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January 17, 2020 Eternity Matters	Leave a comment
Great prayer reminders: 1. Be specific in your asking. 2. You must pray in faith. 3. Fight distractions that keep you from prayer. 4. Focus on abiding in Christ for more fruit in prayer. 5. Pray the promises of God. 6. Don't give up in prayer—keep praying. 7. If you struggle getting started in prayer, read the Bible first and respond to what God says. 8. Regularly confess your sins. 9. Don't worry about praying eloquent prayers. 10. When we don't feel like praying, pray for help. 11. Pray humbly. 12. Dedicate yourself to prayer for a deeper spiritual life and more useful ministry. 13. Pray without ceasing. 14. Pray big prayers. 15. Cultivate a grateful heart. http://www.kevinhalloran.net/spurgeons-15-tips-for-a-deep-and-effective-prayer-life/ (Spurgeon's 15 Tips for a Deep and Effective Prayer Life)
Advertising Makes Us Unhappy — I love capitalism, but the title is true. I used to do an exercise with Junior Achievement students to demonstrate how advertising slogans had completely permeated their brains. They thought they were clever in remembering them, until I explained why they knew them. Yes, every ad is designed to tell you one thing: You should not be content because you don't have _______.
The solutions are to avoid advertising as much as possible (TV is the worst!) and to consciously analyze the ads you do see for the lies they are selling ("Drinking lots of this beer will make sexy women want me, and it definitely won't make me fat and unproductive and lead to lots of bad decisions!").
The Sin of Prioritizing Purity above Marriage – "Christian" woman allegedly wounded by purity culture has lots of sex outside marriage and now teaches others to "break free" — and Gloria Steinem agrees with her approach. Uh, sure. She should have married younger instead of making a lifetime commitment to mock God's plan.
Money for Flint Water Crisis Was Diverted – The Leftist government caused the problem, blamed the Right, then squandered the money that wasn't even needed.
British Police Failed to Stop Muslim Grooming Gang Due to Fears Over "Community Tensions" — Political correctness is perverse and deadly.
Pro-abort feminist Renee Bracey Sherman says she's taught her 5-year-old niece 'that kids are a handful' and 'her life is made possible because of abortion' — The Molech-worshiping Left loves abortion.
Trump? It's Time to Prosecute Obama
Quick Thought: The Bible Doesn't Promote Consent? — Excellent points!
REPORT: The FBI, ICE and Dept. of Education are investigating Ilhan Omar — Finally!
Max Lucado's Endorsement of Jen Hatmaker: What it Means and Why it Matters — Hatmaker is a wolf. Lucado is an naive, ignorant fool and/or a wolf. Look who Hatmaker endorses and hangs with:
Sarah Bessey, Rachel Held Evans, Pete Enns, Nadia Bolz-Weber, Richard Rohr, Jeff Chu, Mike McHargue ("Science Mike"), Barbara Brown Taylor, Austin Channing Brown, Lisa Sharon Harper, Rachel Hollis, and Glennon Doyle
What a bunch of wolves! The blogger makes a great point about not being afraid to be "divisive."
But we would do good to remember that the Bible places the blame for divisions on the ones bringing in the false doctrine, not on those who call it out. Paul writes in Romans 16:17: "I appeal to you, brothers, to watch out for those who cause divisions and create obstacles contrary to the doctrine that you have been taught; avoid them." Notice that it was the false teachers who Paul criticizes for being divisive, not the believers.
Best of the Bee
Love it! I make it a point not to try and make money off of friends.
Molech-worshiping ghoul update
And the Left — including the "Christian" Left — cheered her for it.
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At first I thought they were making a dig at dancing, as if it tastes bad. But they meant it is super-healthy. I agree, but I'd pick a better illustration than kale!
It's worth noting that the mental and physical benefits of dancing aren't just for the young at heart. "Dancing increases cognitive acuity at all ages. It integrates several brain functions at once — kinesthetic, rational, musical and emotional — further increasing your neural connectivity," said Richard Powers, a social and historic dance instructor at Stanford University.
'Bernie the Red': Project Veritas shares terrifying video of Bernie Sanders field organizer promoting Gulags, re-education, violence, and more (watch) — I rarely say, "must watch," but this is a must watch. This is Leftism.
