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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https://twitter.com/TheFigen/status/1302172718234775560?s=19
Post-Apocalyptic San Franciscan Invents Four-Rat Monte
https://twitter.com/i/status/1301958268428845057
Beautiful, very moving video.
Singer is Lauren Daigle, from New Orleans. Produced by Derek Hough. To produce awareness about Human Trafficking
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Song “I will rescue you” by Lauren Daigle
Created by Derek Hough
Choreographed by Tessandra Chavez and Rudy Abreu
On July 31st was “World Day Against Trafficking In Persons” but every day should be a day where we rattle the cages loudly, raise awareness and not let up until we see the end to this absolute atrocity and nightmare that is child sex trafficking.
It really has nothing to do with our comfort zone. We can’t be like the “good germans” who knew what was going on in those concentration camps but turned a blind eye. This is serious. We can’t just turn our heads and pretend it’s not there, that’s the very reason people in high positions of power can get away with it and let others get away with it, too. If you don’t know what I’m talking about I recommend you watch the documentary “UK’s Hidden Shadows” by Shaun Attwood available for free on youtube. You won’t believe how corrupt the justice system is with regards to these criminal enterprises (watch people formerly working in law enforcment being interviewed and sharing about the blocks put in their way by the higher ups as soon as they were onto these criminal rings).
Also, O.U.R (Operation Underground Railroad) just released a trailer to their film “Sound Of Freedom“ directed by Alejandro Monteverde. With Mira Sorvino, Jim Caviezel, Kurt Fuller, Bill Camp. The story of Tim Ballard (Jim Caviezel), a former US government agent, who quits his job in order to devote his life to rescuing children from global sex traffickers.
I was encouraged by the rescue of thirty nine children in Georgia last week by US Marshalls. Truly, this is as bad as the cabal against Trump.
State Senator for the state of Georgia and patriot, the late Nancy Schaefer, exposed the Child Protection Service (CPS). https://youtu.be/0hQbIyiv0AE
*Protective
https://twitter.com/TheFigen/status/1302258152298164225?s=19
Hey, I thought only rickshaws were allowed on the Ho Chi Minh trail.
Are these motorcycles left in South Vietnam when we skedaddled in ‘75?
But seriously, WOW! These gals make Evil Knievel look like he was using training wheels and safety nets.
It almost looks like it might be way faster to parachute or hang glide down the mountain.
Going up? Completely different story…
Maybe Elon Musk has some ideas… I’m certain these gals would jump on whatever he’d come up with.
Choi oi!
Don’t look down. Don’t slow down.
DECLARED Riot LIVE
MOLATOV COCKTAILS
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S1jJMh2EEOs
The rioters were walking and wreaking mayhem through a residential neighborhood. Moms, Dads, and children, must have been cowering in their homes.
It was Mayor Daley, I believe, who gave police the order to shoot to kill if they saw a rioter with a molotov cocktail in hand. Now it’s just expected someone arrested with one, on the Left Coast, will just be slapped on the wrist.
And Old Joe wants to not only take our guns away but neuter the police who’d respond to violent rioters. ‘Democratic’ process through intimidation.
Just say’n… 😉
Love the smell of napalm,
especially in the evening. 😉
Originally written by Todd Rundgren and performed with his band Utopia, “Love is the Answer” was also recorded by England Dan & John Ford Coley. I like their version of it:
Beautiful, very moving video.
Singer is Lauren Daigle, from New Orleans. Produced by Derek Hough. To produce awareness about Human Trafficking
[youtube
Song “I will rescue you” by Lauren Daigle
Created by Derek Hough
Choreographed by Tessandra Chavez and Rudy Abreu
Also, O.U.R (Operation Underground Railroad) just released a trailer to their film “Sound Of Freedom“ directed by Alejandro Monteverde. With Mira Sorvino, Jim Caviezel, Kurt Fuller, Bill Camp. The story of Tim Ballard (Jim Caviezel), a former US government agent, who quits his job in order to devote his life to rescuing children from global sex traffickers.
Repetition Of Prayers
By Pastor Cornelius R. Stam
One of the most unscriptural and unspiritual misuses of prayer is the repeating of prayers composed by others. Many members of both Protestant and Catholic churches, indeed, many sincere believers, repeat over and over again prayers that have been prepared for them to recite. Undoubtedly the greatest number of all make it a practice to repeat the so-called “Lord’s Prayer,” taken from the Gospel records.
Evidently all these millions of professing Christians have overlooked the fact that it was when the disciples asked our Lord to teach them how to pray (Luke 11:1) that He said: “After this manner therefore pray ye” (Matt. 6:9).
