tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13246719878598192772024-03-14T02:46:16.186-07:00Proclaim LibertyThe Spirit of the Lord is upon Me, because he hath anointed Me to preach the gospel to the poor; He hath sent Me to heal the brokenhearted, to preach deliverance to the captives, and recovering of sight to the blind, to set at liberty them that are bruised,-Luke 4:18
Mrs Betty Tracyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15294525918990533630noreply@blogger.comBlogger84125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1324671987859819277.post-78176648841342352062019-06-07T08:03:00.000-07:002019-06-07T08:03:00.150-07:00Links<a href="http://www.icr.org/article/can-scientists-now-directly-date-fossils">Can Scientists Now Directly Date Fossils? | The Institute for Creation Research</a>
<a href="http://www.annomundi.com/history/chronicle_of_the_early_britons.htm#cooper">Chronicle of the Early Britons</a>
<iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="344" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/Kse5-8xUhiM" width="459"></iframe><a href="http://www.redeemer.com/redeemer-report/article/the_bible_and_same_sex_relationships_a_review_article">Redeemer Report</a>
<a href="http://www.theblaze.com/contributions/dear-gawker-jesus-hates-it-when-you-lie-about-him/">Dear Gawker, Jesus Hates It When You Lie About Him | TheBlaze.com</a>
<iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="344" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/J7drcTvx0v0" width="459"></iframe>
<a href="http://www.generationcedar.com/main/2015/04/easter-described-screwtape-c-s-lewis.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+generationcedar%2FWOMJ+%28New+Post+from+Generation+Cedar%29">Easter, as Described by Screwtape (C.S. Lewis) - Generation Cedar: Encouragement for Christian Moms with Homeschooling, Saving Money and Raising ChildrenGeneration Cedar: Encouragement for Christian Moms with Homeschooling, Saving Money and Raising Children</a>
<a href="http://thatsafacttv.com/2015/01/16/episode-49-carbon-14/">Episode 49 – Carbon-14 Dating | That's a Fact</a>
<a href="https://answersingenesis.org/jesus-christ/did-jesus-say-he-created-in-six-days/">Did Jesus Say He Created in Six Days? | Answers in Genesis</a>
<a href="http://www.icr.org/article/8532">The Institute for Creation Research</a><br />
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Does preaching a recent Creation hinder the Gospel?
<a href="http://www.icr.org/article/oceans-salt-clock-shows-young-world">The Institute for Creation Research</a><br />
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The oceans are simply not salty enough to be 4 billion years old. They just aren't.
<a href="http://baylyblog.com/blog/2015/01/boy-who-came-back-heaven-lied?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+BaylyblogOutOfOurMindsToo+%28BaylyBlog%3A+Out+of+our+minds%2C+too%29">The boy who came back from Heaven lied... | BaylyBlog</a>
<a href="http://www.icr.org/article/8522/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=facebook">The Institute for Creation Research</a><br />
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This was a bad year for old earth. Lots of new evidence for the planet and universe being only a few thousand years was discovered :-)
<a href="http://www.reformation21.org/blog/2014/12/loving-christ-but-hating-his-b.php">Loving Christ But Hating His Bride? - Reformation21 Blog</a>
<a href="http://bibchr.blogspot.com/2008/10/i-was-born-that-way-so-its-ok-josef.html?showComment=1225573260000#c4215740506978364168">Biblical Christianity: "I was born that way... so it's OK" (Josef Fritzi, "gays," and us)</a>
<a href="http://bolcf.blogspot.com/2014/09/what-is-love.html">Bread of Life Christian Fellowship: What is Love?</a>
<a href="http://theelliotthomestead.com/2014/12/regret/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+TheElliottHomestead+%28The+Elliott+Homestead%29">Regret. - The Elliott Homestead</a>
<a href="http://www.icr.org/article/4788">The Institute for Creation Research</a><br />
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Only Noah's Flood provides a reasonable explanation for the Ice Age.
<a href="http://vimeo.com/70809103">That's a Fact - Dinosaurs and Humans on Vimeo</a>
<a href="http://www.icr.org/article/8387/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=facebook">Exocomets: Evidence of Recent Creation</a>
<a href="http://www.icr.org/article/8212/">Did Dinosaurs Have Feathers?</a><br />
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<b>Be careful when listening to evolutionists. They say things as if they are absolute proven fact that are often no more than pretty stories/ wild guesses.<br /><br />Ask for the real proof.</b>
Mrs Betty Tracyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15294525918990533630noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1324671987859819277.post-65215609465885756612019-06-06T11:45:00.000-07:002019-06-06T11:45:01.497-07:00School ShootersEvery school shooter has been<br />
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<li>Male (we are failing our boys socially and educationally)</li>
<li>From a dad-free-home (We don't value marriage or fathers and this is the result)</li>
<li>Seeing a psychiatrist and on psycho tropic drugs (we are failing our mentally ill and need to reevaluate the legality of these drugs.)</li>
<li>and attacking a gun-free-zone called "school." (Can we say "hunting fish in a bucket"?)</li>
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<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/27173/walsh-not-about-politics-or-policy-evil-and-evil-matt-walsh" target="_blank">This Is Not About Politics Or Policy. This Is Evil. And Evil Is Everywhere.</a><br />
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"Schools should not be fortresses, they should be sanctuaries." Absolutely true.<br />
And a woman should be able to walk down the street naked without getting raped<br />
And you should be able to leave your keys in your car with the engine running and it not get stolen.<br />
And you shouldn't have to lock your house, work in a job you hate, ever go hungry or get sick.<br />
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Now back to the real world...<br />
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<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/27205/walsh-its-time-put-armed-security-every-public-matt-walsh" target="_blank">It’s Time To Put Armed Security </a><a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/27205/walsh-its-time-put-armed-security-every-public-matt-walsh" target="_blank">In Every Public School In America</a><br />
<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/27227/walsh-one-single-person-blame-florida-school-matt-walsh" target="_blank">The One Single Person To Blame For The Florida School Shooting</a>Mrs Betty Tracyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15294525918990533630noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1324671987859819277.post-33950127768752466292019-06-05T08:22:00.000-07:002019-06-05T08:22:00.146-07:00CBS goes to ground over claims it buried anti-Obama stories | New York Post<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<a href="http://nypost.com/2014/10/27/cbs-ignores-ex-reporters-claims-it-killed-anti-obama-stories/">CBS goes to ground over claims it buried anti-Obama stories | New York Post</a><br />
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"Let's hope that in this coming week, Attkisson will tell us what is really on her mind.<br />
