A Debt I Can Never Pay

³ He was despised and forsaken of men,A man of sorrows and acquainted with grief;And like one from whom men hide their faceHe was despised, and we did not esteem Him.⁴ Surely our griefs He Himself bore,And our sorrows He carried;Yet we ourselves esteemed Him stricken,Smitten of God, and afflicted.⁵ But He was pierced through for our transgressions,He was crushed for our iniquities;The chastening for our well-being fell upon Him,And by His scourging we are healed.(Isaiah 53:5-3)

He created us and continues to love us and forgive us, even though he knows us. When He visited us we tortured and killed Him out of hate and fear and political intrigue. He knew it was going to happen to Him from the very moment He created us, but He knew He had to do it if we were to be saved. He knew we were going to humiliate Him, to spit on Him, to whip Him within an inch of His life, then finally torture Him to death. He knew we were going to do this and more, to besmirch Him, to use His name as a foul oath, to blame Him for our own wicked sinful, hateful, arrogant, thoughts and deeds, to hate Him. Yet still He calls us friends

¹² “This is My commandment, that you love one another, just as I have loved you. ¹³ Greater love has no one than this, that one lay down his life for his friends. ¹⁴ You are My friends if you do what I command you. ¹⁵ No longer do I call you slaves, for the slave does not know what his master is doing; but I have called you friends, for all things that I have heard from My Father I have made known to you.  (John 15:12-15) 

And I can only wonder in amazement at the love He has for us to not crush us like we deserve, but to sweep us up into His arms and call us friends, to adopt us into His family. 

C.S. Lewis on Temptation

“A silly idea is current that good people do not know what temptation means. This is an obvious lie. Only those who try to resist temptation know how strong it is... A man who gives in to temptation after five minutes simply does not know what it would have been like an hour later. That is why bad people, in one sense, know very little about badness. They have lived a sheltered life by always giving in.”
― C.S. Lewis, Mere Christianity

Random Bits

This World Is Not My Home

I've heard many people question "what's wrong with Gnosticism? For one thing, the movie Noah. Read Dr. Brian Mattson's dissection of Noah, that movie is truly more horrific than I originally thought. Then again some people prefer to think of the Noah movie as satanic.

John Nolte, a movie reviewer who does not hide his faith, drives a stake through the heart of the ungodly Noah.

The EPA, the administration that is supposed to be protecting us, had been experimenting on humans exposing them to high levels of toxic chemicals 50 times greater than considered safe. Why? I suppose to prove that toxic chemicals are toxic.

They're coming for us next, I guarantee it. The "Tolerant" liberal steamroller has forced Mozilla CEO Brendan Eich to resign because six years ago he donated money to a political cause (Proposition 8). He was hounded out of his job because a gay dating site doesn't believe in freedom of speech.

Of course Freedom of Speech is only allowed if you agree with the gay agenda.

American and the free world is tearing itself apart over gay rights, gay marriages, and pro-gay businesses. Just how many gays are there in America? Not a lot. Only 1% of the population.So why are they so politically powerful. My guess is that they have help from the Prince of this world.

Jacquelline Fuller resigned from World Vision because (after two hard U turns) they exclude gays who marry. Jackie, you served on the board of World Vision for two years and in all that time World Vision only condoned the sin of gay marriage for 72 hours. Why didn't their policy bother you for the other 727 days you served on their board?

The persecution of Christians by the "religion of peace" continues without sign of letting up. I pray the lord embraces this poor martyr with all the love and passion he can possibly show.

There's my kids! There's hope for the persecuted plebs at the United States Atheist Air Force Academy. If we won't fight back to protect those who protect us, they'll just do it themselves. This is a revolt I can get behind.

Atheists plan to resign from the Mormon church en mass. Atheists resigning from an apostate church... why is this news? Call me when Mormons read the bible, allow the Holy Spirit to guide them, and resign from the mormon church.

Here's a joyful noise! At 2:25 these guys show just how blessed with the gift of music they truly are.

Cling To The Father And His Holy Name

One of my favorite gospel songs is "Long Black Train" by Josh Turner, in it he says "Cling to the Father and his Holy Name." and for a long time I paused to wonder "why His name?" Shakespeare once famously asked "What's in a name? A rose by any other name would smell as sweet." So what if Jesus was named Bruce? Wouldn't He still be the same savior we have trusted our souls too? 

So I started the Berean Thing and began digging into names and names of names and I've found that the answer to Shakespeare is a qualified "No, sorry Bill." A name in today's world is just a word, which explains why silly girls and boys give their children names that "Sound cool" rather than a name with meaning or dignity. These days a name is merely a word or combination of words by which a person, place, or thing is known or designated, it's what makes a noun proper. In biblical times a name is much more than a string of syllables that are used to identify grandpa. This redefinition of the concept of the word 'name' causes confusion for those that do not do the Berean Thing and members of the theology of evangelical atheism. 

I See The Blood Moon Arising

Sing along with CCR if you want, just substitute the words "bad" for "blood" in the old tune "Bad Moon Rising" and you've got the new Apocalypse  fad du jour - (insert rumble of thunder) The Four Blood Moons. (dun dun DAAAA!). TBN favorite Mark Biltz and his tome Blood Moons first popularized this fad and he was recently joined by John Hagee with his book "Four Blood Moons, Something Is About To Change" I want to refute this in love but it's very hard to do considering that the preeminent author and promoter of this fad John Hagee denies the very basis of Christianity; that Jesus came as our Messiah. The blood moon fad is not hard to refute, it's just hard to do it in love, but I'm going to try.