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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Today has been one of the most crappiest days for news…As I said elsewhere, I feel like getting sloshed and staying sloshed(hey my last drink was like 4 years ago, 1/2 glass of wine.)
The day is young.
Of course being in the Northwest (guessing Oregon or Washington State) …… it could be overcast.
I can relate…today’s onslaught hit me a little hard too. Things aren’t going too much better in the WA state legislature either.
Granny never touched anything but the jug
Good shot of the hard stuff clears the fog, second shot……brings in its seven brothers.
I noticed since this fake pandemic the liquor stores are full where I live. Says a lot, like ‘your not alone’.
pot stores also.
I raise my glass of Jack & cola to you. Cheers!
The End Of The World
By Pastor Cornelius R. Stam
There has been a great deal of discussion lately about some Hindu astrologers who have predicted that this world will come to an end this February. The fact is that some sincere Christians fear that these prophets might be right, since our Lord did speak several times about the coming “end of the world.”
These Hindu astrologers, however, are wrong. This February will not see the end of the world, for according to the Bible the world, or earth, will never come to an end. The word “world,” which our Lord uses in this connection, does not refer to the earth, or even the people on it. It is the old Greek word aion, or age. Several ages in God’s program have already come to an end, and others will, but no matter what destructive weapons man may devise, the earth will never be destroyed. In Isaiah 45:18 we read:
“For thus saith the Lord that created the heavens: God Himself that formed the earth and made it; He hath established it; He created it not in vain; He formed it to be inhabited: I am the Lord, and there is none else.”
But doesn’t Rev. 21:1 predict “a new heaven and a new earth”? Yes, but the context clearly indicates that this refers to the future renewing of the present heaven and earth, not the creating of different ones. Verse 5 says:
“He that sat upon the throne: said, Behold I make all things new.”
Note: He didn’t say “I make all new things,” but “I make all things new.” There is a difference.
We should not be concerned about the end of the world, but rather about the end of this present age in which we live under “the dispensation of the grace of God,” for God has never promised how long this will last. Every hour He delays the return of Christ to recall His ambassadors, is an hour of wonderful grace, in which men may be saved by grace, through faith in Christ who died for our sins. This is why Paul urges us:
“We then, as workers together with [Christ], beseech you also that ye receive not the grace of God in vain…. Behold, now is the accepted time; Behold, now is the day of salvation” (II Cor. 6:1,2).
https://www.bereanbiblesociety.org/the-end-of-the-world/
Isaiah 45:18 For thus saith the LORD that created the heavens; God himself that formed the earth and made it; he hath established it, he created it not in vain, he formed it to be inhabited: I am the LORD; and there is none else.
Revelation 21:1 ¶ And I saw a new heaven and a new earth: for the first heaven and the first earth were passed away; and there was no more sea.
Revelation 21:5 And he that sat upon the throne said, Behold, I make all things new. And he said unto me, Write: for these words are true and faithful.
Ephesians 3:2 If ye have heard of the dispensation of the grace of God which is given me to you-ward:
2 Corinthians 6:1 ¶ We then, as workers together with him, beseech you also that ye receive not the grace of God in vain.
2 (For he saith, I have heard thee in a time accepted, and in the day of salvation have I succoured thee: behold, now is the accepted time; behold, now is the day of salvation.)
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.
Locked up forever, Dr. Faustus?
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https://twitter.com/ilDonaldoTrumpo/status/1367546386921758721
A President was gone after for 4+ claiming communist connections with no proof.
There is tons of proof the little Gnome not only work with the communist but gave them our tax dollars and he is the highest paid federal employee.
Only In America
If I were king for a week there would be about 50 guillotines arranged around the Washington Monument and they would be working 24/7 to rid us of
.these treasonous scum and make a great example for the rest.
Fauci would be one of the earliest to have his head on a pike.
Shades of Vlad the Impaler.
Her name’s not Nancy, but this song has always perfectly defined her. Tonight we were sitting on the couch trading back rubs . . . I reminded her that we’d been married for 53 and-a-bit years and then told her about the time flying kites on the seawall that I fell in love with her. She didn’t remember that day which was OK because it was my memory and not hers. Her smile at the telling filled in the gap and filled me with familiar joy.