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In this New York Post article, Attkisson states - "One of the most instructive things at the time, for me, was when government researchers told me that even though all the studies showed flu shots didn’t work in the elderly, they figured the STUDIES were wrong because they “knew” flu shots worked!’’<br />
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She goes on to sate: "Kind of reminds me of today’s CDC that looks at all the scientific links between vaccines and autism but ‘knows’ it can’t be so, so it changes the study data or finds other explanations for why the data says what it says,”<br />
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Thank you Sharyl Attkisson for not being afraid to ask the hard questions at any cost."<br />
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America today has traded the worship of God for the worship of government and science. That is where we turn when we have a problem. Even when the science says God is right or that the science itself is wrong, we insist the human theories MUST rule. <br />
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"As for me and my House, we will serve the Lord" -Joshua 24:15 </div>
Mrs Betty Tracyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15294525918990533630noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1324671987859819277.post-31208525736489036372019-06-04T08:22:00.000-07:002019-06-04T08:22:00.354-07:00Merry Christmas vs Happy Holidays<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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You know, when I was a kid "Happy Holidays" WAS a traditional
Christmas greeting, fully accepted by everyone without a second thought.
It has been around at least as long as "Merry Christmas." It means
"Happy Holy Days." <br />
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"Merry Christmas" means "Merry Christ Mass
[Service]" (an invention of the Catholic Church, by the way. Jesus was
likely born in September or October. Shepherds don't generally have
their sheep in fields in the height of winter, but in barns).<br />
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The only reason this has become an issue is a few stores told their emplyees to only say the one and not the other. <br />
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It
does not mean that if I say "Happy Holidays" I am denying Christ. It
likely just means I can't remember which holiday we are closest to
(Thanksgiving? Christmas? New Years? Do I have all the kids I brought
with me here? Have I lost anyone? Did I get everything I meant to? Did I
turn the space heater off before leaving the house? Did I remember to
put clothes on before leaving the house?:-P)<br />
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So come on, people. Lets quit being distracted by these silly side issues and start focusing on what is important:<br />
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Jesus
Christ, God incarnate, robed Himself in flesh, lived a sinless life,
and voluntarily died the most torturous death humans have ever
invented...<br />
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All to wipe out my sins so I could go to heaven instead of hell.<br />
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If
you REALLY believe the message of Christmas is important, be sure to
tell ALL of your loved ones (and hated ones too!) about Jesus and His
wonderful gift of salvation this season!<br />
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Jesus- It's Hell without Him!</div>
Mrs Betty Tracyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15294525918990533630noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1324671987859819277.post-24530540859495717862019-06-03T08:21:00.000-07:002019-06-03T08:21:00.370-07:00Dating Stonehenge<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<a href="http://www.icr.org/article/8488">The Institute for Creation Research </a><br />
Article about a redating of Stonehenge and the discovery of historical documents describing its building (Merlin was the foreman for the builders). Turns out, the evidence has been staring us in the face for ages. <br />
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Secular Historians have invented a story of history requiring 1000's of years. Since the Bible doesn't agree with that, they dismiss It as fairy tales. When historical documents are found to disagree with their story (and agree with the Bible) they call them nonsense and ignore them. Then they wonder why they can't find all the information that should be out there.<br />
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Hello! Quit being so atheistically religious and look at the real evidence! More and more archeology is supporting the Bible and the Young Earth theory. It's time the secularists put aside their bias and accept the real evidence.<br />
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The Bible is True. </div>
Mrs Betty Tracyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15294525918990533630noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1324671987859819277.post-17194049923690169442019-06-02T08:20:00.000-07:002019-06-02T08:20:02.072-07:00The Name of God<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
When reading the Bible we must remember that our current KJV Bible is 16th century English. Often there are words used that we don't quite understand, or that we don't really know the meaning of. Let's take "Our Lord Jesus Christ" for example.<br />
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<b>Lord</b> is the 16th century English word for "Boss, owner"<br />
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<b>Jesus</b> is the Greek version of the name <span class="st" data-hveid="42">"Yeshua" (</span>Joshua) which means <span class="st" data-hveid="42">"to rescue", "to deliver." (Jesus' disciples would not have called Him [Gee-suss] as we pronounce it. They would have used the word "Yeshua" (Hebrew has nor J sound. Our equivalent is "Joshua.") </span><br />
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<span class="st" data-hveid="42"><br /><b>Christ </b>Is the Greek version of the word "Messiah" which means "Anointed One."</span><br />
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<span class="st" data-hveid="42">So, "Our Lord Jesus Christ" in 21st Century English is:</span><br />
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<span class="st" data-hveid="42"><b>Our Boss and Deliverer the Anointed One.</b></span></h3>
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<span class="st" data-hveid="42">So next time you are reading your Bible, replace "</span><span class="st" data-hveid="42">Our Lord Jesus Christ" with "Our Boss and Deliverer, the Anointed One" and see if it changes your understanding of Scripture.</span><span class="st" data-hveid="42"><b> </b></span></div>
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Mrs Betty Tracyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15294525918990533630noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1324671987859819277.post-79008815818252454762019-06-01T08:00:00.000-07:002019-06-01T08:00:03.454-07:00Do We Keep Sinning?<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<a name='more'></a><b><i>Romans 5:21</i></b><br />
<b><i>So just as sin ruled over all people and brought them to death, now
God's wonderful grace rules instead, giving us right standing with God
and resulting in eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord.<span class="p"></span></i></b><br />
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<b><i><span class="p">Romans 6:2</span></i></b><br />
<b><i><span class="reftext">1</span> Well then, should we keep on sinning so that God can show us more and more of His wonderful grace?
