Talk Wisdom's goal is to defend the tenets and values of Biblical Christian faith. We defend our Constitutional Republic and Charters of Freedom, especially when speaking out against destructive social and political issues. As followers of our Savior and Lord, we should boldly stand up for Jesus Christ in our present circumstances. He is our Savior, Lord, and King, and His love needs to be shed abroad in our hearts and in our world – now.
Sometimes when I look at the posts in my blog reader list, I shake my head in disbelief as to what is happening in this crazy, corrupt, and vile world. It seems like so many of the evil perpetrators are not being caught, arrested, tried, and jailed as would be the case in a “perfect world.” Jesus told us that “in this world, you (we) will have trouble.” Jesus never minced words and told the utmost truth in all circumstances. That is why I believe in Him and follow Him. He is the Living Word and the Bible is the written Word of God.
When the news of the day gets REALLY crazy, I’m so glad that God gave us the ability to have a sense of humor. It is a kind of relief from many of the cares and troubles of this world.
For instance.
Here are two examples that appeared on my blog news feed over the past few days:
It is funny to see the faces of people who have, and are, trying to undermine the American people in a swamp, circling the drain. What is not funny is the realization of the terrible things they believe in, have done, and continue to do that hurt everyday Americans.
As a Christian conservative woman, I understand that people like this hate me, hate my beliefs, hate my advocacy for Jesus Christ and God’s Word, the Bible; and attempt to do everything they can to diminish me and those like me. The derogatory phrase, “those who cling to their guns, Bibles, and religion” comes to mind.
Now, this one is funny because the fake news “dossier” that we now know that HiLIARy and Podesta devised and paid for, and the minions in the media of mass deception (who all cried when she lost the election and may even scream at the sky once again as the anniversary of the date of her loss approaches), put forth lie after lie after lie over the past 11 months in order to make it appear that President Trump colluded with Russia. It ended up backfiring…big time! It just blew up in her face.
Hat tip for the graphic: Pastor Ward Clinton’s blog. Also see Hillary Didn’t Know…
Also, recall that Hillary labeled a large portion of Americans as “a basket of deplorables.”
Then, even after having a few laughs, the reality of this fallen world creeps in yet again. I was going to list some here but all one needs to do is to type in any evil proclivity into a search engine and you will get a disgusting eyeful of evidence.
I often write about the topic of “a woman’s right to choose” (code word for acceptance of abortion) at this blog.
My viewpoint?
Choose Life, Your Mother Did!
When someone tells me that I have “no right to tell women what to do with their own bodies” (which is code word for allowance and acceptance for abortion) and claims that it’s not “evil,” “abhorrent,” “murder of a baby in the womb,” etc.; what they are doing is actually advocating for their own fleshly beliefs and desires. Even some Christians are guilty of this! They see this particular idea and definition of “choice” as more important than LIFE, as well as that new spirit that has been created within them by God through being born again in Jesus Christ.
It is a war within between the flesh and the spirit.
The Bible teaches us that when we come to Christ and are born again, we become “…a new creature: old things are passed away; behold, all things are become new.” (2 Cor. 5:17)
God creates within us a new spirit, a new man, a new nature, born in His image, in the likeness of the Spirit of God.
He gives us new desires. He gives us a hunger for righteousness and holiness and a longing to please our Heavenly Father.
Through the power of the Holy Spirit who comes to dwell within us, the Comforter sent by God helps alongside and empowers our new man to walk after and seek after those things which are right.
However, we still dwell in the same old fleshly body with the same old sin nature. And therein lies the war.
“For I know that in me (that is, in my flesh,) dwelleth no good thing: for to will is present with me; but how to perform that which is good I find not. For the good that I would I do not: but the evil which I would not, that I do.” (Rom. 7:18-19)
The joy of having the Lord in my life is most important, precisely because every other type of happiness proceeds from it.
Colossians 3:16 – Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly.
David Jeremiah writes:
It’s not a “positive sentence” [like a typical mantra from man], it is manna from heaven because it is a promise from God.
