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.

You Can't Believe Half The Things President Trump Says

Proverbs 25:14, “Whoso boasteth himself of a false gift is like clouds and wind without rain.”

President Donald Trump really annoys me sometimes. The guy brags too much about things that he never gets done. For example: Trump said if re-elected he would end the war in Ukraine within 24 hours. That was nearly two years ago! Trump lied. Proverbs 6:2, “Thou art snared with the words of thy mouth, thou art taken with the words of thy mouth.”

Tracking Trump's Campaign Promises

Talk is talk, but action is action. We have a braggadocious U.S. President. He impressed the world with South America by removing a tyrant dictator. And Mr. Trump is indeed a strong leader, but he disappoints me. I cringed as I watched the genocidal slaughter of over 75,000 innocent Palestinian refugees by Israeli's lunatic leader Benjamin Netanyahu with Trump's blessing. No one stopped Israel. Prices are higher than ever and there is no end in sight.

There is a Church of Christ a few streets over from where I live in Pensacola. I've never met the pastor but I enjoy reading the messages that he puts on the outdoor church's sign. A few months ago the message read, “It's not a phobia to call a sin a sin.” I love that. A couple days ago when I took my dog Miss Pickles to Pet Smart to have her nails trimmed and filed, I saw the sign again and it read, “Respect God and His Words when you go to vote.” I pondered that statement and wondered if their pastor was endorsing Trump or not voting at all. Likely, he is endorsing Trump, certainly not the liberal Democrats with their LGBTQ+ filth.

After thinking about the pastor's message I realized that if you respect God and His Words you shouldn't vote at all for Trump or anybody else who is immoral. President Trump is not against abortion, he just believes that the individual states should handle such matters, not the federal government, as it was before in 1973. That was essentially what happened in 2022 when the U.S. Supreme Court overturned Roe vs. Wade after 49 years. There are still over one million abortions in the U.S. each years, but now 64% are accomplished by using wretched abortion pills. It is murder!

One of the most telling signs that Trump is not who he claims to be is his appointing of Paula White as spiritual advisor to the White House. That woman is a she-devil. She speaks in demonic tongues, making a mockery of the things of God. The fact she is a female preacher is evidence enough that Paula White is working for Satan. And Trump hired her as his spiritual mentor. Paula is spiritually dangerous!

I didn't vote for Trump or anybody else. If you think that by voting you've done your part to save America, you're a fool. I say that kindly, but truthfully. The White House cannot save this broken nation. Personally, I think our nation is long gone spiritually. Drunkenness, abortion, public nudity, feminism, adultery, divorce and homosexuality will ever go away. You can vote any way you want, but nothing will change for the better in the long run. The New World Order will continue! President Trump cannot save our wicked country.

Our nation's churches today are pathetic and spiritually dead. The Bible colleges are largely to blame, producing impotent pastors. The Satanic fraud of Lordship Salvation has crept into nearly every religious school, ministry and church across the country. The Sword of the Lord in Tennessee is eerily silent about the evils of Misunderstood Repentance and Lordship Salvation. No doubt because many of their financial supports, like Pensacola Christian College, promote the Devil's lie of Lordship Salvation. Shame on all of them!

Crime is out of control across the nation. I saw in the news just the other night that a recklessly speeding drunk driver nearly murdered a state trooper on a highway, slamming into his police cruiser at over 75 mph and ripping his door off. Alcohol is a menace to our society. This disturbing video should be shown to every teenager who gets their driver's license...

Drunk-driving defendant sentenced to 50 years for crash that killed 3

We still haven't learned as a society that booze has no place in our culture. Alcohol is by very classification a Schedule 1 drug, meaning that it is a highly addictive drug with no medical purpose. My pain medications are classified as Schedule 2 highly addictive drugs which serve a medical purpose. Literally, when people consume alcoholic beverages they are recreationally abusing a drug. The inspired Holy Bible warns that there is a very deceptive nature to alcohol (Proverbs 20:1). I digress.

With over 600 Active Mass Shootings each year across the United States, I can assure you that guns will be banned when the Democrats return to power. It's just a matter of time. Janet Reno and Hillary Clinton while in office both said it's not a matter of if, but when, guns are banned. Canada has already banned the sale, purchase and transfer of guns. It's just a matter of time until the U.S. follows Canada. There's just too many shooting deaths. I mean, when you've got 5 year olds shooting their kindergarten teacher, the handwriting is on the wall.

I was very optimistic when Mr. Trump was re-elected, but after watching him jest, mock and do absolutely nothing except further fund Israel's wholesale slaughtered of the Palestinian people, I have lost respect for president Trump. He is far more interested in converting Gaza into a casino and luxurious resort destination than providing desperately needed housing for the millions of Palestinian refugees. Israel is evil today. Instead of loving their neighbours they are murdering them by the tens of thousands with impunity as the world does nothing.

