When I first heard them use that term I thought it was just journalists being hyperbolistic again, not that it was an actual meteorological term. Thanks again for this message. I feel a little bit naive in that I have this silly novel idea that deceit and dishonesty are a newer thing. Probably I've been naive, but I do feel like the average person is less honest than they used to be. But it was good, in a strange way, to know that it's nothing new and people have been searching for real information forever. Thankfully we have it, but so many do not. I tried to spend my energy well, but lately it's felt a lot less purposeful than usual. I want to get out more, despite the cold that stupid amounts of snow, to interact with my group of old boys, and all their varieties of understanding and clothing and all those attributes. It's not just the snow, though. And I don't like the cold but the snow is worse for me. It is still knowing the uninformed opinions of some of those people, who understand my plate and sit at the same table as me and I think are well-meaning. But that misinformation and ignorance that they have grab on to, and always the easiest sound bite, not a nuanced opinion... I should probably drag myself there and just focus on speaking with the people in whom I have the most in common, it's just that the one I'm most disappointed in is the one I'm closest to. Yeah, that's enough and I'll keep processing. We are healthy. I think we had that current nasty strain in July and we were tired for a long time after as well. So, I hope you both convalesce fully very soon and have a blessed weekend.

Keep getting rest, get well! Thank you and amen!

I could give you some sarcastic response about why the snow came here from a political decision perspective but I don't need to go there. Regarding people, so many just seem to be happy in their misery and don't necessarily want an end to their strife. Certainly, it made me think of your wish for a good night's rest. Myself I seldom have a problem getting to sleep unless I'm hurting too bad. My mind used to keep me awake but it doesn't any longer, except for those certain things that come up that a person needs to process. But the body aches are always the thing to keep down low enough that sleep will come. I hope that you had a very convalescent night and woke up feeling very well today.

Overcoming evil with good. This is a deep one that hits home for a lot of us. But there is healing in doing exactly that. Lord show us all individually things we can do practically to do just that. Thank You that You have already, and You will again. Help us obey. And give us willing hearts by the power of Your Spirit living inside of us. Through Jesus, Amen.

I love how you love the Lord and love His word, thank you so much for sharing! Please rest and get well, praying for you..😊

I find myself using fewer pleases and thank yous these days, honey catching fewer flies than vinegar or electricity. I guess it's the seemingly lack of reciprocity that has caused it. But, I feel like I've doubled down on trying to appreciate the people I really appreciate. I do know how much I value encouragement add try to be forthcoming with it, I just find myself being anything but unconditional with the exceptions I've already mentioned. Thank you for this encouragement today.

Thank you Pastor! And bless you back! ❤

I assure you I wasn't reading ahead when I made that heaping burning coals comment on the previous video. The last message is not easy to hear please and thank you just doesn't get you anywhere, any longer. However, if I want to be who I want to be I will listen and be mindful.

I have a lot to say but first, it's our honor that you would do this for us amongst your remarkably busy schedule. I hope that my prayers for your energy and full lungs are making that possible. You are giving a great leadership to your sheep and it is seen. As for repairing kindness with kindness, my struggle seldom Falls when I have to deal with people, it's when I have to deal with the bureaucracies that hide the faces, voices and Humanity of the people you have to deal with. Breaking through that so that you can discuss and negotiate and reason with a person is what I'm struggling with. Money doesn't seem to matter, heaping burning coals on their head doesn't seem to matter so I'm just not sure how to find the motivating factor to move these circumstances forward with such a big lumbering mechanism. And the people who are helping are also caught in the gears for which they work. I guess it's down the first and last resort of prayer.

I so needed this message, God help me!!😢. Holding onto God, holding onto hope….amen

I am really glad that I saved this video for right now and thank you for the much-needed and very funny jokes.

So very good!! I may have to listen to this again!! ❤️‍🩹

Such a needed message, amen and 🙏

Many times the Lord helps me find things !