[Self-control] is a battle that begins in our minds. Our minds as well as our hearts need to be focused on God and His Word. Daily Bible reading is the one habit that will make you happier–and holier–every day.
The Bible contains all the information needed for life’s challenges. Its words provide strategies for every situation we face. They are life-changing and life-giving. God’s promises are never-failing, and His truths are infallibly reliable.
Our enemy is that old deceiver and liar, the devil. But he works with two associates to tempt us and keep us from the victory. These companions of the devil in his endeavors are the world and the flesh.
“For all that is in the world, the lust of the flesh, and the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life, is not of the Father, but is of the world.” (1John 2:16)
When we become a Christian, the Bible teaches us that God has “…delivered us from the power of darkness, and hath translated us into the kingdom of his dear Son.” (Col. 1:13)
That is why the Bible tells us in 1 Peter that the devil goes about as a “roaring lion” seeking “whom he may devour”.
This is done by understanding the way that the devil uses the world and flesh together to deceive us and draw us into sin and iniquity.
The enemy’s goal is to wound us to the point of losing hope and faith, so that we give up and our sins become presumptuous to the point that we are unable to be used of God.
“If I regard iniquity in my heart, the Lord will not hear me:” (Psalm 66:18)
“If a man therefore purge himself from these, he shall be a vessel unto honour, sanctified, and meet for the master’s use, and prepared unto every good work.” (2Ti 2:21)
The years, even decades worth of corruption that surrounds the Clinton crime family, Obummer, the DNC, and the Podestas is truly sickening. I hope and pray that more information gets out there (despite the refusal of the media of mass deception to report it) via Fox News, conservative websites, and blogs so that the evil of these people FINALLY sees the light of day.
Hillary Clinton likes to laugh off the Uranium One scandal as a ‘debunked’ right-wing conspiracy, however; internal emails show the Clinton camp was panicking as the conservative media revealed the dirty details of pay-to-play.
Wikileaks leaked a Podesta email dated 4/29/2015 with the subject line “It’s out there”. (screenshot below) The original email from Tony Carrk (Hillary’s research director) to Jennifer Palmieri (Hillary’s director of communications) and Brian Fallon (CNN hack and Hillary’s press secretary) linked to a Daily Caller article titled, “Firm Co-Founded By Hillary’s Campaign Chair Lobbies For Russia’s Uranium One”.
The Daily Caller article was then forwarded to then-campaign chairman John Podesta with an “FYI”.
Senate records show that The Podesta Group has lobbied the State Department on behalf of Uranium One — once in 2012, when Hillary Clinton was secretary of state, and once in 2015.
Kingsjester’s blog is one of my favorites because his posts are very informative and his analyses of what is truly going on in the “hearts of men” are spot on.
One day, an unbeliever like Soros will die and realize:
When I returned from babysitting my sweet almost-2-years-old granddaughter yesterday evening, my husband asked me if I heard about the $18 billion dollar donation that the evil billionaire “donated” to his Open Society Institute. I told him that I heard of it, but didn’t know the details yet. Kingsjester’s blog gave me the needed details to share in this post.
My comment there:
Very good analysis and explanation of what Soros is all about and the evil that he is continually doing through wreaking havoc upon our nation; as well as the lies he is trying to perpetuate under the fake, dishonest, and anti-God guise of doing “good.”
After reading your essay, this verse came to mind:
Isa 5:20
Woe to those who call evil good, and good evil; Who put darkness for light, and light for darkness; Who put bitter for sweet, and sweet for bitter!
Soros and his evil minions are perfect examples of this! I truly pity those who have been so blinded by Satan that they think that this horrible man is doing “good.”
Note, Those that willfully persist in sin consider not the power of God’s anger.
3. Who confound and overthrow the distinctions between moral good and evil, who call evilgood and moral evil (v. 20), who not only live in the omission of that which is good, but condemn it, argue against it, and, because they will not practice it themselves, run it down in others, and fasten invidious epithets upon it-not only do that which is evil, but justify it, and applaud it, and recommend it to others as safe and good. Note,
(1.) Virtue and piety are good, for they are light and sweet, they are pleasant and right; but sin and wickedness are evil; they are darkness, all the fruit of ignorance and mistake, and will be bitterness in the latter end.
