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I Want Mine! Selfish Women Who Leave Their Families.

I heard that a famous singer recently was divorced by his wife. This young man was a poor, working class, guy. He struck it rich with a country song. As men, we work our tails off trying to give what we can to our families. We don’t withhold what we can responsibly give to the wife, and kids. Money has a strange effect on people. His wife left him, and took half of everything with her, while also…

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50 isn't middle aged. You are in the final act of your life.

I’ll be 54 this month. I retired from Corrections when I turned 51. I put in 26 years. If I would have stayed working until I was 56, I could have retired with an additional $1000 on my monthly pension, but I would have lost these years of living life with my wife. These past 3 years have been a wonderful time of refreshing, and healing. Working as an Officer isn’t necessarily hard, but it is a…

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Total depravity from the earliest Church histories.

Here are 10 excerpts from the Ante-Nicene Fathers that support the doctrine of total depravity (the belief that human nature is thoroughly corrupted by sin and incapable of pleasing God without divine grace): 1. Justin Martyr (c. 100–165 AD) “For the whole human race will be found to be under a curse. For it is written in the law of Moses, ‘Cursed is every one that continueth not in all things…

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Christians Throughout History Believed in God's Sovereign Election. It isn't a, "Calvin" Thing.

Some people claim that the doctrines of predestination, and election, are products of Reformation era heretics. These people are wrong. These doctrines are as old as the One True Faith. They reach back into eternity past. They are of God. The early Church believed them. The Bible teaches them. Only a biblically ignorant person, or self-righteous Pelagians would deny them. In Augustine’s On the…

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Jesus Witnessed Satan's Fall.

In Luke, Chapter 10, just after the 70 who were sent out return, and testified to the things they had done in Christ’s name, Jesus says an interesting thing. He said, “I was watching Satan fall from heaven like lightning.” The word He used(Ἐθεώρουν) is a verb that is imperfect, indicative, active, and first person, singular. As the eternal Son, He was witnessing the fall of satan, but as the…

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Baptism in Acts Chapter 11

In the text below we see that after Peter’s trance vision he was prepared for the three gentile men from Caesarea arriving. He goes with them at the direction of God the Holy Spirit. He, and six other Christians arrive at the man’s house and hear his explanation of why he called for him. Peter witnesses the the Holy Spirit coming upon the man, and he notes that it was that way with them in the…

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Communism is satanic

A Christian nation says, “There is not enough food for our people. How can we produce more food?” A godless communist nation says, “There are too many people to feed. How can we reduce the population?” Mao Zedong killed approximately 55 million of his own countrymen during the communist revolution, and the so called, great leap forward. He killed millions by starving them to death, while he got…

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My friend rightly reminds us to pray for Myanmar's people.

This Sunday at Church: Pray for Myanmar with the recent Earthquake and ongoing Civil War

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A Review of, "Find God's Will In God's Word" a Workbook, by Pastor Josiah Nichols MDiv

In case you don’t know what an inductive study is, here is a definition from the web; Inductive study, particularly in the context of Bible study, involves a method that helps individuals understand and apply the teachings of the Bible. This method is characterized by three main steps: observation, interpretation, and application. The goal is to draw conclusions based on the evidence found in the…

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A Review of, "Ashamed Of The Gospel: When The Church Becomes Like The World" by Dr. John MacArthur

In this book MacArthur correctly diagnoses some major problems within the Church. They are not new problems. Charles Spurgeon dealt with similar problems during the Downgrade controversies. I won’t be listing all of the problems. Instead I’ll sum them up. The gospel of Christ, and His word, are not believed to be, relevant or sufficient, for the Church today. This view is held by Church leaders,…

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A Review of, "A Christian's Handbook To Logical Fallacies, by Eitan Bar

This will be a short review. If you are looking for a book to use as a concise, and quick reference on logical fallacies, or a primer on the topic, this will suffice for most people. I did find the author’s understandings of Calvinism to be offensive, and lacking understanding. If you are not a Calvinist, you’ll probably chuckle at some of his attempted whit. I did not. That aside, for the price,…

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A Review of, "Karl Marx, And The Satanic Roots Of Communism" by Pastor Richard Wurmbrand.

I’ve been alive long enough to have come to the conclusions that Marxism/Communism is satanic. I arrived at this conclusion due to the fact that Communism does not allow for a power more authoritative than the dictator, state, or politburo. Communism rejects the truth that God has created every man equally human, with all that entails, even their human rights. Under Communism the politburo is…

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The One True Faith, and The Eternal Word of God.

There are some arguments out there that go something like this. “We are the one true faith. We are the original Church. We are the oldest, and can trace our line back to Peter, or Jesus Himself. All other Churches are false, and cannot trace their authority back to Peter, or Jesus. You wouldn’t even have the Bible if it weren’t for us. That is why the early Church needed our traditions, because…

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For those of you who are confused, and need instruction in objective truth, a female of any mammalian creature by nature has XX chromosomes, ovaries, a womb, can conceive offspring via sexual intercourse with the male of the species, and can feed the offspring via milk naturally produced by lactation, none of which requires surgical modification, unless the female was born with a birth defect, or…

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Christianity Did Not Come From Any Other Religion.

Numerous times I’ve read that Christianity came from Judaism, or Protestantism came from Roman Catholicism. Some even go as far to say that muslims, roman catholics, jews, mormons, and jehovah’s witnesses, all worship the same God. Well they don’t, and that is why I didn’t capitalize them. They are all cults. None of them have the true God. Only the one true faith has the one true, and living…

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A Review of, "How Should We Then Live" by Francis A. Shaeffer.

I know this book has been around for a few decades now. I also know that there are many younger Christians who have never heard of it. That is one of my reasons for reviewing this book, at this time. If you are over 50, like myself, and have never heard of this book, you can lump yourself into the group of people who should read it. I usually review books to put them in the recommended category,…

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Anthropogenic Climate Change is a Lie.

If you are a young person, who believes in anthropogenic climate change, and is also Christian, stop believing the lies of the world, and believe God’s word. He says the planet will go on until the end of its appointed days. Then He will destroy it.Genesis 8:21-22(LSB)“21 And Yahweh smelled the soothing aroma; and Yahweh said to Himself, “I will never again curse the ground because of man, for…