The fallen world’s in trouble, headed straight to Hell, needs saving–
So God sent His Son. Not as a conqueror, but as a baby for whom there was no room at the inn. As an adult, He was a penniless wanderer. He was put to death in a shameful manner usually reserved for the worst criminals, although He had committed no crime.
By this His Son God saved the world.
What Child Is This?, sung by the Robert Shaw Chorale.
I apologize for posting this video so late in the day. I was overcome by its high levels of cuteness, and have only just now recovered.
Let’s renew our minds, shall we?
Andrea Schwartz has recast Psalm 1 as a list of New Year’s resolutions. Not a bad idea!
https://chalcedon.edu/blog/new-years-resolutions-a-la-psalm-one
What would the world be like, if everybody lived according to God’s Word? God has promised that we’ll all see that, someday. For the time being, personal sanctification is a gradual process, never-ending–might be kind of hard on us, if the Holy Spirit did it all at once.
Meanwhile, Happy New Year to all of you, from Chalcedon.
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And hear thay are!
We Rezolfe to whare only “the” Cloathes the Cacas says we “has” got to whare Evry Day!!
We Rezolfes to reed “The” Handmade’s Tail over and ovar agin and keap Reeding it so we know “it bye” hart!!
We rezolfes to get Inta Canfrontaycions whith christins and conserfatiffs Evry Day and keap Doingit “untill” thay Minds thay are rihght!!!
We rezolfes to go to Bed evry Nihght wen the Cacas say we shuld!
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So thoze thay are all “The” Rezzalutoins that The Pro Choyce Cacas thay has choze for us!!
Rutgers, New Jersey’s state university–I went there! I’ve got a degree from that place–continues its decay as an educational institution, now offering a three-credit course in “Practicing Social Justice” (https://www.campusreform.org/?ID=11702).
Why has public money been spent to set up a Women’s and Gender Studies Department? What earthly good is that? It’s just like leaving a pile of rotting meat on the sidewalk to attract flies.
So the Women’s and Gender Studies Dept. will be offering this stupid course as part of its stupid degree program. The course will focus on “resistance strategies” and “nonviolent confrontational organizing.” It’s remarkable, how quickly “nonviolent” confrontations can turn violent. The only thing that keeps these idiots out of the hospital is that normal people aren’t as nasty as they are.
Also available in the Women’s & Gender Shinola degree program is a course in “Marxist Literary Theory.” Can you imagine anything more useless?
The time has come to cut off all public funding to wastes of time and space like Rutgers University. It’s obscene and insulting, to be spending hard-earned tax dollars on inane, silly, and self-destructive nonsense like this.
Yesterday, as our nooze media rejoiced and tried to spin it as the start of a whole new age, Democrats took control of the House of Representatives. This is something America should be ashamed of.
Rep. Hank Johnson, Georgia Democrat, gave a speech likening President Donald Trump to “Hitler” and everybody who voted for him, all 63 million of us, to “white supremacists” who are plotting to “destroy democracy.” This earwig was last heard from a couple of years ago, when he voiced his fear that the island of Guam might “tip over, or capsize” if any more Marines were stationed on it.
I don’t know about you, but I resent being governed by morons, who get a damned nice slab of our money for doing it. I don’t like to think of our nation’s laws and policies being made in the lunatic asylum on Capitol Hill. And I don’t like to be reminded that these idiots, these walking cabbages, were actually elected.
For the good of our country, start working now on the 2020 election, to see that the Democrat Party is finally and for all time put out of business, forever.
There is no excuse for voting for a Democrat. Ever.
Don’t you love the way the “pro-choice” crowd keeps on demanding the power to make all your choices for you? But they’re liberals, so when they say something, it means the opposite of what it’s supposed to be: like, when libs say “justice,” they really mean injustice, and when they say “smart,” it’s for something stupid.
So here they are–at a looniversity, of course–enhancing everybody’s “choice” by demanding attendance at a “social justice event” be made mandatory.
https://leeduigon.com/2016/09/14/student-nitwits-want-mandatory-attendance-at-social-justice-event/
It really is an embarrassment to be living in this age.
By now I think the baby Jesus would have been moved out of the manger, and into a cradle in a rented house, where the Wise Men found him. But the manger is such an enduring symbol of Christmas, and I want to hold on to this Christmas a little longer–because I pray for its spirit to work all year long, every day.
So here is Away in a Manger, sung by the Lutheran Warbler.
No one’s been asking for hymns lately, and this one was in my head all day, so I’m on my own and here it is–Oh, Sinner Man: an old spiritual from the Caribbean, played here on a mandolin with the cold, island-dappled waters of Scotland for a background. And the sun, here and there, breaking through.
And the message is simple: don’t leave it till it’s too late, to seek the Lord.
I’ve never had a cat that walked on its hind legs like the cats in this video. My iguana could do it, but only after he got up a good head of steam. I wonder if there’s any way to induce Peep or Robbie to try it. This would give us enormous prestige.