Fox News has an article by J. Warner Wallace on its front page as I type concerning a new Pew Research Center Report just released on why people....particularly the young....are leaving the Christian church. My main emphasis at one time was on encouraging people that I would come to know to go to church where they would hear the Gospel of Jesus Christ. My emphasis today is more in encouraging people to read the Bible....for most likely if they go to church they will leave saying....."What's the big deal?".....and I wouldn't blame them one bit.....or on the other hand the music and excitement in the church....or a great youth program....might get them to stay and join....where they won't become evangelized as much as recruited. Our local newspaper devotes two pages one day a week for advertisements from local churches. The typical message might be something like....."Come be a part of our church family"....or...."Come grow with us." Preaching with an unction to save the lost is at a very low point in America. Billy Graham is gone.....and those days are past. We are all social and political Christians now. The author's conclusion is that Christians must first know what they believe....and then instruct others in the verities of the Gospel....so that they won't leave....but this can be putting the cart before the horse. To the person reading this that is somewhat confused....but interested....there is one particular man that I mention often in these posts who can speak to your questions through the preaching....and teaching....that he left behind in audio and video recordings. Please go there to see what I'm talking about.....ligonier.org.
I recommend that you visit Jim Rickards Daily Reckoning (dailyreckoning.com) for opinion on the strategic financial moves that many countries are making as they deal with the bold moves of the Trump administration. In his latest article he mentioned Newton's Third Law of Motion...."for every action, there is an equal and opposite reaction." Mr. Rickards has been harping on...for a long time now....China's and Russia's (and other country's) hording of gold in an attempt to break the dollar hegemony of the United States. President Trump is indeed making many bold and threatening moves all over the world....but these people are playing the same game only covertly....for they admit that they are now at a disadvantage.....and their moves therefore are a little longer term....and at times even in coordination with other countries who have been strong-armed by the Trump administration.
Steve Bannon and Raheem Kassam have teamed up in Europe to fire up a national populist movement. Some of the results of this you can read in our papers just about every day.
The approval polls for President Trump are interesting to watch....especially as they trend on a daily basis. (realclearpolitics.com) updates the figures from a select group of polls every day. Rasmussen gathers figures every day....others not so often....but the grouping stays the same and much can be gleaned from the combined statistics. What we have been seeing is that even a major negative story on President Trump only effects the total survey a little bit....just as a positive story effects the total survey a little bit. As of now anyway....most people have their mind made up on either their positive or negative opinion of President Trump.....and major news stories only effect the total by 3 to 5 percentage points....as I see it anyway. This may change if many in the Christian community distance themselves from President Trump....whose approval numbers would then take a serious hit....which in turn could bring a winnowing within the Christian community....with the more politically minded evangelicals on one side....and the more Biblically minded on the other side.
Breitbart's new motto should be..."half the news that's fit to print." Limbaugh, Hannity and Levin operate under the same motto. They are on a mission....protect President Trump at all costs to transparency by reporting only on the positive.....with no negative reporting.....and not even any serious analysis on the positive that might dampen its effect on the reader's opinion of President Trump....and as they do this they....albeit being far more on the side of truth than the Progressives....criticize the mainstream media for the very same one-sided reporting. The result is that few.....those who take the initiative on their own....have a balanced view on what is going on.
Analyze this.....In the beginning of 2017 President Trump encircled North Korea with an enormously powerful armada of warships. This was his best hour. Kim Jong-un and whoever....Ivanka (?)....then had the good idea of a summit which President Trump may have seen as an advantageous to him reality show. Now President Trump is saying to Kim...."there's no hurry." This mess is not strategic thinking as most Trump supporters would portray it. It is the natural result of a mind that can change on a whim and be all over the place.
Here's a question for you to ponder....had a conservative won the Republican nomination....and the general election....and cut our taxes and the corporate tax rate....and eliminated restrictive business regulations....all of which would have happened....where would the economy be today? I think that the answer would be that the economy would be pretty close to where it is today....probably not as good but pretty close. Yet in listening to President Trump....he did this all by his self....and we buy into this description.....the result being that the President is taking on a superhero status among his supporters that is downright dangerous.
Former President Barack Obama finally came out of hiding to campaign for Democrats in the November election. This will not help us conservatives who are trying to reel President Trump in on his many and serious eccentricities.....as he will rally the troops to fever pitch against the Obama administration policies....therefore leaving little room left for critical analysis of his overall administration....which is always the plan.
The Temple Institute in Israel announced that a pure red heifer was finally born....signaling to them the coming of their Messiah as the birth was necessary to for a Third Temple to be built. Many fundamentalist Christians believe that the Third Temple must be built before the Second Coming. There is no need for a sign like this as the Bible gives many signs that the return of Jesus Christ must be near.....signs that align with the overall prophetic message in the entire Bible....and with the character of God described in His Word to us. Of more importance should this red heifer meet all of the requirements of the Jewish religious authorities is one of a political nature....as such a sign might stir some in Israel to take matters into their own hands as to a possible third temple.
