Tickets On The Old Ship Of Zion Are Free!

Heads Up! 

When We  Accept That 

There Is Security In Almighty God's Protection

We Will

- With The Confidence That Resides 

Within Our Daily Gift Of Faith Received From 

Our Savior, Lord, God, And King -

Ask Him 

- Who We Love Because He Loved Us First -

To Hear Our Heartfelt Prayers 

And

To Be Our Defence, Our Guardian, And Our Guide

And

To Deliver Us Not Just From The Devil, Evil Diseases, And Disasters

But From The Blackness And Darkness Of  The Second Death! 

Beloved, 

Our Relationship With Our Blessed Jesus 

Involves Relations And A Ship! 

If We Are Walking, Living, Being In Accord With King Jesus

Our Relations, Interactions, Involvement With Each Other 

Will Be Related To The Agreed-Upon Goal: 

Together Forever!

Heaven-Bound

At The Sound Of The Last Trumpet! 

This Is Where The Good Ship Of Zion Comes In! 

Dear Ones, 

To Get On Board The Ship

We Have To Know About The Ship 

And

Have A Desire To Get On Board! 

We Have To Know Where The Ship Is Going 

And 

Have A Desire To Go There! 

We Have To Know The Ship's Operator 

And 

Their Reputation For Service And Support

Their Performance Record

And

Whether They Stand Behind Their Product! 

Lastly, 

We Have To Decide By The Available Public Evidence

Whether We Are Willing, Ready, To Go All In 

And 

Accept That Tickets Are Free 

And That 

Our Desire Will Take Us Into The Presence Of 

The Only One Divine! 

Please Read Your Bible: 

Jesus Christ Delivers You! 

Are You Going!?! 

Peace!

Time To Do A Judas On Satan!

Satan Is No Man's Friend!

Satan Is The Master Manipulator!
He Deceived Angels 

Who Were Made A Little Higher Than Man
So It Is Sure That He Can
Will
Does
Deceive Mere Man!

Satan Deceived Eve
Who
At Man's Beginning
Was Of Perfect Intellect In The Creator God
So
It Is Stands To Reason
That With Man's Present
Known-Degraded By Sin Intellect
A Walk-Over By Satan
Is Indeed In The Cards!

But ...

Let It Be Made Known
That Jesus Christ The Lord
The God Of Creation
The Known Lover Of Man
Made Provision
So That Man Does Not Need To Fall
For Satan's Well Known Scams!

Our Gift Is ...

The
B eautiful
I nstructor For The
B est
L ife
E ver

Which Provides To All Readers
To All Listeners

B asic
I nstructions
B efore
L eaving
E arth!

Know This ...

The Bible Is Your Road Map
Your Compass
The Temperature Gauge! 

The Bible Is The Word Of Life
The Means To Know
How
Into The Eternal God's Kingdom
You May Forever Be Saved!

The Bible Provides Living Water
Living Food
The Means To Know
How
To Live In This Present Life
AND
The Means To Recognize
The Only One
Who Will Protect Us Against Satan
AND

Through The Earthly Strife!

The Bible Calls Satan By His Real Names
Dragon
Devil
Deceiver
Father Of Lies
Belial
Beelzebub
Lord Of Dung
Murderer
Accuser Of The Brethren!

Learn Them!

The Traps Of Satan

Are Known Legendary:

Appetite
Presumption
Worship
AKA
The Lust Of The Flesh
The Lust Of The Eye
The Pride Of Life

AND

The Ever Available
Accessible Always
The Love Of And Making The Lie! 

AND

The Doing Of Evil To Get ... Good
Get Gain
Get Glory
BUT
That Ever Always Results In Shame
AND
The Good Lord's Name Profaned!

Man Is Without Excuse
When He Loses In The Battle With Satan
Because He Refused To Use
The Weapons Almighty God Provided
For The Known Warfare
That Is ... The Word Of God!

