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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✝️ DAILY DEVOTIONAL, December 27, 2021
Never give up! Never surrender! Trust in the Lord forever and ever ❤️
Amen!
Good morning, FC! Amen!
Truth, Dan. Men on earth are trying their evil best to separate us from God. Even men who purportedly serve Him in His churches but in fact do not.
I ran across a story last night with a lovely wintery Christmas scene of a Finnish church…snow covered landscape, the church’s spire reaching to the heavens, lights from its windows ablaze, all seemingly quiet on Christmas Eve. There were multitudes standing outside, wrapped up against the cold. Why not inside the warm church celebrating the anticipated arrival of the Christ child?
Because the mortal “spiritual gatekeepers”
in God’s House there would not let these people in unless they could show their “papers”. So these of God’s flock stood outside and sang carols to welcome Him Who turns away no one who seeks Him.
These denizens of earthly authority who serve their government and not our Lord turned away the faithful, who themselves would not turn away. A starker example of what we are facing today I’ve not seen.
I am deeply, deeply moved by Dr Spurgeon’s comforting and timeless words today after seeing that story. I, and millions of others choose God. No church door slammed in the faces of those who wish to worship will keep us from His unending love, grace and mercy. Knock on His door, and it shall be opened. No papers necessary.
Dear Lord, please be merciful and bless us all, in the beautiful name of Your Beloved Son, Jesus Christ, our only mediator and advocate. Amen🙏
🙏amen
Yea…what Betsy said💪
Good Morning Betsy🥰
I have just discovered that the picture to which I refer above is now at Gateway Pundit this morning.
Good morning, Betsy! What a story you wrote – the true believers and the Pharisees. I believe Jesus had a few choice words for the latter group.
Good morning, GrandpaM!!💓 A sadder commentary of our time I’ve never read. And yes, He did have plenty to say. How these pastors or priests cannot see what is in front of their faces is beyond me. How they can carry on their services without knowing in their hearts that they are failing from the spiritual duties anytime, but at Christmas especially, is truly unfathomable to me. Another *sigh*…
I’m late back for my good mornings as I’m doing a pot roast and had to get it started. That will see us through a few meals I hope.
Did your beautiful grandson arrive???? I know you and your bride have stored up a fair few hugs🤗. Give him one from me, though you don’t have to say where it came from😉.
He did for a little while but we didn’t keep him overnight since the lady helping wifey with SIL is off today. I’ll get him tomorrow for a sleepover and will give him an extra hug from you. 😁❤️
Oh good!! I give great hugs, though I’m sure yours are much better since he’s his grandad’s lad. 💓 God bless your wife, G. What a loving woman she is.
She sure is, and keeps me on the straight and narrow.
Good morning Besty jones. As 1 poster here observed weeks ago, ” Standing inside a church and saying that you are a Christian is the same as standing inside your garage and saying you are a car”.
Have a blessed day!
Thank you, mark😊 I’m afraid tis true. I’m trying to remember the phrase I knew long ago which applied here but can’t quite get a handle on it. “Sunday Christians”…not exactly, but close. It sounds judgemental on my part, though I don’t mean it to. Blessings to you, mark
How Spurgeon was able to do all he did while suffering with debilitating depression is a miracle of God.
“You just never hear that story”
Prompted at 6:31 thru 8:41.
If it doesn’t work close space after https… https ://youtu.be/9vxzPyT81lw?t=391
Thank you, WP!!! I don’t believe I knew that about him. How wonderful you posted this. I’ll be watching now. The utter beauty of his sermons written while he suffered? I can’t even begin to understand it, except that it was exactly as you describe and nothing else. A true miracle. God choosing him through his misery to produce these uplifting pieces which have so much joy in them. Spurgeon’s move me as no others do.
I just listened…and none of that I knew about him. His depression just overwhelmed him, didn’t it? I was fascinated by the broadcast and the topic, relevant anytime but particularly so given those who are suffering from it today, courtesy of the intentional cruelty being dished out, all for globalists’ dreams of power and glory. Thank you for taking the time to post that link, WP. That will add much to any other sermon of his I will read.
You’re welcome Betsy.
Yes, the whole program is excellent, a sensitively done treatment of a difficult subject.
Glad you were able to watch.
Yes, most difficult. Churchill called his depression his black dog. A curse for him aptly described.
