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 Curt Schilling

Curt Schilling: Most Pro Athletes Are Conservative « CBS Philly:

He addressed the end of his time working for ESPN, saying they were dishonest about the reason he was fired and defended comments he made while working there.

“What I care about is that they lie about it. ESPN fires me for, apparently, being intolerant because I was actually commenting around the fact men should use the men’s room and women should use women’s room. Apparently, that was enough, the straw that broke the camel’s back,” Schilling explained. “Then, they come out and act as if they are a tolerant group and they’ve gone full mental since then. They’ve gone way over the edge on the left, having a tribute to Obama after his last day in office, which gave me acid reflux.”



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 "Buckle your seatbelts.
It's going to be a bumpy ride."
Betty Davis - All About Eve

GJ - Long ago, Father Richard Neuhaus quoted an insurance survey, writing - the American leaders are far more Left than the population in general. This has been shown time and again - in Lutherdom - with the leaders using the tactics of Pope Pius IX:

1. Those favoring the pope and his infallibility are promoted and canonized as saints.
2. Those who dare to bring up the truth are threatened, canned, driven into exile, and demoted even when they prostrate themselves  before the District Presidents and Synod Presidents.

 "Do you know who we used to be?"
Sure - WELS communications, WELS DP,
WELS teacher in Phoenix.

Java Dude Helped Another Angel Obtain His Wings. Making Disciples: The Error of Modern Pieitsm

Every time someone reviews a Martin Chemnitz Press book, another angel gets his wings.
Java Dude reviewed
Making Disciples: The Error of Modern Pieitism.

Here is the review:

Top Customer Reviews

5.0 out of 5 starsWhat does it really say? Translations or merchandising?

By Java Dude on October 27, 2016

Format: Paperback

While reading this book, and this applies to all others I have read by the same author, you will have the treat of ready access to a deep and wide resource in the form of Dr. Jackson’s education, teaching, and preaching. With advanced degrees from Yale and Notre Dame, Jackson’s writing reflects a disciplined approach he honed in the process. He has a love for footnotes and quotations from sources. Jackson will bring into play tools from original languages of the Bible, history, geography, philosophy and of course theology, and use them to craft a narrative that is unusually comprehensive. Lucid and refreshingly succinct, Dr. Jackson carves with precision to his points.

Making Disciples is not merely a discussion of the venerable “Great Commission” found in the closing verses of Matthew 28. That subject is vivisected, to be sure, but an historical background of the English versions of the Bible is also presented, along with Luther’s German Bible and the Vulgate (Latin). All of this serves to add context and relevance to the discussion itself without distraction. Jackson writes with a density not to be found in many wordy so-called Christian books that flood the best seller lists. He’s not being paid by the word here, and he doesn’t profit a couple million dollars each time he takes to pen, as do the megachurch rock-stars so long in enthusiasm and short in academia. Dr. Jackson writes from mind and heart and the reader is a benefactor.

After reading Making Disciples, you will learn how Bible versions often contain agendas carefully inserted into the translation, along with footnotes that work to undermine the original Greek meaning, here and there again, to bend the Bible to suit the particular theology being advanced. Many examples are provided from both Testaments, laid bare and naked, and they can be startling to behold. A question is made to whether some new versions are actually new at all, or simply a profitable exercise in Bible merchandising.

A call to appreciate again (for some of us) and anew (for younger of us) the King James Version is made by Jackson, and solid argument provided to bolster its accuracy and beauty. To overcome some of the difficulties of the KJV, Jackson recommends the 21st Century translation, available on Amazon in book form, and also online at BibleGateway dot com. I have begun including KJV21, as it is also known, in my own studies and enjoy it.

I highly recommend this short book to anybody with respect and love for the inerrant Word.

 Many more angels are waiting for their wings.
Here is a list of books by Gregory L. Jackson
and
the books by Norma Boeckler, our award-winning artist.

Valentine's Day Plus One: The Secrets of Making Cut Flowers Last - And They Work for Potted Flowers Too

Someone gave you roses - now what?

Valentine's Day Plus One. Cut and potted flowers can last much longer, even when a heated house or business office is drier than a Calvinist sermon.

Most cut flowers will arrive with a little packet of stuff to add to water. People also say, "Dissolve an aspirin in water." Either one may help a little, but the following will help the most in makinjg cut flowers last.

In college, the future Mrs. Ichabod and I began learning how long a rose could be kept fresh, because I often bought flowers for her. She would keep a rose in a water glass or vase, dip the bloom in water, and sprinkle the bloom during the day.

 Falling in Love roses, pink.
Veterans Honor, red.

Cut Flowers

Cut flowers - especially roses - are sponge-like in their ability to absorb water. That water is not going to move up the stems very well after someone cut them.  There are six remedies for this.

1. To facilitate water uptake, snip the ends of the flowers as soon as delivered and put them in a vase of water - or water plus that packet of something.
2. Before putting the flowers in the vase, put them in the kitchen sink and soak them with clean water or spray them with that little sink hose gadget. That will hydrate the stems and flowers. Snipping a little from the bottom of the stems will also help.
3. Change the water every single day. The flowers do not like to sit in bleh water becoming packed with bacteria. Compost them later. 
4. When changing the vase water, spray the entire flower bunch again. Roses love this treatment and really perk up.
5. If possible, snip some of the stems off each day, which helps the flowers' uptake of water.
6. Sprinkle the flowers in the vase later in the day, if so moved. Extra water drops in the blooms will help them last longer. They can even get their shower and water change again, later in the day.

Potted Flowers

Potted flowers are a little different. They are in a sterile potting soil medium and the pots are often wrapped in a foil. Potted flowers enjoy more hydration than they usually get.

• Poke holes in the foil on the bottom. Fill the pot with water, and spray the entire plant with the sink hose.
• Let the excess water drain from the pot while in the sink.
• Place the pot on a flat dish to catch extra water draining later.
• Repeat this every day.

Poinsettias will last for weeks this way, and other flowers will last much longer than usual.

Flowers harvested from the garden will always be more hydrated
than anything from a store or flower shop,
reason enough to grow some.