Random Bits

"I walk through this sinful world as a 

pilgrim in a foreign country" - CH Spurgeon

This world is not my home I'm just a'passing through
My treasures are laid up somewhere beyond the blue
The angels beckon me from heaven's open door
And I can't feel at home in this world anymore

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 the premier choice 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.

It's highly unlikely that the left will find someone worthy of the office, of course the last time that happened it was accidental, so I support President Trump because Romans 13. However now he appoints Paula White to his staff, you may know that I believe that Paula White is an antichrist, I explained that at length in a recent blog entry, 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.

Apostle/Prophet/Profit/Pastor Paula White wants you to listen to God's voice, He's saying "Write a check to Paula White Ministries"

That Pope goes all in for pagan idol worship in the catholic church. (Yes, the pagan idols were placed “without idolatrous intentions.” but they said that about Mary worship too)

The Democratic socialist governor of New York, Mario Cuomo, signed a bill that codifies into state law prohibiting churches and nonprofit organizations from endorsing or opposing political candidates. 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)

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This time with footnotes!*
(*They're not really footnotes, nor are they end notes, I think they're actually parenthetical subnotes)

“I don’t want pie in the sky by and by. I want some ham where I am.” - the List of TV Evangelist Greatest Hits
(By "Greatest Hits" I mean "The utterances that make a mockery of our Savior's love and sacrifice")

Televangelist Ernst Angley had to ground his 747 because they can't afford the maintenance
(I know a fellow who will do the work cheap)

Is Pop-Christianity fading fad?
(Satan doesn't fade, he acquires a new target and fires all guns)

In 2006, 13 year old Carra Crouch was drugged and raped by a 30-year-old employee of Trinity Christian Center. She sued her Grandmother,
(and from reading the transcript, I would have sued her grandmother too)

Enemies within the church - Is the Reformed Christian Movement Splitting over the “Woke” Theology? 
(editors note: There's a huge difference between being Wide Awake and being Woke)

Random Bits

"I walk through this sinful world as a 

pilgrim in a foreign country" - CH Spurgeon

This world is not my home I'm just a'passing through
My treasures are laid up somewhere beyond the blue
The angels beckon me from heaven's open door
And I can't feel at home in this world anymore

Nearly five years ago President Obama blamed the Crusades and Jim Crowe on Christians doing evil in Christ's name. He said this at the National Prayer Breakfast in 2015:

“Lest we get on our high horse and think this is unique to some other place, remember that during the Crusades and the Inquisition, people committed terrible deeds in the name of Christ. In our home country, slavery and Jim Crow all too often was justified in the name of Christ.”  

The air is clear now (as it was back then) that the sins of Jim Crowe fall squarely on the desk of the Democrat Party, but the crusades? I wrote on it in the past, and I'll write on it in the future, but this time I'll let the Wintery Knight write about it. I'll concentrate on the Inquisition a bit later.

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WWPD - What Would Paul Do?

A representative of the Satanic Temple claims that more than 50% of their membership is LGBTQXYZ... no shocked surprise here, I'm just sayin'

This is probably why the LGBTQXYZ wants to destroy Christianity

Christian Pastor Rhyan Glezman, the brother-in-law of Democrat 2020 hopeful Pete Buttigieg is purposely “misinterpreting” the Bible in an attempt to push his absurd pro-abortion agenda.

Darn those pesky airplanes! (BTW The article that originally appeared in the New York Times (a former newspaper) no longer exists)

Random Bits

"I walk through this sinful world as a 

pilgrim in a foreign country" - CH Spurgeon

This world is not my home I'm just a'passing through
My treasures are laid up somewhere beyond the blue
The angels beckon me from heaven's open door
And I can't feel at home in this world anymore

I have another blog that is supposed to be more secular in nature, It goes by the same name as this blog, but it's on the WordPress platform. If that's confusing I apologize, but it's not confusing to me so I don't apologize too repentantly. I intend to use it to discuss my secular interests such as hobbies, railroads, medical issues, railroads, history, railroad history, and politics.

