WHAT HAPPENED TO KINDNESS
What happened to kindness? So many things have happened to steal kindness away from us. The number one thing is so many people cheating and lying. Lack of trust is insurmountable! Wives don’t trust husbands, husbands don’t trust wives, Parents don’t trust children, children don’t trust parents, employees don’t trust employers, employers don’t trust employees, citizens don’t trust the government and well I could go on and on. And to be fair I must say that the majority of the world does not trust God.
Now if you are one of those who are saying right now, “oh no, not a religious nut writing, well you’d be kind of close.” So if you are, no need to continue reading, it is after all your FREE choice to do so. But for those of you who would like to take a gamble and hear what I have to say and really it is what the Bible says, so here goes:
People are looking for answers to all that is going on in our world today. I will quote Psalm 33:12, “Happy is the nation whose God is the Lord, the people He chose for His own.” Does the nation you live in choose God as their Lord? I will not for the sake of this blog share the whole Psalm 33 I’ll leave that up to the reader to search it out. To me, it seems that that one verse has a lot to say about the evils of this society. We can’t mention God in our schools, in our workplaces, in our cities. We can however mention Buddha, Allah, alternative lifestyles that are totally against God.
He gathered the water of the sea into a heap. He made the great ocean stay in place. Let’s see how many scientists can explain this phenomenon. Before the flood, the earth was straight up and down and now the earth is turned at an angle. Before the flood the sky was pink, now it is blue. We lost the bubble that surrounded earth during the one and only great flood. I wonder how many of today’s schoolchildren know what the significance of the rainbow is? This year I have seen more of them than I ever have my whole life. Gorgeous rainbows are very vivid and most of them have been double rainbows.
OK, I know you are saying what does this have to do with kindness? It has all to do with it. Because we have shunned God and chose to put Him out of our nation, the people have lost all hope and have no trust in anything. Therefore we do not care about our fellow man. We have to take care of me only. People’s hearts are gripped with fear. So how can we show kindness when we can only focus on ourselves?
By Terry Board
©Burnett Publishing 2011
Behold I Am Coming
BEHOLD I AM COMING
It’s not about eggs, but about the excellent story.
It’s not about bunnies, but the honey from heaven.
It’s not about how fancy we can dress,
But how we can be clothed in His righteousness.
It’s not about all the food we can eat,
But the Bread that came from heaven.
It’s not about doing our own thing,
But It’s about freely giving because He has given.
He gave up so much for us.
He had a place of more. More than what we call paradise.
A place where there was NO pain and yet He endured the greatest.
A place where He was honored and praised
And then suddenly He was mocked and rejected and despised.
He could speak a word and have anything He wanted,
Yet, he gave it all up for us.
No one took His life.
He gave it freely.
Seeing ahead before it happened
He knew what it would be,
Yet, He chose to take it anyway.
There is something so overlooked this time of year.
During the Passover, before he was crucified,
Jesus did something so sweet,
He said to His disciples, family, and friends
“I will not drink from the fruit of the vine again,
until we are all together.”
He is waiting so patiently for His pure spotless Bride,
(The church, body of believers), to share in His grand celebration with Him.
Also, He is waiting as long as He can for any who would
Like to be a part of that celebration, by believing in what He did!
What’s the next step after “It is finished!” “Behold I am coming!”
By Terry Board written @ 7:38 4/08/12 (c) Burnett Publishing Company
Years Fascination With Deer
For years I have been fascinated with deer. I wrote a devotional for a church for nine years and the title of the devotional was “GOOD THIRSTY MORNING” after Psalm 42. Then a few weeks ago, I live in the heart of a big Metropolis and five deer were in my back yard just three feet from me. I have been told that it is extremely unheard of for a male deer with antlers to be in the city, but they came to me. There was a daddy deer, a mama deer, and three babies. Every morning now I go to my window around 6:00 to 6:30 am to see if they are there. I haven’t seen them since and it feels like I’ve lost some dear friends. I want so much to see them again.
Another exciting factor about this is that there were five of them. I love the number five because biblical numerology speaks of five as the number for grace.
Habakkuk 3:19 The Lord GOD is my strength, and He has made my feet like hinds’ feet and makes me walk on my high places. (For the choir director, on my stringed instruments.)
Psalm 18:31-33 (31) for who is God, but the LORD? And who is a rock, except our God? (32) The God who girds me with strength and makes my way blameless? (33) He makes my feet like hinds’ feet, and sets me upon my high places.
