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    • $1.9 Trillion Relief in Miles
    • Aging Church
    • A Spoonful of Sugar …
    • Bargain Basements for Guns
    • Borderline Personalities
    • Channels in Hell
    • CT Scan
    • DOGE Cuts Ballooning Government
    • Empty Shelves
    • Exotic Masks
    • Fixed Stamp Here: Mail-In Voting
    • Free Dental
    • Golden Dome
    • “Grandpa, What’s an election?”
    • Journey into Joy
    • Heartbreak Hotel
    • High Standards
    • “Impervise!”
    • Lost Cat, Goes by “Joy”
    • Kennedy Center Reopens as DOGE Hall!
    • Love Boat
    • Make America Comfy Again
    • Mask Etiquette
    • National Treasure
    • One Flew Over the Voter’s Nest
    • Old and Cranky Gift
    • Oxygen
    • Pastor Works Out
    • Political Pigs in the Parlor
    • Presidential Lucky Charm
    • Rapper in Chief
    • Release The Files
    • Relief
    • Sermon Preparation
    • Slow Dancing
    • Slow, Old iPhone Users
    • Solitary BINGO
    • St. Patrick Meets Pied Piper
    • Tesla Brain Charger
    • The Bully
    • The Caregiver
    • The Cat Problem
    • “The Holy Catholic Court”
    • The Firefighter
    • The “Imagination Proclamation”
    • The Liver & Onions Test
    • The Malaise of PTO Days
    • The Royal Pain
    • Transitions
    • Unfriend … Refriend
    • Vaping Atrophy
    • Windfall
  • Messages
    • A Little Grace for a Hard Place
    • Discover the Place of Your Resurrection
    • From Darkness into Light
    • God’s Continuity Plan – Ephesians Session 2
    • Great Preaching (Part II): Max Your Understanding in Preaching!
    • Great Preaching: (Final Cut) Run!
    • Heaven’s Gifts
    • In Touch with Your Creator
    • Jesus & Speeding Tickets
    • Jim’s Maxim
    • Peace in a Pandemic
    • Prayer for Uncertain Times
    • Thanksgiving – The True Holy Grail!
  • Someone Said the Prophet Wept
    • AI Brings Its Pet Human to Class
    • A Tale of AI “Friendly Class & Happy Closings”
    • Baptist vs. Methodist: My Spiritual Journey & Reflections on Faith and Community
    • Nativity of the Rustway
    • The Judas Principle
  • Spiritual Lessons Learned
    • Anger: The Wind that Blows out the Lamp of the Mind
    • a time to weep and a time to laugh, a time to mourn and a time to dance
    • Behind Bars of Resentment
    • Breakthrough
    • “Come and See!” Your Fabulous New Year
    • Common Ground
    • Costco Lady in the Mask
    • Covid Smart
    • Diagnosis of Terminal Bias
    • “Double Indemnity:” How to Visit a Church Like an Insurance Adjuster
    • Life Navigation
    • Make Lasting Friends in Church
    • Prayer Beads: An Essential Utensil in the Kitchen of Prayer
    • “Prayer: Dare to be Honest with God!”
  • The Church Mechanic
    • “Amen!” or “Oh, Me!”?
    • Christian Education in the Post Pandemic Church
    • Church in Place: A response to the coronavirus
    • Church of One Stringed Worship
    • For Flock’s Sake, Shorten Sermons!
    • How to Read the Bible in Church
    • “Overstuffed Sunday”: Situational Awareness
    • “Stick the Landing”: Exiting a Ministry with Grace
    • The Agony of Preaching
    • The Preacher’s Crawl
    • Those Who Sat In Darkness … Enjoyed the View!
    • “You Visited Me” – Home Communion Ministry
  • The Prophet's Grotto
    • Abuelo’s Final Sacrifice
    • A Day to Vote
    • Amendment XXVIII: The Establishment of the Unity Alliance Branch
    • Apartheid America: A Time to Plant
    • A Path Forward for a Partisan Nation: Walk Together
    • Are We Better Off … Living In Our Cars?
    • Baptist Preachers and Wishful Thinking
    • Behold! The Tariff!
    • Bitter Honey of Bigotry
    • Bond Wars: Markets, Mayhem & Mutiny – “Win or Watch Your Economy Crumble”
    • Boston ICE Tea Party
    • Brother Love’s Traveling DOGE Waste Cleaner Show
    • Bulldozers for Christ
    • “Can You Tell Me How to Get to Empathy Street?”
    • Christ of the Somalis
    • Coins of Truth: The Need for Good Faith Truth-Telling
    • Danger: Libraries Cause Literacy
    • Danger: Town Halls Ahead!
    • DEI Compliant Panda
    • Deportation of the Innocence
    • DOGE Audit: Day One
    • DOGE Land “Pay to Pray, Baby!”
    • DOGE Miners Find Blood Diamonds
    • DOGE REBRANDS TOWER OF BABEL
    • DOGE: The Agent Orange of the Digital Generation
    • Dream On
    • Drink DOGE Café
    • EFFICIENCY WITHOUT HUMANITY
    • Empathy is a Sin!
    • Emperor Worship
    • False Gospel of the “Tin Man”
    • Fascism Rising
    • Federal Workers’ Hiding Place
    • Five Bullet Points … of a Last Week
    • For-Profit Prisons
    • From ICE’s Shadow to Mary’s Song: Aretha Franklin’s Cry for Freedom and Hope
    • From Lock Up to Look Up
    • Gold Standard Traded for Fool’s Gold
    • Gone to Meddlin’
    • Grandpa’s Final Investment
    • How to Get to Empathy Street: The Good Samaritan’s Timeless Guide to Compassion
    • If I Had a Hammer
    • I’m a Believer
    • In Stillness Between Sirens …
    • It’s Carnival Time
    • “I Want to Break Free … Of the Lies that Bind”
    • Just War Theory: When U.S. Interventions Become Piracy in the Caribbean and Beyond
    • Liberty & Justice for All: A Nation in the Rearview Mirror of War, Poverty & Political Strife
    • Lift Every Voice and Sing: “No Ape King!”
    • Lions Not Lambs: From Pray to Prey
    • MAGAburger: Real Whoppers Told Here!
    • MAGA Lab Monkeys “Put Girls in Kitchen Again”
    • MAGA’s False God & Servants of the Most High DOGE
    • MAGA’s Monarch Invades Los Angeles
    • Manifest Indigestion: The False Flag of Faith
    • Mexico: Unlikely Hero
    • Middle Class Now 3rd Class
    • Missing: Michigan Auto Plant – Goes by the Name of “GM.” Last Seen in Detroit
    • MISSOURI SEEKS TO ADD PREGNANT WOMEN FAIR GAME
    • “Move Fast … and Break Things:” The Game Played in the Devil’s Alley
    • Neobigotry: A Genteel Racism
    • No Eggageration
    • No Prisoner Beyond God’s Love
    • Not Who But What is Running U.S.?
    • One Tax Free Notion under God
    • Only You Can Prevent Fascist Liars!
    • People of the Mirage
    • Physician, Heal Thyself
    • Plan B?: Security Equity for Schools
    • Politics of Hate Awakens Democracy
    • Red Velvet Rope Economics
    • Religious Freedom … from Government
    • RESPECT: In a Land of Daddy Warbucks, Be a Rosa Parks
    • Rocket Stove Economics
    • RV Nation: Border Crisis Solution
    • Separate Church and Hate
    • Separation of Church and Hate
    • Separation of Church and State of Mind
    • Shhh! He Doesn’t Know He is Alone!
    • Student Loans
    • Sultan of America
    • Sunday School Party Animals
    • Tariffs: Nothing to Crow About
    • TARIFFying! Frankentax Rises from the Grave of Emptied Wallets
    • Teaching for Testing
    • The Age of Smart Gun Laws
    • The American Ownership Amendment
    • The Ballad of Sgt. Buck and Banjo!
    • The Big Beautiful Orange Bill
    • America’s Child: The Future of Hope
    • The Constitution Deported
    • The Crosswalk
    • The Day the Easter Bunny Came to Church
    • The Day the President Told the Truth
    • The Deal of Misfortune
    • The Fog of War … Between the Ears
    • The Freedom of My Religion
    • The Golden Cage
    • The Great Sacrifice: Rabbi, Minister, Politician, and the Insurrection Joke
    • THE GREAT WALL
    • The House of Ishmael: Jewel of Gaza
    • The New Driver
    • The Pastor and the Floozy
    • The Pentagon Gets “One Tin Soldier”
    • The Perfect Cause for the Rich
    • The Press Conference: “No Truth for You!”
    • The Pretti Good Immigration Decency Act
    • The Quantum Balance of Separation of Church and State
    • The Revenge of the DOGE
    • The Secret Gift of Immigration
    • The Sermon on The DOGE
    • The SHOT Line: A Subsurface Canal Bypassing Hormuz
    • The Silence of the Lambs: How America became Complicit in Deporting its Future
    • The Unity Alliance
    • The U.S. Takes a Haircut
    • TIME PERSON OF THE YEAR 2025: The Unknown Attorney
    • Today’s Freedom Riders Travel the Digital Highways to the Tri-Cities of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion
    • Ultramodern Church: Space for Worship
    • United States Through the Looking Glass
    • Voice of America Gagged
    • “Walk Together Economics”
    • “Wait Till Your Holy Father Gets Home!”
    • WWE’s Master of Education Disaster
    • Yo-Yo Tariffs
  • Views of America – Podcast
    • Baptist Preachers and Wishful Thinking
    • Gold Standard of Federal Workers Traded for Fools Gold in Mass Layoffs
    • “Onward Christian Soldiers:” How the Prosperity Gospel Leads to Christian Nationalism
    • Pastor Jim's "What's Next?" from ChristiansNeedtoKnow.com
    • The Secret Gift of Immigration
    • Year 2225: The Legacy
  • The Curator’s List & Bookstore
    • Premiere of Slinkk and Stinkk
The Spirit Observer
The Spirit Observer
A Publication of ChristiansNeedtoKnow.com
  • Bulldozers for Christ
    The Prophet's Grotto

