Editorial Monday 12th April Bad dad myth takes lives
There are terrible, murderous fathers who seemingly act with impunity. There are also upstanding, decent fathers whose acts of love are denigrated and despised by popular press and activists. The result is preventable tragedy.
John Edwards had been a bad dad. He killed two of his children before killing himself in 2018, but he was a bad dad before that. He had had a 24 year history of domestic violence over seven partners and ten children. He only had had one apprehended violence order against his name, but a number of times came close to more. On one occasion, in 2016, the mother of two children who would be killed by Edwards went to police after a violent episode. It had followed Edwards receiving weekend custody and the inexperienced officer taking the complaint wrote that the complaint might have been an ambit claim against the custody. A lot of focus is on how Edwards obtained a gun legally. Not much has been focused on how Edwards tracked his estranged children illegally before killing them. It is apparent he tracked his daughter from her school.
But what about good men who raise their children right? What about men impugned for being .. male? Men denied sexual gratification because of political correctness, so that a sexual consent app is discussed in NSW parliament, and yet even such as that is declared not fool proof. Not all males tell off colour jokes, but is telling off colour jokes related to rape? Can a child be disciplined by a male parent? What if the parent is Boris Johnstone or Donald Trump? Can a single, conservative male have paid sex? Would it be different if they owned a social media company?
Was it the case Edwards got a free pass because, at other times, good men have been harangued?
The issue is particularly sensitive to me because I was badly raised by my father, who beat me until I begged my mother to remove his custody from me, and then he beat me some more. I told a teacher about him while I was in kindergarten and so he moved me to another school. On occasions when we were alone together I feared for my life. His second family had him named Father of the Year in NSW. In one of our last conversations, he asked "David, you do know how difficult it was to raise you?"
My father was not Edwards. I do not know Edwards, or what drove him. But I do understand parts of my father's problems with raising me. My mother was awful, and had wilfully removed cultural assets which promote family. None of her four children had children. Simply too damaged.
Cultural assets are under siege wherever totalitarian leftists rule, but they are also under siege where totalitarian leftist supporting media and complicit useful idiots work to overthrow good government.
How good was the parenting of Joe Biden? Hunter Biden? https://rumble.com/vfl4f5-editorial-monday-12th-april-bad-dad-myth-takes-lives.html
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Alexander Pope (21 May 1688 -- 30 May 1744) was an eighteenth-century English poet, best known for his satirical verse and for his translation of Homer. He is the third most frequently quoted writer in The Oxford Dictionary of Quotations, after Shakespeare and Tennyson. Pope is famous for his use of the heroic couplet.
https://rumble.com/vbig1j-essay-on-criticism.html
I want migration. I think it is healthy to have a high migration rate. The denunciations people make about migrants, aside from terrorism related to faux Islamic refugees, is the dominance of services like public transport and medical. I am aware of the number of Islamic women on busses with prams and children, or in welfare queues. But many of the reports relate to students and visitors, not migrants. Clumsily, people refer to language barriers and assimilation because terrorist ideology is apparently not legal to dispute under 18c. But Australia has been built on migration and will continue to be. What Australia really needs is appropriate infrastructure to allow absorption of those migrants. But an incompetent PM who cannot argue salient issues of state and resorts to lying to the public is not communicating the necessary vision. And without planning, migration filters into a few places when the nation is very big. One infrastructure that is happening, slowly, is Barnaby Joyce's 100 dams. That will give Australia sufficient water capital to home a population exceeding 300 million. It will also effectively cool the climate. But state ALP governments are opposing the development. The other needed thing is a plan to grow housing and public transport to meet the needs of migrants and students. Having students spend four hours a day on public transport is guaranteed to stretch resources. Students need work, and industry needs to be profitable with less regulation preventing employment. While state ALP governments are preventing necessary infrastructure, Liberal state divisions need to copy Victoria and explain their proposals which will deal with the issues. Part of great leadership is letting people know why proposals are good. Something a lying PM doesn't do.
I feel a partnership with donor nations, like USA, UK, Vietnam, China, India and Indonesia could greatly benefit Australia and assist planning.
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Some say Peter could not have written his letter because they don’t believe in adult learning. After Peter’s education as a disciple of Jesus, Peter was privileged and had ample opportunity to learn advanced rhetoric. But the wording here is simple and pure. God is holy. God is exalted and above the sin of which people are immersed. In order to deal with sin, it is important not to deal in sin, but to look for God. The simplicity of the words is what informs those who claim Peter could not have written it.
