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Economics-E-B

13 Mar

It is amazing to see the way the present administration is playing the American people. Two banks have folded in the last week and President Biden has stated that the federal government will guarantee depositors  get all their money, but it won’t cost the taxpayers anything. It will be interesting to see where the money comes from because the federal governments gets its funds from the taxpayers. He may think he can just charge it to the national debt but not unless he gets the debt limit raised and borrows the money. Even if he borrows the money, it will have to be paid back sometime and that money will have to come from taxpayers. It is like he thinks the American people gave him a credit card with no debt limit. That is foolish thinking. He is pushing a fantastic raise in the national debt with his budget and says Congress has to raise the debt limit to accommodate the increased debt. Ever since President Clinton began the brinkmanship over the budget, liberals have pushed huge  increases in debt and forced Congress to raise the debt limit to accommodate it by refusing to negotiate on the budget until it comes down to passing the budget or shutting down the government. Conservative representatives feel it is better to accommodate them then shut down the government, so they give in. When I was growing up, that was called blackmail, but apparently they feel it is just politics. We cannot continue to increase the debt limit to accommodate the out of control spending. Americans seem to be blinded by the prospect of getting free money from the government and don’t stop to think that they are the ones providing the money that they receive.

 

 

 

Schools-3-L

11 Mar

President Biden directed the Dept of Education to drop the regulation initiated by former President Trump to withhold federal funding from colleges and universities that violate student’s right to freedom of speech. He claims it isn’t needed. However, suppression of free speech that goes against liberal policies is open and widespread on college and university campuses and the schools do little to curb it. Schools should be institutions of learning, not institutions of indoctrination. President Biden is in effect declaring open season on the freedom of speech of anyone who disagrees with him. It shows how far he will go to promote the liberal agenda and suppress conservatives, particularly Christians. Persecution of those who express conservative views is increasing, on school campuses and on the street, as well as in the media and social media. Liberals know that if you tell a lie often enough and long enough, and suppress the expression of any contrary view, then people will believe it is true. Their goal is to create mindless followers who obey without questioning, like they have in Russia and China. Therefore, it is important to share the truth at every opportunity in person and on social media when able. So far, social media does not have the resources to check the millions of individual posts and are forced to concentrate on the big sources of conservative views, hoping to prevent the truth from getting out to others who will repost it, but they have issued a call for volunteers to monitor conservatives and report anyone who expresses views that go against their narrative. I post information I receive and repost information from trustworthy sources to keep my followers informed. The more the information is picked up and reposted, the more people will have the freedom to choose what to believe. We cannot rely on fact checkers because many are employed by liberal news outlets. I recently made a remark about a law passed by California’s legislature. A woman at the meeting told me she checked it with a fact checker, and it said the information was false, even though the information was readily available in the California legislative record. Unfortunately, very few people go to the legislative record to check the facts. Many people rely on fact checkers.

 

 

Third Sunday of Lent- March 12

08 Mar

 What will you give-Matt 13:44-46-When the merchant found the pearl, he sold all that he had and purchased it. Christ, through His death and resurrection has given us eternal life but He has also given us far more, He has come to give us life and that more abundantly. He knows how we need to live to get the most out of life. If we walk with Him in this life, we can enjoy life far better than anything we can find on our own. Is that life worth giving up all our earthly pleasures to obtain? Our earthly pleasures will give us pleasure for a short while, but they soon fade, but life with Christ will never fade. In addition, it promises eternal life with Christ. During Lent, we think of giving up momentary pleasures, but Christ asks us to turn away from all temporary pleasures to gain that which will last a lifetime and beyond.

 

Schools-1-Y

08 Mar

The schools have become increasingly secretive about what is being taught because they don’t want parents to know what is being taught. Our schools were founded on the principle that parents would oversee the schools but liberal politicians have been increasingly adding federal funding to help the schools, but are using it to blackmail schools into teaching what they want them to teach and hiding it from parents.  The Covid crisis forced schools to go online and opened the door to parents to see what is being taught in the schools. Many parents have been shocked to learn what the schools have been hiding from them. When parents objected, liberal politicians pushed the FBI to begin investigating parents who objected to what is being taught. Parents who only want what is best for their kids are being threatened and intimidated to silence opposition to the liberal agenda. Conservative politicians have introduced a bill in the House that would spell out and safeguard parents rights. It would guarantee parent’s right to know what is being taught in the school and to be heard when they voice opposition to it. It would also protect the child’s privacy and require schools to inform parents of violent activity in the school. Finally, it would protect parent’s right to view school budgets. In 2021, the FBI created a task force to investigate threats against school board members. Under Congressional investigation by conservative representatives, the FBI stated that they would not use it to infringe on parent’s rights to voice their opinions, yet they have opened a number of investigations on parents who have voiced opposition to their school’s liberal agenda, under the pretense that they pose a threat to school board members, in order to intimidate the parents so they will remain silent.

