For Eight Years

For eight years liberals and leftists put their fingers in their ears and ignored the cries of the independent, libertarian, and Republican voters.

Now the tables are turned and their screams of frustration and filth are difficult to hear. The temptation is certainly to ignore them and merrily traipse down the lane la-la-la-ing to drown out their voice.

I am trying to see things fairly, but I do not sense any attempt to meet halfway.

It's futile. The pendulum swings and things never stay the same. Obama had his time, now Trump.

My advice is to quietly wait this period out.

Hilary Clinton and Barack Obama were victims of their own doing.

Trump will probably follow suit.

Must Reading

http://www.jewishworldreview.com/0818/colon082818.php3

Catching Up on the News

I've written this before: When there is a period of silence on this blog there is intense activity at Corgi Hollows.


We're wrapping up the summer.

Today Ed started classes. Tomorrow Margaret starts.

She's home from another epic journey. She took her $900 Suburu out to Seattle, up to Banff, back to Seattle, then home over mountains and plains, five thousand miles. She climbed and hiked and lost her heart to the Pacific Northwest.

Good-bye Margaret-----

Her wheels are turning toward a more permanent situation out there.

 I totally get this, but I will be SO sad to see her go.

This morning her friend (actually she's like my daughter) stopped by after dropping her brother off at the airport. He's heading to Harvard to get college educated. I'm thrilled for him. He's been in the Army for several years, special forces. He's been fighting forest fires out west all summer. Won't Harvard just love him?! I laugh every time I think about it. He's brilliant, and a force to be reckoned with. Harvard is going to be shaken.


Cherie is smack in the middle of Cross Country. Her practices are four times a week, with intermittent runs at home. I try to bike with her on those.

I've found another lake near her Cross Country meeting places. I can swim there while she runs. It's been a good summer for me to get fit.

Corwyn needs a lot of exercise too, so we take hikes in the "back forty" or up the road daily.

Last Friday I was working at the Deli (School starts next week for me) when my manager came in and said that the store was officially closing on October 1. 2018.

There goes my local deli job. Welcome back WEEKENDS!

This is a sad moment for our community. We will all grieve the loss of the family-owned grocery store and its 50 year history; the bakery, the meat counter, the deli, the convenience. The talk on the street is that it is turning into a brewery.

Between you and me this is a travesty.  Oh, well. Something to pray against.






I saw this t-shirt at the State Fair last week. My husband, daughter-in-law, and I enjoyed the whole day there on the first day of the fair. I need one of these shirts, but I didn't get back to pick it up before we boarded the shuttle for the parking lot.

IF you see it at the fair, pick it up for me----I'll reimburse you!

I can't imagine a more fitting shirt for Minnesotans to wear! It's delightfully funny and so, so true.

We have had guests all weekend, and the conversation turned toward the way we Minnesotans say certain things.

For example, at the coffee place where Margaret works she'll say something like, "Could you think about cleaning up that area-----"

Someone from Minnesota would immediately recognize the command---"Clean that up!"

Someone from somewhere else may think she was making a nice suggestion.

Welcome to Minnesota. :)

The fair was wonderful. I've never seen so many people there, especially on a Thursday! We meandered around, picked up "My Pillows" and subsequently got asked (by total strangers) multiple times "Where did you get those "My Pillows"" for the rest of the day. It became rather funny!

We saw just about everything. I think. My daughter-in-law says we walked 15,000 steps according to her phone app.

I ran into my BFF and her family---totally by chance. I saw another friend that I grew up with and finally reconnected with after 30 years this past summer! Amazing to see these folks you know among tens of thousands of people.

Oh, the Minnesota State Fair? You really have to go to it to believe it. I'm serious. It's about the most amazingly fun gathering on earth, and I am just telling the truth.

You wouldn't believe the number of people that structure their entire year's vacation and travel time around the Minnesota State Fair. I know this.

It's just fun. Really fun.

We had the tried and true things to eat---Pronto pups, Moo Booth shakes, Cheese Curds from the Food Building. Fresh squeezed lemonade. We tried something new; Shaved Ice. I recommend. Delicious.

