Inaugural Entry...

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    People say the word itself is a truncated form of Weblog but having read a few blogs for yourself you have concluded "blog" is an acronym for: "Baloney Ladled Out Generously."
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    Christianity tends to be represented by the unsaved religionists of Rome, ignorant Evangelicals, cults and crack-pots.  What this blog will attempt to do is present a seasoned perspective "With A Bible In My Hand." 

A glimpse of America's future?
March19, 2012
    Saudi Arabia is refusing to send a woman's team to the Olympic Games this summer because "women who exercise in public are shameless."  The Saudi government, to whom our President bowed, has shut down 153 women's gyms.
    The number of mosques in the United States has soared from 1,209 in 2000 to 2016 in 2,010. As Sharia law continues to expand in America, how long before nearly 6000 women's gyms in America become mosques?  They can offend us all they want to, but we would never want to offend them... take a bow, Mr. President.

Never accept their premise
March 17, 2012
    The ignorant, the prejudiced, the uninformed should never be allowed to declare the premise or set the parameters of an argument.
    What if the fuels are not from fossils but are naturally produced (abiotic fuel theory)?
    What if the Hubble Constant is wrong, and quite a few astronomers believe it is?
    What if there is no Higgs Boson?
    What if God created the Earth with the appearance of age, just as Adam was created a mature man?
    What if it turns out the bible was right all along?  What if it turns out billions of dollars and untolled man hours have been wasted on premises invented by God-rejecting atheists?

"We are all Catholics now."
March 15, 2012
    So said Ruth Dedens in Dayton, Ohio, Protestant organizer of an "exorcism of locality" designed to drive evil out of a place, in this instance the place being an abortion clinic.  Wonder if it works on crabgrass.
     Said to be "one of the minor exorcisms of the Catholic tradition" she said "this exorcism comes at a time when reproductive issues have taken center stage in the national debate.
    The exorcism prayer is based upon a prayer to St. Michael the Archangel as written by Pope Leo XIII in 1886.  And Rick Santorum believes is this stuff.

Ultimate Censorship
March 13, 2012
    Salman Rushdie wrote Satanic Verses in 1989 and has been in hiding ever since.  Let a Dutch cartoonist depict Muhammad and riots follow. 
     When their women come here, they live just as they did but let our women reporters go there and they all sport scarves.
     Burn some Korans used by prisoners dedicated to killing Americans to pass clandestine messages and 36 people are murdered.
     Now, head of the British Broadcasting Corporation Mark Thompson admits he so fears Muslim retaliation that the BBC "is far more sensitive to Muslim issues than to Christian."
    Ultimate censorship: fear.

Rush Limbaugh, Bill Mahr
March 11, 2012
    "Your guy said worse things than my guy" is hardly a defense of the high moral ground. 
    The mentality that says "Sure Bush was terrible but Obama is worse" is the same mentality that got us into this fix by voting for the lesser of two evils.
     Defending Rush Limbaugh's language by correctly stating that Bill Mahr's language is ten times worse is akin to defending cow pies over horse pucky when they're both poop.
     Wouldn't it be nice if someone were to take the high moral ground rather than the morass of moral relativism?
     II Corinthians 10:12 For we dare not make ourselves of the number, or compare ourselves with some that commend themselves: but they measuring themselves by themselves, and comparing themselves among themselves, are not wise.

Mea Culpa
March 10, 2012
   After three wrong predictions about the end of the world, Harold Camping has admitted he was wrong and has asked forgiveness.  He describes his May 21, 2011 guarantee of the Lord's return not only as wrong, but sinful.
    Now if only C. Richard Jordan would repent of his teaching that Jesus did not know He was the Son of God until he was 30, that would be good.
    And if Grace School of the Bible would repent of teaching Racial Prophecy rendering black people as servants, that would be good.
    Maybe because Camping is 94 he's past caring:  with respect to Jordan, Grace School and their clones, here is the principle involved:
    When a person's income and/or reputation is based upon what that person has said, that person won't change what is said even when he/she finds out they are dead wrong.