I’ll quote Frank, love me some Spurgeon! Thanks, Dan.
And where is our Frank this morning?? It’s the season I know, which commands our time elsewhere. I hope he checks in at his usual time. Ill be watching for him🙏💓
He showed up down the thread for a post. Busy with family today.
I suspected as much.
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Happiest Birthday , Mr Brozyna !!! And Many More 😊
Welcome to 75! It’s not much different than 74
Thanks … and contrary to some of the doctors at the V.A., I don’t have one foot in the grave!
No it is not. I’m not quite there, but working on it.
Thanks … and yes, many more … my Mom made it to 94 … and might have gone on quite a bit more if she had ever seen a doctor and prevented those mini-strokes that finally felled her.
🎂🎁🎈 Happy Birthday Leon 🤗🤗🤗
💓💓💓A Happy Birthday to you Leon!! What a day to be born.💓💓💓
Thanks … and just imagine how my Mom felt laboring most of the day …
I don’t have to imagine! I’m remembering my three. It’s the initiation rite of the sisterhood of mothers everywhere😊.
Many thanks.
Happy Birthday, Leon! 🎂😺
Merci!
Happy Birthday, Leon! For me, turning 75 was more like a speed bump than the headlong slide I was expecting.
The wretched human hating Ezekiel Emmanuel says we’re all done at 75. If he wants to keep that fantasy, he’s welcome to it. We’ll check with him when he gets there.👍
Je vous en prie
I don’t know about you, but I try not to pay much attention to my birthdays any more. But that being said, I hope yours was a happy one.
Happy 75th Birthday Mr. B!
God never has an emergency, never has a sale. His provision is in His promises. The Lord Holy Spirit is the Administrator. He has the key to the storehouse. We must make friends with Him in Jesus name.
I have often wondered if what we call miracles are most simply events that occur naturally on God’s own timeline. Prayers answered in fact well in advance of the asking, as WP outlines above. That’s why “Thy will be done” is for me the most trusting, faith-ful part of the most perfect prayer of all…the Lord’s Prayer.
The following is a personal understanding but I can not fully explain it.
The passage of time is a creation of God to keep us sane. It creates permanence and order in a fallen disordered world. We live in a temporal universe defined by space and time. God can no more be defined by the restrictions of time than he can be defined as existing within dimensions of space. On this side of eternity, we exist in time and space. On God’s side there is no restriction. God lives an eternal life and that is exactly the life he asks us to join, a life for which the passage of time ceases to exist.
Since God has no restriction in space, he exists in all places at once. With no restriction as to time, he exists in all time at once.
Since God exists without a limit in the flow of time, he accomplishes for us in our time line at the time he chooses. God does not exist in time, but he intercedes in ours. To God it happens eternally. To us, is happens at a specific time.
As I said, this is a personal understanding. It makes some things fit better. I may be wrong.
I’ve never heard such an intriguing, intelligent personal understanding on this level before❤️
Yes, Vibeman. I think we tend to anthropomorphize God, to assign our own experiences and concepts of what we experience as being the same with Him. Of course Christ was God incarnate, the thought of which for me is truly overwhelming. But God in his heaven is a Force which our feeble, earthly, human minds cannot fully grasp.
As you say about your views, I say about mine. I’m certainly no biblical scholar but I feel this is so, His Awesomeness, the depth of which I believe none of us understand.
And I do believe He is everywhere all at once. I accept this without question, without doubt. He is, and I just know in my heart that He is. And the comfort of that certain knowledge, irrespective of anything else, is also overwhelming. I appreciate your reply. All blessings to you🙏
One more thing…I use the phrase “timeline” as a reference word only, as a mark as it were to a point which occurs in God’s vast and glorious plan, as all things occur. I understand completely that there is no such construct for Him as in a 24 hour day. Early morning contemplations do not find me at my most lucid, I’m afraid.😊
Another thought process ?
~ and on the other hand ~ in the Garden, when Eve sinned and Adam followed, TIME became a curse to mankind.
Oh. I just ❤️A good discussion. Don’t you😉
So many thoughts on this. So many questions😉
Good morning ☀️ WP❤️
Good morning, Cat🤗!! I feel as if I screwed my head on straight his morning, thank goodness😊
Can I borrow your screwdriver? Need help🙃
Anytime!! 🤗👍
God is providing what we need when we need it, even though we may not know it. I really needed this reminder this morning. Thank you Whistling.