And if these people think that is the only person Project Veritas has saying these things then they don't know Project Veritas. And this Bernie Bro thinks that MSNBC isn't Leftist enough! Are you surprised that they want to take away the 2nd Amendment?!
"If Bernie doesn't get the nomination or it goes to a second round at the DNC Convention, f*cking Milwaukee will burn. It'll start in Milwaukee and when police push back on that, then other cities will just f*cking (hand explosion)."
"The cops are gonna be the ones that are getting f*cking beaten in Milwaukee. They're gonna call up the National Guard for that sh*t. I promise you that."
"I'm ready to throw down now. I don't want to wait and have to wait for f*cking DNC…The billionaire class. The f*cking media, pundits. Walk into that MSNBC studios, drag those motherf*ckers out by their hair and light them on fire in the streets."
"Well, I'll tell you what in Cuba, what did they do to reactionaries? You want to fight against the revolution, you're going to die for it, motherf*cker."
BREAKING: @BernieSanders "free education" policies to "teach you how to not be a f**king nazi."; 'There is a reason Stalin had Gulags'; 'Expect violent reaction' for speech. If Bernie doesn't get nomination "Milwaukee will burn"
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— James O'Keefe (@JamesOKeefeIII) January 14, 2020
10 Indisputable Rules To Guide Your Recovery From Porn — This could help some people. I especially like #5, as a pet peeve of mine for any 12 step programs is their generic "higher power."
5. If your higher power is not Jesus Christ, you need a higher higher power.
I attend two SA meetings per week. We use the term "higher power" a lot. But if your higher power is your group, your program, or anything less than Jesus Christ, you need a major upgrade in your higher power. Only Jesus could say, "All authority in heaven and on earth has been give to me" (Matthew 28:18).
This is me whenever I watch sports ("I regret emotional investment"), which is why I very rarely do it.
So, About Those White, Heterosexual, Patriarchal Values… Once again, Leftists hate blacks. There is a formulas for successful living, but instead of teaching it they mock it as the problem, not the solution. They don't want to help blacks, they want to profit off their misery and mine their votes. Here's the advice that triggered them:
"Get married before you have children and strive to stay married for their sake. Get the education you need for gainful employment, work hard, and avoid idleness. Go the extra mile for your employer or client. Be a patriot, ready to serve the country. Be neighborly, civic-minded, and charitable. Avoid coarse language in public. Be respectful of authority. Eschew substance abuse and crime."
And the predictable Leftist response:
A coalition of students and alumni responded to the essay in predictable fashion. Wax and Alexander were peddling the "malignant logic of hetero-patriarchal, class-based, white supremacy that plagues our country today. These cultural values and logics are steeped in anti-blackness and white hetero-patriarchal respectability . . ."
New Green Deal, anyone?
Australia to Kill 10,000 Camels for Causing Global Warming — Leftism is just a creepy death cult – always looking for something else to destroy.
Culling the camels may be a good idea for other reasons, but killing them by the thousands for causing global warming is alarming in the extreme. When killing camels fails to make the climate stop fluctuating for the first time in world history, what or who will the true believers want to sacrifice next?
The Babylon Bee: An Interview with Kyle Mann — Great interview! Glad they are doing so well.
The Babylon Bee resonates with an enormous and enormously underserved audience: conservative Christians and their allies. This much-beleaguered readership is so often the object of sardonic ridicule that it has almost forgotten what it feels like to be in on the joke. In the Bee, traditionalists (and anyone who doesn't want to see traditionalists chased out of the public square) have finally found a brand of smart, trendy irony that speaks to their concerns. It's a feeling, as Mann himself puts it, of "hey, this is humorous and doesn't hate me!"
Which is also why, when Snopes and CNN have tried to defame the Bee, fans of free speech everywhere have rallied to the site's defense. "Snopes was kind of that annoying guy at a party, who's like 'actually that joke isn't true!'" says Mann. Accusations of deceit look ludicrous when levied against headlines like "CNN Purchases Industrial-Sized Washing Machine to Spin News Before Publication." And charges of intolerance or "punching down" have largely fizzled as the Bee (which in fact takes shots at everyone, in the tradition of the best satirists) has stood strong against SJW criticism.
Trump Expands Travel Ban To Include British Royalty | The Babylon Bee
Reminder: You No Longer Need A Color TV To Watch The Democratic Debates | The Babylon Bee — By their own definition, they are racists.
