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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This is for rah. Long may you wave buddy. My dad drove buses for a living. I remember one morning, I must have been about5 or so, we got up in a strange town before light. I’d never done that before. I remember going down to the bus station where my dad got his Trailways ACF bus started so it could warm up. Then we we walked down a totally dark street toward the most brightly lite diner I’d ever seen To my young eyes it was a magical place—all brilliant white lights on such a dark street. I remember how warm it was. My dad got me a big cup of hot co-co while he had his morning coffee. That was my first introduction to what working for a living was like.
Later, I came to understand that you can’t do that kind of work unless you have a pretty sophisticated skill-set, something that’s often underappreciated ( my dad could parallel park a big bus) by people who don’t know what driving for a living is actually like.. I also came to understand that the bottom line about work—what’s most important—involves simply showing up. Rain or shine. Cold or hot. Want to, or not want to—work is about always about showing up and doing your job. I never forgot that lesson. When I was teaching for many, many years I always made a point of showing up for class on time and ready. I got that lesson from my dad. and I always felt that I was honoring what he did for us for so many years.
Everytime I hear this song I’m reminded our cheap date. I didn’t have much money so I made a couple of kites which we were flying off the seawall. I remember I turned around and she was smiling at me. It was a completely innocent moment. it didn’t matter that our “date” cost me about ten bucks. Her smile meant everything to me and I knew then that I loved her. 53 years and counting . . .
Not only are your music selections varied, interesting, and entertaining, your writing is rich in visual imagery and it evokes deep emotion within the reader. Being you were a teacher for many years, I can imagine that your students learned a lot more than just the subject matter.
Thank you Garrison for your daily contributions to the CTH Open Thread. This is often my first go-to page every day.
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Another good (and old) one for Rah… Keep us all enthralled with your stories and your spirit
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How To Rule The Unruly
By Pastor Ricky Kurth
A young man had just graduated from Bible school and wanted to be a pastor. But when he was offered a temporary job as a police officer, he accepted it, thinking it might give him some good insight into human nature that would come in handy later in the ministry. One of the questions on the police academy exam was, “What would you do to disperse an unruly crowd?” The aspiring pastor thought for a moment, then responded, “I’d take up a collection. That’ll disperse any crowd!”
Speaking of unruly people, the island of Crete where Titus was stationed (Tit. 1:5) had it’s share of them. We know this because after Paul told him to ordain elders in the island’s churches, he told him the reason he needed to ordain them:
“For there are many unruly and vain talkers…” (Titus 1:10).
The dictionary defines the word “unruly” as people who don’t want to be ruled. That’s probably why the only other people in the Bible who are called “unruly” are people who didn’t want to be ruled by the rulers of their local church. Speaking of those spiritual leaders, Paul told the Thessalonians,
“…know them which labour among you, and are over you in the Lord, and admonish you; And… esteem them very highly in love for their work’s sake… warn them that are unruly” (I Thessalonians 5:12-14).
See the connection? After speaking about rulers, Paul told them to warn the unruly. In the context, these were obviously people who didn’t want to be ruled by the church’s pastor and elders.
But how could Paul have known that there were unruly men who didn’t want to be ruled by leaders in Crete? Their churches didn’t have rulers yet! Remember, Paul had left Titus in Crete to ordain elders (Tit. 1:5). So how did Paul know that some of the Cretians were unruly?
Well, it was because of the way that pastors are supposed to rule. Paul explained how leaders are to rule in the dispensation of grace when he told the Corinthians,
“Not for that we have dominion over your faith, but are helpers of your joy: for by faith ye stand” (II Corinthians 1:24).
Pastors aren’t supposed to rule by having “dominion” over God’s people, that is, by dominating them. People stand by faith, and faith comes by the Word of God (Rom. 10:17). That means pastors are supposed to rule by teaching people the Word, and then letting the Word rule them. Beloved, the only way you are going to have any joy in life is if you let God’s Word rule your life!