Good morning, oldschool. Dan’s and WP’s offerings this morning are so welcomed by me as well. Much needed reminders that we are definitely not alone. The phrase “all in good time” takes on a new meaning. Blessings to you.
And you as well Betsy.
Thank you so much.
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Good morning-evening to every body above 🙋♂️🙂
Here’s a little Jim Hall jazz guitar perfection. There was a time when this kind of music was the ultimate cutting edge. I used to listen to KHUL out of Houston late into the morning hours on my little transistor radio.
But then it got blow away by rock-n-roll. The “Progressive Jazz” age was eclipsed by rock but, fortunately, the intrinsic quality of this great music survived. And because it survived, we get to listen to these performances now. Enjoy Treeper, friends.
Calm and invigorating at the same time❣️
Good Morning garrison ❤️
One of my favorite recordings. What I especially like about it is how natural and complementary Ron Carter’s bass playing is alongside Jim’s guitar. Jim Hall’s tasteful yet minimalist riffs are instantly recognizable—like BB King it always seems that every not he plays is in a perfect place. Ron Carter, IMHO, one of truly great jazz bass players is simply perfect on this recording. The result is timeless performances that never seem to age.
The James Webb stellar telescope promises to allow us to see further into our interstellar past than ever before. I think Our Lord empowers us to seek His Grace. This new very powerful telescope gives us another tool to move in His divine direction. Will a mere telescope allow us to find God? Probably not. But, as the relevant scientists suggests we’ll get just that most closer to understanding our maker.
“As Tulane University cosmologist Frank Tipler has noted, “Genesis tells us that there was a beginning and that after the beginning, light was the first created thing—exactly what modern astrophysics confirms.” Arno Penzias has similarly noted, “The best data we have are exactly what I would have predicted had I nothing to go on but the first five books of Moses. . . .and the Bible as a whole.”
In our secular age, skeptics find the miracles of the Hannukah and Christmas stories hard to believe. But mounting scientific evidence for the first miracle—the creation of the universe itself—might now render these familiar stories a bit more credible. At least, it would for those with eyes to see the light.”
It won’t allow us to see God but it sure will allow us to see more of his works in a detail that we have only heretofore been able to imagine and theorize about. God put our imagination and curiosity in us and nobody will convince me that it was not intended we use it.
Oh! I have slipped the surly bonds of earth,
And danced the skies on laughter-silvered wings;
Sunward I’ve climbed, and joined the tumbling mirth
Of sun-split clouds, –and done a hundred things
You have not dreamed of –Wheeled and soared and swung
High in the sunlit silence. Hov’ring there
I’ve chased the shouting wind along, and flung
My eager craft through footless halls of air…
Up, up the long, delirious, burning blue
I’ve topped the wind-swept heights with easy grace
Where never lark or even eagle flew —
And, while with silent lifting mind I’ve trod
The high untrespassed sanctity of space,
Put out my hand, and touched the face of God.
John Gillespie Magee, Jr.
John wrote the poem when training to be a Spitfire pilot for the RCAF. He died at the age of 19 in a midair collision in 1941. This poem, High Flight, is the official poem of the Canadian Air Force.
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This moving poem has always been a favourite for me, rah. And it always always brings me to tears. I remember Reagan’s address to the Nation after the Challenger tragedy. Thank you for posting it
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and that is exactly why I miss flying
I am earthbound now
sigh
Eric Metaxas’ new book Is Atheism Dead? explores the latest science and case for God (science as profound evidence of God, and in fact the God of the Bible). About a quarter of the way through and quite readable examination of the fine tuned earth and universe – compelling! Will be interesting to see what fiurther detail Webb will provide!
(All the best Garrison! – continue to love your musical curation!)
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Looking forward to your impressions of this fine book. (Fingers crossed)
Edit – sorry, posted on wrong thread.
You might look up “Paul and Jesus: How the Apostle Transformed Christianity” by James D. Tabor which came out in 2012, Simon & Schuster publishers, and see if that fits.
