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<title>The Wonder Springs Chronicle -</title><link>http://www.wondersprings.org/index.php</link><description>A Biblical Worldview Commentary</description><dc:language>en</dc:language><dc:creator>Jerry Bannon</dc:creator><dc:rights>Copyright 2008 Wonder Springs</dc:rights><dc:date>2010-03-10T11:45:20-08:00</dc:date><admin:generatorAgent rdf:resource="http://www.realmacsoftware.com/" />
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<lastBuildDate>Wed, 10 Mar 2010 11:45:20 -0800</lastBuildDate><itunes:author>Jerry Bannon</itunes:author><itunes:owner><itunes:name>Wonder Springs</itunes:name><itunes:email>wonder@wondersprings.org</itunes:email></itunes:owner><itunes:category text="Religion and Sprituality "/><itunes:keywords>Biblcal, Worldview</itunes:keywords><itunes:subtitle>The Wonder Springs Chronicle</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary>The &#x22;Wonder Springs Chronicle&#x22; is a weekly email and pdf podcast discussing education&#x2c; current events&#x2c; and life from a Biblical Creation worldview</itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://www.wondersprings.org/files/podcast_channel.png" /><item><title>Why Me? Outside the Box</title><dc:creator>Jerry Bannon</dc:creator><category>Weekly Column</category><dc:date>2010-03-10T11:45:20-08:00</dc:date><link>http://www.wondersprings.org/files/whymeoutside031010.php#unique-entry-id-568</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.wondersprings.org/files/whymeoutside031010.php#unique-entry-id-568</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[Beginning with the absolute understanding that humanity is a creation of God, and was indeed a creation in the image of God, it logically follows that this five hundred year upheaval, forces us again to look beyond the temporal world and refocus upon the transcendent nature of common life. 

...Even though Edwards was a church pastor, this first awakening was really the birth of what we today know as the revival service in which itinerant preachers travel from place to place preaching outside established churches, many times because the appeal to the local populace was so great that no church building could hold the crowd. 


...The religious fever swept throughout the colonies, but from our perspective it is important to notice that revivalism had a tendency to bring in experts and excitements from out of town to enhance the Christian gospel message and provided an emphasis on making conversions to Christ, rather than more traditional catechesis and discipleship.  


So what we see in the miracle time of the foundational formation of the United States is a tension between the specific revelations of God through the scriptures and a general revelation of God through creation or the wildness that accompanied living on a continent where the established norms of boxes of Europe and especially England, not only did not apply, but were counter productive to personal and community economic survival and growth. 


...We have chosen six people, born within 150 present road miles of Boston, from 1782 - 1821, who brought out of box change not only to New England but also to the whole United States. 

...There are many problems interpreting all of this today because to most historians all Christians are essentially the same and even if there is a recognized difference between Roman Catholics and Protestants, they surely are unable to differentiate between say a historic Presbyterian and a Finney Presbyterian. 

...In our brief religious excursion this week we see seven people, six born within a hundred mile radius of some point in central Massachusetts that have a significant impact on the common and specific religious culture of the United States and the world today. ]]></content:encoded><enclosure url="http://www.wondersprings.org/files/podcast_568.pdf" length="158247" type="application/pdf"/><itunes:author>Jerry Bannon</itunes:author><itunes:category text="Religion and Spirituality"/><itunes:keywords>Reformation, revivalism, Christianity, transendence</itunes:keywords><itunes:subtitle>The Wonder Springs Chroncile</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary>This week we put some religious perspective into the miracle of the formation of the United States.</itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://www.wondersprings.org/files/podcast_image_568.png" /></item><item><title>Week in Review &#x2013; February 28 - March 6&#x2c; 2010: Olympic hockey&#x2c; healthcare&#x2c; opportunity</title><dc:creator>Jerry Bannon</dc:creator><category>Week in Review</category><dc:date>2010-03-08T11:47:06-08:00</dc:date><link>http://www.wondersprings.org/files/winr0228-030610.php#unique-entry-id-567</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.wondersprings.org/files/winr0228-030610.php#unique-entry-id-567</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[It is true that most Americans are happy with their current coverage and don&rsquo;t want it to change, simply because they get it for free or cheap with their job. 

...We can&rsquo;t buy our way out of that reality, especially when our debt is now seriously beginning to affect the future we still could have enjoyed with just a little discipline, financial and otherwise. 


...Furthermore the boxes that are still available are way too expensive for most people to obtain, because there really is no wealth created in just shuffling the boxes from place to place. 

...The problem with compromise is that it doesn&rsquo;t provide the aggressive hostility required to get advertisers to buy box pushing ads, because drawing from our Olympic moment above, watching it on the tube you really can&rsquo;t see the subtle nature of the compromise game. 


One of the realities of life that is no longer understood, is if you find your identity outside culture, there is a much higher probability that you will be eliminated from the active gene pool. 

...Most people are healthy enough that their insurance premiums pay for those who don&rsquo;t have health insurance either through lifestyles choices or financial ability, Furthermore most people who have health insurance through their employer, don&rsquo;t have a clue on how much their take home pay is reduced by the cost of their so called free insurance. 

...In history we see that when people were forced out of their secure boxes by transcendent reality, real positive change took place quite rapidly, but not without making the past and the present an untenable problem. ]]></content:encoded></item><item><title>Morning &#x26; Evening for March 7th - Charles Haddon Spurgeon</title><dc:creator>Jerry Bannon</dc:creator><category>Morning &#x26; Evening</category><dc:date>2010-03-06T16:27:51-08:00</dc:date><link>http://www.wondersprings.org/files/morneven030710.php#unique-entry-id-566</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.wondersprings.org/files/morneven030710.php#unique-entry-id-566</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[With faith I can do all things; without faith I shall neither have the inclination nor the power to do anything in the service of God. ...  Little faith will go to heaven most certainly, but it often has to hide itself in a nut-shell, and it frequently loses all but its jewels.   Little-faith says, "It is a rough road, beset with sharp thorns, and full of dangers; I am afraid to go;" but Great-faith remembers the promise, "Thy shoes shall be iron and brass; as thy days, so shall thy strength be:" and so she boldly ventures.   Little-faith stands desponding, mingling her tears with the flood; but Great-faith sings, "When thou passest through the waters, I will be with thee; and through the rivers, they shall not overflow thee:" and she fords the stream at once. ...  If you love darkness, and are satisfied to dwell in gloom and misery, then be content with little faith; but if you love the sunshine, and would sing songs of rejoicing, covet earnestly this best gift, "great faith."


...If so, seek another God; but if He be infinite, omnipotent, faithful, true, and all-wise, why gaddest thou abroad so much to seek another confidence? ...  Let the sandy foundations of terrestrial trust be the choice of fools, but do thou, like one who foresees the storm, build for thyself an abiding place upon the Rock of Ages.
]]></content:encoded></item><item><title>Brute&#x27; says sometimes nothin&#x27; is better than a lot of somethin&#x27;&#x21;</title><dc:creator>Jerry Bannon</dc:creator><category>Et Tu Brute&#x27;</category><dc:date>2010-03-05T10:59:19-08:00</dc:date><link>http://www.wondersprings.org/files/brute030510.php#unique-entry-id-565</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.wondersprings.org/files/brute030510.php#unique-entry-id-565</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[(null)]]></content:encoded></item><item><title>Why Me? The American Miracle</title><dc:creator>Jerry Bannon</dc:creator><category>Weekly Column</category><dc:date>2010-03-03T09:35:02-08:00</dc:date><link>http://www.wondersprings.org/files/whymemiracle030310.php#unique-entry-id-564</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.wondersprings.org/files/whymemiracle030310.php#unique-entry-id-564</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[Of course we are told that if we just have hope, someday a few drops of good money will trickle down to us, but just as with seawater, it is undrinkable and the salinity is such that it can&rsquo;t be used to grow anything, or abstractly create wealth. 


...The major problems today were created because we want to be pampered, do the least we can do to get by, then retire early to live out our squandered life in luxury, and never think about the God who might interfere with our manifest destiny. 

...Hum, God &ndash; Jesus, that happened about 2000 years ago, if I start there perhaps I can construct a map that will get me back to a more achievable fork in the road, to get the narrow path right this time.&rdquo;


...Once peace was achieved in Europe after the Thirty Years War, human development advanced rapidly as God was slowly pushed out of the picture and human reason and materialism increasingly became the only way people sought to understand life, the world, and our place in the big scheme of things. 

...However true to the Noah typology all those safety ark builders are doing is trying to save themselves, they are planning on taking on those people, things and animals that they think will secure their survival. 

...Contrary to what is taught in most churches, while Jesus had the power in his Godhead, in dealing with people he never assumed that power on earth, but rather adopted just the authority he was given by his Father in heaven.   George Washington understood that difference and quit after two terms as president because many wanted the easy course of combined or assumed authority and power over human rights and people be vested in just one, a human leader. 
]]></content:encoded><enclosure url="http://www.wondersprings.org/files/podcast_564.pdf" length="177981" type="application/pdf"/><itunes:author>Jerry Bannon</itunes:author><itunes:category text="Religion and Spirituality"/><itunes:keywords>American Dream, Promised Land, God</itunes:keywords><itunes:subtitle>The Wonder Springs Chronicle</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary>This week we look through history to the founding of the American Republic to provide a narrow path toward a better future.</itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://www.wondersprings.org/files/podcast_image_564.png" /></item><item><title>Week in Review &#x2013; February 21-27&#x2c; 2010: Olympic bobsleds&#x2c; Chile earthquake&#x2c; Obamacare</title><dc:creator>Jerry Bannon</dc:creator><category>Week in Review</category><dc:date>2010-03-01T12:31:03-08:00</dc:date><link>http://www.wondersprings.org/files/winr0221-2710.php#unique-entry-id-563</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.wondersprings.org/files/winr0221-2710.php#unique-entry-id-563</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[Before TV cameras all three teams sort of scrunched together for a group photo and in the process you had over 1000 kilos (2200 lbs.) of competitive alpha males getting up close and personal, all smiling like they sort of liked one another. 

...In our self centered world, the differences between competition and aggression blur our vision, so that aggression has somewhat become a social virtue and we have lost the true understanding of competition as a way to achieve excellence. 


...An eight hundred times stronger quake with 0.005% of the dead will give the media analysis time for hundreds to thousands of reports for the days, weeks, and months to come, and this time they can read the introductions and break to the experts and pundits to tell us what really happened, again only from the media centers. 


The point being, none of this really brings us together in any sense, but rather tends to develop fear in insecure people that something worse can happened to them, and worry is your best or only solace. 

...This exhibition was not about the competition of ideas, or political parties, or the people, but aggressive worldviews, in which none of the healthcare theatrics show an understanding of the difference between power and authority. 


This should come as no great surprise, in a half a century of me education and me influence, coming to a head is the aggressive conflict between the me elites and the me libertarians, and all those of more centrist persuasion, well you really don&rsquo;t matter. 


...What he therein exhibited very pointedly is that he just doesn&rsquo;t understand that he and his group of likeminded amigos; do not possess within their influence, the power to pull off his belligerent wishes. ]]></content:encoded></item><item><title>Morning &#x26; Evening for February 28th - Charles Haddon Spurgeon</title><dc:creator>Jerry Bannon</dc:creator><category>Morning &#x26; Evening</category><dc:date>2010-02-27T15:59:04-08:00</dc:date><link>http://www.wondersprings.org/files/morneven022810.php#unique-entry-id-562</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.wondersprings.org/files/morneven022810.php#unique-entry-id-562</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[But if he looks to God for the supply of his wants, whether in temporal or spiritual blessings, his expectation" will not be a vain one. ...  We are expecting harps of gold and crowns of glory; we are hoping soon to be amongst the multitude of shining ones before the throne; we are looking forward and longing for the time when we shall be like our glorious Lord--for "We shall see Him as He is."   Then if these be thine "expectations," O my soul, live for God; live with the desire and resolve to glorify Him from whom cometh all thy supplies, and of whose grace in thy election, redemption, and calling, it is that thou hast any "expectation" of coming glory.


...You, dear reader, have daily necessities, and because they come so frequently, you are apt to fear that the barrel of meal will one day be empty, and the cruse of oil will fail you. ...  Each day, though it bring its trouble, shall bring its help; and though you should live to outnumber the years of Methuselah, and though your needs should be as many as the sands of the seashore, yet shall God's grace and mercy last through all your necessities, and you shall never know a real lack.   For three long years, in this widow's days, the heavens never saw a cloud, and the stars never wept a holy tear of dew upon the wicked earth: famine, and desolation, and death, made the land a howling wilderness, but this woman never was hungry, but always joyful in abundance. ...  You shall see the sinner's hope perish, for he trusts his native strength; you shall see the proud Pharisee's confidence totter, for he builds his hope upon the sand; you shall see even your own schemes blasted and withered, but you yourself shall find that your place of defence shall be the munition of rocks: "Your bread shall be given you, and your water shall be sure." ]]></content:encoded></item><item><title>Brute&#x27; says Americans need to learn how to hibernate though this leadership winter.</title><dc:creator>Jerry Bannon</dc:creator><category>Et Tu Brute&#x27;</category><dc:date>2010-02-26T09:45:17-08:00</dc:date><link>http://www.wondersprings.org/files/brute022610.php#unique-entry-id-561</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.wondersprings.org/files/brute022610.php#unique-entry-id-561</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[(null)]]></content:encoded></item><item><title>Why Me? Integrity</title><dc:creator>Jerry Bannon</dc:creator><category>Weekly Column</category><dc:date>2010-02-24T10:03:20-08:00</dc:date><link>http://www.wondersprings.org/files/whymeintegrity022410.php#unique-entry-id-560</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.wondersprings.org/files/whymeintegrity022410.php#unique-entry-id-560</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[Be that as it may, with the invention of the movable metal type printing press in 1440 by German Johannes Gutenberg, we now have for the first time in this series a written history of the continuing development of European culture in which books, pamphlets, and handbills can be widely distributed to a least the literate classes. 

...I do not know if zusammen appears in any of Luther&rsquo;s writings, but in America that concept of we are all in this together seems still lost on Lutherans, hence the concept of Lutherans as &ldquo;God&rsquo;s Frozen Chosen.&rdquo; 

...Calvin also seemed to have a sense of humor for creating a pamphlet generally known as the &ldquo;Inventory of Relics&rdquo; in which he lists the various church relics that were available in his day, used as fund raisers to help the Roman church finance its role of promoting its temporal eternal nature. 


...Therefore it somewhat illogically follows, that Arminians are an anathema of a different sort and totally distinct from Lutherans, even though Lutherans only share completely with Calvinists the Total Depravity Calvinist TULIP plank and redefine or refute totally the other points of Calvinism as they exist in Dort. 


So when we bring this Calvinist &ndash; Arminian split to England and the United States we find that not only did John Wesley define himself has an Arminian (because he did not adhere to the TULIP&rsquo;s five points), he really came to his point of view through an overtly strident vein of Lutheran pietism, which formed the basis of much of his personal holiness theology. 


...This rooting in history can be seen as why many historic Protestants leave Protestantism because of a continuing emphasis, especially in evangelical, charismatic, Protestantism, to try to achieve a present evolving cultural relevance, absent any historical Christian cultural link, except a desire to restore the vigor of the early church, sans their true commitment. 


