Re: Political actions for Christians « Result #3 on Sept 12, 2007, 10:29am »
It is very easy to know what to do, you can help by being a "Big brother" or sister, or volunteer at a local orginazation that provides alternatives to abortion. but if you really want to show Christ's love, then give to those that ask without hesitation and go help those who have lost everything in the gulf coast, then people will see Christ through you. I know that its probably a good idea to do what we can with government, but I think there is an important lesson from the history of the Church, and that is, when the government is religious, true Christianity is perverted greatly because there is no discernable difference between those following the government and society and those who truly follow Christ. I just think that caution is advisable, just as a ragged man came to israel and said "I am from a far away land and I appeal to your mercy that you would enter into a treaty with my people" who in fact was from nearby and an evil people, but because of the treaty the people of God were bound. In the same way things may not be what they seem, and indeed I will say if it is generally accepted within and without the church accept and encourage a thing, that thing is certianly of the devil and not the Christ. Because this church is full of weak christians who follow more our society that Christ, and many who attend do not know christ, but only know of Him, and those who are with the devil are nessicarily against anyone who truly knows Him, and those who are with Christ do not have commonality with unchristians, their master being the devil, and ours Christ, and there is no thing that Christ values that the devil does, and the great tactic of the devil is to pervert, not destroy, to add a little poisen to the water, to change a word here and there to slightly change the meaning inperceptably to those who are not paying close attention and have a critical eye to all that is said and done, so we must be ever at watch for the devil for it is true that many things we believe are because we heard it from people we like, but I tell you all things must be tested, even if they seem obvious, so that the devil does not have victory in our laziness.
Re: Political actions for Christians « Result #4 on Aug 30, 2007, 9:57am »
James, your comments are very interesting. Especially that last sentence, that is is a whole lot easier to sign a petition and go to a rally than it is to volunteer to care for those who are dealing with the aftermath of sin. I have personally felt that there was more to changing our nation than signing petitions and contacting our representatives in the legislative branches of our government. Yet I have not been clear on exactly what more to do.
What avenues are open to us? What difference can we make? What can we do that will make a lasting change? It is the hearts of people that we need to reach with God's love. God is the only one who can transform a person - or a nation. How do we tap into his plan?
Having said that, I also agree with indigoblade. I was talking with my brother a couple days ago about forming vigilante groups to protect us from the government (academic exercise ). He made an interesting comment - people tend to get the government that they deserve. Also, that our nation's government was built on a representative model. The representative does need to know how his constituents wish him to vote. If we do not inform our representatives of what is important to us, then we have no excuse in blaming deteriorating conditions on them. I saw a bumper sticker that read - If You Don't Vote, Don't Complain.
I think we need both to care for the wounded people in our society at a local level, and to vote into government people who will make good laws. Now, 'good laws' can be interpreted a thousand different ways. I guess what's most important to me is that people have a relationship with God. Not just Christian in name, but people who have been and are continuing to be changed by God. That's the keystone.
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You have to face God Almighty on Judgment Day « Result #7 on Jun 14, 2007, 4:34pm »
You have to face God Almighty on Judgment Day. He sees lust as adultery (Matt. 5:28) and hatred as murder (1 John 3:15). Will you be guilty? Have you ever lusted after another person or hated anyone? Have you ever told a lie(including fibs and white lies), stolen(regardless of the value of the item), or jealously desired something that belonged to someone else(that is called covetousness)? Have you kept the First Commandment, to love God above all else and keep Him first in your life? Psalm 14:2-3 that all have turned aside and become corrupt, which means that NO ONE has kept God first, so it was already determined from the beginning that you would be guilty. Jesus took your punishment on the cross, and rose again defeating death, to save you from eternal suffering in the Lake of Fire. Repent of your sins and trust in Jesus Christ as your Lord and Savior today. Pray this prayer: ““God, I admit that I am a sinner and that I need you. I realize that my good works will not save me. Right now, I turn from my sins, and I put my 100% trust in Jesus Christ as my Lord and Savior. Please forgive me of all my sins and cleanse me from them. In Jesus’ name I pray. Amen.” If you just prayed that prayer, and sincerely meant it, then you’ve been made whiter than snow and forgiven of your sins. To start out your Christian life, you need to pray to God everyday, read your bible every day, and get into a good Bible-teaching Church.