This past Sunday, Pastor Paratus launched into a sermon on a subject that I think needs to be shouted from every pulpit; political Idolatry. I'm studying Spurgeon's self identification as a Political Dissenter which is starting to look appealing to me, but on my other blog I launched in to Political Idolatry on a different tack than Pastor Paratus used. I spoke about the target of political worship: the gut retching evil and stupidity of sinful men in power. Then after publishing it I took another look and realized it should have been here in my theological blog too - because Political Idolatry is a sin, and even if our target of idolatry is a good clean man or woman of God, it's still just a man or woman.

Facebook has suppressed the Pro-Life group Live Action based on false news from an alleged third party "fact checker"

Disgusting - how could someone live with this? It takes a truly cold hearted satanic minion 

St. Pauls's in Minot ND, (right next to the big St. Joes Hospital parking ramp on East Burdict Expy) has divided Christians into teams; Team Able and Team Cain, I kind of agree with him in parts, but he forgets the thief that was crucified with Christ.

No, Benny Hinn has not changed his tune, he has NOT repented...

...and here are the bible verses people like Benny Hinn, T.D. Jakes, and Kenneth Copeland DO NOT WANT YOU TO READ

Praying to Hurricane Dorian instead of praying to God, a group of professing believers told the weather what to do just like Jesus did.

Random Bits

"I walk through this sinful world as a 

pilgrim in a foreign country" - CH Spurgeon

This world is not my home I'm just a'passing through
My treasures are laid up somewhere beyond the blue
The angels beckon me from heaven's open door
And I can't feel at home in this world anymore

When I first started doing this Random Bits article it was a little hard to find stories that stood out, fascinating bits that would enlighten, entertain, edify, and occasionally point out the sin of twisting scripture. Now it's hard to decide what not to include, it's almost all Christian persecution and apostasy run wild

When tribulation reaches these shores it's not going to be like the tribulation our brothers and sisters endure in the middle east (warfare, slaughter, forced conversion) or in Africa (which is also warfare, slaughter, forced conversion). It's going to be more like our brothers and sisters are trying to endure in places like China and North Korea where our lord and savior is outlawed by their governments. And why? Partially because of the antics of the Roman Catholic priests who were raping their alter boys and other children, and now we see sexual misconduct in the protestants. Even though this is going on wholesale in the secular world, this is God's people sinning and this sticks in the public mind. Pastors being removed for financial or sexual misconduct and being returned to the pulpit with little or no repentance. And then there are the antics of the NAR and the 'Seeker Sensitive' Emergent churches; we see unbiblical celebrations of lunacy, the public thinks we're all lunatics, and as the apostasy grows, so does atheism, and freedom of religion suddenly becomes freedom from religion. I truly believe this, while many of us cling to our bibles and follow His word, the former president of the United States mocks us for that, and while Jim Bakker returns to his shenanigans and Todd Bentley shows how far the NAR will go to keep the money rolling in. Satan will use these and many more horror stories to drive us from the face of the earth (into Jesus' loving arms)

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When Hillsong replaces the gospel with a ‘circus performance’ – this is not satire.

Even though apostasy is terrible, God uses it to accomplish good

Please help us find the Harrisburg PA Pastor that Todd White healed. He shouldn't be hard to find, his leg was over 3 inches too short due to polio

And now Todd Bentley. I'm not going any further than that other to mention that he's NAR. Read at your own risk

Random Bits

"I walk through this sinful world as a 

pilgrim in a foreign country" - CH Spurgeon

This world is not my home I'm just a'passing through
My treasures are laid up somewhere beyond the blue
The angels beckon me from heaven's open door
And I can't feel at home in this world anymore

You all remember Ilhan Omar and Rashida Tlaib's botched trip to Israel. "I just wanted to see my Grandmother!" Rashida sobbed. The lame stream media made this sound like a congressional junket but suddenly Israel put restrictions on Tlaib only allowing her to see her grandmother. Talib balked at those restrictions and cancelled the trip.

