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My Favorite Bible Software

Posted by THBarb on Wednesday, August 29, 2007 12:06:01 AM
I have tried some of the big name Bible Software programs. They were nice. But for the several hundred dollars they cost, they should be. I don't want to muzzle the the ox,

For the Scripture says, "YOU SHALL NOT MUZZLE AN OX WHILE IT TREADS OUT THE GRAIN," and, "THE LABORER IS WORTHY OF HIS WAGES."  (1 Timothy 5:18 NKJV)

But I just cannot afford that.

However, Rick Meyers has produced e-Sword and offers it for free at www.e-sword.net

It's as good , if not better than any of the big buck versions  that I have tried. We can leave the big stuff to the Pastor (Make sure you pay him enough to buy his tools please!) but if you are a layman, like me, and a little behind on everything, check out e-Sword.
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Peace is Patriotic?

Posted by THBarb on Saturday, August 11, 2007 8:54:52 PM
Maybe you have seen the bumper sticker, "Peace is Patriotic." I believe this is true, peace is patriotic. However, seeing this with all of the other bumper stickers I see it displayed with, makes me think that they think that "War is Not Patriotic." And that is not true.

The American Heritage Dictionary defines a Patriot as, "One who loves, supports, and defends one's country." The same dictionary defines a peacenik as, "A political activist who publicly opposes war, a particular war, or the proliferation of weapons; a pacifist." I suspect that the  bumper sticker bearers are  peaceniks.  And that's fine. They have the freedom in this country to think, believe, and say what they want. However, I think they have either forgotten, or they never knew, or maybe they don't even care where freedom came from.

Freedom is not free. There is a saying in economics that I think applies here, TANSTAAFL "There Ain't No Such Thing As A Free Lunch." Somebody has to pay for it. Stores offer "free" items at the expense of their marketing budgets. God offers salvation to us "free" at the expense of His Son, the Lord Jesus Christ. Our right to be "free" came at the expense of those that that have gone before us that were willing to pay the ultimate price in war. But this freedom is not forever. For us to keep it, for our children to have it, somebody must be ready and willing to pay the price again. At least until there are no tyrants, no bullies that want to take it away.

Peace without war is capitulation. And to capitulate to an enemy, especially to the Jihadists of today, would mean subjugation. Subjugation is not freedom, nor is it free. We'll pay for it; with fear.


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Why They Can't Find Love

Posted by THBarb on Tuesday, July 24, 2007 11:45:17 PM
While stuck in the check out line at a local grocery, I noticed the following on one of the magazines on the rack that suckers buy on impulse:

Why They Can't Find Love

Beautiful, Rich, and Alone
The nightmares of dating in that
self-absorbed world of Hollywood.

Well Duh! I don't even need to know who the girls are on the cover to know the answer to that. When one self-absorbed person dates another self-absorbed person, never the tween shall meet. Or, shallow is as shallow does. (Isn't there a song about that? Looking for love in all the wrong places, or something like that.)

I did not buy the magazine.
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To the Party in Charge

Posted by THBarb on Tuesday, July 24, 2007 5:06:47 PM
I urge you to support General Petraeus and allow him to finish the job in Iraq. The government of Iraq is the wrong benchmark to use. It may be a long time before they come up to speed to meet any benchmarks we set for them. However, the conflict in Iraq is NOT the war, it is merely the largest battle front.

There have been thousands of attacks by the Jihadist's world wide over the last decade. This branch of fanaticism is flexing it's muscle and it sees every step we take backwards as an opportunity to take a step forward. We need to hold our ground. We cannot afford to offer them any sort of encouragement.

The book they read is sorted in order by book size and has sayings of peace through out it. However, when placed in chronological order, it starts with peace and progresses to violence calling for the submission of all.

We may eventually be able to negotiate with them. But if we cannot negotiate from a position of strength, the only thing we will have to offer to them is submission. And that will be the end of our freedom.
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Help! My Party has fallen and I can't get up.