Someone needs to ask Mitt Romney....
March 08, 2012
    Mr. Romney, do you believe our "Fourth Age" as described in Ixtlilxochitl and the The Book Of Mormon will end with an atomic fire?
    Sir, is there any chance that your apocalyptic views will coincide with Mahmoud Ahmadinejad"s and you will both welcome war?
     Sir, since the Book of Mormon  centers on two great social experiments  contrasting the Jaredite with the Nephite, can we expect your Administration to reflect those teachings?
     Sir, the Book of Mormon states the formula for "peace and happiness" is simply this: "Keep the commandments of the Lord."  If that is the price of peace, can we expect Old Testament legalism as your guiding principle?
     Sir, is it your objective to set the stage for 288 years of peace in Bountiful-land and thereby fulfill the promise of Mormon history and doctrine as applied to 21st century America?

America's god
March 06, 2012
    The God of the Bible now rejected, the god of John Dewey now reigns supreme.
    The only certain path to success: education. The cure for alcoholism and drug addiction: education.  The way to prevent STDs: education.  The way to get everyone to agree: education. The answer to every need, the solution of every problem: education. 
    Synonyms for education: indoctrination, propaganda, political correctness.

What year is it, anyhow?
March 05, 2012
     When the debate is over moral issues, the progressive/liberal will at some point ask "What year is it, anyhow."  That question is intended to instruct that morality has changed because times have changed, which simply isn't true.
     They will say "Its the 21st century, Man.  What are you?  A puritanical Neanderthal." 
     What you need to hear is what they are really doing is "Choosing rather ... enjoy the pleasures of sin for a season; "

Apologize for this "accidental burning"
March 04, 2012
    Firstly, the burning of Korans was not by accident:  the prisoners, dedicated to killing Americans, were writing notes to each other in Korans and communicating with one another by trading Korans.  Their communications were about escape and murder:  burning their Korans made good sense.
    And the President of the United States apologized?  What a wrong and cowardly thing for him to do.
     Since our President is so quick to apologize, can we expect him to go out of his way to apologize about the remains of 9/11 victims that were incinerated and sent to a landfill. 9/11 victims at the Pentagon are now in a landfill but their families won't be killing people as are the Afghans over the burning of their Korans. 
     Our President continues to show his lack of respect for America and continues to bow to murderous Muslims at every opportunity. 

Of the people, by the people... baloney!
March 03, 2012
    Maryland became the 8th state to legalize the abomination of same-sex "marriage" by a 25-22 vote of its Senate. 
     No popular election in any state anywhere has ever voted in homosexual "marriage:  whenever it is "legalized" it is either by courts or by legislatures, never by "we the people."
Romans 1:26-27 For this cause God gave them up unto vile affections: for even their women did change the natural use into that which is against nature: And likewise also the men, leaving the natural use of the woman, burned in their lust one toward another; men with men working that which is unseemly, and receiving in themselves that recompence of their error which was meet.
    

To have been a fly on the wall:
March 29, 2012
    In 1875 Clarence Larkin would have been 25 years old, John Nelson Darby 82, Cyrus Ingerson Scofield 39, and Sir Robert Anderson 34.  How much fun it would have been to have those men discus Larkin's foolish book "What I Am A Baptist."
    Where would a person go today to find such great minds all engaged in dispensational thinking?  There is no such place, sad to say.

White Horse Prophecy
March 28, 2012
    May 6, 1843 Mormon cult founder Joseph Smith gave a prophecy which he said was every bit as reliable as those in the Bible.  His prophecy involved the U.S. Constitution hanging by a thread, "as fine as the finest silk fiber."
    You may have heard Glenn Beck or Mitt Romney say the 2012 election is of critical importance because "our Constitution is hanging by a thread" and you might have thought that was just political rhetoric.  Actually you are hearing Mormon code words and you would do well to find out what Mormons think about America in prophecy before you give one of their faithful leaders the Presidency.

