Our Father, who art in heaven, hallowed be thy Name. Thy kingdom come. THY WILL BE DONE, on earth as it is in heaven. Give us this day our daily bread. And forgive us our trespasses, as we forgive those who trespass against us. And lead us not into temptation, but DELIVER US FROM EVIL.
For Thine is the kingdom and the power and the glory, forever and ever. Amen †
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better make it a handfull
Monday’s history … now it’s nap time … don’t worry, the Donald has it all under control …
https://twitter.com/CuteAnimaIVines/status/1275501628427288582
doppler sonar
Beautiful!
The Genuine Article
By Pastor Ricky Kurth
Have you ever used Romans 15:16 to point out to someone that the Apostle Paul was “the minister of Jesus Christ to the Gentiles,” only to have them argue that no, he was just a minister of the Gentiles, one of many who ministered to the nations? If you bump into someone who really knows his stuff, he may even point out that there are more verses that use the indefinite article to describe Paul as “a minister” (Acts 26:16; Eph. 3:7; Col. 1:23,25) than the lone Scripture that you can cite where he is called “the minister.”
If anyone has ever called you on this, as you’ve sought to press the apostleship of Paul, you don’t have far to go to turn the tables and give them pause and food for thought. You see, just a few verses earlier in Romans 15, Paul referred to the Lord Jesus Christ as just “a minister of the circumcision” (v. 8).
How can this be? How can the Son of God be anything other than the minister of the people He came to save (Matt. 1:21; 20:28)? I believe it is because, while the Lord Jesus was God in the flesh, He did not come into this world to sit in an ivory tower and dispatch other men to minister to the circumcision. He Himself was on the front line of the battle for the souls of men, standing shoulder to shoulder with other ministers of the circumcision, men like John the Baptist, the twelve, the seventy, and any and all others who ministered to “the lost sheep of the house of Israel” (Matt. 10:6) in the face of opposition that came from men and devils alike.
In the same way, there is no question that the Apostle Paul was the minister of Jesus Christ to the Gentiles, the preeminent minister of the uncircumcision, as even an examination of the passages where he is called “a minister” will show (Acts 26:16-18; Eph. 3:1-7; Col. 1:24-29). But like his Lord, Paul was in the trenches, duking it out with the enemies of his gospel, standing shoulder to shoulder in the battle for truth with men like Timothy and Titus and Aristarchus and Epaphras and others.
So stick to your guns when it comes to standing for the distinctiveness of the apostleship and message of Paul. In the face of opposition from men and devils alike, continue to insist that whether he’s called by the definite or indefinite article, the Apostle Paul was the genuine article!
https://www.bereanbiblesociety.org/the-genuine-article/
Romans 15:16 That I should be the minister of Jesus Christ to the Gentiles, ministering the gospel of God, that the offering up of the Gentiles might be acceptable, being sanctified by the Holy Ghost.
Acts 26:16 But rise, and stand upon thy feet: for I have appeared unto thee for this purpose, to make thee a minister and a witness both of these things which thou hast seen, and of those things in the which I will appear unto thee;
Ephesians 3:7 Whereof I was made a minister, according to the gift of the grace of God given unto me by the effectual working of his power.
Colossians 1:23 If ye continue in the faith grounded and settled, and be not moved away from the hope of the gospel, which ye have heard, and which was preached to every creature which is under heaven; whereof I Paul am made a minister;
25 Whereof I am made a minister, according to the dispensation of God which is given to me for you, to fulfil the word of God;
Romans 15:8 Now I say that Jesus Christ was a minister of the circumcision for the truth of God, to confirm the promises made unto the fathers:
Matthew 1:21 And she shall bring forth a son, and thou shalt call his name JESUS: for he shall save his people from their sins.
Matthew 20:28 Even as the Son of man came not to be ministered unto, but to minister, and to give his life a ransom for many.
Matthew 10:6 But go rather to the lost sheep of the house of Israel.
Acts 26:16 But rise, and stand upon thy feet: for I have appeared unto thee for this purpose, to make thee a minister and a witness both of these things which thou hast seen, and of those things in the which I will appear unto thee;
17 Delivering thee from the people, and from the Gentiles, unto whom now I send thee,
18 To open their eyes, and to turn them from darkness to light, and from the power of Satan unto God, that they may receive forgiveness of sins, and inheritance among them which are sanctified by faith that is in me.
Ephesians 3:1 For this cause I Paul, the prisoner of Jesus Christ for you Gentiles,
2 If ye have heard of the dispensation of the grace of God which is given me to you-ward:
3 How that by revelation he made known unto me the mystery; (as I wrote afore in few words,
4 Whereby, when ye read, ye may understand my knowledge in the mystery of Christ)
5 Which in other ages was not made known unto the sons of men, as it is now revealed unto his holy apostles and prophets by the Spirit;
6 That the Gentiles should be fellowheirs, and of the same body, and partakers of his promise in Christ by the gospel:
7 Whereof I was made a minister, according to the gift of the grace of God given unto me by the effectual working of his power.
