I will comment on this video in my weekly update which should be up later today. You may want to check out a similar video at Delight in Truth’s blog which you may link to in my Blogroll. We need more voices like this one.
Christian Artist Bradley Clark at the Pro-Bodnariu Protest in San Francisco
February 27, 2016WEEKLY WRAP-UP 2-20-2016
February 20, 2016A major story that has been underreported in the West is one that is being covered on Delight in Truth’s Blog.
Barnevernet Sinking Despite the Progressive Romanian Defenders
There is so much going on that I can’t keep up with it. On the job front, I’ve enjoyed being with the kids lately. Unfortunately, I’ve had to send more than one student to the office recently because they lied to me. Hmm…wonder where they learned to look you straight in the eyes and lie to you? This week I had a mixture of jobs; everywhere from third grade to high school. Kids are still kids in spite of the spiritual meltdown happening all around them. You probably are aware of the reading materials that these kids read on their own time. This is something I can’t control. A student walked up to me and shared a “bloody” incident in a book that she was reading. I read it and said, “Gross!!!” I didn’t have time to express my concerns to her until the next day. It’s kind of rare for me to be in the same place two days in a row, but in this case I was very thankful.
I will miss Justice Scalia. His statements about allowing “same-sex” marriage were scathing. I don’t know how many times he was critical of the current Court and its unconstitutional views. I think the court will continue to become more Godless. I hope I’m wrong.
I wish you all a wonderful weekend in the Lord.
Chris Reimers
Recent Military News from the Middle East:
http://eschatologytoday.blogspot.com/2016/02/global-sitrep-a8-16-rapidly-changing.html
DEMONS IN TODAY’S WORLD
February 16, 2016A few years back, I was working in a ministry where I saw many types of people. I was a teacher whom many talked to as a counselor. More than once I was told personal stories and asked my opinion about them.
I recall one story of a well-off lady who lived in a nice area of town. She asked me about strange events that were occurring at her home. The events were frequent and unexplained. She was convinced it was a dead relative that was coming to visit her. She even told me his name. She didn’t seem afraid. It was taken for granted that this dead person was visiting from time to time. She asked me what I thought.
Knowing my Bible well enough, there were only a few explanations. It was either a lot of windy days, she had a good imagination, or a spirit of some kind had moved in to some degree. She dismissed the first two possibilities. Even if she hadn’t, I would have erred on the side of caution. I told her she needed to find a pastor who would go and pray with her in every room in her house. I told her I knew it was not a dead relative.
I’ll never forget her reaction. It was only old uncle Ted and she didn’t feel the need from prayer.
This interview comes from an interesting place, a man who is a scholar in the Lutheran Church Missouri Synod. The LCMS rarely if ever discusses this subject, yet here it is. Although I disagree with the LCMS on infant baptism and a few other things (I was a teacher in the LCMS school system), many LCMS pastors are still standing up for Biblical principles although others are falling woefully short. It is no different in every protestant denomination. I do not have either of the books mentioned in the first video above so I cannot give an endorsement.
I think, as this country continues its drift from Biblical shores, we will see more of the type of activity discussed in this video. Churches seem ill equipped to deal with such things and many would rather ignore the issue.
We have no need to fear. The name of Jesus has tremendous power. Prayer in His name can conquer all of our foes.
May god give us the wisdom to know to speak His name if or when the occasion arises.
CR
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WEEKLY WRAP-UP FOR 2-27-2016
February 27, 2016I Hope you had a chance to click on the previous post to hear other voices speak out against ungodly forces at work in Norway.
If you want to know more about this situation, click on Delight in Truth’s blog in my blogroll. At the moment, his focus is on this problem and you can learn much about it there. It is nice to see the church coming together to fight injustice.
I’ll share two things that I read this week. I hope this helps you in our upside-down world that is not the Christian’s home:
1 Why are the nations in an uproar
And the peoples devising a vain thing?
2
The kings of the earth take their stand
And the rulers take counsel together
Against the Lord and against His Anointed, saying,
3
“Let us tear their fetters apart
And cast away their cords from us!”
4
He who sits in the heavens laughs,
The Lord scoffs at them.
5
Then He will speak to them in His anger
And terrify them in His fury, saying,
6
“But as for Me, I have installed My King
Upon Zion, My holy mountain.”
7
“I will surely tell of the decree of the Lord:
He said to Me, ‘You are My Son,
Today I have begotten You.
8
‘Ask of Me, and I will surely give the nations as Your inheritance,
And the very ends of the earth as Your possession.
9
‘You shall break them with a rod of iron,
You shall shatter them like earthenware.’”
10
Now therefore, O kings, show discernment;
Take warning, O judges of the earth.
11
Worship the Lord with reverence
And rejoice with trembling.
12
Do homage to the Son, that He not become angry, and you perish in the way,
For His wrath may soon be kindled.
How blessed are all who take refuge in Him!
– Psalm 2
And…
1 My son, if you will receive my words
And treasure my commandments within you,
2
Make your ear attentive to wisdom,
Incline your heart to understanding;
3
For if you cry for discernment,
Lift your voice for understanding;
4
If you seek her as silver
And search for her as for hidden treasures;
5
Then you will discern the fear of the Lord
And discover the knowledge of God.
6
For the Lord gives wisdom;
From His mouth come knowledge and understanding.
7
He stores up sound wisdom for the upright;
He is a shield to those who walk in integrity,
8
Guarding the paths of justice,
And He preserves the way of His godly ones.
9
Then you will discern righteousness and justice
And equity and every good course.
10
For wisdom will enter your heart
And knowledge will be pleasant to your soul;
11
Discretion will guard you,
Understanding will watch over you,
12
To deliver you from the way of evil,
From the man who speaks perverse things;
13
From those who leave the paths of uprightness
To walk in the ways of darkness;
14
Who delight in doing evil
And rejoice in the perversity of evil;
15
Whose paths are crooked,
And who are devious in their ways;
16
To deliver you from the strange woman,
From the adulteress who flatters with her words;
17
That leaves the companion of her youth
And forgets the covenant of her God;
18
For her house sinks down to death
And her tracks lead to the dead;
19
None who go to her return again,
Nor do they reach the paths of life.
20
So you will walk in the way of good men
And keep to the paths of the righteous.
21
For the upright will live in the land
And the blameless will remain in it;
22
But the wicked will be cut off from the land
And the treacherous will be uprooted from it.
-Proverbs 2
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