Saturday, April 11, 2026

Philosophy

-Alistair Begg 

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"When you strip philosophy down to its essentials, it’s really about three things:

 

whether God exists,


whether we have souls,

 

and whether we are truly free. 


Together, they answer the question of how we should live. 


If we are free, if God exists, and if there is something beyond this life, then our choices carry real weight. 


Human reason seems built for this purpose — not just to understand the world, but to guide our moral behavior."


-Michael Smith, A Civilization Losing Its Moral Compass

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Friday, April 10, 2026

Wrong Thinking leads to Wrong Choices

-Charles Schulz

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A certain type or kind of person seems to always find themselves as "victims" even if it is their own choices which get them in trouble or cause them issues.


How can we help them? They do not ask for or want any input on their own decisions. They end up in a life they did not want and they can't change.


In Charles Schulz comic strip the character, Schroeder, has had to put up with the girl, Lucy, forever. She is self-centered, narcissistic, cruel, mean, obsessed, and bent on marrying this boy. 


I am thankful for this certain strip as it blatantly pictures the girl, Lucy, as she really is--even when the character, Schroeder, gently points out that she doesn't have to be that way.


In the end, of course, Lucy, continues to think only her own way--she will never learn.


Meanwhile, in real life, there are real people who are so very like this character. 


Their own choices: life long mistakes, "poor me" attitudes, easily blaming everyone else although everything in their lives have been their own choices. Their friends help them make wrong choices because these same friends are also caught up in wrong thinking.


The only "way out" is to righteously cry out to the LORD God Almighty. 


Your life is slipping away, wasting away, by continuing on your wrong paths. 


Stop listening to the wrong thinking of your friends. 


REAL friends help you to get on the right paths!


Paths can change! Paths are changing every day for those who are willing to trust only in the LORD. 














Lucy's narcissism continues:








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Thursday, April 9, 2026

The LORD hears when I call to Him

 -bunny meme

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"O, grief hath changed me 
since you saw me last"

-Shakespeare
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Answer me when I call, O God of my righteousness!

You have relieved me in my distress;
Be gracious to me and hear my prayer.

O sons of men, how long will my honor become a reproach?
How long will you love what is worthless and aim at deception? 


But know that the Lord has set apart the godly man for Himself;
The Lord hears when I call to Him.

Tremble, and do not sin;
Meditate in your heart upon your bed, and be still. 

Offer the sacrifices of righteousness,
And trust in the Lord.

Many are saying, “Who will show us any good?”
Lift up the light of Your countenance upon us, O Lord!


You have put gladness in my heart,
more than when their grain and new wine abound.


In peace I will both lie down and sleep,
for You alone, O Lord, make me to dwell in safety.
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Sunday, April 5, 2026

Hold Fast to the Word He Preached

-meme


1 Corinthians 15:1-4,8-10,20-23,50-58

"Now I make known to you, brethren, the gospel which I preached to you, which also you received, in which also you stand, by which also you are saved, if you hold fast the word which I preached to you, unless you believed in vain.

For I delivered to you as of first importance what I also received, that Christ died for our sins according to the Scriptures, and that He was buried, and that He was raised on the third day according to the Scriptures...

...He appeared to me [Paul] also. For I am the least of the apostles, and not fit to be called an apostle, because I persecuted the church of God.

But by the grace of God I am what I am, and His grace toward me did not prove vain; but I labored even more than all of them, yet not I, but the grace of God with me...

...now Christ has been raised from the dead, the first fruits of those who are asleep. For since by a man came death, by a man also came the resurrection of the dead. 

For as in Adam all die, so also in Christ all will be made alive. But each in his own order: Christ the first fruits, after that those who are Christ’s at His coming...

...Now I say this, brethren, that flesh and blood cannot inherit the kingdom of God; nor does the perishable inherit the imperishable. 

Behold, I tell you a mystery; we will not all sleep, but we will all be changed, in a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trumpet; for the trumpet will sound, and the dead will be raised imperishable, and we will be changed. For this perishable must put on the imperishable, and this mortal must put on immortality.

But when this perishable will have put on the imperishable, and this mortal will have put on immortality, then will come about the saying that is written, 

“Death is swallowed up in victory. O death, where is your victory? O death, where is your sting?” 

The sting of death is sin, and the power of sin is the law; but thanks be to God, who gives us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ.

Therefore, my beloved brethren, be steadfast, immovable, always abounding in the work of the Lord, knowing that your toil is not in vain in the Lord."
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Friday, April 3, 2026

Birds of Prey are Fascinating

-Meme

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For all of you out there who love God's creation--notice the fantastic design of these Birds of Prey talons.


We love an Awesome God!

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