We got afternoon coffee at the Salem Lutheran place by the technology building, Swedish Egg coffee, very reviving.

Besides "My Pillows" we got a few T-shirts at Crossroads Chapel, lipstick at L'Paige in the grandstand, and batteries at Northern Tool. We admired ALL of the handwork in the creative arts building and we looked at the Fine Art too.

I always love the International Bazaar, but we just looked. There was a young accordionist playing Russian folk songs there. We always check out the agriculture stuff, and of course the honey!

At the end of the day we had tired feet and happy memories. A perfect fair day!

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Ed got a stellar report at Mayo Clinic. The sutures from his knee replacement had irritated the tissue under the skin, so that had caused the healing to slow. Things really did look good, and with good blood counts and increased physical therapy he has literally turned the corner on healing and progress!

PRAISE GOD! Thank you all for praying! God is so good.

Last night another boy named Jeremiah Thomas passed away from bone cancer in Texas. He was only 16. What a shining light for Christ! His testimony was so sweet and loving. He used his "make a wish" wish to help stop abortion. He was so pro-life, yet he faced his own death with incredible sweetness.

I look at "Ed" and I couldn't help be hugely grateful for all God has done in his life. Cancer was healed, other things are under control for now. Really, we live only each day. We must look at what is good for each day.

Yes, we make plans. We have to. But ultimately we are responsible for this moment, this minute, this action.

We truly live minute by minute!

I am grateful for everything THIS MINUTE, and I hope that I can always be in an attitude of gratefulness every minute, no matter what.

So on we go, school is launching---projects are wrapping up! Folks are coming to visit next weekend and things are humming along.

Life is truly good.

Thank you, LORD!

Bees and Prophecy

https://prophecywatchers.com/bees-new-world-order/

Leave!

http://davidfiorazo.com/2018/08/corruption-cover-up-in-the-catholic-church/

Soros

https://mobile.wnd.com/2018/08/mask-off-social-media-censor-king-revealed/

Chrislam Exposed: The Seductive Lie of a Common God between Christianity...

Something Very Strange is Happening! (2018-2019)

Saturday Rush

Tomorrow we're having a party here. I'm working tonight at the deli, but I'm taking a moment to write this morning.

Lots on my mind.


I was listening to Jan Markell's program with Michele Bachmann. You need to listen to this report.
https://www.oneplace.com/ministries/understanding-the-times/custom-player/discerning-the-times-part-1-709136.html

Thank an Evangelical for Donald Trump's election to the white house. What a gift was given to the American people, Christians in particular.

I admit I couldn't stand the man. I voted for him with my nose pinched closed. Thank God he was elected, as we can see how corrupt the government would continue to be had Hillary gotten the seat.

Uranium One
Russian Collusion
Cover ups
CIA treason
FBI treason
Iran deals
Middle East wallowing
North Korea
Stagnant economy
JOBS


All of these things would continue to fester in the swamp infection had Hilary been elected. We dodged a bullet, and we can thank God for his patience and grace in granting us more time as a nation before the Global Government takes over.


The global system will take over. It's been prophesied, therefore it will. It will probably be a socialistic form of government since the elites who really rule the world (you know, the 1% of the 1%) have been doctoring the education system to indoctrinate young minds towards "Democratic Socialism."

I'm not buying it. I know the end game.

To claim to know Christ and feed this diabolical system is crazy, yet I know too many believers who claim to be "leftist" or "socialist" or "left-leaning."

They have lost their first love, JESUS CHRIST, in hopes of a "better" world.

They haven't been reading their Bibles, or at least they are skipping vast portions of it.

This world is NOT our home. We are looking for a heavenly kingdom! Jesus will reign on earth for 1,000 years! We will see Him, know Him, serve Him.

IF that is distasteful to you, or you simply cannot bring yourself to believe it I would ask you to humble yourself before the God of Scripture and repent. You are trying to make a god in your own image, and not serve the God of Scripture. He is the one true God, and idolatry is rampant these days.

