We start our journey through scripture by looking at the Lord's warnings in regard to being deceived. We again the centrality of context to all scripture interpretation.

We take a look at a couple of quotes from John MacArthur as he sets out to correct what he sees as false teaching. We pause to remind ourselves that we are all subject to error. We are all limited in our capacity to grasp all of scripture. So, we must all be prepared to examine, reexamine, and even modify or discard our own doctrines if the scripture moves us to. In the end, we all will answer as indivduals before God for what we believed and taught. It behooves us to keep certain doctrines in pencil and to always remember we are not the judge of another man's servant. We certainly should be checking each other's teachings, but let us be care to distinguish between holding a false doctrine and being a false teacher. When Paul addresses false teachers, there is attached to the teacher a motive. We need to be aware of those motives, but slow to assign motive without evidence.

In our brief time today, we meander through world events and look at this inhospitable home of ours which we call Earth. We ponder the idea of all of us switching our voter registrations to UNAFFILIATED and let the candidates debate the issues and win our votes with arguments, not with slogans.

More holiday season grumbling about taking verses out of context. We look at just a few verses which are often cut in half in order to fit a predetermined theology. We clarify what the "spiritual" kingdom is. The Kingdom of God represents a very large rulership of the Lord. Not all hopes are the same. We also wander, again, into the war in Ukraine. We end on a few thoughts on economics and freedom!

We pause this Christmas season to remember that Christmas is a very very Israeli holiday. We'll look at prophecy, we'll look at the epistles, we'll tread the sacred ground quoted by Linus in "A Charlie Brown Christmas." O Come O Come Emmanuel, and ransom captive Israel! The Lord's birth is about the King coming to take the throne of his father David. We're in a pause at the moment, but that Kingdom will come!

Our Apostle Paul tells Titus that those teaching false doctrines, leading away believers, must have their mouths stopped (Titus 1:11). What does that mean in a practical sense?

A bit more on Nazis (real ones, no dime store phonies), the Spiritual and Physical aspects of the Kingdom in scripture, in the context of time and marriage. A mish-mash of stuff today for this holiday season.

We're looking very broadly at the Kingdom of God in scripture. On the way there, we stop by the Holocaust museum and have a few more words to say about the recent talk of Hitler in the news. God's Kingdom (physical and spiritual) is sure, but in the meantime, let's learn from history. Tolerance does not mean approval, but it does mean we should be listening to each other and banding together against those who would stifle speech or separate people into groups so they can demonize them.

Today, we try to offend everybody! We ask Ye what he was thinking (I mean, honestly, what is he thinking?). We ask Gettr live-streamer, @theisabelbrown, "how does a picture of you lighting candles prove you have resurrection life?" We then ask both of them (and Pope Paul IV) about the Jews (for funsies). And finally, Our Daily Bread managed to upset me this week (not very hard to do, if I'm honest).

We pause to consider what is going on with the children in these last days. The most vulnerable among us used, abused, and even murdered. We note that the world is more concerned with shutting up Kanye than with stopping the exploitation of children. There is great wickedness in this world and it starts with the powerful. It's time we put politics and our teams aside and speak up for the little ones.