Now, God's grace isn't so that you can just turn around and do your old sins with a blanket slip license to just indulge in sin all you want and go to Heaven, because that isn't the case.
Proverbs 28:13 says "He that covereth his sins shall not prosper: but whoso confesseth and FORSAKETH them shall have mercy."
So it isn't enough to just confess your sin and ask God to forgive you. You have to forsake that sin and try sincerely not to do it anymore. God can tell if you're sincere in asking for forgiveness, or if you're just looking for a way by which you can sin and get by with it. There's no such way, and if you keep indulging in sin, thinking that you can keep asking God to forgive you while you keep wallowing in the mud of sin, you're only fooling yourself. However, if you ask God to forgive you of that sin and are serious about turning from it, then you will receive God's mercy.
God doesn't leave Christians to fend for themselves and find out for themselves if they've sinned, as He sends the Holy Spirit to live in them, who will in turn sting their conscience(you can call it "feeling bad", if you will) when they have sinned(kind of like a "sin detector", if you will, to let them know that they have sinned and need to repent of it), to let them know that they have sinned, and if they turn from it and ask God's forgiveness, God forgives them. If the Christian decides He's going to live in sin, God will discipline the Christian at first and do things to get his attention, but if the Christian decides he wants nothing more to do with Jesus Christ and is going to love in sin, in spite of God's goodness and mercy, and in spite of God's discipline, then God turns them over to their sin, and they lose their salvation because Ezekiel 3:20 says
"Again, When a righteous man doth turn from his righteousness, and commit iniquity, and I lay a stumblingblock before him, he shall die: because thou hast not given him warning, he shall die in his sin, and his righteousness which he hath done shall not be remembered; but his blood will I require at thine hand."
So, that means that a Christian can lose his righteous standing before God if he turns his back on God to seek him no more and insists on sinning after God disciplines him(note the stumbling block). I'm not saying that salvation is maintained by good works, because it's not. It's not gained by good works, and not maintained by good works. It's maintained by continuing to follow Jesus Christ and when you sin, you repent of it, turn from it, and ask God to forgive you and give you the strength to resist the temptation the next time you're tempted to do it.
This is a new age, one where English is moving and changing at a greater rate than any new books (or at least books that are going to be used) will be willing to point out.
The phases of words changing from slang to common usage is a faster process than ever before, and also the commonly held way of writing in my opinion denotes the language written, not a book that only people in certain professions follow.
As for grammar, whatever grammar is identical to the commonly used talking form of the language is generally the more understandable form.
If the goal of language is to be understood, then whatever is most easily understood to the target audience is the best way of speaking or writing.
If one only speaks to those born in the united states and is an English snob (as most English majors are) then they will miss the opportunities to tweak the language towards the audience intended, thereby reducing the amount of misunderstanding involved.
As far as spelling errors and punctuation, well guilty as charged.
It does however infuriate me that the responder missed the entire point of the essay which was that I have made sacrifices in order to attain my goals and am going to keep trying no matter the odds until I get to my goals.
However where I live and what I eat is probably the only thing she is reacting to, clearly this is a sign of a snob.
I can tell she lives in a relatively good neighborhood, eats right and all that jazz. Which is fine. However the disdain she has for someone who could allow themselves to be comfortable living in less than great circumstances shows her character.
I don't have the best skills when it comes to writing, but at least I do not look at people from different backgrounds with annoyance or intolerance.
The thing that I was able to get the most out of homeschooling is not to be judgmental of other people without valid reason. To be able to think about social and societal questions without having an answer forced upon me. To be able to see from history the likely consequences of my actions or inactions.
