When pride comes, then comes dishonor, but with the humble is wisdom." (Prov 11:2) and "Pride goes before destruction, and a haughty spirit before stumbling." (Prov 11:18) and "A faithful man will abound with blessings, but he who makes haste to be rich will not go unpunished." (Prov 28:20)
I Love My Lord Jesus Christ more than anything.
“Blessed are s the poor in spirit, for theirs is the kingdom of heaven.
“Blessed are those who mourn, for they shall be comforted.
“Blessed are the meek, for they shall inherit the earth.
“Blessed are the peacemakers, for they shall be called sons of God.
“Blessed are those who are persecuted for righteousness' sake, for theirs is the kingdom of heaven.
"Blessed are you when others revile you and persecute you and utter all kinds of evil against you falsely on my account.
This comment is in response to peter lumpkins calling wade’s blog being thoroughly infested with anonymous wackos from Lord knows where. Wade deleted this comment and I don’t know why. We do deserve a little HUMOR now and again.
DR PHIL you can email me your comments and I will post them here on for all that love your humorous comments.
To the words of appreciation expressed above is added a hearthelt "thank you" from yours truly for opening up again anonymous comments. I am back. With a vengeance.
But be forewarned Alan Cross. It is deduced that you are a minister with a sensitive soul. Either do not read what I am about to write about a man named Peter Bumpkin, or at least 'cross' yourself and shout four Hail Marys before you do.
Peter Bumpkin wrote in the first paragraph of his most recent post:
Burleson is out of the mainstream Southern Baptist commodity, his blog being thoroughly infested with anonymous wackos from Lord knows where
It has been my sole occupation for the last quarter century to psychoanalyze real wackos, so, to Mr. Bumpkin there is offered in this comment, free of charge, the professional services of Dr. Phil -- services that have allowed the purchase in cash of a Porsche, Puget sound house and multiple plasic surgeries for his wife. Bumpkin's family and friends can thank me later.
First, Bumpkin suffers from dissaciative identity disorder. He talks to himself like he's talking to an entire basketball team at once. Folks, it isn't what some call Baptist 'Identity' that ought to concern you about Mr. Bumpkin, it is the multiple identities within himself to whom he speaks.
Second, Bumpkin suffers from Delusional Disorder. Specifically, he thinks people are in love with him. Of course, this is a delusional, but a delusion sincerely believed. One only has to watch the first ten seconds of the videos to diagnose it, and you don't even have to have professional training.
Third, Bumpkins suffers from Panic Attack Disorders. This manifests itself typically through fears about future attacks or changes in behavior to avoid situations that might predispose to attacks. Peter Bumpkin is a classic example of such panic.
Finally, Bumpkin suffers Cyclothymic Disorder Cyclothymics are always full of plans, improvident, overinvolved, and meddlesome; they rush off with restless impulses and accost people. What is bizarre about these two videos is that Bumpkins is so involved accosting others he has no cognition of the annoyingly squeaking chair in which he obsessively and compulsively rotates while he videos himself speaking of others.
My characteristic humor has been shelved for the most part in this comment, to just observe that the man calling people in this comment stream wackos is absolutely certifiable. But don't take my word for it. Watch the bizarre videos yourself.
Prayer for the day
God, please, in your mercy for us, will you not save the SBC from such men?
Obituary This Obituary printed in the London Times - Interesting and sadly rather true.
Today we mourn the passing of a beloved old riend,Common Sense, who has been with us for many years.
No one knows for sure how old he was, since his birth records were long ago lost in bureaucratic red tape.
He will be remembered as having cultivated such valuable lessons as:
- Knowing when to come in out of the rain;- Why the early bird gets the worm; - Life isn't always fair;- and maybe it was my fault.
Common Sense lived by simple, sound financial policies (don't spend more than you can earn) and reliable strategies (adults, not children, are in charge).
His health began to deteriorate rapidly when well-intentioned but overbearing regulations were set in place. Reports of a 6-year-old boy charged with sexual harassment for kissing a classmate; teens suspended from school for using mouthwash after lunch; and a teacher fired for reprimanding an unruly student, only worsened his condition. Common Sense lost ground when parents attacked teachers for doing the job that they themselves had failed to do in disciplining their unruly children. It declined even further when schools were required to get parental consent to administer sun lotion or an aspirin to a student; but could not inform parents when a student became pregnant and wanted to have an abortion.
