Always Keep Your Word

Proverbs 19:22, “The desire of a man is his kindness: and a poor man is better than a liar.”

The longing (or delight) of the human heart man is to have mercy on others, to help people; but if he has to lie, make shady deals and commit evil to do so in order to raise the money, he'd be better off just being poor.

I think a perfect example of this Bible verse is New York City's incompetent mayor Zohran Mamdani. In the fall of 2025 he ran for the position of mayor in New York City, making a bunch of empty promises that any sensible person knew he couldn't possibly fulfill. Mamdani promised free child daycare for all New Yorker parents. Mamdani promised a price freeze on all rental units. Mamdani promised free subway transportation for everyone from now on. He essentially gave away the farm! His plan was to tax the rich and the public ate it up, loving his rhetoric. Well, when Mamdani won the election by a landslide and became mayor, the state's governor refused to go along with taxing the rich, and his plan backfired on him. Proverbs 19:22, “The desire of a man is his kindness: and a poor man is better than a liar.”

To save face and come up with all that 'FREE' stuff that Mamdani promised to give away, he decided to tax the middle-class instead, by raising everyone's property taxes another 9.5% on top of some of the already highest property taxes in the country! Overburdened New York homeowners will now be taxed 19.84% a year!!! That is so criminal! Mamdani should be in prison for lying to get into office, knowing that there was no way he could honor his promises. Proverbs 19:22, “The desire of a man is his kindness: and a poor man is better than a liar.”

I think Mr. Mamdani had good intentions as a young man, and a horrible socialist one I might add...

“Socialism is nothing more than shared misery.” —Winston Churchill

Pastor Harry A. Ironside (1876-1951) explains Proverbs 19:22 this way...

A kindly, benevolent spirit appeals to all men because it is unselfish and thoughtful of others. But to make great promises while unable to fulfill them is reprehensible. It is far better to be poor and frankly admit one’s inability to do what the heart might desire, than to promise largely and be proven untrustworthy. To be what you are, and not to pretend to be what you are not, is a sound principle. An honest person, even if poor, gains the respect of anyone whose good opinion is worth having. See Peter and the lame man (Acts 3:6). SOURCE

Zohran Mamdani should have told the truth last year when running for mayor, and been upfront and honest with the people of New York. He's a sharp looking fella with a likable personality. I am confident that the citizens of New York would have still voted for him had he simply said they would all work together to find workable solutions, but his plan to tax the rich was doomed to fail from the start. A responsible leader understands that when you're in financial debt as a city, the only reasonable thing to do is cut spending. Sure, a lot of people are going to be angry and upset, but there is no other way. We've become so spoiled rotten in the United States that Americans refuse to do without anymore. Well, tough, that's life!

I love the old adage that was common during The Great Depression of the 1930s...

Use it up,
wear it out;
make it do,
do without

Yes Sir! That's the winning ticket! When you and I don't have the money, we do without. So why should the government have it any different? It's not the government's job to provide free daycare for children. It's not the city's job to provide free train rides. They need to put the petty thieves who don't pay their train fare in work camps; not prison, productive work camps! We are literally destroying ourselves with our freedom! No one should have a “right” to steal, shoot up on illegal drugs, hurt people, loiter in a tent on a sidewalk, or become a nuisance to society. Our reckless federal government has deliberately created this problem by allowing the fraudulent Federal Reserve to bankrupt our nation and run inflation into the stratosphere!

Avoid Making Promises To People

Dear reader, there is nothing worse than a liar. In fact, one of the seven things that God hates in Proverbs 6:16-19 is “a lying tongue.” Proverbs 26:28, “A lying tongue hateth those that are afflicted by it; and a flattering mouth worketh ruin.” Some people are habitual chronic liars. There are too many things that can go wrong. It is wise to refrain from making many promises to people. Granted, the marriage vows should be made at the wedding altar, and then honored for a lifetime. I am talking about the frivolous promises that we flippantly make to people day by day, which people so often fail to keep. I refuse to do that to anyone. Promises are important. And if you say you are going to do something, that becomes a promise!

I recently called Quality Roofing Solutions in Pensacola and spoke to one of their managers James Deere about repairs needed to my roof after hurricane Isaias. I was referred to him by Gulf Coast Home Inspections. I also asked James questions about adequate ventilation needs in my attic. He promised to email me some ventilation calculations which he said he'd obtain from Google satellite. He also promised to stop by my home that week to inspect my roof and needed repairs, included damaged vinyl soffits and fascia. But weeks later I never heard back from him.

So, I called James back but he refused to answer his phone. I sent him a text message and again gave him my address and email, kindly asking him to please keep his promises, but he just ignored me. It is bizarre, considering that we never had any cross words when I spoke with him. He mentioned to me that he is a Christian and attends a Baptist Church up on Nine Mile Road in Pensacola. Sadly, the guy is a liar! It's worldly abusive believers like him, if he is saved at all, why people have stopped going to church. There's a likely chance that his church is wrong on the Gospel. Professed Christians are often worse than the heathen world. The old adage is still very true that: A man is only as good as his word.

