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Why Should Men Protect or Defend Women If They Aren’t or Can’t Be In Charge of Women?

Posted by whatyareckon on March 14, 2018
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I suppose I enjoy reading Kent Brandenburg because he is so often saying the very thing I am thinking. For instance, he wrote “The secular state would have you believe that women are equal with men; they just haven’t caught up in their evolution.  It’s nothing that has ever been proven.  It’s a theory that can be and has been proven wrong, however.  It isn’t happening.  If someone invades the United States, our country wouldn’t and couldn’t win with an egalitarian military, unless the invaders agreed to do the same.  For sure, Russia wouldn’t do that.

I can argue the position of this post from scripture.  That’s easy.  I’m saying it’s true even without scripture.  I know women want protection.  That’s easy to see.  They don’t want to be told what to do, and we can see that all over, including in churches.
The contradiction about which I’m writing here is obvious to anyone, so why do men abdicate headship?  That’s more complicated.  The Bible has the answer to that too, right at the beginning, but the answer is also very natural.  From a certain perspective, it doesn’t make any sense that men would give up their authority to women, when they are stronger and more dominant than women.  I’m sure some men ask themselves on a regular basis why they do that.” http://kentbrandenburg.blogspot.com.au/
It doesn’t really matter if you or I agree with him but it does matter if you, me, and Kent agree with God. I trust you will go to the link and read the entire article.

BEYOND THE SUNSET

Posted by whatyareckon on March 9, 2018
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Psalm 113:3 From the rising of the sun unto the going down of the same the LORD’S name is to be praised.

Revelation 21:23 And the city had no need of the sun, neither of the moon, to shine in it: for the glory of God did lighten it, and the Lamb is the light thereof.
Revelation 22:5 And there shall be no night there; and they need no candle, neither light of the sun; for the Lord God giveth them light: and they shall reign for ever and ever.

Bernie Sanders Fined For Illegally Coordinating With Australian Labor Party

Posted by whatyareckon on March 2, 2018
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In the USA ‘The Federal Election Commission (FEC) fined Bernie Sanders’ presidential campaign $14,500 for accepting illegal in-kind foreign contributions from the Australian Labor Party (ALP) during the 2016 elections.’ http://dailycaller.com/2018/02/28/bernie-sanders-australia-federal-election-commission/

 

 

In backing Bernie Sanders it shows the direction the ALP wants to lead Australia!

THE MINER’S CAR IS NOW A TOURIST SIGHT

Posted by whatyareckon on February 1, 2018
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Psalm 75:2-3
“When I shall receive the congregation I will judge uprightly. The earth and all the inhabitants thereof are dissolved: I bear up the pillars of it. Selah.”

‘Three people went out to dig for rock. The rocks in their claim were rich in minerals, such as malachite – the principle ore of copper.

Historically, copper has been used as an alloy, being mixed with tin to form bronze. Today, copper is used in the printed circuits of computers, cell phones and other electronic devices. Copper is relatively easy to extract from its ore, requiring not too much heating of the ore, with a reducing agent such as carbon.

One morning, the three miners drove to their claim, as normal. They parked their car and walked a mile or so to their claim in order to dig for ore. Their mine was in the heart of the Cascade Range in the state of Washington, close to the volcano known as Mount St Helens. Donald and Natalie Parker, and their nephew Richard signed waivers at the edge of the “blue zone” in order to gain permission to the area, access to which was being restricted because of the possibility of an eruption. The next morning, Sunday May 18, The Miner's Car1980, the mountain blew and the Parkers’ cabin was destroyed by the blast. All three miners died of asphyxiation. Their car was thrown 60 feet and landed where it remains to this day as a macabre tourist sight.

We do not know what tomorrow may bring. This is why the Bible reminds us that today is the day of salvation. It is important to get right with our Creator today.’ http://www.creationmoments.com/radio/transcripts/miners-car

Joy Villa’s incredible journey that began for her at 20 and is why she now chooses life over abortion

Posted by whatyareckon on February 1, 2018
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It is refreshing to read about a woman that supports pro-life! Such a woman is Joy Villa who said, ‘My statement for the 60th Grammys is Choose Life. I

Joy Villa choose life

Photo: Fox News

believe in loving the child and the mother, and I am proudly Pro Life, without any judgment to those to choose otherwise.