Common Sense lost the will to live as the churches became businesses; and criminals received better treatment than their victims.
Common Sense took a beating when you couldn't defend yourself from a burglar in your own home and the burglar could sue you for assault.
Common Sense finally gave up the will to live, after a woman failed to realize that a steaming cup of coffee was hot. She spilled a little in her lap, and was promptly awarded a huge settlement.
Common Sense was preceded in death, by his parents, Truth and Trust, by his wife, Discretion, by his daughter, Responsibility, and by his son, Reason.
He is survived by his 4 stepbrothers; I Know My Rights, I Want It Now, Someone Else Is To Blame, and I'm A Victim Not many attended his funeral because so few realized he was gone. If you still remember him, pass this on.. If not, join the majority and do nothing 'Be kinder than necessary because everyone you meet is fighting some kind of battle.'
This comment is not for the weak minded, bent kneed, pussyfooted Southern Baptists who excuse hypocrisy. Jesus beat the hell out of the Pharisees with a whip. I will be beating the hell of out Pastor Wes Kidney with my words.
Dr. Phil from Seattle here. My Master's in Psychology, Doctorate in Psychiatry, and multiple National Certifications in behavioral genetic dispositions certify my ability to interpret for ignorant Southern Baptists Pastor Wes Kidney's absurd statement justifying the time stamp changes on his blog.
Before I interpret Pastor Wes Kidney's words, evaluating his mental health in the process, I make known my prayer for his wife. She needs God's mercy for her physical problem as much as Wes Kidney is in need of it for his spiritual problem.
But need I remind my fellow Southern Baptists that Mrs. Kidney's backsurgery has nothing to do with Pastor Kidney's backstabbing. Even the radical leftwing Americans for Disabilities Act (ADA) differentiates between a plaintiff's disability and the conduct resulting from that disability. Those seeking to let Pastor Kidney off the hook because of his wife are more liberal than the ADA, which won't let someone off for his own disabilities. People, quit talking about his wife in the same sentence. Christians excusing Pastor Kidney's horrible and intentional sin because of his wife's back is like a Christian man blaming his sin of adultery on his wife's boobs.
Enough said.
Now to the psycho-analysis. Pastor Kidney's words would be in yellow, for their bile if there were colors on blogger, but bold black shall represent their defilement. My expert translation of what Pastor Kidney's words mean follows --
(Time Stamp, SBC Today, 3:15 p.m. Central Time)
Uh huh. Right.
I’ve received several kind emails asking about the circumstances surrounding the closing of comments on the post containing my interview with Dr. Patterson. Translation: Southern Baptists are spanking my butt for being an incredible hypocrite.
"Apparently, my actions have inadvertently touched off a bit of controversy," Translation: I never thought I'd be caught lying and backstabbing, much less caught trying to cover it up.
so I thought it would be good to make the facts of the incident available to all. Translation: I am going to lie again to cover up my lies earlier.
My wife is undergoing major back surgery this week, and I’ll essentially be “moving” to a hotel in Oklahoma City tomorrow and remaining there through at least Saturday, so I won’t be able to interact here very much. Translation: I don't want any questions. Heck, I got exposed by their questions the first time. What can I do to shut down dialogue? Got it! I'll use my wife!
Therefore, comments are not enabled for this post. Translation: I sure hope they enough compassion to ignore the fact I won't take their questions.
I welcome your emails, and will respond to them as I have opportunity. Click here to contact me by email. Translation: There ain't a snow ball's chance in hell I'm responding to anybody who doesn't believe me and please, dear Jesus, don't let anybody from Enid be able to read this post.
Middle of the day on Thursday, I began to realize that the comments on the interview post needed closing, Translation: Heck, I never dreamed people would begin to question why Dr. Patterson would stumble all over himself trying to answer my question about terminating Calvinists.
but I didn’t ever get around to it, as I was trying to get ahead in light of next week. Translation: Surely another mention of my wife will garner their sympathy.
As I got ready to go to bed Thursday night, a friend called and asked if I would, as a personal favor, close the comments. Translation: Geez, I hope they don't realize my best friend is one of my multiple personalities.
I agreed, and asked my friend for suggestions on what to say in a comment explaining the closure. Translation: Man, this is lame. But shoot, they'll believe anything.
The friend asked if they could think on it for a bit, and I agreed. I then immediately closed the comments and turned my attention to the television. Translation: Dang, I forgot I just said I got ready to go to bed. Sheesh. "Hey, Wes, this is Reed, your favorite personality. You think the readers will catch the 'friend' is 'they?'
