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Our Mission Statement REPRINT

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From July 17, 2019

Thanks to a comment made by Heidi this morning, I’ve been thinking about how to define the purpose of this blog. It was originally set up to promote my Bell Mountain books and hopefully stir up sales; but it has since grown into something more.

It’s not something I set out to do on purpose; it just sort of happened. Much of the credit goes to you, the readers. Together we have done enough to give birth to a mission statement. And here it is. Here’s what this blog is supposed to do.

Provide a place for Christian fellowship, including the posting of hymns, hymn requests, prayer requests, reblogs of posts on other Christian blogs, and Bible study. I love it when readers get to talking to each other. Nor do you have to be a Christian to be allowed in: the door is open to you, too. It’s important for us to comfort, encourage, counsel, inspire, and teach one another.

Praise the Father, Son, and Holy Ghost, and the works of God the Creator, proclaim the Lordship of Christ, and assert His crown rights as the King of kings.

Outreach. This blog is a small part of the larger ministry of the Chalcedon Foundation.

Provide opposition to, and skepticism for, the pretensions of secular humanism–the climate change cult, Darwinism, transgender, and all the rest of those Really Smart Ideas that are actually abominable and stupid. The highest card in their hand is their claim to being vastly more intelligent than ordinary people–a claim that must be regularly and vigorously challenged. They deserve to be satirized, and I try to provide that. Hence Joe Collidge.

Provide good humor, pleasant memories, and fun. A good laugh is the gift of God. So is a happy memory. Hence features like “Oy, Rodney” and Memory Lane. And the comment contests, the quokkas, etc.

And yes, I’m still trying to promote my books along the way.

Anyway, that’s our mission–and we’re doing it together.

By Request, ‘I Wish the World Could Love Like Him’

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Requested by Elder Mike: Buddy Davis sings I Wish the World Could Love Like Him. Well, we’ve got a long way to go in that respect, haven’t we? But we have to keep trying.

‘Deck the Halls’

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Gee–what’s a suitable hymn for New Year’s Day? I had to rack my brain a bit before I came up with Deck the Halls. “Fast away the old year passes…” Yo, 2024–don’t let the door hit you in the kiester on your way out.

We are wide open for hymn requests, but as yet none have come in for today.

(I know, I know–up too late last night, weren’t we?)

The Day After the Day After Christmas

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Do any of you still have Christmas presents to unwrap? How many of you have dogs and cats to help you?

Patty and I are officially Hanging Out today. This year was a right stinker and we need a rest! And it’s sunny out today, so I can have a cigar. I’m convinced that time in the sun is good for me. I’ve just had six weeks in a hospital bed without it.

This afternoon we’ll watch a movie, and it sounds like spaghetti and meat balls for supper.

And yes, we’re still open to hymn requests. At least till New Year’s.

By Request, ‘I Stand Amazed’

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(Sorry, Susan! I made an error, jotting down your hymn request, so I couldn’t find it at first. Mistake corrected, here’s the hymn.)

Requested by Susan: I Stand Amazed, by the Norton Hall Band at Southern Seminary.

‘Gloria in Excelsis Deo’

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No hymn requests received, so I’m on my own. This hymn was in my mind when I got up this morning, so I’ve posted it–

Gloria in Excelsis Deo, sung by the Libera Boys Choir. Usually a Christmas hymn, but good for all the year.

About Those Hymns…

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(Rain, rain, rain… I could go back to bed…)

Elder Mike was wondering about hymns by Fanny Crosby that I’ve never posted. You know, she wrote eight or nine thousand of them. East to miss a few thousand of them. Some are still very popular today; some are forgotten.

I went into the archives and found that 20 Fanny Crosby hymns have been posted here; and I’m afraid a few of them have been posted very often (He Hideth My Soul, Draw Me Nearer, To God Be the Glory, and a few others).

Yes, I do repeat myself. I post my favorite hymns a lot.

But I want to post your favorites, too; I’ve always got my eye out for a hymn request. I wish all my readers would make one now and then. Maybe I’ve let myself in for a “Be careful what you wish for” moment–but really, I don’t see how we can have too many hymns.

Any Isaac Watts or Charles Wesley hymns out there that I haven’t posted yet?

Glorious! ‘I Must Tell Jesus’

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Nathan and Lyle and friends, from Denton County, Texas, with some good advice: whatever the burden that’s hard for you to bear… Tell Jesus!

Y’know, we do want hymn requests. I wonder why we don’t seem to be getting many lately.

By Request, ‘Be Thou My Vision’

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Here’s another one of those coincidences that happen a lot around here. Ina (in Scotland) requested Be Thou My Vision; and just a few minutes later, the bells at St. Francis’, just across the street, played it. Maybe they aren’t coincidences.

The hymn is 13 hundred years old and still going strong… all over the world.

Performed here by students at Fountainview Academy.

Hymns and Prayer: Our Country Needs It

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When she gets out of bed, she’ll go teach kindergarten.

Anybody out there got any hymn requests? Anyone got any prayers?

It has gotten to be the easiest thing in the world, to find and post “education outrage” stories… every single day. In fact, there are always, always, more than one. I just posted a great big one a few minutes ago.

Now the crooks in Washington are enlisting foreign intelligence agencies to crush individual American citizens–right here at home! Look at the suddenly-arisen herculean efforts to protect “groomers.” They’re teaching in our schools, running Disney Corp., and doing everything they can to push children into sex at an early age. Can we even imagine an innocent reason for this? Crikey! We had that idjit Psaki actually weeping over a few states’ efforts to rein in the groomers. Presidential spokes-creature. Hot dog.

Our country has fallen into terrible trouble; and the very worst of it is the way we use  our schools, from kindergarten through college, to “teach” and “celebrate” self-destructive evil.

The only truly productive thing we can do about it is to take the children OUT! of public school and teach them at home. Get them away from the groomers.

America needs our prayers, we need each other’s prayers, we need hymns, we need the Bible–O Jesus Christ our Lord and King, our champion: we need you!