Some of the more humorous bits was that it wasn't a congressional junket, it was just Ilhan and Rashida, and it wasn't Israel who put the restrictions on Rashida, it was Rashida who told Israel in a letter that she was just going to see her grandmother. Israel then made it public that Rashida was only going to see her grandmother, whereby Rashida got angry and said something to the effect of 'if I can only see my grandmother, I'm not going.' However the unfunniest part comes when you realize that the entire trip was sponsored by the terrorist sympathizing organization Miftah, the Palestinian Initiative for the Promotion of Global Dialogue & Democracy Now Miss Tlaib is comparing Israel with Nazi Germany, maybe I should risk upsetting Mrs. Tlaib and let her in on the truth: her anger is misdirected

Has the art of self worship reached it's zenith? Or is this just a stepping stone to a Mormonesque "I Am A God!" theater of damnation?

Why was it necessary for God to die for our sins? I'm sure many readers here know, but here is a well thought out outline

Iceland murders babies but worships a block of ice

Top 10 False Teachers that you will find in Evangelical churches

Random Bits

"I walk through this sinful world as a 

pilgrim in a foreign country" - CH Spurgeon

This world is not my home I'm just a'passing through
My treasures are laid up somewhere beyond the blue
The angels beckon me from heaven's open door
And I can't feel at home in this world anymore

Broadcast radio is dead to me. I suppose that my cable system spoiled me with Video On Demand and digital recording. Mrs. WideAwakeChristian and I record all our favorite programs so we can zap commercials (it's easy if you know how to program your remote to leap ahead in 30 second jumps) and I can watch what I want to watch, when I want to watch it.

As I've mentioned in the past, Christian radio in this area is almost all charismatic chatter. I would love a station that played All MacArthur All The Time but no such luck, we might get a 1 minute Mac Bite occasionally but that's it. I love Red Eye Radio an 11 PM to 4 AM radio show, but I'm not up at those hours. But I can get the podcast and listen to it in my idea of morning and not have to listen to Glen Beck

There are a couple of MacArthur podcasts but my new favorite Christian podcast is: The Good Fight Radio Show. It's available on the android Double Pod app so it is probably available on iTunes. (I can't be sure, I don't do iTunes, iTunes is for toys) Try this episode on their website, they're discussing our favorite, most dapper inventor of narcissigesis Steven Furtick who claims he is now the gate, a job once reserved for Jesus Christ. Comment on this post on your favorite Christian podcasts and I'll devote an article to Christian podcasting 

The LGBTQXYZ community has a very high rate of suicide and has always has. Seriously. Always. The California legislature has decided to fix this situation by blaming you the Christian.

What Criteria do historians use to get to the minimal facts about the historical Jesus?

Department of Redundancy Dept: Hillsong song writer renounces his faith  (Isn't joining Hillsong a renunciation of faith?)

A Christian from South Korea arrested in Nepal on charges of “attempting to convert” and misuse of visa

The ChiComs have now banned Christian summer camps

And meanwhile Southern Baptists put Lifeway profits ahead of beleaguered Chinese Christians

Random Bits

"I walk through this sinful world as a 

pilgrim in a foreign country" - CH Spurgeon

This world is not my home I'm just a'passing through
My treasures are laid up somewhere beyond the blue
The angels beckon me from heaven's open door
And I can't feel at home in this world anymore
Oh lord you know I have no friend like you
If heaven's not my home then lord what will I do
The angels beckon me from heaven's open door
And I can't feel at home in this world anymore

When will I tire of posting Beth Moore's nonsense? I tired of that weeks ago, but she won't let up, it's almost like every time she opens her mouth she's telling us WatchBloggers "Here! I dare you to show the world that I'm daffy." What is with that girl?