II Samuel 22:29-34 (29) “For You are my lamp, O LORD; And the LORD illumines my darkness. (30) “For by You I can run upon a troop; By my God, I can leap over a wall. (31) “As for God, His way is blameless; the word of the LORD is tested; He is a shield to all who take refuge in Him. (32) “For who is God, besides the LORD? And who is a rock, besides our God? (33) “God is my strong fortress, And He sets the blameless in His way. (34) “He makes my feet like hinds’ feet, and sets me on my high places.
Psalm 42:1 “As the deer pants for the water brooks, so my soul pants for You, O God.”
As I mentioned earlier the devotional I wrote was: “Good Thirsty Morning”, Psalm 42:1 is the scripture I named it after. Each morning our souls should thirst after The Lord our God! How thirsty is your soul?
By Terry Board ©Burnett Publishing Company 2013
Throwaway Society
We live in a throwaway society. People buy furniture and in a year they are tired of it and go out and buy new. Had a car for two years oh well it is not new enough let’s get a new one. My wife or husband, I don’t like the way they act, so it’s time for a new one.
What happened to restoration? If people just put a new look to their already owned stuff we could save a lot of money in America. It used to be that a girl learned to sew at an early age and making clothes was so much cheaper. Now it cost more to make your own clothes. Not to mention you can hardly find cloth anymore to buy.
There would be no need for buying overseas goods. Think of the money that could be saved.
Grab ahold of this and think … it all stems from the root of ungratefulness. I know I sound like a broken record, but check out the bible. The first chapter of Romans shows how ungratefulness can lead to immoral behavior and then to the downfall of society.
Also, there is a mentality of it’s too hard to make a relationship work. It’s too hard to sew my own clothes. People want instant gratification. Then what happens? The next gratification isn’t good enough so let’s move on to the next.
Let’s take a look at the word restoration:
restore vb (tr)
1. to return (something, esp a work of art or building) to an original or former condition
2. to bring back to health, good spirits, etc.
3. to return (something lost, stolen, etc.) to its owner
4. to reintroduce or re-enforce to restore discipline
5. to reconstruct (an extinct animal, former landscape, etc.)
[from Old French, from Latin r?staur?re to rebuild, from re- + -staur?re, as in instaur?re to renew]
re·store tr.v. re·stored, re·stor·ing, re·stores
1. To bring back into existence or use; reestablish: restore law and order.
2. To bring back to an original condition: restore a building.
3. To put (someone) back in a former position: restore the emperor to the throne.
4. To make restitution of; give back: restore the stolen funds.
Leonardo Da Vinci’s LAST SUPPER had a major overhaul. The candles over the years had given it a layer of soot that darkened it. The new restoration made the WOW factor unbelievable. People could hardly believe how bright and vibrant the colors became.
People can restore relationships, but it takes work. Something this society doesn’t relish anymore. I’d like to challenge people to begin to think about this, but Americans are too busy buying new things and having to overwork to pay for them to give a NEW well OLD idea a chance.
People used to sit outside at their homes and get to know their neighbors. They would cross the street sit out on their porches talk and play games. Now they are inside resting from their jobs, they have to pay for the NEW things they feel they need.
What is it going to take AMERICA a crashing down of our country to wake us up???
Works cited: The internet definition of restore; the free dictionary by Farlex
By Terry Board © Burnett Publishing 2011
The Saggy Pants Saga
Saggy pants got you down? The pun is definitely intended. Once upon a time back in the ’40s poor people couldn’t afford belts or even a rope to keep their pants up and low and behold they sagged down exposing the otherwise private derriere. Don’t tell the generation today they may not want to expose anymore.
From saggy to criminal this is what lawmakers are addressing in many states. While in jail they have a nice jumpsuit that has an elastic waistband to help them keep their pants up. Even an American Idol hopeful Larry Platt has a problem with the underwear exposed wearers.
Some say that we shouldn’t be allowed to tell people what to wear. Does that mean we can’t tell them what not to wear? Excuse me I’m not sure just how to phrase what I mean here. I mean that soon people will be wearing nothing. Anyway, I guess it will be a case of what to wear and literally, or not to wear.
How far can we push the pants down so to speak? What kind of society do we want? One that is cheap or rampant with rebellion or one that follows decency?
I guess it all boils down to a case and literally a case of what are we going to protect here, the people who love indecency. Do we draw the line on decency or do we say anything goes including nudity? Even God clothed Adam and Eve with animal skins to cover their nakedness.
By Terry Board © Burnett Publishing 2011
Corruption Everywhere
From the banking industry to the Presidency corruption is rampant. It doesn’t seem to even matter if the corruption is exposed, because these Powerful organizations control everything.
Most common people who end up finding out about these people of power end up dead. Unless you are among the elite group you do not have a chance.
