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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You just have to love Alison Young. She’s an incredible talent, but she’s also an old soul who can channel earlier times seemingly as easy as turning a page . . . She’s also plugged herself into some pretty spiffy home recording equipment. If you watch her videos it’s worth noting that she’s doing pretty sophisticated multi-track recordings—on a laptop! Back in the day we needed an entire recording studio to accomplish to do that. . BTW: Ad Rem. Absolutely love the new site!! Y’all done real good!!! 🙂
Herbert Hoover called; he wants his microphone back.
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God’s Delight
By Pastor John Fredericksen
We delight in the embrace of a child, the gathering of family, even in things and hobbies. But what delights the heart of God? In Proverbs 15:8 we learn, “The sacrifice of the wicked is an abomination to the Lord: but the prayer of the upright is His delight.”
When the lost seek to worship or give to the Lord apart from saving faith in Christ, in effect, on their own terms, it cannot please the Lord. Oh, but when God’s redeemed children come to Him in the praise and dependence of prayer, it is His delight. He created us for fellowship with Him. He longs for your relationship with Him to be vibrant and consistent. Each of us can delight the heart of God by daily making time to be with Him in prayer and in the study of God’s Word.
Proverbs 15:8 ¶ The sacrifice of the wicked is an abomination to the LORD: but the prayer of the upright is his delight.
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.
https://www.bereanbiblesociety.org/gods-delight/
Good morning, double neck guitar. 😉
Great music from Eric Carmen. Best of 70s and beyond. Eric and his lovely wife are MAGA!
Great artist. Great memories.
In these times we all need a little break and relax. 🙂
Happy Cursday, y’all !
Great! Just needs to lose the Nike shirt…
To prove you’re not a ROBOT…..
Who’s the DUDE in this photo?
You outdid yourself this a.m., nim. Talkin’ bout all of the above: ⬆️
thx, warrprin
LOL. Let the ID politicians freak out. Tell them “we believe two dogs can have a kitten!”
Happy Cursday, Treepers . . .
When you think about what it means to connect to a dog and what it means when a dog connects to you, this video just says it all. This is what counts. This is what it takes.
The innocence of this little girl and what she sees in this rescue pit-bull tells a story that is tens of thousands of years old. Good little girl!!! Good Dog!!!
Videos are showing up nicely on the updated version. Thanks.
. . . but deliver us from the Evil One.
Amen ?
Amen.
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 (Psalm 51 KJV)
Most normal folks have dogs, cats, birds, hamsters and fish as pets.
Then, there’s this character…
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He is beyond his “best if used by” date.
AMERICA FIRST……is not in that person’s vocabulary.
COULD THIS BE TRUE OF ME?
“But none of these things move me, neither count I my life dear unto myself.” Acts xx. 24
It is easier to serve God without a vision, easier to work for God without a call, because then you are not bothered by what God requires; common sense is your guide, veneered over with Christian sentiment. You will be more prosperous and successful, more leisure-hearted, if you never realize the call of God. But if once you receive a commission from Jesus Christ, the memory of what God wants will always come like a goad; you will no longer be able to work for Him on the common-sense basis.
What do I really count dear? If I have not been gripped by Jesus Christ, I will count service dear, time given to God dear, my life dear unto myself. Paul says he counted his life dear only in order that he might fulfil the ministry he had received; he refused to use his energy for any other thing. Acts xx. 24 states Paul’s almost sublime annoyance at being asked to consider himself; he was absolutely indifferent to any consideration other than that of fulfilling the ministry he had received. Practical work may be a competitor against abandonment to God, because practical work is based on this argument – “Remember how useful you are here, or – Think how much value you would be in that particular type of work.” That attitude does not put Jesus Christ as the Guide as to where we should go, but our judgment as to where we are of most use. Never consider whether you are of use; but ever consider that you are not your own but His.
Oswald Chambers
March 4th Devotional
Morning stevie. A lot to think about here, thanks.
Mornin’ Menagerie! ?
What a conviction, SUBLIME ANNOYANCE.
Humbling. Repentance writ large.
“Acts 20:24 NIVHowever, I consider my life worth nothing to me; my only aim is to finish the race and complete the task the Lord Jesus has given me—the task of testifying to the good news of God’s grace.“
If we all lived our lives according to this scripture, I believe we wouldn’t be facing the overwhelming problems in this country…IMHO! God first ~ always! ?