I forgot to add how much I appreciate it the old turn table. When I started feeling a bit welcoming of autumn earlier this year, I found myself turning into KZbin for Ambience and background music. It was amazing how much that was more like a.m. radio or music coming from the other room. It was interesting in that certain sounds like ambient but chirping was sharp and clear but the music sound like I had hearing loss. It was endearing for a while but after a bit, I found it a bit taxing on my mind and was real proof for me that hearing loss can certainly affect your ability to think and to interact when you need to spend that much more energy on hearing what is being said.

On a sharp day, I will come down and turn on the radio for just a few minutes while I'm sitting up, before starting your video. I don't know if I said this, but thank you for that very welcoming intro and music every day. I don't know if I have reached for the power button as quickly as I did today after listening to a caller who seemed like the type of person that wanted to be a good citizen and he was loudly asking a whole bunch of questions that have large geopolitical implications. I'm pretty convinced he didn't want to hear the answers and if he did hear them he would have some loud and unthinking refute. I definitely don't want to be that guy and I wonder how many stubborn people you're talking to today. I'm probably one of them in a number of ways that were brought to my attention after a patience testing evening last night. I am glad that at least I realized what was happening and why I didn't want to be that way and I'm not sure how to move forward when you regularly have to interact with people who don't necessarily want to hear and answer. I'm getting a bit rambly but I appreciate this message because of how timely it is, coming on the heels of a good refresher of who I want to be and who I don't want to be.

This is a great Sunday sermon!! You preach it! So simple yet can be so hard ! God bless you! Amen

Suuuuch a wonderful Word! Thank you ‘letting’ God speak through you 💜

Every Superman needs his Fortress of solitude. The door to mine's always open and I wish more people would come in because I feel like I'm running out of people to give gifts to. That said, there's about 10 toys I want to make for my daughter and hopefully grandchildren one day. But I miss the video chats/hangouts and ways that people with disabilities have been connecting long before the pandemic gave everybody else these new-to-them toy to play with. Which then became monetized so that when everybody went back to normal we are still here using that technology, missing the people that joined us for a few years. But I appreciate what you said in the encouragement. And I'm glad to know about two solid people, outside my family of course, who are in my corner.

O how I needed your encouragement today! This whole message was for me😢… thank you !! God bless and keep you!❤

Beautiful church, and country!

A needed word, thank you for being faithful 😊

Thank you for bringing the last few beautiful messages. I pray that you will heal completely, very soon.

I have followed you for the last six months and have benefited from your sermons, Thank you! However there is an elephant in the room. The church in my opinion still fails to address the issue of narcissistic abuse and how to handle it correctly. God does not want us to be abused. Often the church attacks the victim, the scapegoat claiming they are not trying enough. We are living in a very narcissistic time. Paul, also talks about narcissism and the reality of it,the evil of it. Thank you again for your sermons.

Yes and amen 😊

Amen

I'm glad you felt well enough to come back for today. I have an awful lot I'd love to comment but, ironically, so much of the big issues suddenly melt away when something closer to home happens. I just saw my parents off from a very sudden visit for a medical appointment, which was good. But it revealed some concerns as well as shed light in other ways in which I hope I am able to help. But it really does reframe what is important. That said, some of the horrific stories I hear from Care Homes lately, and the likelihood of family members, even myself, needing that care sounds like inhumane treatment to me. I'm certain there are some very good care homes out there that some of the stories send chills down my spine. I say that's always been my biggest trust issue, knowing that things will be fine but wondering how horrific the journey to get there will be. And I'm not sure whether I want to know or to be blissfully ignorant.

I forgot to say that I'm praying for your Wellness because it's clear that covid caught up with you today.

