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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What’s Wrong with Secretary Kim – Sweet Caroline – Neil Diamond
This video shows off the love story of a CEO who finds the girl with whom he shared a childhood terror and fulfills the promise he made to the child to marry her. For something more familiar, you might enjoy this McCoy Star Trek video, <a href=”https://youtu.be/khR6-FLOlf4″>Small Town – John Cougar Mellancamp</a>.
Secretary Kim is one of the best CEO/employee asian dramas out there. The actors are great and the story is both a touching love story and a good mystery. What really happened when the children were kidnapped and even WHO was kidnapped isn’t clear. The CEO is the definition of narcissism and can’t understand why his secretary wants to quit. To keep her he’s even willing to offer marriage, and is stunned when he keeps being rejected. It takes clearing up the mystery of his childhood to turn a good employee into a willing wife.
Star Trek 2009 – Rambling Man – Allman Brothers
Liked this! You done good on this one! 🙂
Your kindness makes my smile so wide.
Correcting above:
Star Trek – McCoy and background paintings – Small Town – John Cougar Mellancamp
Enemies Reconciled To God
By Pastor Cornelius R. Stam
“When we were enemies” (Rom.5:10).
Think of it! God has good news for us even in our willfulness, our enmity against Him! “When we were enemies”, says Paul, “We were reconciled to God by the death of His Son”.
Here we can almost hear some reader object: “Of all things, don’t charge me with being an enemy of God. I’m a religious person, I go to church regularly, I even give to the church”. Ah, but God does not say that the unsaved are not religious. Perhaps 999 out of 1,000 are religious. The point is that by your ungodly, sinful life, and certainly by rejecting God’s gift of salvation, you have made yourself an enemy of God. You may not be an enemy against the “God” you have conjured up in your own mind, but you are certainly an enemy against God, the God of the Bible.
But despite all this God still sends His ambassadors out to offer reconciliation to all His enemies everywhere — “by the death of His Son”. Think of it! We who believe are reconciled to God, not by some effort or payment offered by us to placate God, but “by the death of HIS Son”. He bore the enmity as His own creatures mocked Him, spat in His face and nailed Him to a tree. This is grace indeed! And this is not all, for the whole passage reads:
“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.
“And not only so, but we also joy in God through our Lord Jesus Christ, by whom we have now received the atonement [Lit., reconciliation]” (Rom.5: 10,11).
The argument of this passage is that if, as His enemies, we were reconciled to God by the death of His Son, much more “being reconciled”, we may be assured that our living Savior will keep us safe. And not only are believers safe in Christ, but all the while we “joy in God through our Lord Jesus Christ, by whom we have now received”, not only help in our helplessness, or the forgiveness of our sins, but “the reconciliation”, by which we are brought nigh to God and experience His love toward us.
https://www.bereanbiblesociety.org/enemies-reconciled-to-god/
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.:11 And not only so, but we also joy in God through our Lord Jesus Christ, by whom we have now received the atonement.
2 Corinthians 5:14 For the love of Christ constraineth us; because we thus judge, that if one died for all, then were all dead:
15 And that he died for all, that they which live should not henceforth live unto themselves, but unto him which died for them, and rose again.
16 ¶ Wherefore henceforth know we no man after the flesh: yea, though we have known Christ after the flesh, yet now henceforth know we him no more.
17 Therefore if any man be in Christ, he is a new creature: old things are passed away; behold, all things are become new.
18 And all things are of God, who hath reconciled us to himself by Jesus Christ, and hath given to us the ministry of reconciliation;
19 To wit, that God was in Christ, reconciling the world unto himself, not imputing their trespasses unto them; and hath committed unto us the word of reconciliation.
20 Now then we are ambassadors for Christ, as though God did beseech you by us: we pray you in Christ’s stead, be ye reconciled to God.
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.
Absolutely Perfect: Genius!
If I were only smart enough to post the darned video! Try again:
This is the best response ever to the hubris behind Biden’s comments.
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Have a blessed Sunday, my Treeper friends.. Always know that Our Lord is always with us. All we have to do is ask Him and He’ll be there. I have to say that this is not just internet talk. It’s real, He’s really there. And it doesn’t really matter how your ask, just accept that Jesus is Christ and you’re in. Just ask him to be in your heart and your in. Getting close to Our Lord is the most transformative experience you ever have. It’s real. He’s there. Trust me on this.
