tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15558044903110451612024-02-02T04:13:08.961-06:00Not Alone And I will pray the Father, and He will give you another Helper, that He may abide with you forever — the Spirit of truth, whom the world cannot receive, because it neither sees Him nor knows Him; but you know Him, for He dwells with you and will be in you.
<br> I will not leave you orphans; I will come to you.
(John 14:16-18 NKJ)Not Alone +++ PAShttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07176295519558694481noreply@blogger.comBlogger808125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1555804490311045161.post-536996116305168812015-06-02T15:19:00.000-05:002017-03-21T09:20:12.264-05:00Woo hoo, freedom!
It is amazing how deceptive our perspectives can be, as is illustrated in this advertisement from where I do my banking.
Woo hoo, freedom!
Really?
When I was a teenager and wanted to get my driver’s licence my father spoke to me a warning that I have never forgotten. He told me that I should not be in too big of a hurry to “grow up” and get a driver’s licence and a car. He Not Alone +++ PAShttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07176295519558694481noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1555804490311045161.post-47817882947432210852015-03-07T15:49:00.001-06:002015-03-07T15:49:25.657-06:00Helping the HomelessLast week I had to renew and pay the registration and other fees for my business equipment: my truck and chipper and other two trailers. Once again the State of Kansas changed the rules, costing me a couple of days in contacting the right sources and changing my registrations and tags. Naturally, the cost also has increased on account of this new and improved method of taxation.After Not Alone +++ PAShttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07176295519558694481noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1555804490311045161.post-80862164872038651052015-03-07T10:57:00.000-06:002015-03-07T10:57:16.936-06:00Junk Mail - Hard to BelieveJust now I cleared my junk mail folder. 1258 items were in the folder, compiled over the last three days.This is a very sad manifestation of the condition of sinful mankind. It is not really anything new. Deceivers and scammers have arisen in every age. The Internet has made this easier for such minded people. But it is not a new thing.Even more disappointing is to Not Alone +++ PAShttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07176295519558694481noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1555804490311045161.post-65978289359984263272015-03-04T15:51:00.000-06:002015-03-04T15:51:16.562-06:00Eco Pure GenerosityToday I was very pleasantly surprised by a display of generosity by one of our local merchants, Eco Pure of Wichita.I have purchased bottles from Eco Pure several times in the past, which I have used for water storage and for making our Communion wine. Their charge is a very reasonable price.Today I called as I have a neighbor whose water was shut off by the city of Wichita and he cannot Not Alone +++ PAShttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07176295519558694481noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1555804490311045161.post-74715888157023929892014-10-28T11:45:00.000-05:002014-10-28T11:45:06.467-05:00Pertinent ProverbsThese seem especially fitting in this age from Proverbs 27:(4) Wrath is cruel, and anger is outrageous; but who is able to stand before envy?(5) Open rebuke is better than secret love.(6) Faithful are the wounds of a friend; but the kisses of an enemy are deceitful.(9) Ointment and perfume rejoice the heart: so doth the sweetness of a man's friend by hearty counsel.(12)&Not Alone +++ PAShttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07176295519558694481noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1555804490311045161.post-71453811225007527572014-10-27T12:27:00.000-05:002014-10-27T12:27:19.719-05:00Ezekiel 18:30-32 — “Why Will Ye Die, O House of Israel”Today I perused the statistics page for the Bride of Christ Evangelical Lutheran Church web site and found that among the search engine queries this query had been presented: “what does ezekiel 18 30-32 mean to the church today”.This piqued my interest so that I read again the sermon from the Feast of the Holy Trinity from 2011. Here are the links to the HTML, PDF, and MP3 files.+ + +Not Alone +++ PAShttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07176295519558694481noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1555804490311045161.post-40432533574414912352014-10-27T12:01:00.000-05:002014-10-27T12:01:01.945-05:00Resuming Posting?It has been a number of months since I have invested the time and energy to post to this weblog site. I wonder how many people still know that this is the source of the term: blog, that it is a contraction of web-log. In conjunction with this I also have wondered how relevant blogging is today, as have many others who have grown weary of investing the time and energy to do it well.&Not Alone +++ PAShttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07176295519558694481noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1555804490311045161.post-49185840879497297552014-07-30T11:02:00.000-05:002014-07-30T11:02:28.297-05:00Have You Spammed Yourself Today?
A few minutes ago I received a phone call from myself. At least so said the caller ID. This is also what the phone company has on record. My name and my home phone number called me on my home phone.
It was one of the bogus "Credit Card Services" calls. Each time that this call comes, the recording says that it is the "final" call, pressing me to respond.
