Chris' Christian Blog

March 23, 2021

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I was going to take a few weeks off because I am in a class that is quite intensive and requires a lot of my time. I also have a ton of other responsibilities that require my attention. However, I find myself missing my friends here at WDC and missing my blog. So I will be blogging hit and miss for a while.

Prompt:
Psalm 33:12
Blessed is the nation whose God is the Lord; and the people whom he hath chosen for his own inheritance.

What does it mean for a nation to have God as their Lord? Does America or the nation you live in have God as the Lord? Why or why not? What can you do to promote or encourage God to be the Lord of your nation?

We do not need to encourage God to be the Lord of our nation. He is Lord of our nation and all of creation. What we need to do is encourage our leaders to allow Him to be Lord of our nation. Our leaders are constantly passing laws and making policies that fly directly in the face of God. The recent gay marriage ruling passed by SCOTUS for example flies directly against scripture. I know that statement is going to draw fire from many but as a preacher my allegiance has to be to God and His word. My personal opinion does not matter. Personally I could not care less what people do with their individual lives. As a Christian I have to take the Lord's position which says that homosexuality is a sin.

I also have to object to the gender changing policies of the current administration. Just because we have the ability to change a person's biological gender does not necessarily mean we should do so. I have the ability to eat arsenic if I wish to do so, but having the ability to eat arsenic does not mean that I should eat arsenic! The results would not be beneficial. God says that He creates humans male or female. He does so biologically and we can all tell the difference. Just because I feel like the opposite sex does not make me the opposite sex. The current administration is treading the same dangerous path that Judah treaded in the Old Testament in that it is rebelling against the word of God and acting in ways condemned by that word. God remains our leader whether people want Him to be or not!

Prompt: I was cruising the galaxy with the Knight Rider car. That was fun. We landed on this planet:

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Brian's Special Angel  (E) My son Brian's story of what happened to him as a teenager. #1866115 by Jeannie

Write about angels today.

I do not know a whole lot about angels. I do know that there are both fallen and unfallen angels. I know the fallen angels are a defeated enemy. God just has not yet enforced the terms of the defeat. It will happen in due time. When it does the fallen angels will join their rebellious leader in the Lake of Fire, Rev 20.

The other thing I know about angels is that we often entertain them as guests though we are usually not aware of doing so. The hurting person we ignore on the street may be an angel in disguise.

"Prompt: “Laughter and tears are both responses to frustration and exhaustion. I myself prefer to laugh, since there is less cleaning do to do afterward.” ― Kurt Vonnegut
Write about frustration."

I love this quote. I think I will borrow it and use it as the quote of the week for my peer support group. I am the facilitator of a peer support group each Thursday afternoon here at the West Virginia Veterans Home. While we call it "group", it is more a class than a group. I teach on various topics of how to improve on ourselves. One of the things I teach is the power of a positive attitude. Vonnegut shows a positive attitude when he says that it is easier to laugh than it is to cry.

"Prompt: in your opinion what is needed for a habit to form? How much time and what kind of work? Do you believe in those time constraints that say, it takes 21 days, or 3 months, or a full year to form a new habit?"

Research says that it takes about three weeks for a habit to form. I do not know because I never really experimented with it.