(2.) Those do a great deal of wrong to God, and religion, and conscience, to their own souls, and to the souls of others, who misrepresent these, and put false colours upon them-who call drunkenness good fellowship, and covetousness good husbandry, and, when they persecute the people of God, think they do him good service-and, on the other hand, who call seriousness ill-nature, and sober singularity ill-breeding, who say all manner of evil falsely concerning the ways of godliness, and do what they can to form in men’s minds prejudices against them, and this in defiance of evidence as plain and convincing as that of sense, by which we distinguish, beyond contradiction, between light and darkness, and between that which to the taste is sweet and that which is bitter.
4. Who though they are guilty of such gross mistakes as these have a great opinion of their own judgments, and value themselves mightily upon their understanding (v. 21): They are wise intheir own eyes; they think themselves able to disprove and baffle the reproofs and convictions of God’s word, and to evade and elude both the searches and the reaches of his judgments; they think they can outwit Infinite Wisdom and countermine Providence itself. Or it may be taken more generally: God resists the proud, those particularly who are conceited of their own wisdom and lean to their own understanding; such must become fools, that they may be truly wise, or else, at their end they shall appear to be fools before all the world.
Hat tip: Kingsjester’s Blog, Blue Letter Bible, and graphics page links.
I love to read the encounters that Jesus had with individuals in Matthew 9. What He said back to them contains many examples of priceless wisdom.
In Matthew 9:2, (link above) Jesus saw the faith of those who brought the paralytic to Him. When Jesus said, “Son, be of good cheer; your sins are forgiven you.” the paralytic was cured. However, when the doubting scribes chastised Him through saying out loud, “The Man blasphemes,” Jesus also knew what was in their hearts and said back to them, “Why do you think evil in your hearts? “For which is easier, to say, ‘Your sins are forgiven you,’ or to say, ‘Arise and walk’? “But that you may know that the Son of Man has power on earth to forgive sins”—then He said to the paralytic, “Arise, take up your bed, and go to your house.” And he arose and departed to his house. Matthew 9: 4-7
What is interesting to note, is the fact that the “multitudes” had a very positive reaction to this, whereas the ‘scribes’ accused Jesus of blasphemy.
Mat 9:8 Now when the multitudes saw it, they marveled[fn] and glorified God, who had given such power to men.
Further on in the chapter, the Pharisees asked several more questions like, “Why does your Teacher eat with tax collectors and sinners?” and “Why do we and the Pharisees fast often,[fn] but Your disciples do not fast?”
Jesus’ answer to them was epic!
Mat 9:15 And Jesus said to them, “Can the friends of the bridegroom mourn as long as the bridegroom is with them? But the days will come when the bridegroom will be taken away from them, and then they will fast.
All of the continuing turmoil that is going on here in America, as well as around the world can be very discouraging. Hurricanes causing death and destruction, flooding damaging homes, electricity taken away for weeks or months, wildfires in Northern California engulfing over 3,500 homes, the horrible shooting at an open air concert in Las Vegas that killed 48 people and injured 500 others, the threats of nuclear war with North Korea and the ongoing attack of global radical Islamic Jihad! Adding to the misery are those “hidden culprits” in government (a.k.a. “The Deep State”) and the media of mass deception that continually lies to the public and puts forth propaganda in order to push forward their own evil agenda. Such awful events can cause heartache, depression, hopelessness; loss of joy in this life, discouragement and no peace.
From the Christian perspective, the truth is that we will never have peace in the world until individuals have peace with God. The only way to have peace with God is to repent and confess our sins at the foot of the cross of Jesus Christ, ask for forgiveness, and welcome the Holy Spirit into our hearts for the salvation of our souls.
During this time of hatred often being spewed against Christians, conservatives, white people etc. by groups whose goal is to demonize those of us with such beliefs and characteristics; it can be hard to witness to them about Jesus Christ. Many just don’t want to hear it! They have put up their hearts of stone against any conversation that they don’t agree with and/or hate, and therefore refuse to listen or even discuss the issues calmly.