Moreover, He prefaced these words with the specific injunction:
“But when ye pray, use not vain repetitions, as the heathen do: for they think that they shall be heard for their much speaking. Be not ye therefore like unto them…” (Matt. 6:7,8).
Both Protestants and Catholics make much of repeating the “Lord’s Prayer.” They repeat it singly and in unison, in trouble and sorrow, in sickness and death, in storm and drought, in war and disaster, with little or no regard for its contents.
Imagine praying, “Give us this day our daily bread” at a funeral service! Imagine praying, “Thy kingdom come” at a sick bed or in a storm at sea! Yet this is solemnly done again and again throughout Christendom. Whole audiences continue to repeat the prayer in unison — and this in the face of the fact that it was in connection with this very prayer that our Lord pronounced the mere repetition of prayers “vain” and enjoined His disciples not to follow the heathen in this practice.
What a difference there is between praying and saying prayers! No truly spiritual believer will do the latter.
https://www.bereanbiblesociety.org/repetition-of-prayers/
Luke 11:1 And it came to pass, that, as he was praying in a certain place, when he ceased, one of his disciples said unto him, Lord, teach us to pray, as John also taught his disciples.
Matthew 6:7 But when ye pray, use not vain repetitions, as the heathen do: for they think that they shall be heard for their much speaking.
8 Be not ye therefore like unto them: for your Father knoweth what things ye have need of, before ye ask him.
9 After this manner therefore pray ye: Our Father which art in heaven, Hallowed be thy name.
“One of the most unscriptural and unspiritual misuses of prayer is the repeating of prayers composed by others.”
What would make it unscriptural and unspiritual would be blindly going along with content from people without checking whether it comports with the truth. Warning against that would indeed be quite useful, as some can tend to go into auto pilot with devotionals forwarded to them in different places or in what purport to be appropriate songs of worship that do lend themselves to vain repetitions or which contain unscriptural content or aspects. One need only listen to some of the contemporary music purported to be Christian to find deficiencies in that regard far too often.
Let’s look at what Paul encouraged from believers in Colossians 3:16 (largely echoed in Ephesians 5:19): “Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly, teaching and admonishing each other in all wisdom, singing psalms, hymns, and spiritual songs with grace in your hearts to God”.
First, note that the psalms, hymns, and spiritual songs are to be dedicated to God. Second, wouldn’t some of the psalms then as now be based on what David, Asaph, and others dedicated to God which included praises and prayers composed by people other than those in Colossae, Ephesus, or the world today?
In addition to the prayer Jesus encouraged the disciples say when they asked to be taught pray as John the Baptist had taught his (cf. Luke 11:1-4), they apparently sang together as shown following the account of the Last Supper: “And having sung a hymn, they went out to the Mount of Olives” (Matthew 26:30). Are we to conclude that many psalms they could have all known were forbidden because they included words of prayer in them?
Would these restrictions also be active for those Paul encouraged to sing psalms, hymns, and spiritual songs? Plus, where exactly is the Scripture listing these restrictions — as what would make them “vain” repetitions figures to be the posture of one’s heart, especially as what Paul suggested singing wouldn’t have been akin to empty pagan chants either?
”They repeat it singly and in unison, in trouble and sorrow, in sickness and death, in storm and drought, in war and disaster, with little or no regard for its contents.”
How can the writer write with such certainty on what “they” have in their hearts at such moments? Romans 14:4 comes to mind: “Who are you, judging another’s servant? To the own master he stands or falls. And he will be upheld, for the Lord is able to uphold him.”
“Imagine praying, “Give us this day our daily bread” at a funeral service! Imagine praying, “Thy kingdom come” at a sick bed or in a storm at sea! Yet this is solemnly done again and again throughout Christendom. Whole audiences continue to repeat the prayer in unison — and this in the face of the fact that it was in connection with this very prayer that our Lord pronounced the mere repetition of prayers “vain” and enjoined His disciples not to follow the heathen in this practice. What a difference there is between praying and saying prayers! No truly spiritual believer will do the latter.”
Many days, people don’t actually eat bread, yet pray for their “daily bread” (even at a solemn gathering like a funeral) according to the purpose of asking God for what they need daily. In like manner, asking for God’s kingdom to come and well as for His will to be done on earth as in heaven is an appropriate posture of the heart at a sick bed or a storm at sea, not least of which as it comports to an encouraged manner of prayer (cf. Luke 6:9, 11:1-2). Obviously, if someone isn’t at a place where this particular prayer is something they feel they can do without it being a rote exercise, they could do well to not participate or merely listen for the minute or so it occurs.