The imagery of the ” Tomboy in lace” fits her perfectly. An oil-patch kid, she thought nothing of flat-towing a dead car across town—all the while looking drop-dead gorgeous while she did so. Through thick and thin there’s always been a solid trust between us. I think that’s a pretty good measure of love. But, that said, I’m more than a little amazed that she’s put up with someone like me all this time. I’m still that po’ boy on the seawall flyin’ homemade kites because I didn’t have enough money to afford a proper date. I think she knew that, but she didn’t care . . . 🙂
I just came across this great duet with Frank Sinatra and Linda Rohstadt! I didn’t know they’d done this recording; most likely it was done during her collaboration with Nelson Riddle. But, just listening to these two great voices singing together is another good indication that, amid the chaos in the everyday world, a little great music can make things—at least for a few minutes—seem properly right.
Congratulations Garrison. I love a love story. You paint images with words.
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So are you all putting your muskrats up on wood or wire stretchers? Just curious.
Happy Cursday, Treepers! Pet your puppies for me! (I think all dogs that live with us are puppies . . .)
This was truly heartwarming! Thanks for posting….I always thoroughly enjoy your animal videos.
Just a bit of nostalgia. The Dutch engineer who single-handedly invented audio cassette tapes just died, age 94. He also co-invented CDs:
https://www.engadget.com/cassette-inventor-lou-ottens-has-died-213101596.html
Bill Lear, of Lear Jet fame, invented the 8-track, which is in my opinion superior to everything. Some say he was given the continuous loop technology by aliens, a theory as likely as any other I suppose.
I was working part-time for a small exclusive high fidelity stereo shop in the latter ’60s when Phillips’ new cassette tapes became quite popular for the younger music enthusiasts. They weren’t as good as reel-to-reel because of the 1-7/8 ips (inches per second) speed and narrow track width produced a lot of “hiss” (background noise) but for pop music they were great.
Then Dolby Laboratories came out with their noise reduction technology and we sold many outboard Dolby A301 units (they were installed in between the deck and the stereo preamp or receiver) until more sophisticated cassette deck manufacturers began getting licensed by Dolby ($$$) to incorporate the Dolby system as part of their higher quality tape decks. The Dolby system made the cassette format more tolerable for classical music or any music where a great deal of dynamic range (difference between softest parts and loudest parts) was present.
But I never thought Dolby did much more than filter out too much of the high frequency range in order to reduce the tape “hiss”. To me it was a gimmick. But many others thought differently. I preferred reel tape; at 7-1/2 inches per second speed it was almost noise-free, and its frequency range exceeded my hearing limits. Our shop sold Revox, Ampeg, Tandberg, Sony, and Akai reel machines. I liked my small Sony.
Cassettes in the car were risky back then. Too many of them failed and owners spent hours trying to extricate yards of unwound thin, delicate tape from inside their under-dash mounted cassette players. 8-track players by comparison were far more reliable on average, although you had to remember to not leave your tapes in the car during really cold weather….. I had a Craig 8-track /AM/FM unit mounted on the drive shaft hump in my new ’70 javelin SST, wired to a pair of Jensen 6″x 9″ coaxial ovals in the rear deck under the window and 6″ round coaxials mounted in either front door. By 1970 standards, it was pretty awesome.
This is really amazing!
Verse of the Day for Thursday, March 11, 2021
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“Let the words of my mouth, and the meditation of my heart, be acceptable in thy sight, O LORD, my strength, and my redeemer.”
Psalms 19:14 (KJV)
Thank You, Jesus, for blessings received and prayers answered!!!
BE MY VOICE
Is there anything as peaceful as a sleeping, trusting baby? Absolutely beautiful!
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.
Thank you sweet Duchess for this!
Thank you, Duchess!
Newt Gingrich, Open Letter to Twitter
An Open Letter to Twitter
Newt Gingrich
March 10, 2021 Updated: March 10, 2021
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Until today, I had been locked out of my Twitter account since March 3.
Twitter locked me out over a tweet that criticized the Biden administration’s approach to the Southern Border—and raised concern over immigrants crossing the border illegally who may be infected with COVID-19.
I was reacting to a recent story that federal officials have no way of testing people who are picked up by U.S. Customs and Border Patrol—or forcing them to quarantine.
I am not the only one concerned about this.
Rep. Henry Cuellar, a Texas Democrat, has raised his own concerns about immigrants potentially infected with the virus being allowed to come into his district, which is on the U.S.-Mexico border. In addition to worrying about the health of members of his community—including U.S. Customs and Border Patrol officers—Rep. Cuellar said the Biden administration is not even telling local communities where immigrants picked up by Border Patrol are being released.
