BILL GOTHARD AND BEER

I'm a recent adherent to beer drinking because of my allowing my homeschool daughters to be married with the permission of their strict Evangelical mother to Catholic men. I am partly that because of my distrust of even my favorite people having control over anything because of prohibition and my suspicion has only been heightened since I used to be a hero worshiper of Bill gothard. If you don't know the tragic story I will only say that he had a wonderful successful early ministry that had a worldwide reach but like any group organization family or whatever that gets rich or successful too fast and goes too far they can become something that is readily mocked and I don't exclude my heroes Elon Musk and Donald J Trump but I think God has lifted them up and we are then going to go to hopefully a slow process of devolving and decentralizing but I don't have any prophecies to say on that because in the first place I am not a prophet nor a scholar nor even a professional journalist thank God or a professional minister but enough about me. Later Gators MAD DOG

BROKEN HEARTED CHILDREN

One of the reasons I fell in love with Catholics is there strong habit of saying the Lord's prayer daily and I believe if they are faithful to that religiously like it's a life and death matter there would be fewer lapsed or as we evangelate vangelicals like to say, backslid, don't pay any attention to the bad spelling of my AI secretary, there would be fewer broken hearted children and that's why we do this, for the children.

DATING A NIGERIAN CANADIAN WOMAN

I am advising a young businessman, American, who is dating a gorgeous young Nigerian and he has some reservations. Here is my advice. 

I am a shepherd, 77 years old, ordained in two wildly different denominations, and widowed twice. Be fearless. She will bless you immensely. Normal is vastly over rated. A child or 2 or more will bring both families on board. Loving Jesus fiercely is the most awesome thing. Seek ye first the kingdom of God and his righteousness and all these things shall be added unto you. My disabled woman is 41 and Lutheran. Mike Dittmer aka MAD DOG or revmaddog1948@gmail.com.

PLYMOUTH WESLYAN CHURCH

My very good friend may be going to a Shakespeare play, Julius Caesar played by an all-female cast. I'm advising him to buy the tickets because they might not be available soon with DOGE on the job. 

Although I'm not considered to be an extreme right-wing I did pray for and received as an answer to that prayer our current president, and I am also a fierce bipartisan, so figure that out. You'll have to decide for yourself whether you want to go or not but you may want to buy the tickets now if you decide to go because I think that d o g e is going to be cutting a lot of that stuff out. By the way, my daughters and my girlfriend?? Think I'm delusional well at least my daughters do because they all voted for Kamala. Also some people think I'm crazy mostly family but I'm also right on a lot of things. And a couple of very sincere and lovely democratic friends are really really angry at me because I prayed for a man just like President Trump although I would be more soft spoken like Mike Johnson. One further comment. My daughter back in our homeschool days was a college student when she was 14 years old or 15 and participated in a college area rendition of The odd couple played by two females instead of two men. This is a little bit older than you think because she's already had her 50th birthday.

I'm hiding all critical responses to my post because I'm in a very good mood and I won't don't want to be talked out of it tomorrow I'm going to church with my wingman Chris Leeke and his friend Suzanne I don't know her last name and we are going as you can see to the Plymouth Wesleyan Church and they have arranged to borrow the wheelchair from Garden Court East so even if it's raining or wet I can go pretty cool huh I can't complain with how well I am being treated by everybody even my liberal friends.

