Back in the day, Dan Henderson and his Dad invited me to come and perform at Bless Fest.  It was a totally free event in downtown Lansing, MI.  There were many different types of bands that played at it – rap, rock, gospel, worship, and acoustic etc., games for kids, and good food for all.

I don’t think much has changed since those days.  It’s been going on every summer for over 20 years, and this year it will be August 24th, 25th, and 26th.  More information can be found on their website at:

https://www.mediamessengers.org

The word today is ‘Syllogism’ as God is my logic in this emerging ‘post-Christian’ culture.  Why do they want to embrace madness?  With a laugh and a smile, they lead us to our doom.  After all, with enough money, a bribe can change definitions too.  Well, no matter what may come, choose this day Whom you will serve.  Your decision may not show up in the voting box, but how we live each day does.

I found this site to be helpful, https://apologetics.com/syllogisms-bible/.  I used it to help explain what ‘syllogism’ was to my wife.  Paul’s reasoning in 2 Corinthians 5 was not as easily put into syllogistic form as I thought.  Maybe I’m wrong?  I found his comments to be too complex and had to ‘dumb’ them down a bit.  An example from John 3:16 that I used in today’s septet was, “You loved the world.  I am part of this world.  You love me.”  It may be a bit elementary, but that’s what I got.

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My ‘R’ word today is ‘Rainbow’.  God gave us His rainbow to “be the sign of the covenant between (God) and the earth.”  Now, I always think about when my daughter told God during our nightly prayers that she wanted to see a rainbow the next day.  During the next day, when we picked her up from school, there was a double rainbow in the sky above the school’s exit.  It was awesome, and for years has helped to reinforce in her that God hears her.

I saw this video today and was blown away by the faith of North Korean Christians.  Evangelism-through-tied-chair, thankfully, was not how my daughter got to know God.  Let us remember the Koreans, North & South, as we pray for our brothers and sisters around the world.

Today’s word was ‘Quenchless’, as in God’s love for us never dims, John 3:16.  In thinking on His Love, I saw this video of missionaries that went to the “Forgotten Islands” of South Asia, where the people had never heard of Jesus, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mKFr5wWIc1A&t=281s.  Even for the places that have, all it takes is for one generation to not tell the next about Jesus to become like the “Forgotten Islands”.

Today’s word was ‘Proprietor’, Isaiah 64:8-type of reference, only I am the Real Estate property and He is The Proprietor.  I found myself wondering down the rabbit hole of Proverbs 23:7 and realized like in the movie, “Hondo, ‘Swimming Lesson'”, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pIJrIuLwjM8, the kid made his own definition of himself as someone who can’t swim.  This was then ratified by the boy’s mother, but after a quick assessment by John Wayne’s character, it was time to change that way of thinking.

Proverbs tends to leave people where they are at, a muddied fountain and a polluted spring, etc. Proverbs 25:26.  Should we be left to the limits of ourselves in our minds, we would mimic those in America.  They show their inheritance of madness to the world as they seek to live out fleeting desires.

I then turned to Ephesians 5:8.  Praise the Lord, we are children of Light!  We see that we are not left as polluted springs.  For Jesus lead the Samaritan woman from that life to one that gushed forth Living Water, John 4:4–42.  Jesus again, using a Samaritan, marked the change in his parable of ‘the Good Samaritan’ Luke 10:30-37.

John Wayne’s character ‘threw the baby into the (bath) pond water’ and taught him to swim.  That boy changed his mind from limiting thoughts to those that would forever change his story.  Jesus took it even a step further than merely learning to swim, Matthew 14:25-33.  Like Peter, if we keep our eyes on Jesus, He may lead us to walk on water.

“There is no spoon.”