Posted by THBarb on Thursday, July 19, 2007 8:54:11 AM
I must have fallen asleep or something. I am no longer covered by my party's tent. Did it disappear? Did it just move - left? They (the infamous "They") had said that we would make a bigger tent so we could take in all of those that were left out. Well! If they were "left," maybe that's why they were "out" in the first place.

So what happened? Did the tent get bigger? Oh my gosh! Maybe that's not my party tent at all but the tent of the other party. It's so much like them now. Wait! I see it. The other tent has moved even further to the left. And my party tent has been sucked over by the resulting vacuum (Ross Perot thought that sucking sound was just our taxes). It seems that a tent can only get so big, the fabric can only stretch so far before things come apart.

So the party of the left has moved left and is leftier then they used to be and the party of the right has followed and moved left. I think I know how Joe Lieberman feels. I hope this is just a nightmare and I wake up pretty soon.

The thoughts of the righteous are right, But the counsels of the wicked are deceitful.  (Proverbs 12:5 NKJV)

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Gore the Bore makes me Snore while Jr's throat goes Sore.

Posted by THBarb on Friday, July 13, 2007 1:20:35 AM
I missed old Al's Concert. No I didn't. Truth be told, I skipped it. I don't think I missed anything. I did skim the news to look for interesting tidbits. Like the following words of wisdom from RFK Jr. as reported in Newsday.com

 "Get rid of all these rotten politicians that we have in Washington, who are nothing more than corporate toadies," said Robert F. Kennedy Jr., the environmentalist author, president of Waterkeeper Alliance and Robert F. Kennedy's son, who grew hoarse from shouting. "This is treason. And we need to start treating them as traitors."

Wow! Pretty strong words. I thought Treason and Traitor was reserved for those who aid and abet the enemy? Who is the enemy here? Carbon Dioxide? Jr. must have been convinced that we are in serious trouble by Al's movie "THE INCONVENIENT TRUTH." Personally, I'm waiting for the Infallible proof. As soon as he can tell me how my Carbon emissions are causing the polar ice caps on Mars to melt, then I might start paying attention.

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Pope says I don't go to a "real' church. So what?

Posted by THBarb on Wednesday, July 11, 2007 9:04:41 AM
A coworker who occasionally (I think) tries to irritate me asked me, "Did you hear that you don't really belong to a church?" I said, "Huh?" He then went on to explain what the Pope said. The linked article below explains it in more detail.

Pope: Other Christian Denominations Not True Churches

Frankly, My friend, I don't give a darn.

I kinda like Pope Benedict. But as a Protestant, I don't really care that much about what he says. I also don't understand why some of the mainline denominations are so upset about it.

I was raised as a nominal Catholic. I didn't accept Christ as my Saviour until  I was in my late teens. And then I became a  Protestant. Protestant-ism was NOT a prerequisite to being saved. I think there are a lot of Protestants that are not saved. I also think there are some Catholics that are saved. I'm just not sure that the Pope is one of them.

The Lord Jesus Christ is the head of the Church and the Gospel is the issue.

For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him should not perish but have everlasting life. For God did not send His Son into the world to condemn the world, but that the world through Him might be saved. "He who believes in Him is not condemned; but he who does not believe is condemned already, because he has not believed in the name of the only begotten Son of God. And this is the condemnation, that the light has come into the world, and men loved darkness rather than light, because their deeds were evil. For everyone practicing evil hates the light and does not come to the light, lest his deeds should be exposed. But he who does the truth comes to the light, that his deeds may be clearly seen, that they have been done in God."
(John 3:16-21 NKJV)

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S-O-R-D-E for Immigration

Posted by THBarb on Saturday, July 07, 2007 1:36:27 PM
SORDE

It may not make a good bumper sticker but it works as a pretty good acronym for establishingimmigration priorities. Almost even sounds, ...well, Spanish (DOERS could work but REODS just didn't make sense).

