tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22462954309764330702024-03-13T10:58:16.107-06:00Asleep No MorePer Fidem Intrepidus Doug Evanshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05318930961031654937noreply@blogger.comBlogger1120125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2246295430976433070.post-24379895709354557622022-01-15T08:36:00.001-07:002022-01-15T08:36:43.130-07:00The Gospel is Under Attack... Again<p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjjbEVa8Nn3TCkTHPeFlCVxAGevoOTrm3KqbASWCYQ_Rj98G79XBT_sE6Cu8pTQjDv9vdeQQgZbMVPV0pz7KSDdgmWBChVsUiff_2JnnppO5nbRHyuxqahShYGceuC8bnRm0Mu1yr0GMHlHAagHstQmtDMiKKhof9UTgiC35Hs43_lG_wXWkSFAG6UG9Q=s876" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="493" data-original-width="876" height="180" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjjbEVa8Nn3TCkTHPeFlCVxAGevoOTrm3KqbASWCYQ_Rj98G79XBT_sE6Cu8pTQjDv9vdeQQgZbMVPV0pz7KSDdgmWBChVsUiff_2JnnppO5nbRHyuxqahShYGceuC8bnRm0Mu1yr0GMHlHAagHstQmtDMiKKhof9UTgiC35Hs43_lG_wXWkSFAG6UG9Q=s320" width="320" /></a></div><i><h1 style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-style: normal; text-align: justify;">According to Canadian Law, God is an Incompetent Buffoon</span></h1>He created them male and female, and He blessed them and named them “mankind” on the day when they were created.</i> (Genesis 5:2)<p></p><p style="text-align: justify;">This was a pretty good setup. How do we know? because God echoed the male/female arrangement in every one of his higher creations. When God makes something good, he uses it a lot. Gravity is one of His best ideas, He put it everywhere. You cannot go anywhere in the universe and not be affected by the pull of gravity. This whole male/female thing is another great idea because it works, so he applied it to all of his mammals, reptiles, amphibians, fish, etc. <span style="text-align: left;">Nowhere in the bible does God say "Ooops, I should have made a few more genders." <span></span></span></p><a name='more'></a><p></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="text-align: left;">Now why would God go and do something <i>mean </i>like that? What's wrong with changing your gender to fit your mood like a chameleon walking across a Sherwin-Williams catalogue? Because WHO you are is deeply ingrained in the concept of WHAT you are. </span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="text-align: left;">There are much greater differences between men and women besides what you have dangling (or not) between your legs. Men have larger lungs than women, <a href="https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2391086/" target="_blank">it's a fact,</a> ask any pulmonologist. Although men and women have the same number of </span><span style="text-align: left;">alveoli, in males they are much larger providing more surface area to absorb oxygen and expel carbon dioxide. Men have larger hearts than women, better to move that oxygen rich blood to their muscular structure which is also much larger than women. Knowing these scientific facts it would be bloody stupid to allow men and women to compete head to head in athletic competition, right? Of course it would, you'd have to be an utter dolt to think that such a competition would be fair... </span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="text-align: left;">Your psychological makeup is also deeply ingrained in what you are. Men and women think differently. A <a href="https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/how-mens-brains-are-wired-differently-than-women/" target="_blank">recent study</a> revealed that </span><span style="text-align: left;">male brains may be optimized for motor skills, and female brains may be optimized for combining analytical and intuitive thinking. This is based on how male and female brains are "wired" between the hemispheres. <br /></span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="text-align: left;">Knowing all of this, architects of modern society (social leeches) stand tall, ignore all theological and scientific data, and boldly proclaim, "<i>Nah, <b>I</b> know better!</i>" One of the biggest issues in Modern America is Gender Dysphoria, a silent, deadly pandemic that is slaughtering Americans. For some strange reason, the political left has chosen gender confused people to be their canon fodder. </span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="text-align: left;">Gender Dysphoria is a thing, it's deadly, and it's real. At some point a person who believes that God screwed up and "assigned" them the wrong gender goes through gender confusion therapy, where they become prey to social leeches who feed their confusion and suddenly they become "Transgender" when in actuality they're closer to transvestites. Rather than help these people the social leeches feed their confusion with deadly results. <a href="https://www.cureus.com/articles/20779-gender-dysphoria-and-suicidal-ideation-clinical-observations-from-a-psychiatric-emergency-service" target="_blank">Thirty percent of these poor souls attempt suicide</a>. Not consider, but actually try to kill themselves. </span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="text-align: left;">In Canada it is now illegal to try and help these people. As reported in the <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/pastors-call-out-conversion-therapy-laws" target="_blank">Daily Wire</a>:</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="text-align: left;">(The article is behind a paywall, you can hear it here for free in the </span><a href="https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/morning-wire/id1576594336" style="text-align: left;" target="_blank">Morning Wire Podcast</a><span style="text-align: left;"> January 15th edition or read it <a href="https://ussanews.com/pastors-call-out-conversion-therapy-laws/" target="_blank">here</a></span><span style="text-align: left;">)</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="text-align: left;"></span></p><blockquote>Canadian law C-4, bans any counseling that advocates for the Christian standard that sex is reserved for one man and one woman within marriage. It also potentially criminalizes any instruction confirming that human beings are created as wholly male or female from birth. The Bible doesn’t have a category for transgender, but it does have passages teaching that men aren’t to dress like women and vice versa.</blockquote><p></p><p style="text-align: justify;">In Indiana a bill has been introduced in the statehouse that would ban physical and emotional therapy in an attempt to save a minor from the emotional ravages of gender dysphoria<a href="https://thehill.com/homenews/state-watch/534274-conversion-therapy-ban-introduced-in-indiana-legislature" target="_blank"> <b><i>even if that person asks for help</i></b></a>. Pastors say that the language is so broad that preaching Genesis 5:2 authorities can interpret it as trying to potentially convince someone in the audience not to be gay or transgender, they could arrest the pastor.</p><p style="text-align: justify;">Renowned Los Angeles pastor John MacArthur has issued an open call for ministers to preach on sexual morality in light of the afore mentioned Canadian law that criminalizes conversion therapy. He has specifically issued the public invitation for "ministers of the Gospel" to join him on January 16 in preaching about what he calls "a biblical view of sexual morality." </p><p style="text-align: justify;"><a href="https://www.christianitydaily.com/articles/14463/20211231/john-macarthur-urges-pastors-to-preach-biblical-sexual-morality-in-protest-of-conversion-therapy-ban.htm" target="_blank">According to MacArthur,</a> "faithful Canadian pastors are going to preach on the issue, calling for a biblical understanding of sexual sin, the eternal judgment that falls on the unrepentant and gospel-rejecting sinners, and the grace of God in the gospel which offers forgiveness to those who repent and believe in Christ," citing 1 Corinthians 6:9-11.</p><p style="text-align: justify;">How <strike>stupid</strike> dangerous (Nah, Stupid works here too) is the Canadian law? Check out this quote:</p><p style="text-align: justify;"></p><blockquote>"heterosexuality, cisgender gender identity, and gender expression that conforms to the sex assigned to a person at birth" are all "myths" that should be debunked.</blockquote><p></p><p style="text-align: justify;">According to Canadian law God is an incompetent buffoon. Notice if you will, that there are no laws preventing homosexual recruitment of young, normal, gender confident children. Our children are prey for these social vampires. </p><p style="text-align: justify;">Maybe we should close the Canadian border back down.</p>Doug Evanshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05318930961031654937noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2246295430976433070.post-27486192578047883992021-06-19T08:35:00.000-06:002021-06-19T08:35:07.210-06:00America's Original Sin - Happy Republican Victory Day!<p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgYyxRSCEMgq74tSNsA2qZMuSsBnHrsZEmFYQTjVqW3cMJPoyOeQyJrX3WEw75FGIUUVOBkIF_tQa3QE3b1GI2c8ZRmWakn0hcSWKcz8RlkKIOB5obxl9551amPKzmp0LiDzz4-gaPSKSoy/s1200/The_Serpent_eve.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="801" data-original-width="1200" height="270" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgYyxRSCEMgq74tSNsA2qZMuSsBnHrsZEmFYQTjVqW3cMJPoyOeQyJrX3WEw75FGIUUVOBkIF_tQa3QE3b1GI2c8ZRmWakn0hcSWKcz8RlkKIOB5obxl9551amPKzmp0LiDzz4-gaPSKSoy/w404-h270/The_Serpent_eve.jpg" width="404" /></a></div><span style="font-size: x-small;"></span><blockquote><span style="font-size: x-small;">4</span> <i>The serpent said to the woman, “You certainly will not die!</i> <span style="font-size: x-small;">5</span> <i>For God knows that on the day you eat from it your eyes will be opened, and you will become like God, knowing good and evil.”</i><span style="font-size: x-small;"><i> </i>6</span> <i>When the woman saw that the tree was good for food, and that it was a delight to the eyes, and that the tree was desirable to make one wise, she took some of its fruit and ate </i>(Genesis 3:4-6a)</blockquote><p></p><p style="text-align: justify;">Once upon a time, many European nations believed that owning slaves was legal. Family legend says that elements from my fathers family came to this country as impressed servants, white slaves who somehow got their freedom in the late 17th century. The Jamestown colony did have slaves in 1619, who were freed after a period of time of service, like my white ancestors. (This fact is ignored in the New York Times 1619 Fantasy that has been polluting this nation for the past few years)</p><p style="text-align: justify;">Two hundred years after the settlement of the Jamestown colony, the British Empire outlawed slavery and were very active in looking down their noses at the upstart colony that broke free from the empire, us. The Prince of Preachers, Charles Spurgeon said this about slavery to a personal hero of mine, freed slave and a fervent Republican Fredric Douglas:</p><p style="text-align: justify;"></p><blockquote>“I do from my inmost soul detest slavery . . . and although I commune at the Lord’s table with men of all creeds, yet with a slave-holder I have no fellowship of any sort or kind. Whenever one has called upon me, I have considered it my duty to express my detestation of his wickedness, and I would as soon think of receiving a murderer into my church . . . as a man stealer” (Pike, The Life and Work of Charles Haddon Spurgeon, p. 331)</blockquote><p></p><p style="text-align: justify;">Spurgeon was detested in the Democrat controlled slave-state South. Here is what my new home state, the freedom loving Florida had to say about Charles Spurgeon back in 1860:</p><p></p><blockquote>Spurgeon is a “beef-eating, puffed-up, vain, over-righteous pharisaical, English blab-mouth.” A Southern Opinion of the Rev. Mr. Spurgeon,” The New York Herald (March 1, 1860).</blockquote><p style="text-align: justify;">Because he spoke up for what was right, because he poked the tiger, Charles Spurgeon was attacked and vilified by the American Democrats, they lied about him, burned his books and threatened him with bodily harm. Charles Spurgeon was the Donald Trump of the 1800's with the added bonus of being an actual Man of God. Even though he was not a political person and disdained politics in the pulpit, Spurgeon opposed socialism. He didn't believe in movements and protests and riots, he believed that the world would ultimately be changed, not by large scale systemic reforms, but by individual men and women coming to faith in Jesus Christ who would in turn begin to live lives in accord with God’s law. </p><p style="text-align: justify;">The Democrats of 2021 would hold the same views of Spurgeon today as they did in 1860. He would be cancelled. <span></span></p><a name='more'></a><p></p><div style="text-align: justify;">Finally in 1865, the Republican controlled federal forces destroyed the Democrat uprising and quelled the Democrat started civil war that cost this country the lives of 620,000 men, or 2% of the population. In today's numbers, that would be 6,000,000 men. In 1866, Congress passed the Civil Rights Act and the four Reconstruction Acts, which dissolved all governments in the former Democrat controlled Confederate states with the exception of Tennessee. When you look at the smoldering ruins of Portland, Seattle, Chicago, San Francisco, Los Angeles, and New York, we could use a little of this right now.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">The first Republican president, Abraham Lincoln, signed the Emancipation Proclamation and America was changed forever. In 1866 African-American men began to take office, locally, in state government, and in the US Congress. In response the Democrat party formed the Klu Klux Klan, which spread the Democrat's hatred and racism through out the south and slowly into the north. Having changed its name to ANTIFA, the KKK is still the strong arm of the Democrat party.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Don't get it in your head that it was just blacks that these people hated, in 1891 the largest mass lynching in American history was perpetrated in New Orleans where 11 "Dageos", Italian-Americans were shot and mutilated in front of a crowd of thousands of cheering Louisianans, no doubt all Democrats. Columbus Day was started to appease Italian-Americans because of the acts of thoughtless southern Democrats. Kind of like (no, EXACTLY like) the newly minted holiday of Junteenth.</div><p style="text-align: justify;">Even though slavery has been illegalized in half the world, it still exists in the other half. Guess what - there is no law against slavery in <a href="https://theconversation.com/slavery-is-not-a-crime-in-almost-half-the-countries-of-the-world-new-research-115596" target="_blank">Canada</a>. Don't think that the slavery that exists in the world is hidden and is strictly for sex slaves, slavery is insidious throughout Africa, Asia, and the middle east. A favorite ploy in the middle east is to advertise a well paying job, take the applicant's ID and Passport for some legal pretense, then refuse to pay the promised wage. The slaves are trapped, they can't leave the country, so to survive they perform the job they were "hired" to do, live in their employers provided quarters, generally a hovel where they are packed in like sardines, and eat the provided food. I have actually met and spoken with slaves in the Holy Land of Saudi Arabia. </p><p>We're bombing all the wrong people.</p><p style="text-align: justify;">Slavery is one of the darkest blights on the history of this country, and it's not over. Hundreds, if not thousands of women, men, young boys and girls are held in slavery, sex slaves, and the ONLY US President to address this current blight was Donald Trump. Now you know why the Democrats forced him from office, he was eating into their most profitable stream of income.</p><p style="text-align: justify;">The worst president in US history recently said that "Slavery is America's original sin," which we all know is not true. If it were, then thanks to the Republican Party, having eliminated slavery, we would be sin free and have been so for 156 years. If you want to apply what happened in America to the bible, then after Democrat Eve biting the forbidden fruit, Eve's Republican husband would have slapped the fruit out of her hand then turned to God and said "Hey, this one won't listen, got any more?"</p><p style="text-align: justify;">No, slavery is not America's original sin, SIN is America's original sin, same as everyone else. Our primary sin if anything is PRIDE and self serving, arrogant. wild-fire hyperbole. God tells us over and over that the sin he HATES is PRIDE</p><blockquote><p style="text-align: left;"><i>Everyone who is proud in heart is an abomination to the LORD; Be assured, he will not go unpunished.</i> (Proverbs 16:5)</p></blockquote><blockquote><p style="text-align: left;"><i>The fear of the LORD is to hate evil; Pride, arrogance, the evil way, And the perverted mouth, I hate. </i>(Proverbs 8:13) </p></blockquote><p><span style="font-size: x-small;"></span></p><blockquote style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">1</span><i> But realize this, that in the last days difficult times will come.</i> <span style="font-size: x-small;">2</span><i> For people will be lovers of self, lovers of money, boastful, arrogant, slanderers, disobedient to parents, ungrateful, unholy,</i><span style="font-size: x-small;"> 3</span><i> unloving, irreconcilable, malicious gossips, without self-control, brutal, haters of good, </i><span style="font-size: x-small;">4</span><i> treacherous, reckless, conceited, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God, </i><span style="font-size: x-small;">5</span><i> holding to a form of godliness although they have denied its power; avoid such people as these.</i> (2Timothy 2 1-5)</blockquote><p></p><p style="text-align: justify;">It's not wrong to celebrate the emancipation of slavery, but the Emancipation Proclamation was signed January 1, 1963, not June 19th 1865. What happened on June 19th 1865 was the Civil war ended on April 9th 1865, the federal troops led by Republicans defeated the Democrat slave holders and their rebel army. The word of freedom finally reached Texas on June 19th 1865, one of the last place to be notified of the Republican victory.</p><p><b>Happy Republican Victory Day!</b></p><p></p>Doug Evanshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05318930961031654937noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2246295430976433070.post-41369037056472022042021-06-03T07:37:00.001-06:002021-06-03T07:37:16.982-06:00The Mayo and Me<p></p><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgMbTPkWKOyDV6bZZc4Yw4a028EHFb-E1-A1pfhF0qTsr9ScKmfFIN0faBqGqgRMVJRAnikgzgxVuzTB5OGDwof0vsrUcpXmeN1ub2mOACKI4f49H4JdpEPSITKYMS-wHTFMgPSOwu0Lh7L/s720/mayo-clinic-florida-campus-3545682-0002R-fifty.jpg" style="clear: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="480" data-original-width="720" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgMbTPkWKOyDV6bZZc4Yw4a028EHFb-E1-A1pfhF0qTsr9ScKmfFIN0faBqGqgRMVJRAnikgzgxVuzTB5OGDwof0vsrUcpXmeN1ub2mOACKI4f49H4JdpEPSITKYMS-wHTFMgPSOwu0Lh7L/s320/mayo-clinic-florida-campus-3545682-0002R-fifty.jpg" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: red;"><i>Just the beauty of the campus is healing</i></span></td></tr></tbody></table><p></p><div style="text-align: justify;">After returning to this blog, I immediately went on vacation, it's my way of letting you know that I'm just as useful as your senator or congressional representative. I have been inundated with military, political, medical, theological, and familial issues over the past few months and had to step aside to deal with them. I'll be dealing with them here too, and unlike real life, here I can deal with them one by one at my leisure.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Let's start with Medical. </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Twice a year I make a pilgrimage to the Mayo Clinic. Since leaving Denver and the care of the angels at National Jewish Health for my lung issues, I've been seeing Dr. B at the Mayo Clinic in Jacksonville (or "Jax" to those of us who get tired of spelling it 8 times a day). Mayo Jacksonville is a big, sprawling campus with four (I think, maybe more) huge buildings dedicated to helping shattered people with shattered bodies. Just the landscaping with tropical trees and plants, streams and lakes, is so beautiful that I will park as far away from the main building as possible so I can meander through the lush scenery, and sit in the shade by a cooling fountain and have a chat with God.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Not having to carry an oxygen tank is so wonderful, especially with my back issues that sometimes just standing is too painful to do long. My lung issue is a very rare condition called Pulmonary Hypertension, the capillaries in my lungs are restricted causing the transference of oxygen between the lungs and my circulatory system to be restricted, which in turn causes me to run out of breath quite easily. Even down here in Florida where the barometric pressure of the atmosphere is so much higher than in Denver making it easier for me to breathe, a flight of stairs is a fond memory. I can still make it up the stairs, I just have to go slow and stop several times to get my blood/oxygen level back up. It's called Pulmonary Hypertension because the restriction in my lungs (Pulmonary) causes the blood pressure in my heart to skyrocket (Hypertension) putting a strain on my heart. Using an echocardiogram and occasionally sticking a probe in my heart, my doctors can determine the blood pressure in there. For healthy you the reading is 8 to 12 mmHg. For me it's 35 mmHg.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Don't let the word "Hypertension" trip you up, my blood pressure reading at my arm this morning was 100 over 60, "normal" is 120 over 80. I don't have high blood pressure, I'm a carrier. </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">I give it to other people.</div><span><a name='more'></a></span><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Pulmonary Hypertension is defined by the WHO in several groups by whatever is causing the PH, Group 1 is Pulmonary Arterial Hypertension, it can be idiopathic, or genetic, or drug induced (meth and cocaine are the leading drugs) Group 2 is is caused by left side heart disease, Group 3 is caused by lung disease: COPD, Sleep Apnea, high altitude exposure, etc. Group 4 is caused by lung obstructions, Group 5 is due to what ever is left over, hematological (blood disorders like anemia or sickle cell) or metabolic disorders like thyroid disease. </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">When I first came down with breathing difficulties I was diagnosed with left heart failure so I was put into Group 2 and was seeing a cardiologist. At the same time I was seeing a Pulmonologist for COPD and Sleep Apnea while living at high altitude so I was also put into Group 3. Then one day Dr. Awesome gave me a d-dimer test which came out positive for blood clots, somewhere in my body. I was transported to Sloppy Joes for a dose of radiation, aka <span style="color: #1c1b1b; font-family: Lora, serif; font-size: 1.125rem; text-align: start;">Radionuclide imaging. I was injected with radioactive material and went for a ride on the CT machine and sure enough, I'm now in Group 4, and I start seeing a PH Specialist, Dr. Chicago, who put me on a drug called Adempas. Very rare, very expensive. It costs $300 a pill, I take three pills a day, and it REALLY, REALLY works! Most of that cost is underwritten by the manufacturer Bayer, making it affordable for me, so naturally I start to bristle when I hear someone complaining about Big Pharma yet having no idea what they're bad-mouthing.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #1c1b1b; font-family: Lora, serif; font-size: 1.125rem; text-align: start;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #1c1b1b; font-family: Lora, serif; font-size: 1.125rem; text-align: start;">Fast forward several years, I've learned to live with an oxygen tube in my nose 24/7, but it wasn't needed when I went to Florida to visit my folks. With Adempas I can live a normal live in Florida without oxygen. I had a lot of time to think about it because a Comcast bigwig came to me and said "Doug, you look tired. Why don't you take the rest of your life off?"</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #1c1b1b; font-family: Lora, serif; font-size: 1.125rem; text-align: start;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #1c1b1b; font-family: Lora, serif; font-size: 1.125rem; text-align: start;">I said "I would rather not."</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #1c1b1b; font-family: Lora, serif; font-size: 1.125rem; text-align: start;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #1c1b1b; font-family: Lora, serif; font-size: 1.125rem; text-align: start;">Comcast the heartless corporation said, "That wasn't a request." </span><span style="color: #1c1b1b; font-family: Lora, serif; font-size: 18px; text-align: start;">Who's going to hire a 60 year old disabled veteran with lung disorders? NO ONE. Even the VA was hesitant to deal with me. </span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #1c1b1b; font-family: Lora, serif; font-size: 18px; text-align: start;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #1c1b1b; font-family: Lora, serif; font-size: 18px; text-align: start;">Last January COVID 19 is starting it's 2020 World Tour, Nancy Pelosi and Chuckles Schumer are working hard to insure that President Trump's warnings of a global pandemic are laughed at by their mind numbed followers, and I'm shoveling two feet of snow off my driveway while on oxygen. Not a young person in sight to help. I said "That's it, I'm sick of this, I'm selling my house and moving to Florida."</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #1c1b1b; font-family: Lora, serif; font-size: 18px; text-align: start;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #1c1b1b; font-family: Lora, serif; font-size: 18px; text-align: start;">My next door neighbor asked, "How much do you want for the house?" I told him and he said "Sold." Six months later we're living in Florida and I'm seeing Dr. B in Jax Mayo. </span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #1c1b1b; font-family: Lora, serif; font-size: 18px; text-align: start;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #1c1b1b; font-family: Lora, serif; font-size: 18px; text-align: start;">A few months ago, after all my semi-annual testing and imaging, Dr. B and two other highly skilled doctors, Dr. Uff Da, and Dr. Imaging, came to me and said "We can fix you."</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #1c1b1b; font-family: Lora, serif; font-size: 18px; text-align: start;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #1c1b1b; font-family: Lora, serif; font-size: 18px; text-align: start;">Wait, what? PH is incurable and progressive. I was stunned.