If you have access to the internet and can get on YouTube you can see what is truly going on right under our noses. You have an Ex-Governor who was also a Navy Seal going around the country exposing everything. Just do a little research and see what you and I are allowing to go on. No one seems to be powerful enough to stop it.
The President does not rule the country alone. We have the judicial branch of government, the legislative branch of government, and the executive branch of government. The constitution keeps one branch from having more power than the others. Under these past few administrations, they seem to have changed the rules and let the judicial make the laws. This was not so in the beginning or still should not be.
The job of the legislative branch is comprised of the Senate and the House of Representatives. They are to make the laws and vote on whether a bill should be passed as a law. This is why it is so important that the American people search out what these bills say in totality. They approve whether someone should be a judge. They pass the budget. They alone have the power to declare war. These are written in the constitution. This is in Article I of the constitution.
The job of the judicial branch is to interpret laws and punish lawbreakers, NOT make the laws! This is in Article III. I wonder why some of these great men in power have murdered people not been sentenced?
The job of the executive branch is comprised of the President and his cabinet who appoints. This is in Article II. Some have been dangerously chosen. His job is to appoint judges, make the state of the union address, send bills to congress. He also commands armed forces (scary) meets with leaders of other nations. (This President meets with his Muslim friends.) Carries out and enforces laws. (Quaking in my boots) The President, Vice President, and all civil Officers of the United States shall be removed from Office on Impeachment for, and Conviction of, Treason, Bribery, or other high Crimes and Misdemeanors. Gee, does that mean crimes of murder? He really does not have as much to do with running the country as people think. Here are few other tidbits of information from the constitution: The President of the Senate shall, in the Presence of the Senate and House of Representatives, open all the Certificates, and the Votes shall then be counted. Hmm has this been happening during our elections? No person except a natural born Citizen, or a Citizen of the United States, at the time of the Adoption of this Constitution, shall be eligible to the Office of President; neither shall any Person be eligible to that Office who shall not have attained to the Age of thirty-five Years, and been fourteen Years a Resident within the United States.
The last scary thing to mention in this blog is there are several camps set up with fences like concentration camps all around the United States. Coffins by this 1,000’s have been exposed and then moved before they could get back to take pictures of them. Planes are dropping things in the air to make us sick. These elite groups of people of power are getting ready to wipe us out and put us all in concentration camps. Just so happens these camps are set up near railroads. Does this sound familiar to Hitler?
No, I am not a nut and if you do your homework you will find that out. Yes in doing research you will find corruption to be everywhere.
By Terry Board
© Burnett Publishing Company 2012
DO NOT FEAR
Are you fearing, all these atrocities that our Supreme Court Justices have approved? Our natural response is to fear these things happening, but God has the last word. The Bible tells us that when we see these things happening we are to lift up our heads for OUR redemption draws near. Be aware God is not mocked and whatsoever we sow that will we reap! These are not surprises for the bible also tells us these things will happen. This doesn’t take God by surprise…When Jesus appears to take His church home and then comes the judgment seat of God “EVERY KNEE SHALL BOW” in heaven and earth at the name of Jesus!
All the homosexuals and the lesbians WILL Bow their knees to Jesus! If your name is NOT found in the Lamb’s book of life, you WILL be thrown into everlasting judgment prepared for the devil and his angels.
Take a look at this link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X3SEJvL8txs. I implore you to think about this seriously and change your direction.
God does not want anyone to go to hell. His word also tells us that He is long suffering not willing that any should perish, but that all should be saved. This is why He hasn’t blown us off the face of the earth especially right now. God loves the homosexual and the lesbian, but He HATES their SIN!
To those that do good deeds and never do any of these above type sins, please listen to this. It doesn’t matter how good you are or how many good deeds you do, you also WILL find yourself in hell for eternity, because the bible says, “Jesus is THE WAY, THE TRUTH AND THE LIFE and no one comes to the Father but through Him!” Take it or leave it, it is your choice! If you find yourself in hell, it is what you chose!
It is not to late give your life over to the Lord He is waiting to welcome you with open arms. You must believe that Jesus is the Way, The Truth and the Life. That He died in your place. Hope to see you in heaven!
By Terry Board
© Burnett Publishing 2015
OUR UNCARING AND UNCONNECTED PRESIDENT
Let me see he wasn’t around for Bengazi, Paris march, and drove right by VA hospital on his way to speak on a new initiative lowering federal mortgage insurance premiums. Stopping in to visit the wounded soldiers who fought so he could have the right to be President was not important enough for him.
Obama made a speech after American photojournalist James Foley was beheaded in August by a member of the Islamic State, but on the day the heinous crime was committed, and he knew about it he chose to go golfing.
