R.J. Talks: Treasury Secretary Slips BIG Hint About Trump Tariff Strategy With Tucker Carlson

Excerpt: Top 10% own 88% of the stock market. The next 40% own 12%. And the bottom 50% have debt, rent their homes..."

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The following is a quote from comedian Joe Machi on Gutfeld last night: Gutfelt Joe Machi: "Is there any proof that free trade pays off for the American workers?"

Joe Machi responds: "No, there isn't. If that's the reason the stock market's going down today is because all of the executives and stock holders in these companies...they're really profited by shipping jobs overseas where they don't have to face environmental standards, where they don't have to have high wages, have been getting a lot richer than they would otherwise...when you have 2 options: one is where you can have your factory in a country with high wages and high labor standards or face no penalty for having your factory overseas with none of those things, you're going to pick the high labor standard thing..."

Recommended video: Trump's Tariffs Are Designed to Stop Other Nations from Strangling the U.S. Economy - brighteon.com

Recommended reading: 

1.  Katie Pavlich: White House Posts Flashback: 'Trump Has Been Talking About This for Decades' - townhall.com
2. Illegal Aliens Loot US Trains in Mojave Desert for High Value Nikes - zerohedge.com
3. How Trump's Tariffs Can Reverse De-Dollarization - wnd.com

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The following quote is from The Great Betrayal: How American Sovereignty and Social Justice are Being Sacrificed to the Gods of the Global Economy:

"No site better captures yesterday's America than Detroit, forge and furnace of America's democracy. Detroit is the burned out case of American cities. The Empire of the Sun has its revenge. Japanese imports helped kill the city that built the weapons that destroyed the empire. Now grandsons of the soldiers of the imperial army work at high paying manufacturing jobs once held by the fathers of ten-dollar-an-hour retail clerks in Macomb County.

"But why blame the Japanese? We did it to ourselves. We Americans created a post war trading regime, in which, over 25 years, Japan bought 400,000 American cars while selling us 40 million Japanese cars, a ratio of 100:1. One president after another sat still while a third of America's greatest industry was shipped off to Japan...

"Americans no longer make their own cameras, shoes, radios, TVs, toys. A fifth of our steal, a third of our autos, half our machine tools, and two-thirds of our textiles are made abroad...

"The decline and fall of Middle America was neither preordained nor inevitable. It was engineered in Washington D.C. Wages have fallen and the standard of living of American families has stagnated because of a basic law: the law of supply and demand. The price of labor has been dropping because the supply of labor has exploded...

"Having declared free trade and open borders to be American policy, why are we surprised that corporate executives padlocked their plants in the Rust Belt and moved over seas?  Why keep your plants here when you can manufacture at a fraction of the cost abroad, ship your goods back, and pocket the windfall profits that come from firing $20 an hour Americans and hiring fifty-cent-an-hour Asians? A pair of Nikes that sells for $150 in the United States costs $5 in wages to make in Indonesia. Any wonder that Nike president Philip Knight is the fifth richest man in America, with $5.2 billion, while his Indonesian workers make 31 cents an hour?"

 

The Jesus That Can't Save

 The Jesus That Can't Save - christianpost.com

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 Recommended sermons and podcasts: 

1. Witnessing to Jehovah's Witnesses, 'Part 1 and Part 2, by Rev. Ian Goligher
2. Jesus is God: History of the Nicene Creed, by Rev. Ian Goligher [Text: John 1:1]
3. Let's Bring the Light of God's Truth to Jehovah Witnesses, by Dr. James White 

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I think the best place to begin if you choose to witness to a Jehovah's Witness is John 1:1: "In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God." I'm not a Bible scholar or a minister - but I have a friend who is both. And I asked him to explain John 1:1 to me and how the Jehovah's Witnesses mistranslate this verse to try to prove Jesus is not God. Here is what my friend wrote:

“Now on John 1:1. The problem is that ancient Greek has no indefinite articles (a, or an). For example, they never say ‘there is a tree.’ They would just say, “There is tree.” If they wanted to be specific they would say, ‘There is the tree.’ That’s the general rule anyway. But anyone who has ever studied any language knows that there are always exceptions to the rules. If an ancient Greek was writing about a specific tree, he didn’t have to put ‘the’ in it to make it definite – you just knew by the context that it was definite, i.e., a specific tree.
“The way this applies to John 1:1 is that the Greek literally says: In beginning was the word, and the word was with the God, and God was the word. First, notice that there is no ‘the’ before beginning – and yet the JW Bible (New World Translation) doesn’t say ‘a beginning’ because the context makes it pretty clear that we are talking about the beginning of creation.
“Second, notice that there is no ‘the’ before the second occurrence of ‘God.’ The Jehovah Witnesses insist that this must be translated ‘a god’ because any word without ‘the’ is indefinite, i.e., a god, a tree, etc. And as a general rule, this would be correct. But there is a grammatical reason that the Greeks could not put ‘the’ before the second reference to God – and it gets complicated. Stay with me.
“Greeks did not do sentences like we do. Take the sentence ‘Spot ran home.’ Spot is the subject, ran is the verb, and home is the direct object. We know that because we generally put subjects first toward the front of sentences and before objects. If we change the order and said ‘Home ran spot’, the sentence would be somewhat confusing because it looks like ‘home’ should be the subject of the verb ran – and that doesn’t make sense.
“Greeks didn’t do subjects and objects with word order – they did it with word endings. Very generally speaking, their subjects often ended in os, as in Logos (Word) or Theos (God). If they wanted to make Logos the object, they would spell it Logon. If they wanted to make Theos the object they would spell it Theon. Then you can put it anywhere in the sentence and still know which the subject is. Pretty straightforward.
“You’ll notice that my translation of John 1:1 above reads: ‘God was the word.’ and nearly all Bible translations translate this as ‘The word was God.’ In Greek there is no question whatsoever that ‘the Word’ is the subject and God is the object of that clause – hence, the English translation. ‘The Word was God is correct (I capitalize God to avoid for now the question of whether it should be god or God). That comes next.
“Unfortunately, there is an exception to this rule of os =subject, on = object (there are also other endings for subjects and objects by the way). The exception is this: If two nouns are connected by a ‘to be’ verb (am, are, is, was, etc.) both the subject and the object end with the same endings. It’s crazy, I know but that’s the way it works! So in the clause ‘Theos han ho logos (God was the word) the subject is ho logos (the Word) because it has the definite article (ho=the) and God is the object  because, even though it has a subject ending in accordance with Greek grammar – it does not have a definite article. If the Greeks had put ‘the’ in front of God too, it not only would have been poor grammar – we couldn’t tell whether God was the subject or the object.
“So we know that Word is the subject, how do we then know if God in this verse should be definite (i.e. God) or indefinite (i.e. a god)? Context! First the broader context: In John, God is always the one true Jewish God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob. To rip this one passage out of this broader context and assume that in this verse it must be ‘a god’ because there was no definite article is absurd. Second, the immediate context -  the passage says ‘the Word was with the God’ (Note the ‘the’) and the Word was God. The immediate context – in fact, the exact same sentence – makes it perfectly clear that John is speaking of God and not a god.
“Now, a note on consistency. While JWs insist that Theos (God) in John 1:1 must be translated ‘a god’ because it doesn’t have a definite article (the), it is important to note that The New World Translation translates Theos as God (capital G) in John 1:6, 12, 13 and 18 – even though none of those verses put the ‘the’ in front of Theos!
“Finally, even radical liberal Greek scholars who don’t believe in Jesus deity acknowledge that John is calling Jesus God (not a god). The JW’s are simply factually in error on this one.
“By the way, Revelation 1:8 in The New World Translation reads ‘I am Alpha and Omega, says Jehovah God…’ This is really interesting because Revelation 22:12-16 says ‘Look, I am coming quickly … I am Alpha and Omega, … I Jesus sent my angel to bear witness…’ In other words, chapter 1 of the New World Translation says God is the Alpha and Omega — but chapter 22 says that Jesus is the Alpha and Omega. I once heard of a Jehovah Witness who got saved after this was pointed out to him.”

The Great Mystery of Godliness, by Pastor Charles Spurgeon (1834-1892)

The Great Mystery of Godliness, by Pastor Charles Haddon Spurgeon (1834-1892)

The test for this sermon is I Timothy 3:16: "And without controversy great is the mystery of godliness: God was manifest in the flesh, justified in the Spirit, seen of angels, preached unto the Gentiles, believed on in the world; received up into glory."

