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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Apologies if this double posts. My screen froze when I tried to up load this.
What a great scene!
One of the greatest movies ever made. The Third Man never grows old.
Love it! Every time it comes on, I stop what I am doing to watch it! Thanks for the post, Garrison!
thumbs up
FDR, please issue a public service warning when you post something as disgusting as this. Trick or treat is not until the end of the month and besides this witch is hard to look at at any time.
Actually, that was an early Mischief Night offering. 👿
Most of your pixs on my iPad are open for viewing and I thoroughly enjoy them but this one had to be opened. I don’t care if you have your hands behind your back with your fingers crossed, you need a PSA warning when you put this hag’s pix out there. Show us some respect, please! ?
Eeeeewwwwww
Something is wrong with the website. I received multiple emails, there was something obviously wrong with one.
Earlier posts have disappeared.
I don’t know what is going on with the OT. It did not refresh until after 1230
I was the 7th and ith comment, but no comments are showing up with Firefox and Opera on the computer, or Brave and Firefox on the phone.
Correct avatar is not coming up, either
Deplorable,
The site’s having WP issues.I’ll try to repost my reply to GB Bari & Dutchman on the ADP thread. Here goes.
RE: ADP thread comments
In response to GB Bari & Dutchman’s fear about another foreclosure meltdown.
The implosion was earlier this year. We’re well on the way to recovery. Try and look at it this way; economically, we’re all in the same system.
Government has no legal authority to keep a person incarcerated in their home or prevent a(n) eviction/foreclosure for non payment. These are actions of voluntary compliance whether you know it or not. We’ve been there done that, Everybody loses in a market collapse. Winners were tired of losing so they chose a different direction for the future. Sore losers refuse to accept their defeat. Too bad. That’s life.
Like Reagan said many years ago, ‘the choice is not right or left, it’s up or (D)own.’
If you want to see a market collapse, watch what happens if the Government ‘takes’ Trillions more out of the private sector in the name of ‘economic stimulus’ at the initial stages of this robust recovery. Someone has to liquidate [stocks, real estate. etc.] those Trillions of $ in order to purchase the ‘newly minted’ next to 0% ROI debt issuance.
Only a Government employee could possibly believe that you can lose your ass on every deal and make it up in volume. [Think negative interest rates]
Useful i[D]iots think that goods and services can be purchased with the magical fruit of the mythical money tree.
Investment capital will seek the most lucrative legal ROI which is always in the private sector[Main+Wall St.]. Removing Trillions more $ from the capital markets is an economic (D)eath wish. Nobody is going to voluntarily loan any Government $ without a substantial increase in interest rates, which no Government can afford given the current interest paid to service the existing debt.
The only solution is free market capitalism, creating profit [accretive to the value of the dollar] as opposed to Government debt [dilutive to the value of the dollar].
Now, who wants the free market to remain ‘shutdown’?
Thanks for the response, David.
My WP is not working either – on either Brave nor Safari.
I don’t see the little bell up top that indicates new replies and “Likes” to my comments.
I’m sure this will pass…unless it’s another pre-election obstruction of conservative pro-Trump communications…
Site showing up very strange today. No photos, etc. showing. FYI I go thru Brave browser and have security blocks. It has never shown up like this.
I hope it wasn’t me. I tried upload 3 youtube videos featuring scenes from “The Third Man” pay movie. I could see a number of posts . . . but then nothing.
“Bench Monday” posts disappeared shortly after about 12:35 as well.
I just tried to re-post “Happy Bench Cursday” but it didn’t come up…maybe it’s hanging in the balance somewhere that Word approves.
I had to repost my two comments, which disappeared right after posting about 12:35.
Yes, it is “Cursday” and not Monday. It was late and I wanted to go to sleep. Now I am cozy in bed, but can’t fall asleep because I was snoozing before midnight.
Better try reposting your pics!
D_I, I can see treepers posts and beneath it I see a small blue star and the word “Loading” Appears WP is having “issues.”
Been having that problem since about 12:30 last night. Seems to be OK now, but can’t see who voted, and don’t see my avatar and reply notification in top right (The bell thing).
-delete- -delete- beyond all recognition!
No!!!
That is just how I feel, have come to look forward to Lucille’s bench pictures now for sometime. Hope whatever is going on gets resolved
Does Christ Make You Happy?