Peter was named by Christ as the rock of the Church This letter may not have been written by him, but was written in his name, probably a decade after the fall of Jerusalem. Peter would have been dead, but still remembered in Rome where this letter probably originated. Christians were being persecuted on the pretext of amoral behaviour.
We are called to live godly lives in pagan society. We are equipped to, by His grace.
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Here is a video I made Essay on Criticism
Alexander Pope (21 May 1688 -- 30 May 1744) was an eighteenth-century English poet, best known for his satirical verse and for his translation of Homer. He is the third most frequently quoted writer in The Oxford Dictionary of Quotations, after Shakespeare and Tennyson. Pope is famous for his use of the heroic couplet.
https://rumble.com/vbig1j-essay-on-criticism.html
=== From 2018 ===
Don't give up on hope. Malcolm Turnbull was challenged over the issue of immigration. He obfuscated badly, so badly it is a lie. Faced with the allegation that Dutton had recommended cutting immigration and Turnbull had stopped the recommendation, Turnbull used lawyer speak. Turnbull did not actually deny it. He just said the public wasn't at the meeting. The suggestion was that Turnbull had not opposed any such proposal. The fact is he had. That is a lie the PM has made to the public for no better reason than because he could. And that should not be tolerated. I want migration. I think it is healthy to have a high migration rate. The denunciations people make about migrants, aside from terrorism related to faux Islamic refugees, is the dominance of services like public transport and medical. I am aware of the number of Islamic women on busses with prams and children, or in welfare queues. But many of the reports relate to students and visitors, not migrants. Clumsily, people refer to language barriers and assimilation because terrorist ideology is apparently not legal to dispute under 18c. But Australia has been built on migration and will continue to be. What Australia really needs is appropriate infrastructure to allow absorption of those migrants. But an incompetent PM who cannot argue salient issues of state and resorts to lying to the public is not communicating the necessary vision. And without planning, migration filters into a few places when the nation is very big. One infrastructure that is happening, slowly, is Barnaby Joyce's 100 dams. That will give Australia sufficient water capital to home a population exceeding 300 million. It will also effectively cool the climate. But state ALP governments are opposing the development. The other needed thing is a plan to grow housing and public transport to meet the needs of migrants and students. Having students spend four hours a day on public transport is guaranteed to stretch resources. Students need work, and industry needs to be profitable with less regulation preventing employment. While state ALP governments are preventing necessary infrastructure, Liberal state divisions need to copy Victoria and explain their proposals which will deal with the issues. Part of great leadership is letting people know why proposals are good. Something a lying PM doesn't do.
I feel a partnership with donor nations, like USA, UK, Vietnam, China, India and Indonesia could greatly benefit Australia and assist planning.
=== from 2017 ===
Some things should not happen, but they do. A Vietnamese ethnic doctor with a successful family and a following in Vietnam was ordered to give up his seat on a United Airlines flight under the premise of being overbooked. He refused, which had the flight been overbooked he had no right to do. But employees of United overstepped the bound of custom, assaulting the medico passenger, leaving him a bloody mess. Apparently, he had had patients he needed to attend to. Other passengers could have been bumped. And might have benefited from it. Turns out the flight had not been overbooked. The employees just wanted the first class seat. A muck file is released denouncing the medico of things his family can, and apparently have forgiven him. And this is only one instance, more are being raised of abuses regarding overbooking. Overbooking happens more in the US, than in Australia because Australian domestic trade laws tend to prevent it. But an assumption in the US of a percentage of booked passengers not showing sometimes results in overbooking where more show than the plane can fly. People are used to what can be an abuse of power.
In Australia, Pauline Hanson has said she will not give interviews to the Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC). Some have said that that is a mistake, that the ABC has a strong reach in rural Australia. The ABC has campaigned against Hanson and lied about her. An ABC journalist has breached security which could have had Hanson killed. The ABC is too big, with many internet networks, tv stations and radio stations. The ABC is reliant on public funding, but her size dwarfs competitors who are totally commercial. The ABC is abusing her power. It is no mistake for Hanson to not subject herself to ABC lies and misrepresentations. Hanson supporters in rural areas would like the non political services that the ABC provides, but would not listen to the political news broadcasts anyway. People are used to the abuse of power, but it could be much better. Rural services need to be funded, but the political casts of the ABC needs to be privatised.