Almighty God Is Love
AND
Almighty God Sacrificially Loves Man!

Satan Hates!
Satan Killed God's Son
AND THEREFORE Satan Murderously Hates Man

Who The Living God Loves!

Almighty God IS!
Almighty God Is The Truth!
Almighty God Is the Light!
He Is The Giver Of Life!
He Is Salvation!
AND

He Is Man's Only Way To Eternal Life!

Satan Is The Liar!
Satan Makes Himself Into An Angel Of Light!
Satan Deals Death!
Satan Is Damned!

AND
Satan Paves The Way To Damnation!

Bottom Line ...

Get To Know Your Savior ... Intimately
So That You May 

Expose Your Adversary Openly!

Be Jesus-Saved Bold!
Make HEAVEN With Jesus Christ
Your Soul's Only Goal!

COME To Jesus NOW 

AND

Do A Judas On Satan!

Sell Out The Deceiver

AND

Get Almighty God's Imperishable Gold!

Balaam's Ass Required

BALAAM'S ASS REQUIRED

I wish I could be a Balaam's Ass

To some of these modern-day preachers

Who seem activated by a Balak spirit

Seeking to make God's people act like they're illiterate

By clothing, ritual, word and deed

These preachers seek to enrich themselves with speed

By putting great price to the teaching of the Word

Which does not edify and makes spirits curd

Plant a seed, buy an oil, purchase a miracle

Preacher man is begging, he needs a new toy

Congregations, they then come out to pray, and pay

Satan's advocates big money to be led astray

Cry shame! Oh, Lord, have mercy, come and defend

Your people who go church for a good word and to pray

To You, by the Spirit, in Jesus' name

Come, Thou, Dear Lord! Defend! Defend!

They teach for doctrine the commandments of men

They have willingly departed the faith

And sold their souls for a pot full of stew

Whilst giving up heaven's reward and refusing it to believers, too

One of these preachers I, myself, heard say

That the shepherd's prosperity has first to come into play

Since the shepherd leads the sheep, he should get his first

Because if he walked behind, all he'd get is some poo in the purse

(emphasis added!)

We warn you now, you apostate preacher

We are servants of the Galilean Teacher

Change your ways, amend, oh, root out

The behaviors that cause a dumb donkey to speak out!

Fear not, I tell you, believer in the Lord

Our God, the Almighty, He will supply a sword

To the angel who will cut them off if they don't turn back

And return to teaching, and preaching, the Lean Word – not fat!

First they took our money, then they stepped on the truth

Followed by our souls they seriously imperiled to boot

But, thankfully, some of us knew the dear Creator's voice

And that was enough to make our hearts rejoice

Our Lord had no mansions, no diamond cellular phones

No bodyguards, no choppers and definitely no cars

He preached the Message – it was UNDILUTED!

No color, no spin, and certainly it was not trimmed convoluted!

Sola Scriptura. The Word! The Word!

A “Doth saith the Lord!” should be heard, you cur!

Preach conscience, repentance, new birth, that sin's a stain

And only Blood can remove it, or on the soul it remains!

Oh, preacher, God forgives! So please repent!

Confess! He's faithful! Oh, won't you relent?

Confession and repentance are good for the soul

Give your burden for false riches to Jesus, He'll take it in control!

So, Dear Ones, I beseech you

Don't idly sit by

And let the preacher betray his calling

And lead you to die

Become Balaam's Ass

Open your mouth and speak

Stop swallowing the nonsense

That some of these preachers teach

Don't give up real gold

For this earth's deadly dross

That rusts, and gets stolen

Stop playing with the fluff!

Hold on to King Jesus

His Word – it will guide

To mansions on gold streets

Water of Life running by!

Read your Bible for your self

Compare text with text

Demand that your preacher

Preach in context even if he gets vexed!

Your gaining heavenly life depends

On your personal understanding

That Jesus is coming soon

He's even at the door

Prepare now – get ready!