If you tell somebody that you are going to do something, you're integrity is at stake. Matthew 5:34, “But I say unto you, Swear not at all; neither by heaven; for it is God's throne: But above all things, my brethren, swear not, neither by heaven, neither by the earth, neither by any other oath: but let your yea be yea; and your nay, nay; lest ye fall into condemnation.” When people would intentionally lie in Bible times, they knew it was wrong to swear by God's name, so to lessen the severity of their broken oath (at least in their own warped mind) they would swear by the earth instead. But the Scripture warns that a promise is a promise, regardless who or what you swear by, so it's best to just not make them.

During World War II, every teenage male in the United States was itching to join the cause for going to war to fight the evils of communism. But many of them were unqualified because they were under the age of 18. So, what they would do is write the number “18” on the bottom of their shoe, so they could honestly tell the recruitment officer, “I am over 18.” That is dishonest. When the truth must be hidden, something is very wrong. That is deception.

I rarely make promises to anyone, especially to God. A broken promise is a serious infraction. Jesus warned in Matthew 12:36, “But I say unto you, That every idle word that men shall speak, they shall give account thereof in the day of judgment.” Words are a powerful thing, for which words God (who is the keeper of our soul according to Proverbs 24:12) will hold us all accountable.

When Katie Stubblefield was a beautiful teenage girl in high school, it was another mean girl's hurtful words at school that caused Katie to go home and attempt suicide with her brother's shotgun. Instead, Katie blew her face office and is now maimed for the rest of her miserable life. The other girl (a spoiled brat) who caused Katie's dilemma went on to live a normal life. Teenagers are in no man's land so-to-speak. They are old enough to interact with the world around them, inflict great damage; but yet are not mature enough in their mental capacity to process their feelings, painful emotions, hormones and disappointments. The teenage years are a dangerous time for young people, and their parents need to be involved with their lives.

My heart goes out to Katie. Her father said she is a determined girl, passionate and hard working. It was those qualities which compelled Katie to attempt to take her own life. I can relate to her because I am the same way, hence my website ministry and my passionate writings. I get my feelings hurt all the time, because I am a sensitive man and many people are insensitive, unkind and mean.

One of the reasons why I don't like talking to people over the phone, or in live conversations, is because I am vulnerable. I just don't think fast enough. I need time to process everything. Due to that delay, and my sweet nature to avoid being unkind or offensive in any way, I keep it all in and stay quiet, usually later regretting the conversation. I am unable to speak up since my brain needs time to process what has been said. And if I do speak up without having had time to think about the matter, I usually regret that too. That is why I love my website ministry, because I have plenty of time to reflect upon my thoughts before publishing them.

As a rule, when I talk to people in live conversations I don't commit myself. I simply don't make promises. All my life I have prefaced my words with the phrase, “No promises!” And after I say that I usually keep my agreement that very same day. There is nothing more important for a man than that he honor his commitments, and fulfill that which he has committed to do. 2nd Peter 3:9, “The Lord is not slack concerning his promise, as some men count slackness; but is longsuffering to us-ward, not willing that any should perish, but that all should come to repentance.”

That is why we read in Psalms 138:2, “I will worship toward thy holy temple, and praise thy name for thy lovingkindness and for thy truth: for thou hast magnified thy word above all thy name.” God honors His Words. The psalmist declares that God has magnified (elevated) His inspired Words above His own name. The reason why is obvious because God's character is only as trustworthy, sound and reliable as His Words. That's why I make such a big fuss over the hundreds of corrupted perversions of the Holy Bible in the English language today, which obscure God's simple plan of salvation and confuse everyone. God only wrote one Book!

Our word means something, let's be careful about making idle promises. There's nothing wrong with telling someone that you'll do your best, but you're not making any promises.

Pastor Jack Hyles Was Impatient Toward People At Times

Several weeks ago I was listening to a life changing 1982 sermon by Pastor Jack Hyles titled, “Imperfect People In Heaven,” in which sermon he teaches that we should continue the work of the saints now in Heaven.

Now, I truly love brother Hyles, but he annoys me at times. At 17:48 time in the sermon he yells at a fella for leaving the pew while he's preaching. The man probably needed to use the restroom. You can't mistreat people like that. Dr. Hyles had a bad habit of doing this to people. A few moments later in the sermon he scolds someone else for falling asleep, accusing him of not loving the truth.

Dear reader, I am different than most preachers. Just because I love Brother Hyles doesn't mean I'll look the other way and remain quiet when I think he is wrong. I speak up! Most people are partial toward their friends, family and supporters, but if the shoe fits wear it!

I used to work a full time job afternoons as a truck mechanic to support a wife and kids. I went to Bible college during the daytime. I went soulwinning and on church visitation for most of the day every Saturday. And I voluntarily drove a church bus for the Lord 200 miles every Sunday. I fell asleep in church on Sunday evenings on a regular basis right in front of Pastor Hyles.

One night in church I went down so hard that I banged my forehead on the wooden back of the pew in front of me, and everybody heard it, and all the hundred and some odd choir members saw it. I was so drained and tired. I eventually decided every week to sit in the overflow room, separate from the main auditorium, with the mothers holding their crying babies and late-comers rather than distract Dr. Hyles because I couldn't stay awake. But, I LOVED THE TRUTH! It would be very cruel for anyone to say to me, “You'd stay awake if you really loved the truth!” No Sir, that is simply not true.