As he said early this month, “I got border mayors saying, ‘woah hold it, hold it. Our hospitals are full, we are not getting enough vaccines right now, so you’re releasing undocumented people at our bus stations and our centers without checking them.’”
Now, my tweet said:
“If there is a covid surge in Texas the fault will not be Governor [Greg] Abbott’s common sense reforms. The greatest threat of a covid surge comes from Biden’s untested illegal immigrants pouring across the border. We have no way of knowing how many of them are bringing covid with them.”
Twitter promptly sent a note explaining that my account was locked for, “Violating our rules against hateful conduct,” saying:
“You may not promote violence against, threaten, or harass other people on the basis of race, ethnicity, national origin, sexual orientation, gender, gender identity, religious affiliation, age, disability, or serious disease.”
To unlock the account, the message informed me I must delete the tweet or go through an appeals process.
Thinking this must have been an error somehow generated by the company’s algorithm, we sent Twitter a message pointing out that my tweet didn’t “promote violence against, threaten, or harass” anyone. We asked that my account be released.
Last night, we received Twitter’s response. Without elaborating, the company maintained that my tweet had broken its rules. As I told Mediaite on Friday, I fail to see how drawing attention to the public health dangers of massive illegal immigration during a pandemic can be censored. So, to unlock my account, I deleted the tweet this morning.
However, I decided to write this open letter to the leadership at Twitter again asking why my account was locked.
First, there was no reason to censor my tweet or lock my account. Nothing in the flagged tweet “promotes violence against, threatens, or harasses” anyone. It is simply pointing out the fact that those entering the country illegally are not tested for COVID-19 and could be a health risk.
If Twitter decides to censor me over this in the future, I have a few pointed questions for its leaders.
Finally, this entire experience has made it even more clear to me that Twitter is only interested in censoring conservatives.
As my account remained locked, Louis Farrakhan was free to tweet that the COVID-19 vaccine is dangerous or illegitimate, saying “now God is going to turn your vaccine into death in a hurry.”
I was censored, but the Chinese Communist Dictatorship—which bans Twitter in its own country—was able to spread propaganda and lies about the virus and its origins.
Twitter and all the major social media platforms have become important places for Americans to communicate. They are currently protected by law as public forums. For public forums to serve the public good, they must be open and unbiased.
I hope Twitter will stop its aggressive and biased censorship, and return to the spirit and ideals of free speech which allowed it to prosper in the first place.
From Gingrich360.com.
Take away their tweeting joy.
Have nothing to do with them, nothing.
It is just that simple.
The link to the open letter:
An Open Letter to Twitter https://www.gingrich360.com/2021/03/an-open-letter-to-twitter/
March 8, 2021, By Newt Gingrich
It is too late. Project veritas exposed the selling of murdered baby parts for profit and nothing was said or done as the ends justified the means.
You are talking about planned parent hood’s body parts business.
Texas has defunded planned parent hood.
Americans don’t follow the “ends justifies the means.”
That is the commies’ (democrat and GOPe) motto.
I believe flyover was inarticulately mocking the Left’s satanic attitude. He/she should have put quotation marks around that phrase because IMHO he was implying it was their reasoning, not his.
“is gradually normalized”? It’s already normalized. Half or so of the standard vaccines use aborted baby cells. MRC-5. A baby boy who died to be used in medical experimentation. Not listed is the baby girl used for the same purpose, who didn’t actually end up in the vaccines themselves.
https://www.cdc.gov/vaccines/pubs/pinkbook/downloads/appendices/B/excipient-table-2.pdf
No, I will not inject myself – or my children – with any vaccine, for so many reasons.
“No, I will not inject myself – or my children – with any vaccine, for so many reasons.”
Nor will I or my wife or daughter or daughter’s family or son and his family. In fact we only know one cousin who got the vaccine…because he was forced to get the vaccine…. or be fired from a well-paying job.
VISION
“I was not disobedient unto the heavenly vision.” Acts xxvi. 19
If we lose the vision, we alone are responsible, and the way we lose the vision is by spiritual leakage. If we do not run our belief about God into practical issues, it is all up with the vision God has given. The only way to be obedient to the heavenly vision is to give our utmost for God’s highest, and this can only be done by continually and resolutely recalling the vision. The test is the sixty seconds of every minute, and the sixty minutes of every hour, not our times of prayer and devotional meetings.