A dance video making the round on social media celebrating homosexual orgasm shows two scantily clad men performing a homoerotic dance in the magnificent sanctuary of Saint Peter Apostle Church in Montreal

Not Satire:* While relentlessly promoting Blood Moon prophecies, Charisma Mag tells witches not to rely on lunar events

The sugar-daddy of woke evangelicalism might be in trouble with federal prosecutors for corruption and the unauthorized diversion of campaign dollars

The leaders of an evangelical ministry based in Montana have resigned following allegations of abuse and misappropriation of funds earmarked to help feed impoverished children.

"If you choose not to tithe, God says you live under a financial curse. He shuts prosperity off as an option for you. I did not say that the Bible says that." - John Hagee (my favorite moon man)

Man says he smokes THC to prepare for Jesus’ return

Random Bits

"I walk through this sinful world as a 

pilgrim in a foreign country" - CH Spurgeon

This world is not my home I'm just a'passing through
My treasures are laid up somewhere beyond the blue
The angels beckon me from heaven's open door
And I can't feel at home in this world anymore
Oh lord you know I have no friend like you
If heaven's not my home then lord what will I do
The angels beckon me from heaven's open door
And I can't feel at home in this world anymore

Years ago Snopes used to be a good site to run to if you really needed to know if that cat on Youtube is really playing the piano, or if Prince Charles really did hire a hit man to "kack" Princess Di. But in recent years Snopes has become a left wing apologist bent on erasing history and re-writing it to DNC standards. This is  how far they have sunk into the left-wing morass - now Snopes is fact-checking the Christian satire website the Babylon Bee. Let me repeat that: Snopes is fact-checking a Christian satire website. They're not just saying that "this is satire" (which is what a responsible, adult staffed agency would do) they're knowingly taking the hilarious satirical Babylon Bee stories and actually wasting time and energy to "fact-check" them like they were serious reporting. The previous sentence that you just read is not satire, the alt-left tunnel vision bound Snopes who couldn't find a left damning fact if Faux-cahontas (Fact check that fact Snopes) handed them one is brazenly attacking the Babylon Bee for their right (meaning both conservative AND correct) stance and Christian origins. In response to Snopes inept stammering, the Babylon Bee has lawyered up. Go Bee!

How Mary supplanted Jesus as the Roman Catholic savior. Ok, I know some folks are going to complain about this. Bring it.

Jesus' second advent occurred in Kenya this month.

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"I walk through this sinful world as a 

pilgrim in a foreign country" - CH Spurgeon

Mouths that used to speak out boldly against the Church of Rome have been quieted by the times. It no longer is in vogue to speak of the pope as “the antichrist” or the Catholic Church as the “whore of Babylon”. Now Protestants unwittingly believe that “our differences are not so great”. Ah, that is just what She needs us to think! [Keith Green, The Catholic Chronicles] (source)

Some people may think I'm hard hearted for posting this quote by Keith Green just a few days after the burning of Notre Dame, and maybe my being a history nut may cause you to think that I'm off my rocker for not mourning such a loss. But when I heard of the fire the three thought came to mind:

1. I've seen the Koln Dom and it is Much Cooler

2. When actress Sophia Loren wept over her stolen jewelry director Vittorio De Sica told her "there is one great truth I have learned about life, it is this—never cry over anything that can’t cry over you.”

3. These ornate stone buildings are at best white washed tombs (Matthew 23:27-28) built to honor the Roman Catholic Church, not God, and at worst it is a symbol of hate that historically the French people had for us, the children of the Reformation

On average, three churches a day are vandalized in France

Report shows increased hostility toward Christians across Europe

Investigators believe Notre Dame fire likely caused by electrical short-circuit

People are now claiming to see Jesus in the Notra Dame flames

The St Patrick’s Cathedral arson suspect was arrested at other cathedral in NJ 2 nights previous to his arrest in NYC.

The 'Holy Spirit' told Francis Chan not to tell a Catholic what is wrong with her church

A critical response to Catholic apologist De Maria on Transubstantiation

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"I walk through this sinful world as a 

pilgrim in a foreign country" - CH Spurgeon

Sorry I'm late - I've been sick all week, then heading here to Random Bits I got trapped by one of those self titled "Christian Anarchists". There's no such thing as a Christian Anarchist, it's like calling yourself a Meateating Vegan, or a Conservative Marxist or an Intellectual Admirer of AOC.

