Independence Day 2021 This is Independence Day 2021 We are just going to have a "hi" and "bye" session today because - July 4, 2021. Laura Beavers: That's right. C. K. Williams: You know, I learned some really cool stuff about Independence Day 2021 today. So, what I learned today about Independence Day, or about some people on Independence Day, was that people like James Madison and a few other statesmen of that time, who were a big part of waging war against England, thought that July 2 should be Independence Day. Laura Beavers: And why is that? C. K. Williams: Well, that's actually when the Independence Declaration was signed and then ratified on the fourth day July. So, several of these men felt that July 2 should have been the day that we celebrate as Independence Day. James Madison and Thomas Jefferson, who were actually political rivals, believe it or not, (they butted heads quite frequently) but after there political careers, they actually became good acquaintances. Anyway, these two men thought that July 2 should be Independence Day. Oddly enough, both of those men died on July 4 - 50 years after this all came to be. Isn't that crazy? Laura Beavers: That is crazy. C. K. Williams: They died on the same day. We Declared Independence C. K. Williams: Now, here's something else I found out. You do realize why we declared Independence, right? Laura Beavers: Right C. K. Williams: The bottom line is that King George was very heavy-handed, if you will. He was taxing the colonies so badly that they couldn't make anything. It went against what everybody who came here, planned to do. King George just wanted extra territory. And the people who were wanted freedom. So, the tyrant, King George, when he got his fanny handed to him, during the War for Independence, after that the some of the colonies would have mock funerals for King George every year for Independence Day. Laura Beavers: Now that's funny. 4th of July Celebrations C. K. Williams: Yes it is. So, fourth of July celebrations, or celebrations of this kind have been going on for 2300 years. I didn't know this. Firecrackers in 200 B.C.! Who would've thought it? After we won the war, gun-ships would fire thirteen-gunshots, one for each of the thirteen colonies, here in the United States. I think our listeners want to get back to what they were doing. After all, it is Independence Day. It is Independence Day, isn't it? Laura Beavers: It is. C. K. Williams: There were a lot of fireworks out there last night, wasn't there? Laura Beavers: There was. C. K. Williams: I some some a little while ago. They going off in every direction - North, South, East, and West, I saw fireworks going off everywhere. Be Safe this Independence Day C. K. Williams: I hope nobody catches any barns on fire this year, or launches any bottle rockets in the wrong direction. What my sister and I did as kids, we shot bottle rockets at each other. I did shoot one at her. It bounced off the street and it caught her hair on fire. It was really kind of a surprise. I wasn't supposed to do that. I'm only saying be careful with your bottle rockets. No, me and my sister don't shoot bottle rockets at each other anymore. But, anyway, stay safe for the holiday. I understand that some people will be out of school, or off work or whatever tomorrow so, watch yourself. Be careful if you're out on the roads. Don't be acting crazy, riding around with open containers. Laura Beaver's Birthday And one more thing, tomorrow is July 5 and that just happens to be Laura Beaver's fifth birthday. We are so proud of our little girl. Happy birthday, tomorrow. Happy birthday! Laura Beavers: Thank you. C. K. Williams: You're welcome. How old will you be? Oh! That's rude! I'm not supposed to ask that am I? Laura Beavers: I'm not ashamed. I'll be 50. C. K. Williams: Anyway, I hope everyone has a wonderful fourth of July evening. Stay safe.
This episode "Make America God's Again", explains that the entire world is finally able to see the evil in our nations capital and why.
