101016 to Tommy

 I am guilty of the same overreactions I have attributed to others.  I am going to blame it on age, and my liver not taking all the toxins out of my system, and a family history of Alzhiemers and my poor eyesight, and,the fact that sometimes I am just a lousy human being.  Sorry. 

022317 to Lance

I do not attend Cowboy Church as much as I used to attend.  I prefer a church that teaches God's word line upon line, precept upon precept rather than some off the wall sermon that comes to the preacher's mind during the week.  Let me give you an example:

One day I showed up at Cowboy Church and spent forty five minutes listening to the Bible tale of the man with three ears.  The speaker even got a bag of pig ears and passed tham out to the audience so we would have a keepsake to remember his sermon.  The whole thing was about Peter cutting the ear off of the servant of the high priest when they came to arrest Jesus.  The ear fell to the ground and Jesus touched his ear and restored an ear to him.  The best part of that sermon is that my dog loved to eat dried pig ears.  So many sermons take one verse in God's word and then spin a tale by the man around it rather than preach understanding of the message explaining the who, what, where and why of the passage or book of the Bible and what it means for us in this earth age.

030317 to Lance 

Much of your belief coincides with mine and I commend your knowledge in many areas of God's Word.  I think we are really close on most issues with the exception of the rapture and what hell really is.  Often times in the Bible God is described as a consuming fire. In the Book of Luke, God shows us the rich man separated from Lazarus the beggar who is basking in the bosum of Abraham who the Bible tells us earned his salvation through faith accompanied by the works of obedience that was accounted to him for righteousness.  Heaven is where God is and Jesus is presently sitting at his right hand, wherever that is.  A scientific mind can tell you that a descent or ascent from a spherical Earth depends on which side of the globe you might be on at the time. 

A lot of so called preachers describe hell as a bottomless pit where people will be tormented for eternity.  Not so.  What kind of heaven is it that has no tears if we can look over and see one of our best friends or Uncle so and so roasting on a spit?  What kind of man would I be if I could keep a dry eye while witnessing such a spectacle?  The Truth is that God, the consuming fire will consume those in an instant that refuse to believe after the 1000 year reign of Christ on this earth.   Their existence will be consumed at the white throne judgment in a lake of fire.  It will be as if they never existed. 

061817 to David

Humility is the ability to act ashamed when you point out to people how wonderful you are.

What can I say about David Cordell's humility that he hasn't already said himself?*

As for me, Jesus thinks I am to die for.  Of course, that does not exactly set me apart from the crowd. 

091217 to Lowell

I know this may come as a surprise to you, but Jesus had no political affiliation.  I have it on good authority when He does come that He will support a benevolent monarchy.  You can expect the theme of His administration to be "Father Knows Best".  On Jesus not liking how things turned out, you can be sure that nothing has happened that He did not know about or expect. 

100417 to Lance

The best that we can do is to pray each day that He will instruct us to improve.  I only feel shame on those days that I know I have disappointed my Lord.  Those are more frequent than the days when I know I have not.  Then I put the past behind me and start a new day afresh striving to do better so that I might be found worthy to grasp the prize of eternal life with Him.

P.S.  Can we limit posted videos to a length of ten minutes.  The minutes remaining in my life are too precious to be wasted watching something I don't agree with just to keep from being accused of not thoroughly taking other posters ideas seriously.

100817 to Royce

I do not know how many ways to tell you that Christ would find equal fault with every candidate. To transgress one of God's laws is to transgress them all.  That is why we need Jesus's help.

120517 to Tommy

I also know that knowing what is right and then doing something else won't get you in.  None of us can do anything to affect our final destination except to believe in and rely on Jesus' promises and hope God views us through Jesus' perfection.  

I can assure you that Jesus does not see an appreciable difference between you and Trump and Roy Moore.  He loves you all.  That's the Good News and Reason for the Season.