The back cover blurb of the author says: “James Tabor is a meticulous historian who carefully and convincingly lays out the actual Jewish theology of earliest Christianity . . . While it has been attempted before, this book persuasively shows with utmost lucidity how the innovative Hellenistic-Jewish teachings of Paul contrasted and ultimately collided with the more traditional Jewish teachings of the Nazarene movement led by Jesus’ brother, James”
I haven’t read it, have had it on a bookshelf for years and your question was a nice reminder that it was there.
A daily contemplation during the 12 Holy Days of Christmas, Day 2, December 27, 1 John 4:16:
He that dwells in love dwells in God.
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Good morning all. I have slept over 16 hours out of the last 24 and can’t sleep any more. I must have needed it. As usual I woke up with a sweet tooth but no donuts or cheese Danish for me this morning. This morning it’s pecan pie washed down with fresh hot black coffee!
Good on ya, as I just checked in here and need a sleep!
I wrote a short summary from the beginning of our discussion but only to 1917, I just got so much to do and only have a short break , but to me it’s good to be able to have a decent conversation on history , keeps my mind of today’s happenings, I will get back to you.
Cheers.
I will make a post to Frank that I need to do , and one short one on MP that you mob might be able to help with.
And before long I will be on the road again. So we do what we can do. But there is no time limit. Have a good one mate! And I too will enjoy such a discussion. Always willing to learn. Nobody can know it all.
At my Dads I had a long discussion with my niece is that is working on her PhD in some esoteric field in Geology. She is a true believer in human caused Climate Change as one might suspect and that is what our discussion was about. I think we both learned some things.
At least you were able to have a long conversation with your niece. I’ve come across “hard” scientists who insist their models can predict 50 years into the future. They can’t. I always remind them that prediction is inversely proportional to time—the further you get from the prediction the less accurate it becomes. Predicting an event 50 years into the future (or even 12 years into the future) is magical thinking.
As has been done since the cooked up”climate change” debate started decades ago. Hysteria and political wishes masquerading as (hated word) “science”. But the timeframe you mention, 50 years, has passed, so we can all see how every single hair raising prediction has failed to materialize. Exhibit #1.
There was a time when she was younger that I could not have. She just didn’t want to hear what I said. She is maturing now and knows she doesn’t know everything. I didn’t bring it up. She did this time by saying in response to some other comment that “Florida is going to be underwater soon” and my immediate response was “no it isn’t.”
I then explained why. Thermal expansion is a only a tiny factor. The only places your going to find the water to raise sea levels that much is at Antarctica and it just had it’s coldest winter since continuous records began in 1956. Greenland is the other place where there is enough ice to markedly effect sea levels. The Surface Mass Balance of the Greenland Ice Sheet has grown the last 3 years running. IOW more ice is forming than is being lost.
And it went on from there.
Yea right! Weather models can’t even get it right two weeks out a great deal of the time, but climate models are going to be dead on 50 years out. Those of us that have really followed this for the last 20 years or more know that they started extending their prognostication for climate disaster further into the future when the climate disasters they predicted for nearer terms failed to occur and they were still alive to hear about it. Two of the most prominent of the cases in point are when James Hanson NASA predicted the West Side Highway in NYC would be underwater by now and then there was Dr. David Viner, then Sr. Research scientist of the Climate Research Unit of East Anglia University said in 2000 that “Children just aren’t going to know what snow is.”. The list goes on and on, with mutiple examples from Al Gore and that nutter at Cambridge University, Professor Peter Wadhams each have multiple instances of being dead wrong and everybody paying attention knows it. And so now they project out to a time when they will be dead and gone.
The breakfast of champions!
😂😂😂
I’m not letting such leftovers go to waste. I’m making up for it now hitting the vegetable plate.
Our motto in this house…waste not, want not.
Ms Idaho I responded to your post about the B-36 on yesterdays thread.
I’m wondering if you ever came across any true WW I aircraft replicas that had a real rotary engine in them?
Most of the WW I aircraft with “round” engines had Rotary Engines in them as opposed to the Radial Engines one finds in WW II aircraft. I LOVE round engines.
Flying a period aircraft from WW I with a Rotary engine is a whole different ball game.
Allow me to explain the difference. Though the Raidial and Rotary engines look outwardly the same, each having an odd number of cylinders radiating from a central gear box but they are actually quite different. The Radial engine is mounted to the airframe and the crank shaft turns supplying the power to the propeller. In the Radial engine if there is no transmission the propeller turns at the speed that the crankshaft is turning. In the Rotary engine the crankshaft is mounted to the airframe and the cylinders revolve around it and the propeller turns at the speed that the whole engine is turning.