I don[t know if you’ve been saved before. Getting baptised is a symbolic gesture. What really counts, and this is just my opinion, is accepting Christ into you heart, accepting Him as you personal savior. The relationship is between you and Him. That’s what really counts.
Tears on watching Allison’s video. These are my people, my blood, my ancestors, my relatives, the people I grew up around. They are me.
Amen Garrison!
During the drive home from Christian school, I’ve been teaching the grandkids Fly Away and When the Roll is Called. “Precious Memories” from our parents and their siblings. You are so right, Garrison. Our Lord is real.
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Loved the Allison K video .
Those were my people also, strong hard working people.
I hope I do them justice with my life and what I leave behind.
Me too. 🙂
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Update on my wife Jennifer:
Transferred to another hospital two day ago.
Two days in neuro intensive care. Had 1/2 hour
to an hour of responding to questions from RN.
( Look at me, move your hand, blink).
Then went back to prior level of conciousness.
Still responding to pain. Current problem is low
cardiac function ( ejection fraction for medical types).
So she’s been transferred to CCU unit, with scheduled
indwelling catheter monitoring. She’s currently stable,
but not out of the woods by any means. I talked to her
over the phone last night briefly (first time. Don’t ask).
She blinked, according to the RN. I’ll take that as
acknowledgement, and put it in the “win’ category.
Thanks to all that have been praying for her. Please
continue- she’s still extremely ill. We’ll take all the help
we can get for her recovering.
Praying that our Great Physician will Divinely intervene. In Jesus Precious Name. Amen.
We pray for her morning and night.
Thank you very much for keeping us updated.
We pray every day for her and you, too. Blessings to you both.
Thanks to all. The stories I will have to tell Jennifer
about the basic decency of people will be many after
this is past.
AND no one under 30 believes this…which is very sad.
Wow. What a great visual. What a day of rejoicing that will be.
DD
For the “few there be that find it.” – Matthew 7:14.
God bless America,
Indeed. 🙂
Mornin’ infidels.
ouch
Good Sunday morning to you, WeeWeed!
Nice! Mornin weed.
True words Wee, true words.
Good Evening, WeeWeed!
Harsh cartoon, but the truth condemns the evil who foolishly believe they are righteous.
HAVE YOU EVER BEEN CARRIED AWAY FOR HIM?
“She hath wrought a good work on Me.” Mark xiv. 6
If human love does not carry a man beyond himself, it is not love. If love is always discreet, always wise, always sensible and calculating, never carried beyond itself, it is not love at all. It may be affection, it may be warmth of feeling, but it has not the true nature of love in it.
Have I ever been carried away to do something for God not because it was my duty, nor because it was useful, nor because there was anything in it at all beyond the fact that I love Him? Have I ever realized that I can bring to God things which are of value to Him, or am I mooning round the magnitude of His Redemption whilst there are any number of things I might be doing? Not Divine, colossal things which could be recorded as marvelous, but ordinary, simple human things which will give evidence to God that I am abandoned to Him? Have I ever produced in the heart of the Lord Jesus what Mary of Bethany produced?
There are times when it seems as if God watches to see if we will give Him the abandoned tokens of how genuinely we do love Him. Abandon to God is of more value than personal holiness. Personal holiness focuses the eye on our own whiteness; we are greatly concerned about the way we walk and talk and look, fearful lest we offend Him. Perfect love casts out all that when once we are abandoned to God. We have to get rid of this notion – “Am I of any use?” and make up our minds that we are not, and we may be near the truth. It is never a question of being of use, but of being of value to God Himself. When we are abandoned to God, He works through us all the time.
Oswald Chambers
February 21st Devotional
Scenes Beyond the Grave – Marietta Davis
Chapter XII – The City Viewed from a Superior Plain
12:2
From this position I beheld the great city, reaching on every side beneath my view, and was so situated as to perceive at a glance the general features of its plan, and to contemplate it in its entire form as a picture of surpassing loveliness.
Beneath me the sublime Temple of Instruction, builded of most precious materials, and in a style of architecture which I am unable to describe, arose in air from the centre of a circular lawn of great extent, whose green surface appeared covered with the softest and richest verdure. Majestic trees in groups, and at regular intervals arose, bearing a profusion of fragrant and shining clusters of flowers. Beneath their shade, and on the more open spaces, appeared minute flower beds, filled with every variety of flowers and blossoming shrubs and vines. Fountains of living waters also were visible, some just rising from the green grass, and flowing through their marbled channels, or through beds of golden sands, with a low and pleasant murmur; while others gushed forth in full volume to a lofty height, and descended in glowing streams of every variety of form, and were received in basins, some of which were like diamond, and others like burnished silver or the whitest pearl.
