...................No Jesus, No peace...Know Jesus, Know Peace....................
And the peace of God, which surpasses all understanding, will guard your hearts and minds through Christ Jesus. – Philippians 4:7
...Thru the Bible with Dr. J. Vernon McGee Malachi 3:1-7...
Malachi has spoken in depth about Israel’s social sins; next he addresses their idolatry, fascination with the occult, lying, and idol worship. Dr. McGee calls these “religious sins.” As the story unfolds, God attempts to detour Israel from destruction while the people continue to ask Him sarcastic questions and avoid repentance.
...Thru the Bible - Minute with McGee Dr. J. Vernon McGee...
The Greatest Christmas Gift
You see, Christianity is not a religion; it’s a relationship. It’s a personal relationship to Jesus Christ, and it means to come to grips with Him personally. The gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus. How do you get a gift? You get it by taking it. Simple faith in Him. Have you received this morning the greatest Christmas gift God has to date? And that’s His Son. If you haven’t, He wants you to have Him. I’m wondering if you’re here today and you’d like just at this Christmas season to receive a real gift, the gift of God’s Son, simply by trusting Him.
...Daily Promises...
And she shall bring forth a son, and thou shalt call his name JESUS: for he shall save his people from their sins. (Matthew 1:21)
Long did the world await His coming. Long did the people of God pine for the promised Seed. Long did we desire the advent of the one who would bring about the kingdom of God. And He has come! And He has risen! Christ came to earth in sinless perfection, lived His life in perfect holiness, gave up perfection to become our sin, and took up perfection once more in His resurrection! Praise the Lord for His salvation all you who believe!
...Daily Routine...
And he said to them all, If any man will come after me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross daily, and follow me. -- Luke 9:23
Not a day should go by that we set aside our cross and fail to follow Jesus.
https://digginganotherwell.substack.com/p/daily-routine
...Faith Plus Nothing Equals Salvation...
https://youtu.be/fDR0mu18x80?si=aG5gQZZ3noLTFzQk
https://www.blueletterbible.org/Comm/mcgee_j_vernon/eBooks/faith-plus-zero-equals-salvation.cfm
“The sin underneath all our sins is to trust the lie of the serpent that we cannot trust the love and grace of Christ and must take matters into our own hands”
Martin Luther
Once a profound truth has been seen, it cannot be 'unseen'. There's no 'going back' to the person you were. Even if such a possibility did exist...why would you want to?
Dave Sim
..................Welcome Back My Friends, To The Show That Never Ends................
M. Ray Evans - Rediscovering the true spirit of Christmas: Worship, gratitude, and service...As a nation, if we collectively turn toward worship, gratitude, and service, we can revive the moral clarity that made America exceptional.
David Ennocenti - In Parts Of Europe, Many Still Remember America’s Greatness, Especially At Christmas...While Americans are ready to forget the Greatest Generation, in towns across Europe, they cherish the memory of the men who fought to save Europe in December 1944.
COVID Christmas: Never Forget
https://www.zerohedge.com/covid-19/covid-christmas-never-forget
The Bible says little about Jesus’ childhood – but that didn’t stop medieval Christians from enjoying tales of him as holy ‘rascal’
Rachel Robison-Greene - The Temptations of Nostalgia
https://3quarksdaily.com/3quarksdaily/2024/10/the-temptations-of-nostalgia.html
...continued in comments..
