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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Jesus Christ is Lord
https://twitter.com/buitengebieden_/status/1326222788059934721
https://twitter.com/CuteAnimaIVines/status/1308841313513734151
https://twitter.com/buitengebieden_/status/1323524800371896320
https://twitter.com/buitengebieden_/status/1326623363658346496
I’d like to be in Switzerland.
It would be a nice place to visit.
https://twitter.com/buitengebieden_/status/1325434332782145537
I have been there many times in my younger years. A magical Kingdom.
Many times I have enjoyed views like that in person. Night, moving tactically on ski’s in the alps, one can see the lights of ski resorts up in the mountains and the lights of the towns and villages down in the valleys. The moves interspersed by the dark and empty summer dwellings used during the warm months when they bring the cows up into the high pastures. Or lighted huttes where people sometimes stay summer or winter to enjoy the high alpine sights and stage hikes and climbs from. Some of the huttes have no road leading to them. They get their supplies by small trams that run down to the end of the road.
It doesn’t matter if it Bavaria or Tirol, it’s all beautiful. Snow and a bit of wind are the times to move since they help cover your tracks. All done in that muffled quiet so distinctive to a snow covered winter land.
Beautiful recollection ~ 🙂
I hope every has a blesses—and peaceful—Sunday, Treepers.. 🙂
Oh dear, pardon my typos. This should read, “I hope everyone has blessed—and peaceful— Sunday, Treepers. I really, really hate it when I can’t see my own errors.; . .
Thanks, Garrison…a delight on many levels…
David’s great Psalm of repentance concerning his adultery with Uriah’s wife Bathsheba, and his conspiring to murder Uriah to hide it. (LXX Psalm 50, Psalm 51 for most Protestants).
The Orthodox use it in almost every service, and many Orthodox incorporate it in their daily prayer rule. It’s considered a model for how a repentant heart should approach God.
I enjoyed all the images of Orthodox clergy and monks and monasteries.
Anyone know where the photograph was taken that appears at the 1 minute mark was taken?
Orthodox people – Am I seeing St. Raphael of Brooklyn in that image?
Find It In His Grace
By Pastor Ricky Kurth
When asking for forgiveness, the world has an expression they frequently use. They say, “Can you find it in your heart to forgive me?” But to paraphrase an old saying, they are asking others to look for forgiveness in all the wrong places! “The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked” (Jer. 17:9). Any forgiveness that someone finds there is likely to come with conditions and many strings attached.
If you are finding it difficult to forgive someone, rather than trying to find it in your heart, find it in God’s grace.
“And be ye kind one to another, tenderhearted, forgiving one another, even as God for Christ’s sake hath forgiven you” (Eph. 4:32)
Perhaps you are thinking, “Pastor, you don’t know how this brother offended me.” It’s true, I don’t. But was it more than how your sins offended God? Yet He forgave all of your sins by His grace, and now asks you to forgive your brother by grace. God was “satisfied” with the payment Christ made on the cross for your brother’s offense (Isa. 53:11), and has forgiven him for what he did to you. If you fail to forgive him by God’s grace, that means your standards are higher than His.
So don’t be like the world, looking for forgiveness in all the wrong places. If your brother’s sin “abounded” against you, let God’s grace “much more abound” (Rom. 5:20), even as it did when God forgave you. “Receive not the grace of God in vain” (2 Cor. 6:1). Let it abound in your life to others. Be a grace believer in the highest sense of the name.
https://www.bereanbiblesociety.org/find-it-in-his-grace/
Jeremiah 17:9 The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked: who can know it?
Ephesians 4:32 And be ye kind one to another, tenderhearted, forgiving one another, even as God for Christ’s sake hath forgiven you.
Isaiah 53:11 He shall see of the travail of his soul, and shall be satisfied: by his knowledge shall my righteous servant justify many; for he shall bear their iniquities.