After the Malaysia Airlines jet went down over Ukraine, killing nearly 300 people, it didn’t stop the president from attending a fundraising event for the Democratic National Committee in New York that evening. From there he launched into a 16-minute speech about transportation projects he wanted Republicans to fund, complaining bitterly about their objections to his end-runs around the federal legislature.
Nov 23 2013
The 150th anniversary of the Gettysburg Address occurred during the second term of our country’s first black president who was not even present for the monumental event. A moment in history that because he was the 1st black President would have held great significance, instead he chose to go to the Four Seasons Hotel to address The Wall Street Journal CEO Council’s annual meeting and talk about the economy. It was this prior President who gave the black people their freedom. What a slap in the face.
Natalie Heimel and her fiancé, Edward Mallue Jr., a pair of captains in the Army, received two letters from President Obama in less than 24 hours as they prepared for their wedding ceremony at Kaneohe Klipper Golf Course in Hawaii. The first, a nicely worded regretful but congratulatory RSVP to their wedding invite… and the second, as Bloomberg reports, informing them that their wedding would have to be moved since President Obama wanted to play golf there.
Check out this article from Keith Koffler: It’s D-Day and President Obama is hitting the beaches – of sunny California!
Instead of scheduling a brief event to mark the 68th anniversary of America’s brutal landing on the shores of Normandy, Obama was on his way to San Francisco, where he held two fundraisers before moving on to Beverly Hills to stage two more.
Obama failed to mark D-Day with either a speech or a written proclamation both last year and the year before. He did give a speech in 2009, the 65th anniversary of the event.
First Lady Michelle Obama, who has made much of her “Joining Forces” campaign to support military families, also had nothing planned for D-Day. She was in New York City for a fundraiser and then in Philadelphia to meet with campaign volunteers.
Obama’s failure to mark D-Day in any significant way is both a shame and a political mistake.
According to the Department of Veterans’ Affairs, two critical swing states – Florida and Pennsylvania, are among the top five states in terms of veterans’ population. Within the top twelve are four others – Michigan, Ohio, Virginia and North Carolina – all states Obama desperately needed to carry.
By Keith Koffler on June 6, 2012, 10:10 am
I could go on and on, but you can check these things out for yourself on the web. Over and over again he has shown his disdain for people, soldiers, American history and much more.
This Politically, Socially and totally Un-American President should resign and give his office over to someone who is Patriotic, Unswerving and Devotionally American!
By Terry Board
© Burnett Publishing 2015
HEROES
Do you remember one of the last scenes in “The Wizard of Oz”? Dorothy and Toto were being held hostage by the wicked witch, who was demonstrating her powers. Throughout the whole movie, she was terrifying Dorothy and her friends. Dorothy’s friends came to rescue her from the wicked witch.
The wicked witch had these ugly, demon-looking creatures and these soldiers that were doing her bidding. Dorothy and her friends were about to escape when the wicked witch stepped in. The witch tried to set the scarecrow on fire and Dorothy threw a bucket of water on him. It also hit the witch and she began to melt. Dorothy and her friends were not sure what these creatures and the soldiers would do to them. There was a pause and the creatures and soldiers began to clap their hands together rejoiced that the wicked witch was dead.
I believe this is what we Americans, Congress, and the military should physically do by taking this wicked administration out and give them a dose of their own medicine, (use your imagination on this) No one would be scared of our freedoms, guns, heads or bodies being taken away from us! We would all be clapping and dancing in the streets.
When I woke up this morning I visualized all of this and Rudy Giuliani being the hero that Dorothy was! I then thought of little David the Shepherd boy. All the soldiers were rubbing their hands together wondering what to do and were terrified of this giant Goliath. David had faith that his God would protect him. He went right out to meet the giant and the giant was mocking him. David threw a stone with his slingshot and boom right between the eyes he hit him and down went the huge giant.
This is the way I feel about what is going on in our country today. Give us a Dorothy and a David. I am very grateful for all the branches of military service past and present, but give us a brave leader a hero to lead our military to overthrow this evil regime!
By Terry Board
© Burnett Publishing 2015
Dissensions and Hindrances
We ought to obey God rather than man. God never changes to meet the needs of man. His word tells us He is the same yesterday, Today, and Forever.
As I am reading my bible today and I went online to find a scripture. It lists the different versions of the bible. I was shocked to find one of the mainline denominations has now written a bible that is gender inclusive.