    Bulldozers for Christ

    ByJames Butler October 16, 2020August 14, 2025

    Like a Good Neighbor. There was a large white middle class church out of parking in a booming Dallas/Ft. Worth area. Older small homes of minorities landlocked the church. The church pastor and board became possessed with a plan: eliminate the houses around the church to expand the blacktop. So the plan was launched to…

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  • Be Amused

    Channels in Hell

    ByJames Butler October 15, 2020October 15, 2020

    Read More Channels in HellContinue

  • The Prophet's Grotto

    The Pastor and the Floozy

    ByJames Butler October 13, 2020August 14, 2025

    “The issue facing us is not the left versus the right but the crisis of intolerance.”-Pastor Vincent Woolsey Tolerance … “The pastor’s wife is a bar-fly who frequents a bar. We don’t want our church money going to a floozy … ” So, the rumors wafted about the local teetotaling Wesleyan Methodist pastor’s wife and…

    Read More The Pastor and the FloozyContinue

  • Be Amused

    Exotic Masks

    ByJames Butler August 9, 2020August 12, 2020

    The Pandemic is so bad … that strip clubs are charging extra to remove face masks. Mask Police Retailers and their employees are finding themselves playing the uncomfortable role of mask police. The increase in coronavirus cases is prompting concern over how to protect both customers and workers in crowded stores from infecting each other….

    Read More Exotic MasksContinue

  • Be Amused

    Fixed Stamp Here: Mail-In Voting

    ByJames Butler August 5, 2020August 5, 2020

    The problem with mail-in voting is that it’s missing the presidential stamp of approval.