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #1c1b1b; font-family: Lora, serif; font-size: 18px; text-align: start;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #1c1b1b; font-family: Lora, serif; font-size: 18px; text-align: start;">"MOST PH is </span><span style="color: #1c1b1b; font-family: Lora, serif; font-size: 18px; text-align: left;">incurable and progressive. We can fix you."</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #1c1b1b; font-family: Lora, serif; font-size: 18px; text-align: start;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #1c1b1b; font-family: Lora, serif; font-size: 18px; text-align: start;">I said "Doc, only a portion of group 4 is fixable!" Which is true. PH strikes maybe 0.5% of the population, and maybe 1% of that 0.5% have what is called Chronic Thromboembolic Pulmonary Hypertension. It's the rarest of the rare. It's the checkered Zebra of orphan diseases.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #1c1b1b; font-family: Lora, serif; font-size: 18px; text-align: start;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #1c1b1b; font-family: Lora, serif; font-size: 18px; text-align: start;">Dr. B said "Bingo!"</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #1c1b1b; font-family: Lora, serif; font-size: 18px; text-align: start;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #1c1b1b; font-family: Lora, serif; font-size: 18px; text-align: start;">I have CTEPH? I don't remember a doctor telling me that, Dr. Chicago just said that I have "A weird PH." So I looked up my medication, Adempas, and it only works on two things, Pulmonary Arterial Hypertension, which I know for a fact that I don't have, and </span><span style="color: #1c1b1b; font-family: Lora, serif; font-size: 18px; text-align: left;"> </span><span style="color: #1c1b1b; font-family: Lora, serif; font-size: 18px; text-align: left;">Chronic Thromboembolic Pulmonary Hypertension, why didn't I look that up when I first started taking it? Because I got hung up on the side effects, which are many and amazing. Doctor B informed me that CTEPH can look like Group 2, and my COPD and Sleep Apnea were really non-players, so Group 3 is not affecting me, it's all the CTEPH.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #1c1b1b; font-family: Lora, serif; font-size: 18px; text-align: left;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #1c1b1b; font-family: Lora, serif; font-size: 18px; text-align: left;">They can fix my lungs.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #1c1b1b; font-family: Lora, serif; font-size: 18px; text-align: left;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #1c1b1b; font-family: Lora, serif; font-size: 18px; text-align: left;">How do I deal with that? Dr. Uff Da was shocked that I didn't jump up and kiss him, but Dr. B understood. Here I am, thinking I'm incurable, stumbling to my early grave, but through a very dangerous operation they can cure me? Believe me, if you suddenly get the same news, your brain is going to lock up too. I told Dr. B. that I have to pray on this, because the operation IS very risky, and I have a wife to support. Dr. Uff Da thought I was being ungrateful for his magnificence, but Dr. B understands, and he knows who my higher authority is. </span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #1c1b1b; font-family: Lora, serif; font-size: 18px; text-align: left;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #1c1b1b; font-family: Lora, serif; font-size: 18px; text-align: left;">I walked around for months wondering if that was a dream. This all happened back in February and I'm just now finding I can speak about it publicly. It's almost like a Stockholm Syndrome that I have with this disease, I'm almost afraid to let it go. I am afraid to tell my friends in my Pulmonary Hypertension support group, I have to tell them that while they get worse and slowly die an agonizing death, I'm not going to be there with them, I'm going to get better, and I'm having a really hard time dealing with that.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #1c1b1b; font-family: Lora, serif; font-size: 18px; text-align: left;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #1c1b1b; font-family: Lora, serif; font-size: 18px; text-align: left;">The operation to clean out my lungs is called a pulmonary endarterectomy, it's a big, ugly procedure that I'm not sure I want to endure. I'm over 60 years old, so I don't have much longer anyhow, do I want to go through all that so I can stumble into years of dementia and Alzheimer's comfortably?</span><span style="color: #1c1b1b; font-family: Lora, serif; font-size: 18px; text-align: left;"> </span><span style="color: #1c1b1b; font-family: Lora, serif; font-size: 18px; text-align: left;">So I continue to pray for guidance. </span></div><p></p><div style="text-align: justify;">The problem with praying for guidance is that God gave us brains for a reason, like a good father who is helping his child with their homework, He can't hand us the answers. He needs us to exercise our faith to make it stronger just as our algebra homework exercised our brains to make our understanding of mathematics stronger.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Don't be surprised when you ask God for guidance and His answer is "You can figure it out, I gave you the tools you need to make that decision.</div><p></p>Doug Evanshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05318930961031654937noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2246295430976433070.post-915394832236348722021-03-05T08:49:00.000-07:002021-03-05T08:49:06.722-07:00Our Self Appointed Child-Gods<div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhMFpcr3c5a7E5P32V_nX2wGNYAHIO78kRfIeKQESyO_Ax_hHVT2-V65ufoGJJZIKGZj15943MJDp7ZBeKqxMd1MkepolmI48EXTFy4LFmcQbcVDu_n1dssejct634uL7btkakJeKDG4cIC/s1313/Cat+in+the+Hat.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1313" data-original-width="1079" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhMFpcr3c5a7E5P32V_nX2wGNYAHIO78kRfIeKQESyO_Ax_hHVT2-V65ufoGJJZIKGZj15943MJDp7ZBeKqxMd1MkepolmI48EXTFy4LFmcQbcVDu_n1dssejct634uL7btkakJeKDG4cIC/w329-h400/Cat+in+the+Hat.jpg" width="329" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Alfa Slab One;">Our Self Appointed Child-Gods</span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Alfa Slab One;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="font-size: small;"> </span></span></span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Once upon a time in America satire was considered an art form. Satirists were held up as heroes of the literary art and their work was, and still is followed to this day. Writers like Mark Twain, Charles Dickens, Lewis Carroll, O Henry, and Will Rogers. The longest running television show on American TV, the Simpsons, is bitingly sarcastic, and my personal hero, <a href="https://www.blogger.com/#">Thomas Nast</a>, a conservative who took down the corrupt Boss Tweed in New York City. His cartoon "<a href="https://www.blogger.com/#">The Union As It Was</a>" showed how politicians united with racist activists to keep the blacks in poverty worse than slavery. This is a dark foreshadowing of the DNC's ties with Antifa and BLM using blacks again.<br /><br />Facebook is completely unaware of the concept of Satire, in fact the politically motivated children whom Facebook employs as "Fact Checkers" know as little about satire as they know about real life here in America. These Child-Gods storm around the social media world demanding that we bow to their adolescent whims and infantile tirades, suspending accounts and putting their stamp of disapproval on posts they deem to be in opposition to <a href="https://www.blogger.com/#">The Greater Good</a>.</div> <div style="text-align: justify;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Alfa Slab One;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="font-size: small;"> </span></span></span></span></div><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Alfa Slab One;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span><a name='more'></a></span></span></span></span></span></div><p style="text-align: justify;">I saw this little missive posted on Facebook as as I tried to read it, a warning popped up. So, I figured (correctly) that if it angers the Facebook Child Gods, it's got to be correct, so I saved the picture and posted it to my Facebook news feed. Sure enough, I got the <b><span style="color: red;">Facebook Child-God Stamp Of Disapproval</span></b></p><p> </p><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Alfa Slab One;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: red;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhSd_gmHk8tEGbR-TQNLxy87zYzLzIU3B_VhH2jHslm7c-wzsHjYqIEuBbh10tOuLLz2w9Lx2l6epHm6fBBL1vruECMBuI_5wS4Y8aIklZxbEzRCR4vDXMNn-1t64lVU-NPiMzBq5iibUmB/s614/Facebook1.PNG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="169" data-original-width="614" height="176" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhSd_gmHk8tEGbR-TQNLxy87zYzLzIU3B_VhH2jHslm7c-wzsHjYqIEuBbh10tOuLLz2w9Lx2l6epHm6fBBL1vruECMBuI_5wS4Y8aIklZxbEzRCR4vDXMNn-1t64lVU-NPiMzBq5iibUmB/w640-h176/Facebook1.PNG" width="640" /></a></div><br /></span></span></span></span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"> Missing content? What is missing? I posted the entire .jpg, what could the Child-Gods of pre-adolescent putrid political pointlessness be whimpering about now? 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</span></span></span></span><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #073763;">Your "Fact Checkers" are clearly biased and
incapable of recognizing satire when presented so here's a little help for the
more slow witted</span></p><span style="color: #073763;">
</span><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #073763;"> <b><span style="font-size: x-large;">satire</span></b></span></p><span style="color: #073763;">
</span><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #073763;">[ˈsaˌtī(ə)r]</span></p><span style="color: #073763;">
</span><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #073763;">NOUN</span></p><span style="color: #073763;">
</span><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #073763;">satire (noun) · satires (plural noun)</span></p><span style="color: #073763;">
</span><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #073763;">the use of humor, irony, exaggeration, or ridicule to expose
and criticize people's stupidity or vices, particularly in the context of
contemporary politics and other topical issues.</span></p><span style="color: #073763;">
</span><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #073763;">synonyms:</span></p><span style="color: #073763;">
</span><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #073763;">- mockery · ridicule · derision · scorn · caricature · irony ·
sarcasm</span></p><span style="color: #073763;">
</span><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #073763;">- a play, novel, film, or other work which uses satire.<br />"a stinging satire on American politics"
</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #073763;">synonyms:</span></p><span style="color: #073763;">
</span><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #073763;">parody · burlesque · caricature · lampoon · skit · takeoff ·
squib · travesty · spoof · sendup · pasquinade · pasticcio</span></p><span style="color: #073763;">
</span><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #073763;">- a genre of literature characterized by the use of satire.</span></p><span style="color: #073763;">
</span><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #073763;">(in Latin literature) a literary miscellany, especially a
poem ridiculing prevalent vices or follies.</span></p><span style="color: #073763;">
</span><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #073763;"> If you need more help with the English language or concepts
embodied in humor or parody I'm willing to allow you to hire me. Please contact
me to work out pay and benefits.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">I'll let you all know what the Facebook executive lounge is like.</span> <br /></p>
</div>Doug Evanshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05318930961031654937noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2246295430976433070.post-12849177090770187342021-03-01T19:13:00.005-07:002021-03-01T19:13:35.306-07:00Hail to The King<p> </p><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiKcrIsF1bf0-Z36ijVga6iDWqeGy6okWyZ73hyphenhyphen2C2-wcGzIp7nDbovMcdMzlOstoruAh5bM3ZMzwyK-Z1STz28y-wFlVpifIsFcmxPxB9WNpHYeqrQZ8frBkfT05hUiDGiFYFT9SnovWRB/s1537/2021-02-21.png" style="clear: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="888" data-original-width="1537" height="231" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiKcrIsF1bf0-Z36ijVga6iDWqeGy6okWyZ73hyphenhyphen2C2-wcGzIp7nDbovMcdMzlOstoruAh5bM3ZMzwyK-Z1STz28y-wFlVpifIsFcmxPxB9WNpHYeqrQZ8frBkfT05hUiDGiFYFT9SnovWRB/w400-h231/2021-02-21.png" width="400" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #0b5394; font-size: x-small;"><i>230 Million Thousand Americans agree: Emperor Biden is the man<br />who killed the Feminist movement and outlawed Jesus Christ </i></span></td></tr></tbody></table><span style="font-family: "Alfa Slab One"; font-size: xx-large;"><div style="text-align: center;">Hail to The King! </div></span><p></p><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><b>All hail the man who destroyed women's rights and crushed the free worship of God.</b></span></div><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">The House of Representatives passed the draconian "Equality Act" which was advertised to the American people as an update to the Republican driven Civil Rights act of 1964, in reality it became a disgusting power grab by the utterly mad leftist socialist rabble. This "update" now </span><span style="text-align: left;">adds sex, sexual orientation and gender identity as protected classes akin to race. This act destroys feminism by </span><span style="text-align: left;">effectively eliminating female athletics. It requires schools and leagues to include biological males who identify as females.</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #0b5394;"></span></span></p><blockquote><span style="color: #0b5394;"><span style="text-align: left;">“Religious charities like Little Sisters of the Poor could not opt out of this requirement or take such a case to court. Family-owned businesses, like Jack Phillips’ Masterpiece Cakeshop or Barronelle Stutzman’s Arlene’s Flowers would be required to celebrate same-sex unions and transition procedures.” </span><span style="text-align: left;">- Rep. Vicky Hartzler, Missouri Republican.</span></span></blockquote><span style="text-align: left;"></span><p></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="text-align: left;">Why do I say that our Autocrat In Chief Biden has destroyed feminism? Since day one of his candidacy Herr Biden has declared that he will ram the "Equality" Act down the throats of every American man, woman, or (or any combination of the two) and child. He is fully backing a bill that will allow perverts, rapists, and other sexual deviants full access to the safe spaces we have provided to our women and children and give those sexual predators full protection under the law just by saying "I am a woman." </span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="text-align: left;">Let me repeat that: Under the "Equality" Act a teenage boy will be allowed walk into any high school girls locker room under the full protection of the law to gape all he wants, to even shower with our daughters simply by saying "I am a female."</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="text-align: left;">Or: <span style="color: #2b00fe;"><b>The man said it, and you women have to obey</b></span>. That's what King Joe wants the law to be.</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="text-align: left;">Read on, and prepare to feel the hobnailed sole of the Jackboot of communist autocracy crushing down on your trachea as Team Biden puts their foot on your neck and demands your worship: <span></span></span></p><a name='more'></a><p></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="text-align: left;"><b>Dictator Biden and his disciples claim that the "Equality" Act </b></span><span style="text-align: left;"><b>simply punishes discrimination against people who identify as gay or transgender.</b> T</span><span style="text-align: left;">his is an <b><span style="color: red;">outright lie</span></b>. </span><span style="text-align: left;">In truth, the "Equality" Act </span><span style="text-align: left;">makes mainstream beliefs about marriage, as well as basic biological facts about sex differences, punishable under the law. It makes </span><span style="text-align: left;"> discrimination the law of the land by forcing Americans to conform to government-mandated beliefs under the threat of life-ruining financial and criminal penalties. </span><span style="text-align: left;">It forces every American to agree with controversial government-imposed ideology on sexuality or be treated as an outlaw. The "Equality" Act demolishes existing civil rights and constitutional freedoms.</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><b>Emperor Biden and his partisans claim that the "Equality" Act preserves Religious Freedom.</b> <span style="text-align: left;">T</span><span style="text-align: left;">his is an</span><span style="text-align: left;"> </span><b style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: red;">outright lie</span></b><span style="text-align: left;">. </span>In truth if enacted, the "Equality" Act would force employers, medical professionals, educators, and religious organizations to allow men into women’s shelters, pay for or perform sex-change operations, and engage in speech that violates their consciences. Faith-based adoption and foster care agencies would be forced to violate their belief that every child deserves a mother and a father. Section 2(a)(2) of the bill refers to the belief that marriage is between a man and a woman as a “sex stereotype.” This stigmatizes the beliefs of hundreds of millions of Americans, including Catholics, Evangelicals, Jews, Mormons, and Muslims.</p><p style="text-align: justify;"><b>Potentate Biden and his acolytes claim that the "Equality" Act does not expand the scope of Federal civil rights law, </b>in reality this is an <b><span style="color: red;">outright lie</span></b>. The "Equality" Act expands the definition of “public accommodations” under Title II of the Civil Rights Act to include “any establishment that provides a good, service, or program, including a store, shopping center, online retailer or service provider, salon, bank, gas station, food bank, service or care center, shelter, travel agency, or funeral parlor, or establishment that provides health care, accounting, or legal services,” many more individuals and establishments would, in fact, become liable to discrimination claims, including doctors who do not want to perform abortions.</p><p style="text-align: justify;"><b>Dominar Biden</b> <b>and his worshipers claim that the "Equality" Act is irrelevant to abortion. </b><span style="text-align: left;">T</span><span style="text-align: left;">his is an</span><span style="text-align: left;"> </span><b style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: red;">outright lie</span></b><span style="text-align: left;">. </span>In truth if enacted, the "Equality" Act opens the door to taxpayer funding for elective abortions, which the vast majority of Americans oppose, regardless of political affiliation. The bill does not contain any conscience protections for those with moral or religious objections to paying for or performing abortions. If the "Equality" Act were to pass, section 1557 nondiscrimination regulations of Obamacare (The "Affordable" healthcare act) could be used against providers who refuse to perform abortions, or against hospitals that receive federal funding and do not provide abortions. The Reproductive Blueprint promoted by Planned Parenthood, NARAL Pro-Choice America, and other abortion industry actors specifically calls on the Biden Administration to interpret section 1557 in this manner.</p><p style="text-align: justify;"><b>King Biden and his flunkies claim that the "Equality" Act upholds Title IX of the Education Act which prohibits sex discrimination against girls and women. </b><span style="text-align: left;">T</span><span style="text-align: left;">his is an</span><span style="text-align: left;"> </span><b style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: red;">outright lie</span></b><span style="text-align: left;">. The "Equality" Act’s changes to Title VI of the Civil Rights Act do not uphold Title IX of the 1972 Education Amendments Act. Gender-identity policies will require biological males to be permitted to participate in female-only activities. In sports, the physical bodies of biological males (even after two years on estrogen) put them at an <b>obvious unfair advantage over female athletes</b>, who are losing out on opportunities and scholarships designed for girls and women.</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="text-align: left;"><b>Queen </b></span><b>Biden and his ideologues claim that the "Equality" Act will insure that safety and privacy in sex-specific spaces will not be diminished. </b><span style="text-align: left;">T</span><span style="text-align: left;">his is an</span><span style="text-align: left;"> </span><b style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: red;">outright lie</span></b><span style="text-align: left;">. </span><span style="text-align: left;">The "Equality" Act will remove ALL "sex-specific spaces" </span><span style="text-align: left;">All single-sex spaces will be open to both sexes under the Equality Act. The Equality Act adds sexual orientation and gender identity rules to Title III of the Civil Rights Act on “public facilities” as well as to public accommodations (Title II) and federal funding (Title VI). This would create a nationwide transgender policy in single-sex facilities. It would affect everything from girls’ and women’s showers and locker rooms to women’s shelters and women’s prisons, endangering safety and diminishing privacy. Giving people blanket permission to enter private spaces for the opposite sex enables sexual predators to exploit the rule and gain easy access to victims. <span style="color: #073763;"><b>In simple terms, all someone has to do is claim that they are a female, and under the "Equality" Act, they are immediately a female, with full access to women's/girls bathrooms, locker rooms, showers, and membership in sports teams, and if you do anything about it, you can be charged with sexual discrimination</b></span>.</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><b style="text-align: left;">Overlord </b><b>Biden and his henchmen claim that the "Equality" Act will not force doctors to perform sex-change operations or prescribe hormones for "Gender Affirmation" </b><span style="text-align: left;">T</span><span style="text-align: left;">his is an</span><span style="text-align: left;"> </span><b style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: red;">outright lie</span></b><span style="text-align: left;">. As a result of the expanding definition of public accommodations, as well as changing federal funding requirements, doctors (and counselors) could be punished for treating gender dysphoria according to their own best medical judgment. Even a referral to another doctor could be a violation of the Civil Rights Act. Transgender individuals have already sued hospitals for discrimination in New Jersey and California because the hospitals refused to perform surgeries, including mastectomies, for “gender affirmation.” This, despite the fact that evidence has shown that “transitioning” does not provide any lasting mental health benefits. In fact, many patients who undergo a sex change end up with damage to their physical health, such as heart problems and decreased bone density, as well as loss of fertility.</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="text-align: left;"><b>Czar Biden and his idolaters claim that under the "Equality" Act </b></span><span style="text-align: left;"><b>Parental Rights Will Remain Unchanged. </b></span><span style="text-align: left;">T</span><span style="text-align: left;">his is an</span><span style="text-align: left;"> </span><b style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: red;">out and out egregious lie, this is the biggest lie of them all</span></b><span style="text-align: left;">. The Equality Act’s politicization of medicine and education through gender ideology will undermine parental rights. Since most schools will be pressured to comply with sexual-orientation and gender-identity policies, parents will have limited educational choices for their children. Those who do not believe that their daughters should have to compete against biological males in sports, or who do not believe their daughters and sons should have to share bathrooms with members of the opposite sex, will be hard pressed to find schools where this is not happening. Parents should not have to sacrifice their children’s safety in order to attend school. Counseling that has proven to help children suffering from gender dysphoria reconcile with their bodies will no longer be considered an acceptable approach. This means that parents will be left without therapeutic alternatives that do not cause irreversible harm to their children’s bodies. A judge in Ohio terminated the rights of parents who opposed administering testosterone to their underage daughter and wanted her to go to counseling for gender dysphoria instead.</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="text-align: left;"><b>Slow Joe, the Beijing Enforcer and his lunatic toadies will tell you that the "Equality" Act helps children in need of foster homes and adoption. </b></span><span style="text-align: left;">T</span><span style="text-align: left;">his is an</span><span style="text-align: left;"> </span><b style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: red;">outright lie</span></b><span style="text-align: left;">. The Equality Act hurts vulnerable children by punishing faith-based adoption and foster-care agencies that believe that every child deserves both a mother and a father and that children’s bodies should not be irreversibly harmed by hormonal or surgical interventions due to gender dysphoria. Imposing this radical ideology on child-welfare providers will reduce the number of “forever families” for the more than 424,000 foster children in need of them. Adding sexual-orientation and gender-identity requirements to laws in Massachusetts and Illinois diminished the supply of foster families at the same time that more children needed them due to the opioid crisis.