Niiiiiice. ✝️
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Ok not sure I’m not missing the obvious fix, but since the new format came up last night, the comments have grown so large on my laptop screen that the comments are off the page. Please someone give me a hint how to correct this. Never had this before. Thanks.
I believe it is a temporary condition ……
just consider today a shakedown period ……
be well.
Try a phone?
Just kidding. Hope you get a quick fix.
On a desktop PC use both the Ctrl key and the minus sign key together to shrink the web browser display. Use Ctrl + to enlarge.
I am able to read this thread, it lines up pretty much like before. The Presidential thread is very wide…difficult to read. Patience is a virtue.
Update. Everything seems ok now. I logged on again about a half hour ago and all is right with my ‘branch’ again. Thanks all of you who responded so helpfully!
And thanks to SD and crew for this great and wonderful site being safe and secure from the bad guys so we have a place to be ourselves and chat like we should be able to chat!!
Every day they reach a new height of idiocy.
https://the-american-catholic.com/2021/03/03/racist-babies/
Bullies!
I guess this is becoming quite fashionable these days.
Orisha Land – A New Nation In The State Of Texas: https://andmagazine.com/talk/2021/03/03/orisha-land-a-new-nation-in-the-state-of-texas/
Verse of the Day for Thursday, March 4, 2021
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“But my God shall supply all your need according to his riches in glory by Christ Jesus.”
Philippians 4:19 (KJV)
Thank You, Jesus, for blessings received and prayers answered!!!
BE MY VOICE
So uplifting!! Thank you duchess (as always).
Just wanted to say “Thanks” for the nice, legible mobile view I’m treated to.
I am asking for insight and assistance on computer matters. I administer a facebook page for a small organization. As such, I have a personal facebook account. In the last few months I have been getting every-other-day “friend requests” from strangers, all of whom appear to be left wing political thinkers. I do not consider this a coincidence. I rarely post anything political on my personal fb page–it’s mostly daisies and happy thoughts posted at a rate of twice/month. I’m sure fb has generated a profile about me, but why on earth would anyone bother targeting such a low-level user?
And the follow on questions are:
Wow. This is so great. I can read it all without straining. 🙂
Today’s the day that the “real” POTUS is installed! DC and particularly the Democrats are all in such a tither over the supposedly armed conquest of the Capitol that they have cancelled “school” for all of the Congress kiddies today. What a supreme idiotic joke! I wonder if the Guard troops have gone to DEFCON 1. /s
I wonder if they wore adult diapers today. Sounds like they need them. Spines must get zapped when they get sworn in.
We need to see a groundswell of reaction against the Congressional attacks on free speech.
https://www.jewishworldreview.com/cols/tyrre1l030421.php3
I really like the new look for the mobile devices. It is sooooooo nice. Thank you Sundance and crew!
Mornin’ infidels!
How does one extinguish and lithium battery fire? You know! Like your electric car burning in your garage?
Short answer is you don’t!
How do you Extinguish a Lithium Battery Fire? – Watts Up With That?
I suspect that detached garages will come back in vouge if battery technology does not advance to use other less volatile materials before EVs dominate. And the insurance rates for dealerships and others that work on EVs will climb through the roof!
That does touch on the largest problem with electric vehicles. It’s a problem which has been a very high priority within Elon Musk’s organization. But you know, even if current battery technology isn’t 100% there’s no reason you shouldn’t continue to develop all other aspects of EV technology. There are PLENTY of idiots out there who will buy them at any price just to signal their virtue.
Think of it this way: Before the ICE automobile matured into what we have today, it was QUITE impractical compared to the horse as a means of travel. And yet, there were a lot of idiots running around in their noisy and smokey machines for some reason.
If people universally rejected that progress because it didn’t “make sense” then we wouldn’t have the cars and trucks we have today as they’d have been rejected early on. (We might have developed poopless horses though… who knows right?)
So while find reason and cause to scoff and make fun of “green virtue signalers” out there, they are likely funding the development of useful tech which will become both affordable and common place and it will be based on a battery (or other power source) with energy storage potential far greater than that of gasoline.
But today energy density of gasoline is 34.2 while energy density of lithium-ion batteries is 0.59–1.06. That’s a HUGE difference. If they could come up with a way to store electrical energy in a density of even HALF that of gasoline, then they will have changed the world.
But as it turns out, lithium battery fires highlight stability issues and imagine how much worse it would be if the energy density were higher while remaining the same in terms of stability? Might as well be a nuclear bomb.