It is often my prayer that people who are searching for answers would find this blog and read something here that would help them to at least consider Jesus Christ and encourage them to read the Bible. After all, the Bible is the best selling book of all time!
Here are some quotes from people who have prayed and asked for supernatural help in loving those who seem “un-lovable” at times; that also helped to remind themselves of all the blessings in life.
“This Joy that I have the world didn’t give it and the world can’t take it away.”
“I have to learn that as long as I have Jesus in my heart, I can find joy in everyday life, no matter how gloomy life may be around me.”
“My joy is dependent on Him, not me or my circumstances and if I am struggling to feel joyful, time in praise and worship – redirects my eyes back to Him, always lifting me up again.”
“God has transformed my life through peace because I was a person that was always stressed, never settled down, worried all the time. By reading in the Bible, it has helped me to transform and live one day at a time and not to worry about so much.”
When I get discouraged, the following verses always lift me right back up and bring comfort and joy in the midst of whatever is happening in this world:
Rom 8:35
Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? Shall tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword?
Rom 8:36
As it is written:
“For Your sake we are killed all day long; We are accounted as sheep for the slaughter.”[fn]
Rom 8:37
Yet in all these things we are more than conquerors through Him who loved us.
Rom 8:38
For I am persuaded that neither death nor life, nor angels nor principalities nor powers, nor things present nor things to come,
Rom 8:39
nor height nor depth, nor any other created thing, shall be able to separate us from the love of God which is in Christ Jesus our Lord.
Jesus speaking:
Jhn 16:33
“These things I have spoken to you, that in Me you may have peace. In the world you will[fn] have tribulation; but be of good cheer, I have overcome the world.”
Be SURE to watch the video! In the video, there is footage of a woman who was driving by the Mandalay Bay Resort Hotel at the time of the shooting. She caught, on her cellphone video camera, both video and audio evidence of machine gun shots coming from a 4th floor window of the hotel!
In fact, I am embedding the video here because the person sharing the video wants it shared EVERYWHERE!
Hat tip: Citizen Wells
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10/3/17 12:28 pm PT
Like everyone else, I am going through the stages of grief over this horrific act of evil. People are searching for reasons why this happened and exactly what really did happen; who is truly responsible for it, the motive for doing this and why it could not have been prevented. Sadly, like everyone else who is grieving, I don’t have the answers to all of those exact questions. However, I do have a post written by Albert Mohler that I think EVERYONE needs to read!
Evil points to a necessary moral judgment made by a moral authority greater than we are — a transcendent and supernatural moral authority: God.
Only the Christian worldview, based in the Bible, can explain why moral facts exist.
Today, most Americans awoke to news from Las Vegas that is nothing less than horrific. For so many in Las Vegas, Sunday night must have seemed like the night that would never end.
In the face of such overwhelming news, we naturally seek after facts. We want to know what happened, and when. We want to know who did it. By mid-morning the facts were staggering. More than fifty people are dead and hundreds wounded after a lone gunman opened fire on a music festival from a perch in a hotel room 32 floors above. The attack was deadly, diabolical, and premeditated.
The shooting is already described as the worst in American history. The gunman, believed to be Stephen Paddock, killed himself as police prepared to storm his hotel room, from which he had aimed his deadly gunfire. The facts emerged slowly, and are still emerging. Paddock had no notable criminal record. He had worked for a defense contractor, owned two private aircraft, and was known to own guns. He was reported to like Las Vegas for its gambling and entertainment. No one seems to have considered him a threat. His brother, contacted after the massacre, said that the family was beyond shock, as if “crushed by an asteroid.”
In Las Vegas and beyond, hundreds of families are crushed by grief and concern. More than fifty human beings, very much alive just hours ago, are now dead, seemingly murdered by random order.
The facts will continue to come as investigations continue. We need facts in order to steady our minds and grapple with understanding. We must have facts, and yet we can be easily overwhelmed by them. Some “facts” will not be facts at all. National Public Radio helpfully and honestly ended its news coverage of the massacre with these words: “This is a developing story. Some things that get reported by the media will later turn out to be wrong. We will focus on reports from police officials and other authorities. We will update as the situation develops.” I count that as both helpful and honest.
