New things learned.

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Rick Warren:
http://www.covenantnews.com/blog/archives/055940.html

I have a friend named Bob Gibson, who is an Australian Vietnam Veteran, about my age, who sends me news and email from Oz, 'the land down under.' He mailed a chart/ graph to me that pointed out his Gov't is shafting their older pensioners/ people, but increasing money and benefits to "new immigrants" too! In other words, the people who worked all their lives are supporting the "newly arrived poor people." Let us all wake up to the fact that the "One World Gov't" thing is all over the place and powerful kingpins are pulling the strings. Some, many of my friends continue to fight for our God given liberties and freedoms, as is their right, and I continue to write letters to my Gov't Reps, Congressmen too.
But my MAIN focus remains fighting for my Lord Jesus Christ.

I am seeing and learning 'new' things in the Bible that have new meaning for me in 2009! Matthew 24, the whole chapter is important. Verse 6 says, "You will be hearing of wars and rumors of wars, See that you are not frightened, for those things MUST take place, but that is not yet the end." That tells me there is not anything that I [we] can do to prevent these wars, etc., even if I [we] vote for someone whom I [we] THINK is right for the job. And, I am not to be afraid! Since these things are 'fore ordained by God' we must just sit tight and continue praising Him and doing His will. Even if there is a nuclear exchange-- it will not destroy all the earth and mankind. God promises to take care of that punishment during and after the Trib. Next, Matt. 24:9-10, Jesus says, "Then they will deliver you [Christians] up to tribulation, and will kill you, and you will be hated by all nations because of my name. At that time many will fall away and will BETRAY one another and hate one another." Well, personally, I have seen this happen more in the past 10-20 years in other countries especially, but just beginning now in the USA as new stupid 'hate laws' are pushed and passed. Respected preachers have said that perhaps 70% or more of church goers are not really 'Saved' and will not make it. Sad. But I am not to worry about that or them too much, but concentrate on myself and my family-- if they listen. I can pretty much I.D. a biblical Christian quick enough, although sometimes I am fooled. I have been back stabbed, hurt and misled more than a few times in my life by false Christians, but I will still offer my friendship to those of like biblical faith. We must continue to pray, preach and share the gospel to ALL people until God says no, or the Rapture comes. Matt. 24: 11, "Many false prophets will arise and will mislead many." NASB. I could name a few... lol, but only those who are well steeped in serious Bible study will be able to compare and sort out those who truly speak the pure language of God's Word-- and those who just 'tickle the ears' of those in church! Also, the Lord knows HIS sheep, and they know Him. Again, 'by their fruits you will know them.' If people and leaders side with unclean, murderous, practices like abortion, euthanasia and sodomy, it's pretty apparent whose side they are on. No human has the cure to earth's woes and problems-- only God does. Pick your side NOW!

I keep finding out that more people are reading my Journal, although I will never know how many. Because of my disabilities, this has become the major way that I share the Gospel of Jesus Christ, although I always carry pocket bibles and Gospel tracts, info. What could be more important?? Tomorrow, Sharon will come with me to church, and she will use my own power scooter! I will give my walking cane a good workout, and rest easy in the after noon. The Holy Spirit will get me thru church with no sweat. I have been looking forward to this for a long time!

Please visit this fine Christian web site: http://understandingthebiblicalprophecies.blogspot.com/

Tom

Thank you all for the Comments.

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A new Blog -- from my friend, Carolyn, from FL:

Hi everyone. I just wanted to let you know I made a new blog which has all of the archived series on the End Time Prophecies from my AOL blog. I am updating it, as so much has happened since I first wrote the series.

If you know anyone who is searching, wondering or interested in the Prophecies, please pass this along. If you have any thoughts to add, share or comment, please let me know!

God Bless and have a great weekend!

http://understandingthebiblicalprophecies.blogspot.com/

Carolyn
Trust in the Lord with all your heart, and do not rely on your own understanding; think about Him in all your ways, and He will guide you on the right paths.

Proverbs 3:5-6
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Thank everyone for their kind comments and well wishes for my wife, Sharon, sent to my personal email account. She is doing very well at home and on the mend. If anyone wants to email her personally, just tell me, and I will give you her email address.

Thanks.

Tom

Sharon is finally home.