P. S.:  Tommy's Pecan Pies*TM won't get you in either.

040118 to Tommy

Let me be the first to enlighten you.  Christianity is a reality not a Religion and the Bible is the Truth.  Jesus is the Truth, the Way and The Life and no one goes to the Father but through him.  I also would like to take a moment to denominate you from participating in the Fallen Eagles event this year, because I do not believe you are qualified to bless people into the Afterlife.  Do not worry, I agree with Lance (that's a first) that we should let other voices be heard in this year's event.  If the Spirit becons, please step forward and reveal your Faith, classmates.  We all can cherish the memories of our departed friends.  Blessed is He that gives the gift of salvation.  May God receive their souls.

062918 - 

Memorial of ex-wife Denise

My success in my life is not entirely my own.  I was blessed to have great parents who loved me unconditionally and believed in God.  Some are not so blessed and so they must work to overcome.  I was blessed to have great friends that supported me in things I wished to do.  I was blessed to have a grandfather that taught me the wisdom of natural things and making it in life.  I was blessed to have mentors in Boy Scouts.  I was blessed to have teachers and ministers who tried to keep me focused on the important things in life.  I was blessed to have teachers that made learning fun.  I was blessed to find jobs with bosses who saw something in me and mentored me for greater things.  I was blessed to have women in my life who supported me, at least for a while.  As I started out in business, I was blessed to have investors and bank presidents that believed in me.  It became a mutual thing in that I always made them money.  I was blessed to find partners who listened to my ideas and backed me financially.  I made them money.  I was blessed to have employees who did their jobs and supported me. I mentored them and they went on to have great success on their own.  I was blessed to be able to get along with ranchers, businessmen, regulatory agencies and other people.  But most of all, I was blessed to have Jesus Christ in my life and God to let me know when I was doing right or wrong.  I was blessed when I did right.  I was humbled when I did wrong.

So all in all I did not become successful on my own.  It took the combined efforts of all those that I have mentioned and it continues to be that way today. 

053020 to Kurt

After going to UT and majoring in fraternity, beer and girls (not in that order)  I worked a year and then went to Tech in September of 1975.  I lived at Bledsoe with an Ag major from Nazareth or East Jesus or somewhere.  He was big as a lumberjack and dumber than a box of rocks and I had to hit him with a shovel upside the head every morning to wake him up for class.  He was kind of like the idiot in Mice and Men.  I found a couple of guys down the hall that enjoyed watching Star Trek with me in the afternoon.  One was a coonass from Burrus, La and wanted to be a dentist, the other was from Galveston and his older sister was best friends with Farah Fawcett and his uncle was the wildlife manager at the King Ranch.  They were more my type.  I moved in with them in a three bedroom duplex at 33rd and University. What was that place with the great chili dogs on University across from the Bledsoe parking lot?  Not der wienersnizel, this was a local place.  I seldom got down towards Wells.  That was where all the jocks seemed to be.  I did like to ogle the girls at Weymouth and Chitwood.  All I did was study and went to Summer School in 1975.  In 1976 I worked for Chevron at Snyder then went to work for them in Denver in December 76.. All night Risk games and an occasional trip to New Mexico were the total of my extracurricular activities.

Tech was a great place to go to school after UT, because even if you found a place to hang out and have a beer, after UT and the Dallas hotspots, the Lubbock spots bored me to death.  Lubbock seriously needed a College Party Coordinator and Recreation Director to bring them out of the barn dance era.

101819 - 

50th Reunion Punography Film Fest

062920 to Lance

After going to UT and majoring in fraternity, beer and girls (not in that order)  I worked a year and then went to Tech in September of 1975.  I lived at Bledsoe with an Ag major from Nazareth or East Jesus or somewhere.  He was big as a lumberjack and dumber than a box of rocks and I had to hit him with a shovel upside the head every morning to wake him up for class.  He was kind of like the idiot in Mice and Men.  I found a couple of guys down the hall that enjoyed watching Star Trek with me in the afternoon.  One was a coonass from Burrus, La and wanted to be a dentist, the other was from Galveston and his older sister was best friends with Farah Fawcett and his uncle was the wildlife manager at the King Ranch.  They were more my type.  I moved in with them in a three bedroom duplex at 33rd and University. What was that place with the great chili dogs on University across from the Bledsoe parking lot?  Not der wienersnizel, this was a local place.  I seldom got down towards Wells.  That was where all the jocks seemed to be.  I did like to ogle the girls at Weymouth and Chitwood.  All I did was study and went to Summer School in 1975.  In 1976 I worked for Chevron at Snyder then went to work for them in Denver in December 76.. All night Risk games and an occasional trip to New Mexico were the total of my extracurricular activities.