Progressives Call On African Americans To Quit Their Jobs To Avoid Being Used As A Trump Statistic | The Babylon Bee
We're gonna need a lot of millstones to clean this up . . .
Netflix Shows Features Child Corrupted by Drag — I say without exaggeration that anyone involved with this should be in jail. So glad I canceled Netflix!
On Friday, January 10, Netflix premiered a new show co-created by drag queen RuPaul, titled AJ and the Queen [… which is] about a 10-year-old child who accompanies Robert (RuPaul), a gay male drag performer who goes by "Ruby Red," as he travels across the country performing in drag shows at mostly gay bars. …
The child, AJ (Izzy G.), is the daughter of a drug-addicted prostitute. She wants to be a boy "because people leave boys alone." She hides her long hair under a boyish hat and does her best to look and act like a 10-year-old boy instead of a girl. The show is one long exposure of this child to sexualized adult situations in which she does not belong, all under the guise of the drag queen and the child "bonding" cross-country.
January 13, 2020 Eternity Matters	2 Comments
Rep. Rashida Tlaib tells Sanders supporters how adorable it is when her 13-year-old 'policy adviser' says the world might end in 10 years — The video was nauseating to watch. These ghouls think it is good to scare their children with this fake climate change agenda. She actually thinks it is funny. And the "we should listen to the children" bit is ridiculous. No, we shouldn't. Great line from an episode of The Simpsons: "You kids don't know what you want! That's why you're still kids 'cause you're stupid!"
'How DARE you'! Facebook glitch proves Time's '2019 Person of the Year' Greta Thunberg is not EXACTLY what she seems — Of course we all knew that she was just being used to read the scripts of her parents and other radical Leftists. In a normal world this evidence would result in her losing a lot of fans. But that won't happen.
Hungary Takes On the Feminist Goliath—and Wins — Good for them!
Enter Hungary. In an effort to restore curricular and administrative sanity to university education, Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban and his Fidesz Party have passed legislation to abolish Gender Studies as an area of official study. Hungary's Deputy Prime Minister Zsolt Semjen has stated that such programs "ha[ve] no business in universities" as they represent "an ideology, not a science," with a market profile "close to zero." Similarly, Orban's Chief of staff Gergely Gulyas said, "The Hungarian government is of the clear view that people are born either men or women. They lead their lives the way they think best [and] the Hungarian state does not wish to spend public funds on education in this area."
Toronto Imam Defends Death for Apostasy – Religion of peace or something.
Misguided Youth Protesters Have It Wrong — the World Is Actually Getting Better and Better – Now here's a statistic to celebrate – an all-time low of people in poverty! And it sure wasn't due to Communism. So why are the Leftists so miserable?
in 1958, 60 percent of the world's population was living in poverty, yet in the second decade of the 21st century, this number fell below 10 percent for the first time.
372,000 Anchor Babies Dropped in USA Last Year — Brought to you by the Left — including the "Christian" Left.
Ohio Town Tries Left Coast Homeless Approach, Gets Same Result — Wow, you gave incentives for the homeless and got more homeless? What a shock. If only Leftists didn't fail at basic economics.
There is everything from soup kitchens and shelters that allow you to be high and drunk to rehab facilities to sober up.
And that's the problem. You can come to Middletown to stay drunk and high and get three hots and a cot without having to do much.
Now the homeless are swamping the town. Residents who call Middletown home are shocked that "about 75%" of the homeless are from someplace else, according to the former police chief.
Tucker Carlson Debunks Claim There is an "Epidemic" of Transgenders Being Murdered — Just one of the many lies the Left peddles to advanced their perverted agenda.
Tucker Carlson debunked the so-called transgender "murder epidemic" on his show last night, highlighting figures which prove transgenders are actually safer than the general population.
Carlson began the segment by playing a clip of presidential candidate Elizabeth Warren vowing to "read the names of transgender women, of people of color, who have been killed in the past year."
Hey Elizabeth, now read the names of the children killed by abortion in the last year.
New Feminist Tickle Me Elmo Just Says, 'That Was Not Consensual' | The Babylon Bee
New Prius Includes Built-In Virtue Signals | The Babylon Bee
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NBC News looks beyond the physical to examine all the pains felt by men having their periods — And they think you should trust them for news!