I fell asleep while driving one night on the Dan Ryan Expressway, on the way home from work in Chicago. My vehicle crashed into the concrete wall. A semi-truck driver stopped and asked if I was okay, and by God's grace I was. Was it because I didn't love life that I fell asleep? Of course not, I was just plain ole tired. By the time I graduated from Hyles-Anderson College in 1993, I was absolutely burned out from burning the candle at both ends for the previous 8 years to earn my degree in Pastoral Theology, signed by Pastor Jack Hyles.

That being said, I have a tremendous amount of love, admiration and respect for Brother Hyles. He wasn't a perfect person, and neither are we. I can only hope and strive by God's grace to have as many good qualities as did Dr. Hyles. He was truly a beautiful man! Jack Hyles never had a godly father to raise him up in the nurture and admonition of the Lord, but thankfully he did have a godly mother who taught him well. Praise God!

God used Pastor Hyles to help millions of people, both directly and indirectly. I didn't write this article to tear down Brother Hyles, God forbid; but rather, I wrote this article to teach my readers that it matters how we treat people. I heard Dr. Hyles admit that at times he mistreated others, and so have you and I. We are all guilty at times of dropping the ball of kindness. All God expects of any of us is that we do better today than we did yesterday.

Why Does The Devil Attack Us When We Are Tired?

Jeremiah 17:9, “The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked: who can know it?”

One of my ministry followers (for whom I am grateful) asked me a question today:

I always wondered why is it that when I am fatigued, tired, sleep-deprived, or whatnot, I tend to have much worse thinking and decision-making capabilities and tend to be much more prone to wrongful ways of thinking? 

As a saved man, I find it much easier to live for God and to study His word and think rightly when I am feeling well and am full of energy, and I tend to be much less prone to sinful thoughts or ideas, whereas when I am fatigued, I think thoughts that never even cross my mind when I am well-rested. 

Why is it that the devil tends to attack us when we are extremely fatigued/tired?

Here is my biblical answer:

Kindly, I think we give the Devil too much credit. The Bible says in Jeremiah 17:9 that the human heart is “deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked.” When we are tired, depressed, afflicted by illness, stressed or overworked, we are more vulnerable to our own frailties, mood swings and weaknesses.

Romans 7:24-25, “O wretched man that I am! who shall deliver me from the body of this death? I thank God through Jesus Christ our Lord. So then with the mind I myself serve the law of God; but with the flesh the law of sin.”

You and I will likely never meet the Devil. He can only be in one place at a time, unlike God who is omnipresent. Revelation 2:13a, “I know thy works, and where thou dwellest, even where Satan's seat is...” Although Jesus was speaking here to the church at Pergamos, I believe the Bible indicates that Satan to some degree influences religion. We know from Job 1:7b that Satan moves “to and fro in the earth.” My father would have called that, “bumming around.” 

Satan is aimless, a bum, who "walketh about" the Bible says in 1st Peter 5:8, seeking someone to devour (Greek: “to make disappear”). Satan wants to make God's children disappear from serving Christ; if he can discourage us to quit, or ruin our public testimony and consequently our effectiveness for Christ. Jesus said that “the thief” (clearly the Devil) comes ONLY to kill, steal and destroy (John 10:10). The Devil's only will for anyone's life is to prevent us from doing God's will.

As I mentioned, I think we give the Devil too much credit. Humans don't need a demon to inspire us to commit unimaginable evils. The human heart is toxic! 

But if the Devil or his demonic spirit minions were to attack us, they'd look for weakness to exploit, just like dirty thieves and other evil criminals of opportunity. 1st Peter 5:8, “Be sober, be vigilant; because your adversary the devil, as a roaring lion, walketh about, seeking whom he may devour.” The old adage is true: “An idle mind is the Devil's workshop.” Satan and his minions look for weakness to exploit. They look for a way to sneak false doctrine into a local church. Nothing spiritually hampers a church or Bible college as much as having a carnal uncaring leader who drops the ball. A chain is only as strong as its weakest link.

Satan is our enemy. The world is our enemy. The flesh is our enemy. Of those three, the flesh is the worst, since it is our most formidable enemy that is with us 365 days a year. We are our own worst enemy, not the Devil.

Romans 7:18, “For I know that in me (that is, in my flesh,) dwelleth no good thing: for to will is present with me; but how to perform that which is good I find not.”

Romans 7:25, “I thank God through Jesus Christ our Lord. So then with the mind I myself serve the law of God; but with the flesh the law of sin.” 

Speaking of the Devil we read in 1st Peter 5:9-10, “Whom resist stedfast in the faith, knowing that the same afflictions are accomplished in your brethren that are in the world. But the God of all grace, who hath called us unto his eternal glory by Christ Jesus, after that ye have suffered a while, make you perfect, stablish, strengthen, settle you.​" We are already on the winning side through faith in Jesus Christ. 

Although it is possible, it is very unlikely if we will ever encounter Satan in our life. There's a much greater likelihood that we will encounter an evil person influenced or possessed by a demon. But guaranteed, we all have to contend with the selfish human flesh which is corrupt, and the toxic tongue that cannot be tamed because it reveals the desperately wicked heart (Matthew 15:19). Luke 6:45b, “...for of the abundance of the heart his mouth speaketh.”

