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OCT 26, 2026:  POLITICS    Pastors: when you refuse to confront evil because it has become wrapped up in politics, and you are afraid to offend a significant part of you congregation, it does NOT make you wise, morally superior, or make the world more peaceful!  YOU are helping make it more dangerous.

PEOPLE:  IF YOU TRUELY BELIEVE THE BIBLE,
SATAN WANTS YOU TO  NOT VOTE,  BUT SIT ON YOUR HANDS,
PAT YOURSELF ON THE BACK FOR LOVING EVERYBODY,
AND THEN LET GOD GIVE YOU EXACTLY
WHAT YOU THEN DESERVE.

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OCT 12, 2026:  IS CHRISTIANITY REAL    I BLOG that if you have not let yourself actually experience God’s miraculous intervention in your life, your hands are empty.  You have little solid to share with your children about God.  I also BLOG you should keep a scroll of God’s flat out miracles in your life, to act for YOU as the elders in Judges 2:7 who had “SEEN” all the great works that the LORD had done for Israel.  Let me get personal and back that up with my own scroll.  It includes:
 
*      Arguing with God about a new car, ordered with specific options.  Three months, no car!  The price went up.  Dealer clueless.  God, @#$%!  Then, okay God it’s your car and your problem.  Two days later the dealer calls, “We don’t know where it was, price on window is old price, come get it, it’s bothering people!”
*      Lost wallet.  Look everywhere.  Two days after loss God gives me a dream showing me EXACTLY where it was!  I “saw” it laying exactly where I then found it.
*      My young son manages to spill raw battery acid all over himself.  It starts to sting.  He felt an urge to run, go get Daddy.  But he heard a calm authoritative voice, “Wash it off with water.”  Faucet was there in the garage.  Not even pink!!  I still get tears in my eyes.
*      A huge three day ice storm from Minnesota, to Chicago, to Cleveland that my wife and I prayed into non-existence exactly 20 minutes prior to a Woman’s League meeting.  Poof!  Weather 5 TV admitted live, they could not explain where it went!

And, SEVEN other equally impossible flat out miracles in the scroll!  Now, if every single one of those ten weird things had let’s say a 33% chance of being a coincidence, that would per Bayesyian mathematics mean there is a 99.9% overall probability God specifically acts on my behalf!  As a physicist I do believe in God.

KEEP A SCROLL

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OCT 5, 2026:  EVERYTHING    If I am right that God specifically showed me Genesis 2:18-25 is NOT just about Adam and Eve, but also a very specific parable-allegory about Him wanting, desiring, and preparing us to be the special companion He has longed for since before the Christ was begotten — then this whole blooming sandbox we call earth becomes easy to explain!

It is nothing less than a place to practice becoming what He desires of us to be in the ages to come.  It is ALL about learning head-body, equal-unequal, responsiveness-responsibility!  From the child becoming responsible for his toys and submitted to his parents, to the King having a clean fear of God as he learns to rule what is all a gift to him.  From the wife submitting to her husband as unto the Lord, to me at GE slowly earning to work for my boss as unto the Lord, to every head-body relationship on earth (when done right).

And therefore, what Satan pushes for:  total equality; androgynous sexuality; your rights are prime over all; tolerance of sin; and YOU are god, also becomes much easier to understand!

Here is a chart of the ideal as it applies to almost ANY godly relationship (but especially husband-wife).  Note how it all ends with “To the LORD”

 
EVERYTHING

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SEP 21, 2026:  RIGHT CHEEK    A lot of seminary trained pastors use "turn the other cheek" to push a love everybody, tolerate anything, don’t get involved, pacifism.  But the one who actually stops to think is rare.  Matthew 5:39 does say, "But I say to you, Do not resist the one who is evil.  But if anyone slaps you on the right cheek, turn to him the other also."

Now, read it again.  It clearly says "right cheek."  And only about 10% of the world are left handed.   THINK!   If the typical right handed person hauls off to really hit you IT WILL BE ON THE LEFT SIDE of your face.  Even really slapping you, again left side!  To slap you ON THE RIGHT CHEEK normally implies they are BACK HANDING you!

The verse is an idiom!  If someone back-hands you, if some someone INSULTS you, if someone back-hands you to provoke you to dual, argue, or fight, IGNORE it.  Figuratively turn the other cheek.

Matthew is NOT about letting evil beat the crap out of you,
or our beautiful country.

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SEP 14, 2026:  SPIRITUAL MUSCLES    This is an important summation of the idea of us becoming what we focus our energy on and practice.  And again, it works for becoming sin or becoming godly.

If we were talking about juggling, first learning to ride a bike, bowling, archery, welding, any skill that requires quick eye-hand coordination, you would have zero problem understanding the need for PRACTICE!  The need to have your muscles do exactly the right thing without spending time to consciously think about it.  Now, did it ever occur to you that you have spiritual muscles, character muscles, or perhaps I should say "will power" muscles?  I tell you they MUST also be exercised, strengthened, and PRACTICED with to develop a smooth spirit-body functionality!

Knowledge, assent, THEN trust, tested and practiced by action!  That "tested" part is extremely, agelessly, important to learning!  My experience is that God starts with little things we can handle.  Perhaps learning to have the grace to handle dozens of simply discourteous humans before going on to practice on people who seriously let you down.  Perhaps dozens of let-downs before being able to handle the biggies like: abuse; being wrongly broken; abandonment; or in my case forgiving a con-man ripping me off of many thousands of dollars.