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I picked up my wife from the West Allis [Milwaukee] Hospital this morning about 0930 and brought her straight home and put her to bed like she wanted. She is very tired and needs much deep, restful sleep, peace and quiet now. She must be on Oxygen 24/ 7, and I am at her constant beckon call. I know she would do the same thing for me-- but then our marriage vows dictate that-- and we are from the 'old school.' All past issues and misunderstandings are forgiven and forgotten now. It's so good to finally have her home and I don't mind being her nurse, cooking and helping one bit. But I already told her, 'you are not in the hospital anymore.' That means this old man moves a bit slower than the younger nurses who are so quick and nimble... lol. I am trying hard to TEACH her to USE HER CANE all the time, but she has a problem with that. Sometimes stuff like that has to be drilled into the head... just like in the Army they taught us to NEVER place your rifle more than arm's length away from you. OK, so this is not the Army, but the same principle works and makes sense. No cane-- no walk. I am not ashamed to use a cane, and they come in handy for many other 'chores.' In her case, it's very important that she have some stable base to steady her moves and walking. She is still very unsteady on her feet, and we don't need her falling down after her surgery.
But in Sharon's own words, 'the West Allis [Milwaukee] Hospital where she got her Rehab care was 10 times better in terms of care, service and civility, compared to CCU [Critical Care Unit] at Kenosha Memorial Hospital, down by the Lake Michigan, in Wisconsin. She doesn't mince words and tells it like it is. We have a few more bones to pick about the treatment-- but we will try to just keep silent about it for now. But you figure that our collective hard won Health Insurance is paying out big bucks so that we can have quality care, but the care is lacking! I guess it's really acedemic because our nation will soon have the low, 2nd rate grade health care system like England and Canada. I am not afraid of the future-- but I am counting on things getting worse.... because I read the "BOOK." I don't want to get into a "conspiracy theory" now-- but much of our downward slow burn and social collapse is a "man made thing" and well planned by the Dims AND the RINO's! Still no need to be anxious or upset-- as it's inevitable and "written", but if we have Jesus Christ, there is nothing to worry about. Some of you will simply not understand this, or think I have flipped, but that's OK too... lol.

The VA appointed cleaning lady, Sue, is another gift that we have! We get along fine and she is 3 years older than me, and is a LEGAL immigrant from Germany. She speaks good English and I speak a little German. Still, I already see the house getting very messy right now after all our work and organizing. I am afraid that my poor wife got spoiled rotten in the hospital rehab, lol, and I plan to lose a lot of wieght picking up after her. Oh well, what are husbands for? Maybe this is a blessing in disguise.

I placed a squeeze bike horn near the bed so Sharon can summon me when she needs help, etc. I learned to care for people when I was a teenager on the farm and my parents brought my mother's father in to live with us for a while, and I had to clean him up and give him a bath, etc. That is almost unheard of now days! Satan's world frowns on tender love and compassion-- and doing distasteful things like helping the old and infirm.
People HAD to work together and get along in the old days when we had more morality. Now days, we kill the old and unborn! If you don't know how God feels about abortion and the sanctity of life, I will do a special post on that subject, but I think that most of my readers understand how I feel, and what the bible says about abortion.

I will certainly pass on any emails/ messages to Sharon when she feels better-- enough to check her own email box.

Thanks,

Tom

Veterans Resources-- thank you, Sheila.

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News on Legislation

http://bluewaternavy.org/lettertomarcie.pdf

VETERANS RESOURCES NETWORK
http://www.valaw.org

The 2009 edition of the Federal Benefits for Veterans and their Dependents has been released in pdf format.

It can be found at our website at:
http://38uscode.com/down/fedben2009.pdf

and at the VA website at:

http://www1.va.gov/opa/vadocs/fedben.pdf

Stop & See The Agent Orange Quilt Of Tears

May 21st - 25th 2009
2009 L.Z. Rainelle - West Virginia Veterans Reunion
Rainelle, West Virginia
http://lzrainelle.com/

Agent Orange Victims & Widows Support Network
Home Of The Agent Orange Quilt Of Tears
http://www.agentorangequiltoftears.com/
Sacrifice is meaningless without remembrance

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Do you know how to tell a real, true biblical Christian from one who only gives some lip service, or a 'CINO'?? The REAL Christians have enough 'Fruits of the Spirit', a relationship with Jesus Christ so that they preach, witness and share the Gospel of Jesus Christ!! Yes, some of us are gifted more than others-- but it's the Holy Spirit that really enables a born-again Christian to speak the correct words he/ she knows to be true. Of course the real Christian MAKES THE TIME TO READ/ STUDY THE BIBLE ON A REGULAR BASIS to put that knowledge in his/ her head, so the Spirit can draw it out at the proper time-- just like putting money into your checking account BEFORE you write out the bills!
Time is so short. Please help others find the Lord while there is still time,and God will reward you, big time, with everlasting life!
If you have any questions or need some help on how to get saved right now by Jesus Christ-- just email me: tschuckman@aol.com. If I cannot help you, I know plenty of people who can.

