Category: Christian

How do we celebrate Christmas?

How do we celebrate Christmas?

My wife and I came to America many years ago. I came from Sweden, my wife came from Denmark.

The Swedes used to have lutfisk for Christmas Eve Supper, the Danes a pork roast with all the trimmings.

But we both liked to sing our Christmas songs, I sang my Swedish songs, she sang her Danish songs.

Coming to America we learned to love the traditional Christmas Carols, especially those with German, Welsh and Irish origins, not to mention the Negro Spirituals. Christmas music is so beautiful and inspiring. But we were not yet born again followers of Jesus Christ, our Lord and Savior, we just sang them happily anyway walking around the Christmas tree on Christmas Eve after dinner, but before gift giving. Then we came to a vibrant and joyful faith and we started to go to church Christmas Eve where we always ended up singing “Silent Night” to live candles for everybody in the whole congregation. It started at 7 P.M. so we had to eat a little earlier. Our children had settled for Swedish Meatballs with Lingonsylt (Cranberries) and a fruit bowl in which there was one almond. The one who got the almond got the almond gift – usually a tree ornament. After we came to faith there was just one thing missing – Jesus birthday cake. You can see it for yourself here: (In the background is the Advent Candles, all lit with the center light also lit on Christmas Eve)

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It is a normal cake bottom, usually in three layers with say vanilla cream in one layer and maybe apricot jelly in the other. Strawberries, raspberries, or whatever is fine too. It is overlaid with Marzipan and a Rose of Sharon is created on top into which is placed one birthday light. We light the light and sing Happy Birthday Lord Jesus after we come back from church, then we sing more carols around the Christmas tree. Las of all do we share our gifts.

There is no Santa in our Christmas. The Lord Jesus gets the honor. This is the way it should be, at least for us.

 

Thoughts on Rev Billy Graham’s 95th birthday. A Limerick.

The Rev. Billy Graham just celebrated his 95th birthday with a special message. What a life this man had! And God even gave him the grace to give a “final” message on God’s grace, ending with the sinner’s prayer. I watched the moving messages, but then it hit me;  In the form of a Limerick:

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How much is a life like that worth?

In God’s eyes it’s the same

As that bum that just came

to the cross. Of God’s grace there’s no dearth.

Picture, right: Sarah Palin congratulates Billy graham on his 95th birthday. Franklin Graham and Todd Palin are the other two.

Bibles worse than Chemical warfare? A Limerick.

This is a video from a secular Syrian. Eretz Zen, the footage was taken Sept. 3 in the Syrian town of Jarablus on the Turkish border. Reference:
http://www.wnd.com/2013/09/bibles-called-worse-than-chemical-weapons/#DqWQR40oEBe123s0.99

A message from Syria’s Jarablus:

“We’ll take all the gas without fuss;

for the Bibles are worse;

Christian love is a curse.

Jihad filled with hate: Our syllabus.”

The CIA has been arming the Syrian rebels for some time now. Is this really the people we would like to support?

Prayer at the cross at Mt Nittany. A Limerick.

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Some friends from of old came to pray

how this land, full of sin lost its way.

So we went to the cross

to bemoan the great loss.

GOD answered: “I’m with you alway.”

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Sunset over Mt Nittany, State College Pa. Aug 14 2013

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Sunset over State College.

One more phony verse to the Obama impeachment song.

One more verse to the Obama impeachment song:
When those phony scandals broke
I shrugged my head, I’m just a bloke.
It’s not lies, I just misspoke.
I fooled you twice, now we all are broke.
The complete song now goes as follows:
The impeachment song: (To the tune of “Please release me, let me go”)

The complete Obama Impeachment song.

A pot-smoking paranoid boy could have been Obama 35 years ago.


A pot-smoking paranoid boy
Was Trayvon, sought fights just for joy.
Said Obama: “You see,
that boy could have been me.
I know, I am from Illinois.”

A black New York City pastor ripped into his congregation for seeing through hateful black eyes for condemning George Zimmerman and defending Trayvon Martin who he called “a pot-smoking munchies, paranoid 17-year-old boy.”

In a sermon recorded (the first video) the same day a jury of six women declared George Zimmerman not guilty in the death of Florida teen, Trayvon Martin, chief pastor at the ATLAH World Missionary Church in New York City, James David Manning, railed at his congregation for defending Trayvon Martin because he is black.

Read more at http://www.christianpost.com/news/pastor-calls-trayvon-martin-pot-smoking-paranoid-17-year-old-boy-rails-at-church-for-being-black-on-verdict-100472/#yxFrrzCqeucZG7TG.99

The second video is from President Obama’s unscheduled appearance at the daily White House press briefing Friday Jul 19 2013.

Healthcare, abortion, and stay out of my womb. Who pays? A Limerick.

Is Healthcare “Stay out of my womb?”
And abortion a right? Then for whom?
Reproductive rights mean
Right to kill, intervene
In the womb. – We pay up to our doom.

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Notice the pre-teen girl on the left with the sign
“If I wanted the Government in my womb I would f*** a senator.”
The mother is smiling approvingly.
The Texas senate bill passed limits abortions to the first 20 weeks of the pregnancy.

Obama’s fundamental transformation of America through disinformation. A Limerick.

Disinformation_3d_700 (1)There is a new book (and video movie), published by WND Books and being released nationally Jun. 25, titled “Disinformation: Former Spy Chief Reveals Secret Strategies for Undermining Freedom, Attacking Religion, and Promoting Terrorism.”
Obama is doing his big transformation,
A Marxist campaign of pure disinformation
But the truth is in Christ
For our sins sacrificed.
And lies like Obama’s cause conflaguration.

Sarah Palin on Syria: Let Allah sort it out.

PalinfaithandfreedomAs Sunnis and Shias are killing in Syria
They blame Sarah Palin for playing Valkyria.*
Bur she said without doubt
“Let Allah sort it out”
For peace is in Jesus – He is our criteria.
Former Alaska Governor Sarah Palin made the following comment while headlining the Faith and Freedom Coalition conference in Washington, D.C on Saturday:
“Militarily, where is our commander-in-chief? We’re talking now more new interventions. I say until we know what we’re doing, until we have a commander-in-chief who knows what he’s doing, well, let these radical Islamic countries who aren’t even respecting basic human rights, where both sides are slaughtering each other as they scream over an arbitrary red line, ‘Allah Akbar,’ I say until we have someone who knows what they’re doing, I say let Allah sort it out.”

* Valkyria (Old Norse).In Norse mythology, a valkyrie “chooser of the slain” is one of a host of female figures who decide which soldiers die in battle and which live.