Post # 27; Veggin' Out

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Well, with help I have a new photo up.  It's me with some garden produce.  Tomatoes, zucchini, cucumber, and Candice grapes.  I have one vine.  I harvested 14# once before and made 6 gal. wine.  This year I harvested 34# and set 11 gal wine.  Dad makes it.  We burn it out to dry and add sugar back to taste for those who like it sweeter.

Post # 26, U.S. History

I attend an independent Bible Church.  My Sunday School class is reading a book by Brannon Howse called "Put Your Beliefs to the Test".  His web address is   www.worldviewweekend.com  On his web site he has an 82 question test that reveals whether you think like a Christian or a modern-day liberal.  I encourage you to take it.  His book has 8 main chapters.  The last is on History.  In it I found the quote of the Century.  John Adams said, "The very definition of a republic is 'an empire of laws and not of men."

My point is, the U.S. form of government is that of a Democratic Republic not of a Democracy.  A Democracy is mob rule, like unions.  We need to return to the rule of our founding documents.  We need to remove judicial tyrants who change laws instead of enforcing them.  We are a Christian Nation and we need to return to our Christian foundation.  Religious freedom is not freedom from faith but the freedom to practice your faith.

Post # 25, Cat fishing Spencer Dam, June 2011.

My father is 87 now.  This is a 12-1/2 # fish he caught just a bit ago.  He has fished in this river, the Niobrara, all his life.  I have fished here for 55 years myself.  You have to walk down a long steep embankment, under the bridge, to get to the river.  Yesterday, when we climbed out of there with our fish, he said, "Well, I made it one more time."  My dad will never rust out, he will wear out.  I call him a 'Timex', "takes a licking, and keeps on ticking".  I always wondered what Niobrara meant?  Must be an Indian word.  Isn't it ironic.  Those sailors were extremely lost.  This is the furthest place from India you can get.  The 'Government' must have gave them their map.  Ha!  Sure you can trust the Government, just ask an 'Indian'.  These 'Indians' don't even know what curry is.

 

I'm actually standing on dry river bottom taking this photo.  The river bottom, in these rapids, is shale.  When it is wet it is soapstone, slicker than snot.  Black and slippery just like soap.  I fish just to the left of this photo, but not in the rapids, you'd have to have a 10,000# sinker and the river would still move it.  No, you fish in the stillest, deepest water.  That's where the fish are.  On the bottom.  They aren't stupid',  it's easier to hang out in the stillest water than fight that current all day.  What they eat, great big shiner minnows, actually come to them.  The just know where to hang out.  This cell phone photo is grainy but in the background is the dam, spillway, and power house.  N.P.P.D. operates this hydro electric plant.

These fish, below, are laying on a Formica sink cut out.  They would be 4 to 8#'s.  Your limit from the Spencer Dam to the Missouri River, is 5 fish per day.

Hello. Post#24.

I have been very busy this Spring.  Thank you for checking in on my blog.  Lord willing, I will continue to put up more posts.  Work, cat fishing,  yard work, and gardening, my Dad's place, and home projects have been keeping me tied up.  Toss in some laziness and tiredness.  When I learn how to get the photos off my phone to the computer I'll have some interesting stuff.

Post # 23, "Heaven Is For Real", book by Todd Burpo.

This is a must read.  The elders at our church so highly recommended we read this little book they gave everybody a copy.  My wife and I read it the first week.  I cried at every chapter.  A 4 year old boy was very sick and went to Heaven long enough to astound his parents with the stuff he started telling them, as time went by.  Visit my wife's post on her blog about it at www.goodmorningmarysunshine.blogspot.com  or go to www.heavenisforreal.net

The apostle Paul said in 2 Cor. 4:18, "the world that we see is the temporary world, but the world we can't see is the permanent world."  Little 3 year 10 month old Colton saw the eternal world first hand and his parents didn't realize it until 4 months after he was home and well. Colton assumed everyone knew what he knew and that none of it was out of the ordinary!  Amazing!

Is what this little boy is saying true?  Is he crazy?  Or, is he lying?  You must decide!  Lord, Lunatic, Liar?

Post # 22, ISLAM

There are three types of people in the world.  Spiritual, natural, and carnal.  By spiritual I mean born again Christians.  People born of God's Holy Spirit who walk in that Spirit.  Christianity isn't man's attempt to reach God, it is God's attempt to reach man.  Christianity was initiated by God.  "For God so loved the world He gave His only unique Son that whosoever (put your name in here) believeth on Him should not perish but have everlasting life," John 3:16.

Religion is man's attempt to reach God.  Religion is man made.  Christianity is the only 'religion' that isn't man made!  Natural people and Carnal people create religions.  A natural man is one who has never been regenerated by God.  He is unsaved.  He was born in and lives in a fallen and natural state inherited from his grandfather Adam.  He is dead spiritually.  God has no fellowship with him and doesn't even know him.  The Bible says, "The god of this world (Satan) has blinded the minds of the unbelieving that they might not see the light of the Gospel of the glory of Jesus Christ."  They are blind spiritually.  Many intellectuals and Hollywood 'stars' claim they have become 'spiritual'.  Their 'spiritual' and God's spiritual are two different spirituals.  Jesus said, "Except a man be born again he cannot see the Kingdom of Heaven."  The devil and his host of demons are 'spiritual' beings.  Do you want to be 'spiritual' like them?

