Month: March 2008

  • The Stranger

    I don't know who this is by but I think everyone should read it and think about it.

    The Stranger

    A few months before I was born, my dad met a stranger who was new to
    our small Tennessee town. From the beginning, Dad was fascinated with
    this enchanting newcomer, and soon invited him to live with our family.
    The stranger was quickly accepted and was around to welcome me into
    the world a few months later.

    As I grew up I never questioned his place in our family. In my young
    mind, each member had a special niche. My brother, Bill, five years my
    senior, was my example. Fran, my younger sister, gave me an opportunity
    to
    play 'big brother' and develop the art of teasing. My parents were
    complementary instructors-- Mom taught me to love the Word of God,
    and Dad taught me to obey it.

    But the stranger was our storyteller. He could weave the most fascinating
    tales. Adventures, mysteries and comedies were daily conversations. He
    could hold our whole family spell-bound for hours each evening.

    If I wanted to know about politics, history, or science, he knew it all. He
    knew about the past, understood the present, and seemingly could predict
    the future. The pictures he could draw were so life like that I: would often
    laugh or cry as I watched.

    He was Iike a friend to the whole family. He took Dad, Bill and me to our
    first
    major league baseball game. He was always encouraging us to see the
    movies and he even made arrangements to introduce us to several movie
    stars. My brother and I were deeply impressed by John Wayne in particular.

    The stranger was an incessant talker. Dad didn' t seem to mind-but
    sometimes Mom would quietly get up-- while the rest of us were
    enthralled with one of
    his stories of faraway places-- go to her room, read her Bible and pray. I
    wonder now if she ever prayed that the stranger would leave.

    You see, my dad ruled our household with certain moral convictions. But
    this stranger never felt obligation to honor them. Profanity, for example,
    was not allowed in our house-- not from us, from our friends, or adults.
    Our longtime visitor, however, used occasional four letter words that
    burned my ears and made Dad squirm. To my knowledge the stranger
    was never confronted. My dad was a teetotaler who didn't permit alcohol
    in
    his home - not even for cooking. But the stranger felt 1ike we needed
    exposure and enlightened us to other ways of life. He offered us beer
    and
    other alcoholic beverages often.

    He made cigarettes look tasty, cigars manly, and pipes distinguished.
    He talked freely (probably too much too freely) about sex. His comments
    were sometimes blatant, sometimes sugestive, and generally embarrassing.
    I know now that my early concepts of the man-woman relationship were influenced by the stranger,

    As I look back, I believe it was the grace of God that the stranger
    did not influence us more. Time after time he opposed the values of my
    parents.
    Yet he was seldom rebuked and never asked to leave.

    More than thirty years have passed since the stranger moved in with the
    young family on Morningside Drive. He is not nearly so intriguing to my
    Dad as he was in those early years. But if I were to walk into my parents'
    den today, you would still see him sitting over in a corner, waiting for
    someone to listen to him talk and watch him draw his pictures...

    His name? We always just called him TV."

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    Watching/reading/listening to these things is having pleasure in them that
    do them. The bottom line is that when we participate as willing observers we are
    having pleasure in sinners who are sinning. What abomination
     
    Psalms 101:3 I will set no wicked thing before mine eyes: I hate the work
    Of them that turn aside; it shall not cleave to me.
     

    2 Timothy 3:3 Without natural affection, trucebreakers, false accusers, incontinent, fierce, DESPISERS OF THOSE THAT ARE GOOD, 4 Traitors, heady, highminded, lovers of PLEASURES more than lovers of God; 5 Having a form of godliness, but denying the power thereof: FROM SUCH TURN AWAY.

    But instead of turning away from these types of people, Christians across the land JUSTIFY their "right" to invite these people into their living rooms for entertainment!

    2 Corinthians 6:17 Wherefore come out from among them, and be ye SEPARATE, saith the Lord, and touch not the unclean thing; and I will receive you...

    2 Thessalonians 3:14 And if any man obey not our word by this epistle, note that man, and have no company with him, that he may be ashamed.

    James 4:4 Ye adulterers and adulteresses, know ye not that the friendship of the world is enmity with God? whosoever therefore will be a friend of the world is the enemy of God.

    In the second epistle of John, verses 9-11, we read:

    9 Whosoever transgresseth, and abideth not in the
    doctrine of Christ, hath not God. He that abideth in the doctrine of
    Christ, he hath both the Father and the Son.

    10 If there come any unto you, and bring not this doctrine, receive him not into your house, neither bid him God speed:

    11 For he that biddeth him God speed is partaker of his evil deeds.

    The Word of God tells us to not invite someone into our house who abideth not in the doctrine of Christ.