Romans 5:20 Moreover the law entered, that the offence might abound. But where sin abounded, grace did much more abound:
2 Corinthians 6:1 We then, as workers together with him, beseech you also that ye receive not the grace of God in vain.
Effort to recall California Governor Gavin Newsom granted 120 day extension to March 17
OANN – November 21, 2020
Speaking of Newsome’s arrogance…there’s a moment in the trending documentary Kiss the Ground where he brags about the coercive tactics behind the recycling program he set up as mayor of San Francisco. He says with a smirk:
“If you wanna move the mouse, you gotta move the cheese…”
Let’s hope enough Californians are tired of being regarded as Gavin’s pet mice.
https://kisstheground.com
The recall is around 800,000 signatures right now. They want 1,700.000. A CA resident can digitally sign the recall.
https://rescuecalifornia.org/
“Till there was you.” the Music Man gets his foot caught in the door.
The Beatles like it too.
Always thought George Harrison’s solo here (age 20) was brilliant
The guitar accompaniment Harrison wrote for this song is perfect
It was absolutely perfect. Simple, never overshadowed the lead yet perfectly accentuated the chords played in arpeggios.
The Fab Four’s cover of the song came out just a year after Meredith Wilson’s 1950 melody was featured in the 1962 movie from which the clip above was taken.
I don’t know how many takes it required (could have been just 1 for all I know), but the final recording as released is awesome in balance and tightness.
Leon, that lion looks like he had some lawyers for lunch.
As long as they were of the Lawfare variety I have no problem with it… 😉
Family arrivals only days away, here’s my favorite version of Celebrate me home.
This is a good’un, Buck. Reminds me of a long ago Thanksgiving when there was nobody else around. That’s just part of being a grownup, of course—only back then I wasn’t really a grownup. 🙂
That whole album is awesome.
My oldest boy looks alot like Kenny Loggins in that picture. Maybe the beard does it.
🙂
. . . 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.
Among the Saints of God who are commemorated today, November 9th on the traditional Calendar of the Orthodox Christian Church and November 22nd on the civil calendar, is Saint Nektarios, Metropolitan of Pentapolis, the Wonderworker (+ 1920). He is often known as Saint Nektarios of Aegina, the Greek island where he lived.
Saint Nektarios was a Bishop, teacher, and prayerful theologian who wrote a beautiful and famous hymn in honor of the Theotokos, the Ever-Virgin Mary, called “Agni Parthene”. He was ill with prostate cancer at the end of his earthly life at age 74. By the Grace of God he is known as a healer of cancer.
This quote of Thomas Jefferson is everything about the United States of America.
Everything!
Baby Lives Matter.
Verse of the Day for Sunday, November 22, 2020
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“And ye shall be hated of all men for my name’s sake: but he that endureth to the end shall be saved.”
Matthew 10:22 (KJV)
Thank You, Jesus, for blessings received and prayers answered!!!
Sunday 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
Faith
SHALLOW AND PROFOUND
“Whether therefore ye eat, or drink, or whatsoever ye do, do all to the glory of God.” 1 Cor. x. 31
Beware of allowing yourself to think that the shallow concerns of life are not ordained of God; they are as much of God as the profound. It is not your devotion to God that makes you refuse to be shallow, but your wish to impress other people with the fact that you are not shallow, which is a sure sign that you are a spiritual prig. Be careful of the production of contempt in yourself, it always comes along this line, and causes you to go about as a walking rebuke to other people because they are more shallow than you are. Beware of posing as a profound person; God became a Baby.
To be shallow is not a sign of being wicked, nor is shallowness a sign that there are no deeps: the ocean has a shore. The shallow amenities of life, eating and drinking, walking and talking, are all ordained by God. These are the things in which Our Lord lived. He lived in them as the Son of God, and He said that “the disciple is not above his Master.”
Our safeguard is in the shallow things. We have to live the surface common-sense life in a common-sense way; when the deeper things come, God give them to us apart from the shallow concerns. Never show the deeps to anyone but God. We are so abominably serious, so desperately interested in our own characters, that we refuse to behave like Christians in the shallow concerns of life.
Determinedly take no one seriously but God, and the first person you find you have to leave severely alone as being the greatest fraud you have ever known, is yourself.
Oswald Chambers
November 22nd Devotional
Deep Peace (Choral Version) (4:53 mins)
Mornin’ infidels!
https://twitter.com/WeeWeedTX/status/1330488006575345665
‘ Mornin WeeWeed!