I am not a critic, but I have an opinion as a United States citizen and a born again Christian. Trump promised the Iranian people liberty and stirred them up to rise up against their tyrannical regime. They did and 30,000 Iranians were brutally tortured and murdered by their thug government, and then Trump abandoned them. Despite the billions of dollars of bombs paid for by U.S. taxpayers that we've dropped on Iran, their corrupt leaders are thumbing their noses at Trump and laughing in scorn. There is no liberty or freedom today in Iran. President Trump failed the Iranian people and blatantly lied to them. Israel Rules America.

Although President Trump has done many great things since he has been in office, especially for our well-deserving U.S. veterans, he continues to speak with great swelling words that often amount to nothing. It is frustrating. A man is only as good as his word.

World War I: The War To End All Wars

James 4:1-4, “From whence come wars and fightings among you? come they not hence, even of your lusts that war in your members? Ye lust, and have not: ye kill, and desire to have, and cannot obtain: ye fight and war, yet ye have not, because ye ask not. Ye ask, and receive not, because ye ask amiss, that ye may consume it upon your lusts. Ye adulterers and adulteresses, know ye not that the friendship of the world is enmity with God? whosoever therefore will be a friend of the world is the enemy of God.”

I enjoy history. The old adage is true: History always repeats itself. Therefore, a wise person tries to learn from history so as to hopefully not repeat the same folly.

World War I (also called the Great War) lasted from July 28, 1914, to November 11, 1918. It was fought between the Allies and the Central Powers and caused an estimated 22 million deaths. So sad and tragic! It is for the same reasons why individual people cannot get along on a personal basis that there are large scale wars. What took one month to manufacture in military factories were spent on the battlefield in just a matter of a few days.

Everything You Need To Know About WW1 In 3 Hours

World War I was a war of numbers. Whoever had the most men and ammunition won. Quantity was the difference between victory and defeat. Over one billion artillery shells were launched. Over one million machine guns. Fifty billion bullets were fired by 65,000,000 men at war! Each and every day 6,000 soldiers were mowed down with guns and bombs, killed. Over one billion artillery shells were fired during World War I, significantly impacting the war's destruction and the battlefield experience. This massive use of artillery was a defining feature of the conflict.

The Battle of Verdun in 1916 was one of the longest, bloodiest and most ferocious battles of World War I. Some 300,000 people were killed in just four months, with many more wounded. At the battle's onset 140,000 French soldiers died in just four days, with heavy casualties occurring. The average life expectancy of a British Army pilot in World War I was only 11 days. By 1917, the British empire was supplying 50 million artillery shells per year for the war. The Germans alone used 52,000 tons (104,000,000 pounds) of poisonous gas against men. Britain used 14,000 tons. France used 26,000 tons. Flame throwers were greatly feared.

One of my enjoyable interests is learning the biographies of famous people. I was recently learning about the fighting among the members of Bread, one of my favorite 1970s bands. I find it disturbingly ironic that one of the 1970s most iconic bands who sang about love, hated each other so much. You couldn't make that stuff up. I could just as easily show you the same toxic relationships between the members of The Beatles, the Eagles, Boston, Megadeth, Chicago, Hall & Oates, Journey, Metallica, Creedence Clearwater Revival, et cetera.

Such fighting is not exclusive to the music industry. The same hatred, bickering, grudges and hatred has existed throughout Hollywood's long and troubled history. Sadly, the same fighting is seen in the churches and Bible colleges. Galatians 5:15, “But if ye bite and devour one another, take heed that ye be not consumed one of another.” Human beings by sinful nature have difficulty getting along with each other. Pastor Ralph Yankee Arnold is right that all you have to do sometimes for people to hate you is just show up. Some people are critical and given time will always find fault with everyone around them. You know I am right.

It is for the same reasons why humans cannot get along on an individual level why nations go to war. In a word, “pride.” Proverbs 13:10, “Only by pride cometh contention: but with the well advised is wisdom.” I was reading singer James Taylor's website today, and he writes about Russian President ruthlessly attacking Ukraine unprovoked. Vladimir Putin is an ungodly tyrant. Putin has lamented the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991, describing it as a “major geopolitical disaster” and expressing that it represented the disintegration of “historical Russia.” Putin has often indicated a desire to restore the influence and territorial integrity of the Soviet Union. Hence, the present war against Ukraine.

Sadly, you cannot believe anything that Putin says, because he lies so much. That is why Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelensky wanted assurances when he met with President Trump and Vice President Vance in 2025, but they horribly attacked him instead. I lost a lot of respect for Mr. Trump after he belittled Zelensky and reminded him that he has no cards left to play. Trump and Vance are bullies! I just read today that there are 3,200 cases of measles nationwide in the U.S. (the highest in 35 years), as a direct consequence of President Trump's reduction of vaccinations. Does our U.S. President know what he is doing?

My heart breaks every time I watch war documentaries, seeing human life thrown away and extinguished so cheaply. American banks loaned the Allies nearly $3 billion between 1914 and 1917, significantly profiting from wartime orders and bonds. Additionally, the war elevated approximately 21,000 U.S. investors into millionaire and billionaire status, with some individuals making substantial profits during this period. War equals profits!

On his website, singer James Taylor says: “What the world desperately needs now is cooperation, global cooperation on a list of pressing issues.” Is that what we desperately need? I kindly beg to differ.