Why did I wear a fetus surrounded by a brightly colored womb on my dress and a purse with “Choose Life” to the 60th Grammy Awards?

I am pro-life.

10 years ago my life was shattered, I couldn’t stop crying: I had a beautiful baby growing inside of me… For many women, becoming pregnant is a dream come true, but I was overcome with guilt, agony and shame.

I was penniless, far from home and trapped in an abusive, toxic relationship with a man who had become a shadow of what he once was. At 19 I fell in love with an older man who was very kind hearted with a good heart, but once he began using drugs our relationship quickly became a nightmare.  The same arms that once held and protected me were weaponized; night after night, I’d hide in a corner, terrified of being beaten.

I didn’t know who to turn to.

When you’re young and vulnerable, sometimes your mind plays tricks on you: “I don’t deserve happiness!”  “I don’t deserve love!”  “This is the best I can do!”  It pains me to remember how utterly devoid of value I felt at the time, but I truly believed that I deserved to be abandoned, forgotten and punished. I thought “This must be my fault, so I have to stay and try to fix this.”

After a contraceptive failed, I became pregnant at age 20.

After testing positive at a clinic, the nurse began to pressure me to get an abortion. She told me, “We can do it now, it’ll make it all go away. I’ve had several abortions, in fact all three of my daughters have had several. You are too young to have kids. This is the best choice for you.”

She had already made my choice for me.

I left feeling deflated and heart-broken. I had never considered abortion, I wanted to stay and make things right with the father, to have a real family.

But when I was violently thrown against the wall by the baby’s father while heavily pregnant, I knew I needed a real solution. My baby deserved so much better.

That’s when I made the most difficult and important decision of my life: I decided to carry my baby to term and then give her up for adoption to a loving family. I put her life over mine.

It wasn’t easy.  Every day was a struggle.  Ask any woman: Pregnancy is extraordinarily difficult, especially without family by your side.  But my faith in God – and my love for my baby – gave me all the strength I needed to survive.

I found an adoption agency that helped me every step of the way, including taking care of my day to day living expenses.  We placed my baby with a loving, caring family in an “open adoption,” which meant I could still be involved in her life.  I have a growing and wonderful relationship with my daughter today, (who calls me “Mama Joy”!) because of my decision to choose life.

Adoption gave this terrified young girl the greatest gift of her life: A second chance.

A chance to do the right thing.

A chance at healing.

A chance to be a Mom.

To celebrate my beautiful daughter I hand painted my Pronovias Grammys gown with a recreation of her sonogram when I was 8 months pregnant.

Today, I have chosen to platform to encourage women to think for themselves and gather all the information before making their own decision. Having life giving options like adoption can empower women to do what they feel is right.

There are thousands of women in similar situations to mine.  Many are far younger – and more vulnerable than I was.  I’m not here to condemn them, or call them names, or try to make them feel worse than they already do.

But I do have a message:

Consider adoption. Consider life.  Consider carrying your baby to term, and placing your unborn child with a caring, nurturing, happy family.

You will survive this. You will make it through.  And you absolutely, 100 percent, deserve all the happiness and love in the world. You’re so much stronger than you know.

You deserve a second chance at life… and your baby deserves a first chance.

Life is precious.  And so are you.’ http://www.foxnews.com/opinion/2018/01/31/joy-villa-why-choose-life-over-abortion-incredible-journey-that-began-for-me-at-20.html

Today is Australia Day and the ‘Majority Of Australians Support Australia Day On 26 January

Posted by whatyareckon on January 26, 2018
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The left are always trying to change something that need not to be changed. One of those things is Australia Day. Interestingly ‘70% of Australians do not want the date of Australia Day changed, according to a new poll released today by the Institute of Public Affairs.

“It is abundantly clear that everyday Australians want to celebrate our great country on 26 January”, said Dr Bella d’Abrera, Director of the Foundations of Western Civilisation Program with the free market tank the Institute of Public Affairs.