Student Demonized For Protesting Against 'Drag Queen Storytime' Commits Suicide — Very sad. Of course Leftists were quickly online celebrating his death.
Ordered by Court to Call His Daughter "Him" — Sick.
Are you ready for the Hillary Clinton docuseries on Hulu? It needed to be at least 4 hours to cover these things. She would have been laughed out of society many years ago if not for the Leftist media who covers for her and the Molech-worshipers who support her regardless of what she does.
Podesta's Emails
Having a sexual predator as a husband and covering for him at every turn, including destroying his victims
Huma Abedin's sexual predator husband Anthony Weiner
The Clinton Foundation ripped off Haiti
Subpoena violations
Congressional testimony lies
The corrupt Clinton Foundation
The Benghazi fiasco
Pay for play with Uranium One while Secretary of State
Being recorded laughing when she got a child rapist off when as an attorney
Travel Gate scandal
Whitewater scandal
Cattle Gate scandal
Trooper-Gate scandal
The $15 million for Chelsea's apartment bought with Clinton Foundation money
Her husband's interference with Loretta Lynch & the investigation
Happily accepting the stolen debate questions given to her by CNN
Her own secret server in her house and her disdain for classified information
Deleting 30,000 emails after she was told not to
Having my cell phones and computers destroyed with hammers and Bleach-bit
The Seth Rich murder
The Vince Foster murder
The Gennifer Flowers assault & settlement
The $800,000 Paula Jones settlement
Calling half the United States deplorable
Her underhanded treatment of Bernie Sanders
Bill's impeachment
The lie she told about being under sniper fire in Bosnia
The $10 million she received for the pardon of Marc Rich
The $6 BILLION lost while she was in charge of the State Dept.
January 9, 2020 Eternity Matters	4 Comments
After Falsely Accusing 12 Men of Rape, She Was Allowed to Just Go Home —
We need more Bible here. God says the false witness should receive the punishment that they would have gotten. That would reduce these life-destroying false accusations. Deuteronomy 19:18–21 The judges shall inquire diligently, and if the witness is a false witness and has accused his brother falsely, then you shall do to him as he had meant to do to his brother. So you shall purge the evil from your midst. And the rest shall hear and fear, and shall never again commit any such evil among you. Your eye shall not pity. It shall be life for life, eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, foot for foot.
The consequences of being falsely accused of rape can be enormous. Jobs can be lost, relationships can end and the stress can drive a sane man to therapy — and of course, it's considerably worse if you get convicted. In this case, some of these guys spent 10 days in JAIL for something that they didn't do and you know when they're on their death beds one day, being falsely accused of rape is going to be on their list of worst memories.
Making that kind of false accusation is a serious crime with major consequences.Yet, she's getting a free pass for it because she's young and female. Despite the fact that she lied, they're still refusing to even release her name. Inevitably, these kinds of rulings incentivize false rape accusations, which are much more frequent than most people realize. When women can lie about being raped, put men through Hell and get a free pass for it, the message is that making a false accusation is no big deal. That needs to change.
New York to Further Facilitate Illegal Alien Voting — Of course, because people who break into your country are by definition completely honorable, right? And especially so when voting for more benefits for themselves . . .
This is treason.
Currently in New York, American citizens only need a driver's license to register to vote, and although applicants are required to swear that they are eligible to vote, state election officials have previously admitted that "it's basically an honor system."
Glacier Park in Montana Set to Remove 'Glaciers Will All Be Gone By 2020' Signs — I would pay to have those left up permanently.
Australian Bushfires: Muslim Angle — But but but it is global climate change or something!
"'Unleash Hell': New Al Qaeda magazine describes in detail how to start huge forest fires across the U.S..with instructions on how to make 'ember bombs.'" — Daily Mail, May 3, 2012
ISIS-linked media: California fires are retribution for Syria," Preston Business Review, November 15, 2018
"President and the pimp": Sun launches US edition with Clinton photos on Epstein's "Lolita Express" — What a creepy crook he is. And his cartoonishly evil wife almost became leader of the free world.
Did the Media Force a False Narrative on the Trayvon Martin Case? – Fascinating information on this case, namely the false witness. The media only missed that because they had already picked sides.