By Justin Johnson
The ultimate goal in life for many is to be happy. Advice to be happy is so ubiquitous as to be cliché. Even some Christians have fallen for this trap of thinking.
“Do what makes you happy!”
“Avoid people that rob your happiness.”
“Smile.”
As along as they are happy, life is good. Unhappiness is the enemy. They sacrifice all for happiness, without which life would have no real purpose.
But if this were right, then why would we need Christ to be happy? You can be happy without him. In fact, many are happier without him.
Jesus Christ lived a shorter life than the average rock star, and died by crucifixion without saying a word in his own defense. Was Christ happy on the cross?
People who name Christ are slaughtered, chased from their house, tortured, and starved in some countries. In our own country being a Christian may get you mocked by the talking heads and town atheists. Not a happy experience either way.
Ignorance is bliss, but learning the truth from Christ about sin and righteousness exposes the realities of a broken world and humanity. Where is happiness in living the Christian life?
This must be why I’ve never seen “knowledge of Jesus Christ” and “fellowship of his sufferings” on any list of habits by happy people.
“If in this life only we have hope in Christ, we are of all men most miserable.” – 1 Cor 15:19
The Gospel of Happiness
If happiness is the ultimate goal in life, then Jesus Christ can easily get in the way.
Christ did not come to make men happy, nor does he promise us a life of happiness now. Why would anyone want to be a Christian, potentially sacrifice their happiness, and sometimes their lives to know him?
Christians know not every frown is turned upside down by pursuing personal happiness. Not every problem can be solved by eating your eggs sunny side up and looking at the bright side of life.
Can happiness replace Christ? Certainly not. The gospel of happiness ignores real problems supposing that achieving happiness is possible by everyone at all times. In other words, living life just to be happy is living in a dream world. It is fake, juvenile, and ignorant.
Isn’t there a way to be happy without hiding the truth? (Prov 3:13)
The best “a happy life” can do is make terminally ill patients feel better on their deathbed. They still die in their sins. Their families are still sad. Unhappiness abounds.
It is far better to give those who are dying the cure for death, even if it requires momentary pain, harsh realities, and unhappiness toward us. Would not the cure bring more lasting joy than whatever personal happiness exists without it?
Happiness and Christ
Happiness is wonderful, but it is not the purpose of life, nor is it the answer to real life problems.
So, what is the alternative to being happy all the time? Are Christians ministers of sadness, grumpiness, and general negativity? Nonsense! Christians minister salvation from this depressing condition through the gospel of Jesus Christ.
What we need is the truth about life now, and a way for us all to have new life. Where do we find righteousness that solves all wrongs, peace that endures, and joy that lasts beyond our vain masquerade of happiness?
Jesus Christ is “the way, the truth, and the life” (John 14:6).
This is why Christ died, and why people are willing to die knowing him. God provides forgiveness of sins, righteousness, and new life freely in Christ Jesus.
Life in Christ is greater than a happy life without him (Mal 3:15; Prov 11:4).
Joy in the Christian Life
What prevents perpetual misery in the Christian life? The hope of resurrection glory in Christ Jesus.
Happiness can be as fleeting and rare as the rainbows it rides in on. Christ is alive today and forever, and his death and resurrection is offered unto you for eternal life.
Though the Christian may at first appear to do everything wrong to achieve happiness, a life with Christ is the only way to know longsuffering with joyfulness.
The gospel of happiness is certainly not the gospel we preach. We preach the cross of the Lord Jesus Christ, and the glory of his resurrection after death. There is joy found in this hope of glory. There is contentment and glory in Christ.
Life is not about finding true happiness, but about finding true life in Christ Jesus. Trust God to provide what you need (Eph 2:7). Have no confidence in what you think makes you happy (Phil 3:3).
Do not choose to act based upon what makes you happy. Make choices according to the will of God.
If your happiness is robbed by this world, then rejoice in the Lord and not in yourself.
If life does not make you smile, shed tears in prayer to God being thankful that the sufferings of this present time are not worthy to be compared to the glory which shall be revealed in us in Christ Jesus (Rom 8:18).