Welcome to another episode of Life in the Son. I'm your host, C. K. Williams and today I am sharing part 2 of my testimony. Corona Virus Caution Hello, everybody. I'm glad you could join us again. I'm really kind of excited about getting this episode going because now is the time to tell you part two of my testimony. But, first, I'm sure that everybody is thoroughly aware by now of the Corona Virus. So, I just want to say, I'm not gonna talk about it, but I do wanna say please, be careful. Keep an eye on yourself; keep an eye on your neighbors, and most importantly, pray for each other; pray for this country; and pray for the health of everyone who has to come in contact with this virus. And with that, I think we will go ahead and get started. My Testimony Part 2 My Hard Road: I think when I left you in part one of my testimony, I left you knowing that I was pretty much on a hard road. I say a hard road now that I am twenty years into my Christian walk because I can honestly look back and say, most of that hard road was paved with the decisions I made. Don't get me wrong, up to that point, I probably did blame everybody I knew and probably even invented a few people to blame my problems on. I did have quite a few problems but, again, my problems were compounded by decisions I made. Yes, many of those were made as a result of other things that were affecting me early on in life. My Testimony Part 2 - Two Basic Tips Fortunately, before I got saved, I met a gentleman in Austin, TX when I moved one of my bands down there and who told me one day, "I want to give you two tips, very basic tips about life. If you just remember these two things, you will go a long way." Now, I'm thinking, "Great! What are they?" "Number one: Don't let the little stuff bother you." I said, "Okay. that one's easy. What's the other one?" He said, "It's all little stuff." I didn't really like that too much cause at the time, I didn't think it was all little stuff. I didn't realize what was going on in my life. A bunch of really small problems that had never been faced; had never been dealt with and so all these little problems were now one big problem. And this one big problem really looked too big for me to tackle. It looked like it was just more than I could handle. It's kind of a shame because I piled it up on myself pretty deep. You would think if you piled it up on yourself you could get out from under it. I assure you that is not the case. My Testimony Part 2 - The Weight Lifted After I climbed up off of that floor at the front of the church by the altar, that night I didn't want to leave the church. It was weird. I'm noticing this about myself that at first when I was standing up, I felt lighter than I had ever felt my entire life, and believe me, I have never been a big guy. In fact, when I went into the Navy, I was five foot ten and a half and I weighed all of one hundred and sixteen pounds. If you know anything about enlistment into the military, you know I was right on the edge of being too light. So, when I climbed to my feet, and I say I felt lighter than I have in my whole life, I felt like I was pumped up with helium. I felt like I was literally gonna hit my head on the ceiling. I know, laugh if you want to. It is kind of funny looking back but, that's exactly how I felt. When I went into the church, I was heavily burdened. I mean weighed down with all my problems, especially the ones I had never dealt with. There was the weight of all the people I was angry with, including myself. Oh yeah, and did I happen to mention that I was reaching dangerous levels of intoxication? All that was gone by the time I stood up to my feet. That was the first thing I noticed and it was an incredible feeling. For the first time in my life, I think finally felt good. I don't mean to say that all my problems went away right then but, everything in me was at peace. I had never felt that before and I'm not even s...
Biden's Break Backs Better Policies Erased Trump's policies by executive orderA. Shut down the keystone pipeline/Sent funding for Russia's pipelineB. Stopped construction of the Border WallC. Opened our bordersD. Rejoined the UNE. Made funding available for abortions (world-wide)F. Killed more jobs and shut down more businesses than Trump created.G. Approved a $1.9T dollar "COVID Relief" Bill (only .9 was for COVID)H. Failed to help defend Israel against the Hamas missle attacksI. Most Recently pulled our troops from AfghanistanJ. Blames everything on Trump and his administrationBiden's Cabinet and their Barage of BSA. He is the racistB. He (and his cohorts) is a domestic terroristC. Blinken ordered the flying of the Pride and BLM Flags on all EmbassiesD. They are trying to mandate door-to-door vaccinationsC. Biden and the Dems rigged the 2020 presidential electionsD. Biden/Harris (primarily) pawned off border crisis on TrumpE. They claim to have been unaware of the Afghanistan resultsF. They lied about having no vaccines when taking office.G. They are dismantling the Constitution and lying about doing so.H. Biden/Harris administration setting the stage to steal another election in 2024.Biden/Harris JusticeA. Strip them all of their power/try them for their crimesB. America needs order not dissarayC. America needs unity not divisionD. America is free because of her braveE. Remove Biden/Harris and replace with true American patriotsBiden Time til the Sound of the Trump
1) Remember the game Red Rover that we used to play in elementary school? There would be two teams that faced each other from several yards apart. The first team would lock elbows and chant, "Red Rover, Red Rover, send "a player's name" right over. The opposing team, then sent the designated player running to break through the line. The first line of players must prevent the opponent from breaking through.