Don't get a surprise when He shows!

Only those who are unprepared

Will be caught unawares

So put your spiritual house in order

So you won't be dismayed

My braying is over for now

I have said my piece

Until I see you next time

Go thou in peace!

CORRUPT DOCTRINE

CORRUPT WORSHIP

CORRUPT PRINCIPLE

CORRUPT PRACTICE

&

CORRUPT CONVERSATION

GREATLY

DISPLEASE GOD!!

Man's Favorite Pursuits

Man's Favorite Pursuits

She is ever the sensualist

He lives by all his greed

They are so very ambitious

And very proud indeed!

She is ever so puffed up

He is a stuffed-shirt by his creed

They complement each other

Love of money is their speed!

She's selfish, he's miserly

Both dishonest to boot

They fear no law nor justice

Will not fear to shoot!

Prayer? Bible? Believer? Jesus who?

When did you say we were introduced?

Then Put Him on the speed dial

We'll call Him if we need a boost!

Pride! Greed! Gluttony! Sloth!

Lust! Envy! And Wrath!

They indulge in them all

And, yes! Then they laugh!

Who cares what others think!?

We live for ourselves!

Why must you always butt in?

Who let you through our chain link?

They lived their lives like hedonists

Nothing to recommend them

But like the rich man with Lazarus

They're only fit to condemn!

It was only when in review

Their lives looked back in

That they recognized with horror

How foolish they'd been!

Those that they'd ill-treated

Those they'd robbed blind

Those they'd had wrongly punished

They now begged to be kind!

Alas, it's too late

You're no friend of ours

You despised us and you cursed the Lord!

Yes! THAT King Jesus!

No! We cannot help you!

There's enmity, there is envy, no love between

You sinners and the Savior

Oh, look! The opening scene!


The sky is unfurling

Rolling back as a scroll

Look! There! Upon a white horse,

With many crowns, is the Lord!

The graves are opening wide

Saints alive with the dead-in-Christ rise high

To meet our Savior in the sky!

Sinners, prepare to die!

I'm sorry!

Goodbye! **BJC**

Dear Friends:

Lest you think that Christians will gloat at the loss of the wicked, think again!

The Lord has said in His Word that it is not His wish that any should perish. So, far be it from the truth for us as HIS children – who choose to obey – to rejoice over those who are, or will be, lost. Let us, therefore, redouble our efforts to help prepare a people to meet the King.

Let us, if we can't preach, pray for, cook, feed, clothe, visit,

and love our brothers and sisters into the Kingdom.

Marston 'n Marcelle's Marriage

Marston 'n Marcelle's Marriage

Marston looked at the rising sun and saw

Another challenge waiting to victimize!

Marcelle looked at the same rising sun and saw

Another blessing – oh praise Him who supplies!

Marston looked at the mirror and there he saw

Miserable weariness on the face of years!

Marcelle looked in the same mirror and saw

Happy tiredness on a face with no fears!

Marston looked at the old horse and saw

Just another drain upon their oft' meager supplies!

Marcelle looked at the same old horse and saw

A faithful laborer who never gave a surprise!

He looked at Her and She looked at Him

Each looked at the other, and saw deep within

He saw the peace that she held most dear

She saw anger, bitterness, and much despair!

They both spoke at the same time!

Both wanted to be heard!

She said: “You go first!”

He said: “Don't be absurd!”

This, my friends, is how it is

When unequally yolked two partners be

She says: “It is an 'A!'” He says: “Oh, you mean 'Z!'”

And so, Dear Ones, they can never agree!

Darkness and Light, Blackness and White

She means By Faith, He means By Sight

She holds her Bible dear, He won't ever come near

He won't go to Bible Class, They are ever at an impasse!

For many years, Marcelle faithfully prayed ... to God!

For many years, Marston faithfully played ... the Fraud

Until one fateful day not too long past

He came very near to breathing his last!