Something like an hour later, I received an email from the friend, Translation: Oh criminy, here it goes . . . . I hope this works!!!!
asking if I would post a comment for them (as they could not post, since I’d already closed it) under their chosen pseudonym. The text of their desired comment was in the email. I returned to the site, logged myself out, posted my friend’s text as coming from “John 3:16,” then logged back in and replied to the comment’s request with the one-word response, “Granted.” Translation: Sheesh. That really looks lame. Well, Southern Baptists are gullible. Please Lord, help me out.
I thought no more about it, as Friday was also a busy day, but mid-afternoon, I began to wonder if someone might not be tempted to think that “John 3:16″ was my own pseudonym because the two comments were so close in time. Translation: I can't tell anyone I was actually reading the blog comments at Grace and Truth to You and discovered how stupid I was in trying to pose as John 3:16.
So I logged in to the site and moved the “John 3:16″ comment back an hour, roughly reflective of the time of their phone call. Translation: That dang Byroniac. I could have given a much more believable explanation if he hadn't had the computer savvy to trace both comments to my personal computer
Later that afternoon, temptation got the better of me, and I wandered over to Wade Burleson’s blog, Translation: I sure hope they catch that I'm using the word temptation to let everyone know Wade Burleson's blog is evil. Heck, I tried to say that in John 3:16's comment more directly but never dreamed they'd discover it was me.
where I discovered that the commenters, apparently having little else to do, Translation: Those stupid idiots. They caught me. I'm going to try to blame them for what I did.
They had elevated this edit of timestamps to a conspiracy akin to the Kennedy assassination, with myself in the role of the grassy knoll rifleman. Translation: How silly of them, it's only changing time stamps.
Well, my mischievous (sinful?) side then got the better of me, and I decided to enjoy myself a bit, randomly adjusting the timestamp on those two comments several times over the course of the evening.I was enjoying myself a bit too much. Translation:I can't dare admit I was intentionally trying to confuse the heck out of everybody to think there was a problem with the server so I could get away scott free.
For my part, I’ve sworn off any contact with or acknowledgement of Wade Burleson and what he is doing. Translation: That evil, no good, devil Wade Burleson.
We’ve installed a plugin that allows us to block IP addresses, and I’ve set it up to block the range of IP addresses Wade Burleson has used to comment on our site in the past. Translation: That devil has an answer for everything. Worse, those Enid people hold me accountable when I attack their pastor's character. I can't answer their questions if I just block them from asking.
And, with God’s help, I’ll do my best never to visit Grace and Truth to You again. Translation: God hates Wade Burleson. He loves me. Oh, God, save me from the devil himself!
I’ll do as I’ve done in the past, trying my best to write Translation: Except an hour before bedtime. Sheesh. I hope they don't remember that little lie.
and facilitate blog posts that will serve the preservation of our biblical Baptist distinctives, but I’ll not be drawn in to this kind of silly controversy again. Translation: Don't you dare question my character, that's silly. Just join my Baptist Identity circle of friends and all you have to do is believe the gospel. You don't have to live it like everybody else.
The End of the Lies
Dr. Phil's diagnosis.
Pastor Wes Kidney's illness is that of the worst kind. He has accused Pastor Burleson of changing time stamps. Pastor Kidney and Pastor Scott Boredom then falsely charged Pastor Burleson of lying when he denied the false charges. It twas then explained to the two moron pastors by other bloggers that you can't change time stamps on blogger.com site like you can on Kidney's and Boredom's Wordpress blog sites. However, there has been no apology for their false accusations. Their blatant lies against Pastor Burleson are still posted on the internet.
Now, Pastor Kidney is caught doing the very thing he falsely condemned another for doing. And instead of confessing his sin and rectifying his error, he justifies it. Some of you weak minded, bent kneed, pussyfooted Southern Baptists may forgive Pastor Kidney and Pastor Boredom, as it seems Pastor Burleson has done, but Dr. Phil learned a long time ago you don't bestow forgiveness until there is a confession of guilt.
Counter to what Mr. Kidney hopes you might think, the guilt hanging over his head like Damocles sword is not the guilt due to the silly little thing of changing time stamps. It is the very serious guilt of hypocrisy. Jesus used a whip to beat it out of the Pharisees. Dr. Phil uses his words.
