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video-(9/11/2001) A Day to Remember

22 Sep

 
 

Violence-2-AI

19 Sep

The rhetoric of liberal media and politicians points to a set of values that they have been pushing for years but have recently been more open about. They have been pushing abortion as a woman’s right in spite of the fact we now know decisively that it is a baby with a heartbeat and brainwaves. They are saying in effect, the mother’s right to happiness supersedes the baby’s right to life. Once you make that statement, it merely becomes a matter of who you feel stands in the way of your happiness. We are seeing that their feelings are not limited to the unwanted baby in the womb. They are also pushing assisted suicide and mercy killing for the sick, the injured, the elderly, and those  who are mentally disturbed. They feel those people are a burden and should be eliminated. They have been very quiet about it because the majority of Americans still value life but they have been quietly pushing it in areas they find open to it like Oregon. Other countries like Canada and many European countries are more open to them and openly practice them because they don’t have the strong Christian values that were prevalent in America up until the 1960’s and 1970’s. When you are trying to convince someone of something, it is frustrating to have someone express an opposing opinion, especially if they can back up their opinion with facts. Charlie Kirk was challenging them to back up their arguments with facts and they knew they could not do that because their opinions are based on feelings, not facts. Therefore he posed a threat to their attempts to convince people, so they feel he needed to be eliminated.

 

 

Violence-2-AH

19 Sep

Since the killing of Charlie Kirk, we have seen many liberals who express joy that he was killed or say he deserved to die. Many are being fired from their jobs. There are many who are saying that they should not be fired because they are merely exercising their free speech. What about Kirk, he was just exercising his right to freedom of speech and he was killed. Liberals tend to see themselves as deserving rights but deny those rights to those they don’t agree with. But the question goes beyond a question of free speech. Speech reveals one’s mindset. If I was an employer, I would not want someone working for me who expressed joy that those who don’t agree with them were killed. What happens when one of their fellow employees says something they don’t agree with. Are they going to bring a gun to work and kill them. What happens if the company does something they feel is wrong, will they bring a gun and shoot up the office. We have not heard of workplace violence in a long time but it is still happening, it just isn’t big news like it was.  We haven’t heard of school shootings much lately either but they still happen. They are no longer big news. The American public got tired of hearing about them and the media ratings dropped so they realized  they had to tone it down. However, the danger is still there and employers are still concerned about it.

 

 

Previous Posts

18 Sep

From time to time people want to access old files without going back through all the postings. As a result, I placed a link at the bottom of each posting with a link to previous postings on that topic. Simply click on the link to access past postings on that topic. To access topics I have not dealt with recently, I posted a series of twelve postings under “Previous Posts”. Each lists several topics and has links to those topics. This posting has a link to those posts so you can view the whole list. Simply view the list, select a topic, and click on the link at the bottom of that post to access previous posts on that topic.
I will post periodic links to the “previous posts” series like this one for your convenience.

 

Third Sunday of Kingdomtide-Sept 21

17 Sep

organized teaching-In addition to a firm foundation, members need organized teaching. Often, the preaching and the adult Sunday Schools of many churches are very haphazard with no master plan. Sermons are often chosen week by week or from a series that hits the pastor’s fancy. Adult Sunday School classes are often chosen for each quarter at random. Without a basic foundation of knowledge and without organized instruction, bits and pieces of knowledge are tossed together in a heap. Many adult church members know many things about the faith but have no way to pull it together and do not understand how it applies to their life. The church needs to draw up a blueprint of what its members need to know and teach them in an organized manner. Using the Christian calendar gives structure to teaching and helps the church provide organized teaching. By going through the Christian calendar, it goes through all the major teachings of the church each year.  I have a series of courses on Udemy to teach Christian beliefs. It begins with a course on Basic Christian beliefs. Next is a course on the Celebrations and how they help members understand the faith. Next I have courses on The values laid down in the Ten Commandments., including the value of life, the value of the rule of law, and the value of the family. See promos and links under “study courses”

 

Politics-AB-BB

17 Sep

Planned Parenthood and liberals in Congress are continuing to push abortion drugs to States that do not allow abortions because the pro-life laws hurt their profits and have forced them to shut down a number of abortion centers. They continue to teach young children to engage in sex and reassure them that they can be protected by contraceptives but do not warn them that the contraceptives have a high failure rate and do not protect them against sexually transmitted diseases so they can produce unwanted babies. Then they convince them that an abortion will solve that problem. They get paid by the government to teach the sex ed classes, distribute the contraceptives, and do the abortions. Then they get paid selling the body parts of the aborted babies. They have a very profitable racket going. Now that their profits are being threatened, they are adding gender confusion to their sex ed classes and selling kids on the idea that all their problems stem from the fact that they were born in the wrong body, which is a figment of their imagination. They then reap the profits when the government pays them to administer the body altering drugs and the body altering surgeries even though there is no evidence that they are even helpful, and they do great harm to the children.

