October 2025 Newsletter

Quotes of the month

The heavens declare the glory of God, and the sky above proclaims the work of His hands.

Psalm 19:1

(This verse from Psalms 19:1 serves as a beautiful reminder of the grandeur of God’s creation. When we gaze up at the night sky, we are met with a breathtaking display of stars, planets, and sometimes even celestial events like meteors and eclipses. This verse teaches us that these wonders are not just random occurrences; they are the handiwork of God. The

 heavens have a way of proclaiming the magnificence of their Creator, pointing to His power and artistry.

This verse also emphasizes that creation itself—everything surrounding us—holds messages about the nature of God. In nature, we can see things like order, beauty, and complexity, all of which reflect the elegance of God’s mind. As we marvel at the beauty of a sunset, a mountain range, or even the intricacies of a leaf, we are witnessing God’s glory revealed to us. The firmament, or the sky, demonstrates His incredible work. Each star in the sky, each cloud floating above us, all serve as reminders that we are part of an extraordinary creation.

Fall in love with God.  He will never break your heart.

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I am greatly afraid that many professing Christians do not realize what a gross sin it is to complain.

Charles Spurgeon

(I received a couple responses from this quote I sent out Tuesday that suggested to me I should clarify Spurgeon’s words. Spurgeon was referring to the spiteful, useless complaining that hurts. The constant grumblings, murmurings, griping, fault-finding, gossiping that people do that ultimately just hurts their own soul. Spurgeon was not referring to Jeremiah’s lamentations or to some of the Psalms, where the writers are expressing sorrow and grief, which is different than straight out complaining; there is a difference.

To not complain just for complaining’s sake is also re-affirmed in 1 Peter 4:9, James 5:9, 1 Thessalonians 5:18, Philippians 2:14-15, and 4:11. Look those verses up to get an even better explanation than I could ever give. Hopefully this helps.)

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(Those born in the ‘40s, ‘50s, and ’60 can relate to this homeroom announcement)

2025 – School will be closed due to high winds.

1976 – Tornado happening. Go in the hall and put a book on your head.  Also, we are having pizza for lunch.

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Have you ever been told that if you’re a good person and you do the best that you can, that you will go to heaven? Are you willing to trust your eternal destiny on that man-made statement? What if it is wrong? What then is your hope of heaven? As for myself, I have never been persuaded to put my soul’s destiny at stake on the foundation of a mere man’s words or any so-called church’s theology. I want something more than that, and thank God, I have something more than that. It is the Holy Word of God, the Bible. Written by God, the Bible is infallible, and it reveals to us God’s only way of salvation.

Pastor Robert Surgenor

A good history lesson for everyone

   by Shihan Will Duncan

      (contributed in 2015)

Most Americans are unaware of the fact that over two hundred years ago, the Unites States had declared war on Islam, and Thomas Jefferson led the charge.

At the height of the 18^th century, Muslim pirates were the terror of the Mediterranean and a large area of the North Atlantic. They attacked every ship in sight and held the crews for exorbitant ransoms. Those taken hostage were subjected to barbaric treatment and wrote heart breaking letters home, begging their government and family members to pay whatever their Mohammmedan captors demanded. These extortionists of the high seas represent the Islamic nations of Tripoli, Tunis, Morocco, and Algiers, collectively referred to as the Barbary Coast, and presented a dangerous and unprovoked threat to the new American Republic. Before the Revolutionary War, U.S. merchant ships had been under the protection of Great Britain. When the U.S. declared its independence and entered into war, the ships of the United States were protected by France. However, once the war was won, America had to protect its own fleets. Thus, the birth of the U.S. Navy.

Beginning in 1784, seventeen years before he would become president, Thomas Jefferson became America’s Minister to France. That same year, the U.S. Congress sought to appease its Muslim adversaries by following in the footsteps of European nations who paid brides to the Barbary States, rather than engaging them in war.

In July of 1785, Algerian pirates captured American ships, and the Dey of Algiers demanded an unheard of ransom of $60,000. It was a plain and simple case of extortion, and Thomas Jefferson was vehemently opposed to any further payments. Instead, he proposed to Congress the formation of a coalition of allied nations who together could force the Islamic states into peace. A disinterested Congress decided to pay the ransom.

