A Blogger's Crazy Saturday

read it out loud

     We awoke before don, rose at ate and eight our breakfast. Combed the hare on our hair. Still in the mourning this morning, we opened adore to view the sky. 

     Our ant would appreciate there are no aunts in the house. She will meat us at noon for some lunch meet. If there is a be, we will bee quick to set it free. I must a void avoid, and be a wake in the event of awake. My hands are bear, unlike that of a bare.

     I'll raise the blind, so nobody's blind, and put down my book, cause I must book a flight. My ant has a buoy, who makes boys for boats to pass by. He was bread years ago, and often eats bred. You've noticed I have a write to right. 

     Is there a deer dear looking for dessert in the desert? If so, I will dish a dish for hymn. If he needs a doctor, I will doctor a form. Say, did you no you can drop a drop of water in a can? You won't dye, because we'll give you a red die. Eye have a good I. If the dear doesn't want an egg, we could egg him on. 

     By now, I can't face seeing your face. It would be fare not to charge you a fair. Fall is coming, and we don't want to fall. Football is for fans, and they don't need a fan. Players fast in the morning so they can run fast on the grass. 

     I'll take a break, before I break something here. I'll bye some time, then bid U good buy. 

            Gymmy 

       

   

Battle over renaming U.S. Navy ships 

     "The Navy and Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth announced the renaming of several ships - a class of civilian operated oilers. 

     "Tradition: Ships were named for pivotal battles, ideals, commanders, or other important figures. Now, politics has infected ship-naming. 

     "What the Navy officially recognizes as history matters deeply to the rank and file. For those who have served on a U.S, naval ship, there's always history. 

     "In military units, there is an esprit de corps that develops around the unit's history. Think of the Army's 101st Airborne of Band of Brothers fame, victorious in Europe. 

     "Several ships set for rebranding were named for civil rights heroes, such as Congressman John Lewis, who led 600 peaceful protesters over the bridge in Selma, Alabama. But, their history is not naval. 

     "Hegseth, a veteran and Christian, wants to reestablish a 'warrior culture' in America's military. Despite more than a decade of official 'reeducation' to get the military to accept homosexuality, sodomy, and pedophilia, sailors I talked with still consider such to be unacceptable and immoral." 

Lynn Vincent, WORLD magazine

Saturday: When two sound like one

                          Our type looks different because our computer is misbehaving  😒

 Death: Fire or Freedom? 

     In the Old Testament, God promised to destroy death - Isaiah 25:8.      In the New Testament, He tells us how He did it - 2 Timothy 1:10. 

by Ray Comfort

     "We all have broken 'the law,' and to deny our guilt is a loss, not gain, because it lessens the likelihood of conversion. The Bible reveals all liars in the lake of fire...lust seen as adultery, and hatred as murder.

"Sin is so serious to a holy God we have a death sentence. We're on death row in a nice holding cell, the world. 

"Why did Jesus die on the cross? He told his Father on a dark night in an olive grove, 'Your will be done.' He paid our fine. He said, "It is finished.'"

"What was finished? Our death sentence. He suffered on our behalf. God can legally let us live forever because of the death of Jesus. Of course, Jesus is God. He arose from the dead and showed himself to many people, starting with the woman sobbing by the tomb on Sunday morning.

"We repent of our sins and trust Jesus to write our new names in the Book of Life. Not because we are good, but Jesus is good and rich in mercy. We must be born again to spend eternity in his glorious presence."

Born Again? 

      A young man with many failures threw up his hands in resignation, "Well I guess I was just born wrong." 

     He was much nearer the truth than he realized.

the late Billy Graham

     "The Bible plainly teaches that all of us - rich, poor, high, low, kings or commoners - were born wrong. 

     "For all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God, - Romans 3:23.

     "When Nicodemus came to Jesus one night, he in effect represented the whole of the human race. The question of eternal life. 

     "Jesus gave Nicodemus a concise answer: 'Most assuredly, I say, unless one is born again, he cannot see the kingdom of God, - John 3:3.' 

     "Jesus did not attempt a logical explanation of the full meaning. He knew that our finite minds cannot grasp the meaning of spiritual things. 

      'If I have told you earthly things and you do not believe, how will you believe if I tell you heavenly things? - John 3:12. "Here Jesus implied that spiritual things can only be known through experience."  

More Success...More Hatred 

There were no schools or formal education.

There were no desks, blackboards or teachers.

His stepmother Sarah taught him to read and write...in a cabin.

He read the Bible, Aesop's Fable, Shakespeare and Robinson Crusoe. 

He studied law.

He was a rail splitter and whatever hard work men had to do. 

Then he went to Washington.

Then he was elected president. 

Then he delivered the Gettysburg Address.

Then he was killed by John Wilkes Booth. 

Then they pictured him on the $5 bill. 

Then they built a statue for him in Washington.

Then they killed President McKinley. 

Then they killed President Kennedy.

Then they tried to kill President Trump...and still try. 

     Readers: add your own conclusions 

What Attracts God?

     A man without formal Biblical education preached to a handful of people in sinful Brooklyn. Today, thousands of people flock to his services. Numerous worldly/immoral men and women have surrendered to Christ.

     Jim Cymbala, in his book, "Fresh Wind, Fresh Fire," asks what happens when God's Spirit enters the hearts of his people? He answers: 

     "God is attracted to weakness...those who humbly and honestly admit how desperately they need him. For his disciples, Jesus chose fishermen and such, not graduates of rabbinical schools. 

     "We needed to be natural and sincere. 

     "We had to have a visitation of the Holy Spirit, or bust. God speaks in words heard not by ear, but deep within my spirit. 

     "My hunger for Him and his transforming power would be satisfied...as our congregation calls out to him in prayer." 

This summarizes the first chapter of his 1997 book. Truth for today.

      

Three paragraphs from articles we read

     Include helping her by showing her from the Bible that there is a God in heaven who loves her. He knows from the depths because He formed her in the womb. He binds up broken hearts. He offers hope and a future, giving meaning to temporary sufferings. He forgives sins so that we can start again with a clean conscience. He offers His trustworthy rules for living, that we may escape our moribund, self-sabotaging ways. 

*

     God bless the child who does not short-circuit the struggle but, elects to stay in the crucible, enduring the heat, trusting in the process, until meaning is forged and growth is attained. For we are not a list of symptoms but His much-loved child, meant to thrive.

*

     Christ stretched out His own hands and let strangers take Him where He dreaded to go. He knew what was coming when He prayed: "Father, the hour has come; glorify your Son that the Son may glorify you?" - John 17:1. Glory began with the most ignominious death. God has a goal in mind. If humiliation is the seed of a glorious bloom, how can I complain?

Monday: What attracts God?