According to the Webster's Dictionary, naïve or credulous people who can be manipulated or exploited to advance a cause or political agenda are called useful idiots.
I have been trying to be a little conservative but, today, I am calling you out!
About the Book What do you want to know about the book? Well. Do you want to know the why or the what Okay, why I'm writing the book. Well, to be honest, I did not want to write the book but, my mother has been on me for the better part of twenty years to write my book. I don't know why she had the idea that I should write my book. She thought I should write my book about my life. I could not figure out why she thought I should write a book, especially about my own life. Her rationale was that my life was interesting. About the Book: I'm no Author Now, if you're going to write about your own life for crying out loud, you at least need to be somebody famous, right? I mean that's what I thought. She stayed home for a long time to write my book and I fought it for a long time. I tried to write it several times but, then I find myself wadding it up and throwing it in the garbage. But, you know, I spent most of my life writing poems and songs. Two or three verses, of course, and a bridge - I can do that easily. I could do that before this episode over. But, when it gets past three or four versus I get lost. Talking About the Book With My Counselor Aside from my mom, talking to me about it, I had a counselor at the VA that I'm talking to and I was complaining to her about my mom, trying to get me to write this book. Yeah, she was probably the wrong person to complain to because apparently, she thought I need to write the book. And the way she said it, I really took that kind of seriously, So anyway, I decided that I would try to write a book based on more of what my counselor told me to my mom, just telling me to write the book and so I went in and started trying to write not knowing how I want to write it. I've been trying to figure out how to write it. Deciding on a Genre I considered writing it as an autobiography. That's going to take so much for research. Did you know you have to research your own life? Yes. that's a lot of work, you know. Then, I looked at maybe doing it as a, what do they call it? you know, it's not really nonfiction, not fiction, but based on actual events. But anyway, I was looking at different things about how to write a book. How do you decide what type of book it should be? You know, this is not my wheel house. I don't know anything about writing books at all. That's what Lynn Sheldon said when I interviewed him. He said he did not like writing. He said he was terrible at writing and now he's got to think eight or nine. I don't remember how many books he's written. What to put in the Book The hard part I'm having is now trying to figure out what I want to put it in. But, what is difficult? Because obviously about my life. And you know, I know everybody has a life but you know, there are some things that I just don't want people to know because you know, I tell them that means I had to talk about it off and I like talking about a lot of I justassumed to be happy-go-lucky tell jokes you know have a good time. Make you laugh I'm good. Who cares what happened? That's the way I looked at it off but what my counsel got onto me my VA counselor. When she got onto me it was because Apparently a lot of this stuff that he had heard me talking about but you should listen to me obviously. But a lot of the things that I talked about he actually said that would help a lot of people. Okay, now she's got my attention. And there's my mom telling me my life was interesting. Didn't get my pension. Of the what for the Y. I guess the why is because people ask me to write my book and this counselor just happened to say my book my story, but possibly help somebody else. And I don't know if she knew that would push the right button but that's what I like to do is help people when she said that got my attention, the cost started writing a book. I know it's hard for some people. How do I write the book?
The standard of morality, especially in the United States, has all but vanished in recent years and I want to share a few of my observations.