Having called Not Alone +++ PAShttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07176295519558694481noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1555804490311045161.post-4933185608440084062014-06-10T10:36:00.000-05:002014-06-12T15:30:26.163-05:00Hard-Boiled Eggs Without Peeling
Yesterday I checked at LewRockwell.com and saw a link for the article: The Food Lab: The Hard Truth About Boiled Eggs.
At the end of the article is included this video and list of instructions:
Instructions:
Cover the eggs with water and boil on low for about 12 minutes.
Cool the eggs by placing them in cold water with one teaspoon of baking soda and ice. The baking soda raises Not Alone +++ PAShttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07176295519558694481noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1555804490311045161.post-22172296583508302852014-06-10T10:25:00.000-05:002014-06-10T10:25:00.069-05:00Not So Strong ...In the article posted below, Decepticon Invasion, I share my feeling disturbed by the progression of invasive technology used in deceptive ways. Why should this disturb a man like myself?I am helpless to defend myself and my wife from home invasion and theft by a computerized robotic calling system. I am unable to defend against the many forms of rape that are continually being Not Alone +++ PAShttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07176295519558694481noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1555804490311045161.post-21777191013499194962014-06-09T16:05:00.000-05:002014-06-09T16:26:54.964-05:00Decepticon Invasion
Yesterday afternoon we received a phone call from a caller that was IDed as being from Atlanta, GA.
The caller asked for my wife by name, by her first name.
As is my custom, I asked who was calling.
The caller identified herself as Sandy, with a group name that I do not remember, and said that she was calling about the Pro-Life issue.
Her manner of speaking was unusual, not flowing with Not Alone +++ PAShttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07176295519558694481noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1555804490311045161.post-59933082166274224652014-05-23T13:22:00.000-05:002014-05-23T13:30:56.445-05:00Sudan: Death to Christians & Freedom
I have received several e-mails like the one posted below from the ACLJ:
Meriam Ibrahim faces death. Martin, her American toddler, is imprisoned and sick.
He could lose his mother and be turned over to the very radical Islamists who hung her.
A judge in Sudan ordered Meriam to renounce her Christian faith or die. She's refused, saying, "I will remain a Christian."
She's pregnant, Not Alone +++ PAShttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07176295519558694481noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1555804490311045161.post-46615585833116447172014-04-18T01:42:00.000-05:002014-04-18T01:43:40.704-05:00When a True Statement Is the Truth
This comedic captioned photograph from Indian Libertarians's Photos would be funny if it were not a true representation of the contrast between the views of these two men.
Both perspectives fall short of the truth, although the Dalai Lama’s does not fall nearly as short as the Obama’s. Yet even the much fuller view of the Dalai Lama still falls short of the truth. While the Not Alone +++ PAShttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07176295519558694481noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1555804490311045161.post-1035522143377993012014-04-15T11:19:00.000-05:002014-04-15T11:19:21.096-05:00Surprised by FriendlinessA couple of weeks ago I went for my walk and was surprised by a very unusual display of friendliness. Something happened that I have not encountered in at least fifteen years. As I was walking, a police car approached on the same road, with two police officers: one was driving; the other, in the right front seat, seemed to be taking notes or examining something. As they drew Not Alone +++ PAShttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07176295519558694481noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1555804490311045161.post-37364011449400787362014-01-02T18:08:00.000-06:002014-01-02T18:08:34.925-06:002014 ResolutionsHappy New Year! Happy 2014!It seems funny that flipping a page on a calendar should be counted as a holiday. I suppose that when people don’t recognize the holy, they have to find something mundane to celebrate. So we have New Years Day.Certainly the observance of God’s grace to us in preserving us and carrying us through the past year into a new year is a cause for thanksgivingNot Alone +++ PAShttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07176295519558694481noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1555804490311045161.post-85409477567328390972014-01-02T16:37:00.000-06:002014-01-02T16:37:04.328-06:00The Beauty of CreationWith the new year comes new outpouring of landscaping magazines and advertisements. One of the advertising and propaganda magazines that has found me and continues to bombard me is Total Landscape Care. It is basically a mechanism for advertising with a few articles interspersed between the advertisements. This bothers me much less now that they stopped trying to trick me into Not Alone +++ PAShttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07176295519558694481noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1555804490311045161.post-90103118690389247442013-12-17T13:11:00.000-06:002013-12-17T13:11:00.942-06:00You Need to Stop Reading So Much“You Need to Stop Reading So Much!” This admonition was given to me by one of my customers and friends. He cautioned me against being too informed about the things that are being done in the government and the world. He said that I cannot do anything about them, as people are not paying attention. When I responded that this is the problem, he told me that I cannot change Not Alone +++ PAShttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07176295519558694481noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1555804490311045161.post-16928084455586107892013-12-16T00:38:00.000-06:002013-12-16T00:38:22.808-06:00We WILL Take It All - EventuallyIn case this information has escaped notice, the IMF has declared that it wants governments, especially the USA’s, to begin taxing at a rate of 71%.IMF Calls For US Income Taxes as High as 71 PercentIMF Wants a 71 Percent Tax RateIMF is the initialism for the International Monetary Fund.Hollywood took this and used it in the Mission Impossible TV series and then the Movie series. In this Not Alone +++ PAShttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07176295519558694481noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1555804490311045161.post-20702190175617802152013-12-13T14:39:00.000-06:002013-12-13T14:49:03.657-06:00Another Look - Hideous City Council Farce
In the embedded video in the previous post, nearing the latter part, questions from reporters were allowed. The second question and especially the answer given should be heard over and over. Here is that snippet.