I've said all that to say this—I do not believe it is the Devil attacking us when we are fatigued, tired, sleep-deprived, whatnot. It is our own flesh (which is what the word “carnal” means). The wicked human heart is fully capable of ruining one's day without the need for a demon to help out. This biblical truth applies to both saved and unsaved people, but the child of God has the indwelling Holy Spirit to help us.

The inspired Holy Bible teaches in Ephesians 2:2, “Wherein in time past ye walked according to the course of this world, according to the prince of the power of the air, the spirit that now worketh in the children of disobedience.”

Satan works in the soul of unbelievers. The Devil is their spiritual father (John 8:44). We clearly see the Satanic influence at work in his children. Never before have we seen the obvious war between good and evil as we do today in the United States. We truly are one nation, divided!

All of my life I have heard Christians attribute the troubles, losses, headaches and obstacles in their life to the Devil persecuting them. But it was God, not the Devil, who allowed Job to be horrified, traumatized and broken into the dust. It was God who intentionally led the Jews from bondage in Egypt into a different form of bondage in the Wilderness for 40 years. What saith the Scripture?

Deuteronomy 8:2-3, “And thou shalt remember all the way which the LORD thy God led thee these forty years in the wilderness, to humble thee, and to prove thee, to know what was in thine heart, whether thou wouldest keep his commandments, or no. And he humbled thee, and suffered thee to hunger, and fed thee with manna, which thou knewest not, neither did thy fathers know; that he might make thee know that man doth not live by bread only, but by every word that proceedeth out of the mouth of the LORD doth man live.”

So, be careful about giving the Devil credit for what God may be doing in your life to test you, or giving Satan credit for the normal struggles of the flesh. I humbly think too many Christians are superstitious.

We are our own worst enemy, not the Devil

Our Critique Infested Society

James 3:5-8, “Even so the tongue is a little member, and boasteth great things. Behold, how great a matter a little fire kindleth! And the tongue is a fire, a world of iniquity: so is the tongue among our members, that it defileth the whole body, and setteth on fire the course of nature; and it is set on fire of hell. For every kind of beasts, and of birds, and of serpents, and of things in the sea, is tamed, and hath been tamed of mankind: But the tongue can no man tame; it is an unruly evil, full of deadly poison.”

In Pastor Jack Hyles' helpful book titled, “How to Treat Different Types of Church Members,” in chapter 13, he makes these very truthful statements about our broken American culture:

7. Do not live in unplanned situations. Idle time is one of the great causes for unnecessary and unwise reaction. Just sitting around and talking with nothing planned leads to differences, arguments, fusses and reactionary conversation.

One of the great problems of our society is that it is built on critique. It is falsely assumed by many that the ability to critique someone is a sign of strength. Nothing could be farther from the truth! To attack the strong is not a sign of strength. To do nothing but critique those who do something is certainly not a sign of strength. 

The time was, for example, when the local sports writer was a cheerleader for the local team. He has now become the Devil's advocate and is considered somewhat of a successful sports writer if he can criticize the coach. 

Men who have never carried a football, thrown a pass, kicked a field goal or made a tackle seem to know more about coaching than men who have coached for a lifetime. The pew critiques the pulpit. The student critiques the teacher, and the press critiques everybody! 

One can hardly listen to a radio station without finding movie critics, restaurant critics and a bevy of other self-styled experts whose only talent is criticizing talent, whose only strength is criticizing strength, whose only accomplishment is shooting at those who have accomplished.

God, give us men who act, not men who react! Give us men with the character to determine their behavior and who decide their own course of action!

Dr. Hyles is so right! We live in a reactionary society. We live in a critical society in the United States. Everybody's a critic. The mainstream newsmedia is largely to blame. Most people are familiar with the ongoing Lindsay Clancy saga. Of the 12 jurors in Duxbury, Massachusetts, one held out, voting guilty, which offended everyone, including the judge. The media are so rotten that they dug into the court files and told the world that the man was charged with abusing his girlfriend several years ago (but the charges were dismissed).

But there's more, the rotten media made sure to slander him further by telling the world that he is presently being evicted for not paying his rent. They are assassinating his character in a malicious attempt to discredit him as a juror, because he thinks Lindsay Clancy is guilty, as I also do. I dread the corrupt dung-spreading mainstream newsmedia.

Giant Cross Falls And Kills Catholic Priest In Ecuador

Luke 13:1-3, “There were present at that season some that told him of the Galilaeans, whose blood Pilate had mingled with their sacrifices. And Jesus answering said unto them, Suppose ye that these Galilaeans were sinners above all the Galilaeans, because they suffered such things? I tell you, Nay: but, except ye repent, ye shall all likewise perish.”

I saw a shocking video in the news in Ecuador of a giant cross landing on a priest's head, killing him. So sad and tragic. Although some Christians might consider this poetic justice in view of the fact that Roman Catholicism is sending multitudes of sinners to Hell forever with false religion, this was a terrible accident, nothing more.

This is exactly what Jesus is saying in our text passage from Luke 13:1-3. Some people had told Jesus about recent deaths in their local town. The Lord asked them if they foolishly considered those victims as being worst sinners than themselves. Clearly they were not. Likewise, it would be foolish to think that God was somehow punishing the priest who died when a giant cross fell upon him. Dear reader, you and I are just as vulnerable to accidents.

