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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We go bowling and I forgot to bring Her Highness a car treat. I luckily obtained a few leftover deep fried chicken gizzards, and she is now ‘so over’ bacon.
Finally made a decision after spending half my life dreaming, sharing other peoples dreams, but never having the courage to just DO it. I’m buying a small yacht – my very own – no more just a crew. And I’m spending almost everything I saved “for a rainy day” – Dudes – it’s bloody pouring. O and by the way, the Messiah is YOU – not in some messianic delusion manner, or believing one has some divine “power’ – nonsense – any “power” comes from the Creator anyway – but just think about it – the Messiah WILL return/arrive/announce when WE are ready to receive, when the world, or at least a good chunk of it, is worthy. It’s up to us as well – 50/50 remember – so if everybody just behaved “Christ Like”, or if that’s a bit too lofty for now, at least half a st Paul – ye know, like a Christian – or a Jew, or Muslim, or Hindu, or Buddhist for that matter, we’d sure help matters along. Anyway this is one by CSN that describes exactly the “dream”. Lee Shore.
You’re a deceiver.
Your lies about the Bible and the Lord Jesus Christ don’t stop.
I wish I had the ability to toss you.
For the benefit of thread responders, from yesterday:
“O and by the way, the Messiah is YOU”
Despite the evident qualifiers about people being chosen for different things, Scripture seems abundantly clear that THE Messiah / Christ is singular and specific to One.
Matthew 16:20
He instructed the disciples that they should tell no one that He is the Christ.
1 John 5:1
Everyone who believes that Jesus is the Christ has been born of God, and everyone who loves the Father also loves those born of Him.
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“the Messiah WILL return/arrive/announce when WE are ready to receive, when the world, or at least a good chunk of it, is worthy”
Some movements do seem to claim something about the worthiness of man, despite that it is only through Christ’s righteousness / worthiness that man can be delivered. Scriptural support for man’s worthiness as some sort of prerequisite for Christ’s return appears elusive, especially given what is written about a day having been set:
Acts 17:24-25
The God having made the world and all things that are in it, He being Lord of heaven and earth, does not dwell in hand-made temples, nor is He served by hands of men as needing anything, Himself giving to all life and breath and everything.
Acts 17:31
“because He set a day in which He is about to judge the world in righteousness by a man whom He appointed, having provided a guarantee to all, having raised Him out from the dead.””
“It’s up to us as well – 50/50 remember”
Going back to a comment I noticed from yesterday that didn’t appear super clear — “it’s a covenant, a deal, a 50/50”, the Old / “first” covenant (cf. Hebrews 8:13) was a conditional covenant tied in with specific promises. This is directly contrasted multiple times in Scripture with the second / new covenant which appears unconditional and unto which God chose to bind Himself — thankfully, given man’s evidently failure (outside of Jesus Christ) to keep the first covenant to its required standard.
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“if everybody just behaved “Christ Like”, or if that’s a bit too lofty for now, at least half a st Paul – ye know, like a Christian – or a Jew, or Muslim, or Hindu, or Buddhist for that matter, we’d sure help matters along”
Can’t see how a concept could hold up that if people behaved “Christlike“ or something like it even if their profession denied the one true Messiah / Christ, that would help the matter along of the one true Christ’s return — with people’s worthiness apparently connected there somehow. I’ve seen some New Age / unitarian nonscriptural concepts before, but I don’t know that the opening pitch / soft sell usually employed there was quite as loose as whatever this thought construct is.
And if the reply involves something about harshing mellows or some other aggrieved positioning, it’s way too late in the game to be encouraging people to chase shadows. Yesterday‘s post appeared to play on the wonders of supposed select, secret knowledge (say, where did the root word for ‘gnostic’ come from?) / Kabbalah, today’s leads with the New Age / emergent tripe opener of “the Messiah is You”. What does Scripture say about running hither and thither rather than going straight on to God‘s word?
Isaiah 8:19-20
“And when they say to you, “Seek those who are mediums and wizards, who whisper and mutter,” should not a people seek their God? Should they seek the dead on behalf of the living To the law and to the testimony! If they do not speak according to this word, it is because there[o] is no light in them.”
To the law and to the testimony. “Dude”, why don’t you ask some others on the board how long some of us hung with certain individuals who would post problematic doctrine on a constant basis? The short answer is that dog won’t hunt. The long answer is exposing in meticulous detail what’s behind the appeals to secret knowledge, universalism, etc. is what would be a privilege for many of us if it keeps getting pushed here. You might want to read the site guidelines to see how it should go from here.
