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Thru the Bible - Questions & Answers Dr. J. Vernon McGee
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Both 1 Timothy 4:14 and 2 Timothy 1:6 seem to indicate that the laying on of hands transfers some kind of power or gift. Is that true?
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Who created the universe--God the Father or Jesus Christ?
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Why was the stump sealed with iron and brass bands in Daniel 4:15?
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What are the scriptural references for degrees of reward for Christians?
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Are those raised from the dead in the scriptures resurrections or resuscitations?
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Which manuscript family is more accurate--the Alexandrian or the Byzantine?
Thru the Bible - Minute with McGee Dr. J. Vernon McGee
Pick Up The Sword
How can you overcome the wicked one? With the Word of God. What is it called? Well, the only weapon of offense that’s ever been given to a believer is the Word of God, which is the sword of the Spirit. And I tell you, if you’re going to be able to defend yourself against the devil, you’re going to need the Word of God. And the reason so many believers are succumbing today to the world is simply because they’re not in the Word of God. I find that a great many people do not mature. And yet a great many others do. Why? Because they stay in the Word of God.
References: 1 John 2:12-16
Daily Promises
He restoreth my soul: he leadeth me in the paths of righteousness for his name's sake. Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil: for thou [art] with me; thy rod and thy staff they comfort me. (Psalm 23:3-4)
The Lord leads us in the paths of righteousness and sometimes those paths lead through the valley of the shadow of death. Though it is hard to walk through these valleys, we can praise Him because He leads us into the valley of the shadow of death and not the valley of death itself. Take heart that even in these tremulous times, the Lord's hand is mighty. And truly, we need fear no evil!
Looking Back Over The Valley
O give thanks unto the LORD; for he is good; for his mercy endureth for ever. -- 1 Chronicles 16:34
If you're in the valley, keep pressing on. Soon, you will find yourself on the mountain, looking back over the valley once again.
https://digginganotherwell.substack.com/p/looking-back-over-the-valley
The tragedy of war is that the young men and women die fighting each other - instead of their real enemies back home in the capitals.
Edward Abbey
Today's Wins
1 Wilmer Leon - KJ Noh: From Hiroshima to iPhones—The Cost of Power
https://www.youtube.com/live/HtY-i7O5dhk?si=jrKm8vFVRE-BXpZO
2 Fighting Monarch - DEMOCRACY FORWARD SUES GOVERNMENT FOR RELEASE OF EPSTEIN FILES...While a blackmail ring run by a foreign power kidnapped, raped, and sold more than one thousand girls, it has corrupted powerful officials in Washington.
3 None of your business: Trump admin directs federal agencies to delete employee COVID vaccination records - 'must be expunged'
4 Crime dropped in America. Thank your local good guy with a gun...Violent crime is down, while gun sales are soaring.
5 Texas GOP unleashes hellfire on Democrat deserters...This is the Texas GOP's finest hour.
https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2025/08/texas_gop_unleashes_hellfire_on_democrat_deserters.html
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6 DOJ opens grand jury investigation into Letitia James' conduct of Trump civil case
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/doj-opens-grand-jury-investigation-letitia-james-tied-trump-civil-case
7 Fed up: Spanish town bans Muslim festivals in public spaces as anti-Islamification movement gains momentum
https://www.zerohedge.com/political/spanish-town-bans-muslim-festivals-public-spaces-anti-islamification-movement-gains
8 Moon Of Alabama - Ukraine - Setting The Stage For U.S.-Russia Talks
https://www.moonofalabama.org/2025/08/ukraine-setting-the-stage-for-us-russia-talks.html
9 Trump's week in review: ‘De-banking' banned; new census ordered; peace deal signed
https://www.christianpost.com/news/trumps-week-in-review-debanking-banned-new-census-ordered.html
10 ‘War Chest’: The Billy Graham Evangelistic Association Establishes Fund to Cover Legal Costs of Christians in Europe
https://harbingersdaily.com/war-chest-bega-establishes-fund-to-cover-legal-costs-of-christians-in-europe/
11 Ambassador Huckabee says US will 'scale up' GHF aid sites in Gaza, start 24-hour distribution
https://www.christianpost.com/news/huckabee-says-us-will-scale-up-ghf-aid-sites-in-gaza.html?clickType=link-topbar-news
Look What The Dog Dragged In
12 5 things to know about the redistricting battle in Texas and beyond
https://www.christianpost.com/news/5-things-to-know-about-the-redistricting-battle.html?clickType=link-topbar-news
13 The Great Gerrymandering War Of 2025...The Democrats have long had a lock on gerrymandering, but Texas is aiming to change that, and Democrats are panicking, California most of all.
