<description>&lt;img src="https://assets.podomatic.net/ts/a8/f2/f8/jpfagapeu/1400x1400_2371974.png" alt="itunes pic" /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Georgia;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Inauguration&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;ul style="list-style-type: disc;"&gt;
&lt;li style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Georgia;"&gt;The Mob&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ul&gt;
&lt;p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Georgia; min-height: 14.0px;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Georgia;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Not Elite&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;ul style="list-style-type: disc;"&gt;
&lt;li style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Georgia;"&gt;&amp;ldquo;Farmer Presdident&amp;rdquo;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Georgia;"&gt;First president not from East Coast Elite&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ul&gt;
&lt;p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Georgia; min-height: 14.0px;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Georgia;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Friend of the Ordinary Citizen&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;ul style="list-style-type: disc;"&gt;
&lt;li style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Georgia;"&gt;Strict constructionist&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Georgia;"&gt;Self made man&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Georgia;"&gt;Respect for God&amp;rsquo;s word&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Georgia;"&gt;Kitchen cabinet.&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ul&gt;
&lt;p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Georgia; min-height: 14.0px;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Georgia;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Concerns over a Central Bank&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Georgia;"&gt;Rechartered in 1816&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Georgia;"&gt;Had great influence over other banks&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Georgia;"&gt;No constitutional checks and balances.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Georgia;"&gt;Jackson insisted the idea of national bank violated the Constitution &amp;amp; free enterprise system.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Georgia;"&gt;Original purpose of national bank was to keep nations money stable and on the gold standard.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Georgia;"&gt;Western banks had to borrow at hight rates - people demanded Jackson do something.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Georgia;"&gt;Sold stock to investor (many british)&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Georgia;"&gt;Jackson warned against foreign control&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Georgia; min-height: 14.0px;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Georgia;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;Jackson vs. Nicholas Biddle&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Georgia;"&gt;Branch offices&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Georgia;"&gt;National bank lent to congressmen in exchange for favors&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Georgia;"&gt;Jackson vetoes &lt;strong&gt;Bank Charter Bill&lt;/strong&gt; in 1832&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Georgia;"&gt;Withdrew nations money from National Bank&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Georgia;"&gt;Biddle called in private loans causing &lt;strong&gt;the Panic of 1837&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Georgia;"&gt;Tried to blame that on Jackson&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Georgia;"&gt;National bank lost charter - Biddle lost power. &amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Georgia; min-height: 14.0px;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Georgia;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Land Speculators&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Georgia;"&gt;Borrowing money, buy land sell for higher price (Gov selling land)&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Georgia;"&gt;Western banks, paper money not backed by gold.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Georgia;"&gt;Inflation making it near impossible for common man to buy land.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Georgia;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Specie Circular&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Georgia;"&gt;All public lands be paid for in gold and silver. &amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Georgia;"&gt;Temporary financial panic but long term stabalization.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Georgia; min-height: 14.0px;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Georgia;"&gt;During two terms&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Georgia;"&gt;1) Championed sound money backed by gold&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Georgia;"&gt;2) Did away with a strong central bank that controlled the nations money supply. &amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;</description>

Inauguration

The Mob

&nbsp;
Not Elite

&ldquo;Farmer Presdident&rdquo;
First president ...

Inauguration

The Mob

&nbsp;
Not Elite

&ldquo;Farmer Presdident&rdquo;
First president not from East Coast Elite

&nbsp;
Friend of the Ordinary Citizen

Strict constructionist
Self made man
Respect for God&rsquo;s word
Kitchen cabinet.

&nbsp;
Concerns over a Central Bank
Rechartered in 1816
Had great influence over other banks
No constitutional checks and balances.
Jackson insisted the idea of national bank violated the Constitution &amp; free enterprise system.
Original purpose of national bank was to keep nations money stable and on the gold standard.
Western banks had to borrow at hight rates - people demanded Jackson do something.
Sold stock to investor (many british)
Jackson warned against foreign control&nbsp;
&nbsp;
Jackson vs. Nicholas Biddle
Branch offices
National bank lent to congressmen in exchange for favors
Jackson vetoes Bank Charter Bill in 1832
Withdrew nations money from National Bank
Biddle called in private loans causing the Panic of 1837
Tried to blame that on Jackson
National bank lost charter - Biddle lost power. &nbsp;
&nbsp;
Land Speculators
Borrowing money, buy land sell for higher price (Gov selling land)
Western banks, paper money not backed by gold.
Inflation making it near impossible for common man to buy land.
Specie Circular
All public lands be paid for in gold and silver. &nbsp;
Temporary financial panic but long term stabalization.
&nbsp;
During two terms
1) Championed sound money backed by gold
2) Did away with a strong central bank that controlled the nations money supply. &nbsp;

U.S. History: President Andrew Jackson

<description>&lt;img src="https://assets.podomatic.net/ts/a8/f2/f8/jpfagapeu/1400x1400_2210457.png" alt="itunes pic" /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The chief end of man is to glorify God by enjoying Him forever.*

Psalm 100 confirms the Genesis account that it is God who made us, and not we who made ourselves (or a series of random mutations).  

Psalm 24:1 tells us that everything on the earth belongs to God, including all the people who live on it.

Isaiah 43:7 further informs us that it for God’s glory that we were created.  

