The world we live in today is so full of disrespect; it is shocking what adult children think is acceptable.
In another thread, there was a discussion about a couple who were planning their wedding, and the bride's parents didn't want alcohol at the wedding.
The adult children were calling their parents stubborn because of their resolve that alcohol not be served at the wedding. This is beyond ridiculous.
When parents are paying for the wedding, it is important that the adult children honor their parents' wishes. I suggest that adult children getting married who are not paying for the wedding and are acting demanding about the proceedings are the stubborn ones.
Not only stubborn but disrespectful.
Why does this young couple think alcohol is so important to these brats?
This mentality that there need not be any respect given to parents simply because it is their wedding tells me there will be even less respect after the couple is married. If they cannot respect their parents, they will not respect one another. Respect is a character mentality overall, a thread that runs through the heart and soul of a person. If disrespect is shown to the parents, then it will be a thread that runs through the entire life experience.
My guess is the adult children who are whining about not having alcohol will whine every time they don't get their way, even with one another after the marriage.
We are living in sad times when adult children treat their parents like burdens without any concern about the well-being of their parents.
The way an adult child treats their parents when they are planning a wedding is very likely the way they will treat them for the rest of their lives after their marriage, unless there is repentance from the attitude of selfishness and disrespect.
We are watching more of this adult child disrespect as the adult children are accusing their parents of wrong attitudes, while the adult child is really describing themselves. Satan's biggest tool on his belt today is to divide families through disrespect and dishonor.
Ephesians 6:1-2 "1 Children, obey your parents in the Lord, for this is right. 2 “Honor your father and mother” (which is the first commandment with a promise),"
Proverbs 6:20 "My son, keep your father’s commandment, and do not forsake your mother’s teaching."
Both parents should be loved, honored and respected throughout their lifetime. If one is demeaned and mocked, then the commandment to honor both has been broken and is sin!
James 2:9-11 "9 But if you show favoritism, you sin and are convicted by the law as transgressors. 10 Whoever keeps the whole law but stumbles at just one point is guilty of breaking all of it. 11 For He who said, “Do not commit adultery,” also said, “Do not murder.” If you do not commit adultery, but do commit murder, you have become a lawbreaker."
Deuteronomy 5:32 "So be careful to do as the LORD your God has commanded you; you are not to turn aside to the right or to the left."
James 1:25 "But the one who looks intently into the perfect law of freedom, and continues to do so—not being a forgetful hearer, but an effective doer—he will be blessed in what he does."
1 Peter 2:17 — "Show proper respect to everyone, love the family of believers, fear God, honor the emperor."
Romans 12:10 — "Be devoted to one another in love. Honor one another above yourselves."
Matthew 7:12 (The Golden Rule) — "So in everything, do to others what you would have them do to you, for this sums up the Law and the Prophets."
Here is what we are watching in our day that brings grief to Christian parents and we can expect to see not only continue but grow worse, in the following passage.
2 Timothy 3:1-5
Difficult Times Will Come
3 But realize this, that in the last days difficult times will come. 2 For people will be lovers of self, lovers of money, boastful, arrogant, slanderers, disobedient to parents, ungrateful, unholy, 3 unloving, irreconcilable, malicious gossips, without self-control, brutal, haters of good, 4 treacherous, reckless, conceited, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God, 5 holding to a form of godliness although they have denied its power; avoid such people as these."
Do not be discouraged by it; God said it would happen, and we are living it right now. Be encouraged that we are allowed to walk away living our lives for Christ, even if no one goes with us. We are not obligated to remain with bio-family; we are free to enjoy our Christian family, those who love Christ as much as we love Him.
Wednesday, November 11, 2026
Tuesday, November 10, 2026
Challenges are Opportunities
Perhaps Christians should have a similar mentality to that of former Chief of Staff of the Army Douglas MacArthur, who served in WWI. He said:
"The enemy is in front of us, the enemy is behind us, the enemy is to the right and to the left of us; they can't get away this time."
As born-again believers, we are not on this earth to enjoy the earth and enhance ourselves. We are here to live out our Christianity in a way that demonstrates the Holy Spirit is working in us and that God is primary to all human interactions.
We remain resolute and strong during difficult times; we stand up for truth when the world is not defending truth, and we are willing to lose all family and friends to live for Christ.
Proverbs 18:24 "A man of many companions may come to ruin, but there is a friend who sticks closer than a brother."