Greg Piper - Rand Paul drops his annual Festivus Report on government waste...Dogs on meth, 'binge drinking ferrets' featured in Rand Paul's Festivus report on wasteful spending
https://justthenews.com/government/congress/dogs-meth-binge-drinking-ferrets-featured-rand-pauls-festivus-report-wasteful
M.B. Mathews - Pre-New Year’s 10 biggest lies of 2025...Democrats have been working hard, not to improve life for Americans, but to generate lie after lie to destroy Trump and the MAGA movement.
https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2025/12/pre_new_year_s_10_biggest_lies_of_2025.html
Colin Todhunter - In the land of confusion: The Great Reset in motion...We are witnessing a transition from a productive capitalist model, which required a healthy mass labour force, to what Yanis Varoufakis calls a techno-feudalist order.
https://off-guardian.org/2025/12/23/land-of-confusion-the-great-reset-in-motion/
Katalin Balog - The Midas Machine
https://3quarksdaily.com/3quarksdaily/2025/12/the-midas-machine.html#more-294298
Amy Curtis - Beloved Pennsylvania school bus driver fired for trying to prevent bullying on her route
https://townhall.com/tipsheet/amy-curtis/2025/12/22/bus-driver-english-sign-n2668287
Thursday Poem...Christina Rossetti - A Christmas Carol
https://discoverpoetry.com/poems/christina-rossetti/a-christmas-carol/
Stan Getz, Chick Corea, Stanley Clarke and Tony Williams - Captain Marvel...Live at Monteux, 1971
https://youtu.be/672wpY-yXQE?si=cEoz6IUUbs-VPLU_
Christmas Wishes
https://images.americanthinker.com/hc/hc55k8dftfjxuvetrfe3_800.jpg
...The Worst Of The Babylon Bee...
Disappointing: Thompson Submachine Gun-Shaped Box Turns Out To Be Socks
https://babylonbee.com/news/dad-disappointed-as-thompson-submachine-gun-shaped-box-turns-out-to-be-socks
Woman Beginning To Suspect Husband Didn't Start Shopping Till Yesterday As She Opens Can Of Dinty Moore Beef Stew
https://babylonbee.com/news/woman-beginning-to-suspect-husband-didnt-start-shopping-till-yesterday-as-she-opens-can-of-dinty-moore-beef-stew
Every Single Parking Spot To Be Either Handicapped Or Online Pickup By 2027
https://babylonbee.com/news/every-single-parking-spot-to-be-either-handicapped-or-online-pickup-by-2027
Dad Lives 7 Entire Lifetimes Before Rest Of Family Wakes Up
https://babylonbee.com/news/father-lives-7-entire-lifetimes-before-rest-of-family-wakes-up
9 Classic Villains Who Need A Sympathetic Origin Story Prequel
https://babylonbee.com/news/9-classic-villains-who-need-a-sympathetic-origin-story-prequel
...Not Quite brain_dead...
One of the greatest lecture in the world.
https://x.com/historigins/status/2003986548916998402?s=20
JD Vance: Mass Migration Causes Civic Conflict, Threatens National Stability
https://www.breitbart.com/immigration/2025/12/22/jd-vance-mass-migration-causes-civic-conflict-threatens-national-stability/
Pediatric Child Abuse Doctors Exposed for Medical Kidnapping Goes Mainstream
https://healthimpactnews.com/2025/2025-pediatric-child-abuse-doctors-exposed-for-medical-kidnapping-goes-mainstream/
US Imposes Visa Bans on Key Figures Involved in Global Censorship Pressure
https://reclaimthenet.org/us-imposes-visa-bans-on-key-figures-involved-in-global-censorship-pressure
...PowderRoomPolitics - Presents..Animal Antics: Gone To The Dogs!...
Two Dogs Wake Up Christmas Morning
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/l4Jb_tEwbfA
Christmas In The Doghouse
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/YfiLENTMkTI
The Pack Is Ready For Christmas
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/GvnszpJOdVE
Dog Sings Clasic Christmas Carol
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/OeP3kqhl158
Grinch And His Dog Have Had Enough Christmas
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/YT5lZIFgb1U
Barking Around The Christmas Tree
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/ta9BN7dbXio
Dogs Opening Their Christmas Gifts
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/g3FHuofxKMc
Trying Out The Christmas Wreath Trend
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/4gW1IiGPXHE
Christmas Shopping With Your Bestie
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/XIhFBERJVB4
Too Cute Dogs Waiting For Christmas
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/LN2q3E8NH4Y
...Meow Mix With The Missouri Wildcat Taffy333...
