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I Think I Be Becalmed

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Treasure Island (1934) -- (Movie Clip) Billy Bones - Turner Classic Movies

“I’m becalmed, Jim! I need a noggin o’ rum!”

I think I know how Cap’n Billy felt. Progress on my current book, Ozias, Prince Enthroned, is so slow as to approach the undetectable. I seem to have no clear idea of what I’m doing. It’s been a very long time since I had that much trouble with a book.

As for the blog: well, I used to average 400 views a day, not so long ago. Now I’m lucky if I get 200. I don’t know what to do about it. Other Christian bloggers have told me they’ve run into the same thing. I think Big Tech’s algorithms are suppressing Christian and conservative voices on the Internet.

Old Billy Bones always thought another noggin of run would set him right… which it always did, until it killed him.

Let’s see if Byron the Quokka can perk us up this morning.

Not a Nice Start to the Day

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GO SOAK YOUR HEAD BUTCH IM NOT GIVING YOU MY SWEETROLL - iFunny

It used to be, when I started this blog in the morning, I’d find a hundred views already waiting for me. Now it’s more like twenty. When I closed down at bedtime, it’d be with upwards of four hundred views. Now I’m lucky if I get two hundred.

I have no idea why.

Then there’s the business of finding illustrations for one’s posts. I don’t know who’s in charge, but whoever they are–are they quite all there? I type in “images of loutish teenagers” and I get stills from a movie about a queen of alligators. I ask for “soak your head” and get images of soaking your feet. Don’t they know the difference between head and feet?

I asked for “images of Storm Troopers” and all I got was **** from Star Wars.

Tell me again why we would ever want computer chips implanted in our heads.

Ain’t gettin’ much joy out of this, this morning…

 

‘They’re Not Just Idiots…’ (2016)

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ANGRY ATHEISTS” WAR ON CHRISTMAS – Catholic League

Name the jidrool–and win a tin foil hat!

I wish I had a dime for every time I heard some jidrool invoke “separation of church and state” as a reason for the state to stomp on Christians. I’d buy an ice cream truck.

They’re Not Just Idiots…

Honestly–why do these people go to Christian websites and complain about “religious content”? Uh… because they get away with it? Because PBS will give you a lollipop if you do? “Yahoo! ‘Comments removed’!” I guess they didn’t have a drag queen story hour to go to at the moment.

We don’t censor even our enemies who crave the power to censor us right into a forced labor camp. We believe their side can’t stand up to truth. Go ahead, try to prove me wrong.

‘To God Be the Glory’

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Here’s one of some eight or nine thousand hymns written by Fanny Crosby–To God Be the Glory. Blinded by a careless physician a few days after she was born, Fanny came to see more clearly than most of us; her hymns have given sight to many.

By Request, ‘I Got Shoes’

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Would you believe it? We used to sing this song in grade school, when Christianity was still allowed. I Got Shoes, by Clara Ward and the Clara Ward Singers. We also sang Play On Your Harp, Little David  and Go Down, Moses.

Requested by Phoebe.

(Machine hasn’t conked out yet. Hmm…)

Did You Miss Me?

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Which will snap first–the frail twig with the chameleon climbing it, or my Internet connection?

Bad year for this blog. First they cut my viewership in half: Big Tech algorithms at work, censoring Christians and conservatives. Then the whole thing goes kablooey, as of last Thursday–no net, no email, no YouTube, no nothin’. We had the tech guy here yesterday: he figured out Verizon was lying, it was some kind of big promble at their end.

Oh–and we couldn’t read any nooze or watch any nooze, either. Maybe that was a blessing in disguise. Elder Mike has been after me to take a vacation. I don’t think it counts as a real vacation when you’re forced to take it. I’d give just about anything to be sitting on the dock, fishing. But dream on.

Although I have not been able to work for several days, I find it makes me very tired! Why is that?

I also find I miss you, my readers.

I will keep you posted… if that’s possible.

I Am Practically Destroyed

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Rage, Sweat & Bliss | A Total Wreck

It took an hour and a half yesterday to pry out of Verizon that the reason we had no Internet access was a problem at their end, not ours: some kind of “outage” somewhere. So far unable to solve it, they sought refuge in a lie: “It must be your modem.”

So now I’m stuck (using the other computer: it’ll probably be without the Internet a couple of minutes from now) and I have lost ALMOST all my readership. Thirteen views. Hot-cha-whoopee. Not that there’s been anything much to view!

I had managed to post some tens of thousands of days in a row, and that streak’s snapped now. I do seem to be learning a lesson, though.

*Nothing works.

*When confronted with a problem, lie.

Anyway, we have not cleared up our Internet problems yet and I don’t know when Verizon will clean up this mess.

Let’s see if I can post a hymn before the whole thing shuts down again.

Help! I’m Stuck!

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I don’t often run into writer’s block, but it’s hit me hard this afternoon. I’m stuck in neutral. “I’m becalmed, Jim!” (Billy Bones in Treasure Island).

I don’t know what to write for Newswithviews, and it’s already too late to start it today, so it will have to be done or not done tomorrow. I’ve also hit a slow patch in Ozias, Prince Enthroned. You can’t write slow stuff just to fill pages: you have to wait for the next idea to come along.

As for nooze posts–well, I can only do so many before I have to stop.

Suggestions, anyone? I’m open to suggestions from my loyal readers. Anybody out there got a pair of jumper cables?

Rushdoony on ‘Spare-Tire Religion’ (1994)

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A spare tire is a good thing to have in your trunk; but once it’s there, who gives it a second thought until it’s needed?

This “spare-tire religion,” R.J. Rushdoony wrote in 1994, is descriptive of all too many people’s Christianity.

https://chalcedon.edu/resources/articles/spare-tire-religion

It’s profession of Christianity over practice. Rushdoony marveled over how many Christians fight over doctrines to which they’ve given but little thought: “It seems that some cannot say what they really believe, but they know what they do not believe.”

But some ten years ago he found hope in the growing number of Christians who had stopped taking their faith for granted and were eager to explore its deeper meaning. “Spare-tire religion is doomed,” he wrote. “It will be replaced by Christianity.”

Sometimes it’s hard for us to see that. And sometimes that’s exactly how God works it.

Prayer Request: For Erlene

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We know she loves these hymns by Carroll Roberson. This one’s for you, Erlene.

(I’m not authorized to do this, so I hope it doesn’t get me into trouble. But here goes–.)

Our esteemed colleague and friend, Erlene, has been with this blog since it started in 2010; and as most of you know, she suffered a major stroke some months ago. Since then her road to recovery has been difficult. Meanwhile, she prays for her family and friends, her country and her church.

I ask that we redouble our prayers for her. She’s an integral part of our fellowship, and God know how it hurts us to lose people we love.

So please, Lord, please, bless your servant Erlene and grant her recovery. She has been your good and faithful servant, and still has much to teach us. Protect her and heal her, Father: in Jesus’ name, Amen.