But the facts of who and what and where and how, still unfolding, point to the even more difficult question — why?
Why would anyone kill a fellow human being? Why launch an ambush massacre upon concertgoers listening to country music? Why premeditate a mass killing?
Was he driven by some obsession, fueled by some grievance? Was he sending a signal or political message as an act of terrorism? Is the answer psychiatric or pharmacological? Our minds crave an answer.
Why do we ask why?
We cannot help but ask why because, made in God’s image, we are moral creatures who cannot grasp or understand the world around us without moral categories. We are moral creatures inhabiting a moral universe and our moral sense of meaning is the faculty most perplexed when overwhelmed by horror and grief.
The terror group known as ISIS or the Islamic State claimed that Stephen Paddock was a “lone wolf” attacker who had recently converted to Islam. Law enforcement authorities said there is no evidence of anything related to ISIS or Islam.
Clark County (NV) Sheriff Joe Lombardo told reporters that he was not sure if the massacre was sending a message as a terror attack: “We have to establish what his motivation is first. And there’s motivating factors associated with terrorism other than a distraught person just intending to cause mass casualties.”
So far as we now know, Paddock left no note and communicated no clear message. The gunfire tells some story, but we do not yet know what the story is. We may never know.
That troubles us, and so it should. Knowing the story and determining the motivation would add rationality to our understanding, but we will never really understand.
A massacre by a lone gunman killed 32 people at Virginia Tech in 2007. Another killed 27, mostly children, at Sandy Hook Elementary School in 2012. Yet another killed 49 people at the Pulse nightclub in Orlando in 2016. We really do not fully understand any of these attacks, nor countless other outbreaks of evil around the world.
One of the main theological insights about evil is that it is so often absurd. It is ultimately inexplicable, unfathomable, and cannot be resolved by human means.
President Trump has demonstrated little interest in academic disputes over moral philosophy so he probably did not intend to wade into deep theoretical waters when he called the massacre “an act of pure evil.” But he called it right, and he expanded on his judgment. “In times such as these I know we are searching for some kind of meaning in the chaos, some kind of light in the darkness.” He went on to say: “The answers do not come easy. But we can take solace knowing that even the darkest space can be brightened by a single light, and even the most terrible despair can be illuminated by a single ray of hope.”
That is exactly how a president should speak, and underlining the “act of pure evil” as evil is exactly how a morally sane person should think. The judgment of evil here, real evil, should be beyond dispute.
Evil is a fact, too. And evil is a theological category. The secular worldview cannot use the word with coherence or sense. The acknowledgement of evil requires the affirmation of a moral judgment and a moral reality above human judgment. If we are just accidental beings in an accidental universe, nothing can really be evil. Evil points to a necessary moral judgment made by a moral authority greater than we are — a transcendent and supernatural moral authority: God.
College professors tell us that moral relativism has produced a generation of Americans who resist calling anything evil, and even deny the existence of moral facts. Justin P. McBrayer, who teaches at Fort Lewis College in Colorado, wrote in The New York Times that “many college-aged students don’t believe in moral facts.”
That’s truly frightening, but McBrayer argues that by the time students arrive at college, they have already been told over and over again that there are no moral facts — that nothing is objectively right or wrong.
Only the Christian worldview, based in the Bible, can explain why moral facts exist, and how we can know them. Only the biblical worldview explains why sinful humanity commits such horrible moral wrongs. The Christian worldview also promises that God will bring about a final act of moral judgment that will be the final word on right and wrong — as facts, not merely speculation. The Gospel of Christ points us to the only way of rescue from the fact of our own evil and guilt.
Our hearts break for the families and communities now grieving, and we pray for them and for those even now fighting for life.
It is both telling and reassuring that secular people, faced with moral horror as we see now in Las Vegas, can still speak of evil as a moral fact — even if they continue to deny moral facts in the classrooms and courtrooms. No one can deny that the horror in Las Vegas came about by an act that was evil, pure evil, and evil as a fact.