“Rejoice with them that do rejoice, and weep with them that weep.” – Romans 12:15
“Rejoice in the Lord alway: and again I say, Rejoice.” – Phil 4:4
https://graceambassadors.com/life/does-christ-make-you-happy
The Water Of Life
By Pastor Cornelius R. Stam
For almost twenty-four hours, recently, Chicagoans had to boil their drinking water! Millions of small fish had jammed the water intakes far out in Lake Michigan, and had died there. It was, of course, a major operation to clear them all away and to make sure that Chicago’s drinking water was uncontaminated.
It is of the utmost importance, always, that the water we drink is pure and fresh, and this is no less so where spiritual matters are concerned. The Bible has much to say about stagnant water, and foul water, and poisoned water, but the water which God would give to us is called in Scripture, “the pure water of life,” doubtless because it is so wholesome and refreshing.
Perhaps the reader will recall the picture our Lord drew for that fallen Samaritan woman at the well of Sychar. John 4:10-14 tells how he and this woman had discussed Jacob’s well. Somehow she seemed to sense that He was contrasting her vain pursuit of pleasure with eternal life, when He said:
“Whosoever drinketh of this water shall thirst again, but whosoever drinketh of the water that I shall give him shall never thirst; but the water that I shall give him shall be in him, a [fountain] of water, springing up into everlasting life” (Vers. 13,14).
How true this is! The pleasures of this world do not satisfy. Men go on “pursuing pleasure” to keep from being bored, but the everlasting life that God gives to those who trust in Christ is a never-ending source of refreshment and joy. Also, it provides the greatest incentive to serve Him. Those who possess the joy of sins forgiven and of peace with God naturally long to serve and please Him, and God desires no service except that which springs from genuine gratitude and love.
“We love Him because He first loved us” (I John 4:19).
https://www.bereanbiblesociety.org/the-water-of-life/
To the Reader:
Some of our Two Minutes articles were written many years ago by Pastor C. R. Stam for publication in newspapers. When many of these articles were later compiled in book form, Pastor Stam wrote this word of explanation in the Preface:
“It should be borne in mind that the newspaper column, Two Minutes With the Bible, has now been published for many years, so that local, national and international events are discussed as if they occurred only recently. Rather than rewrite or date such articles, we have left them just as they were when first published. This, we felt, would add to the interest, especially since our readers understand that they first appeared as newspaper articles.”
To this we would add that the same is true for the articles written by others that we continue to add, on a regular basis, to the Two Minutes library. We hope that you’ll agree that while some of the references in these articles are dated, the spiritual truths taught therein are timeless.
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John 4:10 Jesus answered and said unto her, If thou knewest the gift of God, and who it is that saith to thee, Give me to drink; thou wouldest have asked of him, and he would have given thee living water.
11 The woman saith unto him, Sir, thou hast nothing to draw with, and the well is deep: from whence then hast thou that living water?
12 Art thou greater than our father Jacob, which gave us the well, and drank thereof himself, and his children, and his cattle?
13 Jesus answered and said unto her, Whosoever drinketh of this water shall thirst again:
14 But whosoever drinketh of the water that I shall give him shall never thirst; but the water that I shall give him shall be in him a well of water springing up into everlasting life.
1 John 4:19 We love him, because he first loved us.
A Constitutional solution is to assemble as in the 1st amendment on your state. With; people that will do the work; people that will form a Lawful grand jury and bring a true bill against these evil doers. On Oregon we bring Article I Section 1. We need; people to populate a VII amendment jury of peers to bring forth a verdict that has no appeal in law in Our Article III one supreme Court claiming original jurisdiction. There may be other solutions!! However, this one works; it is we the people in assembly. Will you help your state assemble? You have a pulpit. It only takes 45. Americans on a state in a minimum of 42 days.. Invite all non evil Americans. It only takes 45 people, no persons.. all the best of every good fortune for the good, [email protected]
How dare they screw with Cursday!!!
… here, I’ll fix it
That helped. Thank you!
HAPPY BENCH CURSDAY….
Australian Shepherd, Moscow, Russia…
Malinois…
Philippine Street Dogs…
Havanese…
Cocker Spaniel…
Blessings as you gather with family, friends or favorite canines today!
Garden dogs of unknown origin…
. . . 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.
Baby Lives Matter.
Charlotte they sure do. Children not yet born matter too….. and to be loved.
Chrissy Teigen and John Legend announce heartbreaking news that they have lost their baby Jack halfway through pregnancy after suffering ‘many complications’
We are shocked and in the kind of deep pain you only hear about, the kind of pain we’ve never felt before.
