Daily Luther Sermon Quote - "This Gospel presents to us a true example of firm and perfect faith. For this woman endures and overcomes in three great and hard battles, and teaches us in a beautiful manner the true way and virtue of faith, namely, that it is a hearty trust in the grace and goodness of God as experienced and revealed through his Word."

 

Luther's Sermons - Matthew 15:21-28.
Reminiscere. Second Sunday in Lent.

REMINISCERE. SECOND SUNDAY IN LENT


TEXT:

Matthew 15:21-28. And Jesus went out thence, and withdrew into the parts of Tyre and Sidon. And behold, a Canaanitish woman came out from those borders and cried, saying, Have mercy on me, O Lord, thou son of David; my daughter is grievously vexed with a demon. But he answered her not a word. And his disciples came and besought him, saying, Send her away; for she crieth after us. But he answered and said, I was not sent but unto the lost sheep of the house of Israel. But she came and worshipped him, saying, Lord, help me. And he answered and said, It is not meet to take the children’s bread and cast it to the dogs. But she said, Yea, Lord: for even the dogs eat of the crumbs which fall from their masters’ table. Then Jesus answered and said unto her, O woman, great is thy faith: be it done unto thee even as thou wilt. And her daughter was healed from that hour.


1. This Gospel presents to us a true example of firm and perfect faith. For this woman endures and overcomes in three great and hard battles, and teaches us in a beautiful manner the true way and virtue of faith, namely, that it is a hearty trust in the grace and goodness of God as experienced and revealed through his Word. For St. Mark says, she heard some news about Jesus, Mark 7:25. What kind of news? Without doubt good news, and the good report that Christ was a pious man and cheerfully helped everybody. Such news about God is a true Gospel and a word of grace, out of which sprang the faith of this woman; for had she not believed, she would not have thus run after Christ etc. In like manner we have often heard how St. Paul in Romans 10:17 says that faith cometh by hearing, that the Word must go in advance and be the beginning of our salvation.

2. But how is it that many more have heard this good news concerning Christ, who have not followed him, and did not esteem it as good news?

Answer: The physician is helpful and welcome to the sick; the healthy have no use for him. But this woman felt her need, hence she followed the sweet scent, as is written in the Song of Solomon 1:3. In like manner Moses must precede and teach people to feel their sins in order that grace may be sweet and welcome to them. Therefore all is in vain, however friendly and lovely Christ may be pictured, if man is not first humbled by a knowledge of himself and he possesses no longing for Christ, as Mary’s Song says, “The hungry he hath filled with good things; and the rich he hath sent empty away,” Luke 1:53. All this is spoken and written for the comfort of the distressed, the poor, the needy, the sinful, the despised, so that they may know in all times of need to whom to flee and where to seek comfort and help.

3. But see in this example how Christ like a hunter exercises and chases faith in his followers in order that it may become strong and firm. First when the woman follows him upon hearing of his fame and cries with assured confidence that he would according to his reputation deal mercifully with her, Christ certainly acts differently, as if to let her faith and good confidence be in vain and turn his good reputation into a lie, so that she could have thought: Is this the gracious, friendly man? or: Are these the good words, that I have heard spoken about him, upon which I have depended? It must not be true; he is my enemy and will not receive me; nevertheless he might speak a word and tell me that he will have nothing to do with me. Now he is as silent as a stone. Behold, this is a very hard rebuff, when God appears so earnest and angry and conceals his grace so high and deep; as those know so well, who feel and experience it in their hearts. Therefore she imagines he will not fulfill what he has spoken, and will let his Word be false; as it happened to the children of Israel at the Red Sea and to many other saints.