Rotary engines were used during WW I because they are relatively simple and provided a superior power to weight ratio to the Radial engine. But there were several disadvantages to them also.
That mass of spinning metal caused significant gyroscopic action while at the same time causing torque that would continually cause the airplane to want to turn the direction the engine and propeller was spinning.
Other disadvantages were oil consumption. Oil and exhaust comes out of the exhaust valve ports the whole time the engine is operating. It flies back in the propeller blast and spatters the aircraft and the pilot. That is why goggles were essential for the WW I pilot. And finally, there was no controlling the power by use of a carburetor throttle, it was controlled by a spark arrestor.
Add to all that the fact that most WW I aircraft had no flaps or brakes and your talking about flying a very different machine from what we are used to seeing today.
rah
Hubby really enjoyed watching the Strategic Air Command movie yesterday. His required flight time (as Flight Surgeon, not pilot) was in several of the airplanes in the movie – in the tankers and in the ones being fueled. He admitted – being in either one was an experience to remember.
Not the B36 tho. We both sat up – looking at all those rear propellers – hey – what are those pods on the outside on the wings? Are those jets? So, I had to look up the planes shown in that movie – and the fact that James Stewart piloted and trained in many of them- remembering your comment about how many prop pilots perished ’cause they could not adapt to jets.
I must admit – mea culpa – No such luck – no exposure to rotary or round engines. Don’t think I ever even saw one – not at our airport – or at any airport we ever visited. Um – maybe flown at airshows?
Detroit City Airport was just that – an airport in the City.
Looking back on it now, my flying life then was focused, sheltered and limited.
Despite all the things I wish I had done, make no mistake – I am always grateful that God gave this present to a lost soul who probably did not deserve it. I believe I used the gift pretty well. As Rush said – it ain’t braggin if its the truth.
Ha ha – your story about gyroscope action reminds me…
Pilots of propeller airplanes in the Northern Hemisphere on rotation must apply right rudder at takeoff to compensate ..
Pilots taking off in the Southern Hemisphere also apply right rudder because the airplane ‘learned’ how to do it in the Northern Hemisphere
I know I have the exact words somewhere, but you get the idea…. now i can’t even remember for sure if its right or left rudder. Lord, I miss my brain.
What did you think about that pilot who flew at low altitude (wheels stuck out below the clouds) across the takeoff runway at the Denver Airport – following I70 to get ‘home’?
“Six turning and four burning”.
I flew in and jumped out of a couple of aircraft with radial engines. In fact my first jump as a team member on an SF team was from the ramp of a C-123 Provider, in full combat equipment, rucksack, and snow skies. No, you don’t wear the skies. They are bound together behind the tips and at the tails with the bottoms facing each other. Two blocks put in under the bindings with a space between them enhances the natural camber of the skies. The 15′ lowering line for the ruck sack is routed through that gap between the blocks. The skies run up the left side of the jumper attached by 80 lb. test cotton webbing to the shoulder harness of the chute and to the calve of the jumpers left leg. The tips are up and the body of the skies running behind the jumpers left shoulder down his side and left leg. These are tied with a quick release so the jumper can release the knot with a pull on a single strand. When the jumper is ready to prepare to land he pulls the quick release of both knots before releasing his ruck sack. Upon releasing the ruck it drops to the end of the 15′ lower line and the skies slide down that line and rest on the rucksack. That jump was made at night in sub zero weather onto a snowy Turner DZ at Ft. Devens the first week after I had been assigned to the team.
Anyway, the C-123 was developed from what was originally a glider design by Fairchild. Besides the two radial engines it has two jets that were used for extra power for takeoff. The other aircraft with radial engines I jumped was the C-7 Caribou, the civilian version of which I suspect you have seen. I jumped the C-123 and flew in it several times including one winter enroute to what was then Camp McCoy (now Ft. McCoy) Wisconsin. That time we were supposed to have a C-130 but for what ever reason the Air Force failed to produce and thus we went in a C-123 that we had so loaded the thing didn’t get above 2,000 feet all the way from Ft. Devens to our destination.
As for the pilot that pulled that stunt? I guess such things often happened back in the day, but now if you get caught your in very hot water with the FAA.
