We Will Not Cave

Just checking in.  When we are move I am certain that we will find a place where God can use us, like never  before.  Praise be to the Jesus of the empty tomb.   Not only the cross but the empty tomb. Jesus is victorious and we are too.  We must do our part or get left in the dust. 

  English Standard Version translates I John 5:16 as: 16  If anyone sees his brother committing a sin not leading to death, he shall ask, and God will give him life—to those who commit sins that do not lead to death.  There is sin that leads to death; I do not say that one should pray for that.  Concerning the last clause in I John 5:16, the ending clause. περὶ  ἐκείνης  = he, she, it, or that οὐ  περὶ  ἐκείνης  λέγω  ἵνα  ἐρωτήσῃ  word order is complicated in this clause (as is such with Koine Greek), but I see it this way, John is referring to the particular sin (ἐκείνης “that”) When one implores of God, it is for God to be rid of it i.e. “that.“ For that matter the “ἵνα” has the meaning “that,”as well.  Therefore John is saying do not pray for “the sin which leads to death.”  Sins that lead to death are abortion, genocide, murder, etc . . . need not be prayed for, for those who commit such sins are turned over to a hardened heart. They will have their consequence.  He who wants Roe

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Furman and others says that “Concepts embedded into current practice wisdom become essential notions related to the human condition and focus practice interventions on resolving various social and psychosocial problems”   Furman adds, “As the profession strives to contend with rapid transformations of the social order brought about by . . . (factors like) complex problems of post-modernity, new concepts are needed to focus the profession on its core values and aims”   The concept that Furman takes into consideration is “meaning” and elaborates on its usefulness. Furman also states that, somewhat insightfully is the existential problem is about meaning, which is pretty obvious to anyone who knows anything about anything. Of course, Furman indicates that humans construct meaning and how special, to be able to do such a thing.   The problem  is, constructing meaning is difficult in a world without meaning and individuals who lack meaning or even the possibility of conceiving of meaning.

 II Timothy 1:7ff For God gave us not a spirit of fearfulness; but of power and love and discipline.   Therefore do not be ashamed of the testimony of our Lord or of me His prisoner, but join with  me  in suffering for the gospel according to the power of God.   If we are not suffering due to our testimony as Christians, maybe we need to investigate why.  When the actual persecution of TRUE CONSERVATIVE CHRISTIANS comes, we must stand for our God, Jesus Christ, God's word, and in the spirit, and for our country, as the Left tries to destroy us and the USA. We will suffer for the Gospel and our country (our "nation," which is a word progressives are aiming to demolish and "deconstruct"). Please see former posts on how "nation" is the designation for where people in America is being destroyed and "deconstructed" The so-called iterations of political bondage and lack of freedom of certain people have been perpetuated. We must stand against the M

  Final Warnings in II Corinthians  13  This is the third time I am coming to you. Every charge must be established by the evidence of two or three witnesses.   2   I warned those who sinned before and all the others, and I warn them now while absent, as I did when present on my second visit, that if I come again I will not spare them—   3  since you seek proof that Christ is speaking in me. He is not weak in dealing with you, but is powerful among you.   4  For he was crucified in weakness, but lives by the power of God. For we also are weak in him, but in dealing with you we will live with him by the power of God. 5  Examine yourselves , to see whether you are in the faith . Test yourselves. Or do you not realize this about yourselves, that Jesus Christ is in you?—unless indeed you fail to meet the test!   6  I hope you will find out that we have not failed the test.   7  But we pray to God that you may not do wrong—not that we may appear to have met the test, but that you may do wh

Out of church, gospel, culture: Church and gospel it is fundamentalism Gospel and culture it is socialism disguised as Christianity Church and culture it is weakness Church, gospel, and culture it is the kingdom of God We must fasten into retaking these seven mountains of culture for a classical Christianity : Government. ... Economics (Science, Technology & Business) ... Faith, Spirituality & Belief. ... Education. ... Family. ... Media. ... Celebration (Arts, Entertainment and Sports) Amen…….

Careful who you contribute to! A prime conservative watchdog, investigative organization that covers news and events from a conservative perspective, just fired a top investigator for his work on exposing Leftist propaganda.  His event coverage was on a sensitive issue that needs more attention.  Let us all pray for those organizations that they do not buy the LIES of the Left and become part of the Leftist cultural agenda (you may say “woke culture” as racist as that sounds, I do not use this term much b/c of its blatant racist sound). Be diligent about who you support with God’s wisdom and remember that anything can turn on a dime. We must not cave to the Left, stay tuned in to see the next post on wewillnotcave.   These posts are always a brief read, though sometimes dense, sorry, but hang in there, and trust in the Lord Almighty.  