I believe what the world needs is uncompromising Bible preaching coupled with God's unconditional love for everyone. Hard preaching of the letter of the law without love for sinners spiritually kills (that is what has happened to Steven Anderson's New IFB); but loving sinners without hard Bible preaching only produces apostasy (which is what has happened to Hillsong and Joel Osteen's crowd). I humbly agree with Pastor Jack Hyles (1926-2001):

“Old-fashioned, Spirit-filled, Christ-honoring, sin-hating, soul-winning, Bible preaching! It is the hope of the church! It is the hope of the nation! It is the hope of the world!” — Pastor Jack Hyles

NO GOD = NO PEACE;
KNOW GOD = KNOW PEACE

Estimates suggest that there have been about 230 years of peace during the last 3,500 years, which means that only about 6.5% of recorded history has been without war. Think about that.

Ephesians 2:1-2, “And you hath he quickened, who were dead in trespasses and sins; 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.” As we just read, Satan works in the spirit of the unsaved, influencing the world to do his bidding. This is why there are so many wars. So, the answer is the Gospel.

Two men were once challenging one another's beliefs. One of the men was a Christian, and the other an atheist communist. They both noticed a man walking with a tattered coat in the cold weather. The communist man said, “You see that man—communism could put a new coat on that man!” The Christian man replied, “You see that man—Christianity could put a new man in that coat!” I heard that story many years ago and I've never forgotten it, because it is true.

James Taylor means well with his humanistic approach to fixing the broken world, but Biblically nothing will ever change by attempting to outwardly change human nature. There must be a new birth within that is wrought from above by the Holy Spirit of God. John 1:12-13, “But as many as received him, to them gave he power to become the sons of God, even to them that believe on his name: Which were born, not of blood, nor of the will of the flesh, nor of the will of man, but of God.”

Isaiah 9:6, “For unto us a child is born, unto us a son is given: and the government shall be upon his shoulder: and his name shall be called Wonderful, Counseller, The mighty God, The everlasting Father, The Prince of Peace.” Even so, come, Lord Jesus!

The Next Time You Feel Down

Revelation 22:9, “Then saith he unto me, See thou do it not: for I am thy fellowservant, and of thy brethren the prophets, and of them which keep the sayings of this book: worship God.”

Dear reader, the next time you start to feel down or depressed, just thank God you don't live in North Korea. Go watch some YouTube video documentaries about life in North Korea, and I guarantee you won't feel so down anymore.

In North Korea, citizens are required to literally worship their leaders, particularly Kim Il-sung, Kim Jong-il, and Kim Jong-un, as part of the state ideology known as Juche. This cult of personality is enforced through propaganda and strict social controls, on penalty of death if you fail to comply. Christianity is not allowed in North Korea, as the regime strictly controls all religious activities and views Christianity as a threat to its power.

While there are a few state-sanctioned churches, they are largely considered to be for show, and practicing Christianity can lead to severe punishment. Churches are present in Pyongyang, but critics say they serve only as a deceptive façade for religious freedom. ...

North Korea claims victory in 'war on religion'

Julian Ryall | November 28, 2025

Pyongyang boasts of crushing underground churches, but defectors and rights groups say secret worship persists despite harsh crackdowns and severe punishments.

North Korea is continuing its crackdown on underground churches, with dissident media reporting that the authorities are "patting themselves on the back for bringing religion under control."

The Seoul-based DailyNK news site reported on November 18 that its sources within North Korea say the regime is confident that it has "practically exterminated" underground churches and worship groups.

However, defectors and human rights activists told DW they are confident that small groups and individuals who remain secretly committed to their faith still exist in the North.

"They have been targeted by the regime and many people have been detained, but we know there are still strong Christians who are worshipping in small groups or as individuals," said Song Young-Chae, a South Korean academic and activist with the Worldwide Coalition to Stop Genocide in North Korea.

"There are defectors who have arrived in South Korea this year and they say it is still happening and other defectors who still have contacts there say the same thing," Song told DW.

"We have our own contacts as well. I cannot provide you with more information as it would be dangerous for them, but we know they are still there." READ MORE

North Korea has no known official statistics on religion, and it is officially an atheist state. In practice, religion is tightly controlled, and the main religions are Buddhism, Shamanism and Chondoism. I THANK GOD that I wasn't born in North Korea, enslaved to an insane madman named Kim Jong Un and his spoiled rotten family. What an evil villain!

Isaiah 14:9, “Hell from beneath is moved for thee to meet thee at thy coming: it stirreth up the dead for thee, even all the chief ones of the earth; it hath raised up from their thrones all the kings of the nations.”

We should all be grateful to God every moment of every day for our liberty and freedoms in the United States, despite how messed up our country is today. At least we are free!

Blessed Are The Pure In Heart

Matthew 5:8, “Blessed are the pure in heart: for they shall see God.”

Dear reader, if you are pure of heart you will ultimately end up at Jesus' feet. At the end of your search for the truth, you will end up at the inspired King James Bible. You will end up at a free grace Gospel, without works, to get to Heaven.

Always be pure of heart. To be “pure of heart” means to sincerely desire the truth. It means that you truly want to learn about something free of bias and corruption. We see that the wicked Pharisees were NOT pure of heart, following their own religious traditions instead of obeying God's commandments. Mark 7:9, “And he said unto them, Full well ye reject the commandment of God, that ye may keep your own tradition.”

Tragically, billions of humans today are making the same dire evil decision (not a mere mistake), to follow false religion (the traditions of men) rather than God's inspired Word. The Bible teaches that Satan blinds men's minds from seeing the truth of the Gospel, lest they should be saved (2nd Corinthians 4:3-4). But if a man truly desires to see the truth, God will give it to him. Titus 2:11, “For the grace of God that bringeth salvation hath appeared to all men.” Nobody ever went to Hell without having had a chance to be saved.

Sadly, most pastors are not pure of heart. I know because when I warn them about Satan's modern English Bible revisions, they refuse to listen to the truth. It doesn't require a degree in theology to see a serious problem in the following chart...

Well which is it? Was Jesus' scars in His hands, back, chest, arms or body? The reason why you are seeing this insane confusion is because in order to obtain a copyright from the U.S. government for a new Bible version, it MUST contain “substantial and creative” changes from all existing Bibles.

And, as you can expect, the Devil is not done publishing new Bible revisions. The new Catholic American Bible (CAB) is scheduled to be released on February 10th, 2027, the first day of Lent. I cannot wait until Lent! Although there's not a Catholic bone in my body, I absolutely love Whataburger's fish sandwich, the Whatacatch! Can you picture me drooling?

Dear reader, always be pure of heart. If you want the truth nobody can keep it from you. Although clouds may block out the sunshine for a time, the sun is still always shining! Likewise, the truth is always unchanging and unmovable. By God's grace, I have spent my entire life searching for THE TRUTH, and I believe I have found it; hence, my blog ministry.

John 8:32-36, “And ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free. They answered him, We be Abraham's seed, and were never in bondage to any man: how sayest thou, Ye shall be made free? Jesus answered them, Verily, verily, I say unto you, Whosoever committeth sin is the servant of sin. And the servant abideth not in the house for ever: but the Son abideth ever. If the Son therefore shall make you free, ye shall be free indeed.”

Will The Real PCC Please Stand Up?

Matthew 15:7-9, “Ye hypocrites, well did Esaias prophesy of you, saying, This people draweth nigh unto me with their mouth, and honoureth me with their lips; but their heart is far from me. But in vain they do worship me, teaching for doctrines the commandments of men.”

I have always been intrigued with this passage of inspired Scripture. The prophet Isaiah seven hundred years earlier had experienced the same phenomena with hard hearted people. Jesus said, “Well did the prophet Isaiah say that you people are a bunch of religious phonies!” The Lord indicted them for drawing near unto God superficially with their mouths, but their hearts were somewhere else entirely. It was all a formal game of show and tell.

Something is very wrong at Pensacola Christian College (PCC) and their Campus Church (which is essentially nothing more than a chapel for their thousands of students, or should I say “victims”). I found four different plans of salvation at their institution. Clearly, PCC draw nigh unto God with their mouths, but their hearts are far from Him when it doesn't matter which plan of salvation they promote. Galatians 1:6-7, “I marvel that ye are so soon removed from him that called you into the grace of Christ unto another gospel: Which is not another; but there be some that trouble you, and would pervert the gospel of Christ.”

Did you know that Chicago University was started in 1891 by a Baptist preacher as a Christian school? The University of Chicago was founded by Baptist church leaders, with significant funding from John D. Rockefeller. The original institution, known as the Old University of Chicago, was established in 1856 but ceased operations in 1886 before the new university was created in 1891. Sadly, today a century later, Chicago University openly supports the ungodly homosexual LGBTQ+ agenda. How did a once fundamentalist Baptist college in the 19th century deteriorate into a cesspool of iniquity over a century later?

Although I do not support Pastor Charles Spurgeon (1834-1892) because he was at least a 2-point Calvinist (i.e., Limited Atonement and Perseverance of the Saints heresies), I agree with the following quote from him:

“A little laxity leads to a little complaisance, and this soon leads to a little acceptance of false teaching.” —Pastor Charles Spurgeon, 1887

Whatever a pastor stops preaching against is what his church will fill up with in five years! All that needs to happen for evil to triumph is for good men to do nothing.

It is shameful that a Bible college as popular as PCC doesn't care enough about the accuracy of God's simple plan of salvation to get on the same page. It reveals loud and clear that making money is a higher priority to their leadership than maintaining the truth.

Their Campus Church promotes one plan of salvation from the pulpit. Their incompetent pastor Jeff Redlin has his own unique plan of salvation. The literature they distribute publicly says something entirely different. The college website promotes a different plan of salvation. I found Four different gospels in all. What a house of confusion!

Will the real Pensacola Christian College please stand up?

The Episcopalian Church Is Dying And I Am Glad

Romans 3:20-23a, “Therefore by the deeds of the law there shall no flesh be justified in his sight: for by the law is the knowledge of sin. But now the righteousness of God without the law is manifested, being witnessed by the law and the prophets; Even the righteousness of God which is by faith of Jesus Christ unto all and upon all them that believe...”