 
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Sanctity of Life-GD-D

17 Sep

Many liberals are celebrating the death of Charlie Kirk, saying he got what he deserved. He never attacked anyone or belittled them, he merely asked them to defend what they believe. They hate him so much because they cannot defend their positions and they know it. The positions are selfish and self-serving and they cannot be defended because they go against what is best for everyone. I have written a series of values comparing Christian values with the values of the liberals to illustrate how irrational they are. They only make sense if you are only thinking of yourself and what is best for yourself. To them, it is alright to kill a baby, an elderly person, someone who is gravely ill or injured, or who is mentally disturbed because they see no value in those people and feel we are better off without them. They feel it is alright to eliminate those who stand in the way of their happiness and celebrate his death because he forces them to defend what they cannot defend and they don’t like being exposed as fools.

 

 

Second Sunday of Kingdomtide-Sept 14

13 Sep

A firm foundation- Catechism. When I began my ministry, it was common for churches to have a concentrated time of study for those coming of age, generally considered about age twelve, to give them a basic foundation of understanding of the church and its beliefs. Few churches today, particularly evangelical churches, have any organized classes for twelve year olds to teach them the basic tenets of the faith. Even children who have been in Sunday School their whole lives need a concentrated time to pull together everything they have been taught. As a result, many children today do not have even a basic foundation of knowledge and cannot build their faith as they grow older. There is also no concentrated study for those coming into the church who did not grow up in church. The result is that few adult church members today have even a basic understanding of the faith. I have developed a basic catechism course of study for new members for that purpose (Understanding the Path We Walk-see “books” on website and Basic Christian Beliefs on UdemyURL- https://www.udemy.com/course/basic-christian-beliefs/?referralCode=45EA0BA6DAD6F47E7541)

 

violence and social strife-3-H

13 Sep

It is interesting to hear the rhetoric of the media and liberal politicians in response to the response of President Trump to the killing of Charlie Kirk. They say he is inciting people to violence. Lets look at the facts. Liberals call on their followers to attack anyone who supports Trump and they should kill him. Those people have not done anything wrong, they just stand in the way of liberals getting what they want. That certainly leads people who have low self control and very few scruples against killing to attack and even kill Trump supporters. The liberal politicians and media  say their followers should riot in the streets to show their opposition to what Trump does. They feel that is all protected by freedom of speech and doesn’t lead people to violence. They say we should take away guns from innocent people so they can’t defend themselves against criminals who hide their guns so they won’t be taken away. They also say we should defund the police so they won’t be able to protect innocent citizens from those same criminals. They also say we shouldn’t punish criminals for minor crimes. We should allow them to go back out on the street where they can commit major crimes. On the other hand, we have Trump who calls on the police to seek out and arrest these people who go around attacking and killing other people, so they can be tried in court and if convicted, should be punished by putting them in jail, where they cannot commit more crimes. Liberals feel that is hate speech and should be banned because it leads people to violence.  The only ones incited to riot by calls for justice are liberals who hate police and the court system. However calling on liberals to attack conservatives does incite liberals to violence. Since it enrages those conservatives who do not like being attacked, it may also occasionally lead conservatives to attack liberals. They bring up examples where someone attacked an abortionist or an abortion clinic while ignoring almost daily attacks against pro-life pregnancy centers and Catholic churches that call for an end to abortion. It is hypocrisy to think that an isolated attack on a liberal is a threat to democracy while almost daily attacks on conservates do not pose a threat.

 

 

Violence-gun control 4-S

11 Sep

While the media often boldly calls for gun control after major shootings, they are strangely silent when the target is a conservative politician or political activist, a church, or a Christian school. When several Republican Congressmen were shot at a ball field, there was silence. When a gunman attacks a church or Christian school, there is silence. Apparently they feel it is alright to shoot their opponents. The recent shooting of the leader of Turning point USA did not bring out the media frenzy that you usually hear. Charlie Kirk started Turning Point to spread conservative information to public school and college students to help bring sanity to our schools but apparently liberals felt he was too great a threat to their agenda.