<span class="reftext">2</span> Of course not! Since we have died to sin, how can we continue to live in it?</i></b><br />
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<b><i>Romans 6:11</i></b><br />
<b><i><span class="reftext">11 </span>So you also should consider yourselves to be dead to the power of sin and alive to God through Christ Jesus.</i></b><br />
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There is a common belief among today's Christians that everyone sins everyday no matter how long they have been saved. This belief is not biblical.<br />
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First, let me clarify. I DON'T believe you become perfect, never making a mistake, once you become a Christian. We all make mistakes. That's called being human.<br />
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But mistakes aren't sins.<br />
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<i><b>James 4:17</b></i><br />
<i><b>Therefore to him that knoweth to do good, and doeth it not, to him it is sin.</b></i><br />
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<span class="p">This is the definition of sin: Sin is the intentional rebellion against God and God's nature. It is KNOWING what is the right thing to do and CHOOSING to not do it. </span><br />
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<span class="p">All of us have done this at some time in our lives, but if we repent of (turn away from) our sins we STOP rebelling against God.</span><br />
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<b><i><span class="p">Matthew 5:48</span></i></b><br />
<span class="p"><b><i>But you are to be perfect, even as your Father in heaven is perfect.<span class="p"><br /></span></i></b> </span><br />
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<span class="p">Mistakes are accidents or actions, often based on imperfect knowledge, that results in an accident. </span><br />
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<span class="p">If I go out to my apple tree right now I will find an abundance of perfect apples. To be sure, they are very green, immature apples. But they are still perfect. </span><br />
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<span class="p">We are COMMANDED in the Bible to NOT sin- to not intentionally rebel- after we give our hearts to God.</span><br />
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<span class="p">Either Jesus believed it was possible to not sin or He told the woman taken in adultery to the impossible;<i> </i></span><i><span class="reftext"></span>“No, Lord,” she said. And Jesus said, <span class="red">“Neither do I. Go and sin no more.” John 8:11</span></i></div>
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<span class="red">Same with the man at the pool of healing waters; <i>"B</i></span><i>ut afterward Jesus found him in the Temple and told him, <span class="red">“Now you are well; so stop sinning, or something even worse may happen to you.” John 5:14</span></i></div>
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<i><span class="red">Hebrews 10:</span><span class="reftext">26 "</span>Dear
friends, if we deliberately continue sinning after we have received
knowledge of the truth, there is no longer any sacrifice that will cover
these sins."</i></div>
<span class="p"> </span><br />
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<span class="p">We will still make mistakes.</span><br />
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<span class="p">We will still be tempted (temptation is not sin any more than mistakes are sin.)</span><br />
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<span class="p">But we must NOT sin. We must not knowingly rebel against God.</span><br />
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<span class="p">If you sin you are a sinner.</span><br />
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<i><b><a href="http://biblehub.com/1_peter/4-18.htm"><span class="l">1 Peter 4:18 to be saved ...</span></a>
And, "If it is hard for the righteous to be saved, what<br /> will become of the ungodly and the sinner ...</b></i><br />
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<i><b><a href="http://biblehub.com/proverbs/11-31.htm"><span class="l">Proverbs 11:31 </span></a>If the righteous receive their due on earth, how much more the ungodly and the sinner! ...</b></i><br />
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<i><b><a href="http://biblehub.com/proverbs/13-6.htm"><span class="l">Proverbs 13:6 </span></a>Righteousness guards the person of integrity, but wickedness overthrows the sinner. ...</b></i><br />
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<b><i><a href="http://biblehub.com/proverbs/13-21.htm"><span class="l">Proverbs 13:21 </span></a>
..... Trouble pursues the sinner, but the righteous are rewarded with good things. ... </i></b><br />
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If you are a sinner, you are not righteous.<br />
If you are righteous. you are not a sinner. <b> </b><br />
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And only the righteous go to heaven.<b></b><br />
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Mrs Betty Tracyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15294525918990533630noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1324671987859819277.post-63348800842347892002019-05-31T07:59:00.002-07:002019-05-31T07:59:51.864-07:00<a href="https://www.prageru.com/fbshare/badges/quiz/184#.V3Q0lmyIid8.blogger">Does Science Argue for or against God?</a>:<br />
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Why are we here? Literally. The latest science says we shouldn't be. It says that the chance life exists at all is less than zero. So, is science the greatest threat to the idea of Intelligent Design or is science its greatest advocate? Best-selling author and lecturer, Eric Metaxas, poses this intriguing question and comes up with a very unexpected and challenging answer.Mrs Betty Tracyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15294525918990533630noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1324671987859819277.post-66805929221751261922019-05-31T07:58:00.002-07:002019-05-31T07:58:45.202-07:00<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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We hope next Sunday you will join</h2>
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Your friends at Bread of Life.</h2>
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Mrs Betty Tracyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15294525918990533630noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1324671987859819277.post-77773261138980182582019-05-18T08:32:00.000-07:002019-05-18T08:32:04.625-07:00How moral is it for the self appointed elite to deliberately keep the "peasants" ignorant so they can be more easily manipulated, even if it is supposed to be fore the benefit of the country?<br />
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See Say reading had already been tested and found to be a failure among hearing students (It was invented to teach the deaf, who have a hard time learning to read with phonics) when it was forced into the government schools.<br />
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For that matter, we had a 98% literacy rate before the passage of the first compulsory attendance law (which has been falling ever since), and the system our schools were patterned after was designed to produce obedient soldiers, not literacy.<br />
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Government schools are not broken at all. They are functioning exactly as they were designed; producing a large population of people who are so incapable of thinking for themselves they can be easily confused as to which bathroom they should use! And if they can be indoctrinated to become mindless consumers, so much the better!Mrs Betty Tracyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15294525918990533630noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1324671987859819277.post-38286125145279807392019-05-17T08:32:00.000-07:002019-05-17T08:32:44.477-07:00What to do with California?<a href="http://www.renewamerica.com/columns/vernon/180319" target="_blank">Is California worthy of the United States?</a> <i>"Oh, but remember: despite the genuinely good people of that "Golden State," there are those there whose noses are turned upward at those of "flyover country" who just are not good enough for them. But then, what can you do with those squares who believe in real justice?"</i><br />