Tech was a great place to go to school after UT, because even if you found a place to hang out and have a beer, after UT and the Dallas hotspots, the Lubbock spots bored me to death.  Lubbock seriously needed a College Party Coordinator and Recreation Director to bring them out of the barn dance era. 

092020 Debbie Havens to Bob Davidson,

The difference in the End times I refer to is that they are the END times...Supernatural, demonic activity will be unlike ANYTHING the world's population has ever experienced...as horrible as Hitler's regime (and others) were, nothing compares to the evil that will be unleashed during the last 3 1/2 years of the Great Tribulation described in the Book of Revelation. I pray people will wake up before it is too late to bend the knee to Jesus by choice. God's grace is all that is keeping Him from taking His Church from this earth and ushering in the time of judgment on earth. Blessings to you...

090520 Debbie Havens to Steve

My unsettled feelings usually come when I become anxious about friends and family who do not know the Savior. Releasing them to His care while still interceding for them carries with it a heavy heart, knowing that without Him they will face the unthinkable wrath of our holy God, while simultaneously I experience peace, knowing that out of a love beyond our own capacity, the Holy Spirit is working to bring them to Jesus that they too may fellowship with the Father.

I will turn 70 years old tomorrow. Whether I am called home through death or by the Rapture, my focus will continue to be on following the path He has ordained for me on this side of Heaven.

Saying all of that, it IS unsettling to know that a nuclear war as described in Ezekiel and in Revelation IS coming...and will affect those who go through the Great Tribulation. 

081421 to Lance

I want to holdup my obligations as a Promise Keeper.  I promised my Dad that I would not marry a black woman.  I promised God that I would not be racist.  Please advise.  On my part, I tried to do the best I could under the circumstances.  I married a blue gum Italian.  If you are not familiar with those, they were the descendents of a rape and pillage campaign by Hannibal.

On a similar subject, I saw you enjoying your pork ribs at the biker bbq.  God said in the Bible  that you should not eat swine.  The Bible also says that God is the same yesterday, today and forever.  Am I wrong in saying you think God changed to allow us to eat swine from yesterday to today?  No, you say.  I think, pig boy, when Jesus returns, I do not intend to have bacon from breakfast in my teeth.  I think that would be a bad move. 

091421 to Lance

Wayne and I were thankful  to be able to fellowship in a Godly way without your input.  We only had one argument.  Wayne thinks Jesus attends Texas A & M and I know he goes to Texas Tech.  We agreed that Satan attends U. T. Austin. 

102021 to Tommy

I have been following your Broyles feed on the other site.  I think you have gotten to the Wilson soccer ball washing up on the beach.  Do not miss that when Tom Hanks returns to modern life and realizes that his priorities have changed and he no longer wants the corporate path, he takes off driving across the country looking for his little bit of Heaven.  He finds that spot at a four way intersection in the Texas Panhandle between Hansford County on the west and Ochiltree, Lipscomb or Wheeler County on the East.  I know of four or five four way stops in the area near the Canadian River, north of old highway US.66 that fit the bill.  Heaven and all good things come from West Texas or the Texas Panhandle, being placed there by God.  That is in the Bible if you look closely enough,  A long legged jean clad West Texas or Panhandle girl is what a real Godly woman should be, as described in Proverbs 31:10 -31.  You can verify that with Janalu and Melinda if you like.

