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2024-10-31T22:12:48-04:00

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Notes From a Sermon: “What do you want me to do for you?”

Last updated on: October 31, 2024 at 10:12 pm By Jim Meisner Jr.

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Mark 10:46-52 “What do you want me to do for you?” In the Grateful Dead’s Box of Rain, lyricist Robert Hunter echoed the words of Jesus when he asked, “What do you want me to do for you?” “What do you want me to doTo do for you to see you through?For this is all a dream we dreamedOne afternoon long ago” Phil Lesh,who wrote the Box of Rain music, died Oct. 25 at age 84. On Oct. 27,... Read more

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2024-10-14T21:15:34-04:00

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Christian Trump Supporters are Wrong

Last updated on: October 14, 2024 at 9:15 pm By Jim Meisner Jr.

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Christian supporters of convicted felon Donald Trump are wrong. They are wrong just like tens of millions of Christians before them also were wrong. The first Christians were wrong when they said that only Jews could follow Jesus. Christians were wrong when they wanted Christianity as the official religion of Rome. Christians were wrong when they murdered Jews across Europe during the Middle Ages. Christians were wrong when they murdered tens of thousands of Muslims during the Crusades. Christians were... Read more

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2024-10-11T13:42:42-04:00

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A Recent Interaction on Faith on the Fringe Facebook

Last updated on: October 11, 2024 at 1:42 pm By Jim Meisner Jr.

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Do you follow Faith on the Fringe Facebook? Here’s a recent post and response about Donald Trump: Last week when I posted about the godlessness and immorality of Donald Trump, someone responded by questioning the faith of President Obama. Here’s an example of honest, thoughtful, Christian introspection, something that Trump is clearly, obviously, not capable of. Where is Christianity in the U.S. when some Christians believe that Trump is a Christian while Obama is not? There is a core, moral... Read more

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2024-10-08T16:36:49-04:00

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How Can Christians Support the Godless Immorality of Trump?

Last updated on: October 8, 2024 at 4:36 pm By Jim Meisner Jr.

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When reading, “Why a Christian SHOULD Vote for Donald Trump to be President,” I felt sick; literally sick to my stomach. And I still don’t understand how Christians can support the godless immorality of Donald Trump. I was hoping for insight into why Christians like Al Baker support Trump. But, alas, there was no insight, just bad writing, poor reasoning, deflection and distraction, not unlike Trump’s entire career. What was missing—painfully, obviously, missing— is any Biblical justification for supporting the... Read more

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2024-10-01T18:58:35-04:00

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The Day I Met President Jimmy Carter

Last updated on: October 1, 2024 at 6:58 pm By Jim Meisner Jr.

As President Jimmy Carter turns 100 on Oct. 1, he reaches significant historical markers. He has lived through 40% of U.S. history since the Declaration of Independence in 1776 and more than a third of all U.S. administrations since George Washington took office in 1789. I spoke briefly with President Carter in the men’s room of Maranatha Baptist Church, after he taught Sunday school on July 10, 2011. I was standing at the restroom urinals with the 39th president of... Read more

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2025-03-14T22:51:11-04:00

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The Christian Response to Trump

Last updated on: March 14, 2025 at 10:51 pm By Jim Meisner Jr.

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** EDIT ** This post is about why Christians should reject Donald Trump. To read six suggestions of the Christian response to Trump, click the image below, or follow this link. ** EDIT ** (UPDATED Feb. 7, 2025) Donald Trump is everything the Bible warns against, in both the New Testament and the Old Testament. What does the Bible say? Repeatedly, Jewish scripture describes ungodly people exactly the way we can describe Trump. “For fools speak folly, their hearts... Read more

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2025-05-22T16:55:49-04:00

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Notes From a Sermon: Earthly Wisdom and Godly Wisdom

Last updated on: May 22, 2025 at 4:55 pm By Jim Meisner Jr.

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Notes From a Sermon: Earthly Wisdom and Godly Wisdom James 3:13-18, 4:1-8, talks about two kinds of wisdom. Earthly wisdom and Godly wisdom. Bitter envy and selfish ambition arise from earthly wisdom, the letter says. Such “wisdom” does not come down from heaven but is earthly, unspiritual, demonic. For where you have envy and selfish ambition, there you find disorder and every evil practice. Think of those people in our lives, in history, and in the country, who demonstrate earthly... Read more

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2024-09-15T22:32:08-04:00

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Do Christians Need to be Reminded that Racism is Immoral?

Last updated on: September 15, 2024 at 10:32 pm By Jim Meisner Jr.

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Do Christians need to be reminded that racism is immoral? Evidently. In the first presidential debate between Vice President Kamala Harris and convicted felon Donald Trump, Trump abandoned his usual, thinly-veiled racist dog whistles and went full volume with the ridiculous lie that black people eat their neighbor’s pets. “A lot of towns don’t want to talk about it because they’re so embarrassed by it. In Springfield, they’re eating the dogs. The people that came in. They’re eating the cats.... Read more

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2024-09-07T20:31:15-04:00

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Notes From a Sermon: Mark 7: 24-37

Last updated on: September 7, 2024 at 8:31 pm By Jim Meisner Jr.

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“Going to the Dogs” Notes from a sermon on Mark 7:24-37. 24 Jesus left that place and went to the vicinity of Tyre. He entered a house and did not want anyone to know it; yet he could not keep his presence secret. 25 In fact, as soon as she heard about him, a woman whose little daughter was possessed by an impure spirit came and fell at his feet. 26 The woman was a Greek, born in Syrian Phoenicia.... Read more

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2024-08-31T23:01:37-04:00

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Notes From a Sermon: James 1:17-27

Last updated on: August 31, 2024 at 11:01 pm By Jim Meisner Jr.

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Notes From a Sermon: James 1:17-27 “Every good and perfect gift is from above, coming down from the Father of the heavenly lights, who does not change like shifting shadows. He chose to give us birth through the word of truth, that we might be a kind of first-fruits of all he created . . . Do not merely listen to the word, and so deceive yourselves. Do what it says. Anyone who listens to the word but does not... Read more

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