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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It’s Finally Fabulous Friday …
What Was Accomplished At Calvary ?
By Pastor Cornelius R. Stam
If the Bible makes anything clear, it is the fact that the secret of all God’s good news to men is centered in Calvary. It was because Christ was to die for sin that God could proclaim good news to sinners down through the ages.
It was not until some time after the crucifixion, however, that “the preaching of the cross” was widely proclaimed as a message by Paul in “the gospel [good news] of the grace of God” (ICor.1:18; Acts 20:24).
The proclamation of “the gospel of the grace of God” was the natural accompaniment to the revelation of the cross as the secret of God’s good news to man. In this proclamation of His over-abounding grace to sinners, everything centers in the cross.
According to Paul’s epistles “we have redemption through His [Christ’s] blood” (Eph.1:7), we are “justified by His blood” (Rom.5:9), “reconciled to God by the death of His Son” (Rom.5:10), “made nigh by the blood of Christ” (Eph.2:13), and “made the righteousness of God in Him” because “God hath made Him to be sin for us” (IICor.5:21).
The “covenant” of the Law was abolished by the cross (Col.2:14), the curse of the Law was removed by the cross (Gal.3:13), the “middle wall of partition” was broken down by the cross (Eph.2:14,15), and believers in Christ are “reconciled to God in one body by the cross” (Eph. 2:16). Little wonder Paul calls this message “the preaching of the cross”!
To the believers it is thrilling indeed, and how thankful we should be, to see the cross as God’s reply to Satan when, at first glance, it had appeared that the cross was Satan’s greatest triumph.
https://www.bereanbiblesociety.org/what-was-accomplished-at-calvary/
1Corinthians 1:18 For the preaching of the cross is to them that perish foolishness; but unto us which are saved it is the power of God.
Acts 20:24 But none of these things move me, neither count I my life dear unto myself, so that I might finish my course with joy, and the ministry, which I have received of the Lord Jesus, to testify the gospel of the grace of God.
Ephesians 1:7 In whom we have redemption through his blood, the forgiveness of sins, according to the riches of his grace;
Romans 5:9 Much more then, being now justified by his blood, we shall be saved from wrath through him.
Romans 5:10 For if, when we were enemies, we were reconciled to God by the death of his Son, much more, being reconciled, we shall be saved by his life.
Ephesians 2:13 But now in Christ Jesus ye who sometimes were far off are made nigh by the blood of Christ.
2Corinthians 5:21 For he hath made him to be sin for us, who knew no sin; that we might be made the righteousness of God in him.
Colossians 2:14 Blotting out the handwriting of ordinances that was against us, which was contrary to us, and took it out of the way, nailing it to his cross;
Galatians 3:13 Christ hath redeemed us from the curse of the law, being made a curse for us: for it is written, Cursed is every one that hangeth on a tree:
Ephesians 2:14 ¶ For he is our peace, who hath made both one, and hath broken down the middle wall of partition between us;
15 Having abolished in his flesh the enmity, even the law of commandments contained in ordinances; for to make in himself of twain one new man, so making peace;
16 And that he might reconcile both unto God in one body by the cross, having slain the enmity thereby:
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Is it snowing where you are? It snowed one winter here. It was about 10 inches and the whole city shut down. Schools closed, the univeristy closed, cars where running into each other on the freeways . . . My history prof neighbor’s little dachshund had never seen show and so was quite a sight porpoising in the 10 in show “drifts”. We saved the lower limbs of the tree in our front yard by taking brooms and knocking show off the lower branches. Of course we were covered with snow as a result but, satisfied at accomplishing our good deed, we retired upstairs to sit by the fire with some hot tea. The cats thought we were nuts and wouldn’t move from the couch. Some pillows on the floor put us closer to the fire and made a suitable compromise.
Snow is the very best form of moisture for the ground. It ‘works’ the soil as it slowly soaks in, instead of running off. And, for the most part it is lovely, serene, fluffy as cotton candy, and turns your world into a brilliant, bright white wonderland! That being said, whew, it is hard work shoveling snow off driveways, sidewalks and such!