  God stands steadfast and righteous for us.  Will we stand up for him?  Some men in the church need to stand up for what is right. The left is over on us and it's time to push back hard. No more playing games about critical race theory, and gender bender theory, or black lives matter, these are not the things that stand in a way. What stands in our way is a democracy that is turning into a despotism. We should have seen it coming we should have listened to the man of God. You should have listened to me.  I am sorry that I ever said a word to the men of God, those who claim to follow him.  Just like the Lord was disappointed in the Israelites, so am I disappointed in these men of God. The chance to capture culture and rescue worldview is over.  We must find ways to stay alive as Christians in an ever devolving world that considers us enemies.  A beg of you please do not raise your hands to The holy name, while facing the crisis we're in with malaise.  We must seek justice and r

I n an Imprimis article, Our Increasingly Unrecognizable Civilization , Mark Steyn lingers a bit on how Western civilization is indeed discernibly different than it was even 25 years ago, Steyn does not give in to the big Lie of the Left: people of difference should be the focal point of public discussion.  Steyn rightly points out that these issues are a distraction from the real war on certain folk by elites (a class war). All-in-all, though, Steyn’s pining fits well to address the issues the Left uses to distract us with. Steyn hits on a theme that has been a part of the posts, which is the care we need to take with the use of language by the Left. As long as we focus on how many genders there are or what and how we are to use pronouns, we lose grip of language around identity, nation, Empire, or reality. Steyn so rightly, and I quote, points out that “the Left wins because it seizes language. Take the policy of letting people vote who are not U.S. citizens and shouldn’t be voting.

 There are some real religious so-called conservative Christians who are real dummies. They have bought the lies, they have been spoon fed lies, they have enforced lies based on lies, they have been dumbed down, and they have been brainwashed.  They are not willing to stand up for truths and all manners of speaking against agenda that is obviously against the principles of conservative Christianity. They live in fear of saying the word of truth about the present lies in our culture, they because of the tax exempt status they wish to protect, and are not willing to fight for the right to speak religious truths. The lies of ruined real communion, real unleavened bread, real sharing of the cup, fear has ruled the day for too long.  It is time to stand up against hypocrisy and idiocracy.  They have bought into the lies of the Left (unknowingly), and have seen the demise of Christianity in the West as a tool to pigeon hole people in the fearful positions.  They are busy about justice and sl

Frederick Douglas once stated in the work Reconstruction that even though there were changes as the result of work by those with interest in helping freedmen, these changes did “not reach the difficulty, and cannot, unless the whole structure of the government is changed from a government by States to something like a despotic central government, with power to control even the municipal regulations of States, and to make them conform to its own despotic will.”  Forthwith, it should be duly noted that despotism is thought generally to be a negative type of government, and this seemed though the way toward making sure the federal mandates would be the “law of the land.”  These are concerns of an earlier period. Still, the same principles apply to the situation whereby “nations” (like formerly states) are thought to limit worldwide changes for social justice. This argument has significance to the worldwide stage of freedom of speech, religion, and assembly.  Once again, the idea of "

This may seem like the harshest thing I have written, and I am not referencing philosophers or theorists or big names that you may not know of; I am writing the truth as God puts it upon my heart, The Master-Signifier, as discussed before, is the one who (in the situation I am talking about) does not create the Grand Narrative of our world and culture, but participates in giving it credence when calling evil leaders significant before God. We fight against the powers and principalities of this world, spiritual warfare, that is, and we should not participate in the giving of great meaning to those who just as soon see our demise.  There are evil leaders, but we mustn’t limit ourselves from recognizing THEM. God gave us a kingdom that cannot be destroyed, as in now.  It is not time to give up on the idea that God saves individuals and countries. Christians in the US are being destroyed and persecuted and MADE to believe, not by many choices, but by a media machine offering one ideology. 

Fellow in Environmental Humanities, Spring 2023 Dartmouth College Hanover, NH Position offered to PhD in Humanities has description with this in it: Humanities scholars have paid close attention to how the Anthropocene's  geo -logics (linear, stratigraphic time) limit our understanding of history and environmental justice. Many of these critical interventions into "earth history" have taught us about the racist and capitalist foundations of modernity's environmental crisis, yet have not provided clear pathways to solutions. The Institute's goal is to develop an environmentally inclusive humanities that fosters affective responses and intellectual practices that help us " move the world," rather than just "think the world ". We invoke the fluid qualities of water and air currents to mobilize emotions related to precarity, in the hope that they can generate an affectively-informed environmental humanities.   Please get a load of the use

What is Western Liberalism? Liberals “generally support  private property ,  market economies , individual rights (including  civil rights  and  human rights ),  liberal democracy ,  secularism ,  rule of law ,  economic  and  political freedom ,  freedom of speech ,  freedom of the press ,  freedom of assembly , and  freedom of religion .  Liberalism is frequently cited as the dominant  ideology  of modern times” Martha Nussbaum says that Alison Jagger considers the following: “liberals characterize ‘community and cooperation ... as phenomena whose existence and even possibility is puzzling,’ if not downright ‘impossible’”  This way of viewing liberal tradition is accurate, though berated by feminists and progressives, and the Left.  The concern with the decline of Western Liberalism is that its demise may free up and support social change, justice, and revolutions in countries that have been neglected or colonized by Western (as has  been said, often) Empires or powers. The questio

