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Thru the Bible - Sunday Sermon Dr. J. Vernon McGee
Does God Ever Change His Mind?
Living in an age of technological and scientific discovery, we may ask whether or not God changes to accommodate our transitioning world. But God is perfect, and by definition there’s no need for perfection to change.
Thru the Bible - Minute with McGee Dr. J. Vernon McGee
God’s Love Revealed
My friend, though God loves you, He does not save you by love and He cannot save you by love. God had to do something about the fact that God is holy and righteous and what He does is right. So God gave His Son to die on the cross for you and me to pay the penalty for our sins, so that a holy God can now reach down and save us. And it’s only on that basis today that a holy God can save us, friends. Christ is the mercy seat. Now, that’s where God reveals His love. He “gave His only begotten Son that whosoever believeth on Him should not perish but have everlasting life.”
Daily Promises
For the iniquity of his covetousness was I wroth, and smote him: I hid me, and was wroth, and he went on frowardly in the way of his heart. I have seen his ways, and will heal him: I will lead him also, and restore comforts unto him and to his mourners. (Isaiah 57:17-18)
Though the whole of mankind stands corrupted and damnable before the majesty of the Lord God Almighty, even so He promises to choose out for Himself a special people. Ever will He heal His dear children! In spite of their hearts of malice and stone, the Lord will be faithful to renew them and cause them to become the bearers of life eternal. Praise God that we who believe have received such mercy as this!
How Blessed We Really Are
Blessed is the man whom thou choosest, and causest to approach unto thee, that he may dwell in thy courts: we shall be satisfied with the goodness of thy house, even of thy holy temple. — Psalm 65:4
We are blessed beyond measure! Not because of anything we have done, but because of what He has done!
https://digginganotherwell.substack.com/p/how-blessed-we-really-are
The ‘Back To School Back Pack And Bible Drive’ In Kerrville Texas Gave Out 400 Back Packs And Over 500 King James Bibles To Flood Victim Families
https://www.nowtheendbegins.com/back-to-school-back-pack-and-bible-drive-kerrville-texas/
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“Bad men need nothing more to compass their ends, than that good men should look on and do nothing.”
John Stuart Mill
Today's Wins
1 Let us not be 'sunshine patriots'...Most people, sadly, have no real idea of the staggeringly ubiquitous forces arrayed against us as conservatives
https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2025/08/let_us_not_be_sunshine_patriots.html
2 Trump's week in review: DC takeover to reduce crime, 'Pursuing Peace' summit with Putin
https://www.christianpost.com/news/trumps-week-in-review-dc-takeover-to-peace-summit-with-putin.html
3 Another Historic First for New Orleans Mayor
https://moonbattery.com/another-historic-first-for-new-orleans-mayor/
4 FTC drops all aspects of Biden-era lawsuit against Grand Canyon University: 'Ideologically driven'
5 Pornhub traffic in UK craters by half after age verification regulations implemented
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6 Why Trump Is The Man Who Can End The Ukraine War...I’m not promising that he will end the war. I’m just saying that his particular personality and skill sets give him deal-making weapons unlike anyone else today.
https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2025/08/why_trump_is_the_man_who_can_end_the_ukraine_war.html
7 This week in Christian history: ‘The Great Ejection,' LCMS founder dies, first Moravian missionaries
https://www.christianpost.com/news/this-week-in-christian-history-first-moravian-missionaries.html?clickType=link-topbar-news
Look What The Dog Dragged In
8 Moon Of Alabama - The MoA Week In Review
https://www.moonofalabama.org/2025/08/the-moa-week-in-review-ot-2025-185-2.html
9 Degeneracy, Progressive Neo-Puritanism, And The Little Sisters of the Poor...The fact that Democrats are once again forcing nuns to pay for abortions highlights the moral abyss and authoritarian intolerance of the modern Democrat party.
https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2025/08/degeneracy_progressive_neo_puritanism_and_the_little_sisters_of_the_poor.html
10 Kansas ain't no place like home...They’re after us. Trump is just in the way—even in Kansas.
https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2025/08/kansas_ain_t_no_place_like_home.html
11 Moon Of Alabama - Palestine Open Thread
https://www.moonofalabama.org/2025/08/palestine-open-thread-2025-187.html
12 Blind Shepherds: When Pastors Proudly Refuse To Submit To The Words Of Scripture
https://harbingersdaily.com/blind-shepherds-when-pastors-proudly-refuse-to-submit-to-the-words-of-scripture/
13 How the prosperity gospel has driven Nigerian Christians away from Christ
https://www.christianpost.com/voices/how-the-prosperity-gospel-has-driven-nigerian-christians-away.html
