THE PERSONAL WAY OF FATHERHOOD 

Monday, February 24, 2020 -- COLUMN 217

Honor thy father and thy mother -- Fifth of the Ten Commandments of God

The Personal Way of Fatherhood

As I begin writing this morning it is 2:39 AM.  My mother is in the other room sitting with my father.  Hospice just advised us that he is within 12 to 24 hours of departing this world.  My parent's marriage lasted nearly 60 years.  The website that I found when I searched on "The Ten Commandments" this morning brought up this explanation of the fifth, "As you should honor God, so should you honor those who brought you into this world."

Satan's attack on God the Father is relentless.  It will not stop until God brings an end to him. Christians are promised suffering in this world at his hand, and as a result of our own sins.  Through prayer and the pursuit of holiness we can overcome the devil.  Without God's grace it is impossible to withstand his deceitful attacks.  We must pray and seek God the Father's face.

This is as true of groups like families and nations as it is true for individuals.  The United States of America is an experiment with leaving the question of who God is unanswered.  We created a nation that would allow the religious question to be answered by each individual state.  We include no acknowledgment of the Father, or the Son, in our Constitution or Bill of Rights.  The decision not to answer this question created the mess in which we find ourselves in 2020.

Incapable of honoring The Father our nation can no longer honor any father.  We honor anything but the idea of Father.  And this has led to the elimination of all meaningful distinctions.  A man who proudly declares himself to be "wife" can lay claim to serious consideration by a major political party for leader of the nation.  Half the country is so unhinged from reality that they view homosexuality as a qualification for leadership.  Sodomites are now the ones we must heed to better understand the Bible and Christianity.  We think their sexual disorder informs deep spiritual insight.

My youngest son is six foot four inches tall.  He just crested thirty years of age.  On Saturday he visited with my dad who by then was confined to the bed hospice provided.  It is situated in the living room next to a large window.  My mom, brother and wife just reported to me this morning that my son's choice in saying goodbye to my by then unable to speak father -- his grandfather -- was to sit on the floor next to the bed.  My father placed his hand on my son's head as if to confer a blessing.  Everyone wept.  My son reported to me yesterday on the phone that his objective during his visit was to honor the dying Patriarch of my family.  He then quoted the fifth commandment to me over the phone -- honor your father and mother.

There is always hope.  God is always headed someplace good.  The devil never wins in the end.  Love always prevails -- always.  Christians worship a resurrected God.  We worship a suffering God of perfect love who sustains the universe in a personal way.  He is not distant from U.S.  He is in us.  But He will not violate our will.  He created it free.  We must choose Him.  We must choose to honor The Father. With every next breath we can make the right eternal and reality-based choice.

Unreality chooses to believe that men can compete in women's sports.  Sin finds joy in perverting the innocence of youth with suggestions of gender and sexual dysphoria.  Evil passionately defends the murder of babies.  Wickedness always thinks war.

The absence of the Father makes all this possible.  He is the protector, the rule enforcer, the decision maker.  He is the man.  If we choose not to honor the Father then the male is reduced to a mere man.  Collapse of all that matters follows the decision to teach that fatherhood doesn't matter.  We are living through the collapse of all that matters in a political and religious culture that is more entertaining than big budget movies.

The way forward is simple.  We must choose to honor our fathers and mothers.  We must walk away from the nonsense.  Turn it off. 

Pray.

Amen.

A couple weeks ago I talked with two Brits on the phone.  They were in America visiting family.  They are Christians who live in the suburbs of London.  I asked them about Tommy Robinson.  They said he is a racist.  I moaned silently realizing they were older and still plugged in too deeply to British media.  I also thought to myself, "At least they know who he is."  I don't find many older Americans who even recognize the name.

THEY HATE AMERICANS -- THEY HATE CHRISTIANS 

Tuesday, March 3, 2020 -- COLUMN 222

You must understand, the leading Bolsheviks who took over Russia were not Russians. They hated Russians. They hated Christians. Driven by ethnic hatred they tortured and slaughtered millions of Russians without a shred of human remorse. It cannot be overstated. Bolshevism committed the greatest human slaughter of all time. The fact that most of the world is ignorant and uncaring about this enormous crime is proof that the global media is in the hands of the perpetrators. -- Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

They Hate Americans.  They Hate Christians.