From what I’ve read the pilots that flew the Vaught F4U Corsair had to look out for the swirling prop blast from the big propeller pushing it’s big tail to the side on take off. The same Pratt & Whitney R-2800-8W 18-cylinder (two banks of 9) that powered the Corsair also powered the F6F Hell Cat and the Republic P-47 Thunderbolt fighters of WW II. No other engine from any other country, not even the Rolls Royce Merlin which powered both the Spitfire and Mustang, comes close to being the power source for more kills than that engine.
no bout adoubt it
you have an amazing life experience
fun to read
thanx
No more amazing than many others, and in fact a lot less amazing than many. I wonder how many people knew that a properly trained and prepared paratrooper can jump snow skies?
WHERE THE BATTLE’S LOST AND WON
“If thou wilt return, O Israel, saith the Lord…” Jeremiah iv. 1
The battle is lost or won in the secret places of the will before God, never first in the external world. The Spirit of God apprehends me and I am obliged to get alone with God and fight the battle out before Him. Until this is done, I lose every time. The battle may take one minute or a year, that will depend on me, not on God; but it must resolutely go through the hell of a renunciation before God. Nothing has any power over the man who has fought out the battle before God and won there.
If I say, “I will wait till I get into the circumstances and then put God to the test,” I shall find I cannot. I must get the thing settled between myself and God in the secret places of my soul where no stranger intermeddles, and then I can go forth with the certainty that the battle is won. Lose it there, and calamity and disaster and upset are as sure as God’s decree. The reason the battle is not won is because I try to win it in the external world first. Get alone with God, fight it out before Him, settle the matter there once and for all.
In dealing with other people, the line to take is to push them to an issue of will. That is the way abandonment begins. Every now and again, not often, but sometimes, God bring us to a point of climax. That is the Great Divide in the life; from that point we either go towards a more and more dilatory and useless type of Christian life, or we become more and more ablaze for the glory of God – My Utmost for HIS Highest.
Oswald Chambers
December 27th Devotional
Feels like I just got my orders from the original Patton😉
Good Morning 🌞 juststevie 🌻
Greetings Cat! May I suggest that you buy this small book by OC if you don’t already have it? My Utmost for His Highest! It is one of my most prized books and why I choose to post the daily devotions from it. 🙏 for your day!
Will do, as soon as my new credit card comes. I was hacked🙃 thanks for the recommendation Stevie😘😘
🤗 hubby shared #. Got ☝️ one. Hoping for truth in advertising/ says 1935 edition. Either way ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️😘😘😘😘😘😘😘😘😘❤️
Awesome! 🤗😁💝
To Frank,
To explain, as you and I share an unfortunately bad bond as “childhood” let’s say “experience’s” I say this : I made a post on MP that was widely received , I checked the next day for responsers, out of all your one sentence response ment the most “very smart comment” was your reply.
I did not reply here’s why :
They constantly called me stupid during, I learnt years later I was simply shy, a natural introvert , a thinker if you will, but that one short sentence as simple as it is means more to me than perhaps you realise.
How ironic I’m listening to Garrisons jazz typing this and thinking how the simplicity of life denied by the control freaks will be there downfall .
I’m not forgetting others here, I am going to make one post on MP and then I must move , yep that’s it.
Commie central I need to survail !
Back soon 😒
Eavesdropped on your conversation, Mungrel, lots of us, natural thinkers, are needed to keep this world right side up❣️ IMO we’re just shy cause we recognize the type of individual we interacting with and decide our time is better spent otherwise. The world needs each natural thinker. Without them, all is 😔
IMO, of course
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Mungrel, I’d be most interested in your take on my post on Sundance’s fauci admits…thread yesterday. I posted at 6:09 am 12/27/21. Last comment, first page. 😉
Good morning, M!! It’s hard if not impossible, I think, to do one’s best thinking when the mouth is running. Perhaps that’s just a knowledge you were born with. In any event, it has served you well. 🤗LBT
And when the mouth is running, the hearing is also pretty much non-existent, Betsy.
Truth!! As I’ve told my grands. Best to learn by listening. Best to not tell everything you know.
Howdy, son, do what you got to do. Will be checking for your next appearance here.
Cheers
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There be dragons here.