Here are some more sermons on this Bible verse: 

1. Satan and Demonic Activity, by Rev. John Greer
2. The Mystery of Godliness, Part 1, by Dr. Ian R. K. Paisley (1926-2014)
3. The Mystery of Godliness, Part 2, by Dr. Ian R. K. Paisley (1926-2014)
4. The Mystery of Godliness, by Dr. David P. Murray

Revealed: The RICHEST Americans of the Last 100 Years

 Revealed: The RICHEST Americans Of The Last 100 Years - msn.com

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Recommended podcasts: 

1. The Coming Death of Just About All Rock and Roll Legends, by Dr. Paul J. Dean, Jr
2. Led Zeppelin, Madonna, Michael Jackson - Are the Beatles Bigger Than Jesus? by Pastor Kevin Swanson
3.   Why Rock Singers Die Young - The 27 Club, by Pastor Kevin Swanson

Recommended sermon: The Holocaust of Hell, by Dr. David P. Murray

The text for this sermon is 2 Thessalonians 1:7-9: "And to you who are troubled rest with us, when the Lord Jesus shall be revealed from heaven with his mighty angels, In flaming fire taking vengeance on them that know not God, and that obey not the gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ: Who shall be punished with everlasting destruction from the presence of the Lord, and from the glory of his power..."

My Picks from Sermonaudio.com for Saturday, April 5, 2025

1. The Briefing for Thursday, March 20, 2024, by Dr. R. Albert Mohler, Jr.
2. Measles, the Bird Flu, and Vaccination Information, by Jim Schneider of Crosstalk America
3. Hungary Bans Events That Celebrate Sexual Perversion, by Adam McManus of The Worldview in Five Minutes
4. Are We Headed for WWIII? A Powder Keg Waiting to Explode, by Pastor Kevin Swanson
5. Silence Equals Consent, Part 1, by Dalton Windsor of Crosstalk America
6. Navigating Faith and Fear - A Look Back on the COVID Pandemic, by Richard Caldwell Jr.
7. Enter Ye In at the Straight Gate, by The Street Preacher

Answers in Genesis: You WON’T Believe What This Christian Leader Just Did

  

Answers in Genesis Canada: Skeptics MOCK the Flood Because of This—But They’re Missing Something

Recommended sermons and podcasts:

Jesus on Every Page - Noah's Ark, by Dr. David P. Murray

Did Archaeologists Finally Find Noah's Ark? - Answers News

The Ark and Darkness Movie - Unearthing the Mysteries of Noah's Ark, by Adam McManus

The Relevance of Noah's Ark, by Simon Turpin

Six Days and the Eisegesis Problem, by Ken Ham of Answers in Genesis

Dan Rather Shaded Trump With A “Turkish Proverb,” And It’s Gone Hugely Viral

 Dan Rather Shaded Trump With A “Turkish Proverb,” And It’s Gone Hugely Viral - msn.com

Excerpt: “When a clown moves into a palace he doesn’t become a king, the palace instead becomes a circus. — Turkish proverb,” the post reads.

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The "circus" are the radical left-wing politicians and the liberal whores from the media who promote them. Some of those whores are Dan Rather and the late Walter Cronkite. Cronkite was able to convince Americans that he deserved the title "Most trusted person in America."

Here is a quote from Walter Cronkite, who America's main source of news from 1962 to 1981:

"It seems to many of us, that if we are to avoid the eventual catastrophic world conflict, we must strengthen the United Nations as a first step toward a world government patterned after our own government with a legislature, executive and judiciary, and police to enforce its international laws and keep the peace. To do that, of course, we Americans will have to yield up some of our sovereignty. That would be a bitter pill. It would take a lot of courage, a lot of faith in the new world order. Pat Robertson has written in a book a few years ago that we should have a world government but only when the Messiah arrives. He wrote, literally, any attempt to achieve world order before that time must be the work of the devil. Well, join me. I'm glad to sit here at the right hand of Satan." - Walter Cronkite 

Recommended reading: 

New Bio Reveals Former CBS News Anchor Walter Cronkite Far More Biased Than Widely Believed - newsbusters.org
New York Times: Letting People Vote Undermines Democracy - newsbusters.org

Excerpt from this last article: “Voters must make their decisions with relatively little information, forcing them to rely on political messaging — which puts power in the hands of political elites rather than those of voters,' Taub and Fisher contend, apparently suggesting that it is only by preventing the public from voting on an issue that they can be properly empowered. Ironically, their chief examples of 'dangerous' referendums are the Brexit vote and the Colombian peace treaty referendum, both of which involved voters defying the wishes sitting political elites."
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If you don't already have contempt for the radicals in the liberal press, check out the following 4 books by Bernie Goldberg:

• Bias - a CBS Insider Exposes How the Media Distorts the News
• Arrogance - Rescuing America From the Media Elite
• A Slobbering Love Affair: The True (And Pathetic) Story of the Torrid Romance Between Barack Obama and the Mainstream Media
• 100 People Who Are Screwing Up America

But before you go through the trouble of reading these three great books, check out the following quote from insider-elite David Rockefeller's Memoirs:

“We are grateful to the Washington Post, the New York Times, Time Magazine and other great publications whose directors have attended our meetings and respected their promises of discretion for almost 40 years......It would have been impossible for us to develop our plan for the world if we had been subjected to the lights of publicity during those years. But, the world is more sophisticated and prepared to march towards a world government. The supernational sovereignty of an intellectual elite and world bankers is surely preferable to the national autodetermination practiced in past centuries.” - David Rockefeller (Memoirs)

Europol Takes Out One of the largest Pedophile Networks in the World with Almost 2 Million Users -

 Europol Takes Out One of the largest Pedophile Networks in the World with Almost 2 Million Users - lifesitenews.com

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Recommended reading: What to Do if You Suspect a Child is Being Sexually Abused - christianpost.com

Tucker Carlson Horrified as Dr. Mary Talley Bowden Drops Chilling COVID Statistic

  Tucker Carlson Horrified as Dr. Mary Talley Bowden Drops Chilling COVID Statistic - zerohedge.com

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Recommended reading: 

1. How the Vaccine Industry Escaped Accountability for Nearly Four Decades, Endangering Children's Lives For False Hopes of Protection - naturalnews.com
2. Watch Tucker Carlson on COVID Crimes: The Only People Who Have Been Punished Are the Ones Who Told the Truth - wnd.com

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Recommended reading and podcasts:

1. Covid...Shots...Sudden Deaths - What's Going On? by Jim Schneider of Crosstalk America
2.  Is COVID "Vaccines" Causing Sudden Deaths? by David Wheaton of The Christian Worldview
3. They Can No Longer Hide or Explain Away the Number of Vaccinated People Who Have Died, by Geoffrey Grider of nowtheendbegins.com
4. Deaths from Vaccine Damaged Hearts, Entertainers and Athletes Drop Dead, Myocarditis, by Dr. James White 

Recommended video: ‘Brought to You by Pfizer’: These Are News Programs That Are Sponsored by Big Pharma

 Note: Up until COVID I have always been very Pro-vaccine. For a good lecture by a qualified medical professional on vaccines in general, please listen to The Vaccine Wars, by Richard Holdeman, Ph.D. Here is a short excerpt from this lecture:

"Next to clean water, vaccinations have saved more lives than anything else in history." Dr. Holdeman has a Ph.D. in Cell and Molecular biology.

Is the Death Penalty Just?

 Is the Death Penalty Just? - thenewamerican.com

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The following two quotes are from books written by Ann Coulter and John Grisham. I don't recall which books I found them in:

• Ann Coulter: "[The death penalty is]...'a primitive act of retribution'...What is primitive about being arraigned, formally charged, tried, convicted by a jury, having that conviction upheld on appeal, and then being executed in a manner far gentler than their victims?...('Okay, it will only sting for a minute, Mr. Bundy!')"
• John Grisham:  "In white America, prisons are good places where bad men pay for their crimes. In black 

The Western World Has Abandoned Democracy

  The Western World Has Abandoned Democracy - lewrockell.com

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• "A democracy cannot exist as a permanent form of government. It can only exist until the majority discover it can vote itself largess out of the public treasury. After that, the majority always votes for the candidate promising the most benefits with the result the democracy collapses because of the loose fiscal policy ensuing, always to be followed by a dictatorship and then a monarchy." (Source)