A poll of over 1,000 Australians conducted by Research Now commissioned by the IPA found that:

  • 70% of Australians believe Australia Day should be celebrated on 26 January, only 11% believe the date should be moved.
  • Only 23% of Australians think Councils should stop holding citizenship ceremonies on 26 January, 50% of Australians disagree with these Councils.
  • 76% of Australians believe Australia has a history of which to be proud, only 9% disagree.
  • 87% of Australians are proud to be an Australian, only 3% are not.

“The poll confirms that the left-leaning elements of our politics and media that are obsessed with identity politics are completely out of step with the majority of Australians when it comes to our national day. They want to divide, rather than unite Australians.”

“26 January marks the foundation of modern Australia and it should to be celebrated by all Australians. Rather than being ashamed of it, we should be proud of it.”

“76% of Australians believe we have a history to be proud of. It is encouraging that Australians overwhelmingly reject the negative rhetoric about our nation’s history continually pushed by many on the left.”

“This is evidence that Australians both value and understand British institutions such as liberal democracy and the rule of law which have made Australia the successful nation that it is today,” said Dr d’Abrera.’ https://ipa.org.au/publications-ipa/media-releases/majority-australians-support-australia-day-26-january

Now, I am off to enjoy a good ole Australian Day BBQ. See ya.

Bible Reading for January 26 AM & PM

Posted by whatyareckon on January 26, 2018
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C H Spurgeon

MORNING & EVENING:
DAILY READINGS
by C. H. SPURGEON

JANUARY 26 — AM
“Your heavenly Father.” — Matthew 6:26
God’s people are doubly His children, they are His offspring by creation, and they are His sons by adoption in Christ. Hence they are privileged to call Him, “Our Father which art in heaven.” Father! Oh, what precious word is that. Here is authority: “If I be a Father, where is mine honour?” If ye be sons, where is your obedience? Here is affection mingled with authority; an authority which does not provoke rebellion; an obedience demanded which is most cheerfully rendered — which would not be withheld even if it might. The obedience which God’s children yield to Him must be loving obedience. Do not go about the service of God as slaves to their taskmaster’s toil, but run in the way of His commands because it is your Father’s way. Yield your bodies as instruments of righteousness, because righteousness is your Father’s will, and His will should be the will of His child. Father! — Here is a kingly attribute so sweetly veiled in love, that the King’s crown is forgotten in the King’s face, and His sceptre becomes, not a rod of iron, but a silver sceptre of mercy — the sceptre indeed seems to be forgotten in the tender hand of Him who wields it. Father! — Here is honour and love. How great is a Father’s love to his children! That which friendship cannot do, and mere benevolence will not attempt, a father’s heart and hand must do for his sons. They are his offspring, he must bless them; they are his children, he must show himself strong in their defence. If an earthly father watches over his children with unceasing love and care, how much more does our heavenly Father? Abba, Father! He who can say this, hath uttered better music than cherubim or seraphim can reach. There is heaven in the depth of that word — Father! There is all I can ask; all my necessities can demand; all my wishes can desire. I have all in all to all eternity when I can say, “Father.”
JANUARY 26 — PM
“All they that heard it wondered at those things.” — Luke 2:18
We must not cease to wonder at the great marvels of our God. It would be very difficult to draw a line between holy wonder and real worship; for when the soul is overwhelmed with the majesty of God’s glory, though it may not express itself in song, or even utter its voice with bowed head in humble prayer, yet it silently adores. Our incarnate God is to be worshipped as “the Wonderful.” That God should consider His fallen creature, man, and instead of sweeping him away with the besom of destruction, should Himself undertake to be man’s Redeemer, and to pay his ransom price, is, indeed marvellous! But to each believer redemption is most marvellous as he views it in relation to himself. It is a miracle of grace indeed, that Jesus should forsake the thrones and royalties above, to suffer ignominiously below for you. Let your soul lose itself in wonder, for wonder is in this way a very practical emotion. Holy wonder will lead you to grateful worship and heartfelt thanksgiving. It will cause within you godly watchfulness; you will be afraid to sin against such a love as this. Feeling the presence of the mighty God in the gift of His dear Son, you will put off your shoes from off your feet, because the place whereon you stand is holy ground. You will be moved at the same time to glorious hope. If Jesus has done such marvellous things on your behalf, you will feel that heaven itself is not too great for your expectation. Who can be astonished at anything, when he has once been astonished at the manger and the cross? What is there wonderful left after one has seen the Saviour? Dear reader, it may be that from the quietness and solitariness of your life, you are scarcely able to imitate the shepherds of Bethlehem, who told what they had seen and heard, but you can, at least, fill up the circle of the worshippers before the throne, by wondering at what God has done.