Oh T, thank you. One More Time’s comment left me confused and ‘commentless’. I so appreciate people like you, who can respond via Scripture to those who have been or are being influenced by false teachings/teachers.
Basically, you either accept Jesus Christ as your personal savior, accept Him as the reality that He is . . . or you don’t. There’s no wiggle room when it comes to belief in our Savior.
CS Lewis: jesus is a madman….or he is who he says he is! The entire quote for context:
“I am trying here to prevent anyone saying the really foolish thing that people often say about Him: I’m ready to accept Jesus as a great moral teacher, but I don’t accept his claim to be God. That is the one thing we must not say. A man who was merely a man and said the sort of things Jesus said would not be a great moral teacher. He would either be a lunatic — on the level with the man who says he is a poached egg — or else he would be the Devil of Hell. You must make your choice. Either this man was, and is, the Son of God, or else a madman or something worse. You can shut him up for a fool, you can spit at him and kill him as a demon or you can fall at his feet and call him Lord and God, but let us not come with any patronizing nonsense about his being a great human teacher. He has not left that open to us. He did not intend to.”
John 14:6 ESV. For you. ?
Thank you gentlemen, Frank Field, Whistling Past, TMonroe and Garrison Hall. God bless you all.
A second thank you added to yours…oldschool…
Frank, you may have missed my late reply to your question yesterday, so…
Here are some Bible-based articles on self-defense you might take a look at.
https://www.frontlinemissionsa.org/apps/search?q=self+defense
I’ll check it out. Thanks again.
The article: Faith And Firearms was loaded with Scripture, principles, historical facts.
Massive thanks.
I just finished reading it myself.
Great, irrefutable arguments, Biblical and secular.
Thanks for mentioning it!
OneMoreTime(Everybody)
the Messiah WILL return/arrive/announce when WE are ready to receive, when the world, or at least a good chunk of it, is worthy.
These words you have spoken are in direct contradiction of what was written in scripture, wherein it is written:
“But of that day and hour no one knows, not even the angels of heaven, but My Father only” (Matthew 24:36)
How can you, a mere human, know what even Jesus Christ himself stated He did not know.
To thee, I give you the same response that Jesus gave to Peter when he tried to dissuade him from his chosen path of following God’s will;
Mark 8:33
But when he had turned about and looked on his disciples, he rebuked Peter, saying, Get thee behind me, Satan: for thou savourest not the things that be of God, but the things that be of men.
Thinking of “today”, thinking of “now”:
2 Cor. 6:2 (cf. Isaiah 49:8)
“For He says: “In the acceptable time I listened to you, and in the day of salvation I helped you.” Behold, now is the time of favor; behold, now is the day of salvation.
Isaiah 55:6-7
“Seek the LORD while He may be found; call upon Him while He is near. Let the wicked forsake their ways and the unrighteous their thoughts. Let them turn to the LORD, and He will have mercy on them, and to our God, for He will abundantly pardon.”
Hebrews 3:15a (cf. Psalms 95:7-8)
“As it has been said: “If today you hear His voice, harden not your hearts…”
Revelation 22:17 (cf. Isaiah 55:1)
“The Spirit and the bride say, “Come!” Let the one who hears say, “Come!” And let the one who is thirsty come, and the one who desires the water of life drink freely.”
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Thinking of why:
Romans 6:23
“For the wages of sin is death, but the gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.”
John 3:16
“For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him should not perish but have everlasting life.”
Romans 5:8
“But God demonstrates His own love toward us, in that while we were still sinners, Christ died for us.”
John 5:24
“Truly, truly, I tell you, whoever hears My word and believes Him who sent Me has eternal life and will not come under judgment. Indeed, he has crossed over from death to life.”
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Thinking of how:
Luke 18:13
“And the tax collector, standing afar off, would not so much as raise his eyes to heaven, but beat his chest, saying, ‘God, be merciful to me a sinner!’”
James 4:8a
“Draw near to God, and He will draw near to you.”
John 6:28-29
“Therefore they said to Him, “What must we do, that we may be doing the works of God?” Jesus answered and said to them, “This is the work of God, that you should believe in Him whom He has sent.””
