Joel Engelsma

we where splitting wood for an hour 45 minutes it has three parties one person that uses a lever two make the splitter go back and forth two or three people take them logs to put them in front of the splitter and 3 more to make a line 2 put the logs i  a stack

we went to caroling to hope springs networks last night and then we went caroling around the neighborhood where our church is we got bags full of snacks and nuts and a Bible and we handed those we got rid of 25 bags of stuff that was all of the stuff so we had a very good night

so right now the lady that was sick had gotten better but she is still very weak and there is this girl that is called charlotte and she was the daughter of misses Chatterton her father got sick and might die but he was so worried about charlotte he got super bad but they calmed her mind bye bringing her with Mr king to her house

Fredrick mijers garde3ns is super cool it like a museum but a lot bigger the museums I've seen plus it has this monster bronze horse that is like 100 ft tall its monster it has a normal-sized horse and a little horse all made out of bronze and how do they fit all this into the place they don't the horse is more away from people so you might not see it and right now they have Christmas trees from all over the world the Japanese used to not have a tree they had 3 bamboo cain things sticking out of a big pot I don't know what that signifies but whatever they have Hungary Austria North Americans Indians and like ten other trees they have two nativity scenes of baby Jesus one in France and me forgot what the other one was

right now they are working at making a perfect Christmas tree for the homeless people that phronsie had collected and now they get carried for and everything she got all the money for it because she was adopted phronsie

this night there was the sermon and it was about the storm when if you weren't in the rock of christ you would be swept away like a twig in the storm of Gods rath the preacher said there was this old man he always said he would go to heaven but everybody knew he wouldn't

the meaning of Christmas is this well first the Bible said the serpent shall bruise the heal of the woman and the woman shall crush the serpents head so that means when Jesus was born he would conquer death

well so the enemies have exman but they figured out that he was useless so they where going to destroy using lasers or a bomb or something like that he would be destroyed but they arced a very powerfull radio beam to expand the energy could come back but not the machine

well he built this huge tank that has a little room where they oiled the machines and things and a steering apparatus in the other room and then they used lights to tell each other and to communicate because it was to loud to normally talk

he has one the big race he beat all races and records he had the fastest plane in the world it was so fast that it could almost melt in the wind if going fast enough

so now he has got the doctor that they neede for the thing they had to do for tom swifts dad was very sick and they whizzed off with him in the back seat of the hummingbird that was his super-fast plane

so Tabasco hot sauce is made all in one island one place they even grow there own peepers there these are not the best peppers first they are hard to pick off they are very small but they are very hot so once the sauce is on the table it hasn't lost even any of its botness

well right now he has watched a new kind of plane flying over there house then they dropped something on the shed where tom swift kept his speedy little monoplane and then they went back inside and he only slept for about thirty minutes when eradicate came yelling about the shed was on fire

now they are near Paris but  don't think they will go to Paris and they have gone to the theater it is the kind of thing where you watch have of it then you have dinner then you go and watch another part of it and when it is finished you go back to sleep in the hotel

so in tom swift in his air racer the plans where stolen for a plane that goes like 300 miles an hour so he has to make a bigger plan of the race plaine

well so he made it that you can swim underwater for a long time and do it very efficiently he has even made a submarine that is undetectable by radar and listening devices so he has equipped two submarines to go and search for a lost missle that has information on the planet mars

this sermon my dad preached and it was the second time he preached this sermon it was the one with three points it was getting a gift to say thank you and how can you say thank you back

so now they are going abroad traveling o a steamer for some of the ways I think they are going to go to Paris so and then there they are going to see their old friends the Henderson Mr Henderson is a preacher and Mrs. Henderson is everything the preacher's wife

so Mrs. Chatterton has trapped Phronsie in a small closet with a mouse in it she is very scared of the mouse in it because she was being only like eight years old so she was very scared of mice

