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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Is this cat for real?
Is any?
That cat is the coolest!
A Harlequin Tabby. Most likely a female. Beautiful.
Quite unusual markings, for sure. Thanks for the pic.
Being Right vs. The Truth
By Pastor Kevin Sadler
“I don’t want to be right. I want the truth!” That’s what a brother in Christ told me on the phone one day here at Berean Bible Society. I thought it was a tremendous statement. It showed the godly mindset of the person on the other end of the line.
So many have their focus on being right — that is, winning arguments and debates — and are inflexible when it comes to the possibility of being wrong. Many stubbornly dig in their heels and just want to feel that they are right, even when there is Scripture against what they believe. The truth is what is most important.
In 2 Corinthians 13:8 we read, “For we can do nothing against the truth, but for the truth.” The truth never changes. There is always the possibility that our fallible opinion of what we think is right is not the truth. Our focus needs to be on whether what we believe is the truth of the Word of God. We must conform our thinking to God’s Word and have a humble, teachable heart that is willing to change if we are shown truth on a subject or passage on which we might be wrong. We must always have the spirit of a Berean and search the Scriptures to see if what we hear and what we believe are, in fact, the truth.
https://www.bereanbiblesociety.org/being-right-vs-the-truth/
2 Corinthians 13:8 For we can do nothing against the truth, but for the truth.
Will Ackerman was a WWII German war orphan who was adopted, reportedly at age 9, by a Stanford professor and his wife. A few years later his adoptive mother committed suicide—Will was the first person to find her body. I’ve often thought about the searing experience for a young child to have lost parents in a war, lived in an orphanage, been adopted to the USA . . . and then, only a few years later, to loose one’s second adoptive parent in such a gruesome way.
As a young man Will Ackerman developed an interest in guitar, found his talent, and actually became a very good player. He founded a record label—Windham Hill—to promote his music and then, not exactly by accident, created the New Age Music genre in the 1980’s.
The first of Ackerman’s guitar works I ever heard was this lament on the death of his adoptive mother. He called it, “The Impending Death Of The Virgin Spirit” and, in all honesty, it is one of the saddest pieces of music I’ve ever heard. You can feel the deep grief of an orphaned child coming upon the body of his 2nd mother.
Ackerman is an amazing gifted guitar player who especially likes to use alternative tunings in his songs. We’ll listen to 3 selections tonight—the first being his soulful lament for his adoptive mother.
This is sit back and relax music. I like to commune with Ackerman from time for just that reason. So, give yourself a little time . . . and enjoy.
I always knew there was something special about Windham Hill, and now I understand a little better.
Another song of tragic sadness is “Pavane pour une infante defunte.” Pavane, from the Italian word “Padovana,” meaning “Dance from Padua,” is one of the oldest forms of written music, dating from the 15th century, danced traditionally as a couple at court.
Maurice Ravel wrote “Pavan for a Dead Princess” in 1922 for Princess Edmond de Polignac, the daughter of Isaac Singer, famous for his wonderful sewing machines.
In this performance by Alice Sara Ott, it becomes difficult to tell the difference between the piano and the pianist
Beautiful. Perfect tempo. Thanks.
Is there a more exquisite piano composer than Ravel?
And I really like this pianist!
Thx!
I think so too.
NATIONAL BLUEBERRY CHEESECAKE DAY
On May 26th, two of the calendar’s favorite foods come together on National Blueberry Cheesecake Day.
Well, blueberries are healthy,so……?
The joy it would bring negates the bad. 😉
What bad?
“I’m a thousand miles from nowhere and there’s no place I wanna be . . . ” Talk about feeling disconnected! 🙂
You’ll never come back from Copperhead Road. Jan and Dean 1964: You won’t come back from Deadman’s Curve.
LOOOOVE Seminole Wind…thanks very much!
Dan’s Bake Sale, 1993. I wish this Force had stayed rallied, but no, we believed Bush was our friend and the media was just so mean to him.
https://www.rushlimbaugh.com/daily/2021/05/21/dans-bake-sale/
Welcome. I found it incredibly touching.
Wasn’t us!
Surprisingly high mercury levels detected in Greenland glacier meltwater
This idiocy is a crime against life itself.
If humans didn’t exist to extract sequestered carbon from the planet it would be well on it’s way to carbon death.
UK invests over £30 million in large-scale greenhouse gas removal
Forgot to mention that I am indeed a fan of biochar! Not as a means of removing carbon from the life-cycle, but of enhancing soils to support life in a way few other interventions could. Human potentiated black soil is pretty miraculous.
https://twitter.com/buitengebieden_/status/1396493247078440960
Rhinos have more common sense than RINOs.