Name This Preus - Right! - Rolf the LutherQuester (Not Yet Found) But Also at the ALPB ELCA and Atheists Online Forum

 

Rolf Preus - ALPB ELCA Atheist Progressives

"I don't doubt that the progressives study the Scriptures as they come to their progressive opinions.  They study them carefully to see how they can evade the biblical condemnation of the position they are bound and determined to advocate.  They probably study the texts more carefully and thoroughly than the traditionalists do.  After all, it's harder to get a text not to say what it says that to explicate what the text clearly says." 

GJ - This proves that the ELCA/Unitarian stance is no different from the LCMS/ELS/WELS/CLC (sic). 

Deline (sp) of U.S. Christians may be leve...

 

Walther's circle made Stephan a bishop upon landing at New Orleans. They knew about his promiscuity and syphilis. Walther organized the riot in Perryville to take over the gold and land, becoming bishop soon enough and blaming Stephan who was forced to leave.

LutherQuest

Deline (sp) of U.S. Christians may be leve... - Spelling Too The Protestia website, "New Lutheran Church-Missouri Synod Survey Shows Majority Are Pro-Choice, Pro-LGBTQ," has additional information on the 2023-2024 Pew Research survey, including a graph of the Age distribution among members of the Lutheran Church-Missouri Synod. In 2023-24, 47% of the members of LCMS congregations were 65 years or older. Only 5% were in the age range of 18-29. The corresponding numbers for 2014 were 30% and 10%. The corresponding numbers for 2007 were 26% and 11%.   Rolf David Preus (Rolf) Senior Member Username: Rolf Post Number: 11329 Registered: 5-2001 Posted on Wednesday, March 05, 2025 - 11:44 pm:       These statistics are depressing. I find it hard to believe that the LCMS has fallen so far as this.

"One does not simply absolve the whole world."

*** GJ

How do the LCMS-WELS-ELS sects cuddle up to ELCA, share in the loot of Thrivent, and embrace every doctrine but Luther's?  

The same sects glorified Marvin Schwan and took his money "to grow," but all they did was shrink, chase after the Fuller/Willow Creek gang, and condemn Justification by Faith.

ELCA (LCA/ALC) embraced women's ordination, though contrary to the Scriptures and the Confessions. Just to show one example - Jack Preus, the father of Rolf Preus, established a Church Growth Doctor of Ministry (laughable) degree at Concordia Seminary Ft. Wayne. Jack sent to Herman Otten a poster from WELS, writing, "WELS is worse than we are" on the poster. 

In fact, all the Lutheran sects were hotter than Georgia asphalt for Church Growth. Or more like the cheap candy that leaves everyone hyped up, then nauseous, then disgusted. Notice that the WELS Church Growth stars are fading away quickly.

Notice that Herman Otten's tabloid is no longer mentioned by anyone, if it is even printed or exposed to the light of computers. He played a card game with all the factions, and at least to air out their weaknesses on:

1. The phony Otten/Beck Bible - as bad as the RSV.
2. Pure political bunco jobs seated on the bishop's seat, destroying Justification by Faith.
3. Laughable dogma from the politicians of each sect. 
4. Clawing money into their pockets and failing in every way.

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World missions people should beware that anything from the synods should be fumigated and rejected as utterly false. 

They lack the efficacy of God's Word.

They embrace the worst Bibles so they can make money but reject the precision and grace of the KJV. "Aiming at truth, they achieved what later generations recognized as beauty and elegance."

They fear the collapse all around them and have no spiritual resources to overcome their cowardice, greed, and larceny.

Holy Communion Service - Tomorrow - Monday - 7 PM Central Daylight

 

We had Holy Communion at Crown Point. It seemed good to have the service also on Monday, March 10.

C. Peter Wagner Would Like To Send a Message To the Big Five Apostates - ELCA-LCMS-WELS-ELS-CLC (sic)

 

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Daily Luther Sermon Quote - Temptation of Christ - "Now that God sustains all mankind by bread, and not by the Word alone, without bread, is done to the end, that he conceals his work in the world in order to exercise believers; just as he commanded the children of Israel to arm themselves and to fight, and yet it was not his pleasure that victory should come through their own sword and deeds; but he himself was to slay their enemies and triumph with their swords and through their deeds."