Thank you.

Tom Schuckman
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'Jesus is Lord.'

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Chrysler could go down the tube.... Oh well.

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A close friend who used to work with me on the AMC/ Chrysler assembly line called me a half hour ago and had some sad news for me concerning a union meeting he just attended. Looks like everyone there will get screwed and tattooed including the retirees who worked and paid into the system for 30 years or more....and because they recently signed a pact with the "devil" in D.C. they now have to dance when ever 'he' whistles. There is no free lunch, unless you are in a favored, specially connected group, but even the Dims will start changing their tune soon. Well, I still don't know all the details, nor did I even hear about the Union meeting until an hour ago. But I figure that we will be poor pretty soon and the union contract-- just like the Constitution, is nothing more than a scrap of paper. But those Union boys shouted from the top of their lungs how great messiah obama was going to be for our Union-- Local 72 UAW in Kenosha, WI !! 'Party with the Devil...' and then pay thru the nose latter... Ha!

Not that Mr. McCain was so much better, or less corrupt, and he would have only 'prolonged the inevitable' -- crash of the world markets, etc., but I believe that he had more respect for the 1st and 2nd Amendments and the rest of the U.S. Constitution. What always gets my goat is how humans will always grab at anything to save them... except that soon to be outlawed name, Jesus Christ, who is my Lord and Master. Perish the thought that mankind would EVER stoop so low and humble themselves under the mighty hand of God Almighty, Lord of all things. Oh well, I was young and dumb at one time too, and trusted in my own 'power' until God truly humbled me in a vigorous shake up way. But now days with all of the 'signs of the end times' it's hard NOT to see the Bible prophecies coming true, IMHO. I don't believe that what the bible calls pestilence [disease] has visited us except for the Spanish Flu in 1919, and the more recent AIDS epidemic... and the jury is still out on how bad this new Swine Flu will get. But I am not too worried about this Flu thing as we have bigger fish to fry, IMHO. Time will tell.

When I heard years ago [and perhaps from the 'wrong people'] that these last days [end times] before the Trib would be so terrifying with humans running around like headless chickens, or horrified wild life in the jungle when a lion roars... I thought to my self...' "Self", it can't be all that bad.' -- and I have been in combat before. But when there is a real prospect of losing your health insurance, money, investments, job and pension for yourself and family, and maybe your house and car... maybe that would get you rattled. And go figure that most of our US News is filtered so that we don't really know how bad the rest of the world is doing-- collapsing , and sliding down the slippery slope. So our Gov't isn't all that clean and pure as the white driven snow-- but by the time most Americans wake up to figure that out-- it will be too late. And by the time most Americans and the world finds out that Jesus Christ is the ONLY answer to mankind's problems-- IT WILL BE TOO LATE. Because after the Rapture-- people 'left behind' will be S.O.L. [surely out of luck...]. To be sure, Christians will suffer just like everyone else-- but for a season [a shorter time]... but our pain will be temporal, and we have the Holy Spirit to sustain/ strengthen/ help us. But we might get skinny and lean, and we won't be so fussy either.


Like I have posted a hundred times, it's a matter of humans having too much PRIDE and arrogance, and being so full of themselves-- so that they just cannot/ will not HUMBLE themselves to accept JESUS! I believe that is the long and the short of it, friends and readers. It only took me the last 30 years to figure that out too. Another analogy is medical surgery, where you are humble enough to make an intelligent choice to endure the short term pain of surgery to remove a cancer, etc., or just let it consume you with an even more prolonged, painful death. And you have to put your TRUST in some imperfect 'doctor!' How much better to put ALL of your trust in the Lord Jesus Christ? Yes, it does take a certain amount of Faith to do both things. But Christian Faith is not 'blind' as the "wise" unbelieving humans say it is. More on that subject latter-- and I really don't have that much time right now, these days, to argue about the 'small stuff' that ignorant unbelievers really don't want an answer to, but they just want to 'steal my time.'