But that’s how Paul knew there were unruly men in Crete. When he was there among them, he had seen that there were Cretians who didn’t want to be ruled by the Word that he had taught them. So he told Titus to ordain some elders to teach those unruly men more of God’s Word.
Perhaps you are thinking, “How would that help? If they didn’t want to be ruled by God’s Word, why ordain leaders to give them more of His Word?”
The answer is that God doesn’t have a “Plan B” when it comes to helping people with their joy! That means when people don’t want to be ruled by the Word, a pastor shouldn’t chuck the Scriptures and look around for something else to give them. Instead, he should continue to teach the Word, and ordain elders to do the same. You see, growing in the Word is a believer’s only hope of living the joyous Christian life God wants each of us to richly enjoy.
https://www.bereanbiblesociety.org/how-to-rule-the-unruly-2/
Titus 1:5 ¶ For this cause left I thee in Crete, that thou shouldest set in order the things that are wanting, and ordain elders in every city, as I had appointed thee:
Titus 1:10 For there are many unruly and vain talkers and deceivers, specially they of the circumcision:
1 Thessalonians 5:12 And we beseech you, brethren, to know them which labour among you, and are over you in the Lord, and admonish you;
13 And to esteem them very highly in love for their work’s sake. And be at peace among yourselves.
14 Now we exhort you, brethren, warn them that are unruly, comfort the feebleminded, support the weak, be patient toward all men.
2 Corinthians 1:24 Not for that we have dominion over your faith, but are helpers of your joy: for by faith ye stand.
Romans 10:17 So then faith cometh by hearing, and hearing by the word of God.
On this day ~
June 1, 1661
✝️James Guthrie went to the scaffold. His enemies were determined to execute him. The Scottish Presbyterian minister was to be executed for publishing a work which declared God’s wrath was coming upon Scotland for, among other things, setting up the King of England as head of the church. Only the Lord Jesus Christ could fill that role.
It was there that day just before his death he preached his last sermon. “… I do believe that Jesus Christ came into the world to save sinners of whom I am the chief, through faith in His righteousness and blood, have I obtained mercy, and in Him and through Him alone, have I the hope of a blessed conquest and victory over sin and Satan, and hell and death, and that I shall attain unto the Resurrection of the Just and be made a partaker of eternal life; I know whom I have believed, and He is able to keep that which I have committed to Him against that day.” He urged his listeners to seek Christ’s free grace.
Eureka!!
Maquis ,
Absolutely YES ! Dwight ?
. . . but deliver us from the Evil One.
Amen ?
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.
Christ is risen! Truly He is risen!
Tuesday of the Fifth Week of Pascha
May 19th on the traditional Calendar of the Orthodox Christian Church and June 1st on the civil or commercial calendar.
Acts of the Holy Apostles 12: 25 – 13: 12
Holy Gospel according to Saint John 8: 51 – 59
Holy Hieromartyr Patrikios, Bishop of Prusa, and those with him during the reign of Julian the Apostate (+ 362)
Saint Dunstan, archbishop of Canterbury (+ 988)
Monk Martyrs and Confessors of Kantara Monastery on Cyprus, who suffered under the Latins (+ 1231)
New Hieromartyr Anthony, Bishop of Belgorod, and those with him (+ 1938)
and many other Saints and Martyrs commemorated today.
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)
CHRISTOS ANESTI! ALETHOS ANESTI!
ALITHOS!!!
THE STAGGERING QUESTION
“Son of man, can these bones live? Ezekiel xxxvii. 3
Can that sinner be turned into a saint? Can that twisted life be put right? There is only one answer: “O Lord, Thou knowest, I don’t.” Never trample in with religious common sense and say – “Oh, yes, with a little more Bible reading and devotion and prayer, I see how it can be done.”