That's when I started coughing up little blobs of blood. I sent a note (and a pic of said blood blob) to Dr. Awesome who ordered me to report to St. Joe's ER, which I did. It turns out that '\my being "sick all week" wasn't bronchitis as ER visit #1/2019 told me, or C-DIF (which ER visit #2/2019 thought) but ER visit #3/2019 said it was pneumonia. yuk 😰

And there I go, mentioning Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez. I'm tempted to get all political here but I mustn't. On one hand, I'm a rail-fan, I love trains and her plan to replace airplanes with trains just warms my heart. I would love to take a train trip from Denver to Italy. But she has moved away from her initial Green New Deal Plan #9 From Outer Space silliness (I guess some people actually thought she was serious) and she has moved on to her actual agenda: dethroning God

However that's the tip of the rapidly growing iceberg, in Random Bits last week I mentioned a "goddess" that's running for president. This woman is not a goddess, she's not a guru, she's not a high priestess, what she is is Scary Dangerous. On with the show...

Abortion, hypnotism, astrology, augury, omen reading, necromancy, spell casting, seeking spiritual direction through natural phenomenon… is it any wonder that God Hates The Occult? part 2, part 3

Former first lady Hillary Clinton is defending the world wild human right to Kill The Babies!

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"I walk through this sinful world as a 

pilgrim in a foreign country" - CH Spurgeon

Welcome to LentFest 2019! the annual tradition where Roman Catholics, Psudo Catholics, and Fallen Catholics play their annual game of My Sacrifice Is Greater Than Yours. Some give up chocolate (my mom's favorite sacrifice), others give up alcohol (my uncles always gave up hard liquor which was probably not that hard because none of them drank hard liquor, but between the three of them they would put away 2 cases of beer a day) I tended to give up riding my bike (which wasn't that hard because Buffalo is a slush covered morass during Lent) I personally am giving up Lent for Lent, which is kind of difficult because I sooo love a good fish fry on Lenten fridays (but logic dictates that if I give up Lent I can have a friday fish fry any day I want)

So why not give up something that everyone loves and let's join our Catholic brothers and sisters in this: let's give up Sin. Let's quit rebelling against God. We love sin so much that God had to send His son down here to walk a few hundred miles in our shoes to show us that a sin free life can be led, then he let himself be killed so our sins were forgiven through Father's grace. I know we want to see Jesus, but I think it will be less traumatic to see Him in His house rather than see Him in His second advent down here.

Are the Roman Catholic Holy Days of Obligation Biblical?

Mr. Pope goes full AOC

Mr. Pope’ top financial adviser and the Vatican’s economy minister convicted of molesting 2 choirboys. Pray for the surviving victim (one of his targets killed himself with heroine)

United Methodist Church upholds biblical position against homosexuality, same-sex marriage

Schism feared after United Methodist Church's narrow vote to retain gay bans

The "Goddess" that is running for president

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"I walk through this sinful world as a 

pilgrim in a foreign country" - CH Spurgeon

President Obama said that he was going to keep abortions "Safe, legal, and rare", then again he also said "If you like your plan you can keep it" and  “I didn’t call the Islamic State a ‘JV’ team” and “The day after Benghazi happened, I acknowledged that this was an act of terrorism”

Thanks to the encouragement from spineless men like Barack Obama the number of abortions performed in the United States is more than all homicides, all suicides, all drug overdoses, all alcohol related deaths, and all car accident deaths in the United States, combined, and quadrupled. If you took the combined number of all those deaths and multiplied by four you come up with 838,000 deaths, still nearly 100,000 deaths short of the number of Americans that were killed because their mothers wanted them dead.