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I was born in Southern California. Spent 30 years there. I've lived here in Nevada now for 18 years. I would love to kick California out of the real United States...as long as they take Vegas with them!<br />
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Vegas has been totally corrupted with the California Anti-American ideas, and as a result, our elections here often go way left. Vegas (and a tiny bit of Reno) are the only places Nevada that are to the left. The entire rest of the state is very conservative. But, then, northern California is conservative, too.<br />
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So I purpose that Southern California from just north of San Francisco down and Vegas be made into a new state, minimum, country would be better (they don't like the Founders Ideas as put forth in the Constitution? Fine. Make your own. But don't force me to live under it, or financially support your stupidity). We Northern Nevadans will join with Northern California and make a new state. Culturally, economically, and politically this makes much more sense than the current divisions.<br />
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Just give enough warning my 2 brothers still in Ca can move out :-)<br />
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Mrs Betty Tracyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15294525918990533630noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1324671987859819277.post-45887866411678438222019-05-17T07:41:00.000-07:002019-05-17T07:42:24.319-07:00Gun controlI have yet to see a proposal that would take guns away from criminals. Only from law abiding citizens.<br />
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There is no evidence that fewer guns means less crimes. Quite the opposite, actually. Criminals are evil, not stupid. They choose other ways to prosper if the potential victims can shoot back.<br />
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Example: Australia confiscated all the guns and the gun violence fell 50% (ummm, if ALL the guns were removed, shouldn't gun violence have dropped 100%?) but over all violence skyrocketed. Personally, I'd rather be shot than beat to death by a baseball bat.<br />
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Switzerland has 8 billion people, and all adults are required to serve 2 years in the military ("Trained to shoot guns of all types") When they leave the service, they have the option of taking their gun (equal to an AR15) with them. They have some 2 billion guns, or, 1 gun for every 4 citizens. They also have the lowest violent crime rate in the world.<br />
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Even if we could wave a magic wand and remove all the guns from our country today, tomorrow thousands would be pouring over the border. Heck, we can't keep 200 pound men out. What makes anyone think we can keep guns out?<br />
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If you remove the cities with the toughest gun control laws from the stats, America has the lowest gun violence rate in the world. And yes, these shooting happen all over the world (except in Switzerland). Americans are just too myopic to pay any attention to anyone else.<br />
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And the protesters from this weekend are in two camps:<br />
<ol>
<li>Stupid kids being manipulated by the media and self-appointed elite. They obviously don't even know what they are talking about.</li>
<li>Those who are doing the manipulating because they think they are part of the elite and will benefit if we are disarmed.</li>
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Fact:<br />
<ol>
<li>18 kids died in school shootings this past month.</li>
<li>Somewhere between 270-330 teens died texting and driving in the same amount of time. Where are the "Apple is killing our children" and "Ford is guilty of murder" signs? Oh wait, that wouldn't push the elite's agenda. Got it. </li>
<li>Why aren't we talking about 650 murders in Chicago in the last year? or 290 killed in New York? That's an average of 78 per month in just these two cities. Two cities, by the way, with the toughest gun control laws in the nation. Is it because the victims were blacks killed by blacks? No, actually, I don't think race has anything to do with it. These cities have already bought into the politically correct ideas of "guns bad" and so they are no longer of interest to the media and elites. Who cares about the results as long as they have the right laws? Who cares about the common man cowering defenseless in his living room? He's not important. Their power is.</li>
<li>What about the 3000 children who had their arms and legs ripped off, or their bodies dissolved in acid, or major arteries cut so they would bleed to death in the last DAY? That's 90,000 in the last month. Of course since their bodies are disposed of off camera (often sold to the highest bidder for medicines, and makeup even), no one cares. </li>
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"Until you show our kids that its' wrong to kill children in the womb, they won't quit killing them in the classroom."<br />
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And the fact remains that all shooters are young men from broken homes, raised without a man in the house, seeing a psychiatrist and taking psycho-tropic drugs. These are the issues that need to be addressed. Even if we made it impossible for these disturbed individuals to get guns, they would just build bombs or drive cars into crowds. We need to address the causes of this type of thinking.</div>
Mrs Betty Tracyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15294525918990533630noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1324671987859819277.post-30851964266340177302019-02-15T13:22:00.000-08:002019-02-15T18:38:07.922-08:00Life changes and grows. Some things get bigger and better, some die off to be replaced by new things.<br /><br />I am a Stylist with Lilla Rose hair accessories. Have been since 2014. They are a quickly growing company and I am in the biggest branch in the company. My uplones have really invested in teaching their people, not just hair stuff, but making your own brand, your own "thing."<br /><br />Now much of what they have been teaching I have heard from other sources over the last decade, but this time around I am getting the answers for what direction I need to take.<br /><br />All that to say, I have started a new blog. My heart has always been towards teaching young mothers, so this is the direction I am going with this new blog. It will take a while to really get my feet under me, but it will be worth it.<br /><br />So, I now proudly introduce:<br /><br /><h2 style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://mrsbettytracy.com/" target="_blank">Making Home with Mrs Betty Tracy</a></h2>Mrs Betty Tracyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15294525918990533630noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1324671987859819277.post-71299465969038618692018-02-13T15:30:00.000-08:002019-02-15T15:33:05.944-08:00Predestination vs Free Will<i><b>Genesis 2:16-17 And the LORD God commanded the man, “You are free to eat from any tree in the garden; 17 but you must not eat from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, for when you eat from it you will certainly die.” </b></i><br />
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God told Adam and Eve they could eat of every tree in the garden except the tree of the knowledge of good and evil. 2 options for interpretation:<br />
1) They were not physically able to eat from the tree.<br />
2) The were physically able, but were not allowed to eat of the tree.<br />