so they won because they found the Jupiter prober missle well so when tom was unearthing it a bad guy came and fired a seld propelled missle at him but he dodged it and came out victorious they found all the things they needed in it

his sermon was on Psalm 116 and he had three points for us to remember point one is to recognize the gift that God has given you second is that you should be thankful about the gift third is to repay the gift with something like in this one bible story, no I mean this psalm 116 it said you have to go follow God

now they have gone and ran away and they are going to meet up with tom swift and they are all going to travel to America together and koku and another person has come to America and koku is going to be tom swifts right hand man

so now they are at the giants and they are in captivity so they sit and wait while doing simple little tricks they the made the giants very weak and they tried to let go of and wooden box but the wooden box held them fast

So I Tom swift and his air glider is about where he finds a man that was a Siberian exile and he found a mine of platinum and then he escaped from captivity and then asked tom swift to go and help find the mine of platinum

so now they where traveling and one night while they where sleeping then they woke up but when they woke up they saw a giant head poked threw their tent and when they came out they found a party of them about 12 of them I would say and they escorted tom and his friends to the village where they are going to bein audience with the king

he is going after giants this time of great size and strength he is doing it kind of old fashioned but they will bring a small airship so if they need to escape or amaze the giants in some way

tom swift and his air glider well in tom swift and his air glider he makes a glider there is made to move by air for he is going to look for platinum mines using his air glider he will try to capture back somebody that more ore fewer nos where the mine is because the man is a Siberian exile

well so he is off to another adventure he is going to some far off place to find a statue of Gold and other valuable antics and now their guide stopped guiding them and ran off with all the other Indians he left them food and drink to last them until they could get to the nearest village but until then they are stranded

so this Sunday it was about peter being captured bye the soldier of king Herod and put onder lock and key and then after being there for some amount of time he was sleeping with two soldiers beside himand two soldiers bye the door they regulated at 3-hour shifts and suddenly a bright flash peter was awake and he was standing beside an angel and they walked right out of the prison and into the streets of the city they walked one block and then the angel disappeared

this week Sunday school I was given number two of one of our memorization thigs and i completely am afull had to be helped with almost every word

so in the tom swift and his wireless message, they go out to test a new electric airship but then the things break on it and stuff then they get wrecked on a deserted island that is called an earthquake island and the island will soon be destroyed by more earthquakes he sets up a wireless message thingy that will send and receive messages from wireless  to be continued even though this is the climax

my Sunday school, unfortunately, I had forgotten my book I have forgotten my memory because we did not get but our next time is about the attributes of God this time we where learning about the names of Gog God he has to main names LORD and God

he raced a gasoline car and beat he went 80miles an hour at one time and he thought that most the fuses would die but they didn't he got all the way to the fourth gear and they didn't blow up or anything

now he has made the most of his car it is shaoed like the aluminum gas container on the red cloud but made of steel he has a storage battery that makes the car go about 200 miles withour a recharging

my dad did this sermon and it was in Zachariah but he skipped around a lot but it was a pretty good sermon it was in Zachariah and it was in Zachariah 2 and that is where Zachariah gives encouragement to the king at that time he is a postexilic prophet that means they where after the exile from Babylon and they are back and Zachariah gives them encouragement to them about the wall the temple and things like that

there is this other giant and the othe4 giant tried to explod the tunnel and killed not a few people but before that could happen koku sees him and they wrestle and Kuku throws the other giant against the wall and he is crippled for life.

well so right now he has made the new kind of powder that he is going to blast open a big bunch of hard rock in a tunnel right now they are on the steamer and they are traveling to the country to travel to the place

So right now we  are talking about the sermon that my dad's friend told at his church and it is the kind of sermon where there are no points where he reads it through and he goes almost word bye word but more like verse bye verse and it was where Abrams name was changed to Abraham and and he is given the covenant of circumsion. Joel's dumb.