    Do the people on your tv screen abide in the doctrine of Christ?

    The Law of God tells us that we should not covet. Now what do you
    suppose is the purpose of ALL advertising you see on tv? Is it to
    encourage you to a simpler lifestyle? Is it to make you content with
    the things that God has blessed you with?

    Is your tv a "good thing"? Do you think that if the Lord Jesus were
    here on earth today, He would sit and watch the things you watch?

  • Abortion

    Isaiah 58:1  Cry aloud, spare not, lift up thy voice like a trumpet, and show my people their transgression, and the house of Jacob their sins.

    ABORTION IS killing babies before they are born.

    Americans killed in the...
    Revolutionary War totaled.... 25,324
    Korean War ........................ 54,246
    Vietnam War ....................... 58,655
    WW I ................................ 116,708
    WW II ............................... 407,316
    Civil War ............................ 498,332
    Abortion ...... ................. 48,000,000

    And we continue to lose 1.6 million Americans every year to Abortion (60 million worldwide yearly).

    171 Americans/hr; 3/minute and 2 worldwide/sec
    30% of all American babies are killed every year.

    How do they kill babies?

    (There are at least 6 kinds of abortion.)
    1. D & C A tiny hoe is used to scrape the womb cutting the baby to pieces.
    2. Suction Abortion A powerful suction tube sucks the baby into a jar in pieces.
    3. Saline Abortion A long needle is inserted through the mother's abdomen and a strong salt solution is injected into the amniotic fluid surrounding the child. The salt is swallowed and absorbed into the baby burning his skin. The mother goes into labor and expels a shriveled and visibly burnt baby. Sometimes the baby is born alive writhing in pain.
    4. D & E (also by D & X) (dilatation and evacuation) Forceps are used to crush the baby's head and pull out the body parts.
    5. Hysterectomy or C-section The baby is killed in the uterus after major surgery.


    Biblical Principles regarding ABORTION

    The Unborn is a person!

    Genesis 1:26 (KJV) And God said, Let us make man in our image, ...
    Man is not like an animal. God made man in His own image with the ability to think. Do you realize that Unborn babies have heartbeats in 18 days? and detectable brain waves in 40 days?

    The BIBLE teaches that it is more than "tissue."

    Psalm 139:13 (KJV) For thou hast possessed my reins: thou hast covered me in my mother's womb.
    Psalm 139:14 I will praise thee; for I am fearfully and wonderfully made: ...
    Psalm 139:15 My substance was not hid from thee, when I was made in secret, ...
    Psalm 139:16 Thine eyes did see my substance, yet being unperfect; and in thy book all my members were written, which in continuance were fashioned, when as yet there was none of them.
    vs 13---He existed in his mother's womb.
    vs 15---"curiously wrought" is the same term meaning "fine needlework embroidery."
    The baby in the uterus is UNIQUE AND ALIVE. Otherwise, there would be no need for an abortion. We are HIS handiwork.
    Job 10:8 (KJV) Thine hands have made me and fashioned me together round about; ...
    Job acknowledged that God made him. So, to abort a baby is to work against GOD.
    Isaiah 49:1 (KJV) Listen, O isles, unto me; and hearken, ye people, from far; The LORD hath called me from the womb; from the bowels of my mother hath he made mention of my name.
    Isaiah 49:5 And now, saith the LORD that formed me from the womb to be his servant, ...
    God calls his men from the womb and mentions their name. These unborn are persons already.
    Jeremiah 1:4 (KJV) Then the word of the LORD came unto me, saying,
    Jeremiah 1:5 Before I formed thee in the belly I knew thee; and before thou camest forth out of the womb I sanctified thee, and I ordained thee a prophet unto the nations.
    God formed Jeremiah. God knew him. He was a person while unborn. God ordained him a prophet while unborn. I wonder how many preachers were killed in the 27 million babies we have killed in the past 20 years in America?
    Judges 13:7 (KJV) But he said unto me, Behold, thou shalt conceive, and bear a son; and now drink no wine nor strong drink, neither eat any unclean thing: for the child shall be a Nazarite to God from the womb to the day of his death.

