Proverbs 28:27, “He that giveth unto the poor shall not lack: but he that hideth his eyes shall have many a curse.”
This is beautiful. ...
How Americans Are Building $500 Tiny Homes On Wheels For Homeless People
The state of California has spent $24,000,000,000 since 2019 to remedy homelessness, but did nothing. One man with his own money built a $500 home for a homeless grandma and filmed it, starting a nationwide trend of building micro homes for the homeless.
It is possible to build a livable micro home for a homeless person for just $150, and a nicer one for $500. For about $1,200 you can build a home with a smoke detector, solar panel and other helpful amenities. And for $5,000 you can build a mansion for a homeless person compared to sleeping on the hard ground. For $1,000,000 you could build 200 of those $5,000 micro homes. For $1,000,000,000 you could build 200,000 micro homes. And for $24,000,000,000 you could build 4,800,000 microhomes for $5,000 each! There are only 160,000 homeless people in the entire state of California. So, where did that $24,000,000,000 go?
While it takes literally years for government bureaucracies to approve getting anything done, microhomes can be build over just one weekend. In his first inaugural address on January 20, 1981, Ronald Reagan wisely stated:
“In this present crisis, government is not the solution to our problem; government is the problem.”
There is plenty of money and willing neighbours to help the poor and homeless in the United States. The real problem is the criminal incompetent government.
Proverbs 6:10-11, “Yet a little sleep, a little slumber, a little folding of the hands to sleep: So shall thy poverty come as one that travelleth, and thy want as an armed man.”
Revelation 3:2, “Be watchful, and strengthen the things which remain, that are ready to die: for I have not found thy works perfect before God.”
I was saddened but not shocked to find this disturbing article...
Ireland Bob Jones University drops reference to Catholicism as a 'cult'
The Bob Jones University is no longer calling Catholicism a "cult", one of the charges of anti-Catholic bigotry which embarrassed…
by JOE CARROLL | March 16, 2000
The Bob Jones University is no longer calling Catholicism a "cult", one of the charges of anti-Catholic bigotry which embarrassed the Governor of Texas, Mr. George W. Bush, when he went there during his campaign in South Carolina for the Republican presidential nomination.
The fundamentalist university, which has awarded an honorary doctorate to the Rev Ian Paisley, had earlier removed a ban on inter-racial dating following the controversy over Mr. Bush's visit.
His rival for the Republican nomination, Senator John McCain, had rebuked Mr. Bush for not speaking out against the university's anti-Catholic stance and the dating ban.
The president, Bob Jones III, grandson of the founder, surprised the staff and students when he announced in a TV interview several weeks ago that he had ended the ban on inter-racial dating on the campus. However, on the college Website Mr. Jones continued to say that "the diminution of evangelistic enterprise to cults which call themselves Christian, including Catholicism and Mormonism, is frightening".
This passage has now been dropped from the Website. During the controversy, Mr. Jones said in a written response: "If there are those who wish to charge us with being anti-Catholicism, we plead guilty. But we are not Catholic-haters."
Meanwhile, Mr. Bush and Vice-President Al Gore have clinched their White House nominations. Voters in Florida, Texas, Louisiana, Mississippi, Oklahoma and Tennessee put both men over the top for the delegates they need for the nominating conventions in July and August.
"Tonight we can say, mission accomplished," Mr. Bush said at a rally in Austin, Texas, after six southern states voted in the "Super Tuesday" round of primaries and caucuses.
Mr. Bush and Mr. Gore won the delegates after vanquishing their respective rivals, Senator McCain and Senator Bill Bradley.
"With this victory comes a sacred duty. Americans want a leader who will raise our sights. Americans want a president who will keep his oath and his honour. And this is a charge that I will keep," Mr. Bush said.
Mr. Gore, tapping into his greatest strength - the boom economy - said: "We stand at a mountaintop moment in our history."
Mr. Gore was addressing a rally in Florida, a decisive state in the November race, where Mr. Bush's brother, Mr. Jeb Bush, is governor. SOURCE
I think it is a tell-tale sign of the perilous times in which we live, when professed Christians are dipping their sails in sinful compromise. I am reminded of something that Pastor Charles Spurgeon wisely said:
“A little laxity leads to a little complaisance, and this soon leads to a little acceptance of false teaching.” —Pastor Charles Spurgeon, 1887
Proverbs 22:28, “Remove not the ancient landmark, which thy fathers have set.”The ancient landmarks have been removed at BJU because at some point their leaders stopped earnestly contending for the faith which was once delivered unto the saints (Jude 1:3).
BJU's shameful leaders stopped calling a spade a spade in 2000, refusing to call the Satanic prisonhouse religion of Roman Catholicism what it truly is, a “cult.” Not surprisingly, BJU have themselves also become a cult, now preaching hard core Lordship Salvation. The first step downward into apostasy in any church or Bible college is when they stop contending for the Christian faith. Whatever a pastor stops preaching against is what his church will fill up with within five years. You've got to stand for something, or you'll fall for anything!