Colossians 1:24 Who now rejoice in my sufferings for you, and fill up that which is behind of the afflictions of Christ in my flesh for his body’s sake, which is the church:
25 Whereof I am made a minister, according to the dispensation of God which is given to me for you, to fulfil the word of God;
26 Even the mystery which hath been hid from ages and from generations, but now is made manifest to his saints:
27 To whom God would make known what is the riches of the glory of this mystery among the Gentiles; which is Christ in you, the hope of glory:
28 Whom we preach, warning every man, and teaching every man in all wisdom; that we may present every man perfect in Christ Jesus:
29 Whereunto I also labour, striving according to his working, which worketh in me mightily.
“Have you ever used Romans 15:16 to point out to someone that the Apostle Paul was “the minister of Jesus Christ to the Gentiles,” only to have them argue that no, he was just a minister of the Gentiles, one of many who ministered to the nations?”
Let’s examine this further to get clarity on the article usage matter. If you read the New King James Version, the NIV, the ESV, Young’s Literal Translation which along with the Berean Literal Bible, the NET Bible, the NASB, the Berean Study Bible, and others, they use “a minister” and not “the minister”. While that is noteworthy, it isn’t sufficient in and of itself to make the determination, so it behooves us to go to the Greek texts from which the English is translated — something which writers of these articles have done time and again to make a point.
“You see, just a few verses earlier in Romans 15, Paul referred to the Lord Jesus Christ as just “a minister of the circumcision” (v. 8).”
The referenced part of Romans 15:8 does not in fact contain an article whatsoever related to “a servant (diakonon) of the circumcision”. The only other apparent use in Scripture of the same specific tense of diakonon is a chapter later in Romans 16:1 (with the KJV and the other translations appearing to agree on the indefinite article), where Phoebe is referred to without a preceding article in the Greek as “a servant of the church” (diakonon tēs ekklēsias).
Notably, the same verse describes Phoebe with a definite article (tēn) preceding “sister of us” (tēn adelphēn hēmōn), with “the sister of us” generally put in English translations as “our sister”, as well as the definite article preceding “the church” (tēs ekklēsias). In like manner, Romans 15:16 has no article preceding “minister” (leitourgon), even though it does have one (ta) preceding Gentiles (leitourgon ta ethnē).
Philippians 2:5, which contains apparently the only other use of leitourgon in Scripture with that specific tense usage of the word, sees Paul referring to Epaphroditus as “the brother and fellow worker and fellow soldier of me” (ton adelphon kai synergon kai systratiōtēn mou). Yet in what appears to be the same thought carried in the same sentence, no article is used when Paul describes him to the Philippians as “messenger of you, and minister of the need of me” (hymōn de apostolon kai leitourgon tēs chreias mou).
Of course, Epaphroditus was not “the” messenger to the Philippians but “a” messenger, having first evidently had Paul and Silas as messengers of them (cf. Acts 16). Given the weight of evidence from the original Greek and the practices concerning the presence or absence of articles, one can see the apparent futility in casting Paul as “the” versus “a” minister to the Gentiles based on the original text of Romans 15:16.
“In the same way, there is no question that the Apostle Paul was the minister of Jesus Christ to the Gentiles, the preeminent minister of the uncircumcision, as even an examination of the passages where he is called “a minister” will show”
Authentic Christians are not prone to diminish Paul’s ministry any more than they would do with any apostle. However, they also don’t elevate him to a level of focus and authority that even he did not appear remotely to do in his ministry.
“If anyone has ever called you on this, as you’ve sought to press the apostleship of Paul, you don’t have far to go to turn the tables and give them pause and food for thought.”
Ask yourself if Scripture indicated that Paul demonstrated a mindset to get others to “press the apostleship of Paul”, especially when it takes all a servant of God has in this life to emphasize Jesus Christ and the good news of salvation to a lost world. Consider the ministries broadcasting on shortwave into restricted nations, or outreach workers embedded in the same challenging circumstances. How many of them can hope to do much more than the necessary thing of preaching Christ crucified (cf. 1 Cor. 1:23) while trusting that doctrine seasoned by “every Scripture” will equip believers (cf. 2 Timothy 3:16-17), let alone have time prioritized for pressing the ministry of anyone aside from the Lord’s?
Notably, all of this not only goes to the notion of not elevating one apostle over others as far as the message itself, but to the later issue that arose in Corinth of divisions and quarrels saying that Paul rebuked” “Now I mean this, that each of you says, “I indeed am of Paul,” and “I of Apollos,” and “I of Cephas,” and “I of Christ”” (1 Cor. 1 :12). In reply, “Therefore let no one boast in men. For all things are yours, whether Paul, or Apollos, or Cephas, or the world, or life, or death, or things present, or things to come—all are yours, and you of Christ, and Christ of God” (1 Cor. 3:21-23). Paul also spoke in 1 Cor. 3 of those making such distinctions as being fleshly, while noting that though each had certain functions and servants and fellow workers, “neither the one planting nor the one watering is anything, but only God, the One giving growth” (cf. 1 Cor. 3:7, 1-9).
“elevate him to a level of focus and authority that even he did not appear remotely to do in his ministry.”
“if Scripture indicated that Paul demonstrated a mindset to get others to “press the apostleship of Paul”
How about this verse?