 

Luther's Sermons - Matthew 4:1-11.
Invocavit. First Sunday in Lent

15. Now that God sustains all mankind by bread, and not by the Word alone, without bread, is done to the end, that he conceals his work in the world in order to exercise believers; just as he commanded the children of Israel to arm themselves and to fight, and yet it was not his pleasure that victory should come through their own sword and deeds; but he himself was to slay their enemies and triumph with their swords and through their deeds. Here it might also be said: The warrior was not victorious through his sword alone, but by every word that proceeded out of the mouth of God, as David sings, Psalm 44:6: “For I will not trust in my bow, neither shall my sword save me.” Also Psalm 147:10 and Psalm 33:16-17: “He taketh no pleasure in the legs of a man. A mighty man is not delivered by great strength. A horse is a vain thing for safety.” Yet he uses man and the horse, the sword and bow: but not because of the strength and power of man and of the horse, but under the veil and covering of man and the horse he fights and does all. This he proves in that he often did and daily does the same without man and the horse, where there is need and he is not tempted.

16. Thus he does also with the bread; since it is at hand, he nourishes us through it and by means of it, so that we do not see it and we think the bread does it; but where it is not at hand, there he nourishes us without the bread, only through the Word, as he does by means of the bread; so that thus bread is God’s helper, as Paul says in 1 Corinthians 3:9: “We are God’s fellow workers,” that is, through and under our outward ministerial office he gives inwardly his grace, which he also could give and does give indeed without our office; but since the office is at hand, one should not despise it nor tempt God. Thus God sustains us outwardly by bread; but only inwardly he gives that growth and permanency, which the bread cannot give. And the summary is: All creatures are God’s larva and mummery, which he permits to work with him and to help to do everything that he can do and does do otherwise without their cooperation, in order that we may cleave alone to his Word. Thus, if bread is at hand, that we do not therefore trust the more; or if there is no bread present, that we do not therefore despair the more; but use it when it is at hand, and do without it, when there is none; being assured that we shall still live and be sustained at both times by God’s Word, whether there be bread or no bread. With such faith one overcomes avarice and temporal care for daily bread in the right way.

17. Christ’s second temptation is opposed to the first and is repugnant to common sense. Its substance is that the devil teaches us to tempt God; as he here calls to Christ to cast himself down from the pinnacle of the temple, which was not at all necessary, since there were surely good steps upon which he could descend. And that this temptation was for the purpose of tempting or making trial of God, the answer of Christ also clearly proves, when he says: “Thou shalt not make trial of the Lord thy God.” By this he shows that the devil wished to lead him into temptation.

18. And this very appropriately follows the first temptation. For where the devil feels a heart trusts God in times of want and need, he soon ceases his temptation of bread and avarice and thinks: Wait, wilt thou be very spiritual and believing, I will assist you: He approaches and attacks on the other side, that we might believe where God has not commanded us to believe, nor wills that we should believe. For example, if God gave you bread in your homes, as he does yearly everywhere in the world, and you would not use it, but instead you would cause need and want yourselves, and say: Why, we are to believe God; I will not eat the bread, but will patiently wait until God sends me manna from heaven. See, that would be tempting God; for that is not believing where all is at hand that we need and should have. How can one believe that he will receive what he already has ?

The LCMS Went ELCA Years Ago - And Brought Their WELS Buddy Along

 

 Lutheran School of Theology at Chicago in Chicago, Illinois, is one of the main seminaries of the decrepit and apostate Evangelical Lutheran Church in America (ELCA). Protestia.