“Though it tarry, wait for it.” We cannot attain to a vision, we must live in the inspiration of it until it accomplishes itself. We get so practical that we forget the vision. At the beginning we saw it but did not wait for it; we rushed off into practical work, and when the vision was fulfilled, we did not see it. Waiting for the vision that tarries is the test of our loyalty to God. It is at the peril of our soul’s welfare that we get caught up in practical work and miss the fulfilment of the vision.
Watch God’s cyclones. The only way God sows His saints is by His whirlwind. Are you going to prove an empty pod? It will depend on whether or not you are actually living in the light of what you have seen. Let God fling you out, and do not go until He does. If you select your spot, you will prove an empty pod. If God sow you, you will bring forth fruit.
It is essential to practice the walk of the feet in the light of the vision.
Oswald Chambers
March 11th Devotional
Scenes Beyond the Grave – Marietta Davis
Chapter XVII – The Pandemonium – Mock Worship
17:4 (Heaven answers Marietta’s question after viewing Hell)
The sight was too much; and being unable to endure further these scenes of woe, I shrank back and exclaimed, “Is there not a God of mercy, and can He behold and not save?”
“Yes,” spake a voice from above me, “yes there is a God of mercy, and that God beholds with pitying eyes the sinner. Mercy yearns over him. Yea, hast thou not read, ‘God so loved the world, that He gave His only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth on Him should not perish, but have eternal life?’ But though salvation is offered to the world, and Heaven’s messengers plead with the sinner, millions refuse, and millions more who profess, speculate upon the great truth connected with man’s redemption. Sin indulged, forms the sinner for woe; and there are many who will not forsake their evil ways until fallen into the most wretched state, the consequence of the violation of the law of purity and love.”
“Fear not, Marietta, before thee has been portrayed a portion of the consequences of sin upon the spirit of man. Spiritual sufferings are beyond any power of expression; nor may they be perfectly mirrored upon the understanding by figures of representations. He who first addressed thee, represents that spirit of antichrist which seeks to dazzle spiritual perception by bright pictures of false reasoning, behind all of which lies the scene of discord, improper affections, impure desires, love of self, false hearts, cruelty, lust, rapine, and murder; the denial of God in His redeeming mercy, sacrilege and blasphemy. He strove to direct thy attention to an opposite scene, and thereby conceal the state of those whose hearts are not controlled by the love of God.”
“His power failing, represents the utter inutility of all things out of Christ, to save the soul from the influences tending to death which, through sin, infect the unregenerate heart.”
“Then opened a scene in which was likewise portrayed all forms of vice; but too heavily would that view have borne upon thee, had it been displayed in its fulness, hence immediately appeared the gallery of choralists. These represent the world making melody to the gods of their worship, of whatever name or character they chanced to be. In their hearts was no fear or love for the Supreme Being, whom they mocked with lip service. In the desk was represented a false teacher, and the awful consequences of hypocrisy in religion. He was false, and therefore fallen into this pit of woe. Before him were those who represent the worshipers in the name of the Cross, but who have not the fear of God before their eyes. They appeared unto men to worship, but their hearts were far from God. They sought to please themselves in their devotions, while they chose a teacher who in turn sought to glorify himself with men by gratifying the caprice of his audience.”
“He strove to address them in representation of the great truth, that the mind works out in the spirit, the cultivation and impression received in the outer world. His ineffectual effort represents the inability of any being to derive real satisfaction, or to be useful to those around him by false methods.”
“The spirit addressing him, represents the spirit of those who, in any sphere of existence, had trusted to false teachers, and had little concern for their spiritual interests. And thus the discordance of beings not properly united is made to appear. They charge their sins upon each other. The spirit’s reference to the justice of their condition as a natural consequence following the violation of law, represents the consciousness of guilt and the goodness of God, conceived by all who awake from their idle dreamings to a proper sense of the requisition of God’s holy law upon them.”
“The dreadful writhing of the spirit addressed under the dark picture of his past deeds, represents that those who, in external life follow their carnal desires, when they meet in spirit reflect great truths upon each other, by the thoughts and movements of their being. Their final fall and blending into one, illustrates the inseparable nature and tendency of sin; also, that the law of sympathy or magnetic affinity, exists even with the disembodied spirits of men; and that, by that law, like character of mind and affections, are attracted to each other, and that by accumulation, prevailing elements increase in power and momentum, and thus receives from and inflicts sorrow upon the other.”
“The moving cloud above them also illustrates the atmosphere of thought which fills the great arena of spiritual discord.”
“Finally, Marietta, the scene of the bishop and his congregation, together with the false teachers of the schools of vain philosophy, illustrates that portion of the sacred text which saith, ‘If the blind lead the blind, both shall fall together.’”