For the second time a hard Left socialist is among the most powerful Democratic candidates for President.  The Obama establishment wing of the party is coalescing behind the doddering old fool Joe Biden to freeze Bernie Sanders out.  The same thing happened with Hillary Clinton last time.  While the names jiggle around at the top of the Left's cabal two facts remain.  The Left wing of our politics hates God.  They also hate America.

They pretend they don't hate Christian America but there's no denying it now.  They led the way into the chaotic, ugly and hateful discourse that now characterizes the fight over the common good.  It isn't Trump's fault.  His tweeting is the most potent aspect of his presidency -- especially the personal insults against his enemies.  The chattering class thinks people pay attention to everything they think and write.  Most people just live their lives ignoring politics and the news.  It took an entertainer reality star billionaire insulting his way into their consciousness with epithets aimed at the establishment they have come to loathe to get their attention.  Nobody knows who to trust anymore.

The great Russian author Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn could be describing American media today when he wrote, "The fact that most of the world is ignorant and uncaring about this enormous crime is proof that the global media is in the hands of the perpetrators."  The ruling class of America is in the hands of those who want Christianity to disappear from the world.  They are replacing it with a "moral" code for fools that rewards bad behavior at the expense of good.  Decency is easy to define.  The Ten Commandments are a proven and workable foundation for a civilization.  Why have they been removed from our schools?  Why are they thought to be hate filled by most of our youth -- even our children and grandchildren who go to church youth groups?

America's Christianity is quarantined.  It has been that way my entire lifetime.  I've never known a time when the public square wasn't awash in religious syncretism.  Christianity was brought low in America long before I was born.  First it was made equal to all other philosophies, ideologies and religions.  Then it was forced into stained glass fortresses.  Now it is presented to us as if it were a banal second class rock concert followed by a motivational speech.  The Christian vitality that once enlivened American homes was drained away by the instruments of electronic media.  The radio, then television, displaced the precious moments families spent praying and playing together.  Mothers were taught to enjoy themselves sexually while they killed their offspring.  Fathers were enabled to absolutely sever their connection to their own children. Aided by unlimited access to porn they replaced their God-given sense of fatherly responsibility with instant satisfaction of sexual urges.

Distracted continuously, and constantly rewarded for conformity, Americans are losing their humanity.  We are witnessing the beginnings of a callousness that could fuel a slaughter of Soviet proportions.  It will start with Christians.  But it won't stop there.  The blood letting of totalitarians never stops there.  Solzhenitsyn observed, "Driven by ethnic hatred they tortured and slaughtered millions of Russians without a shred of human remorse."  We can all see this ethnic hatred rising against "whites."  The real target is Christianity.  The father of lies -- satan -- will use whatever he can to bring chaos, division and death.  Jesus Christ is all about nurturing goodness, truth and beauty.  And everyone knows it.  They ignore the truth to excuse their own sins ... to give themselves permission to go on sinning.

Solzhenitsyn again, "The strength or weakness of a society depends more on the level of its spiritual life than on its level of industrialization. Neither a market economy nor even general abundance constitutes the crowning achievement of human life. If a nation's spiritual energies have been exhausted, it will not be saved from collapse by the most perfect government structure or by any industrial development. A tree with a rotten core cannot stand."

The businessman Donald Trump isn't going to save us.  Only one thing can save us now.  Men must repent.  They must turn from their wicked ways and beliefs.  They must turn their hearts toward home and hearth.  Christianity offers universe-powering resources to aid us on our path forward.  The Holy Family of Joseph, Mary and Jesus Christ are on the side of all those who pursue righteousness and holiness with a contrite heart.  All the saints are cheering us on.  The writer of Hebrews proclaimed, "Wherefore seeing we also are compassed about with so great a cloud of witnesses, let us lay aside every weight, and the sin which doth so easily beset us, and let us run with patience the race that is set before us,  Looking unto Jesus the author and finisher of our faith; who for the joy that was set before him endured the cross, despising the shame, and is set down at the right hand of the throne of God.  For consider him that endured such contradiction of sinners against himself, lest ye be wearied and faint in your minds.  Ye have not yet resisted unto blood, striving against sin."

