When clowns run the circus
So get this: An Arizona elementary school should not hire teachers with Christian values because it doesn't feel "safe"... so says the self-proclaimed "queer" schoolboard member wearing cat ears . ( See here .)
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Updated: Alana L. 5L (misunderstood sovereignty)
[I redid Point #5 and #6 in the Alana L. series on my other blog (and re-lettered the posts). But instead of going back and changing the already-posted points on this blog, I'll just add the posts in their own little "series."] Point #5 still : L : "Sovereign, sovereign, sovereign, sovereign." Misunderstood "sovereignty" You see, the thing is (and what most people fail to realize is) that Calvinists incorrectly make sovereignty about how God must use His authority and power, believing that He must always be using His all-powerful authority all the time to preplan , cause , contro l everything , even sin and evil and unbelief, "or else He's not a sovereign, omnipotent, in-control God." As John MacArthur says : "... [God] makes every decision that’s ever been made, essentially, about everything.... He is the decider and ...
White horses and a cup of tea (part 3)
[I'm working my way through this slowly. Click here for part 1 and part 2 of this series.] First, here's The White Horse Parable again (my version): A man and his son owned a field that they farmed for a living. And one day, they found a white horse in the field. "Oh, what a blessing," said the farmer. "A free horse." But then the horse started tearing up their plants. "Oh, this is terrible. What a curse!" cried the farmer. But then they caught the horse and tamed it and were able to use it to farm the field. "Oh, what a blessing," said the farmer. But then the son was thrown off the horse, broke both arms, and couldn't farm for months, reducing their sales and income. "Oh, what a curse," said the farmer. "I wish this horse never came to us. Why, God? Why!?!" But then a war started, and the army issued a draft. But because the son had broken arms, he was excused from the draft and didn't have to f...
Link to "In 'Honor' of Halloween: My Story of Demonic Harassment"
Since Halloween is coming up, I am going to post links to some of my previous "Halloween" posts, standard ones that I would like to share every year, starting with: "In 'Honor' of Halloween: My Story of Demonic Harassment."
My Testimony
I've scattered bits of my story all over my blogs, but I’m gonna pull it all together here, about how I became a believer and some things I’ve gone through and how my faith has been affected. (I’ll include links to posts where I explain things more fully.) Starting the journey: I became a believer when I was eleven years old. (I am now getting close to 50. I don't know how that happened. ) At a Christian camp, on one of the last nights, they gave an altar call. I wanted to go up but was nervous about standing up in front of everyone. But being more nervous about the window of opportunity closing, I felt myself stand up and walk to the front. I knew exactly what I was doing, that I was making a commitment for life. And I meant it. I really meant it. I knelt down, asked Jesus into my heart, and have never turned back. It hasn’t been an easy, carefr...
"Bring me pain, Lord, if it brings You glory!"
(Reposted from my other blog.) I’ve always found the statements of “I want the Lord to do whatever He wants in my life to bring Him the most glory possible, even if it means bringing me pain” to be inspirational … and a bit “off.” Wh en I was 21 (half my lifetime ago), I went to Papua New Guinea for a summer on a mission trip. And I told my mom that I picked PNG over any other place because it was so remote and primitive. I said that I wanted to have everything taken away to really challenge me, to grow my faith in new ways. And I meant it. I really did. My heart was in the right place. But my mom said something wise, something that stuck. She said, “Don’t ask for that! Never ask for that! Because He could take away everything – your legs, your eyesight, your health, your home, etc.” Wow! So true. As I thought about it, I realized that I didn’t really want God to do...
A Coronavirus "Plandemic"? A 26-minute video you need to see
Everyone should watch this 26-minute video: Plandemic Part 1 by Dr. Mikovits . (FYI: I watched this video yesterday on a different YouTube link. It had something like a million views. And it's already been removed today. Big surprise! This is why I watched it right away and wrote up a short summary of my thoughts on it. Because I figured it would be silenced! So watch it soon, before this is removed too.) A friend found it yesterday and shared it with me. While it’s scary stuff, it didn’t shock me because it coincides with what I’ve already thought about this whole virus situation, among other things: ... That there’s something fishy about it and it’s not natural … ... That there are unhealthy and dangerous connections between Bill Gates and Dr. Fauci and government health agencies (CDC, FDA, WHO, etc.), among others … ... That there are shady coronavirus reporting practices in the hospitals, such as financial incentives for doctors ...
Pause, breathe, smile
(Happy New Year!) Please, allow me to vent and to listen to myself rant. And come along, if you want, on a trip through m y mind (I apologize in advance for how the messy it is😉) : Are you exhausted? I am. I am sick and tired of all the craziness out there, all the chaos, fighting, hate, lies, fear-mongering, violence, increasing prices (for less product or services), natural disasters, wars, rumors of wars, AI this-and-that, Big Pharma, social deviance/immorality, efforts to force people to tolerate social deviance/immorality, political posturing and mudslinging and nonsense, etc. I'm done with it. I'm just so done with it all. "You can stop the world now, God. We wanna get off." I am sick of both social media and the news - because everyone just wants to fight, scream their opinions, demand their way, calls names, make accusations, and force everyone else to agree with them and do things their way. E veryt...
9 Marks of a Calvinist Cult #5 (isolation, control)
[This series is "The 9 Marks of a Calvinist Cult" split up into smaller, individual posts.] Cults use isolation, control, fear, coercion, mind-control, and thought-reform to enslave the members to the cult. The members' "inner voices" are suppressed. 5. Information Isolation and Control Of course, Calvinists don't physically isolate members in a commune or anything like that, as more extreme cults have. But Calvinist pastors do practice various forms of "mental" isolation by controlling the information and resources. From the very beginning, Calvinist pastors set out to carefully control the information we get, the resources we have access to, the verses we hear, who's in charge, etc. Verses: Calvinists will ignore verses that contradict or disprove Calvinism , but highly favor those that can be twisted/interpreted to support it. For example: Calvinist pastors fill their sermons with verses that appear to fit...
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