It is much easier to DO something than to trust in God; we mistake panic for inspiration. That is why there are so few fellow workers with God and so many workers for Him. We would far rather work for God than believe in Him. Am I quite sure that God will do what I cannot do? I despair of men in the degree in which I have never realized that God has done anything for me. Is my experience such a wonderful realization of God’s power and might that I can never despair of anyone I see? Have I had any spiritual work done in me at all? The degree of panic is the degree of the lack of personal spiritual experience.
“Behold, O my people, I will open your graves.” When God wants to show you what human nature is like apart from Himself, He has to show it you in yourself. If the Spirit of God has given you a vision of what you are apart from the grace of God (and He only does it when His Spirit is at work), you know there is no criminal who is half so bad in actuality as you know yourself to be in possibility. My “grave” has been opened by God and “I know that in me (that is, in my flesh) dwelleth no good thing.” God’s Spirit continually reveals what human nature is like apart from His grace.
Oswald Chambers
June 1st Devotional
You cannot look upon God and live. (Because all is burned away in his glory all that is left is of him not you.)
Romans 8:14 for they that are led by the spirit of God are sons of God.
Led by the spirit of God? So we will hear his voice.
And how will you know it is his voice?
The manual! If you don’t know it’s God then look it up. Best just to read it everyday and study so that when he speaks you do not hesitate, because he speaks all day everyday.
Mornin’ infidels!
“Those whom The Lord would destroy He first deprives of reason”
Insane criminals are deciding how we are to live and raise our kids.
Mornin’ WeeWeed
Good Afternoon WeeWeed!
This will more than likely involve ‘climate refugees’ https://www.channelnewsasia.com/news/world/world-health-organization-covid-19-pandemic-treaty-14920344
Hi all…
I’d like to ask for some prayers today, for me and for Baby Climber. I’m fairly certain I have preeclampsia, and when my husband gets off work tonight I’m going to the hospital. Since I’m 38 weeks, if I do have it, they’ll induce me – probably tonight. I’d appreciate a quick prayer regarding mine and the baby’s safety.
Thanks y’all.
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🙂 Done. Much love . . .
Slight update: my husband is getting off work early to take me to the OB. I should be back in a couple of hours with an update… if I don’t, it’s because I’m in the hospital evicting this kid. ;P
All Gods love ,Amen
All ours too!
No health issues! Just end-of-pregnancy + Southern summer effects.
Love you all. ? Thanks for the prayers.
Glad for this update and thank you for it, now many prayers of joyous blessing shift to you, your husband and your expanding family.
Prayers up!
Prayer sent!
God Bless and protect you and your baby…and all of your family, TreeClimber.
Many many prayers. Let us know when you get to a chance? ??
Prayers girl. Remember, God IS with you. God is a healer, ask and you shall receive (so you have). Godspeed and let us know how it went, love.
Its late now…praying for both of you….
Why are we involved with El Salvador governance to begin with? They are their own country. They are responsible to their own people. Not us. The only thing we need to do is protect our border and deport anyone who comes here illegally.
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House Democrat says she sleeps with gun nearby after clashing with El Salvador’s president
https://thehill.com/homenews/house/555981-house-democrat-says-she-sleeps-with-gun-nearby-after-clashing-with-el?amp=1&_recirculation=1
I understand your question and the thoughts behind it – what are our national priorities…
But there has long been a desire of many Americans to try to keep communism out of the Western Hemisphere. Cuba first violated that desire and ever since then, a certain element of our political leaders / policy makers have sought to fight Marxism where it tries to gain prominence.
Ironically, Marxism is now seriously threatening our own nation. So your question of priorities is much more appreciated and necessary now more than ever before.