Always enjoy your music selections, and tonight is no different. Both are lovely…….thank you for sharing.
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Ah but snow is a thing of the past!!! A British “scientist” said ten years ago ‘children will never know what snow is’ due to catastrophic man made global warming. But not to worry, your new president in waiting will solve that peskie global warming by ‘re joining the Paris accord and taxing you Yanks to pay China to build more coal fired power stations.
What could go wrong?
Happy Christmas.
Ah, but 40 years ago, we were being told that New York was going to be covered with a glacier and we were all going to have to move to South America because the world was freezing.
*science* they say
*settled* they say
Snow is the poor man’s fertilizer.
Thank you annieoakley. In one short sentence you said it perfectly!
Got a foot or so here in eastern Massachusetts. Got a chance to use my Honda snowblower with treads: fun.
It snowed in Charleston the first week of January the year my older son was born… My husband had gotten a Jack Russell puppy who had just gotten neutered, so he absolutely loved it. Hubs and I went out walking in it after dark. It was incredibly deep, way deeper than I’d ever seen it here. One house in the neighborhood still had their Christmas lights up – I still have that picture somewhere. The next night I went into labor and my son was born at 5:33 the next morning… by the time we left the hospital three days later, only a few patches remained in shady spots, but it’s still one of my favorite memories.
PR Stunt gone wrong…
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2020/12/watch-nurse-passes-live-television-taking-coronavirus-vaccine/
Just say’n… 😉
Worthy of an encore...
https://youtu.be/WsYsTEaF3U4
Just say’n… 😉
Well, well, well.
Looky here…
Just say’n… 😉
In case you missed SCOTUS sideshow…
https://twitter.com/AOECOIN/status/1339650291960934400/photo/1
Just say’n… 😉
It’s late; snow is awaitng removal…
Perhaps, this link a better choice…
https://twitter.com/AOECOIN/status/1339650291960934400
My American friends, I sometimes bring you news from Israel of things that don’t arrive to the US media, this one is different. It’s a true inspiration. The story is taking place in Oct 1973. Yom Kippur is the holiest day in Israel, many of the soldiers are let to go home with their families, everyone is fasting and I remember as a child the next morning the sirens are on. Two armies (Egypt and Syria) attack from north and south in a surprise attack, they break the first defense lines and are riding their tanks into Israel. The state is about to be destroyed. At the north, a young officer by the name Avigdor Kahalani is stopping the entire Syrian army with a handful of tanks. His fight was so ferocious that the Syrians thought there is a whole army facing them and they stopped. The man got awarded the highest bravery award and here is the short story of this inspiring man:
Thank you for this heroic story. If the Bible was being written today, this young man’s story would be included. The God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob, the Holy One of Israel protects His own.
Shalom and blessings.
Just say’n… 😉
Politicians have their preference priorities... 😉
https://twitter.com/Austin_Zone/status/1339720696256147469
And casinos
So how about Churches and Synagogues take over these venues for religious services
Well dayaamm, Eric Clapton and Van Morrison are on our side? Whoda thunk that? Welcome guys. There’s no such thing as being late to this fight . . .
,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,ha, that is a very timely message……………..also, a swinging dance tune! Thank you!
. . . but deliver us from the Evil One.
The Lord’s Prayer sing by Saint Innocent Academy choir set to Icons and so forth.
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.
Are they worth it…you betcha, I have seen a wonderful joy since the little granddaughter arrived into our lives.
I saw this yesterday and It made me cry. I watched it again today and it made me cry again. How touching. Our children are so precious.
Made me cry as well ~ family is precious
Dora, I enjoy the art work that you post. I usually can not give you a like because I am on my iPad and for some reason the new site does not let me like or reply. Everything works great on my MacBook and iPhone. So, in the mornings I just read and enjoy. I really miss all the the baby pictures against abortion and the bench pictures.
Let the Christmas spirit be within each of us
Emmanuel by Rusty VanSickle | ReverbNation
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Menagerie, I just wanted to say thank you for all your posts. They mean alot and bring warmth and family values to mind. I think your family is very lucky to have someone like you.