Fox News: a job to fall back on...
March 24, 2012
    Although white Bill Lee stepped down as Sheriff of Sanford, Florida after the killing of 17-year-old black Trayvon Martin... not to worry.  He can probably get a job at Fox News alongside N-word brandishing cop Mark Furman, "nappy-headed-ho" broadcaster Don Imus and who can forget "Hoodie Heraldo?."

Some jobs don't make sense
March 22, 2013
    Saved people might not make the best beer truck drivers, used car dealers or lawyers: especially lawyers because they are such liars.
    Denver paid $96 million to facilitate getting rid of Tim Tebow.  American Idol contestant Colton Dixon has been warned that he needs to tone down his Christianity.  Jeremy Lin is already being ostracized for his faith.  It used to be society welcomed believers but these days, society is clearly hostile toward saved people.
    Now don't be confused:  Mormons and Catholics are not ostracized because neither Mormons (Mitt Romney) nor Catholics (Rick Santorum, Newt Gingrich) are saved people, which also explains how they are able to be politicians.

Elephants must not forget:
March 21, 2012
    Sarah Palin.  Jeb Bush.  Chris Christie.  Marco Rubio.  Bobby Gindle.
    All the Republican presidential hopefuls who have ducked this year's election against an incumbent will want votes in 2016. 
    Just don't believe them when they claim to be patriots putting their country first.  Were that true, they'd be running now rather than leaving it to the current crop of nere-do-wells.    

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Queer as a three dollar bill
May 17, 2012

     Not about homosexuality, the three dollar bill was part of Mormon currency.  You that plan to vote for Mitt Romney would do well to learn more about just how queer his belief system is... oh... never mind... David Axelrod will make sure everyone knows.  You, the Tea Party and actual conservatives need a better answer than the Republican party will every provide.

Democrats and Republicans
May 16, 2012
    Whoever the Democrats run will get 48% of the vote and whoever the Republicans run will get 48% of the vote. Ninety percent of Blacks, media types and Hollywood are in the Democrats back pocket just as 90% of Evangelicals, Constitutionalists and Conservatives are in the Republicans back pocket.  The remaining 4%, the uninformed 4%, the blithely ignorant 4% will decide the next election just as they decided the last one and the one before that. 
    There needs to be more than two choices.  Voting for the "lesser of two evils" is to vote for evil and to know it.  Our elections have turned into little more than "American Idol" episodes.

Does this seem right to you?
May 15, 2012
Liberal versus Conservative is the same as
Entitled vs. Employed...is the same as
They vs. We... is the same as
Whiner vs. Worker... is the same as
Victim vs. Victorious.

Unintended consequences
May 14, 2012
    Psycho-Babble promoted "self-esteem" incessantly for years but now Florida State University has tied high self esteem to anti-social behavior including bullying. Believing they deserve to have whatever it is they want the end justifies the means. 
    How about bringing back McGuffy's Readers and raising children in the nurture and admonition of the Lord?

Nothing New....
May 13, 2012
     President Obama's recent statement about homosexual marriage is nothing new: March 4, 2008 he said he "preferred" the Sermon on the Mount rather than the obscure book of Romans. So ask yourself "Why Now?" and don't be fooled.  When it was learned Mormon Romney might have been a gay-basher in high school, Obama and Biden staked out the "high ground" with their evolving statements.

Once again, Matthew Chapter 25
May 09, 2012
     We now know that President Obama thinks that wealth must be shared in the spirit of the Liberation Theology he learned at the UCC in Chicago.  Now, the US Conference of Catholic Bishops has denounced Rep. Paul Ryan's budget because it "fails to meet the essential moral mandate to help what Jesus called 'the least of these.'" 
Matthew 25:40 And the King shall answer and say unto them, Verily I say unto you, Inasmuch as ye have done it unto one of the least of these my brethren, ye have done it unto me.  Meanwhile, don't we know Kingdom Doctrine won't work in this, the dispensation of God's grace?