Psalm 34:17-20 "When the righteous cry for help, the Lord hears and delivers them out of all their troubles. The Lord is near to the brokenhearted and saves the crushed in spirit. Many are the afflictions of the righteous, but the Lord delivers him out of them all. He keeps all his bones; not one of them is broken."
Those who have lost much because of their love for Christ are the strongest of all followers of Him and our perspective is far different from those who think like the world, because we think with the mind and purpose of Christ.
John 15:18-23 "“If the world hates you, know that it has hated me before it hated you. If you were of the world, the world would love you as its own; but because you are not of the world, but I chose you out of the world, therefore the world hates you. Remember the word that I said to you: ‘A servant is not greater than his master.’ If they persecuted me, they will also persecute you. If they kept my word, they will also keep yours. But all these things they will do to you on account of my name, because they do not know him who sent me. If I had not come and spoken to them, they would not have been guilty of sin, but now they have no excuse for their sin."
Instead of being afraid that we are surrounded, we should be encouraged that God is presenting challenges and opportunities for our spiritual and emotional strength while also providing opportunities to witness to others who may become born again because of our existence on this earth.
When our perspective changes because of Christ, we see all circumstances as growth experiences with purpose.
Keep looking up!!!!
"The enemy is in front of us, the enemy is behind us, the enemy is to the right and to the left of us; they can't get away this time."
As born-again believers, we are not on this earth to enjoy the earth and enhance ourselves. We are here to live out our Christianity in a way that demonstrates the Holy Spirit is working in us and that God is primary to all human interactions.
We remain resolute and strong during difficult times; we stand up for truth when the world is not defending truth, and we are willing to lose all family and friends to live for Christ.
Proverbs 18:24 "A man of many companions may come to ruin, but there is a friend who sticks closer than a brother."
Psalm 34:17-20 "When the righteous cry for help, the Lord hears and delivers them out of all their troubles. The Lord is near to the brokenhearted and saves the crushed in spirit. Many are the afflictions of the righteous, but the Lord delivers him out of them all. He keeps all his bones; not one of them is broken."
Those who have lost much because of their love for Christ are the strongest of all followers of Him and our perspective is far different from those who think like the world, because we think with the mind and purpose of Christ.
John 15:18-23 "“If the world hates you, know that it has hated me before it hated you. If you were of the world, the world would love you as its own; but because you are not of the world, but I chose you out of the world, therefore the world hates you. Remember the word that I said to you: ‘A servant is not greater than his master.’ If they persecuted me, they will also persecute you. If they kept my word, they will also keep yours. But all these things they will do to you on account of my name, because they do not know him who sent me. If I had not come and spoken to them, they would not have been guilty of sin, but now they have no excuse for their sin."
Instead of being afraid that we are surrounded, we should be encouraged that God is presenting challenges and opportunities for our spiritual and emotional strength while also providing opportunities to witness to others who may become born again because of our existence on this earth.
When our perspective changes because of Christ, we see all circumstances as growth experiences with purpose.
Keep looking up!!!!
Monday, November 9, 2026
Ruining the Witness of Believers Through Decpetion
Our president was a test to see what the Christians would accept when a leader pretends to be one of them. He has smudged the witness of believers, making Christ a mockery.
Isaiah 29:13-14 "13 Then the Lord said,
“Because this people approaches Me with their words
And honors Me with their lips,
But their heart is far away from Me,
And their reverence for Me consists of the commandment of men that is taught;
14 Therefore behold, I will once again deal marvelously with this people, wondrously marvelous;
And the wisdom of their wise men will perish,
And the understanding of their men who have understanding will be concealed.”
When a nation pretends spiritual things, claiming to love God but acting as though they have no love for Him or His Word at all, God will remove their wisdom, and their understanding will be concealed.
2 Timothy 4:3 "For the time is coming when people will not endure sound teaching, but having itching ears they will accumulate for themselves teachers to suit their own passions"
We are living in the end times when there is little faith on the earth and when foolishness is called wisdom and wisdom is called foolishness.
Isaiah 29:13-14 "13 Then the Lord said,
“Because this people approaches Me with their words
And honors Me with their lips,
But their heart is far away from Me,
And their reverence for Me consists of the commandment of men that is taught;
14 Therefore behold, I will once again deal marvelously with this people, wondrously marvelous;
And the wisdom of their wise men will perish,
And the understanding of their men who have understanding will be concealed.”
When a nation pretends spiritual things, claiming to love God but acting as though they have no love for Him or His Word at all, God will remove their wisdom, and their understanding will be concealed.