New Lutheran Church-Missouri Synod Survey Shows Majority Are Pro-Choice, Pro-LGBTQ

The Big Five Apostates - ELCA-LCMS-WELS-ELS-CLC (sic)

ELCA has a host of advocates in all areas of ministry, if it can be called that. They intermingle with LCMS and WELS through Thrivent In$urance and anything else that moves. If one questions anything about La Popessa Eaton, the entire conglomerate jumps on him like a hobo on a hotdog.

The Lutheran Church-Missouri Synod (LCMS) is a confessional (sic) Lutheran (sic) denomination that is the second largest in the country, historically viewed as serving as the conservative foil (sic) to the apostate Evangelical Lutheran Church in America (ELCA)

Led by President Matthew Harrison, the denomination claimed 1.7M baptized congregants in 2023, with a reported weekly attendance of nearly 523k spread across 5.7k congregations. Notably, 45% of LCMS congregations have a weekly attendance of less than 50 people.

Pew Research, which previously published studies of the LCMS in 2007 and 2014, has released a massive new religious landscape survey on the denomination, with a sample size of 35,000 that includes 1200 Laity.

The results are dispiriting.

When it comes to homosexuality, 50% of respondents say it should be accepted, along with 50% who strongly favor/ favor same-sex marriage.

Likewise, 54% say abortion should be legal in all or most cases.

When it comes to evolution, 81% believe that humans evolved over time, either with or without God.

Lastly, when it comes to demographics, the numbers are bleak, with only 5% of members under the age of 30, and nearly half of members are senior citizens.

At the rate they’re going, merging with the ELCA in 20 years remains a very real possibility.

"Now more than ever, homosexuality is a predominant subject in our country and in our world. You may have solid views based on the Bible but still have questions on how your views pertain to life today. Or you may question how to talk to other Christians or non-Christians about your views. In the book "Forgive Us Our Sins: Homosexuality in the Light of God's Truth," the authors tackle the tough issue of homosexuality in a firm but loving way through the clear context of Scripture and also retell Scott's exodus from the gay lifestyle back to Christ. The authors avoid judgment and stereotypes by delicately balancing biblical law and gospel to provide encouragement to all believers who struggle with any temptation, not just homosexuality. Ultimately, the book provides hope and support for those who, just as Scott did, seek to turn their lives back to Christ."

Ash Wednesday Holy Communion - Tonight at 7 PM Central

 

The Hymn #154     Alas and Did My Savior Bleed                         

The Confession of Sins
The Absolution
The Introit p. 16

Introit

I will cry unto God Most High: unto God that performeth all things for me.

Yea, in the shadow of Thy wings will I make my refuge: until these calamities be overpast.

Psalm. Be merciful unto me, O God, be merciful unto me: for my soul trusteth in Thee.

The Gloria Patri
The Kyrie p. 17
The Gloria in Excelsis
The Salutation and Collect p. 19

Collect

Almighty and everlasting God, who hatest nothing that Thou hast made and dost forgive the sins of all those who are penitent, create and make in us new and contrite hearts, that we, worthily lamenting our sins and acknowledging our wretchedness, may obtain of Thee, the God of all mercy, perfect remission and forgiveness; through Jesus Christ, Thy Son, our Lord, who liveth, etc.

The Epistle and Gradual  

The Epistle

KJV Joel 2:12-19

12 Therefore also now, saith the Lord, turn ye even to me with all your heart, and with fasting, and with weeping, and with mourning: 13 And rend your heart, and not your garments, and turn unto the Lord your God: for he is gracious and merciful, slow to anger, and of great kindness, and repenteth him of the evil. 14 Who knoweth if he will return and repent, and leave a blessing behind him; even a meat offering and a drink offering unto the Lord your God? 15 Blow the trumpet in Zion, sanctify a fast, call a solemn assembly: 16 Gather the people, sanctify the congregation, assemble the elders, gather the children, and those that suck the breasts: let the bridegroom go forth of his chamber, and the bride out of her closet. 17 Let the priests, the ministers of the Lord, weep between the porch and the altar, and let them say, Spare thy people, O Lord, and give not thine heritage to reproach, that the heathen should rule over them: wherefore should they say among the people, Where is their God? 18 Then will the Lord be jealous for his land, and pity his people. 19 Yea, the Lord will answer and say unto his people, Behold, I will send you corn, and wine, and oil, and ye shall be satisfied therewith: and I will no more make you a reproach among the heathen:

Gradual

Be merciful unto me, O God, be merciful unto me: for my soul trusteth in Thee.