Let's stop striving against one another and start striving against sin.  Let's do the next right thing today.

Amen.

BOLDNESS 

Wednesday, March 4, 2020 -- COLUMN 223

There is simply too much at stake to retreat to the sidelines now. Together we can beat this president and build the era that must come next. -- Pete Buttigieg Website

Boldness

Prominent on the webpage of his website entitled "Rules for the Road" is Mayor Pete's pledge of "Boldness."  He writes, "We will not hesitate to take bold stances and to accept risk in the defense of our values. Our respect is reserved for people, not for conventions. We accept no truisms without questioning. The spirit of originality will create the pressure and permission for us to do things not done before, to stand out from the crowd not by waving our arms for attention but by the fact of being different."  The website features a full screen image of Pete and his husband from behind waving to a pretty unimpressive group of white people.  Pete dropped out of the Presidential contest this past weekend.  Insiders expect him to endorse Sleepy Joe Biden.

The thirty eight year old Mayor of South Bend had only one thing going for him.  As a wife he is special ... very special indeed.  He amplified his "gay"ness by preaching his version of Christianity to the rest of us.  Enough of America listened to him in recent months for him to earn a decent showing in Iowa and New Hampshire.  He started to falter after that and quickly backed out so he could live to fight another day.  The good Mayor has many election cycles ahead of him.  Given the seemingly increasing popularity of sex outside of marriage Mrs. Pete may have a bright future ahead of him.  Time will tell.

As he prominently promised on page one of his website he is going to build the era that must come next.  That would be an era of standing out from the crowd by being different.  Hmmmm.  He will boldly go where no man has gone before.  Forget the Holy Spirit.  Pete will deliver the "spirit of originality."  This "spirit" will "create the pressure and permission for us to do things not done before."  Uh huh.  Pete isn't going to accept any truisms without questioning.  What does any of this even mean?  What a load of nonsense.  This is meaningless queerspeak.

Under the heading "Truth" Pete assures us, "Honesty is in our nature, and it is one of our greatest means of restoring faith in our democracy among everyday Americans and building a national movement rooted in trust and faith in our country and our beliefs. Internally and externally, our effort will be characterized by fidelity to the truth."  I find it a little hard to believe that a man who calls himself a wife can even begin to think about truth, especially when he chooses to lecture the rest of us about Christianity and the Bible.  The only way I'll ever listen to a man who's proudly declared himself to be a sodomite is if he prefaces his remarks with "I was wrong, I was soooo wrong."  Sincere repentance and sorrow begins every statement worth pondering from a man like Pete.  Otherwise he ain't gettin the time of day from me.

The fact that millions of American Christians choose to excuse this PUBLIC behavior, believing that they are demonstrating Christ-like love and tolerance, is maddening.  And to do so with increasing depth of conviction over years, now decades, is beyond belief.  We've reached the point where literally nobody with any real power is standing between them and our children.  We are inviting them to dress up in their most grotesque costumes for the purpose of teaching our very young children to read.  For years we've been turning our taxpayer funded schools into breeding grounds for this idiocy.  And now our colleges are nothing more than expensive whore houses.  Even Donald Trump doubles down on his support for homosexual deviancy every chance he gets.

The ministry I led in Maine was eventually forced to bend over for them.  To this day they remain absolutely silent on the issue.  They do just enough to make their donors think they are remaining faithful.  This was a ministry that won more times than it lost.  It was defeated from within.  The Pastors and large donors abandoned the fight.  Lose the sodomy fight lose the nation.  It's that simple.  It's that important.

I'll never stop fighting, even if I'm the last man standing.  Sometimes it feels that bad, but that's alright.  We serve a God who hung alone on a cross.  Our tradition is full of examples of unbending souls full of God's love and dedicated to His truth.  We'll just keep doing the next right thing.

Pete needs to repent of his sins.  He needs Jesus Christ.  He needs a Church that isn't weak, womanish and confused. 

Sodomy is a sin.  Simple.

Amen.