A Judge Rules That Women Must Register for the Draft — I oppose women in the military, but feminists shouldn't get to have their cake and eat it, too. They demand reduced standards so they can be "equal" (as if they understood what that word meant!)? OK, then they all have to register.
Sacre blecch: France discovers award-winning author is pedophile by, er, reading his books — Another Leftist pervert hiding in plain sight, and the Left gave him a pass. Roman Polanski could not be reached for comment.
'Wonder how CNN will cover this': CNN has reportedly agreed to settle lawsuit with Covington Catholic student and smear campaign victim Nick Sandmann – CNN does a lot of evil things, but deliberately trying to destroy that kid was over the top.
Pete Buttigieg, Pomerian Prince — I don't care enough about this guy to even learn to pronounce his name. This background on his military "service" isn't surprising, nor is the media's desire to ignore over it.
He entered the military through a little-used shortcut: direct commission in the reserves. The usual route to an officer's commission includes four years at Annapolis or another military academy or months of intense training at Officer Candidate School. … Buttigieg skipped all that—no obstacle courses, no weapons training, no evaluation of his ability or willingness to lead. Paperwork, a health exam and a background check were all it took to make him a naval officer. …Combat veterans have grumbled for decades about the direct-commission route. The politically connected and other luminaries who receive immediate commissions are disparaged as "pomeranian princes." …
Buttigieg was assigned to a comfortable corner of military life, the Naval Station in Great Lakes, Ill.
Democrats Grasping At Straws To Impeach Trump Now Regret Banning Straws | The Babylon Bee
Christians Glad They Voted For Republicans So Planned Parenthood Abortions, Funding Could Hit All-Time High | The Babylon Bee — Ouch. They are right. Yes, Trump & Co. are less evil than the Democrats and destroying the country at a slightly slower rate, but we are still funding Molech here.
Man Driving Alone In Carpool Lane Informs Officer His Preferred Pronoun Is 'They' | The Babylon Bee
More states move to stop boys from competing as girls in sports — Finally some sanity.
JUSTICE: Sharyl Attkisson implicates Rod Rosenstein 'and colleagues' in lawsuit regarding Obama admin spying on her computers — Obama's administration spied on a journalist, but the Left – including the media!! — doesn't care. Oh, and he had a scandal-free administration or something.
NY man accused of burglary spree released with no bail. Guess what happened next — More insanity from the Left. They fail at basic economics, so they don't realize that taking away consequences drives more bad behavior.
I just know some of you will faint from shock when you learn that, upon his release, Conway headed out and committed his fifth alleged burglary in four days, breaking into a Bagel Boss in Carle Place and stealing the cash registers. The total amount of damage to five different businesses added up fast, costing far more than the small amount of money the thief managed to abscond with.
But under this insane new law, there was nothing the police or the courts could do. Every time he was captured and charged, he had to be set loose on the community once again. It's not as if the cops don't have more than enough to keep them busy in New York these days. They need to be out monitoring the weekly F*** the Police marches in Brooklyn. That's when they're not busy having people sucker punch them at intersections or douse them with buckets of water while they try to arrest someone. (Perps were released immediately without bail in both cases.)
Do you know what happens when you tell criminals that you're not going to take their crimes seriously or "abuse them" with incarceration? They commit more crimes. The fact that the powers that be in New York couldn't figure this out in advance is mind-boggling. Of course the property crime rates are going to go up. It was inevitable. And it's the law-abiding citizens of the city and the business owners who pay the price for it.
Trump Slams Democrats, Media For Describing Terrorist Soleimani As "Wonderful Human Being" — Good for him. The reaction by Leftist media and politicians has been predictable yet sickening. A simple contrast to their reactions to Bin Laden's death shows their hypocrisy and hatred of our country.
Shopping in California — California has basically legalized shoplifting. People were on video just grabbing clothes and leaving the store. I saw the same thing in person in Houston: A guy just grabbed a case of beer and walked out a CVS and got in his car. The employees didn't even bother to call the police.
Australia Police Begin Massive Criminal Investigation into Bushfires — But but but Bernie Sanders said it was climate change and that I have to give up my car and electricity!
"About 85 per cent are related to human activity, 13 per cent confirmed arson and 37 per cent suspected arson," he said. "The remainder are usually due to reckless fire lighting or even just children playing with fire."