tom swift and his giant tunnel he has invented this kind of really powerful blasting powder and it is used for blowing the big shot and shell that the giant cannon he has done with he makes a new kind that is made very powerful and they yous it for blasting through a mountain to make a tunnel

right now tom swift is being warranted for the arrest of him because the people think that he has stolen 75 thousand dollars out of the banks vault but he didn't he was said to but he didn't

it is more or less shaped like a biplane and has I big thing on the top that you youse to lift it only by the lifting power of the gas or they can run along the ground

so this sermon was about a psalm of loves and there is only one kind of love but the bible says there is more than one kind of love I guess there are a different kind of loves like you liking a bunny and the love of parents for which is unending

well the Romans basically wanted power and while they where killing each other {which mostly happens} all the time well so we will go to one of the there better years so in Constantine times he changed capitals so Rome was not the capital which is very good

so all that tom swift among the diamond makers are is where they go in there airship to try to find out the secret of making diamond here is how they do it they go and make an electric rod they stick into a box and then they put all the ingredients in the iron box then when lightning flash hits the iron box they pull on a lever and they make diamonds some of them are pretty big but usually they where quite small what tome swift got was 2 diamonds on that was about 1500 dollars and another that was 5000 dollars that was quite a bit of money back then

so we went on a field trip with mom and 4 four of my brothers we went to an apple orchard and we went to pick an apple and a pumpkin and we bought some apple cider and guss what the apple cider was engelsma cider nd engelsma cider is very good

this day we went to Sunday school and we said our memorizations and we talked for a while telling somebody that wasn't there we told all about what we talked about last week and we did pretty good about our memorizations

I am going to have my birthday and I am going to have all my friends over Aric and Jayden and Colton they are all very good friends and they are going to stay overnight and where going to sleep in a tent and where going to have a fire it is going to be very fun

tom swift and his submarine boat there means of propulsion was to make an electric battery at each side of the ship that would make a pilling and pushing motion to make it go forward

luke just got home and we had lunch with him he is very weak right now so he will stay out of soccer for at least a week but maybe he will be able to still go to one or two of his games still

luke appendix he has appendicitis and it is going to have to be  removed he is going to have to stay at the hospital for a couple days or 1 month and 26 days thats is what mom said

 so sermon Sunday dad preached both sermons the other day so the last sermon we had had Zachariah and talked about that he was more pre-exilic and that means that he was after the Israelites came home from Babylon and he is telling the people that stayed in Babylon and he is telling them to come back in this certain text

so now our team is going to have a beast of a time beating the team that we are going to verse I have a feeling that they are going to be very hard and I finally remembered my name we are the cruisers

so tom swift is going to have a visitor from another planet but at the same time he has to make a think that will stop these fiendish plans of brungrarian plotters beacoase they have taken over all of brungraria

do you now what the super carrier is ill give you a hint atomic turbines  right the super carrier is the biggest carrier in the world they have made one with a new catapult for the planes that takeoff right now they can carry about 60 planes i think and i dont now how many helicopters

i think there where 4 lessons and the john 10 it is where he goes and said he is God and the messiah but they pick up stone and where about to stone him and then he goes away and goes to where he starts out his ministry where john the baptizer had baptized him and as i said he had 4 lessons the thing is that the lessons arent very clear in my mind right now so i might do a second blog on this

our friends the venlets came over today after they went home when they got home i video called Eric my best friend and we talked and he helped me with my Lego for about 30  minutes but when they where here we split wood and played with our new dog and had lots of fun

well it the new year a new soccer year i have a coach coach vv or coach or coach Blair it depends well so he more into the technical parts like how the right way to stop a ball is its called trapping you actually dont put your foot on it you put your side of you foot right next to it

so we have a new dog he is an Australian cattle dog or sheep it depends they where bred from dingos and there ears are monster and instead of barking or staring at the animals they heard they nip at the heels instead of anything else they are completely tireless animals our is 5 months old so most likely he has not seen snow and it will be very fun in the winter our dog is at a stage where he sheds all of his silver hairs and replaces them with black gray hairs so that will be interesting