All that said, I’m reminded of explosions from ICE automobiles in the past and all they have done to prevent that sort of thing from happening.
Just have some perspective. The problems of the ICE automobile of the past are actually rather similar to EV automobiles of the present. But the problems of the EVs of the present and future are, in some ways, far more troubling…
We already have concerns having to do with external control over the way modern vehicles operate. There have been numerous demonstrations of ways modern computer controlled vehicles can be made to shut down, brake, steer and more REMOTELY and WIRELESSLY. This movement for “self-driving” cars is just as or more troubling as “government” will always have access to this even under a constitutional republic such as ours. (ALWAYS remember, there ARE no “right hands” when it comes to government power. Even if there were, that condition is only temporary and will always find its way into the wrong hands later.)
Cops have taken the black box in Tiger Woods SUV.
As a truck driver I am used to this kind of monitoring. Everything happening with the rig is monitored and has been for some time. And any of that data can be subpoenaed as can the last 6 months of my electronic logs. And then of course there are the dash and driver cams, which BTW, have turned out to more often than not, to be an advantage for the driver and company since in practice the way the law works, the big truck driver is at fault until proven otherwise.
Where’s the electricity going to come if we get rid of hydro, and fossil fuels? Cities all across the nation saying no more natural gas developments. As for self driving trucks I surely don’t want 52 ton trucks driving around without a human to slam on the brakes. If electric vehicles were so great why the subsidies?
How do you Extinguish a Lithium Battery Fire? – Watts Up With That?
My first non-helpful idea I didn’t post over there (because it wouldn’t help firefighters one bit) was that they could organize Green Party member to throw their bodies over the burning vehicle to smother the fire. After all, “Earth First”.
Edited to add: I’ve been experimenting with underlining links so they will show up differently than plain text. Don’t know if it helps other readers or not.
And the foam that they use at airports is probably out of the question because it is a proven carcinogen and massive amounts of it would flow onto the ground and contaminate the ground and ground water.
Correction. Fire fighting foam is not a proven carcinogen but is possibly. The determination is under litigation.
Canceled: Conservative comic strip ‘Mallard Fillmore’ dropped in ‘unprecedented’ move https://outline.com/3TpzDU :
Hat Tip to Don Surber
https://donsurber.blogspot.com/2021/03/highlights-of-news_4.html
Edited to add sample strip.
LOVE the new look/theme Sundance! Just thought I’d add some positive.
Scenes Beyond the Grave – Marietta Davis
Chapter XV – The Phantom Sphere (Marietta visits Hell)
15:6 (continuation of the accosting spirit)
“Marietta, I feel ‘tis vain to attempt the expression of our deplorable state. I often inquire, is there no hope? And my sense replies, how can harmony exist in the very midst of discord? We were advised of the consequences of our course while in the body; but we loved our ways better than those which exalted the soul. We have fallen into this fearful abode. We have originated our sorrow. God is just. He is good. We know that ‘tis not from a vindictive law of our Creator that we suffer. Marietta, it is our condition from which we receive the misery we endure. The violation of the moral law, by which our moral natures should have been preserved in harmony and health, is the prime cause of our state. O sin! Thou parent of countless woes! Thou insidious enemy of peace and heaven! why do mortals love thy ways?”
Here she paused and fixed her eyes, wild with despair upon me. I shrank from the dreadful glare, for her appearance manifested inexpressible torture.
While she was addressing me, a multitude of the forlorn beings were moving around her, striving to suppress their true feelings, while listening to her relation of the reality of their sufferings. Their appearance, her address and the scene which was before me, filled me with horror; and I sought to escape. Upon discovering this, her grief appeared to deepen and she hastily said:
“No, Marietta, leave me not, can you not endure for a short period the sight and relation of what I am continually suffering? Tarry with me, for I desire to speak of many things.”
“Do you startle at these scenes? Know then that all that moves around you is but the outer degree of deeper woe. Marietta, no good and happy beings abide with us. All within is dark. We sometimes dare to hope for redemption, still remembering the story of Redeeming Love, and inquire, can that love penetrate this abode of gloom and death? May we ever hope to be made free from those desires and inclinations which bind us like chains, and passions which burn like consuming fires in the unhallowed elements of this world of wretchedness?”
To be continued…
Y’all at The Conservative Treehouse did a great job handling the situation with your site.