Romans 1:28-32, “And even as they did not like to retain God in their knowledge, God gave them over to a reprobate mind, to do those things which are not convenient; Being filled with all unrighteousness, fornication, wickedness, covetousness, maliciousness; full of envy, murder, debate, deceit, malignity; whisperers, Backbiters, haters of God, despiteful, proud, boasters, inventors of evil things, disobedient to parents, Without understanding, covenantbreakers, without natural affection, implacable, unmerciful: Who knowing the judgment of God, that they which commit such things are worthy of death, not only do the same, but have pleasure in them that do them.”
The inspired Holy Bible ceases to amaze me, how accurately it describes the human race. We are a troublesome bunch, aren't we. Have you watched the news lately? It is disturbing! Some unwise preachers automatically assume that our text passage of Scripture from Romans chapter one only applies to homosexuals, but it applies to anyone who refuses to acknowledge and glorify God in their life, who have become unthankful toward their Creator.
I have been watching many astronomy documentaries on YouTube. I absolutely love astronomy! It is the study of God's amazing unsearchable greatness (Psalms 145:3). As I was watching a video yesterday, the narrator mentioned Stephen Hawking (1942-2018). He was an English theoretical astrophysicist, cosmologist, and author who was director of research at the Centre for Theoretical Cosmology at the University of Cambridge. Between 1979 and 2009, he was the Lucasian Professor of Mathematics at Cambridge, widely viewed as one of the most prestigious academic posts in the world. Sadly, Mr. Hawking was an avowed atheist. It blows my mind how such a brilliant man could be so foolish and wilfully blind. Romans chapter one absolutely includes Stephen Hawking! Professing himself to be wise, he became a fool!
In 100% of the hundreds of astronomy videos that I have watched on YouTube over the years, NOT ONE has bothered to even mention our Creator. Not one video! Ingrates! Neither does NASA, National Geographic, or any of the official "official" experts on the origin of our universe, bother to acknowledge or glorify God our omnipotent Creator. They are ingrates! After all that the good LORD has done for them, they dishonor and ignore Him.
The inspired King James Bible says in Romans 1:28b that “they did not like to retain God in their knowledge.” Why? The people who “glorified him not as God, neither were thankful; but became vain in their imaginations, and their foolish heart was darkened. Professing themselves to be wise, they became fools...” This includes a vast group of humanity extending far beyond the LGBTQ+ community.
Please don't make the ungodly error of only applying Romans chapter one to homosexuals, which is exactly what Pastor Steven Anderson's hateful New IFB (independent fundamental Baptist) movement have done. They claim that LGBTQ+ people are "reprobates" whom God hates and rejects, so they are now beyond the hope of the gospel. Nothing could be further from the truth of God's Word (2nd Peter 3:9). God desires for all men to come to repentance (to change their mind from unbelief to trust Christ).
Only haughty wicked people attempt to explain the origin and workings of our universe without acknowledging our omnipotent Creator who made all things (John 1:1-3).
Proverbs 20:1, “Wine is a mocker, strong drink is raging: and whosoever is deceived thereby is not wise.”
The statistics don't lie dear reader. Booze is nothing to mess around with or take lightly.
Excessive alcohol use causes about 178,000 deaths annually in the U.S., with two-thirds from chronic conditions like liver disease and cancer, and one-third from acute incidents like overdoses and accidents. Alcohol-related deaths have increased significantly, with men accounting for 67.1% of these deaths. SOURCE
Booze is becoming a serious problem across the United States...
The death toll has risen 29% in five years
Federal data tracks approximately 178,000 Americans dying from excessive alcohol each year — equivalent to one death every three minutes, around the clock. That toll rose 29% between 2016–17 and 2020–21, climbing from an average of 137,927 annual deaths to 178,307. The pace has accelerated sharply: deaths jumped 23% in the most recent measured period, nearly four times the 5% rate recorded in the prior years.
Women represent the fastest-growing group. Female alcohol-related deaths climbed 35% over this period, outpacing the 27% rise among men.
These deaths are not just premature — they are dramatically premature. On average, each person who dies from excessive alcohol use loses 24 years of potential life. Across the full death toll, that amounts to approximately 4 million years of potential life lost every year in the United States.
The five leading causes are alcohol-associated liver disease, heart disease and stroke, accidental poisonings (including combined alcohol-drug overdoses), falls and crashes, and alcohol-related cancers — particularly colorectal and breast cancer. Alcohol now accounts for 44.5% of all liver disease deaths in the United States, and contributes to roughly 5.6% of all US cancer cases.
Alcohol also plays a significant role in other forms of violent and accidental death. In 2022, alcohol was a factor in approximately 16% of drug overdose deaths, and an estimated 21% of suicide decedents had a blood alcohol concentration of 0.10% or higher at the time of death. SOURCE
It is disturbing knowing that 178,000 Americans are still dying each and every year because of alcoholic beverages and yet nothing has been done to stop it. When two teenagers shot up a high school in San Diego a couple weeks ago, over one hundred police officers responded to the incident. The media went into a frenzy. Interviewed neighbours demanded change. Yet, only three people were killed. Why is it that we freak out over three deaths, while totally ignoring the annual death of 178,000 Americans because of Liquid Devil? We're crazy!
The old adage is still true: You cannot take two drinks of beer if you don't take the first.