Fine Art Tuesday
Willem Roelofs, The Rainbow, 1875
From Ol’ Remus (archives):
Making predictions is like dressing in a clown costume and handing meringue pies to passers by. We all do it even though the future is not merely unknown but unknowable. Ask the dinosaurs of 66 million and 33 years ago—Alvarez’s date was published in 1980—how the beach party scheduled for the next day at Chicxulub worked out. Oh that’s right, you can’t, they were all flash-barbequed. So much for simple continuity, much less long term extrapolation. That said, we can predict with sufficient confidence that a truck falling off a cliff will hit bottom, and pretty much when and where. If it doesn’t, we have bigger problems than a predictive miss.
Predictions, if they’re to be understood at all, are to be understood backwards. They comment on the present without directly, you know, commenting on the present. The commenting part is not optional. It is in fact inescapable. Most science fiction is also commentary, the time displacement or alternate reality being bedazzlement to reorient the reader. It’s calculated to evade his prepositioned defenses long enough for The Message to get through intact. Movies are less subtle, we willingly check our disbelief at the door, and it remains suspended unless something blatant disquiets it.
Plain ol’ predictions are more simple minded, more the “trouble with a T, and that rhymes with P, and that stands for POOL” school of commentary, an exercise in connecting dots most of which don’t actually exist. Finally, predictions are like subatomic particles, each one has its anti-particle, both spring from the same source, both are equally valid—and equally not valid. Pollyannas and noble thinkers hew to the one, the pragmatists and battle scarred the other. With all this in mind, or not, we begin.
Constitutional fundamentalism will dominate the 21st century like the New Deal and the New Left dominated the 20th. The one party two-party system is already understood to be profoundly incestuous and irredeemably corrupt. Worse, DC’s actions say it believes the populace to be its enemy. The populace finds less reason to doubt them every day, so DC’s blatant disregard for natural rights and Constitutional guarantees is being challenged as never before, and mere accommodation at the margins is laughably insufficient for the growing ranks of the newly converted.
The movement grossly underestimates itself. To their credit, DC knows better. The ruling class understands this administration may be the last of the wooly mammoths. They’re not looking to defeat constitutionalism, they’re looking to survive it and dominate it. Look for the patricians to decorate the lampposts with their own cadets in a dramatic lunge for absolution and acceptance.
The next Great Depression is happening now. As in the ‘thirties, everything is getting better with the single exception of everything. The stock market as a price discovery mechanism is defunct, Detroit and three dozen or so smaller municipal bankruptcies have shown Munis are no longer credible, and the Federal Reserve has gone about as far into the marshlands as it can and found—more marshland. Now the final notice is in the mail.
Look for rising interest rates to tank the economy, and suddenly so. It’s the same leverage used for the bogus rampup, except working in reverse with a gravity assist. Look for a 25 to 35 per cent drop in real GDP from here, an unexampled calamity. Also expect dollar emergencies to come closer together until they drag it into outright repudiation. DC’s clout and credibility rest squarely on the dollar. Where it goes, they go. All else is blather. Even telephone tappers don’t work for nothing.
It’s said every agency wants to be a police force, and every police force wants to be an army. This is a spectacularly bad idea. In the beginning the municipal police were manned with casual labor in the lower reaches, little more than bailiffs with street duty. Professional law enforcement meant the sheriff—originally: the shire reeve—one of two ancient offices inherited from England, the other being the coroner. There were no police when the Constitution was ratified. Over time they’ve come close to the internal standing army art the founders feared and warned against, and with creeping federal captivity, an army of national occupation.
The schisms within the police over this, and between the populace and the police, are deepening proportionally. In DC’s mind the necessity for an open transformation is getting urgent. Look for a Night of the Long Knives during some crisis or another in the coming years, to purge rogue elements and promote efficiency, natch. Then look for trouble when the people understand the thin blue line has melded with the thick blue line and “protect and defend” means protecting and defending DC—from the people.
There’s every reason to believe the 21st century will be as eventful as the 20th. It’s foolish to expect good outcomes, much less depend on them. Even this little distance in time shows the last century was about Great Leaders building make believe worlds and forcing everybody to live in them until they either died from the consequences or the regime did. It’s no coincidence modern states use prodigious resources to count heads and keep tabs, or that survivalists think a lot about escape and evasion.