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Obviously it's number 2. They chose to eat and did. They had the free will to obey or not obey and they chose not.<br />
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Human kind was made in God's image. God is not a physical being, though. We were made in His emotional, spiritual image.<br />
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Does God have free will? Can He do anything He wants? Or does some other power put limitations on Him? If there is a limiting to God He is not God.<br />
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If we are made in his image, then, we are free to do as we wish (within the confines of this physical world, of course. God placed that restriction on us when He put us in physical bodies).<br />
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<i><b>1 Corinthians 10:13 No temptation has overtaken you except what is common to mankind. And God is faithful; he will not let you be tempted beyond what you can bear. But when you are tempted, he will also provide a way out so that you can endure it. </b></i><br />
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God will always provide a way for us to chose to not sin. It is always our choice because He always makes an option available.<i><b> </b></i><br />
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<i><b>John 7:17 If any man will (choose to) do his (God's) will, he shall know of the doctrine, whether it be of God, or whether I speak of myself. </b><br /> <br />NIV John 7:17 Anyone who chooses to do the will of God will find out whether my teaching comes from God or whether I speak on my own. </i><br />
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<i><b>Joshua 24:15 But if serving the LORD seems undesirable to you, then<u> choose f</u>or yourselves this day whom you will serve, whether the gods your ancestors served beyond the Euphrates, or the gods of the Amorites, in whose land you are living. But as for me and my household, <u>we will </u>serve the LORD.” <br /> <br />Mark 8:34 Then he called the crowd to him along with his disciples and said: “Whoever <u>wants</u> to be my disciple must deny themselves and take up their cross and follow me. </b></i><br />
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<i><b>Revelation 3:20 Here I am! I stand at the door and knock.<u> If </u>anyone hears my voice and opens the door, I will come in and eat with that person, and they with me. </b></i><a href="https://www.biblestudytools.com/revelation/3-20.html"> </a><br />
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If, wants, and will mean you have the choice to open or not, to be a disciple or not, to choose God or false gods.<br />
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<i><b>Romans 13:2 Consequently, whoever rebels against the authority is rebelling against what God has instituted, and those who do so will bring judgment on themselves. </b></i><br />
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This doesn't say judgment is brought on those God chooses to bring judgment on. It says if you choose to rebel against proper authority God will punish you.<i><b> </b></i><a href="https://www.biblestudytools.com/romans/13-2.html"> </a><br />
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<i><b>Romans 10:9-10 <u>If </u>you declare with your mouth, “Jesus is Lord,” and <u>believe</u> in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved. </b></i><br />
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If means you have a choice not to. This is a persuasive argument that tells you the results of your choices.<i><b> </b></i> <br />
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<i><b> Isaiah 55:6-7 Seek the LORD while he may be found; call on him while he is near. 7 Let the wicked forsake their ways and the unrighteous their thoughts. Let them turn to the LORD, and he will have mercy on them, and to our God, for he will freely pardon. </b></i><br />
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Again, this is a call to choose to turn from evil. <br />
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<i><b>John 1:12-13 Yet to all who<u> did receive</u> him, to those who <u>believed</u> in his name, he gave the right to become children of God— 13 children born not of natural descent, nor of human decision or a husband’s will, but born of God. </b></i><br />
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The believing and receiving came first, then the becoming the child of God.<br />
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<i><b>Deuteronomy 30:19-20 This day I call the heavens and the earth as witnesses against you that I have set before you life and death, blessings and curses. Now <u>choose</u> life, so that you and your children may live 20 and that you may love the LORD your God,<u> listen</u> to his voice, and hold fast to him. For the LORD is your life, and he will give you many years in the land he swore to give to your fathers, Abraham, Isaac and Jacob. <br /> </b></i><br />
If you choose God you will receive these blessings.<br />
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<i>"This offer would be meaningless, even cruel, if we lacked free will. Instead of forcing us to do what he says, God warmly appeals to us:" </i><br />
<b><br /><i>Ezekiel 18:30-32 “Therefore, you Israelites, I will judge each of you according to <u>your own ways</u>, declares the Sovereign LORD. <u>Repent! Turn away</u> from all your offenses; then sin will not be your downfall. 31 Rid yourselves of all the offenses you have committed, and get a new heart and a new spirit. Why will you die, people of Israel? 32 For I take no pleasure in the death of anyone, declares the Sovereign LORD. Repent and live! </i></b><br />
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Yet another passionate call for repentance, for choosing God.<br />
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<i><b>Romans 8:26 Likewise the Spirit also helpeth our infirmities: </b></i>(God helps us in our weaknesses) <i><b>for we know not what we should pray for as we ought: but the Spirit itself maketh intercession for us with groanings which cannot be uttered. </b></i>(speaking in tongues) <i><b> </b></i><br />
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<i><b>27 And he that searcheth the hearts </b></i>(Jesus) <i><b>knoweth what [is] the mind of the Spirit</b></i><b> (</b>The Father)<i><b> , because he </b></i>(Jesus) <i><b>maketh intercession for the saints according to [the will of] God </b></i>(The Father)<i><b>. <br /><br />28 And we know that all things work together for good to them that love God </b></i>(loving God comes first),<i><b> to them who are the called according to [his] purpose.</b></i> (He calls us to His purpose after we love Him)<i><b><br /></b></i><br />
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<i><b>29 For whom he did foreknow </b></i>(foreknew what? That they would choose to love Him)<i><b>, he also did predestinate [to be] conformed to the image of his Son </b></i>(God determined from teh beginning that those who choose to love Him will become like Jesus)<i><b>, that he </b></i>(Jesus) <i><b>might be the firstborn among many brethren. </b></i><br />
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<i><b>30 Moreover whom he did predestinate </b></i>(pre decided to become like Christ)<i><b>, them he also called </b></i>(If you choose to love God, He already decided you would become like Christ and would be given a job to do)<i><b>: and whom he called, them he also justified </b></i>(when He gives you a job, He declares you to be righteous) <i><b>: and whom he justified, them he also glorified. </b></i><br />
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<i><b>Luke 13:3 ESV "No, I tell you; but unless you repent, you will all likewise perish." <br /><br />Acts 2:38 ESV "And Peter said to them, “Repent and be baptized every one of you in the name of Jesus Christ for the forgiveness of your sins, and you will receive the gift of the Holy Spirit." </b></i>Wouldn't it be cruel to tell them to repent if God won't let them? Wouldn't it be pointless if they didn't actually have a choice?<br />