  • S-eal the borders. We may not be able to cover every mile but anything we can do that will impede the flow and assist the Border Patrol is to our advantage.
  • O-pen legal immigration. Let's increase the number we annually authorize to immigrate. Let's encourage those who want to come to America legally to become Americans. I do not believe that there are jobs that no American will take but if we need more employable people, let's invite those who want to make our homeland their homeland.
  • R-eturn illegals when caught to their place of origin. Let's not worry about the 12+ Million here illegally for now, IF they are keeping a low profile. However, if they are caught committing a crime, send them back to their country of origin. But, don't send them back to go free. Instead, make a deal with their country of origin to incarcerate them for us. We can pay the country their fee for maintaining a prisoner. Even if they over charge us, I am sure that overall, it will cost us less. So what if the crooks don't get to watch TV.
  • D-iscourage the employment of illegals. Heavily fine employers the violate the laws but also make it easier for them to confirm a prospective employee.
  • E-nglish for assimilation. Establish English only as the national language to encourage assimilation. We do need and want immigrants. But they need to become Americans. They cannot easily do that if they are isolated by their language. And we don't help them by trying to accommodate their language for all government services. For a business, this is fine. But for all official government transactions, we should be working with one language - English.

The Senate may have given up on "their" immigration bill but we should not let them give up on this issue. We should enforce the current laws and work on improvements (I humbly suggest the above list) but we cannot just give up because too many people have already snuck across our borders.

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Outsource the Incarcerated Illegals

Posted by THBarb on Friday, May 25, 2007 9:44:28 PM
My basic thoughts on Illegal Immigration are:

  • Open up legal immigration
  • Seal the Borders
  • Send back the ones we catch
  • Discourage employing Illegals
  • Make English the national language to encourage assimilation


But I would like to expand upon the 3rd point about sending them back. We cannot just declare that they all go home and expect them to do it. And we don't have the resources to make them all go home. But, if we catch them breaking another law (besides being her illegally in the first place) we send them back to where they came from.



But the challenge to that is, "What if they have committed a series crime?" Shouldn't they do some time? Yes! But how about we send them back to their country of origin to be incarcerated? What's in it for that country? We would pay that country to jail that person. And while they may charge us more then it costs them, it would probably be cheaper then keeping them in jail here.



And while we are at it, we could send the ones that are crowding our jails now. This would reduce the prison population considerably and we could avoid having to build more jails. We could pay these International hosts annually for as long as these individuals were to be jailed. When their time is up, we stop paying. We would probably need to audit these prisons periodically but I think we could do all of this for a lot less then what we pay per prisoner now.

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Global or Solar?

Posted by THBarb on Saturday, May 12, 2007 12:10:51 PM
Why do we still call it "Global Warming" when it's bigger then the globe? If the polar ice caps on Mars are melting, shouldn't we call it "Solar Warming" instead?

When you have a "House Warming" party, you don't isolate one room and call it by that room. We don't call it a "Living Room Warming" because that is where the majority of the people will be. We don't call it a "Drive Way Warming" because that is where all of the SUV's are. And we certainly don't call it a "Bathroom Warming" party (even if there is an increase in the methane level there). We call it a "House Warming" party.

Therefore, we should broaden the scope of the warming warning. If we do that, perhaps we can try some of the fad fixes on a smaller scale to see if they work  first. Before we subject the USA to the proposed draconian measures of the Kyoto Kra, er,... I mean accord, let's ban all SUV's and/or even all emissions on Mars. If the polar ice caps there come back, then we can start these measure on earth.

As a God fearing Steward of His handiwork, I have a responsibility to care for this planet in the best way that I can. However, this does not mean submitting to the worshipers of Gaia. They, NOT believing in a God that is bigger then themselves, feel that it all depends upon them. They want to control from a position of fear because they fear their future. On the other hand, as a Christian, I know that my future is secure in Him. I am accountable unto Him for all of my actions, but my future is His. And being who He is, that is secure. So, I shall call it Solar Warming in an effort to remember that this climate issue is not all about us but that God has a plan for all of us.

For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him should not perish but have everlasting life.
(John 3:16 NKJV)



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Will Gun Control Work?

Posted by THBarb on Saturday, April 28, 2007 8:55:40 PM
The Premise of gun control is that outlawing all guns means that the law breakers will have no access to any guns. Some surmise that if we made all guns illegal in the entire world, the bad guys would not be able to get any guns at all. Problem Solved! Or is it?