THINK AS JESUS TAUGHT
“Pray without ceasing.” 1 Thess. v. 17
We think rightly or wrongly about prayer according to the conception we have in our minds of prayer. If we think of prayer as the breath in our lungs and the blood from our hearts, we think rightly. The blood flows ceaselessly, and breathing continues ceaselessly; we are not conscious of it, but it is always going on. We are not always conscious of Jesus keeping us in perfect joint with God, but if we are obeying Him, He always is. Prayer is not an exercise, it is the life. Beware of anything that stops ejaculatory prayer. “Pray without ceasing,” keep the childlike habit of ejaculatory prayer in your heart to God all the time.
Jesus never mentioned unanswered prayer, He had the boundless certainty that prayer is always answered. Have we by the Spirit the unspeakable certainty that Jesus had about prayer, or do we think of the times when God does not seem to have answered prayer? “Every one that asketh receiveth.” We say – “But…, but…” God answers prayer in the best way, not sometimes, but every time, although the immediate manifestation of the answer in the domain in which we want it may not always follow. Do we expect God to answer prayer?
The danger with us is that we want to water down the things that Jesus says and make them mean something in accordance with common sense; if it were only common sense, it was not worth while for Him to say it. The things Jesus says about prayer are supernatural revelations.
Oswald Chambers
May 26th Devotional
Aye, all supernatural!
Mornin’ infidels.
Mornin’ WeeWeed
Evenin’ DI!
. . . but deliver us from the Evil One.
Amen ??
Verse of the Day for Wednesday, May 26, 2021
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“And if it seem evil unto you to serve the LORD, choose you this day whom ye will serve; whether the gods which your fathers served that were on the other side of the flood, or the gods of the Amorites, in whose land ye dwell: but as for me and my house, we will serve the LORD.”
Joshua 24:15 (KJV)
Thank You, Jesus, for blessings received and prayers answered!!!
BE MY VOICE
Amen
Hang in there, they’re getting ready to jab you with their new “vaccine”…..
The Jesus Prayer
Lord Jesus Christ, Son of God, have mercy upon me, a sinner.
The 50th Psalm Septuagint (Psalm 51 KJV).
Prayer of Saint Ioannikios the Great of Bithynia (+ 846)
My hope is the Father, my refuge the Son, my protection the Holy Spirit. O Holy Trinity, glory to Thee.
PRAYING ON THE ARMOR OF GOD
Father God, I now follow your command to put on the full armor of God, because my battle is not against flesh and blood but against rulers, authorities, the powers of this dark world and against spiritual forces of evil in the unseen world.
I first pray on the Belt of Truth that it may be buckled around my waist, may I be centered and encircled by your truth dear Lord. Hem me inside all that is true and right, and may I be protected and held up by the truth of your living word, in my Lord Jesus name.
I pray on the Breastplate of righteousness, please protect my vital organs and my inner man, cover my integrity, my spirit, and my soul. Guard my heart for it is the wellspring of life, please strengthen and guard the most vulnerable places in my life with that which is right, good, and noble that I might not receive a fatal blow from the enemy, in my Lord Jesus name.
I pray on the Gospel Shoes of Peace. I choose to stand in the shoes of your good news, and on the firm foundation of my Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, the solid eternal rock. All other ground is sinking sand, I pray that I will not slip or fall, but that my feet would be firmly fitted on your lordship, my Lord Jesus. I choose to stand on you, so that the peace of God, which transcends all understanding will guard my heart and mind in Christ Jesus, the eternal Rock of Ages. I receive your holy peace now my Lord, from the sole of my feet to the crown of my head, in my Lord Jesus name.
I pray the Shield of Faith into my hand now. As I take up the shield of faith, I ask that you might extinguish every dart and arrow, that is launched from the enemy to take me down spiritually, physically, mentally, emotionally, and every attempt of the enemy to destroy my joy. I ask that my faith in you would make it flame out. Extinguish every flaming arrow that would come against me, my life, my family, my home, or my ministry. May my faith always be out in front of me like a shield. Give me the courage to “faith my fears” by choosing to walk by faith and not by sight, in my Lord Jesus name.
I pray on the Helmet of Salvation, that you might protect my mind from the thoughts that can lead me astray. I choose to take every thought captive, and arrest all intentioned ideas and motives that would harm others, or distract me from your holy will for me. I submit every captured thought to the Lordship of my Lord Jesus Christ, and ask that you would imprison those thoughts that are not of you my Lord. Transform my mind and renew my thinking that I may think God thoughts, and have a sober mind that is focused on your glory. Please protect me from being double minded that I may allow my mind, I reject to live an earthly life, because I choose to live a holy one, governed by you My Lord Jesus, the prince of peace, please have my mind to be saturated with the holy mind of Christ, in my Lord Jesus name.