...In the last year the changes that have rapidly taken place in the United States, as we discussed last week, really isn&rsquo;t change we want to believe in, simply because it is too stupendous for our change desires to be slow and gradual, in which we control the outcomes. ]]></content:encoded><enclosure url="http://www.wondersprings.org/files/podcast_560.pdf" length="158205" type="application/pdf"/><itunes:author>Jerry Bannon</itunes:author><itunes:category text="Religion and Spirituality"/><itunes:keywords>Reformation, Martin Luther, John Calvin, TEA party</itunes:keywords><itunes:subtitle>The Wonder Springs Chronicle</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary>This week we look at God&#x27;s rebooting of western culture during the Reformation and how that served as the basis for the world we enjoy today</itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://www.wondersprings.org/files/podcast_image_560.png" /></item><item><title>Week in Review: February 14-20&#x2c; 2010</title><dc:creator>Jerry Bannon</dc:creator><category>Week in Review</category><dc:date>2010-02-22T12:30:01-08:00</dc:date><link>http://www.wondersprings.org/files/winr0214-2010.php#unique-entry-id-559</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.wondersprings.org/files/winr0214-2010.php#unique-entry-id-559</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[This was evident in the Austin, Texas happening on Thursday where Joe Stack, a disgruntled former software engineer, crashed his small plane into the local IRS building, leaving behind his house he set on fire, and a reported 3000 word manifesto on the Internet.


...Joe may have been angry with the IRS, but he was still wealthy enough to have a house to set on fire, and a small plane he could fly into the building. 

...Again both Tiger&rsquo;s and Bill&rsquo;s moral compasses, pointed to their own center, for life&rsquo;s direction, because there was no external reference by which they could find their position in an external real world, and thereby set a course that would not lead to self destruction.


...What was missing in all of this was the fact the there would not have been a President Obama, just a junior Senator Obama from Illinois, if CPAC had not been so arrogantly condescending to the American people in CPAC&rsquo;s previous marriage to Washington centered, politics, money, and power.


...That means for the rest of us, we still must cope with a future in which our moral compass will be tested also, probably because we to, have for so long coasted along on auto pilot, believing that evolutionary myth; forever onward and upward through random chance, that we hope to manipulate to our own benefit.


Just like Beck, I am slowly beginning to understand that a century of evolutionary progressivism has got us to a point where we must face the fact that this country is rapidly becoming totally dysfunctional. 

...For those who might be interested, this is just a bloviated version of philosopher Emmanuel Kant&rsquo;s categorical imperative, which states essentially, &ldquo;Act in such a way that what you do shall become a universal law.&rdquo;
]]></content:encoded></item><item><title>Morning &#x26; Evening for February 21th - Charles Haddon Spurgeon</title><dc:creator>Jerry Bannon</dc:creator><category>Heidleberg Catechism</category><dc:date>2010-02-20T17:21:13-08:00</dc:date><link>http://www.wondersprings.org/files/morneven021910.php#unique-entry-id-558</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.wondersprings.org/files/morneven021910.php#unique-entry-id-558</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[Will not the distresses of life and the pangs of death; will not the corruptions within, and the snares without; will not the trials from above, and the temptations from beneath, all seem but light afflictions, when we can hide ourselves beneath the bulwark of "He hath said"? ...  You are like prisoners in a dungeon, and there may be one key in the bunch which would unlock the door, and you might be free; but if you will not look for it, you may remain a prisoner still, though liberty is so near at hand. ...  You can recollect the sayings of great men; you treasure up the verses of renowned poets; ought you not to be profound in your knowledge of the words of God, so that you may be able to quote them readily when you would solve a difficulty, or overthrow a doubt? 

...The apostle John, in his vision at Patmos, saw a book sealed with seven seals which none was found worthy to open, or so much as to look upon. ...  Therefore, if, for your own and others' profiting, you desire to be "filled with the knowledge of God's will in all wisdom and spiritual understanding," remember that prayer is your best means of study: like Daniel, you shall understand the dream, and the interpretation thereof, when you have sought unto God; and like John you shall see the seven seals of precious truth unloosed, after you have wept much. ...  Use the hammer of diligence, and let the knee of prayer be exercised, and there is not a stony doctrine in revelation which is useful for you to understand, which will not fly into shivers under the exercise of prayer and faith. ...  Thoughts and reasonings are like the steel wedges which give a hold upon truth; but prayer is the lever, the prise which forces open the iron chest of sacred mystery, that we may get the treasure hidden within.
]]></content:encoded></item><item><title>Brute&#x27; says never give up on yourself&#x21;</title><dc:creator>Jerry Bannon</dc:creator><category>Et Tu Brute&#x27;</category><dc:date>2010-02-19T15:43:59-08:00</dc:date><link>http://www.wondersprings.org/files/brute021910.php#unique-entry-id-557</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.wondersprings.org/files/brute021910.php#unique-entry-id-557</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[(null)]]></content:encoded></item><item><title>Why Me? Stupendous Change</title><dc:creator>Jerry Bannon</dc:creator><category>Weekly Column</category><dc:date>2010-02-17T08:34:42-08:00</dc:date><link>http://www.wondersprings.org/files/whymestupendous021710.php#unique-entry-id-556</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.wondersprings.org/files/whymestupendous021710.php#unique-entry-id-556</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[I chose one of the free examples, probably of the Adventist persuasion, which doesn&rsquo;t have a date for the Tower of Babel, but after all, part of God&rsquo;s reason for Babel beyond the myth, is the attempt for humans to figure out God and God&rsquo;s workings, so that in the no myth sense, we can understand everything. 

...Biblical timelines really were not all that important in Christendom until about the time that Bishop Ussher was rediscovered, simply because it really wasn&rsquo;t all that important because before the enlightenment of Darwinian Evolutionary spin, pretty much everyone believed in a God created universe and frankly there were other much more important things to worry about, like surviving continual stupendous change. 


Over church history many Biblical scholars have created young earth historic chronologies, but none fit as well with the Ussher perfection of the Blessed The Rapture, or the Hope of Jesus return at 6000 years, and after the millennial reign of Jesus on earth of a thousand years (Revelation 20) the end of the age after the White Throne Judgment. 

...Our modern science really cannot get us to either of these levels of a young earth, but it does show the fundamental truth that if God really wanted us to know how old everything is, instead of numerous series of begat from begat, he could have just stated a date that we could understand and then we could have build all sorts of ingenious ways to use that date, so that we could understand, recreate God in our likeness, rather than the other way around.   So the best we can do as wise and thinking Christians is to state thousands rather than millions and billions of years, and look to Jesus the author and perfecter of our faith to keep the earth&rsquo;s true history secret until the time when that date will only be a means, rather than an end of our desire to overcome any stupendous change at all. 


But there still are some of those primitive knuckle-dragging religious people out there that are so stupid and unenlightened that they cannot grasp the intellectual honesty of a faith that shows totally material quantum leaps in informational complexity which can easily take place by undirected random chance over billions of years. 

...What is meant by that is if you look at all the tremendous geological phenomena that occur on this planet and were formed over millions and billions of years, it is really a stupid question to ask what happened to the dirt that is no longer there that makes the feature, a feature, and if the feature has been that way for billions of years why hasn&rsquo;t the sandstone decomposed into sand? ]]></content:encoded><enclosure url="http://www.wondersprings.org/files/podcast_556.pdf" length="158570" type="application/pdf"/><itunes:author>Jerry Bannon</itunes:author><itunes:category text="Religion and Spirituality"/><itunes:keywords>stupendous change, 500 year reboot, Genesis, God, Jesus</itunes:keywords><itunes:subtitle>The Wonder Springs Chroncile</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary>From the time of the Biblical personality of Abraham&#x2c; God&#x2c; about ever 500 years reboots human society. The last time that happened was the Protestant Reformation</itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://www.wondersprings.org/files/podcast_image_556.png" /></item><item><title>Green Vitriol</title><dc:creator>Jerry Bannon</dc:creator><category>Web News</category><category>Special Report</category><category>Oikos Thoughts</category><dc:date>2010-02-14T19:24:05-08:00</dc:date><link>http://www.wondersprings.org/files/greenvit021510.php#unique-entry-id-555</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.wondersprings.org/files/greenvit021510.php#unique-entry-id-555</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[The truth is that none of us now alive will be around when it makes all that much difference, but that sure doesn&rsquo;t keep pundits and know-it-alls from making popish balderdash. 


...Now when we talk about green vitriol we are not talking about crystalline ferrous sulfate, but rather a vitriolic discussion about green energy and how it is going to save us from global warming and at the same time allow us to continue our gluttonous energetic lifestyle. 

...The problem is the current price of oil is just below those figures, and has traded in that $70 &mdash; $80 range for about a year now since the Saudis stated that the world price of oil should be at least $70.   Of course there is no market making manipulation there, just a simple commodity trading program, access to a whole lot of free money from saving the world from financial collapse, and someone with an Internet connection writing  oil industry press releases such as:


...Then we could produce a market for all that green technology, except we really could not make enough solar panels and windmills to make a dent in our need for fossil fuel energy, and what would all that green energy do to the local environments, with windmills killing birds and solar panels covering hundreds to thousands of square miles?   Then of course if we really want to be green, we must look at the total carbon footprint for those windmills and solar panels, including their design, manufacture, installation, maintenance, and distribution system. 


...Of course without grid ties the land we sacrifice of green energy could be used for something else, but then our cities would grow dark, unless we build some other type of really green centralized power plants, with a much better spin on the technology that is now viewed with vitriol.  ]]></content:encoded></item><item><title>Morning &#x26; Evening for February 14th - Charles Haddon Spurgeon</title><dc:creator>Jerry Bannon</dc:creator><category>Morning &#x26; Evening</category><dc:date>2010-02-14T04:53:34-08:00</dc:date><link>http://www.wondersprings.org/files/morneven021410.php#unique-entry-id-554</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.wondersprings.org/files/morneven021410.php#unique-entry-id-554</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[Jehoiachin was not sent away from the king's palace with a store to last him for months, but his provision was given him as a daily pension. ...  The thirst which we may suffer in the month of June does not need to be quenched in February, for we do not feel it yet; if we have enough for each day as the days arrive we shall never know want. 

...Had she known the love of Jesus' heart, she would have said, "I have but to put myself where He can see me--His omniscience will teach Him my case, and His love at once will work my cure." ...  After she had obtained the cure, she rejoiced with trembling: glad was she that the divine virtue had wrought a marvel in her; but she feared lest Christ should retract the blessing, and put a negative upon the grant of His grace: little did she comprehend the fulness of His love!   We have not so clear a view of Him as we could wish; we know not the heights and depths of His love; but we know of a surety that He is too good to withdraw from a trembling soul the gift which it has been able to obtain. ...  If in the list of the Lord's children we are written as the feeblest of the family, yet, being heirs through faith, no power, human or devilish, can eject us from salvation.   If we dare not lean our heads upon His bosom with John, yet if we can venture in the press behind Him, and touch the hem of his garment, we are made whole. ]]></content:encoded></item><item><title>The Audacity of Wrong</title><dc:creator>Jerry Bannon</dc:creator><category>Special Report</category><category>Oikos Thoughts</category><category>Web News</category><dc:date>2010-02-13T11:56:29-08:00</dc:date><link>http://www.wondersprings.org/files/wrong021310.php#unique-entry-id-553</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.wondersprings.org/files/wrong021310.php#unique-entry-id-553</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[I had begun to question this whole New Deal salvation when I read the &ldquo;The Forgotten Man: A New History of the Great Depression&rdquo; by Amity Shales, earlier this year, So I wondered what I might find online, to increase my knowledge of this unknown earlier depression that Glenn had used as a model for fixing our country&rsquo;s and the world&rsquo;s economic mess. 

...While Germany&rsquo;s problems were related to reparations required under terms of the War&rsquo;s armistice for payment in gold, Hitler himself attributed much of that period&rsquo;s instability to the success of his ability to bring National Socialism to Germany, which began in 1925 through 1933 when Nazi power was finally established.


...Ben Bernanke has been put in charge of the Federal Reserve for another four years because he saved the universe from another Great Depression, when he was Alan Greenspan&rsquo;s easy money debt lieutenant as this totally unforeseen economic catastrophe developed? 

...What makes this so serious is that the economic recovery during the 1920s and thwarted during the 1930s Great Depression, was essentially get out of the way and let the market system work, while a broad spectrum of economic opportunities became reality. 

...The first step in economic rebooting the United States, and the world for that matter, is the realization that debt doesn&rsquo;t create wealth, all it can do is shuffle or reshuffle the deck chairs on the global economic Titanic now that it has hit an iceberg.   There are some life rafts that can get some to shore, and thereby use the knowledge we have gained to build some newly designed economic ships, but the major problem is the great flood of the ocean of non energetic debt money that has covered all the dry land.  

...The moral to the story is that as much as we think we control the world, and have a plan to save the world, new opportunities of growth will come from reclaimed liquidity water that will irrigate a dry land, not from human wishful thinking. ]]></content:encoded></item><item><title>Brute&#x27; says humans should learn from Greece.</title><dc:creator>Jerry Bannon</dc:creator><category>Et Tu Brute&#x27;</category><dc:date>2010-02-12T11:23:59-08:00</dc:date><link>http://www.wondersprings.org/files/brute021210.php#unique-entry-id-552</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.wondersprings.org/files/brute021210.php#unique-entry-id-552</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[(null)]]></content:encoded></item><item><title>New Leadership Tab</title><dc:creator>Jerry Bannon</dc:creator><category>Oikos Thoughts</category><category>Special Report</category><category>Web News</category><dc:date>2010-02-11T13:00:02-08:00</dc:date><link>http://www.wondersprings.org/files/leadership021110.php#unique-entry-id-551</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.wondersprings.org/files/leadership021110.php#unique-entry-id-551</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[In our effort to create more effective resources here at Wonder Springs, we have deleted the Phylogenesis Tab and replaced it with an off site link under a new Leadership Tab.   This link will take you to The Creation Leadership Center we are developing using our Wonder Springs Chronicle Archives as well as other teaching resources we have developed over the years.   Eventually The Creation Leadership Center will be offering hands on learning experiences in Business Ecology, Leadership,  Economic and Personal Survival, as well as other programs to allow you to understand the growth opportunities, that times of stupendous change create.]]></content:encoded></item><item><title>The Babel Constant</title><dc:creator>Jerry Bannon</dc:creator><category>Weekly Column</category><dc:date>2010-02-10T12:01:36-08:00</dc:date><link>http://www.wondersprings.org/files/whymebabel021010.php#unique-entry-id-550</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.wondersprings.org/files/whymebabel021010.php#unique-entry-id-550</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[In the process of making all that crude oil, so as not to completely try the human experiment all over again, the bottoms of oceans rose rapidly, a lot of that mud ran back into the sea, leaving all sorts of amazing features such as grand canyons, graceful arches, natural features so amazing that it would need a whole section of North America to display the power of these miracles. 

...God knows, even we Yanks can&rsquo;t speak the Queen&rsquo;s English, and English itself is so imprecise that just about anyone can make up a word and in our world, in a brief instance everyone around the world will know what we are talking about. 


...The really great thing about a uniform evolutionary history of millions and billions of years is it takes away our accountability and our responsibility for anything and everything that happens today, that most good people consider bad, for we know that evil really doesn&rsquo;t exist, so we will call it by some more politically correct term or terms. 

...What is lost in all human babel is that our words do not create anything at all they only reflect the reality of God&rsquo;s creation, and if God did or doesn&rsquo;t create that reality our words, are just words no matter the language we use, within the diversity of human language, but also within each language. 