</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><a href="https://www.heritage.org/gender/report/11-myths-about-hr-5-the-equality-act-2021">11 Myths About H.R. 5, the Equality Act of 2021 | The Heritage Foundation</a></p>Doug Evanshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05318930961031654937noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2246295430976433070.post-79118593463445153382021-02-26T20:32:00.004-07:002021-02-26T20:32:30.881-07:00Kicked Out of Bible Study<div class="separator"><br /></div><p> </p><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiYmF32RCFwEA_0HKhuUOEtVa9zVjA6VmaRsX66m4m8QTwXqx2ENSEEjuN67nARcScvLxU7eeHwTzs-bAPqBhoM5OgJWR2YHvf753v-YttY9voYpmtj7ho-9cunjcpaxV59SVlSWbq0pBV4/s800/kicked-out-door-19773757.jpg" style="clear: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="600" data-original-width="800" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiYmF32RCFwEA_0HKhuUOEtVa9zVjA6VmaRsX66m4m8QTwXqx2ENSEEjuN67nARcScvLxU7eeHwTzs-bAPqBhoM5OgJWR2YHvf753v-YttY9voYpmtj7ho-9cunjcpaxV59SVlSWbq0pBV4/s320/kicked-out-door-19773757.jpg" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: red;"><i>Kicked to the curb by a fellow veteran</i></span></td></tr></tbody></table><p></p><h1 style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Alfa Slab One; font-weight: normal;">Kicked Out of Bible Study</span></h1><p></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #666666;">Banned, banished, bounced, cast out, chased away, dismissed, drummed out, dejected, ejected, expelled, extruded, ousted, routed, run off, thrown out... by a fellow veteran.</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #666666;">You may ask Doug, what did you do to get thrown out of a bible study? You! A Christian Blogger for nearly a decade, a deacon for seven years, the chairman of the board of a Congregational church, a member and student of Bible Study Fellowship for years, you who studied the Book of Genesis under a Rabbi, who fell so in love with John that you've read and studied that book constantly for a year, who tried to lead hymns in church while suffering from Pulmonary Arterial Hypertension, what did you do?</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Lobster; font-size: large;">Looking back...</span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #660000; font-family: Bungee Shade; font-size: x-small;">...The names have been changed to protect the innocent...</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #666666;">Matthew, a fellow retired USAF weapons guy at the local American Legion post, was talking about all the work he was doing and the help he needed, in particular he needed help taking care of Mark, a paraplegic Vietnam vet. I volunteered to help Matthew and took joy in helping Mark. Having helped my quadriplegic sister-in-law in the past, Mark wasn't a problem, he was much lighter and more open about his physical issues than Ruth. He called me once at 1:00 AM for help and I gladly went over to his house to help change his unders and his bedding. Accidents happen. </span></p><p></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #666666;">Matthew held a small bible study at Mark's house on Sundays, Matthew is the chaplain for a service related organization in the NoFlo area and is very open about his faith and how he was saved from his personal addictions. I attended but when I asked what version he was using and he looked at me strangely. Finally he said that he had to use the KJV. My reply was "That's nice, but the KJV is riddled with errors and written in a 400 year old language by non-Christians." </span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #666666;">His response was "Strong's Concordance was written for the KJV, no other version had as many words linked to Strong's." I then mention that I had recently obtained the MacArthur NIV Study Bible and Matthew warned me that it was wrong to study another person's opinions, which I decided to be a silly opinion. When you are expounding on the bible, unless you quote the bible 100% accurately with every word you utter, you are probably injecting your understanding of the word, which Matthew would condemn as your "opinion".</span></p><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #666666;"><span><a name='more'></a></span>The first bible study I attended started quite well, it was Matthew, Mark, and myself. I opened with a prayer. I keep to the example of Matthew 14:30 and the admonition of Matthew 6:5 I keep my prayers short and to the point. I guess I never picked up a lexicon of Christianese to talk about lifting people up and other fancy Christianese phrases. I don't know what Matthew thought of my opening prayer (nor do I care) but I did get the impression that he was disappointed with the brevity and lack of "perfume and flowers", He then played a Christian-ish sounding song popular on all K-Love clone stations.</span></div><p></p><p style="text-align: justify;"></p><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: right;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiAEiysUDRNhDPMgOxd2biCCNcykKfNKv2zL9B-GH5PlMxYC7tLW8-5yIcfr2lJroJw6tLlc-82DEKct3rNZAKY1VcaOt0b1ZlQ2pb5Lx21ybPvrXad7r0pRt4WHWi214NodJ5ORpNDf1ih/s474/OIP.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="330" data-original-width="474" height="139" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiAEiysUDRNhDPMgOxd2biCCNcykKfNKv2zL9B-GH5PlMxYC7tLW8-5yIcfr2lJroJw6tLlc-82DEKct3rNZAKY1VcaOt0b1ZlQ2pb5Lx21ybPvrXad7r0pRt4WHWi214NodJ5ORpNDf1ih/w200-h139/OIP.jpg" width="200" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: red; font-size: x-small;"><i> Not worthy of the word of God</i></span></td></tr></tbody></table><span><p style="color: #666666; text-align: justify;">When he got to the "meat" of the study it was a discourse on being the bride of Christ (which was a good basis of a bible study), and tithing (which is not). But a major concern I had is when he started talking about "developing the gift of tongues" I listened in fascination as Matthew described how you go into your prayer closet (good), pray very hard (real good, go on...) and you make a noise (?) and God understands it! (???). He explained how this eventually became natural and <i>voila</i>! You now have the gift of tongues! (wait, what?!?)</p><p style="color: #666666; text-align: justify;">First of all, you can't "develop" a heavenly gift any more than you can "develop" an earthly gift. You can make and store as many ice cubes as you can fit in your parents freezer, that still doesn't mean that Dad and Mom are going to give you the gift of a pair of hockey skates for Christmas. Dad and Mom may be thinking further ahead and give you the gift of a bicycle, it's Dad and Mom's decision on what to give you as a gift, and in the same way, it it our Father's decision as to what heavenly gift you will receive, IF He chooses to bestow one upon you. What Matthew told us was the "gift of tongues" is not a gift God bestows on anyone, it is an ability that the Holy Spirit and God have. </p><div style="text-align: justify;"><blockquote style="text-align: left;"><i><span style="color: #666666; font-size: xx-small;">26</span> Now in the same way the Spirit also helps our weakness; for we do not know what to pray for as we should, but the Spirit Himself intercedes for us with groanings too deep for words; <span style="color: #666666; font-size: xx-small;">27</span><span style="color: #666666;"> </span>and He who searches the hearts knows what the mind of the Spirit is, because He intercedes for the saints according to the will of God.</i><span style="color: #666666;"> (Romans 8:26-27)</span></blockquote></div><p style="color: #666666; text-align: justify;">Another thing that concerned me was his reliance on a bible entomology app that he used exhaustively to find ancient origins to words used in the KJV. Any comment I brought up that could be traced to a better translation (NASB) or any commentary was slapped down for the sin of being either from an inferior translation of by someone's opinion. So in the opinion of someone who has never been to a seminary, the opinion of John MacArthur is invalid because it's not that of Matthew's mentor, let's call him Gamaliel.</p></span><p></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span><span style="color: #666666;"></span></span></p><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="783" data-original-width="934" height="168" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgFw8uN9rEF3V6j4-3tV-b0ntHRcOnmyGcbV0wMuKkKAFMzvT0x8VSjU9FnLqMrg3UBJO_BYMvR8oO5jurA65Rl_LrC2ng-oIe8GeWGfMGRW6ruWP5dglJAqKW5jcl5FqQLXoQ4YhEZ8Kf3/w200-h168/Ra075b2259d4f20c39a889c9dd5a40a60.jpg" width="200" /></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: red;"><i>No thinking allowed!</i></span></td></tr></tbody></table><span style="color: #666666;"><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #666666;">At the next study I was able to attend was myself, Matthew, Mark and Gamaliel, a fast talking young man who </span><i><b>was</b> </i><span style="color: #666666;">a Baptist preacher, but </span><b>no longer </b><b>is </b><span style="color: #666666;">a Baptist preacher for reasons he never went in to detail about. Again we started with a prayer and a recorded hymn, then into the the study centered on preparing to be the bride of Christ, which is good, and about tithing, which is not, and the importance of using entomology to get to the true meaning of the written word, which if used incorrectly is evil.</span></p></span><p style="text-align: left;"></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #666666;">Gamaliel lectured me on using a concordance app to f</span><span style="color: #666666;">ind the "original meaning" of what is on the page, he even went so far as to go into the meaning of the<i> Italic Text</i> found in Strong's Concordance, it has a special meaning, which I discovered later what that special meaning truly is. For </span><span style="color: #666666;">Gamaliel</span><span style="color: #666666;"> it means... well, it can't be all that special if I forgot what it means. I believe he said it means that the italics was the correct meaning and everything else was some man's opinion. Any time I tried to raise a question I was slapped down with fast talking rhetoric and Christianese sounding drivel that raced off the point I was questioning and back on to the overly trod path toward tithing. And then came Mathew 7:22</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"></p><blockquote style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #666666;">"</span><i><span style="color: red;">Many will say to Me on that day, ‘Lord, Lord, did we not prophesy in Your name, and in Your name cast out demons, and in Your name perform many miracles?</span></i><span style="color: #666666;">" (Matthew 7:22)</span></blockquote><p></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #666666;">I have heard the bible twisted and bent in many different ways, but that day I was nauseous over what this verse was used for. Gamaliel explained (with a straight face) that if you look up the word Lord and follow the definition it goes to <a href="https://www.blueletterbible.org/lang/lexicon/lexicon.cfm?Strongs=H113&t=KJV" target="_blank">Strong's H113</a>. Ok, I know that this goes to the Blue Letter Bible and not some custom made but hard to find etymology site that in only known to </span><span style="color: #666666;">Gamaliel</span><span style="color: #666666;"> and his followers, but it will serve my purposes. According to </span><span style="color: #666666;">Gamaliel</span><span style="color: #666666;"> </span><span style="color: #666666;">The etymology of Lord leads to the Hebrew word </span><span style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #666666;">'āḏôn (</span></span><span style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #666666;">אָדוֹן) which means the </span></span><span style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #666666;">superintendent of household, the guy who is in charge of the estate<br /> finances, the guy with the money bag, which leads to the need to </span><b>tithe</b><span style="color: #666666;">.</span></span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #666666;">Trying to get a word in edgewise was impossible, Gamaliel was a fast talking jabber walkie who may have known what I was about to say. He continued on about the rooms that the Lord was making for us in his masters mansion and that takes money. He's probably putting up the drywall right now. </span></span></p><span style="color: #666666;"><div style="text-align: justify;">Here's what Strong's Concordance really says about 'āḏôn (אָדוֹן): it means the Lord God. That whole<br /> blithering about the superintendent of the household when using the word 'āḏôn (אָדוֹן) is only used when referring to a mere man not GOD. I have been preaching and writing since 2012 that everything in the bible depends on CONTEXT which Gamaliel completely ignored. In Matthew 7:22 the Lord mentioned there is the Lord God, creator of Heaven and Earth, not some guy comparing fabric swatches and collecting room rent before heading out to Home Depot at 6:00 AM to pick up cheap labor to get the topiary trimmed. When you're reading the bible it's all about context, context, context, and if that's not enough to satisfy your curiosity, go back and take a look at the CONTEXT. Follow the 20/20 rule. If you need to understand something, read 20 verses before the part you're looking for help with, then read 20 verses past it and you will get the context.<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiZMDeZDHJ43jos2xbuxD8tV9fanbUvKekyizz2n-2RTNV7K2YplOb8X44Emc9YHuy2rEO-pWE9fep8oVD1Sk3OkJA_bmZ5eO-LmhuHRW-iUFWAQa2ZQol3DsxmBnTyQ0qr76KAGmmCBDgg/s341/kicked-out-clipart-4.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="341" data-original-width="328" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiZMDeZDHJ43jos2xbuxD8tV9fanbUvKekyizz2n-2RTNV7K2YplOb8X44Emc9YHuy2rEO-pWE9fep8oVD1Sk3OkJA_bmZ5eO-LmhuHRW-iUFWAQa2ZQol3DsxmBnTyQ0qr76KAGmmCBDgg/w193-h200/kicked-out-clipart-4.jpg" width="193" /></a></div></div></span><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #666666;">Strong's Concordance is not written just for one bible translation, if the etymology app you're using doesn't link the words to Strong's for the bible version you're reading, </span><b>get a different etymology app!</b><span style="color: #666666;"> Geez, I don't mean to shout, but you don't have to be a computer expert with 20+ years experience to figure that out. The BLB app for android and iOS works fine. And even though some fast talking defrocked preacher tells you otherwise, words in italics in the Concordance are </span><span style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #666666;">Greek words and therefore will be found in the Greek dictionary.</span></span><span style="color: #666666;"> </span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #666666;">The next bible study I was able to attend was without Gamaliel, it was Matthew, Mark, Myself, and some other guy who didn't add to the narrative so I won't bother making up a name for him. Matthew started the study by telling us that Gamaliel is publishing a book and that he (Matthew) was going to pony up $125 that he can't afford to purchase that book, but it's ok, because that's what he has to do to tithe properly. I figured that I need to talk about this whole Gamaliel situation and tried to find a way to approach this diplomatically. But before I could talk about context and the 20/20 rule, Matthew told me to leave.</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #666666;">He told me that I wasn't tithing properly so he wasn't allowed to teach me the bible. Wait, what?!? I did not think "HIM teach ME the bible? Me </span><span style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #666666;">A Christian Blogger for nearly a decade, a deacon for seven years, the chairman of the board of a Congregational church, a member and student of Bible Study Fellowship for years, me who studied the Book of Genesis under a Rabbi, who fell so in love with John that I read and studied that book constantly for a year, who tried to lead hymns in church while suffering from Pulmonary Arterial Hypertension. That ME?"</span></span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #666666;">No, I thought "What the hell did Gamaliel teach him?" And hell is an appropriate word to use in this case because that's where Gamaliel is leading Matthew, Mark, and the other guy I didn't bother to assign a name to. Teaching that there is hidden knowledge in the bible that only a few have access to is dangerous heresy, maybe even a form of </span><span style="color: #666666; text-align: left;">Gnosticism, which is a heresy that Satan sent to destroy the church 1700 years ago and is gaining a following now. I'm not going to say I kept my cool and left with a smile on my face, no, I was quite upset. BUT I have so many problems going on in my life to worry about, this isn't one of them.</span></p>Doug Evanshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05318930961031654937noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2246295430976433070.post-22145931094000387712021-02-24T09:13:00.000-07:002021-02-24T09:13:29.504-07:00Where Have I Been?<p> <table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEityjvWk6TB-7_3ZAb0_N4ylbV68ai8EW_SGHl6_v8OtHqbrnAo5bv9l8r5WnwFDozw6BSUiWK5qg2Kw7pE7CG6FgrFUrrZSdFCde852nSXc1C4-ABmmbn63sDPfUuUViQAnswKKZ8vxxmJ/s1080/SB-Virutal-Vacation-Amelia-Island-beach.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="720" data-original-width="1080" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEityjvWk6TB-7_3ZAb0_N4ylbV68ai8EW_SGHl6_v8OtHqbrnAo5bv9l8r5WnwFDozw6BSUiWK5qg2Kw7pE7CG6FgrFUrrZSdFCde852nSXc1C4-ABmmbn63sDPfUuUViQAnswKKZ8vxxmJ/s320/SB-Virutal-Vacation-Amelia-Island-beach.jpg" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i><span style="color: red;">I'm not here, but I'm close.... real close </span></i></td></tr></tbody></table></p><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Alfa Slab One; font-size: x-large;">Where Have I Been?</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">About a year ago I gave up. The only thing I could write about is the church, which is supposed to be the physical image of God on this earth, literally going straight to hell lead by their perfectly coiffed grinning, greedy "pastors". These "pastors" have read the bible enough to sound like they know what they're talking about when they intentionally falsify God's word in order to line their pockets with cash, but it is more important (to them) to get you to worship THEM rather than God. Give it a try! Write about the lies and nonsense that Steven Furtick pours out upon the bio-mass that fills his goat barn every Sunday and see what attacks you get from people that have no clue about what God really said. And YES I SAID IT, I said bio-mass, they're not people, a PERSON would have picked up a bible and doublechecked what Furtick spewed out. A PERSON would have walked out when Furtick committed narcissgesis and injected himself into the bible. Instead they attack whomever points out Furtick's pastoral crimes like good little acolytes. Thanks to Steven Furtick they're now just bio-mass getting ready to fuel the furnaces of hell.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">I should have been writing about God's word, I should have been explaining to those that were seeking Him and what He said, but instead I end up motivated trying to untangle the LIES and Deceitfulness of self appointed "pastors" who twist God's word to aggrandize themselves. To these psudo-preachers it's 1. all about worshiping the psudo-preacher, 2. writing checks to the psudo-preacher, and 3. hating the neighbor who isn't part of your cult. </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Take Golden Goat winner from 2015, <a href="https://wideawakechristian.blogspot.com/2015/12/false-teacher-of-year-2015.html" target="_blank">Mark Sandlin</a>. Uberleftist Mark Sandlin is probably still celebrating January 20th with masturbatory glee because it's all about the politics, not about GOD. Mark even re-wrote Matthew 25:31-33 putting the sheep to God's left because MARK SANDLIN is on the left, so GOD obviously made a mistake, and he took away Jesus' deity because EVERYONE made a mistake elevating Jesus to godhood without Mark Sandlin's permission. </div><span><a name='more'></a></span><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">After I pointed out Mark's false teachings he wrote to me, telling me all about his superior intellect and understanding of the people rather than the bible, and then told me how he was going to be just like Jesus and go out drinking with his flock. No Mark, Jesus did not go out drinking with drunks, he did not shoot up drugs with addicts, he did not sleep with prostitutes. He warned them about their sins and told them to clean up their acts, something you don't have the courage to do. What you do for mankind Mr, Sandlin, is to prove that God is right:</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><blockquote style="text-align: left;"><i><span style="font-size: xx-small;">1 </span>But false prophets also appeared among the people, just as there will also be false teachers among you, who will secretly introduce destructive heresies, even denying the Master who bought them, bringing swift destruction upon themselves. <span style="font-size: xx-small;">2</span> Many will follow their indecent behavior, and because of them the way of the truth will be maligned; <span style="font-size: xx-small;">3</span> and in their greed they will exploit you with false words; their judgment from long ago is not idle, and their destruction is not asleep. </i>(2 Peter 2:1-3)</blockquote></div><div style="text-align: justify;">There is a special hell for false teachers, and if they believed a word of the bible, they would be aware of their coming fate and repent; but how many do you see repenting? These people are just like the false prophets of the Church Of Climate Catastrophe, they warn you the "little people" that you must stop driving cars, stop heating your homes, and stop eating beef to SAVE THE PLANET, then they hop in their private jets and blast their way to Barbados to spend your cash on their pleasure. They don't believe the "science" of what they told you, any more than Beth Moore believes the word of God is actually the word of God. I was filled with so much disgust at the antics of these false teachers I could no longer find the peace and tranquility I once found in delving in the word and expounding on what I learned, so I slowed down and eventually stopped writing this blog in April 2020. </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">I didn't quit writing all together, in the background I was (and still am) writing a silly story that no one will ever see but it would possibly make a saccharine sweet Hallmark Christmas movie. I think God wanted me to take some time and concentrate on my own issues, and kept me writing in the background just to keep my brain moving.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b><i>Dateline: Brighton Colorado, January 2020</i></b></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">I have been on oxygen for half a decade due to a rare condition called Pulmonary Arterial Hypertension. PAH is high blood pressure inside my lungs which causes high blood pressure inside my heart. Something clogs the pulmonary arteries which causes the blood pressure to rise and prevents oxygen rich blood from reaching the body. To us PAH sufferers it feels like our lungs are working just fine, we feel the air going in and out, it's just not... working. My medical miracle workers measure my blood pressure inside my heart with an echo cardiogram (ECG) on a regular basis, but they get a truly accurate reading through a right side heart catheter (RCH). A normal reading on an RCH is 8 to 15, I believe my last one was 38, and compared to some of my fellow PAH PHighters, mine is low. </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">If I measure my BP with an arm cuff the average reading is 100/60 so I don't have high blood pressure.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">I'm a carrier, I give high blood pressure to other people.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">(I made that line up, you can use it if you want) </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">At this point I honestly believe it was caused by COPD, but in reality I have WHO Group 4 Pulmonary Arterial Hypertension, my lungs are filled with blood clots causing the PAH. If you put a Pulse/OX on your finger while watching TV you'll measure 98% or 99%, I'll measure 95%. If you get up and walk your blood oxygen level might drop to 97%, mine will drop to 90% or lower, and that's dangerous. </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">In January in Colorado we just had a heavy, wet snow and I'm out there, wearing an oxygen tank on my back, shoveling my driveway, gasping for air like a landed tuna. Not a young man with a shovel in sight to help a disabled veteran, that's too much like work for the youth of Colorado, so I'm shoveling the driveway by hand. I don't know why, I'm unemployed and living on social security disability, I have nowhere to go and nothing to spend.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">My neighbor's son-in-law arrives home from work and asks how I'm doing. I say "I've spent all of my adult life in Buffalo New York, Minot North Dakota, and Denver Colorado, I'm done with winter. Sixty two years and I've spent all of those years with a snow shovel in my hand. Wanna buy a house?"</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">"How much?" he asks</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">I mention the fair market value of my house, to which he responds "Sold." Such is the real estate market in the Denver area. I could have put it on the market and started a bidding war, but he's a good kid and his wife watches my grandson.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b><i>Dateline: Terra del Trementina Florida, June 2020</i></b></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Selling the house in Brighton was quick and easy, the realtor was a friend so it was just a few (dozen) signatures and closing was complete. Closing on the house here in Turpentine FL actually happened up in Denver, then we loaded up the RV and headed south. Once here, the first thing I did was turn off the oxygen machine, I don't need it, mostly. The air pressure here at an altitude of 49 feet is sufficient for me to function without supplemental oxygen, so I didn't have to move 1,750 miles to Florida; I just had to move one mile - straight down.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">I have nicknamed this new residence Terra del Trementina, Land of Turpentine because this area was founded on turpentine. A captain in the confederate army, Guyler Walter Hilliard, leased huge tracts of land (Monty Python allusion intended) that were covered with huge pine trees. He cut those trees and became a leading producer of turpentine and lumber. Today the land is still covered with pine trees, tree farms cover the area and the trees are harvested for use at a box factory out on nearby Amelia Island. I live in a weird little corner of Florida that extends up into Georgia. I've got Georgia 10 miles to the north of me and 10 miles to the west of me. Directly to the west is the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Okefenokee_Swamp" target="_blank">Okefenokee Swamp</a>, home of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pogo_(comic_strip)" target="_blank">Pogo</a>. It's said that the gators in the Okefenokee are well fed with troublemakers. This is not said as a threat, especially not to those who would come down here with the idea of taking our constitutional freedoms away. It's more like... advice.