Romans11:13 For I speak to you Gentiles, inasmuch as I am the apostle of the Gentiles, I magnify mine office:
Paul did not preach the same message as the 12 Apostles to the nation Israel
Galatians 2:7 But contrariwise, when they saw that the gospel of the uncircumcision was committed unto me, as the gospel of the circumcision was unto Peter;
Peter tells his followers likewise:
2 Peter 3:16 As also in all his epistles, speaking in them of these things; in which are some things hard to be understood, which they that are unlearned and unstable wrest, as they do also the other scriptures, unto their own destruction.
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Did Paul Preach A Different Gospel?
Although every man at any time is saved by the grace of God through faith, the content of faith differs from one dispensation to the next. That is, the message that is offered and believed for righteousness and salvation varies according to God’s progressive revelation.
As discussed in ‘What are the different gospels in the Bible?’ various people at sundry times were counted righteous as a result of faithful obedience to separate messages.
Where Abraham was counted righteous as a result of his obedience of faith to a promised nation, Moses taught the obedience of faith in the law for righteousness (Genesis 15:6, Deut 6:25). John the Baptist taught water baptism for remission of sins, and Jesus taught the ‘seeking the kingdom’ as a gospel worthy of righteousness (Mark 1:4, Matt 6:33).
Later the disciples witnessed the death and resurrection of the Messiah and testified of the endurance of the saints for attaining salvation (1 Peter 1:7-9). The message taught by Peter, James, and John was that Jesus was the promised Son of God, and whomever believed this truth and followed the commandments would be counted worthy of eternal life (Acts 3:26, 1 John 5:12).
https://graceambassadors.com/salvation/did-paul-preach-a-different-gospel
1 Corinthians 14:38 But if any man be ignorant, let him be ignorant.
“If you read the New King James Version, the NIV, the ESV, Young’s Literal Translation which along with the Berean Literal Bible, the NET Bible, the NASB, the Berean Study Bible, and others.”
NO, I do not
2 Corinthians 2:17 For we are not as many, which corrupt the word of God: but as of sincerity, but as of God, in the sight of God speak we in Christ.
“the weight of evidence from the original Greek”
No one alive today speaks that version of Greek. A professor that studied it for 10 years once said he considered himself at about the 4th grade level, comparatively speaking.
Romans 16:17 ¶ Now I beseech you, brethren, mark them which cause divisions and offences contrary to the doctrine which ye have learned; and avoid them.
18 For they that are such serve not our Lord Jesus Christ, but their own belly; and by good words and fair speeches deceive the hearts of the simple.
https://twitter.com/CuteAnimaIVines/status/1262199708073820161
Outstanding! Thanks for the giggle, Stillwater. ???. I needed that.
Sungkyunkwan Scandal – If I Was a Woman – Bonnie Tyler – A music video for the female student who was passing as a boy at an historical Korean academy and the uncomfortable, and not-too-bright, boys who couldn’t figure out that their intriguing friend was really a girl.
https://youtu.be/FS0q7ikSfgc
Sungkyunkwan Scandal is a Korean women’s lib drama set in the Joseon era. Having eavesdropped on the lessons of her brother before her father’s death, Kim Yoon Hee takes on the task of earning money to buy her brother’s medicine. When she’s tricked into applying to the Sungkyunkwan school for future officials, it’s worth her life and that of her family’s lives if she’s discovered, the education of women being then prohibited. A traditional college drama of bullying and first loves set in an historical context. The mystery of who killed the previous king brings out the conflicts between the Sungkyunkwan (Sung kyun kwan) sons and their official fathers. 20 episodes.
https://www.viki.com/tv/1205c-sungkyunkwan-scandal
https://twitter.com/CuteAnimaIVines/status/1283111775987281925
Lol, love it!
All clean now!
I’ve been looking for one of those self-washing dogs.
https://twitter.com/CuteAnimaIVines/status/1315726685493436416
https://twitter.com/CuteAnimaIVines/status/1254483135833804801
Or bait…..
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lueKyutWBE8
These two just seem to go together . . .
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GeXNVEQY3AM
This one kinda fits also, Garrison, especially where we are in our nation…..
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sdq2mmpiuP4&feature=share
Always been on of my favorites.
One of mine, too. This was a genuinely creative period for Henley.
His take on the news and journalists was a poke in the eye.
While it certainly was an accurate description of the state of ‘journalism’ in the country, “Dirty Laundry” was his reaction to the press reporting on the 16 year old girl, found dead of a drug overdose, at his home…
Yep. Heavy duty drug use was the ugly underside LA based music.
Ugh!
Lord have mercy.
. . . but deliver us from the Evil One.
Prayer of Saint Ioannikios the Great (+ 846)
My hope is the Father, my refuge the Son, my protection the Holy Spirit. O Holy Trinity, glory to Thee.
Tun Tavern, November 10, 1775
Happy 240th Birthday to my USMC brothers and sisters! Semper Fi!
Apologies, my math is off, it is our 245th birthday.
It is said that the snake as depicted on the Gadsden flag later, was first observed by Benjamin Franklin painted on the drum of one of the first two Marine companies formed.
Didn’t know that rah. Very cool. Thank you.
Happy Birthday.
Semper Fi.
And back atcha, brother!
Happy Birthday, Marines!