A carnal person is a Christian, born again, who doesn't live like it.  He is either a 'babe in Christ', meaning he is immature and dumb, or he is willfully rebellious and disobedient to the Spirit of God and the Word of God.  These people are God's worst and the devil's favorite.  They are the 'stumbling blocks' to others seeing the credibility of Christianity.  At times in my life, I have been one of the best examples of a carnal Christian around.  I am not proud of it.  I'm just confessing it.  I'm not walking in the dark right now or I couldn't care less to make this post.  Christians who continue to live in sin and refuse to repent can get to the point of committing the 'sin unto death'.  God kills Christians, and takes them home to be with Him, He is their Father you know, when He gets sick and tired if their willful Carnality.  I think Elvis Presley is a classic example of this.

These paragraphs are not exhaustive on the subject but just a 'thumb nail sketch' of these truths.  The only way you can get the full picture is to read and study the Bible and ask the Holy Spirit to reveal these truths to you.  "God said He would let you find Him if you seek for Him with your whole heart," Deuteronomy 4:29.

ISLAM:  Finally!  Where does Islam fit into all this?  Islam is a religion created by natural man to find and explain God.  The Koran is not inspired.  It is a man's conjecture of what he believes and thinks God is and what His will is.  His god is Allah.  Allah is not the God of the Bible, contrary to our late President George Bush's opinion.  Allah does not exist.  He is nothing.  He is a figment of Muhammad's imagination.  He is not the Jehovah of the Bible.  He is not the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.  He is not the God who gave Moses the Commandments on the shaking smoking mountain in Arabia.  Muhammad's Koran is not an inspired book.  It is not Scripture.  God did not write his book.  His book was written by Muhammad and the devil.  His book teaches his followers to advance their cause by killing those who disagree.  Contrary to my God's teaching who told me to love my enemy and do good to him.  My God, Jesus Christ, laid down His life and died for me and asked me to do the same for them as He did for me.  "Greater love has no man than this, that he lay down his life for his brethren."  The Muslim's terroristic advances in this world are as stupid as the 'Christian's' Crusades.  You don't win the world by killing your enemy, you win them by loving them to death.  Who can resist sacrificial love?  A lot of people can but not everybody.  The truth finally soaks into some of them.

Not only is Islam a man made religion, it is also a political  movement.  There is no such thing as a peaceful, loving, tolerant Muslim.  They are liars and self deceived.  They will not rest until everybody is Muslim and they run the world politically through their religion.  Isn't that wild?  A Theocracy using a false religion.  Do you suppose they are actually carrying out the devil's plan and just don't know it?  They are!  They are deceived!  They are using our U.S. Constitution against us.  Our freedom of religion clause.  Isn't it ironic we welcome a terrorist religion into our country while at the same time we throw out Christianity which has freed the slave, gave women the right to vote, has given us this great Democratic Republic, prosperity, freedom, and the strongest military in the world, has given men peace with God, and eternal life, and much more!

Their needs to be a wholesale revival of our Christian heritage in the USA or we will pass into oblivion.  We are turning our backs on God and He doesn't owe us any favors, He will turn His back on us.  Jesus said,"if you abide in My word, then you are truly disciples of Mine; and you shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free," John 8:31-32.

God only blesses The United States of America because we are blessable.  If we turn our backs on Him, He will turn His back on us.  What choice do we give Him?

Islam should be outlawed and removed from the USA because it is more than a religion, it is a political movement intending on taking over the world.  If we welcome it with open arms, it will destroy us, and our freedom, and way of life. Your children and grand children will be raised under Sharia Law and the women will become property with no rights and they will have to run around fully covered in berkas and you will have to pray to Allah 6 time a day facing Mecca.  Enjoy!  You will be sorry you were so stupid, naive, and gullible, and didn't even know what your heritage was until you gave it away.  Washington DC is so full of Liberal, Socialistic, Humanistic, Economic cancer, I don't think we can survive 4 more years of Obama!

Is it true?  Am I crazy?  Or am I lying?  Lord Lunatic Liar?  You must decide!

Post # 21, Earthquakes; Peru, New Zeland, Japan, California next?

Opinions are like noses and they smell.  Sometimes they just stink!  My opinion, if it is just my ignorant idea, is worth nothing.  The purpose of my blog is to point you to what God's opinions are.  His opinions are easy to come by.  He has written 66 books.  He calls them His 'Library".  The word is Byblos or where we get the English word Bible.  God wrote that book.  He said He did.  He used many authors over a long period of time but the internal evidence of continuity and accuracy testify, by odds alone, that it had to have an outside intelligent source.  It couldn't have been done by man alone.

All this being said, let me share with you something of God's opinion about the recent earthquakes in Haiti, Peru, New Zeland, and Japan.
     "God is our refuge and strength, a very present help in trouble.  Therefore we will not fear, though the earth should change, (and it has) and though the mountains should slip into the heart of the sea; though its waters roar and foam, though the mountains quake at its swelling pride."  Psalm 46:1-3.
     I trust in this God!  Do you?
Jesus said, "And there will be signs...and upon the earth dismay among nations, in perplexity at the roaring of the sea and the waves, men fainting from fear and the expectation of the things which are coming on the world; for the powers of the heavens will be shaken.  But when these things begin to take place, straighten up and lift up your heads, because your redemption is drawing near"  Luke 21:25-28.

This isn't the end of the world.  This is just the beginning 'birth pangs' of the end of the Church age.  Jesus won't return until 'the church departs from the truth and the man of sin is revealed', II Thessalonians 2:3.

Is what I am saying true?  Am I crazy?  Or am I lying?  Lord Lunatic Liar!  Do you really know your Bible, or is it covered with dust,  or is it just toilet paper to you?