2 Timothy 4:3 "For the time is coming when people will not endure sound teaching, but having itching ears they will accumulate for themselves teachers to suit their own passions"
We are living in the end times when there is little faith on the earth and when foolishness is called wisdom and wisdom is called foolishness.
Face Repentance Builds Pride
Fake repentance is based on someone thinking all they need to do is "say" they want Christ without any desire to be changed by Him. They want to feel safe; they want to use God as a puppet to give them what they want, but they do not want Him.
Matthew 15:7-9 "…7You hypocrites! Isaiah prophesied correctly about you: 8‘These people honor Me with their lips, but their hearts are far from Me. 9They worship Me in vain; they teach as doctrine the precepts of men.’ ”
You know you have encountered a pretender when you bring Scripture to the discussion, and it makes them angry. Those who love Jesus Christ want to hear what God has to say.
Psalm 1:1-3 "…1 Blessed is the man who does not walk in the counsel of the wicked, or set foot on the path of sinners, or sit in the seat of mockers. 2 But his delight is in the Law of the LORD, and on His law he meditates day and night. 3 He is like a tree planted by streams of water, yielding its fruit in season, whose leaf does not wither, and who prospers in all he does."
Jeremiah 15:16 "Your words were found, and I ate them. Your words became my joy and my heart’s delight. For I bear Your name, O LORD God of Hosts."
Psalm 119:47 "I delight in Your commandments because I love them."
Psalm 40:8 "I delight to do Your will, O my God; Your law is within my heart.”
These are not commands from God to delight in His Word, these are the very essence of the believer who has been transformed by God.
There are those who love to know the Bible so they can impress others, not because they delight in Christ. Many people who are learned in the Bible and even preachers have not been born again. Their desire is to be seen as wise, but they are not committed to Christ; they are not His friends.
Psalm 119:97 "Oh, how I love Your law! All day long it is my meditation."
James 1:25 "But the one who looks intently into the perfect law of freedom, and continues to do so—not being a forgetful hearer, but an effective doer—he will be blessed in what he does."
Authentically born-again believers are doers of the Word because they love Christ above everything else. Those who only "say" things to impress others are not doers; there is no fruit of the Spirit in them.
Fruit of the Spirit: Galatians 5:22-26
"But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, self-control; against such things there is no law. And those who belong to Christ Jesus have crucified the flesh with its passions and desires. If we live by the Spirit, let us also keep in step with the Spirit. Let us not become conceited, provoking one another, envying one another."
Matthew 15:7-9 "…7You hypocrites! Isaiah prophesied correctly about you: 8‘These people honor Me with their lips, but their hearts are far from Me. 9They worship Me in vain; they teach as doctrine the precepts of men.’ ”
You know you have encountered a pretender when you bring Scripture to the discussion, and it makes them angry. Those who love Jesus Christ want to hear what God has to say.
Psalm 1:1-3 "…1 Blessed is the man who does not walk in the counsel of the wicked, or set foot on the path of sinners, or sit in the seat of mockers. 2 But his delight is in the Law of the LORD, and on His law he meditates day and night. 3 He is like a tree planted by streams of water, yielding its fruit in season, whose leaf does not wither, and who prospers in all he does."
Jeremiah 15:16 "Your words were found, and I ate them. Your words became my joy and my heart’s delight. For I bear Your name, O LORD God of Hosts."
Psalm 119:47 "I delight in Your commandments because I love them."
Psalm 40:8 "I delight to do Your will, O my God; Your law is within my heart.”
These are not commands from God to delight in His Word, these are the very essence of the believer who has been transformed by God.
There are those who love to know the Bible so they can impress others, not because they delight in Christ. Many people who are learned in the Bible and even preachers have not been born again. Their desire is to be seen as wise, but they are not committed to Christ; they are not His friends.
Psalm 119:97 "Oh, how I love Your law! All day long it is my meditation."
James 1:25 "But the one who looks intently into the perfect law of freedom, and continues to do so—not being a forgetful hearer, but an effective doer—he will be blessed in what he does."
Authentically born-again believers are doers of the Word because they love Christ above everything else. Those who only "say" things to impress others are not doers; there is no fruit of the Spirit in them.
Fruit of the Spirit: Galatians 5:22-26
"But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, self-control; against such things there is no law. And those who belong to Christ Jesus have crucified the flesh with its passions and desires. If we live by the Spirit, let us also keep in step with the Spirit. Let us not become conceited, provoking one another, envying one another."
Saturday, November 7, 2026
Christians need to change their focus from having power over others and place it on the gospel to lead others to Christ.
Please stop saying, "If Christians would only vote, we would win elections; we lost because the Christians did not vote."