Satan is a liar. He loves to deceive. Always take your thoughts and beliefs before the LORD, asking Him to show you the truth. He is truth, and He will lead you in truth.

Thanks be to God! He is the Author and Finisher of our faith! Serve Him and you will reap the blessings of knowing truth.

Says it all:

https://spectator.org/charlottesville-and-masked-antifa-omarosi-brennan-cuomo-hillary-and-enemies-of-the-people/


This article just sums it all up. Really.

Race Matters to Democrats

To conservatives skin color has no bearing on the person's value.  Race shouldn't matter.

It didn't matter to God, it is simply a combination of genes which result in different amounts of melanin in the human organ of the skin.

But Democrats obsess over it. People with black skin have been targeted by evil for centuries. The Devil is good at dividing.

The US is made up of about 13% black people. They are not all from Africa, so African American is a poor term for them.

Thirteen percent is certainly not a majority, but the Democrat party recently posted a picture of their interns where darker melanin was certainly a majority. This doesn't bother me in the least, but it is not representative of the American public at large.

Skin color shouldn't matter.

The issue of "race" is dead, or should be. White supremacists  are evil. They are of the devil.

The Bible says that many will do things in Christ's name, and they will have nothing to do with Christ. The KKK is a prime example of this Biblical reminder.


God loves all of us. Anyone who thinks they are better or different because of the melanin in their skin is crazy. Sometimes it just makes me shake my head in wonder at the stupidity of people.

The Democrats need to get beyond this for the sanity of the nation.

Brennan

https://donsurber.blogspot.com/2018/08/brennan-made-himself-face-of-resistance.html

Out of His Mouth

http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2018/08/17/dojs-bruce-ohr-wrote-christopher-steele-was-very-concerned-about-comeys-firing-afraid-will-be-exposed.html

Waning Summer Melancholy

There's no time for blue, but the shortening days are hinting of fall.

This golden summer of rest and healing is drawing to a close.

The beauty is heart-aching.

It's a good thing this is harvest time as it keeps the earth's inhabitants too busy to mourn the halcyon days.

I'm preserving summer's fruits---peaches, service berries, crab apples. The plums are not ripe yet, but what a bumper crop!

The oaks are overdoing themselves this year. A mistral blew through the other day and acorns boisterously hailed the roof. Oaks do not produce such crops of nuts every year. The rains of spring and early summer have boosted their yield.

Cherie sweeps the walks and driveways of the neighbors so they do not slip on the treacherous fruit.

As I can be prone to depression I especially battle it this time of year. I used to hate the close of summer, going back to school. I was filled with a dread as soon as August came.

It still hits me.

As an adult I needn't fear school, and fall is full of fairs and frost and fun---but I am still heart sore at the goldening of the fields and trees.


It signifies passing.

And we don't know what lies ahead exactly, do we?


Believers look for the shout and the trumpet. It is month of Elul on the Jewish calendar, and we Christians should sit up and take note. After all, Christianity is Jewish. The Jewish feasts are beautiful signs of what God is doing over the entire course of human history on earth. They are written in the constellations, they are foretelling events long before their place in time.

Time is a creation, and God is outside of it. He sees the entire creation as a whole. We have our place in this era, this season. We know what is coming: fall, the Rapture of the Church, Judgment.

And then winter.


It's written in the stars. God placed them there for us to mark time and take heart. We have hope where the world has none.


What is there to look forward to without Christ? Empty existence.

The love you have shared with your dear ones cannot hold a candle to the love of God and His perfect plan. The love you share with your people can only be enhanced and completed in God's love.

We have hope. We have assurance. We have peace.

Peace. The world longs for it, and it's been here all along. Time will end, and Christ will reign.


Comfort ye, my people!

Let the blue jays call their warnings of winter coming! Let the grasses wither. Let the summer wane.
We have hope, and it is in Christ alone.

Blessings!