When you reach deep into stories of the past, you may find many strange concepts. Sometimes I think it is in the nature of people who want to become academics over these issues. They like nothing better than to destroy other’s faith by distorting and twisting the truth.
I am not sure about the particular book recommended, but there is a distinct effort to sever Paul from Peter and Christ. Which is actually pretty mild as far as the nuttiness goes. (There is a book that argues Jesus’ brother was the real Messiah.) Paul grumbled a lot in his letters, and Acts records some disputes, but that is a record of being in collaboration. It is fairly easy to blow that out of proportion.
And pretty much anything goes. Which letters did Paul really write? Who wrote what and for whom and when? Should you include other ancient gospels?
And there is the writer Josephus who abandoned the Jewish revolt to fawn over the general putting the revolt down. He predicted the General would be emperor and wrote lots of books to honor him. He writes to make the general look better, which of course raises the worth of the enemy the general defeated. So picking and choosing from Josephus’ many ‘boring’ writings to offset something in the New Testament is a frequent tool. Hard to avoid actually.
The writings of early church fathers are often used this way too.
I have watched a fascinating show where someone puts Paul in context by walking many of the ruins of the places Paul traveled. Shows like that do come with a bent towards a ‘faith’. Differences like that are a lot easier to swallow than many of the academic claims. Can’t find it’s name.
I am also interested in and have trod this path many times. But it is a real pain if you are not aware of what you are getting.
Yes, discernment is a huge, necessary approach.
After replying have started reading the book that’s been on the shelf for years, and so far, pretty good. This author’s preface, he goes to great lengths to show his mindset, approach, and intent for writing this book.
I’ve found reading prefaces, introductions, and the like a necessary key for discerning the realms of bias to expect in books purporting to show historical life of the early Christians. As well as now find myself hoarding historical books from other eras given the widespread rewriting of history, words, world events the woke are employing!
Muslim Choir Sings Christmas Carols in A Church.
The choir of orphans from the Shia Foundation of Imam Moussa al-Sadr came to sing Christmas carols at Saint-Elie Church in Beirut.
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https://gloria.tv/post/qm7pmX7Hk9231gzu4Z2gf19B8
I’m remembering Daniel Barenboim’s East-West youth (I believe) orchestra. I don’t know if an iteration of the original still exists. Jewish and Arab youths comprised a group under his baton whose performances were just excellent.
Mornin’ infidels!
Now that’s just sick!
Yer laughin’, though, huh?? 😀
Good evening, WeeWeed, Santa must be experiencing FJB’s economy. 🙂
Yep! But I wouldn’t send it to my youngest Granddaughter.
I don’t care who you are that’s funny! 🙂 🙂
This reminds me of a bumper sticker my daughter sent me.
“There plenty of room for all of God’s creatures – right next to the MASHED potatoes.”
Dora, thanks for bringing this in the forefront. ❤️
This is our country. Priests are arrested for praying for women entering an abortion facility. God have mercy on us.
I always think His patience must be infinite. How much longer?
Verse of the Day for Monday, December 27, 2021
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“And the shepherds returned, glorifying and praising God for all the things that they had heard and seen, as it was told unto them.”
Luke 2:20 (KJV)
BE MY VOICE
BABY LIVES MATTER
Life decisions at the SC this next year. I’m praying the Holy Spirit visits them all during the time before a ruling is made. 🙏
Amen!
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.
He can relax now.
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Word on the street…
Rushing to replace gasoline-powered cars with electric vehicles would hand the keys to the American transportation sector to China, given Beijing’s near-monopoly on rare-earth elements like neodymium and dysprosium, which are used in the high-output motors of most electric vehicles.
Watched an episode of mysteries of the abandoned recently…
Showcasing france’s attempt of a high sped rail system long ago. Destroyed by saboteurs 🤷♀️
Hmmm…wonder if it took this long for the proper fuel mixture to be perfected?
A switch such as is envisioned by people who don’t follow through with their grandiose thinking, as in “but what could go wrong”… and something always goes wrong or at least not according to plan…is not feasible within their airy dreams. It’s hurry, hurry with their self imposed timeline. These people want their ” green” cars out without paying any attention to the (hated word) infrastructure. And it really does not take an MIT grad to understand that. One Swedish man, all in on everything “green” just dynamited his Tesla when he discovered that the replacement battery he needed for it would cost him $17,000(!!!). Oh dear…
It seems to me everything else is being handed to China, and I suspect that includes many things we don’t know about yet.
