Zach Uram's Blog

  • Our Fur Babies: Posie, Poop Nose, and Poopy Doopy

    Vi and I love our fur babies
    They are so cute
    They love it when
    I play the flute

    In 1989 we got them
    I will never forget that day
    They fill our lives with love
    In every single way

    They are Wrinkles doggies
    So happy and lively
    They love to play
    And they are always lovely

    Our fur babies
    They are very close to us
    They never
    Make a fuss

    We have no reason
    To fear
    While our doggies
    Are near

    Thank You, Lord Jesus
    For bringing these doggies
    Into our lives
    These precious fur babies

    by Zachary Uram
    (C) 2024

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  • My Dearest Big Sister Vi

    Vi is so dear
    She rubs my sore feet
    She can’t be beat

    Vi cooks my food
    It’s gourmet
    I thank her every day

    Vi cleans
    The floor
    She gets groceries at the store

    Vi mops the kitchen
    And the bathroom too
    There is no dirt she’ll eschew

    Vi washes my clothes
    She folds them all until she’s done
    Vi and I love to have fun

    Vi helps me
    To organize my bedroom
    She also will vacuum

    Vi is
    So sweet
    She is my dear maleet

    Vi is
    My precious chumlay
    She loves to pray

    by Zachary Uram
    (C) 2024

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  • Feeling Blue

    I’m feeling lackadaisical
    I’m ill physiological

    I’m totally depressed
    I don’t want to get dressed

    I am very lethargic
    I feel neurotic

    I am full of fatigue
    I feel like I’m under the ocean by a league

    I feel so down
    I’m like a sad clown

    by Zachary Uram
    (C) 2024

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  • Happy Birthday Vi

    Today my dear sister Vi
    Is half a century old
    She looks to be only 17
    Her youthful looks are bold

    Her mind is sharp
    She is highly educated
    Vi has a degree in English literature
    In college, she worked hard and matriculated

    She is a skilled poet
    And a gifted artist too
    When it comes to being creative
    There is no obstacle she doesn’t eschew

    Vi is my best friend
    She supports me in so many ways
    She is an excellent cook
    Vi helps me all my days

    I love her so much
    And I look forward to
    50 more years together
    Please Jesus let this be true

    by Zachary Uram
    (C) 2024

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  • Battling Depression

    I lie in bed
    Like a beached whale
    Here is my
    Sad tale

    I’ve been suffering
    For a quarter century
    I’m sick and tired
    Of this mental misery

    I lack
    Motivation
    This is a bad
    Situation

    I long
    To run and play
    Instead, I’m trapped inside
    And full of dismay

    The seasons
    Pass me by
    All I want to do
    Is cry

    My malaise
    Makes me want to scream
    I wish this was
    Just a bad dream

    I try not
    To despair
    I know that my family
    And Christ care

    I will fight
    I won’t give up
    In the meantime
    I’m a depressed pup

    by Zachary Uram
    (C) 2024

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  • A Tale of Authorities

    When defining doctrine, we Reformed affirm Sola Scriptura (Scripture Alone) as our highest authority. It restricts us from tainting our interpretation of Scripture by adding extraneous sources of doctrine.

    Roman Catholics affirm Sola Ecclesia (Church Alone) contains the dual authorities of tradition and the magisterium (teaching authority). Scripture, tradition, and the magisterium are all equal in authority in the Roman Catholic church.

    The Word of God should have a place of preeminence and singular authority.
    By placing other things on par with Scripture, Roman Catholics get doctrine which is merely the fallible traditions of men, and as a result, much of their doctrines are false.

    By applying Sola Scriptura to biblical exegesis we produce what is known as Reformed theology. Reformed theology alone has purity of doctrine, and infallible interpretation while one is being guided by the Holy Spirit. The Holy Spirit leads us into all truth. Roman Catholics will not arrive at Reformed theology, because they place tradition and their magisterium on the same level as Scripture. This results in eisegesis and much doctrine that is heretical.

    Sola Scriptura is absolutely essential to preserving the biblical gospel. It is a critically important principle. It ensures we are following the right path of interpretation, and that our doctrine is absolutely biblical.