My neighborhood has been declared as a "Drug Free Zone" (We have a street sign that says so). Yet, a house in this same neighborhood was found to be a Meth lab. To my knowledge, this drug is not legal in any part of the country. Not just the city. Not just my home state. But the entire country. And they were making the drugs here.

May I go another step further? Crime is illegal in this country, yet it still happens. Why? Because there are people that choose to NOT obey those in authority for anything.

Gun control laws don't disarm criminals. They only disarm law abiding citizens. Criminals know this. And even if the criminal does not have a gun, he/she knows that their victims do not either. Virginia Tech was advertised as a Gun Free Zone. Perhaps the outcome would have been different if there had been some law abiding citizen there who was armed. Perhaps the outcome would have been different if the killer had NOT known that all his victims would be un-armed.



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One Sheet per Sit

Posted by THBarb on Thursday, April 26, 2007 10:35:25 PM
Whoa! You gotta be careful when you say that. I guess that's ok if your sheet don't stink.

That was singer Sheryl Crow's joke at some global warming gathering recently, “I propose a limitation be put on how many squares of toilet paper can be used in any one sitting. I think we are an industrious enough people that we can make it work with only one square per restroom visit, except, of course, on those pesky occasions where two to three could be required.”

I suspect she meant it as a joke but she's gotta know that some liberal legislature is going to take her serious and try to make it a law. And when they get a hold of that, they'll want us to use both sides.

Euwww!

But then maybe she's just trying to think outside the pot, er ... I mean box.


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Resurrection Sunday 2007

Posted by THBarb on Friday, April 06, 2007 7:23:29 PM
Even so, come Lord Jesus.

I watched "The Nativity Story" for the first time last night. (I think Easter and Christmas are so closely tied together, I have no problem with watching Christmas Movies near Easter. Or singing Resurrection songs on Christmas). I like how it portrayed the possible problems that Joseph and Mary had with their relationship with each other and their neighbors. And how God provides more then enough just in the nick of time.

The King of Kings and Lord of Lords delivered to man in such a meager way. God choose Joseph and Mary but He also tested them. A Bible teacher recently showed me that we read of the Biblical Saint's victories and defeats after the fact. They lived it. They were being tested when only God knew the outcome. We can learn a lot from their victories. Maybe even more from their mistakes.

God, I want to make less mistakes.

He who testifies to these things says, "Surely I am coming quickly." Amen. Even so, come, Lord Jesus! (Revelation 22:20 NKJV)

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The Speaker Speaks and Syria Laughs at U.S.

Posted by THBarb on Friday, April 06, 2007 12:22:42 PM
Nanny Pull-Out-See's visit to Syria was more then humiliating.
  1. She defied the President. (No big deal in the eyes of the libs.)
  2. She overstepped her Constitutional limits. (Being the Constitutional experts they are on the left, how could they miss this one? Is this part of that "living-breathing document" philosophy?)
  3. She "LIED" about what the Prime Minister of Israel said. (I guess it depends upon how you define "peace" talks.)
  4. She cavorted with a despot who supports and aids our enemies.
  5. AND, I am assuming, that she made the US taxpayers pay for this trip.
I do not see how her actions shows her support for our troops. I think she has made this world more dangerous for them and for U.S.

And it looks like it was illegal

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Remember When?

Posted by THBarb on Wednesday, March 14, 2007 1:06:47 AM
Do you remember when or where you first heard that Valerie Plame worked for the CIA? Neither do I. Does that mean we have to go to jail?

And just how did a reporter get on the jury? I suppose he will write a book and call it, "The big fish that got a way." (There is something fishy about this whole thing.) I'm sure it will be listed as "non-fiction" along with the Inconvenient Truth and Fahrenheit 911.

Joe Wilson is disappointed that the President has shown no sorrow for what has happened to his wife. I'm not sure what he means by that. The only "sad thing" I'm aware of in her life is her husband. And that was her choice. It must suck to be her.
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