To our Jack – I’m so sorry that the first few moments of your life were met with so many complications, that we couldn’t give you the home you needed to survive. We will always love you.
This little guy was loved for sure.
Little Jack returning to the Father…..his Creator.
Prayers and blessings to the family.
So sad.
chrissy teigen@chrissyteigen
Driving home from the hospital with no baby. How can this be real.
9:27 PM · Sep 30, 2020
Maybe should have quit spraying Dihydroxyacetone
If you are outside tonight, don’t forget to look up.
Lately where have you been checking for news other than CTH?
What podcasts / radio / YouTube shows have you been watching?
Have you checked the “blogroll” list here at CTH? For me, it appears on the right side of the screen, down a bit from the top.
🙂
https://www.whatfinger.com
It’s very disturbing this sight is having such issues, hopefully it is only temporary. I don’t post often, but I read daily. Just knowing there are so many out there who believe in God and America gives me hope. Last Sunday there was a Trump car parade and rally in my area. The parade took two hours to get thru town to the fairgrounds. Rally even got a mention in an article on Trump parades in the Daily Mail. Early voting started here last Thursday and the lines have been long, but it was worth it.
I can’t tell how much of the problems are me having a new computer. I just got a MAC and I have never had one before. I don’t adjust quickly to changes. 🙄 But, sometimes I have to type all my info in on WordPress every time I comment. Big chore. And, just when I think I have it figured out, it doesn’t work. 🙁
“But, sometimes I have to type all my info in on WordPress every time I comment.”
I have to do that now as well. That just started happening today.
LG G4 phone w/Brave, TOR, Firefox and Chrome browsers.
I started having trouble on my other computer, too. Chrome browser.
Good morning Treepers.
Testing my sign in. Having WP issues.
Guess I’d better test mine too. At approx. 12:35am I checked for the posting of the OT and it wasn’t there yet. I figured it had been a particularly busy day for SD, so decided to bag it and get some sleep. So, let’s see if this posts the way I usually latch on.
OK. That worked, but I don’t have a bell. Test 2.
WP has clearly made some changes to posting procedures. Still no bell, and it’s requiring me to complete my sign-in each time. That’s new, and pretty unfriendly of WP, imo. Looks like an effort to make us jump through as many hoops as possible in order to talk to each other.
Verse of the Day for Thursday, October 1, 2020
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“Marvel not at this: for the hour is coming, in the which all that are in the graves shall hear his voice,”
John 5:28 (KJV)
Thank You, Jesus, for blessings received and prayers answered!!!
Thursday Blessing
Mornin’ infidels!
Betcha Biden weeweed too. Thanks for a good laugh in the morning, WeeWeed, and have a blessed day!
Mornin’ Weather!
Mornin’ WeeWeed
Afternoon DI!
Mornin’ WeeWeed! With the WordPress issues, I wasn’t sure we would hear from you today. So glad you are here!
Afternoon Surfhut!
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.
An American,
Reclaiming Our time.
FTA: “Last days’ events happen quickly. Even suddenly. The word “quickly” (Greek word: tachos) is used eight times in Revelation. Think of an automobile tachometer which measures the working speed of an engine typically in revolutions per minute. And it revs up.
We often see sudden destruction falling upon the wicked in the Bible. The unrepentant living during Noah’s time, experienced a sudden and catastrophic flood (Gen. 6-9). They had 120 years to repent as Noah preached to them, but they chose to ignore him and judgment suddenly fell (Gen. 6:3-7).
Have you noticed that in 2020, everything has happened suddenly?”
For further information read entire article at:
https://www.raptureready.com/2020/09/30/suddenly-in-the-twinkling-of-an-eye-by-jan-markell/
If you want to understand more about the rapture, read the articles at:
https://www.biblestudytools.com/topical-verses/rapture-bible-verses/
Oh Oh…
The Amish sleeper cells in France must have been activated. Their “Little Lions” are on the attack!