https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2025/08/the_great_gerrymandering_war_of_2025.html
14 Guns: California ignores the Constitution...Democrats are trying to save “our democracy,” which is the opposite of our constitutional, representative republic.
https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2025/08/guns_california_ignores_the_constitution.html
15 Fighting Monarch - WIMBLEDON, ENGLAND, AND SOUTH AFRICA...In the 1970s, England was facing an identity crisis, as it reconsidered its relationship with South Africa.
https://fightingmonarch.com/2025/08/08/wimbledon-england-and-south-africa/
16 Liberal Pol Expresses Himself at Decadence Festival...Jasmine Crockett isn’t the only elected moonbat from the Dallas area who has a lot to say. Consider Arlington Mayor Jim Ross.
https://moonbattery.com/liberal-pol-expresses-himself-at-decadence-festival/
17 'Step toward peace' or rewarding ethnic cleansing?: Experts react to Trump's Armenia-Azerbaijan deal
https://www.christianpost.com/news/policy-experts-react-to-trumps-armenia-azerbaijan-summit.html?clickType=link-topbar-news
18 Weekly Briefing: A tipping point for Israel's legitimacy
https://mondoweiss.net/2025/08/weekly-briefing-a-tipping-point-for-israels-legitimacy/
19 Mom of Abundant Life Christian School shooter dies by apparent suicide
https://www.christianpost.com/news/mother-of-abundant-life-christian-school-shooter-dies-by-suicide.html?clickType=link-topbar-news
20 Caitlin Johnstone - Debating Israel Supporters Is Pointless, Because They Don't Care About Facts Or Morality
https://substack.com/@caitlinjohnstone/p-170572022
21 Why don't American Christians care about the ethnic cleansing of an ancient Christian homeland?
https://www.christianpost.com/news/why-christians-should-care-about-the-ethnic-cleansing-of-artsakh.html?clickType=link-most-popular
Dog Woo
22 'Irony' Can Mean The Moment When Reality Catches Up With You...For leftists, the contrast between their maddened world view and reality epitomizes that hard-to-define word: Irony
https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2025/08/irony_can_mean_the_moment_when_reality_catches_up_with_you.html
23 Getting Washington, D.C. out of American classrooms is not enough...The problem with America’s K-12 education runs a lot deeper than some policy changes at the top.
https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2025/08/getting_washington_d_c_out_of_american_classrooms_is_not_enough.html
24 Black Agenda Radio with Margaret Kimberley - In this week’s segment, we discuss a protest exposing corporate media’s collusion with the U.S. and Israeli governments in reporting genocide and how ICE is violating the law and human rights with its mass deportation policy. But first we talk about how colonization continues in Kenya.
https://www.blackagendareport.com/black-agenda-radio-august-8-2025
25 Glenn Greenwald - The Pro-Israel Meltdown Over Mahmoud Khalil's NYT Interview: When is Violence Inevitable?; Why is FIRE Suing Marco Rubio: With 1A Lawyer Conor Fitzpatrick
https://rumble.com/v6xa7oq-system-update-show-499.html
26 Ron Paul Liberty Report - Tariffs on Gold, Gambling in 401k’s — Signs of A Crack Up Boom
https://youtu.be/NWszViWEtfI?si=pCWkx1-NTeLAsTES
27 The BRICS hit back: Trump's old tricks meet new world
https://www.rt.com/india/622109-trump-tariffs-brics-india-brazil/
28 Wilmer Leon - Col. Lawrence Wilkerson on the Danger of U.S. Power Plays
https://www.youtube.com/live/b-MFp2MKNMw?si=xN6l0nvfhwOjMAHt
29 Garland Nixon - IMPERIALISM: DECADENT & DOOMED W/JOTI BRAR - NO HONOR AMONGST IMPERIALIST THIEVES
https://www.youtube.com/live/WEQIei1tDQo?si=iPHyCjqmjGV4HVLn
30 Geopolitical Economy Report - How the world can free itself from US financial colonialism: Economist Michael Hudson explains