<i><b><br /></b></i><i><b>John 8:24 ESV </b></i><i><b>"I told you that you would die in your sins, for unless you believe that I am he you will die in your sins.”" </b></i>They clearly had a choice to believe or not<i><b><br /></b></i><i><b><br /></b></i>Mrs Betty Tracyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15294525918990533630noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1324671987859819277.post-37819653748973345112018-01-06T06:57:00.001-08:002019-02-15T13:29:09.601-08:00Bernie's LiesRant against a pintrest post because its hard to rant at them:<br />
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Bernie- "Republicans gave $X to rich businesses. Democrats would spend
that $X to pay for universal college, universal preschool, blah, blah,
blah." Typical propaganda/logic fallacy. If $X fell from the sky, he
might be right. But. The Republicans chose to let X number of people
keep their own money. the poor didn't get a tax cut because the poorest
50% in this country don't pay ANY income taxes. How do you cut th<span class="text_exposed_show">at?
What Bernie wants to do is take even more money from the richest 50%
and go farther into debt to give it away the way he thinks it should be
spent (instead of letting the people who earn it decide how to spend
it). This isn't free money lying around but increased debt, which is
taxes on our children and grandchildren. And that is "taxation without
representation."</span><br />
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<span class="text_exposed_show"><span class=" UFICommentActorAndBody"> <span data-ft="{"tn":"K"}"><span class="UFICommentBody _1n4g">And
why cut taxes when we are already not getting enough $ for what the
government is doing? </span></span></span></span><br />
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<span class="text_exposed_show"><span class=" UFICommentActorAndBody"><span data-ft="{"tn":"K"}"><span class="UFICommentBody _1n4g">1) The government is doing too much. It is like
fire; always wanting more and more fuel, never satisfied. The line needs
to be drawn somewhere. </span></span></span></span><br />
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<span class="text_exposed_show"><span class=" UFICommentActorAndBody"><span data-ft="{"tn":"K"}"><span class="UFICommentBody _1n4g">2) Cutting taxes
increases the governments income. The "rich" don't put their money into
mattresses. They invest it to make more money or they buy luxury items.
Investment creates jobs which means more people rich enough to pay
taxes as well as more money to tax on the original rich person. Buying
luxury items means more jobs for the middle class workers that make
them, which is again, more incomes to tax, more money for the
government. Or in mathematical formula, 10% of $100 is a whole lot more
money than 50% of $0. This has been proven before, and in reverse, too.
Remember Bill Clinton's "Luxury tax"? 75% tax on all items deemed to be
luxuries. Know why it was repealed? People simply quit buying luxury
items. Totally destroyed all the industries that make them putting 100's
of 1000's of people out of work and onto the welfare roles. The
government lost massive amounts of money over that one. The republicans
are simply doing the reverse; let people keep more of their own money so
they can supply more jobs so there is more money to tax at a lower rate
which equals more total money in the long run.</span></span></span></span> <br />
<span class="text_exposed_show"><span class=" UFICommentActorAndBody"><span data-ft="{"tn":"K"}"><span class="UFICommentBody _1n4g"><br /></span></span></span></span>Mrs Betty Tracyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15294525918990533630noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1324671987859819277.post-75679170174719863512017-10-18T15:33:00.000-07:002019-02-15T15:34:22.451-08:00Did Death Exist Before Adam?Adam chose to rebel against God by eating the fruit. The penalty for this was "dying ye shall die."<br />
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A plain reading of this says that there was no death or dying before this point. It didn't exist.<br />
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"And the Lord God said, 'Behold, the man is become as one of us, to know good and evil: and now, lest he put forth his hand, and take also of the tree of life, and eat, and live forever.' Therefore the Lord God sent him forth from the Garden of Eden, to till the ground from whence he was taken. So He drove out the man: and He placed at the east of the garden of Eden Cherubims, and a flaming sword which turned every way, to keep the way of the tree of life."<br />
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If God had not removed man from the garden, he would have eaten of the Tree of Life and lived. A plain reading of this entire scripture, in context, is that;<br />
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<li>Adam Ate</li>
<li>God Cursed</li>
<li>God removed the means for physical eternal life.</li>
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<br />Before this there was no sickness and disease, no death, physically or spiritually.<br /><br />Jesus became sin for us. He took all of our sins on himself and accepted the due punishment. Was that punishment limited to separation from God (spiritual death)? No. Christ was physically beaten and killed. That was the penalty for sin- physical pain and death as well as separation from God.<br />
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Since Christ accepted our punishment we know we will have a future without pain, illness, and death, as well as without separation from God. Christ reversed- ended- The Curse.<br /><br />To go backwards, the Bible clearly states that there will be no more illness, pain, death, or separation from God in heaven, thus implying that pain and death are part of the same curse as separation from God.<br />
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Why will they not be in heaven? Because Christ paid the price of the curse in full. Because physical life is always linked with spiritual life in the ending, we can conclude they were linked in the beginning.<br /><br />There was no death before Adam fell.<br />
Then there was physical and spiritual death.<br />
Christ paid the price to end both.<br />
We are heirs to both physical and spiritual life.<br /><br />If there was no death before Adam then we know any theories or philosophies that speak of creatures living and dying before Adam are false. It doesn't matter how good they sound, they are wrong. Period. <br />
<br />Mrs Betty Tracyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15294525918990533630noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1324671987859819277.post-27168216204002990522017-04-25T07:41:00.002-07:002019-02-15T13:32:39.797-08:00Who's the Hypocrit?<br />
<a name='more'></a>Let's see;<br />
Black live matter... unless they are still in the womb.<br />
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You must accept every customer that wants to use your services...unless that customer is Trump.<br />
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You must believe the handful of scientists who teach climate change because science rules...unless science teaches that XY equals a male. Then we will ignore science.<br />
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"I am for universal Health care because someone shouldn't have to open a 'Go Fund Me' account to pay for their illness." ...because it is so much better to force strangers to pay for your medical bills through taxation than to ask them help you voluntarily.<br />
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It's ok for BO to ban immigration from terrorist countries...but Trump can't do it from the same countries.<br />
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When laws encourage racial separation its bad.... unless it's the blacks wanting to be separate. Then it's good.<br />
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Teachers are the most influential people in America!...unless something is bad. Then it's the parent's fault and teachers are powerless.<br />