Media and Trump

https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/media-coordinate-with-each-other-to-battle-trump

Keith Ellison

https://www.mprnews.org/story/2018/08/12/abuse-allegation-made-against-keith-ellison-denies-attorney-general-election

Keith Ellison should NOT be the attorney general for Minnesota. Vote against him.

He has a habit of denying the truth about him.

Powerline: Hating Elites

https://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2018/08/why-normal-americans-hate-the-elites.php

Antifa Professor Eric Clanton Gets 3 Years Probation, Felony Charges Dro...

Tales to Tell

We are all spread out in the world, the inhabitants connected to Corgi Hollows...

Two boys "in the field" serving their country.

Someone's driving across North America to get her fill of the mountains. I HOPE she gets her fill, because if she loses her heart to the mountains I'm afraid she will move away from Minnesota. All in good time...

One has been in Wisconsin. One is in Washington. Texas has dear ones.

I just returned from Indiana and my "secret hiding place" there.

Cherie spent a few days with her Iowa grandparents, and then she camped at Frontenac State Park in Minnesota with her dad and our church family.

Ed stays around home. He's working quite a bit and is recovering from his knee replacement surgery still. There is still quite the limp and quite some pain. We go back to Mayo next week for post-op. I'm interested in what they will say about it. It hasn't been as problem free as the last knee replacement.

School is coming soon.

In Indiana I didn't have as much time as I usually have. I didn't get to all the reading I'd hoped for. I did spend time in the pool and hatched the idea for Corgi Hollows History Day. It's actually been cooking for quite awhile in my head, but the time is now right, and I'm excited to have an event that I feel is sorely needed.

 "Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it."

I think that's probably true, as we see so many patterns in human culture and society over the millennia of human civilization. History is important. I think our society is in danger of revisionist history, too, a sanitizing of the horrors human beings are really capable of.


We would all like to believe humans are essentially good. We all know good people, right?

I think we need to look to Scripture for the truth about people in this confusing idea. The Bible says human nature is sinful, and that all die in their sins EXCEPT those who believe on Christ and His sacrifice for our sin.

That is the truth from the Bible, and that assumes human nature is sinful.

Our righteousness is "like filthy rags."


That's not good. God is good. WE are not. We are sinners.


Back to history----It's important to see trends in history and how they suggest themselves in this world with billions of human beings now. When you get a massive population you will see far more trends, and in a readable scale---because of probability and human nature.

Fascinating.

We can study so many things these days, especially how sin manifests in big ways.


A word of warning: This is the "church age," and we have the Holy Spirit protecting us and helping us. When the church is called out by the "Shout" and the trumpet, the Holy Spirit leaves too. The salt and light of societal preservation will be gone.

You know what rot is. It will happen in a societal sense, and it will probably happen quickly. Seven years, probably. (That's Biblical.)

We have no idea how much God is preserving and protecting EACH ONE OF US daily.

There is so much beauty and symmetry in God's creation. It is amazing, and He has placed us in a position of significance. Science shows us that we are at the mean of his entire creation. Central, important. From the end of the Universe to the threads of string theory. God cares about us.


Brushing up on history and its trends and lessons is vitally important. Our technological world has magnified the good, the bad, and the ugly. It's important to stay grounded.


A while back I had a former teacher engage in an exchange about the "thinning of the veil." She is my favorite teacher, to this day, though her spiritual views vary widely from mine. She mentioned a work of literature where the character lived in an essence of spiritual awareness, yet the author intimated it was borderline madness.

Those of us who have lived and experienced the spiritual would argue that we are not mad, but complete.

Humans are essentially spiritual. WE are not just flesh and blood. One need only spend a moment with a corpse to realize this.

WE are soul. I believe we are spiritually dead until we are born again in Jesus Christ. All souls are eternal, but spiritually born again individuals have a relationship with a Spiritual Being who created the Universe.

This transforms the life of one who is born again. It defines the life.

I saw an article about a man from Ireland who wrote out 29 criticisms of Americans. I agreed with most of them. He mentioned that Americans tend to be more religious, and outspoken about religion.

GOOD!