https://youtu.be/tgBUbbTF5Sg?si=49HWvAPZF5f5P4Zm
31 Wilmer Leon - Margaret Kimberley on Congo Violence, Chris Smalls Case, and State Power
https://www.youtube.com/live/8eKXy0spoW0?si=brEXJBC0uc0T3zn0
32 Garland Nixon - TRUMP AGENDA CLEAR 1. MEET PUTIN IN ALASKA 2. GO TO WAR IN THE AMERICAS
https://www.youtube.com/live/ImzTscnednM?si=QNOw1kdpIhkTRKbn
33 The New Atlas - Russian Gains Mount in Ukraine as Panic Grows in Washington
https://youtu.be/7FuPRc-7WyM?si=gSB3lyF2-IFzRVY7
34 The Duran - Donbass cauldrons force US to deal with Russia
https://youtu.be/ScpUSAPQwNQ?si=CJV3-8We-8_FREvK
35 The Duran - Putin and Trump to meet in Alaska
https://www.youtube.com/live/QGjF_HnJGcU?si=GNTUVtBp9ksacIqu
36 Neil Oliver: ‘…just because you're paranoid doesn’t mean you’re not being LIED TO!!!’
https://youtu.be/eok0aweqjcs?si=IvJGZVQGDPiD5Hot
37 WTF! Stressed adults rely on pacifiers to soothe themselves: 'I feel a sense of safety from childhood'
https://nypost.com/2025/08/06/lifestyle/stressed-adults-use-pacifiers-for-comfort-sleep/
38 Saturday Poem...Li Bai - The River-Merchant’s Wife: A Letter
https://poets.org/poem-a-day
39 Billy Strings - I Saw The Light
https://youtu.be/MFHVOuKS8-8?si=BJvwkpbzToAuFwbV
40 Image published with permission from Todd Schowalter Productions.
https://images.americanthinker.com/m9/m96ykbnxkbrk43x2ilqz_800.jpg
Worst Of The Babylon Bee...Sunday Edition
41 Scholars Believe David's Attention Was Captured By Bathsheba's American Eagle Jeans
https://babylonbee.com/news/scholars-believe-davids-attention-was-captured-by-bathshebas-american-eagle-jeans
42 Study Finds Alcohol Sales Spike Sharply During VBS
https://babylonbee.com/news/study-finds-alcohol-sales-spike-sharply-during-vbs
43 10 Common Misconceptions About The Bible, Corrected
https://babylonbee.com/news/10-common-misconceptions-about-the-bible-corrected
44 Apostles Quickly Start Acting Pious As They Notice Luke Watching And Taking Notes
https://babylonbee.com/news/apostles-quickly-start-acting-pious-as-they-notice-luke-watching-and-taking-notes
45 In Most Incredible Miracle Yet, Jesus Heals 40-Year-Old Man Of Weird Sounds His Joints Make Whenever He Moves
https://babylonbee.com/news/in-most-incredible-miracle-yet-jesus-heals-40-year-old-man-of-weird-sounds-his-joints-make-whenever-he-moves
PowderRoomPolitics - Presents...Reigning Cats And Dogs! (With Song Hints)
1 Owner Of A Lonely Dog
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PYHxB_LqSms
2 Dog Chooses Kittens
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hhI-gXv3RNM
3 Reunited, and It Feels So Good
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/GdAt_QEC1lw
4 Finding A Way To Get The Cats Home
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/rQ_-cbCo1_U
5 Rescuing Kittens In The Road
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/R-9nhyjpEVU
6 If Pets Were Gang Bosses
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/311P4yVZDiA
7 Finding A New Home For Cats
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/l3QhxFWBh04
8 Rescuing Deer Attacked By Bear
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/4IFcrnwGJIY
9 Momma Cries For Help For Tiny Kittens
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/JCVslYL_vRQ
10 Cats Get Rescued And A Beautiful New Home
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/Fxa7CYL-QfM
Meow Mix With The Missouri Wildcat Taffy333
“The highest activity a human being can attain is learning for understanding, because to understand is to be free.”
Baruch Spinoza
1 James Howard Kunstler - Going, Going Gone. . . ....“Because they can no longer distinguish between fantasy and reality, they are too crazy to lead this country, and Americans know it.” - Sasha Stone on the Democratic Party
https://www.kunstler.com/p/going-going-gone
2 James Howard Kunstler - Suspicious Minds..."It was a coup, and I'm using that term literally ... One egregious felony after another." Stephen Miller
https://www.kunstler.com/p/suspicious-minds
3 Ann Coulter - The NYT's Idea of a Conservative Is a Blithering Idiot...“Just when you think Douthat’s column can’t get any stupider, he comes up with something even stupider: His belief in UFOs.”
https://anncoulter.substack.com/p/the-nyts-idea-of-a-conservative-is
4 Caitlin Johnstone - Israel Apologists Think "No No, We're Starving SICK Kids!" Is A Winning Argument
https://substack.com/@caitlinjohnstone/p-169747411
6 Margaret Kimberley - Black Agenda Report - Zionist Shakedown...Israel is a genocidaire apartheid state silencing critics around the world through threats, intimidation, lawfare, and accusations of antisemitism to prevent facing justice through international law.