...Through this whole language babel we learned not to trust one another, not because we humans really had changed at all, it was just that we always fear, not so much reality, but we have trouble expressing our fear in words, which is the basis for all of our world&rsquo;s tribes and nations. 


Now so the myth of a created universal history of thousands rather than millions and billions of years is presented in the Bible, a garden, a universal flood, and civilization growing again to a Tower of Babel forcing humans to migrate around the world, must make that babbling experiment not all that long ago and as a consequence something real in this world in which we live.  

...Some thought it was acceptable to treat other humans as slaves, that struggle took on Civil War ramifications, but through it all the grace of God prevailed, and the United States of America became the most truly successful nation in human history, not because of anything other than the grace of God.
]]></content:encoded><enclosure url="http://www.wondersprings.org/files/podcast_550.pdf" length="173860" type="application/pdf"/><itunes:author>Jerry Bannon</itunes:author><itunes:category text="Religion and Spirtuality"/><itunes:keywords>God, Tower of Babel, U S Constitution</itunes:keywords><itunes:subtitle>The Wonder Springs Chroncile</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary>This week we look at the Tower of Babel and how is still is the constant of human futility.</itunes:summary></item><item><title>Week in Review: January 31 - February 6&#x2c; 2010</title><dc:creator>Jerry Bannon</dc:creator><category>Week in Review</category><dc:date>2010-02-08T17:06:25-08:00</dc:date><link>http://www.wondersprings.org/files/winr0130-020710.php#unique-entry-id-549</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.wondersprings.org/files/winr0130-020710.php#unique-entry-id-549</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[It is hoped this year&rsquo;s deficit will come in around $1.6 trillion to be followed with something around a trillion in 2011. 


...What all these people are hoping for &ndash; is through the budget, or changes to the budget, we can return to the prosperity that the nation and the world we hoped would continue forever, namely the 1990s. 


What no one seems to understand is that the &lsquo;90s were funded basically by the housing bubble, monetarily securitizing that debt, and selling it to the rest of the world. 

...What the world really needs is money in the old fashioned sense, like a medium of exchange for goods and services, not a Ponzi Scheme of central bankers, politicians, and various leveraged market makers. ...  In the meantime the world will continue to be awash in an ocean of non-energetic debt money, with no real place to go, because the players, either don&rsquo;t seem to care, or they haven&rsquo;t got a clue. 


...Warm ocean waters in the Pacific have shifted storm tracks to the south, so we see more rain in the arid southwest and as it moves east this moisture laden air becomes essentially an ocean effect snow, similar to the lake effect snowfalls around the Great Lakes, but this time over a lot larger area. 


In all the climate change debate about global warming, nothing in the models fits this happening, but many creation scientists, believe that just more massive events as these, were the underlying reality that brought on the ice age after a period of warmth following the Biblical Genesis Flood.          ]]></content:encoded></item><item><title>Morning &#x26; Evening for February 7th - Charles Haddon Spurgeon</title><dc:creator>Jerry Bannon</dc:creator><category>Heidleberg Catechism</category><dc:date>2010-02-06T16:09:01-08:00</dc:date><link>http://www.wondersprings.org/files/morneven020710.php#unique-entry-id-548</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.wondersprings.org/files/morneven020710.php#unique-entry-id-548</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[We have had to pray for sanctifying grace, for constraining and restraining grace; we have been led to crave for a fresh assurance of faith, for the comfortable application of the promise, for deliverance in the hour of temptation, for help in the time of duty, and for succour in the day of trial. ...  All the bread your soul has eaten has come down from heaven, and all the water of which it has drank has flowed from the living rock--Christ Jesus the Lord.   Your soul has never grown rich in itself; it has always been a pensioner upon the daily bounty of God; and hence your prayers have ascended to heaven for a range of spiritual mercies all but infinite. 

...His intercession must be the most acceptable of all supplications--and the more like our prayer is to Christ's, the sweeter it will be; thus while petitions for ourselves will be accepted, our pleadings for others, having in them more of the fruits of the Spirit, more love, more faith, more brotherly kindness, will be, through the precious merits of Jesus, the sweetest oblation that we can offer to God, the very fat of our sacrifice. ...  When thou art favoured to draw very near to His throne, and the King saith to thee, "Ask, and I will give thee what thou wilt," let thy petitions be, not for thyself alone, but for the many who need His aid.   If thou hast grace at all, and art not an intercessor, that grace must be small as a grain of mustard seed.   Thou hast just enough grace to float thy soul clear from the quicksand, but thou hast no deep floods of grace, or else thou wouldst carry in thy joyous bark a weighty cargo of the wants of others, and thou wouldst bring back from thy Lord, for them, rich blessings which but for thee they might not have obtained:--
]]></content:encoded></item><item><title>Brute&#x27; says human enterprises need to be more natural.</title><dc:creator>Jerry Bannon</dc:creator><category>Et Tu Brute&#x27;</category><dc:date>2010-02-05T09:03:06-08:00</dc:date><link>http://www.wondersprings.org/files/brute020510.php#unique-entry-id-547</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.wondersprings.org/files/brute020510.php#unique-entry-id-547</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[(null)]]></content:encoded></item><item><title>Why Me? Pardise Lost : Part 2</title><dc:creator>Jerry Bannon</dc:creator><category>Weekly Column</category><dc:date>2010-02-03T07:22:40-08:00</dc:date><link>http://www.wondersprings.org/files/whymelost2-020310.php#unique-entry-id-546</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.wondersprings.org/files/whymelost2-020310.php#unique-entry-id-546</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[The basis of this myth is that all life, as well as all creation was created not by a god, but the God, who gave us a written testimony of his existence and his plan for an age in which we now live. 

...There are those who today say they don&rsquo;t believe this myth, but they replace it with another newer myth, which states there is no god, nothing beyond the natural, and everything can be explained by human understanding alone. 

...This of course denies at least the truth of the world in which we now live, that it is man who is the weaker vessel and hence he was such an easy mark that the devil never thought that causing Adam to sin was a challenge at all, and that the future of &ldquo;The Fall of Man&rdquo; necessarily came through the woman.


...In our global warming myth we see that sin is really no big deal, just some falling short of our own standards that we can correct if we all work together for the common good, thereby showing God that we are capable by ourselves to save the world and all the creatures, alone by our enlightened good works.


...The whole Bible is about a specific contextual written revelation of Jesus, the son of God, born in human flesh, lived a sinless life, was crucified and died as a propitiatory sacrifice for the sins of mankind on a cross, was buried and then was resurrected on the third day, and ascended into heaven, where he will return in power at the end of this age.


...Now all humans without a specific revelation of the Christian justification of Jesus Christ, as a propitiatory sacrifice to stand in lieu of God&rsquo;s righteous judgment, believe the myth that we are basically good, and that all that is required for us to succeed in this world is to not do anything really bad, try somewhat to do good things, and we will be rewarded not only in this life, but in any life to come. 


...But God came in the cool of the evening and made garments of skin to cover the nakedness of Adam and Eve, the evidence that the covenant of God&rsquo;s grace through Jesus Christ alone is not a myth for those who through faith can now believe. ]]></content:encoded><enclosure url="http://www.wondersprings.org/files/podcast_546.pdf" length="174856" type="application/pdf"/><itunes:author>Jerry Bannon</itunes:author><itunes:category text="Religion and Spirituality"/><itunes:keywords>myth, God, Satan, justification</itunes:keywords><itunes:subtitle>The Wonder Springs Chronicle</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary>This week we look at the myth of the Genesis account of the fall of man in the light of other myths that seem to drive our culture</itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://www.wondersprings.org/files/podcast_image_546.png" /></item><item><title>Current national leadership is out of touch</title><dc:creator>Jerry Bannon</dc:creator><category>Oikos Thoughts</category><category>Web News</category><dc:date>2010-02-02T08:26:30-08:00</dc:date><link>http://www.wondersprings.org/files/leadership020210.php#unique-entry-id-545</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.wondersprings.org/files/leadership020210.php#unique-entry-id-545</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[On the progressive Democrat side, they imply that the only way forward is through more government spending as the only way we can again obtain prosperity. 


...It is assumed by both sides of the budget debate that if we just follow their perspectives, which can be summarized as tax cuts or tax increases, all will again be peachy keen in no time. 


...To assume, by either plan, and a whole lot of positive thinking we will find our way out of the deep woods has no basis in real reality. 


Both parties recent political histories of either tax and spend or tax breaks and spend are based on a dumbed down views of not only human enterprise but also human culture.   The basis in both of these paradigms is that we are smart enough to manage everything, generally under the faith in the premise that we specifically are promoting alone, and really not much else. 


...This means that naturally we will find ways to replace the material consumerism if the politicians and their special interest get out of the way and let the system work.   If they do not the whole culture will collapse and we will have to begin again at some lower level of both information and energetics. ]]></content:encoded></item><item><title>Week in Review: January 24-30&#x2c; 2010&#xa;&#xa;</title><dc:creator>Jerry Bannon</dc:creator><category>Week in Review</category><dc:date>2010-02-01T12:15:16-08:00</dc:date><link>http://www.wondersprings.org/files/winr0124-3010.php#unique-entry-id-544</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.wondersprings.org/files/winr0124-3010.php#unique-entry-id-544</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[Sure this doesn&rsquo;t have the earthshaking ramifications of President Obama&rsquo;s State of the Union Address later that evening &ndash; well maybe it does, for the President&rsquo;s remarks seemed to be more of the same coming out a Washington, but we will get back to that later.


...I stopped into the local Apple reseller in Spokane on Saturday and they knew just about what you could gather from reading the press, and they said it would probably be a couple of weeks before they would know if they would be able to handle both the Wi-Fi and the 3G versions. 


...The real need for a laptop or desk computer will be that some of us still need a real keyboard to get information at speed into our pages, pretty much everything else we do, can be done on an iPad with a price point varying between $500 &ndash; $900.  


...This grade pretty much speaks for itself, but the report really focuses on the disease ramifications themselves and has little to say about the effects such an attack would have on national and international economics. 

...This centralization of everything simply means that whatever happens is going to have a greater impact than with a more diverse population density, and with this concentration comes an infrastructure which really can&rsquo;t help itself out of the mess, whether that be truly natural (as the Haiti earthquake), bioterrorism, or nuclear. 


...Our point of view is not so much related to future developments such as the coming mid-elections, but whether by his very specific specialization does the President actually have the skill set to govern, especially in a moderately conservative country? 

...Unless some dramatic changes take place soon, the 2010 elections will change the current liberal agenda, whether Obama likes it or not, and after that a course correction on his part with become pretty much meaningless.        
]]></content:encoded></item><item><title>Morning &#x26; Evening for January 31st - Charles Haddon Spurgeon</title><dc:creator>Jerry Bannon</dc:creator><category>Morning &#x26; Evening</category><dc:date>2010-01-30T18:31:12-08:00</dc:date><link>http://www.wondersprings.org/files/morneven013110.php#unique-entry-id-543</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.wondersprings.org/files/morneven013110.php#unique-entry-id-543</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[It is no wonder that those who are dwelling upon their own corruption should wear such downcast looks; but surely if we call to mind that "Christ is made unto us righteousness," we shall be of good cheer.   What though distresses afflict me, though Satan assault me, though there may be many things to be experienced before I get to heaven, those are done for me in the covenant of divine grace; there is nothing wanting in my Lord, Christ hath done it all. ...  and if it be finished, then am I complete in Him, and can rejoice with joy unspeakable and full of glory, "Not having mine own righteousness, which is of the law, but that which is through the faith of Christ, the righteousness which is of God by faith." ...  When the believer says, "I live on Christ alone; I rest on Him solely for salvation; and I believe that, however unworthy, I am still saved in Jesus;" then there rises up as a motive of gratitude this thought-- "Shall I not live to Christ? 

...How is it with my spiritual journey, am I labouring up the hill of my own works and down into the ravines of my own humiliations and resolutions, or do I run by the plain way of "Believe and live"? ...  Christ Jesus is the way of life, and He is a plain way, a pleasant way, a way suitable for the tottering feet and feeble knees of trembling sinners: am I found in this way, or am I hunting after another track such as priestcraft or metaphysics may promise me?   I read of the way of holiness, that the wayfaring man, though a fool, shall not err therein: have I been delivered from proud reason and been brought as a little child to rest in Jesus' love and blood? ]]></content:encoded></item><item><title>The State of the Union Address - A Different Perspective</title><dc:creator>Jerry Bannon</dc:creator><category>Web News</category><category>Oikos Thoughts</category><dc:date>2010-01-29T12:06:57-08:00</dc:date><link>http://www.wondersprings.org/files/stotuniongold012910.php#unique-entry-id-542</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.wondersprings.org/files/stotuniongold012910.php#unique-entry-id-542</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[	C	I bought a frozen pizza on my way home after getting my car repaired, ate it during the President&rsquo;s address, and then thought about how impossible it would be to pay for it with real money.


...Speculation before the State of the Union Address centered in the quandary of whether President Obama would stay on the liberal or progressive course of his first year as President or would he shift his emphasis towards the political center like Bill Clinton did in his first term. 

...Maybe we could buy another device with some Federal stimulus money and it could be mounted on the camera, or even on the back wall of the speaking venue, and then he could make his speech like a normal celebrity. 


...This response seems totally out of touch with the reality, which is probably, if he does a really mediocre job in his first term, chances are still pretty good that he will be reelected.  

...After his State of the Union Address, what we reported first in last Monday&rsquo;s Week in Review, now seems to be more than plausible: The question as the Obama presidency moves forward, is not, does he have the intelligence to change to a direction the American people can believe in, rather does he have the skill set to change. 

...Now I am not saying that gold is not a wise investment, especially in contrast to cash in the bank, and as a hedge against inflation, but the big run for gold security has somewhat leveled off, and the current gold price has pretty much closed off any elasticity in the market. 

...Furthermore just by looking at your $3 grain you probably can&rsquo;t tell it from a $6 grain by looking at it without an expensive microscope, and you surely don&rsquo;t want to pay six bucks for a five-dollar pizza you can get for three bucks on sale. 
]]></content:encoded></item><item><title>Brute&#x27; questions Obama&#x27;s survival skills in the caldron of Washington DC</title><dc:creator>Jerry Bannon</dc:creator><category>Et Tu Brute&#x27;</category><dc:date>2010-01-29T12:12:30-08:00</dc:date><link>http://www.wondersprings.org/files/brute102910.php#unique-entry-id-541</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.wondersprings.org/files/brute102910.php#unique-entry-id-541</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[(null)]]></content:encoded></item><item><title>Why Me? Paradise Lost: Part 1</title><dc:creator>Jerry Bannon</dc:creator><category>Weekly Column</category><dc:date>2010-01-27T11:37:25-08:00</dc:date><link>http://www.wondersprings.org/files/whymelost1-012710.php#unique-entry-id-540</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.wondersprings.org/files/whymelost1-012710.php#unique-entry-id-540</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[Gibbons questions, the role of language in our interpretation of reality, and a term paper on Philosophy and Science, with a conclusion that stated: Science is what my father uses to convince me to eat my peas and philosophy is what I use to state why I think (eating peas) is a bad idea, and &ldquo;and&rdquo; is the word that holds the whole thing together.


...This week we continue along those lines looking at how sin entered the perfection of God&rsquo;s creation and what that means to us today, a day and age when we think we have evolved to such a point that evil and sin no longer exist.  