When I lived on Guam, a big branch fell from a tree during a parade and killed a woman. Freak accidents happen all the time. I am not a superstitious believer. I think sometimes things just happen. The Scripture tells us in Ecclesiastes 9:11b that “time and chance happeneth to them all.” So, there is such a thing as “luck.” I also believe that everything happens for a reason. Someone didn't secure the cross properly. I am often reminded of something very true that Pastor Jack Hyles said, "The most important job is the one that doesn't get done," which in this case cost a man his precious life.

No one despises the demonic Roman Catholic religion as much as I do, but that priest was still a man created in the image of God, whom the Lord loves dearly and died for on Calvary's cross. This accident is so tragic. Ezekiel 18:32, “For I have no pleasure in the death of him that dieth, saith the Lord GOD: wherefore turn yourselves, and live ye.” God never rejoices when a wicked person dies, and neither should one. There are some Baptist pastors today who are guilty of preaching Satan's lie of Lordship Salvation whom I would love to see a giant cross smash their head to silence them, but I would never wish evil upon anyone.

Whoever mounted that cross to the rear wall failed to do a quality job, and someone else paid for it with their life. Certainly the mounting hardware could have failed, or the wall weakened, et cetera, but a safety cable should have been attached to the cross in case it came loose. That is common sense. In my lifetime I have seen that most accidents which result in someone's permanent injury or death are caused by another person's carelessness.

My heart goes out to that killed priest and his loved ones in Ecuador. Let us all take to heart Jesus' stern warning in Luke 13:2b-3, “Suppose ye that these Galilaeans were sinners above all the Galilaeans, because they suffered such things? I tell you, Nay: but, except ye repent, ye shall all likewise perish.” That wicked priest preaching a counterfeit plan of salvation was no more sinful than you or I. We are all wretched sinners in God's sight.

Jesus warned, using “repent” as an euphuism for salvation, that “Except a man be born again, he cannot see the kingdom of God” (John 3:3b). That is exactly what Jesus is teaching in Luke 13:1-3. Even though some people do much more evil things than others, even one sin is enough to keep you out of Heaven and condemn you to Hell forever (James 2:10). That is why Jesus warned “except ye repent, ye shall all likewise perish.” Unless you change your mind to believe the Gospel (the Good News of Jesus' death on the cross, burial and resurrection) you will perish in your sins and spend eternity burning in Hell.

The Tragic Life Of Margot Kidder

Psalms 14:1, “The fool hath said in his heart, There is no God. They are corrupt, they have done abominable works, there is none that doeth good.”

Margaret Ruth Kidder (1948-2018) was a Canadian-American actress and activist. She amassed several film and television credits in her career spanning five decades, including her widely known role as Lois Lane in the original Superman films (1978–1987). Her accolades included two Canadian Film Awards, an Emmy Award, a Genie Award, and a Saturn Award.

Sadly, Miss Kidder was an avowed atheist her entire life. Dear reader, it literally requires more faith to be an atheist than a Christian...

On page 139 of his book, “GOD IN HISTORY and GOD IN SCIENCE,” Pastor John Cumming (1807-1881) makes a brilliant observation concerning professed atheists:

Atheism is folly as much as wickedness. But suffer me, before I show this, to say, that it is absolutely impossible that any man can be an atheist, in the strict sense of that word. All that any can say is this: “No spot that I have searched does reveal a God; every organization I have examined does not show traces of wisdom, goodness, and design:” but that individual cannot say; “There is no God;” because he cannot say, “I have soared to the farthest star, I have descended to the deepest mines, I have swept all space, and searched all time, and in the realms of infinite space I have not detected any traces of a God.” In other words, to be able to say, “There is no God,” you must yourself assume to be God, which is a reductio ad absurdum, an utter and a complete absurdity.

SOURCE: “GOD IN HISTORY and GOD IN SCIENCE,” p. 139; by Rev. John Cumming, D.D.; New York: Published by Carlton & Lanahan; 200 Mulberry-Street; 1868

What a brilliant observation. How can any man claim to be an atheist unless he has traveled to the farthest place in the universe? The nearest star to the earth (after our own sun) is Alpha Centauri, which is 4.25 light-years away (about 25,000,000,000,000 miles away!). This is just one star, being the closest to earth besides our own sun which is 93,000,000,000 miles away.

My friend, the James Webb Telescope launched by NASA in 2021 on Christmas Day has already discovered more stars than humanity ever thought possible! Whereas the Hubble Space Telescope launched by NASA in 1990 had discovered 200,000,000,000 stars in the observable universe, the new improved James Webb Telescope has so far found 2,000,000,000,000 galaxies! That's TWO TRILLION GALAXIES! Not stars, galaxies!!!

Tragically, Margot Kidder struggled her entire life with depression. I read that at 14 she attempted suicide with drugs. She admitted to experiencing manic episodes and dealing with mental health issues. My heart goes out to her. Many people struggle with depression, feelings of sadness and difficulties coping with life. At age 69 she commit suicide with alcohol and drugs in Montana where she lived.