14 Christianity for Acid Heads
https://moonbattery.com/christianity-for-acidheads/
Dog Woo
15 Nobody Knows What’s Real Censorship and information warfare have destroyed public trust in institutions.
https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2025/08/nobody_knows_what_s_real.html
16 Ambiguity as an Asymmetrical Weapon: Lessons from Current and Ancient Crises
https://3quarksdaily.com/3quarksdaily/2025/08/ambiguity-as-an-asymmetrical-weapon-lessons-from-current-and-ancient-crises.html#more-285004
17 Beyond Neoliberalism?
https://www.phenomenalworld.org/analysis/beyond-neoliberalism/
18 Blending Psychotherapy and Spirituality
https://3quarksdaily.com/3quarksdaily/2025/08/blending-psychotherapy-and-spirituality.html#more-285156
19 Trump Moves Obama and Bush Portraits to White House Bathroom for ‘Proper Homage’
https://worthysatire.com/trump-moves-obama-and-bush-portraits-to-white-house-bathroom-for-proper-homage/
20 We can’t help falling in love with Elvis Forty-eight years since his death, and people still can’t stop buying his music.
https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2025/08/we_can_t_help_falling_in_love_with_elvis.html
21 Elvis Presley - An American Trilogy (Aloha From Hawaii, Live in Honolulu, 1973)
https://youtu.be/0FT3SmZ_zx0?si=-f85t-rBD5TLyLkb
22 Image published with permission from Todd Schowalter Productions.
https://images.americanthinker.com/mi/miutn3ls0a7pdgr0k476_800.jpg
Worst Of The Babylon Bee
23 New Phone For Introverts Doesn't Have A Call Function
https://babylonbee.com/news/new-phone-for-introverts-doesnt-have-a-call-function
24 Highschool Freshman Disappointed There Isn't An Affable Loner Around On First Day Of School To Point Out Which Tables In The Lunch Room Various Social Groups Sit At
https://babylonbee.com/news/highschool-freshman-disappointed-there-isnt-an-affable-loner-around-on-first-day-of-school-to-point-out-which-tables-in-the-lunch-room-various-social-groups-sit-at
25 Dad Fussy After Missing His Afternoon Nap
https://babylonbee.com/news/dad-fussy-after-missing-his-afternoon-nap
26 Tragic: Stranger Thinks Your Sports Team Shirt Is An Invitation To Talk To You About Sports
https://babylonbee.com/news/tragic-stranger-thinks-your-sports-team-shirt-is-an-invitation-to-talk-to-you-about-sports
27 Renaissance Artist Finishes Masterpiece That Will One Day Be Great Training Data For AI
https://babylonbee.com/news/renaissance-artist-finishes-masterpiece-that-will-one-day-be-great-training-data-for-ai
PowderRoomPolitics - Presents...Animal Antics: Stealing The Show
1 Cats With Video Presence
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/HvK_wHXMN60
2 Bobcat Kitten Steals The Show Hiding In Chimney
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/RuH23-_TWiM
3 Animals Upstaging Newscasters
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bG5Ltm6tV4Y
4 Wrong Move, Anchor -Animals Attack Anchors And Each Other
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YLppH-KBLnw
5 Reigning Cats And Dogs Over Soccer Matches
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/yG0Id64uTmQ
6 Not Just Stealing The Show...
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/Yb6sJfiOI2Q
7 Video Steals!
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/EWAR3hwhyIc
8 Turtle Escape
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/fEk5ljUH3rg
9 Cats Ruling Boats
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/P-I7KAJWJHs
10 Open The Door! (One Cat's FBI Style Entry)
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/07Lx3-lfb_s
11 Hospital Stealth Entrance
https://www.newsweek.com/mom-missing-cat-hospital-surprise-2109695
Meow Mix With The Missouri Wildcat Taffy333
As to the evil which results from censorship, it is impossible to measure it, because it is impossible to tell where it ends.
Jeremy Bentham
1 James Howard Kunstler - Carefully and Gracefully...“It’s funny they call [intel] a ‘community.’ That sounds so benign and beneficial. Everybody likes communities.” Doug Casey
https://www.kunstler.com/p/carefully-and-gracefully
2 James Howard Kunstler - Under Color of Law..."The second-order and third-order damages of RussiaGate are incalculable. A murder of American democracy was committed." Mike Benz
https://www.kunstler.com/p/under-color-of-law
3 Ann Coulter - How To Get Away With Murder...“It’s remarkable how many people in prison say they didn’t do nuthin’.”
https://anncoulter.substack.com/p/how-to-get-away-with-murder
4 Caitlin Johnstone - The Biblical Case For Supporting Israel
https://substack.com/@caitlinjohnstone/p-170940873
5 Weekend Knowledge Dump- August 15, 2025...Knowledge to make your life better. If you have some free time, check out some of these links this weekend.
