Saturday, August 30, 2014
Friday, August 29, 2014
Stand Up For Your FREEDOM!
http://www.foxnews.com/opinion/2014/05/05/teacher-tells-student-cant-read-bible-in-my-classroom/
The Pilgrims came to this country 1620 because the Church of England was still rooted in Catholicism (religion), that was man made and getting too far away from the actual teachings in the Bible. Yes the church broke away in a sense from Catholicism in 1534 but they were still rooted in it's teachings. Let's not confused the Pilgrims with the Puritans that were also trying to force religion. The Pilgrims wanted to be able to worship God the way that they felt necessary without persecution. They were true Christians that followed God with their hearts and not a set of rules that were man made and in a lot of ways contradictory to what Jesus taught. He taught us to love and serve one another. To show mercy. Only God knows the intentions and heart of this teacher. I had heard from someone on Facebook then it was during accelerated reading time which should be a FREE reading time but it sounds like the school is the one that gave her false ideas of what accelerated reading is and since they have changed it, if what Dan posted is accurate. Understand though that the people that came on that ship followed Christ and He is the one that gave them their sense of freedom that later led to ours. It's history. Study it and know it please. Yes, there were Native Americans here first but they are not the ones that created the true heart of America that made America free. As far as shooting the Native Americans and taking their land, it seems that was the Spanish and in a lot of cases the Native American people were signing their land over on behalf of their tribes and they did not have the right to do it. What's my point? Everyone please study and know the real history of our land and not the watered down versions they are teaching today. Find OLD history books before the government had their agenda and talked us into being what they call being politically correct which really means don't talk about your rights or voice your opinions because you will be a stronger WE THE PEOPLE that the government cannot rule rather than the original intent that WE THE PEOPLE control the goverment. STAND TOGETHER OR WE WILL FALL!
The Pilgrims came to this country 1620 because the Church of England was still rooted in Catholicism (religion), that was man made and getting too far away from the actual teachings in the Bible. Yes the church broke away in a sense from Catholicism in 1534 but they were still rooted in it's teachings. Let's not confused the Pilgrims with the Puritans that were also trying to force religion. The Pilgrims wanted to be able to worship God the way that they felt necessary without persecution. They were true Christians that followed God with their hearts and not a set of rules that were man made and in a lot of ways contradictory to what Jesus taught. He taught us to love and serve one another. To show mercy. Only God knows the intentions and heart of this teacher. I had heard from someone on Facebook then it was during accelerated reading time which should be a FREE reading time but it sounds like the school is the one that gave her false ideas of what accelerated reading is and since they have changed it, if what Dan posted is accurate. Understand though that the people that came on that ship followed Christ and He is the one that gave them their sense of freedom that later led to ours. It's history. Study it and know it please. Yes, there were Native Americans here first but they are not the ones that created the true heart of America that made America free. As far as shooting the Native Americans and taking their land, it seems that was the Spanish and in a lot of cases the Native American people were signing their land over on behalf of their tribes and they did not have the right to do it. What's my point? Everyone please study and know the real history of our land and not the watered down versions they are teaching today. Find OLD history books before the government had their agenda and talked us into being what they call being politically correct which really means don't talk about your rights or voice your opinions because you will be a stronger WE THE PEOPLE that the government cannot rule rather than the original intent that WE THE PEOPLE control the goverment. STAND TOGETHER OR WE WILL FALL!
Monday, August 25, 2014
Tuesday, August 19, 2014
Depression - we are not alone
For the last couple of weeks, I have seen little fruit flies flying around my house.
At first it was just a couple and I don't like to kill things so, I figured I would do my best to shew them outside or deal with them until they died (they typically only live about 30 days or so).. The number started to increase little by little until I was so frustrated that I had to start trying to kill some of them. I started swatting at them, killing them here and there. I thought that the problem was starting to go away. Monday morning when I went into my kitchen, they were literally everywhere! I have had some pans on my counter that I was ready to put away but I have to climb to reach the place where they go. Having very little time to take care of these types of things lately, they had been sitting there for a couple of weeks.
I read online about the fruit flies and why they decide to take over any one area. It is typically due to the fact that a piece of fruit or something fermenting has been left out. I started to scour the kitchen area for anything that it might be. Then I saw it hidden behind the pans on the counter, the mason jar that had salsa in it that I wanted to clean and use the canning jar that it was in. The lid was slightly off of the jar. I had put it there to take out to the dumpster and dump into a plastic bag because I did not want to dump it into my drain. There were what seemed like thousands of these things swarming this jar.
I bagged the jar up into the trash and put all of my fruit in the fridge. I have not been keeping trash in my garbage at all but sealing it in a plastic old spinach bin that I am going to keep emptying into our dumpster. I would like to say that they are all gone now but it is taking some time for them to dwindle.