Judge Makes Huge Discovery: 78% of Mail-In Ballots Fraudulent, Election Re-Do Ordered
Hat to Maggie’s Farm
The Holy Apostles Árchippos and Philemon of the Seventy and the Holy Martyr Apphia were buried to the waist and stoned to death. Then Árchippos was slashed with knives by young ruffians. Along with the other Holy Apostles of the Seventy, the Lives are in brief here.
http://www.cpress.orthodoxws.com/lives_4_january
February 19th on the traditional Calendar of the Orthodox Christian Church and March 4th on the civil or commercial calendar.
The Holy Nun-Martyr Philothéi of Athens (+ 1589) founded a Convent in honor of Saint Andrew the Apostle in Athens. She wondrously combined asceticism with far-reaching acts of social charity. She was crudely beaten by the Turkish overlords who hated her for her toils for the love of Christ and her fellow Christians, especially the women who suffered during those times. Her Life is found in the “New Martyrs of the Turkish Yoke” book.
February 19th on the traditional Calendar of the Orthodox Christian Church and March 4th on the civil or commercial calendar.
Political breakup or global depopulation
A global forecast site is predicting a 70 percent decline in the US population… by 2025:
As we had reported on ANP back on December 31st of 2017, Deagel was previously forecasting the US population to drop to 54 million people by 2025, down from what was then 324 million people in 2016. Well as we see now in the screenshot above taken from their website page for the United States this morning, Deagel is now forecasting that the 2025 population of the USA will be a nice, round 100 million people – nearly doubling their previous 2025 forecast for America of 54 million.
https://voxday.blogspot.com/2021/03/political-breakup-or-global-depopulation.html?m=1
My “bucket list”…………me and my dog, on the road seeing America…………
“I saw in their eyes something I was to see over and over in every part of the nation- a burning desire to go, to move, to get under way, anyplace, away from any Here. They spoke quietly of how they wanted to go someday, to move about, free and unanchored, not toward something but away from something. I saw this look and heard this yearning everywhere in every states I visited. Nearly every American hungers to move.”
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SCAMDEMIC – CORONA VIRUS
Deagel Makes Mysterious Changes To 2025 Population Forecast For America As Bill Gates Launches ‘Grand Challenge’: The ‘Holy Grail Of Influenza Research’ And ‘Bridging The Valley Of Death’
https://www.algora.com/Algora_blog/2020/04/10/deagel-makes-mysterious-changes-to-2025-population-forecast-for-america-as-bill-gates-launches-gran-d-challenge-the-holy-grail-of-influenza-research-and-b
I like the new look. Clean and easy to read. Good job!
Easing back into work. Went in today to get set up. I am no in the physical condition required to do the guarantee job yet so I will start out running the board and doing 2 runs to Smithville, TN a week to begin with. Running the same run, but one that is 740 mi round trip twice a week is about as much as I think I can handle right now. As I continue to heal, I shall see what more I can and want to do.
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.
H.R. 1 in SE Asia https://en.vietnamplus.vn/thorough-preparations-being-made-to-ensure-highquality-candidacy-for-elections/197058.vnp
Leftists in NZ love making money with plastic and shipping water around https://www.newsroom.co.nz/news/govt-challenged-over-sending-water-offshore
Yesterday, China.
Today, Russia:
“Translation: In (Duma’s) Resolution (Ria News has it), in particular, new changes are proposed for the law “About information, information technologies and protection of information” and introduce the ban on propaganda of bisexualism, transgenderism (transsexualism), polyamory (civil unions with multiple partners). Moreover, participants of Conference insist on tightening of administrative responsibility for propaganda of non-traditional relations, plus introduction of a ban on LGBT symbols in state institutions.
Considering the fact that this conference was held on initiative of the United Russia party, which dominates both houses of Russia’s Parliament, it is clear that this will become law soon.”
https://smoothiex12.blogspot.com/2021/03/highly-likely-to-pass-soft-power-related.html
Meanwhile, in America…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rachel_Levine
Cuomo deserves the Shakespeare treatment, even though there’s nothing Shakespearean about him (well, maybe there is among the fools). So I mashed up the stories from his accusers with stanzas from The Rape of Lucrece, for those who would like a Shakespeare snack (though I’ll add an adult content alert): https://abardseyeview.com/for-light-and-lust-are-deadly-enemies-governor-cuomo-and-shakespeares-rape-of-lucrece/
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Jesus Christ is Lord