I plan to see my wife tomorrow, and take her home on Friday, according to her doctors, unless they change their minds again. I am starved for good 'human' conversation.

Tom

How to wash a big hound dog.

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Standoff Suspects Surrender in Sheboygan

Two men accused of triggering a long standoff with Sheboygan police that caused neighbors to evacuate have given themselves up. More

Go figure: Sheboygan, WI is considered one of the most clean, pristine small cities in the USA. I think that Reader's Digest said it was in the top 20 places to raise a family in the good old Mid-West USA area. Yes indeed, things are just popping like pop corn these days. It just goes to show that there is no "safe place" to live anymore. Sad.

I called my wife a few times this morning and she said that the CPAP machine helped her sleep last night beautifully! Good sleep is key to repairing the body. A CPAP is a machine that helps people with Sleep Apnea and other COPD problems breathe better at night and I use one too --with oxygen. It uses a constant flow of pressured air that blows past any narrow air way or obstruction so the person doesn't wake up gasping for air 100 times a night. I broke my neck in a truck accident because of sleep apnea, but I was the only one who got hurt, PTL [Praise the Lord]. All my close friends will admit that God saved me so many times for some reason, where "normal" men would have died from shock alone in those near death mishaps! Being a power lifter helped too according to some ER doctors. that was my sport for the past 30 years and I loved the strength and power that helped me do everything easier.

It seems like 2 years in combat aviation in Vietnam: 1968-70 was NOTHING compared to the next 40 years back at home, and that's saying a lot. The stresses of divorce, kids getting into trouble, losing a job, having a spouse get sick, etc., can be just over whelming, IMHO. But the constant bombardment of negative things that happen to people, even when you are doing everything 'by the book', being careful, obeying the rules and laws-- can grind you into powder!

If it were not for Jesus Christ and the power of the Holy Spirit-- I would have given up long ago and blown away with the wind. Constant prayer and bible reading/ study, IMHO, are key to survival.

Well, now the doctors say that Sharon MIGHT come home on Friday or Saturday.

I will believe it when I see it... LOL.

Question: How do you get a big stubborn Rottweiler hound to GET INTO THE BATH TUB for a bath ???? That stinky boy really needs to get clean!

More and more, I am solidifying my thoughts on the world troubles in general and the constant stream of 'bad news' that badgers many Americans, with the 'Swine Flu', the great influx of Gov't sanctioned illegal aliens from our Southern border, the economy, forbidding the name "Jesus" to be spoken in prayer by military chaplains, etc. The Prez and the Dims hoping for another national disaster so he can take more control and freedom away from the American people. I am NOT saying that obama is the devil or the anti-Christ--- but God is "allowing" things to happen for a reason!! Just like in Eziekiel where it says that 'God will put hooks into the jaws of Gog of Magog and 'lead him' into a situation that will eventually 'clean his clock' forever! Ony bible students will understand what I am saying. So..... here's the message: Don't let all the razzle dazzle of these startling 'disasters' [and some of them probably 'man made' on purpose...] SIDE TRACK you into distracting you from your [our] Primary Objective--- JESUS!! Been there-- done that. I just want to share something good that took me, personally, 40 years to learn and overcome. Be aware of the news-- but don't be a 'news junky.'

"Be wrathful-- yet do not sin." But.... is it any wonder why America is on God's list:

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Senate Votes to Approve Pro-Abortion Obama HHS Nominee Kathleen Sebelius
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Coalition of Pro-Life Groups Urges Senate to Oppose Pro-Abortion David Hamilton
Washington, DC (LifeNews.com) -- A coalition of pro-life groups sent a letter to members of the Senate today urging them to oppose the nomination of Judge David Hamilton to the 7th Circuit Court of Appeals. Hamilton is President Barack Obama's first judicial nominee and he has handed down a decision blocking a key pro-life law. The Senate Judiciary Committee will hold a hearing on Wednesday on his nomination. Hamilton was initially appointed by President Clinton to a district judgeship in Indiana in 1994 even though the ABA gave him a “not qualified” rating. In that position, Hamilton issued a series of rulings over seven years that prevented Indiana from implementing its informed consent law that would give women information about abortion's risks and alternatives. The letter, signed by leaders with Con

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