Why sleepless?

 I'll rise at midnight... (Psalm 119:62)

Not to stew and fret that I'm not getting eight hours of sleep. No to thank and praise the LORD.

Go ahead and sing about it (used any common meter CM tune like Amazing Grace etc.):

Psalm 119

 61 The wicked wrapped me 'round with cords; your law I did not slight.

62 I'll rise at midnight, thanking you for all your judgments right.

63 I'm with those who your precepts keep and all those fearing you.
64 Your mercy fills the earth, O LORD; teach me your laws to do.

Should we sing the And or the Or ?

This was sung recently and I was moved by it. But I kept hearing:

"Than to be the king of a vast domain
OR be held in sin's dread sway."

And I was think to be a king is not sinful or opposed to Jesus the King of kings. Shouldn't it be AND?
I looked it up in 10 hymnals and one and only one had AND. And I am happy, I was not the only person to find the OR a problem.

.......

1 I'd rather have Jesus than silver or gold;
   I'd rather be His than have riches untold;
   I'd rather have Jesus than houses or lands.
   I'd rather be led by His nail-pierced hand

[Refrain:]

Than to be the king of a vast domain
And be held in sin's dread sway.
I'd rather have Jesus than anything
This world affords today.

2 I'd rather have Jesus than men's applause;
   I'd rather be faithful to His dear cause;
   I'd rather have Jesus than worldwide fame.
   I'd rather be true to His holy name

[Refrain]

3 He's fairer than lilies of rarest bloom;
   He's sweeter than honey from out the comb;
   He's all that my hungering spirit needs.
   I'd rather have Jesus and let Him lead

[Refrain]

John Piper on Sin

"...there are no truly good works in those who are not yet justified. They don’t exist, and have never existed since the fall. The question for the unbeliever is not, Can you do enough good works to outweigh your bad works? The question is, can you do one good work and contribute that as part of the basis of your acceptance with God? And the answer is no. “No one does good. Not even one” (Romans 3:12)."

Mr. Trump, deal with Abortion in the UN

"...Trump has yet to put a dent in the UN bureaucracy’s work to promote abortion....

If Republican administrations were nearly as tough and consistent on abortion as they are on the Palestinian question, abortion would have been kicked out of UN policy long ago."

Snipped from:

https://www.thepublicdiscourse.com/2019/01/48360/

first amendment -- Ronald Reagan

The meaning has not changed in the last thirty years or two hundred. for the press or religious values.

“To those who cite the First Amendment as reason for excluding God from more and more of our institutions and every-day life, may I just say: The First Amendment of the Constitution was not written to protect the people of this country from religious values; it was written to protect religious values from government tyranny.” — Ronald Reagan, March 15, 1982, in an address to the Alabama State Legislature

Mormons follow the "morality" of the Culture

Despite the enormous influence wielded by the powerful Mormon Church based in Salt Lake City, winemaking has a history in this state, ironically originating with the arrival of the seemingly abstemious Latter-Day Saints, Brigham Young, who led the Mormons to Utah in 1847, ordered vineyards to be planted and a winery to be built. He required one of his followers, an experienced German winemaker, to make as much wine as he could, and although he permitted Mormons to drink it for Communion (no longer allowed), he recommended that the bulk should be sold. His advice was not taken by the Dixie Mormons, who ran the winery and kept back their best wine for consumption. Winemaking peaked at the end of the 19^th century, declining once the Church clamped down on drinking, and died out during Prohibition.

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from the New Sotheby's Wine Encyclopedia, Tom Stevenson

ISBN 0 7894 2079 1

Mitt Romney Renounce Your Racist Religion !

The Mormon Church says that the Book of Mormon is “the most correct book, even more correct than the Bible.” The Book of Mormon in 2nd Nephi, Chapters 5:21-23 accuses God of cursing African people and causing them to have black skin in order for them not to be attractive to white people. These verses also accuse God of causing the black African people to be disgusting and detestable to white people. Furthermore, these verses accuse God of being against inter-racial marriages between blacks and whites.

Black Clergy And Other Concerned Christians Ask Governor Mitt Romney To Renounce His Racist Religion: