Month: July 2011

“A truly happy person is one who can enjoy the scenery while on a detour.” ~Author Unknown

“Above all, keep loving one another earnestly, since love covers a multitude of sins.” ~ 1 Peter 4:8

Everyone’s going to go through hard times and easy times in life. The question is how will you do in the hard times.

When you’re not under pressure and life is going well, that’s not the times you’re going to struggle with stress, anger, fear, etc. People always do well during the good times. But the time that one’s character is tested, stretched, and built upon is when things are going out of control.When life is crushing you with boulders is the time that you’ll show what kind of person you are.

The only way to have true joy and to be able to get through the valleys is with Christ. People will worship money and power, drown themselves in drugs and alcohol, etc. They want to escape the valleys they’re in. But ultimately none of these will get you through the deepest and darkest valley. Death. Our friends can’t save us. Well, I take that back. There is one friend who can. And that is Christ and the faith we have in him.

Have a good Sunday guys. ^_^ 🙂

“Cast your burden on the LORD, and he will sustain you; he will never permit the righteous to be moved.” ~ Psalm 55:22

“If you live to be 100, I hope I live to be 100 minus 1 day, so I never have to live without you. ~ Winnie the Pooh”

Today I’m thankful for modern bathroom facilities. Backpacking doesn’t exactly afford you that luxury ;-P

And, I’m thankful for rain showers. I’m thankful for green grass. I’m thankful for huge and beautiful mountains. I’m thankful for family and friends. And most of all I’m thankful to God for making all of it.

Feminism is doing a great job. They’re trying to destroy any honor held by women at one time or another. A bunch of misogynists?! The argument is that the role of a helpmeet to their husband is degrading to a woman. Instead they would rather create some sort of demented world where women aren’t respected in a God honoring way. Just take a look at statistics about rape. Rape is 3x worse in America today compared to 1960. The 1960s were when feminism got a massive booster, through Gloria Steinem and others, and now explain to me why violence against women such as rape is much higher than they were back then.

Boys today are not trained to honor women. That would be what a bigot and misogynist would do. You have to understand that women are the same and should be treated as such. I don’t know if you’ve taken time to just sit and watch little boys and girls. The little boys will punch and wrestle the little girls just like they will do to other little boys. And if they’re not taught over time to honor women they will grow up to be the men who rape and abuse women.

Instead, if we taught boys to be men and honor women and put them first we should see much better results. Of course you always have exceptions to every rule, because men have wicked hearts, but I don’t believe we’ll see this overwhelming disgusting abuse of women that is overwhelmingly disgusting in today’s culture.

One argument that is used by so called experts is that in ancient times women were treated as property and were in subordinate positions to men. This is true. Women in many pagan cultures were seen as property and lead to abuse. But then feminists use this argument to say that the Christian model of male headship is a bunch of hooey. Okay. Well let’s compare. Puritans vs. today’s modern system. Today they say that approximately 1 in 7 women have been raped or sexual abused. Puritans back in the 1600s, a smattering of isolated cases were reported in the first 80 years. Which is like .01%. (I don’t have the book on the exact statistics but you get my point. The book is called “The Times of Their Lives”) Cases of adultery today are probably around 50-60%+, I can’t find exact statistics.  For the Puritans there were very few cases and were probably around .1% of people. I agree that the Puritans didn’t get everything right but they sure did things better than today in regards to protection of women and family solidity.

We can conclude that women don’t respect or honor men today and men don’t respect or honor women. It’s definitely more of an exception than the norm.

There are multiple people who speak out against a feminist agenda. They attempt to be those who try to put men and women into roles that fall under 1 Corinthians 11:3 “But I want you to understand that the head of every man is Christ, the head of a wife is her husband, and the head of Christ is God.”

The reaction against this general philosophy is pretty large. They call these people misogynists. I disagree that this is misogyny, just like how a team captain being over his team is not because of hatred for his teammates.

Plus, so far how has the feminist philosophy helped us? If we were to compare statistics feminism has been crushed. If you want to live in fairy tale land go ahead, but it’s not going to help those of us who live in reality. If your solution is to drug all the men so they won’t hurt women, welcome to the world of the most unproductive society ever.

Maybe go and learn from the past. So far what you’ve done has been a horrible failure. Yet you think doing the same thing will fix all of our problems? Isn’t the definition of insanity doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results?

I see God’s system that is brought out in His word as the solution to all the problems we have today. Men loving and honoring women is what God calls for and women under the head of their husbands.

“The life of a man consists not in seeing visions and in dreaming dreams, but in active charity and in willing service” ~ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Independence day. It’s definitely a great day. It’s a day where we celebrate the liberty that has been bestowed on us because of the great work of great men in the past. I’m thankful for those men who laid down the lives, their fortune, and their sacred honor to give us the country we have today. We’ve given up many freedoms because we would prefer to embrace the chains of slavery so that we can rest supinely on our beds. But we still have a day where we can honor the work and lives of the men who wrote the Declaration of Independence, the Constitution, and risked it all to give us the most free country that is in the world today and all because of the work they did 200+ years ago.

“A new commandment I give to you, that you love one another: just as I have loved you, you also are to love one another. By this all people will know that you are my disciples, if you have love for one another.” ~ John 13:34-35

“Trials and hairbreadth escapes only strengthened my faith and nerved me for more to follow; and they trod swiftly enough upon each other’s heels. Without that abiding consciousness of the presence and power of my Lord and Saviour, nothing in the world could have preserved me from losing my reason and perishing miserably. His words Lo, I am with you alway, even unto the end became to me so real that it would not have startled me to behold Him, as Stephen did, gazing down upon the scene. It is the sober truth that I had my nearest and most intimate glimpses of the presence of my Lord in those dread moments when musket, club or spear was being levelled at my life.” ~ John Paton