January 25 AM & PM Bible Readings from Spurgeon’s Morning & Evening

Posted by whatyareckon on January 25, 2018
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C H Spurgeon

MORNING & EVENING:
DAILY READINGS
by C. H. SPURGEON

JANUARY 25 — AM
“I will mention the lovingkindnesses of the Lord, and the praises of the Lord, according to all that the Lord hath bestowed on us.” — Isaiah 63:7
And canst thou not do this? Are there no mercies which thou hast experienced? What though thou art gloomy now, canst thou forget that blessed hour when Jesus met thee, and said, “Come unto me”? Canst thou not remember that rapturous moment when He snapped thy fetters, dashed thy chains to the earth, and said, “I came to break thy bonds and set thee free”? Or if the love of thine espousals be forgotten, there must surely be some precious milestone along the road of life not quite grown over with moss, on which thou canst read a happy memorial of His mercy towards thee? What, didst thou never have a sickness like that which thou art suffering now, and did He not restore thee? Wert thou never poor before, and did He not supply thy wants? Wast thou never in straits before, and did He not deliver thee? Arise, go to the river of thine experience, and pull up a few bulrushes, and plait them into an ark, wherein thine infant-faith may float safely on the stream. Forget not what thy God has done for thee; turn over the book of thy remembrance, and consider the days of old. Canst thou not remember the hill Mizar? Did the Lord never meet with thee at Hermon? Hast thou never climbed the Delectable Mountains? Hast thou never been helped in time of need? Nay, I know thou hast. Go back, then, a little way to the choice mercies of yesterday, and though all may be dark now, light up the lamps of the past, they shall glitter through the darkness, and thou shalt trust in the Lord till the day break and the shadows flee away. “Remember, O Lord, thy tender mercies and thy lovingkindnesses, for they have been ever of old.”
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JANUARY 25 — PM
“Do we then make void the law through faith? God forbid: yea, we establish the law.” — Romans 3:31
When the believer is adopted into the Lord’s family, his relationship to old Adam and the law ceases at once; but then he is under a new rule, and a new covenant. Believer, you are God’s child; it is your first duty to obey your heavenly Father. A servile spirit you have nothing to do with: you are not a slave, but a child; and now, inasmuch as you are a beloved child, you are bound to obey your Father’s faintest wish, the least intimation of His will. Does He bid you fulfil a sacred ordinance? It is at your peril that you neglect it, for you will be disobeying your Father. Does He command you to seek the image of Jesus? It is not your joy to do so? Does Jesus tell you, “Be ye perfect, even as your Father which is in heaven is perfect”? Then not because the law commands, but because your Saviour enjoins, you will labour to be perfect in holiness. Does He bid his saints love one another? Do it, not because the law says, “Love thy neighbour,” but because Jesus says, “If ye love Me, keep My commandments;” and this is the commandment that He has given unto you, “that ye love one another.” Are you told to distribute to the poor? Do it, not because charity is a burden which you dare not shirk, but because Jesus teaches, “Give to him that asketh of thee.” Does the Word say, “Love God with all your heart”? Look at the commandment and reply, “Ah! commandment, Christ hath fulfilled thee already — I have no need, therefore, to fulfill thee for my salvation, but I rejoice to yield obedience to thee because God is my Father now and He has a claim upon me, which I would not dispute.” May the Holy Ghost make your heart obedient to the constraining power of Christ’s love, that your prayer may be, “Make me to go in the path of Thy commandments; for therein do I delight.” Grace is the mother and nurse of holiness, and not the apologist of sin.