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Thru the Bible with Dr. J. Vernon McGee James -15
When unexplainable tragedies come into our lives, often the first thing we do is look for a cause. Some people blame God—others blame each other—and some even blame themselves. But who’s really responsible?
Thru the Bible - Minute with McGee Dr. J. Vernon McGee
Our First Love
The church is to be presented to the Lord Jesus Christ as a bride. Listen, even to the church in Ephesus the Lord Jesus Christ says, “I have something against you.” Now he says, “I know your works and I know your labor … and I know that you can’t bear those with false doctrine. But I have this against you: You have left your first love.” My friend, it’s not enough this morning to be busy for Christ. It’s not enough to be active today for Christ, and it’s not enough to be just fundamental. Those things are important, and they have their place, but the important thing is: Have you left your first love? Do you love Him today?
https://www.oneplace.com/ministries/thru-the-bible-minute-with-mcgee/
Daily Promises
Come unto me, all [ye] that labour and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest. Take my yoke upon you, and learn of me; for I am meek and lowly in heart: and ye shall find rest unto your souls. For my yoke [is] easy, and my burden is light. (Matthew -30)
Ever blessed are those who put their trust in the strength of the Lord for He will bear them up. Labouring under the curse and by the sweat of his brow, man toils under a fell weight-and to his futility. Therefore, this promise of rest is a sure comfort to be felt by all of God's children. God, in His grace and beneficence, will bring all His people into an eternal Sabbath rest. No more, forever, need we worry that our work would be toilsome or labourious. His yoke is made easy and His burden made light-and so it is out of this rest that the child of the King will work joyfully for the welfare of the Kingdom. Praise the Lord for His ever-abounding goodness and mercy upon the saved!
Searching For Happiness
There be many that say, Who will shew us any good? LORD, lift thou up the light of thy countenance upon us. — Psalm 4:6
Instead of searching for happiness in the things of this world, find it in God.
https://digginganotherwell.substack.com/p/searching-for-happiness
If we define an American fascist as one who in case of conflict puts money and power ahead of human beings, then there are undoubtedly several million fascists in the United States.
There are probably several hundred thousand if we narrow the definition to include only those who in their search for money and power are ruthless and deceitful.
Henry A. Wallace, 33rd Vice-President of the United States of America, 1940-1944
Today's Wins
1 James Howard Kunstler - Krakatoa Blows...“'Save democracy' is code phrase for a club of delusional people who belong to a delusional group that does delusional things to justify their delusions.” — Wendy Williamson
https://www.kunstler.com/p/krakatoa-blows
2 Patrick Lawrence: Trump vs. the Deep State
https://scheerpost.com/2025/02/17/patrick-lawrence-trump-vs-the-deep-state/
3 Democrats Prepare for the Big House
https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2025/02/democrats_prepare_for_the_big_house.html
4 Vance’s very unusual security address
https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2025/02/vance_s_very_unusual_security_address.html
5 The German central bank agrees with President Trump!
6 President’s Day and America’s 5 best presidents (this is a extremely subjective list)
https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2025/02/president_s_day_and_america_s_5_best_presidents.html
7 My Kind of Conservatism
https://www.the-hinternet.com/p/my-kind-of-conservatism
Look What The Dog Dragged In
8 Why is Tom Cotton blocking a Trump DOD nominee? There’s a possibility that Cotton’s affiliation with a Republican, UN-affiliated NGO is guiding his approach to Trump’s foreign policy.
https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2025/02/why_is_tom_cotton_blocking_a_trump_dod_nominee.html
9 SCOTT RITTER: Trump’s Munich Strategy...At the security conference in Germany we just saw Trump make a classic adaptation of John Boyd’s OODA-loop to destroy his NATO and EU enemies.