I cannot help but wonder if Margot had repented to believe in God and trust Jesus as her personal Savior, if her life would have been better. I sure think so. What saith the Scripture? John 14:27, “Peace I leave with you, my peace I give unto you: not as the world giveth, give I unto you. Let not your heart be troubled, neither let it be afraid.” To find peace the world often abuses drugs and booze, but a believer can find refuge in the promises of God in the Scripture. Psalms 119:105, “Thy word is a lamp unto my feet, and a light unto my path.” I cannot even imagine living this earthly life without faith in God and His only begotten Son. What a miserable and hopeless existence. What a travesty!

I just learned that last Wednesday on October 28th, famous and beloved actor Patrick Stewart (1940-2026) died at age 86. Sadly, he was also an avowed atheist. Dear reader, the inspired Holy Bible tells us that there is no such thing as an atheist...

Romans 1:20-21, “For the invisible things of him from the creation of the world are clearly seen, being understood by the things that are made, even his eternal power and Godhead; so that they are without excuse: Because that, when they knew God, they glorified him not as God, neither were thankful; but became vain in their imaginations, and their foolish heart was darkened”

At some early point in life everyone knows that there is a God (cf., Psalm 19:1-3). Patrick Stewart was heavily involved with the LGBTQ+ crowd. As is often the case, people who claim to be atheist are guilty of living sordid immoral lives. What saith the Scripture? Romans 1:28, “And even as they did not like to retain God in their knowledge, God gave them over to a reprobate mind, to do those things which are not convenient.”

Margot Kidder and Patrick Stewart, to name but a couple of tens of thousands of famous atheists, chose not to believe in a Creator. Psalms 14:1, “The fool hath said in his heart, There is no God. They are corrupt, they have done abominable works, there is none that doeth good.” You don't have to convince me that God exists, I have eyes and ears and a working brain. Proof of God is everywhere! It requires far more faith not to believe in God.

The list keeps growing of celebrities who died from an overdose of drugs: Janis Joplin, Jimmy Hendrix, Keith Moon, Michael Jackson, Prince, Whitney Houston, River Phoenix, Matthew Perry, Amy Winehouse, Elvis Presley, et cetera. There are literally thousands of names! This is the peace that the world gives. Satan is a beautiful liar!

Beware Of Ungodly People With Twisted Moral Views

Jeremiah 7:8-10, “Behold, ye trust in lying words, that cannot profit. Will ye steal, murder, and commit adultery, and swear falsely, and burn incense unto Baal, and walk after other gods whom ye know not; And come and stand before me in this house, which is called by my name, and say, We are delivered to do all these abominations?”

As millions of Americans do, I often view videos on YouTube and suggested videos appear. Today I saw a documentary from 1987 by Clive James who visited Hugh Hefner's (1926-2017) Playboy mansion in California. I cannot share the video because it contains some raunchy naked images, which I didn't know before I watched it. It sickens me that YouTube has banned countless fundamentalist preachers for preaching the inspired King James Bible concerning the sin of homosexuality, and yet YouTube permits open pornography on their platform. They will one day answer to God for their hypocrisy. Truly, Satan is the god of this world (2nd Corinthians 4:4).

I was utterly disturbed toward the end of the documentary. Donna Edmondson (born February 1, 1966 in Greensboro, North Carolina, United States) was chosen as Playboy's Playmate of the Month for November 1986 and Playmate of the Year for 1987. It was noted by Hugh Hefner at her award acceptance ceremony at the Playboy mansion, that she was a faithful church-going Southern Baptist, and that it was her father who encouraged her to apply to be a Playmate. Sick! Leviticus 19:29, “Do not prostitute thy daughter, to cause her to be a whore; lest the land fall to whoredom, and the land become full of wickedness.”

I was disgusted when Hugh Hefner arrogantly said that Donna and her parents regularly attend a Baptist church in North Carolina, and here she is receiving an award at age 19 for selling her virtue for $100,000. At the disgusting ceremony, large projection screens were showing totally naked images of Donna, the whore who goes to church. If that offends you, get right with God. This country is going to Hell because of twisted religious people and their ungodly immoral views.

In our text passage of Scripture from Jeremiah 7:8-10, we learn that Old Testament Jews at the time of Jeremiah thought it was okay to commit murder and adultery, steal, bear false witness and worship idols, and then blame God by claiming that the Lord delivered them to do such wickedness. Jeremiah, as a prophet, was challenging the people's false sense of security that the presence of the Temple in Jerusalem guaranteed them divine protection as God's people. Jeremiah's stern message warns that such presumption, given their disobedience, would lead to disaster, which judgment eventually manifested itself by the destruction of the Temple, and the Jews being enslaved into Babylonian captivity for 70 years.

It made me cringe today, hearing pervert Hugh Hefner proudly say that 19-year-old Playmate Donna Edmondson and her parents regularly attend a Baptist church, while their shameful daughter is being honored for no other reason than she took her clothes off to be photographed by ungodly creeps for millions of ungodly men to lust upon. 1st Peter 2:11, “Dearly beloved, I beseech you as strangers and pilgrims, abstain from fleshly lusts, which war against the soul.” It is purported that Hugh Hefner hid cameras in the 29 bedrooms in his Playboy mansion to view guests having sex. Hefner was a criminal at large and an evil sinner. Hebrews 13:4, “Marriage is honourable in all, and the bed undefiled: but whoremongers and adulterers God will judge.”