Commandant’s 245th Marine Corps Birthday Message
“Cause she’s been through the fire before, and I think she can take a lot more,”
One thing I recognized is that Trump—and us—-are pretty much alone in this fight. I’ve watched Rudy and Sidney lay the legal parameters of the vote fraud that was designed to capture the presidency. There’s no doubt that the equal protection clause of the constitution had been violated: Honest, registered voters—those who showed up in early voting or on actual voting day—have been shamefully discriminated against by a national criminal enterprise involving the Democrat Party aimed at flooding the ballot process with unverified “ballots”.
Basically, the mail-in voter scheme created a double-standard. In civil right law terms, there was a disparate impact where one group—the mail-in voters—had a less stringent standard than election day voters. The resulting double standard is both intentional and discriminatory. It is fundamentally a violation of the equal rights amendment—election day voters, who had to be formally registered are being held to a different standard than mail-in voters,
While I am sort of encouraged that AG Barr, is finally investigating such obvious fraud, I am also extremely suspicious of both the DOJ and FBI, both which have repeatedly revealed themselves—along with the entire federal bureaucracy—to be part of the Deep State that is aligned against the president. The fate of our nation is threatened. The forces arrayed against us are formidable. What it all comes down to, is a hard fact: President Trump—and us—are in this fight virtually alone. We need to keep our hearts strong. We need to speak the truth. The need to speak it loudly enough that even those who would prefer to slink away will too embarrassed to do anything other than stand firm. The fate our republic demands this.
…and pray like we’ve never prayed before…for heavenly intervention…???
And don’t back down.
https://www.google.com/search?q=Johnny+Cag+i+wont+back+down&oq=Johnny+Cag+i+wont+back+down&aqs=chrome..69i57j0l5.101
Watched a very long and detailed video on another thread. There were a couple of things that stood out that don’t often get mentioned. One is the Democrat computer initiative, NGP Van:
https://www.ngpvan.com/
The other is a reminder about the “Help America Vote Act” of 2002 (HAVA). After being reminded, I remember the warnings and the controversy that this would open us up to fraud. Because it was “Computer!”, expensive, and “Progress!” HAVA passed, supposedly to prevent a repeat of the 2000 election mess. However, the investigator went through a long list of problems with HAVA: Most voting systems connected to the internet and vulnerable to many types of manipulation at the local and distant level; lack of transparency; state administrators granting waivers to private companies who can do whatever, nobody knows anything about them. Our elections should be much more secure:
https://www.thoughtco.com/help-america-vote-act-4776051
New Orleans now has a murder rate that’s the highest in years, it puts the city back into the top 3 murder cities in the US. Over the last year the mayor has placed roadblocks into the police’s path that make it more difficult for them to do their job and now she’s chosen, in the wake of this murder spree, to furlough police along with other city workers (I use the term loosely) – though no one’s heard a peep about the mayor or the city council taking furloughs or even salary cuts.
The independent and civilian-expert Metropolitan Crime Commission says otherwise, saying the furlough is really a bad idea since at this point Damascus is looking safer than NOLA but the police chief (appointed by the mayor) denies that, claiming that the furlough only accounts for the loss of about one officer per shift…at times. Meanwhile, back at the ranch…
One would think that the mayor would be out pounding on the podium, blasting the thugs committing these dastardly deeds, and when she announced a press conference we thought that she’d do that…but no. The subject of her fire breathing today was a Christian music concert that she claims was illegally held in the French Quarter this weekend, some 400 people singing and praising. For some reason NOPD shut down the street it was on, directed traffic around it and treated it to free control. The mayor will investigate why NOPD didn’t break it up with truncheons and tear gas, arresting the principals in the process, but they say they were following her directions about how to deal with protests and demonstrations she put in place during the antifa and Take ‘Em Down peaceful protests. Apparently these directions only apply to Leftist trash and not peaceful Christians assembling to praise the Lord. Interesting thing was she harped on so many not wearing masks yet the news was showing hundreds of people in the Quarter this weekend with precious few wearing masks. It appears that this Christian gathering didn’t draw much of city hall’s attention until it started to blossom on social media, making some of us wonder if city hall told the police that work the Quarter to lay off non-mask-wearers for business purposes and they applied that to the Christian concert?
When one considfers the mess the mayor has on her hands from this murder orgy going on she’d welcome help from every quarter, especially God…but then she’s a Democrat.
Minneapolis (70+), and Saint Paul (26+) homicide numbers are never reported together (if at all) by enemedia.
Violent crimes are WAY up.
Seems whenever the Rats need to whip-up their innercity base the murder rate goes up. Things will get soooo much better when Biden takes away those guns from the systemic racists, thugs will then feel safe and go back to studying for the ministry or rocket science.
Reading the complete Psalms every month…
Morning Psalm reading: 49, 50, and 51 (LXX numbering); 50, 51, and 52 (Masoretic numbering)
Evening Psalm reading: 52, 53, and 54 (LXX numbering); 53, 54, and 55 (Masoretic numbering)
My American brothers and sisters, this is your Israeli supporter. I just wanted to let you know that I truly understand your feelings! There is nothing more devastating than injustice, I pray that justice will prevail.
I would like to share something personal that may give you some proportions and something to learn from. My father at about 16 or 17 old lived in Poland and escaped Poland on bicycle when the Nazis arrived. He left behind his older parents and sister who choose to stay.