Today in the News - Saturday, April 5, 2025

  Today's Headlines

1. Egypt May 'Temporarily' Take in Up to Half a Million Gazans - israfan.com
2. Countdown to Conflict: Missiles Ready, Preemptive Strike Urged, Tensions Escalate - worthynews.com
3. Trump Demands Freedom for LePen: Calls Conviction a Political Witch Hunt - townhall.com
4. China's Military Surrounds Taiwan After Trump's Comments - worthynews.com
5. Frederikson to USA: Annexation is Not an Option, Let's Strengthen Artic Security - swedenherald.com
6. War with Iran 'Almost Inevitable' if No Nuke Deal Reached, France Warns - worldisraelnews.com
7. Compromising God's Word: Much of the Church Today is Guilty of Playing the Harlot' - harbingerdaily.com
8. Minnesota Food Bank Director Steps Down as Legislators Question Her $721K Salary - alphanews.org
9. The Globalist Authoritarians Are Playing with Fire - zerohedge.com
10. Trump Teases Bombshell DOGE Finding: 'What They Found is Incredible' - zerohedge.com
11. Tucker Carlson Horrified as Dr. Mary Talley Bowden Drops Chilling COVID Statistic - zerohedge.com
12. 'Disloyal' NSC Staffers Fired After Laura Loomer Brings Receipts to the White House - zerohedge.com
13. Millions of Americans Remain Without 'Real ID' as May 7 Deadline Approaches - oann.com
14. Europol Takes Out One of the largest Pedophile Networks in the World with Almost 2 Million Users - lifesitenews.com
15. Trans Agenda in Schools Takes Hugh Hit in Courtroom - wnd.com
16. Pregnant 'Boys'? Trump HHAS Slashes Hundreds of Millions in LGBTQ Grants - wnd.com
17. Doug Emhoff's Law Firm Bends the Knee to Trump Admin in Shocking Move - townhall.com
18. Hollywood Has a Bit Too Much Sympathy for the Devil Lately - redstate.com
19. Nike and the Dishonesty of Tariff Doomer Hype - frontpagemag.com
20. FEMA Redirects Nearly $1 Billion from Woke Programs to Disaster Relief - breitbart.com
21. Supreme Court Rules Trump Administration Can Cut $65 Million from Teaching Grants - justthenews.com
22. Trump Isn't in Wall Street's Pocket. He's In Their Heads - mrctv.org
23. Blue State Bill Exposes the Ugliness of Democrat Woke, Transgender Agenda - dailysignal.com
24. DOGE Led Federal Real Estate Liquidation Begins - thenewamerican.com
25. Is the Death Penalty Just? - thenewamerican.com
26. Here's How the Media Are Lying Right Now: Tariffs a 'Tax on Consumers' Edition - thefederalist.com
27. The Western World Has Abandoned Democracy - lewrockwell.com

Columnists:

1. Kevin McCullough: Why Greenland is Vital - townhall.com
2. Karen Kwiatkoski: After Ukraine and NATO, What's Next - lewrockwell.com
3. Alex Newman:  USAID and UN: Deep State Tools fomenting Persecution of Christians Worldwide - thenewamerican.com
4. Jerry Newcombe: The Constitution Does Not Begin with "We the Judges..." - christianpost.com
5. Caitlin Johnstone: Democrats Believe in Nothing, Remember Even Less - lewrockwell.com
6. Katie Pavlich: Inside Trump's 'Liberation Day' - townhall.com
7. Larry Elder: The Party of Hate - townhall.com
8. Tucker Carlson: Andrew Isker: The Truth About Revelation, and Leftist States Driving Out Christians - lewrockwell.com
9. Cal Thomas: Injustice in Nashville - townhall.com
10. David Stockman: L'Etat, C'est Moi ('I Am the State') Trumpian Version - lewrockwell.com
11. John Stossel: Lawn Gone Liberty: An Update - townhall.com
12. Ron Paul: Free Speech is Worth Fighting For - lewrockwell.com
13. Allen West: The Pot Calling the Kettle Black - townhall.com
14. Ray Comfort: How to Proclaim the Gospel with the Right Tone - christianpost.com
15. Lew Rockwell: Why We Need the Rule of Law - lewrockwell.com
16. Daniel McAdams: Diego Garcia Smells Like War - lewrockwell.com
17. Paul Craig Roberts: Trump and Putin Could Bring Peace to the World - lewrockwell.com
18. John Leake: Elon Musk is Right About Sen. Mark Kelly - lewrockwell.com
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Earlier Headlines:

1. 'Monsters!' Trump Goes All Caps in Fierce Attack on NPR and PBS - wnd.com
2. German Soccer Fans Summon Lucifer in Satanic Display During Home Game - lifesitenews.com
3. Is a Massive US-Irael Attack Coming on Iran Nuclear Sites? - allisrael.news
4. OK to Shoot Down Drones Flying Over Border Sought by NORTHCOM Boss - twz.com
5. mRNA COVID Injection Cause Long-term Changes to Chromosomes, Increasing the Risk of Leukemia and Brain Tumors, New Study Warns - expose-news.com
6. 'Oh Crap': FBI Agent Didn't Know He Was Supposed to Lie - wnd.com
7. Watch Tucker Carlson on COVID Crimes: The Only People Who Have Been Punished Are the Ones Who Told the Truth - wnd.com
8. The Only Thing Democrats Won't Stand Up for is Americans - townhall.com
9. Crooked Cory Won't Shut Up - frontpagemag.com
10. The Secret JFK Records - lewrockwell.com
11. Why us Nuclear War Being Dismissed? - lewrockwell.com

Daily Sermon for the Hearing Impaired: Remaining in Covenant Love

Remaining in Covenant Love, by Joe W. Allen [Text: Exodus 34:18-35]

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Recommended reading: Brazilian Skateboarder Quotes Bible in Sign Language to Defy Olympic Ban on Religious Displays - lifesitenews.com

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Note: This daily sermon for the hearing impaired is dedicated to my good friend, David J. Bishop, who went home to be with his Lord Jesus on July 1, 2021. David was the inspiration for me to begin posting links to sermons for the hearing impaired. David's not deaf anymore. And the first words he heard were from our Lord Jesus, saying to him, "Well done, David, thou good and faithful servant. Enter into the joy of thy Lord!" [Matthew 25:21]

Here is one of the last pictures David sent to me before he died. He was a big sports fan and LOVED the Seattle Seahawks! He was also a BIG baseball fan. I'm sure if David had been able to hear he would have loved the song, Take Me Out to the Ball Game! But David loved our Lord Jesus much, much, much more than any sporting event!

Recommended:

• Sermon: The Deaf Ministry of Jesus, by Jon Speed 
• Christmas Video: From 1994 Miracle on 34th Street
• Another great video: What are the chances?!? ☺️💕 #Deaf #ASL #americansignlanguage #wholesome (soo lovely meet Victoria)

Today in History - April 5

A special thanks to Wikipedia.org for following historical information. The sermons I have chosen from Sermonaudio.com

1621 – The Mayflower sets sail from Plymouth, Massachusetts on a return trip to England.[7]

Recommended sermons and podcasts:

Magna Charta: Blackstone, Mayflower Compact, Part 1, by Mark Liddle
Magna Charta: Bradford, Mayflower Compact, Part 2, by Mark Liddle

1977 – The US Supreme Court rules that congressional legislation that diminished the size of the Sioux people's reservation thereby destroyed the tribe's jurisdictional authority over the area in Rosebud Sioux Tribe v. Kneip.[21]

Recommended sermons and podcasts:

1. George Washington's Thanksgiving Proclamation - Thank God for the Pilgrims & Christians, by Pastor Kevin Swanson 
2. Bringing the Gospel to Native Americans, by Wes Bredenof
3. America's Sins Against the Indians, by Pastor Kevin Swanson

Westminster Shorter Catechism Q & A #96-100

 The following is from thewestminsterstandard.org:

Q. 96. What is the Lord’s Supper?

A. The Lord’s Supper is a Sacrament, wherein, by giving and receiving bread and wine, according to Christ’s appointment, his death is showed forth; and the worthy receivers are, not after a corporal and carnal manner, but by faith, made partakers of his body and blood, with all his benefits, to their spiritual nourishment and growth in grace.

Q. 97. What is required to the worthy receiving of the Lord’s Supper?
A. It is required of them that would worthily partake of the Lord’s Supper, that they examine themselves, of their knowledge to discern the Lord’s body, of their faith to feed upon him, of their repentance, love, and new obedience; lest, coming unworthily, they eat and drink judgment to themselves.

Q. 98. What is prayer?
A. Prayer is an offering up of our desires unto God, for things agreeable to his will, in the name of Christ, with confession of our sins, and thankful acknowledgment of his mercies.

Q. 99. What rule hath God given for our direction in prayer?
A. The whole Word of God is of use to direct us in prayer, but the special rule of direction is that form of prayer which Christ taught his disciples, commonly called, The Lord’s Prayer.

Q. 100. What doth the preface of the Lord’s Prayer teach us?
A. The preface of the Lord’s Prayer, which is, Our Father which art in heaven,” teacheth us to draw near to God with all holy reverence and confidence, as children to a father, able and ready to help us; and that we should pray with and for others.

Recommended sermon:  The Westminster Assembly, by Dr. Sinclair B. Ferguson