Flat Tax, Fair Tax, most anything would be better:
May 08, 2012
     Fussing that 50% pay no taxes or fussing that the 1% should pay more could all be cured with the Flat Tax or the Fair Tax.  Over the past ten years (with both Republicans and Democrats in office) 4,428 changes were made to the federal tax code.  That's more than one per day.
Romans 13:6 For for this cause pay ye tribute also: for they are God's ministers, attending continually upon this very thing.

When the President is ignorant of Captialism:
May 06, 2012
    Just as the Obama administration did not understand that "Cash for Clunkers" would subsequently depress the used car market, the "Payroll Tax Break" has accelerated the imminent failure of Social Security from 2033 instead of 2036.  Either our President does not see the problems he is creating or he doesn't care.
Romans 12:11 Not slothful in business; fervent in spirit; serving the Lord;

Having a bad day?  Free prayer.
May 03, 2012
     So says the sign outside the Christian Life Center of Ft. Lauderdale for their Drive-Thru Pray-n-Dash service.  Not only is that silly, but you hardly need to be in any particular place to pray. And why would they need to say "free?"  Pastor Sol Levy says the DriveThru is gaining a following and other churches are considering it.

Joel Osteen: Ignorant? Idiot? Or both?
May 02, 2012
   Megachurch guru Joel Osteen said "When I hear (temple Mormon) Mitt Romney say that he believes that Jesus is the Son of God, that He's the Christ, raised from the dead, that He's his Savior, that's good enough for me." He followed that ridiculous remark with "Mormonism is a little different, but I still see them as brothers in Christ."  One can only hope that Osteen and Romney will get saved someday, but both of them are such celebrities it is most unlikely.
Galatians 1:6-7 I marvel that ye are so soon removed from him that called you into the grace of Christ unto another gospel: Which is not another; but there be some that trouble you, and would pervert the gospel of Christ.

The worst possible advice!
April 30, 2012
   "Dear Abby" is syndicated in more than 1400 newspapers and has more than 11 million readers. In her April 30th column she answered a writer with just one short paragraph in which she said "I believe that entrance to heaven is based upon a person's character, not his or her sexual orientation."
    The sins of humanity were paid for by Christ making reconciliation with God available by faith in Christ's payment for our sins.
     1 Corinthians 15:3-4 For I delivered unto you first of all that which I also received, how that Christ died for our sins according to the scriptures; And that he was buried, and that he rose again the third day according to the scriptures:
     II Corinthians 5:21 For he hath made him to be sin for us, who knew no sin; that we might be made the righteousness of God in him.

So much for "the land of the free"
April 28, 2012
    Jean-Sebastian Stehil of LeFigaro.fr wrote in French to his French/European audience that Americans have "such a loose conception of freedom (it) is difficult to grasp."  He came to that conclusion when the US Supreme Court ruled that police can strip search anyone "even in the case of a minor offense, and even if there is no reason to suspect a felony or crime." 
    So much for probable cause, so much for innocent until proven guilty.

A fish rots from the head down.
April 25, 2012
     Had there been any previous reports of bad behavior by the Secret Service before this present beer-swilling, booze-drinking f-bomb dropping, send-the-kids-to-Mexico-for-spring-break, send the GSA to Vegas, administration?    And why are we just now finding out about the incident last year in Brazil when four Embassy Security agents dumped a prostitute from their car (breaking her collarbone) when our agents did not want to pay the woman for her services?
    1 Corinthians 15:33 Be not deceived: evil communications corrupt good manners.

The War is Over!!
April 24, 2012
    The National Journal quoted senior officials at the State Department as declaring that "The war on terror is over."  But terror persists. What our beer-summit President would put an end to is the undeniable fact that we are at war with Islam because Islam will have it no other way.  This is the same President who announced that NASA should help Muslims feel good about themselves... and then he destroyed NASA. This is the same President who thought "Cash for clunkers" made sense.  This is the same President who feathered liberal nests with a phony stimulus program.  This is the same President who "led from the rear" in the Middle East so as to hide from responsibility in Syria, Saudi Arabia and Egypt.  This is the same President who said that unemployment would hover around six percent.  This is the same President who ridiculed the people who hold to their guns and their religion. 
    And only the Republicans could run a guy who cant beat such a miserable President.