Finally, I take up the Sword of the Spirit which is the holy word of God, I pray this powerful offensive weapon into my hand, and ask that your holy word would be fitting for every encounter I face. As the enemy gets close to me, please give me the insight, wisdom, and skill to wield the word of God to drive away the enemy, in my Lord Jesus name.
May the enemy and his team flee from me, upon hearing the word of God spoken by the power and direction of the Holy Spirit. Give me the sword of the spirit to cut through the wiles of the devil, so that I may discern the schemes of the enemy when he is near.
With all kinds of prayers, supplication, and intercession I pray to you my Lord God as the one who fights my battles. Now that I’m in your holy powerful armor, I walk away covered and ready to face my day as you go before me, and please protect me in the midst of the spiritual warfare in this unseen world, in my Lord Jesus name.
Thank you my Lord, for the spiritual weapons of armor and prayer that you have given me. It is written no weapon formed against me shall prosper, and you will refute every tongue that accuses me.
Thank you Father God, my Lord Jesus and the Holy Spirit, that I am more than a conqueror in my Lord Jesus. I pray all of this in the mighty name of my Lord God and Savior Jesus Christ, amen.
Christ is risen! Truly He is risen!
Wednesday of the Fourth Week of Pascha
From the Synaxarion:
“On the Wednesday of Mid-Pentecost, we commemorate the words of our Lord Jesus Christ concerning the provenance of His teaching and of His Divine origin, whereby He proved that He was the Messiah, and the Mediator and Reconciler of us and the eternal Father.”
The Paschal Troparion
Christ is risen from the dead, by death hath He trampled down death and on those in the graves hath He bestowed life.
(sung thrice)
Wednesday of Mid-Pentecost
Dismissal Hymn. Plagal of Fourth Tone.
“At Mid-feast give Thou my thirsty soul to drink of the waters of piety; for Thou, O Savior, didst cry out to all: Whosoever is thirsty, let him come to me and drink. Wherefore, O Well-spring of life, Christ our God, glory be to Thee.”
Wednesday of Mid-Pentecost
Kontakion. Fourth Tone.
“In the Judaic Mid-feast, Thou didst say to those present, O Christ God, Master and Creator of all: Come ye, and receive the water of immortality. Wherefore, we fall down before Thee, crying out in faith and saying: Grant us Thy mercy and compassion; for Thou art the Well-spring of our life.”
Caution…Check sources on anything you read on-line, even here. Yesterday someone posted here on CTH that Thomas Sowell had died. Tributes poured in. Several people researched. “What is your source for that?” Unless it hasn’t hit ANY news outlet, not true.
Yeah, I saw it and found nothing to support the report, so I blew it off.
Lately there seem to be A LOT of disinformers lurking here.
Anyone know what has happened to Tony Heller’s realclimatescience website ? I have not been able to load into the browser for the past couple of days.
Wokeness 101………………………Also known as propaganda for the weak minded.
https://choiceclips.whatfinger.com/2021/05/26/wokeness-101-women-try-to-explain-whiteness-to-man-who-struggles-to-understand/
Sweet Vindication!
ATLANTA, GA—Alex Jones has been appointed as the new CDC director after everyone realized he was right about everything all along.
“We have been startled by the uncanny accuracy with which all his conspiracy theories have come true,” said former director Robert Redfield. “Everything from the Wuhan lab leak to the Great Reset initiative was predicted by Mr. Jones. Eventually, we just said, ‘Welp, this Jones guy seems to know something we don’t know.’ We thought it might be best to just let him run this whole operation.”
“We should probably just let him run the WHO as well.”
https://babylonbee.com/news/after-world-realizes-he-was-right-about-everything-alex-jones-appointed-as-new-head-of-cdc
LOL!
Babylon Bee never ceases to find great topics & sources for their excellent satire.
Just asking. Does anyone know if the “vaccines” will cause infertility in women and men? I only ask because of the hysterical push to get everyone jabbed.
“It takes courage not to get discouraged”.
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 his family 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.
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Amen.
Amen.
I am afraid President Trump is going to rue the day(s) he has been touting his “expediting” of the vaccines (so-called)… more and more information is showing up about side effects and deaths/// let old Joe take the credit, and stop promoting of these “jabs”, which according to some of the top (non-political) scientists, are creating ‘varients’ and other potential dangers.
I hear you. I have long struggled to suppress a cringe over this.
✝️ Thank You Lord, for the day. Amen.