Let’s start our day with a hymn by Fanny Crosby–Near the Cross, sung by the Vagle Brothers.
One thing about posting all these hymns you’ve asked for: I finally learn the names of hymns I’ve heard for years and years without knowing them.
The Piano Cat Strikes Back
Gee, it’s been a while since I posted anything by Nora the Piano Cat: more than just a pretty face! We have a Nora coffee mug.
Astounding False Fact: Arthur Godfrey had a cat that played the bagpipes. It wasn’t popular with the other cats.
Mr. Nature: The Return of the Elephant Shrew
Jambo! Mr. Nature here, in the Horn of Africa–and so is the elephant shrew.
Actually, this cute little guy didn’t “return” from anywhere. He’d never left. But for 50 years or so, scientists couldn’t find any–although the local people said yeah, sure, they’re still around. But now, finally, science has rediscovered the elephant shrew–with the aid of no-kill traps baited with… peanut butter. Somebody had a bright idea!
As tiny as it is, the elephant shrew is most closely related to aardvarks, manatees… and the elephant. Or so they tell me.
And if it had been a cryptozoologist who’d rediscovered it, he would have succeeded himself right out of a job.
What Motivates the Riot Party?
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I’d like to know why the Democrat Party has transformed itself into the Riot Party. Something must motivate them to be the Riot Party. I’m trying to figure out what it could be.
*They are convinced that all this civil unrest will be blamed on President Donald Trump, and the voters will turn to them to stop it. How, exactly, do they get this blamed on Trump? And I don’t know about that argument, “Give me what I want and I’ll stop vandalizing your car.” And what if the Riot Party is wrong in thinking the riots will stop when they say “Stop”?
*They’re already convinced they’re toast, and just want to take down as much of America as they can. Maybe if the country collapses into civil disorder, they’ll have another chance to take it over. If there’s enough chaos, a lot of them won’t have to worry about being tried and sent to prison. Or maybe they’re just so mad at the American people, they can’t see straight: all they can do is lash out.
There are probably other motivations that are just as possible as these. We are trying to read the mind of the Riot Party, no easy task for normal people.
What do you think? What makes the Riot Party tick?
Here’s your chance to light up the blog with your own theory!
Should Christians Shun the Social Media?
Obviously I’m not going to say “Yes!” because here I am on WordPress, and WordPress is part of the social media. But–
I like to think that we’ve created a Christian fellowship here on this blog, open to Christians all over the world. (See our Mission Statement.) I love hearing from my Christian friends from Japan, Trinidad, India, Kenya, and all points in between.
To be sure, there are certain aspects of the social media that a Christian ought to shun. Gossip, tittle-tattle, rumor-mongering. Anonymous sniping and trolling of people you disagree with. You can find all that on Facebook, and plenty of it. Here at WordPress I can at least delete that stuff.
But why should a church, or a Christian school, or a Christian fishing club forbid its members to use the social media? Why would a church want to break up an online Christian fellowship? Okay, if there’s something unseemly going on, on the website, then you’ll want people to steer clear of it. But if not…? Is this one of those churches that declares “Only our denomination is the true Christian church! All the rest are saracens”?
Starting in the 18th century, Christians have written off great chunks of the culture, resigning it to the enemies of Christ’s Kingdom. This ought not to be. We ought to be striving for the expansion of His Kingdom, and reclaiming ground we’ve lost. So it seems foolish to surrender the social media to the ungodly, instead of learning to use it as a powerful tool for carrying out the Great Commission. There’s something to be said for believers at the opposite ends of the earth being able to comfort and encourage one another.
I don’t care much for that denominational insularity. That’s not how Christ’s Kingdom grows. How many times does the Bible exhort God’s people to stick together? And not just in the New Testament, either.
Christians need more fellowship, not less.
Good News Bustin’ Out All Over!
The bad news is that secular globalism is the religion of the world’s ruling class and they’re trying to shove it down our throats.
The good news is that it isn’t working! In fact, all over the world, people and whole nations are rising up against it.
That’s the message of Stephen Turley’s little book, President Trump and Our Post-Secular Future. You can read it in the time it takes to watch a movie.
Most of us still get most of our news from the nooze media–which is why we won’t have heard of a lot of the events Dr. Turley talks about, because our totally dishonest noozies have chosen not to report them. Like, if a tree falls in the forest and some jidrool from CNN doesn’t report it, then it didn’t fall? Sorry, guys, but that one’s wearing thin.
Says Dr. Turley, Donald Trump knows which way the wind is blowing and sets his course accordingly. He is on our side. Not a puppet of the Deep State. Not a shill for the global elite. Our president.
I don’t want to write a review that’s almost as long as the book, so suffice it to say that Turley does a stellar job identifying who the secular globalist elite are and what they stand for, revealing to us all those unreported uprisings against it, and predicts victory for religion, traditional values, and nationalism.
Well, the Bible always told us Christ would win.
The bad guys are running out of time to repent.
Hello? Hello?
I’m almost all alone in here this morning. Now I know how they feel at Biden rallies.
Now might be a good time to bring in a guest blogger. If I had one.
Let’s see some captivating comments. Maybe one of you can come up with something that can be turned into a blog post. It’s happened before.
I am so tired of writing the nooze, and I’ll bet a lot of you are tired of reading it. Let’s see if we can find something else…
‘School “Investigates” 5-Year-Old Girl for Thought Crime’ (2017)
Could we please, please, please think again about re-opening our public schools?
Why re-consider it? Well, because of incidents like this:
The little girl was made the subject of an “investigation”–who do these maggots think they are–because she was slow to recognize and applaud some little boy’s “transitioning” into a phony parody of a girl. This was in California, of course, where else–there, “misgendering” is a crime. They’ll let you go scot-free for robbery, but don’t you dare use the wrong pronoun!
This is what our public schools have been doing, the last few years, and this is what they will go back to doing when we re-open them.
They won’t stop unless we stop them.
‘Beneath the Cross of Jesus’
Your Favorite Hymns continues with Beneath the Cross of Jesus. Sorry, I don’t know the name of the singer.
If you’d like any of your favorite hymns posted here, just let me know and I’ll add them to the list.
Ferocious Kittens
Genuine False Fact (impress your friends!): In 1958 the entire village of Smedlyburg, Manchuria, was wiped out by killer kittens, just like the ones on this video.
Don’t watch this if you’ve got a dodgy ticker. When I say fierce bad kittens, I mean fierce bad kittens. You could faint.