Hillary was wrong.
April 22, 2012
     Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and the Obama Administration told the American people that the Arab Spring in Egypt was a good thing and that "democracy" would be the result.
     Egypt's Muslim Brotherhood promised it would NOT field a candidate for President, but they lied and are running a man to run Egypt.  They also lied when they promised to run for just a few seats in Egypt's parliament as the Muslim Brotherhood now controls both houses.  It would be good to remember Mrs. Clinton's bad judgment when she runs for president in 2016.

How long before death by bow and arrow?
April 20, 2012
    Hunger Games sold 23 million copies and now the movie has been the most watched for several weeks and already sales of archery equipment have skyrocketed.  How long until deaths by arrows hit the news:  there has already been one such "accident" in Ohio already.  We would do well as a society to provide better reading material and better role models for your young people.
1 Timothy 1:16... for a pattern to them which should hereafter believe on him to life everlasting.

Fair and Balanced
April 18, 2012
     No, not Fox News.
     President Obama will be triangulating in the fall when his campaign emphasizes that he is "fair and balanced" while the Republicans favor the wealthy which is unfair and unbalanced.  Mr. Obama will corrupt fairness into meaning equality of outcome (socialism) rather than equality of opportunity and Mr. Obama's SuperPacs will have no difficulty using Mr. Romney's Mormonism to demonstrate lack of balance. 

God made them Male and Female
April 16, 2012
     The recent dust-up at the Masters Golf Tournament over that clubs all male membership is just one more example of blurring the lines between male and female.  GOLF was an acronym for "Gentlemen Only, Ladies Forbidden," but Americans are much too ignorant to know that.  How many Americans, for another example, know why the wife takes the husband's last name?
     Genesis 5:2 Male and female created he them; and blessed them, and called their name Adam, in the day when they were created.

What would be the difference?
April 15, 2012
     The debauchery of the GSA in wasting nearly a million taxpayer dollars was disgusting to be sure, but what of Hillary Clinton's recent partying and drinking brewskies from the bottle? Or teenagers "Spring Breaking" in Mexico at taxpayer expense?

God certainly is wrong... a lot.
April 12, 2012
    HERMAN CAIN said that when he was cured of cancer that God told him "Not yet, Herman.  I have something else for you to do."
    RICK PERRY testified that "this is what I've been called to do."
    MICHELLE BACHMAN said "I feel this is what the Lord is calling me to do."
    RICK SANTORUM and his wife said "we believe with all our hearts that this is what God wants."
     God could not be reached for comment in that God gave Paul the revelation of the mystery and Paul gave us that doctrine in our Bibles.  All this foolishness of being "God-called" is no more than narcissistic self-fulfilling baloney.

Putting the money where the mouth is
April 10, 2012
    Churches are blaming recent decreases in giving on the economy.  Really?
     In 2010 the American people spent:
10 billion on movies.
29 billion on church
70 billion on cigarettes
97 billion on 211,489,982 barrels of beer.

Who said life was fair?
April 09, 2012
    President Obama seems to believe that the results in our economy should be equal rather than our Founding Fathers determination that our opportunity should be equal.  Perhaps it is a product of Mr. Obama's having attended a terrible church, having gone to terrible schools, having been raised in a terrible family, but whatever the root cause, Mr. Obama is a stranger to our Republic.
    And isn't it odd that Mr. Obama believes in theistic evolution but denies survival of the fittest?

President Obama lies while telling the truth.
April 07, 2012
    Our President told us that the average annual cost of Obama-care for the first ten years would be less than a billion dollars.  That truth depends on a devious lie.  The ten years he used included the two years before the bill goes into effect.  Our President is a devious deceiver of the worst sort, and we just saw it again this week when he lied about the Supreme Court.  Our President depends on having about 40% of the American people who could care less about truth, the 40% who want income distribution more than a Constitutional Republic.

