IT'S NOT A COMPETITION

I am not righteous because of my high standards. Holiness is not a competition. I am righteous because of the grace of God through the power of Christ. I have sinned, but I constantly confess these sins to my God and when necessary, to others. I have been under the authority and totally honest with two church organizations, plus my own church which is now no longer in existence. I was ordained and totally honest with the Church of the Nazarene and then later the church of the brethren. I have also been married twice but never divorced. I was totally honest with both of my wives and they were totally honest with me. And of course, I have been totally honest with my God. Permit me to be a little sarcastic. Duh. Why in the world do some hide themselves in the darkness? God is light and he sees and knows everything, but if we will drawn near to God, he will draw near, near to us. 

Stay tuned.

DAY 16, 2026

I started this journey approximately 20 years ago when the Spirit revealed to me the mistake that evangelicals, myself included, made the historical mistake of instituting prohibition. We were concerned and we still are about to high number of alcohol addiction caused by unrestrained tavern access and so we came up with an idea to severely restrict alcoholic beverage. 

At that time in history, tariffs supplied the majority of the income for United States of America. Evangelicals are human and we make mistakes and we decided to institute the progressive tax and turn away from tariffs. 

We were the Republican party, the conservative party, and we wanted to have adequate income to take care of the poor etc etc. 

At that time during the time of Theodore Roosevelt, the conservatives were in charge but due to our stupidity in several areas, his cousin Franklin Roosevelt led to the rise of the Democratic party, and basically the Democrats have been more or less in charge since then. 

Since the Spirit was speaking to me, I understood the miracle of the gold coin in the fish's mouth and the very revealing teaching, and isn't all of the teaching of Jesus revealing? Of the gold coin teaching, which basically said we should be using tariffs to finance our government. So 20 years ago I started praying for a president that understood the power of tariffs. 

Understand that I am just a catalyst, and ordained elder of the Church of the Nazarene who dropped out to take care of some family needs and therefore started a small church on highway 6 that's US highway 6 between the towns of walkerton Indiana and lapaz Indiana. 

God was also teaching me about the power of prayer and I invite you to read THE RAIN PARABLES for sale on Amazon. Under my middle name Mike Dittmer.

Rather than tell you the whole story at once, I invite you to either follow or research what I have written in the past so I can wrap this up. Later Gators.

DEAD SECRETARY

 my current secretary died. she took excellent dictation. no funeral is needed. she was my Google Pixel 6 phone.

now I'm using Chromebook. I am a poor typist, My keyboard of choice has 88 keys. I can play it in total darkness blindfolded.

Not so with Chromebook. I must be immersed in daylight. Sigh. Humiliation continues, but God's AMAZING GRACE rains down.

Later Gators.

1.15.26

short post

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LIVE LONG AND PROSPER

Today's Substack blog from Don Surber

10:00 a.m. opening thoughts are all gratitude for the clarity God and his son Jesus are bringing to his mostly humble servant Don. I want to be continuously grateful for the continuously hard work that you, Don, put into this blog. Live long and prosper. And yes, I am a Star Trek geek.

THE COMFORTER

Tonight I am grieving for the brave people of Iran. I am mourning over the huge loss of life inflicted by the Ayatollah Khomeni and his henchman. But My savior Jesus has a promise for you. Blessed are those who mourn, for they shall be comforted. The Comforter is coming. Your deliverance is at hand. MAD DOG 

I picked The picture of me with my two daughters taken at the same time of the death of their mother and my first wife, an amazing woman, a pastor's wife, a gospel singer, who road shotgun with me during the most awesome years of my early ministry. I can testify from my own experience that these two young ladies have been a great comfort to me.

THE WESTERN HEMISPHERE

Sigh. My dear friends, your vision is limited but fortunately our fearless leader Donald J Trump has the big picture. Right now the people of Iran have been inspired by his courage and are taking back their country with a minimal amount of help from us. Even though we are tempted to think in isolationist terms, and the very pure thoughts of small government, that is not where we are headed with Donald. The scripture that's most relevant for this moment is revelation 12 the entire chapter which talks about the wilderness which is the Western hemisphere. We must not only be historians from a human standpoint but also historians from God's viewpoint. And holy cow, I'm surprised at how wise I can be myself but that's the power of the holy Spirit. Wish I could take credit for it.