...Furthermore when you look at human history, especially its violence and a sacrificial system of appeasement to nature&rsquo;s supernatural gods, many times including human sacrifice, you see evil depravity at the opposite extreme of the continuum of good and evil, where our definition of good is some warm fuzzy feeling of my desire to withdraw from the reality of actual life.


...As a true revivalist evangelist Roy&rsquo;s arguments centered on the belief that for people to become Christians they needed to acknowledge that they were sinners and then understand and make the commitment to the truth that Jesus Christ was the answer to getting their sins washed away and restoring them to a personal relationship with God. 


...This is especially true when the whole paradigm of the culture says that the whole God thing itself, is a primitive evolutionary trait that the knowledgeable scientific elite have rejected, because after all they are our culture&rsquo;s true religious leaders, not like Biblical Pharisees, but rather Sadducees that didn&rsquo;t believe in the resurrection of the dead.


...The antithesis of that argument is also true, those rejecting those Godly pursuits would do it with a vigor that would do everything earthly possible to find eternity in other places, such as human sacrifice, worshiping creation, and amassing material stuff, for just the purpose of we can, because the alternative of a real God is truly an undesirable worldview to those who want to run the show themselves.


...The prime differences among the politics of  the health care debate in the United States, is and was, really how do we pay for the preventive maintenance and repairs to our bodies, to pay for those who have inherited a body with some serious defects, but also to pay for those who are unwilling to take care of the body they were given. ]]></content:encoded><enclosure url="http://www.wondersprings.org/files/podcast_540.pdf" length="218484" type="application/pdf"/><itunes:author>Jerry Bannon</itunes:author><itunes:category text="Religion and Spirituality "/><itunes:keywords>sin, God, Jesus, evolution, U S Consititution</itunes:keywords><itunes:subtitle>The Wonder Springs Chroncile</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary>This week we continue our look at why our world seems to be falling apart with the next installment Paradise Lost: Part 1</itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://www.wondersprings.org/files/podcast_image_540.png" /></item><item><title>Phylogenesis Tab Replaces Community Tab</title><dc:creator>Jerry Bannon</dc:creator><category>Web News</category><category>Oikos Thoughts</category><dc:date>2010-01-25T15:03:28-08:00</dc:date><link>http://www.wondersprings.org/files/phylotab012510.php#unique-entry-id-539</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.wondersprings.org/files/phylotab012510.php#unique-entry-id-539</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[In our effort this year to provide more timely or more useful information for our readers we have replaced the old Community Tab with a new Phylogenesis Tab.   In this new section of the site you will find the reason for the Phylogenesis designation as well as  the Seven Principles of Business Ecology and the Five Lifestyle Curves.   Further information on Business Ecology and Metis Phylogenesis and similarly extended topics by searching the archives.]]></content:encoded></item><item><title>Week in Review: January 17-23&#x2c; 2010</title><dc:creator>Jerry Bannon</dc:creator><category>Week in Review</category><dc:date>2010-01-25T11:51:40-08:00</dc:date><link>http://www.wondersprings.org/files/weinre0117-2310.php#unique-entry-id-538</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.wondersprings.org/files/weinre0117-2310.php#unique-entry-id-538</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[While this is hailed as a great Republican victory and the end of the filibuster proof Senate, in a way it further points to the fact that the establishments of both the Republicans and the Democrats represent fringe views of the majority of the American people, which will make for more very interesting times as the Congressional elections approach this fall. 


...In the context of the Brown election, the speculation now centers around whether the President will move more to the center for governing, like Bill Clinton did, or will he continue the Progressive changes he tried to implement in the first year and now are looking pretty much as almost a total failure.   As it appears today, betting of the pundits and commentators seems just about equally split, with perhaps a more vocal side saying he will go down staying his course, stating that the people still believe in the change they ask him to accomplish in the country, but they just don&rsquo;t understand his specifics, requiring more education (speeches etc.) and not so much program changes. 


...So this week and beyond, the Democrat Party majority will spend much time and spin trying to determine if they can accomplish anything other than trying to hold on to a majority in both the House and the Senate in the fall elections. ...  They will try to push some type of government sponsored New Deal type of Keynesian stimulus to create jobs, but that rings hollow because any jobs legislation historically has related to special interests bailouts and altering that reality is not on either the Democrat or Republican agendas for other than lip service for the near future.  


...However the real problem didn&rsquo;t begin with Bernanke but stems back to Alan Greenspan, who took control of the Fed under Ronald Reagan and succeeded in moving the United States to continuing prosperity, by shifting the debt burden from government into the consumer markets, especially housing, and then shipping those securities offshore as sound investments in the United States, which anyone who was willing to do due diligence would find fallacious.


Then lest we forget the weather in California has been so bad recently that it would be most of the 24 hour news cycle other than the fact that it has been lost in the stupendous change of all this week&rsquo;s other momentous events. 
]]></content:encoded></item><item><title>Morning &#x26; Evening for January 24th - Charles Haddon Spurgeon</title><dc:creator>Jerry Bannon</dc:creator><category>Morning &#x26; Evening</category><dc:date>2010-01-23T13:53:48-08:00</dc:date><link>http://www.wondersprings.org/files/morneven012410.php#unique-entry-id-537</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.wondersprings.org/files/morneven012410.php#unique-entry-id-537</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[First, he delivers them from the snare does not let them enter it; and secondly, if they should be caught therein, he delivers them out of it. 

...At other times, God keeps his people from the snare of the fowler by giving them great spiritual strength, so that when they are tempted to do evil they say, How can I do this great wickedness, and sin against God?   But what a blessed thing it is that if the believer shall, in an evil hour, come into the net, yet God will bring him out of it! 

...Thou shalt yet be brought out of all evil into which thou hast fallen, and though thou shalt never cease to repent of thy ways, yet he that hath loved thee will not cast thee away; he will receive thee, and give thee joy and gladness, that the bones which he has broken may rejoice. 

...We ought to be Martha and Mary in one: we should do much service, and have much communion at the same time. ...  Beloved, while we do not neglect external things, which are good enough in themselves, we ought also to see to it that we enjoy living, personal fellowship with Jesus.  ...  The first thing for our souls health, the first thing for his glory, and the first thing for our own usefulness, is to keep ourselves in perpetual communion with the Lord Jesus, and to see that the vital spirituality of our religion is maintained over and above everything else in the world.]]></content:encoded></item><item><title>Brute&#x27; says check out the Deep Woods Moola website</title><dc:creator>Jerry Bannon</dc:creator><category>Et Tu Brute&#x27;</category><dc:date>2010-01-22T10:29:32-08:00</dc:date><link>http://www.wondersprings.org/files/brute012210.php#unique-entry-id-536</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.wondersprings.org/files/brute012210.php#unique-entry-id-536</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[Deep Woods Moola link]]></content:encoded></item><item><title>Why Me? In the beginning</title><dc:creator>Jerry Bannon</dc:creator><category>Weekly Column</category><dc:date>2010-01-20T10:18:42-08:00</dc:date><link>http://www.wondersprings.org/files/whymebegin012010.php#unique-entry-id-535</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.wondersprings.org/files/whymebegin012010.php#unique-entry-id-535</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[I shall assume that I am not alone when I consider the transcendence revealed in these words impossible to reconcile with the fact that so many say that this nature, this creation, all happened as the result of a freakish random event called the Big Bang some fourteen billion years ago. 

...Somehow along this random course of events, the amino acids combined into just the right sequences to form proteins, these proteins found random order to form DNA, and given enough time, it all came together in such a way that a shepherd boy, near the eastern edge of the Mediterranean Sea composed this poetry of Psalm 8, focusing on a God and his creation, all of which are based on just primitive religious superstitions and myths. 


Now thank our lucky stars, we humans have evolved to the point that we can save the planet, from ourselves, because our evolving intelligence has become so wisely integrated with all of nature that we can do a much better job than these random events, even though we really have no knowledge of the nature we plan to control, and really no desire to even learn. 

...Much ink has been spent in creationist Christianity, of which I have a developing responsibility, defending the Biblical creation account of seven literal twenty-four hour days of creation, even though the account of creation itself doesn&rsquo;t create  our measurement of time paradigm until the fourth day, and even when it does that it does not create a linear account, but a circular one. 

...We already think in three dimensions, we don&rsquo;t know how it works,  but if, for instance, we want to recall something about our historic relatives, our mind goes through three dimensional pathways in our brains, by really complex chemical reactions, to retrieve that data and then form somewhat a visual image of our relationship with them in their time and place. 


...So in that respect the seven days of the creation, as outlined in Genesis One, are really a metaphor, not of compressed eons of time, but rather an account which best fits the limited human faculties of the created humanity, essentially twenty- four hours days flowing from a planar annular pattern of hours, days, and years.


...Nice an tidy, but sixteen years ago some began wondering if this date setting is not all that much different than others who have set the day for Christ&rsquo;s return, especially when the above references from Matthew 24 and Mark 13, state that only the Father knows the time of Christ&rsquo;s return.
]]></content:encoded><enclosure url="http://www.wondersprings.org/files/podcast_535.pdf" length="180357" type="application/pdf"/><itunes:author>Jerry Bannon</itunes:author><itunes:category text="Religion &#x26; Spirituality"/><itunes:keywords>Psalm 8, Big Bang, John Calvin, Genesis</itunes:keywords><itunes:subtitle>The Wonder Springs Chroncile </itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary>This week we look at the Biblical Genesis creation account&#x2c; contrasting with the Big Bang Theory&#x2c; and Biblical Creation</itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://www.wondersprings.org/files/podcast_image_535.png" /></item><item><title>Haiti reflections</title><dc:creator>Jerry Bannon</dc:creator><category>Special Report</category><category>Oikos Thoughts</category><dc:date>2010-01-16T12:38:40-08:00</dc:date><link>http://www.wondersprings.org/files/haitireflections011610.php#unique-entry-id-534</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.wondersprings.org/files/haitireflections011610.php#unique-entry-id-534</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[In the still richest country in the world, the effects of hurricane Katrina are still present in the city of New Orleans, as today their National Football League team battles to continue the city&rsquo;s mental recovery.


...Right now in Haiti and in all our other catastrophic recovery efforts, we focus upon immediate material aid, and once the crisis is over, survivors are pretty much on their own to answer the stupendous challenge of &ldquo;Why Me?&rdquo; 


...Religion in common and specific senses, typified by the fundamentals of Judeo-Christian values, are the only support that will remain, but those efforts will be greatly hindered by the lack of capital to rebuild and restore human lives. ...  That is simply because the American ethos, really hasn&rsquo;t changed, as it also has been pillaged by the global reach of what is beginning to be feely called &ldquo;crony capitalism.&rdquo;


...Let those words not neglect Jefferson&rsquo;s vision of a nation of self-sufficiency in the form of yeoman farmers, freeholders, not of a mortgaged suburban home, but owners and stewards of their natural subsistence.


...In that comparison, the currently struggling people of Haiti, have been given an opportunity to rebuild, a more just and sustainable society than they have had in their history.


...But we are not alone, we have a God that sustains it all and created us in his image, and we have each other, which reflects the unity and diversity of the Trinity, through individuals, tribes, and nations. ]]></content:encoded></item><item><title>Morning &#x26; Evening for January 17th - Charles Haddon Spurgeon</title><dc:creator>Jerry Bannon</dc:creator><category>Morning &#x26; Evening</category><dc:date>2010-01-16T12:43:40-08:00</dc:date><link>http://www.wondersprings.org/files/morneven011710.php#unique-entry-id-533</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.wondersprings.org/files/morneven011710.php#unique-entry-id-533</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[The apostle John was privileged to look within the gates of heaven, and in describing what he saw, he begins by saying, "I looked, and, lo, a Lamb!" ...  It is the joy of thy heart to hold daily fellowship with Jesus; thou shalt have the same joy to a higher degree in heaven; thou shalt enjoy the constant vision of His presence; thou shalt dwell with Him for ever. ...  Why, that Lamb is heaven itself; for as good Rutherford says, "Heaven and Christ are the same thing;" to be with Christ is to be in heaven, and to be in heaven is to be with Christ.   That prisoner of the Lord very sweetly writes in one of his glowing letters--"O my Lord Jesus Christ, if I could be in heaven without thee, it would be a hell; and if I could be in hell, and have thee still, it would be a heaven to me, for thou art all the heaven I want." 

...Both at home and abroad we are liable to meet with allurements to evil; the morning opens with peril, and the shades of evening find us still in jeopardy. 

...David should have been engaged in fighting the Lord's battles, instead of which he tarried at Jerusalem, and gave himself up to luxurious repose, for he arose from his bed at eventide. ...  When I see the King of Israel sluggishly leaving his couch at the close of the day, and falling at once into temptation, let me take warning, and set holy watchfulness to guard the door. 
]]></content:encoded></item><item><title>Brute&#x27; comments on the serious nature of Haiti.</title><dc:creator>Jerry Bannon</dc:creator><category>Et Tu Brute&#x27;</category><dc:date>2010-01-15T10:15:34-08:00</dc:date><link>http://www.wondersprings.org/files/brute011510.php#unique-entry-id-532</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.wondersprings.org/files/brute011510.php#unique-entry-id-532</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[(null)]]></content:encoded></item><item><title>Why Me?  The novel - novel</title><dc:creator>Jerry Bannon</dc:creator><category>Weekly Column</category><dc:date>2010-01-13T10:48:38-08:00</dc:date><link>http://www.wondersprings.org/files/whyme2novel011310.php#unique-entry-id-531</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.wondersprings.org/files/whyme2novel011310.php#unique-entry-id-531</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[So this why me excursion will develop into a new, hopefully interesting way to describe a fictitious narrative, with some degree of realism, eventually the story line will relate to where we currently are, how we got here, and where we may be headed. 

...With the inherit weakness of twentieth and twenty-first century American education it is too much to ask you to search for historic figures to blame for our failures, simply because you learned very little history in your formal educational processes and what little you did learn was spun in the spirit of academic revisionism. 

...To this day my theology basically remains Lutheran, but when we moved to Kettle Falls for high school and during my college days, I began to have problems with what I learned later to be the disease of Protestant Liberalism that infected and devastated all mainline American denominations during that period and continues to this day. 

...Through that Pentecostal connection I eventually spent a number of years at an Assembly of God church, under a mature second generation Pentecostal pastor who had seen it all and ran a very tight congregation where the gifts of the spirit were understood and practiced, but never allowed to be abused. 


...Like that second generation Pentecostal mentoring pastor, over the last quarter century of the pilgrimage through the American church, I have seen some good, some bad, a very little absolutely ugly, and a whole lot of what I used to call mediocrity. 

...We are now told that all this is our current attempt to be relevant to a lost and dying world, but this irreverent reality is really as old as the church itself, in that it attempts to replace the covenant of God&rsquo;s grace with the Law of Sinai. 