I also find that generally it isn’t even just one test of the item in question.  Yes, there may be one major point where you and the Lord agree, “Yup, it looks like you have finally got this!”  But, perhaps a year or two later there it is again.  Perhaps even slightly bigger?  Sort of like the Lord is saying, “I’m just checking, and it seems you do still understand;  I’m proud of you.”

I’m just warning you, so you won’t be surprised.

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SEP 7, 2026:  NOTHING BUT A...    The last several posts were about becoming what you focus on; and I love the way “The Great Divorce” by CS Lewis emphasizes the eternal ramifications of those earthly focuses we are all so good at!  Lewis depicts a man given to showy, theatrical, displays of “I’ve been wronged.”  That man, in the end, turns down true love and forgiveness, to hold on to his own all-important victimhood!

But the Lewis lines I love the most, on page 77 of my paperback, are the heavenly guide explaining a garrulous old woman to a visiting spirit, “The question is whether she is a grumbler, or only a grumble.”  The guide then explains that if there was even a spark of real woman under the ashes it could be blown on and brought back to life, but if there is only ashes, “we’ll not go on blowing them up in our own eyes forever.  They must be swept up.”

“The whole difficulty of understanding Hell is that the thing to be understood is so nearly  Nothing.”

If you focus on any less than Christ, you can become your own  Nothing.

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AUG 31, 2026:  HOW WRITTEN    Last week was about how you become attuned to what you focus on.  A huge subject!  So, this week a bit more about focusing on the Bible.  Our Western World thinks and focuses in: Greek abstracts, word definitions, rules of logic and debate, linear thought, one dimensional one directional time, and rather rigid causality.

God is NOT like that!

God and the Bible He wrote are: concrete, pictorial, storytelling, important concepts are worked out a bit in one story - a bit more in another, three dimensional in space AND time, causality can work in both directions, and therefore He repeatedly breaks most of our nice rules of logic!  So, how do you deal with that?  Jesus repeatedly said you MUST become like a child or you will miss it.  My practical summation of that?  Soak up the whole Bible, all its stories, all its patterns, no commentaries, just you and the Bible — THEN let the Spirit do His job and bring to mind (weave together in your mind) the pieces-part He knows you need next!  We are certainly no better than the two on the road to Emmaus.

If you focus on God through the Greek filter,
you will slightly miss God’s heart for us!

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AUG 24, 2026:  IT TAKES A WHILE    Back in my college days I worked for the city of Greendale to spray and kill poison ivy from around every public building, city park, walkway, etc. in the city.  It took a while, but my brain was slowly trained to instantly recognize the patterns of poison ivy in ANY size, age, or variety possible, while someone else could be standing in it and not notice.  What does that have to do with God?  Hold on, you may not like what else I have observed.

You become trained, or sensitized to what you focus on; from chess to Trump hating.  But it gets worse.  You also tend to actually become what you continually focus your spiritual and emotional energy upon!  If you won’t forgive, as God orders you to do, you slowly become similar to the thing or person you won’t forgive!  Even if you are sure, “No, the details of MY actions are different!”  Hate?  Fear?  Negativity?  Yup, every single one of them and more.  You WILL be affected then become the effect of what you focus on and practice.

Flip side?  If you focus on Jesus (the Bible one, not the modern, progressive, butter wouldn't melt in his mouth reinterpretation of him), you will become like him.  But—

IT TAKES A WHILE

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AUG 17, 2026:  HOW?    I hear the question asked, “How can Jesus be God?”

It is really a very simple series of event, we have just buried it in so much Greek abstract logic and religiosity that we can’t see the simple.  So, here it is:  From way back, only God knows when, God (I call Him Father) had in the back of His mind the desire/want/longing for a special companion.  Finally, an eon or so ago (NOT eternity or infinity!), He spoke that desire so as to start the process of getting what He desired turned into reality.  That desire was then Him standing alongside of Himself, begotten for a specific purpose and at a specific time!  In various places in the Bible we call that spoken desire: Word, Wisdom, Christ, Anointed, Sword, It, I AM, etc., the very essence (same stuff) of the Father and His intentions, and therefore God.

Then you get the earth created, destroyed, recreated, spiritual beings stuck into biological bodies (here on assignment), Satan ticked at that, sin, Abrahamic Blood Covenant, and for the sake of the question at hand finally THAT ONE particular spiritual being (the Christ) was incarnate into the biological being we call Jesus in the womb of Mary.  It is exactly like we as spiritual beings from the Father are incarnate into the chunk of clay we presently inhabit!  God Himself was in and part of Jesus exactly like the real “spiritual you” from the Father is in and part of you.  You are that spirit, Jesus was that Christ, hence God.  It has to be in the same way for us, and for Him to qualify as a human.

Jesus-Christ and the Human race are inextricably tied!

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AUG 10, 2026:  1 CORINTHIANS 13:4-7    Love is patient and kind, but it knows that permissively letting the child, wife, employee, or even our own body do-its-own-thing leads to destruction.  Love isn’t arrogant or proud of its own accomplishments.  However, standing for God’s vision and direction will be misunderstood as being inflexible, high-handed, or narrow-minded.  Love does not seek its own way, but plans the eternal good of all involved, so it can’t always allow the loved one to have his/her own way either.  Love is happy with truth, so it knows it is not a kindness to enable or tolerate sin and wrong.  Love may carry a burden, but it must not go down into destruction with the loved one.  Love must hope and endure in the face of the interminable; it cannot go the easy route, there is always a cost to do things in God’s Parent-Husband patient way.

Pastors, if you don’t teach the balance, you are neutering your flock.

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