SHEPHERDS

God's armies are fashioned by the history they are taught, the enemies they have overcome, and the diseases they have learned to restrain. Like God himself, they are shepherds in search of Lost sheep, preaching the freedom only found in the Truth of Jesus. MAD DOG #wisdompoet

IT'S. ALL. SET. UP

I'll repeat what I told you before although I myself am a little bit surprised at how far this is going. I was told and I'll be honest with you it was by the Lord God Almighty that in four words it's all set up. Let me repeat. It's all set up. I wouldn't speak so openly about this except I think we've been talking about this long enough and if you haven't read my book THE RAIN PARABLES available on Amazon and you still doubt me you should read that book first. Anyway coming back to the subject at hand push back my mother gave me a bowl of ice cream every time I got beat up by a bully when I stood up to them and I don't know what Trump's mother did but it must have been something similar and really that's part of the DNA of America ever since King George III the psycho tried to push Americans around and made us who we are today. We basically like to be left alone until somebody goes a step too far and I think the Democrats under the world's laziest president Biden went a step too far for all of us. Since I love to hear the sound of my voice, I will wrap this up with the 9th beatitude about how blessed we are. Jesus said we are blessed when men shall revile you and speak all manner of evil against you with the sake of Jesus because great is our reward in heaven I'm bored is that especially apply to Donald J Trump. Yes he's going to make it to heaven although I'm not the final judge because not only is he a peacemaker but he's taking all sorts of s*** from the Democratic shit blowing fan and yet he's still smelling like a rose. And we conservatives that haven't got angry and bitter although I don't blame you don't realize how blessed we are because we stood with him. Hopefully I'm done for the day.

SUBSTACK DON

to my bitter conservative friends. For those who think that Indiana is not sane, I have two daughters that both work for charitable groups that have to submit competitive bids that are highly vetted. Just so you know, there is no real world that's free of Democrats and you're going to get criticism from them because that's the point boys and girls. So yes, there is a strong democratic presidents in Marion County and by permission of the Republicans themselves a small contingency around Gary Indiana. I like my partisanship and I'm sick and tired of my brain dead conservative friends that think  Democrats need to die and go away. That doesn't mean we can't b**** and complain about them or in my case post funny memes. I refuse however to be bitter and perhaps you should learn to do the same, numbnuts.

My comments on substack today continue. 

Follow the example of our fearless leader Don the sub stack author and use sarcasm to keep from being bitter. I quit counting how many roars of laughter I have when reading his excellent diatribes on the truth against the lies of the brain dead media. But I will stick up for the liberals such as Barri Weiss, Jessica tarlov and Harold Ford Jr the last two being the liberal counterpoint on the five. Please note that all of the participants in the five are friends. May I suggest you learn how to make a friend of a liberal? I have one. His name is Dan and his angry mother is also my friend and sometimes cautiously speaks to me trying to figure out what Trump is doing. She had a daughter that saw angels because I prayed that Angels would guard her door.

Later Gators.

SIR BACON

Long live SIR BACON otherwise known as MAD DOG aka Mike Dittmer or William Michael Dittmer Jr or revmaddog1948 for search engine results. Also #wisdompoet #humorandinsanity. Try it. Also find me on Amazon as Mike Dittmer author of THE RAIN PARABLES or on YouTube @hoosiergranddaddy

Later Gators 

DAY 7, 2026

This is a picture of two of my grandsons, cousins who are very dangerous together. And I love them dearly. 

I live in Plymouth Indiana. I am mildly disabled. I have an internet congregation of several thousand gospel preachers and gospel workers on Facebook and a couple thousand business people with a surprisingly high amount of females on X. I have been widowed twice, most recently in 2023 August 3rd. The lymphedema in my feet demands that I sit or lie down probably more than 12 to 15 hours a day. My phone is my secretary who takes a dictation. I've always been interested in world politics and notice now that it seems to be following the lead of Revelations. I've also had a wondrous prayer relationship with God including my most spectacular answer where I prayed for 20 years that God would send us a president that understood tariffs. I've also been trained since a young man to be a bully fighter as many American men have including our current president. Is he a clone of me or am I a clone of his? Thank you for listening. And thank you for the explaining where you're from. I like to conclude with my favorite phrase later Gators.

THE DRAGON VERSUS THE WILDERNESS

I've included a picture of Maduro in his happier days. 

821 a.m. the fifth day of January 2026. The cat is in my lap Fox News and Friends is playing quietly on my Amazon fire TV and I'm gathering my thoughts on what I will do today. 

This is in the Bible in Revelations. There's a verse that says God prepared a place in the wilderness, which is the new world that we're speaking of the Americas. The Monroe doctrine has been expanded to the Trump doctrine. The dragon obviously that is pursuing both the church and Israel is a mashup of communist China, Korea, and Russia. How this all ends up God is not revealing to me, but with Elon tunneling under desert cities and NASA preparing a moon base, it seems that the all-out nuclear war is being postponed. I find that reassuring. That's enough for now boys and girls. Later Gators.