The story is similar for GM crops. Philosophers may fear crops that are hardy, disease resistant and capable of growing in a more diverse landscape, but they also fear childbirth and population growth. There is a belief that with more GM crops, the more likely an uber disease will wipe out the entire crop. Of course, that could still happen with weaker, non GM crop too. But the big threat, according to anti GM advocates, is that the disease would be powerfully ironic. As if achieving immortality from memorable last words was wrong. Another fear of the anti GM lobby is that someone will profit from GM crops. But farmers are supposed to profit from growing stuff. There is nothing wrong with a farmer becoming rich.
In 1831, soldiers marching over the Broughton Suspension Bridge in England initiated mechanical resonance due to the timing of their march. The bridge collapsed, sending 40 men into the water. Twenty men were injured, six seriously. While the bridge was shaking, the men, some liking the sound, had begun whistling. In 1864, some Union soldiers had surrendered at Fort Pillow. The black ones were killed because of their colour. In 1945, FDR died in office, leaving the Presidency to the inept Truman. In 1955, Polio vaccine was announced to work. In 1999, President Clinton was cited for contempt of court for lying about a sexual harassment civil lawsuit. His doormat stood beneath him.
In Australia, Pauline Hanson has said she will not give interviews to the Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC). Some have said that that is a mistake, that the ABC has a strong reach in rural Australia. The ABC has campaigned against Hanson and lied about her. An ABC journalist has breached security which could have had Hanson killed. The ABC is too big, with many internet networks, tv stations and radio stations. The ABC is reliant on public funding, but her size dwarfs competitors who are totally commercial. The ABC is abusing her power. It is no mistake for Hanson to not subject herself to ABC lies and misrepresentations. Hanson supporters in rural areas would like the non political services that the ABC provides, but would not listen to the political news broadcasts anyway. People are used to the abuse of power, but it could be much better. Rural services need to be funded, but the political casts of the ABC needs to be privatised.
=== from 2016 ===
We see what we want to see. A woman blames a drunken black man for stealing her toddler child which later turns up dead. Turns out the mother is charged with the child's death. A doormat stood by her philandering husband who was President of the US. Some say the doormat had strength. There is something wrong with admiring a hero's weakness. With celebrating incompetence. With promoting false values. It is good that anyone can be President of the United States. It is sad that the incumbent is not worthy. But a person that was not worthy was promoted to that exalted position. And it can happen again. If you are voting, don't throw your vote away on a Democrat. But remember, the opposition might not excite you either. In Australia we have the inept in Malcolm Turnbull and the corrupt in Bill Shorten. There is no value in installing the corrupt.
For some, at the moment, the Sex Party has more credibility.
For some, at the moment, the Sex Party has more credibility.
=== from 2015 ===
Inoculation works and to not do so is not only utterly selfish, it is a threat to others in the community. Inoculation does not bestow autism on children, although that ridiculous claim is made by opponents of inoculation. The treatment of autism is improving, but the diagnosis is also improving. If Bill Shorten were born today he would be a different man. He would still have a stultifying enrichment program which was overwhelmingly socialist, but his #abbottphobia would be treated, with a number of counsellors working overtime to have him diminish the hatred by encouraging hatred of Howard, Thatcher and Reagan. It just so happens that the early age of diagnosis matches an inoculation schedule. It is not a cause, but a coincidence. Some advocates argue strongly for rejection of inoculation. They put their hands over their ears and call out "la, la, la" if one speaks reason to them. But they also gamble with the lives of their kids and yours.
The story is similar for GM crops. Philosophers may fear crops that are hardy, disease resistant and capable of growing in a more diverse landscape, but they also fear childbirth and population growth. There is a belief that with more GM crops, the more likely an uber disease will wipe out the entire crop. Of course, that could still happen with weaker, non GM crop too. But the big threat, according to anti GM advocates, is that the disease would be powerfully ironic. As if achieving immortality from memorable last words was wrong. Another fear of the anti GM lobby is that someone will profit from GM crops. But farmers are supposed to profit from growing stuff. There is nothing wrong with a farmer becoming rich.