Those of us who are born again want the entire rest of the world to become whole, spiritual beings as God intended along with us!

It's a good thing. It's a VERY good thing.

As a child I had several "thinning of the veil" experiences. I don't know how a rational atheistic scientist would explain them, except to say they were delusions, (which they were not!) The spiritual world is a reality. It interacts with the physical world regularly.

I'm thinking that these dimensions will become only more integrated as time goes on. Denial will be considered a delusion.


As I read the daily headlines and see the delusions of those lost in sin I cannot help it but repeat the same admonition to repent and and follow Christ. This is an invitation to become whole and complete. It is the only way in creation to become well.

Seek ye first the Kingdom of God and his righteousness. All these things will be added to you.
This is a promise that has never been broken, and never will be.

Follow Christ!

Corgi Hollows History Day

On October 13, from 12 to 8pm Corgi Hollows will host a "fair" that celebrates history.

Music: bring your instruments! We'll have jam sessions, we'll have good bands! We'll have it all.

Food: think German fare---Wurst und Brot, pretzels, cookies, ginger ale, lemonade, apple things, harvest things
Bring a salad or something to share if you wish. Make it old fashioned :)

Crafts: If you want to sell your wares or demonstrate your skills bring a table and we'll help you make it happen!

Games: fun, old fashioned games for little ones. Settlers of Catan and other games ---tournaments for the older ones!

Books: books to sell, books to look at, history stuff! I'll have a documentary playing in the house by Chris Pinto about Medieval times.

Animals: there'll be a corgi and some cats, Blackberry may sit on the neighbors' porch in peace, but I invite ponies and horses and other dogs to come too.

Hayfields to run in, Photo opportunities, thickets to explore,
Bonfire (of course! This IS Corgi Hollows!) When were marshmallows invented? :)

Please dress up! I'm going to ask several people I know to come dressed as figures from the Medieval/Reformation/Early Renaissance era. I'd like a Medieval flair to the day, but you can dress up from any historical era. That's the fun of it! I'll expect a few prairie folk, peasants, kings and queens.

SO this is your two month warning. Whoever shows up will have the day to enjoy the country, wear fun costumes, and learn HISTORY!


IF you plan to sell your wares please come in the morning. That's fine. The party will kick off at noon.

I'm excited! It's going to be FUN!

BTW, if you have great ideas to add to this event, just DO IT! You know me, go with the flow!

No alcohol, no occult, very kid-friendly. Those are the guidelines.

Come, rain or shine. We'll all crowd in to the house if rain.


Email me for the address at corgihollows@gmail.com.

See you in October!

Something Big's Coming---October 13

First, a word of explanation!

For years I've struggled with a love for the Renaissance Festival and a hatred for it!
I love the costumes, the fun of imagining living in a past era, the horses, the ambiance. I auditioned for a role in the cast and got it many years ago, but at the last minute I backed out. The living conditions made me uneasy.

I hate the occult stuff, the alcohol, the bawdy acts.

I'm a prude. But you already knew that.
I'm certainly not afraid to own it, as my life is perfectly wonderful being a prude. I've no complaints.

I'm not keen on Halloween either.

The only part of Halloween I liked was the dressing up and the candy----but there is so much more to it now that simply appalls me. I'm sure you'd agree with me...


What's a mother to do with her growing children? I consider myself a Fundamentalist spiritually, but not legalistic. I believe in the fundamentals of Scripture. I believe everyone must make their own decisions on how they live, what pleases the LORD, or not. I believe that once you truly know the LORD holiness will become a factor in your life. There is a right, there is a wrong. It's up to you to come under the conviction of the Holy Spirit through extensive Bible reading and prayer. Some things I believe and do I'd be judged for by others, some things I do personally judge others about! Admit it, you do too. It's human nature. We all have our own convictions. We're all accountable to God.

Halloween is one of those things I've struggled with over the years since having children of my own. Every year I hate the occult side more and more. Every year my kids wanted to take part in the "Americana" side of it all with dressing up and getting candy.