The church is not responsible for who gets into office and who does not. If anyone really believes what they say that; "God puts in leaders in office and takes them out", then they should accept the elections outcome even if it is not what they wanted.
The truth is that nothing in the Bible mandates us to vote for our leaders, we are free to choose whether or not we want to participate and our choice should be led by the Holy Spirit.
Do you know that God allowed Hitler to be in office, and he was voted in by the will of the people. He was one of the most monstrous leaders ever in power in the history of the world, and yet he was chosen by the people.
Hitler is in hell now because of his evil, and the Jewish people now have their homeland back because of his evil. God allowed the wickedness of one monster to come to power so it would motivate the world to support re-establishing the homeland for the Jews.
Hitler is being punished in hell for what he did, and the Jews have been given back their land also because of what he did. God's purposes are not always what we want or the way we think will happen.
Isaiah 55:7-9 "…7 Let the wicked man forsake his own way and the unrighteous man his own thoughts; let him return to the LORD, that He may have compassion, and to our God, for He will freely pardon. 8 “For My thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways My ways,” declares the LORD. 9 “For as the heavens are higher than the earth, so My ways are higher than your ways and My thoughts than your thoughts."
I hear Christians chastise believers to vote, without Biblical backup. God never commanded it; it is a device of man.
Man decided they wanted to choose their own leaders and used God's Word to pressure others to support it. Those who encourage other believers to obey what God did command are rebuked for not supporting what the culture wants, but God forbids.
And at the same time, they violate God's word by ignoring God's commands not to divorce and not to remarry after divorce. They admonish people to do something He never commanded and chastise them for expecting believers to obey His Word.
Those who thought they would save their country through voting will be the first ones to lose their faith when God allows devestation because of the sin of the nation.
They may be divorcing and remarrying against God's will, but at least they voted!!!!!
In short, Christians in our day support what man wants and negate what God wants to satisfy their own bellies.
We do not understand all that God is doing, if we accept His word, obeying His commands then we will not be worried about who is in power.
Please stop saying; "God puts leaders in power and takes them out", if you are not willing to accept His will when a wicked man comes to power.
America deserves punishment through a harsh and foolish government for all the willful disobedience the people are participating in. I am not talking about the crimes everyone can notice that everyone would agree are bad; I am talking about the willful rebellion against God concerning marriage, divorce and remarriage, and the willful unequally yoking of believers to nonbelievers.
I have experienced more hatred and disrespect from "Christians" for speaking the truth of the Bible than I ever did from unbelievers. And the Christians should know better. Perhaps the reason this is so is that most people who attend churches do not follow the Bible.
They lie when they say they are Bible believers, as they follow only what they like that makes them feel safe and ignore and even negate that which they do not like in the Word.
Someone who is a Bible believer seeks the Word of God to learn the heart of God and to obey Him, even when it is uncomfortable and when it will lose them their family and friends.
Pentecostalism has done more to destroy faith in this country than any other group. They have more bad doctrine, accept sins a no problem because they say; "we are covered in the blood so sin doesn't matter anymore." I have heard several Pentecostals say such ridiculous things that allow them to accept and even endorse sin when it is convenient for them. The divorce rate amond Pentecostals is over 50%. Where is the preaching against this sin within its ranks?
The American Christian is divorcing and remarrying at the same rate as the world, leaving a rancid taste in the mouths of those who are not saved because they are no different from the world.
The American Christian witness is rank and full of lies, as they quote the Bible incorrectly to make their sin acceptable.
Why do I speak so much about divorce and remarriage more than any other sin, you might ask?
It is because marriage is a picture of Christ and His church. The message that is sent to the world about God is that He is not faithful to His children and that we cannot believe Him when He makes a promise.
Please, church, stop pressuring people to do what the culture wants us to do and begin applying pressure to obey God's Word. If you have faith, you will not worry about who gets in power; you will be more concerned about speaking the gospel to people so that people will become followers of Christ, so that He will transform them into a new creature.
It is possible and likely that God is going to bring hardship and trials to our country for our disobedience in rejecting Him. Often the only way people come to Christ is when they are so completely without hope they have only one way to look, and that is to Christ.
Instead of fighting with nonbelievers in political battles over things unbelievers cannot understand, begin speaking the truth of the gospel so they can see their sinfulness and desire to be changed by Him.
Ask yourself this very important question: Will you be able to continue in faith when all your freedoms are removed? If you cannot obey God when there is prosperity and freedom, then you will not be able to obey Him when it is all taken away and the hardship hits.