Am I being unfair for blaming the deaths of 925,000 to a million children every year on their mothers? No, not at all, in fact I'd be unfair if I blamed it on any of the father because the feminists and their supporters tell us over and over that the father of that child has no say in that babies birth or execution. If you want to argue this, go right ahead in the comments below, but first watch this video by Steven Crowder. A video that will probably haunt me to my grave and adds fuel to my desire to leave Colorado

Protesters stop the slaughter of babies in Arizona!

Vatican envoy to France under investigation for sexual assault

A Catholic diocese is threatening to sue over the release of a picture of gay priests snuggling and kissing

Pope Francis lifts Pope St. John Paul’s sanction on Communist priest

Inside the horrifying, unspoken world of sexually abusive nuns

Transgender ideology is "a fraud perpetrated by psychiatry, the likes of something the United States and other nations hasn’t experienced since the lobotomy era."

United Methodists likely to fully affirm sodomy this weekend

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"I walk through this sinful world as a 

pilgrim in a foreign country" - CH Spurgeon

Abbie Johnson worked for Planned Parenthood for eight years. Through those years she rose to be a clinical director, but what she saw started to disturb her. Rather than making abortion safe and rare, Planned Parenthood saw (sees) it as a product that must be sold as often as possible. They started pushing quotas and raising those quotas while Abby and her co-workers were required to convince young women to have an abortion, and to hell with the alternatives. 

Then on September 26,2009 Abby was asked to assist with an ultrasound-guided abortion. What she saw was the horror of a 13 week old baby for it's life against the doctors instruments until in horror she watched that little child killed and chopped to pieces in it's mother womb.

Desperate and confused, Abby sought help from a local pro-life group. She swore that she would begin to advocate for life in the womb and expose abortion for what it truly is. Planned Parenthood did not take Abby’s departure sitting down. The organization is fully aware the workers who leave are their greatest threat. They took immediate action to silence Abby with a gag order and brought her to court. The lawsuit was quickly seen as the sham it was and it was ultimately thrown out of court. The story of Abby's fight comes out March 29th: Unplanned 

On the day that Pope Francis’ sex abuse summit is due to start, “In the Closet of the Vatican” will be published claiming to lift the lid on gay priests in the Vatican and the double lives of senior officials.

Eighty per cent of priests working at the Vatican are gay living double lives having casual sex with gay partners and using male prostitutes

Former Cardinal and Full Time Pervert Theodore McCarrick is going to be defrocked (that's telling him  Mr. Pope! Good thing you didn't have to break out the brass ruler!) {Survivors of Catholic schools know what the Brass Ruler means}

NJ Catholic dioceses release the names of 188 priests and deacons accused of sexual abuse of children 

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"I walk through this sinful world as a 

pilgrim in a foreign country" - CH Spurgeon

I was going to open with a commentary poking fun at "Glowarms" those folks that are addicted to the fanciful notion that people are causing Global Climate Change. Glowarms should show us that a cooler earth is a kinder earth by walking a paper route in Hettinger, North Dakota for the month of January.

But I was dissuaded from exploring the obvious by the words of our president:

“There could be no greater contrast to the beautiful image of a mother holding her infant child than the chilling displays our nation saw in recent days. Lawmakers in New York cheered with delight upon the passage of legislation that would allow a baby to be ripped from the mother’s womb moments from birth. These are living, feeling, beautiful babies who will never get the chance to share their love and dreams with the world. And then, we had the case of the governor of Virginia where he stated that he would ‘execute a baby after birth.’ To defend the dignity of every person, I am asking the Congress to pass legislation to prohibit the late term abortion of children who can feel pain in the mother’s womb... Let us work together to build a culture that cherishes innocent life. And let us reaffirm a fundamental truth: all children—born and unborn—are made in the holy image of God.”

I can say no more.