It IS the devil's holiday. It used to be rather innocent. It isn't now.


I have a fun event planned for this fall that may be an alternative to both the Renaissance Festival AND Halloween:

Corgi Hollows History Day
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On October 13, from 12 to 8pm Corgi Hollows will host a "fair" that celebrates history.

Music: bring your instruments! We'll have jam sessions, we'll have good bands! We'll have it all.
Food: think German fare---Wurst und Brot, pretzels, cookies, ginger ale, lemonade, apple things, harvest things
Bring a salad or something to share if you wish. Make it old fashioned :)
Crafts: If you want to sell your wares or demonstrate your skills bring a table and we'll help you make it happen!
Games: fun, old fashioned games for little ones. Settlers of Catan and other games ---tournaments for the older ones!
Books: books to sell, books to look at, history stuff!
Animals: there'll be a corgi and some cats, Blackberry may sit on the neighbors' porch in peace, but I invite ponies and horses and other dogs to come too.
Hayfields to run in, Photo opportunities, thickets to explore,
Bonfire (of course! This IS Corgi Hollows!) When were marshmallows invented? :)

Please dress up! I'm going to ask several people I know to come dressed as figures from the Medieval/Reformation/Early Renaissance era. I'd like a Medieval flair to the day, but you can dress up from any historical era. That's the fun of it! I'll expect a few prairie folk, peasants, kings and queens.

SO this is your two month warning. Whoever shows up will have the day to enjoy the country, wear fun costumes, and learn HISTORY!


IF you plan to sell your wares please come in the morning. That's fine. The party will kick off at noon.

I'm excited! It's going to be FUN!

BTW, if you have great ideas to add to this event, just DO IT! You know me, go with the flow!

No alcohol, no occult, very kid-friendly. Those are the guidelines.

Come, rain or shine. We'll all crowd in to the house if rain.


Email me for the address at corgihollows@gmail.com.

See you in October!


Click on the link below for suggested characters to play :)

Education for the Day

http://www.ministers-best-friend.com/Protestant-Reformer-Heroes.html

John Haller

https://youtu.be/piosUNCaeUA

Tom Hughes: Why Prophecy is not Being Taught in Churches

Sense of War

The climate is oppressive these days. Politics are polarizing. Generations see things differently.

Iran, Russia, China,----

Trump, Socialists---

#walkaway, #antifa, #truthers, #metoo


Conspiracies, evil, Hollywood, Illuminati

Revisionist history

human trafficking, slavery, oppression, famine,

Earthquakes, volcanoes, climate change, forest fires, drought, floods---

Death, wildlife, disease,


Vaccinations, GMOs, Monsanto, Artificial Intelligence, Cloning, Bioethics

Aliens, UFOs, demons, powers

Witchcraft, deceptions, apostasy, delusions, occult

Economic chaos, Bitcoin, Ruling Factions, greed, power

Technology, microchips, Nephilim


Pornography, sensuality, gender dysphoria, homosexuality

divorce, adultery, faithlessness






We are at war with this world, fellow Believers. It could be discouraging when we see these issues 24/7 screaming at us from our phones and TVs.

It COULD be discouraging but we know that God has His plan, and it's been laid out in Scripture for us to comfort ourselves with. The master plan plays out, and we can know that God is truly in control, though Satan (for an unknown reason?) is fighting hard to inflict as much evil as he can in the meantime.

What does that mean to you?

God is true. God is love. God is working things out for HIS GLORY.

Follow the trails of philosophy and you will be forced to see God as He is, fully incomprehensible, yet seeking to reveal Himself to us through His Word.


Get to that place. Submit your proud heart to the Maker of the Universe. Stop making Him into your own image, and learn who He is from the gift He gave you----The Bible.


Ask the Holy Spirit to reveal Himself and His power to your spirit, to make you born again, spiritually alive.
 Time is short.


I think these are the issues that force me to believe time is short----

Time is racing by---
Blood moons
Israel
Natural disasters
Rampant evil
Deception

2,000 years of the church era coming to a close, the age of the fish (Pisces) ends and the astronomical  age of Aquarius is beginning. The church (icthus) is coming to a close.