Lynn Sheldon: Godfire R. D. O. C. K. Williams: Our special guest today, Lynn Sheldon: Godfire R. D. O. (Revival and Discipleship Outreach). How are you doing today Lynn? Lynn Sheldon: I am doing well, thank you. C. K. Williams: I'm glad to have you on the show. You're actually my 3rd guest on the show and it's always exciting to have a guest. You have got an amazing ministry; you have been working on. First, tell us about your background, leading you up to this point. Lynn Sheldon: Personal Background Lynn Sheldon: I come from the Midwest and my job eventually took me to the South and I love the South. Although I love the Midwest, their taxes are too high so I stay in the South. My background is broadcasting I. Went to Northwest Missouri State University and got my degree there in broadcasting. However, I worked for 47 years in broadcast sales. I put in thirty years at one station here in the South, but during this time God gave me a ministry to start and so we have. It's called God Fire revival and discipleship outreach. Now to give you a little bit about my Christian background. Lynn Sheldon: Christian Testimony Lynn Sheldon: I became a Christian in 1985. And it was really interesting how that happened. I was working out of Missouri at a broadcast network there and I was coming home from a meeting in Saint Louis. We were living in Jefferson City at the time and I always listen to Christian radio. I attended church and I thought I was a Christian, but I found out later that attending church doesn't make you a Christian. But I always listen to Christian radio. Because I enjoyed talk radio, I listened to Christian radio. It was the only talk radio you could get as far as to talk in those days, right? So, I Was listening to this particular pastor and he started talking about the darkness in our hearts. And it so moved me that I pulled off to the side of the road and just wept. cause I realized I wasn't a good person. I had a lot of darkness in my heart. I don't know what that meant other than the Holy Spirit started to draw me then. But I didn't know what to do with it. so, I went home. Lynn Sheldon: Getting the Message I've been searching Psalm 91, which is still my favorite song. Something in Psalm 91 told me I needed to move from Jefferson City to elsewhere. Now, I couldn't tell you what was there that made me think this. Anyway, I took a job in Shreveport. Thankfully, I found another job six months later. The people were nice, I just could never figure out if I was in Shreveport or Bosier. It was one of those places that are just difficult to get around. I arrived there about 4:00 in the afternoon or so, driving from Jeff City. And to my surprise, a gentleman who I had been in competition with I guess for sales manager he got the job but I didn't. He was a friend of mine. A good friend of mine and I didn't realize he was going after the job too, but thank God, he got it and I didn't. But anyway, that's another story. Lynn Sheldon: Led to Christ Lynn Sheldon: We sat there and talked for a little bit and then he took called me back to his office. And he closed the door. And we talked radio. What it's all about and stuff like this. But then he said Lynn, are you a Christian? And I said, Chuck. I think so. I teach Sunday school and I go to church. He said, "yes, but do you have a relationship with Jesus Christ?" And I said, " don't even know what you're talking about there." He shared the gospel with me and led me to Christ. A few days later. I pulled up my Bible and looked at Psalm 91 again. And I couldn't believe it. I said you got to be kidding. Remember when I said I wasn't sure what it said, but I thought I had to move right? C. K. Williams: That's right. Lynn Sheldon: Understanding the Word Lynn Sheldon: You're not going to believe this. Psalm 91 says I will flee you from the Fowler. Right? That's what it says.
Today is May 31, 2021, and this is Memorial Day. In Episode 17, Memorial Day 2021, is the US Code.
Two weeks from now it will be Memorial Day, 2021. This one day was set aside as a national holiday to commemorate all of Americas soldiers that were killed in combat. Certainly, there will be family and friends gathering together to barbecue and socialize. It is a holiday, after all. One long held tradition is to visit war memorials, museums, and even cemeteries.
Talking about S.L.O.P. is a revelation I received from God about simplifying and prioritizing my obligations.
June 25th marks the third anniversary of Latter Rain Ministry and I deserve none of the credit for that at all. Truth be told, I have spent the better part of two of those years wanting to throw in the towel. I have struggled mainly with my lack of experience and resources. But, the one thing that has grieved me above all else has been the people in my life.
11 And the testimony is this, that God has given us eternal life, and this life is in His Son. 1 John 5:11 (NASB, 1995 update)