Recall when Jesus was in the Garden of Gethsemane: “And he left them, and went away again, and prayed the third time, saying the same words” (Matthew 26:44).
Whether the precise prayer word-for-word is meant here or three prayers of substantially the same meaning, the heartfelt nature of the praying is clear.
Jesus told His disciples a parable showing they were “always to pray and not to lose heart” (cf. Luke 18:1). It concerned a widow coming before a judge persistently and saying, “Avenge me of my adversary” (cf. Luke 18:3), which appears to fit the very definition of petitioning repetitiously.
Going back to the verse cited, the mistaken belief of the heathen / pagan is connected with their thought that it was in their much speaking (Gr. polylogia, many words) that they would be heard. Strong’s Concordance gives this usage for the word for vain repetitions (Gr. battalogeó) from verse 7: “I chatter, am long-winded, utter empty words, stammer, repeat”. The verse gives another reason not to pray as the heathens did: “for they think that in their many words they will be heard”. Verse 5 appears to speak to the vain nature of the words being at issue, with the vain object of visible public prayer by hypocrites to “be seen by men”.
Some forms of prayers learned and said by rote can certainly lead some to take on the form of empty words, as can praying only in a mechanical manner rather than turning sincerely to God through Christ before the throne of grace (cf. Hebrews 4:14-16). However, it is also dangerous to imply certain prohibitions are commanded by Scripture if they are not.
https://www.steynonline.com/10607/tal-bachman-christians-come-back
“He that troubles his own house shall inherit the wind;…and he that wins souls is wise.”
https://www.kingjamesbibleonline.org/Proverbs-11-29/
https://www.kingjamesbibleonline.org/Proverbs-11-30/
Truth. Have a very blessed Sunday, Treepers.
His name is Kyle Rittenhouse, American hero and native son.
Please join me in honoring him and praying for his speedy deliverance from the sick, evil injustice system.
🙂
Setting the record straight about climate: Tony Heller has put out another good one. Looking into the weather events of the past provides the perspective that our climate and weather these days is really pretty benign and we should be thankful for that.
Thank you for that dose of inconvenient truth, rah.
I highly recommend Michael Crichton’s excellent book “State of Fear”. Fiction based on fact, heavily footnoted.
Before there was The Armadillo World Headquarters there was the Vulcan Gas Company . . .
Another Treeper posted this M*A*G*A dance video on an earlier thread but this is a great way to end the evening. ENJOY !
Quite perky. Makes me miss Milo. I wonder how he is doing?
Leave, Milo is alive and well on Parler.
That is good news! Thanks for the update.
I just watched this. IT’S PERFECT PERFORMANCE ART!!!! Even the cops on duty got into it. Wouldn’t it be great if we could get the LA cops in full tactical gear doing a chorus line along with the music? What this kind of performance art does is to steal the emotional dominance of the Antifa-BLM fascists and, through a combination of ridicule and humor, turn their street drama against them. Ridicule is the perfect weapon to use against the Antifa/BLM fascists. Revolutionary socialists are so completely without humor, they are made defenseless. This was just genius. Rock on!!
Re-posting since I was so late yesterday: Sorry for not posting this sooner, but better late than never and there’s soooo much more great music to come:
https://www.wwoz.org/640926-cubes-festing-place-next-fest-thing
The link is to a virtual NOLA Jazz & Heritage Festival schedule and it’s awesome! Sort of a “best of” from over 50 years of Jazz Fest and other venue archives. I prefer to stream it with the phone app (search WWOZ in your app store), but streaming on a PC or apple product is obviously an alternative.
Midday tomorrow is particularly excellent, with rare live recordings of Louis Prima, Little Freddie King, James Booker(personal favorite–an incredible piano virtuoso; Harry Connick, Jr. took lessons from him and admits he can’t get close to Booker’s sound–a strange, peculiarly NOLA story in itself), then Lil Queenie (Leigh Harris–RIP–Janis Joplin with mo sweetness)–at least those are my highlights, though the whole day and the dates next weekend are worth listening. Unlike most of the virtual concerts we’ve been seeing, these were recorded with live, energetic audiences and direct communication among the musicians. Really LIVE! So, in furtherance of SD’s admonition to live our best lives and enjoy life now, I hope all CTHers will join me at the “next fest thing.”
Those within radio range of NOLA can also listen on 90.7 FM.
. . . but deliver us from the Evil One.
Amen.
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.
I love this song, annie. Thank you so much for posting it.
There were so many great songs in the 60’s. This one is more on the folk singer tradition that was popular before motown hit the airwaves.