    Read More Fixed Stamp Here: Mail-In VotingContinue

  • A Good Word | Spiritual Lessons Learned

    Journey into Joy

    ByJames Butler August 2, 2020August 4, 2020

    Behind the Camera Lens The preparation of today’s blog became an exercise in joy itself. For days from my devotional porch swing, I watched the rising sun kiss the sunflowers in a daily greeting, accompanied with a chorus of hummingbirds and bees. I felt joy surround me and the impression from God saying, “My joy…

    Read More Journey into JoyContinue

  • Messages

    Oxygen

    ByJames Butler July 25, 2020July 25, 2020

    How can a doctor run 22 miles, wear a face mask, and not lose oxygen… while a retired Walmart shopper complains about face masks and can’t run a can opener without getting winded?

    Read More OxygenContinue

  • Be Amused

    Rapper in Chief

    ByJames Butler July 22, 2020July 24, 2020

    Where do I get my “Kanye-Pitbull 2020” yard sign? My “Trump-Pence” neighbors will be green with envy.

    Read More Rapper in ChiefContinue

  • The Valley of Funny Bones

    Mask Etiquette

    ByJames Butler July 22, 2020July 22, 2020

    Someone needs to invent a mask you can kiss your wife through. Wait … you’re supposed to take it off?

    Read More Mask EtiquetteContinue

  • Messages

    Dream On

    ByJames Butler June 23, 2020June 24, 2020

    Dream City Church declares its AC system removes COVID-19 from the air as easy as … cash from wallets. I have one question – “Where do we buy one?!” Arizona Dreamin’ Pastor Jim