AS MUCH AS YOU CAN HANDLE

I've had a good day. My free thinking, and remember I trained her to be that way, daughter parted as friends which is always a little bit iffy because she is a liberal Democrat but shakes her head over how lacking in common sense they have. She thinks I'm the greatest father on Earth, and I was a great husband to two wives who passed away before their time and therefore her standards are way too high for politicians. She was fortunate since I allowed both my daughters to marry Catholics that she got the good one and back then I was pretty stupid about how to show your wife romantic affection without demanding that should be a full-time lover etc etc etc. I got some bad advice from a Bible teacher even though he was remarkable and how many insights he knew, but as he drew to the end of his years a 75-year-old man started flirting with his 15-year-old secretaries. Fortunately, God blessed me with an above average gift of discernment almost frighteningly so and I had some strong disagreements with several of his teachings because it never gave any credit to the woman warrior. He was one of the four Bee gees, Bill gaither a near billionaire gospel music writer and promoter, Billy Graham, who was the best large venue traveling evangelist ever, the Bee gees of course one of the most innovative Rock groups ever and then a tremendous seminar teacher Bill gothard. You can look up what happened to his disasterous teaching by watching the 4 part series Happy shiny faces on Amazon Prime. I've watched it multiple times and I confess I was a partial dumbass. But this always happens whenever a religious or political entity tries to blame those who disagree with them for all of their problems instead of listening. That's probably enough for now and I think I'm going to post this diatribe on the shepherd's Journal to see if I can get another hit or two from China I evidently have a few fans there that check in about every 3 months and they only like to check in as far as I can tell with the shepherd's Journal. My blog humor and insanity is popular in the United States and seems to fit my personality the best, but evidently, since I'm a songwriter as well as a poet, my blog the wisdom poet on blogspot has roared to life this last four or five days and the majority of both my Facebook account and my blogspot wisdom poet are wildly successful outside the United States. So I may just hang there for a while and stop in for some mental health counseling probably on a daily basis. God knows I need it. Thank you for listening again, and thank you, fearless Don, for combining satire, sarcasm, journalism, and historical knowledge to an unbelievable epitome of the best ever in history, and I do know my history so don't argue with me I caught your one mistake, which really wasn't public because it was just between me and you about the Titanic carbon fiber deep diver. As I like to remind my two heroes Donald J Trump and Elon Musk sometimes to build relationships and wealth you're better off doing it the Tai chi way slowly but with great strength but it was necessary for God to do this to turn the tide of the professional politicians to now the gifted volunteer amateurs. I will remind you without claiming any special privileges that I was told.. it's. All. Set. Up.  Doing the right thing and using common sense and working hard like Elon Musk and Donald Trump, and I did do that, you'll have as much success and wealth as you, your wife, and precious children can handle. Later Gators. MAD DOG 

FEARLESSLY INSANE OR INSANELY FEARLESS?

Today is March 27th, 2025 and Donald Trump is our president. Partisanship to the point of insanity is very slowly declining. Nationalism to the point of insanity is also slowly declining. The rise of the intelligent worker is rising and the over-educated idiot is declining. My clarity is only increasing and unfortunately or fortunately depending on your viewpoint my official perspective of myself and possibly many others is that I am fearlessly insane or am I insanely fearless? I am also fiercely bipartisan and the day is fast approaching when a Democrat?? will be able to defeat for one election Trump and his clones. By fast approaching, I mean within the next 100 years. I love it when a plan comes together. I think I'll get out a cigar and smoke it.

Later Gators MAD DOG. BUY AND HOLD TESLA. THE PREACHING OF THE GOSPEL TO EVERY HIGHWAY HEDGE AND NATIONALITY IS UNSTOPPABLE.

UNDEFEATED JOE BIDEN

No Democrat wants a Tesla now nor will Republicans want to subsidized them, but sales will pick up when the crazies from the liberal side of the aisle quits torch, shooting, scratching spray painting and bombing dealers, cars, trucks, and threatening drivers. Right now about the craziest thing Republicans do is believe that the Joe Biden election was stolen but I'm more tolerant and I believe God allowed one last hurrah from a undefeated Joe Biden. It wasn't Joe Biden that was defeated it was the Looney ideas that the radical left promoted. Meanwhile it's all set up.

IT'S 9:32 A.M. GOD IS IN CHARGE

It's 9:32 a.m. I am struggling to stay awake, not because this political s*** show is uninteresting, but because at 76 years of age it has gotten very predictable. Thank you Jesus for my hero Don and for my other hero Donald J Trump. Fox News is finally watchable although because of my sympathetic tendencies I can only watch the suffering of Democrats for so much when I have to turn away. Included in that is my heroic older daughter whom I have trained to be an independent thinker and I try not to be too harsh with her when I confront her in our debates with her historical stupidity. Indeed, the lessons of history was a weakness of her homeschooled training and I have to constantly refresh her scant historical background with reminders of Pearl harbor and the Nazi Holocaust etc etc etc. 

