Category Archives: Miscellaneous
When Nazis Secretly Live in Your Trees
A few years back some local politicians, mayors, city managers, what have you, began posting things on social media that made me sound like a Canadian, as in I pulled back and said, “‘Eh?!”
Say wut?
Things like “fascists are secretly meeting and planning to invade the area, so support me if you want preserve your way of life. We must fight the Nazis!” Imagine my vast surprise when I found myself getting lumped into that category, a racist, fascist, Very Bad Deplorable. I stopped going to city council meetings, I stopped trying to fight politically. The truth is, you can’t reason with false hatred, with blind ideology. I wasn’t a person anymore, I was a caricature of the enemy, a troll, a thing to be hated and feared.
This is a tiny town, I’ve been here for some 40 years now off and on, so I know a fair…
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The Church during the days of Corona Virus: Pray for the Fires in West Coast United States
Our “This Sunday” series will be another a Corona Virus edition. For this Sunday here’s what you can do: Pray for the Fires in West Coast United States.
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Through the Narrow: Are We Supposed to Talk About it Or Not? – By Tami Dykes
Growing up I always heard the saying “Don’t mix religion and politics”. I never understood that much till I became older but even as a grown adult I notice how people tend to avoid mixing the two. In school, we could learn all about politics but not so much religion but I found it most interesting that many people that are religious will not speak very freely of their views on politics. You might hear a Christian speak about it a little if they felt it wasn’t a hot topic or maybe only to a few people they trusted but to me it’s been so obvious that even I kept tight-lipped about my views for many years until I questioned why I felt this way. Why did I feel I wasn’t supposed to be open about my political views? What’s so wrong with talking about them? Is it because it’s…
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Turn the Lights On!
God simply spoke the world into existence and created something in the midst of the darkness. Let there be light! He turned on the lights.
A bit amusing, I was perusing Christmas lights on-line and hubby was like, I think we need to stage an intervention. You have a problem. Let me just cackle rather hysterically over the fact that in my case it is always mom who seems to have a problem.
I am quite content with my assorted issues, thank you very much. I’m telling you, the house could be on fire and sure enough someone is going to go, You know what the problem here is? Mom’s been putting two whole spoonfuls of sugar in her coffee. You don’t say? How disgraceful. Also, there are flames now forming on your jacket. Just saying……
Back to my lighting issues however. ‘Tis true, I probably have a good hundred…
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150 Alleged Bible Contradictions Answered
Since October 2015 I have blogged responses to alleged Bible contradictions listed on the Skeptic Annotated Bible. Apparently this week I hit a milestone: I have refuted over a hundred fifty alleged Bible Contradiction!
Below is the listing of these posts:
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Grow Where You’re Planted
I landed here in the 9th circuit of hell quite against my will some 45 years ago. My parents fled here, from Hawaii at the time. Hawaii really is my spiritual home, paradise, so the shift from the tropics to the grey, rainy, hostility of the PNW was a shock to the system already.
And by “hostility” I hope it’s quite clear I’m not just talking about the weather. Hawaii is (or was) very family oriented, a blending of cultures, everyone is your aunt, and kid’s sports matter. It’s a tight knit community in a way. Contrast that to a land where family, tradition, respect, roles, has now been totally replaced by politics, ideology, and shared beliefs. Rugged individualism rules the day. Family isn’t “family,” family looks like whatever we want it to, and you can choose your “family” just as you can choose your gender. Also, if you don’t…
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“Totes Uncool”
Ya know, the Bible can be used to justify pretty much anything. Perhaps we should say the Bible can be “misused” to justify anything, the problem being it would probably take a 30 year theological debate chasing after word origins and Latin translations in order to settle the matter. So suffice it to say, the Bible can and has been used to justify all manner of foolishness, from slavery to socialism.
Karl Marx pretty much twisted scripture to come up with his famous quote, “From each according to his ability, to each according to his needs.” Does that mean Marxism is Biblical? No.
Recently I got into a minor spat over the idea that it is Biblical to say, if you don’t work you, shouldn’t eat. This is a common argument against socialism, against taxation, against the welfare state. It’s a rotten argument, too! I cannot abide when people try to use the…
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So Like, Black Folks Are Really Diverse..
I can’t believe I’m writing this, but in light of several things lately, one of them being Joe Biden alleging that black people are all the same, members of one monolithic group, unlike Latinos who are diverse, I think I really need to. Yes, he actually said that. He is only one of many who have said something similar this week.