I think of the Prophet Isaiah’s words: “Woe to those who call evil good and good evil, who put darkness for light, and light for darkness, who put bitter for sweet and sweet for bitter.” [Isaiah 5:20, ESV]
[Note from Christine: People are deeply grieved and searching for answers. The stats have been very high here. Therefore, besides sharing what I have found online, I also wanted to share Mr. Mohler’s article, hoping that people who come here read it, take it to heart, and then might consider Christ as Lord and Savior for their lives. Please, I encourage everyone to read the best selling book of all time…The Bible!]
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Original post on 10/2/17:
I learned about the horrific Las Vegas shooting at the country western music festival outside the Mandalay hotel at 1:00 a.m. this morning. Awakening at that time and unable to go back to sleep right away, I turned on the news. Oh no…not again! This time, the details of the attack were so awful and evil, I could not even bear to watch the details. As grief overcame me, I sent up prayers for the victims, their families, the responders and for our nation as a whole.
There is too much hatred, sin, evil and death as a result of people who ratchet up anger, spur on such deadly events, and then push into madness those who are sick, satanic and uncontrollable… like this perp to do such evil and cause so much death, injury and carnage against innocent people who were just attending a concert!
Earlier, I started searching for additional online accounts of this terrorist attack (yes…it is terrorism!!!) and found The Gateway Pundit’s coverage.
As I read through the comment section, people were sharing information like this:
1. The Facebook and Twitter accounts of the shooter were deleted.
2. Information was being shared about the shooter and his girlfriend, who some were saying was “out of the country” at the time.
3. The shooter had an arsenal of weapons in the hotel room.
4. Did the shooter act alone? How did he get all those weapons, undetected, up to the room by himself?
5. The shooter was a recent convert to Islam.
6. The shooter was an anti-Trump demonstrator.
I could go on and on with a list of suppositions and information being shared by many commenters. However, with our current media of mass deception at work continually, will we ever know the facts and truth?
One comment over at “Gateway Pundit” contained a video that could possibly show that the shooter was a rabid anti-Trump demonstrator. The video owner is asking for more videos of this perp’s possible appearances at other anti-Trump protests where a high resolution photograph might be found.
UPDATE 10/3/17! The above video link has since been removed. Why am I not surprised? Here is another one. Perhaps YouTube can’t shut them down fast enough, but hopefully readers here will be able to view this new one.
Found another video that shows Paddock in a pink hat, wearing a pink “NASA” shirt at an anti-Trump rally.
It is believed the man seen in this video is the las vegas shooter, Stephen Paddock, attending an anti-trump protest in Reno Nevada in August 2017.
This video was just sent to the FBI so I guess we’ll know if this was him soon enough. They got much better resources than I do.
The resolution of these videos are not clear enough to say for sure, so what we all need to do to find out for ourselves is search facebook, google, and twitter for the Reno Trump Protest 2017 and see if we can find a high resolution picture with this man who is wearing a pink hat and a pink nasa shirt.
You may upload this video to anywhere you want, use it in any media, etc, you do not need my permission I’m not doing this for personal recognition, I’m doing this to figure out why 250 people were shot for no reason.
Here are a couple of tidbits that the media fails to mention: 1. Shooter didn’t know how to use an automatic weapon. If you listen he didn’t use bursting trigger pulls. If it is a M-16 or AK type you would use a 3 round burst trigger pull. From what it sounded like to me is that it is a crew served weapon like an M-60. Those machine guns work best with a 6-9 round burst. If you listen you can hear it loosing gas pressure as the cyclic rate of fire slowed. The pauses were most likely switching weapons or un- jamming the weapon. 2. How did this untrained idiot get his hands on a fully automatic weapon? ATF has rules on these. 3. “Girl friend is Indonesian. Largest Muslim nation in the world. Those are just a couple of quick observations.
survivor50 > Imperator the Deplorable • 2 hours ago
Having operated an M-60…that ain’t one !!! And all our M-16’s had a “FUN” switch, not a BURST mode. Better comment is “WHERE did he get an Automatic” ??? Just try to buy one…paper work from HELL, wait period of ETERNITY, and ATF agent permanently attached to your @$$…
[Note: Apparently it costs a LOT of money, too! Was this perp rich? Or, did he have an evil financier helping him? Hmmm…]
When horrible incidents like this happen, I often turn to the Bible for words of TRUTH and comfort!