This lawn was enriched by a lofty but open trellis work; and at its eastern side appeared a gateway without doors, from the centre of which flowed forth a stream of living water, supplied from the fountains within the enclosure.
I now directed my attention to the surrounding city, and perceived that it was divided into twelve great divisions by this river of living waters, which flowing in a spiral course, was bordered on either side by a wide and regular avenue, in twelve great curves or circles, proceeding from the centre to the circumference. I also perceived that twelve other streets intersected this spiral avenue, centering in the consecrated ground about the Temple, and radiating to twelve equally divided points in the outer limit of the scene.
To be continued…
Good post Dora.
We need fewer Big Shots and more better neighbors.
https://twitter.com/truther1333/status/1363442128270094336
. . . but deliver us from the Evil One.
Amen ?
“During prayer, when the Devil violently tempts you, cast all your care upon the Lord, “for He careth for you.” (1 Saint Peter v. 7) During prayer only have faith in the Lord, Who is at your right hand, and all things shall be possible unto you.”
Saint John of Kronstadt (+ 1908) from “My Life in Christ”
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.
The Jesus Prayer
Lord Jesus Christ, Son of God, have mercy upon me, a sinner.
The 50th Psalm Septuagint (51st Psalm KJV)
The ‘industry’ has been pushing ‘synthetic meat’ in our faces for a while now. Here’s a video on what’s actually in these meats…?
Ha! NEVER! I picked out two nice Porterhouse steaks from under the glass on Thursday. They were on sale. I also picked up two large packages of Angus ground chuck, 85% lean, for the chili. If the left want’s to eat fake meat or lab grown meat, or fake milk, have at it. Leave us that know what God put cattle on this earth for, alone!
Exactly!!! ?
Amen rah!
Synthetic meat is for synthetic people.
It was just last year when I reported on the death of the final pensioner being paid out for the Civil War. The child of a Civil War veteran whose parents married when their age differences were vastly different. In their case, they had a child together.
Today I report on the passing of the last known Civil War veteran’s spouse. They married in 1936, when she was 17 and he was 95, in a secret ceremony documented in his personal Bible. I’ll let you read the rest of the story. It’s a WOW-zer.
Missouri woman believed to be last Civil War widow dies
By Jim Salter
29 Jan 2021
https://www.timelinesmagazine.com/publication/civil_war_courier/missouri-woman-believed-to-be-last-civil-war-widow-dies/article_56e174de-6248-11eb-978b-3304e0f06559.html
https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/220949881/helen-viola-bolin
RIP Helen. Job well done.
That is a very sweet story. That is what love is really all about — sacrifice.
This plane landed safely, kudos to the pilots
Watched the moved ‘TWA Flight 800’ two days ago.
Our government totally covered up their crime/”our” crime against every person who died on that flight. Some speculate they covered it up because billy boy clinton’s second term in office would be damaged if the public knew the truth, but why — WHY? — would three different missiles from three different locations be shot at one plane carrying civilians?
My husband guesses someone on that plane knew something they shouldn’t have, and needed to be Ron Browned, just in a bigger way.
What surprises me is that some people are shocked that I don’t fly.
“It’s safer than crossing the street!” they lament.
Mkay. Enjoy your flight.
Isn’t United the airline that released Ted Cruz’ travel itinerary?
They need to get their act together.
Come to think of it, United is the airline that stole a passenger’s seat out from under her, so Sheila Jackson Lee could have it.
Maybe less time playing politics and more time providing a quality product?
Failure, huh? Looks like sabotage to me.
For a really good hard belly laugh.
https://www.thedailybeast.com/inside-the-dangerous-global-network-of-backstreet-castrators-cutters-and-eunuch-makers
Someone please fill in the answer, ‘how do you reconcile this’?
This is repulsive, disturbing, and just very sad. For all involved.
Last night I had a mournful dream. I was back in church again, in time for Easter. We were sitting in a theater, instead of a church, no one had a mask on, and we were glad to be back together again.
We all were covered by warm brown blankets spread over the tops of the seats, not individually wrapped in them.
Why was that a mournful dream to you, Clarion?
Verse of the Day for Sunday, February 21, 2021
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“Bless them which persecute you: bless, and curse not.”