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You're brave if you stand up for your beliefs...unless those beliefs are based on the Bible.<br />
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Locker room talk is evil...but exploitation of underlings (Clinton) is OK as long as you believe in killing babies.<br />
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You must support the involuntary taking of people's property to give to the poor...but you should never reach into your own pocket and give to them (Liberals give less than 1% of their income on average to charities. Conservatives give 7% plus volunteer their time).<br />
<br />Mrs Betty Tracyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15294525918990533630noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1324671987859819277.post-83313511178855192642017-03-31T08:02:00.001-07:002019-02-15T13:36:46.996-08:00Newsflash to those attacking Mike Pence — all healthy marriages have boundaries – TheBlaze<br />
<a name='more'></a>I've been married 31 years and it never occurred to my hubby and I to formally set these types of boundaries. We just did it. Duhhh, that's why you get married.<br />
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But then, my dad is a pastor and my parents ALWAYS had a policy that under no circumstances would he ever meet with a woman without my mom present. This was simply to protect him from false claims of sexual harassment. He always had an eye witness to back him up on what happened during counseling sessions. <br />
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1 Thessalonians 5 "<br />
<span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/1_thessalonians/5-22.htm"><b>22</b></a></span>Abstain from all appearance of evil."<br />
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Like it or not, a man having lunch with a woman who is not his spouse or a relative looks like he is having an affair. It just does.<br />
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It is my observation that staying away from things that LOOK evil protects us from the temptation to DO evil. Not having lunch with a man I'm not married to protects me from the bonding that grows into sexual attachment.<br />
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Our culture is so convinced that Fantasy Land is real, that life should obey their dreams, that they don't acknowledge that men and women are designed to be sexually stimulated by each other. Any man and any woman.<br />
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Does it always happen? No. Can it be resisted? Yes. But that attraction, that hormonal stimulation is so strong it can and does happen without us even realizing it is happening.<br />
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So it is only logical that anyone who wants to protect their marriage will not have meetings with those of the opposite sex. It just is. <br />
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<a href="http://www.theblaze.com/contributions/matt-walsh-newsflash-to-those-attacking-mike-pence-all-healthy-marriages-have-boundaries/">Matt Walsh: Newsflash to those attacking Mike Pence — all healthy marriages have boundaries – TheBlaze</a><br />
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<br />Mrs Betty Tracyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15294525918990533630noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1324671987859819277.post-43359115061756084012017-03-28T15:34:00.000-07:002019-02-15T15:35:46.702-08:00Arrogance of unbelief<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Mrs Betty Tracyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15294525918990533630noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1324671987859819277.post-21430999411459182332017-03-28T08:40:00.000-07:002019-02-16T08:22:56.179-08:00When You Aren't At Church<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><h2 style="text-align: center;"><a name='more'></a>The place was quiet without your voice</h2><h2 style="text-align: center;">We missed your gleaming face</h2><h2 style="text-align: center;">We were so sad to look and see your</h2><h2 style="text-align: center;">vacant, empty place.</h2><h2 style="text-align: center;"></h2><h2 style="text-align: center;">We hope you are not sick</h2><h2 style="text-align: center;">Nor mortally depressed</h2><h2 style="text-align: center;">We hope your car is working well </h2><h2 style="text-align: center;">No wounds needing dressed</h2><h2 style="text-align: center;"></h2><h2 style="text-align: center;">With anxious eyes we'll watch the door</h2><h2 style="text-align: center;">Your car wheels sound the fife</h2><h2 style="text-align: center;">We hope next Sunday you will join</h2><h2 style="text-align: center;">Your friends at Bread of Life.</h2><div><br /></div><h3 style="text-align: center;"></h3></div>Mrs Betty Tracyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15294525918990533630noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1324671987859819277.post-42629000521479808802016-10-12T15:37:00.000-07:002019-02-15T15:39:53.524-08:00A Parable<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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There once was a King who called His faithful servants to
Him and handed each one a paint brush. He instructed them to go into the
neighboring country and paint each heart white.<br />
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The servants joyfully went about their assignment, painting
every heart they came across.</div>
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But after a time, they began to notice that in this country
fences were covered in graffiti, houses were old and worn down, curbs were
dirty. </div>
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“We have these brushes full of white paint. Why don’t we
paint these run down, dirty things and make everyone’s life better?”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Suggested one of them.</div>
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So the servants set in to improve this country. And they did
make a difference. Everything looked much prettier.</div>
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But after a time, they ran out of paint. So they went back
to their King and asked Him for more.</div>
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With tears in His eyes, the king sadly shook His head.</div>
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“There is no more paint. You see, there was just enough in
your brushes to paint every heart in that country white. Had you done what I
told you to, not only would all the hearts be white, but the result would have
been that everything else you wanted done would have happened, too. But now it’s
too late.”</div>
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At the turn of the century the Christian church teamed up
with those who thought the government knew better how to make decisions in
people’s lives to fight “demon alcohol.” Massive amounts of energy went into
this campaign, and alcohol was eventually outlawed. </div>
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That was a disaster.</div>
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Those laws were repealed, but the truth is that alcohol
consumption did drop and didn’t return to pre-prohibition levels until the 70’s. </div>
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And the difference in our society? All the evils that were
supposed to be cured by getting rid of alcohol continued. They just continued sober
instead of drunk. People were still going to hell. They were just doing it sober. </div>
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How different would our country have been if the Christians
had simply stuck to the message of salvation? If all that energy had been put
into bringing people to Christ instead of getting rid of alcohol? </div>
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The goals of a better country would have been achieved, plus
people would be going to Heaven. </div>
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What issues are the church focusing on today instead of salvation?
