Pastor's Pruning
Jesse gets his plane
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This is it. I found Jesse his plane. I can say God answered Jesse's prayer. He is, in my opinion, actually and in reality what God calls a false teacher, feeding on the sheep. Beware! You will know them by their fruit. So I included instructions on how Jesse and all his type can all have a Dassault Falcon 7x. Just click on the link. By the way Jesse, Jesus would never use a jet, nor would He use people.
That's my yard
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That's my yard. Why a photo of my yard. My neighbor, a devout Catholic, believes any yard that is an eyesore is his sole point of contention with people. He is a great guy and good neighbor. However, how many of us should be challenged by how we care for the things God has graciously allowed us to have. It is a poor testimony if our yard and our lives are a wreck and we claim Jesus and what He can do. Let our light shine through the wonderful care we take of God's things. Let's meet the challenge and be a witness.
Genesis 1:26-31 (NASB)
26 Then God said, "Let Us make man in Our image, according to Our likeness; and let them rule over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the sky and over the cattle and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creeps on the earth."
27 God created man in His own image, in the image of God He created him; male and female He created them.
28 God blessed them; and God said to them, "Be fruitful and multiply, and fill the earth, and subdue it; and rule over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the sky and over every living thing that moves on the earth."
29 Then God said, "Behold, I have given you every plant yielding seed that is on the surface of all the earth, and every tree which has fruit yielding seed; it shall be food for you;
30 and to every beast of the earth and to every bird of the sky and to every thing that moves on the earth which has life, I have given every green plant for food"; and it was so.
31 God saw all that He had made, and behold, it was very good. And there was evening and there was morning, the sixth day.
Gun Violence: What is a church to do?
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Hey, it has been a while but I'm back! Sunday, November 5, 2017, a little past eleven, a gunman opened fire on a small church in a quiet town just outside of San Antonio, Texas. This is an inexplicable, horrifying and deplorable event. Many are searching for answers as to why this young man committed such a heinous act. Why would someone shoot up a church full of people wanting to worship the Lord and spend time as a family? Why? What provoked this guy to plan this event? What kind of hatred and lack of compassion for human life would drive this nut job to open fire on innocent lives? Ultimately many ask, Why did God sit by idly as this man did this to His sheep?
What's wrong with this!!
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http://catholicherald.co.uk/news/2018/04/16/is-my-dad-in-heaven-little-boy-asks-pope/
'God surely was proud of your father,' the Pope said
After circling a massive, crumbling public housing complex on the outskirts of Rome, Pope Francis had an emotional encounter with the neighbourhood’s children.
Question-and-answer sessions with youngsters are a standard part of Pope Francis’ parish visits. And, at St Paul of the Cross parish on April 15, there were the usual questions like, “How did you feel when you were elected Pope?”
But then it was Emanuele’s turn. The young boy smiled at the pope as he approached the microphone. But then froze. “I can’t do it,” Emanuele said.
Mgr Leonardo Sapienza, a papal aide, encouraged the boy, but he kept saying, “I can’t.”
“Come, come to me, Emanuele,” the Pope said. “Come and whisper it in my ear.”
Msgr. Sapienza helped the boy up to the platform where the pope was seated. Emanuele was sobbing by that point, and Pope Francis enveloped him in a big embrace, patting his head and speaking softly to him.
With their heads touching, the Pope and the boy spoke privately to each other before Emanuele returned to his seat.
“If only we could all cry like Emanuele when we have an ache in our hearts like he has,” the Pope told the children. “He was crying for his father and had the courage to do it in front of us because in his heart there is love for his father.”
Pope Francis said he had asked Emanuele if he could share the boy’s question and the boy agreed. “‘A little while ago my father passed away. He was a nonbeliever, but he had all four of his children baptised. He was a good man. Is dad in heaven?'”
“How beautiful to hear a son say of his father, ‘He was good,'” the Pope told the children. “And what a beautiful witness of a son who inherited the strength of his father, who had the courage to cry in front of all of us. If that man was able to make his children like that, then it’s true, he was a good man. He was a good man.
“That man did not have the gift of faith, he wasn’t a believer, but he had his children baptised. He had a good heart,” Pope Francis said.
“God is the one who says who goes to heaven,” the Pope explained.
The next step in answering Emanuele’s question, he said, would be to think about what God is like and, especially, what kind of heart God has. “What do you think? A father’s heart. God has a dad’s heart. And with a dad who was not a believer, but who baptised his children and gave them that bravura, do you think God would be able to leave him far from himself?”
“Does God abandon his children?” the Pope asked. “Does God abandon his children when they are good?”
The children shouted, “No.”
“There, Emanuele, that is the answer,” the Pope told the boy. “God surely was proud of your father, because it is easier as a believer to baptise your children than to baptize them when you are not a believer. Surely this pleased God very much.”
Pope Francis encouraged Emanuele to “talk to your dad; pray to your dad.”
Earlier, a young girl named Carlotta also asked the pope a delicate question: “When we are baptised, we become children of God. People who aren’t baptized, are they not children of God?”
“What does your heart tell you?” the Pope asked Carlotta. She said, they are, too.
“Right, and I’ll explain,” the Pope told her. “We are all children of God. Everyone. Everyone.”
The nonbaptised, members of other religions, those who worship idols, “even the mafiosi,” who terrorise the neighbourhood around the parish, are children of God, though “they prefer to behave like children of the devil,” he said.
“God created everyone, loves everyone and put in everyone’s heart a conscience so they would recognise what is good and distinguish it from what is bad,” the Pope said.
The difference, he said, is that “when you were baptised, the Holy Spirit entered into that conscience and reinforced your belonging to God and, in that sense, you became more of a daughter of God because you’re a child of God like everyone, but with the strength of the Holy Spirit.”
Where does one start when there is so much wrong.
Let's first agree on one thing. The Word of God is the final authority on faith and practice NOT THE POPE!
Beauty and The Beast
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Yes, I saw the movie today. So why write about it. I am offended, by believers. They claim there is a homosexual moment in the movie. Is there, yes, probably. If you look you will find. Here again is the problem of blogs. Am I to sound off just to get something off my chest or is there a moment we can teach and learn from Disney. So why am I offended? Here is what was in the movie magic that Disney makes. Sorcery, mythology, transsexuality, Beastiality, divination, witchcraft, selfishness, greed, gluttony, even narcissistic behavior and many other vices, this is on the negative side. Disney, however, is a company that is of the world, as most are.They may have even found their new Annette Funicello (that marks my age).