I am now almost totally open about the current political climate on my Facebook page and my audience is growing so fast, especially internationally that I have to slow down constantly. My percentage of USA readers varies from two and a half to three and a half percentage points. From my blog spot statistics I am consistently penetrating China and Russia. I have been encouraged by upper management to keep up my blogs and have even been blessed with a persistent young female companion who is 35 years my junior. By the time I reach 99 years of age it will be 2049. I have no idea how things are going to go other than I am totally confident that God is in charge. Later Gators. MAD DOGIt's 9:32 a.m. I am struggling to stay awake, not because this political s*** show is uninteresting, but because at 76 years of age it has gotten very predictable. Thank you Jesus for my hero Don and for my other hero Donald J Trump. Fox News is finally watchable although because of my sympathetic tendencies I can only watch the suffering of Democrats for so much when I have to turn away. Included in that is my heroic older daughter whom I have trained to be an independent thinker and I try not to be too harsh with her when I confront her in our debates with her historical stupidity. Indeed, the lessons of history was a weakness of her homeschooled training and I have to constantly refresh her scant historical background with reminders of Pearl harbor and the Nazi Holocaust etc etc etc. 

I am now almost totally open about the current political climate on my Facebook page and my audience is growing so fast, especially internationally that I have to slow down constantly. My percentage of USA readers varies from two and a half to three and a half percentage points. From my blog spot statistics I am consistently penetrating China and Russia. I have been encouraged by upper management to keep up my blogs and have even been blessed with a persistent young female companion who is 35 years my junior. By the time I reach 99 years of age it will be 2049. I have no idea how things are going to go other than I am totally confident that God is in charge. Later Gators. MAD DOG

THE PAIN AND POWER OF A BROKEN HEART

As a man who has been widowed twice I know both the pain and the power of a broken heart. As usual, I try to look at this from God the Father's perspective for as a race, we have broken God's heart when we turned our back not just once but repeatedly. But God and his infinite wisdom has prepared a way back through the death of his son the Lord Jesus Christ. Now the conclusion is that once we as a race are reunited with him in heaven, there will be no divorce nor will we desire one. 

I love it when a plan comes together.

Later Gators. 

MAD DOG

ELON MUSK LIFESTYLE

Finished the 6th blog post earlier than usual this week because at the age of 76 I have semi-permanently adopted Elon Musk lifestyle. I live in my man cave and I sit beside the edge of the bed with my Google pixel 6 AI secretary posting and editing constantly until I'm caught up. I sometimes will get up work and lay back down up to three times in a row until I can quit falling asleep while I'm working. And frankly, I had started working the same way in the last years of factory work which was a heck of a lot more dangerous because I drove back and forth to work getting by on a little as 4 hours total. The scare stories I could tell you. But during the last part, the Lord had moved a fearless and politically astute boss in and that's a long story in itself and I was his driver. So many stories. So little time. It's a good thing management give me a heads up to work on these blogs until I'm 99 which will be in 2047 and that is not a guarantee that I will go home to heaven but just a reasonable goal now for me. 

Later Gators 

MAD DOG

BIRTH OF A NEW NATION ANNOUNCEMENT

 I'm excited to announce the coming birth of a new City Nation, Gaza. 

Now for the disclaimers. I am not a prophet nor a scholar I have no doctorate of expertise I am simply a bi-vocational retired pastor, musician, factory worker, and international blogger with a reach of possibly 150 countries or more including China Russia India Bangladesh Pakistan Uzbekistan many European countries etc etc yada yada yada. I have had many quiet but spectacular in a quiet way answers to prayer that are very well documented. Read my book THE RAIN PARABLES available on Amazon along with 15 other books. The most spectacular answer to my prayers was my decade and a half or maybe two decades prayer for a president that had a biblical understanding of finances for a nation. I am also a legendary bully fighter and fearless hard worker so that at the place I worked I was nicknamed MAD DOG.

These are my credentials kind of like David when he stood before King Saul and told him the story of how he defeated a bear and a lion. I have also received what I call MEMOS FROM MANAGEMENT, which deserves an entire blog or maybe even a book but suffice it to say my last and possibly final memo had four words. IT'S. ALL. SET. UP. 

Now I'm just a Pathfinder. I see the almost inevitable and exciting possibility of a brand new nation state. 

Do not despise small beginnings. May I repeat that? Do not despise small beginnings.

That's enough for now. Later Gators

NOW vs Tai chi

NOW is the time to repent!!

Now is the time to get right with God.

Now is the time to look to the Crucified and Resurrected Jesus.

but

Don't be in a hurry to...

Grow up.

Be beautiful. Or handsome.

Get married.

Get rich.

Build a house.

Save the world.

Etcetera, etcetera, etcetera.

Life is like Tai chi. Doing the repetitious slowly deliberately, adding strength and balance to our life.

Health, wealth, friendships, service, marriage, family, wisdom, worship are best built slowly, steadily, working hard at each at their proper time, and often simultaneously, like the Good Samaritan, ministering while on a business trip, setting an example for all creation and the Creator to admire.