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">I miss the mountains, but they've been closed off to me for years, traveling upward past an altitude exceeding 8,500 feet is hazardous to me even on oxygen, and 8,500 feet is where the mountains I love to travel in begin. The Georgetown Loop Railroad starts at 8,500 feet and claws its way up the mountain gaining 1,000 feet in just 3 miles and the ride is spectacular. I tried to take the ride every year until 2016 when the docs all said "Stop".</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">It wasn't easy to leave my home in Brighton CO. It was so hard to say goodbye to my friends at the Colorado Model Railroad Museum, even harder to say goodbye to my brothers and sisters at Zion Congregational Church, but the hardest of all was saying goodbye to the doctors and nurses at National Jewish Health who worked so hard to keep me alive. I stay in touch with them, and luckily, one doctor has remained on my team.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b><i>Dateline: Terra del Trementina Florida, February 2021</i></b></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEih-ZGwvLcFQW6ZcUCjIO_x1-5N4BsXUZv8ihZYUtXMElg62U9V13wyWRnmhzSFeLjFu0XKx0UdrG0JO-BRRayV4us-9dc9bWx54sgQNz33qpp88dHXbfkmvgnx_0kyBFnPF2TloYFxO7yy/s236/d3c5840bd7a0999847cf0bcd91360b94.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="236" data-original-width="236" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEih-ZGwvLcFQW6ZcUCjIO_x1-5N4BsXUZv8ihZYUtXMElg62U9V13wyWRnmhzSFeLjFu0XKx0UdrG0JO-BRRayV4us-9dc9bWx54sgQNz33qpp88dHXbfkmvgnx_0kyBFnPF2TloYFxO7yy/w200-h200/d3c5840bd7a0999847cf0bcd91360b94.jpg" width="200" /></a></div><b><i><br /></i></b></div><div style="text-align: justify;">A few days ago I spent the morning inspecting my gardens wondering what I lost; while North America suffered a debilitating winter storm, NoFlo (North Florida) had a few hard freezes. All the plants I planted to attract hummingbirds were gone, even my Christmas Cactus lost their fight against the freeze. Covering the plants did nothing, a cover just keeps the frost off the plants. These were hard, 25 degree freezes. As I tallied the damage my neighbors daughter stopped by on her way to school and found a disk of ice floating on the top of my bird bath. Having never seen a freeze in her life (true Florida girl) she couldn't imagine ice in the wild. If you're born and raised in NoFlo and only 9 years old, you tend to believe that ice in its natural state is cube shaped and only exists in glasses of cola, lemonade, and ice tea. Rogue ice is found bagged and in coolers out front of the Marathon gas station. She played with that disk of ice until her fingertips numbed, amazed that a piece of ice could be as big as a wall mirror.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Later in the day I came home from the local Ace Hardware (a refuge for us old survivors on the <a href="https://www.google.com/search?q=st.%20mary%27s%20river&rlz=1C1CHBD_enUS883US883&oq=St.+Mary%27s+River&aqs=chrome.0.0i355j46j0j46j0l2j46i175i199j0j46i175i199j0.8386j0j4&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8&tbs=lf:1,lf_ui:1&tbm=lcl&sxsrf=ALeKk0080MP5toijevsrtHNgyK2aIP372w:1614179904088&rflfq=1&num=10&rldimm=10504507762001845029&lqi=ChBzdC4gbWFyeSdzIHJpdmVySNaApgFaLgoPc3QgbWFyeSdzIHJpdmVyEAAQARACGAAYARgCIg9zdCBtYXJ5J3Mgcml2ZXKSAQVyaXZlcqoBFxABKhMiD3N0IG1hcnkncyByaXZlcigA&phdesc=qNBU8JMELao&ved=2ahUKEwjhhKXe6ILvAhWVTTABHZ70DNUQvS4wAHoECBQQDA&rlst=f" target="_blank">St. Mary's</a> frontier) I flicked on the truck radio to listen to Rush. He hadn't been on the past few days so I was expecting to hear Mark Steyn,. Come to think of it, I hadn't heard Rush since Christmas. I always make an effort to listen to Rush's Christmas monologue, he was always so grateful to God and his audience. Rush introduced me to Manheim Steamroller long before they became popular. Instead I heard his wife, Kathryn Limbaugh. </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">I love Kathryn Limbaugh. After three failed marriages, Rush finally found the love of his life, and you could hear the joy in his voice whenever she was mentioned. And she's a direct descendent of President John Adams to boot. Anyone who knows Rush's love of America and American history knows that this was doubly endearing to Rush. She even published a series of children's books with her husband, The Great One, books that explain American history to children. Books that are now on my grandchildren's Christmas list now that they're old enough to understand.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">I knew exactly what <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/media/wife-statement-rush-limbaugh-dead" target="_blank">Kathryn was going to speak about </a>even before she said a word. And when she did, confirming my sorrowful suspicions, my heart sank. I sat stunned in my beat up ol' redneck pickup truck in my gravel driveway, my injured wife convalescing hundreds of miles away, my injured mother-in-law convalescing in the house, my neighbor's nine-year-old daughter waiting for me to pick her up from school, all depending on me, and I can help them, but I couldn't help the man who meant the most to me, my mentor was gone. </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">It was that point where God put his hand on my shoulder and said "Saddle up son, it's time to get back on the pony." So here I am, back in my blog, on the cutting edge of societal evolution, my personal prohibition on political discussion is gone. If I have to show Satan's course through every mumbling, stumbling, babbling utterance of <span style="color: #783f04; font-family: Nanum Pen Script;">Slow Joe Beijing Biden</span> I will, and I will be sure to show him and his administration all the adoration and respect that Satan's horde showed President Donald J. Trump.</div><p></p>Doug Evanshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05318930961031654937noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2246295430976433070.post-90559856492122749992021-02-22T17:29:00.002-07:002021-02-22T17:30:55.203-07:00God Bless Texas<p><span style="font-family: Alfa Slab One; font-size: large;"> </span><span style="font-family: Alfa Slab One; font-size: x-large;">God Bless Texas!</span></p><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEimzZ-_AV9XbrFTh2Wj8fwoOwln9i9IkwPo6BcauqcRYKFY15dHovxFlHBtUTlv_KIni6jJIa-QBAoQJK3tnQgTKbm6aLj6H6FCxAAKV2hjup_qSjqmv99td3Nd9psVGMc73NoQRa211M-G/s1386/turbineburns-Netherlands.jpg" style="clear: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img alt="You chose poorly" border="0" data-original-height="780" data-original-width="1386" height="225" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEimzZ-_AV9XbrFTh2Wj8fwoOwln9i9IkwPo6BcauqcRYKFY15dHovxFlHBtUTlv_KIni6jJIa-QBAoQJK3tnQgTKbm6aLj6H6FCxAAKV2hjup_qSjqmv99td3Nd9psVGMc73NoQRa211M-G/w400-h225/turbineburns-Netherlands.jpg" title="Why aren't these in Washington DC?" width="400" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i><span style="color: #2b00fe;">In winter the expected output of a wind turbine is 0</span></i></td></tr></tbody></table><p></p><div style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="color: #666666;">Nothing, shows the failure of the "</span><span style="color: #6aa84f;">Green New Deal</span><span style="color: #666666;">" and the clueless prattling about "renewable energy" than the energy disaster in Texas which just occurred. To begin with, solar power and wind power are NOT renewable energy. Once that photon has struck the solar panel, it's gone. It will never come back. Once a gust of wind has nudged a wind turbine's blade, it's gone. You will never see that gust of wind again. There is nothing you can do to get that photon or gust back. You cannot </span><i style="color: #666666;">renew </i><span style="color: #666666;">them, you can not make more wind, you cannot create more sunbeams. You can hope for more, but I've lived in Texas, in summer weeks can go by without a puff of wind, so much for the 12th century technology of wind power. In a Texas winter the clouds can blanket the state without a drop of rain, a flake of snow, or a respite from the gloom. An actual renewable form of energy is wood. You can (and we do) plant more trees, then cut them down, dry them out, and bake them into charcoal. But solar and wind are (except for the clouds and windless day) best described as "sustainable abet unpredictable" energy.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #666666;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #666666;"> Now, you can scream that the "</span><span style="color: #6aa84f;">Green New Deal</span><span style="color: #666666;"> is not in effect because it hasn't been voted on!" until you're </span><span style="color: #6aa84f;">green </span><span style="color: #666666;">in the face, to which I say "Be quiet, adults are talking." Ever since Alexandria </span><strike style="color: #666666;">Occasional</strike><span style="color: #666666;"> Ocasio Cortez put forth her lunatic fantasy (I really can't wait to take an electric train to Hawaii) the political and theological left has been driven by the breathless idea that you can power the industrial might of the world with children's smiles and unicorn farts. No, it hasn't been voted on in the house or the senate, but it has been accepted as the unofficial law of the land by every man, woman, and any combination of those two options on the political left. The truth is, if you want to avoid burning everything you own to keep from freezing next winter, you had better pray for Global Warming on a massive scale.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #666666;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #666666;"> <b>Nothing is more deadly to mankind than cold</b>. A study </span><span style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #666666;">published in the British journal The Lancet analyzed data on more than 74 million deaths in 13 countries between 1985 and 2012. Of those, 5.4 million deaths were related to cold, while 311,000 were related to heat. The left will tell you that heat may kill crops, but they will ignore the fact that cold prevents crops from even being planted. They might say that we are all going to burn up from global warming, they might hysterically shriek that oceans are going to rise by feet and wipe out entire cities, to which I say "I warned you once before, adults are talking."</span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="text-align: left;"><span><a name='more'></a></span><span style="color: #666666;"><br /></span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #666666;"> I could cover this page with data and charts that show that the temperature on the <a href="https://principia-scientific.com/mars-melt-hints-at-solar-not-human-cause-for-warming-scientist-says/" target="_blank">moon, Mars, and Pluto </a>are rising also indicating that the sun is the cause of our "woes" but the most damning evidence against the "science" of man made global warming is the fact that the coastlines of the Untied States are populated by those people who believe most that global warming is going to destroy the coastlines of the United States. Cape Cod, the Hamptons, </span></span><span style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #666666;">Rehoboth Beach, Ocean City, Provincetown, </span></span><span style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #666666;">Ogunquit, and the whole of Martha's Vineyard, all in the crosshairs of a global disaster, all infested with what looks like LeftThink powered automatons who publicly claim that the sea levels are going up like express elevators, and not a single one is moving inland. The </span><span style="color: #38761d;">greenest </span><span style="color: #666666;">president ever, Barack <strike>Milhouse</strike> Hussein Obama dropped several jillion dollars in a palace on the beach at Martha's Vineyard knowing full well that he'd need a scuba mask to watch TV in their sunken living room? No, he doesn't believe the lies about global warming, none of them do, and neither should you.</span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #666666;"><br /></span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #666666;"> <b>Whirly-gigs are not the answer no matter how stupid the question is. </b>How can we say that the windmills failed when their owners claim that they reached their expected output? That's easy, the expected output of a windmill placed anywhere in the United States in the winter is 0. The forgotten AAA battery that fell behind your dresser last summer has the potential of adding more energy to the energy grid this January than a $4 million dollar two megawatt wind turbine. The reason is simple; in the winter the wind turbine needs to prevent its vital components from freezing, so they have heating elements installed to warm those gears and lubricants and bit and parts. Until heating elements that are designed to operate on children's smiles and unicorn farts come on line, the heating elements have to be powered by electricity, causing the wind turbine's efficiency rating to fall into the negative numbers. The heaters come in the form of very expensive "winterization" kits which Texas did not<span style="text-align: left;"> spend the money to install. The idea is: spend the money on expensive heaters that use more energy than the wind turbine puts out, or not spend the money on expensive heaters and get no energy out of the wind turbine. It's a lose-lose situation.</span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #666666;"><br /></span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: right;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiEkpzJeKVpDLyk5jEhzcyuTEFUtr_P1NsceKGuGKXP1Yx5ZR2iGk3FHeQsYRM5UdWSFfJ3YxyQ07PAAtHQm42EN4aXqxZoDftgHywBVJ0XO8vUTZR4uQYJbZfpm4rmGA7B4RWPeWDVYkqu/s974/helicopter-de-icing.png" style="clear: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="547" data-original-width="974" height="191" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiEkpzJeKVpDLyk5jEhzcyuTEFUtr_P1NsceKGuGKXP1Yx5ZR2iGk3FHeQsYRM5UdWSFfJ3YxyQ07PAAtHQm42EN4aXqxZoDftgHywBVJ0XO8vUTZR4uQYJbZfpm4rmGA7B4RWPeWDVYkqu/w320-h191/helicopter-de-icing.png" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #2b00fe;"><i>You guessed it, de-icing a Texas eagle chopper</i></span></td></tr></tbody></table><span style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #666666;"> The need for electricity in unexpected places in the energy production chain doesn't stop at 12th century </span></span><span style="color: #666666;">technology like windmills. Natural gas, often called by psudoscientists who infest the left wing a "fossil fuel', </span><span style="color: #666666;">is not a fossil fuel. It's a mixture of combustible gases formed underground by the decomposition of organic materials in plants and animals. Decomposition of organic materials such as plants and animals creates methane which is the primary component of natural gas, happens fairly rapidly as compared to waiting for a tree to grow so you can cut it down and burn it to keep warm. Natural gas is produced in sizeable quantities in garbage dumps and the dump operators need to deal with it. Because it is so easily created, could you call it "renewable?" Personally I wouldn't stop you if you did, but to be honest, there is no such thing as renewable energy. The only exception might be hydro, which is dependent on the source of the water remaining a viable source via the water cycle.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #666666;"><br /></span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #666666;"> Like oil and coal, the United States has <i>lots </i>of natural gas, and we can and pipe it right to the clean burning natural gas power generating stations. The problem is that to keep the gas moving through these pile lines, you need pumps and valves to move the gas, and in a cold winter these need to be powered. Because the Texas energy demand shot up due to the cold weather, and because the wind turbines were doing exactly what they were designed to do in the winter (nothing), there wasn't enough energy to operate those valves and pumps needed to move the natural gas, which caused natural gas pipelines to fail, which caused natural gas burning power plants to fail, which caused Texas to fail. </span></span><span style="color: #666666; text-align: left;">The only power source that continued to operate during the Great Texas Power Shutdown of '21 is coal and nuclear. </span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #666666; text-align: left;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #666666; text-align: left;"> <b>Shriek in horror all you want</b>, but coal and nuclear are the most reliable power sources America has. There are other potential sources of reliable, sustainable energy; geothermal is one such source, but not a lot of people would be happy with a power company punching holes in Yellowstone National Park. Another safe, reliable source of power would be in the creation of a series of <a href="https://greenerideal.com/news/energy/1218-thorium-better-than-uranium/#:~:text=Thorium%20and%20its%20waste%20products%20re%20more%20than,storing%2C%20transporting%20and%20handling%20the%20fuel%20and%20waste" target="_blank">Thorium Reactors</a>. The waste from a thorium reactor is 1000 times less radioactive than uranium, although it is corrosive. There are a lot of things that are corrosive and we learn to deal with them without being hysterical to the point of wetting our pants. So why don't we have Thorium Reactors? Because of the word "reactor" and that whole "</span><span style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #666666;">being hysterical to the point of wetting our pants" reaction people have to the word "reactor". If you want to learn more about Thorium Reactors than you'd ever want to know, have a chat with my </span><a href="https://mewe.com/i/robmorse" style="color: #666666;" target="_blank">buddy Rob over on MeWe</a><span style="color: #666666;">, I guarantee that he's smarter than you.</span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #666666; text-align: left;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #666666;"> Many people are angry that the Texas power grid is not connected with a federally controlled power grid. This is a good thing. Why? Because Texas produces more energy than it needs, this allows Texas to </span><b><i>sell </i></b><span style="color: #666666;">excess power to other energy grids. If Texas were part of a national system, because Texas gets a large amount of energy from <strike>pinwheel</strike>s wind turbines (on a windy day) this would allow a federally controlled grid to shut down "inefficient" coal plants in neighboring states, making neighboring states dependent on Texas power. This would have made the 'Texas only' power outage spread to New Mexico, Louisiana, and Oklahoma putting millions more people in the dark.</span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #666666;"><br /></span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #666666;">The Leftists will spin tales of reactor melt downs and the horrors of coal belching clouds of soot into the air, and to be honest, with the advent of clean burning coal plants the only horror left in coal is the fact that not enough leftists received lumps of it in their Christmas stocking. And that is all the left has to offer; horror stories. Made up horror stories. They create fear in your heart and then they prey on it. They spun stories of how the evil </span><span style="font-family: Alfa Slab One;">Donald J. Trump </span><span style="color: #666666;">was going to start a nuclear war, and guess what - he didn't. The left lied to you (big surprise). They told us that the evil President </span><span style="font-family: Alfa Slab One;">Donald J. Trump</span><span style="color: #666666;"> was a man of war, a politician who uses threat of nuclear war for personal gain. Yet the evil president </span><span style="font-family: Alfa Slab One;">Donald J. Trump</span><span style="color: #666666;"> was nominated for four Nobel peace prizes, he moved the US Embassy in Israel to Jerusalem, he brought our troops home from </span><a href="https://www.theamericanconservative.com/articles/trump-deserves-credit-for-bringing-the-troops-home/" style="color: #666666;" target="_blank">Germany and Afghanistan</a><span style="color: #666666;">, and while the political left lies and refuses to acknowledge </span><span style="font-family: Alfa Slab One;">Donald J. Trump's</span><span style="color: #666666;"> successes, they also lie and refuse to acknowledge </span><span style="color: #990000; font-family: Nanum Pen Script;">Joe Biden's</span><span style="color: #666666;"> addiction to Chinese money. </span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #666666;"><br /></span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #666666;">What do we, the Christian men and women who care about our country, do about the hysterical raving from the left, the insanity of their demands, the vile accusations, and the non-stop attacks on our <b>God Given</b> liberties? The answer is right there in the bible:</span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #666666;"><br /></span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="text-align: left;"><blockquote><i>When I am afraid, I will put my trust in You</i> (Psalm 56:3)</blockquote></span></div><p></p>Doug Evanshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05318930961031654937noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2246295430976433070.post-67617354476679347652021-02-19T06:54:00.001-07:002021-02-19T06:54:50.240-07:00Talent On Loan from God<p></p><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEifmTUdtJuaWKxdUlfAJjEUES4SAtn0k4dae92EuPLxBhLFVLY_yHreJFpksu9HGH-bnY999zWL-2WAMPpZYqBxZcuHowIn4UGtIuyBvx0aftUWZEq0LJop0e95zuqwBcAo-lJJ21GP33Xv/s950/President+Rush.jpg" style="clear: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="945" data-original-width="950" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEifmTUdtJuaWKxdUlfAJjEUES4SAtn0k4dae92EuPLxBhLFVLY_yHreJFpksu9HGH-bnY999zWL-2WAMPpZYqBxZcuHowIn4UGtIuyBvx0aftUWZEq0LJop0e95zuqwBcAo-lJJ21GP33Xv/s320/President+Rush.jpg" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i><span style="color: #990000;">President Rush addressing the land of the free</span></i></td></tr></tbody></table><p></p><p></p><div style="text-align: justify;">I<span style="color: #666666;"> first "met" Rush Limbaugh in 1988. I was in Minot ND driving on "South Hill" and I turned on KRRZ 1390 AM to hear some old time rock n' roll. Instead I heard a man speaking loudly, complaining about the latest idiocy that came out of Washington DC. I don't remember the subject of his rant, but I do remember thinking that this guy was "just another loudmouth out of New York City", and I turned to a different station. It wasn't Rush's first show after being syndicated, but it was close to the first.</span></div><p></p><p></p><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #666666;">Something he said sat with me, so the next day I turned the radio on and there he was again. He mentioned "The Limbaugh Challenge" which was to listen to his show for two weeks before coming to judgement. </span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #666666;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #666666;">This time I listened, and as he spoke I learned. I learned that it was ok to feel the way I feel, it was ok to disagree with the leftist intelligencia, it was ok to analyze issues with my conservative values, it was ok to voice my concerns using my my God given intelligence, and it was ok to address my detractors when done with truth and love. </span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #666666;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #666666;">Love for a detractor? Yes, love for America, and love for another child of God. Many folks don't realize it, but "El Rushbo" was a devout Christian. He rarely hinted about it on his show because his show was political, not theological. He didn't want to be a Christian apologist, he was something even rarer: a USA apologist.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #666666;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #666666;">I was on active duty in the United States Air Force, serving in the Strategic Air Command when Rush hit the airwaves and I have no idea how big of a hit he was in the civilian world, but in the enlisted ranks he was a gift from God. Finally! Here was a civilian who thought as we did, a man who got it: laws are laws for a reason, rules are to be followed, ignorant, cruel, selfish ungodly politicians are not to be followed, regardless of the party.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #666666;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span><a name='more'></a></span><span style="color: #666666;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #666666;">The big thing is that he got us. Not you civilians, he got you, I'm talking about us military. The guys with stripes on their arms, the men and women defending this country, shooting the guns, flying the airplanes, sailing the ships, loading the bombs, turning the wrenches, standing the guard positions. The men and women who gave up their youth, their families, their homes, their health to protect and defend the Constitution of the United States, and in turn you; he understood us and our mindset. There is a second military inside the real military, those that joined for a job and a college education and stayed when they found the going easy. We call them "Chairborne" or "Nonners" (non combatants) those with clean fingernails and sharp creases at the end of their shift, those whose military experience is indoors and comfortable, Rush got them too, but many of them couldn't figure out Rush.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #666666;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #666666;">It wasn't hard to figure out Rush, he rounded everything down to the lowest common denominator and cut to the core of the truth. Here is Rush Limbaugh's most controversial quote, it's <i>hated </i>by feminists: </span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><blockquote><span style="color: #660000;">Feminism was established to allow unattractive women easier access to the mainstream.</span></blockquote></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #666666;">This is a true statement, it was always easy for a beautiful woman to get hired, and a beautiful, sexy woman didn't have to prove herself if her boss was simply looking for "arm candy". Feminism opened the doors for all women, regardless of their appearance, their skills and abilities were now the key to opening doors to employment. This statement is 100% true, so why does the left hate it so much? Because they don't like the way it <i>sounds</i>. And that's what the military loved so much about Rush, we don't care about how something sounds, we want the <b>truth</b>, and we prefer the truth straight up, no chaser. Here's another quote that the left is incapable of understanding:</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #660000;"></span><blockquote><span style="color: #660000;">The L.A. riots were not caused by the Rodney King verdict, the L. A. riots were caused by rioters.