im listening to this book called bill bolton and he is a pilot hes realy cool and he has a monoplane that can land on water and ground and he has this freind called charlie

so he is making a gas bag that once filled with a powerful gas that can lift the whole airship right off the ground and can go about 80 miles an hour things where a lot slower back then and they had an engine with 20 cylinders in it that thing is a beast

today we did the math testing we had to do around 50 problems each for us which is a lot beacose every day we do 30 problems but we got them all done and i got a score of 220 on my reading i got 227 so there wasent much of a difference and i passed both of them thats what i am happy about

we where going to be tested on reading today but actually today we did the reading part and tomorrow the math part and we yoused there computers they where just like the one i am on right now but much small the one i am on right now is saposed to be a desktop but right now its a laptop and theirs where laptops but we yoused them as desktops so really the reading all it was if you get one right you get a question harder then the first one i was fair not really good but fair

yesterdays sermon was on Hebrews 55 i think it was the end of Hebrews and i am pretty sure it is Paul writing Hebrews but my dad thinks it is appalous my pastor thinks it is Paul to i am on his side so the sermon was about it was kind of like to kick against the pricks that was one of my dads sermon you could youse this passage for a sermon like that

we are going to this place where me and noah are going to do science and pe that is short for gym class and where going to learn science and have fun at gym class i think itll be nice and we will have hot lunch

So I am doing my last night sermon our real pastor preached today and the passage was about asap and he was making psalm about how he saw the wicked and how he wanted to be free like that but then he went to church and saw the differince

we are going to grampas and grampas we are staying over night and after we stay the night we are going to drive to the flea market and where going to see oldtractors and stuff like that and we might buy some things to

how can this be since i am a virgin its all important that she was a virgin to make sure he was born naturally satens head of a woman a woman have a seed that is fulfilled in the birth of Jesus Christ the holy child was conceived bye the holy spirit

So the morning sermon was about Stephen and his defense and the second sermon was about if Stephens life was in vain my dad said that it was not in vain baecoaseo you no who was watching th clothes it was Paul and he became one of the greatest biblical writers in the bible and he reached out the gentiles

i dpnt think it was a stragtgy or anything thansgiving you have to be thankful pual was thankful for all the churches that he had established and he was thankfull when he was carred for and given money and all that

so he was talking about I Jesus standing at the right hand of GOD not sitting but standing there saying he is my man he was standing up for Stephen it was about where Stephen makes his speech to the sandhidrin and then he is dragged out of the palace and stones and he fell asleep

so this was a midweek service it was on Tuesday and it was about trials its passage was psalm six and David was in some trials coase i think this is around the time where Absalom has betrayed and they are running away and they are going down this canyon and there is this person that is cursing David from above and somebody asks if he can go up there and strike his head off but David said no beacose he said GOD has told him curse David

so he had this one thing where this person sold drugs and he is from Scotland and he sells drugs makes quite a bit of money off it well one day he is talking to this one drug dealer about business and things when he falls dead i front of him that happened 2 times then he goes back to Scotland became a Christians got salvation and turned his life the right way

a time of great tribulation some Christians are afraid they have to have intense suffering they are told we are going to suffer but be of good there for i have them in my hands when we suffer them faithfully and trials help strengthen your faith

why did Jesus say that what it does indicate that GOD has forsaken by disclosing that he was not fully there he was experienced the abandonment of GOD his presence is no longer in the sense of blessing and outpouring the wrath that he had he was experiencing in a way any time before

god is not the person that tempt us he cannot do evil and cannot do sin he is separate he is holy holy holy be holy for i am holy Christ and GOD cannot sin he does not tempt people but he is able to control but he takes sin and coordinates all of that to accomplish

