HISTORY / CONTEXT One of my favorite hymns sung during the Christmas season is O Come, O Come, Emmanuel. While the hymn as we find it today was first published in the mid 19th century, its origins are actually found in a Benedictine Gregorian chant from the late 8th and 9th century. History tells us that … More Devotional Thought for Today – 12/18/2021
As y’all know I/we are not Catholic and have major doctrinal differences with the Catholic Church. However it would be an injustice not to recognize when someone like this speaks up and so rightly on today’s issues plaguing all churches. NEWS PROVIDED BY / Catholic League / Dec. 17, 2021 NEW YORK, Dec. 17, 2021 … More Archbishop Gomez’s Finest Hour
Question: “Is Christmas a pagan holiday?” Answer: No, Christmas is not a pagan holiday. Christmas is the Christian remembrance and celebration of the birth of Jesus Christ. Christians believe that, in Christ, God entered the human race and so deserves the title Immanuel or “God With Us” (Matthew 1:23). Source: https://www.gotquestions.org/Christmas-pagan-holiday.html ALSO SEE:
In his article “A Photo History of Male Affection,” Brett McKay catalogs the dramatic ways male friendship has changed over time. One hundred years ago, men were far more comfortable showing each other everyday physical affection: draping arms over shoulders, sitting close to each other, even holding hands. READ MORE > > >
No one can “force” you to believe things are a certain way, but (maybe I am wrong) it appears our nation (USA) is under a coordinated attack by government and media bias to misinform us into believing whatever they want truth or not. That is unamerican, it is immoral and unethical, it is destroying the … More What You Must Believe as an American in 2021
American Minute with Bill Federer From 1714 to 1718, James Oglethorpe was a military aide under the command of Prince Eugene of Savoy fighting to drive the Muslim Turks out of Belgrade, Serbia. READ MORE > > >
Not sure why but it finally registered this morning, that the eve of Christ’s birth is just one week away. In the following Pastor John MacArthur answers the question, Why was Jesus born? Why was Jesus born? We know where he was born. We know when he was born. We sing songs celebrating that he was born. But why was he born? One … More Devotional Thought for Today – 12/17/2021
It’s been almost 22 months since the onset of the COVID-19 global pandemic, a catastrophic turn that upended life as we knew it. Almost overnight, offices emptied out, businesses shut down and schools and churches were forced to go online, if at all. “Fifteen days to flatten the curve” turned to months and then a … More Stop Using COVID As an Excuse to Not Go to Church
Wikipedia sometimes gets their facts a little skewed but still this is outright bias censorship at its worst. Douglas Blair / @DouglasKBlair / December 12, 2021 “A spectre is haunting Europe—the specter of communism.” This is the preamble to Karl Marx’s “The Communist Manifesto,” a document responsible for inspiring some of the worst dictators in human history. Men like … More Wikipedia Threatens to Purge ‘Communist Mass Killings’ Page, Cites Anti-Communist Bias
While much of this deals with Europe, Australia and Israel the points made are no less applicable to us here in the U.S. Fear mongering and misinformation especially about covid has folks acting in the most peculiar ways. In this past week alone I saw a neighbor sitting out on their front porch alone masked … More Cooperative Totalitarianism: The Willing Embracing of Bondage
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