...novel &ndash; novel now moves forward to hopefully show through imagination and flexibility, why this time and all its profound messes, can really become the basis for Reformation and Refounding of values that transcend this disorder and again shall bring dignity to humanity as individuals created in God&rsquo;s image, again seeking and finding a unity in our personal and community diversity.
]]></content:encoded><enclosure url="http://www.wondersprings.org/files/podcast_531.pdf" length="179095" type="application/pdf"/><itunes:author>Jerry Bannon</itunes:author><itunes:category text="Religion and Spirituality"/><itunes:keywords>John Calvin, Presbyterian, Lutheran, Christianity, Geneva</itunes:keywords><itunes:subtitle>The Wonder Springs Chronicle </itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary>This week we put some context into the Why Me? series. </itunes:summary></item><item><title>Morning &#x26; Evening for January 10th - Charles Haddon Spurgeon</title><dc:creator>Jerry Bannon</dc:creator><category>Morning &#x26; Evening</category><dc:date>2010-01-09T11:50:47-08:00</dc:date><link>http://www.wondersprings.org/files/morneven011010.php#unique-entry-id-530</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.wondersprings.org/files/morneven011010.php#unique-entry-id-530</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[I love the quaint saying of a dying man, who exclaimed, "I have no fear of going home; I have sent all before me; God's finger is on the latch of my door, and I am ready for Him to enter." ...  There is one throne in heaven which Paul the apostle could not fill; it was made for me, and I shall have it." ...  If thou believest in the Lord Jesus, if thou hast repented of sin, if thou hast been renewed in heart, thou art one of the Lord's people, and there is a place reserved for thee, a crown laid up for thee, a harp specially provided for thee.   No one else shall have thy portion, it is reserved in heaven for thee, and thou shalt have it ere long, for there shall be no vacant thrones in glory when all the chosen are gathered in.


...They love to behold Him in communion and in prayer; but there in heaven they shall have an open and unclouded vision, and thus seeing "Him as He is," shall be made completely like Him. ...  Some read the passage, "Yet, I shall see God in my flesh," and find here an allusion to Christ, as the "Word made flesh," and that glorious beholding of Him which shall be the splendour of the latter days. ...  All earthly brightness fades and darkens as we gaze upon it, but here is a brightness which can never dim, a glory which can never fade--"I shall see God."]]></content:encoded></item><item><title>Brute&#x27; says&#x2c; have grizzly bears screen airline passengers.</title><dc:creator>Jerry Bannon</dc:creator><category>Et Tu Brute&#x27;</category><dc:date>2010-01-08T10:39:36-08:00</dc:date><link>http://www.wondersprings.org/files/brute010810.php#unique-entry-id-529</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.wondersprings.org/files/brute010810.php#unique-entry-id-529</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[(null)]]></content:encoded></item><item><title>Why Me?</title><dc:creator>Jerry Bannon</dc:creator><category>Weekly Column</category><dc:date>2010-01-06T11:16:15-08:00</dc:date><link>http://www.wondersprings.org/files/whyme010610.php#unique-entry-id-528</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.wondersprings.org/files/whyme010610.php#unique-entry-id-528</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[Just plain existence is not all there is to life, in fact just existence, and we are now learning, material consumption, really don&rsquo;t offer all that much, especially when unsustainable consumption of things has been hyped as the reason for living and the only key to happiness.  


...So that we again will truly understand God centered humility 1 Peter 4:17 states: For it is time for judgment to begin at the household of God; and if it begins with us, what will be the outcome for those who do not obey the gospel of God? 

...Not too long ago I remembered, the first real book I bought in my life, not counting comic books, was the &ldquo;Air Force Survival Manual&rdquo; and I continue to find that topic amazing, not so much in the physical requirement for survival, but the mental and spiritual context that is unique to each successful survivor. 


Long ago in my one visit to New York City, I got into a deep discussion with the older couple I was staying with on what they would do if something happened so that the small neighborhood grocery they visited daily, could no longer provide the bread, milk and other provisions they needed to survive. 

...Listening to commentators discussing the poor handling of the Christmas Day affair by the Obama Administration, and how it seems to be so out of touch with the will of the American people, can be best described as the out of comfort zone, Holocaust denial of the real Nazi threat, to the European Jewish people as well as to non-Arian people groups. 


...This is meshed into the four human questions we asked at the beginning and will eventually change not only our individuality but also produce the energy required as we begin to reform synergistic communities in which the collective good can flourish. 


...Because God has known you from the real beginning, and in this time he has created and is creating opportunities for you to understand reality in such a way that is uniquely and complexly diverse in all of human history.
]]></content:encoded><enclosure url="http://www.wondersprings.org/files/podcast_528.pdf" length="193533" type="application/pdf"/><itunes:author>Jerry Bannon</itunes:author><itunes:category text="Religion and Spirituality"/><itunes:keywords>survival, fear, imagination, flexibility</itunes:keywords><itunes:subtitle>The Wonder Springs Chronicle</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary>This week with all the stupendous changes going on in the world&#x2c; we ask the question Why Me?</itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://www.wondersprings.org/files/podcast_image_528.png" /></item><item><title>New Year Adaptations</title><dc:creator>Jerry Bannon</dc:creator><category>Oikos Thoughts</category><category>Special Report</category><category>Web News</category><dc:date>2010-01-04T17:01:33-08:00</dc:date><link>http://www.wondersprings.org/files/newyearadapt010409.php#unique-entry-id-527</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.wondersprings.org/files/newyearadapt010409.php#unique-entry-id-527</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[If our endeavors or enterprises are going to provide long term growth in all diverse aspects, then the wisdom that we use gathered from what we can learn from God&rsquo;s living reality, forces us to model our limited and simplistic struggles utilizing those Truths to find meaning and purpose in life.  


...During the years following the development of the Business Ecology concept, through some more technical consulting work I was given the rights to redevelop a Great Depression successful, air concentrating technology for precious metals. 

...I scraped together enough funds to reestablish the company as PREFER Ltd in the State of Washington and began to assemble infrastructure pieces that had not been utilized for probably twenty years. 

...Combining the precious metals with Business Ecology and placing it within a human environment in which our money has no basis in reality, it logically follows that we should again look to God&rsquo;s creation for the knowledge and wisdom to again provide a mechanism to produce new wealth not only from the ground, but also to help others manage their current wealth in a means that will minimize the effects of higher taxes, currency devaluations, and inflation.  


So on New Year&rsquo;s Eve we began a new website called Deep Woods Moola which will function as a subsidiary adventure of PREFER Ltd. ...  As yet there is nothing there beyond a domain name, but over time the goal is to separate The Wonder Springs Chronicle to enhance its Christian emphasis and develop Deep Woods Moola into a mechanism to address in a secular manner the challenges that now face all of humanity. 


...For only by understanding that we humans are not just part of creation, as creatures, but set apart in the image of God, to inherit his special goodness, can we truly understand the potential for Wonder Springs in not just a physical Death Valley, but more importantly our eternally spiritual Death Valley, without the grace of God offered to us through Jesus Christ.
]]></content:encoded></item><item><title>Brute&#x27; wishes you a Word filled Christmas</title><dc:creator>Jerry Bannon</dc:creator><category>Et Tu Brute&#x27;</category><dc:date>2009-12-25T07:40:35-08:00</dc:date><link>http://www.wondersprings.org/files/brute122509.php#unique-entry-id-526</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.wondersprings.org/files/brute122509.php#unique-entry-id-526</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[(null)]]></content:encoded></item><item><title>Morning &#x26; Evening for January 3rd - Charles Haddon Spurgeon</title><dc:creator>Jerry Bannon</dc:creator><category>Morning &#x26; Evening</category><dc:date>2010-01-03T07:03:10-08:00</dc:date><link>http://www.wondersprings.org/files/morneven010210.php#unique-entry-id-525</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.wondersprings.org/files/morneven010210.php#unique-entry-id-525</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[Consider that word "God" and its infinity, and then meditate upon "perfect man" and all his beauty; for all that Christ, as God and man, ever had, or can have, is thine--out of pure free favour, passed over to thee to be thine entailed property forever. ...  Well, there is not a drop of love in His heart which is not yours; you may dive into the immense ocean of His love, and you may say of it all, "It is mine." ...  It may seem a stern attribute, but even that is yours, for He will by His justice see to it that all which is promised to you in the covenant of grace shall be most certainly secured to you. ...  O believer, God's acceptance of Christ is thine acceptance; for knowest thou not that the love which the Father set on a perfect Christ, He sets on thee now? ...  That perfect righteousness which Jesus wrought out, when through His stainless life He kept the law and made it honourable, is thine, and is imputed to thee. 

...I would be attentive to the Master's proclamation, and give Him a road into my heart, cast up by gracious operations, through the desert of my nature. 

...Oh that this evening the Lord may find in my heart a highway made ready by His grace, that He may make a triumphal progress through the utmost bounds of my soul, from the beginning of this year even to the end of it.
]]></content:encoded></item><item><title>Brute&#x27; says look to America&#x27;s natural strengths&#x21;</title><dc:creator>Jerry Bannon</dc:creator><category>Et Tu Brute&#x27;</category><dc:date>2010-01-01T10:32:49-08:00</dc:date><link>http://www.wondersprings.org/files/brute010110.php#unique-entry-id-524</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.wondersprings.org/files/brute010110.php#unique-entry-id-524</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[(null)]]></content:encoded></item><item><title>The Forgotten Humans</title><dc:creator>Jerry Bannon</dc:creator><category>Weekly Column</category><dc:date>2009-12-30T13:18:46-08:00</dc:date><link>http://www.wondersprings.org/files/forgothumans123009.php#unique-entry-id-523</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.wondersprings.org/files/forgothumans123009.php#unique-entry-id-523</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[As we are continually being reminded by the political spin-doctors, when we entered the year, total financial catastrophe was just a needed bailout away, and now things are much, much better and all would be surely wonderful, except for the fact that they, the real politicians, inherited such a pending disaster.


Humpty Dumpty didn&rsquo;t fall off the financial wall &ndash; yet, but Humpty does seem to look sort of like a handsome bald headed guy with a beard (Ben Bernacke), and all the king&rsquo;s horses and all the king&rsquo;s men look strangely like Goldman Sachs investment bankers; just like good old Humpty himself. ...  There are still some questions yet to be answered, mostly around the fact that the wall, in its present condition, is completely unsustainable and would we be much better off in the long run, to build a new wall and let the old one crumble into history? 


...Of course the evolved elite really wants nothing to do with real nature and reality, because that wildness is really a scary place that doesn&rsquo;t accept their elitist credentials and treats them as not superior to other animals and even lowly plants.   


...Therefore in the New Year The Wonder Springs Chronicle will renew or reemphasize the uniquely Christian perspective of God&rsquo;s grace offered to men and women, and how those humans can become better leaders by serving God, not only through church but also in the civil or secular arena. 

...We will again learn that God is real, and that reality will come in such a way that we will confess that this whole new unity in diversity is way too complex for human knowledge and wisdom to accomplish within our confining sinful depravity. 


...So that we again will truly understand God centered humility 1 Peter 4:17 states: For it is time for judgment to begin at the household of God; and if it begins with us, what will be the outcome for those who do not obey the gospel of God? ]]></content:encoded><enclosure url="http://www.wondersprings.org/files/podcast_523.pdf" length="178001" type="application/pdf"/><itunes:author>Jerry Bannon</itunes:author><itunes:category text="Religion and Spirituality"/><itunes:keywords>Humpty Dumpty, The Forgotten Man, U S Constitution, God</itunes:keywords><itunes:subtitle>The Wonder Springs Chroncile</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary>This week we look at the unbelievable year of 2009 and look forward to what might happen in 2010</itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://www.wondersprings.org/files/podcast_image_523.png" /></item><item><title>December 27th - Amen &#x26; Amen</title><dc:creator>Jerry Bannon</dc:creator><category>Heidleberg Catechism</category><dc:date>2009-12-26T09:51:35-08:00</dc:date><link>http://www.wondersprings.org/files/lordsday5209.php#unique-entry-id-522</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.wondersprings.org/files/lordsday5209.php#unique-entry-id-522</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[And lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from the evil one.   That is: In ourselves we are so weak that we cannot stand even for a moment.[  1] Moreover, our sworn enemies-- the devil,[2] the world,[3] and our own flesh[4]-- do not cease to attack us.   Wilt Thou, therefore, uphold and strengthen us by the power of Thy Holy Spirit, so that in this spiritual war[5] we may not go down to defeat, but always firmly resist our enemies, until we finally obtain the complete victory.[

...For Thine is the kingdom, and the power, and the glory, for ever.   That is: All this we ask of Thee because, as our King, having power over all things, Thou art both willing and able to give us all that is good,[1] and because not we but Thy holy Name should so receive all glory for ever.[

...For God has much more certainly heard my prayer than I feel in my heart that I desire this of Him.[]]></content:encoded></item><item><title>Mary&#x2c; did you know?</title><dc:creator>Jerry Bannon</dc:creator><category>Weekly Column</category><dc:date>2009-12-23T07:08:38-08:00</dc:date><link>http://www.wondersprings.org/files/marydiduno122309.php#unique-entry-id-521</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.wondersprings.org/files/marydiduno122309.php#unique-entry-id-521</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[In that illumination, as with Genevon&rsquo;s return to our group Christmas party, it was a good thing that I was sitting in a big overstuffed supporting chair, because I had no idea that there was anything wrong with her, when our church group called on her that long past Monday night as she was seriously planning on taking her own life.


As we continue to understand the realness to trust God for our provisions, those life or death situations no longer just begin, but become part of a much broader narrative in which we understand the faithfulness of God, not only as he provides for our needs, but also adds to that an abundance of blessings and gifts that mean more to us than we can at this time fully understand or articulate. 

...Kathy&rsquo;s Christmas CD was what I bought with the money left after the player purchase and I listened to it over and over as I still do, but now it has a reserved &ldquo;Good News, Kathy&rdquo; playlist on iTunes in my Christmas music folder and on my iPod. 


&ldquo;Good News&rdquo; is definitely not a music collection about Santa Claus coming to town, so let&rsquo;s go to the mall and buy some stuff, so we can give things to others that they probably don&rsquo;t want, and if they needed it they would have purchased for themselves. 

...I also bowled with three temple Mormons when I was in the Army, our team name was the Holy Rollers, Later, as I was working entrepreneurial and small business consulting, many of my contacts and networking associates were either Mormons themselves or were in someway linked to those, who had members or LDS church resources at their disposal. 


...All we have to do is to believe, and yet the more we learn about that gift we begin to see that faith to believe, is really the world&rsquo;s most valuable gift, not just for Christmas, but for every day of our lives.


So, you see this now has a very meaningful story line that when I started I didn&rsquo;t have a clue how I even wanted to put it together, before I knew that because of a, hum &ndash; I guess the words of the song express it better than I ever could.  
]]></content:encoded><enclosure url="http://www.wondersprings.org/files/podcast_521.pdf" length="177231" type="application/pdf"/><itunes:author>Jerry Bannon</itunes:author><itunes:category text="Religion and Spirituality"/><itunes:keywords>Kathy Mettea, Glenn Beck, God, Jesus, Mormon</itunes:keywords><itunes:subtitle>The Wonder Springs Chronicle </itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary>This week we look at the song&#x2c; &#x22;Mary&#x2c; did you know? as a broader question&#x2c; we ask when we encounter others that God has used to make significant changes in our lives.</itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://www.wondersprings.org/files/podcast_image_521.png" /></item><item><title>December 20th - Forgive our debts</title><dc:creator>Jerry Bannon</dc:creator><category>Heidleberg Catechism</category><dc:date>2009-12-19T16:10:31-08:00</dc:date><link>http://www.wondersprings.org/files/lordsday5109.php#unique-entry-id-520</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.wondersprings.org/files/lordsday5109.php#unique-entry-id-520</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[Lord's Day 51


...What is the fifth petition? 