V. He shall send from heaven: and save me from the reproach of him that would swallow me up.

Tract. O Lord, deal not with us after our sins: nor reward us according to our iniquities.

V. O Lord, remember not against us former iniquities: let Thy tender mercies speedily come to us, for we are brought very low.

V. Help us, O God of our salvation: for the glory of Thy name

The Gospel

Glory be to Thee, O Lord!

Matthew 6:16 Moreover when ye fast, be not, as the hypocrites, of a sad countenance: for they disfigure their faces, that they may appear unto men to fast. Verily I say unto you, They have their reward. 17 But thou, when thou fastest, anoint thine head, and wash thy face; 18 That thou appear not unto men to fast, but unto thy Father which is in secret: and thy Father, which seeth in secret, shall reward thee openly. 19 Lay not up for yourselves treasures upon earth, where moth and rust doth corrupt, and where thieves break through and steal: 20 But lay up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where neither moth nor rust doth corrupt, and where thieves do not break through nor steal: 21 For where your treasure is, there will your heart be also.

Praise be to Thee, O Christ!              

The Nicene Creed p. 22

The Hymn #419               O'er Jerusalem - Anna Hoppe (WELS, Augustana)

Grace without Faith Is a Disgrace

The basis for the entire universe is the opposite of what people think, promote, and garnish. That must be true, because we see the evidence around us and to some extent somewhat in us. Why? Because the Old Adam is always there with us, spawning many kinds of remedies, never enough and often far worse. Look at the way the nation's "lawmakers" refuse to be even a little bit polite. In another place of politics, the smoke grenades were tossed into the discussion - no, really. Look at Serbia. Or look at us. Half the Congressional audience refused to cheer and clap for the boy with brain cancer who wanted to be an honorary cop. 

"Amazing Grace" is often sung, and it has good intentions. However, the words obscure - hide - what the Word of God says. Every word is a tool, and so every word helps or ruins the thought. The concept is quite simple, which can be the reason for the falsehood.

KJV Romans 5 -

5 Therefore being justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ: 2 By whom also we have access by faith into this grace wherein we stand, and rejoice in hope of the glory of God.

3 And not only so, but we glory in tribulations also: knowing that tribulation worketh patience; 4 And patience, experience; and experience, hope: 5 And hope maketh not ashamed; because the love of God is shed abroad in our hearts by the Holy Ghost which is given unto us.

Many clergy and laity have shunned me and argued against me (the Bible actually) based on Romans 5. "Justified by faith" simply means that the faith created by the Gospel marks us as forgiven through the work of the Holy Spirit.

Faith means complete trust in the Savior, the Good Shepherd, the Son of God, the King of Kings and Lord of Lords. We know all is ours in faith because the Bible starts with the Father ordering Creation and the Son executing each command. That is not obscure but as clear as can be. The Father ordered Light before the sun and galaxies existed, and the Son executed the command. Thus the universe was utterly dark without the Son making Light happen. And so it continued in the Six Days, which were real days, not Daylight imaginary time.

Genesis 1 proves this, though most are blind to it. "And there was Light." Dad may fall down the basement stairs because he did not turn on the switch. Genesis 1 makes it plain that there are two phases - ordering Let there be Light and execution "And there was light."