The Democrats not only love slaughtering babies in the womb, they want to kill them after they're born. Again - a mother (Senator Patty Murray) prevents the murder of children after they' are born

Once is bad enough, but the Democrats have twice blocked a bill that would protect babies born alive due to an abortion

If you thought New York's Murder Abortion On Demand law was disgusting? Wait until you see the blood stained copy of Vermont's new proposed new law calls for the unrestricted slaughter of babies from conception to the moment of birth and if the baby somehow survives it has no rights to live so it can be tossed in the garbage while fully alive. Oh, and this bill was introduced by Ann Pugh, a mother of one, and Maxine Grad, mother of 3

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"I walk through this sinful world as a 

pilgrim in a foreign country" - CH Spurgeon

It's been a tough couple of weeks and there's only been a couple of weeks in the entire year 2019. All year long (all 25 days of it) I've been struggling with medical issues, if I take too much of a particular prescription I risk with kidney failure, if I take too little I risk cardiac failure. Dr. Chicago and her team (Barb, Miss Vickie, Ann, and The Good Ann) are frustrated getting the dosage just right - the problem is whether I take too much or too little I feel just fine, so I keep track of my stats: weight, blood oxygen saturation, body temp, and blood pressure and pass them on to the doc and her crew and wait for the inevitable dosage change (Note: my BP is usually 110/65, I don't get high BP, I'm a carrier, I cause high blood pressure in other people)

Prayers are welcome, especially for Dr. Chicago, Barb, Miss Vickie, Ann, and The Good Ann, But I would mostly like prayers for HC. My friend HC and his wife just lost a three year old child. She died right there in front of her parents and her six brothers and sisters. Needless to say that family is in shock. They truly are experiencing a family's worst nightmare.

I don't watch the History Channel very often (read: never) because they don't do actual history any more. I end up watching The History Guy on YouTube for my history fixes now (he is excellent). But I will make an attempt to watch the History Channel's new eight-part television series called “Jesus: His Life” and I'll report back to you

I was surprised to discover that Lady Gaga is an actual musician under her popular culture disguise (including her meat dress {it's a real thing, look it up}) but now she is a Christian Theologian! Dear Lord, please have mercy on the wretched souls that follow her

Actual Christians react to Lady Gaga's rants

Now that false teacher John of God is gone, so are his followers

Is the destruction of society caused by rebellious women, or are rebellious women a product of a destroyed society? Either way, weak men are a major component of the downfall

Hey! Pastor John Gray: Not everyone can be a Steven Furtick, but nice try!

The memory of a Louisburg KS teen inspires a bible reading challenge

An example of church discipline done right

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"I walk through this sinful world as a 

pilgrim in a foreign country" - CH Spurgeon

Here it is, the third Friday of 2019 and I've gotten the random bits post out on time a total of once (and that's only if I get around to publishing it today). Many times I spend more time that I care to admit looking for interesting news worthy articles to read and publish, not this week! 

I've been inundated with news that is both hilarious and saddening. A guy walks into a Game Stop and throws a profanity filled childish fit because he wasn't called ma'am. What's the biblical method of handling that? The only thing that came to mind was to ask to see his drivers license, if it said "Female" say "I'm so sorry ma'am" If it said "Male" say "I'm sorry pal, no hard feelings, ok buddy?" You're not going to win a friend if you quote Deuteronomy 22:5

Any option you choose you're not going to win a friend, that person is full of Satans hate and is simply walking around looking to pick a fight. On the other hand I know some true transsexuals, and they're like any other person on earth, just looking to live without bother or hassle, just like you or me. They're not called to love us, so like "Miss Tiffany" they're emotionally free to act like a 2 year old when they don't get what they want. We on the other hand are called to love them and treat them with respect and grace. 1 Corinthians 4:5 It's all a test - like the rest of the news

Kasper, the Friendly Cardinal claims that people are using the clerical sex abuse crisis in order to oust Pope Frank from the papacy. Dude, you say that like it's a bad thing

Karen Pence (wife of VP Pence) teaches at Christian school, leftist meltdown is guaranteed 

Mike Pence hits back at the leftist meltdown: The mainstream media must stop 'attacks on Christian education'

Would Charles Spurgeon attend the G3 conference?