    The UNBORN IS A CHILD--A BABY.
    Luke 1:41 And it came to pass, that, when Elisabeth heard the salutation of Mary, the babe leaped in her womb; and Elisabeth was filled with the Holy Ghost:
    Hey, blobs and tissue do not leap.
    Exodus 21:4 (KJV) If his master have given him a wife, and she have born him sons or daughters; the wife and her children shall be her master's, and he shall go out by himself.
    Exodus 21:22 If men strive, and hurt a woman with child, so that her fruit depart from her, and yet no mischief follow: he shall be surely punished, according as the woman's husband will lay upon him; and he shall pay as the judges determine.
    The Old Testament Hebrew uses the same word, "yeled", to refer to a born baby OR to an unborn baby.
    Luke 1:41 (KJV) And it came to pass, that, when Elisabeth heard the salutation of Mary, the babe leaped in her womb; and Elisabeth was filled with the Holy Ghost:
    Acts 7:19 The same dealt subtly with our kindred, and evil entreated our fathers, so that they cast out their young children, to the end they might not live.
    The New Testament Greek uses the same word, "brephos," for a born OR unborn baby.
    Hey, to God, the unborn child is already a human being. He is a PERSON.


    The SANCTITY OF LIFE.
    Exodus 20:13 (KJV) Thou shalt not kill.
    Our civilization is built on the right to life!!
    Proverbs 6:16 (KJV) These six things doth the LORD hate: yea, seven are an abomination unto him:
    Proverbs 6:17 A proud look, a lying tongue, and hands that shed innocent blood,
    These babies are innocent. They have done nothing wrong--certainly not worthy of death. Abortionists, the doctors, nurses, and mothers are guilty of shedding their innocent blood--- AND THE LORD HATES IT! It is an abomination (shameful, despicable).
    Exodus 21:22 (KJV) If men strive, and hurt a woman with child, so that her fruit depart from her, and yet no mischief follow: he shall be surely punished, according as the woman's husband will lay upon him; and he shall pay as the judges determine.
    Exodus 21:23 And if any mischief follow, then thou shalt give life for life,
    MISCHIEF = HURT
    Abortionists say vs 22 shows the unborn's death carries a fine while the death of the mother (vs 23) is greater and carries a death penalty. Therefore, the unborn is not a person, they say.
    But examine vs 28-37. vs 29 says that if an ox kills a free man, the owner has to be killed, but vs 32 says that if an ox kills a slave, the owner has to pay a fine. Shall we conclude that slaves are not real, full persons and can be killed? NO
    The true interpretation of vs 22-23 is: two men fight, one of them hits a pregnant woman, and she prematurely delivers the baby. IF there is no hurt to the mother or to the child, then the guilty man just pays a fine. IF there is hurt or death to the mother or to the child, the guilty man pays accordingly---life for life. (AND this is only for accidental hurt but abortionists and mothers abort deliberately.)

    In fact baby killing is a horrendous crime that is condemned throughout scripture:
    Genesis 15:16; Leviticus 18:21; Deuteronomy 18:10; II Kings 16:3; 21:6.
    Psalm 106:38 (KJV) And shed innocent blood, even the blood of their sons and of their daughters, whom they sacrificed unto the idols of Canaan: and the land was polluted with blood.
    What do you suppose God would do to a nation that allowed the shedding of their own children's blood?
    Psalm 106:40 (KJV) Therefore was the wrath of the LORD kindled against his people, insomuch that he abhorred his own inheritance.
    Psalm 106:41 And he gave them into the hand of the heathen; and they that hated them ruled over them.
    Psalm 106:42 Their enemies also oppressed them, and they were brought into subjection under their hand.

    AMERICA HAS SET ITSELF AGAINST GOD IN THE ABORTING OF ITS BABIES AND GOD'S     JUDGMENT IS NOT FAR BEHIND.


    Every movement of oppression and exploitation has labeled itself pro-choice---slavery, prostitution, pornography, drug dealing, abortion, alcohol, cigarettes, etc. The pro-choice position always overlooks the victim's rights.
    The Blacks did not choose slavery.
    The Jews did not choose the ovens.
    The babies have not chosen abortion.

    Some say "It is best not to bring unwanted children into this world---child abuse will increase."
    There are 100,000 babies released yearly for ADOPTION. 1.6 MILLION are aborted and 1.5 MILLION people are waiting to ADOPT. Every child is wanted and could have a home in America.
    Cases of child abuse should have greatly decreased if their logic is correct. However, child abuse cases have ballooned from 167,000 in 1973 to 2.5 million in 1991. A study of 674 abuse children in California shows that 91% came from planned pregnancies. We can conclude that child abuse is not an argument for abortion. In fact,
    ABORTION is the ULTIMATE CHILD ABUSE.


    What are the ramifications of Abortion?

    The estrangement of women from their children.
    Romans 1:31 says the reprobates are without natural affection.
    II Timothy 3:3 says that the end-time will be characterized by folks without natural affection. It's only natural for a
    mother to WANT and love her children.