...And forgive us our debts, as we also have forgiven our debtors.   That is: For the sake of Christ's blood, do not impute to us, wretched sinners; any of our transgressions, nor the evil which still clings to us,[1] as we also find this evidence of Thy grace in us that we are fully determined wholeheartedly to forgive our neighbor.[

...51:1-7; 143:2; Rom.   8:1; I John 2:1, 2. ...  6:14, 15; 18:21-35.]]></content:encoded></item><item><title>Brute&#x27; says true realism is only achieved through Godly Faith&#x21;</title><dc:creator>Jerry Bannon</dc:creator><category>Et Tu Brute&#x27;</category><dc:date>2009-12-18T11:17:54-08:00</dc:date><link>http://www.wondersprings.org/files/brute121809.php#unique-entry-id-519</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.wondersprings.org/files/brute121809.php#unique-entry-id-519</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[(null)]]></content:encoded></item><item><title>Humpty Dumpty in a New Century</title><dc:creator>Jerry Bannon</dc:creator><category>Weekly Column</category><dc:date>2009-12-16T11:00:54-08:00</dc:date><link>http://www.wondersprings.org/files/humptydumpty121609.php#unique-entry-id-517</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.wondersprings.org/files/humptydumpty121609.php#unique-entry-id-517</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[But it also follows that if &ldquo;all the king&rsquo;s horses and all the king&rsquo;s men can&rsquo;t put Humpty Dumpty together again,&rdquo; then is the future hopeless for Humpty Dumpty, if he must rely only on a natural king; rather than the King of kings?


...Dumpty you are on your own kid, you are just a coward, a real American is self-sufficient and &ldquo;don&rsquo;t need no help from no one.&rdquo; (sic) Notice the triple negative, which seems to imply that resources will not be forthcoming, no matter how Humpty Dumpty asks for help.


So let us dissect old Humpty Dumpty in early twenty-first century terms and see if all the parts are sufficient to give us a real rhyme that may be applicable to those who have been, are now experiencing, or will soon be living a Humpty Dumpty life. 


...Furthermore it must have not been some so called act of God, because if this were the case, then there would have been some sort of Humpty bargain with God to plead for his salvation. 

...Our scientific analysis of the wall materials and the foundation shows that the foundation was built on sand, which contributed greatly to the total instability of the wall itself, but we also found that the rocks that were used to build the wall were not as well fitted together as the king himself had requested. 

...Furthermore Humpty Dumpty should have realized that all the kings horse&rsquo;s and all the king&rsquo;s men were vested and invested heavily in the success of all the king&rsquo;s projects, not just building the king&rsquo;s walls, but green energy, climate change, and a whole host of their other pet projects that the king also wanted to happen. 

...In that true life story Humpty Dumpty is just no longer a nursery rhyme, but his life becomes a principle by which gumption was created in all citizens of the king&rsquo;s land and in kingdom&rsquo;s around the world. ]]></content:encoded><enclosure url="http://www.wondersprings.org/files/podcast_517.pdf" length="195537" type="application/pdf"/><itunes:author>Jerry Bannon</itunes:author><itunes:category text="Religion and Spirituality"/><itunes:keywords>Humpty Dumpty, God, traditional values</itunes:keywords><itunes:subtitle>The Wonder Springs Chronicle </itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary>This week we take the old nursery rhyme Humpty Dumpty and adapt it to twenty-first century reality</itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://www.wondersprings.org/files/podcast_image_517.png" /></item><item><title>Special Report: A Christmas Hunt</title><dc:creator>Jerry Bannon</dc:creator><category>Special Report</category><category>Oikos Thoughts</category><category>Web News</category><dc:date>2009-12-14T10:02:54-08:00</dc:date><link>http://www.wondersprings.org/files/christmashunt121409.php#unique-entry-id-516</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.wondersprings.org/files/christmashunt121409.php#unique-entry-id-516</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[It must be pointed out that these two men lived a century apart, we therefore need some license with reality to make this fictional trip happen, so we have creatively decided to have this trip begin today, December 14, 2009, but to focus upon the technology of a century ago, that would be December 14, 1909. 


...I sure have problems with this tea however, I know it is good for me, but a good cup of Fair-Trade black coffee, sometimes with a shot of snaps, keeps your blood circulating for that ten-mile ride to the hunting grounds. 


...I&rsquo;m expecting this great opportunity to be on the TV show, &ldquo;The Big Bang Theory&rdquo; to thank Sheldon for proving that I am right about global warming, and all my critics are just uneducated flat earth knuckle-draggers. 

...Also I didn&rsquo;t catch the speech in Europe, you see it was only a warp in the space-time continuum that I am here at all, and your so-called knuckle-draggers were the ones who arranged this twenty-first century gig for me, once it is over, it is back from the future. 

...The historic name is Babylon, you used to call it Global Warming, and now you call it Climate Change, but people are beginning to find out that a lot of your science is based upon the hopeful lie that humanity can save itself, from itself, by atheistic works, which you self-righteously call good. 


...Furthermore before you ask, I don&rsquo;t have to debate anyone on global warming because, I believe it with my whole heart and all those religious bigots, are just trying to lead others away from these fundamental eternal human truths. 


Teddy: Well universal progressive bashing that is part of the reason I agreed to come back for this Christmas Hunt, most of you twenty-first century Americans are long on hot air and spin, very short of substance, and void of common sense. ]]></content:encoded><enclosure url="http://www.wondersprings.org/files/podcast_516.pdf" length="192307" type="application/pdf"/><itunes:author>Jerry Bannon</itunes:author><itunes:category text="Religion and Spirituality"/><itunes:keywords>Christmas, Al Gore, Teddy Roosevelt</itunes:keywords><itunes:subtitle>The Wonder Springs Chroncile</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary>Today we take a mythical Christmas hunting trip with Teddy Roosevelt and Al Gore in the deep woods of Northwestern Montana. </itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://www.wondersprings.org/files/podcast_image_516.png" /></item><item><title>December 13th - Our daily bread</title><dc:creator>Jerry Bannon</dc:creator><category>Heidleberg Catechism</category><dc:date>2009-12-12T14:00:01-08:00</dc:date><link>http://www.wondersprings.org/files/lordsday5009.php#unique-entry-id-515</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.wondersprings.org/files/lordsday5009.php#unique-entry-id-515</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[Give us this day our daily bread.   That is: Provide us with all our bodily needs[1] so that we may acknowledge that Thou art the only fountain of all good,[2] and that our care and labour, and also Thy gifts, cannot do us any good without Thy blessing.[  3] Grant therefore that we may withdraw our trust from all creatures, and place it only in Thee.[

...104:27-30; 145:15, 16; Matt. ...  [2] Acts 14:17; 17:25; James 1:17. ...  37:16; 127:1, 2; I Cor. ...  17:5-8; Heb. ]]></content:encoded></item><item><title>Brute&#x27; says&#x2c; If life gives you a dead tree&#x2c; cut firewood&#x21;</title><dc:creator>Jerry Bannon</dc:creator><category>Et Tu Brute&#x27;</category><dc:date>2009-12-11T09:24:57-08:00</dc:date><link>http://www.wondersprings.org/files/brute121109.php#unique-entry-id-514</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.wondersprings.org/files/brute121109.php#unique-entry-id-514</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[(null)]]></content:encoded></item><item><title>God if you are real?</title><dc:creator>Jerry Bannon</dc:creator><category>Weekly Column</category><dc:date>2009-12-09T10:49:46-08:00</dc:date><link>http://www.wondersprings.org/files/godrureal120909.php#unique-entry-id-513</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.wondersprings.org/files/godrureal120909.php#unique-entry-id-513</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[This week and until the new year we will focus upon what is many times called testimonies of God&rsquo;s provision in times of need and how those difficult situations help us to grow beyond the self-centered consumer that our society seems to demand. 

...I had been invited to a Christmas party, which was to be also sort of a reunion for a church singles group I had been a member, after I had returned to church as a regular attendee and as my life was slowly coming back together after some very difficult times.   Not that many years before this party, this group had been held up as pretty much the best singles group in that particular regional section of the church denomination, because we did things together pretty much as brother and sisters in Christ rather than some sort of Christian dating service. 


...Part of the emphasis on attending this Christmas party was that one of the former members who had moved a great distance away was making a special effort to attend, even though we all knew it was a hardship to return to Seattle for just and evening. 

...As we talked about her return we all thought that was cool, but a trip to share a meal, sing some carols, everyone wearing sweaters, in a room full of candles, conversing with old friends, was a nice idea, but the whole life changing experience thing seem just a wee bit over the top.


...Then when they knocked again I finally decided to answer the door, after all my mind was pretty much made up and so a little delay really wouldn&rsquo;t make any difference, so I put my gun back in the drawer and went to the door.


...But then again I currently don&rsquo;t have to worry about my world imploding financially upon itself, for that happened long ago, and I am still alive, well, and feel better physically than I had before I had my heart operation in 2003, but that is another God story, that is chronicled here at Wonder Springs.
]]></content:encoded><enclosure url="http://www.wondersprings.org/files/podcast_513.pdf" length="157263" type="application/pdf"/><itunes:author>Jerry Bannon </itunes:author><itunes:category text="Religion and Spirituality"/><itunes:keywords>God, Christmas, depression, unemployment</itunes:keywords><itunes:subtitle>The Wonder Springs Chronicle</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary>This week we look at that age old question about the existence of God&#x2c; and offer God&#x27;s answer in two instances.</itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://www.wondersprings.org/files/podcast_image_513.png" /></item><item><title>December 6th - Thy Will be done</title><dc:creator>Jerry Bannon</dc:creator><category>Heidleberg Catechism</category><dc:date>2009-12-05T13:37:21-08:00</dc:date><link>http://www.wondersprings.org/files/lordsday4909.php#unique-entry-id-512</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.wondersprings.org/files/lordsday4909.php#unique-entry-id-512</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[What is the third petition? 


...Thy will be done, on earth as it is in heaven.   That is: Grant that we and all men may deny our own will, and without any murmuring obey Thy will, for it alone is good.[  1] Grant also that everyone may carry out the duties of his office and calling[2] as willingly and faithfully as the angels in heaven.[

...7:21; 16:24-26; Luke 22:42; Rom.   12:1, 2; Tit. ...  7:17-24; Eph. ]]></content:encoded></item><item><title>The Advent Season</title><dc:creator>Jerry Bannon</dc:creator><category>Oikos Thoughts</category><category>Special Report</category><category>Web News</category><dc:date>2009-12-04T12:05:57-08:00</dc:date><link>http://www.wondersprings.org/files/advent120409.php#unique-entry-id-511</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.wondersprings.org/files/advent120409.php#unique-entry-id-511</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[At Wonder Springs we normally give Brute&rsquo; his day, but with the United States jobless rate declining last month to an even 10 percent, it is generally assumed that most of the MSM, or the LSM (Lame Stream Media) will be reporting that  &ldquo;Happy Days are Here Again.&rdquo; 


...The opportunity that we can gain from these life trials is that  &ldquo;faith, hope and love,&rdquo; are unique assets of  all our human personalities.   They are gifts of God, given to us in unique ways, we are however much of the time to busy understand not only their unique nature, but also our own. 


Their have been those, in relatively recent human history, who have tried to change these gifts of God into a force that can be manipulated by human efforts. 

...Making you healthy, wealthy, and wise through your faith, was and still is part of the reason Christianity continues to be considered ridiculous, by many people, some who have tried the to plant their seed of faith and found it bought someone a new house and corporate jet, while their faith had to make the choice between food, and utilities, while old time necessities came to look like totally vanquished dreams. 


...Therefore during the rest of this year the Wonder Springs Chronicle will focus upon how God uses our difficult  circumstances to reveal His nature in our lives and how Godly faith, hope, and love, are able to sometimes overcome our circumstances, but also provide are deepest needs when we have forced to take steps beyond our understanding


...Let those of us who truly believe in that miracle take the time to share historical reasons for our faith, hope and love and the material gifts will take care of themselves. 
]]></content:encoded></item><item><title>Brute&#x27; says during Grizzly times trust in God&#x21;</title><dc:creator>Jerry Bannon</dc:creator><category>Et Tu Brute&#x27;</category><dc:date>2009-12-04T10:10:50-08:00</dc:date><link>http://www.wondersprings.org/files/brute120409.php#unique-entry-id-510</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.wondersprings.org/files/brute120409.php#unique-entry-id-510</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[(null)]]></content:encoded></item><item><title>Specialization classes</title><dc:creator>Jerry Bannon</dc:creator><category>Weekly Column</category><dc:date>2009-12-02T08:34:27-08:00</dc:date><link>http://www.wondersprings.org/files/specialistclasses120209.php#unique-entry-id-509</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.wondersprings.org/files/specialistclasses120209.php#unique-entry-id-509</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[Really if you believe that God created you in His image and has a plan for your life, and that even though you are inherently evil, God saved you by the propitiatory death and resurrection of His son, you have worth and need not be afraid of the unknown. 


...For the last several decades the United States has slowly fallen from that unique place in world history as we have become the world&rsquo;s most powerful nation, but also we want to be liked. 

...The current President does not believe in that model, so as well as inheriting that mess, he is trying to change directions to a more just society where evolving big governmental, financial, and similar institutions will save us, and the world around us, from ourselves. 

...When we want to simplify the world to a game of &ldquo;Obamopoly&rdquo; (which according to my web search dates back a few months), God, the invisible hand, and the American public must be willing to sit at the table and play the game.  

...Thankfully we are saved by the SEC and other government regulators that allowed Enron, WorldCom, Bernie Madoff, investment and regular banks rip you off, and then get bail out money to continue doing the same, this time not with financial leverage, but with free money. 


Now AARP is looking forward to making money selling their form of Medicare coverage, and the list of corrupt organizations and politicians continues to grow, as we mortgage our youth&rsquo;s future to pay for regulations on healthcare that would serve us all better if unregulated, like back when the United States was a classless society. 


...Sure they can create money in excess of all they want, but as long as that money doesn&rsquo;t relate to true wealth, all the classes that want you to know how smart they are, are just blowing smoke on the water, to keep our metaphors in line. ]]></content:encoded><enclosure url="http://www.wondersprings.org/files/podcast_509.pdf" length="156230" type="application/pdf"/><itunes:author>Jerry Bannon</itunes:author><itunes:category text="Religion and Spirituality"/><itunes:keywords>Barack Obama, Afghanistan, Adam Smith, Islam, God</itunes:keywords><itunes:subtitle>The Wonder Springs Chronicle</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary>This week we look at how specialization has created classes within the United States and how those current class structures are the cause of many of our current </itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://www.wondersprings.org/files/podcast_image_509.png" /></item><item><title>November 29th - Thy Kingdom Come</title><dc:creator>Jerry Bannon</dc:creator><category>Heidleberg Catechism</category><dc:date>2009-11-28T21:01:24-08:00</dc:date><link>http://www.wondersprings.org/files/lordsday4809.php#unique-entry-id-508</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.wondersprings.org/files/lordsday4809.php#unique-entry-id-508</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[That is: So rule us by Thy Word and Spirit that more and more we submit to Thee.[  1] Preserve and increase Thy church.[  2] Destroy the works of the devil, every power that raises itself against Thee, and every conspiracy against Thy holy Word.[  3] Do all this until the fulness of Thy kingdom comes, wherein Thou shalt be all in all.[

...51:18; 122:6-9; Matt.   16:18; Acts 2:42-47. ...  16:20; I John 3:8. ]]></content:encoded></item><item><title>Brute&#x27; says more stuff won&#x27;t save the world&#x21;</title><dc:creator>Jerry Bannon</dc:creator><category>Et Tu Brute&#x27;</category><dc:date>2009-11-27T09:21:25-08:00</dc:date><link>http://www.wondersprings.org/files/brute112709.php#unique-entry-id-507</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.wondersprings.org/files/brute112709.php#unique-entry-id-507</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[(null)]]></content:encoded></item><item><title>The Failure of Success</title><dc:creator>Jerry Bannon</dc:creator><category>Weekly Column</category><dc:date>2009-11-25T11:37:50-08:00</dc:date><link>http://www.wondersprings.org/files/failofsuccess102509.php#unique-entry-id-506</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.wondersprings.org/files/failofsuccess102509.php#unique-entry-id-506</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[So instead, as in the old days they did their market making with leveraged money, the more highly leveraged the better, now they are making markets with free money, provided by the government, not the taxpayers because we are so far beyond financial responsibility that taxes have become oxymoronic. 