Something I think we’ve done wrong as Americans, (ha don’t roll your eyes) but seriously something we need to change and fix is the way we’ve allowed stereotypes about black people to dominate the narrative in a way that presents black people as all being of one mind, one culture, one style.
They are really culturally diverse, from city folks to country folks, from conservatives to liberals, from far right extremists to far lefty nutcases. There are atheists and Christians, Buddhists and New Agers. There are single parent families…
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Through the Narrow: Salvation Party – By Gina Cook
Years ago I was invited to attend a “salvation party” for a young lady who had just made a profession of faith in Christ. I’ll call her “Anne”. It was the first time I had heard of such a party. Out of profound curiosity and my heart for Anne, I went. We gathered at a local restaurant, with cake and gifts in tow.
I noticed the people most excited were the ones throwing the party, the ones who had witnessed to her. Anne sat appearing unsure and distant.
One could think she was just an introvert who didn’t like the fuss of a party, or that it was a bit too silly for her taste- I would have agreed with her. Perhaps she was thinking what I was thinking….is she…. saved? I silently prayed for her and tossed around in my head the question, “how did anyone really know…
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– To Be Continued –
Psalm 116:15, “Precious in the sight of the LORD is the death of His saints”
2 Corinthians 5:8, “We are confident, I say, and willing rather to be absent from the body, and to be present with the Lord”
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Do you like continued stories? Let’s say you’re reading a magazine article or even watching a television program for half an hour, and you come to the place where the hero plunges into the water to rescue his drowning sweetheart. Then you’re left hanging in the air with the words, “To be continued.” Oh, how disappointing!
However, there is quite a different response to the inscription on the headstone of a born-again believer in Jesus Christ. The inscription would read “To Be Continued Above”! Yes, this life is just the first chapter of the book of a person’s life. Whether that chapter is long or short, it’s not the end…
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– God’s Planned Appointments –
Proverbs 16:9, “A man’s heart plans his way, but the Lord directs his steps”
Acts 8:26, “Now an angel of the Lord said to Philip, go south to the road – the desert road – that goes down from Jerusalem to Gaza”
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As we wake up and begin each new day, we should have a sincere desire to please the Lord, and gladly anticipate God’s appointments He has planned for us. As we go throughout our busy day, we are continually met with unique opportunities to have an influence on others. Our appointments may be the people we meet or even the unplanned circumstances that are put before us.
It might be an encounter with family, friends, and fellow believers or it might be the man or woman in front of you in line at the grocery store, or the teenager at the checkout counter, it may be the…
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– Sin’s Enticement –
Revelation 1:3, “Blessed is the one who reads the words of this prophecy, and blessed are those who hear it and take to heart what is written in it, because the time is near”
Key verse – James 1:17, “Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, and cometh down from the Father of lights, with whom is no variableness, neither shadow of turning”
Theme – God is not responsible for tempting us to sin.
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Introduction
No one on this earth is temptation proof. Even mature believers in Jesus Christ have weaknesses in their spiritual armor that makes them vulnerable to satan’s attack. Temptation is an urge to do something we know is wrong and certainly troubles each one of us, saved or unsaved. It may well be some sin, or something we tend to excuse like impatience, pride, programs we shouldn’t watch or places we shouldn’t…
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– Demon Possession “Fact or Fiction” –
Revelation 12:7-9, “And war broke out in heaven: Michael and his angels fought with the dragon; and the dragon and his angels fought, but they did not prevail, nor was a place found for them in heaven any longer. So, the great dragon was cast out, that serpent of old, called the Devil and Satan, who deceives the whole world; he was cast to the earth, and his angels were cast out with him”
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Introduction
Through this study we should be able to gain a better understanding of who satan is, the causes and nature of demon possession; other names used to describe the devil, develop an appreciation for what Jesus Christ did to overcome demonic power, and become more aware of the seriousness of dabbling in any type of the occult. My brethren, demons are very real, have great power, hate God, His people and always work havoc…
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10 Questions to Ask Old Earth Advocates
A few weeks ago we published an article giving you the answers to ten questions asked by Premier Radio in the UK to Young Earth Creationists. Now we’d like to ask the old earth advocates a few questions of our own. I suspect most old earth advocates will struggle to answer these questions while remaining faithful to the text of Scripture.
- Were Adam and Eve real people who lived in a real Garden of Eden and were they the first human?