so my dad preached at a new church today so the passage was the stoning and sermon he did before he died and after the end of the sermon he looked up and he said he saw the Son of GOD standing at the right hand not sitting but he was standing and my dad said he like was standing up for Stephen and testifying for him beacose Stephen was no light preacher he said that the Sanhedrin where stiffknecked people with uncircumcised hearts and ears

get up and be baptised and wash away your sins baptism now saves you a lot of people have taken it that baptism now savess o no not thw washing you in water but whith the holy spirtit we have been emersed whith christ but water is the public decleration that you are going to be saved

but of that day no one knows but if Jesus is Christ how does he not know that he emptied himself of the independent yous of people atitute if i wanted to i could call for a legion of angels

if you are week you have to belive in GOD to be strong simple as that but if you are strong you are weak beacose you belive you can do anything without gods help therefore you are weak but if you are weak you are strong sipmle as that

many are called few are called few are chosen there will be more people be more peopled invited to belive but onley some belive we are told to proclaim we call people to belive in christ we do that beacose GOD told us but onley some are saved the foundation

well so he and his runabout have signed in on the race and they will go to the racetrack that was especially made for the occasion and you will get a prize of 5000 dollars if you win the race it is mostly for endurance but still you gotta be going fast regulations say that you have to have two peoplein the car one the driver 2 the passenger

what does it mean and what does it not mean it does not mean that you speak in tongues it does not happen again again and again Christians are all baptized literally immersed into the living into the body of by the means of Christ it is not repeated every believer has had it once

he is finished making his car and done with the battery's he has said that it has done around 500 miles on one charging that amazingly asume well so he is doing tests and right now he is racing a gasoline engine that could be able to go much faster then a normal electric but his is not normal it is very speedy and the gasoline car will have trouble taking care of him

widows struggle to pay and everything but they still faithfully attend church and say that they are not in need as they actually are not as bad off does the church have some kind of thing to widows the bible said that they must care for her and everything he needs to take care if their are not any men the church must take care of them

what would the LORD desire to us he gave us holiness sanctification i want you to present you to Jesus he wants second Corinthians verse twelfth i think

he is testing out this new type of battery beacose then battery where not that good and he has made one that is going to be put into a electric car and he said it will go bout 400 miles and you can go almost 150 miles an hour

sermon Sunday was about psalm 115 and my notes say that he said that psalm 115 has a very important the thing is i was not able to get that but when you are abused and people leave you alone and everything he said that you should have faith and believe  in GOD you can do anything but if you belive in yourself everything you do will faill

it is Important to Become a member in the New Testament their where 300 people that Jesus had saved. later in the book of Acts 500 thousand where become Christians we also now when they left to a city. they took Recommendations to the other City so yes it does matter if you are a Member of the Church.

he has made a submarine boat and they are going to go on a expedition to the bahamas to find some sunken treasure and they are going to find some sunken treasure

now they are done whith the tank but some enemys stole it and they are locking him in a safe then they are going to look at the tank and yues it for the germans

right now i am at where tom swift is building it and it is a secret actually right now it dosent tell you about the war tank he has not told publicly i now because i read the text thingy in the front of the book so he is making it and some people think he might be pro German or something take thought that this is in world war 1 beacose he has not done anything to help fighting and i am am at where somebody is going to ask him why he does not enlist

it does not mean you speak in tongues it is not something that happens again again it happens when you are at the day of salvation it means you are literally immersed in the into the living body of Christ bye the means of Christ body it is not repeated every believer immersed into the church the living organism that is called the church

wow did you see that that person over their in that field ill go down their and see they landed bye a native they aw him his mouth wide open he suddeenly dissipeared into the forest without a trace then he saw a hole bunch of other men whith spears and blow guns they shot at buzz at his unarmed back the end

the person that was talking about he said that you have one gift all christians have one gift he said that like GOD would blend different gifts into THE gift to give to give to you he said that gifts are in categories and he gave you the right gift like my dad has the gift teaching he works at a seminarie and is getting tought to so he can teach but at the same time is teaching other people greeck and on online classes to