Linda K, thank you so much, just a wonderful song. The beginnings of folk-rock.
your welcome margot ..
well ….. it took almost a year to get it, but today is the most beautiful day of this year ..
“live your best life !”
I love this song! Originally Dionne Warwick sang it, also beautifully.
Blue Point, Long Island is a hamlet about half way out on Long Island, about 60 miles east of Manhattan. It’s on LI’s South Shore about 4 miles north of LI’s barrier island, Fire Island.
Baby Lives Matter.
Baby Lives Matter.
They do indeed!
https://twitter.com/GuardAmerican/status/1301985704579272705
Your mention of the River Styx reminded me of this song…if I can do this correctly…
For those who have left the Democrat Party, you may find inspiration from others who have left the party on Facebook (for those who use FB) at Brandon Straka’s page called #WalkAway Campaign. The testimonies from Democrats and others are very encouraging.
9 For if thou shalt confess with thy mouth the Lord Jesus, and shalt believe in thine heart, that God raised Him up from the dead, thou shalt be saved:
10 For with the heart man believeth unto righteousness, and with the mouth man confesseth to salvation.
11 For the Scripture saith, Whosoever believeth in Him, shall not be ashamed.
12 For there is no difference between the Jew and the Grecian: for He that is Lord over all, is rich unto all that call on Him.
13 For whosoever shall call upon the Name of the Lord, shall be saved.
https://classic.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Romans+10&version=GNV;AKJV
Verse of the Day for Sunday, September 6, 2020
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“I am he that liveth, and was dead; and, behold, I am alive for evermore…”
Revelation 1:18 (KJV)
Sunday Butterfly Blessings
Jesus Loves Babies…Pray for the Unborn
Jesus Loves the Little Children – Pray for the Little Children
Jesus Loves You – Come to Him
Just tried on Face Book to pass along the Conservativetreehouse.com web address to my brother. FB rejected the post, citing “The Last Refuge” violates community standards, as they say. Rewrote the post to get around the FB comminzars. Also wrote a note of protest to FB.
Mornin’ infidels!
https://twitter.com/RedPillMaC/status/1302533308673294336
Mornin’ WeeWeed. This is truly hilarious. Thank you for all you do. Have a great weekend!
Mornin’ Surfhut!
Mornin’ WeeWeed!
Great day to be an infidel. Thanks for the funny post and image.
Hey tomorrow are we going to be comrades, instead of infidels, since it is Labor Day? Just wondering.
Happy Sunday. God bless you and yours.
Mornin’ Citizen!
Tomorrow, barbecue!
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.
Were you up half the night watching the riots? Been reading back-to-back articles about the corruption and plans to either steal the election or oust Trump after he wins? Maybe your friends on facebook are all huffing and freaking over the phony Atlantic article?
No matter. Chill. Pour another cup of coffee. Settle in. And take a detour into a read with some meat on its bones. Then maybe throw some snacks and a drink into a sack, go sit under a tree, and do nothing for a while other than listen to the birds, the late summer insects, and the breeze in the leaves, and remember.
https://theimaginativeconservative.org/2020/09/gardens-institutions-universe-siobhan-nash-marshall.html
re: Jessica Krug, the fake professor at George Washington U. (who has been exposed as living a faked identity as a “black revolutionary” in a comfy academic tenure):
It turns out that she tried to inhabit her fictional life as a (bad) novelist who made up stories of her fierce struggles as a “black” revolutionary academic, working to overcome all the oppression in her own life (likely all fake). She has been estranged from her real “white” family for two decades, but also writes of her (fake??) grandma suffering progressive dementia…. someone will have to determine whether any of her fables have any elements of fact or not, but I assume that academia will be expelling her soon…. sins against the “white” races can always be accommodated and welcomed, but such sins against “black” races will not be tolerated.
She is actually a “white Jewish girl from Kansas City” but her turgid academic explorations at some point became a new “revolutionary” identity for her to live out in a fake life.
“We’ll never create a freer future by role playing the past”
April 21, 2017
Jess Krug
https://web.archive.org/web/20200519023805/https://racebaitr.com/2017/04/21/well-never-create-freer-future-role-playing-past/
“Jess Krug is an unrepentant and unreformed child of the hood. Whether dancing, doing research around the world, or teaching, movement is her first language. Much of her time, energy, and all of her heart are consumed in the struggle for her community in El Barrio and worldwide, whether against the violence of the state as manifest by police, the encroaching colonialism of gentrification, or around issues of community health and environmental justice. She teaches, writes, and is an organizer with Harlem Copwatch and works with Revolutionary Fitness. In the end, she firmly believes that everything works better when remixed to bachata.”