https://www.activeresponsetraining.net/weekend-knowledge-dump-august-15-2025
5 Fighting Monarch - AMERICA’S GREATEST ENEMIES – THE FEDERAL DEBT, THE FEDERAL DEFICIT, AND THE FEDERAL RESERVE
https://fightingmonarch.com/2025/08/10/americas-greatest-enemies-the-federal-debt-the-federal-deficit-and-the-federal-reserve/
6 Garland Nixon - RAY MCGOVERN - UNDERSTANDING THE RUSSIAN REQUIREMENTS FOR PEACE
https://www.youtube.com/live/cNp6tmIyDKA?si=Q7lTFyUXwXQZvS5q
7 The Biblical Sin of Usury, And Why Christians Don't Hate it Nearly Enough Most modern Christians don't know what usury is, or why the Bible condemns it so strongly. This is the history of usury, that they never wanted us Debt Cattle to know.
https://insighttoincite.substack.com/p/the-biblical-sin-of-usury-and-why
8 The Dollar Vigilante - CONgress Goes to USrael In Massive Act of Treason While RFK Jr Rolls Out the MRNA Jab To Rule Them All
https://www.activistpost.com/congress-goes-to-usrael-in-massive-act-of-treason-while-rfk-jr-rolls-out-the-mrna-jab-to-rule-them-all/
9 Death and Poetry (The Myth of Philosophy 7)
https://winteroak.org.uk/2025/08/13/death-and-poetry-the-myth-of-philosophy-7/
10 Scalawag Magazine - A startup promised 45,000 EV jobs to struggling towns. They're still waiting....Desperate for jobs, three communities embraced a bold electric vehicle promise. Now, they’re left with questions—and no jobs.
https://scalawagmagazine.org/2025/08/a-startup-promised-45000-ev-jobs-to-struggling-towns-theyre-still-waiting/
...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 17th)
"This sickness is not unto death." — John 11:4
From our Lord's words we learn that there is a limit to sickness. Here is an "unto" within which its ultimate end is restrained, and beyond which it cannot go. Lazarus might pass through death, but death was not to be the ultimatum of his sickness. In all sickness, the Lord saith to the waves of pain, "Hitherto shall ye go, but no further." His fixed purpose is not the destruction, but the instruction of His people. Wisdom hangs up the thermometer at the furnace mouth, and regulates the heat.
The limit is encouragingly comprehensive. The God of providence has limited the time, manner, intensity, repetition, and effects of all our sicknesses; each throb is decreed, each sleepless hour predestinated, each relapse ordained, each depression of spirit foreknown, and each sanctifying result eternally purposed. Nothing great or small escapes the ordaining hand of Him who numbers the hairs of our head.
This limit is wisely adjusted to our strength, to the end designed, and to the grace apportioned. Affliction comes not at haphazard-the weight of every stroke of the rod is accurately measured. He who made no mistakes in balancing the clouds and meting out the heavens, commits no errors in measuring out the ingredients which compose the medicine of souls. We cannot suffer too much nor be relieved too late.
The limit is tenderly appointed. The knife of the heavenly Surgeon never cuts deeper than is absolutely necessary. "He doth not afflict willingly, nor grieve the children of men." A mother's heart cries, "Spare my child"; but no mother is more compassionate than our gracious God. When we consider how hard-mouthed we are, it is a wonder that we are not driven with a sharper bit. The thought is full of consolation, that He who has fixed the bounds of our habitation, has also fixed the bounds of our tribulation.
C. H. Spurgeon's Morning Reading (August 18th)
"Strangers are come into the sanctuaries of the Lord's house." — Jeremiah 51:51
In this account the faces of the Lord's people were covered with shame, for it was a terrible thing that men should intrude into the Holy Place reserved for the priests alone. Everywhere about us we see like cause for sorrow. How many ungodly men are now educating with the view of entering into the ministry! What a crying sin is that solemn lie by which our whole population is nominally comprehended in a National Church! How fearful it is that ordinances should be pressed upon the unconverted, and that among the more enlightened churches of our land there should be such laxity of discipline. If the thousands who will read this portion shall all take this matter before the Lord Jesus this day, He will interfere and avert the evil which else will come upon His Church. To adulterate the Church is to pollute a well, to pour water upon fire, to sow a fertile field with stones. May we all have grace to maintain in our own proper way the purity of the Church, as being an assembly of believers, and not a nation, an unsaved community of unconverted men.
Our zeal must, however, begin at home. Let us examine ourselves as to our right to eat at the Lord's table. Let us see to it that we have on our wedding garment, lest we ourselves be intruders in the Lord's sanctuaries. Many are called, but few are chosen; the way is narrow, and the gate is strait. O for grace to come to Jesus aright, with the faith of God's elect. He who smote Uzzah for touching the ark is very jealous of His two ordinances; as a true believer I may approach them freely, as an alien I must not touch them lest I die. Heartsearching is the duty of all who are baptized or come to the Lord's table. "Search me, O God, and know my way, try me and know my heart."