In 1831, soldiers marching over the Broughton Suspension Bridge in England initiated mechanical resonance due to the timing of their march. The bridge collapsed, sending 40 men into the water. Twenty men were injured, six seriously. While the bridge was shaking, the men, some liking the sound, had begun whistling. In 1864, some Union soldiers had surrendered at Fort Pillow. The black ones were killed because of their colour. In 1945, FDR died in office, leaving the Presidency to the inept Truman. In 1955, Polio vaccine was announced to work. In 1999, President Clinton was cited for contempt of court for lying about a sexual harassment civil lawsuit. His doormat stood beneath him.
From 2014
Some things can't be ignored. One might try to, but they grow. One such problem was the abduction of a three year old girl from a sofa she was sleeping on. An open window showed how the abductor obtained her. A large search included helicopters with infra-red body heat sensors. The girl turned up more than a day later opposite her house. Too young to make sense of her experience, or talk about it. But the community needs to know the abductor will never do it again.
Another problem that cannot be ignored is journalist Greste. He is Australian and has worked for Al Jazeera. Australia values freedom of the press, even sanctioning the corrupt abuse of the ABC and Fairfax actively promoting crime and corruption. But, Egypt is beset with terrorists, and those who are closely aligned to terrorism happen to be journalists who work for Al Jazeera. And it isn't even a debatable point, Al Jazeera has shown the world the terrorist viewpoint which has inflamed activity throughout the world. It isn't censorship to want competence, to expect appropriate weight is given issues. But, when balanced reporting is irresponsibly put aside, there are tragic consequences. What Greste faces is appalling. So is the organisation Greste works for. Greste is currently under arrest in Egypt and facing a possible death penalty. His crime is being a journalist for a reprehensible body. My suggestion is the ABC and Fairfax cover the issue from a distance.
From the Bolt Report Supporter's Group we also have a very difficult problem to navigate which we cannot ignore. The issue is Islamic Terrorism which must be faced and can never be accepted. However, some have for their own reasons, broadened the issue to make sensationalist claims. One notes that such irresponsible behaviour is modelled by the ABC and Fairfax press as legitimate debate when advocating leftist positions. But what the ABC and Fairfax press do is wrong, and should not be copied in opposition to them. Last night, some valued contributors to the group got booted after they made claims along the line that all Islamic peoples are terrorist, that UK is a Sharia nation, that Australia is threatened by Islamic peoples migrating. Terrorism is wrong. Allowing Iran a nuclear capability is wrong. Supporting terrorism against Israel is wrong. But, the UK is still a united kingdom with a queen as head of state and strong secular values of a democratic state. And those who feel that all Islamic peoples are terrorist are bigots by definition. We welcome debate in this group, and will not accept the abuse which some post. We act proportionately. Booting is a last resort when we cannot reason. We don't have to agree on everything, or anything, but we must be civil, or we are not discussing.
Another problem that cannot be ignored is journalist Greste. He is Australian and has worked for Al Jazeera. Australia values freedom of the press, even sanctioning the corrupt abuse of the ABC and Fairfax actively promoting crime and corruption. But, Egypt is beset with terrorists, and those who are closely aligned to terrorism happen to be journalists who work for Al Jazeera. And it isn't even a debatable point, Al Jazeera has shown the world the terrorist viewpoint which has inflamed activity throughout the world. It isn't censorship to want competence, to expect appropriate weight is given issues. But, when balanced reporting is irresponsibly put aside, there are tragic consequences. What Greste faces is appalling. So is the organisation Greste works for. Greste is currently under arrest in Egypt and facing a possible death penalty. His crime is being a journalist for a reprehensible body. My suggestion is the ABC and Fairfax cover the issue from a distance.
From the Bolt Report Supporter's Group we also have a very difficult problem to navigate which we cannot ignore. The issue is Islamic Terrorism which must be faced and can never be accepted. However, some have for their own reasons, broadened the issue to make sensationalist claims. One notes that such irresponsible behaviour is modelled by the ABC and Fairfax press as legitimate debate when advocating leftist positions. But what the ABC and Fairfax press do is wrong, and should not be copied in opposition to them. Last night, some valued contributors to the group got booted after they made claims along the line that all Islamic peoples are terrorist, that UK is a Sharia nation, that Australia is threatened by Islamic peoples migrating. Terrorism is wrong. Allowing Iran a nuclear capability is wrong. Supporting terrorism against Israel is wrong. But, the UK is still a united kingdom with a queen as head of state and strong secular values of a democratic state. And those who feel that all Islamic peoples are terrorist are bigots by definition. We welcome debate in this group, and will not accept the abuse which some post. We act proportionately. Booting is a last resort when we cannot reason. We don't have to agree on everything, or anything, but we must be civil, or we are not discussing.