Pope Benedict XVI is an unsaved fool
April 3, 2012
     The Lord Jesus Christ was crucified on a Wednesday and the fact that He died is not the important thing:  everyone dies.  Christ arose from the grave 72 hours later, Saturday evening, with victory over death, hell and the grave.
    The Pope was in Cuba last week, and he persuaded the communist government there to make Good Friday a national holiday.  Religious holidays have been banned since 1959 and the foolish unsaved Pope promoted a holiday based on ignorance of Bible truth, and once again the Roman Catholic cult promotes a dead Jesus rather than the victorious Saviour.
     Bugs Bunny said it best:  what a maroon.

Racism
March 30, 2012
    The Bible does not teach races of people, Darwin does.  The Bible says we are all made of one blood: Darwin says some of us are evolved more than some others.
   Racial Prophecy, as taught by Richard Jordan, Peter Ruckman and Sun Yung Moon is a devilish lie that cannot stand even cursory scrutiny. Even if the lie of Racial Prophecy were true, and it is not, in this dispensation there are only two kinds of people: saved and lost.
    The sad irony is this:  racism is real but it is based upon something that isn't.  Members of the human race are either in the first Adam or the last Adam:  end of story.

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McNuggets
 

The King James Bible is God's perfect word.

If your salvation testimony includes person pronouns, be concerned.  Salvation is what Christ did, not what you did or are doing.

"I MEAN..."
is the new "you know," and you lose 5 IQ points for either.

Any church that uses the words "Worship Service" is unworthy of your attendance.  Israel worshipped: we serve.

The best teacher you will ever profit from is named: Repetition.

"Greatness" emanates from character, which explains why the mid-Acts movement as it stands is not great:  it lacks the character that comes from sound doctrine.

Every generation starts knowing nothing and must learn everything.  How will the next generations learn Bible-believing fundamentalism when there is no one left to teach them?

Silence is complicity.
Ephesians 5:14 Wherefore he saith, Awake thou that sleepest, and arise from the dead, and Christ shall give thee light.
1 Corinthians 15:34 Awake to righteousness, and sin not; for some have not the knowledge of God: I speak this to your shame.

When it comes to
Bible doctrine,
Compromise is the currency of cowardice.

Democracy is mob rule led by bullies.  The United States is a republic, not a democracy.

Most churches present probation and not salvation:  If you think you can lost it, you don't have it.

Tolerance is considered a virtue by people who have neither courage nor convictions.

If you would be willing to change one word of the King James Bible you are no different than the heretic who changes words right and left: both are infidels.

When something bad happens and you say you were "At the wrong place at the wrong time" does not that also mean you knew two important things and you disregarded them both?

If you begin a sentence with "I mean" you immediately lose all your IQ points and will forever be relegated to sitting in the corner with a dunce cap on your pointy little head.  Like, you know....?

Have you noticed that the people who know the least talk the loudest?  And at church, the people who talk the most give the least?

"Repent" does not mean turn, not in Greek,
not in English. 

"Single Mom" is not a badge of honor: rather it is a testimony of trouble, travail and probably transgressions.

If an hundred million Americans do a stupid thing, its still stupid.  If three hundred million Americans do a stupid thing, its still stupid.  And that's what's wrong with...democracy.

When you ask me a question, if the only answer you will accept is one that agrees with you, why ask the question?  Find yourself a rubber stamp and don't waste my time.
 

I'd rather have ten cents worth of real Bible-believing Christianity than a million dollars worth of the phony fluff masqueraded today's churches are offering.

If it is illegal to drink and drive, why do bars have parking lots.
If they can heal you at the Pentecostal church, why do they have handicap parking spaces?  The answer:  you are dealing with lying hypocrites, some drunk, some sober.

Prayers must always start with thanksgiving... which more often than not alters what follows.

Whenever you attach spiritual significance to objects you have begun creating your own private pagan religion.

Winning isn't everything: winning is easy.  Do you quit when you lose or do you press on?

Water always takes the course of least resistance and flows downhill:  must have learned how to do that from preachers.