There are some faiths that are of Satan who would destroy all those that do not believe as they do in the name of their god.   You cannot negotiate or compromise with those people whose belief is that it is not wrong to deceive an infidel to achieve their ultimate goal.  Those people have to be wiped out and removed for they are evil. If we have allowed evil to thrive, Jesus Christ will remove it when he returns for his followers.  The Bible tells us these facts. 

110521 BobD to Tommy

In college and for a time afterwards, I considered myself a deist, and sorta christianish -- I attended church fairly regularly because I enjoyed the experience and generally liked the people there and the morality, but didn't take the whole Jesus saves stuff that seriously.  When my daughter and ex-wife both were supposed to die after an emergency c-section with a 75% placental abruption, which was the worst nightmare I've ever been through -- helplessly watching a tiny baby struggling to live and not being able to do anything, I had some sort of epiphany: there was no question that I could feel the power and presence of the Spirit. Since then, I've know what I believe and simply am a Christian, without doubt.

I wouldn't think of speaking for any of our classmates, but I know several who have talked to me about how they've had journeys not too dissimilar to my own, at least in where they started and where they arrived.  Several have told me that they had broken lives and saved themselves through faith.  Others grew and came to appreciate their faith as part of a life's journey.

I personally know of no one in our class or even near our age who just kept going thoughtlessly on autopilot in their childhood beliefs.  Every one of us has lost a number of people we love, had horrible disappointments in life like divorces, lost jobs and failed businesses, children and other people we love going wrong and not being able to stop them, betrayals by people we thought were friends, and/or cruel health problems, ad nauseum.  One way we cope with those things is our faith. 

010622 to Janalu & Wayne

With the liberals today we are witnessing what Jesus warned us about in the Bible.  Those who would call evil good and good evil.  They also are not only not satisfied with our Constitution that the founding fathers said was totally inadequate for anyone but a Godly people, but they even want to shape the Bible to satisfy their own desires, selfishness and lusts.  That is why you see Catholics supporting abortion, gay people ingnoring Leviticus and only touting the feel good portions of the doctrine, and others thinking that if you just are a good person you get to go to heaven.  God set out the requirements very clearly including that there is no way to heaven without going through Jesus.  These are the times that Jesus described that he said "be thankful for many of the saints would love to be alive today to witness these prophecies come true."  We now only await the appearance of the Antichrist proclaiming himself to be Jesus himself and saying that he is here to rapture you.  That is what occurs at the sixth trump.  Jesus himself appears at the seventh trump and in the twinkling of an eye we will all be changed to spiritual bodies.  Some of us will be immortal, those that have done their very best to follow God's word.  Some will be mortal even though they are in spiritual bodies awaiting the White Throne Judgement. 

010722 to Janalu,

I saw you describe the Trinity to Tommy.  One statement you made is not correct.  You said Jesus is not God.  That is not the case.  Jesus in the Bible is called by several names, one of which is Emanuel.  It means God on Earth.  Jesus was here in the beginning with God the Father.  Read the opening passages of the Gospel of John.  Jesus is the Creator of all things on earth and it was he that appeared to Abraham and Isaac and Jacob and Noah.  If you will notice throughout the Bible, the Holy Spirit is the Spirit of God which can only manifest itself when God the Father and Jesus are together in one location.  In the New Testament Jesus had to go to the Father before he could send the Holy Spirit.  

Thank you for your efforts to try and educate the non-believers.  We are all on the same side.  I find most of your other explanations on religion to be spot on. 

010822 to David

I have often been accused of keeping people from posting because of my religious and conservative bent.  Well Glory Be, the silent have begun to post with the rest of us in a Chorus of Angry Response at some of my postings.  That must mean that I must be doing something right, as the Bible says that true believers will be rejected and persecuted in the last days. 