Seek first the Kingdom of God and His Righteousness, and all these things shall be added to you.

Democrats... Left in the wilderness of wokism

 Good morning. Everything is a work in progress. Today's post is a work in process. My story is a work and process. My life is a work in process.

I am an amateur journalist, a bi-vocational pastor retired.

I have been married twice. No divorces. Nor have I dated a divorced woman. I am not sitting in judgment of those who have been divorced. I simply clung to this standard because I really took the heart the scripture GOD HATES DIVORCE. 

Through God the Fathers mentorship and coaching, almost like whispering in my ear, I have learned how to pray effectively. Seems like I vaguely remember a scripture that says the effectual fervent prayer or prayers of a righteous man availith much. Read my book THE RAIN PARABLES available on Amazon.

As my first wife slowly struggled and faded during her last decade with a battle of bladder cancer, a juggernaut type of cancer that morphed into vaginal cancer, she and I worked hard as a tag team ministry.

For the first 10 years or so of my ministry at Family Bible Fellowship, we were incredibly blessed. We were purchasing the house of Lynne's dreams. With my generous income from work where I made more annually than the company president, we were adding handcrafted Amish oak furniture and Lynne was the ultimate hostess for our extended family and our nuclear family which consisted of two Catholic son-in-laws and a growing bevy of grandchildren.

May I stop for just a moment and share a story?

We were having another Sunday dinner after church around the beautiful oak table with me at one head and the hostess Lynn at the other. I had purchased a walking stick and the movie The Hobbit was popular. The older granddaughter Libby decided to take the youngest grandson Liam and teach him a mini skit. We all watched as he pounded the walking stick hard on the hardwood floor then said YOU SHALL NOT STAND!!

Allow me to jump ahead to what I see is the conclusion of what's happening to the Democratic Party. Because of the three death cults fusing together, the Democratic Party and their leadership has become so zombified that the entire older generation is going to have to die off before they can become effective again. 

That's what happened in Exodus. One whole generation had to wander around in the wilderness until they all died off and even Moses himself because he was a little impatient and tapped the rock twice instead of once had to settle on being taken to the top of the mountain and watching the children go into the promised Land. Maybe that's my lot? 

God is not going to kill off the Democratic Party totally because this conflict goes back to Adam and Eve and obviously just because the woman was so quick to get into trouble, redemption is also coming from the woman starting with Mary the mother of Jesus and then the church the bride of Christ.

A fusion of America and Israel, Jews and Christians, will rebuild and slowly win the hearts of their former enemies just like the USA did after they beat the s*** out of Japan and Germany. The threesome of the death cult, jihad, communist, and abortionist, Will slowly be encased and muted likely tuberculosis bacteria in our lungs only to be released before the end of the world and with Satan freed all the events of the apocalypse will happen but what humanity doesn't understand is that the universe that started with a big bang will end in a fiery crash and collapse and all of the physical DNA that has embedded impurities from ignoring God's example of one man one woman for one lifetime will be burned out of all human flesh and after judgment day where every creature will receive double the pain that they've inflicted on others The mouth of hell will open up and after every day bows and every tongue confesses that Jesus Christ is Lord the former predators will become the prey of the greatest predator prey of all times God the Father and the flashing lights will draw them willingly to their own eternal destruction and the pain will be beyond our imagination and we will be able to see it clearly and our heavenly bodies and when we finally sit down with the children of the future we will all tell our stories and then we will go to the lip of hell like our church did once.

One of the things that changed my life was our church took all of the young people to the Maxwell Street slum where all the rhinos that's funny winos hung out. It was presented as an object lesson to the teens about living a wayward life. Then we concluded with an evening at Pacific Garden missions where we went through the food line with the homeless men after a preaching service with an awesome evangelical piano player like I was to become and then we also went to their radio studio or they did a radio drama about someone's life. 

Ironically, or possibly providentially, my very good friend Pablo who might talk about often in my blog was saved from a deep dive into sin as a drug dealer and married twice and now works as a children's bus director as an outreach person and every time he gets a chance he goes and preaches the gospel somewhere and constantly witnesses to everybody he talks to. I was there and had to pass this on to Pablo when a missionary from the Ukraine??? Told how one of his young man was saved after he heard Pablo's story in the Ukraine. See how God weaves this together?

Later Gators 

MAD DOG