This question will work best when wielded against theistic evolutionists. Even a few of them might answer affirmatively, but not many. Most will view Adam and Eve as a metaphor for sinful humanity. This ideas raises all sorts of Scriptural problems such as “Was Jesus descended from a metaphor?” and “Why does the Bible refer to Jesus as the last Adam if there was no first Adam?” Removing Adam…
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Media Defamation and Proverbs 18:17
My post today does touch on politics but its more than politics and I will get back to the spiritual.
Do you remember this picture back in January 2019 and how the Mainstream media made it as if the highschooler with the MAGA hat was disrespecting a Native American? At that time I looked up the entire Youtube video and was stunned how it turned out that the media was wrong, like blatantly wrong. Then I heard interviews with the Native American and I found even more lies was spewed. I wrote about it in a nuanced post here: Nathan Phillips problematic slander of the Covington Boys. It was one of my top posts in 2019.
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270: Walking Away
This blog is now my sole source of income. That doesn’t mean I’m a professional blogger, it just means I’m broke.
I try not to bore readers with the sordid details of my personal life.That’s not why you read this blog. Well, come to think of it I don’t really have a clue why people read this. Maybe some of you have a morbid fascination with the details of my life, and you are trying to parse them out by carefully examining the pages of this blog.
If that sounds like you, I apologize but you are wasting your time.
All this to say that I am about to bore you with sordid details from my personal life. If hearing those details sounds like a stupid waste of time than by all means quite reading. As the old people say, it’s a free country.
Back to the sordid details.
In…
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What is Presuppositional Apologetics?
This week I saw in my Twitter feed this claim from an atheist
Presuppositional Apologetics is conversational violence
Some of the subsequent discussion helped me to see that most people, like this skeptic, do not understand the what the term means. Many people think it means one of the following
- I’m right, you’re wrong, that’s the end of it
- I have blind faith in the deity of my family/culture/choice so I’m right
- I don’t have any evidence, so I just assume God
This leads many skeptics to wrongly think they have defeated a presuppositional argument with the following fallacies
- “You have faith in your sky-daddy, but I have evidence”
- “Your blind faith is simply a result of you being born into a Christian family in America. If you were born in India, you’d be a Hindu”
- “You have no evidence, so you have to resort to word games”
- “Presup (presuppositional…
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the voices Are GETting LOUDER!
Originally written 7/16/16
They are still getting louder!
First off, you progressive minds out there don’t need to read any further. There is no god, no spirit world. All superstition. Education, science, and progressivism holds all the answers that we ever need. Yeah, we get it.
The demon hordes are expanding their range, increasing their attack, turning up the volume.
SILENCE THOSE WHO DISAGREE!
KEEP YOUR RELIGION TO YOURSELF, YOU CHRISTIANS.
LOVE MEANS WE EMBRACE ALL LIFESTYLES.
ALL CHOICES THAT MAKE YOU FEEL BETTER ARE GOOD.
YOUR LIFE IS SO MUCH MORE IMPORTANT THAN HIS.
YOU DESERVE THIS.
DON’T LET ANYONE STAND IN YOUR WAY.
On, and on, and on….
Their purpose is not to bring one message to unify.
Their purpose is to speak the idea to your mind that you are already beginning to entertain.
The idea that you are the focus, you are the center, your will…
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When You’re Dark and Divisive…
First of all to understand the humor in this post, you’re going to need to know I am generally pretty cheerful, perky even. I can drive my hubby nuts in the morning because I wake up ready to be out trilling with the forest creatures. Then I realize there’s going to be coffee involved and I can hardly contain my excitement.
So you see, I am literally all about selling joy, often in the form of biscuits and gravy. How in the world did I ever become the dark and divisive one??
Second, I am totally community oriented, as in let’s all just be happy and get along. Let’s just avoid every single controversial subject and put family, relationship, and connection first. I don’t care if you have a bone through your nose and a Bernie Sanders likeness painted across your car. It’s all good! Let’s just enjoy our time…
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Christian Culpability in the Recent Riots
Editors Note: Jeremy Sanders rejoins us to explain why Christians are partially to blame for the recent riots and the acceptance of social justice.
The Pastor of my church recently started a series exploring various Psalms, starting with Psalm 1. Some of the points he discussed are extremely applicable to the issues facing our country today. Given recent experiences I have had, as well as observing various “Christian” responses to the culture, it made me realize just how applicable Psalm 1 is to today’s issues.
Psalm 1 also demonstrates that while the blame for the recent riots rests on the rioters, as well as a government that is failing to preserve the peace, there are others who must also share responsibility. Christians, the family, the church all share culpability for our current issues. If Christians had stayed strong, clung to God’s Word, and trained their kids to follow righteousness, we…
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