...If we are really speaking of Godly change, if you read Haggai 2:4b-9, which we used to begin Part 9 of our Traditional Historic American Values series, you can understand that all the gold and silver that belongs to governments and precious metals traders really is there on loan from God. 

...Furthermore if you are one of those people who can and must testify to Washington State regulators you are financially able to lose everything you own in small company investments and still not be broke, I would like to talk with you.   In the big scheme of things it really is not all that much money and what better way to create wealth than do it with wealth that is relatively free from bureaucratic regulators anywhere in the world. 

...Similarly that is why I get to have all the fun writing these weekly articles for no money from here in Nowhere, and you get to try and figure out what tricks the government and Wall Street are going to think up next to get your wealth.


...How about a means to rotate those stocks, so that the meat of 1992 is not at the bottom of the freezer and those cans of vegetables you never use which still have sticky price tags on their tops have found there way to compost?


...I am convinced that if gun sales across the United States rose rapidly and dramatically the political climate in America would change away from fighting the progressive agenda in their comfort zone, to a traditional values guerilla (insurgency) war where a real shot would never have to be fired.
]]></content:encoded><enclosure url="http://www.wondersprings.org/files/podcast_506.pdf" length="162276" type="application/pdf"/><itunes:author>Jerry Bannon</itunes:author><itunes:category text="Religion and Sprituality"/><itunes:keywords>healthcare, Afghanistan, Wall Street, Barack Obama, Bill O Reilly, Sarah Palin, Glenn Beck</itunes:keywords><itunes:subtitle>The Wonder Springs Chronicle</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary>This week we look at how the United States has become such a failure through the attempt to be successful. </itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://www.wondersprings.org/files/podcast_image_506.png" /></item><item><title>November 22nd - Hallowed be Thy Name</title><dc:creator>Jerry Bannon</dc:creator><category>Heidleberg Catechism</category><dc:date>2009-11-22T13:40:00-08:00</dc:date><link>http://www.wondersprings.org/files/lordsday4709.php#unique-entry-id-505</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.wondersprings.org/files/lordsday4709.php#unique-entry-id-505</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[What is the first petition? 


...That is: Grant us first of all that we may rightly know Thee,[1] and sanctify, glorify, and praise Thee in all Thy works, in which shine forth Thy almighty power, wisdom, goodness, righteousness, mercy, and truth.[  2] Grant us also that we may so direct our whole life-- our thoughts, words, and actions-- that Thy Name is not blasphemed because of us but always honoured and praised.[

...9:23, 24; 31: 33, 34; Matt.   16:17; John 17:3. ...  34:5-8; Ps. ...  32:16-20; Luke 1:46-55, 68-75; Rom. ]]></content:encoded></item><item><title>Brute&#x27; gives us his Thanksgiving perspective.</title><dc:creator>Jerry Bannon</dc:creator><category>Et Tu Brute&#x27;</category><dc:date>2009-11-20T10:40:41-08:00</dc:date><link>http://www.wondersprings.org/files/brute112009.php#unique-entry-id-504</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.wondersprings.org/files/brute112009.php#unique-entry-id-504</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[(null)]]></content:encoded></item><item><title>Traditional Historic American Values - Part 10: None Dare Call It Treason</title><dc:creator>Jerry Bannon</dc:creator><category>Weekly Column</category><dc:date>2009-11-18T12:24:07-08:00</dc:date><link>http://www.wondersprings.org/files/thavalues10-111809.php#unique-entry-id-503</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.wondersprings.org/files/thavalues10-111809.php#unique-entry-id-503</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[A guerilla attack on American soil, American church leaders so out of touch that they think Christianity is primarily about making one feel good about a progressively psycho world, and we haven&rsquo;t even gotten into some serious reality. 


...In Asia he seems to have kissed away his second major goal, the cap and trade energy tax, in favor of his worst fandango, gross deficit spending, all the while continuing to dither on what to do with Afghanistan, a problem much too small to fit within the global concept of financially too big to fail. 

...In this guerilla war, Obama&rsquo;s progressive base only hold portions of the right and left coasts and Chicago politics, and the great American fly-over is becoming increasingly agitated with what it sees as not just liberal, leftist, or socialist, but communist underpinnings of his social wealth redistribution plans. 


...Cleaning up the language of the Full Bird Colonel, who as a Lieutenant traveled across Europe in a WWII boxcar, and required all his junior officers to read not only the weekly Warsaw Pact Intelligence Summary, but also the same summary originating from Viet Nam, &ldquo;It&rsquo;s a lousy little war, but it is the only one we have.&rdquo; 

...What all this means is during the Viet Nam era, we ROTC and OCS reluctant volunteers, in a few short years, learned more about ourselves, other people, leadership, reality, how the world really operates, than we could have learned in a lifetime of doing whatever, wherever. 


Putting this in the context of where we are right now, wars are far too great a challenge to be fought by professional soldiers alone, and citizen soldiers, or at least civilians trained in the principles of military leadership are way to important to civil society to leave the running of civil society in the hands of politicians, bureaucrats, and special interest oligarchs. 


...As far as debt, they don&rsquo;t believe in debt, at least as a problem, because if it were not for debt then they would have to share the wealth, if what is left can even be define as wealth. 
]]></content:encoded><enclosure url="http://www.wondersprings.org/files/podcast_503.pdf" length="186121" type="application/pdf"/><itunes:author>Jerry Bannon</itunes:author><itunes:category text="Religion and Spirituality "/><itunes:keywords>Ft Hood, Barack Obama, Afghanistan, Viet Nam, treason</itunes:keywords><itunes:subtitle>The Wonder Springs Chronicle</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary>This week we conclude our series on Traditional Historic American Values and the reality that the first totally dismissed founding principle was the establishment of the &#x22;All Volunteer Military&#x22; after Viet Nam.</itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://www.wondersprings.org/files/podcast_image_503.png" /></item><item><title>November 15th - Our Father in Heaven</title><dc:creator>Jerry Bannon</dc:creator><category>Heidleberg Catechism</category><dc:date>2009-11-14T12:29:01-08:00</dc:date><link>http://www.wondersprings.org/files/lordsday4609.php#unique-entry-id-502</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.wondersprings.org/files/lordsday4609.php#unique-entry-id-502</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[Lord's Day 46


...Why has Christ commanded us to address God as Our Father? 


...To awaken in us at the very beginning of our prayer that childlike reverence and trust toward God which should be basic to our prayer: God has become our Father through Christ and will much less deny us what we ask of Him in faith than our fathers would refuse us earthly things.[

...7:9-11; Luke 11:11-13.


...Why is there added, Who art in heaven? 


...These words teach us not to think of God's heavenly majesty in an earthly manner,[1] and to expect from His almighty power all things we need for body and soul.[

...23:23, 24; Acts 17:24, 25. ]]></content:encoded></item><item><title>Our &#x22;Constitutional Moment&#x27;</title><dc:creator>Jerry Bannon</dc:creator><category>Oikos Thoughts</category><category>Web News</category><dc:date>2009-11-14T03:27:22-08:00</dc:date><link>http://www.wondersprings.org/files/moment111409.php#unique-entry-id-501</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.wondersprings.org/files/moment111409.php#unique-entry-id-501</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[Part of that was due to the fact that I really haven&rsquo;t had the resources necessary to do the searching for these unique pearls of journalism.   Changing metaphors, more to the point has been the desert in which our journalism has entered, where you can take little at face value, and without resources to understand the back or hidden story, items of interest may turn out to be not as they seem. 


...As a people we had been awaken to the reality that  at least financially things were not going too well. ...  Furthermore through his &ldquo;hope&rdquo; and enthusiasm we were all at least willing to give Barack Obama the benefit of muted doubt towards his political agenda.


...The passive consumer addiction to stuff has been muted by real reality and those of us with Traditional Historic American Values are beginning to voice our displeasure on the way the country is heading, both politically and financially. 

...So today I offer you a weekly interview from the Online Wall Street Journal, by James Taranto talking with Seth Lipsky on our &ldquo;Constitutional Moment.&rdquo;   There is a reason to be optimistic about the future of the United States, it is just that we really are not too much into what and where this &ldquo;change we don&rsquo;t really want to believe in&rdquo; may lead. ]]></content:encoded></item><item><title>Brute&#x27;s asks if winter is deeper than snow?</title><dc:creator>Jerry Bannon</dc:creator><category>Et Tu Brute&#x27;</category><dc:date>2009-11-13T06:43:29-08:00</dc:date><link>http://www.wondersprings.org/files/brute111309.php#unique-entry-id-500</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.wondersprings.org/files/brute111309.php#unique-entry-id-500</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[(null)]]></content:encoded></item><item><title>Veterans Day Holiday</title><dc:creator>Jerry Bannon</dc:creator><category>Weekly Column</category><dc:date>2009-11-11T15:07:25-08:00</dc:date><link>http://www.wondersprings.org/files/vetsday111109.php#unique-entry-id-499</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.wondersprings.org/files/vetsday111109.php#unique-entry-id-499</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[Since the murders at Fort Hood, Texas last week I have been trying to think of an appropriate way to honor our past, present, and future veterans who have and will faithfully serve this country throughout American history.   While eating lunch today, it suddenly became quite obvious.   The best way to observe a memorable holiday is to observe it as such.   Traditional Historic American Values are founded upon sacrifice of self for others.   Liberty and freedom, paid for by our Veterans,will insure that these traditional values shall continue.   Therefore there will be no Weekly Column this week in observance of Veteran&rsquo;s Day.


Next week we will wrap up our Traditional Historic American Values series with Part 10: The Conservative - Progressive Illusion. ]]></content:encoded></item><item><title>November 8th - Prayer &#x26; The Lord&#x27;s Prayer</title><dc:creator>Jerry Bannon</dc:creator><category>Heidleberg Catechism</category><dc:date>2009-11-07T22:43:42-08:00</dc:date><link>http://www.wondersprings.org/files/lordsday4509.php#unique-entry-id-498</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.wondersprings.org/files/lordsday4509.php#unique-entry-id-498</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[1] Moreover, God will give His grace and the Holy Spirit only to those who constantly and with heartfelt longing ask Him for these gifts and thank Him for them.[

...What belongs to a prayer which pleases God and is heard by Him? 


...First, we must from the heart call upon the one true God only, who has revealed Himself in His Word, for all that He has commanded us to pray.[  1] Second, we must thoroughly know our need and misery, so that we may humble ourselves before God.[  2] Third, we must rest on this firm foundation that, although we do not deserve it, God will certainly hear our prayer for the sake of Christ our Lord, as He has promised us in His Word.[

...All the things we need for body and soul,[1] as included in the prayer which Christ our Lord Himself taught us. 


...Give us this day our daily bread; And forgive us our debts, As we also have forgiven our debtors; And lead us not into temptation, But deliver us from the evil one. ]]></content:encoded></item><item><title>Brute&#x27; says life is sometimes grizzly&#x2c; even if there is no real bear in the neighborhood&#x21;</title><dc:creator>Jerry Bannon</dc:creator><category>Et Tu Brute&#x27;</category><dc:date>2009-11-06T20:31:32-08:00</dc:date><link>http://www.wondersprings.org/files/brute110309.php#unique-entry-id-497</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.wondersprings.org/files/brute110309.php#unique-entry-id-497</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[(null)]]></content:encoded></item><item><title>Traditional Historic American Values - Part 9: Perspective Also</title><dc:creator>Jerry Bannon</dc:creator><category>Weekly Column</category><dc:date>2009-11-04T12:46:56-08:00</dc:date><link>http://www.wondersprings.org/files/thavalues9-110409.php#unique-entry-id-496</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.wondersprings.org/files/thavalues9-110409.php#unique-entry-id-496</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[The greedy capitalists think they deserve the wealth also and it will eventually trickle down to the have nots, just as in the continuing vision of the Reagan Revolution that shifted the role of small business from the innovators and job creators of society to a service sector of consultants and debt leveraged consumers. 


...Through these flyers you could find the latest bargains to fill your inflated house with stuff you really didn&rsquo;t need and find people to help you manage that stuff that you would do yourself if you really had the time. 

...Isn&rsquo;t technology grand, with the advent of DVRs and TiVos with the press of a button you can fast forward through all the ads to buy the stuff that pays for the programs you enjoy and takes your mind off all the bad things happening in this increasingly shaking world. 

...Al Gore and General Electric will give us the opportunity to create a green world, but that illusion is based upon the assumption that this economic model of growth can continue, and they just want to tweak the edges and make a ton of money in the process. 


...In that regard gold and silver are pretty much everywhere, however most of it is found in extractable concentrations in relatively small deposits that do not possess sufficient wealth for a typical modern mining company to achieve a return on investment.   However for an individual or a small group of investors willing to work and an understanding that you are dealing with a transcendent commodity, you might achieve wealth beyond your fondest dreams, if you are willing to live by faith.


...I am still here, and in the perspective of current times making it all work with twelve hundred dollar gold is going to be a whole lot eaiser and a whole lot more pertinent that in times when gold values were around three hundred.  
]]></content:encoded><enclosure url="http://www.wondersprings.org/files/podcast_496.pdf" length="179309" type="application/pdf"/><itunes:author>Jerry Bannon</itunes:author><itunes:category text="Religion and Spirituality"/><itunes:keywords>Barack Obama, wealth, capitalism, God, Warren Buffett, gold</itunes:keywords><itunes:subtitle>The Wonder Springs Chronicle</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary>This week we look at yesterday&#x27;s election&#x2c; the future of the country and how your own involvement in producing gold may be you only way to create and maintain wealth in these turbulent times.</itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://www.wondersprings.org/files/podcast_image_496.png" /></item><item><title>November 1st - The Tenth Commandment: Thou shall not covet</title><dc:creator>Jerry Bannon</dc:creator><dc:subject>Front Page</dc:subject><dc:date>2009-10-31T19:49:57-07:00</dc:date><link>http://www.wondersprings.org/files/lordsday4409.php#unique-entry-id-495</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.wondersprings.org/files/lordsday4409.php#unique-entry-id-495</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[That not even the slightest thought or desire contrary to any of God's commandments should ever arise in our heart.   Rather, we should always hate all sin with all our heart, and delight in all righteousness.[

...In this life even the holiest have only a small beginning of this obedience.[  1] Nevertheless, with earnest purpose they do begin to live not only according to some but to all the commandments of God.[

...If in this life no one can keep the ten commandments perfectly, why does God have them preached so strictly? 