</span></blockquote></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #666666;">If you need help understanding this, please comment below and I'll give you a hand. </span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #666666;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #666666;">In 1990 I was Floor Supervisor in a heavy equipment repair shop, it was a difficult job keeping the troops motivated because for years this shop was a dumping ground for folks that didn't cut it on the flightline. Men and women from all fascets of life, all racial make-ups worked there, and the only commonality was their uniforms and the fact that they were "dumped" from their previous job. Quite often arguments would break out over what music should be played in the building, I solved that by playing Rush Limbaugh. </span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #666666;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #666666;">I would like to say that Rush Limbaugh brought the shop together in peace and harmony and production skyrocketed but that would be a lie. Productivity fell because they were listening to Rush, and lunchbreaks during his show became quite extensive. But the gang came together as a team and when they learned that they all shared the same core beliefs, they began to share their job knowledge with each other and help each other and soon our tribe of losers became a team. I've seen much better teams in my 20 years, but I've never been prouder of any team than I am of the 5th Bombardment Wing's "Hammer Maintenance" shop and their elected leader, Chief Master Sergeant Rush Limbaugh.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #666666;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #666666;">Rush followed me all over the world as I went to foreign and exotic places like Guam, New Mexico, Korea, Saudi Arabia, and Turkey. (Yes, New Mexico. Deal with it.) and Rush went with me. Not only was an hour of his show broadcast on the Armed Forces Network (AFN) the entirety of his show was on WRNO, a shortwave broadcaster out of New Orleans. I traveled with a <a href="https://www.ebay.com/itm/224345338757?chn=ps&norover=1&mkevt=1&mkrid=711-117182-37290-0&mkcid=2&itemid=224345338757&targetid=1068323852870&device=c&mktype=pla&googleloc=9011463&poi=&campaignid=10454521601&mkgroupid=104612011660&rlsatarget=pla-1068323852870&abcId=2146002&merchantid=6296724&gclid=Cj0KCQiA4L2BBhCvARIsAO0SBdam2biC2mBNp3KpSeIQtnvqHLkMRywu_LN2D9XgNvrZtIldnekyKk4aApEuEALw_wcB" target="_blank">portable HF (High Frequency) receiver</a> and a portable wire antenna and I could tune in live (if the signal was propagating in favor of me). Rush made</span><span style="color: #666666;"> long deployments away from friends, family, and my beloved United States much easier.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #666666;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #666666;">Yes, Rush Limbaugh was a Christian. With his sad passing tales of his generosity are emerging, thousand dollar tips to down on their luck waiters and waitresses, anonymous donations of amounts in six digits or more to foundations like St. Judes Children's Hospital. As for his faith; his 32 year catch phrase was "Talent on loan from God" giving honor for all his success, all his abilities to God, no one else. This is something the left has never understood, which is why the left needs to create such <a href="http://lyingliar.com/frankens-rushchelsea-lie/" target="_blank">horrific lies</a> about Rush Limbaugh, to demonize a man of God. Rush kept his religion to himself as Jesus ordered us to do:</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span><blockquote style="text-align: left;">5 <i style="color: red;">And when you pray, you are not to be like the hypocrites; for they love to stand and pray in the synagogues and on the street corners so that they will be seen by people. Truly I say to you, they have their reward in full. </i>6<i style="color: red;"> </i><i><span style="color: red;">But as for you, when you pray, go into your inner room, close your door, and pray to your Father who is in secret; and your Father who sees what is done in secret will reward you.</span></i><span style="color: #666666;"> (Matthew 6:6)</span></blockquote><p style="color: #666666;"> How many Christians in America today can say that? Far too many are traveling through life practically shouting "Look at me being Christian! Ain't I great?!" It wasn't until the very end when Rush revealed what his listeners already knew;</p><p></p><blockquote><span style="color: #660000;">I have a personal relationship with Jesus Christ. It is of immense value, strength, confidence and that's why I'm able to remain fully committed to the idea that what is supposed to happen will happen when it's meant to</span></blockquote><p></p><p><span style="color: #666666;">Thank you Rush, for 32 of my life spent knowing I wasn't alone in my beliefs of human dignity, the need to uphold and obey the Constitution of the United States, and that our skills and talents in no matter what we do, are truly on loan from God.</span></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="420" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/wfaZZLWbUTU" width="505" youtube-src-id="wfaZZLWbUTU"></iframe></div><br /><span style="color: #666666;"><br /></span><p></p></span></div><p></p>Doug Evanshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05318930961031654937noreply@blogger.com0Tierra de Trementina30.691068 -81.917333399999992.3808341638211559 -117.07358339999999 59.001301836178847 -46.76108339999999tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2246295430976433070.post-81819085237203884932020-04-24T14:13:00.002-06:002020-04-24T14:13:45.883-06:00Random Bits<table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left; margin-right: 1em; text-align: left;"><tbody>
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<span style="font-size: 10.56px; line-height: 14.784px;"><span style="font-size: xx-small; text-align: start;">This world is not my home I'm just a'passing through</span><br style="font-size: 14.85px;" /><span style="font-size: xx-small; text-align: start;">My treasures are laid up somewhere beyond the blue</span><br style="font-size: 14.85px;" /><span style="font-size: xx-small; text-align: start;">The angels beckon me from heaven's open door</span><br style="font-size: 14.85px;" /><span style="font-size: xx-small; text-align: start;">And I can't feel at home in this world anymore</span></span></div>
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I used to get up and read the news every morning, however what used to be the news media has become a toxic wasteland promoting not a review of the events of the day, but a festering sinkhole of Trump Derangement Syndrome. Their lies and disinformation about the Russian Collusion Delusion failed to overturn the legitimate 2016 presidential election so now they are trying to derail the 2020 election using the same tactic: lies and disinformation. </div>
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Yesterday President Trump spoke of the possibility of using heat and ultraviolet light as a disinfectant to cleanse the body of the Chinese Virus, today the media is hysterically screeching that President Trump told the American people to inject Lysol. In the meantime state governments who are treating adults like adults and allow many freedoms have lower infection rates (Florida) than states who treat everyone like serfs or mere possessions (Michigan). Drive in churches that follow CDC guidelines are being harassed, while Muslim mosques are continuing to hold their services same as always, shoulder to shoulder, are unharassed by the left careening media. Does this madness remind you of anything? I personally am thinking of the literal translation of Matthew 24:10-13</div>
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10 <i><span style="color: red;">At that time many will be caused to stumble and will hand over one another and hate one another.</span></i> 11 <i><span style="color: red;">Many false prophets will arise and will mislead many.</span></i> 12 <i><span style="color: red;">Because lawlessness is increased, most people’s love will grow cold.</span></i> 13 <span style="color: red;"><i>But the one who endures to the end, he will be saved.</i></span></blockquote>
Speaking of false prophets: "At noon March 29, 2020 The Covid-10 pandemic is OVER" - <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=24&v=MzNdxIlg8nE&feature=emb_logo" target="_blank">Kenneth Copeland</a> Thanks Kenny! Someone get that man a new corporate jet<br />
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Female teachers to <a href="http://watchmansbagpipes.blogspot.com/2020/04/women-teachers-to-avoid.html" target="_blank">avoid</a><br />
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If you have pets you should avoid <a href="https://pulpitandpen.org/2020/04/21/pet-sematary-cindy-jacobs-can-raise-animals-from-the-dead/" target="_blank">Cindy Jacobs </a>too<br />
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I have nothing against women of God, but there are biblical requirements of both men and women whom are called to serve. The SBC used to know that, but it seems like <a href="https://reformationcharlotte.org/2020/04/24/southern-baptist-church-names-woman-as-teaching-pastor/" target="_blank">they don't anymore</a><br />
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Heaven is not Christians <a href="http://www.spiritoferror.org/2020/04/heaven-and-hell-compelling-and-surprising-answers-to-your-questions/9110" target="_blank">true eternal home?</a> Here's some compelling answers to your questions<br />
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<a href="https://christiannews.net/2020/04/23/harvard-prof-under-fire-for-bashing-homeschooling-as-parental-authoritarian-control-calling-for-presumptive-ban/" target="_blank">A Harvard law professor </a>characterized homeschooling as parents having “authoritarian control” over their children and called for a “presumptive ban” on the practice<br />
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Christians in Pakistan are being <a href="https://www.mnnonline.org/news/christians-denied-food-in-pakistan-but-the-church-is-providing/" target="_blank">denied food</a>, but the Church is providing them with their needs<br />
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"The Church of the Healthy Self" - Does that even sound like a real Christian church? <a href="https://www.ocregister.com/2020/04/17/westminster-pastor-set-to-plead-guilty-to-more-than-33-million-fraud/" target="_blank">It wasn't</a><br />
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Churches in a California county were ordered 'no singing' during <b><i><a href="https://www.theblaze.com/news/churches-ordered-no-singing-during-livestream-services-unless-theyre-in-homes-california-county-covid-19-restrictions-say" target="_blank">live streaming online services</a></i></b><br />
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A Kansas-based megachurch has helped to relieve approximately <a href="https://www.christianpost.com/news/kansas-megachurch-helps-to-relieve-47m-in-medical-debt-faring-well-amid-covid-19-shutdown.html" target="_blank">$4.7 million in medical debt</a><br />
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Chinese officials remove crosses from churches amid coronavirus for being '<a href="https://www.foxnews.com/world/china-coronavirus-church-cross-officials-update" target="_blank">higher than the national flag</a>'<br />
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Chinese Police arrest Christians participating in <a href="https://www.christianpost.com/news/china-police-arrest-christians-participating-in-zoom-easter-worship-service.html" target="_blank">Zoom Easter worship service</a><br />
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An Oxford University professor has been arrested as part of an investigation into the theft and unauthorized sale of<a href="https://www.christianpost.com/news/oxford-professor-arrested-for-selling-stolen-bible-fragments-to-museum-of-the-bible.html" target="_blank"> ancient Bible fragments </a>to Hobby Lobby Stores<br />
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You just had to know <a href="https://www.faithwire.com/2020/04/17/lgbtq-site-says-coronavirus-is-punishment-for-conservative-christians/" target="_blank">this was going to happen</a> (insert eye rolling emoji here)<br />
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Just to show that uneducated partisan hysteria isn't just for the LGBTQXYZ zealots, <a href="https://pulpitandpen.org/2020/04/20/nc-governor-blames-coronavirus-spread-on-christians/" target="_blank">there's this guy</a><br />
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New York State issues "<a href="https://nypost.com/2020/04/21/ny-issues-do-not-resuscitate-guideline-for-cardiac-patients/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Do Not Resuscitate</a>" orders for cardiac patients because: Chinese Virus. The socialist left went crazy trying to defend Italy's decision to do the same with <a href="https://www.texasrighttolife.com/italy-icus-urged-to-stop-treating-elderly/" target="_blank">elderly patients</a>, but I haven't seen a peep about this. The media is probably too busy pushing the TDS narrative<br />
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Just when I thought that the False Teacher of the Year award for 2020 was locked up by Andy Stanley, our old favorite front runner Todd Bentley has announced his <a href="https://pulpitandpen.org/2020/04/23/todd-bentley-is-gearing-up-to-re-enter-the-ministry/" target="_blank">Return To Apostasy 2020</a> tour<br />
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The Iranian government has sentenced a female <a href="https://www.faithwire.com/2020/04/22/prominent-iranian-christian-human-rights-advocate-sentenced-to-flogging/" target="_blank">Christian human rights campaigner</a> to ten excruciating lashes. Her crimes? She is being tortured by the religion of peace because she was “protesting against the slaughter of human beings; because of showing sympathy for the families of those who perished on the Ukraine airline crash” and “because of defending the rights of all humans.”<br />
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The unChristian world is <a href="https://reformationcharlotte.org/2020/04/24/as-drive-in-church-services-are-being-raided-by-police-mosques-continuing-to-hold-services-glorified-by-media/" target="_blank">harassing Christians who worship following CDC guidelines</a> yet, the media has been silent on Islamic mosques that continue to hold services and obviously not following the social distancing guidelines<br />
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No, this isn't the Babylon Bee but Bart Barber believes <a href="https://reformationcharlotte.org/2020/04/24/southern-baptist-pastor-bart-barber-is-doing-online-baptisms-amid-coronavirus-pandemic/" target="_blank">baptism can be done on line</a> and has done it, but the lord's supper cannot be done on line (how about that alliteration!)<br />
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This article IS the Babylon Bee and <a href="https://babylonbee.com/news/majority-of-americans-would-rather-risk-covid-death-than-endure-any-more-skype-lectures-from-celebrities" target="_blank">it's much closer to reality </a>than you might think<br />
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<br />Doug Evanshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05318930961031654937noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2246295430976433070.post-45227313659557571182020-04-21T07:12:00.000-06:002020-04-21T07:12:32.338-06:00Is the Church in the Hands of Anti-Christ Digital Media Giants?<table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left; margin-right: 1em; text-align: left;"><tbody>
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There you go, crisis averted. God is in His heaven, His son who died for our sins defeated death and is our Lord and Savior.<br />
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What is in the hands of Anti-Christ digital media giants is not the Church, it's not the gospel, but the megaphone. It's not even a megaphone, it's the digital equivalent of a pair of soup cans with string in the middle. Reformation Charlotte has been worried about churches turning to digital streaming platforms in an effort to continue preaching and teaching their congregations. Some congregations have turned to Facebook, for the life of me I don't know why. Facebook is like Google who owns YouTube, their definition of "Hate Speech" is fluid and changes to target a particular organization that causes the panties of left wing hate groups like Vox to bunch.</div>
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The bottom line is that these media giants are not regulated by the FCC and are considered private organizations that can choose to allow the flow of whatever content the ivory-tower limp-wristed leftists deem to be appropriate. They are not required by law to respect free speech or religious rights. Right now, if these companies start facing pushback from left-wing activists to shut down churches who are preaching God’s word, they will not hesitate to do it, rest assured. (<a href="https://reformationcharlotte.org/2020/04/07/church-is-now-in-the-hands-of-anti-christ-digital-media-giants-who-can-shut-us-down-at-the-flip-of-a-switch/" target="_blank">source</a>)</blockquote>
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Recently Google has removed the app for Christ Church where "controversial and outspoken pastor, Douglas Wilson preaches"... "while holding to a few odd theological positions in some areas" ... "and the far left hates him with a passion. Heck, moderates and even moderate rights hate him" And Reformation Charlotte was there with an "<a href="https://reformationcharlotte.org/2020/04/16/as-church-services-move-online-streaming-as-predicted-services-are-being-banned-for-policy-violations/" target="_blank">I told you so</a>"</div>
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What was this person doing on Google? I would not stand next to him on a hilltop with him if there was a single cloud in the sky. Does this guy think he's Superman? What on earth would possibly give him the idea that Google isn't going to pull the rug out from under him because he's Douglas Wilson, Man O' God! People have been threatened with demonetization on YouTube for simply saying the word "COVID-19" Demonetization means that your income from your YouTube is removed because Google (who owns YouTube) hates you. Google doesn't care who you are unless you're part of their protected class, a liberal whiner.<br />
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This is a known fact: if you are a right wing organization, or even moderate right leaning, Google will change the rules without warning and kick you off their platform just to teach you a lesson. This is not an exaggeration, just ask Christian comedian Steven Crowder, Google demonetized his channel and never gave him an explanation. </div>
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My question is not "Why are you on Google?" There are so many other streaming alternatives out there, and with your reputation if you didn't know that they'd be monitoring every word you said, then you are stunningly ignorant of Google. You could have hired a web developer and set up your own streaming service, but you didn't.</div>
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My question is: Why didn't you preach the gospel?</div>
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The gospel is this: Jesus Christ was born, lived a perfect life, was crucified, died, buried. He rose from the dead, was seen by over 500 people and then ascended into heaven.</div>
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When you're in "the belly of the beast" why not preach the purity and glory of our savior Jesus Christ? In Acts 8:35 Philip simply told the eunuch the good news about Jesus, no positioning, no sermonizing, no pointing out the man's sins, he simply told him the good news of our Lord and Savior and at the next stop for water, they performed a baptism.</div>
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Just Preach Jesus. If they have a problem with that, <b><i><u><span style="color: red;">then</span></u></i></b> you have something to complain about.</div>
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<span style="font-size: 10.56px; line-height: 14.784px;"><span style="font-size: xx-small; text-align: start;">This world is not my home I'm just a'passing through</span><br style="font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 14.85px; text-align: start;" /><span style="font-size: xx-small; text-align: start;">My treasures are laid up somewhere beyond the blue</span><br style="font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 14.85px; text-align: start;" /><span style="font-size: xx-small; text-align: start;">The angels beckon me from heaven's open door</span><br style="font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 14.85px; text-align: start;" /><span style="font-size: xx-small; text-align: start;">And I can't feel at home in this world anymore</span></span></div>
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Week five of the lock down. Not to take credit for this, but people like me are the cause of the lock-down. I have several "underlying conditions" which would make this virus uncomfortably fatal to me. If I were in Italy and I caught the Kung Flu they wouldn't even treat me. </div>
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Most people would just barely be affected by this virus, but we need to know more about the Wuhan Virus to be able to identify them. Unfortunately since the originators of the virus (我知道你是谁) failed to share with the world the exact toxicity of this pathogen, EVERYONE has to be quarantined until more can be learned the hard way, through science.</div>
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I wanted to use this space to share how our little church of Bereans works to stay together, but that will be something to share in its own blog entry. I also want to allay the fears that other churches have about putting their services in the hands of the like of Google and Microsoft and Facebook, but that really needs its own blog entry also, even though the answer is so simple.</div>
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Until that time when the skills and knowledge that God gave us can come up with more answers, we have to lean on God's words, I personally suggest starting with Philippians 4:6-7 </div>
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Darn it! I forgot to celebrate <a href="https://buffalonews.com/2020/04/13/how-dyngus-day-became-dyngus-day-in-buffalo/" target="_blank">Dyngus Day!</a> (The best way to describe Dyngus day is: think of a Polish St. Patrick's day)</div>
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Samaritan's Purse has done some incredible things, unfortunately most Christians only know them for <a href="https://www.samaritanspurse.org/operation-christmas-child/the-greatest-journey/?utm_source=Bing&utm_medium=cpc&utm_campaign=m_YYGJ-B20V&utm_content=TGJad&msclkid=dc7b0aeb0c581dfc4c095472f1e49bfd&utm_term=operation%20christmas%20child" target="_blank">Operation Christmas Child</a>. Samaritan's Purse opened an Ebola treatment center in the Congo last year, a feat I can't comprehend because of the love and courage it must take to treat people with Ebola. The mortality rate for Ebola is 50% - it must be horrific for a doctor to realize that there's nothing he can do to save half the victims he treats. This is how a <a href="https://www.lifesitenews.com/news/lgbt-activist-arrested-protesting-christians-treating-coronavirus-patients-in-nyc" target="_blank">New York City resident welcomed a Samaritan's purse field hospital.</a> and <a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Genesis+2%3A24%3B+Matthew+19%3A5-6%3B+Mark+10%3A6-9%3B+Romans+1%3A26-27%3B+1+Corinthians+6%3A9&version=NIV" target="_blank">this </a>is why he protested their presence<br />
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Pray for our brothers and sisters in Christ who are living under <a href="https://pulpitandpen.org/2020/04/12/church-members-taken-into-police-custody-and-interrogated-on-easter-morning/" target="_blank">Chinese persecution</a><br />
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Speaking of the Chinese, <a href="https://reformationcharlotte.org/2020/04/09/vatican-praises-china-for-their-humanitarian-initiative-during-the-coronavirus-pandemic/" target="_blank">there's a certain pope</a> (I won't mention any names) who just thanked them for doing what they did<br />
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It's only April, but <a href="https://reformationcharlotte.org/2020/04/15/andy-stanley-unhitches-jesus-from-the-scriptures-we-dont-believe-in-resurrection-because-of-the-bible-easter-message/" target="_blank">Andy Stanley</a> has taken a BIG lead in the race for False Teacher Of The Year!<br />
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Ok all you Faith Healers, bring on that healing! <a href="https://www.themessedupchurch.com/blog/justin-peters-challenges-andrew-wommack-and-todd-white-start-healing" target="_blank">Let's go!</a><br />
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Virginia passed legislation forcing churches to allow men into <a href="https://reformationcharlotte.org/2020/04/17/virginia-passes-legislation-forcing-churches-to-allow-transgender-males-into-womens-bathrooms/" target="_blank">women's bathrooms.</a><br />
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Here's the <a href="https://www.christianpost.com/news/california-pastor-resigns-from-city-council-before-hosting-communion-attended-by-hundreds.html" target="_blank">dangerous way to do it</a><br />
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Here's the <a href="https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2020/apr/11/drive-church-service-permitted-easter-louisville/" target="_blank">safe way to do it</a><br />
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And here's the <a href="https://www.lifesitenews.com/news/california-county-tells-churches-no-singing-in-online-worship-services" target="_blank">stupid way to do it</a><br />
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A Catholic bishop has called for a <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/world/coronavirus-prayer-exorcism-catholic-archbishop-holy-week" target="_blank">mass exorcism</a><br />