I’m sure my faith would be stronger if I had.
You and Sundance have done so much.
Merry Christmas!
Thank you very much. High praise!
THE TEST OF LOYALTY
“And we know that all things work together for good to them that love God.” Romans viii. 28
It is only the loyal soul who believes that God engineers circumstances. We take such liberty with our circumstances, we do not believe God engineers them, although we say we do; we treat the things that happen as if they were engineered by men. To be faithful in every circumstance means that we have only one loyalty, and that is to our Lord. Suddenly God breaks up a particular set of circumstances, and the realization comes that we have been disloyal to Him by not recognizing that He had ordered them; we never saw what He was after, and that particular thing will never be repeated all the days of our life. The test of loyalty always comes just there. If we learn to worship God in the trying circumstances, He will alter them in two seconds when He chooses.
Loyalty to Jesus Christ is the thing that we “stick at” today. We will be loyal to work, to service, to anything, but do not ask us to be loyal to Jesus Christ. Many Christians are intensely impatient of talking about loyalty to Jesus. Our Lord is dethroned more emphatically by christian workers than by the world. God is made a machine for blessing men, and Jesus Christ is made a Worker among workers.
The idea is not that we do work for God, but that we are so loyal to Him that He can do His work through us – “I reckon on you for extreme service, with no complaining on your part and no explanation on Mine.” God wants to use us as He used His own Son.
Oswald Chambers
December 18th Devotional
What a message for today’s political climate! Do we really trust God, that He is in full control of what is happening in our country? Some soul-searching on my part for sure…
Mornin’ infidels! Y’all be careful out there
Afternoon WeeWeed.
How ya doing today rah? Hope all is coming along nicely and a merry Christmas to you and yours.
As an aside, my half brother Georgie tried to burn down the high school in the 60s. The judge said jail or Viet Nam so off to Nam he went. He spent a year in 0341, mortars and then transfered into motor T. Reupped twice to go back to Nam to drive 6by! He was a great guy and just a restless cowboy. When he came home he bought his own truck and that’s all he ever did was haul freight. So when I read your reports on the road I always think of him.I spent 4 days with him and his wife in a cabover when I went to live at his place in Phoenix. It’s hard to sleep sitting upright in a cabover cause every 60 feet there’s a road joint and you feel it in a cabover. He knew every beer joint with a good pinball machine in the states and on that particular trip he was hauling garden hose. That’s why it took 4 days from Pa. to Phoenix, beer and pinball!! Anyway I hope you are recovering great and again Merry Christmas to you and family.
Hilarious……damn near wet my pants laughing so hard.
G’Evenin Ms WeeWeed 😛
Drift Away
Re Comment format:
Any chance you could put the ‘Previous’ ‘Next’ tag on the top of each Comment page, as well as the bottom?
Just something to listen to. Posted for no reason what so ever.
If you are still looking for some Christmas presents – like books! – to get away (or to get someone else away) from the computers and T.V. screens – books with a mystery and a sarcastic Conservative narrator 🙂 – who offers funny commentary on the follies of our Leftist society….let me recommend a trilogy:
The Time Capsule Murders:
Why Begins With W
Dial Emma for Murder
Hex High School
Barbara Brooks Wallace, winner of the Edgar Mystery Writers’ Award, wrote of the series:
“Sam Spade meets with Holden Caulfield in the person of a young high-school detective of
today. Hard-boiled slang is replaced with pitch-perfect TeenSpeak….
It’s definitely a ‘Can’t-Put-It-Down-Until-You’ve-Read- It-All’ kind of series.
Trust me!”
Also available at Barnes and Noble:
https://www.barnesandnoble.com/s/Time+Capsule+Murders?_requestid=5466656
For those not averse to Amazon:
https://www.amazon.com/s?k=Time+Capsule+Murders&i=stripbooks&ref=nb_sb_noss
Thank you for your support!
Hello.
This video was originally discovered when the ‘suitcase’ footage in GA election was released post-election. It does not appear to have been discussed in mainstream platforms, with no one talking about it or discrediting it, despite this showing actual evidence of:
1) Unsupervised boxes of Ballots in an empty office, SHOWN to be empty of other people excluding a single man that seems responsible for helping distribute ballots to the workers, based on his actions in video.