In the west the first years of the 21st century have been about disengagement. Much of “collapse” doomers point to is disengagement without sanctioned reengagement elsewhere. The slo-mo dissolution of the EU and back-to-the-land survival communities are examples from the macro and micro ends of the scale. But a trend does not a future make. The future is made the same way a glacier is made, one snowflake at a time. From there on, where it goes is up to the glacier.
For a reluctant prediction that looks, and feels, like already partially fulfilled prophecy.
More so when you realize Ol’ Remus wrote this in 2013.
He was a wise man. RIP.
Verse of the Day for Tuesday, June 1, 2021
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“And God said, Let there be light: and there was light.”
Genesis 1:3 (KJV)
Thank You, Jesus, for blessings received and prayers answered!!!
BE MY VOICE
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.
The Truth about the so-called Tulsa Riots of 1921 is that most of what we are reading and being told about it are outright fabrications. Lies.
https://bigleaguepolitics.com/debunked-leftist-propaganda-about-the-tulsa-riots-of-1921-is-another-anti-white-blood-libel/
The facts as developed by the Special Collections and Archives Librarian at the University of Tulsa Library
https://tulsaraceriot.wordpress.com/
Well, here I sit, waiting for my 2nd Covid shot.
Does this mean I need to donate $5 to the Treehouse?
Amazon plans to share your internet with your neighbors. This is how you opt out
HOUSTON – If you have an Amazon device in your home, anything from an Alexa to an Echo, you have just seven days to opt out of an experiment that could put your privacy at risk.
Amazon Sidewalk will be a shared network that is supposed to help customer devices work better, both in and around your home, like outside lighting that may be wi-fi enabled. If you lose connectivity your device would just switch to a neighbor’s signal so the service wouldn’t be disrupted. When you turn on a new device, it will ask you if you want to join the Amazon Sidewalk network but all of the Amazon devices you own now will automatically be included on June 8, unless you opt out.
How will Amazon Sidewalk work?Your Amazon Alexa, Echo, Ring doorbell, security cameras and Tile trackers will automatically enroll in the sidewalk system on June 8.
Online, Amazon explains, “As a crowdsourced, community benefit, Amazon Sidewalk is only as powerful as the trust our customers place in us to safeguard customer data.”
Amazon says the total monthly data that would be used by Sidewalk enabled-devices is capped at 500 MB, about what it takes to stream 10 minutes of high-definition video.
How do you opt out?
If you don’t already have the Alexa app, you will have to install it just to turn Amazon Sidewalk off. You can’t opt out from your Amazon account online.
Dogsmaw………help. The only thing I know that I have is Amazon fire stick that has Alexa on it. I have no idea how to access it.
https://www.tomsguide.com/us/amazon-fire-tv-stick-guide,review-5594.html
Thank you. I looked for some info for an hour last night and didn’t find anything. I will see what I can do with this. 🙂
https://www.tomsguide.com/us/control-tv-alexa,review-5263.html
Saved this one, too. 🙂
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.
Amen
Amen.
Amen.
Amen.
Neighbors are beginning to push back against the CCP’S PLA. But a ‘note’? https://www.aninews.in/news/world/asia/indonesia-to-ramp-up-submarine-fleet-in-response-to-chinese-incursions20210530163032
https://www.malaymail.com/news/malaysia/2021/06/01/wisma-putra-sending-protest-note-to-beijing-after-16-chinese-military-plane/1978869
Follow up to Austria’s ‘map of Islam’ or whatever the label is. All peaceful? Think again https://rmx.news/article/article/the-interactive-map-of-islam-project-causes-controversy-in-austria
Ice Age Farmer has a new (19 min.) video out; very interesting look at the global initiative through the World Economic Forum to ‘invest in forests’ plan:
✝️ Lord, thank You for the day. Amen.