...First, that throughout our life we may more and more become aware of our sinful nature, and therefore seek more eagerly the forgiveness of sins and righteousness in Christ.[  1] Second, that we may be zealous for good deeds and constantly pray to God for the grace of the Holy Spirit, that He may more and more renew us after God's image, until after this life we reach the goal of perfection.[]]></content:encoded></item><item><title>Brute&#x27; says remember Reformation Day&#x2c; not Halloween.</title><dc:creator>Jerry Bannon</dc:creator><category>Et Tu Brute&#x27;</category><dc:date>2009-10-30T16:49:18-07:00</dc:date><link>http://www.wondersprings.org/files/brute103009.php#unique-entry-id-494</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.wondersprings.org/files/brute103009.php#unique-entry-id-494</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[(null)]]></content:encoded></item><item><title>Traditional Historic American Values - Part 8: Perspective</title><dc:creator>Jerry Bannon</dc:creator><category>Weekly Column</category><dc:date>2009-10-28T10:08:32-07:00</dc:date><link>http://www.wondersprings.org/files/thavalues8-102809.php#unique-entry-id-493</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.wondersprings.org/files/thavalues8-102809.php#unique-entry-id-493</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[The Wonder Springs Chronicle is not a news organization but it is our job to give perspective on what is happening in our world without dithering around with any depth of journalistic investigation, simply because we really have no resources to do that job with integrity.


...If that is not what they are currently doing, then Vice President Cheney was right, they are dithering on other secondary issues, which really don&rsquo;t relate to solving the Afghan situation.


Furthermore with the economy still in declining flux, healthcare reform being reconstructed in secret, and deficit spending on a continuing exponential growth curve, why pick a fight with Fox News, when all it will do is to enhance the &ldquo;enemy&rsquo;s&rdquo; already sound ratings?


...Many of those individual and state powers have been ceded to the federal government during the twentieth century by legislation and judicial fiat, but just like with the fight with Fox News it is important to realize that by promoting the unfettered growth of the federal government you are picking a fight, with the American culture in which your odds of winning are quite remote. 

...I do not know if this perspective exists elsewhere in journalism, spin, blog, analysis, or with pundits, but it is the Wonder Springs perspective that what some would call evil communism, or others progressive emancipation, may simply be a result of non-Traditional Historic American Values.


...Because Barack as a youth only knew his father from a distance, perhaps even in just stories told to him by his mother and grandparents, he unconsciously understood that apple tree analogy. 

...It seems that being a little duck in the ocean was not all that attractive, because along the way he had learned that this cost was more than he wished to pay to receive just money or fame. 
]]></content:encoded><enclosure url="http://www.wondersprings.org/files/podcast_493.pdf" length="159878" type="application/pdf"/><itunes:author>Jerry Bannon</itunes:author><itunes:category text="Religion and Spirituality"/><itunes:keywords>perspective, dithering, Dick Cheney, Barack Obama</itunes:keywords><itunes:subtitle>The Wonder Springs Chronicle</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary>This week we look at the current state of the United States from the now popular terms of perspective and dithering.</itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://www.wondersprings.org/files/podcast_image_493.png" /></item><item><title>October 25th -The Ninth Commandment: Thou shall not bear false witness.</title><dc:creator>Jerry Bannon</dc:creator><category>Heidleberg Catechism</category><dc:date>2009-10-24T17:14:12-07:00</dc:date><link>http://www.wondersprings.org/files/lordsday4309.php#unique-entry-id-492</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.wondersprings.org/files/lordsday4309.php#unique-entry-id-492</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[What is required in the ninth commandment? 


...I must not give false testimony against anyone, twist no one's words, not gossip or slander, nor condemn or join in condemning anyone rashly and unheard.[  1] Rather, I must avoid all lying and deceit as the devil's own works, under penalty of God's heavy wrath.[  2] In court and everywhere else, I must love the truth,[3] speak and confess it honestly, and do what I can to defend and promote my neighbour's honour and reputation.[

...19:5, 9; 21:28; Matt. ...  12:22; 13:5; John 8:44; Rev. ...  3:8, 9; 4:8.]]></content:encoded></item><item><title>Brute&#x27; says this winter for humans will look a lot like Narnia&#x21;</title><dc:creator>Jerry Bannon</dc:creator><category>Et Tu Brute&#x27;</category><dc:date>2009-10-23T09:31:07-07:00</dc:date><link>http://www.wondersprings.org/files/brute102309.php#unique-entry-id-491</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.wondersprings.org/files/brute102309.php#unique-entry-id-491</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[(null)]]></content:encoded></item><item><title>Traditional Historic American Values - Part 7: Leadership</title><dc:creator>Jerry Bannon</dc:creator><category>Weekly Column</category><dc:date>2009-10-21T11:54:51-07:00</dc:date><link>http://www.wondersprings.org/files/thavalues7-102109.php#unique-entry-id-490</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.wondersprings.org/files/thavalues7-102109.php#unique-entry-id-490</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[The prosperity of the United States has been understood as a universal law for so long that those who are the self described leaders think a little application of warm fuzzies to the problem will make everyone feel better and therefore everything will soon be better.


...The financial powers of the United States have created so much funny money and pumped it into too big to fail financial institutions that they really have no need to worry, they can be happy. 

...You won&rsquo;t hear this in any of the name-calling rhetoric and spin, but the clear deductive mission of recent American leadership has been to take away the constitutional power vested in the people of the United States by the nation&rsquo;s founders and give, sell, or allow elites to manage the world, our world. 


...So when you hear someone promoting an agenda that establishes an elite organization to control whatever, and then hear that those who disagree are not truthful in some fashion, you can definitely assume that the someone is not a leader in the truest sense. 

...Chances are if you pursue these alternatives you will be subject to some form of name-calling by those who never have taken the time to really understand why they are taking up space in this universe. 


...What is codified in the Constitution, which makes it unique still in our world, is the acknowledgment that our Indians, Islam, and other religious people had a right to their moral beliefs also. 

...In common terms that just won&rsquo;t work for long in a world which is governed and sustained by Natural Law created by a Nature&rsquo;s Creator.      
]]></content:encoded><enclosure url="http://www.wondersprings.org/files/podcast_490.pdf" length="159869" type="application/pdf"/><itunes:author>Jerry Bannon</itunes:author><itunes:category text="religion and spirituality"/><itunes:keywords>warm fuzzies, Natural Law, traditional values, Jesus</itunes:keywords><itunes:subtitle>The Wonder Springs Chroncile</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary>This week we look at the lack of leadership that was the cause of these current economic problems and why they will not be easily fixed.</itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://www.wondersprings.org/files/podcast_image_490.png" /></item><item><title>October 18th - The Eight Commandment: Thou shall not steal.</title><dc:creator>Jerry Bannon</dc:creator><category>Heidleberg Catechism</category><dc:date>2009-10-17T17:35:21-07:00</dc:date><link>http://www.wondersprings.org/files/lordsday4209.php#unique-entry-id-489</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.wondersprings.org/files/lordsday4209.php#unique-entry-id-489</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[What does God forbid in the eighth commandment? 


...God forbids not only outright theft and robbery[1] but also such wicked schemes and devices as false weights and measures, deceptive merchandising, counterfeit money, and usury;[2] we must not defraud our neighbour in any way, whether by force or by show of right.[  3] In addition God forbids all greed[4] and all abuse or squandering of His gifts.[

...6:9-11; Luke 3:14; James 5:1-6. ...  21:20; 23:20, 21; Luke 16:10-13.


...What does God require of you in this commandment? 


...I must promote my neighbour's good wherever I can and may, deal with him as I would like others to deal with me, and work faithfully so that I may be able to give to those in need.[]]></content:encoded></item><item><title>Brute says leadership requires more than speeches.</title><dc:creator>Jerry Bannon</dc:creator><category>Et Tu Brute&#x27;</category><dc:date>2009-10-16T05:56:43-07:00</dc:date><link>http://www.wondersprings.org/files/brute101609.php#unique-entry-id-488</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.wondersprings.org/files/brute101609.php#unique-entry-id-488</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[(null)]]></content:encoded></item><item><title>Traditional Historic American Values - Part 6: Opportunity</title><dc:creator>Jerry Bannon</dc:creator><category>Weekly Column</category><dc:date>2009-10-14T11:54:35-07:00</dc:date><link>http://www.wondersprings.org/files/thavalues6-101409.php#unique-entry-id-487</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.wondersprings.org/files/thavalues6-101409.php#unique-entry-id-487</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[We could spend this whole article writing about opportunities existing and soon to be existing in the management and distribution of real water, but just like energy that is a real world and today the real world, especially in the United States, is treated like a television sitcom. 


...In the context of this week&rsquo;s discussion on the opportunities that you as an individual and collectively in community and enterprise can focus toward, we need some sort of remaking of the way things currently are, to what they truly can be. 

...What is even more amazing is the President has put in charge of his reformation, pretty much the same power structure that either helped create the mess, or have been so repudiated by their extreme views from a cross section of the political spectrum, that there is no vision, workable or not, to a future in which anyone might hope for a stable security.


...If you have never been there it is sort of an adventure, a time for a new beginning, the hope for a very brief time to reflect on where you are going, and how you really would like to get there. 


...Though we would never openly admit it, for most of us the concept of earning several million dollars a year, even if most of it is in stock options and or bonuses is just as frightening has not being able to pay the monthly electricity bill. 


...In context of somewhat recent events, that lecture would say that Bernie Madoff was only doing what he had done for years in NASDAQ, he was just doing it on a personal scale when he got caught and went to jail for the rest of his life.


...This points to the greatest obstacle you will face as a person developing your opportunity is that most people are not crooks, hence a person with integrity is threatening, especially to men in middle management. ]]></content:encoded><enclosure url="http://www.wondersprings.org/files/podcast_487.pdf" length="160048" type="application/pdf"/><itunes:author>Jerry Bannon</itunes:author><itunes:category text="Religion and Spirituality "/><itunes:keywords>Opportunity, Natural Law, wealth, inflation </itunes:keywords><itunes:subtitle>The Wonder Springs Chroncile </itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary>Times are tough&#x2c; but really tough time are important from the standpoint of advancing culture and society and especially the opportunity for creating wealth.</itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://www.wondersprings.org/files/podcast_image_487.png" /></item><item><title>October 11th - The Seventh Commandment: Thou shall not commit adultery.</title><dc:creator>Jerry Bannon</dc:creator><category>Heidleberg Catechism</category><dc:date>2009-10-11T04:15:16-07:00</dc:date><link>http://www.wondersprings.org/files/lordsday4109.php#unique-entry-id-486</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.wondersprings.org/files/lordsday4109.php#unique-entry-id-486</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[What does the seventh commandment teach us? 


...That all unchastity is cursed by God.[  1] We must therefore detest it from the heart[2] and live chaste and disciplined lives, both within and outside of holy marriage.[

...Does God in this commandment forbid nothing more than adultery and similar shameful sins? 


...Since we, body and soul, are temples of the Holy Spirit, it is God's will that we keep ourselves pure and holy.   Therefore He forbids all unchaste acts, gestures, words, thoughts, desires,[1] and whatever may entice us to unchastity.[

...5:27-29; I Cor. ]]></content:encoded></item><item><title>Brute&#x27;s says real economic recovery will come thru the people.</title><dc:creator>Jerry Bannon</dc:creator><category>Et Tu Brute&#x27;</category><dc:date>2009-10-09T11:35:12-07:00</dc:date><link>http://www.wondersprings.org/files/brute100909.php#unique-entry-id-485</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.wondersprings.org/files/brute100909.php#unique-entry-id-485</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[(null)]]></content:encoded></item><item><title>Traditional Historic American Values - Part 5: Freedom &#x26; Liberty</title><dc:creator>Jerry Bannon</dc:creator><category>Weekly Column</category><dc:date>2009-10-07T09:30:14-07:00</dc:date><link>http://www.wondersprings.org/files/thavalues5-100709.php#unique-entry-id-484</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.wondersprings.org/files/thavalues5-100709.php#unique-entry-id-484</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[If you think things are bad now, if they distributed a dollar to every American citizen, every time a politician, pundit, or other public figure use the word &ldquo;democracy&rdquo; to describe the United States designed political system, everyone would be wealthy and everyone would have healthcare, including those who just want a free ride. 

...However the changes of those who support Traditional Historic American Values see what&rsquo;s happening relates to the reality that the swamp is gone, replaced by the parking lot, and the trees are gone also. 

...So in the context of our traditional values series of articles thus far, natural law is being ignored by a human centered religion that seems to think that they are smart enough to control not only the human ecosystems, as in healthcare, but also natural ecosystems, through cap and trade carbon taxes. 


...Since the current dinosaurs, as well as the world&rsquo;s monetary policy are all determined through human economic and political enlightenment, that growth can continue until they consume the entirety of the world&rsquo;s monetary wealth with catastrophic results. 


...We will have lost our freedom because liberty has also been consumed in the process of the monetary gluttony, for to continue to create money at the expense of everything else, does and will continue to create non-sustainable debt.


So because, we the people, are seemingly having no input into any of these happenings we need to continue to act as the United States still honors your liberty to pursue your individual freedom to create your own self reliance. 


...So today true charity does not exist, for we all know that the government will take care of all the problems and hence we no longer have a guilty conscience because we used this progressive freedom to pamper our own idolatry with basically consumer kitsch and hence feed the economic dinosaurs with our credit card debt. 
]]></content:encoded><enclosure url="http://www.wondersprings.org/files/podcast_484.pdf" length="159346" type="application/pdf"/><itunes:author>Jerry Bannon</itunes:author><itunes:category text="Religion and Spirituality"/><itunes:keywords>liberty, traditional values, Natural Law, self reliance</itunes:keywords><itunes:subtitle>The Wonder Springs Chroncile</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary>This week we continue our look at traditional historic American values by looking at freedom and liberty and how those values are being stolen by a governmental cancer that promotes economic dinosaurs and other worldly extinct creatures.</itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://www.wondersprings.org/files/podcast_image_484.png" /></item><item><title>October 4th - The Sixth Commandment: Thou shall not kill</title><dc:creator>Jerry Bannon</dc:creator><category>Heidleberg Catechism</category><dc:date>2009-10-03T10:40:00-07:00</dc:date><link>http://www.wondersprings.org/files/lordsday4009.php#unique-entry-id-483</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.wondersprings.org/files/lordsday4009.php#unique-entry-id-483</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[I am not to dishonour, hate, injure, or kill my neighbour by thoughts, words, or gestures, and much less by deeds, whether personally or through another;[1] rather, I am to put away all desire of revenge.[  2] Moreover, I am not to harm or recklessly endanger myself.[  3] Therefore, also, the government bears the sword to prevent murder.[

...By forbidding murder God teaches us that He hates the root of murder, such as envy, hatred, anger, and desire of revenge,[1] and that He regards all these as murder.[

...5:19-21; James 1:20; I John 2:9-11. 

...Is it enough, then, that we do not kill our neighbour in any such way? 


...When God condemns envy, hatred, and anger, He commands us to love our neighbour as ourselves,[1] to show patience, peace, gentleness, mercy, and friendliness toward him,[2] to protect him from harm as much as we can, and to do good even to our enemies.[]]></content:encoded></item><item><title>Brute&#x27; says liberty is not just free&#x21;</title><dc:creator>Jerry Bannon</dc:creator><category>Et Tu Brute&#x27;</category><dc:date>2009-10-02T14:46:58-07:00</dc:date><link>http://www.wondersprings.org/files/brute100209.php#unique-entry-id-482</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.wondersprings.org/files/brute100209.php#unique-entry-id-482</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[(null)]]></content:encoded></item></channel>
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