I, me, my: I, me, my: I, me, my: I, me, my: I, me, my: I, me, my: I, me, my: I, me, my: I, me, my: I, me, my: I, me, my: I, me, my: I, me, my: I, me, my: I, me, my: I, me, my: I, me, my: I, me, my: I, me, my: I, me, my
There... that's how many personal pronouns were on just two pages of the latest issue of the self-serving Berean Searchlight.

What makes this blog different is that it is not so much about opinion as it is about perspective.

Red Letter "Christians" miss the fact that the gospel that saves their soul in found in the black letters... which is why most so-called Christians are unsaved and hell-bound.

What you think of me couldn't mean any less: what matters is whether I am saying and dong that which pleases my Lord Jesus Christ.

Any resemblance between Roman Catholicism and the Bible is unintended and purely by coincidence... and if the Papists figure out they were accidently in agreement with the Bible, they would immediately reverse that position.

If my income is "fixed"
why am I "broke?"

We are never "under the circumstances" and neither do we find God's leading in circumstance.  We operate regardless of circumstances and are guided only by God's words, rightly divided.

Politicians are all
"users" of people,
and in their spare time, they sell Amway.

Water and preachers both tend to take the course of least resistance and run straight downhill
into the swamp.

When you vote for "the lesser of two evils" you have admitted to having knowingly voted for evil, to your shame.

You cannot be on the "cutting edge" when you are holding the wrong end of the sword,
wrongly dividing.

For Christians who don't know how to 'rightly divide' their Bible, one experience will always trump 100 verses.

If the American public, including the church-goers, knew what the Bible actually says... they would burn every copy of it and use me for kindling.

The further a person is from taking the Bible literally, the further that person is from being saved, the further that person is from ever being dispensational.

"Sipping Saints" are always more invested in their sipping than in their sainthood.

It isn't about the preachers effectiveness at leading his church but rather about the preacher installing right doctrine and then getting out of the way.

Perhaps the reason so many football players resent Tim Tebow is when Tebow talks about "the Man upstairs" he's not talking about the coach in the booth.

Don't be clever:
be clear.

The same evolutionist that told you that if you had enough monkeys and enough typewrites and enough time that one of those monkeys would type the complete works of Shakespeare also told you that no two snowflakes are alike.  Those lies are accepted by a government school trained (not educated) society that no longer thinks for itself.

If I use the term "fossil fuels" am I not giving credence to evolution?  Has anyone done the math on how many fossils it would take to leave behind the billions of barrels of oil yet to be harvested; never mind the trillions already used for energy?

What we do for our Lord is wasted if the "why" is not right. We are foolish to do wrong things for right reasons.  We are evil to do right things for the wrong reasons.

The Bible translation controversy has almost nothing to do with Bible translations and everything to do with authority.  Do we submit to the Bible's authority or do we have authority to change the Bible to force it to submit to us.

The three most beautiful words in the English language are not
"I love you." 
There are
"Told you so."

A tiny gold fish thinks he is a whale when all the other fish in the tank are guppies.  Such are the pompous pontificators in the "grace" movement.  The only reason they get away with being big fishes is that they are in such a tiny aquarium with so many guppies.

What is right matters,
not who is right. 
Truth is truth,
wherever you find it. 
You are better served
to walk alone in truth
than to be the friend
of a million liars.

"Going Postal" used to mean going bezerk.  Now it means "Going Away."

Pedestrian minds parrot what others have said and pretend to be leaders when it takes everything they've got just to run in place:  such is the
Berean Bible Society.

The next time someone tells you that it takes fewer muscles to smile than it does to frown, tell them "Its worth the extra effort."

The most effective way to fool church folks is to quote Bible verses from the wrong dispensation as if they applied today.

There are only two churches: the church of the "do" and the church of the "done."  Either all the work has been done or you must forever do, but you will never know if you've done enough.

Study to learn who God has made you in Christ Jesus and then, act the part:  that is the key to walking in newness of life.

Every time you say
"I mean," I deduct 5 IQ points from your score and another 5 for every time you say "you know." And when you say "I'm being honest with you" I take it that everything else you said was a lie.

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