I started thinking this morning, it was easy enough to find the source of what was causing all of the fruit flies. A festering time bomb on my kitchen counter that while put there with good intention, was the self imposed cause of my fruit fly infestation. The bugs flying all around, pestering me and stealing my peace.
What if I had tried to find the source and I could not find it? What if the kitchen was dark and I had no way of turning the light on to see where it was? It would remain there and continue to get worse until the whole house was full of it. After a while, I imagine it would wear me down and give me little hope that the problem would be solved.
I have suffered depression in the past and I know that it feels a lot like the scenario that I have spoken of above. You know something is there that is not right but you feel as if you cannot figure out where or what it is. Instead of getting better, it continues to get worse because the source has not been exposed. Without light, it would be difficult if not impossible to figure out the cause of most problems in our material world. The same is true with the Spiritual. We need light to expose the hidden source of our pain. Sometimes we may need someone else to be this source of light for us. Sometimes if we take enough quiet time with our Lord and stay in Word, we are able to figure things out and continue walking our paths. Whatever it is, it is imperative that we do something. Leaving things be as if they are not, will only cause further harm. Once we find the source, we need to be patient. It most likely took some time for the problem to manifest on the level that it has. It will get better, it just needs time. This too shall pass.
The death of Robin Williams has had a significant impact on our society as far as being aware that depression is real and can be as deadly as having cancer. He spent his life making us laugh, while crying on the inside.. How many others in our lives could be doing the same thing? We don't think about the people that are smiling all of the time because we are blinded by outer appearance and fooled into thinking that person has it all together and may even be tempted to think, why can't I be more like them?
I encourage you to slow down and take the time to look at the people around you. Is there someone who is rarely serious, always seems to be laughing and in good Spirits? It could be that they are so in tuned with God that they are able to be this way out of His Good Spirit but maybe take the time to try to know that for sure. Talk to them on a more serious level, ask they how they are doing and pay attention not only to their response but their actions. Watch them when they do not know you are watching. Pay attention to the things that they do, to what they say when they do not know you are listening. People show us who they are by their actions when unaware they are being watched.
If you are struggling with depression, please talk to someone. If you do not have person that you feel you can talk to, go to a non-denominational church or if you have a church already, seek the pastor. That is what they are there for and they are called to keep your confidence. You are not different or strange or weird. Most people have suffered from depression at some point and would be able to maybe help you find your light to expose the root of your depression. Often times, God will place people around you that are walking the same path. They can help you. Please give them a chance to help you.
May God continually help our society learn that keeping things to yourself when you are hurting is not the route to go, AMEN.
At first it was just a couple and I don't like to kill things so, I figured I would do my best to shew them outside or deal with them until they died (they typically only live about 30 days or so).. The number started to increase little by little until I was so frustrated that I had to start trying to kill some of them. I started swatting at them, killing them here and there. I thought that the problem was starting to go away. Monday morning when I went into my kitchen, they were literally everywhere! I have had some pans on my counter that I was ready to put away but I have to climb to reach the place where they go. Having very little time to take care of these types of things lately, they had been sitting there for a couple of weeks.
I read online about the fruit flies and why they decide to take over any one area. It is typically due to the fact that a piece of fruit or something fermenting has been left out. I started to scour the kitchen area for anything that it might be. Then I saw it hidden behind the pans on the counter, the mason jar that had salsa in it that I wanted to clean and use the canning jar that it was in. The lid was slightly off of the jar. I had put it there to take out to the dumpster and dump into a plastic bag because I did not want to dump it into my drain. There were what seemed like thousands of these things swarming this jar.
I bagged the jar up into the trash and put all of my fruit in the fridge. I have not been keeping trash in my garbage at all but sealing it in a plastic old spinach bin that I am going to keep emptying into our dumpster. I would like to say that they are all gone now but it is taking some time for them to dwindle.
I started thinking this morning, it was easy enough to find the source of what was causing all of the fruit flies. A festering time bomb on my kitchen counter that while put there with good intention, was the self imposed cause of my fruit fly infestation. The bugs flying all around, pestering me and stealing my peace.
What if I had tried to find the source and I could not find it? What if the kitchen was dark and I had no way of turning the light on to see where it was? It would remain there and continue to get worse until the whole house was full of it. After a while, I imagine it would wear me down and give me little hope that the problem would be solved.
I have suffered depression in the past and I know that it feels a lot like the scenario that I have spoken of above. You know something is there that is not right but you feel as if you cannot figure out where or what it is. Instead of getting better, it continues to get worse because the source has not been exposed. Without light, it would be difficult if not impossible to figure out the cause of most problems in our material world. The same is true with the Spiritual. We need light to expose the hidden source of our pain. Sometimes we may need someone else to be this source of light for us. Sometimes if we take enough quiet time with our Lord and stay in Word, we are able to figure things out and continue walking our paths. Whatever it is, it is imperative that we do something. Leaving things be as if they are not, will only cause further harm. Once we find the source, we need to be patient. It most likely took some time for the problem to manifest on the level that it has. It will get better, it just needs time. This too shall pass.