Yale featured her last year as a great “resistance” scholar, ha ha….. this is what passes for excellence in today’s academia……
YALE: “Jessica Krug and Vincent Brown Discuss Resistance in the Caribbean”
https://clais.macmillan.yale.edu/news/jessica-krug-and-vincent-brown-discuss-resistance-caribbean
Actually, though, I have a tiny bit of sympathy for her… if people are allowed to “construct” fake identities about “gender” to become “transgender” and even change their legal birth certificate (thus falsifying their own legal history with the public), then why can’t Professor Krug “construct” her own preferred racial identity? Why is she any more inauthentic than any “transgender” person?
Oh, because she is stealing the identity (and Affirmative Action benefits) of “black” people….. if she had just decided to pretend she was a radicalized white man she wouldd be praised rather than chastised.
Sticking feathers up your butt does not make you a chicken.
— Tyler Durden
Well that NWO agenda’s just amarchin’ right along. Just saw my 3rd commercial in three days pushing digital currency. Bet Biden will push that, should make his and his family’s international business transactions less easy for Those Who Want to Know to access.
Multi-Culturalism has worked SO WELL in Sweden!
https://www.breitbart.com/europe/2020/09/06/swedish-gang-members-caught-on-video-threatening-to-rape-police/
Poor, poor Swedes, they just haven’t learned to embrace the suck. They are the cause of their own problems as their whiter-than-white Christian culture hasn’t been able to accept and integrate the North-Africa/Mideast cultural morass of a culture.
It reminds me of that story Donald Trump used to tell when he was campaigning.
Sweden’s been floating in a leftist current for decades, but it probably works for a country locked in ice for a good chunk of the year.
With all the fires burning in Malmo, Sweden is thawing out.
Thirteenth Sunday after Pentecost
August 24th traditional Calendar of the Orthodox Christian Church
The Stone Which the Builders Rejected
Holy Gospel of Saint Matthew 21: 33-42
This link is to the Explanation of the Holy Gospel by Saint Theophylact. He wrote commentaries on the Holy Scriptures in the 11th century for the Slavic peoples of the Balkans, interpreting from Saint John Chrysostomos.
http://www.cpress.orthodoxws.com/c_13th_pentecost
Thirteenth Sunday after Pentecost
The Epistle Reading is I Corinthians 16: 13-24
An excellent Sermon on this Epistle Reading has both timeless and contemporary qualities and observations by Father James Thornton.
Quit You Like Men
http://www.orthodoxinfo.com/praxis/frjames_quityou.aspx
Watch/Listen to Laura Bretan sing the Lord’s Prayer. It’s the 1st 4 minutes of this video. At the end, she demurrers on the high note (for-EV-er), which disappointed me, but then she repeats the last stanza and hits the high note long and awesomely. She was 17 and is now 18. She just graduated form Alpha-Omega Academy, which means she was homeschooled.
Forgot the link!
Forgot the link to Laura Bretan:
No longer trusting they hopey planny, but I do still trust Him
THIS quote (from Rand Paul) left me scratching my head:
“Paul raised the possibility to Fox News’ Jeanine Pirro of corporations giving money to “show the public that they’re not racist” and said some of that money might be going to Black Lives Matter and used for individuals to create “havoc” in cities.”
GEE… YA THINK?
https://www.breitbart.com/clips/2020/09/06/rand-paul-investigation-needed-to-trace-money-given-to-blm-other-groups-to-see-if-used-to-foment-violence/
The funding of BLM et al will never be investigated.
What needs to be investigated? The corporate sponsors BRAG about the donations they make!
https://www.cnet.com/news/amazon-gives-10-million-to-support-social-justice-and-black-communities/
The REAL investigation isn’t where the money comes from, it’s where the money GOES. But they’ll never investigate THAT, but they have PLENTY of time to investigate Brian Kolfage, Steve Bannon, and “We Build The Wall”
Anatomy of A(nother) Fake Scandal – American Thinker.webloc
Look it up, link did not work…. :-/
https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2020/09/anatomy_of_another_fake_scandal.html
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
Amen
Indiana-based lobbying firm hired by Ethiopia to lobby the U.S. to restore funding, and see the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam as just another dam. https://dailynewsegypt.com/2020/09/06/ethiopia-hires-us-lobby-firm-amid-nile-dam-dispute-domestic-tensions/
“People are often unreasonable, irrational, and self-centered.
Forgive them anyway.
The good you do today will often be forgotten.
Do good anyway.
It is never between you and them anyway.
In the final analysis, it is between you and God.”
Video for the song “Blessings” by Laura Story.