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Seventh Sunday of Pentecost-A-July 17

13 Jul

College Students-Students, brought up in the church, are often away from home for the first time when they leave for college. The decisions they make will affect the rest of their life. They are bombarded with secular teaching causing them to question what they believe and often do not get any support for their Christian beliefs. Without support from their parents, many drift away from church and their Christian beliefs. It is important for them to connect with a church near campus and a Christian organization on campus to support them in finding adequate answers to support their faith. Parents can research what organizations have branches on campus and what churches are nearby. In addition, parents can notify a church near campus and Christian organizations on campus that their child is on campus so they can attempt to contact their child. You can support Christian organizations on campus and churches that are near a college campus can provide Christian activities for students. Liberals are trying to prevent Christian organizations on many college campuses from using campus facilities and such organizations may soon have to turn to churches near campus for facilities to meet.

 

 

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06 Jul

Teachers unions say the public schools will be seriously hurt by the loss of money and students if vouchers are given to children to take to the school of their choice, but areas using vouchers have found public schools improve, sometimes dramatically when vouchers are introduced. Our public schools have become lazy and inefficient because they have not had any real competition in the past because private schools are so expensive. When vouchers are introduced, public schools trim fat and improve teaching to avoid losing students. Currently, most parents are forced to send their kids to public schools because they must pay all or most of the tuition themselves to send their kids to private schools, where public school students are supported by taxes spread out over all residents of the school district. In fact, parents who wish to send their kids to private schools must pay the private school’s tuition in addition to paying taxes to support the public schools since they do not get any refund of their school taxes if their kids attend private schools. Shouldn’t all parents have a right to send their kids to the school that is best for them, not just the rich?

 
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06 Jul

Liberals are claiming that the Supreme Court has violated the separation of church and State by ruling that Maine can provide services that do not include religious instruction (meals, transportation, etc.) to religious schools. It is not supporting religion since the services do not include religious teaching. In addition, since the parents are paying public school taxes and the services are provided by the school district to non-religious schools, to deny religious schools the funds, is discriminating against religious schools because of their religious base. In addition, since the schools are in areas not served by public schools, no public schools will be hurt by it and the children would be denied access to schooling if the religious schools were not able to serve them.

 
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04 Jul

I have a course on Christian Values on the Value of Life, which is posted on Udemy.

It is available by posting the following link in your browser.

https://www.udemy.com/course/christian-values-life/?referralCode=5EA3B1D6ED6DAB183AD0

 

Immigration-VI-O

04 Jul

We are now seeing an end to the “Stay in Mexico” policy of President Trump. Immigrants seeking to enter the United States will no longer have to stay in Mexico while awaiting approval to enter the U.S. This was a disaster under President Obama and will be a disaster under President Biden. Immigrants who come to the U.S. and apply for admittance will be turned loose in the U.S. and told to come back to court for their hearing. The vast majority disappear as soon as they are released into the U.S. and never show up for their hearing.  The Administration is continually publicly telling people not to come to the U.S., but they oppose any attempt to close the border so migrants can simply walk in and make themselves at home.  It is all political rhetoric. They tell them that America is the land of opportunity and expect that people in poor countries will ignore that and stay home. Who do they think they are fooling? They want them to come to increase their political support. President Biden strongly condemned the human trafficers who left 53 people to die in the desert locked in the back of a semi. Their encouragement of people to come and their insistence on open boarders is the direct cause of those deaths. It is an expensive and dangerous journey to travel from a South American country to the U.S. and many people hire trafficers to help them with transportation and protection. Many trafficers could care less about the people as long as they get paid. If border patrol agents start closing in on them, they will often abandon the truck and escape. They often leave the people locked in the back of the truck and the people soon die of hunger, thirst, or the great desert heat, whichever gets them first. Many trafficers will deliver the migrants to slavers who force them to work in underground factories or in sex dens rather than release them in the U.S. so they get paid by the migrants to transport them and also collect additional money selling them to the slavers. Trafficers have been seen on border cameras dropping kids off on the U.S. side and retreating back across the border to Mexico, leaving the kids to fend for themselves in the desert. Hopefully the border patrol is monitoring the camera and will reach them soon.