2) Official in video doing whatever activity she’s responsible for related to these absentee Ballots in a cubicle, out of sight and with NO supervision, shown in the video itself.
3) Absentee ballot envelopes with no return address, given to her “to work on next”
The first half of the video is her walking back into her station, then she shows the actual office setup for whatever processesing they’re doing, and at the end shows a close up of the Ballots given to her to work on next, which have no address in the return section at the top left of the envelope.
This isn’t mentioned in ANY of the current summarization documents offered by Navarro or by the ongoing Congressional hearings. This needs to be on the radar as it shows explicit violation of guidelines and law, please help get it wherever it needs to go.
https://rumble.com/vblhkl-miss-daisy-came-to-work-she-count-ballots-with-no-return-address.html
Also no stamps, or postmarks! Her name is Ruby Freeman, and I hear she is in jail for Voter Fraud, and singing like a bird!
Sales of string lights have TRIPLED from Oct last year to Oct this year (stats from a NYTimes article today).
This matches our experience locally – quite a noticeable increase in homes sporting Christmas displays.
I’d say SLIGHTLY more nativity scenes among those homes with decorations.
aaaand….speaking of ‘nativity scenes’ …
Isaiah 1:3
The ox knows its owner, and the donkey its master’s crib; but Israel does not know Me, and the people do not understand Me.
Go even deeper for a greater understanding:
https://orthodoxartsjournal.org/why-an-ass-and-an-ox-in-the-nativity-icon/
For the first time this year, Walmart had in their “$1.98 ornaments” section, a thing of nativity silhouette ornaments… I managed to grab a silver, but didn’t have my card the day I saw the gold ones. I don’t think they ever reordered them either, which is a shame, since they sold out so quickly.
hmmm….string lights are getting updated 😛
Agricultural producers in India are flouncing as Modi’s reduction in state price control takes hold https://www.channelnewsasia.com/news/asia/india-modi-defends-farm-reforms-protests-grow-13801774
Breaking down Duterte’s drawback from the ChiCom hand of debt diplomacy. Sea battles are coming https://www.channelnewsasia.com/news/singapore/climate-change-singapore-food-production-fish-eggs-13792120
ElizabethRoss1776,the good lord and savior Jesus Christ is still here for you and yours. Whatever your situation is today. Praying strength and peace upon you God Bless.
Any of you who do home canning, y’all know all about the ‘great jar and lid shortage of 2020.’
I have sufficient quart jars on hand, but was woefully short on pints. Saw that Walmart had them available for ‘ship to home,’ read the comments and saw breakage reports seemed to be minimal. Took a chance and ordered 10 cases.
FWIW, of that 120 jars, only ONE arrived broken.
Bring on ‘Canuary!’ 🙂
12/18/20 Prayers up for PDJT and his Executive Branch staff.
The decision has been made…Government is Essential 😛
Just say’n… 😉
Hmmmmmm…
Just say’n…
Just say’n… 😉
Merry Christmas
to all; and to all
Merry Christmas
Merry Christmas to the First Family 🙂
Just say’n… 😉
In case you missed the memo... 😉
(NOTE: from our pocket to theirs)
https://twitter.com/Austin_Zone/status/1340067513506344960
Let’s start – and finish – with his.
Just say’n… 😉
Well, well, well,
Looky here…
https://twitter.com/AppleChen1107/status/1340065981507506181
Wait, WHAT? Is that really Roberts with Maxwell? OK, this guy’s gotta go. OUT! OUT! OUT! Disgusting piece of flith.
Come on now – this is clearly not Roberts. Inuendo does not make it true.
Just say’n… 😉
Stick it to ’em. 😉
#GITMOCanHoldThemALL
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
Amen.
Amen. And Lord please protect and watch over General Flynn and his family, and all patriots and freedom loving people around the world
Amen.
2020’s Wreaths Across America video (42 minutes):
The segment about the Wreaths Across America is the first 15 minutes of the video.
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