Mark 9:24b
“‘Lord, I believe; help my unbelief.'”
Acts 16:30-31
“Then he brought them out and asked, “Sirs, what must I do to be saved?” They replied, “Believe in the Lord Jesus and you will be saved, you and your household.””
Texas swing . . .
AAAHHH HAAA, 🙂 🙂
Awesome. Thank you. My Daddy loved Texas Swing . Would wake up on Saturday morning to his singing or whistling Bob Wills tunes. Happy memories.
One more . .
Thanks!
Lyrics
Where’s that gal with the red dress on? Some folks called her Dinah
Stole my heart away from me, way down in Louisiana
Take me back to Tulsa, I’m too young to marry
Take me back to Tulsa, I’m too young to marry
Little bee sucks the blossom, big bee gets the honey
Darkie raises the cotton, white man gets the money
Take me back to Tulsa, I’m too young to marry
Take me back to Tulsa, I’m too young to marry
Walk and talk, Suzie, walk and talk, Suzie
Walk and talk, Suzie, walk and talk, Suzie
Take me back to Tulsa, I’m too young to marry
Take me back to Tulsa, I’m too young to marry
We always wear this great big smile, never do look sour
Travel all over the country, playing by the hour
Take me back to Tulsa, I’m too young to marry
Take me back to Tulsa, I’m too young to marry
Staying up long past bedtime, listening in rapt enjoyment to music I’d never heard before with earphones connected to my little transistor radio, I was transported to another world. At the time I lived in a little town on the Texas sea-coast. We’d just moved there and I didn’t much like the place. It was my last year of high school, I didn’t know anybody and, really, was already planning What Comes Next. So the last-year-of-high-school-rituals sort of passed me by. I was ready to leave. But listening to Music ‘Til Down over KRLD out of Dallas proved to be a connection to a world I wanted to live in. Every night I heard music I’d never heard before, music that both inspired and informed me—there was another world out there and all I had to do was go there and see what it was all about. So I did. Thank you Music ‘Til Dawn.
In New York, WCBS, midnight to 5 AM, the host was Bob Hall.
Basically the same experience as yours ?
Great minds . . . and good taste . . . 🙂
Texas Gulf-Coast
22 October 1966
The Beach Boys‘ “Good Vibrations” made its debut on the US singles chart. It was a song that Brian Wilson and Mike Love wrote and Brian spent six months working on. The tracks were recorded in seventeen different sessions in four Los Angeles studios, at a cost of over sixteen thousand dollars. The recording engineer would later say that the last take sounded exactly like the first, six months earlier. The record would reach number one on December 10th, 1966 and be nominated for Song Of The Year at The Grammy Awards, but lost to “Winchester Cathedral” by The New Vaudeville Band.
22 October 1971
Joan Baez received a Gold record for “The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down”. It turned out to be her biggest hit, peaking at #3 in the US and #6 in the UK.
22 October 1996
Sales figures were released that showed that The Beatles sold 6,000,000 albums from their back catalog and a combined total of 13,000,000 copies of “The Beatles Anthology 1” and “The Beatles Anthology 2”. A poll revealed that 41% of sales were to teenagers who were not even born when The Beatles split up in 1970.
Great choices! Thanks for posting. This is one of the things that make the Treehouse so interesting. 🙂
NATIONAL NUT DAY
National Nut Day is observed annually on October 22nd. This day is NOT about the neighbor that lives down the street or the co-worker who sings with their headphones on. It is a food holiday celebrating a healthy and nutritious snack.
Sometimes I feel like a Nut…sometimes I don’t 😛
Btw, its not a peecan pie, its a pahcon pie 🙂
So funny. I had to school my loved ones and friends in Wales on this one. They all pronounced it pee-can pie. They also for some reason all called Houston HOOSTON. I could not figure out how they arrived at that pronunciation. Even the usually correct BBC got it wrong.
Pee-can is also the Confederate States of America pronunciation.
In Michener’s novel, TEXAS… there is a paragraph or three on how the pecan pie was made at the time 1860’s??… also that it was a nut that one could well ‘survive’ on, when other food sources were unavailable.
A day for me too!
We have plenty of them in Washington …for sure.
Nuts, you say?
Check out nuts . com
Any good prepper tips out there?
Greetings Treepers!
It’s about how to stay warm when the power is out.
He offers good options when you don’t have a wood-burning fireplace.
Great thanks!
He needs some math tutoring… he said about his last homestead.. “The first week we were in there, we were nine days without electricity or heat”
Perhaps the ‘exaggeration’ was intentional…
Great! Thanks much. ?
Build a tent in your living room and put a smaller tent inside that one. The layers and air in them will help maintain warmth of the people in the middle. but you would really have to stay there, and make sure you manage airflow.
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Thanks much.
We’re okay for heat but the video did spark a few more ideas.
It’s a good video.
Ivermectin and vitamins. With a good supply of lead.
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. . . but deliver us from the Evil One.
Amen ?
The Jesus Prayer
Lord Jesus Christ, Son of God, have mercy upon me, a sinner.
Prayer of Saint Ioannikios the Great of Bithynia (+ 846)
My hope is the Father, my refuge the Son, my protection the Holy Spirit. O Holy Trinity, glory to Thee.
The 50th Psalm (Septuagint)
Psalm 51 (KJV – Masoretic)
From Ikos VI of the “Akathist to Almighty God for Help in Trouble” –
O Lord, my Lord, my strength, strengthen me that without temerity I may ask help of Thee.
By now, those who are situationally aware and can think critically while keeping track of the “trending” likely concluded that we are in the “post covid” era now. Actually, the “lethality” of the covid virus was exaggerated, amplified by the media while governments willfully deprived their citizens from living their lives in dignity.
Four weeks ago, Canada held federal elections. That was the only opportunity for Canadians to push back and demand accountability. The retards voted for the same guy again. This last sentence illustrates the need for most of us to turn our backs on society and to move rural, be more self sufficient and homeschool your kids.
It will be starting year 5 next month.
Friday of the 18th Week after Pentecost
October 9th on the Patristic Calendar of the Orthodox Christian Church
October 22nd on the civil or commercial calendar
Epistle of the Holy Apostle Paul to the Ephesians 6: 18 – 24
Holy Gospel according to the Holy Apostle and Evangelist Luke 7: 31 – 35
Among the many Saints and Holy Martyrs who are commemorated today are these:
Holy Apostle James, Son of Alphæus, of the Twelve (+ 1st century) – [First Epistle of the Holy Apostle Paul to the Corinthians 4: 9 – 16; Holy Gospel of the Holy Apostle and Evangelist Luke 10: 16 – 21]
Righteous Forefather Abraham and his nephew Righteous Lot (+ ca. 2000 B.C.)
Saint Andronikos and his wife Saint Athanasia, of Egypt (+ 5th century)
Saint Stephen the Blind, King of Serbia (+ 1468)
Fast Day – Wine and Oil allowed
THE WITNESS OF THE SPIRIT
“The Spirit Himself beareth witness with our spirit…” Romans viii. 16 R.V.
We are in danger of getting the barter spirit when we come to God, we want the witness before we have done what God tells us to do. “Why does not God reveal Himself to me?” He cannot, it is not that He will not, but He cannot, because you are in the road as long as you won’t abandon absolutely to Him. Immediately you do, God witnesses to Himself, He cannot witness to you, but He witnesses instantly to His own nature in you. If you had the witness before the reality, it would end in sentimental emotion. Immediately you transact on the Redemption, and stop the impertinence of debate, God gives on the witness. As soon as you abandon reasoning and argument, God witnesses to what He has done, and we are amazed at our impertinence in having kept Him waiting. If you are in debate as to whether God can deliver from sin, either let Him do it, or tell Him He cannot. Do not quote this and that person, try Matthew xi. 28 – “Come unto Me.” COME, if you are weary and heavy laden; ASK, if you know you are evil (Luke xi. 13).
The Spirit of God witnesses to the Redemption of Our Lord, He does not witness to anything else; He cannot witness to our reason. The simplicity that comes from our natural common-sense decisions is apt to be mistaken for the witness of the Spirit, but the Spirit witnesses only to His own nature, and to the work of Redemption, never to our reason. If we try to make Him witness to our reason, it is no wonder we are in darkness and perplexity. Fling it all overboard, trust in Him, and He will give the witness.
Oswald Chambers
October 22nd Devotional
Good Morning all ! Just testing, for some unknown reason –to me — my posts this past week have been placed in moderation..Waiting to see if it happens again…3 2 1
Jesus is my Lord and Saviour.
Mornin’ infidels.