    Abortion promotes immorality.
    79% of abortions are performed on the unmarried (not to mention the abortions performed on immoral married women). ABORTION is an immoral solution to an immoral act (in at least 79% of the cases).
    You see that the unborn baby invades these women's rights by tattling on their promiscuity (sin). 75% said, a child would interfere with their lives.xiv

    The doctors are motivated by MONEY, not the woman's rights. ($500 million business)
    If a regular doctor makes $100,000/yr in an area, an abortion doctor would make $345,000+/yr for just 20-30 hours/wk. And consider that there is no overhead to speak of, there is no being on-call, and there is no fear of malpractice. Additionally, there are over 101 uses for aborted babies including cosmetics and the sale of bodies. No wonder they hire and train marketing directors in how to sell abortions. Women are often not given the alternatives.

    Abortion will finally lead to Euthanasia and extermination of undesirables.
    Randy Alcorn wrote that Margaret Sanger was the first president of Planned Parenthood (1920), the world's largest abortion promoter and provider. Sanger believed "Negroes and Southern Europeans were mentally inferior to natural born Americans" and that Jews and other minorities were 'feeble-minded,' 'human weeds,' and a 'menace to Society.' She argued that they should be sterilized.
    The 1988 stats on abortions show that 22.5 white women/1000 have abortions while 53.7 Black women/1000 have abortions. Additionally, the average children/American woman has dropped from 3.7 (before 1972) to 1.8 (since 1972-- legalization of abortion).
    America is a dying population. Any population increases since 1972 have been due to immigration. So---Blacks and all of America are the victims of abortions.
    Do you remember that Nazi Germany killed 350,000 so-called undesirables (aged, infirmed, handicapped and retarded) before they exterminated the Jews?

    AMERICA IS AGAINST GOD. Jesus loves the little children. America hates them. America loves her sin, money and convenience.

    What can we do?

    We must live by moral example.
    I Thessalonians 4:3 says that it is God's will for us to abstain from fornication. WE MUST SET THE EXAMPLE.

    We must pray. No one else will pray for our country if Christians do not. God places this responsibility on us.
    2 Chronicles 7:14 (KJV) If my people, which are called by my name, shall humble themselves, and pray, and seek my face, and turn from their wicked ways; then will I hear from heaven, and will forgive their sin, and will heal their land.

    We must be informed (not from TV media). Know the truth. Study the Bible. Learn about abortion facts. Share them with neighbors and relatives.

    Write Political Leaders and voice your opinion.

    Encourage mothers-to-be to have their children.

    Distribute Pro-Life material.

    IF YOU CARE, YOU WILL DO SOMETHING. IT'S YOUR COUNTRY.

  • Our Living Room

    Here are pictures of our basically completely organized Living Room.

    Autumn's house and the Games and the storage underneath


    Here you can see the games too and you can see snowflake's house and the radio.


    The book shelf and chairs and bathroom door


    The desk to do school work and calender.

  • I have been tagged

    I've been tagged by Ginger.

    Here are the rules:
    1. Link to your tagger and post these rules on your blog.
    2. Share 7 facts about yourself on your blog, some random, some weird.
    3. Tag 7 people at the end of your post by leaving their names as well as links to their blogs.
    4. Let them know they are tagged by leaving a comment on their blog.

    1. I love listening to great biblical preaching and taking notes
    2. I love studying what the bible has to say on things
    3. I am trying to grow my hair long and think gray hair is beautiful
    4. I love Ephrata  Christian Fellowship/Charity Christian Fellowship but with my Fibro pain issues feel I would never be able to live up to their standards they set for their women in the home.
    5. I have three children and three hamsters
    6. I have sensitive hearing
    7. I don't shave at all and don't see the point in it. God gave me the hair for some reason. Why shave it off.

    Ok now to tag 7 people

    LeAnn

    Carla

    SunnySusan

    Joan

    Barry

    Kim

    Laurie

  • Introducing the newest addition to our family

    I would like to welcome you all to the newest addition to our house. I will take more pictures of her later. Her name is snowflake. She is a Russian Dwarf Hamster.

    Her living area

  • Two front teeth

    My daughter as of last night is now missing her two top front teeth. The one has been missing for a week now. The other just fell out last night.

  • Alvin and Habitrail vrs Crittertrail

    Alvin used to live in a crittertrail, but he had issues with chewing the bars, which can be very very bad for a hamsters health. He had plenty of safe things to chew on but kept chewing on the bars.
    Now he has a Habitrail suit with a chewable maze. I have to say. Habitrail is really really nice and it has no bars for him to eat.
    Here are some pictures.