And so it was that perspectives aligned

She asked to pray for him, and he ever so quickly replied:

"Dear Wife, I am sorry for all that I've done and been!

Pray to your Jesus! I need to be made clean!”

So after years of pleading and praying for him

Marcelle prayed to The Dear Lord, and asked Him to draw nigh

To her beloved husband along life's journey e'er long

And thanked the Almighty for His love so kind and true

For keeping this Dear One so that he, too

Could be welcomed into the Household of Faith

As he had now forsaken what was his great disgrace!

“Oh clean him, Lord bless him, as he walks the narrow way

And by Your Grace, Father, we'll see You faith to Face!” **BJC**

Through the Fire

THROUGH THE FIRE

Genesis 1: 26 - Let us make man in our own image and in our likeness.

Genesis 2:19 - Lord God formed all the birds of the air and the beasts of the field and brought them unto Adam to see what he would call them: and whatsoever Adam called every living creature, that was the name thereof.

On any given day, Hilda, Carmen and Sybil could be heard preaching the Bible to any and all who would listen, and to even those who couldn’t be bothered to listen.

They could be heard boisterously uttering phrases like “Too blessed to be stressed!” “Thank God for Grace!” and “I’m glory bound!” and “Bless Jesus, I’m saved!”

You could hear them singing:

Pass Me Not, Oh Gentle Savior; Open my Eyes That I May See; I’m Climbing Jacob’s Ladder; Onward Christian Soldiers; and I am Delivered, Praise the Lord!

But, there was something not quite real about any of them.

If you passed by Sybil’s house on laundry day, you could hear her singing:

“I don’t like work, and work don’t like me, and that is the reason that I’m so hungry. Hallelujah, I’m a bum. Hallelujah, a bum again. Hallelujah, give me a hand out to revive me again!”

If you passed by when Carmen’s husband had gotten drunk and beat and curse her and the children, you would know that she had completely forgotten all about the catch phrases that she loved to quote to people when she was on her “Jesus Juice!”

You could hear Carmen asking the Lord to let the day come when she would ask Him to give her five minutes to “out that cretin’s lights” permanently. And that was after she had used enough technicolor phrases to make even a sailor blush!

As for Hilda, when she left off her preaching stint every Wednesday morning outside Dolphus' Shop, she stepped inside for the requisite flask bottle of Cockspur Rum which she said was for when “King Arthur kicking in me old tail!”

Of course, after she had taken a liberal dose of her “medicine,” she set about doing her Christian duty to, as she said, “The poor, morally bankrupt and lost souls.”

Everybody knew that was Hilda-speak for “I am going to give and get the juiciest gossip on everybody in this neighborhood!”

And, of course, there was Ms. Daisy. The most devout of the neighborhood Christians.

Daisy could hardly walk during the week, and needed help to do even the most basic things to keep herself comfortable. But, when Church day came along, Daisy could outwalk and outrun everybody, rain or shine, to be the first one in the Sanctuary. She was the one to speak to if you wanted to know the 411 on “them deceitful people in this church!”

These women had forgotten their examples from the Bible: Noah, Shem, Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, Moses, Joshua, Samuel, Job, King David, Nehemiah, Paul, Dorcas, and on and on.

The Christian’s Lot

The lot of a Christian is hard, often bitter, and contentious. There is no minimizing that.

Look at the Master. He didn’t do anything wrong. He did all that was right in the sight of God and man, and yet, ultimately, he was brutally scourged and finally murdered.

However, with Christ as the only binding example of the Christian walk, we Christians are called upon

1. To be WISE, beyond education, training, situation or circumstance. We must remember that our current situation is NOT our final destination, and we must look beyond what is to what is possible.

2. To be temperate. We must do all things in moderation, including eat, sleep and work and play.

3. To seek to find our innate gifts. Think back to Genesis 2:19. God gives each of us gifts — we only have to seek for, recognize, accept and use, better yet, exploit them. If you want more gifts, remember, first, to use the ones with which you have been blessed.