today somebody was talking about the full book of acts the whole thing he said that the books of the new testament none of them well they would take less then two hours to read any of the books of the new testament but i thunk he was a very fast reader well so he whent through the whole book of acts and talked about different chapters and section like where pual becomes an apostle and the killing of steven i think thats in act o forgot

their was this big battle and lutenent  mgee got wounded in the battle he crashed and got conked on the head but in the battle they where totally victorious they smashed the enemy's front so badly they had to go and retreat but then the Americans took over to keep fighting the rush on Paris was stopped cold the enemy charged again and again but there was no whey they could smash them finally they retreated in belle would where the amaracains smashed them there to

acts one that is where we had the sermon Sunday its in acts one it is where he said heelo to pholophilous then he starts talking

so noe i am going to tell you about padnos its where people go to bring there old steal and stuff like that my grampa goes there quit a bit to drop of the steal and fans and other stuff like that we helped get a load ready today he said where getting stronger and in no time we will be lifting whith the big people ( i think im weak though)

this one is about abrham and the three promises land seed and blessing first dod abrham have any land no owmly the land that he was buried that was the onley land that he ever owned but still GOD kept his oath second seed how many suns and doughters did he have thats right ownly one or two if you count ishmayel was he blessed yes he was blessed but he got seed from all of the isralites he land beacoase israil was his land

lutenent mgee and his men in the army had been called to the front there was lots of bustle but they started to go but one person said his plane was broken so they said he had to land then an hour after he starts off to paris then to the army base mgee had a funny feeling about this for a long time

did i tell you about my new book called aces up its realy cool its where you are listening to peple that had dogfights theres this one person called mgeee and he is a ace 3 times over he is asume and he got his first dogfight in the night and he won

thats what its called the new thingy im lessening to its where there is this world war one flying ace he was an ace 3 times in a row and he just got his first night shot nights killes are very hard to make beacose they dident have radar or anything like that

so the other day we went to field day where we ran races then after that we went to this cottage and campground place where our friends had stayed for like the 2 days first when we got there we played soccer then went to take a walk then we went to the park where we played pirates then we went back and had dinner then we started to go but then we had to go and i could stay over night there so i did but before we went to bed we played this where we had two walk talky then we played this game where you run away from the person on your bike and one person would have a talky ill call it for short and you had to report where you where from time to time and they had to find you then we had to go to bed

now there in the diamond makers cave and this is how they make diamonds they youse lighting and a lot of heat that they put into a ball the contents of which have varuos minerals and chemicals in them then they put it into a box and the lighting hit a lighting rod and that goes straight to the box whith a wire then they pull a lever and presto they have dimonds

this one was i think around where the preacher was doing something about the nabalty of beaing a mother he said some people choose not to get married but he strongly advised to get married and he said he new lots of people in the congregation and he said he was deeply sorry that they coouldent have babeys he said that for 5 years his wife did not have a child

so hes going to this kind of man that kept saying he could make diamonds but the person said that he had been picked up and drugged and brought him to a town and they couldn't find it again so now he asked tom swift if he could help him he has accepted

i think im already done this but it is where tom swift makes this poder that can blow very hard rock and he gives it to some pepple to blow stuff up like rock and stone and stuff then boom they blow up this very hard part and they find the land of wonders the lost sitty of palone

this one is somewhere in Romans i think i think its chapter well so he is warning us pual is warning us about having the right kind of friends have you ever read psalm 1 you should read it if you haven't the pastor said he chose his friends very carefully

i dont now all about it just this that there are these two brothers that are tunneling through a mountain to make a train track and at least when they where a mile inside they hit a rock that even there explosive coudent destroy so they asked tom swift to see if he could make some kind of dynamite that could blast out the rock and hes bringing a giant 8 ft tall pure power realy he could crush a rock with one hit of a pickax hes bringing him to move rocks and debree and to protect them from uncrupless men