Romans 12:14 (KJV)
Thank You, Jesus, for blessings received and prayers answered!!!
BE MY VOICE – I AM A CHILD – NOT A CHOICE!!!
This one is spot on, 180 degree turn on the excuses we have been given.
‘Sleep reparations’ they actually call it out.
Laugh, might as well it’s an insane world.
https://defconnews.com/2020/07/15/sleep-is-racist-and-blacks-are-demanding-sleep-reparations/
That is some crazy stuff right there.
Slacktivists = a new term to describe people who have plenty of time to riot, loot and cause mayhem, but not enough time to sleep.
I miss you, Rush.
Here is another way to destroy the black population, keep them ignorant and slaves. But hey, vote democrat for free ‘stuff’ not jobs.
https://summit.news/2021/02/19/bill-gates-bankrolling-educational-organization-that-says-math-is-racist/
Remember Trumps reasoning? “What do you have to lose?”
Democratic slavery, that’s what you would lose.
Afterfeast of the Meeting of the Lord
February 8th on the traditional Calendar of the Orthodox Christian Church and February 21st on the civil or commercial calendar.
Among the Saints who are commemorated today is the Holy Great Martyr Theodore the Commander, or Stratelates, (+ 319) who defeated idol-worship in his city, prayed continously through his sufferings “Glory to Thee, my God, glory to Thee” at the hands of the Emperor Licinius.
Sunday of the Publican and the Pharisee
Great Lent in the Orthodox Christian Church has not started yet.
On this Sunday, we commemorate the Parable of the Publican and the Pharisee, from the Holy Gospel According to Saint Luke (18: 10 – 14.)
This Kontakion (hymn) is for today.
“Let us flee the vaunting of the pharisee and learn the humility of the publican, whilst crying out unto the Saviour with groanings: Be gracious unto us, O Thou Who alone dost readily forgive.”
An Explanation of this particular Parable in the Holy Gospel According to Saint Luke is by Saint Theophylact (+ ca. 1108).
This link goes to that Parable and explanation.
http://www.cpress.orthodoxws.com/c_sunday_publican_pharisee
This Sunday also begins the Triodion, which precedes Great Lent. The purpose of the Triodion is to remind us of God’s benefaction to us.
A series of PDFs for the Triodion, the Sundays of Great Lent, and the days of Great and Holy Week are in an excellent and inspiring English translation at the link below. They were written in Greek by Nikephoros Kallistos Xanthopoulos originally as part of the Synaxarion.
http://www.imoph.org/Theology_en/Triodion.html
I thought the Uighur situation warranted the Shakespeare treatment, since those poor benighted people deserve all the attention they can get, but not even Shakespeare goes so far as to contemplate or address genocide, beyond a brief scene during the Battle of Agincourt in Henry V: https://abardseyeview.com/tis-expressly-against-the-law-of-arms-henry-v-and-the-chinese-concentration-camps/
Historical revision has always been a primary tool of the left to support whatever their current agenda may be. Don’t like the history? Rewrite it! Don’t like the recorded temperatures from the past? change them. Not enough ocean temperature data for the southern hemisphere to make any scientifically valid conclusions? Make it up from whole cloth.
Then only teach that revised version of history in the classrooms at all levels.
And the beat goes on and on and on………
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HadCRUT5 shows 14% more global warming since 1850 than HadCRUT4 – Watts Up With That?
Washington Post : Cherry Blossoms Will Bloom In FebruaryPosted on February 20, 2021 by tonyheller
Nine years ago, the Washington Post predicted cherry blossoms booming in February.
Washington Post : Cherry Blossoms Will Bloom In February | Real Climate Science
Hope this .png meme prints. “Americans growing tired….illegal immigration for free stuff”
“The Christophe de Margerie, a liquefied natural gas tanker operated by Russian shipping firm Sovcomflot, made history this week when it docked at the remote Arctic terminal of Sabetta, after sailing through the normally ice-locked Northern Sea Route (NSR) from Jiangsu in China. Traveling solo through the Bering Strait, it then followed a nuclear icebreaker, the 50 Let Pobedy, along Russia’s northern coast until it reached Sabetta on Friday.
The journey marked the first time a tanker has sailed the route in February, “and confirms that year-round safe navigation is possible along the entire length of the Northern Sea Route,” Sovcomflot CEO Igor Tonkovidov said during a meeting with Russian officials last week. Russian Deputy Prime Minister Yury Trutnev predicted that year-round shipping along the route could more than double by 2024.”