 In 1786, Thomas Jefferson and John Adams met the Tripoli’s ambassador to Great Britain to ask by what right his nation attacked American ships and enslaved American citizens, and why Muslims held so much hostility towards America, a nation with which they had no previous contacts. The two future presidents reported that Ambassador Sidi Haji Abdul Rahman Adja had answered that Islam “was founded on the Laws of their Prophet, that it was written in their Quran, that all nations who should not have acknowledged their authority were sinners, that it was their right and duty to make war upon them wherever they could be found, and to make slaves of all they could take as prisoners, and that every Musselman (Muslim) who should be slain in battle was sure to go to paradise.

Despite this stunning admission of premeditated violence on non Muslim nations, as well as the objections of many notable American leaders, including George Washington, who warned that caving in was both wrong and would only further embolden the enemy, for the following 15 years, the American government paid the Muslims millions of dollars for the safe passage of American ships or the return of American hostages. The payments in ransom and tribute amounted to over 20 percent of the United States government annual revenues in 1800. Jefferson was disgusted. Shortly after his being sworn in as the third President of the United States in 1801, the Pasha of Tripoli sent him a note demanding the immediate payment of $225,000, plus $25,000 a year for every year forthcoming. That changed everything. Jefferson let the Pasha know, in no uncertain terms, what he could do with his demand. The Pasha responded by cutting down the flagpole at the American consulate and declared war on the United States. Tunis, Morocco, and Algiers immediately followed suit.

Jefferson, until now, had been against America raising a naval force for anything beyond coastal defense, but having watched his nation be cowed by Islamic thuggery for long enough, decided that it was finally time to meet force with force. He dispatched a squadron of frigates to the Mediterranean and taught the Muslim nations of the Barbary Coast a lesson he hoped they would never forget. Congress authorized Jefferson to empower U.S. ships to seize all vessels and goods of the Pasha of Tripoli and to “cause to be done all other acts of precaution or hostility as the state of war would justify.” When Algiers and Tunis, who were both accustomed to American cowardice and acquiescence, saw the newly independent United States had both the will and the might to strike back, they quickly abandoned their allegiance to Tripoli. The war with Tripoli lasted for four more years and raged up again in 1815.

The bravery of the U.S. Marine Corps in these wars led to the line “to the shores of Tripoli” in the Marine hymn, and they would forever be known as “leathernecks” for the leather collars of their uniforms, designed to prevent their heads from being cut off by the Muslim scimitars when boarding enemy ships. Islam, and what its Barbary followers justified doing in the name of their prophet and their god, disturbed Jefferson quite deeply. America had a tradition of religious tolerance; the fact that Jefferson, himself, had co-authored the Virginia Statute for Religious Freedom, but fundamentalist Islam was like no other religion the world had ever seen. A religion based on supremacism, whose holy book not only condoned but mandated violence against unbelievers was unacceptable to him. His greatest fear was that someday this brand of Islam would return and pose an even greater threat to the United States.

This should bother every American. That the Islams have brought about women only classes and swimming times at taxpayer funded universities and public pools; that Christians, Jews, and Hindus have been banned from serving on juries where Muslim defendants are being judge, piggy banks and Porky Pig tissue dispensers have been banned from workplaces because they offend Islamists sensibilities. Ice cream has been discontinued at certain Burger King locations because the picture on the wrapper looks similar to the Arabic script for Allah, public schools are pulling pork from their menus, and on and on in the newspapers.

It's death by a thousand cuts, or inch by inch as some refer to it, and most Americans have no idea that this battle is being waged every day across America. By not fighting back, by allowing groups to obfuscate what is really happening, and not insisting that the Islamist adapt to our own culture, the United States is cutting its own throat with a politically correct knife and helping to further the Islamists agenda. Sadly, it appears that today’s America would rather be politically correct than victorious. And with our appeaser candy ass president at the helm (written in 2015), the situation looks even more dire.

Any doubts, just Google Thomas Jefferson vs. the Muslim World.

God Bless America

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