You know what I love?  I love time with my grandchildren.  God opened a door for me to spend hours today with two of my youngest.  I love their eyes -- full of innocence and the desire to know more ... to learn.  Jesus loves children.  He loves them so much that he promises to destroy people who hate them and their innocence.  I'm on the side of the cross against the inhuman God-haters who are making a play to control the world through America right now.  God destroy them!!!  Especially those who have lied their way into Church leadership.  Destroy them!

DAMN GOOD CRITIQUE 

Friday, March 6, 2020 -- COLUMN 225

Well we can confirm that Liam had his Facebook account deleted for the crime of posting a damn good critique of mainstream media “journalism”. -- Tommy Robinson email from March 4, 2020 entitled, "Pro-Paedophile News Cycle and Evil Tommy Robinson"

Damn Good Critique

I discovered yesterday that Tommy Robinson's eight year old daughter was groped by a man in a pool at a family resort a few days ago.  Robinson is well known in Britain.  He published a book about Islam after confronting rape gangs in his hometown of Luton.  The establishment of his native England decided to go to war with him.  He responded making war on them using social media and the internet.  While he can still be found on the internet he has been depersoned by all the english speaking corporate media instititutions in much the same way they decided to erase Alex Jones.  This depersoning by Google, Facebook and Apple just serves to deepen my interest in the man.  While I still haven't taken time to obtain and read his book I have followed him online as much as time permits.

I was impressed with the work he and his team did exposing Britain's version of 60 Minutes.  If you haven't seen that documentary that was produced last year I highly recommend you take time to watch it.  You can google it up using the keyword "Panodrama."  It's less than an hour in length.

This morning while preparing for my LIVEstream, and to host Coach Dave LIVE, I watched a short eight minute video by a friend of Tommy's named Liam Tuffs.  I was struck by Liam's clear diction and thoughtful defense of Tommy's work occasioned by the unexpected groping of Tommy's daughter.  He was careful in his defense choosing not to use the words "Tommy Robinson" to avoid censorship.  He used the letters "TR" instead.  You can see from the opening quote that it didn't work.  Facebook still depersoned him.

I sensed this censorship from the Left was coming back when I was forced by economic realities to choose to trust Google.  I was leader of a small and poor ministry in Maine at the time.  I'd been struggling along building the efficiency and effectiveness of the ministry by installing personal computers.  The software licensing fees were a killer.  When Google introduced Gmail FOR FREE, and included a gigabyte of storage, I realized I had to choose who I was going to trust -- Microsoft or Google.  Mostly for economic reasons I chose Google.  But I knew what that meant.  I'd been using Google for search.  I knew that the impressive power of their search engine would be included with Gmail.  Since I knew the emails would be stored on Google's servers I knew that their staff would have access to all of my ministry's emails, and that they would be searchable in a way that personal and professional correspondence had never been searchable before.  I probably went beyond my authority as an Executive Director to shift our office over to the use of Gmail.  The lure of FREE made me do it!

Now, of course, Google has access to much more than just emails.  They are the productivity alternative to Microsoft's Office.  Google's services are available globally, and the personal version of their productivity suite is still FREE.  Can anybody say NSA?  I don't doubt for a minute that Google's power is directly related to the American government's immense financial support from the beginning.  And Facebook gives them access to an even deeper trove of data that reveals things about us emotionally, socially and spiritually that inspire the utopian wet dreams of totalitarian megalomaniacs like the current crop of Chinese communist rulers and socialist Demoncrats like Bernie Sanders.

Humanity has a lot of work to do -- given the new reality of the internet -- to create a world of meaningful privacy, human respect and freedom of conscience.  We will not be able to do that work without men like Tommy Robinson.  Men who know what it means to take personal responsibility for the communities that protect us, and the families who nurture us.  Donald Trump is showing us the way with his single minded dedication to his idea of America.  While far from being either Christian or perfect it is at least manly.

It is time for Christian men to stand among the Last Men Standing.  Western Christianity must grow a pair.  God will not cease being what He is by nature.  God's justice is eternal and it never changes.  He will not stand by and watch while evil consumes every last bit of goodness, truth and beauty.  God is rising.  Choose to be on the side of Jesus Christ.  Repent and serve the Lord and Savior of mankind.  You'll spend eternity being thankful.

Amen.

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