Ken Ham shows us the proper way to handle hate groups like the Freedom From Religion bullies

The End Is Near! The End Is Near! *gasp!*, *gasp!* There will be a Super Wolf Blood Moon on the 2nd anniversary of Donald Trump's swearing in ceremony. Coincidence? Let the trolling conspiracy theories begin

Mega-pastor James McDonald has taken an "indefinite sabbatical" from preaching and leading at the Harvest Bible Chapel Chicago location. Is this voluntary? Is this just spin to defuse public anger at his actions? Is he going to carry on being Mega-pain McDonald at a HBC outside of Chicago?

Something I've been saying for years: the problem with celebrity Christian music is that it takes the glory from God

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"I walk through this sinful world as a 

pilgrim in a foreign country" - CH Spurgeon

I was reading some facebook posts and a friend whose cousin recently had just passed away posted a picture by "Light Bible" in memory of her cousin. The meme paraphrased Exodus 22:20-26. The picture said "Let us not be the ones who feel god's wrath when his children cry out for justice" That's sweet. 

However the quoted verse in this sweet picture starts with the destruction of pagans, proceeds to an angry God slaughtering the uncharitable with a sword leaving widows and orphans in His wake, then ends with ancient Jewish financial law.

Yes we have a God of love, but he's also a God of righteousness, a God of justice, a God of anger who hates those who stirs up divisions in the brotherhood and those who lie. How do we tell our friends on the fringes of Christianity that the quote they just posted actually shows a side of God that you were never taught and clearly are not ready to see? Do we just drop a commentary of their verse that was framed in roses and tulips and say "Bam. There's the whole story. We don't have a fuzzy puffball of a love god, we worship a God who created everything with a word and can burn it all up in fire if He wants. He's capable of so much more than hugs and memes." or do we just let them drift alone in their own little world?

I don't know if this story makes me angry, makes me sad, or makes me want to throw up my hands and say "It's coming! I warned you all!" What's not coming is peace to DC comics. When the Aquaman movie out sells the Justice League it's time for DC Comics to pack it in and go home. This is just a sign that they are late in getting packed Aquaman! Sheesh! What a wimp

Ignoring the fact that Jesus taught 9 of the 10 commandments, Andy Stanley says that the  Ten Commandments don't apply to Christians

Apparently the reformation doesn't apply to Christians either according to JD Greear, the SBC President

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"I walk through this sinful world as a 

pilgrim in a foreign country" - CH Spurgeon

Last month I spent a little time in Philadelphia where my company is headquartered. We had a symposium centered around hiring veterans and most of us being veterans spent a lot of time together "comparing scars". Good times... The symposium ended with a trip to the 119th Army-Navy game. Being a USAF veteran I didn't have a dog in that fight, so I auctioned off my enthusiasm to the highest bidder and the Army won the rights to hearing my cheers. They also won the game. Coincidence? I think not.

Personally I like to go to the USAF academy and watch the Army and Navy football teams gasp in the thin air, the USAF Academy is at 6000 feet. As for the NFL, I haven't watched them in almost 2 years. The reason: Sometime in the near future a few young enlisted folks are going to take the flag, MY flag (it was stashed in my beloved EF-111A on a combat mission over downtown Baghdad) off of my coffin, fold it neatly, and hand it to my son. I don't want that flag stained in any way by a punk millionaire.

I'm back now and after catching up at work, I'm catching up at other things. I didn't put my Lord and savior on the back burner, but this blog did get cooled off some. And when I started looking at the news I just want to go back to my veteran brothers and sisters and ask "Did we just waste our time and youth? What did we defend?"

That pope fellow finally spoke out about the scandals rocking his church. It's too little too late, but it's something

Could it be money that got that pope fellow moving?

While diocese are being investigated for child abuse cover ups and bishops are being investigated for serial homosexual abuse, that Pope tells bishops to close ranks and stop pointing fingers. To me it sounds like he's telling his minions to not participate in the investigations. Am I wrong?

The popes instructions are not being followed as names are being named in the Church of the Pope

Oh Dear Lord - it's not just the priests and bishops (and cardinals and monsignors) but the NUNS TOO!