    Historically, when churches have abandoned the principle of Sola Scriptura, they quickly descend into all manner of heresies and blasphemies.

    The true gospel of Christ has been obscured and altered in the Roman Catholic church throughout the ages.

    We thank God for raising up His Reformation of the Church.

    The truest expression of right doctrine is found solely in Reformed churches.

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  • Headcovering for Christian Women

    For nearly 2,000 years, from the time of Christ, until the 1960s, it was the universal practice of the Christian churches for women to headcover.

    Sadly, with the destruction unleashed upon society by the Satanic feminist movement in the later half of the 1960s, head covering for women was largely abandoned. The so-called sexual revolution of the 1960s was absolutely wicked and brought about the destruction of many families.

    A Christian woman who headcovers is displaying her obedience to God, as well as showing she submits to both God’s authority, as well as her husband’s God-given authority!

  • Gentle and Lowly: Unbiblical

    In the book Gentle and Lowly: The Heart of Christ for Sinners and Sufferers by Dane Ortlund. He portrays a meek and mild Christ.

    The book is aimed at Christians suffering from discouragement and depression. Ortlund asserts (based on a single sentence by Christ) that Jesus is fundamentally gentle and lowly in His essence.

    The biblical Christ is tough and mighty. He will be returning as the fearsome Lion of Judah.

    Ortlund’s Christ is divorced from His biblical attributes. He overemphasizes one aspect of Christ, and asserts that aspect is fundamental and who Christ truly is at the core. This is eisegesis.

    Ortlund promotes an insipid, weak, feminine, and milquetoast hippie Christ.

    It teaches the false doctrine that some of God’s attributes are more essentially His nature than others, and those attributes which are most essential are gentleness and lowliness.

    The false teaching of Crossway’s “Gentle and Lowly”

  • Charles Finney and His Legacy

    Charles Finney was an evangelist in the 19th century, who preached the revivalist circuit in America. He became very popular, as did the altar call (which he invented) and the so-called sinner’s prayer whereby a person “accepts Jesus into their heart”.

    The problem with Finney (and the churches that came after him) is that they place salvation in the hands of mankind (synergism), instead of the biblical model of salvation, which is totally the work of God (monergism).

    The natural man is dead in his sins, and God must quicken his soul and give him the twin gifts of repentance and faith. A spiritually dead man cannot “accept Jesus”.

    Finney was a heretic. He denied that mankind has a sinful nature inherited from Adam. He also taught sinless perfectionism, the doctrine that man could stop sinning totally.

    If we say that we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in us.

    1 John 1:8

    Finney’s decisional regeneration is a false doctrine. The biblical model of salvation is predestination and election via God’s sovereign grace. A sinner sincerely repents of their sin and believes the biblical gospel.

    The legacy of Finney is numerous Arminian churches.

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  • America: Once a Bastion of the Reformed – Now Apostate

    In 1793, 956 out of 1,032 baptist churches in America were calvinistic. This equates to 93%. A 2012 Lifeway poll of SBC pastors found that of 1,066 SBC pastors, 30% said their churches were calvinistic.

    One of the foremost constitutional theorists of the founding generation, John Adams, observed, “Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious People. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other.” He wasn’t the only Founding Father to hold this view. Indeed, James Madison wrote that our Constitution requires “sufficient virtue among men for self-government,” otherwise, “nothing less than the chains of despotism can restrain them from destroying and devouring one another.”

    A time will come when instead of shepherds feeding the sheep, the church will have clowns entertaining the goats!

    Spurgeon

    For the time will come when they will not endure sound doctrine, but according to their own desires, because they have itching ears, they will heap up for themselves teachers; and they will turn their ears away from the truth, and be turned aside to fables.

    2 Timothy 4:3-4

    Sadly, over time, many churches drifted away from their calvinistic/Reformed roots, and became steeped in apostasy. Whether it be the false prosperity gospel of health and wealth, the Word of Faith false gospel of name it and claim it, or even the heresy of Federal Vision or the so-called New Perspective on Paul, which took hold in many Reformed churches.

    As a whole, the American church is apostate.

    We need a Reformed theocracy! We should forbid any non-Reformed to live in America. We should enforce the biblical law!

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