The inspired King James Bible couldn't be more clearer that sinners are saved by God's grace alone, and not be any degree of self-righteous works. Yet, manmade false religions by the thousands still continue to preach a works-based plan of salvation, which is really damnation.

Case in point is the Episcopalian church, which present worldwide membership is comprised of approximately 2.7 million people. Sadly, the church similarly to Roman Catholicism preaches an accursed works-based plan of salvation. Episcopalians believe that faith in Jesus Christ, participation in sacraments like baptism and the Eucharist, and living a life of good works are essential for obtaining eternal life in Heaven. They emphasize that God's grace plays a significant role in the journey towards salvation, but works are required.

To no surprise the Episcopalian denomination is dying. I am glad it is dying because they preach another gospel that sends people to Hell forever. It doesn't help that the Episcopalian denomination has openly permitted lesbian and gay priests into their clergy. People are not naive, they know a falsehood when they see it. Who wants to attend a fake church?

Like many of Satan's minions, the Episcopal church has sold out to be politically correct at the expense of membership. Nobody wants to get onboard a sinking ship. God is holy. Who wants to attend a phony church? And like the Roman Catholics, Episcopalians adhere to the same atrocious unbiblical Seven Sacraments. The term “sacraments” is foreign to Scripture. My Christian father was right, “Religion is the worst thing that ever happened to this world.”

Read from their own words what Episcopalians teach you must do to get to Heaven:

We believe in one baptism for the forgiveness of sins, as the “bond which God establishes in baptism is indissoluble” (Book of Common Prayer, p. 298). This is why baptism is unrepeatable and considered valid across most Christian denominations. When a person is baptized in the name of the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit—whether in The Episcopal Church or another denomination—they are marked as Christ’s own forever, having “clothed [themselves] with Christ” (Galatians 3:27). It would thus be inappropriate to be baptized a second time, even when moving from one denomination to another (there are different rituals for marking that change).

In the waters of baptism, we are lovingly adopted by God into God’s family, which we call the church; given God’s own life to share; and reminded that nothing can separate us from God’s love in Christ. During the rite, the candidates make a series of vows referred to as the baptismal covenant. For this reason, even though The Episcopal Church baptizes people of all ages, the text of the ritual as contained in the Book of Common Prayer presumes a candidate who is able to speak for themselves. [emphasis added] SOURCE

I triple dog dare you dear reader to show me from the Holy Bible where baptism produces “the forgiveness of sins.” It doesn't.

The Accursed Church of Christ is Wrong On Baptism

1st Corinthians 1:17, “For Christ sent me not to baptize, but to preach the gospel: not with wisdom of words, lest the cross of Christ should be made of none effect.” This Scripture passage confirms that water baptism does not save someone; nor is baptism required to “seal the deal” as Max Lucado (a deadly Church of Christ minister) errantly teaches. Pastor Lucado later changed the name of his former 'Oak Hills Church of Christ' to a non-denominational title, 'Oak Hills Church,' to broaden his toxic influence.

I once showed 1st Corinthians 1:17 to another corrupt Church of Christ minister (and they are all corrupt), and he said Paul's disciples did the baptizing instead. Do you see how false prophets wrest the Word of God to their own destruction (2nd Peter 3:16-17)? The Church of Christ wickedly requires water baptism to get to Heaven.

And as do the Episcopalians, the Church of Christ also foolishly requires repenting “of your sins” to get to Heaven; a teaching nowhere found in the King James Bible. You only need to repent of the one thing keeping you from being saved, which is the sin of unbelief. Nowhere does the King James Bible say that you must forsake your sinful bad habits to be saved, it says to “Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ, and thou shalt be saved” (Acts 16:31b).

I triple dog dare you to show me one verse in the inspired Word of God that teaches to be water baptized to be “lovingly adopted by God into God's family.” And please notice that as an authority the preceding quote does not cite God's Word; but rather, page 298 from their toxic 'Book of Common Prayer.' This is manmade false religion, not Christianity.

I triple dog dare you to show me from the Holy Bible where it says by getting water baptized you will be “marked as Christ's forever.” What saith the Scripture? John 6:47, “Verily, verily, I say unto you, He that believeth on me hath everlasting life.” And we further read in Galatians 3:26, “For ye are all the children of God by faith in Christ Jesus.” Where in the world did the Episcopalians ever get the false idea that baptism gets anyone to Heaven? The Bible teaches we are saved by trusting in the Lamb of God, not by getting baptized with water.

Only The King James Bible Hasn't Been Tampered With

And to clarify, the reason why I keep mentioning the “King James Bible” is because ungodly men have tampered with all of the modern English Bible revisions, perverting the word “repent” to mean turning from your sins. For example: Here is a comparison between two different Bibles concerning Mark 1:15...

King James Version (KJV) - “And saying, The time is fulfilled, and the kingdom of God is at hand: repent ye, and believe the gospel.”