Ricky Gervais Drops 'Epstein Didn't Kill Himself' Joke at Golden Globes — Sweet. Gervais deserves a Nobel Prize for nailing these phonies, especially the part in bold. He later nailed them again for deliberately staying silent on Weinstein. Enjoy it all.
"Spoiler alert, season 2 is on the way, so in the end he obviously didn't kill himself – just like Jeffrey Epstein," said Gervais, before adding, "Shut up, I know he's your friend but I don't care, you had to make your own way here in your own plane didn't you?"
In another quip, Gervais slammed actors for calling themselves "woke" while taking money from Apple, Amazon and Disney, who use slave labor." If ISIS started a streaming service, you'd call your agent," joked Gervais." If you do win an award tonight, don't use it as a platform to make a political speech. You're in no position to lecture the public about anything. You know nothing about the real world. Most of you spent less time in school than Greta Thunberg. So if you win, come up, accept your little award, thank your agent and your God and $&!# off," he added.
Will Gervais be invited back again after this? Unlikely.
Guest Post: Open Letter to Julie Roys — Great letter about abuses in the mega-church model and the impact on smaller churches. Hybels and MacDonald were incredibly corrupt yet got away with it for decades.
(A)nyone who tried to pastor a church in the Chicago area in the past 30 years felt the influence of Willow Creek and Harvest like the manager of a Mom-and-Pop store feels the influence of Walmart and Amazon. Two near-orbiting energy-draining black holes.
Stop Climate Change Alarmism — It is a dangerous power grab by evil Leftist politicians and their ignorant followers.
"Fossil fuel energy has not taken a naturally safe climate and made it unnaturally dangerous; it's taken our naturally dangerous climate and made it unnaturally safe."
"By opposing every affordable, abundant, reliable form of energy, the Green New Deal won't protect us from an existential threat; it is an existential threat."
Best of the Bee – they are having a great week!
California Robber Agrees To Come Back In 10 Days When Victim's Gun Purchase Has Gone Through | The Babylon Bee — Great point here. I knew someone who got a death threat because a child molester rightly inferred that she had turned him in. He would stand out in the street to menace her. And the Leftists wanted her to have to wait to buy a gun, f they let her have one at all!
United Methodist Church To Split Over Whether Or Not To Be Christians | The Babylon Bee
CNN Attacks Babylon Bee: 'The Internet Is Only Big Enough For One Fake News Site' | The Babylon Bee
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January 3, 2020 Eternity Matters	1 Comment
A simple but profound reminder to Christians (that I heard from our pastor): Jesus loves you and He knows what He is doing.
Great reminders from Randy Alcorn (I think he wrote them).
1. There are only two eternal destinations—Heaven or Hell—and I and every person I know will go to one or the other.
2. This world (as it is now) is not my home and everything in it will burn, leaving behind only what's eternal.
3. My choices and actions in this life have a direct influence on the world and the life to come.
4. My life is being examined by God, the Audience of One, and the only appraisal of my life that will ultimately matter is His.
5. God is sovereign, and I can trust that He is working all things—including the most difficult things—in my life together for good.
6. My ultimate home will be the New Earth, where I will see and enjoy God and serve Him as a resurrected being in a resurrected human society.
Q. Why do Leftists complain about jobs outsourced to other countries but want open borders so people can come here to take the jobs?
A. Votes.
I'm not doing a read-the-Bible-in-a-year plan, just another plan where I go at my own pace — usually a chapter in the morning and a chapter in the evening, plus reading the extensive study notes from The Bible Knowledge Commentary. That will take a little over 1.5 years.
I love book-ending the day with Bible reading. I also cycle through memory verses on the Bible Memory app, which takes some time (if I wait too long between cycles I start to forget things!).
The plan I'm using is under Logos and called the "52 week plan." It cycles between genres each day – e.g., currently going through a few chapters of Genesis one day, then Joshua the next, then Psalms, Job, Isaiah, Matthew and Romans. I love the variety. I finished a chronological plan a month ago, and I really like that approach.
If you don't have a plan, get one! It doesn't have to be a read-in-a-year thing. Those are great, and I've done them, but I can start to get too check-box oriented and miss things.