https://consortiumnews.com/2025/02/17/scott-ritter-trumps-munich-strategy/
10 Moon Of Alabama - U.S. Questions For European Governments - Another Wake-up Call
11 An independent, neutral Donbass Republic may be a way to end the Russia Ukraine war
12 The Next NATO-Russia Proxy War Could Be in a Country You’ve Never Heard Of
13 Trump Wants Peace in Ukraine, But Why Not in Gaza?
https://scheerpost.com/2025/02/17/trump-wants-peace-in-ukraine-but-why-not-in-gaza/
14 Dennis Kucinich: President Trump Wants to Cut the Pentagon Budget in Half. How?
15 Two Alarming Truths: Family Farms Vanishing & Centralized Beef Industry For RFK Jr. To Fix
16 Gary, Indiana, and the Long Shadow of U.S. Steel...Can a company town that’s been called “the most miserable city in America” remake itself?
https://archive.ph/kYdFB#selection-445.0-451.89
Dog Woo
17 John Helmer - MODI TAKES HIS BEST SHOT – HOW INDIAN STRATEGY PUTS TRUMP IN FRONT OF PUTIN
18 Garland Nixon - THE CONTRADICTIONS CREATED BY THE RISE OF THE LIBERTARIAN TECH OLIGARCHS IN A FADING EMPIRE
19 Gabriel Rockhill - The Origins and Nature of Fascism: PLUS: Understanding Siege Socialism
https://www.greanvillepost.com/2025/02/14/the-origins-and-nature-of-fascism-gabriel-rockhill/
20 Who is the Real Unelected President?
https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2025/02/who_is_the_real_unelected_president.html
21 Four magical words
https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2025/02/four_magical_words.html
22 Trump is Closing the Border. Now What About Legal Immigration?
23 The Myth of Income Inequality
https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2025/02/the_myth_of_income_inequality.html
24 Monday Poem...Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - The Village Blacksmith
https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/1588018/the-village-blacksmith
25 Image courtesy of Todd Schowalter Productions.
https://images.americanthinker.com/of/of7httmffw1vyyv97uaj_800.jpg
Worst Of Babylon Bee
26 Jobs Report Shows Skyrocketing Unemployment Among Lizard People
https://babylonbee.com/news/jobs-report-shows-skyrocketing-unemployment-among-lizard-people
27 WINNING: Trump Announces Plan To Attack The British And Prussian Forces At Waterloo
28 Audit Reveals All Fort Knox Gold Replaced With IOUs
https://babylonbee.com/news/audit-reveals-all-fort-knox-gold-replaced-with-ious
29 Deranged Maniac Fires Off Over 17 Memes In Crowded German Shopping Mall
https://babylonbee.com/news/deranged-maniac-fires-off-over-17-memes-in-crowded-german-shopping-mall
30 Is Elon Musk The Father Of Your Child? Signs To Look For
https://babylonbee.com/news/is-elon-musk-actually-the-father-of-your-child-10-signs-to-look-for
Not Quite brain_dead
1 Biggest story of the day: Senator Rand Paul is calling for an audit on Fort Knox to ensure the 4,580 tons US gold is still there
https://x.com/WallStreetApes/status/1891237363222761557
2 The FDA kills over a million Americans every year without firing a single shot....And the weapon is not the food itself, but what’s IN it.
https://nitter.poast.org/craigbrockie/status/1890773490485297463
3 Sorry, CNN, No “Cow Fart” Vaccine Is Necessary or Will Stop Climate Change
PowderRoomPolitics...Presents - Animal Antics: Where's The Joy?
1 Joy Is Where You Find It
https://healthyhappynews.com/lonely-donkey-finds-joy-and-friends-with-yoga-balls/
2 Joyful Rescue Of Tiger And Boar
https://healthyhappynews.com/tiger-and-boars-unlikely-friendship-sparks-joyful-rescue/
3 Joy To All The English Bird Watchers
4 Stray Tuxedo Cat Finds Care And Joy In A Home
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gRrbPZChwio
5 The Joy Of Tuxedo Dwarf Cat Sass - Dog Lover Falls In Love!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XcnGKtzgpvo
6 Jecton Loves Pit Bulls - But Can't Adopt One, So...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0c9VF0JivSU
7 Adopting Max - Then Later, Mojo! Best Decision Ever
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6x26aXxDbms
8 Reunited
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/g38xGLbzjwQ
9 Rescuing And Bonding With Lion Cub
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/Hz9aiuOV1EM
10 Baby, It's Cold Outside
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/clQqm90-mzI
Meow Mix With The Missouri Wildcat Taffy333
1 Political Moonshine - Trump Issues Executive Order on Schools and COVID-19 “Vaccine” Mandates...An Executive Order barring schools from mandating COVID-19 injections or losing federal funding. Good first step, far from enough.
