PERSECUTED IN PUBLIC SCHOOL

May 28, 2022 By Leave a Comment

We have a plague in the public schools of America that causes damage and pain and death as surely as persecution around the world.

We decry the outlawing of Christianity in other countries, and the devastation to Christians—while we have done the same thing in our schools, with increasing devastation to our children.

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We must see the connection—we must make the changes.

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Yesterday I sent the following to a number of local friends:

“Who can we enlist to start a campaign with people carrying three signs around my school (Temple High School), and your school, and then another school? Three different signs, with this specific wording, one school at a time:

WE NEED THE TEN COMMANDMENTS IN OUR SCHOOL AGAIN

WE NEED PRAYER IN OUR SCHOOL AGAIN

WE NEED THE BIBLE IN OUR SCHOOL AGAIN”

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And, cards could be given to passersby:

“Your laws ignore our deepest needs.

Your words are empty air.

You’ve stripped away our heritage.

You’ve outlawed simple prayer.

Now gunshots fill our classrooms,

And precious children die.

You seek for answers everywhere,

And ask the question, ‘WHY?’ . . .

testimony to Congress by Darrel Scott, father of Rachel, killed at Columbine High School”

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If a few people, and then thousands of people across the country, carried those three signs in front of their school, some would make the connection with what is happening inside, and God would make the difference.

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Please note my emphasis on school (not schools)—that’s where change starts.

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

IN THE BATTLE

May 28, 2022 By Leave a Comment

“Sometimes the safest place is in the battle.”—–Peter Rosenberger, Hope For The Caregiver on afr

King David was not in the battle when he fell.

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

BIBLE STUDY OR BS ?

May 25, 2022 By Leave a Comment

How many doctrines do church leaders hold dear and count as given with special labels—that no one reading the Bible for themselves would ever come up with?

What is the real source of many church teachings—revered individuals and councils with authority to dictate, or the clear words of the Bible alone?

Filed Under: Educational, Faith Based, Inspirational

MASS SHOOTINGS

May 21, 2022 By Leave a Comment

Mass shootings die when the people carry guns.

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

HEART – FAMILY – CHURCH – NATION

May 21, 2022 By Leave a Comment

A nation cannot be right with God if it does not acknowledge God.

A nation cannot be blessed by God if it does not trust in God.

A nation cannot trust in God if its people do not spend time with God.

A national altar is where the leader and the people bow before God to repent of sin and acknowledge His sovereignty and accept His direction in everything.

We cannot truly have a national altar without a God-pleasing church altar.

We cannot have a church altar without a family altar at home.

We cannot have a family altar without a heart altar, where each person spends time with God daily, reading the Bible and praying.

In this country we had all that from the start, and for hundreds of years.

IN GOD WE TRUSTED

GOD BLESSED AMERICA

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But now . . .

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IN EVIL WE TRUST

EVIL DESTROYS AMERICA

We have come from: “Blessed is the nation whose God is the Lord.”

To: “The wicked shall be turned into hell—and all the nations that forget God.”

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So, can the United States of America turn back from precariously plunging over the cliff of calamity?

Yes!

How?

I just now edited this article to make everything singular instead of plural.

The heart—my heart—your heart—one heart at a time changes and turns to God in repentance and surrender—heart altar.

Then the family—one family at a time worships God together in the home, and becomes the most powerful force for good, for change, in the world—because God honors what pleases Him—family altar.

Then the church—one preacher at a time—returns to the secret that made America great within a half century of our beginning—“pulpits aflame with righteousness”—church altar.

Then we can again have a national altar—with leaders who call the people to national days of prayer and repentance and humbly pleading with God to restore our trust in Him and our God-Blessed land.

“In the end, the state of the Union comes down to the character of the people. … I sought for the greatness and genius of America in her commodious harbors, her ample rivers, and it was not there. I sought for it in the fertile fields, and boundless prairies, and it was not there. I sought it in her rich mines, and vast world commerce, and it was not there. Not until I went into the churches of America and heard her pulpits aflame with righteousness did I understand the secret of her genius and power.”—–Alexis de Tocqueville, French historian

(Word of acknowledgment to Daddy for emphasizing the national altar depending on the church altar, the family altar, and in turn the heart altar.)

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

PROBLEM WITH THEOLOGY

May 21, 2022 By Leave a Comment

I use the above title to get your attention.

Think about this:

Is it not true that almost all Bible teaching follows a pattern?

The leader states a particular teaching definitively, then turns to various Bible verses.

There are two issues with that typical teaching:

+There is not much room for the less learned (less educated) to question the teaching.

+There is not much explanation for how the leader arrived at the stated conclusion.

The unspoken expectation and outcome is this:

Just accept the teaching—and most do.

WHY ?

Filed Under: Educational, Faith Based

ABORTION – – – TWO QUESTIONS

May 13, 2022 By Leave a Comment

Ask anyone who wants to support abortion,

“Who was in your mommy’s tummy before you were born?”

Then you may have the opportunity to ask,

“How long were you in your mommy’s tummy?”

Filed Under: Family, Inspirational, Political---Cultural, Time

PLANNED PARENTHOOD OFFER

May 11, 2022 By Leave a Comment

Planned Parenthood* offers complete health care services from cradle to the grave.

Same day service.

One payment.

Save the cost of a cradle.

Save the cost of a grave.

*Planned Parenthood guarantees all our clients ‘Planned Unparenthood.’

Filed Under: Educational, Family, Financial, Health, Political---Cultural

RESPECT – or – RESPECT, IF . . .

May 11, 2022 By Leave a Comment

Another concise counsel for marriage, simplified:

As a wife, can you say, “I respect my husband”

without saying or thinking, “I respect my husband, if . . .”

Filed Under: Faith Based, Family, Inspirational

TRINITY – – – WHY NO QUESTIONS ?

May 11, 2022 By Leave a Comment

Two reasons no one speaks up about the use of trinity (as well as other teachings):

+Any questions raised about the use of trinity are generally listed as fringe or heretical, like not believing Jesus is God, and are readily dismissed.

+Most Christians cannot distinguish between words of man and Words of God, and so they accept both equally.

Both of the above are inadvertently, or intentionally, meant to intimidate any criticism of what the learned leaders have set in stone.

There is built-in, dangerous pressure to accept what the church says because church fathers said it millennia ago.

Frankly, I’m not impressed anymore.

Yes, there are impressive and comforting things said by Christians, and I add my own.

But for creating foundations for doctrine, we must direct everyone to search their own Bible first.

The Bible must be the source, not the backup, for statements written by people.

We fall in danger of communicating that the Bible is not sufficient and needs our help.

Most theological teaching starts with a doctrinal statement, FOLLOWED by Bible verses, or more commonly just Bible references.

What if all our doctrinal statements, our beliefs, our ‘distinctives,’ our creeds, simply quoted Bible verses?

When Luther said, “No, but I’m as sure as there’s a God in heaven, . . . My warrant is the Word of God . . .” he was responding to a question about feeling forgiven.*

How about including all man’s words in “. . . naught else is worth believing.”

There is plenty of room for discussion and teaching, if we start with the Bible, and if we continue going back to the Bible.

Following any teaching with loyalty to a person who said it leads to division that Paul spoke against, with names including himself (“. . . I am of Paul, I am of Apollos . . .”).

*Someone asked Luther, “Do you feel that you have been forgiven?”

Luther answered, “No, but I’m as sure as there’s a God in heaven, for feelings come and feelings go, and feelings are deceiving. My warrant is the Word of God, naught else is worth believing.”

Filed Under: Educational, Faith Based, Inspirational
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