He arrived to Russia and passed the border with a great risk to his life after he bribed a senior official in Russia. He joined the Jewish Brigade in the Russian Army which had thousands of Jewish soldiers. The Russians were antisemite and and sent the Jewish Brigade on a suicide mission to stop the powerful Nazis. The entire Brigade got wiped out and fortunately my father who was injured weeks before from a shrapnel met a Jewish nurse who persuaded him to stay in the hospital an extra week in which the Brigade got annihilated. My father then, in the confusion of war got picked up by another Brigade and managed to get on an officer course and continued fighting the Nazis in the worst weather conditions and shortage of supplies. When the war was over he then had a trip back to Poland to his home and there was another Polish family living in his home and all other homes. His entire family got wiped out in Concentration camps. No parents, no sister, no uncles, no cousins, nor aunts.
He then came back to Russia and a short while later escaped Russia at a great risk to his life and with a group of Jewish people they pretended to be Italian soldiers returning from war and passed nation by nation (by train) at great risk, arrived to Italy and took an illegal ship and arrived to Israel.
Upon arrival the British occupiers in Israel immediately arrested him and others and put them in prison for months. Upon release he joined the resistance to the British occupier and fought the British. His organization was a target of the British who would hang anyone they caught. The British left in 1948 and Israel declared independence, that same night some 10 Arab nation declared war against Israel which was only a few hundred thousand people, many of whom were refugees from Europe who lost everyone and everything. By some miracle and huge loss of life, Israel won the war. My father was among those who established the Israeli army with his knowledge from World War 2. After that he was involved in three more wars against Arab attacks. He always taught me to keep my head high and not get into a victim state of mind. Now, my mom was less fortunate and was a survivor from Aushwitz concentration camp. Here story is of mental health problems which is really sad.
The reason I am telling you all this is because we should never be a generation of spoiled people.
We should always pay attention to what the enemy is intending. The Jews didn’t believe that what Hitler said he will do will actually happen. Many inside concentration camps were still thinking “it’s all just temporary”.
We should always be willing to pay the price of freedom which is constant alertness and willingness to fight back. The power of spirit is immense. Whatever happens with Trump, America will rise again. And remember that Israel was founded socialist and the people simply voted them out after they saw the unworkability and corruption of the system, and people never forgot for generations which is why Israel has some 70% of the Jews against Socialism and liberalism.
Whatever is happening with Trump must have a reason. Here is a translated song which may apply. I hope my long comment was not too much. Enjoy.
David ,
Thank You for Sharing Your Story ,
I Always Appreciate Your Timely Contributions
to the Treehouse ?
I Hope You and Your Family are Well ?
Thank you!!!
Thank you, David, for the biographical stories of your father. Very touching. When we realize the terrible times that so many have endured with nothing but a slim hope that they would survive to even have a future, we are humbled. We humans survive against the odds for a reason, for many reasons actually…one of which is so that we may search out and serve justice.
The Hebrew prophet Amos challenged his people to think about justice and righteousness and to repent of not obeying God’s command to seek them.
Amos 5:24 – “But let justice roll down like waters,
and righteousness like an ever-flowing stream.”
We liberty-loving Americans have no desire to live under the elite who intend to force socialism upon us. Under such a system, mistreatment of our fellow citizens by the elite will become rampant just like it was in the time of Amos. For this reason we pray for justice to be done in sorting out our election and exposing the fraud. Freedom lives within us, and to lose our physical freedom via the many unjust laws they intend passing is horrifying.
May God have mercy upon America and upon freedom-loving peoples all around the world.
Thank you for your wise and touching answer!
Thank you for sharing such unfortunate circumstances with such inspiration and encouragement. God bless you and your family.
Thank you for acknowledging me!
David, Thank you. We voted out the swamp with Trump, or tried to do so. I believe the “Dominion” voting machines and “Hammer” is enabling this cheat across key states.
I hope Trump team has a way of finding the fraud . It is massive. I know Sidney Powell has spoken of these systems already.
Pray!
Understood, very much!
Baby Lives Matter.
Mornin’ infidels!
https://twitter.com/_youhadonejob1/status/1325868142665588736
Perfect, WeeWeed! What’s that old saying? “When you’re up to your neck in alligators, it’s hard to remember that your initial objective was to drain the swamp.”
Mornin WeeWeed
Mornin’ Margot!
Sort of like a big frog with teeth. That is what Steve Erwin said just before the gator he was showing at his zoo snapped down on his finger.
They always have a sort of evil smile on their snouts.
RIP Steve!
Mornin’ WeeWeed!
Mornin’ DI!
At least Indiana Jones only faced reptiles if he fell INTO the river…
Mornin’ LJP!
G’day (belatedly) Your WeeNess!
Evenin’ LJP!
Verse of the Day for Tuesday, November 10, 2020
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“For even the Son of man came not to be ministered unto, but to minister, and to give his life a ransom for many.”
Mark 10:45 (KJV)
Thank You, Jesus, for blessings received and prayers answered!!!
Tuesday Blessing
Jesus Loves Babies…Pray for the Unborn
Jesus Loves the Little Children – Pray for the Little Children
Jesus Loves You – Come to Him
Be My Voice
A prayer song for President Trump:
Some of the lyrics:
I’m praying God come
And turn this thing around …
God, turn it around
All of my hope
Is in the name
The name of Jesus
Breakthrough will come
…
God is doing something right now
He is moving mountains
Making a way for someone …
Re: Debates
Why not have two moderators. One republican will ask questions of the democrat and vice versa.