020822 to Jan

I guess I deserve that kick in the rear for not recognizing your criticism as a joke.  I did actually listen to half of that post until I got bored with the hosts patting each other on the back and declaring how smart they were.  My expectations were quite low and I guess I should have listened to the last half instead,  Your description of a blended religious experience of the Lord's combined with the spiritualism of Bhudism and Confuscianism made my blood run cold.  The Lord Jesus made it quite clear that the only way to heaven is through him and not some blended theology.  Acts 7:51-52 reads "Ye are stiff necked and uncircumsized in heart and ears, ye do always resist the Holy Spirit as your fathers did, so do ye and they have slain them that prophesied of the coming of the Righteous One of whom you have been now the betrayers and murderers."  I fear in you and Lowell's case this may be an indictment as well as a sentence. Heed now the warnings of those who speak the truth of the Word and accept the Lord's lovingkindness which is always there for those who turn back from their errant ways. 

021422 to Janalu & Kurt

The more I try to make things happen on a business basis, I am constantly opposed by government taxing me and overregulating my effort to maximize fossil fuel production.  I have spent a tremendous amount of capital to bring abandoned wells into compliance that minimize current environmental problems and mitigate evironmental problem shortfalls caused by previous operators some of which were ongoing and getting worse.  I am seriously ready to throw in the towel because the government's regulatory agencies have thrown up road blocks for me to even get expensive bonds to insure that I do things correctly in the future.  I did not cause the problems and am simply trying to fix them so that I might make a profit down the road.  Now the regulatory agencies want me to put up cash bonds in the amount of the money required to plug the wells down the road after I quit producing them.  This removes almost all my expected profit and leaves no latitude if the wells do not perform at their maximum expectation.  On top of that I am faced with broke suppliers of used equipment that are so desperate that they lie and misrepresent their capabilties and the condition of the equipment I offer to purchase.  I am an optimist, but the whole world is full of desperate crooks that cannot make it under the current conditions without lying or stealing.   Every single deal winds up in some sort of lawsuit because no one deals in good faith anymore. 

What is a good person to do?  I think I might just bask in my eudaemonia and retreat to the mountains to live that unfettered life in the midst of God's beauty somewhere in the Rocky Mountains where the scenery is unmatched and the land is still within reason.  In the midst of deep winter, I might travel to the Pacific islands for a break in the scenery.  I would like a female companion for company and to share the wonder, but those without baggage are few and far between.  

Do I ask too much after 50+ years of my nose to the grindstone, even though I have enjoyed every moment of the journey and have raised great kids that make me very proud,?  The grandkids are now coming in batches and an occasional trip to visit them will be included in my plans.  I do not expect to have to depend on anyone but Lord Jesus till I am finally called home.  Life is way too short to deal with non-believers and transgressors of God's commandments. 

033122 to Janalu

I purposely have not weighed in on the gay, gender issues because there are delicate issues that are having to be dealt with by my friends.  All of us have friends or relatives who have alternative lifestyles.  Everyone knows that I take a literal translation of the Bible when used in context with an understanding of whom the message is addressed to and the actions occurring precipitating the message.  I admit that I fail miserably at being perfect and  I am not going to try and rub salt into someone's wound when it is unnecessary.  God has to judge these things and I do not want to take His job.  He gets to take vengence for me, as well.  I think He does an excellent job. 

051222 to Jean, Sandra, Lance and Janalu,

The proposed windfall profit tax on oil producers will only reduce our competiveness overseas and invite global bad actors to attack us because of their idea that we have become weak and unable to fund our global obligations.  

The real cure for high energy prices is high energy prices.  The oil industry just has a lag time compared to the other portions of the economy that fail.  The oil industry is then used as the whipping boy by the liberal progressives.  Had the Biden group left energy policy alone, we would still have a thriving economy and not a recession.  People would be enjoying the benefit of high wage prices supporting land leasing, landowner royalty bonuses, service and drilling equipment and maintenance.  Now those folks have to find jobs of buying and selling on the internet to keep up or speculating in bitcoin or other commodities.  

If you want your life to be enriched, pick up your Bible and pray for understanding and quit arguing politics, equity race baited divisions, or envy of your neighbors who are doing well in whatever endeavor they have.  Also put the past behind you, there is no profit to be made of trying to rectify old generational slights, when a promising future can be obtained by all. 