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<a href="https://abc7.com/health/church-of-bleach-claims-to-cure-coronavirus/6091160/" target="_blank">The Genesis 2 Church of Health and Healing</a> has a cure for the Chinese Virus, sort of<br />
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Thank goodness! <a href="https://www.lighthousetrailsresearch.com/blog/?p=32101" target="_blank">Kenneth Copeland</a> has ended the Chinese Virus pandemic. It's over.<br />
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<a href="https://pulpitandpen.org/2020/04/14/google-bans-churchs-streaming-because-the-preaching-is-insensitive-during-pandemic/" target="_blank">Google Bans Church’s Streaming Because the Preaching is ‘Insensitive’ During Pandemic</a>. This is a surprise? YouTube was demonitizing channels for just mentioning the virus. YouTubers had to call the pandemic the "Beverage Bug" because saying "Corona Virus" got you booted.<br />
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Con-cast via their lackies in MSNBC call white Evangelicals a "<a href="https://www.newsbusters.org/blogs/nb/brad-wilmouth/2020/04/14/msnbc-aslan-likens-white-evangelicals-doomsday-cult" target="_blank">Doomsday Cult</a>"<br />
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<a href="https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2020/apr/16/joe-biden-some-trump-supporters-back-notion-all-me/" target="_blank">Sleepy Joe Biden </a>claims that people who support the president think that ALL Mexicans are rapists and ALL Muslims are bad<br />
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There! It's Fixed! <a href="https://babylonbee.com/news/osteen-ordered-to-wear-mask-to-slow-spread-of-heresy" target="_blank">Thanks to the Babylon Bee</a><br />
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<br />Doug Evanshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05318930961031654937noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2246295430976433070.post-89580564833410845012020-04-12T08:56:00.001-06:002020-04-12T08:56:16.399-06:00Happy Resurrection Sunday<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<br />Doug Evanshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05318930961031654937noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2246295430976433070.post-76841968011858253082020-04-11T11:51:00.001-06:002020-04-11T11:51:26.880-06:00Random Bits<table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left; margin-right: 1em; text-align: left;"><tbody>
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<span style="font-size: 10.56px; line-height: 14.784px;"><span style="font-size: xx-small; text-align: start;">This world is not my home I'm just a'passing through</span><br style="font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 14.85px; text-align: start;" /><span style="font-size: xx-small; text-align: start;">My treasures are laid up somewhere beyond the blue</span><br style="font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 14.85px; text-align: start;" /><span style="font-size: xx-small; text-align: start;">The angels beckon me from heaven's open door</span><br style="font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 14.85px; text-align: start;" /><span style="font-size: xx-small; text-align: start;">And I can't feel at home in this world anymore</span></span></div>
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I stopped posting a few months ago because it just got STUPID out there, and every time I looked for something to write about there was Beth Moore staring me in the face. If that Sneaky Squid that Jennifer LeClair is schlepping is still around, its face would resemble Beth Moore and it would be a staff writer at Christianity <strike>Today</strike> Astray. That's <b><i><span style="color: red;">my </span></i></b>imaging, you can picture it however you want.</div>
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Believe me, it's hard to write when a sneaky 10 armed squid spirit with the face of a Journey groupie is entrancing the women of your church.</div>
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Life here on the Northern Colorado prairie has gotten pretty quiet in the past couple of months, Mrs. WideAwakeChristian and I were planning to relocate because it's getting horribly expensive to live here because of the influx of economic refugees pouring in from California, then the virus hit the fan and everything stopped. I've been spending time every day on my treadmill, and every day it gets easier and easier. I've logged over 250 miles on my machine since New Years Day and my doctors are thrilled with my progress. I just saw Dr. Chicago and next week I see Dr. Awesome, and they both are thrilled with my progress. It truly is a blessing in these days of turmoil to turn off the fake news and go for a walk, or get on your treadmill, or get on your bike, and spend some alone time with God.</div>
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I'm not saying that Mr Pope is unhinged, or a pagan or something like that, I'm just saying that Pope Francis came up with an <a href="https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/pope-francis-coronavirus-could-be-natures-response-to-inaction-on-climate-change" target="_blank">unhinged, pagan reasoning for the Chinese Virus</a><br />
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... then he asks a dead lady to do away with the <a href="https://christiannews.net/2020/03/18/pope-francis-asks-mary-to-deliver-world-from-covid-19-we-seek-refuge-under-your-protection/" target="_blank">Chinese Virus</a><br />
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We know that Mr. Pope is isolated and ignorant of what is really going on in the world, <a href="https://reformationcharlotte.org/2020/04/09/vatican-praises-china-for-their-humanitarian-initiative-during-the-coronavirus-pandemic/" target="_blank">or is he?</a></div>
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Questionable poll: 8 out of 10 Pastors say current events are <a href="https://www.christianheadlines.com/contributors/michael-foust/8-in-10-pastors-say-current-events-are-a-sign-of-jesus-return.html" target="_blank">a sign of Jesus' return</a> <span style="color: #666666; font-size: x-small;">(Editor's note: the only true sign of Jesus' return is (believe it or not) Jesus' return.)</span><br />
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How many of these <a href="https://www.faithwire.com/2020/04/08/google-searches-for-prayer-skyrocket-in-wake-of-coronavirus-cancelations-quarantines/" target="_blank">prayer searches </a>include "Giving thanks for the Chinese Virus" as we are <a href="https://www.biblehub.com/1_thessalonians/5-18.htm" target="_blank">instructed to do by Jesus</a><br />
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A Virginia pastor who criticized the “mass hysteria” surrounding the Chinese virus pandemic has died of <a href="https://nypost.com/2020/04/07/pastor-who-criticized-coronavirus-mass-hysteria-dies-from-illness/" target="_blank">the Chinese virus pandemic</a><br />
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But where will they be turning in a <a href="https://www1.cbn.com/cbnnews/us/2020/april/study-shows-even-non-religious-americans-are-turning-to-prayer-as-a-result-of-covid-19" target="_blank">couple of months</a>?<br />
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The governor of Texas <a href="https://www.dailysignal.com/2020/04/01/texas-governor-deems-religious-services-essential/" target="_blank">understands</a>, and he understands the first amendment too<br />
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The governor of Colorado <a href="https://www.9news.com/article/news/health/coronavirus/churches-stay-open/73-3463edd5-770a-4507-94e6-a3a731e7659a" target="_blank">was educated</a>, and now he understand the first amendment too<br />
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Michael Brown may not be Charismatic or NAR, but he IS <a href="https://pulpitandpen.org/2020/04/02/michael-browns-wolfish-wager-over-charismatic-covid-19-prophecies/" target="_blank">an enabler for them</a><br />
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My little church of Bereans is part of this <a href="https://www.faithwire.com/2020/04/03/93-of-churches-have-stopped-meeting-in-person-following-coronavirus-lockdown/" target="_blank">93%,</a> but we haven't stopped meeting, not one little bit!<br />
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If heresy and mocking God were a criminal act, Rodney Howard Brown would have been tossed in a cell decades ago, instead he gets his comeuppance for <a href="https://www.lighthousetrailsresearch.com/blog/?p=32059" target="_blank">endangering his flock</a><br />
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Christian arrested for "<a href="https://www.christianpost.com/news/david-benham-arrested-for-pro-life-counseling-outside-abortion-clinic-we-maintained-our-social-distance.html" target="_blank">Preaching While Social Distancing</a>"<br />
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<a href="https://www.kcra.com/article/lodi-church-locked-out-palm-sunday-services-amid-covid-19-concerns/32046094" target="_blank">Entire church building </a>arrested for possible China Virus panic infraction<br />
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Reason #101 that I need to leave Colorado - <a href="https://www.kcra.com/article/lodi-church-locked-out-palm-sunday-services-amid-covid-19-concerns/32046094" target="_blank">my local police arrest a man for playing with his daughter in an empty park</a>. The City of Brighton doesn't need a Chinese Virus to do dumb things<br />
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Why do some pastors commit fornication? According to Benny Hinn <a href="https://pulpitandpen.org/2020/04/07/benny-hinn-teaches-the-anointing-is-responsible-for-pastors-fornicating/" target="_blank">It's God's Fault</a> <span style="color: #666666; font-size: x-small;">(I bet Bill Clinton wishes he came up with that one)</span><br />
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God is using this pandemic to tear down idols and strengthen relationships with Christ - Hulk Hogan said that. Really! The professional wrestler <i style="font-weight: bold;"><a href="https://www.christianheadlines.com/blog/wrestler-hulk-hogan-says-god-is-using-pandemic-to-tear-down-idols-strengthen-relationships-with-christ.html" target="_blank">Hulk Hogan!</a> </i>God really does work in mysterious ways<br />
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5.7 magnitude earthquake shook Salt Lake City and caused Moroni atop the LDS Temple to drop his <strike>yard of ale</strike> <a href="https://christiannews.net/2020/03/18/utah-earthquake-causes-angel-moroni-atop-mormon-temple-to-lose-trumpet/" target="_blank">trumpet</a><br />
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And leave it to the Babylon Bee to cut through the gloom and doom and surpass the Lame Stream Media by reporting on a shining light of <a href="https://babylonbee.com/news/no-greater-love-widow-puts-last-toilet-paper-roll-in-offering-plate" target="_blank">no greater love</a><br />
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The VP who did this was fired, he may have impressed his boss, but he destroyed a lot of lives without permission. And to put the frosting on this cake, due to company policy we who were laid off cannot be rehired for 3 years and they will not budge on that. Believe me, several VPs have tried to get some of us (including me) back, but they were blocked by the head offices. So Mr. Trump was right, it's pronounced <b>CON</b>-cast. And getting a new job? You can't imagine the looks on the faces you see when you, a 60+ year old man walks into a job interview on oxygen. You just know that the only thing the interviewers really want to say is "Next!" Fortunately they know many polite ways to say "Go away and stay away." </div>
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An MRI I had taken before my medical benefits dried up showed that my back is broken, a compression fracture at T10/T11, 25% healed, an injury I suffered while on active duty and if Glen Chatfield has a picture in his vast archive of a USAF load crew installing a <a href="https://sobchak.files.wordpress.com/2009/08/suu23_2.jpg?w=550&h=343" target="_blank">SUU-23 gunpod</a> on an F-4 Phantom II I can show you how my back was fractured. My VA Claim for this and other maladies has been stalled since last year and will probably continue to be stalled since the VA offices are shut down due to the Chinese Virus*.</div>
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And speaking of closed offices, my wife and I need to move, Colorado is just too expensive a place to live for someone on Social Security Disability, we want to pack up and take mother-in-law with us, we even have a buyer for our house. However every office we need to seal a deal on selling our house or buying a new house is closed due to the Chinese Virus*. </div>
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This week I was scheduled to see Dr. Awesome for my COPD, but one business day before my appointment I was told that Dr. Awesome doesn't see patients on Mondays (Being a professor and the leading Pulmonologist in the US she has other duties). I knew that, I've known that for months, I mentally kicked myself for forgetting that and allowing scheduling office to set me up with a Monday appointment. But I had blood work that HAD to be drawn so I drove into the hospital on Monday and called scheduling to reschedule my appointment with Dr. Awesome, they set me up with an appointment on April 13. Since I was driving I wasn't able to check my calendar, but like I said, Dr. Awesome is the very top in her field, any chance to get in to see her is a gift from God.</div>
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This time check-in was a breeze, the woman working in admissions was an old friend from the rehabilitation clinic that Dr. Awesome likes to send me to. My blood work was drawn by a nurse that I've known and have been friends with for a half decade, and coming out of the office I saw a tiny woman in ill fitting scrubs and mask carrying a huge load of laundry. I held the elevator door open for her and she said "Hi Doug"</div>
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"It's me, Angie." It was Dr. Awesome in the basement of the hospital carrying her own laundry! This woman should have a half dozen students and interns following her, carrying her books and papers, holding her pencils, fetching her coffee, fending off reporters, setting up interviews with the president, answering her fan mail... and here she was being a real person. We talked a bit about what <i>she</i> was doing on Mondays now, I mentioned that I had rescheduled today's appointment for the 13th and she gave me a look over the top of her mask that clearly said "How can one of my patients be so dumb?" We both chuckled, of course the 13th is a Monday. I got that changed a little while later.</div>
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Again I left the hospital praising the Lord for giving me these wonderful doctors and nurses and admins who are working hard to keep me alive, and being so <b><i>nice</i></b> about it. The only thing I can do in return is to be the spot of joy in their day with a smile and a laugh and a profound thank you, even that woman in the finance office who didn't understand my billing statement. And that really works, I've had several healthcare providers thank me for showing them the love that Jesus shows us. </div>
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Doug Evanshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05318930961031654937noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2246295430976433070.post-64365031803060512622020-04-04T14:17:00.000-06:002020-04-04T14:17:00.698-06:00Of Course Pulpit & Pen Was Wrong<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Recently Pulpit & Pen ran an article titled <b><span style="color: blue;">You Can’t Observe the Lord’s Supper Over the Internet </span></b>(and no, I will not do them the favor of linking to their article). Their reasoning goes like this: You can't observe the Lord's supper over the internet because you can't observe the lord's supper over the internet.</div>
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The article gives a great deal of information about the ceremony of communion and some of the history, and the article leaves the Christian feeling with that warm feeling of great superiority and smug arrogance over the unsaved, unwashed heathens who have communion less than once a week. Their article falls one sentence short of stating that without <i>weekly </i>communion and <i>proper </i>baptism, then salvation cannot occur. And as I said, their only reason why communion cannot occur on the internet, is because they said that it cannot occur on internet.</div>
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If the sacrament, ordinance, ceremony of communion cannot be changed, then we're ALL doing it wrong. We should be meeting in small groups, in caves or down by the river, no electric lights, all hymns sang acapella, all fabrics worn must be cotton or wool, no fabric developed in the last 2,020 years, and the bread must be made from fresh baked matzo and the wine must be an ancient variation of Mogan David.</div>
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Fortunately, some churches have different views of approaching the Throne of Grace, they are not willing to sacrifice their aged and ill by exposing them to the ravages of a virus that will certainly kill them. Nor do those churches exclude people like myself whose cardio/pulmonary systems are failing who refuse to commit suicide by gathering physically with others who may carry a killer virus just to make the News Division of Pulpit & Pen happy.</div>
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Churches like the one listed above use the Zoom app, so you can use your phone, laptop, or tablet to join your brother and sisters in sharing the word of God, of connecting with each other in love, and to <b>celebrate </b>communion without having that lead to a funeral. We do this electronically and safely because as often as we eat the bread and drink the cup, we are proclaiming the Lord’s death until He comes!</div>
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Doug Evanshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05318930961031654937noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2246295430976433070.post-75680596556542968042020-01-09T09:56:00.000-07:002020-01-09T10:05:14.136-07:00False Teacher Of The Year Going For A Twofer<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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False Teacher of the year for 2019, Self Proclaimed Apostle, and Presidential Adviser for Unbiblical Hokum was suddenly and unexpectedly confronted with the actual word of God. </div>
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"Just because you have the skill to sell jewelry on the TV sales channel doesn't mean you should be preaching. There are people who have certain hawking skills, natural abilities to sell, they have energy and personality and all of that. That doesn't qualify you to preach.</div>
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“The #MeToo movement again is the culture reclaiming ground in the church. When the leaders of evangelicalism roll over for women preachers, the feminists have really won the battle. </div>
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“The primary effort in feminism is not equality. They don’t want equality. That’s why 99 percent of plumbers are men. They don’t want equal power to be a plumber. They want to be senators, preachers, congressmen, president. The power structure in a university, they want power, not equality and this is the highest location they can ascend to that power in the evangelical church and overturn what is clearly scriptural. So I think this is feminism gone to church. This is why we can’t let the culture exegete the Bible."</div>
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<b>Beth Moore:</b> It’s so absurd to suggest that God would only use women in certain context and I’m not… I have never been looking to take over a man’s job, never. But I have fully believed that God also used women and that it was so extreme that no, it was too absurd.</div>
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<b>Beth Moore:</b> That’s how I felt about it, that’s how I felt about it. Others have felt different about it … couple of months before that… uh… really hit me hard with amazement… but… umm… god has, has made me resilient and… umm… he just gives me back my joy quickly. And I just enjoy him so much… and… at those times… he is so near… he’s so near… and uhhh… those times when you feel isolated and alone and there he is… and… ah… I also just know I’m home soon. Fact is I am going home and umm… I will live with him forever and ever you know.</div>
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And that there fellow Christians is the difference between a man of God and a bride of Satan. When Doctor MacArthur wishes to discuss what God is doing, has done, will do, he always starts with "<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n8ncOf82ZJ0" target="_blank">Open your bible to..</a>."</div>
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It's been a very tough year, and this month was merely a reflection of the other eleven months. Yesterday morning I had some good news to share with my church family here at the First Berean Congregational Church, but I didn't read it, I'll get it next week. I didn't want to give 2019 the honor of hearing such a blessed event. </div>
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When I got the False Teacher Of The Year post out I simply felt exhausted, tired of the whole thing, then I started to put together a Random Bits article and it was all just evil. So I withdrew, no more news, no TV (other than Paw Patrol with the grandchildren). However this morning I turned on the radio to hear the evils of Gnosticism, Legalism, and Dualism being lectured on the flagship of the Mormon church - The Glenn Beck program. These are foundation stones of that faith - so the truth was coming out but it's all so upside down.</div>
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See you again in 2020!Doug Evanshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05318930961031654937noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2246295430976433070.post-50537022955893463642019-12-05T13:24:00.002-07:002019-12-05T13:24:44.412-07:00False Teacher Of The Year 2019<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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It's that time of the year when we look back on the months that have passed and reflect on what happened in our world. We make lists of what happened in the past year, including list after list of the celebrities who had died during the year. As for me, I've had better years - my spinal issues have caused severe pain in my hips, my pulmonary hypertension pressures in my heart have gone up, and after 20 years of working in the cable industry I was let go. But it hasn't been all bad, God allowed me to be born in the greatest nation on earth where doctors are able to diagnose and treat my myriad of medical issues, where that evil Big Pharma can provide me with treatment, and after 20 years of slaving away in the cable industry I was given my freedom. But, as hard as you may argue the opposite, it's not all about me. We are here to stand in shock as false teachers gnaw away at the visible church, the body of Christ here on earth, and to recognize the efforts of the lead gnawers. (I think that's a word)<br />
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False teachers are everywhere you look, through their messages of disunity and mammon worship it's clear that Satan is on the march. From Sheep Poaching church planters to howling Poverty Pimps, Christianity is under attack from within. These malignant parasites are clearly spiritual cancer tumors feeding off the body of Christ in an effort to destroy the Church founded on the cornerstone of Christ and built by Jesus Christ Himself. </div>
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I wish I could list the top 10 churches for 2019, but a good church doesn't make headlines. In the near future when we Christians fall under blanket persecution by the government and self serving Satan run atheistic special interest groups, good churchs will make headlines, but until then all we hear from the good churches is the Word of God, and that's all right by me. On the other side of the spectrum, the agents of Satan have been having a banner year. From private jets to $600 t-shirts the false teachers are wallowing in this world. And it's not just <b><i><u>A</u></i></b> private jet, Jesse Duplantis already has three jets, he wants a fourth, a $54,000,000 Dassault Falcon 7X.<br />
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Here's a quick look back at past recipients of the fabled Golden Goat<br />
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<li><a href="https://wideawakechristian.blogspot.com/2018/12/false-teacher-of-year-2018.html" target="_blank">2018 </a>- Brian Houston, owner and CEO of Hillsong</li>
<li><a href="https://wideawakechristian.blogspot.com/2017/12/false-teacher-of-year-2017.html" target="_blank">2017 </a>- Jennifer LeClair, the original Squeaky Squid</li>
<li><a href="https://wideawakechristian.blogspot.com/2016/12/false-teacher-of-year-2016.html" target="_blank">2016 </a>- Rick Joyner, the Holy Spirit's bookie</li>
<li><a href="https://wideawakechristian.blogspot.com/2015/12/false-teacher-of-year-2015.html" target="_blank">2015 </a>- Mark Sandlin, re-writer of the Gospel</li>
<li><a href="https://wideawakechristian.blogspot.com/2014/09/false-teacher-of-year-2014.html" target="_blank">2014 </a>- Steven McSwain, bible denying bible instructor</li>
<li><a href="https://wideawakechristian.blogspot.com/2013/09/false-teacher-of-year.html" target="_blank">2013 </a>- John Shore, Not All There.</li>
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A sage collection of falsehood if there ever was one. While some have faded into the background white-noise, several are battling for a second trophy to show their lack of respect and fear of the Lord. Often nominated but never selected Steven Furtick is always in the nomination committee's sites, but this year simply spending tens of thousands of dollars on designer t-shirts, ball caps, wristwatches and skinny jeans to make himself look like a designer version of a Walmart shopper while he narcissigetes the bible isn't near enough effort. There's serious competition to be recognized as the most malignant in 2019. Earlier this year Beth Moore was everywhere saying anything until I just couldn't write any more about Moore. Then just weeks ago Rick Joyner was a shoe-in for his second Golden Goat for his efforts in fomenting a second civil war <a href="https://reformationcharlotte.org/2019/01/26/god-told-rick-joyner-america-is-about-to-enter-the-2nd-civil-war-and-that-we-will-win/" target="_blank">on God's orders</a>, and he will probably be in the running next year too, but Rick is out in the sticks, this year's winner in deep in the swamp - up to her neck deep.</div>
