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  • 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
The Spirit Observer
The Spirit Observer
A Publication of ChristiansNeedtoKnow.com
  • The Prophet's Grotto

    Red Velvet Rope Economics

    ByJames Butler October 30, 2025December 27, 2025

    The Failed Plan that Separates the Ultra Wealthy from the Riffraff of the Middle Class The Great Equalizer My wife and I honeymooned at New York-New York casino, where we built some lifetime memories in that once great Las Vegas. The cold North winds of time have blasted a deep chill on the Vegas strip….

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  • The Prophet's Grotto

    The Day the President Told the Truth

    ByJames Butler October 21, 2025December 27, 2025

    The 5202 Mandate: 🎙️The Press Conference That Changed Everything * Setting: The East Room of the White House. No flags. No teleprompters. Just a single podium, a circle of chairs, and a quiet piano playing Samuel Barber’s Adagio for Strings as the press enters. The room feels more like a chapel than a stage. This…

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  • The Prophet's Grotto

    TARIFFying! Frankentax Rises from the Grave of Emptied Wallets

    ByJames Butler October 21, 2025October 22, 2025

    Happy Halloween! JPB

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  • The Prophet's Grotto

    Coins of Truth: The Need for Good Faith Truth-Telling

    ByJames Butler October 4, 2025October 29, 2025

    In the midst of a U.S. Government shutdown with no end in sight, the Treasury Department floated the idea of minting a $1 dollar coin in the likeness of Donald Trump: My Two Cents: The Scarcity of Good Faith We live at a time when the U.S. faces a scarcity of good faith dealings by…

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  • “Onward Christian Soldiers:” How the Prosperity Gospel Leads to Christian Nationalism

    “Christian Nationalists Taking Selfies and Praising Jesus for Eliminating Those ‘No Good’ Heathens”

    Read More “Onward Christian Soldiers:” How the Prosperity Gospel Leads to Christian NationalismContinue

  • Someone Said the Prophet Wept

    A Tale of AI “Friendly Class & Happy Closings”

    ByJames Butler August 14, 2025September 7, 2025

    Though we are insured with an excellent insurance carrier, at times I like to get a quote for our home and auto coverage. As a retired commercial and personal lines insurance adjuster, I am somewhat familiar with coverage exposures and coverages. Today we discuss a personal experience with AI in insurance and some key information…

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  • Someone Said the Prophet Wept

    AI Brings Its Pet Human to Class

    ByJames Butler August 12, 2025September 7, 2025

    Today I discussed with an advanced AI some blog and podcast concepts I developed for the next chapter of ChristiansNeedtoKnow.com, more of a storytelling approach. Then the AI asked me, “Would you like to hear your podcast?” “Sure, let’s hear it!” surprised as I didn’t ask it to create a podcast. At this moment I…

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  • The Prophet's Grotto

    Manifest Indigestion: The False Flag of Faith

    ByJames Butler July 20, 2025September 27, 2025

    A Christian Zionist and a Jewish Zionist fight in Jerusalem to choose winner. Winner captures the flag. Loser gets “Manifest Indigestion.” In the Beginning was the Conspiracy Certain evangelical Christians believe that a sign of the second coming of the Messiah manifests as their physical, political occupation of Jerusalem as God’s chosen people. Some believe…

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  • The Prophet's Grotto

    False Gospel of the “Tin Man”

    ByJames Butler July 16, 2025August 14, 2025

    America Loses Its Heart MAGA “Tin Man” destroys U.S. government’s heart of compassion. Cavity filled with greed and hate. Ua ola loko i ke aloha – (Love gives life within.), Pastor Jim Up Next The Ballad of Sgt. Buck and Banjo (The Day They Sacked the Sergeant)

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  • The Prophet's Grotto

    Lift Every Voice and Sing: “No Ape King!”

    ByJames Butler July 4, 2025August 14, 2025

    Independence Day for “No Ape Kings!” “Hurricane Watch and ICE Raid Warning.” Shelter the Innocent. Did we return our soldiers from Afghanistan to serve as the private army of a decaying dictator who orders them to take FEMA funds to kick down the doors of U.S. seniors, drag nursing mothers from their cars, stalk workers…

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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