“Marietta, thy spirit cannot endure more; but let this lesson impress thee with the great truth, that ‘the wages of sin is death.’”
Apologies for the long post! The answer from Heaven was too important to break up!
Mornin’ infidels!
The Babylon Bee on Twitter: “American Patriots Dump Harry And Meghan Into Boston Harbor https://t.co/9c9f7Hf7RM” / Twitter
Mornin’ WeeWeed
Mornin’ DI!
I would not be surprised to see Harry and Meagan split before too long.
Wonder if Harry made her sign a preNup.
SIte is opening greatly magnified this am
Wall to wall, and beyond.
yeah, what’s u with this?
I have the same issue (comment text running off right hand edge of screen without wrapping) and wrote our hosts and email about it. It happened a few days ago but had been corrected after several hours. Now it’s back.
Same for me.
Me, too.
I am experience a problem with text line wrap on my iPad 6 while everything is working fine on my iPhone 7 plus. In addition, the pinch zoom, on this site, is not working on my iPad 6 but is operational on my iPhone 7.
This is a recent phenomenon and I am almost 100% sure it has started after the recent update of this site.
The wrap around is specific to paragraphs.
A long paragraph almost goes to infinity.
The posting page control is off screen while the posting text box is very small at about 25 characters.
Has anybody experienced these issues and determined their cause and have generated a solution?
I am running iOS 14.4.1 on both.
It is almost impossible to fallow this site on my iPad
Thanks in advance for any assistance.
. . . but deliver us from the Evil One.
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)
In honor of “cursday”:
Little Biscuit has a typically annoying older sibling!
Tanzanian President John Magufuli and Belarus President Alexander Lukashenko stand against globalist agenda:
https://bigleaguepolitics.com/tanzania-rejects-covid-19-hysteria-says-no-to-big-pharmas-vaccine-regime/
So Biden is going to make a speech tonight on the anniversary of Covid-19 being declared a pandemic.
I predict he will conclusively demonstrate his utter lack of class by, after congratulating Fauci and probably himself, failing to acknowledge the leader who marshaled the public and private industry resources to create a vaccine in less than one year, against the predictions of literally every expert, President Donald J. Trump!
This man should get the Nobel Prize for Peace for saving millions of lives!
THIS WEEK IN AG HISTORY — MARCH 11, 1916 https://news.ag.org/Features/This-Week-in-AG-History
by DARRIN J. RODGERS on March 11, 2021
“It was an unlikely location for an event that would change the face of Christianity. In the summer of 1906, revival erupted in the newly formed congregation meeting at the small, run-down Apostolic Faith Mission at 312 Azusa Street in Los Angeles. Critics attacked the congregation because its Black and mild-mannered Holiness preacher, William J. Seymour, preached racial reconciliation and the restoration of biblical spiritual gifts. The Azusa Street Revival, as it became known, soon became a local sensation, then attracted thousands of curiosity seekers and pilgrims from around the world.
“The spiritual intensity of the revival was red hot for more than three years, making Azusa Street one of the most significant Pentecostal centers in the early 20th century. Just over 115 years later, the Pentecostal movement, broadly construed, now claims over a half billion adherents, the second largest grouping within Christianity after the Catholic Church.”
I’m completely non-denominational at this point. Was raised Evangelical; don’t know quite enough about Pentecostal to say for certain that’s what I am but I find myself often dissatisfied with traditional Evangelicalism. I do believe spiritual gifts are/could be alive and well today.
Yes it’s from TASS, but squint your eyes and Lukashenko becomes Lushapinko aka Pelosi https://tass.com/world/1264997
A short 30 years ago in Moscow. Now we are the ones facing a politburo. https://meduza.io/en/feature/2021/03/10/march-10-1991
Hey Sundance and Co.
I think it’s important to get out of the echo chamber to figure out what’s what. Lin Wood? Mike Pence? Rudolph Gulliani? Even Trump is not beyond reproach when their moves don’t make sense. Country and conservatism before anything but God….. check it out! https://m.soundcloud.com/unlimited-hangout/from-deep-state-to-qanon-the-giuliani-gang-with-robbie-martin
Who’s really in the “echo chamber” ? I know Sundance is NOT.
Just listen to the podcast I linked, then report back to me…..
Thanks but….
I listened to enough of it to understand their positions, then scanned and listened
to several other brief sections of the show.
Not going to listen to the entire podcast.