What would be wrong with that?
Unseal and release all of Obama’s personal life history documents/records from the time of his birth through to his election to the Senate.
Requesting for an avid Obama supporter.
FELLOWSHIP IN THE GOSPEL
“Fellow labourer in the gospel of Christ.” 1 Thess. iii. 2
After sanctification it is difficult to state what your aim in life is, because God has taken you up into His purpose by the Holy Ghost; He is using you now for His purposes throughout the world as He used His Son for the purpose of our salvation. If you seek great things for yourself – God has called me for this and that; you are putting a barrier to God’s use of you. As long as you have a personal interest in your own character, or any set ambition, you cannot get through into identification with God’s interest. You can only get there by losing for ever any idea of yourself and by letting God take you right out into His purpose for the world, and because your goings are of the Lord, you can never understand your ways.
I have to learn that the aim in life is God’s, not mine. God is using me from His great personal standpoint, and all He ask of me is that I trust Him, and never say – Lord, this gives me such a heart-ache. To talk in that way makes me a clog. When I stop telling God what I want, He can catch me up for what He wants without let or hindrance. He can crumple me up or exalt me, He can do anything He chooses. He simply asks me to have implicit faith in Himself and in His goodness. Self-pity is of the devil, if I go off on that line I cannot be used by God for His purpose in the world. I have “a world within the world” in which I live, and God will never be able to get me outside it because I am afraid of being frost-bitten.
Oswald Chambers
November 10th Devotional
IF no one else around him does I believe President Trump himself understands that if he does not neutralize his enemies right now then his enemies will most certainly destroy him. The communists have made it clear since waaay before the days of Whitaker Chambers that if you cross them they will destroy you. Remember Seth Rich. Mr. Trump has no illusions about being allowed to go quietly into that good night. If he does not neutralize the powers arrayed against him now then the evil communist chinese and their U.S. minions will hound Mr. Trump, including everything & everyone associated with his life, into oblivion. I do not imagine a man like Mr. Trump came down that escalator with any illusions about the task he’d set for himself. Godspeed President Donald John Trump.
Trump’s biggest problem REMAINS to be that he is surrounded by passive/aggressive traitors who undermine his every effort. In effect, he’s fighting with a rubber gun.
16 And he answered, Fear not: for they that be with us are more than they that be with them.
17 And Elisha prayed, and said, Lord, I pray thee, open his eyes, that he may see. And the Lord opened the eyes of the young man; and he saw: and, behold, the mountain was full of horses and chariots of fire round about Elisha.
18 And when they came down to him, Elisha prayed unto the Lord, and said, Smite this people, I pray thee, with blindness. And he smote them with blindness according to the word of Elisha.
Graham: If GOP Doesn’t Fight, There Will ‘Never Be Another Republican President Elected Again’
He’s right and the constitution…..worthless!
We get these Climate Change food scare articles coming through on a pretty regular basis and have had so for some time. Not a single one of them have panned out.
https://wattsupwiththat.com/2020/11/10/study-uk-imports-32-of-fruit-and-vegetables-from-climate-vulnerable-countries/
I don’t know about fruits and vegetables, but global yield of cereal grains has continued to rise year after year. With the greening of the earth I have no idea why it wouldn’t be generally the same for produce.
I notice in the stores here in the US that though that produce has not been effected much by COVID some processed foods most certainly have. Meats were for a time but seem to have come back to pre-COVID levels now. During my last run down to Nogales I noticed that the several big beef processing plants along the route seemed to be very busy with their parking lots full.
We have strawberries, kiwi, apples, bananas, and those little tangerine like “Cuties” in our kitchen right now. I just finished of the last of an excellent batch of naval oranges yesterday.
From what I have read during WW II about everything in England was rationed severely. That is everything but Brussel sprouts which for what ever reason the islands grew plenty of on the limited and ever shrinking acreage available as more and more farm land was used for USAF and other military facilities as US forces grew in anticipation of the invasion of mainland Europe.
There are two things of the standard British military fare that were almost universally hated by the GIs. Brussel sprouts and mutton. They did however love their tea ration.
As an SF soldier in 10th group which was oriented towards Europe, I ate a lot of meals in the military messes of allied NATO countries military. I would say the worst was a tie between Belgium and Norway. The best was Italian. Hell the Italians had a cognac in their field rations. I would rather not talk about what I ate in some of the non NATO military messes. Good thing I’ve never been a picky eater.
Speaking of “food shortages”, this is kind of off topic, but when I was a kid we used to have lamb chops on a fairly regular basis, like once a week or once every two weeks. And being a family of mackerel snappers (no disrespect meant to the Catholics here, I was raised as one, it was a pretty common humorous term back in the day) there was filet of flounder on Friday. Also we’d have veal on occasion. And we were not wealthy or even upper middle class. Just middle class. At least when I was growing up, that changed later.
Anyhow, those items are pretty much out of reach these days, if you can even find them at the regular food outlets. Publix sometimes has them. What’s weird is that they used to be affordable and plentiful. I’m so sick of chicken I can’t even bear to look at it sometimes. And sausage. And hamburger.
But as least there’s still bacon.