2 The unitary executive: A conservative vision for restoring constitutional order
3 Napoleon: Then and Now
https://brownstone.org/articles/napoleon-then-and-now/
4 They didn’t know they were revolutionaries. Do you?
https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2025/02/they_didn_t_know_they_were_revolutionaries_do_you.html
...Goodnight Newshounds...
Head Up
Eyes Forward
Hold The Line Patriots
Keep Calm
And
Howl On
Charles Haddon Spurgeon February 18th — Morning Reading
"Shew me wherefore thou contendest with me." — Job 10:2
Perhaps, O tried soul, the Lord is doing this to develop thy graces. There are some of thy graces which would never be discovered if it were not for thy trials. Dost thou not know that thy faith never looks so grand in summer weather as it does in winter? Love is too often like a glow-worm, showing but little light except it be in the midst of surrounding darkness. Hope itself is like a star-not to be seen in the sunshine of prosperity, and only to be discovered in the night of adversity. Afflictions are often the black foils in which God doth set the jewels of His children's graces, to make them shine the better. It was but a little while ago that on thy knees thou wast saying, "Lord, I fear I have no faith: let me know that I have faith." Was not this really, though perhaps unconsciously, praying for trials?-for how canst thou know that thou hast faith until thy faith is exercised? Depend upon it, God often sends us trials that our graces may be discovered, and that we may be certified of their existence. Besides, it is not merely discovery, real growth in grace is the result of sanctified trials. God often takes away our comforts and our privileges in order to make us better Christians. He trains His soldiers, not in tents of ease and luxury, but by turning them out and using them to forced marches and hard service. He makes them ford through streams, and swim through rivers, and climb mountains, and walk many a long mile with heavy knapsacks of sorrow on their backs. Well, Christian, may not this account for the troubles through which thou art passing? Is not the Lord bringing out your graces, and making them grow? Is not this the reason why He is contending with you?
"Trials make the promise sweet;
Trials give new life to prayer;
Trials bring me to His feet,
Lay me low, and keep me there."
Charles Haddon Spurgeon February 17th — Evening Reading
"Whereas the Lord was there." — Ezekiel 35:10
Edom's princes saw the whole country left desolate, and counted upon its easy conquest; but there was one great difficulty in their way-quite unknown to them-"The Lord was there"; and in His presence lay the special security of the chosen land. Whatever may be the machinations and devices of the enemies of God's people, there is still the same effectual barrier to thwart their design. The saints are God's heritage, and He is in the midst of them, and will protect His own. What comfort this assurance yields us in our troubles and spiritual conflicts! We are constantly opposed, and yet perpetually preserved! How often Satan shoots his arrows against our faith, but our faith defies the power of hell's fiery darts; they are not only turned aside, but they are quenched upon its shield, for "the Lord is there." Our good works are the subjects of Satan's attacks. A saint never yet had a virtue or a grace which was not the target for hellish bullets: whether it was hope bright and sparkling, or love warm and fervent, or patience all-enduring, or zeal flaming like coals of fire, the old enemy of everything that is good has tried to destroy it. The only reason why anything virtuous or lovely survives in us is this, "the Lord is there."
If the Lord be with us through life, we need not fear for our dying confidence; for when we come to die, we shall find that "the Lord is there"; where the billows are most tempestuous, and the water is most chill, we shall feel the bottom, and know that it is good: our feet shall stand upon the Rock of Ages when time is passing away. Beloved, from the first of a Christian's life to the last, the only reason why he does not perish is because "the Lord is there." When the God of everlasting love shall change and leave His elect to perish, then may the Church of God be destroyed; but not till then, because it is written, JEHOVAH SHAMMAH, "The Lord is there."