I knew that I was saving this video for a reason. After such a challenging evening I needed the smile you brought the very beginning and I appreciate that. As for influences, I've had some positive influences in the past, one cousin and an uncle and aunt. That Uncle was greatly connected with a current friend from the Turning club. One who spent many hours working at the Bible College with Uncle Harvey. As for champions, the late Ken Merritt is who immediately comes to mind, though Beyond a few conversations and membership interview we didn't interact but I always knew that he was one of the people looking out for me. One of his greatest bits of wisdom he gave me is something I'm not currently able to do and I hope you get back to it because I now see the death of his wisdom add ability to forecast my future challenges I'm sure he had similar examples from which to compare, but his wisdom was the definition of Godly.

Thank you for bringing us a message through your sickness. Rest if you need to. Great camera work at the end!

Thank you for bringing positivity and hope. It is an incredibly heavy week internationally and within my own family. Good things but so much busyness and there's so little I need to do or can do to help. That's where they can do for me is that I feel stuck here watching others do the things I wish I could be doing for them, struggling to find a way to be useful to feel like I'm contributing when all I can really do is pray. And I see how I making prayers seem like a last resort. That's certainly was not my intent and I appreciate you reminding us to reject all evil, and be thinking humans, not zombies. I think that's my biggest frustration is looking at the world and seeing such numbness but I'll try to get back to focusing on the positive because every little bit of smile and positivity will be very welcome this week. Thank you for bringing a message of Hope and focus.

Thanks you Pastor for your message today, I so needed it! Thank you for praying for us, God help us!

So very glad to have you back and very happy that your vacation was as good as it was. Thank you for the reminders. I know that I have fought recently about how tame certain risque shows seemed from not so long ago and yet we watched them like it's nothing. That said, it's good to make sure our attention is where the most important things are. Why did you have to mention that disappointing election, with uninformed ignorant people afraid of things that are significant but really, really do not top the list of issues. That's where I'll stop my politics talk. The sense of Darkness I feel when I'm out and about is more of people not being there, despite their bodies being present. Drivers doing unreasonable irrational things, Shoppers or others looking like they're in their own lost in the world. Occasionally seeing someone having an unreasonable reaction to something not being the way they expected it. And I can understand more easily someone having an overreaction to something not being the way they wanted. It is the times where someone just stares their with something isn't the way they expected as if they're waiting for the next line of code to be input to know what to do next when the circumstances are not exactly as they expected. I feel like I'm starting to see the Unseen a lot more though these days and it's good because I find my priorities reorganizing themselves as a positive consequence. Really glad to be returning your regular and current videos to my daily routine. I appreciated your archive but I always appreciate the new current things because they let me know how you are at this time.

Thank you for being a current champion! I appreciate you and all your work! Praying for Lauralea, Lord please be her helper and healer. Lord bless you!!😊

First day back and he's firing on all cylinders !!! Papa's new home fragrance, it's called "Demons be Gone" Send that Beelzebub back where he came from with the scent of Frankincense and Myrrh. All the while repeating out loud "THE POWER OF CHRIST COMPELS YOU !!" The Heavenly blend, part of the very popular "Bells and Smells" collection. Get yours today !!!

Welcome back! Thank you for this teaching, don’t hear of this very often. Excellent!

Always embrace your journey. Thanks for the positive video

I was saving this video for this morning, hoping and needing it to be as positive as it was. Blessings on the rest of your vacation.

Hey Papa. Rolling around the floor with the Littles is good therapy for the soul, and the occasional meeting with Jesus on a park path !! I've been wondering about you as of late, but haven't bothered your vacation time !!

So, here I am a week later and what a great message. You are such a solid leader with Incredible advice, which I'm glad I took without even hearing it. I think I've been saving this video for a while because that's my personality, preserve precious things that there may not be more of, or that won't be for a while. I have albums from my favorite musical groups I haven't heard yet, and I'm not entirely sure what the psychology behind that is. Part of it feels like maybe I'm afraid it will be as good as I remember or part of me might be the last one and for some reason should be preserved instead of enjoyed repeatedly. However, I have come to greatly appreciate your archives. Your videos are not yesterday's news, even if they include a bit of it. Your dad jokes are Timeless and the message is as well. I hope you have the greatest traveling mercies and most wonderful experiences during your time off, but I would be remiss if I did not tell you how glad I will be when you're back.😊

Such a needed and hopeful message! Thank you and bless you!!