Bruno Maçãn wrote “Samuel Huntington, who is often thought of as having written about civilizations, in fact wrote about identity. The two concepts have nothing in common .” I beg to differ, but I will continue reading Bruno Maçãn on the topic Noēma in their article As Western Liberalism Declines, Civilization States Return: The civilization state is reemerging and taking us beyond the opposition between liberalism and nationalism  and be open to Maçãn ’s argument. The article expresses it this way:   “Identity is the mutilated corpse of civilization.”   I agree that identity has taken a bashing from postmodern and postcolonial thought.   However, we need to restore identity as a distinguishing feature of Western thought.   Identity is lost in other cultures, which certainly we should be aware of and respect, but the backbone of democracy is individual effort and responsibility.   These are not exempt from the idea of identity.   Unless you are Buddhist, for whom the self is an illus

 It seems that quite a lot of theology students have been heavily influenced by the anti-nationalist emphasis on denying god-given nature of the United States, it's constitution, and it's bill of rights.  Even orthodox Anglican Lutheran and Episcopal priests and pastors do not preach that the United States is a nation set apart by God as the early framers of the Constitution in our country did whether they were deist or Christian. The big push in academia for a young pastor to be aware of is how much of the anti-nationalist Kool-Aid they have drank.  This Kool-Aid seems sweet to those who would put down the US and find their identities in the strangest places. It seems to think they believe it's counterintuitive to be a Christian and a American at the same time. They would blow off the Christian Roots of their national roots in lieu of having a strong understanding of the land that God has given to God's people. The land was always important in the Hebrew Bible consider

The Master Signifier speaks, and the slave listens.  The sheep follow the cultural way, a la Friedrich Nietzsche.  Nietzsche indicated that Christians are sheep that follow Jesus because they are weak. Zarathustra wanted to avoid leading sheep, as in a flock, into weaknesses. Zarathustra intends to lead the individual into strength and perpetual growth of strength and individuality, known as übermensch or overman.  The weak in present culture are those not Christians who have their eyes on Jesus but Christians that follow the screen and other culture-shaping devices. These devices or machines cause many to follow.  The following is such that definitions of Christian experiences are expressed in terms that these devices prepare the mind for, as in movies and television shows.  But, it is not to worry that one takes meaning from popular culture, for this is what all sheep do.  Their grass is the screen. If the Master, or Shepherd, says follow the screen this is easier than an acquired ha

The tragic end of life is being introduced now that it is evident that otherness issues have been exploited and politicized.  At the sad end of several lives, a particular news source paints some individuals as fanatical, religiously, and politically.  This is a sad turn of events in how it is represented and paints the tensions created by media concerning people and their differences.  Let those who have ears/eyes let them hear/see the divisive nature of what media sources can do, even in the wake of a terrible tragedy. Whether it be the death of a person or several persons, as in this latest episode (I will let you surmise what I am writing about, just watch the latest news and you will know, in time), it immediately becomes politicized by the reporting, and the reporting demonizes religious people.  Man! if it were some new-age farcicalist belief ending in death, you would not hear about the beliefs being involved in such a tragedy.  Yes, I am being cryptic, but you will either pic

Ed McNally, in the New Left Review, has an article appearing within the webpages (to use a paper reference) in which it is stated that “Neta Crawford’s intellectual project (project, notice not a paper) is perhaps best understood as a progressive immanent critique of American empire , defined by intricate attention to the military as an institution – its political history, energy composition, ideologies, procedures, rules, and modes of killing ” Here one sees the very concerns I have been barking about for almost a year now in these blog posts. The concern is that the American “empire,” is used as a word that is intensively proposed as evil and used in the accounting of American advancement.  Remember? I have stated that “nation” and “empire” are crucial in the way the Left vilifies the US.  To beat it all, it is not just the American machinations, but the work of humans which is criticized by the Left should be done by talking plants, where plants do the job, through whom the central

There has been a Chinese reconnaissance balloon spotted over the US by the Federal Government, news sources saying.  Why it was not taken care of, i.e. deflated, I do not know.  This action by the Chinese government is nothing compared with the way communists and CCP have infiltrated our society. Of course I am going to touch on education.  The communists have taken over high positions in our universities and they are teaching our young people lies about the nature of government. Critical Race Theory is not a problem, unless you think it is . . . . . Critical Theory itself does indeed do damage to us, given its emphasis on Marxist philosophy.  Our government has become large and promotes socialism.  The LBGTQI issues should not offend us, by now. We do want to be inclusive and sensitive.  However, we must take back our institutions: Education, Religion, Family, Economy, Arts, Government, and Media.