Historical perspective on this day
In 238, Gordian II lost the Battle of Carthage against the Numidian forces loyal to Maximinus Thrax and was killed. Gordian I, his father, committed suicide. 240, Shapur I was crowned as king of the Sasanian Empire. 467, Anthemius was elevated to Emperor of the Western Roman Empire. 627, King Edwin of Northumbria was converted to Christianity by Paulinus, bishop of York. 1204, the Crusaders of the Fourth Crusade breached the walls of Constantinople and entered the city, which they completely occupied the following day. 1606, the Union Flag was adopted as the flag of English and Scottish ships. 1776, American Revolution: With the Halifax Resolves, the North Carolina Provincial Congress authorised its Congressionaldelegation to vote for independence from Britain.
In 1820, Alexander Ypsilantis was declared leader of Filiki Eteria, a secret organisation to overthrow Ottoman rule over Greece. 1831, soldiers marching on the Broughton Suspension Bridge in Manchester, England caused it to collapse. 1861, American Civil War: The war began with Confederate forces firing on Fort Sumter, in the harbour of Charleston, South Carolina. 1862, American Civil War: The Andrews Raid (the Great Locomotive Chase) occurred, starting from Big Shanty, Georgia (now Kennesaw). 1864, American Civil War: The Fort Pillow massacre: Confederate forces killed most of the African American soldiers that surrendered at Fort Pillow, Tennessee. 1865, American Civil War: Mobile, Alabama, fell to the Union Army. 1877, the United Kingdom annexed the Transvaal.
In 1910, SMS Zrínyi, one of the last pre-dreadnought battleships built by the Austro-Hungarian Navy, was launched. 1917, World War I: Canadian forces successfully completed the taking of Vimy Ridge from the Germans. 1927, April 12 Incident: Chiang Kai-shek ordered the Communist Party of China members executed in Shanghai, ending the First United Front. 1928, the Bremen, a German Junkers W33 type aircraft, took off for the first successful transatlantic aeroplane flight from east to west. 1934, the strongest surface wind gust in the world at 231 mph, was measured on the summit of Mount Washington, New Hampshire. Also 1934, the U.S. Auto-Lite Strike began, culminating in a five-day melee between Ohio National Guard troops and 6,000 strikers and picketers. 1935, first flight of the Bristol Blenheim. 1937, Sir Frank Whittle ground-tested the first jet engine designed to power an aircraft, at Rugby, England.
In 1945, U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt died while in office; Vice President Harry Truman, became President upon Roosevelt's death. 1955, the polio vaccine, developed by Dr. Jonas Salk, was declared safe and effective. 1961, the Soviet cosmonaut Yuri Gagarinbecame the first human to travel into outer space and perform the first manned orbital flight, in Vostok 3KA-2 (Vostok 1). 1963, the Soviet nuclear-powered submarine K-33 collided with the Finnish merchant vessel M/S Finnclipper in the Danish straits. 1970, Soviet submarine K-8, carrying four nuclear torpedoes, sank in the Bay of Biscay four days after a fire on board. 1980, Samuel Doe took control of Liberia in a coup d'état, ending over 130 years of minority Americo-Liberian rule over the country. Also 1980, Terry Fox began his "Marathon of Hope" at St. John's, Newfoundland. 1981, the first launch of a Space Shuttle (Columbia) took place - the STS-1 mission.
In 1990, Jim Gary's "Twentieth Century Dinosaurs" exhibition opened at the Smithsonian Institution National Museum of Natural History in Washington, D.C. He is the only sculptor ever invited to present a solo exhibition there. 1992, the Euro Disney Resort officially opened with its theme park Euro Disneyland. The resort and its park's name were subsequently changed to Disneyland Paris. 1994, Canter & Siegel post the first commercial mass Usenetspam. 1998, an earthquake in Slovenia, measuring 5.6 on the Richter scale occurred near the town of Bovec. 1999, US President Bill Clinton was cited for contempt of court for giving "intentionally false statements" in a sexual harassment civil lawsuit. 2002, a suicide bomberblew herself up at the entrance to Jerusalem's Mahane Yehuda open-air market, killing 7 and wounding 104. 2007, a suicide bomber penetrated the Green Zone and detonated in a cafeteria within a parliament building, killing Iraqi MP Mohammed Awad and wounding more than twenty other people. 2009, Zimbabwe officially abandoned the Zimbabwe Dollar as its official currency. 2010, a train derailed near Merano, Italy, after running into a landslide, causing nine deaths and injuring 28 people. 2014, a wildfire ravages the Chilean city of Valparaíso, killing 16, displacing nearly 10,000, and destroying over 2,000 homes.