    Read More Dream OnContinue

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  • Welcome to Christians Need to Know
  • Contact Me
  • About Pastor Jim
  • Home
  • A Good Word
    • With Liberty, Justice and Care for All
  • Be Amused
    • $1.9 Trillion Relief in Miles
    • Aging Church
    • A Spoonful of Sugar …
    • Bargain Basements for Guns
    • Borderline Personalities
    • Channels in Hell
    • CT Scan
    • DOGE Cuts Ballooning Government
    • Empty Shelves
    • Exotic Masks
    • Fixed Stamp Here: Mail-In Voting
    • Free Dental
    • Golden Dome
    • “Grandpa, What’s an election?”
    • Journey into Joy
    • Heartbreak Hotel
    • High Standards
    • “Impervise!”
    • Lost Cat, Goes by “Joy”
    • Kennedy Center Reopens as DOGE Hall!
    • Love Boat
    • Make America Comfy Again
    • Mask Etiquette
    • National Treasure
    • One Flew Over the Voter’s Nest
    • Old and Cranky Gift
    • Oxygen
    • Pastor Works Out
    • Political Pigs in the Parlor
    • Presidential Lucky Charm
    • Rapper in Chief
    • Release The Files
    • Relief
    • Sermon Preparation
    • Slow Dancing
    • Slow, Old iPhone Users
    • Solitary BINGO
    • St. Patrick Meets Pied Piper
    • Tesla Brain Charger
    • The Bully
    • The Caregiver
    • The Cat Problem
    • “The Holy Catholic Court”
    • The Firefighter
    • The “Imagination Proclamation”
    • The Liver & Onions Test
    • The Malaise of PTO Days
    • The Royal Pain
    • Transitions
    • Unfriend … Refriend
    • Vaping Atrophy
    • Windfall
  • Messages
    • A Little Grace for a Hard Place
    • Discover the Place of Your Resurrection
    • From Darkness into Light
    • God’s Continuity Plan – Ephesians Session 2
    • Great Preaching (Part II): Max Your Understanding in Preaching!
    • Great Preaching: (Final Cut) Run!
    • Heaven’s Gifts
    • In Touch with Your Creator
    • Jesus & Speeding Tickets
    • Jim’s Maxim
    • Peace in a Pandemic
    • Prayer for Uncertain Times
    • Thanksgiving – The True Holy Grail!
  • Someone Said the Prophet Wept
    • AI Brings Its Pet Human to Class
    • A Tale of AI “Friendly Class & Happy Closings”
    • Baptist vs. Methodist: My Spiritual Journey & Reflections on Faith and Community
    • Nativity of the Rustway
    • The Judas Principle
  • Spiritual Lessons Learned
    • Anger: The Wind that Blows out the Lamp of the Mind
    • a time to weep and a time to laugh, a time to mourn and a time to dance
    • Behind Bars of Resentment
    • Breakthrough
    • “Come and See!” Your Fabulous New Year
    • Common Ground
    • Costco Lady in the Mask
    • Covid Smart
    • Diagnosis of Terminal Bias
    • “Double Indemnity:” How to Visit a Church Like an Insurance Adjuster
    • Life Navigation
    • Make Lasting Friends in Church
    • Prayer Beads: An Essential Utensil in the Kitchen of Prayer
    • “Prayer: Dare to be Honest with God!”
  • The Church Mechanic
    • “Amen!” or “Oh, Me!”?
    • Christian Education in the Post Pandemic Church
    • Church in Place: A response to the coronavirus
    • Church of One Stringed Worship
    • For Flock’s Sake, Shorten Sermons!
    • How to Read the Bible in Church
    • “Overstuffed Sunday”: Situational Awareness
    • “Stick the Landing”: Exiting a Ministry with Grace
    • The Agony of Preaching
    • The Preacher’s Crawl
    • Those Who Sat In Darkness … Enjoyed the View!
    • “You Visited Me” – Home Communion Ministry
  • The Prophet's Grotto
    • Abuelo’s Final Sacrifice
    • A Day to Vote
    • Amendment XXVIII: The Establishment of the Unity Alliance Branch
    • Apartheid America: A Time to Plant
    • A Path Forward for a Partisan Nation: Walk Together
    • Are We Better Off … Living In Our Cars?
    • Baptist Preachers and Wishful Thinking
    • Behold! The Tariff!
    • Bitter Honey of Bigotry
    • Bond Wars: Markets, Mayhem & Mutiny – “Win or Watch Your Economy Crumble”
    • Boston ICE Tea Party
    • Brother Love’s Traveling DOGE Waste Cleaner Show
    • Bulldozers for Christ
    • “Can You Tell Me How to Get to Empathy Street?”
    • Christ of the Somalis
    • Coins of Truth: The Need for Good Faith Truth-Telling
    • Danger: Libraries Cause Literacy
    • Danger: Town Halls Ahead!
    • DEI Compliant Panda
    • Deportation of the Innocence
    • DOGE Audit: Day One
    • DOGE Land “Pay to Pray, Baby!”
    • DOGE Miners Find Blood Diamonds
    • DOGE REBRANDS TOWER OF BABEL
    • DOGE: The Agent Orange of the Digital Generation