Julian Macfarlane - What makes you human? Ask Putin...Julian delivers a noble message for this Xmas. Kindness and solidarity with all sentient creatures in our planet is the fundamental virtue (and duty) of all decent people.
https://www.greanvillepost.com/2025/12/22/what-makes-you-human/
...Goodnight Newshounds...
Head Up
Eyes Forward
Hold The Line Patriots
Keep Calm
And
Howl On
u/#howl
C. H. Spurgeon's Evening Reading (December 25th)
"And it was so, when the days of their feasting were gone about, that Job sent and sanctified them, and rose up early in the morning, and offered burnt offerings according to the number of them all: for Job said, It may be that my sons have sinned, and cursed God in their hearts. Thus did Job continually." — Job 1:5
What the patriarch did early in the morning, after the family festivities, it will be well for the believer to do for himself ere he rests tonight. Amid the cheerfulness of household gatherings it is easy to slide into sinful levities, and to forget our avowed character as Christians. It ought not to be so, but so it is, that our days of feasting are very seldom days of sanctified enjoyment, but too frequently degenerate into unhallowed mirth. There is a way of joy as pure and sanctifying as though one bathed in the rivers of Eden: holy gratitude should be quite as purifying an element as grief. Alas! for our poor hearts, that facts prove that the house of mourning is better than the house of feasting. Come, believer, in what have you sinned today? Have you been forgetful of your high calling? Have you been even as others in idle words and loose speeches? Then confess the sin, and fly to the sacrifice. The sacrifice sanctifies. The precious blood of the Lamb slain removes the guilt, and purges away the defilement of our sins of ignorance and carelessness. This is the best ending of a Christmas day-to wash anew in the cleansing fountain. Believer, come to this sacrifice continually; if it be so good tonight, it is good every night. To live at the altar is the privilege of the royal priesthood; to them sin, great as it is, is nevertheless no cause for despair, since they draw near yet again to the sin-atoning victim, and their conscience is purged from dead works.
Gladly I close this festive day,
Grasping the altar's hallow'd horn;
My slips and faults are washed away,
The Lamb has all my trespass borne.
https://www.blueletterbible.org/devotionals/me/view.cfm?Time=pm
C. H. Spurgeon's Morning Reading (December 26th)
"The last Adam." — 1 Corinthians 15:45
Jesus is the federal head of His elect. As in Adam, every heir of flesh and blood has a personal interest, because he is the covenant head and representative of the race as considered under the law of works; so under the law of grace, every redeemed soul is one with the Lord from heaven, since He is the Second Adam, the Sponsor and Substitute of the elect in the new covenant of love. The apostle Paul declares that Levi was in the loins of Abraham when Melchizedek met him: it is a certain truth that the believer was in the loins of Jesus Christ, the Mediator, when in old eternity the covenant settlements of grace were decreed, ratified, and made sure for ever. Thus, whatever Christ hath done, He hath wrought for the whole body of His Church. We were crucified in Him and buried with Him (read Col. 2:10-13), and to make it still more wonderful, we are risen with Him and even ascended with Him to the seats on high (Eph. 2:6). It is thus that the Church has fulfilled the law, and is "accepted in the beloved." It is thus that she is regarded with complacency by the just Jehovah, for He views her in Jesus, and does not look upon her as separate from her covenant head. As the Anointed Redeemer of Israel, Christ Jesus has nothing distinct from His Church, but all that He has He holds for her. Adam's righteousness was ours so long as he maintained it, and his sin was ours the moment that he committed it; and in the same manner, all that the Second Adam is or does, is ours as well as His, seeing that He is our representative. Here is the foundation of the covenant of grace. This gracious system of representation and substitution, which moved Justin Martyr to cry out, "O blessed change, O sweet permutation!" this is the very groundwork of the gospel of our salvation, and is to be received with strong faith and rapturous joy.
https://www.blueletterbible.org/devotionals/me/view.cfm?doy=361