4. To be our brother, and sister’s keeper. If your neighbor, your husband, or wife, mother, father, brother or sister hurts you, and you can help, even if he or she may have despitefully used you, you are required to assist that person. For, you are to heap coals upon that person’s head and let the Lord take vengeance, which He says is His, and which He will repay.

5. To surround ourselves with positive people, and to set a positive example for those who are otherwise. We must live up to our calling and project a sense of self that is worthy of our Christian calling.

6. To be rounded, a pie, if you will. A bible-thumper does not a Christian make, nor a slice a whole pie. We are to find the things that bring us and others joy, and stop sucking the air out of the atmosphere with our sour looks and pious expressions which only cover very shallow and one dimension beings.

         By way of analogy, I give you Life as told by the Rose:

Rose, that I am, while beautiful to behold and fragrant to the nose, is sheathed in protective thorns to keep at bay those who would mishandle or abuse me.

          As it relates to life, we are to observe, and enjoy, and handle said life wisely, or else the thorns

that are life’s prods to growth with tear us to pieces.

          I also give to you the analogy of the Redwood tree. That giant in nature which grows in community and toward heaven in all majesty.

A Redwood tree will never grow in isolation. It will never reach its potential if left to its own devices. At 1,000 plus feet of height, it needs the community of the brotherhood as support for its growth toward grace, as it cannot grow alone and be called by its real name.

           I also give to you the analogy of the Waterlily. The most fragrant and beautiful salve to the weary and wandering soul who gets life, and attains its regal stature and poise from growing where it is planted, in the dirtiest, dankest, smelliest, swamp imaginable.

In short, that Waterlily has learnt to “grow where it has been planted!” It has found its purpose in life and it lives above its surroundings while being a beacon to the lost, the weary and lone.

Finally, I want us to consider Samuel 16:7 - ... The Lord looketh on the heart.

We must not minimize people just because they are not like us in face, body, clothing, speech, education, living accommodation, financial acumen, bible mastery, or even in smell.

As Christians, we are to be as the Shepherd David:

David took his HARP and played for the soothing of his enemy King Saul’s soul.

David also played ,and sang unto his God of the desires of his heart and his personal observations of the Lord’s creation. David gave thanks and praise while seeing to the welfare of his parents, the displaced of the community; his followers; his army and the stranger within his gate.

David was not arrogant because of his elevation from the sheepfold. He accepted his chastisement when he was convicted of doing wrong in the sight of God and man, and he repented and became that beloved “Man after God’s own heart!”

David always sang of his faith in His Creator and TESTIFIED of His Creator’s saving grace and power.

David, that wise singer, songwriter, harpist, conqueror, builder, and King, after having found his purpose, and after having confessed and was forgiven of his sin, behaved himself wisely in all his ways, and the Lord, God, was always with him. **BJC**

God's unConditional Love

GOD'S unCONDITIONAL LOVE

I heard a preacher speak about

God's unconditional love?!

I went cold because I knew

He was speaking anything but truth!

God's love is conditional

As shown from Holy Writ

But Satan's plan is applied and exercised

When you upon your Bible sit!

Please do not let your preacher tell you

What you should or should not believe

Unless he comes with a “Doth saith The Lord!”

Do not his so-called plain word receive!

Open your Bible for yourself, friend

Read line upon line, and precept

God's word always explains itself

Upon that you can surely depend!

John 3:16 plainly states:

“For God so loved the world That He gave His Only Begotten Son

That whosoever believeth in Him Shall not perish but have everlasting life.”

So, listen well now, Preacher Man

God is not a man that He can lie!

So don't you dare lie unto His flock

For, the Lord, He will not be mocked!

See here my friend, you must believe

That our God's love is true!

You MUST believe upon His Son

For THAT is HIS condition, for you! **BJC**