When Jesus was crucified, the Apostle Peter quit the ministry and backslid. He went back to his old worldly ways. When Jesus raised up from the dead and came to His disciples, Peter was completely butt-naked in public while fishing. John 21:7, “Therefore that disciple whom Jesus loved saith unto Peter, It is the Lord. Now when Simon Peter heard that it was the Lord, he girt his fisher's coat unto him, (for he was naked,) and did cast himself into the sea.” Jesus is the cure for public nudity!

Pastor Jack Hyles (1926-2001) used to rightly say that church is one of the easiest place to backslide, because you get accustomed to hearing preaching three times a week. Bible college is the worst. In a way, you become inoculated from the truth. I have seen numerous ungodly pastors and pastor's wives, who have lost their responsiveness to people, becoming cold and mean, woefully lacking God's love for sinners. For that reason I refuse to attend most churches. Baptist churches are among the worst today.

Pastor Bill Adams' Wicked Wife

When I attended Smyrna Baptist Church in Pensacola for several months in 2024, one Sunday after church Pastor Bill Adams looked off to the left over my shoulder when I walked over to shake his hand. I was deeply hurt and contacted him when I got home from church. Bill apologized and I was delighted. I was so grateful that I gave him my phone number and home address, which I rarely give a pastor.

The next week I went back to church, thinking all was well. His rotten spoiled brat for a wife walked over to me during the handshaking time in the morning service. When we shook hands, with an impudent face (a look of disrespect) she deliberately looked hard right 45 degrees off in the distance to diss me. I instantly realized that she had heard what happened between I and her husband, and she deliberately repeated the same insult to intentionally hurt and offend me, so that I would be offended and leave to never return.

I was deeply hurt. Who wouldn't be offended? I contacted Pastor Adams as soon as I got home from church, to let him know what his horrible wife did to diss me. My big concern was whether or not I was welcomed at Smyrna Baptist Church. Why else would she deliberately diss me, except that she didn't want me in their church? Adams refused to respond. I waited a few days and contacted his secretary this time, to make sure he got my message, but he totally ignored me again. I wrote him a long letter scolding him, telling him about other rotten things that his wife did to be mean to me

On Memorial Day in 2024 I attended their church picnic. Afterwards they showed a religious film inside the church. I went inside to watch the film and kindly asked the ladies in the kitchen for some water, so that I could take my prescription pain medications. Pastor Adams' spoiled brat for a wife snapped at me saying, “Why didn't you get some water outside?” She is a rude smartass, lacking humility, mean and respectful toward men. That is feminist behavior, not a daughter of God. She ought to be greatly ashamed of herself.

Somehow in her twisted morality, she sees no harm in being mean to people.

The Twisted Moral Views of Family Baptist Church

When I attended the Family Baptist Church in Pensacola for 45 months, they despised me from the very onset because I am a fundamentalist Baptist who doesn't think it's okay for Christian ladies to wear pants in public. Although I had never spoken a single word to anyone in their church about my biblical beliefs on immodesty, the ungodly pastor's wife (who wears her worldly pants in public) took issue with me immediately. She used to give me cold hateful stares, while I stood in line to get some food at big church events. I didn't know then what her problem was, but I do now; she feels convicted about wearing pants, so she despises me.

Her henpecked husband Brad Moffett is just as guilty, succumbing to his ungodly wife's worldliness and lack of modesty, who sets the morality bar low for females in their church. They are no better than Hugh Hefner, Donna Edmondson, and her wicked parents who see nothing wrong with pornography.

Hugh Hefner was a sick twisted joke of a man! In the aforementioned documentary, he is dating 24-year-old Carrie Leigh at the time. Clive James interviewed her, asking if she worried that Hefner (then age 61) might dumb her for a young more beautiful girl in time. She foolishly asserts that Hugh is not like that at all, and would never do that to her. She was wearing rose-colored glasses! Hugh dumped her within 5 years. When spurned, she angrily sued Hugh Hefner and his Playboy company for exploitation. Really great people, huh?

Mr. Hefner admitted that his ultimate goal was to normalize public nudity and free sex with multiple partners outside the bonds of a legal marriage. In other words, Hugh spent his life striving against God. Isaiah 45:9, “Woe unto him that striveth with his Maker! Let the potsherd strive with the potsherds of the earth. Shall the clay say to him that fashioneth it, What makest thou? or thy work, He hath no hands?” Tragically, tens of millions of Americans today agree with Hugh Hefner's twisted immoral philosophies, including the wicked pastor and his ungodly wife at Family Baptist Church in Pensacola who see nothing wrong with a woman wearing sexy pants in public. Shame on them!

They adhere to a twisted view of morality, no better than Hugh Hefner.

Woe Unto America!

And please don't think for one moment that President Donald Trump has somehow saved our country from doom and destruction, because he has only delayed the inevitable. As history shows, the Democrats are coming back, and they will undo Trump's good with a vengeance, bringing back the LGBTQ+ insanity. No one should have a legal “right” to corrupt our children by teaching them that homosexuality is normal, and then try to convince them they are a different gender, and then conspire to coerce them to undergo ex-change surgery. I feel like I am in a bad episode of The Twilight Zone!

We saw this looney-tunes insanity when Joe Biden controlled the White House. Just wait until Kamala or some other weirdo runs the White House and our country further into the ground. Our federal government is as crooked as a dog's hind leg. The disgusting fact that a Vietnam War draft-dodging scumbag like Bill Clinton who fled to Canada, would be appointed as U.S. President between 1992 to 2000, clearly evidences what I say. What a major insult to all the veterans in our country, especially those who were disabled from war.