The death of Robin Williams has had a significant impact on our society as far as being aware that depression is real and can be as deadly as having cancer. He spent his life making us laugh, while crying on the inside.. How many others in our lives could be doing the same thing? We don't think about the people that are smiling all of the time because we are blinded by outer appearance and fooled into thinking that person has it all together and may even be tempted to think, why can't I be more like them?
I encourage you to slow down and take the time to look at the people around you. Is there someone who is rarely serious, always seems to be laughing and in good Spirits? It could be that they are so in tuned with God that they are able to be this way out of His Good Spirit but maybe take the time to try to know that for sure. Talk to them on a more serious level, ask they how they are doing and pay attention not only to their response but their actions. Watch them when they do not know you are watching. Pay attention to the things that they do, to what they say when they do not know you are listening. People show us who they are by their actions when unaware they are being watched.
If you are struggling with depression, please talk to someone. If you do not have person that you feel you can talk to, go to a non-denominational church or if you have a church already, seek the pastor. That is what they are there for and they are called to keep your confidence. You are not different or strange or weird. Most people have suffered from depression at some point and would be able to maybe help you find your light to expose the root of your depression. Often times, God will place people around you that are walking the same path. They can help you. Please give them a chance to help you.
May God continually help our society learn that keeping things to yourself when you are hurting is not the route to go, AMEN.
Wednesday, July 30, 2014
Wake up America, arise from your sleep!!!!
Christ sets us free from bondage on the inside and that creates a free man on the outside, as well as a person that is able to self govern through Godly Morals. I have been studying real history that can be verified as being true. The public schools are funded by the government and therefore on the government's agenda. Initially schools were set up to teach the children to be able to read the Bible so that they could continue from generation to generation to secure the blessing of liberty that our ancestors fought so hard to have for us. The schools were not funded by the government, they were locally funded and initially in a home-schooling atmosphere. America was setup for religious freedom to worship Christ in the way that we felt we needed to in our hearts without persecution. I say Christ because they said Christ. Separation of Church and State was added to protect us from the government telling us how we could worship Christ or that we could not worship Him at all. It was not meant to be used to take God out of the political realm or out of schools. The government has violated this right by condemning the Bible in schools and or any discussion that speak of God or our beliefs. Another right violated, Freedom of Speech...There is a term for hushing us and it's called, "politically correct".. It is very clever how they are turning us against each other with this and distracting us as they systematically strip away our liberties (satan works the same way).. I am not afraid to speak my beliefs and will not be hushed to soothe the conscience of another. I will remain respectful to others, but will not allow them to squelch my beliefs because they are not strong enough in their own and feel threatened by my voicing mine. I will act in love as I am called to do and love does not withhold rebuke when it is needed. God blessed us with a country of freedom because we the people, relied on His provision daily and thanked Him fervently for our blessings. We were obedient to His Word and we secured our liberty because of it. We have shifted our reliance to our government in many cases and have taken God out. “Those who will not be Governed by God will be Ruled by Tyrants". William Penn.. It is OK if you do not believe or agree with what I am saying but at least study the history of our founding Fathers and the ideas behind the men with the vision that they had for our America and why America presently has her liberties, the real history and not what they are teaching today in our schools.. It could change your way of thinking and while that can be scary, the Truth also sets us free.. "Rebellion against tyrants is obedience to God." - Benjamin Franklin
Hosea 4:6 (1611 King James Bible)
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¶ My people are destroyed for lacke of knowledge: because thou hast reiected knowledge, I will also reiect thee, that thou shalt be no priest to me: seeing thou hast forgotten the lawe of thy God, I wil also forget thy children.
- 1611 King James Bible
Tuesday, July 8, 2014
The Assumption of Mary
My writing on this post is in blue.
http://www.catholicapologetics.org/ap080500.htm
Pope Pius XII, declared infallibly, ex cathedra: "Mary, having completed the course of her earthly life, was assumed body and soul to heavenly glory." (The Magisterium has stayed cospicuously silent regarding whether this process entailed Mary's physical death. The teaching merely states that Mary's body and soul were assumed at the completion of the course of Mary's life.)
Ex catheda, in the Catholic world means that the Pope spoke these words as guided by Spirit and they can never be untrue, infallible (no human on Earth is infallible and that includes the pope. It is not found in the Bible.