Feminist mothers heartbroken and panicked as teen daughters demand to transition to male — Kudos to the Wall Street Journal for publishing the piece quoted at the link. I encourage you to read it all. One would hope that these Leftists would reconsider their overall views after being mugged by reality like this, but they generally seem to just go drink more salt water. Hat tip: Danny
Nearly every force in society is aligned against these parents: Churches scramble to rewrite their liturgies for greater "inclusiveness." Therapists and psychiatrists undermine parental authority with immediate affirmation of teens' self-diagnoses. Campus counselors happily refer students to clinics that dispense hormones on the first visit. Laws against "conversion therapy," which purports to cure homosexuality, are on the books in 14 states and the District of Columbia. These statutes also prohibit "efforts to change a patient's . . . gender identity," in the words of the New Jersey law—effectively threatening counselors who might otherwise dissuade teens from proceeding with hormone treatment or surgery.
Reddit, Tumblr, Instagram and YouTube host an endless supply of mentors, who cheerfully document their own physical transitions, omitting mention of dangerous side effects and offering tips on how to pass as a man and how to break away from unsupportive parents. For anxious teens who tend toward obsession, these videos can be mesmerizing. Though the stars are typically pictured alone in a bedroom, they project exuberance and social élan. As one female-to-male YouTube guru who goes by "Alex Bertie" puts it: "Taking testosterone is the best decision I've ever made. I'm so happy within myself. It did not solve all of my problems, but it's given me the strength to make the most out of life and to battle my other demons like my social issues."
Brie Jontry, a spokeswoman for Fourth Wave Now, an international support network for these families, is one of the two mothers who spoke on the record. She tells me ROGD teens often come from politically progressive families. Many of the mothers I spoke with say they enthusiastically supported same-sex marriage long before it was legal anywhere. Some of them describe welcoming the news when their daughters came out as lesbians. But when their daughters suddenly decided that they were actually men and started clamoring for hormones and surgery, the mothers begged them to reconsider, or at least slow down.
United Methodism Moves toward Separation — They've needed to separate the sheep and the goats for a long time. Wasting so much time fighting the pro-abort, pro-perversion, pro-coveting, anti-Gospel, anti-Bible Leftists has distracted people from the Great Commission.
Top Charismatic Leaders Disqualify Todd Bentley From Ministry for "Steady Pattern of Ungodly and Immoral Behavior" — Even a bunch of false teaching prosperity pimps can see that Bentley is awful – but they still left an opening for him to return to some sort of ministry!
Gun Control And Why Conservatives Will Lose, And Why They Always Lose — Great points about using words like "self protection." We should all get in the habit of that.
Avoid the Hot Food Bar in Cities Run by Moonbats — Brought to you by the Left — including the "Christian" Left.
A drooling and pungent homeless man made double-dipping look like child's play at a Midtown Whole Foods, grabbing from the hot food bar with his bare hands to stuff his bearded face — as employees just chuckled and said they were powerless to stop him.
A Post photo editor had just plunked down $17 for a jerk chicken dinner at the store across from Bryant Park on Sunday night when he spotted the grungy gourmand ignoring numerous "No Sampling" signs to treat the bar like his personal feed bag.
League of Legends' First Woman Pro-Gamer Was a Guy — Because of course he was. Remember that Leftists are some combination of ignorance, cowardice or malice — ignorance if they are stupid enough to believe you can change genders, cowardice if they know the truth and give in to peer pressure to pretend otherwise, and malice for pushing this on normal people and children.
Like literally all transsexuals, he had mental issues, which he described as "most notably anxiety and self-esteem issues." He underwent a botched sex change operation that left him in extreme pain from nerve damage.
Armed churchgoer takes out shooter during deadly attack in Fort Worth, Texas — This was memory-holed by the media by the time I was able to paste the link. Nothing to see here, folks, just lives being saved by people wisely arming themselves in self-defense.
Trump policies, racism may cause some black women's weight problems, professor says — I'm guessing that the obese woman and all those cheering her on weren't skinny right up until Jan. 2017 . . . perhaps if they showed some authentic before and after photos they'd be more believable. I'll concede that there may be fewer quality grocery stores and such in neighborhoods like Ferguson, Missouri. Any guesses as to why businesses wouldn't want to invest there?
December 29, 2019 Eternity Matters	1 Comment
Was Jesus a Refugee? No, but that won't stop the "Christian" Left from using that lie to support open borders and to destroy this country.