 
 

Immigration-VI-N

04 Jul

We are now seeing an end to the “Stay in Mexico” policy of President Trump. Immigrants seeking to enter the United States will no longer have to stay in Mexico while awaiting approval to enter the U.S. This was a disaster under President Obama and will be a disaster under President Biden. Immigrants who come to the U.S. and apply for admittance will be turned loose in the U.S. and told to come back to court for their hearing. The vast majority disappear as soon as they are released into the U.S. and never show up for their hearing.  The Administration is continually publicly telling people not to come to the U.S., but they oppose any attempt to close the border so migrants can simply walk in and make themselves at home.  It is all political rhetoric. They tell them that America is the land of opportunity and expect that people in poor countries will ignore that and stay home. Who do they think they are fooling? They want them to come to increase their political support. President Biden strongly condemned the human trafficers who left 53 people to die in the desert locked in the back of a semi. Their encouragement of people to come and their insistence on open boarders is the direct cause of those deaths. It is an expensive and dangerous journey to travel from a South American country to the U.S. and many people hire trafficers to help them with transportation and protection. Many trafficers could care less about the people as long as they get paid. If border patrol agents start closing in on them, they will often abandon the truck and escape. They often leave the people locked in the back of the truck and the people soon die of hunger, thirst, or the great desert heat, whichever gets them first. Many trafficers will deliver the migrants to slavers who force them to work in underground factories or in sex dens rather than release them in the U.S. so they get paid by the migrants to transport them and also collect additional money selling them to the slavers. Trafficers have been seen on border cameras dropping kids off on the U.S. side and retreating back across the border to Mexico, leaving the kids to fend for themselves in the desert. Hopefully the border patrol is monitoring the camera and will reach them soon.

 
 

Sixth Sunday of Pentecost-B

04 Jul

Ministry To Travelers-Many Christians like to get away and go camping on weekends to relax with the family but often don’t know the churches in nearby towns and don’t know if the churches will welcome strangers. In addition, those driving big motor homes don’t want to leave their lot to drive the motor home around town looking for a church and don’t have a second vehicle to drive. They welcome churches that provide worship services at the campground or provide transportation to nearby churches. Many people traveling stop at motels but do not know their way around town. They may look up churches in the phone book but not know the times of services or how to get to the addresses listed. Calling the numbers listed in the phone book often doesn’t help since few churches offices are staffed on weekends. Local ministerial groups can arrange with motels to leave notebooks in the rooms listing nearby churches listing times of services and maps to assist guests in finding them.

 

Sixth Sunday of Pentecost-A July 10

04 Jul

Trailer park/apartment complex ministry-When I was first starting out, I was asked to help a Presbyterian Church that was dying. After I got the church back on its feet and it felt it could call a full time pastor, my wife and I bought a small trailer and moved into a nearby trailer park while we sought the Lord for direction. Several in the park knew I was a pastor and asked me to start a Bible study. We started visiting those who lived in the park and within three months, we had three small house churches started. Many residents have no friends or family nearby and are seeking fellowship but there is nothing for them. Families living in the park or complex can start small groups in their home by getting to know their neighbors and inviting them to join them. Children in such parks and complexes often have little to do and eagerly attend outside Bible Stories. However, residents and managers are often very suspicious of groups outside the park who come in and try to get residents to come to their church so it helps to have someone living in the complex. Such parks and complexes now often have community rooms available for residents to meet in when the group outgrows an apartment or trailer or when residents want to hold activities for children or families.

 

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01 Jul

 

 

The Courts-C-B

30 Jun

Some liberals are promoting the appointment of several more liberal Supreme Justices to enable the Court to restore the right to abortion and allow them to open the door to other liberal policies which they want to enact but can not get the support in Congress to pass them into law. While the Constitution does not state how many justices there should be, it does say the justices should be appointed for life so no President can pack the Court and ram through his agenda. Most presidents only get the opportunity to appoint one or two justices, not enough to change the court unless it is closely balanced like it is now. To add a number of justices to the court solely for the purpose of ramming their agenda through the courts is an open violation of the intent of the Constitution, even though it is not stated. It is a deliberate attempt to get around the Constitution. In addition, the current liberal justices have openly ignored the Constitution in their rulings and it is fairly certain any new liberal justices would do the same. While they claim they are just using a liberal interpretation of the Constitution, their opinions, like in Roe vs  Wade, openly ignore the Constitution. Roe vs Wade was pushed through when two conservative justices were not able to attend and the ruling did not represent a majority of justices on the court.