The breakdown of the human genome, mutations
The New World Order is on the rise in the form of globalism
The New Age, (more appropriately Ancient Wisdom or spiritualist religion) has infiltrated Christianity
Ignorance, and its opposite: Knowledge abounding!
People are knowledgeable but not wise

Idolatry like never before



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I think back to a conversation I had once with someone. I was accused of a narrow-minded belief in God. The person said that I must have no friends because my view of God was so limited.

 Limited by Scripture, yes.

I would certainly rather have the one true God as my friend and Father than any friendship on earth, but God has given me dozens of true friends, hundreds of acquaintances, and the best of all, several dear, dear friends. We need each other to stand against idolatry.

And God provides.

Be my true friend! Don't be angry about the God of Scripture! Accept Him for who He is, as He describes Himself. Believe, and you will find Him wholly true, wholly love.

Don't allow Satan to sway you into a worldly concept of "God."

Read your Bible today. Ask the Holy Spirit to fill you with Christ's love and truth.

What are You Fighting?

1. Who is on the Lord’s side? Who will serve the King?
   Who will be His helpers, other lives to bring?
   Who will leave the world’s side? Who will face the foe?
   Who is on the Lord’s side? Who for Him will go?
   By Thy call of mercy, by Thy grace divine,
   We are on the Lord’s side—Savior, we are Thine!
2. Not for weight of glory, nor for crown and palm,
   Enter we the army, raise the warrior psalm;
   But for love that claimeth lives for whom He died:
   He whom Jesus saveth marches on His side.
   By Thy love constraining, by Thy grace divine,
   We are on the Lord’s side—Savior, we are Thine!
3. Jesus, Thou hast bought us, not with gold or gem,
   But with Thine own lifeblood, for Thy diadem;
   With Thy blessing filling each who comes to Thee,
   Thou hast made us willing, Thou hast made us free.
   By Thy grand redemption, by Thy grace divine,
   We are on the Lord’s side—Savior, we are Thine!
4. Fierce may be the conflict, strong may be the foe,
   But the King’s own army none can overthrow;
   ’Round His standard ranging, vict’ry is secure,
   For His truth unchanging makes the triumph sure.
   Joyfully enlisting, by Thy grace divine,
   We are on the Lord’s side—Savior, we are Thine!
5. Chosen to be soldiers, in an alien land,
   Chosen, called, and faithful, for our Captain’s band;
   In the service royal, let us not grow cold,
   Let us be right loyal, noble, true and bold.
   Master, wilt Thou keep us, by Thy grace divine,
   Always on the Lord’s side—Savior, always Thine!

Jordan Peterson

https://www.getreligion.org/getreligion/2018/7/10/is-it-crucial-for-reporters-to-know-basic-facts-about-what-jonathan-peterson-is-saying

What's so Significant?

http://www.raptureready.com/2017/09/17/whats-so-significant-about-the-signs/

Laws

https://youtu.be/8zdisnQ5RzQ

Things That Matter

If there is one thing I feel justified in harping on it is Biblical Illiteracy.

Illiteracy is a problem itself, but Biblical illiteracy is even worse.

In America we pride ourselves on being diverse, a melting pot, a state of personal freedom and rights. There is little emphasis today on why, exactly, we are so focused on freedom.

It goes back to the history of our nation and its roots in Bible believing immigrants.

When the gospel of our Lord Jesus came to this continent there were warring tribes of native peoples that populated the entire land mass.

They were not peaceful neighbors. They were typical sinful human beings with sinful hearts, full of selfishness, pride, greed and anger. Noble savage is a philosophical term.

WE ARE ALL SAVAGES, according to the Bible.

Close to where I used to live there is a battle ground, just north of the city of Anoka. It is by a peaceful little lake aptly named "Round Lake." There is a small park on the north side of the lake where a Ojibway camp stood.

