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CRITICAL CONDITION BY JAMES A. MCMENIS

“When inferiority is allowed to take root in our hearts, it leads to an inferiority complex.  This is poisonous.  It will negatively affect every area of your life and all of your relationships.”

--Critical Condition

By James A. McMenis

      There is good criticism, and there is bad criticism.  Our current world is swimming in bad criticism as men and women, boys and girls—even in the church—do NOT know the true difference between the two.  Pastor James A.

WHERE REAL MEN ARE UNINVITED, PART 2

      Real men get married before they procreate—which is the way God intended for it to be.  This is God’s best for REAL men (and the women who love them).  REAL men under the bonds of Jesus Christ will always shoot for God’s best.  Yes, they can come up short. Yes, they can sin.  However, they are quick to repent, forsake their sin, and get back on the narrow highway of life under God.    

      In our current era, one may be shocked to hear a man referred t

PORNOGRAPHY—THAT CORRUPTING SPIRIT

     In continuing with my series concerning some of the spiritual warfare which men—and women—are facing in these last days before the return of Jesus Christ, an examination of the dangers of pornography is in order.  To sum up this column, let me just say this: pornography corrupts everything it touches, from the inside out.

     I’m not writing a scholarly paper on this subject.  Nor am I writing a paper to expose a lot of the ‘dirty’ things about pornography

DO THEY REALLY WANT YOU—OR ONLY WHAT YOU CAN DO FOR THEM?

      The title of this column has been one of those questions that many of us have had to examine from time to time.  Believe it or not, those who are under the name of Jesus Christ have had to contend with this issue in a variety of places.

      Do people want you or only what you can do for them?

      If you know your KJV Bible, Jesus himself had to contend with this matter after he fed the multitudes.  They followed Him so that they c

A SUCCESS PRIMER FOR YOUNG BLACK MEN, PART 6

      Young man, what is the condition of your soul?  Do you have ‘good religion’?  No, I am not talking about ‘just going to church’.  I am speaking about having a firm relationship with the one who has bought and paid for the TRUE church with his body and blood—the Lord Jesus Christ.

      Now, at this point, there are those who will cry out that I am meddling in a topic that I should not tread.  Nevertheless, I will tread into this arena, for today,

THE OCCULT--THAT SNARING SPIRIT!

     Let me open our time together with a startling fact: All false religions and cult groups have an underpinning of occult practices, ranging from such ‘simple’ items as ancestor worship, tarot cards, crystal balls and the like; to the more complex and deadly spiritual items as ritual sacrifice and necromancy (summoning of evil spirits associated with the dead).  Further, false teachers that are behind these groups KNOW of the occult practices as either they—or

A SUCCESS PRIMER FOR YOUNG BLACK MEN, PART 4

      As I continue with this 12-part series, I have decided to proclaim 2024 as “The Year of the Young Black Man.”  I believe that they are doing well, despite the negative images put forth by the “mainstream mess”.  I realize that you haven't heard about these topics from 'other' areas of the electronic frontier.  This great site is where you need to be, as the action is popping here!

      A few years back, during my Probation Officer days, I made a

TIME FOR FATHER’S MONTH

      America—as well as other western cultures—have been feminized for quite a long time.  Here in the states, March has been ‘proclaimed’ as “Women’s History Month”.  Well, as one who is used to putting out fires with the blanket of truth, I’d like to remind us that someone of the WOKE crowd (Weirdly Obsessing Kooks and Evildoers) a few years back just ‘decided’ that they were hostile against “Black History Month” in February and came up with the idea to further attempt

BLACK ELECTED OFFICIALS: STOP BEING ‘STUCK ON STUPID’!

      Based upon what I have been reading and seeing concerning some of the latest scandals of our current crop of Black elected officials (many of them of the Democrat and liberal stripe) there SHOULD have been someone in their political upbringing who were willing to ‘school’ them on a few truths and realities.  Regardless of whether a Black elected official is a Democrat or Republican, it should be painfully obvious that—being a Black man

A SUCCESS PRIMER FOR YOUNG BLACK MEN, PART 3

      I’ve worn a variety of different hats over my lifetime.  All of them have, at time or another, ‘bumped uglies’ with the impact and effects of juvenile crime.  Whether it has been in a classroom, in a courtroom, or in the streets, juvenile crime is the issue that spends more time taking—rather than giving.  In short, regardless of what you see on social media, in the ‘mainstream mess’ or in the latest video game offering or in the latest rap/hip-

CHRISTIANS: LET’S GET INTO THE SAME PAGES!

      There is an adage which many have seemed to have forgotten in our modern age: “Dance with the one who brung ya!”  In short—be loyal to those upright things in your life that have helped to make you stronger in your walk with Christ.  This is true of certain people and—yes—one certain version of the Bible, the good ‘ol KJV of 1611.

      The late Jack Chick, through his ‘Chick Tracts’ was a major inspiration to me during my formative years as a Chri

LET’S HEED OUR MENTORS

      It seems that every time we read about a teen or young adult involved in a horrific crime, one of the first things that ‘leaps’ out of his/her background is the fact that he/she was the product of a broken—or single parent—home.  What the ‘mainstream mess’ and social media bytes leaves out is how many times this teen/young adult hoodlum (ie gang banger or thuggette) received good advice from a trusted relative, teacher, friend or mentor and STILL decided that they wa

A DANGEROUS SOCIAL TREND: THE BLACK WEDDING BAND

      It ranks right up there with a woman asking the ‘steady’ man in her life to marry her—I’m going to broach the subject of the solid black wedding band, or, the wedding band with a majority of black trim clearly visible to the public.  I don’t know who started this ‘social trend’ but there is danger written all over it.

      I recently ran into a young man who displayed such a band while we were at my local barber shop.  I saw his black weddin

GEN Z--IT’S ALL ABOUT APPLICATION!

       One may have the best books and videos supplied to them.  They may have taken the best of classes and earned so many degrees that one could put the word ‘Fahrenheit’ at the end of their name.  However, unless one makes the effort to apply what they have learned to the problems at hand, their efforts—and talk—will be useless.

      The same thing may be said about the KJV Bible.  A Christian may know the names of every bible book. However, until one applie

SMIs—THE NEW FOOLS

      In case you may have tuned in late, there is a new breed (or, maybe not so new breed) of fool that is sweeping social media.  No, I’m not referring to those who get their kicks from following what is posted along the funky electronic frontier.  Whom I am pointing at in my writings for the month are the new fools—otherwise known as ‘Social Media Influencers’.

      Sadly, Social Media Influencers (SMIs) think it cool to act a fool—and are shocked that they are paying such

TOXIC LIES AGAINST MANHOOD—PART 3

      One of the overriding themes of this series is that the mainstream mess—including social media—makes its bones putting forth bad news.  Good or uplifting news is not valued by those who oversee editing and putting forth the ‘agenda items for the day’.  Instead of informing the public (as American media outlets ‘used’ to be about) the media is all about indoctrinating the public to support their agenda—not yours.

      And, because of the money—their support