Verification comes from John 1 -

1 In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. 2 The same [very emphatic] was in the beginning with God.

3 All things were made by him; and without him was not any thing made that was made.

4 In him was life; and the life was the light of men. 

5 And the light shineth in darkness; and the darkness comprehended it not.

To absorb this - Read Psalm 1, where the Law (Torah) is encompassing, not simply The Law. (Like the grace error) Torah means Teaching, including Law, Gospel, and Blessings.

1 Blessed is the man that walketh not in the counsel of the ungodly, nor standeth in the way of sinners, nor sitteth in the seat of the scornful.

2 But his delight is in the Teaching (Torah) of the Lord; and in his Teaching (Torah) doth he meditate day and night.

grace = access by faith 

Go over these phrases that are marked and keep returning to them. Grace means forgiveness, blessings, removal of pain, guilt and sorrow, joy from overcoming burdens, and so forth. 

Access is a plain old word. Don't look it up - it's just access. I have an appointment at the tuxedo shop. One thing is sure - I will look very strange if I am wearing gardening clothes and floppy shoes. Access can mean a meeting place, so it is extremely powerful because it is the Spirit at work in the Word. So if we look at troubles, sins, catastrophes, sorrows, pains, we have access by grace to brush those things away - and to grow the fruits of the Spirit (John 15).

Christina wore a Swedish crown, donated to Augustana through Sweden.
She had access to the crown.

The Hymn #312        Lord Jesus Christ Thou Living Bread                           

The Preface p. 24
The Sanctus p. 26
The Lord's Prayer p. 27
The Words of Institution
The Agnus Dei p. 28
The Nunc Dimittis p. 29
The Benediction p. 31

The Hymn #370            My Hope Is Built

Do You Like the Left-Wing? Your Denomination Is the Left Wing of Congress.Deal With It!

 

When a large group pouts and fumes and makes faces, they have surrendered, so far gone that they echo each other's foolishness.

The Left-Wing in America is almost identical to the snarling and whining of the mainline Lutherans - The Big Five Apostates - ELCA-LCMS-WELS-ELS-CLC (sic). The faux-Lutherans are quite similar to the faux-Democrats.

The Big Five are all Scriptural! They spend money on 10 or more corruptions of the KJV Bible because they can make more money for themselves with daily paraphrasing and higher profits.

The Big Five are overflowing with grace! Not at all. The only access to God's grace is faith in Jesus Christ, Romans 5:1-2. They keep saying "Grace! Grace! Grace!" while denying Justification by Faith, which begins at Genesis 15 and goes through the entire Bible.

The Big Five are mission minded! Yes, they love to have their favorite buddies sent around the globe, pan-handling all the sources they can garnish. They come back home to brag about how much they have suffered.

They love Luther! Once a year - or less - they mention Luther and get out a worn copy of Luther's Sermons to prove they actually read a page or two. What's that smell? They are going back to Holy Mother Rome. They will not be content until they are all one in the bosom of their Father Below.

Daily Luther Sermon Quote - First Sunday in Lent - "What were it if the whole world were full of bread, still man does not live by bread alone, but more belongs to life, namely, the Word of God. The words, however, are so beautiful and powerful that we must not pass over them lightly, but carefully explain them."

 

Luther's Sermons - Matthew 4:1-11.
Invocavit. First Sunday in Lent

10. Thirdly, behold how Christ resists this temptation of bread, and overcomes; he sees nothing but stones and what is uneatable, then he approaches and clings to the Word of God, strengthens himself by it and strikes the devil to the ground with it. This saying all Christians should lay hold of when they see that there is lack and want and everything has become stones, so that courage trembles, and they should say: What were it if the whole world were full of bread, still man does not live by bread alone, but more belongs to life, namely, the Word of God. The words, however, are so beautiful and powerful that we must not pass over them lightly, but carefully explain them.

11. These words Christ quotes from Deuteronomy 8:3, where Moses says: “Thy God humbled thee, and suffered thee to hunger, and fed thee with manna, which thou knewest not, neither did thy fathers know; that he might make thee know that man doth not live by bread only, but by everything that proceedeth out of the mouth of Jehovah doth man live.”

That is as much as to say: Since God permits you to hunger and you still continue to live, you ought indeed to grasp the thought that God nourishes you without bread through his Word; for if you should live and sustain yourself by bread alone then you must continually be full of bread. But the Word, that nourishes us is, that he promises us and causes it to be published that he is our God and desires to be our God.

12. Thus now the meaning of Moses and of Christ is: Whoever has here God’s Word and believes, has both blessings; the first, where he is in want and has nothing, but must suffer hunger, that Word will sustain him, so that he will not die of hunger nor perish, just as well as if he had abundance to eat; for the Word he has in his heart nourishes and sustains him without eating and drinking. But has he little to eat, then a bite or slice of bread will feed and nourish him like a kingly meal; for not only bread but the Word of God also nourishes the body naturally, as it creates and upholds all things, Hebrews 1:3. The other blessing he will also enjoy, namely, that finally bread will surely be at hand, come whence it will, and should it rain from heaven like manna where none grows and none can grow. In these two thoughts every person can freely trust, namely, that he must in time of hunger receive bread or something to eat, or if not, then his hunger must become so moderate and bearable that it will nourish him even as well as bread does.

13. What has been said of eating and feeding the body should be understood also of drinking, clothing, house, and all our needs: namely that although he still permits us to become naked and suffer want for clothing, house etc., clothing must finally be at hand, and before it fails the leaves of the trees must become coats and mantles; or if not, then the coats and garments that we wear must never grow old; just as happened to the Children of Israel in the desert Deuteronomy 8:2-4, whose clothing and shoes never wore out. Likewise the wild wilderness must become their houses, and there must be a way where there is no way; and water, where there is no water; stones must become water. For here stands God’s Word, which says: “He cares for you;” and St. Paul in 1 Timothy 6:17: “God giveth us richly all things to enjoy;” and Matthew 6:33-34: “But seek ye first the kingdom of God and his righteousness; and all these things shall be added unto you. Be not therefore anxious for the morrow.” These and like words must continue true and stand forever firm.

14. All this one may indeed learn from his own daily experiences. For it is held, and I almost believe it, that there are not as many sheaves of wheat grown as there are people living on the earth; but God daily blesses and increases the wheat in the sack, the flour in the tray, the bread on the table and in the mouth, as Christ did. John 6:12 f. It is also noticeable that as a rule poor people and their children are fatter and their food reaches farther and agrees with them better than is the case among the rich with all their provisions. However that the godless at times suffer need, or in times of famine many die of hunger, is caused by a special plague as pestilence, war etc. In other ways we see that in all things it is not the food, but the Word of God that nourishes every human being.

DJ - Honorary Secret Service Agent - Brain Cancer

 

Free Republic - TwitterX ^ | 3/5/2025 | TwitterX User Mike Johnson

The night was electric, pulsing with the raw energy of a nation clawing its way back from the abyss. Donald Trump stood at the podium, a lion surveying his den, commanding the chamber with the weight of history pressing against his shoulders. The air was thick with expectation, with defiance, with the unshakable spirit of America refusing to be broken. And then, the moment came—the kind of moment that strips away the political filth and reveals the soul of a country.

A boy named DJ, clad in the crisp uniform of a police officer, stood proud and unwavering, though the cruel grip of fate had marked him for battle against something far more ruthless than any criminal—brain cancer. His father, a cop, watched with pride as his son, too young to understand the horrors of bureaucracy, stood before the most powerful men and women in the nation, believing in something greater than himself.

Trump, never one to miss the chance to honor the real beating heart of America, did what no other president in modern history would have dared. He made DJ an honorary Secret Service agent—not as a political stunt, not as a hollow gesture, but as a symbol of everything that still makes this country great. Here was a boy who, despite all odds, still dreamed of serving and protecting. A boy who saw the badge not as a mark of oppression, but of justice. A boy whose bravery outshone the cowards who sat in the shadows.

