become totally ineffective to make a difference anymore.
“The Christian is to show the prince how to bear the sword.”—–Martin Luther
I never thought I’d see the day when everywhere I go Americans are wearing masks like cowards, just because the government said to.
How many people do you see wearing masks?
That is how many people will follow the next mandate from the government.
Advice is not as valuable if it is limited to what we already know and believe in.
“Beware of people who understand everything about theology and prophecy.”—–Allister Begg
In marriage, what’s worse than accidents, illness, poverty, old age, death, even alzheimer’s, infidelity?
Even in the worst of the worst, one can have memories, good memories, intact, to review from time to time for the rest of life.
Divorce strips the good memories.
And, in truth, the pain often does not go away or subside.
I just heard that many missionaries of days gone by would pack their belongings in a coffin when they headed out to the mission field.
Doctrine should come straight from the Bible, not from steps of logic and reasoning. (example—Concluding that the rapture must be at Revelation 3 because the church is not mentioned after that for many chapters, could be true but based on mental calculating rather than clearly stated).
Examine the foundation steps for building any doctrine.
Is the starting premise black-and-white Biblical?
Would the people in the Bible, and those who wrote the Bible, declare, agree, that the doctrine is absolutely essential?
And, what benefit is any doctrine or any teaching that is not straightforward out of the Bible?
Keep essential doctrines simple, and not limited to the learned.
Racism is caused by systemic sin—the systemic sin nature that is in all of us.
We are like a field of dry grass that can be set ablaze under the right circumstances with the right spark.
Some people hold up a metal lightening rod in a thunderstorm, inviting their dry grass to be ignited.
Some people delight in throwing a lighted match on others’ dry grass.
The sinful, evil nature inside all of us waits for the trigger of temptation to give us the excuse to act on what we wanted to do all along.
“As a person thinks in his heart, so is he.”
“For out of the heart proceed evil thoughts, murders, adulteries, fornications, thefts, false witness, blasphemies.” and so, racism.
Systemic racism is solved only by addressing systemic sin.
Systemic sin is addressed only by turning to Jesus for healing of the heart, and then healing of our other ills.
What is the goal of socialism?
What does socialism promise?
What does socialism deliver?
Does socialism work?
The goal of socialism is power—masterminds achieve power by promises and propaganda.
What socialism promises is vastly different from the goal of socialism.
Socialism never delivers on its promises.
Socialism promises impossible things—basically utopia—to the unstable society, to the unsettled who are desperate for answers that will solve every ill, to people who will accept promises at any price, to people who have lost the value of working for what they own and defending it.
Does socialism work?
Yes, it works just fine for a few at the top of power, and it works to make everyone else equal—equally starving.
The few at the top work for the inventor of stealing, killing, and destroying—the devil.
How about trying just a little socialism, partial socialism—give the devil a little finger, and he’ll take the whole hand.
Socialism is from the pit of hell and smells like smoke.
Don’t touch it, America—Enough already—Don’t be a sucker for more lies—You’ll be so sorry.
What should we be considering for the time when things get really bad?
You mean, like now?—like real soon, maybe?
How to protect myself, and my family?
How can we get out of here?
Big talk—is it big cheap?
Is planning just talk?
Where can we go?
Can we survive?
What matters?
What works?
Any help?
“We see it’s getting bad, so . . . don’t develop an escape plan—develop an impact plan.”—–Frank Turek (on American Family Radio)
That resonates with me—my by-line on this site:
MAKING A DIFFERENCE IN YOUR LIFE, IN THE PARTS THAT ARE FOR KEEPS
The stuff that counts will soon be separated from the stuff that doesn’t count.
Then we will all understand what we really need—eternal survival.
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