Easy-To-Read Version (ERV) - “He said, 'The right time is now here. God’s kingdom is very near. Change your hearts and lives, and believe the Good News!'”

EasyEnglish Bible (EASY) - “Jesus said, ‘Now is the time when the kingdom of God has come very near. You have done many wrong things. Turn away from them and change the way that you live. Believe God's good news.’”

Common English Bible (CEB) - “saying, 'Now is the time! Here comes God’s kingdom! Change your hearts and lives, and trust this good news!'”

Do you see friend? Do you see how wicked the Devil's minions are? They have corrupted the inspired Word of God for the almighty dollar! In order to obtain a copyright from the U.S. government, they were required by law to make “substantial and creative” changes to all preexisting Bible versions. The Devil's hands have been busy!

The Greek verb for the word “repent” in Mark 1:15 is metanoeo which simply means “to think differently.” That is all it means, nothing more implied. A literally interpretation of the last part of Mark 1:15 would read, “think differently and believe the Good News that Jesus died on a cross for your sins, was buried and physically resurrected three days later.” That is “the gospel” according to 1st Corinthians 15:1-6. So, where on earth did unlearned men get the false idea that to “repent” means to turn away from your sinful ways and live a changed life? That is heresy! That is works! That is not the free grace of God!

Considering that the Episcopalian Church preaches another gospel, ordains homosexuals and doesn't recognize homosexuality as being a sin in God's sight, and that they require living a life of doing good works to get to Heaven, I for one am very glad to learn that their denomination is dying. I hope they close all of their door over the next ten years. I say that kindly, but with a love for God, people and the truth. False religion will take you to the Lake of Fire!

Are People Inherently Good Or Bad?

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.”

Are people inherently good or bad? The answer is yes, depending on your perspective.

From a Biblical viewpoint, all humans are inherently sinful, wicked and bad, as evidenced by our text passage of Scripture. That is why Jesus Christ came into the world to pay our debt of sin, so that we could freely receive God's gift of eternal life.

But from a practical standpoint, as far as sinful men go, most people have no desire to hurt others. I think most people are inherently good, as far as sinners go. Nearly everyone has their own sinful bad habits, whether it be gossiping, worrying, lust or getting drunk. But despite such bad habits, most people are not evil. That is, they don't intend to hurt others, even though they sometimes do, such as drunk drivers.

I like what an Alaskan state trooper taught his son, who was also a state trooper. His wise father said, “Most people who get into trouble with the law are not bad people, they are just at a bad point in their life.” I like that. Pastor Jack Hyles (1926-2001) taught us preacher boys to view people as being broken, not bad. You don't throw an expensive Swiss watch away when it stops working, you get it fixed. How much more priceless are humans created in God's image! So, we see that from a certain perspective that both ideas are true. Indeed, people are inherently good and bad, depending on how you look at it.

To clarify, I reject humanism. I do not believe that mankind is slowly improving and getting better over time. What saith the Scripture? 1st John 5:19, “And we know that we are of God, and the whole world lieth in wickedness.” The Apostle John under the inspiration of the Holy Spirit penned those words 2,000 years ago. The world has always been a wicked place. The human race hasn't improved over the millenniums. We have new technologies and increased knowledge in these modern times, but these modern discoveries have merely allowed mankind to travel further down the road we were already on.

I listened to Alex Jones for decades on his Infowars show falsely claim that the human race was improving and would ultimately reach its climatic utopia at some future point. Alex couldn't be more off base! That is humanism. The inspired Word of God teaches that the world is a wicked place, and it always will be, prone to self-destruction. Only 17% of human civilization's history has been without war. Think about that! Read Romans 3:10-23 if you want to learn what God thinks about the human race.

And yet God the Father loves us so much, that He sent His only begotten Son into the world to die on a cross in our place, so that we could freely receive eternal life as a gift (Romans 6:23).

I like the 1982 song by Paul McCartney and Stevie Wonder, Ebony And Ivory, in which secular song we hear the lyrics, “There is good and bad in everyone.” That is very true. But please don't overlook the Biblical truth that even though there is good in everyone, we are wicked sinners by birth and by nature according to Romans 5:12, “Wherefore, as by one man sin entered into the world, and death by sin; and so death passed upon all men, for that all have sinned” (cf. Romans 7:11-25).

We are all wicked sinners by nature. We were born that way, spiritual dead, alienated from God (Ephesians 2:1-2). But even the vilest sinner still has some capacity to do good. Gangster Al Capone (1899-1947) was infamous for having his competitors murdered during the Prohibition era in the 1920s. As a kid, I loved watching The St. Valentine's Day Massacre in Chicago on television each year. The St. Valentine's Day Massacre occurred on February 14, 1929, when seven members of Chicago's North Side Gang were murdered by assailants disguised as police officers, believed to be ordered by rival gangster Al Capone. This event marked a significant moment in the violent gang wars during the Prohibition era.