The church is not responsible for who gets into office and who does not. If anyone really believes what they say that; "God puts in leaders in office and takes them out", then they should accept the elections outcome even if it is not what they wanted.
The truth is that nothing in the Bible mandates us to vote for our leaders, we are free to choose whether or not we want to participate and our choice should be led by the Holy Spirit.
Do you know that God allowed Hitler to be in office, and he was voted in by the will of the people. He was one of the most monstrous leaders ever in power in the history of the world, and yet he was chosen by the people.
Hitler is in hell now because of his evil, and the Jewish people now have their homeland back because of his evil. God allowed the wickedness of one monster to come to power so it would motivate the world to support re-establishing the homeland for the Jews.
Hitler is being punished in hell for what he did, and the Jews have been given back their land also because of what he did. God's purposes are not always what we want or the way we think will happen.
Isaiah 55:7-9 "…7 Let the wicked man forsake his own way and the unrighteous man his own thoughts; let him return to the LORD, that He may have compassion, and to our God, for He will freely pardon. 8 “For My thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways My ways,” declares the LORD. 9 “For as the heavens are higher than the earth, so My ways are higher than your ways and My thoughts than your thoughts."
I hear Christians chastise believers to vote, without Biblical backup. God never commanded it; it is a device of man.
Man decided they wanted to choose their own leaders and used God's Word to pressure others to support it. Those who encourage other believers to obey what God did command are rebuked for not supporting what the culture wants, but God forbids.
And at the same time, they violate God's word by ignoring God's commands not to divorce and not to remarry after divorce. They admonish people to do something He never commanded and chastise them for expecting believers to obey His Word.
Those who thought they would save their country through voting will be the first ones to lose their faith when God allows devestation because of the sin of the nation.
They may be divorcing and remarrying against God's will, but at least they voted!!!!!
In short, Christians in our day support what man wants and negate what God wants to satisfy their own bellies.
We do not understand all that God is doing, if we accept His word, obeying His commands then we will not be worried about who is in power.
Please stop saying; "God puts leaders in power and takes them out", if you are not willing to accept His will when a wicked man comes to power.
America deserves punishment through a harsh and foolish government for all the willful disobedience the people are participating in. I am not talking about the crimes everyone can notice that everyone would agree are bad; I am talking about the willful rebellion against God concerning marriage, divorce and remarriage, and the willful unequally yoking of believers to nonbelievers.
I have experienced more hatred and disrespect from "Christians" for speaking the truth of the Bible than I ever did from unbelievers. And the Christians should know better. Perhaps the reason this is so is that most people who attend churches do not follow the Bible.
They lie when they say they are Bible believers, as they follow only what they like that makes them feel safe and ignore and even negate that which they do not like in the Word.
Someone who is a Bible believer seeks the Word of God to learn the heart of God and to obey Him, even when it is uncomfortable and when it will lose them their family and friends.
Pentecostalism has done more to destroy faith in this country than any other group. They have more bad doctrine, accept sins a no problem because they say; "we are covered in the blood so sin doesn't matter anymore." I have heard several Pentecostals say such ridiculous things that allow them to accept and even endorse sin when it is convenient for them. The divorce rate amond Pentecostals is over 50%. Where is the preaching against this sin within its ranks?
The American Christian is divorcing and remarrying at the same rate as the world, leaving a rancid taste in the mouths of those who are not saved because they are no different from the world.
The American Christian witness is rank and full of lies, as they quote the Bible incorrectly to make their sin acceptable.
Why do I speak so much about divorce and remarriage more than any other sin, you might ask?
It is because marriage is a picture of Christ and His church. The message that is sent to the world about God is that He is not faithful to His children and that we cannot believe Him when He makes a promise.
Please, church, stop pressuring people to do what the culture wants us to do and begin applying pressure to obey God's Word. If you have faith, you will not worry about who gets in power; you will be more concerned about speaking the gospel to people so that people will become followers of Christ, so that He will transform them into a new creature.
It is possible and likely that God is going to bring hardship and trials to our country for our disobedience in rejecting Him. Often the only way people come to Christ is when they are so completely without hope they have only one way to look, and that is to Christ.
Instead of fighting with nonbelievers in political battles over things unbelievers cannot understand, begin speaking the truth of the gospel so they can see their sinfulness and desire to be changed by Him.
Ask yourself this very important question: Will you be able to continue in faith when all your freedoms are removed? If you cannot obey God when there is prosperity and freedom, then you will not be able to obey Him when it is all taken away and the hardship hits.
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