Pay close attention to the history defined at this Catholic site below. It appears to have changed over time to suit the time period (God's words are timeless and the same today as they were yesterday, that is Truth). Falling asleep in those days refereed to someone that had died.
http://catholicism.about.com/od/holydaysandholidays/p/Assumption.htm
The verses below are the only accounts that you will find in the Bible, regarding people that went up to Heaven in any other way besides dying a physical death. Jesus ascended into Heaven but He did die a physical death first. There is nothing in the Bible that states that Mary did not die a physical death. She took up her Cross, followed Jesus and died a physical death to be raised again. Again, there is little regarding Mary at all in the Bible. It's just another attempt to distract you from Truth of Jesus and why He came and what we all have available to us through Him. Total Grace, nothing we will or could ever do on our own. Mary was under this Grace as well. She was a humble servant of the Lord and the vessel He chose to bear Jesus. It had nothing to do with Mary and everything to do with our Lord Jesus Christ!
2 KINGS 2:11 And it came to pass, as they still went on, and talked, that, behold, there appeared a chariot of fire, and horses of fire, and parted them both asunder; and Elijah went up by a whirlwind into heaven.
http://www.catholicapologetics.org/ap080500.htm
Pope Pius XII, declared infallibly, ex cathedra: "Mary, having completed the course of her earthly life, was assumed body and soul to heavenly glory." (The Magisterium has stayed cospicuously silent regarding whether this process entailed Mary's physical death. The teaching merely states that Mary's body and soul were assumed at the completion of the course of Mary's life.)
Ex catheda, in the Catholic world means that the Pope spoke these words as guided by Spirit and they can never be untrue, infallible (no human on Earth is infallible and that includes the pope. It is not found in the Bible.
Pay close attention to the history defined at this Catholic site below. It appears to have changed over time to suit the time period (God's words are timeless and the same today as they were yesterday, that is Truth). Falling asleep in those days refereed to someone that had died.
http://catholicism.about.com/od/holydaysandholidays/p/Assumption.htm
The verses below are the only accounts that you will find in the Bible, regarding people that went up to Heaven in any other way besides dying a physical death. Jesus ascended into Heaven but He did die a physical death first. There is nothing in the Bible that states that Mary did not die a physical death. She took up her Cross, followed Jesus and died a physical death to be raised again. Again, there is little regarding Mary at all in the Bible. It's just another attempt to distract you from Truth of Jesus and why He came and what we all have available to us through Him. Total Grace, nothing we will or could ever do on our own. Mary was under this Grace as well. She was a humble servant of the Lord and the vessel He chose to bear Jesus. It had nothing to do with Mary and everything to do with our Lord Jesus Christ!
2 KINGS 2:11 And it came to pass, as they still went on, and talked, that, behold, there appeared a chariot of fire, and horses of fire, and parted them both asunder; and Elijah went up by a whirlwind into heaven.
Genesis 5:24
King James Version (KJV)
24 And Enoch walked with God: and he was not; for God took him.
Hebrews 11:5
King James Version (KJV)
5 By faith Enoch was translated that he should not see death; and was not found, because God had translated him: for before his translation he had this testimony, that he pleased God.
Luke 24 (King James Version)--- JESUS
51 And it came to pass, while he blessed them, he was parted from them, and carried up into heaven
John 3:13
King James Version (KJV)
13 And no man hath ascended up to heaven, but he that came down from heaven, even the Son of man which is in heaven.
King James Version (KJV)
13 And no man hath ascended up to heaven, but he that came down from heaven, even the Son of man which is in heaven.
as·sumed
[uh-soomd] Show IPA
Dictionary.com Unabridged
as·sume
[uh-soom] Show IPA
verb (used with object), as·sumed, as·sum·ing.
1.
to take for granted or without proof: to assume that everyone wants peace. Synonyms: suppose,presuppose; postulate, posit.
2.
to take upon oneself; undertake: to assume an obligation.
3.
to take over the duties or responsibilities of: to assume the office of treasurer.
4.
to take on (a particular character, quality, mode of life, etc.); adopt: He assumed the style of anaggressive go-getter.
5.
to take on; be invested or endowed with: The situation assumed a threatening character.
as·sump·tion (
-s
mp
shn)
-smpshn)
n.
1. The act of taking to or upon oneself: assumption of an obligation.
2. The act of taking possession or asserting a claim: assumption of command.
3. The act of taking for granted: assumption of a false theory.
4. Something taken for granted or accepted as true without proof; a supposition: a valid assumption.
5. Presumption; arrogance.
6. Logic A minor premise.
7. Assumption
a. Christianity (NOT TRUE , ALL CHRISTIANS DO NOT BELIEVE THIS ONLY CATHOLICS) The taking up of the Virgin Mary into heaven in body and soul after her death.
b. A feast celebrating this event.
c. August 15, the day on which this feast is observed.
Lightning bugs in Ohio..
There are so many of them outside this summer. They are shining their lights, are you shining yours?
16 Let your light so shine before men, that they may see your good works, and glorify your Father which is in heaven.
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