Add Ebenezer one time probably about they anointed and prayed over a number of us, myself included, and anyone who wanted of course. I'll admit that like you, I struggled to understand the outcome, or lack thereof. I did recognize the value of family coming around me and the support of that community, as well as the forgiveness in a new way other than communion. I know that they spoke about it before going ahead with the ritual, but I think it is important for leaders to temper expectations and be very clear to the congregation on scriptures meaning and the most needed healing many of us have. On a different note I'm going to leave you with three songs to consider listening to. First, Whitney Phillips, Refiner's Fire first heard that at a Men's Conference and listening to an all men's congregation sing that song was something else. I'll switch gears next by suggesting almost anything by 12 Stones and then give you the song every young person should listen to, Barlow Girl by Superchick.

When I was younger, working in travel, I had a friend who lived in Mississippi (Tupelo) and she used to send us cans of "Road Kill." You can actually get (Cat Food Size) cans of Road Kill. To teach some people, I really did not get along with a lesson, I served up "Road Kill" on a pretty plate, with a serving knife, like it was very expensive Pate, and unique. Weren't they mortified, when I asked them how they liked their "Road Kill" on toasty bread crackers ???

That was a big one. Let me start by saying that I'm also having a breathless day and hoping I can get that blood pressure back up because I intend to drag my bones to a friend's place to enjoy my craft in his presence and learn from him. I am not feeling it today, but I'm going to go in faith. Regarding grieving loss, there have been a number of times in my life where I've been quite unwell and then thanks to the help of experts diligence in my part and patience in waiting on God, I recover a lot of function and wellness. After about 5 to 7 years of feeling like a constant downtrend, and now feeling like we're actually starting to get somewhere, I'm not sure how to feel. It feels like the end of 200 hours of playing The Witcher 3, where all the storyline is done and all the new dialogue is over and the place feels empty. Now that I feel like maybe I've gotten to where I wanted to go on my pain journey and have more function left to live my life I'm not sure what to do. I guess the answer is to live the life I've missed as sorted out with a wise friend last evening on the phone. After such a long time of thinking things would not get better, I feel like I was grieving what I believe to be a permanent loss, and now that it doesn't seem to be I need to refocus my thinking, be grateful and do as much as I can while I am well. Now, what I feel like I am grieving, is the loss of so many good things. It's pure nostalgia, but stoned Wheat Thins have been discontinued, so many other things that we enjoyed are not there anymore. But that's unimportant. What I am grieving is truth, honor and an unspoken trust that I feel like we used to have in this society, even leaving doors and vehicles unlocked without a second thought.

My mouth betrayed me during a stressful situation yesterday. I tried to be mindful but like you said, the frustration bubbled up and over and the tone of my voice changed to be unkind. Today's a new day.

Thank you for your message, it was so needed…amen and God bless you!

I always think I can do what I used to do!! As my dad always said…it’s terrible to get old!!!😂 please take care of yourself! My husband puts peas in macaroni and cheese, he says it helps with the presentation!!! Nooooo, plain macaroni and cheese ,please!!

I agree! God help us!! Amen😊

"They were uneducated men, BUT, they were with Jesus !!" And You Papa and the Missus helped me begin to get my house in order. My Gratitude !! It does not matter how educated you are, you are either with Jesus or you are not. If your actions do not align with the words coming out of your mouth, You surely are not with Jesus, are you ?? Woe you hypocrites !!!

I'm hearing Chaim Topol singing "If I were a rich man ..." On Monday's the best Podcast is called, "The Curious History of your Home" Last night it was the History of Bread !!! Happy Birthday Mama Hillary !! I know how she is today, (well yesterday now) but I'd never ask a woman her age, right ?? Jesus, He was the first "Minimalist" and it is evident that James is addressing those who are NOT !! And even today, the Jews are despised, reviled, and are on the proverbial chopping block again !!