Yet, the world's most infamous mobster ran a free soup kitchen for suffering Chicagoans during The Great Depression. Even the Devil does good things to deceive his victims and hide his true nature. Ironically on Al Capone's gravestone is the epitaph, “My Jesus Mercy.” Did Mr. Capone go to Heaven in 1947? I sure hope so, but dear reader, he was a devout Italian Roman Catholic. Catholics do not trust solely in Jesus Christ, they trust in the sacraments of their ungodly cult. Catholics trust in The Blessed Virgin, Mary. I sadly doubt Capone's salvation.

Two hours before his death Capone received the last rites from his parish priest, Monsignor Barry Williams. When he died newspapers reported that during his lifetime “he was blamed directly or indirectly for 500 deaths.” During his criminal career historical accounts relate that he made between $60 and $100 million a year in illicit profits. Hebrews 9:27, “And as it is appointed unto men once to die, but after this the judgment.” The $64,000 question is did Al Capone trust exclusively in the finished redemptive work of Jesus; or did he trust in the sacraments and non-existent power of Catholic priests to absolve his sins? We'll find out one day when we reach the afterlife ourselves.

 

People are both inherently good and bad. I have met some moral sinners throughout my lifetime, who were good people even though they weren't saved; and I have also met some rotten evil saints of God, who were contemptible and injurious toward others. The false prophets in Matthew 7:21-23 boasted of having done “many wonderful works,” but they went to Hell forever. And yet we read in the Old Testament about Jacob who ruthlessly cheated his own brother, and David who murdered one of his own soldiers to steal his wife. It doesn't matter if people are saved or lost, we are all capable of both good and bad things.

Pastor Jack Hyles' Mother's Favorite Bible Verse

Psalms 103:14, “For he knoweth our frame; he remembereth that we are dust.”

I heard Pastor Jack Hyles (1926-2001) say in a sermon that Psalms 103:14 was his mother's favorite passage of Scripture. His mother was Coystal Mattie Hyles (1887-1984). I often think about that Bible verse too, realizing that God is incredibly understanding and He fully knows my human weaknesses, temptations, burdens and frailties.

Here is one of my favorite sermons by Brother Hyles, in which he shares what his mother suffered during her life. ...

Why Mama Was So Smart

Here is the Hyles' family heritage...

Family Tree Information:

• Mattie Coystal Hyles (born Frasure) was born December 13, 1887, at birth place, Illinois, to James Washington Frasure and Eugenia. Fredonia Frasure (born Cook).
• James was born on February 19, 1848, in Gilmer, Upshur Co., Texas.
• Eugenia was born on December 4, 1852, in Ennis, Ellis Co., Texas.
• Mattie had 5 siblings: Errett Basil Frasure, Arvie Jimmie Harris (born Frasure) and 3 other siblings.
• Mattie married Willis Athey Hyles.
• Willis was born on April 5, 1878, in Italy, Ellis County, Texas. He died in 1950.
• They had 4 children: Jack Frasure Hyles and 3 other children.
• Mattie Coystal Hyles passed away in September of 1984, at age 96.

SOURCE: My Heritage

Coystal and Athey lost their grocery store during The Great Depression. My own father was put into an orphanage in Escanaba, Michigan, during The Great Depression. It was a tough time for most Americans.

Then, the Hyles' family lost two of their daughters to disease at age 7. Back then you didn't go to the hospital when you were sick, you just hung in there at home and hoped you made it. Brother Hyles father, Athey, turned to booze and became a wife-beating alcoholic. Dr. Hyles shares these painful memories in his beautiful sermon, 'Why Mama Was So Smart,' based on Psalm 119:71, “It is good for me that I have been afflicted; that I might learn thy statutes.” You'll never learn more about the things of God than when you are suffering.

I am so thankful that we have a personal God who can be known. James 4:8, “Draw nigh to God, and he will draw nigh to you. Cleanse your hands, ye sinners; and purify your hearts, ye double minded.” I hear new agers and other false religions, like Christian Science, claiming that there is no individual God. They think God is a force in nature, a divine conscience, but not an individual who you can fellowship with. James 4:8 wouldn't invite us to draw nigh unto God unless He were an individual being, a person.

1st Peter 5:7, “Casting all your care upon him; for he careth for you.” Again, this passage of Scripture implies that God is a person, inviting us to pray. He cares. God is available to hear our concerns, needs and burdens, because the Lord cares about us.

And here is one of my most cherished Bible passages...

Hebrews 4:14-16, “Seeing then that we have a great high priest, that is passed into the heavens, Jesus the Son of God, let us hold fast our profession. For we have not an high priest which cannot be touched with the feeling of our infirmities; but was in all points tempted like as we are, yet without sin. Let us therefore come boldly unto the throne of grace, that we may obtain mercy, and find grace to help in time of need.”

I love that! Jesus was tempted, like we are, so He knows and understands our infirmities and struggles with sin, people and life. Isaiah 53:3, “He is despised and rejected of men; a man of sorrows, and acquainted with grief: and we hid as it were our faces from him; he was despised, and we esteemed him not.” With these precious Bible truths in mind, it makes perfect sense that we read in Psalms 103:14, “For he knoweth our frame; he remembereth that we are dust.” Thank you for reading my ministry blog. Jesus is precious!!!