What fences are we painting now instead of hearts?<br />
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Mrs Betty Tracyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15294525918990533630noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1324671987859819277.post-2451975891353175912016-09-22T15:41:00.000-07:002019-02-15T15:41:33.568-08:00We do not bring people to Church to Get Saved.We bring people to church because they ARE saved.<br />
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Less than 3% of Christians came to the Lord inside of a church building.<br />
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So many of our churches are going about it all wrong; we are ordering our services to appeal to and save the lost. But this is not the audience for a typical church service. The lost have no reason to come into the church doors.<br />
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The church is for the equipping of the members, the training of the people to go out and bring people to God OUTSIDE the church and then bring them to church to be taught and trained.<br />
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And the church is for worshiping God.<br />
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That is what we should be ordering our services for; worshiping God and training.Mrs Betty Tracyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15294525918990533630noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1324671987859819277.post-89558493412325441592016-08-04T11:24:00.003-07:002019-02-15T13:40:32.052-08:00Thoughts on abortion rights<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
"It's my body and I have the right to do with it as I want."<br />
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1) No one has the right to do with their body as the want.<br />
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<li><br />Putting Meth in your body is illegal no matter how much you want to.</li>
<li>Selling your body for sex is illegal (unless you work in a brothel in Nevada, and even then it is highly regulated).</li>
<li>You can't even kill your body if you want. You will go to jail for trying. </li>
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So, no, you don't have the right to control your own body.<br />
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2) It is not your body you are talking about. If I took a tissue sample from your arm, kidney, liver, blood, even hair and nails the DNA inside those cells would show that they are part of you. It would be undeniable that they were your body.<br />
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But if I take a tissue sample from your unborn baby the DNA is distinctly different. An unborn child from the moment of conception has a unique DNA that has never existed before in history. Oh, it would be obvious the child was your descendant. But equally obvious he wasn't part of your body, but his own unique person. <br />
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3) There is the accusation that Pro Lifer's pictures of unborn babies are rigged to look older than they are for gestational age.<br />
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I had Chicken Pox with my second pregnancy. I was sent to a specialist who did a sonogram to make sure the little one was OK (I didn't realize at the time that the reason for this was so we could decide if we wanted an abortion or not). I was 5 weeks along at the time. That baby that I saw <u>with my own eyes</u> on that monitor had a head, arms, legs, eyes, and mouth. Now, this was before the 3D sonograms came out so it was fuzzy, making it impossible to see much in the way of details, but even at this very early age he was obviously a baby.<br />
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(And just to complete the story, that baby was born 8 months later and is now 6'2" tall with a beard and plays the guitar, cornet, and piano.)<br />
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So, when you talk about "controlling your own body" what you are really talking about is controlling someone else's body; deciding if another unique human being is too inconvenient for you to allow her to live. <br />
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Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1324671987859819277.post-76330708581961908882016-06-30T07:26:00.001-07:002019-02-16T08:22:32.421-08:00Its Time for the Christian Right to Oppose the Draft <a href="http://chalcedon.edu/faith-for-all-of-life/the-social-agenda/its-time-for-the-christian-right-to-oppose-the-draft/">Its Time for the Christian Right to Oppose the Draft - Chalcedon</a><br />
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If the 13th amendment to the Constitution prohibits slavery, wouldn't that include the draft? Or are we going to say the amendments don't apply to thee government?<br />
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<a name='more'></a>If a war is so unpopular that the government can't get enough volunteers to man it, should we be in that war?<br />
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Free men will voluntarily fight to protect their country and family in a just cause. Free enlistment in the military is yet another check on government power.
<a href="http://www.newsmax.com/Newsfront/study-conservatives-liberals-self/2015/06/23/id/651885/">Scientific Study: Conservatives Have More Self-Control Than Liberals</a><br />
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Interesting.<br />
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And kind of logical when you consider that conservatives believe in a Divinely appointed right and wrong. You must control yourself or you go to hell.<br />
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Liberals believe in human-appointed right and wrong, so that changes all the time or doesn't exist at all so why control yourself? Why learn to concentrate? Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1324671987859819277.post-62037776192227412832016-06-29T13:50:00.000-07:002019-02-16T08:22:32.143-08:00Does Science Argue for or against God?<a href="https://www.prageru.com/fbshare/badges/quiz/184#.V3Q0lmyIid8.blogger">Does Science Argue for or against God?</a>:<br /><br />Why are we here? Literally. The latest science says we shouldn't be. It says that the chance life exists at all is less than zero. So, is science the greatest threat to the idea of Intelligent Design or is science its greatest advocate? Best-selling author and lecturer, Eric Metaxas, poses this intriguing question and comes up with a very unexpected and challenging answer.Mrs Betty Tracyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15294525918990533630noreply@blogger.com0