Acts5:29 27 When they had brought them, they had them stand before the Council. The high priest interrogated them, 28 saying, “We gave you strict orders not to continue teaching in this name, and yet, you have filled Jerusalem with your teaching and intend to bring this Man’s blood upon us.” 29 But Peter and the apostles answered, “We must obey God rather than men.
Hebrews 13: 8 Jesus Christ is the same yesterday and today, and forever.
God created man and woman, and this comes from the book of Genesis. These words from God teach us that God created man and woman and he intended for them to stay that way. Going back again to the scripture Hebrews 13:8. God does not change He is always the same throughout all generations.
Numbers 23:19 “God is not a man, that He would lie, nor a son of man, that He would change His mind;”
You see God does not lie! So how can we change what God has ordered and set into place? He created human beings in His image male and female. God does not want us to associate with the works of darkness and anything that is contrary to God is darkness.
Romans 16:17-20 17 Now, I urge you, brothers and sisters, keep your eye on those who cause dissensions and hindrances contrary to the teaching which you learned and turn away from them. 18 For such people are slaves, not of our Lord Christ but of their own appetites; and by their smooth and flattering speech, they deceive the hearts of the unsuspecting. 19 For the report of your obedience has reached everyone; therefore I am rejoicing over you, but I want you to be wise in what is good, and innocent in what is evil. 20 The God of peace will soon crush Satan under your feet. The grace of our Lord Jesus be with you. (NAS)
If we are in Christ Jesus God has crushed Satan under our feet and we should walk every day in that manner. No, we are not to change what God has created! How can a church turn to the works of darkness? All I can say is it must not have been grounded in truth. In Jesus’s own words he said, “I am the way, and the truth, and the life; no one comes to the Father except through Me.”
So God The Father, Jesus, The Son, and The Holy Spirit will not and do not change! If you are teaching anything different than this word of God then you are a liar and walk-in total darkness!
Now as far as man and woman God made it plain and simple it is the utter works of darkness that want to change it.
Genesis 5:1,2 and 18–25 1 This is the book of the generations of Adam. On the day when God created man, He made him in the likeness of God. 2 He created them male and female, and He blessed them and named them “mankind” on the day when they were created. (NAS)
18 Then the LORD God said, “It is not good for the man to be alone; I will make him a helper suitable for him.” 19 And out of the ground the LORD God formed every animal of the field and every bird of the sky, and brought them to the man to see what he would call them; and whatever the man called a living creature, that was its name. 20 The man gave names to all the livestock, and to the birds of the sky, and to every animal of the field, but for Adam, there was not found a helper suitable for him. 21 So the LORD God caused a deep sleep to fall upon the man, and he slept; then He took one of his ribs and closed up the flesh at that place. 22 And the LORD God fashioned into a woman the rib which He had taken from the man and brought her to the man. 23 Then the man said, “At last this is bone of my bones, and flesh of my flesh; she shall be called ‘woman,’ Because she was taken out of man.” 24 For this reason a man shall leave his father and his mother, and be joined to his wife, and they shall become one flesh. 25 And the man and his wife were both naked, but they were not ashamed. (NAS)
Just so no one is confused here, God gave Adam the authority to name everything on the earth including his wife. Adam called her woman and he named her Eve. God let men run wild with his thoughts and actions and this created havoc upon the earth and it still does. How can anyone confuse God’s words that clearly say men and women were given over to their own degrading passions and not know what that means? They are clearly blind to the truth! That is why they are ever running after lies! Gods word says;
Romans 1:26-32 26 For this reason God gave them over to degrading passions; for their women exchanged natural relations for that which is contrary to nature, 27 and likewise the men, too, abandoned natural relations with women and burned in their desire toward one another, males with males committing shameful acts and receiving in their own persons the due penalty of their error.28 And just as they did not see fit to acknowledge God, God gave them up to a depraved mind, to do those things that are not proper, 29 people having been filled with all unrighteousness, wickedness, greed, and evil; full of envy, murder, strife, deceit, and malice; they are gossips, 30 slanderers, haters of God, insolent, arrogant, boastful, inventors of evil, disobedient to parents, 31 without understanding, untrustworthy, unfeeling, and unmerciful; 32 and although they know the ordinance of God, that those who practice such things are worthy of death, they not only do the same but also approve of those who practice them.
Definition of degrading: (to lower to an inferior or less effective level, to bring to low esteem or into disrepute, to drag down in moral or intellectual character, to lower in grade, rank, or status: demote.)Merriam-Webster
Can you find anything positive in degradation? Stop listening to the lies! You know the truth.
If you are a Christian you are to run from lies and deception! Do not let the dissensions and hindrances pull you into the agendas of the people who follow after darkness!
By Terry Board © Burnett Publishing Company October 2021