https://www.breitbart.com/europe/2020/10/01/french-butcher-attacked-with-tear-gas-by-children-for-selling-pork/
Curious if the site was updated. As of this AM, the “Like” button text has changed and some say “Updating”. Also my saved link (favorite) shows the WordPress icon rather than the usual Treehouse icon. All seems to work ok. Strange…
AdRem, liked comment notifications are not going to email either. Just giving info I find in case it is helpful. 😉
THE SPHERE OF EXALTATION
“Jesus leadeth them up into a high mountain apart by themselves.” Mark ix. 2
We have all had times on the mount, when we have seen things from God’s standpoint and have wanted to stay there; but God will never allow us to stay there. The test of our spiritual life is the power to descend; if we have power to rise only, something is wrong. It is a great thing to be on the mount with God, but a man only gets there in order that afterwards he may get down among the devil-possessed and lift them up. We are not built for the mountains and the dawns and aesthetic affinities, those are for moments of inspiration, that is all. We are built for the valley, for the ordinary stuff we are in, and that is where we have to prove our mettle. Spiritual selfishness always wants repeated moments on the mount. We feel we could talk like angels and live like angels, if only we could stay on the mount. The times of exaltation are exceptional, they have their meaning in our life with God, but we must beware lest our spiritual selfishness wants to make them the only time.
We are apt to think that everything that happens is to be turned into useful teaching, it is to be turned into something better than teaching, viz., into character. The mount is not meant to TEACH us anything, it is meant to MAKE us something. There is a great snare in asking – What is the use of it? In spiritual matters we can never calculate on that line. The moments on the mountain tops are rare moments, and they are meant for something in God’s purpose.
Oswald Chambers
October 1st Devotional
Mobile web page looks like PC. Mode.
Now see that hovering over “like” star doesn’t populate names.
Test – yahoo log-in + new comments notify checked
test reply
test reply 2
test reply 3
Web page tab is now showing the WordPress “W” logo….
Mine just now went back to the usual logo!
I wrote this a while ago, lol Around 2015
If I were president….
Zero chance of records seal
Lawless acts in full repeal
Borders lacking no attention
Public oath and sound reflection
Pledged allegiance to the flag
Salute the troops Secure Iraq
I’d speak my mind and from the heart
No teleprompted verbal farts
My past would be an open book
Girlfriends lost and dirty looks
Vital stats both short and long
Certified and surely born
Sinner’s doubt worn on my face
Religious ties and living faith
Truth conveyed with no recall
Detected lies and faithful falls
Whistles blown Spotted drones
Seals secured and breaches known
Biden swiftly shown the door
Defiant stands Benghazi four
✴May God Bless America Once Again✴
https://www.americanclarion.com/files/president-36308/
Please help me foil Planned Parenthood’s agenda of death and make a difference in the lives of babies and mothers in my area:
https://www.fundeasy.com/m/5025276/
(Apologies if I’m double-posting, I can’t remember if I’ve posted it yet or not.)
Happy October! I am ready for some tricks, treats amd surprises.
I was looking something up, and came across this little news item from last summer. Recent revelations about what was IN John Brennan’s notes puts this anti-Trump hit piece in a whole new light. The notes reveal John Brennan is a liar (no surprise there!). It can also be plausibly argued that the whole purpose of writing his book was to try and sneak out some of his papers from the CIA and get his story straight before anybody found out what he did…collaborate with the Clinton campaign to fabricate the Trump/Russia collusion story.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/ex-cia-director-brennan-writes-in-upcoming-memoir-that-trump-blocked-access-to-records-and-notes/2020/07/28/f70b833e-d0f1-11ea-9038-af089b63ac21_story.html
wow….
and in case twitter pulls that tweet, here is what it says….
“NEW: The Biden campaign’s ‘Catholics for Biden’ co-chair is a woman who once referred to God as a “white racist…”
and a link to a campus reform piece which details…
“Anthea Butler, a professor at the University of Pennsylvania, is a co-chair of the Biden campaign’s Catholics for Biden outreach.”
“In 2013, she referred to God as a “white racist.”
Link to the campusreform piece:
https://campusreform.org/?ID=15806
Disgusting.
Maybe some of you are thinking, “Hmm, I haven’t heard from Weird Al Yankovic lately. I wonder what he’s up to?”
Full disclosure. I’ve always thought that Al’s a genius. A mad, wacky genius, but still. Plus, me and Al have the same birthday – same month, same day, same year, everything.
This video should lay to rest any doubts anybody has about Al. The debate was, what, three days ago? He turned it around and put out this video in that window, and got it out here for us to see. The guy is amazing.
Weird Al should moderate the next debate.
Like
https://www.secondopinionproject.com/sign39610500
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