Rom 8:35
Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? Shall tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword?
Rom 8:36
As it is written:
“For Your sake we are killed all day long; We are accounted as sheep for the slaughter.”[fn]
Rom 8:37
Yet in all these things we are more than conquerors through Him who loved us.
Rom 8:38
For I am persuaded that neither death nor life, nor angels nor principalities nor powers, nor things present nor things to come,
Rom 8:39
nor height nor depth, nor any other created thing, shall be able to separate us from the love of God which is in Christ Jesus our Lord.
Jesus speaking:
Jhn 16:33
“These things I have spoken to you, that in Me you may have peace. In the world you will[fn] have tribulation; but be of good cheer, I have overcome the world.”
"Make your ear attentive to wisdom, incline your heart to understanding; for if you cry for discernment, lift your voice for understanding; if you seek her as silver, and search for her as for hidden treasures; then you will discern the fear of the LORD, and discover the knowledge of God"
Married for 34 years to my wonderful husband! Two grown adult children, a wonderful son-in-law and beautiful granddaughter in whom we treasure and enjoy life.
Our family is very close and love to spend time with each other. We share a deep Christian faith, love for the Lord Jesus Christ and love for each other.
I earned a BA in education from Kean University in 1978. I have been studying the Bible for over 30 years and in 2003, upon successful completion of the course of study offered in the MA Lecture Series, earned a Christian Apologetics Certificate from Biola University.
This blog is named “Talk Wisdom” because one of the main purposes of writing here is to share the wisdom of God – the only absolute and true wisdom – that is contained within the Scriptures of the Bible. As a born-again Christian, it is my desire to heed and share Paul’s encouragement and warnings in 2 Timothy 3:1-17
2 Timothy 3:16 – All Scripture is given by inspiration of God, and is profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness,
2 Timothy 3:17 – that the man of God may be complete, thoroughly equipped for every good work.
Talk Wisdom’s goal is to defend the tenets and values of Biblical Christian faith. We defend our Constitutional Republic and Charters of Freedom, especially when speaking out against destructive social and political issues. As followers of our Savior and Lord, we should boldly stand up for Jesus Christ in our present circumstances. He is our Savior, Lord, and King, and His love needs to be shed abroad in our hearts and in our world – now.
A quote to remember!
“We are to be obedient to God and that means we are to fight against sin. Talking about not judging and loving each other does not absolve us from our duty to correct and — if necessary — censure those who refuse to obey God’s laws. If this were the case, then God would have had no reason to even give us a law: He would have just said do not judge, just love and left it at that — but He did not do this. Instead, He told us to obey, and then gave us at least ten commands. If we love each other — Biblical love — then we will do everything we can to help each other keep those commands, not make it easier to break them. After all, how can we claim to love someone if we are in the process of making their path to hell easier to travel?”
~ Black3Actual from Oil For Your Lamp blog
Talk Wisdom's goal is to defend the tenets and values of Biblical Christian faith. We defend our Constitutional Republic and Charters of Freedom, especially when speaking out against destructive social and political issues. As followers of our Savior and Lord, we should boldly stand up for Jesus Christ in our present circumstances. He is our Savior, Lord, and King, and His love needs to be shed abroad in our hearts and in our world - now.
WHENEVER ANY FORM OF GOVERNMENT BECOMES DESTRUCTIVE OF THESE ENDS (LIFE,LIBERTY,AND THE PURSUIT OF HAPPINESS) IT IS THE RIGHT OF THE PEOPLE TO ALTER OR ABOLISH IT, AND TO INSTITUTE A NEW GOVERNMENT― Thomas Jefferson
"Our threat is from the insidious forces working from within which have already so drastically altered the character of our free institutions — those institutions we proudly called the American way of life. " -- Gen. Douglas MacArthur
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