https://www.blackagendareport.com/zionist-shakedown
7 Birthright Citizen: The Little Conjunction That Explains Everything...When it comes to statutory interpretation, every word, including the little three-letter ones, has a profound meaning.
https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2025/08/birthright_citizen_the_little_conjunction_that_explains_everything.html
8 Amish Controversies - The Amish Were Fined $118,000 For Refusing Vaccinations In Their Schools. Now They’re Appealing To The Supreme Court
https://amishamerica.com/amish-fined-118000-for-refusing-vaccinations-in-schools-now-appealing-to-supreme-court/
9 Theodore Dalrymple - Architects of Our Own Destruction - “People who do not see or value beauty are unlikely to be much disturbed by ugliness.”
https://www.takimag.com/article/architects-of-our-own-destruction/
10 Winter Oak - The disgodding of nature and our hearts
https://winteroak.org.uk/2025/08/04/the-disgodding-of-nature-and-our-hearts/
...Goodnight Newshounds...
Head Up
Eyes Forward
Hold The Line Patriots
Keep Calm
And
Howl On
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C. H. Spurgeon's Evening Reading (August 9th)
"He appeared first to Mary Magdalene, out of whom He had cast seven devils." — Mark 16:9
Mary of Magdala was the victim of a fearful evil. She was possessed by not one devil only, but seven. These dreadful inmates caused much pain and pollution to the poor frame in which they had found a lodging. Hers was a hopeless, horrible case. She could not help herself, neither could any human succour avail. But Jesus passed that way, and unsought, and probably even resisted by the poor demoniac, He uttered the word of power, and Mary of Magdala became a trophy of the healing power of Jesus. All the seven demons left her, left her never to return, forcibly ejected by the Lord of all. What a blessed deliverance! What a happy change! From delirium to delight, from despair to peace, from hell to heaven! Straightway she became a constant follower of Jesus, catching His every word, following His devious steps, sharing His toilsome life; and withal she became His generous helper, first among that band of healed and grateful women who ministered unto Him of their substance. When Jesus was lifted up in crucifixion, Mary remained the sharer of His shame: we find her first beholding from afar, and then drawing near to the foot of the cross. She could not die on the cross with Jesus, but she stood as near it as she could, and when His blessed body was taken down, she watched to see how and where it was laid. She was the faithful and watchful believer, last at the sepulchre where Jesus slept, first at the grave whence He arose. Her holy fidelity made her a favoured beholder of her beloved Rabboni, who deigned to call her by her name, and to make her His messenger of good news to the trembling disciples and Peter. Thus grace found her a maniac and made her a minister, cast out devils and gave her to behold angels, delivered her from Satan, and united her for ever to the Lord Jesus. May I also be such a miracle of grace!
C. H. Spurgeon's Morning Reading (August 10th)
"Christ, who is our life." — Colossians 3:4
Paul's marvellously rich expression indicates, that Christ is the source of our life. "You hath He quickened who were dead in trespasses and sins." That same voice which brought Lazarus out of the tomb raised us to newness of life. He is now the substance of our spiritual life. It is by His life that we live; He is in us, the hope of glory, the spring of our actions, the central thought which moves every other thought. Christ is the sustenance of our life. What can the Christian feed upon but Jesus' flesh and blood? "This is the bread which cometh down from heaven, that a man may eat thereof, and not die." O wayworn pilgrims in this wilderness of sin, you never get a morsel to satisfy the hunger of your spirits, except ye find it in Him! Christ is the solace of our life. All our true joys come from Him; and in times of trouble, His presence is our consolation. There is nothing worth living for but Him; and His lovingkindness is better than life! Christ is the object of our life. As speeds the ship towards the port, so hastes the believer towards the haven of his Saviour's bosom. As flies the arrow to its goal, so flies the Christian towards the perfecting of his fellowship with Christ Jesus. As the soldier fights for his captain, and is crowned in his captain's victory, so the believer contends for Christ, and gets his triumph out of the triumphs of his Master. "For him to live is Christ." Christ is the exemplar of our life. Where there is the same life within, there will, there must be, to a great extent, the same developments without; and if we live in near fellowship with the Lord Jesus we shall grow like Him. We shall set Him before us as our Divine copy, and we shall seek to tread in His footsteps, until He shall become the crown of our life in glory. Oh! how safe, how honoured, how happy is the Christian, since Christ is our life!