Television viewing of the NFL continues to slide with the opening of then new season. What is most important in this continuing Colin Kaepernick saga is that if more and more men are not following football on the Lord's Day.....then according to Special Dog's First Law of Television Viewing on the Lord's Day.....more and more men will be available to ponder the Word of God.....and their eternal soul....and that of their families.
I recommend that you visit Jim Rickards Daily Reckoning (dailyreckoning.com) for opinion on the strategic financial moves that many countries are making as they deal with the bold moves of the Trump administration. In his latest article he mentioned Newton's Third Law of Motion...."for every action, there is an equal and opposite reaction." Mr. Rickards has been harping on...for a long time now....China's and Russia's (and other country's) hording of gold in an attempt to break the dollar hegemony of the United States. President Trump is indeed making many bold and threatening moves all over the world....but these people are playing the same game only covertly....for they admit that they are now at a disadvantage.....and their moves therefore are a little longer term....and at times even in coordination with other countries who have been strong-armed by the Trump administration.
Steve Bannon and Raheem Kassam have teamed up in Europe to fire up a national populist movement. Some of the results of this you can read in our papers just about every day.
The approval polls for President Trump are interesting to watch....especially as they trend on a daily basis. (realclearpolitics.com) updates the figures from a select group of polls every day. Rasmussen gathers figures every day....others not so often....but the grouping stays the same and much can be gleaned from the combined statistics. What we have been seeing is that even a major negative story on President Trump only effects the total survey a little bit....just as a positive story effects the total survey a little bit. As of now anyway....most people have their mind made up on either their positive or negative opinion of President Trump.....and major news stories only effect the total by 3 to 5 percentage points....as I see it anyway. This may change if many in the Christian community distance themselves from President Trump....whose approval numbers would then take a serious hit....which in turn could bring a winnowing within the Christian community....with the more politically minded evangelicals on one side....and the more Biblically minded on the other side.
Breitbart's new motto should be..."half the news that's fit to print." Limbaugh, Hannity and Levin operate under the same motto. They are on a mission....protect President Trump at all costs to transparency by reporting only on the positive.....with no negative reporting.....and not even any serious analysis on the positive that might dampen its effect on the reader's opinion of President Trump....and as they do this they....albeit being far more on the side of truth than the Progressives....criticize the mainstream media for the very same one-sided reporting. The result is that few.....those who take the initiative on their own....have a balanced view on what is going on.
Analyze this.....In the beginning of 2017 President Trump encircled North Korea with an enormously powerful armada of warships. This was his best hour. Kim Jong-un and whoever....Ivanka (?)....then had the good idea of a summit which President Trump may have seen as an advantageous to him reality show. Now President Trump is saying to Kim...."there's no hurry." This mess is not strategic thinking as most Trump supporters would portray it. It is the natural result of a mind that can change on a whim and be all over the place.
Here's a question for you to ponder....had a conservative won the Republican nomination....and the general election....and cut our taxes and the corporate tax rate....and eliminated restrictive business regulations....all of which would have happened....where would the economy be today? I think that the answer would be that the economy would be pretty close to where it is today....probably not as good but pretty close. Yet in listening to President Trump....he did this all by his self....and we buy into this description.....the result being that the President is taking on a superhero status among his supporters that is downright dangerous.
Former President Barack Obama finally came out of hiding to campaign for Democrats in the November election. This will not help us conservatives who are trying to reel President Trump in on his many and serious eccentricities.....as he will rally the troops to fever pitch against the Obama administration policies....therefore leaving little room left for critical analysis of his overall administration....which is always the plan.
The Temple Institute in Israel announced that a pure red heifer was finally born....signaling to them the coming of their Messiah as the birth was necessary to for a Third Temple to be built. Many fundamentalist Christians believe that the Third Temple must be built before the Second Coming. There is no need for a sign like this as the Bible gives many signs that the return of Jesus Christ must be near.....signs that align with the overall prophetic message in the entire Bible....and with the character of God described in His Word to us. Of more importance should this red heifer meet all of the requirements of the Jewish religious authorities is one of a political nature....as such a sign might stir some in Israel to take matters into their own hands as to a possible third temple.
Television viewing of the NFL continues to slide with the opening of then new season. What is most important in this continuing Colin Kaepernick saga is that if more and more men are not following football on the Lord's Day.....then according to Special Dog's First Law of Television Viewing on the Lord's Day.....more and more men will be available to ponder the Word of God.....and their eternal soul....and that of their families.