East Asia to Europe shipping time is CUT IN HALF by using this route. Very cool video showing the transiting ships….
Last time I saw a discussion about it, Russia had over 40 icebreakers. The US has … three, but one is a “parts car.”
oops, forgot the link to the original story – it’s funny, because of all the green tears….lol…
https://www.rt.com/russia/516232-northern-passage-nuclear-icebreaker-reaction/
Thoughts on the turning point of WW II in the Pacific.
The Battle of Midway is universally declared THE turning point. I disagree with that blanket statement. To my mind Midway was a turning point in the sense of defense. After Midway the US did not have to worry about invasion of it’s shores, Hawaii, or Midway. But The Imperial Japanese Navy (IJN) still had a significant advantage in Aircraft Carriers. And still had plenty of their excellent pilots. And still was on the verge of taking New Guinea from which Australia it’s self could be threatened. They were still advancing in the CBI theater, and taken Burma and closed the Burma road, and were threatening an invasion of India.
The bottom line after Midway was the Japanese still held the strategic initiative everywhere. Wars are not won by defense, they are won by offensive operations, and Japans ability to continue to conduct offensive operations was still considerably greater than that of the US on land, sea, or in the air, even after Midway.
A Japanese airbase on Guadalcanal gave them the ability to patrol the sea lanes between the US and Australia and was a step towards cutting that vital logistical link. It the US was to gain the strategic initiative it had to attack and Guadalcanal was the logical place to do so.
IMO where that initiative was seized from the Japanese was on Guadalcanal, in the airspace above and in the region , and the seas around it.
It was a Guadalcanal where US ground forces first came to stay and take on the Japanese ground forces head on in battle where they were the invading force and not the Japanese.
It was over Guadalcanal and the surrounding skies where the USMC, USN, and USAAF contingents that made up the Cactus Air Force first wrestled air superiority from the Japanese and in doing so considerably whittled down the numbers of excellent Japanese pilots. (Twice during the campaign Yamamoto pulled air groups off Japanese carriers to base out of Rabaul to attack Henderson Field and the Cactus Airforce.)
And it was in the waters around Guadalcanal where the US Navy actually came of age by paying in losses of ships and men, the price to become proficient in successfully engaging the IJN in daylight or in the night, which the IJN had owned up until that time.
Though there were several carrier battles in the waters around Guadalcanal and at a critical point the US had only the damaged USS Enterprise as it’s only Fleet Carrier in the Pacific, the struggle between the surface units of the two Navies was even more critical. The surface engagements off Guadalcanal were, and remain to this day, the most sustained and costly in US Navy history. In the beginning IJN dominance showed through but by the end, with commanders that better understood how to use radar and the advent of effective radar fire control, the US Navy was at least on par with the IJN in night combat.
A single quote from Admiral Halsey bests sums up my opinion about the importance of the battle for Guadalcanal and seizing the initiative:. “Before Guadalcanal the enemy advanced as his pleasure – after Guadalcanal he retreated at ours:
Don’t forget our naval Allies also paid a price off Guadalcanal.
Yep the Aussies did lose ships and later some pilots and still later the Kiwis deployed a Division to stage through Guadalcanal. And then of course there were the Coast Watchers which provided excellent intelligence and saved many a pilot. The coast watchers which were primarily Aussies.
But I suspect you would agree that the outcome would have been the same without the participation of those Allies with the exception of the coast watchers?.
https://www.nbclosangeles.com/news/national-international/green-badge-israels-covid-19-vaccination-certificate-opens-fast-track-to-normal-life/2532171/
“Israel unveiled its plan to allow the vaccinated to attend cultural events, fly abroad and patronize restaurants and health clubs by using a “green badge” app on Saturday ahead of the reopening of the economy. The rollout of the app has been fraught with technical difficulties.
After striking a deal with Pfizer to trade data for doses, Israel’s vaccine campaign became the world’s speediest in the past two months. Almost half its population of 9.3 million have received the first dose of the Pfizer/BioNTech vaccine. Nearly 3 million have gotten the second shot.”
Wait – did Israel hand over PERSONAL DATA of its own people? And that whole “green badge” idea … remind anyone else of … uh … well … yeah.
The Mark of the Beast advances in the very land where the Beast will be defeated. No plan of Satan’s can overturn God’s plan.
That sends chills down my spine. This seems ominous.
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.
test Amen