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For turning her back on numerous biblical requirements of an overseer and close adherent of Christ Jesus and thus falsely naming herself Pastor and Apostle, for driving one of the largest Christian churches into bankruptcy mere months after becoming "Senior Pastor" and was able to walk away without blemish, for turning the bible into a day time game show where everyone wins big sums of cash, for claiming to not believe in the "prosperity gospel" yet to go on and emphasize that "physical healing and financial abundance in this life are provided for in the atonement of Christ". For this and so many other examples it is with deep sorrow and humble nausea that we announce that the False Teacher Of The Year for 2019 is Paula White, spiritual advisor to the President of the United States</div>
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Apostle Paula Michelle White-Cain was born Paula Michelle Furr in Tupelo Mississippi on April 20, 1966, and as far as any researcher can determine, this is the full extent of her qualifications to teach the word of God. At the age of 18 she converted to Christianity and revealed that "God" told her to preach</div>
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"When I was just eighteen years old, the Lord gave me a vision that every time I opened my mouth and declared the Word of the Lord, there was a manifestation of His Spirit where people were either healed, delivered, or saved. When I shut my mouth, they fell off into utter darkness and God spoke to me and said 'I called you to preach the gospel.'" (Lee, Shayne; Sinitiere, Phillip Luke (2009). Holy Mavericks. New York University Press. pp. 107–128)</blockquote>
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If it truly was God that told Paula to preach, there's no record that anyone actually told her how or what to preach. In fact there is no evidence of Paula receiving any schooling of any nature after she graduated high school in 1984. Paula White's preaching is uneducated sing-song prattering delivered in an aw-shucks down home accent that spins through unbiblical fabrications faster and easier than Paula has spun through husbands. Recently when appearing on convicted felon con-artist Jim Bakker's show, the she told viewers that they were mandated to give Jim Bakker their hard earned money. Why? Because God has a bureaucracy; </div>
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Every treasure you give here on Earth is being stored up in Heaven. <b><i>There is a Department of Treasury in Heaven</i></b>. Now I know [Steve] Mnuchin’s over it down here, but I’m telling you there’s a Department of Treasury in Heaven that God is watching over. Everything you do - and you are storing up eternal treasure that will go so far beyond, I think, that we can even begin to imagine, that you are mandated by God. (Paula White on The Jim Bakker Show, October 17, 2019)</blockquote>
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You'd think that Paula would have learned to stay away from these shows, because this is where she unwittingly reveals the truth about her false religion. It was on a TV Show with Larry Huch where she <a href="https://vimeo.com/9775256" target="_blank">denied that Jesus was God's only begotten son</a>, denying the deity of Christ. (That same clip shows a bizarre teaching that the crown of thorns broke the "Curse of Poverty") Paula never apologized for the dishonesty and blasphemy of this interview, she just said that she was doing too many television shows that week.</div>
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When researching Paula White, it is hard to determine if she's a liar, or if she just doesn't know the truth. Here's some truth</div>
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"I have been called a heretic, an apostate, an adulterer, a charlatan, and an addict. It has been falsely reported that I once filed for bankruptcy and -- my personal favorite -- that I deny the Trinity!" (Paula White on CNN)</blockquote>
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Every single one of those accusations happens to be true. Heresy happens almost everytime she opens her mouth or sits down to her word processes. When she denied that Jesus was God's only begotten son is a prime example of her apostasy. As for adulterer - while she still insists that the photos of her walking hand in hand with Benny Hinn exiting a hotel in Rome are no big deal, those photograph nearly destroyed Benny's marriage so they must be as big a deal as Costi Hinn tells us. An adulterer - her entire relationship with her now husband Jonathan Cain was adulterous because he was married while they dated, he proposed to Paula on the day his divorce was finalized. Charlatan? Paula is constantly claiming that God speaks to her, like when He mentioned the Department of the Treasury. As for being an addict, she herself has spoken about being addicted to medication after her stroke. </div>
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And if Paula had any theological training at all, she would know that when she denied the deity of Christ on television, she denied the Trinity. On the same show she taight that Jesus did not die on the Cross for the sins of humanity, but rather to rescue us from financial hardships. And she wonders why people with a brain call her a heretic. This is why you want your pastor to have an education.</div>
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What knocked Rick Joyner out of first place in the race to the Golden Goat was the releasing of Paula White's new book "Something Greater" which turned out to be "Something Best Left On The Shelf". Reviewer <a href="https://christiantoday.com/article/paula-whites-new-book-something-greater-is-revealing-disturbing-and-depressing/133464.htm" target="_blank">David Robertson</a> called her book "Revealing, disturbing, and depressing". The book is packed with self-obsession where Paula White is fully center stage and Jesus is a prop to be dragged out during occasional sermons. </div>
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"A soaring, powerful voice erupts from my petite frame on the stage. My blond hair is short, cut in a bob with bangs just above the eyebrows. My purple robe is loose and royal; my words are sharp and understandable. There is a rhythm to the sentences I use, a cadence to my words. There is an unexpected fire in my preaching."</blockquote>
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Paula must just <b><i>rock</i></b> Proverbs 27:2. The book goes on full of materialism and dishonesty, it's self adoration on paper for you to enjoy. </div>
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And then I thought - this is the woman that is advising the President of the United States on spiritual matters, and she can't even get the simplest concepts of Christian belief right - Jesus is the ONLY begotten son of God, Jesus died for our sins, and God Hates Pride. Satan has his own agent in the White House and he isn't going to try to hide that fact.</div>
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The list of falsehoods in the teaching, preaching, and general blithering of Paula White is mind numbing, but in the end the falsehood that leapt out and earned Paula a unanimous selection of False Teacher of the Year is the resurfacing of this little gem that she uttered on TBN at a women's convention in Orlando:</div>
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"Anyone who tells you to deny yourself is from Satan" - Paula White</blockquote>
The nomination committee would like you to compare it with this:<br />
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<i>Then Jesus said to His disciples, "<span style="color: red;">If anyone wishes to come after Me, he must deny himself, and take up his cross and follow Me</span>.</i>" (Matthew 16:24)</blockquote>
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Doug Evanshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05318930961031654937noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2246295430976433070.post-89022644942270904492019-12-04T10:05:00.002-07:002019-12-04T10:05:11.072-07:00A Simple Prayer Request<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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I haven't been around much because: life. My stepdaughter and her children, my grand babies, and both a blessing and a lesson on patience and humility and their living with us for the past few months has been a household calamity and a joy that lifted my heart from the other pains of this world.</div>
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At 62 I find myself disabled and unemployed, I'm not whining, God has a plan and is under no compulsion to share the details with me. I applied with the Social Security Administration for disability and I was approved in just a few weeks. And that's why I ask to be included in your prayers. I've applied with the Veterans Administration for disability benefits, I believe my petition with them is true and I am only asking for their honest consideration. Your prayers can only help. Thank you.</div>
Doug Evanshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05318930961031654937noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2246295430976433070.post-43679853891908715902019-11-08T20:11:00.002-07:002019-11-08T20:11:13.572-07:00Random Bits <table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left; margin-right: 1em; text-align: left;"><tbody>
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<span style="font-size: 10.56px; line-height: 14.784px;"><span style="font-size: xx-small; text-align: start;">This world is not my home I'm just a'passing through</span><br style="font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 14.85px; text-align: start;" /><span style="font-size: xx-small; text-align: start;">My treasures are laid up somewhere beyond the blue</span><br style="font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 14.85px; text-align: start;" /><span style="font-size: xx-small; text-align: start;">The angels beckon me from heaven's open door</span><br style="font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 14.85px; text-align: start;" /><span style="font-size: xx-small; text-align: start;">And I can't feel at home in this world anymore</span></span></div>
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While I have several extremely painful back and hip issues, I am not spineless enough to call myself a "Never Trumper". Then again I'm not a high born, country clubing, nose in the ionosphere swamp thing either. The man I considered to be <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J._C._Watts" target="_blank">the premier choice</a> to be President didn't run in 2016 and probably won't run in 2024 either. In fact, the main reason I did vote for Trump is because I love this nation far to much to vote for the scandal ridden incompetent clown who ran against him.</div>
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It's highly unlikely that the left will find someone worthy of the office, of course the last time that happened it was <a href="https://constitutioncenter.org/images/uploads/blog/1948_DeweyDefeatsTruman600.jpg" target="_blank">accidental</a>, so I support President Trump because Romans 13. However now he appoints <a href="https://religionnews.com/2019/11/01/paula-white-to-head-trumps-faith-office/" target="_blank">Paula White</a> to his staff, you may know that I believe that Paula White is an antichrist, I explained that at length in a recent <a href="https://wideawakechristian.blogspot.com/2019/11/paula-white-satanic-mistress.html?showComment=1572703990875#c1678107003492240920" target="_blank">blog entry</a>, however she recently came under attack by the left which means that regardless of my misgivings, she was the correct choice... because the left hates her. We call those people The Left for a simple reason: they're never right.</div>
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Apostle/Prophet/Profit/Pastor Paula White wants you to listen to God's voice, He's saying "<a href="https://reformationcharlotte.org/2019/11/04/paula-white-says-she-wants-you-to-hear-from-god-hes-saying-write-a-check-out-to-paula-white-ministries/" target="_blank">Write a check to Paula White Ministries</a>"<br />
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That Pope goes all in for <b><a href="https://www.breitbart.com/faith/2019/10/27/pope-francis-asks-pardon-for-theft-of-pachamama-fertility-statues/" target="_blank">pagan idol worship</a></b> in the catholic church. (Yes, the pagan idols were placed “without idolatrous intentions.” but they said that about Mary worship too)<br />
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The <strike>Democratic</strike> socialist governor of New York, Mario Cuomo, signed a bill that codifies into state law <a href="https://christiannews.net/2019/11/06/ny-governor-cuomo-signs-bill-prohibiting-churches-nonprofits-from-endorsing-opposing-political-candidates/" target="_blank">prohibiting churches and nonprofit organizations from endorsing or opposing political candidates</a>. GOOD!!! We're supposed to be talking JESUS, not Joe Biden. (This is a double edge sword paisano, most of your support groups are 501(c)(3) themselves)<br />
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"See, if you want to cut off a leg or an arm, you’re mentally ill, but if you want to cut off healthy breasts or a penis, you’re transgender" - this statement got a Christian doctor <a href="https://www.christianpost.com/news/youtube-censors-christian-pediatrician-for-criticism-of-trans-surgery-deemed-hate-speech.html" target="_blank">kicked off of YouTube</a><br />
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"I am a woman and so are my clients" This statement got a birth coach <a href="https://www.christian.org.uk/news/birth-coach-ostracised-for-stating-only-women-give-birth/" target="_blank">ostracized from her job</a> at Doula UK<br />
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A seven year-old boy is finally allowed to attend school as a <a href="https://www.lifesitenews.com/news/7-year-old-whose-mom-tried-to-transition-him-chooses-to-attend-school-as-a-boy" target="_blank">seven year-old boy</a><br />
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Students in a Canadian school were suspended for refusal to wear a <a href="https://reformationcharlotte.org/2019/11/07/students-suspended-from-high-school-for-refusing-to-wear-rainbow-poppy/" target="_blank">rainbow poppy</a> The Rainbow Poppy makes a mockery of Veterans world wide<br />
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Lesbian female priest appointed head of the <a href="https://pulpitandpen.org/2019/11/06/lesbian-pastor-to-lead-national-abortion-federation/" target="_blank">National Abortion Federation</a> because who better to slaughter the innocent than someone whose every waking moment is a sin?<br />
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<a href="https://www.breitbart.com/national-security/2019/11/05/nigeria-police-raid-islamic-dungeon-like-torture-chamber-rescuing-259-people/" target="_blank">Religion of Peace Update</a>: Police in Nigeria raid an Islamic dungeon freeing 259 captives. Over the past two months, over 1,000 people have been rescued from Islamic torture centers in Nigeria<br />
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<a href="https://www1.cbn.com/cbnnews/world/2019/november/30-churches-attacked-clergy-and-members-killed-in-rising-unrest-in-ethiopia" target="_blank">Ethiopia </a>- 30+ churches attacked and burned, nearly 100 Christians killed<br />
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<a href="https://bitterwinter.org/south-korea-affiliated-churches-investigated-pastors-arrested/" target="_blank">The Chinese government </a>shut down a South Korea based Christian church and arrested the Pastors<br />
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Satan's Minions propose splitting the <a href="https://www.christianpost.com/news/lgbt-group-proposes-dissolving-umc-into-4-new-denominations.html" target="_blank">Methodist church</a> 4 ways<br />
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<a href="https://www.christiantoday.com/article/pastor-james-macdonald-formally-disqualified-church-harvest-bible-chapel/133567.htm" target="_blank">James MacDonald </a>has been formally disqualified by the church he founded: Harvest Bible Chapel<br />
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<a href="https://americanvision.org/17116/anne-graham-lotz-claims-were-about-to-enter-the-gog-and-magog-war/" target="_blank">Anne Graham Lotz</a> says we're about to enter the Gog Magog war - is there such a thing?<br />
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Paul didn't believe in the Rapture, <a href="https://theologycurator.com/paul-jesus-rapture/" target="_blank">neither did Jesus</a><br />
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High school teacher divided her classroom based on religious beliefs, as well as by their policy stances on abortion and homosexuality, then ridiculed the Christian students. <a href="https://pulpitandpen.org/2019/11/06/public-school-teacher-segregated-classroom-by-religion-ridiculed-conservative-christians/" target="_blank">She was <i>supposed </i>to be teaching Spanish</a><br />
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Satan rears his ugly head in <a href="http://christiansentinel.com/2019/11/02/transformation-complete-non-catholic-christians-took-paradigm-shift-jackie-alnor/" target="_blank">Dallas</a><br />
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I heard that Kanye's new album was #1 on the charts, even with <a href="https://babylonbee.com/news/recording-industry-adds-explicitly-christian-warning-label-to-kanyes-new-album" target="_blank">the warning labels</a><br />
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<span style="font-size: x-small;">17 </span><i>Now I urge you, brethren, keep your eye on those who cause dissensions and hindrances contrary to the teaching which you learned, and turn away from them. </i><span style="font-size: x-small;">18</span><i> For such men are slaves, not of our Lord Christ but of their own appetites; and by their smooth and flattering speech they deceive the hearts of the unsuspecting. </i>(Romans 16:17-18)</blockquote>
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Let me say this out at the beginning of the article so you are not shocked by the conclusions I raise: in my personal opinion I believe that Paula White is one of the most dangerous agent provocateurs that Satan has inserted into Jesus' church here on earth. </div>
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For those not familiar with that term, be careful when looking up agent provocateur, there is a scanty woman's lingerie line by the same name. We should always be good Bereans and look up everything we are not already familiar with but sometimes there are traps. According to <a href="https://www.dictionary.com/browse/agent-provocateur" target="_blank">dictionary.com</a> an agent provocateur is "<i>a secret agent hired to incite suspected persons to some illegal action, outbreak, etc., that will make them liable to punishment</i>"</div>
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Twice amicably divorced "Pastor" Paula White is now on husband #3, rock keyboardist for the glam band Journey Jonathan Cain who asked "Pastor" Paula to marry him on the same day his third divorce was finalized. If you question why I put the word Pastor in quotations when in conjunction with this woman it is because she doesn't fit the biblical requirements of being a pastor.</div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;">6</span> <i>namely, if any man is above reproach, the husband of one wife, having children who believe, not accused of dissipation or rebellion. </i><span style="font-size: x-small;">7</span> <i>For the overseer must be above reproach as God’s steward, not self-willed, not quick-tempered, not addicted to wine, not pugnacious, not fond of sordid gain </i>(Titus 1:6-7)</blockquote>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;">2</span> <i>An overseer, then, must be above reproach, the husband of one wife, temperate, prudent, respectable, hospitable, able to teach,</i> <span style="font-size: x-small;">3</span> <i>not addicted to wine or pugnacious, but gentle, peaceable, free from the love of money.</i> (1 Timothy 3:2-3)</blockquote>
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Both of these verses describe the qualifications of the overseer of a congregation, the Pastor. Both of these verses require the overseer to be the <b>husband of one wife</b>. I have heard of more than one godly man who stepped down from the pulpit when his wife died because he no longer fulfilled these qualifications of a pastor. Does "Pastor" White fulfill the biblical qualification of a pastor? If you look carefully at the attached photo, she doesn't look much like a husband, and being the mother of one son, I think am safe in assuming that she truly is a woman, but these days you never know...</div>
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Currently many people who have assigned themselves the title of Christian deny that being a man is truly a requirement for being a pastor because it was written a long time ago. Times were different then. Men were different then. It was Paul writing these things. Their list of excuses for ignoring God's word goes on, but to them I say "I'm not God's editor, I'm his bond slave. I don't have the holiness to pick and choose which verses I wish to obey and those that I choose to ignore. It's <b><i><span style="color: red;"><u>all</u> </span></i></b>God's word to me." And then I would ask that person "What qualifies you to edit the word of God?"</div>
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My personal example - I used to LOVE castigating Barrack Hussein Obama, I called him out for every single lie, broken promise, and inconsistency, and believe me brother and sisters, those eight years were filled with them. Then I re-read Romans 13:1-3... <i>ooops</i>. My assessment of President Obama's abuses of power and incompetence stopped dead. I tried to keep in mind Romans 13 when ever news of his lies and double dealings arose and I kept it to myself and I prayed for this nation. (Now that he's no longer leader of anything but a fat bank account and 14 acres of prime real estate on Martha's Vineyard those verses no longer apply and now it is President Trump who was chosen by God to lead us)</div>
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But it's not just the fact that Paula is usurping a position that she's not physically qualified for, she's not theologically qualified for pastoral leadership either. Check out the last requirements of both verses: <b>not fond of sordid gain</b><i> </i>and <b>free from the love of money</b><i>. </i>The love of money is practically all she teaches. Check out this video where she <a href="https://player.vimeo.com/video/9775256" target="_blank">savagely twists scripture into knots like a dishrag</a> to justify her slavering adoration of money. </div>
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You only have to watch the first 2 minutes of the video, but let's start with the opening dialogue which starts with her denying that Jesus is the only begotten son of God. Her bloviation on this subject proves that she fails to understand, or wants us to ignore John 3:16, John 3:18, John 1:14, Hebrews 11:17, and especially Galatians 4:4-5 that all clearly and categorically states that <b>Jesus is God's only begotten son</b>. When she said “Jesus is not the only begotten Son of God … He is the first fruit.” she is both denying His deity and affirming it at the same time - no wonder why she denies saying this. I would deny saying it too, it's breathtakingly ignorant but she still said it and she refuses to repent.<br />
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Claiming that he is the first fruit states that he is a created being, dropping him down to our level. but claiming that we are begotten sons raises us above Him. She either denied the Trinity or went full LDS and elevated us to Godhood. And the schlemiel across the table from her is leading her on, egging her on, getting her to agree without a thought in her head that we mere human beings are begotten sons making us little Gods too. This teaching ,my dear readers, is Satanic. This goes back to the first time Satan had interactions with human beings:</div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;">4</span> <i>The serpent said to the woman, “You surely will not die!</i> <span style="font-size: x-small;">5</span> <i>For God knows that in the day you eat from it your eyes will be opened, </i><b>and you will be like God</b><i>, knowing good and evil.” </i>(Genesis 3:4-5) <span style="font-size: x-small;">(emphasis mine)</span></blockquote>
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And Eve fell for it, and then she convinced Adam this was a good idea too, and this is another reason why Paul states that women are not part of the theological process except when teaching other women. And you saw Paula White agreeing with what any true pastor would know is wrong: it was settled in the year 381 in the Council of Nicea, from which comes a creed that Paula says she believes in, which in part which says<br />
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This is a 1,638 year old orthodoxy that all Christian faiths are based upon, and "Pastor" White clearly does not understand what she is talking about. Or maybe she does understand. Gibberish claiming that we, we pathetic sinners, are begotten is nothing more than Satan's lure. It's a lure because it sounds so good, because it makes us sound powerful, like a theological Green Lantern* all we have to do is say the right words and we're suddenly Super Powerful.<br />
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The truth is that we are NOT begotten sons of God;<br />
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<i>He predestined us to adoption as sons through Jesus Christ to Himself, according to the kind intention of His will</i> (Ephesians 1:5)</blockquote>
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Adopted sons are not the same as a begotten son and "Pastor" Paula claimed over and over again in that video clip that Jesus is merely the first fruit, a created being, and saying this she strips away his deity making him just a guy, and saying that we are the begotten ones bestows a deity on us that is only God's to bestow. That is a false doctrine straight from the pits of hell.<br />