Clinton got put into office because he is corrupt, involved as then Arkansas governor in the illegal drug-trafficking into our nation, and he could be trusted by the Lucifierian powers who control our government from behind the scenes. Clinton was easily blackmailable. If he refused to cooperate, they could have crucified and removed him from power instantly. And do you really think Mr. Trump has broken that chain of wickedness? Not a chance! Republican and Democrat are merely two separate legs both walking in the same direction of a New World Order. Unlike humans who come and come from generation to generation, Satan does not.

I wrote this blog when I heard Hugh Hefner proudly say that Donna Edmondson and her parents faithfully attended a Baptist Church in the Bible Belt in North Carolina, after just showing Donna spread her eagle in some porn videos to the gathering of hundreds of attendees at the Playboy mansion for Donna's award ceremony. Hugh gave her a check for $100,000 and the keys to a $40,000 Corvette parked outside. Is that all that a woman's chastity and virtue are worth these days, $140,000? I think it is evil and disgusting!

Sadly, there is little doubt that on September 27th, 2017, Hugh Hefner split Hell wide open like the rich man in Luke 16:19-31. Lee Strobel alleged shared the Gospel with Hefner before he died, but there is no evidence that Hugh accepted Christ. Hefner held a deistic view of God. That is, he believed in a God who exists apart from religion and the Holy Bible. It is clear that Hefner was so busy living a sordid life of debauchery that God had no place in his life. Romans 1:28, “And even as they did not like to retain God in their knowledge, God gave them over to a reprobate mind, to do those things which are not convenient.” A person who is living a wicked lifestyle of ungodly gross immorality doesn't want to face the reality that there is a holy God to whom we must all give account in eternity (Ecclesiastes 12:13-14).

So long as I so shall live, by God's grace I will never attend another liberal worldly church like the Family Baptist Church in Pensacola at 5454 W. Mobile Highway, where their ungodly pastors and their worldly wives defend and promote females wearing immodest clothing. It is a sin for women to wear pants in public, exposing their sexy buttocks and thighs. Those corrupt neo-evangelical Baptists are no better than Hugh Hefner's twisted views on morality.

Our entire country is going to Hell. I do believe that in quite rural areas across the nation that there are still some godly churches remaining. They are not on the internet. They have no website. There is a true man of God who cares about people as the pastor. But the churches that are connected to cesspools of iniquity like Pensacola Christian College (PCC) and Bob Jones University (BJU) are as corrupt as can be, pulling on the same rope as the Devil. Both PCC and BJU preach hardcore Lordship Salvation.

My Ex-wife, Rottenness In My Bones

I am one of few men who have been married and divorced from the same woman. We were married in August of 1987. She abandoned me in March of 2006, and the divorce was finalized in March of 2007 on my birthday. Really sucks, huh? Then after being divorced for 19 years, we remarried in May of 2025, but she abandoned me in February of 2026. The divorce was finalized in September of 2026. Today my ex-wife works voluntarily at a thrift store six hours away in Jacksonville, Florida. I live in Pensacola, alone and without a help meet. She'd rather voluntarily serve in a thrift store than help her own suffering husband.

As I type for my ministry, my stove-top is filthy, I have tree branches across my yard that need to be burned, I have a storage rack and dresser that need to be assemble, but I just don't feel up to do any of it. Just weeks ago hurricane Isaias damaged my roof, ripped off my front storm door, crushed my fence with a 50 foot oak tree, et cetera. She abandoned her three zebra finches and a cockapoo dog, which I inherited. I just changed all their liners this morning. My neck pain hurts round the clock. I have tension in my neck continually. I suffer from burning nerves throughout my upper body. Everything irritates and frustrates me. I am taking seven different prescription medications. Oh to God that I had a faithful wife by my side.

I am honestly shocked that my wife left so quickly, after only 9 months and 8 days, not giving our remarriage a solid chance. Alice didn't even bother to remain in Pensacola. She enjoys the welfare life, mooching off taxpayers. I love her dearly, but she has a twisted sense of morality. I still buy her things because she is special to me and I care, but my sincere prayer and hope is that on Judgment Day the good Lord does not reward her for being A.W.O.L. for 20 years and still going. God does not reward unfaithfulness. Anyone can quit, but it takes character to hang in there! God hates the sin of divorce. I'd rather die than file for divorce! The blood is on her hands, not mine. The famous evangelist Charles Weigle (1871-1966) also knew the pain of divorce when his wife abandoned him too for greener pastures.

Everything is twisted, backwards and warped today in the religious world. Beware of people with twisted moral views. I will never attend a church again where most of the women wear pants, signifying their adverse influence by feminist indoctrination, and a bad pastor who refuses to stand. I will never remain in any religious cult that distributes toxic Chick Tracts. I will never attend a cult again, like Campus Church at PCC, where they preach Satan's lie of Lordship Salvation and Misunderstood Repentance. The churches are dying. Most are already gone, dead. Hardly any pastors are preachers anymore who contend for the Christian faith.

Right doctrine matters. How we treat people matters. Beware of the twisted moral views of this untoward generation.