The chamber erupted. The walls of Congress shook with applause, the very rafters of democracy trembling under the force of true, unfiltered emotion. People stood, tears in their eyes, clapping until their hands stung. But not everyone.

No, across the aisle sat the Democrats, cold as corpses, eyes hollow, mouths twisted into grimaces of disdain. Not a single clap. Not a single nod of respect. Not an ounce of humanity. These are the same people who weep for criminals, who kneel for thugs, who scream about “justice” while letting chaos swallow the streets. But when a little boy with brain cancer stands before them, embodying everything they should pretend to care about—innocence, courage, sacrifice—they sit there like rotting statues, rigid in their hatred for everything that doesn’t fit their twisted ideology.

It was more than politics. It was a glimpse into the soul of the enemy. They couldn’t stand because standing would mean acknowledging something greater than themselves. It would mean admitting that Trump was right. That honor still means something. That America is still alive, still breathing, still roaring despite their every attempt to smother it beneath their boot.

That moment was bigger than all of them. Bigger than the swamp, bigger than the lies, bigger than the poison dripping from every Democrat's forked tongue. DJ stood there, stronger than the entire party combined, smiling as the President of the United States honored him. And they sat there, sneering, because they knew—deep in the blackened pits of their soulless chests—they would never know what it’s like to be that brave, that good, that true.

They will be remembered for that silence. The people saw. The people will never forget.

The hug.

Reformation Seminary Lecture - John 19, Part 1. 10 AM

KJV John 19, Part 1

19 Then Pilate therefore took Jesus, and scourged him.

2 And the soldiers platted a crown of thorns, and put it on his head, and they put on him a purple robe,

3 And said, Hail, King of the Jews! and they smote him with their hands.

4 Pilate therefore went forth again, and saith unto them, Behold, I bring him forth to you, that ye may know that I find no fault in him.

5 Then came Jesus forth, wearing the crown of thorns, and the purple robe. And Pilate saith unto them, Behold the man!

6 When the chief priests therefore and officers saw him, they cried out, saying, Crucify him, crucify him. Pilate saith unto them, Take ye him, and crucify him: for I find no fault in him.

7 The Jews answered him, We have a law, and by our law he ought to die, because he made himself the Son of God.

8 When Pilate therefore heard that saying, he was the more afraid;

9 And went again into the judgment hall, and saith unto Jesus, Whence art thou? But Jesus gave him no answer.

10 Then saith Pilate unto him, Speakest thou not unto me? knowest thou not that I have power to crucify thee, and have power to release thee?

11 Jesus answered, Thou couldest have no power at all against me, except it were given thee from above: therefore he that delivered me unto thee hath the greater sin.

12 And from thenceforth Pilate sought to release him: but the Jews cried out, saying, If thou let this man go, thou art not Caesar's friend: whosoever maketh himself a king speaketh against Caesar.

13 When Pilate therefore heard that saying, he brought Jesus forth, and sat down in the judgment seat in a place that is called the Pavement, but in the Hebrew, Gabbatha.

14 And it was the preparation of the passover, and about the sixth hour: and he saith unto the Jews, Behold your King!

15 But they cried out, Away with him, away with him, crucify him. Pilate saith unto them, Shall I crucify your King? The chief priests answered, We have no king but Caesar.

16 Then delivered he him therefore unto them to be crucified. And they took Jesus, and led him away.

17 And he bearing his cross went forth into a place called the place of a skull, which is called in the Hebrew Golgotha:

18 Where they crucified him, and two other with him, on either side one, and Jesus in the midst.

19 And Pilate wrote a title, and put it on the cross. And the writing was Jesus Of Nazareth The King Of The Jews.

20 This title then read many of the Jews: for the place where Jesus was crucified was nigh to the city: and it was written in Hebrew, and Greek, and Latin.