But recognize that the family never left the Roman Empire. They left Bethlehem and fled to Egypt, to the Jewish settlement at Alexandria. This means they were even staying with their own people in a thriving community, and likely used the gifts the magi gave Jesus to pay for their stay. When Herod died a short time later, they returned to Joseph's hometown of Nazareth.
The politicians who say "Jesus was a refugee" are often quite liberal. They advocate for the murder of the unborn and the redefinition of marriage. This means they're not of the court of King Jesus, but with the court of King Herod, who killed children and hated God's definition of marriage. They'd have done Herod a favor and killed Jesus before He was born.
Jesus did not come to us as a refugee. He was born King of kings, before whom every knee will bow and every tongue confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, when we understand the text.
Bernie Sanders is who the Left – including the Leftist media – wants to have control over you. This is a must-watch, especially to be able to call out how he has changed his tune on some Communist countries and his pretending that he understands how some European countries work today. He is a terrible person who has accomplished nothing in life. He covets 24×7 and his followers do the same.
We've canceled Netflix forever. They had enough issues already, but their "gay Jesus" thing was the last straw. #cancelnetflix
I'm Not A Christian Anymore: An Analysis | Bible Thumping Wingnut Network — Excellent analysis. He rightly focuses on 1 John 2:19, which these "ex-Christians" never bothered to learn – even when they were long-time pastors.
1 John 2:19 They went out from us, but they were not of us; for if they had been of us, they would have continued with us. But they went out, that it might become plain that they all are not of us.
"Deconversion" testimonies are ubiquitous across social media. They generally follow a set pattern and share many of the same themes and tropes. Person X abandons the faith because X reason(s) like haunting doubts regarding some problem with God, or he/she couldn't find an answer for some nagging Bible question, or an overwhelming, calamitous event happens in his/her life, or a falling out with hypocritical leadership/members. Honestly, though, many times the main reason comes down to the person choosing sinful behavior. Generally it involves cheating on a spouse or the pursuit of what is believed to be some other sexually liberating deviancy.
The ex-pastor being analyzed lamented that he was disappointed in his marriage (uh, so Christianity is false then?!). The author's take on that:
What exactly was he promised that his marriage would be? He doesn't really elaborate. But, that tweet reveals the heart of the matter. According to at least one member of his church, Mr. Gass was involved in a hidden affair for nearly a year, was caught, and he now continues to live in unrepentant adultery with a woman not his wife.
Apparently he had other significant issues as well. Anyone surprised? Much more at the link.
A grim example of a woman killed by feminism and the sexual revolution
Feminism kills women. It kills young and vulnerable women. It kills their hopes. It kills their dreams. It kills their future. All young women are vulnerable and that is what feminism exploits. It is a racket run by women to destroy women, the reason being that women are their own worst enemy. It seduces them with promises of power, independence, and sexual freedom, and then it grinds them down into nothingness as they waste their fertile years chasing after these imaginary shadows.
Hold up Kate Fischer as a grim warning to your sisters and daughters. A woman needs feminism like a moth needs a flame.
The situation in Virginia is awful, but it does show you what the Left will do when they take over completely. They are already saying they'll send in the National Guard to enforce their unconstitutional gun laws.
Michael Moore: "White People Are Not Good People…You Should Be Afraid of White People" — OK, racist. Yeah, if you didn't vote for Hillary Clinton – the most cartoonishly corrupt and evil politician in memory — you are evil or something. If you oppose open borders, abortion to the child's first breath, sexual perversions, etc., you are bad. Gotcha.
Meanwhile blacks are literally killed at a rate three times that of whites via abortion because of Molech-worshiping Leftists like Moore. Seems kinda racist to me.
The Media Keeps Lying About Harvey Milk's Military Record — He wasn't dishonorably discharged. His biographers know the truth, but the lazy and dishonest media repeats Milk's lie to advance the narrative.
San Francisco Dogs Begin Bagging People Poop
Debbie Hayton, Transphobic Transsexual
Debbie Hayton, a physics teacher in the Midlands, lives as a transgender women [sic] after changing her [sic] gender from male to female in 2012. But unlike many people in the trans-community, she [sic] does not believe her [sic] sex can be changed and is vocal about the fact that she [sic] will always biologically remain a man.
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