The Battle of Rum River, perhaps one of the bloodiest skirmishes between the two tribes, began July 4, 1839 near Round Lake, a few miles north of present day Anoka. The Dakota, seeking revenge for the murder of a Dakota hunter, waited near an Ojibway camp until the men left to hunt. The Dakota then opened fire. Nearby Ojibway men, hearing the attack, rushed back to the camp to defend the women and children. But before the hunters could return, the Dakota had fled. Seventy Ojibway, mostly women and children, had died. The Dakota had lost 17 warriors.

--From "Management Plan for the Rum River" 1977

This was the story of the times.

I think about how the tribes in South America were at the point of annihilation when certain missionaries ventured into their tribal lands, risking life, to share Christ. Watch the movie "The End of the Spear." The remnants of those tribes acknowledge their predicament.

Enter Christianity.

This is the faith that commands its followers to LOVE THEIR ENEMIES.

This is not the same as DON'T DEFEND YOURSELF.

There is a distinction, and I see the millennial generation getting confused about this.

I talked with a young millennial once about colonialism. He was convinced it was the most diabolical force on earth, rich people taking over land and people for economic gain.

It really isn't that simple.

It really didn't happen that way across the board. Human nature dictated that some people did take horrible advantage of others. Slavery is a terrible thing, and many unscrupulous people took advantage of the institution of slavery to make themselves wealthy.

Bible believers were the main force in ending the institution of slavery.

You do know that slavery still exists, even in America, but there is not one true believer who owns or advocates slavery in the entire world. It isn't right.

The pilgrims who came to the north east coast of present-day U.S. were mostly Bible believers. About half of the Mayflower's passengers were Christians who sought freedom of religion.

(There is SO MUCH confusion about that phrase. It is NOT freedom FROM religion, but freedom OF religion----which means that you can exercise your religion FREELY-----except when it involves the sacrifice of another born human being.)

You could call these pilgrims "colonialists" because they established a colony on this continent, land that was overseen by native tribes previously.

Squanto was a helpful Indian who had become a believer. He recognized the truth of Christ's teachings and how Christ could transform lives.

Sin continued to happen. Sin seems to always continue to happen, right? People were murdered, people were fearful, people were greedy....

But overall the spread of the love of Christ was beneficial even to the native peoples in America.

BOO OOOO OOOOOO!!!

I can hear it now. But it is the truth. The truth matters, and we are all called to tell the truth. The native peoples of this continent needed to hear the truth of God's Word as much as any of us do today.

WE die in our sins without Christ. Thank the Lord for those who dared to share Christ with love and compassion.

David Brainerd comes to mind, but there are so many who did. Jesus is the answer for all peoples.

Colonialism generally spread a veneer of Christianity to the world. It wasn't always beneficial. It wasn't always free of terrible injustices. Colonialism was complex like people are complex. It isn't the bad word that most communists would have you believe it is today, however. There were definite advantages to Colonialism.

The technological benefits to civilizations, for one, became almost world wide. Technology starts somewhere, it spreads. Colonialism gave rise to industry (yes, the good and bad of that revolution!) and ordered civilization.

Don't let people decry a human development that gave so much to the entire world.

It is far superior to the communism and socialism that wounds societies like Venezuela these days.

I am not saying it is without faults. That is the nature of our existence.

We are faulty humans, and should NEVER excuse sin in any of our lives. Yet sin IS understandable. We are not supposed to judge, right?

(It depends on what we're judging! ;))

Back to the Bible. The spread of Biblical truth gave rise to the truth that God is love, God forgives, and God takes care of you when you put your trust in Him.

This is truth that Biblical illiterates cannot comprehend. They don't know the truths in the Bible because they are Biblically illiterate.

Can I make that more clear?

I wish I could.

Biblical illiteracy is the worst problem of this age. We have millions of Bibles in most languages and we still don't read it and know it, understand it, honor it. We'd rather serve idolatry.

READ YOUR BIBLE and ask God to help you understand it. Repent from sin in your life, and ask for the Holy Spirit to fill you with His truth.

Become a literate.