Northern Farmer

The day is over with and a beautiful day it was for mid-November in central Minnesota. There’s more jobs for tomorrow of coarse but that’s another day. Hopefully we can wind down tomorrow without to many surprises around here, but you just never know. This has to be about my favorite time of the year with the shorter days and all. Not that I’m lazy or anything like that, just if a person kept up the pace year around that we do from Spring till mid-Fall I think a person would shorten their lifespan a bit. It can be a crusher at times, but now it’s more like a ten or eleven hour day and that’s about it. But one must remember in this ten or eleven hour day there’s no commute or anything like that to go to work and then drive home, burning up valuable hours of a persons life. No, just go outside, hope that there ain’t cattle spread out everywhere in the township that have our brand on them, and really, that’s about it. If they’re fine, well then I’m fine. There’s always work, a person just doesn’t look forward to the disasters. Even cattle getting out wouldn’t be all that bad in reality, but the one problem is the amount of traffic that could connect with those Angus and Herefords might get somebody hurt or killed, or just spur a lawsuit and I really don’t need all of that.

So tomorrow get some more done around here, odd jobs before any snow flies, and then do some of the Sunday morning chores late Saturday afternoon so I’m not running around like a madman trying to get done before church the following morning. Then tomorrow evening head on over to our little Bible believing church in the hills for the movie “Amazing Grace”. I just hope I remember to bring the DVD with or there will be an old Oldsmobile heading back home at about the speed of sound to get it. We’re having food at six and movie at seven in the church. I posted about the movie a bit Tuesday evening on this blog and Wednesday evening in church there was a spur of the moment decision to have an old fashioned movie night at church with our DVD. Sounds good to me, cause I can watch it again on big screen, (not some modern big TV, but projected on the wall in the front of church). Our pastor called me and said it could be a full house. So that’s where we’ll be.

I used to write here and there about our little church, a church that I truly love but haven’t written about for a while on this blog. But I can say that I see folks simplifying down that I would have never imagined a while back. The one thing I see is the awareness of the true state of our food supply. The folks at church aren’t pursuing farm raised food because of a fad. There’s a feeling coming into their hearts that we’d better start thinking of this world situation, and what the Bible say will happen. What Jesus Himself said. There’s the feeling that when the manure hits the fan, food will be used as a weapon against the faithful believers. And rest assured, it will.

The feeling of community these last couple of years though has been such a change compared to the way things were before. A good little community with plenty of room to grow. And I know in my heart that it will grow because the Word of God is preached there, the Word is obeyed and driven deeper into the people’s hearts. The blessings for our family have been too many to count, and we’re thankful for them, every one of them. In fact we stand in awe at how God moves!

And as some might remember, I’ve been enrolled in Bible College for the last 14 months. I’m over the hump, heading for the home stretch and things are going well with that. What’s really interesting are the courses coming up now, about our culture today. And it’s not a retreatist type of teaching. It’s more on the line of making a difference, instilling Godly values back into a dying culture. To train men and women to not only survive what’s here and coming but to further the Kingdom as the whole thing goes to down the tubes. And you know, I thrive on stuff like that and really am excited to start this. I should be getting started with that this next week. Culture change, right up my alley! I do know without a shadow of a doubt that this will fuel my fire bigtime, even around here.

But with all that said, there’s one passion I have and that’s our rural areas. The neglected areas, often overlooked. Being mined out by international companies that are just destroying families, destroying the land, setting their values from hell as the standard we should live by. Something has to change, and it will, never doubt that. People have been wooed into believing that everything that they see on TV, or hear on the radio, or read in magazines is the way that one lives prosperous. But it’s not. With religion, on one hand there’s the modern prosperity preachers that teach what God can do for you on this earth, thus making God a means to our desires here, a false teaching. On the other hand are dead religions teaching mans perverted doctrines that lead to destruction. I’ll just believe Jesus, not man, let the chips fall where they may.

I moved my Healing Waters blog to Word Press this past week one day when the wind was roaring outside and nobody in their right mind would be out there just putzing. And I put a statement in there that I believe to say what I believe. It ain’t the usual statement of “What We Believe”, it’s more from the heart. This is where I come from when I write:

Many men of God have been aware that the Reformation has never been completed, that God seems to be systematically working towards a return to New Testament faith and simplicity so as to eternally silence man’s excuse of ignorance of God’s message. Fundamental Christianity has suffered great damage through the efforts of some theologians to excuse their own spiritual impotence through regulating everything supernatural into an imaginary transition period of dispensational truth, which cannot be scripturally proven. It can only be substantiated through their own interpretation of isolated passages and is perpetrated through blind traditionalism not unlike that which Christ faced. Yet, deep within the hearts of sincere men, there is a longing to rescue the book of Acts from becoming nothing more than a historical record and to put it back in its proper place as a pattern for the modern church. In this way God can continue to confirm His Word and give proof of the resurrection of His Son in this day of universal unbelief.

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