  • Holy Week

    Below is an example of what I am doing with my children for holy week. Do
    you celebrate holy week and if so how?
    Any suggestions on what we can add to our holy week stuff?
    What type of things are you doing with your children if you have
    some?
     
    Palm Sunday
    Remembrance of the entrance of Jesus into
    Jerusalem.
    Matthew 21:1-11 Mark 11:1-11 Luke 19:28-40
     
    Holy Monday
    The Cleansing of the Temple takes place.

    Mark 11:15-19
    This area of the temple was the place non -- Jews could
    come to pray but it had become a dirty noisy unworshipful place.
    John 12:1-11
     
    Holy Tuesday
    Jesus teaches in the temple. MARK
    12:28-34
     
    Wednesday
    Jesus is anointed Judas decides to betray
    Jesus.
    Read the stories. Read Colossians 3:23 and 2 Corinthians 2:15-16

    Luke 22: 3 - 6
    Matthew 26: 14 - 16
    Mark 14: 10 - 11
    John 18: 2 -
    5
     
    Judas betrayed Jesus for about 120 days wages. Was Jesus' life on earth
    worth more than 30 pieces of silver? Why or why not? What was the true value of
    Jesus' life to our family?"
     
    Maundy Thursday
    The Last Supper
    Garden of
    Gethsemane Judas' betrayal Peter's denial
    Talk about Jesus' prayers
    John
    13:1-11
     
    Good Friday
    Matthew 26-27 Mark 14-15 Luke 23 John
    17-19
     
    Saturday (Black Saturday)
    Festival of Lights

    Read verses. Isaiah 9:2 Matthew 4:16 Isaiah 60 Matthew 5:145:16 John
    8:1212:46 Matthew 5:14 John 8:12.
     
    Easter Sunday
    Luke 24:1 -- 9
     

  • FENCING IN THE WILDPIGS (Analogy to Creeping Socialism)

    NOTE: I got this from my friends blog and she got it from a circulating email, but a very good point!

    There was a chemistry professor in a large college that had some
    exchange students in the class. One day while the class was in the lab,
    the professor noticed one young man (exchange student) who kept rubbing
    his back and stretching as if his back hurt. The professor asked the
    young man what was the matter. The student told him he had a bullet
    lodged in his back. He had been shot while fighting communists in his
    native country who were trying to overthrow his country's government
    and install a new communist government. In the midst of his story he
    looked at the professor and asked a strange question. He asked, 'Do you
    know how to catch wild pigs?' The professor thought it was a joke and
    asked for the punch line. The young man said this was no joke. 'You
    catch wild pigs by finding a suitable place in the woods and putting
    corn on the ground. The pigs find it and begin to come every day to eat
    the free corn. When they are used to coming every day, you put a fence
    down one side of the place where theyare used to coming. When they get
    used to the fence, they begin to eat thecorn again and you put up
    another side of the fence. They get used to that and start to eat
    again. You continue until you have all four sides ofthe fence up with a
    gate in the last side. The pigs, who are used to the free corn, start
    to come through the gate to eat, so you slam the gate on them and catch
    the whole herd. Suddenly the wild pigs have lost their freedom. They
    run around and aroundinside the fence, but they are caught. Soon they
    go back to eating the free corn. They are so used to it that they have
    forgotten how to forage in the woods for themselves, so they accept
    their captivity. The young man then told the professor that is exactly
    what he sees happening to America . The government keeps pushing us
    toward Communism/Socialism and keeps spreading the free corn out in the
    form of programs such as supplemental income, tax credit for unearned
    income, tobacco subsidies, dairy subsidies, payments not to plant crops
    (CRP), welfare, medicine, drugs, free medical, etc., while we
    continually lose our freedoms - just a little at a time. One should
    always remember: There is no such thing as a free lunch! Also, a
    politician will never provide a service for you cheaper than you can do
    it yourself. If you see that all of this wonderful government 'help' is
    a problem confronting the future of democracy in America , you might
    want to send this on to your friends. If you think the free ride is
    essential to your way of life then you will probably delete this email,
    but God help you when the gate slams shut!

    'A government big enough to
    give you everything you want, is big enough to take away everything you
    have.' .... Thomas Jefferson

  • Yahoo group

    Calling all Bible believing women.

    I made a yahoo group. I would love for you to join. I just made it.

    This group is for bible believing women everywhere. We are a group that sticks to the KJV Bible. Christian LADIES ONLY
    ALL SCRIPTURE QUOTATIONS ARE TO BE KJV

    Women Bible Believers