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Today's reading: 1 Samuel 17-18, Luke 11:1-28 (NIV)
View today's reading on Bible Gateway
Today's Old Testament reading: 1 Samuel 17-18
David and Goliath
1 Now the Philistines gathered their forces for war and assembled at Sokoh in Judah. They pitched camp at Ephes Dammim, between Sokoh and Azekah. 2 Saul and the Israelites assembled and camped in the Valley of Elah and drew up their battle line to meet the Philistines. 3 The Philistines occupied one hill and the Israelites another, with the valley between them.
4 A champion named Goliath, who was from Gath, came out of the Philistine camp. His height was six cubits and a span. 5He had a bronze helmet on his head and wore a coat of scale armor of bronze weighing five thousand shekels; 6 on his legs he wore bronze greaves, and a bronze javelin was slung on his back. 7 His spear shaft was like a weaver's rod, and its iron point weighed six hundred shekels. His shield bearer went ahead of him.
8 Goliath stood and shouted to the ranks of Israel, "Why do you come out and line up for battle? Am I not a Philistine, and are you not the servants of Saul? Choose a man and have him come down to me...."
Today's New Testament reading: Luke 11:1-28
Jesus' Teaching on Prayer
1 One day Jesus was praying in a certain place. When he finished, one of his disciples said to him, "Lord, teach us to pray, just as John taught his disciples."
2 He said to them, "When you pray, say:
"'Father,
hallowed be your name,
your kingdom come.
3 Give us each day our daily bread.
4 Forgive us our sins,
for we also forgive everyone who sins against us.
And lead us not into temptation.'"
your kingdom come.
3 Give us each day our daily bread.
4 Forgive us our sins,
for we also forgive everyone who sins against us.
And lead us not into temptation.'"
5 Then Jesus said to them, "Suppose you have a friend, and you go to him at midnight and say, 'Friend, lend me three loaves of bread; 6 a friend of mine on a journey has come to me, and I have no food to offer him.' 7 And suppose the one inside answers, 'Don't bother me. The door is already locked, and my children and I are in bed. I can't get up and give you anything.' 8 I tell you, even though he will not get up and give you the bread because of friendship, yet because of your shameless audacity he will surely get up and give you as much as you need....
=== Morning and Evening ===
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Morning
Did earth or heaven ever behold a sadder spectacle of woe! In soul and body, our Lord felt himself to be weak as water poured upon the ground. The placing of the cross in its socket had shaken him with great violence, had strained all the ligaments, pained every nerve, and more or less dislocated all his bones. Burdened with his own weight, the august sufferer felt the strain increasing every moment of those six long hours. His sense of faintness and general weakness were overpowering; while to his own consciousness he became nothing but a mass of misery and swooning sickness. When Daniel saw the great vision, he thus describes his sensations, "There remained no strength in me, for my vigour was turned into corruption, and I retained no strength:" how much more faint must have been our greater Prophet when he saw the dread vision of the wrath of God, and felt it in his own soul! To us, sensations such as our Lord endured would have been insupportable, and kind unconsciousness would have come to our rescue; but in his case, he was wounded, and felt the sword; he drained the cup and tasted every drop.
"O King of Grief! (a title strange, yet true
To thee of all kings only due)
O King of Wounds! how shall I grieve for thee,
Who in all grief preventest me!"
As we kneel before our now ascended Saviour's throne, let us remember well the way by which he prepared it as a throne of grace for us; let us in spirit drink of his cup, that we may be strengthened for our hour of heaviness whenever it may come. In his natural body every member suffered, and so must it be in the spiritual; but as out of all his griefs and woes his body came forth uninjured to glory and power, even so shall his mystical body come through the furnace with not so much as the smell of fire upon it.