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Many of "Pastor" Paula's apologists insist that the main accusations against "Pastor" Paula are secondary in nature and need not be considered when viewing her over all. I'm not sure what they are considering what is secondary - Maybe claiming to be a pastor when by the word of God, she is not qualified? Maybe her multiple marriages? Her affair with Benny Hinn? Maybe it's the fact that although she says she <a href="https://www.thegospelcoalition.org/article/9-things-know-prosperity-gospel-preacher-paula-white/" target="_blank">rejects </a>the prosperity gospel, you saw her in the <a href="https://player.vimeo.com/video/9775256" target="_blank">video </a>with her made up Crown of Thorns = Money For All miracle. "God wants his children living voluptuously" I don't think they know what that word means or maybe they're counting on you thinking there's an alternate attractive meaning. The average person may think voluptuously is about sex, because it is.</div>
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Paula White's ministry is a money sucking Christian flavored scam lead by a bottle blond con artist. In a <a href="https://www.christianpost.com/news/pastor-paula-white-claims-july-is-prophetically-designated-for-victory-over-enemies-suggests-229-breakthrough-seed-donation.html" target="_blank">July 2014 news letter</a> to her flock of minions she declared that God had shown her that "this is a season of victory for His people." and that "a seed of $229 in accordance with 1 Chronicles 22:9 is a breakthrough seed for the month of July"</div>
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Someone please tell me what the birth of Solomon has to do with $229, no wait, better yet - if you send me $249 I will tell you exactly what $229 has to do with the both books; first and second Chronicles. That's quite a deal, act now! This offer won't last! but back to "Pastor" Paula. Her letter continues all in caps: "JULY IS PROPHETICALLY DESIGNATED FOR VICTORY OVER ENEMIES FOR THOSE WHO ALIGN THEMSELVES WITH ME IN THIS SEASON! DO NOT HESITATE!"</div>
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So she set up an Us vs Them scenario, and your cash donation of $229 will insure victory over the enemies of "Pastor" Paula and you. Jesus taught us to love those that disagree with us, to share the gospel with them, to make disciples of them so we can share the glory of God with them in eternity. When Paula White demands victory over her enemies, this is the exact opposite of Christ's teaching, so logically her enemies are followers of Christ - Christians.</div>
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<i>Children, it is the last hour; and just as you heard that antichrist is coming, even now many antichrists have appeared; from this we know that it is the last hour. </i>(1 John 2:18)</blockquote>
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"Pastor" Paula finishes her newsletter with a dire threat to her minions: "Do not hesitate to follow a prophetic instruction!" I suppose just to let them know who is really in charge.</div>
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The sale of victory bonds over the followers of Christ for $229 just whet her appetite for squeezing strangely exact amounts of hard earned cash out of her minion's wallets. She chose Easter Sunday 2016 to <a href="https://www.christianpost.com/news/televangelist-paula-white-hawks-resurrection-life-1144-dollar-seed.html" target="_blank">demand a ransom</a> for the gift of life that God so freely gives through His grace. On the day we celebrate our Savior's victory over death, Paula White offered her followers an Easter Sunday deliverance from a spiritual death sentence for a $1,144 "resurrection seed" which she says was set by God. She claimed that if her minions sewed the seed of $1,144.00 into her pocket, then God would grant them "resurrection life" through "Pastor" Paula. All her minions had to do is sow the seed and have faith, and deliverance would come.</div>
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According to "Pastor" Paula the amount was set by God and He was <i><u>very</u></i> specific that the amount of the <strike>bribe</strike> seed be set at $1,144.00 because it's based on John 11:44. In that verse Lazarus came out of the tomb after Jesus resurrected him from death (for free). I assume it was for free, there was no talk of money changing hands in John 11:44 But Wait! In this verse Jesus tells the witnesses to take the cloth off of Lazarus face And If You Act Now with your resurrection seed money you can receive a Paula White Anointed <strike>Handkerchief</strike> Prayer Cloth that she prayed at/over/near.</div>
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She claimed that these were very special prayer cloths that could possible cause special miracles, signs and wonders. (Really - she actually said that)</div>
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Then Paula lets you in on a very special deal, if you can't afford $1,144.00, she can sneak you in for $144.00 and if that's too much she'll let you by with $44.00 (ssshhh - don't tell God, he was very specific about the price)</div>
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Paula's prosperity theology, also referred to as the prosperity gospel, the health and wealth gospel, the gospel of success, or seed faith, is based on a perversion of John 10:10</div>
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<i>The thief comes only to steal and kill and destroy; I came that they may have life, and have it abundantly.</i></blockquote>
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The prosperity gospel advocates tells their minions that Jesus is promising them all the good things in life, money, a new car, a nice house... Jesus is the Genie and you don't even have to rub the lamp, all you have to do to get is to give your money. (so the pastor can have the money, a new car, a nice house) This is a shallow and soulless misinterpretation of one of Jesus most loving promises. He is not promising material wealth he is promising joy, peace, the society of the blessed, and all those exalted means of felicity which are prepared for us in the world of glory. He is promising life eternal beyond our comprehension. The word translated to "abundantly" is perissos (περισσός) means over and above, more than is necessary, something beyond comprehension. And what is He giving? Not stuff, but <b><i>life</i></b>.</div>
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So what does the bible say about amassing material wealth? Here's the top three bible verses that shore up the Prosperity Gospel's claim that God wants you to be rich:</div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;">19</span> “<i><span style="color: red;">Do not store up for yourselves treasures on earth, where moth and rust destroy, and where thieves break in and steal.</span></i> <span style="font-size: x-small;">20</span> <i><span style="color: red;">But store up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where neither moth nor rust destroys, and where thieves do not break in or steal; </span></i><span style="font-size: x-small;">21</span> <i><span style="color: red;">for where your treasure is, there your heart will be also.</span></i> (Matthew 6:19-21)</blockquote>
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<i>Make sure that your character is free from the love of money, being content with what you have; for He Himself has said, “I will never desert you, nor will I ever forsake you,” </i>(Hebrews 13:5)</blockquote>
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<span style="color: red;"><i>No one can serve two masters; for either he will hate the one and love the other, or he will be devoted to one and despise the other. <b>You cannot serve God and wealth.</b> </i></span>(Matthew 6:24) <span style="font-size: x-small;">(emphasis mine)</span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;">7</span> <i>For we have brought nothing into the world, so we cannot take anything out of it either. </i><span style="font-size: x-small;">8</span> <i>If we have food and covering, with these we shall be content. </i><span style="font-size: x-small;">9 </span><i>But those who want to get rich fall into temptation and a snare and many foolish and harmful desires which plunge men into ruin and destruction.</i> <span style="font-size: x-small;">10<i> </i></span><i>For the love of money is a root of all sorts of evil, and some by longing for it have wandered away from the faith and pierced themselves with many griefs.</i> (1 Timothy 6:7-10)</blockquote>
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You want more? How about Proverbs 11:28, Luke 12:15, Luke 12:33, Matthew 6:25-32, the list is quite extensive. While our Lord Jesus Christ is telling us that the love of wealth is dangerous to our salvation, prosperity antichrists like T.D. Jakes, Steven Furtick, Joel Osteen and "Pastor" Paula are arguing that the bible is wrong - give me money and I'll see to it that God makes you rich.</div>
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Even though Paula follows Satan's plan to the letter by setting up divisions between the brothers and by denying the true Gospel, she claims to be under attack from Satan. <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=4230&v=wTRB98-iPAU" target="_blank">Here </a>she speaks about a "demonic timeline" that was attempting to kill her through an IV drip in foot surgery. The ol' Death By Podiatry scenario.</div>
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You may wonder which seminary graduated "Pastor" Paula with her nonsense and her antichrist prosperity gospels and the answer is: none. Her highest level of education is a high school diploma, so it's unknown if she ever opened a bible other than to pick a chapter and verse number for her next seed money demand. In truth "Pastor" Paula is actually "Prophetess" Paula. She has always considered herself a prophet. She claimed to have received a vision from God shortly after her conversion:</div>
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"When I was just eighteen years old, the Lord gave me a vision that every time I opened my mouth and declared the Word of the Lord, there was a manifestation of His Spirit where people were either healed, delivered, or saved. When I shut my mouth, they fell off into utter darkness and God spoke to me and said 'I called you to preach the gospel.'" <span style="font-size: x-small;">(source "Mavericks" Lee, Shayne; Sinitiere, Phillip Luke (2009) pp 107–128.)</span></div>
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And now she's an apostle. It's a crown that she was reluctant to wear but <a href="https://reformationcharlotte.org/2019/05/09/prosperity-gospel-plantation-owner-paula-white-claims-god-told-her-to-accept-title-of-apostle/" target="_blank">her god convinced her to wear it</a>. Her apostleship is founded on the heresy that the office of the Apostolate has been revived in latter times - why? how? pretty much because C. Peter Wagner and his associates decided it to be. Apostles walk the earth now just like in the days of the 1st Century church because money. (An apostle can probably get more for a speaking engagement than a lowly doctor or pastor) It is closely associated with the prosperity gospel and Dominionism, the belief that God requires Christians to take over the “seven mountains of culture” to hasten Jesus’ return to Earth. Because the supreme being who created Everything needs our help to do anything, right?</div>
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Apostle Paula turned her church New Destiny Christian Center over to her son and changed its name to City of Destiny (possibly changing the name to keep a legal right to past residual revenue of the church body) Her son is now the overseer and she is now the overoverseer... I mean the overseer overseer... or maybe the head overseer or maybe the OWIC (Overseer What's In Charge) as long as there's a dollar amount attached, she'll figure it out. </div>
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She wants to expand City of Destiny planting 3.000 new churches. So let's run the numbers: if she comes up with another seed money scam based on John 14:2, for only $142 you can lease a room in God's mansion, and we can get as little as 1000 people per church to pony up the seed money that's 3,000 x 1,000 x $142 for a potential pot of $426 million dollars. And of course, an Apostle is entitled to the lion's share</div>
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Doug Evanshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05318930961031654937noreply@blogger.com7tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2246295430976433070.post-82272940508017277622019-10-29T12:03:00.003-06:002019-10-29T12:03:38.049-06:00It's Not Over<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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It is with some joy but also with deep sadness that I now no longer feel compelled to wear orange on Sunday. Many of us wear orange to show solidarity with our Christian brothers and sisters in the middle east who were undergoing tribulation at the hands of ISIS. </div>
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My joy is with the news that the head of ISIS Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, the most vicious terrorist on the planet, was killed in Syria by his own hand to avoid capture by US forces. Also his second in command, Abu Hassan al-Muhajir, was killed in Aleppo province in a separate attack by U.S. forces. The next in line, Al-Haj Abdullah Qardash AKA "The Professor" and "The Destroyer" is rumored to have been "inhumed" (the opposite if exhumed) by US forces also.</div>
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Thus ends ISIS as a global force of terror. Their Iraqi stronghold, Mosul, was recaptured by Iraqi forces to end the ISIS caliphate back in 2007. (This victory was completely ignored by the US press in order not to shine any positive light on the Trump administration.) In the end ISIS was under attack by the Kurdistan Workers' Party or PKK, another terrorist organization, this one based on Sanders style communism rather than Islamic inhumanity. </div>
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<span style="color: #666666;"><i>Oh, Muslim, come, there’s a virgin in heaven.</i> That’s the beginning of the song that Abu Nasir sang for me every night before he raped me. He would take some drugs and get high to that song. One time I asked him what the song meant, “You’re a Yazidi infidel. It’s not your fault, you were born like that. When you die, you’ll become a houri to entertain us, we Muslims,” he replied. “Doesn’t that mean you have to wait until we die to do what you’re doing to us, since we are still alive?” I asked. “I bought you, making you my property. This marriage duty is part of the jihad,” he said. Of course, I couldn’t speak my mind freely with him. <b>The main motivation for these Daesh men was sexual: they would kill anyone in order to rape women. In the end they would kill themselves to meet their houris in heaven. </b>(emphasis mine) <a href="https://www.nationalreview.com/corner/isis-brutality-nazi-like-cruelty-yazidis/" target="_blank"><span style="font-size: x-small;">source</span></a></span></blockquote>
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The crimes that they committed were so horrific, so vile, that the mind reels that such horror was so lightly opposed. Yes, there was armed forces hunting down ISIS, but not the intense mobilization these animals deserved. So is it wrong to take joy in the deaths of such evil, vile perverts? Were they twisting what the Koran taught or were they doing what they said over and over - following the word of the prophet?</div>
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The Christian church in Iraq is nearly extinct. Once there were 1.5 million Christians worshiping God in Iraq and now there are barely 250,000 - a loss of 83%. 125,000 escaped to other lands, the rest 1,225,000 were either killed or forced to convert at the point of a sword. Now it's reported that Christian persecution in the middle east <a href="https://www.breitbart.com/faith/2019/10/24/report-persecution-in-iraq-down-after-loss-of-over-90-of-nations-christians/" target="_blank">is down</a>, probably due to nearly 90% of Christians being slaughtered there in the cradle of Christianity, and that Asia is now <a href="https://www.breitbart.com/faith/2019/10/28/report-asia-is-the-hot-spot-for-christian-persecution/" target="_blank">the hot spot for our tribulation</a>.</div>
Doug Evanshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05318930961031654937noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2246295430976433070.post-170351090378703082019-10-22T13:12:00.000-06:002019-10-22T13:13:01.626-06:00I'm Praying for Kanye West<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Recently Kanye West was quoted as saying "<a href="https://www.breitbart.com/entertainment/2019/10/22/kanye-west-says-rap-is-the-devils-music/" target="_blank">Rap is the devils music</a>" by his pastor in an interview with <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YDUmbkdQksU" target="_blank">Apologia Studios</a>. First of all, I tend to believe anything out of any group that uses the word Apologetics because of the ones I listen to/read, they tend to have a better grip on the word of God than a stadium full of Osteenites.</div>
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Secondly I would completely agree with Kanye on this depending on the mood you catch me in. If by chance you asked me "Doug, is rap the devil's music?" within a week of having to ride in my millennial stepson's car the answer would be a loud and boisterous "<b><i>YES!!!!</i></b>" </div>
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However if you caught me on a more normal day the answer would be a more astute "any kind of music can be the devil's music" including classical music. Numerous pieces of classical music pay homage to Satan, pieces including Giuseppe Tartini's <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rDlU3qcd-Pk" target="_blank">Devil's Trill Sonata</a>, Charles-Camille Saint-Saëns <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XktAN207o9A" target="_blank">Danse Macabre</a>, and one known to any long time Disney watcher: Modést Petróvich Músorgskiy's <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tu1no7hOlSs" target="_blank">Night at the Bare Mountain</a> (Night on Bald Mountain). These are all inspired by Satan, and you can throw in anything with "Faust" in the title to expand your list of Satanic Classical.</div>
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One just needs to peruse Good Fight Ministries' <a href="https://www.goodfight.org/articles/music/" target="_blank">music articles</a> to see the horrors that Satan is inflicting on the world through popular music. <a href="https://www.pbs.org/kenburns/country-music/" target="_blank">Country music</a> has so much gospel intertwined that you get a lot of the good, along with the bad. But as for Rap, I'll admit that I don't listen to much at all, but what I hear is horrible. However 30 years ago, MC Hammer <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mye1aCskFcM" target="_blank">begged his listeners to pray</a>, which is more biblical truth than is contained in hours of Hillsong's noise.</div>
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I pray for Kanye, I really do. As breathlessly reported through thousands of outlets this summer, Kanye West has converted to Christianity, and I believe it's a true conversion. I was unconvinced until I read that he was feeling “the weight of sin” from “chasing all the things of this world" and converted to Christianity. To me that's a real conversion where one asks "I have sinned, please help me" and not "I'm OK, but what can JC do for me?"<br />
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I've never listened to Kanye, but I've read that his first album, the College Dropout, uses "God tinged tracks" and that the album is full of expletives. This has continued throughout his career until recently when it appears that he let the Holy Spirit do His work on him. Kanye is now conducting “Sunday Services,” weekly gatherings for family and celeb friends to fellowship and sing together. And to me he sounds sincere, he recently prayed:</div>
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"Let's not be concerned with the opinions of men at all. Only the opinion of God. I know we say this is the culture or that is the culture. To be radically in service to Christ is the only culture that I want to know about... Thank you for saving me, for replenishing me, for delivering me... When I found out about you... I got closer to my children. I got closer to my family, 'cause the devil had me chasing a gold statue, had me chasing cars, had me chasing numbers... the power of God cannot be calculated by a number, a first week sale, by a bank account, by how many cars you drive, by how big your house is, how many acres you got... It's God inside of us. It's God inside of family. It's God inside of friendship that we hold each other accountable" <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/entertainment/kanye-west-jesus-christian-kardashian-sunday-service" target="_blank">source</a></blockquote>
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But Satan has put a road block in Kanye's path to sanctification - his wife. Kim Kardashian is a "jackdaw in peacock feathers" and has been for decades. She's made millions of dollars off of her looks and her body; photo shoots, a television show, and a mobile app has netted her over $40 million dollars. In 2003 she and her then boyfriend Ray J video taped their sexual exploits and that tape somehow got into the hands of a porn producer who started to sell copies publicly. Instead of suing that producer, Kim hired an <a href="https://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-3251805/How-Kim-4-5million-sex-tape-thanks-Joe-Francis.html" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">agent </a>and netted nearly 5 million additional dollars.</div>
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Recently Kim was preparing for the Costume Institute Gala in NYC (does anyone care what that is?) when Kanye raised objections to her choice of a corset dress saying </div>
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'I just made this transition from being a rapper, looking at all these girls, looking at my wife,' he mused. 'Like, ''Oh, my girl needs to be like the other girls, showing her body off''...'I didn't realize that that was affecting my soul and my spirit as someone that's married and loved, and the father of now, what—about to be four kids?... 'A corset is like a form of underwear, It's hot. It's like, it's hot for who, though?'</blockquote>
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And of course she wore the dress to the gala, even though it was so tight she couldn't sit down, and of course she broadcast the disagreement on her TV show, netting her extra money because of a clause in the contract that states she gets extra bucks if Kanye appears on the show.<br />
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I'm praying for Kanye, praying that his conversion and salvation is real, praying that he will "man up" and have a talk with Kim and his pastor (and maybe even Pastor Paratus) and help Kim reach the same spot that he is in. As the spiritual head of the family, that's a husbands job.<br />
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Doug Evanshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05318930961031654937noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2246295430976433070.post-89349295748785713682019-10-16T13:52:00.000-06:002019-10-16T13:52:30.578-06:00Maybe Beto Has a Good Idea<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Floods are inexorable, sometimes they start with a roar, but quite often they start with a trickle. That trickle gradually gains in force growing larger and larger until the waters become unstoppable. The same way the that the waters increase in volume before the flood starts to rage, the attacks on the church increase as the Christians are lulled into complicity. Many components of the visible church have moved so far away from the purity of God's word, that they no longer resemble Christianity, they're weekly self-help seminars with a rock band playing God flavored anthems. This leaves us wide open to Satan's attacks.<br />
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At first thought this sounds outrageous, revoke the church's tax exempt status? This goes to the first amendment. The left has always had the constitutional stance on religion wrong, and Beto is a fine example of that. First of all, there is no "constitutional separation of church and state", that's just a buzz phrase for leftist news chewers. The first amendment of the Constitution of the United States clearly states<br />
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The constitution does not state, nor does it even imply a separation between church and state, it says what it says. And it does not mention taxation of Churches, but if all churches were taxed equally, fine - so be it. There should be no problem at all. In fact Christian churches should have no problem paying taxes what so ever:<br />
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However what the left gets totally wrong isn't that the first amendment is to protect the Government from the influences of religion, it is to protect religion from the influences of the Government. And that's what Beto's plan is - to bludgeon religion into following the Government's dictate. He doesn't even want it to look like fairness: follow my rules Or Else! It's kind of like what is going on in China where churches are required to preach what the government wants them to preach, otherwise they're closed, doors chained shut, and the pastor is hauled off to the gulag.<br />
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I thought about this and at first thought how awful of an idea this is, he's just pandering to the rapidly growing Stalinist wing of the Democrat party. Then I thought some more, and realized that in the future I may move to a new location and have to do some church shopping. How easy it would be to see a church with a sign out front that simply states<br />
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You would immediately know that this was a bible based church, not bending to the sin centered whims of popular culture and Satan's sexual dictates. While The Who tunes up their guitars preparing to play for the service in the "Christian" country club across the street in their palatial mansion with putting green manicured lawns, valet parking, three competing baristas in the foyer, I'll be over here in the drafty little white frame building with wooden pews, squeaky ceiling fans, and the Word Of God worshiping and praising God the Father, God the Son and God the Holy Spirit. We won't have to parse web pages to determine what a church believes, when a simple statement "We Pay Our Taxes" says it all for us. Yes, we won't have much money after it is taken from us, but the work of separating the wheat from the weed will be done by the IRS in preparation for Christ's return.<br />
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