LOL. I read your comment and thought, you must have been richer than we were. (Now stick with me here). But, after I stopped and thought, I don’t think it had anything to do with finances for us. My parents were born and grew up in the south. We had beans and cornbread about three times a week, fried chicken or pot roast. on Sunday with leftovers during the week. Sometimes we had canned salmon or fried catfish, and lots of ham (my mother loved ham). I think in our case, it was just what they had grown up with. Oh, and of course, bacon…………lots of bacon. 🙂
Ours were Finances.
Went from Long Island eating lobster, fresh fish, lamb, steak, meat loaf to the country eating weeds and bug infested food, rotten pork. The only good thing was fresh milk, and we drank gallons of it, still do.
Bacon is dessert!
citizenmom, Catfish noodling!
10-4 on the bacon. We may not end up with Trump, but by God, there WILL be bacon!
This appears to have some legitimacy. I have been contacted by people are going.
Putting it out here, so at least the word can get out.
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https://www.millionmagamarch.us/?fbclid=IwAR2CEPhFK4hs007y23IRtBQhuXiqpj4_tXjt6LnAwUr1pO-MRPRvvw0wABg#share
From the Million Maga March website —– Supposed to take place Nov 14th (Saturday).
Treepers:
If the election fraud stands and Biden is installed as president, we need to stop calling what happened on November 3rd 2020 an election and call it what it really was: the completion of the COUP which began the day PDJT was sworn into office. May God have mercy on our Republic for as long as she is able to endure this profane desecration.
Thank you for that, WY. I also had been correcting people when they would say “if biden wins…” because I knew he was not going to ‘win’, but rather , STEAL.
$2 million cash bond for Kyle Rittenhouse. Please pray and do whatever else you can for Kyle, American hero and native son.
https://www.citizenfreepress.com/breaking/watch-jduges-announcement-of-ridiculous-2-million-cash-bond-for-kyle-rittenhouse/
And please forgive me, Treepers, for what I am about to say, but some people are more important than Trump. I don’t expect any likes for this, lol:
I got two words for you, DJT, and they ain’t Merry Christmas, for allowing this to happen. Helluva election strategy. And while I’m at it, A’INT MERRY CHRISTMAS on you for your vile silence regarding Jake Gardner, Aaron Danielson and others. Just be sure you don’t stiff Lin Wood on your way out.
“Some people are more important than Trump” – I should of read it all.
I formerly take back my like.
You should have read it all. Your “like” has been taken back, and formally noted. (I spelled AIN’T wrong, so we’re even).
The Kyle Rittenhouses of the country are WAY more important to me than Trump. They’re the people who make up real communities. The people I can depend on when push comes to shove. Same for Jake Gardner, and the rest. You may need a Kyle Rittenhouse or a Jake Gardner to come to your aid one day, because Trump certainly won’t.
Just say’n… 😉
Is Trump in jail?
Does Trump need a $2 million cash bail?
Will Trump pardon Kyle Rittenhouse,
after reading your negative post?
Has AOC sent you to the extermination camp, yet?
Is Kyle Rittenhouse fighting for 71 million supporters’ lives;
or has Trump refused to accept the fake election results and
leading the fight to prevent the USA from becoming the USSA?
Margot says: “I got two words for you, DJT”
Your two words for President Trump need to be, “Thank you.”
P.S.- Trump will respond properly to Kyle Rittenhouse’s
situation when the timing is appropriate. Trump is a little
busy trying to save the life of a country – your country.
“Is Trump in jail?
Does Trump need a $2 million cash bail?”
What in the Sam Hill are you talking about? That makes no sense.
Trump has NEVER been too busy to post from his Twitter account and you know it. He could sure find the time to join forces with John Kerry and slag a decent man like Thomas Massie for rightly questioning the CARES Act, via Twitter. He wasn’t too busy saving the country to do that. He sure wasn’t too busy to pardon the corrupt Rod Blagojevich, now, was he? HE permitted the circumstances that led to Kyle’s false imprisonment, to the suicide of Jake Gardner, the murder of Aaron Danielson and the trashing of our monuments and many communities, among other things. He wasn’t too busy to throw the country and many of its citizens into lockdown and poverty, whine about Fauci, shrug and then do nothing about it, while BLM and Antifa went nuts.
And by the way, if we don’t let Trump know where he’s messing up, we’re no better than the Obamabots, just a different variety. Too late now, though. He either does or doesn’t get a second term. Either way, it doesn’t look good for Kyle.
“Will Trump pardon Kyle Rittenhouse, after reading your negative post?”
What’re you gonna do, send it to him? Are you threatening me?
NEWSFLASH: Kyle Rittenhouse committed NO crimes and he should not need a pardon. The ones who should be in jail are the prosecutor and the judge. I’ll speak in defense of Kyle even if you won’t. There are people who are pulling for him. Trump and his associates could at least pony up the jack for his bond. I’m sure they can afford it. And maybe he is, maybe that’s why Lin Wood is going to the mat for him.
There’s not yet a North Carolina post on CTH, probly soon, but I read “Decisioin Desk HQ” has “called” North Carolina for PDJT!