I’m not impressed with their bias and apparently limited knowledge of what really
went down behind the scenes..
To each their own.
Well I’m back and done for the week. Next week I will be doing the same run to Smithville, TN followed by a stop at Portland, TN on the way home. But next week
Will be doing it three times. Out Sunday, back Monday. Out Tuesday, back Wednesday. Out Thursday and back Friday.
If all goes well next week I will probably go back to my old job as an on-call driver the following week. The discomfort is decreasing! So once again, into the breech.
Which is exactly what the on-call job entails.
Opportunities for truck drivers are really good right now. The local R&L terminal is hiring and paying $28.00 an hour and that’s for line haul and regional stuff.
That’s darn good money for this part of the country.
Are they having trouble finding drivers who can pass a drug test? I have a friend who is a long time veteran driver for the Port of Baltimore. He has been getting offered unlimited OT for several years because their drivers require a Clearance and the Port cannot find enough people who can pass the drug tests and background investigation……..
Penguin does what it must to save it’s self from killer whale. Fascinating animals.
Thanks, rah. I love that. The penguin looks a little bemused, like “What am I doing here?”
I’m surprised the orca doesn’t tip the boat over, though.
Keep and eye on Iceland and it’s recent outbreak of tremors.
The more recent eruptions there were very very small potatoes compared to what has occurred in the past. We aren’t talking about a single volcano. We’re talking about a rift, a long giant fissure erupting all along it’s length ejecting an amount of ash and Sulfur Dioxide into the stratosphere every 3 days equivalent to the total of the Mt. Pinatubo eruption. And it can go on for months or even years like that!
The eruption of 1783-84 killed 20% of Iceland’s population from poisonous gasses and famine. . Ash, lots of it, fell on major European cities. The summer of 1784 is known as “the summer that never was” in the US. It snowed in New England in July. The Mississippi River froze at New Orleans!
Local and Global Impacts of the 1783-84 Laki Eruption in Iceland | WIRED
The reason for this seismic activity is the location of Iceland – it sits on top the Atlantic ridge, the divergent boundary between the Eurasian and North American tectonic plates. As the two plates drift in opposite directions Iceland is, in effect, slowly being split apart. The rate of spreading along the Mid-Atlantic Ridge averages about 2.5 centimeters (1 inch) per year, or 25 kilometers (15.5 miles) in a million years.
I visited Iceland in 2000 and it was beautiful if not a bit intimidating. We visited a geyser field that was fairly active. 10 years after we visited they experienced a major volcanic eruption that affected Europe with ash.
Ref.: https://icelandmag.is/article/why-constant-earthquakes-iceland-slowly-being-torn-apart
In the case of the Iceland flood basalts it is matter of two plates pulling apart. In other cases in the past it has been two plates colliding or grinding past each other.
Nick on the Rocks. He’s my man for learning geology online. In this one he discusses flood basalts. The great fissures that pump out lava, gases, in quantities
far beyond what any volcano can ever do. Lava flows that travel 100s of miles! He explains the mechanics and how major flood basalt events coincide with the
mass extinctions and the relative scale of those events.
Flood Basalts of the Pacific Northwest – Bing video
Is the senate going to have to end the filibuster in order to pass the gun control crap that the House has passed – and is working on? Or are there enough GOP quislings for it to pass?
“Universal background checks” means the national government building a gun owner database. Gun owner database is a precursor to confiscation.
U.S. leftists are out to restrict ‘having’ a gun, but in the Czech Republic, its lawmakers have told Brussels to shove it https://rmx.news/article/article/czechs-set-to-gain-constitutional-right-to-defend-themselves-with-a-weapon
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…
Did you have to do something to make this post correctly? I tried and tried and couldn’t get the “post comment” to show up. Annnnnd, then it did.
If you put your cursor on the gray line at the very bottom of the screen, and drag it all the way to the right, you’ll see the POST COMMENT function.
Sorry….We all know the comments are posting incorrectly on today’s OPEN. There have been problems for the last two days on various posts. We’ve left notes for SD and the engineers too.
Okay, thanks. Tonight was the first time I had run into this. It had stretched way out to the right, but I could get to the POST COMMENT somehow. Just tonight it cut off.
Amen.
So I walk over to my neighbor’s front yard to find out if anyone knows an electrician cause I need one bad to be able to get my roof done…Lo and behold, the first person I ask, “Do you know an electrician?”. So this young man says, “I am an electrician”
Now how cool is that 😛