When The Plane Takes Off, But There's Nowhere To Land

Psalms 13:2, “How long shall I take counsel in my soul, having sorrow in my heart daily? how long shall mine enemy be exalted over me?”

Psalms 16:10, “For thou wilt not leave my soul in hell; neither wilt thou suffer thine Holy One to see corruption.”

Psalms 23:3, “He restoreth my soul: he leadeth me in the paths of righteousness for his name's sake.”

The phrase “my soul” appears 102 times in the Psalms. If you're like me, and I'm sure you are, then there are just certain subjects that you prefer to avoid, knowing that once that plane takes off you won't be able to find any place to land.

I've been there a thousand times throughout my lifetime, when I started thinking or talking about a painful or emotionally difficult matter, and then I realized after several moments (or an hour later) that there was just not going to be any good place to end the conversation or thought process. The plane took off, but there was no good place to land to end the flight.

The best thing you can do in those difficult situations is to heed the Apostle Paul's exhortation to, “Be careful for nothing; but in every thing by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving let your requests be made known unto God” (Philippians 4:6). And to heed the Apostle Peter's exhortation to, “Casting all your care upon him; for he careth for you” (1st Peter 5:7). So often, when I feel like there was nowhere to land the plane, I had to just walk away from the conversation or whatever has boggled down my mind with sorrow.

It is usually because I have mixed feelings or incomplete thoughts about a matter when I feel like there is no place to land the plane, because it is still an open book. Over time, when I've had plenty of time to process my thoughts, I usually find a place to land my planes. I think it is safe to say that we've all felt this way at times, and that is perfectly okay. We are only human.

Sometimes it is just best to change the subject and think or talk about something else.

When someone has hurt my feelings, I have often cried out in humility to my heavenly Father in prayer, something like this:

I love you LORD, and I pray that you would help comfort my soul. This world is so horrible. I don't even want to go outside my front door anymore because of how bad society has become. You foretold in 2nd Timothy 3:1-7 that "perilous times" would come, and they sure have. The churches are corrupt and polluted. The pastors are carnal, brutish and woefully lacking in compassion and love for people. The government is reckless and irresponsible. Nobody seems to care anymore. Please bless my website ministry and help me to help others LORD. You deserve so much better than we give you as your children. I love you!

And then I almost always go write another article for my ministry, to bury my conflicting feelings or pain of soul into my ministry work. Thousands of articles have been written over the years while my heart felt like it was in my feet, because of a heavy burden upon my soul at that moment.

I am often reminded of the Apostle Paul's words in 2nd Corinthians 12:15, “And I will very gladly spend and be spent for you; though the more abundantly I love you, the less I be loved.” The more that we grow closer to God and His love, concern and compassion rubs off on us, the less loved we are going to feel in today's cold-hearted American society.

Tragically, pastors today are some of the worse offenders, woefully lacking in God's unconditional love for others. When I attended Campus Church at Pensacola Christian College (PCC) in 2021 for a few months, there was no love in that spiritually dead place. PCC is a prisonhouse of religion, as witnessed by hundreds of their former disgruntled students. 2nd Corinthians 12:15, “And I will very gladly spend and be spent for you; though the more abundantly I love you, the less I be loved.”

King David was much hated and persecuted by his enemies in the Old Testament. Some people were envious of his massive success. Anytime you rise up head and shoulders above the crowd, someone will have it in for you out of envy. And then there were the friends and relatives of Uriah the Hittite, who hated David because he had stolen Uriah's wife, impregnated her and then had Uriah murdered in cold blood to conceal his wickedness. And then David had enemies who hated the God of Israel. The poor guy had an army of enemies who hated him.

With this truth in mind, it shouldn't come as a surprise that the Psalms are saturated with David's pain of soul, miseries and cries unto the LORD for deliverance. Psalms 11:1, “In the LORD put I my trust: How say ye to my soul, Flee as a bird to your mountain?” David's enemies told him to get lost, just fly away like a bird to the mountains of Judea, but David stood his ground by faith in the LORD. The word “enemy” in it's various forms is found 104 times in the Psalms.

When you feel deep pain of soul dear reader, run to the Psalms. You can listen to Alexander Scourby read the entire lengthy Book of Psalms in 4:23 hours.

Another thing that I often do when my feelings get hurt is to give $5 and a Gospel tract to someone. I recently went to Whataburger. I waited at the drive thru window for 5 minutes, but nobody said a word. I finally asked, “Is anybody working today?” Only then did a female say that they were short staffed. I kindly told her that she should have told me that 5 minutes ago. It took about another 25 minutes to get to the window for my food.

The only cashier working both windows was a young black woman. I gave her $5 and a Gospel tract, just to show her God's grace. I could have been upset and frustrated that I had to wait what seemed like 30 minutes. She was sweet and thanked me, and I had a great rest of the day. By God's grace, I am trying to live that way, taking the higher path in life. I don't always make that right choice, but by God's grace I am trying with His help to do better.

I learned a long time ago that as God's children we don't grow in strength, we grow in grace. 2nd Peter 3:18, “But grow in grace, and in the knowledge of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ. To him be glory both now and for ever. Amen.”