Call to action:
From the email from the trucking/logistics company I work for:
ATA Call to Action
Tue, Nov 10, 2020 10:45 am
Katy Waldrep ([email protected])
To:you Details
Hey Carter,
The American Trucking Association has asked for our help. On November 17th, ABC is premiering a series called Big Sky (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cbXnI5QcpQA) wherein two sisters are kidnapped by a truck driver on a remote highway in Montana. This program portrays drivers, truck stops, and the trucking industry in a negative light.
The American Trucking Association (ATA) sent a letter to ABC regarding the new series and their portrayal of our industry. If you feel as we do, please reach out to ABC and express your concern and ask that ABC include positive trucking commercials, and Truckers Against Trafficking PSA’s during the series run.
Karey Burke
President, ABC Entertainment
3800 West Alameda Ave Suite B
Burbank, CA 91505
[email protected]
David E. Kelley
Producer, Big Sky
Side Porch Productions, Inc.
11766 Wilshire Blvd. Suite 900
Los Angeles, CA 90025-6548
Michaela Zukowski
Entertainment ABC Big Sky
3800 West Alameda Ave Suite B
Burbank, CA 91505
[email protected]
“David E. Kelley”
No surprise there. Twisted.
First, they came for the truckers…
Shared with one mom of a trucker… will offer these entertainment people a piece of my mind (politely) and forward on to whoever else might want to protest
Sick of this crap. I used to watch a lot of Chinese State Television (CCTV) while working with an elderly Chinese woman… it was almost all positive. We have a free country (or did) but our entertainment industry is a sewer
s/b “Decision”. Decision Desk HQ holds itself as a major political race watcher.
Anyone in the Treehouse sitting on a branch near Chattanooga? I’m escaping from a leftwing hellhole and coming back HOME, and I would love to hear from y’all about how things are in the Big Noog. I hear y’all have a lefty mayor: what in the WORLD??? and a “mayor” of Hamilton County? sounds like the “collar counties” are the best bet!
Beverly, I’m many miles north of Chattanooga, but I’ve visited for a very nice weekend.
Chattanooga has a VW factory? And received a lot of money from Obama administration.
The downtown was spiffied up, and I enjoyed walking around when I visited. Beautiful waterfront bikeway and many nice amenities.
Welcome home and I hope you find a beautiful, affordable and peaceful place to settle. “Affordable” would definitely be a ways out of the city
Recycling used clothing.
https://www.norwexmovement.com/textiles-into-bricks/
I almost forgot, today is the 45th anniversary of the wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald. In honor of it, here is Gordon Lightfoot’s song, which I have always loved, Gives me the chills:
A worthwhile website to add.
http://www.ssedmundfitzgerald.org
Thank you, Sepp. Just started reading it. A haunting American tragedy. I was surprised by the ages of some of the crew. Tough, able men. You’ll never find guys like that sitting around the pool in a retirement community whining about their prostates.
2nd Corinthians, Chapter 7… audio study. This series is line by line, so there is a lot of detail included…
Important lesson…
42 minutes.
https://www.ancientfaith.com/podcasts/wholecounsel/2_corinthians_chapter_7
https://babylonbee.com/news/aoc-leaves-politics-to-host-jeopardy
lilbirdee12’s prayer:
Our Heavenly Father, Your children come to you tonight to ask for healing and peace throughout our country so that we may return to being One Nation Under God. Guide us to be leaders in Your Kingdom, spreading Your Love and Salvation to all. Forgive us our sins and deliver us from evil.
Lord, we ask for a blanket of protection over all our troops and law enforcement who serve to defend and protect us. Bless our representatives with the strength and wisdom they need to achieve the path You have chosen for us.
Please place Your Guardian Angels of Protection around Donald Trump and Mike Pence and their families as they seek to lead America back to You. Also, we pray for Angels to protect and support our Sundance as he works for justice and peace.
Grant us patience, Lord, as the evil ones try to anger us and cause us to fall.
Spread blessings over Israel and Netanyahu.
We humbly ask that You please comfort those who are grieving and in pain.
Thank you Father, for Your Love and the gift of Life.
In Jesus name, we pray. Amen.
Amen
Amen.
A prayer for Justice Kavanaugh and Gen. Flynn:
Prayer to St. Michael
St. Michael the Archangel, defend us in battle;
be our defense against the wickedness and snares of the devil.
May God rebuke him, we humbly pray;
and do you, O prince of the heavenly host,
by the power of God,
thrust into hell Satan and the other evil spirits
who prowl about the world for the ruin of souls.
In Jesus name, we pray. Amen.
Amen
As always, auscitizenmom, I thank you for your gracious evening prayers. Something very calming about them.
Thank you. I am glad.
Amen.
Amen.
Indonesia has a new/old problem. Islam versus Christianity. https://asia.nikkei.com/Politics/Indonesian-Islamist-leader-urges-moral-revolution-on-return-home
https://www.scmp.com/week-asia/people/article/3109284/hardline-indonesian-cleric-returns-saudi-exile-call-moral
This is a test to see if I can figure out how to post a tweet. It’s supposed to be a dog drinking water.
https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js
Hmmm. Let me try something else…
WeRateDogs® (@dog_rates) Tweeted:
This is Percy. Sometimes his ears dip in his water bowl, but that’s okay. 12/10 would hold them back for him (IG: percythebassethound) https://t.co/23dhp1YRQj
One more try
Success beyond my wildest dreams, a total victory.
You did it! Aww, that’s adorable.