Mornin’ Sarge!
Mornin’ WeeWeed
Mornin’ DI!
Afternoon WeeWeed.
Afternoon Rah!
Good Evening, WeeWeed
Evenin’ Bari!
As it was in the day of the tower of Babel…so let it be today O Lord…so let it be!
Dear Sundance Ad rem et al.
Totally off topic but as a dedicated followers of all things on the Tree house, is there any way someone could put a very large mask on that face of O’Bama advertising Jack Cashells book on the side bar?
It puts me off my breakfast each morning when I visit.
Embrace that emotion, Patrick – let it stir your soul to Cold Anger. 🙂
Suggestion for a feature when you migrate to the new platform. A “most posted” thread. Ad Rem periodically posts an item to this thread that has been posted multiple times. Subsequent posts of the same thing can be deleted from other threads.
I understand how it happens. Few people have time to go through 1000+ posts to see if it’s already been posted. But for example, the new SC assignments must have been posted 100 times.
Obviously this wouldn’t be perfect, but might help.
Reading the complete Psalms every month…
Morning Psalm reading: 106 (LXX numbering); 107 (Masoretic numbering)
Evening Psalm reading: 107 and 108 (LXX numbering); 108 and 109 (Masoretic numbering)
Like
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.
If you are looking for some Christmas presents – like books! – to get away from the computers and T.V. screens – books with a mystery and a sarcastic Conservative narrator 🙂 – and a funny narrator commenting on the follies of our Leftist society….let me recommend a trilogy:
The Time Capsule Murders
Why Begins With W
Dial Emma for Murder
Hex High School
Barbara Brooks Wallace, winner of the Edgar Mystery Writers’ Award, wrote of the series:
“Sam Spade meets with Holden Caulfield in the person of a young high-school detective of today. Hard-boiled slang is replaced with pitch-perfect TeenSpeak….It’s definitely a ‘Can’t-Put-It-Down-Until-You’ve-Read- It-All’ kind of series. Trust me!”
https://www.barnesandnoble.com/s/Time+Capsule+Murders?_requestid=5466656
For those not averse to Amazon:
https://www.amazon.com/s?k=Time+Capsule+Murders&i=stripbooks&ref=nb_sb_noss
Thanks Ausonius – will check ’em out!
Many thanks to you!
Biden should concede.
https://voxday.blogspot.com/2020/11/were-waiting-for-bidens-concession.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+blogspot%2Fvoxpopoli+%28Vox+Popoli%29
America does well fighting our enemies, we seem to need a fight to engage us. Whoever put this together knew that. We fight against our brothers and sisters and the instigators become the winners.
Our fight is never against flesh and blood, that’s why our lord put it in the instruction book. When we look to men we find fault, even ourselves. We must look to our Lord, eyes on the standard.
How do we solve all the years of deceit we have been fed? Eyes on Our Lord, no man has those answers unless he is led by the Lord.
We must pray it through, we prayed it up to this point, let’s finish strong God is with us.
Then I presume you will forgive them once Trump kicks them hard on their heads? :0)
“Asia-Pacific nations sign world’s biggest free-trade agreement
Ten ASEAN nations, plus five other Asia-Pacific countries, have signed the world’s biggest trade deal in terms of GDP. The pact is expected to drive economic growth in a region hard-hit by the coronavirus pandemic.”
“It includes the 10 member states of ASEAN; Vietnam, Thailand, the Philippines, Laos, Cambodia, Myanmar, Malaysia, Singapore, Indonesia and Brunei — along with Australia, China, Japan, New Zealand and South Korea.”
https://www.dw.com/en/asia-pacific-nations-sign-worlds-biggest-free-trade-agreement/a-55604659
Online prayer event
November 22 8pm to 10pm EST
Global Prayer For US Election Integrity
https://www.adamschindler.com/prayer/global-prayer-for-us-election-integrity-8/
What’s the deal with Trump admin announcement about Sidney Powell???
See L. Lin Wood’s tweet. This is a grassroots, organic movement. Multiple skilled attorneys all working for the American Voter. As Mr. Wood says, “… all interests are aligned …”
George is obviously drinking again.
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
Amen.