 

 
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Sanctity of Life-GC-B

06 Mar

Those pushing for killing babies after they are born were able to pass it in California and are now pushing into other States. They pushed abortion on the grounds it wasn’t a baby but they kept pushing until they got laws allowing abortion up to birth.  Then they pushed delivering the baby feet first and killing it before delivering the head so it was born dead. Now they are pushing for killing it after it is born. While they have all kinds of excuses for abortion, their intent has always been to eliminate unwanted babies and adults they feel are no longer “productive” due to severe injury, illness, mental illness, or aging. Since the majority of Americans are against killing, they have had to use the courts to force it when they could not get liberal legislators to vote it in. Voters need to stop tolerating legislators and judges who that approve things they don’t want. The longer voters tolerate these legislators, the farther they will push it. We are seeing in Canada and Europe where they have legalized killing children up to age 12 and adults who are considering suicide or are critically ill or injured. We aren’t there yet but liberal legislators are pushing to get us as far as the voters allow them.

 

Second Sunday of Lent-Mar-5

03 Mar

You Can’t Serve Two Masters. Jesus said, you can’t serve two masters. You must love one and hate the other. (Matt. 6:24) That is especially true of God and Satan. They are exact opposites. You must choose between them or be torn apart. Lent is a time to focus on who we are serving and make sure we are following God and not Satan. Liberal philosophy is so deceiving because they use words, we understand but with a different meaning. No Christian would be against two people loving each other but love to them means sex solely for selfish pleasure, not true love and concern for each other. True love can be really satisfying for two people, but the love the world promotes is very destructive. We have to know what they mean by what they say or we will end up supporting things which go against God. Satan goes around like a roaring lion seeking who he can devour. He seeks to deceive even the people of God. Therefore it important to study the Word of God so you will not be deceived. Choose one of the four Gospels and read a chapter a day between now and Easter and see what Jesus says about living a life pleasing to God.  If we truly love God, we will want to obey Him. We can please Him by doing what He wants us to do (obeying His Commandments). God set down His commandments as guidelines to show us how to live a life that is pleasing to Him and that would bring us peace and fulfillment. He knows what is best for us and did not give us the Commandments to spoil our fun but to help us avoid that which creates strife and dissension among us. When we ignore His commandments, we throw away that peace and fulfillment and stray into things that create strife and dissension.

 

 

Schools-1-X

03 Mar

Public schools are increasingly teaching students to accept what they hear in school as fact and not question it, even though a great deal of it is politically correct but false. Churches need to educate both parents and students to critically examine what they hear and not be misled by propaganda put out by the schools and media. When I taught sociology at a local college, I ended up writing my own textbook because much of the information in the textbooks was outdated and false, or at the very least incomplete. The textbooks added news events like 9-11 to make them appear up to date but never examined old material. For instance, the textbooks talked about how African nations suffered under colonialism, in spite of the fact that colonialism had ended in Africa over 30 years before and most of the suffering is the result of civil war and corruption within their own governments. I published my lessons in two books under “Truly in the World, But Not of it” to make them available to churches and individuals. It is published by Outskirts Press and deals with issues in relationships, health, welfare, government, education, and finances and is simple enough for the average reader.

Truly in the World But Not of it-part-A (Relationships, health, welfare)

Truly in the World But Not of it part-B (Government, economics, education)

 
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Spiritual Aspects-G

03 Mar

The church often grown cold and merely gone through the motions, but God will not let the church die. He has continued to raise up a remnant to restore the church. We are seeing a fresh moving of the Spirit arising out of Asbury College in Kentucky and spreading to churches in the surrounding area and to other college  campuses. God is calling to all of His people to return to Him and commit their lives to following Him in the  way that leads to life. He is calling His people to study His Word and learn from it, not just give it lip services and ignore it. There are many who are comfortable in their pew and walking in the way of the world who will oppose the moving of the Spirit and even attack those who decide to follow Christ, just as the Jewish leaders attacked Christ and those who followed Him. There will be those in the world who will also feel threatened by those who commit their lives to Christ because they are profiting from the world. They will also attack those who decide to follow Christ. But Christ has promised that those who persevere to the end will be saved and inherit eternal life.

 

 

Spiritual Aspects-F

27 Feb

Christ came to show us a better way to live. He calls us to put away the old life and accept new life in Him. However, the church has often lost its commitment to God and fallen back into the old temple worship where members go to church, pay their tithes, and are blessed by the priest (or minister). Members in many churches are no longer asked to commit their lives to Christ and no longer taught to walk with Christ.  Their members continue to walk in the ways of the world that lead to death. As a result, the world has taken over many churches. While a church serving Christ changes the world around it, many churches today are no different than the world. They think they are following Christ, but are following the ways of the  world. Christ says when He comes back to receive His own, they will be left behind because they proclaimed Him with their mouth, but did not accept Him in their heart and follow Him.

Yet, God will not let the church die. He has continued to raise up a remnant to restore the church. We are seeing a fresh moving of the Spirit arising out of Asbury College in Kentucky and spreading to churches in the surrounding area and to other college  campuses. God is calling to all of His people to return to Him and commit their lives to following Him in the  way that leads to life. He is calling His people to study His Word and learn from it, not just give it lip services and ignore it. There are many who are comfortable in their pew and walking in the way of the world who will oppose the moving of the Spirit and even attack those who decide to follow Christ, just as the Jewish leaders attacked Christ and those who followed Him. There will be those in the world who will also feel threatened by those who commit their lives to Christ because they are profiting from the world. They will also attack those who decide to follow Christ. But Christ has promised that those who persevere to the end will be saved and inherit eternal life.

 

 

First Sunday of Lent-Feb 26

22 Feb

Seek Ye First the Kingdom of God