The Court Jester is a Fool

The court jester was considered a fool. Acting in immature ways to get others to laugh is playing the roll of a court jester.

Spontaneous Humor is Different from Contrived Joke Cracking

Spontaneous humor because of life experiences are normal and natural, contrived joke cracking is foolish and frustrating.

Remaining Stupid Takes Hard Work

We are seeing fewer and fewer people who are thinking and acting in a wise manner. When a people have negated God and His principles to the point of considering them embarrassing, we have lost the nation.

Proverbs 22:15 " 15 Foolishness is bound up in the heart of a child, but the rod of discipline will drive it far from him."

The sad thing is that the next generations are failing to grow up. Remaining as children in giant grown up bodies is dangerous for any culture.

Tantrums are not worrisome when a child is two years old but when that person grows into an adult and still acting like a two year old. The life of the childish adult is destroyed and likely everyone around them .

Amusement Only Promotes a Stagnant Mind.

"Muse" to think,
"Amuse" to not think.
Think about it!

We do become what we watch on television and with whom we engage on a regular basis.  Choose wisely your friends and the things you watch.  

Where Do Your Values Lie

We have been in the pro-life battle for nearly 50 years now. For the first time since Row v Wade, we have a president who has taken up the charge against baby murders. May the Lord bless him for his stand for the unborn. Perhaps one day we will see an emancipation proclamation for the unborn the way we saw it for the blacks in 1863.

The Republicans took up the fight against slavery. It was the democrats that declared the blacks non-persons in the Dred Scott decision of 1857.

For all you who are democrats, think on this! It was the Democrat party that has pushed for slavery and murder of the unborn all down through the years. Democrats have always been for dominance over others. It was the Democrats that wanted to keep people dependent on government. It was the Democrats that wanted to kill and use anyone that didn't measure up to their idea of "valuable or viable."

All down through the years the Democrats continued the lie that they were for the working man. This could not be farther from the truth.

Now we have the democrats pushing every wicked agenda possible to further down grade the country. Because they love power and hate people, they will continue their quest for dominance over anyone and everyone when they can get away with it.

The Democrats are narcissists, they will accuse others of what they are doing but the others are not. When the Democrats say you are liars, they are describing themselves. While the Democrats are accusng others of being baby killers in war, they are actively promoting the murdering of babies in their own country through abortion, to the tune of 4000 babies a day!!!! More than 60 million people have been murdered at the hands of wicked doctors through the empowerment of the government engineered by the Democrats.

Thankfully right now we have a president who is working to destroy the abortion mills through the removal of their funds. I do not know how long it will last, but perhaps fewer babies will be murdered because of his bold moves.

The Democrats promote abortion, homosexuality, transgenderism, euthanasia, pornography, marriage between same sexes while declaring loudly that they cannot tell the difference between one gender and another one.

I do not believe a born again believer could remain a Democrat with a conscience. If you are a Democrat and your reason for remaining in the party system is because of unions or any job, then you are endorsing all the evil they promote simply to have a paycheck. Please rethink your values and priorities.

Lots of Dead People Walking Around

Perhaps we have a lot of dead people who claim to be Christians. They do not feel the weight of sin on them, they merely explain, excuse and enjoy it.

We Cannot Love God if We Do Not Love One Another

Very well put!!!!! If we have not love for one another its unlikely that we love God.

Bryan VanHoose

the greatest commandment?"

Jesus was asked this very question by a Pharisee who was considered to be “an expert in the law” (Matthew 22:34–36). Jesus answered by saying, “Love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul, and with all your mind. This is the greatest and most important commandment. The second is like it: Love your neighbor as yourself. All the Law and the Prophets depend on these two commandments” (Matthew 22:37–40).

Jesus gives us two commandments that summarize all the laws and commands in Scripture. The Ten Commandments in Exodus 20 deal with our relationship with God and then our relationship with other people. One naturally flows out of the other. Without a right relationship with God, our relationships with others will not be right, either. The cause of the world’s problems is that man needs to be reconciled to God. We will never love our neighbor as ourselves if we do not first love God with all our heart, mind, and soul. All of man’s best efforts toward world peace will fail as long as men are living in rebellion against God.

When asked by another Pharisee how one could “inherit eternal life,” Jesus answered that it is by keeping these two commandments (Luke 10:25–37). Only two commandments to obey, yet how often do we, like this Pharisee, try to “justify” ourselves because saying we obey these commandments is much easier than really living according to them.

When carefully considered, Jesus’ answer was really a perfect response not only to the Pharisee of His day, but also to all modern-day “Pharisees” who try measure a person’s righteousness by how well he conforms outwardly to a series of laws or commandments. Both the Pharisees of Christ’s day and today’s many versions create a whole system of rules and regulations for people to live by and yet are guilty of breaking the most important commandments of all because they “cleanse the outside of the cup and dish, but not the inside” (Matthew 23:25–26).

When we prayerfully consider Jesus’ words and the fact that all the laws and commands in Scripture can really be summarized by these two commandments, we understand just how impossible it is for us to keep God’s commandments and how often we fail to do so and can therefore never be righteous before God on our own accord. That only leaves us with one hope, and that is that God “justifies the ungodly” (Romans 4:5). God’s law and our failure to keep it “brings about wrath” (Romans 4:15), but “God demonstrates His own love toward us that while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us” (Romans 5:8).

While we will never keep God’s commandments or be righteous before Him by our own efforts, Christ did. It is His sacrificial death on the cross that causes our sins to be imputed to Him and His righteousness imputed to us (Romans 4—5). That is why “if you confess with your mouth the Lord Jesus and believe in your heart that God has raised Him from the dead, you will be saved. For with the heart one believes unto righteousness, and with the mouth confession is made unto salvation” (Romans 10:9–10). After all, the gospel of Christ “is the power of God to salvation for everyone who believes,” for “the just shall live by faith” (Romans 1:16–17).

Because Jesus answered this very question and His answer is recorded in Scripture, we don’t have to wonder or search for the answer ourselves. The only question left for us to answer is do we live according to these commandments? Do we truly love God with all our hearts, all our souls, and all our minds, and do we really love our neighbor as ourselves? If we are truthful with ourselves, we know that we do not, but the good news is that the law and commandments were given as “a tutor to bring us to Christ, that we might be justified by faith” (Galatians 3:24). Only as we realize our sinfulness and hopelessness will we turn to Christ alone as the only hope of salvation.

As Christians, we strive to love God with all our heart, soul, and mind, and as our hearts and minds are transformed by the indwelling presence of the Holy Spirit we are able to begin to love others as ourselves. Yet we still fail to do so, which again drives us back to the cross of Christ and the hope of salvation that stems from the imputed righteousness of Christ and not from any merit of our own. Bashir Yaqub