Evening
It is well for us when prayers about our sorrows are linked with pleas concerning our sins--when, being under God's hand, we are not wholly taken up with our pain, but remember our offences against God. It is well, also, to take both sorrow and sin to the same place. It was to God that David carried his sorrow: it was to God that David confessed his sin. Observe, then, we must take our sorrows to God. Even your little sorrows you may roll upon God, for he counteth the hairs of your head; and your great sorrows you may commit to him, for he holdeth the ocean in the hollow of his hand. Go to him, whatever your present trouble may be, and you shall find him able and willing to relieve you. But we must take our sins to God too. We must carry them to the cross, that the blood may fall upon them, to purge away their guilt, and to destroy their defiling power.
The special lesson of the text is this:--that we are to go to the Lord with sorrows and with sins in the right spirit. Note that all David asks concerning his sorrow is, "Look upon mine affliction and my pain;" but the next petition is vastly more express, definite, decided, plain--"Forgive all my sins." Many sufferers would have put it, "Remove my affliction and my pain, and look at my sins." But David does not say so; he cries, "Lord, as for my affliction and my pain, I will not dictate to thy wisdom. Lord, look at them, I will leave them to thee, I should be glad to have my pain removed, but do as thou wilt; but as for my sins, Lord, I know what I want with them; I must have them forgiven; I cannot endure to lie under their curse for a moment." A Christian counts sorrow lighter in the scale than sin; he can bear that his troubles should continue, but he cannot support the burden of his transgressions.
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““He himself bore our sins” in his body on the cross, so that we might die to sins and live for righteousness; “by his wounds you have been healed.”” - 1 Peter 2:24===
Some say Peter could not have written his letter because they don’t believe in adult learning. After Peter’s education as a disciple of Jesus, Peter was privileged and had ample opportunity to learn advanced rhetoric. But the wording here is simple and pure. God is holy. God is exalted and above the sin of which people are immersed. In order to deal with sin, it is important not to deal in sin, but to look for God. The simplicity of the words is what informs those who claim Peter could not have written it.
Peter was named by Christ as the rock of the Church This letter may not have been written by him, but was written in his name, probably a decade after the fall of Jerusalem. Peter would have been dead, but still remembered in Rome where this letter probably originated. Christians were being persecuted on the pretext of amoral behaviour.
We are called to live godly lives in pagan society. We are equipped to, by His grace.
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I am a decent man and don't care for the abuse given me. I created a video raising awareness of anti police feeling among western communities. I chose the senseless killing of Nicola Cotton, a Louisiana policewoman who joined post Katrina, to highlight the issue. I did this in order to get an income after having been illegally blacklisted from work in NSW for being a whistleblower. I have not done anything wrong. Local council appointees refused to endorse my work, so I did it for free. Youtube's Adsence refused to allow me to profit from their marketing it. Meanwhile, I am hostage to abysmal political leadership and hopeless journalists. My shopfront has opened on Facebook.
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I am publishing a book called Bread of Life: January.
Bread of Life is a daily bible quote with a layman's understanding of the meaning. I give one quote for each day, and also a series of personal stories illustrating key concepts eg Who is God? What is a miracle? Why is there tragedy?
January is the first of the anticipated year-long work of thirteen books. One for each month and the whole year. It costs to publish. It (Kindle version) should retail at about $2US online, but the paperback version would cost more, according to production cost.If you have a heart for giving, I fundraise at gofund.me/27tkwuc (Gofundme finished the fund raiser, 2017)
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Editorials will appear in the "History in a Year by the Conservative Voice" series, starting with August, September, October, or at Amazon http://www.amazon.com/dp/1482020262/ref=cm_sw_r_tw_dp_dVHPub0MQKDZ4 The kindle version is cheaper, but the soft back version allows a free kindle version.
The Amazon Author Page for David Ball
UK .. http://www.amazon.co.uk/-/e/B01683ZOWG
French .. http://www.amazon.fr/-/e/B01683ZOWG
Japan .. http://www.amazon.co.jp/-/e/B01683ZOWG
German .. http://www.amazon.de/-/e/B01683ZOWG
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Other Stuff
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I'm now on MAGAbook to sidestep FB censorship
https://www.magabook.com/register?invite=11673951025fadd3f055eca4.00045664
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I'm looking for former students to endorse me
https://www.superprof.com.au/write-recommendation-13371374-1cc2cf0f56166c9b04ad4097fc7d0b67.html
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