052122 to Lowell

As Jesus said:  Ye men that are without sin, get it on with your male sexual partner.

The Bible clearly states that there are no degrees of sin.  If you transgress in any one thing, it is as if you had rejected the whole message.  However, there are degrees in judgment and penalties. 

013023 to All

I guess you've noticed.  I have come to realize there are a lot more Takers than Givers in this world.

A mother was cooking pancakes for her two young boys.  The boys got in a huge argument over who was going to get the first pancake.  It finally almost came to blows.  The mother said,  You boys need to follow Jesus's' example..  He said love your brother as much as yourself and so you should let your brother be first in all things.  The older boy said, " Okay mom.  He looked at his younger brother and said "Okay you get to be Jesus first." 

022123 to Wayne,

Revelation was the last Book written by an  Apostle.  John was the youngest apostle and he wrote it at a very old age on the isle of Patmos.  Much of the vulgate is just canon fodder.  Much of the Catholic doctrine was changed to incorporate pagan practices like Easter which the majority of the Roman Empire practiced.  That is when they changed the Sabbath to Sunday, the day the sun worshipers revered.  It is also hard to take a religion like the Church of England seriosly when the King can change it to accomodate his divorce and murder of his out of favor wives and concubines.  No need to try and instruct me on doctrine,.  I prayed for God to reveal the truth to me and though it is still a work in progress, He is doing a fine job.  I do agree that some of the Apochrypha should be included as well as a book or two we have never found.  The Bible references a Book of Jasher that no one has located since biblical times.  You are right that in the original Bible there was no Old and New Testament, it was all one book which puts to rest the argument that people use that they believe in the new but not the old testament.

022123 to David and Wayne

Okay.  TV and Film and Computers are the Devils work.  There, I said it.  Remember who the Prince of the Power of the Air is

In contrast, Jesus is the Word and the Word was God.  Jesus is the Truth, the Light and the Truth will set you free.
It means He will set you free from death by giving you eternal life. 

030823 to David

A young man just graduated from the University with a B.S in one of the Sciences and his parents came down to watch the ceremony and take him home afterward.  They lived about an hour from the school, so on the way home he listened to his i-tunes and wondered if he was going to get a present for graduating in the top one third of his class.  As they pulled up in front of his home sitting on the grass was a brand new corvette."  "Is that for me?" he exclaimed.  His parents nodded Yes and he ran over to the car, walked around it and looked at it from every angle scarcely believing his good fortune.  "Where are the keys" he asked.

"That is something your mother and I want to talk to you about, " his Dad said.  "The car is yours, but not the keys.  Frankly, your mother and I think you look like Hell with your long hair down your back halfway and that lumberjack beard.  If you want to earn the keys we want you to shave that beard, cut that hair above your ears and start interviewing for a job. We will also get you a credit card that you can use to buy a new suit on credit till your paychecks start coming."  "Dad, all my friends and classmates have their hair and beard this way." 

"Then prepare to take public transportation till you change your mind."

His parents went into the house and began making dinner.  He looked long and hard at the car and he began to think how he might get out of this mess.  Then it hit him.  His parents were devout Christians and he knew just the right buttons to push.  At dinner he started his pitch.  "Mom and Dad, you know Jesus wore His hair and beard just like me."  That will get them, he thought.

His Dad looked up from his plate and said, "He sure did son and if you'll remember he walked everywhere he went." 

072223, UTSW CLEMENTS HOSPITAL

120323, Steve at Jennifer’s Angels, Carrollton, TX

020324, Steve with Lance and Christopher Cantor 

at Central Market Cafe, Plano, TX

080324, at The Plaza, Richardson, TX

113024, 

with Ed Norton at The Reserve, Richardson, TX.

1969  - New Orleans, LA

On the Chalmette Battlefield where Andrew Jackson fought the Redcoats in 1815 with Jean Lafitte,.

Ed Norton, Steve Keene, Hugh Tennyson, 

Rich Ainsworth, Harold Ainsworth.