    • Dream On
    • Drink DOGE Café
    • EFFICIENCY WITHOUT HUMANITY
    • Empathy is a Sin!
    • Emperor Worship
    • False Gospel of the “Tin Man”
    • Fascism Rising
    • Federal Workers’ Hiding Place
    • Five Bullet Points … of a Last Week
    • For-Profit Prisons
    • From ICE’s Shadow to Mary’s Song: Aretha Franklin’s Cry for Freedom and Hope
    • From Lock Up to Look Up
    • Gold Standard Traded for Fool’s Gold
    • Gone to Meddlin’
    • Grandpa’s Final Investment
    • How to Get to Empathy Street: The Good Samaritan’s Timeless Guide to Compassion
    • If I Had a Hammer
    • I’m a Believer
    • In Stillness Between Sirens …
    • It’s Carnival Time
    • “I Want to Break Free … Of the Lies that Bind”
    • Just War Theory: When U.S. Interventions Become Piracy in the Caribbean and Beyond
    • Liberty & Justice for All: A Nation in the Rearview Mirror of War, Poverty & Political Strife
    • Lift Every Voice and Sing: “No Ape King!”
    • Lions Not Lambs: From Pray to Prey
    • MAGAburger: Real Whoppers Told Here!
    • MAGA Lab Monkeys “Put Girls in Kitchen Again”
    • MAGA’s False God & Servants of the Most High DOGE
    • MAGA’s Monarch Invades Los Angeles
    • Manifest Indigestion: The False Flag of Faith
    • Mexico: Unlikely Hero
    • Middle Class Now 3rd Class
    • Missing: Michigan Auto Plant – Goes by the Name of “GM.” Last Seen in Detroit
    • MISSOURI SEEKS TO ADD PREGNANT WOMEN FAIR GAME
    • “Move Fast … and Break Things:” The Game Played in the Devil’s Alley
    • Neobigotry: A Genteel Racism
    • No Eggageration
    • No Prisoner Beyond God’s Love
    • Not Who But What is Running U.S.?
    • One Tax Free Notion under God
    • Only You Can Prevent Fascist Liars!
    • People of the Mirage
    • Physician, Heal Thyself
    • Plan B?: Security Equity for Schools
    • Politics of Hate Awakens Democracy
    • Red Velvet Rope Economics
    • Religious Freedom … from Government
    • RESPECT: In a Land of Daddy Warbucks, Be a Rosa Parks
    • Rocket Stove Economics
    • RV Nation: Border Crisis Solution
    • Separate Church and Hate
    • Separation of Church and Hate
    • Separation of Church and State of Mind
    • Shhh! He Doesn’t Know He is Alone!
    • Student Loans
    • Sultan of America
    • Sunday School Party Animals
    • Tariffs: Nothing to Crow About
    • TARIFFying! Frankentax Rises from the Grave of Emptied Wallets
    • Teaching for Testing
    • The Age of Smart Gun Laws
    • The American Ownership Amendment
    • The Ballad of Sgt. Buck and Banjo!
    • The Big Beautiful Orange Bill
    • America’s Child: The Future of Hope
    • The Constitution Deported
    • The Crosswalk
    • The Day the Easter Bunny Came to Church
    • The Day the President Told the Truth
    • The Deal of Misfortune
    • The Fog of War … Between the Ears
    • The Freedom of My Religion
    • The Golden Cage
    • The Great Sacrifice: Rabbi, Minister, Politician, and the Insurrection Joke
    • THE GREAT WALL
    • The House of Ishmael: Jewel of Gaza
    • The New Driver
    • The Pastor and the Floozy
    • The Pentagon Gets “One Tin Soldier”
    • The Perfect Cause for the Rich
    • The Press Conference: “No Truth for You!”
    • The Pretti Good Immigration Decency Act
    • The Quantum Balance of Separation of Church and State
    • The Revenge of the DOGE
    • The Secret Gift of Immigration
    • The Sermon on The DOGE
    • The SHOT Line: A Subsurface Canal Bypassing Hormuz
    • The Silence of the Lambs: How America became Complicit in Deporting its Future
    • The Unity Alliance
    • The U.S. Takes a Haircut
    • TIME PERSON OF THE YEAR 2025: The Unknown Attorney
    • Today’s Freedom Riders Travel the Digital Highways to the Tri-Cities of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion
    • Ultramodern Church: Space for Worship
    • United States Through the Looking Glass
    • Voice of America Gagged
    • “Walk Together Economics”
    • “Wait Till Your Holy Father Gets Home!”
    • WWE’s Master of Education Disaster
    • Yo-Yo Tariffs
  • Views of America – Podcast
    • Baptist Preachers and Wishful Thinking
    • Gold Standard of Federal Workers Traded for Fools Gold in Mass Layoffs
    • “Onward Christian Soldiers:” How the Prosperity Gospel Leads to Christian Nationalism
    • Pastor Jim's "What's Next?" from ChristiansNeedtoKnow.com
    • The Secret Gift of Immigration
    • Year 2225: The Legacy
  • The Curator’s List & Bookstore
    • Premiere of Slinkk and Stinkk