We were created to glorify God.  Perhaps one of the easiest sins to fall into is that of ingratitude.  We come to feel entitled to what we receive and what we have.  A small boy and his mother were in the market when the grocer give the boy an orange.  “What do you say to the nice man,” urged the boy’s mother.  The boy looked at the orange as he thought for a moment.  Holding it up to the grocer, the boy said, “Peel it.”  In like fashion we receive blessings from God, then in our arrogance demand of God, “Give me something better!”

In Luke 17:11-19, ten lepers cry out to Jesus for healing.  Go and show yourselves to the priests,” he tells them.  As they journey to the priests they are healed of their dreadful infirmity.  One of these men turns back and tracks Jesus down (who had presumably continued down the road on his journey).  He praise God in a loud voice, and upon finding Jesus “he fell on his face at Jesus' feet, giving him thanks.”

Have you given Jesus appropriate thanks for all He has done for you?  

* John Piper’s modification of the 1st question and answer in the Westminster Catechism.
** The graphic image (sans the text) was drawn by some guy named Mike.  I yanked it from his blog The Daily Sketch.  I did ask for permission to use the image, but have yet to hear from him.  If he decides he doesn’t want me to use it, I’ll change the image.  In the mean time, take a gander at his sketches.  They’re rather good.</description>

The chief end of man is to glorify God by enjoying Him forever.*

Psalm 100 confirms the Genesi...

The chief end of man is to glorify God by enjoying Him forever.*

Psalm 100 confirms the Genesis account that it is God who made us, and not we who made ourselves (or a series of random mutations).  

Psalm 24:1 tells us that everything on the earth belongs to God, including all the people who live on it.

Isaiah 43:7 further informs us that it for God’s glory that we were created.  

We were created to glorify God.  Perhaps one of the easiest sins to fall into is that of ingratitude.  We come to feel entitled to what we receive and what we have.  A small boy and his mother were in the market when the grocer give the boy an orange.  “What do you say to the nice man,” urged the boy’s mother.  The boy looked at the orange as he thought for a moment.  Holding it up to the grocer, the boy said, “Peel it.”  In like fashion we receive blessings from God, then in our arrogance demand of God, “Give me something better!”

In Luke 17:11-19, ten lepers cry out to Jesus for healing.  Go and show yourselves to the priests,” he tells them.  As they journey to the priests they are healed of their dreadful infirmity.  One of these men turns back and tracks Jesus down (who had presumably continued down the road on his journey).  He praise God in a loud voice, and upon finding Jesus “he fell on his face at Jesus' feet, giving him thanks.”

Have you given Jesus appropriate thanks for all He has done for you?  

* John Piper’s modification of the 1st question and answer in the Westminster Catechism.
** The graphic image (sans the text) was drawn by some guy named Mike.  I yanked it from his blog The Daily Sketch.  I did ask for permission to use the image, but have yet to hear from him.  If he decides he doesn’t want me to use it, I’ll change the image.  In the mean time, take a gander at his sketches.  They’re rather good.

Gloria in Excelsis Deo

<description>&lt;img src="https://assets.podomatic.net/ts/a8/f2/f8/jpfagapeu/1400x1400_2210394.png" alt="itunes pic" /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Christ crucified is enough of a stumbling block for people without church people putting up more obstacles to faith.  Jesus’ harshest words were for religious leaders who set man-made rules in place of biblical instruction.</description>

Christ crucified is enough of a stumbling block for people without church people putting up more ...

Christ crucified is enough of a stumbling block for people without church people putting up more obstacles to faith.  Jesus’ harshest words were for religious leaders who set man-made rules in place of biblical instruction.

Fraudulent Faith

<description>&lt;img src="https://assets.podomatic.net/ts/a8/f2/f8/jpfagapeu/1400x1400_2210321.png" alt="itunes pic" /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;What are you filled with?  Nature abhors a vacuum.  The same is true spiritually.  Your life will be filled with something.  The question is what will it be.  And that which you fill your life with will be reflected out from you.  Many people fill their lives with material possession.  Some choose to fill their lives with experience and pleasure.  One doesn’t need to be a Christian to realize that all these things will not satisfy one completely.  But as we were created in God’s image, God is the one thing that will fill our lives completely.  To paraphrase C.S. Lewis: Being created in the image of God, the more God shapes us into Christ’s image, the more like our true selves we become.</description>

What are you filled with?  Nature abhors a vacuum.  The same is true spiritually.  Your life will...

What are you filled with?  Nature abhors a vacuum.  The same is true spiritually.  Your life will be filled with something.  The question is what will it be.  And that which you fill your life with will be reflected out from you.  Many people fill their lives with material possession.  Some choose to fill their lives with experience and pleasure.  One doesn’t need to be a Christian to realize that all these things will not satisfy one completely.  But as we were created in God’s image, God is the one thing that will fill our lives completely.  To paraphrase C.S. Lewis: Being created in the image of God, the more God shapes us into Christ’s image, the more like our true selves we become.

Light!

<description>“I Want to Say” was also written while on mission.  What do you do when the amazing love and grace of God washes over you?  What do you do when you realize that you don’t love God half so much as you ought? And what do you do when suddenly the grace of God grants you that ability?  Me, I write about it.</description>

“I Want to Say” was also written while on mission.  What do you do when the amazing love and grac...

“I Want to Say” was also written while on mission.  What do you do when the amazing love and grace of God washes over you?  What do you do when you realize that you don’t love God half so much as you ought? And what do you do when suddenly the grace of God grants you that ability?  Me, I write about it.

Victus Letum

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