Good morning, 😉
A Simple Boycot of the city of Seatle WA. for the month of December, 2021. No Trucks in or out of the city, or driving within the city. Any body that does so may be subject to contact tracing, being Doxed and boycotted and alienated.
Truckers can still feed their families by going to other cities. Both those on the left or right need to stay clear of Seatle because you will be contact traced and doxed and some may even try to harm you as it’s crossing a picket line.
Other trucker boycots have failed because 50% were on the other side; 50% of the remaining ones had families to feed, and 50% of those left felt it wasn’t likely to have an effect. So it was pointless. But boycotting a medium size city still provides for the needs of all truckers, and their families; it provides options. At the same time, it can and will be punishing for any truckers no matter what your political views are if you work in or around Seatle Washington in the month of December.
This needs to be spread. So far my postings on Social Media have had no response; partially due to censorship, and because others are not really committed to fighting the fight with peaceful means. Post it everyplace, right now.
Not the Bee
What the heck is wrong with Kamala Harris?
When I hear Christians say “thou shalt not judge” quoting the Bible it makes me wonder, who does judge then?
Oh, it’s our rulers, our government who has no oversight, right? You place judgements in the hands of criminals over your own?
That’s called sin, it’s missing the mandate God gave us.
Judgement is placed in the hands of those who walk with God, we are salt and light. Salt preserves. It’s why this country has gone rotten, no judges from God.
And notice how parents judge their schools now, and how the government says don’t. It’s a big clue why your not supposed to judge.
Or how we judge a mandate to kill us? No, don’t judge the wicked intentions of your controllers.
The pink haired man in the Barney Rubble outfit at Netflix claiming “his feelings were hurt” is dead wrong, pun intended. He is insane and should be helped out of his insanity but judge him on those merits not by our governments insanity.
The man will see hell either on earth or in death if he continues on his path.
THAT is why we judge, because we have the truth
and our world needs it.
Judgement is from the word of God, by the word of God, to save us from destruction.
If you think it’s mercy to let gay people marry or believe a lie, your not of God. God has very strong words for that “ I
never knew you.”
Is it hard? Yes, but think about the alternative. We all have skin in this game in life and death. Your fellow man is your responsibility.
That phrase is too often incomplete. We need to make judgements every second of everyday.
The correct and more complete phrase should read, “Thou shalt not judge unrighteously.”
Palerider, when people quote the “judge not less you be judged” part of the Sermon on the Mount they do it without any context of understanding. The whole Sermon on the Mount was given not to Christian believers but to unbelieving Jews who had come to hear Jesus. He was setting for them a standard that was impossible to reach if a person was trying to justify themselves by their own works. Ergo, the need for Jesus to lay down His life for the propitiation of all our sins.
Also, in John 7:24 Jesus said, “Judge not according to appearance, but judge with righteous judgement.” Again, he was teaching the Jews in the temple.
Out of the mouths of babes!
My wife and young daughter were driving recently and past a sign that read: “Freedom Next Right”. My daughter inquired of my wife, “What’s that even mean? If you go left does that mean they are controlling you?”.
Are there Treepers out there who can make sure President Trump or Jr. get to examine this Article? It looks a legitimate criticism to me.
https://conservativehardliner.com/why-i-have-concerns-about-truth-social
I apologize if this has already been posted. I searched around and didn’t see anything.
Techno Fog had an interesting post yesterday about Durham and Sussmann.
https://technofog.substack.com/p/john-durham-gears-up-against-the
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.
Amen.
Putting a border wall in…..in Greece https://www.thenationalherald.com/greece_politics/arthro/greece_s_automated_surveillance_at_turkish_border_gets_trial-3503501/
Boy they waited too long to do this, and why to my knowledge only 1 school board dropped membership is beyond me
https://www.nationalreview.com/news/national-school-boards-association-apologizes-for-letter-comparing-parents-to-terrorists/
The NSBA Board of Directors apologized in a memorandum to members on Friday. The initial letter, sent on September 29, asked the administration to investigate whether alleged threats to school-board members, over masking policies and “propaganda purporting the false inclusion of critical race theory” in lessons, necessitated federal investigation.
Breaking: In the wake of yesterday’s @FreeBeacon report, National School Board Association announces “we regret and apologize for the letter” to Biden admin characterizing concerned parents as potentially domestic terrorists pic.twitter.com/3RBufvWqAN
— Noah Pollak (@NoahPollak) October 23, 2021