While it seems unlikely that the Councilwoman meant for this statement to reveal the actual mentality of the Council, sometimes things just come out from the heart Not Alone +++ PAShttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07176295519558694481noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1555804490311045161.post-35887772476885933382013-12-13T13:43:00.000-06:002013-12-13T13:43:49.477-06:00Another Hideous City Council FarceIn our latest bill from the City of Wichita for our water usage is this flyer: H2O-flyer-PDFFront view:
Back view:
Here is the City of Wichita video presenting the deep compassion of this new program:At 1:28 in this video the presenter says:
It is so important to me, especially after the last water bill raise.
In the opening portion of the video she says:
ThisNot Alone +++ PAShttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07176295519558694481noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1555804490311045161.post-62575797183770237812013-12-13T12:18:00.000-06:002013-12-13T13:47:02.839-06:00No, I Am Not A Robot
Telemarketing is reaching new levels of invasive methods.
In a Time NewsFeed article, Meet the Robot Telemarketer Who Denies She’s A Robot is a report, with actual recordings, of conversations in phone calls, where a robotic telemarketing voice denies being a robot.
Be warned that the Soundcloud recordings place cookies on your computer. So if you listen, you will need to clear your Not Alone +++ PAShttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07176295519558694481noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1555804490311045161.post-84637846171011701922013-12-12T13:31:00.000-06:002013-12-12T13:31:19.654-06:00Twenty-one YearsToday my wife and I celebrate our survival of twenty-one years together as husband and wife.Yesterday she was astonished to realize that she had forgotten our wedding anniversary until yesterday. She shared this with me and I was startled to realize that while I thought of it all last month and even most of last week, that it had disappeared from my thoughts that day as well.Ouch! Not Alone +++ PAShttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07176295519558694481noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1555804490311045161.post-26911815101338636832013-12-12T12:59:00.000-06:002013-12-12T12:59:45.945-06:00Squishy UnityI wandered to a site that I rarely visit anymore and observed a video presentation entitled My Squishy Unity Jesus. In this presentation the Reverend Pastor Fisk in his usual less than reverent style speaks to the issue of the Twentieth Century Ecumenical Movement as it has progressed to the present day. He addresses the issue that the concept of unity has been redefined to mean the Not Alone +++ PAShttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07176295519558694481noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1555804490311045161.post-27892466879282273992013-12-11T10:44:00.000-06:002013-12-11T10:44:25.881-06:00Fluoride & VaccinesIn the previous post Dr. Russell Blaylock: Fluoride and Mercury, I shared a video presentation by Dr. Russell Blaylock on this subject. I also included a link to the article WHY I CHANGED MY MIND ABOUT WATER FLUORIDATION, in which the author cites seventy-three sources in his “References” footnotes. Seventy-three sources!Yet in the comments to my post, an anonymous commentator callingNot Alone +++ PAShttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07176295519558694481noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1555804490311045161.post-59477618763902029832013-11-25T11:46:00.000-06:002013-11-25T11:46:55.206-06:00New Cholesterol Guidelines: FugetaboutitDr. Brownstein has an informative article regarding the continual farcical promotion of the Cholesterol myth and statin drug use at New Cholesterol Guidelines: Fugetaboutit. He effectively portrays the methodology of those who use “studies” to deceive the public regarding health matters. He also states the truth about these dangerous drugs and warns people to avoid them. He saysNot Alone +++ PAShttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07176295519558694481noreply@blogger.com1