Goooood morniiiing Viet!
No no.
Good morning Treepers!
Family in! I’ll check in later today.
I saw so many posts, I decided not to read yet.
Good morning, Frank! Enjoy your family!
Good evening!
Oh THERE you are!!! Were your ears burning?? I was just wondering about you above.😊 So gratified to see you. I thought you might have overdosed on your Christmas dinner!💓
All good!
good morning, Treepers
Good morning, Lonestar! Do we have another Texan here?
I think we just.might! The more the merrier.
😀
Good morning LS!
Good Morning, 🙂
Howdy, Jay! Wow!! Now that’s the way to get the red corpuscles a’goin’!!
Everyone needs to get up on their feet and shuffle around a bit to get the blood flowing. My play list is good motivation, at least for me. If you study their cover art I think they watched buck rogers in the 50’s.
Haha! That occurred to me as well. Very retro.
. . . 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 Trisagion Hymn
and the
50th Psalm (Septuagint)
The New Modified-Divisive-Free Bible: Nothing is Sacred Any Longer
National Council of Churches elected all ‘female’ officers to steer the church toward inclusiveness’ authorized bible with 20,000 acknowledged edits modifying key biblical scriptures. 😢 (Celeste Solum of Shepherd’s Heart blog)
https://shepherdsheart.life/blogs/news/the-new-modified-divisive-free-bible-nothing-is-sacred-any-longer
“all female” kind of defeats the banner “inclusiveness” 🙂
Stuff like this is just sad.
Seems like now might be a good time to bring back those warnings that were found at the end of some of the Letters in the New Testament which were basically curses if anyone dared to change any of the wording used in their missives.
I’m sure Heaven is listening and taking notes!
Wanted to thank all the treepers for some wonderful recipes I used this Christmas.
Roadside potatoes
scalloped potatoes with Gruyère
broccoli salad
Thank you
Timeline coming up ~
The 3G shutdown impacts more than just your phone.
https://www.komando.com/technology/3g-shutdown-impact/820582/?utm_medium=nl&utm_source=notd&utm_content=2021-12-27
I wonder if the leftist lands of Washington and Oregon and San Fran and other northern CA cities have made adequate provisions for the significant number of homeless?
Tens of thousands without power as massive storm hits Western U.S. (msn.com)
here in Eastern Idaho we got snow yesterday – some more today.
just enough to make everything white
some road closures – some white outs yesterday with lots of wind
we deferred our Sunday shopping – went today instead
people EVERYWHERE.
entering WalMart empty handed – so not returning gifts
looking for bargains for sure
but the lady at the food store was as baffled as we –
she noted it is not the day before a holiday
no power out to speak of
My daughter down at Daytona is wondering why the city is flooded with people for the coming New Year. LOL! I really don’t know about that girl sometimes. It’s called FREEDOM!
I see that NYC will only allow 15,000 into Times Square for New Years and only those that can prove they have the proper “vaccine” status. I think that NYC should change that ball or whatever the heck they drop these days to a lighted COVID molecule with swastikas on it.
Best suggestion I’ve seen in awhile. Certainly would be appropriate.
I think you’re onto something here. Make the ball red with a white circle and a black swastika in the middle.
How on earth do they think they’ll be able to count them? I do despair.
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. And Lord please help political prisoners everywhere. Especially Jan6 protesters trapped in DC jails.
Amen.
Oh yeah, they’re going to get it. Puppet Two declares borders are sovereign…..overseas https://112.international/politics/russia-faces-unprecedented-sanctions-in-case-of-further-invasion-of-ukraine-us-vice-president-68117.html
The supply chains of Hunter Biden&Co must be protected at all costs… cocaine is rather costly
Know two older couples, one is a Russian immigrant married to a US citizen; the other Ukrainian immigrant who want to go back to see their childhood homes. It isnt polite to say how anxious I am for them, and for all of us. Be our shield oh God, deliver us from the warmongers
✝️ Lord, thank You for the day. Amen.
Happy Tuesday.
I’m just up for a glass of water and to let Geisha do her thing outside. Now it’s back to bed.
One thing though. I read Sundance’s guidance to posters and realized that I have been in violation in some ways. I’ll try to do better in the future.
Good night, or should I say Good morning?
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