Sadly this person has not had that experience and in my opinion this kind of hauteur is more indicative of private schooling rather than the majority of homeschoolers.
The homeschoolers I have met are open to accepting other people's lifestyles or at least will seek to understand them before issuing judgment.
Right now, I am growing my business, and have hired an employee, the money I invested has doubled and returned to me, I have re-invested it and am going to be further growing my business using the models of people who have immigrated to the united states and gone from very little to very much.
I however will not look back at my time living in a single-wide with disgust, God has always watched over me and has not forgotten me in this time of less.
On a side-note, I am the one who bought and set up this site... which is odd because she seems to like the idea behind it, even though she obviously does not understand it, as she clearly is not a homeschooler herself... come on people, this is for ex-homeschoolers, there are hundreds of homeschool mom sites.
Re: Well, someone's gotta start this thing off... « Result #9 on May 2, 2007, 3:27pm »
I am an English major whose only reason for not becoming a journalism major was the liberal slant of the press. I also did not want to be part of the NEA so I taught in private schools for about ten years before coming home to help my own children. I have home schooled my children for over ten years. I most recently have also been home schooling a friend's child. Education and language are passions of mine. Now that I have prefaced this post with an explanation of my viewpoint, let me say something about my fist impressions of this site.
I am searching for information about home schooling high school students. This sounded like the place to come. However, upon reading this post, the first and only one I have read on this site, I am appauled. The grotesque spelling errors speak nothing positive of home schooling in general. Since the poster may actually only come across as having a lack of ambition, having written a post which was simply misread by me, I will only mention the appearance of a devil-may-care attitude. No lovely picture is painted here, no matter who looks at it. I do hope other home schooled indiviuals will rally around this site and check their spelling as well as the content of thier posts, if indeed, this site is to continue. At the present time, this site is a sad misrepresentation of the average home school graduate.
Re: Political actions for Christians « Result #10 on Mar 13, 2007, 3:18pm »
This is the common response that I have heard many times, but I believe that it denies the reality of conscience. The direct result of the fall of man has given all and everyone the ability to see right from wrong, and that ability can only be overcome by constant repeated striving towards heinous sin.
Therefore it is my understanding that those who are gay, support being gay, those who have no problem with divorce, abortion, murder, lying, servitude of self, ect, do in fact understand those things to be wrong, with a very small minority being given over by God Himself towards their sins for their destruction. People know God exists, nature itself testifies to this fact, they also know in varying degrees that He should be honored at very least.
Those who know their sin is wrong are in denial, telling them that they are doing wrong in my opinion is simply restating the obvious, and does not lead towards repentance, which is what God is after.
Those who do not know their sin is wrong are already handed over to the devil, and trying to help them would in fact be "casting pearls before swine" surely they will retaliate and try with diligence to "trample" us.
Collateral damage from this may be another issue, children being taught from early teachings and experience that tolerance of "other people's lifestyles" is certainly very dangerous, because it conflicts with what they already know to be wrong, and soon becomes brainwashing, replacing what they know with what they have been taught, pushing aside the conscience as something not to be trusted. The result of this is the perpetuation of the false beliefs.
As far as children being abused and molested, this is the natural consequence of sin. We in America do not want to beleive that God could be "so cruel" as to make children pay for the sins of others, but this is the way of things, no amount of lobbying will change this. Even if we are successful in making homosexual sex illegal, making abortion illegal, or the like, it in fact will continue, perhaps those who are nearby will not be hurt as much from this, but is this really a good thing?
I say it is not. This seems cruel, unkind and even unthinking, but here is why I think this. #1 God has not called us to stop other people from being evil. #2 Sins which are apparent to all show clearly what is going on with that person. #3 by making things illegal, sometimes their inward desires do not become reality, and the natural consequences are not felt, this seemingly benign form of sin is in fact the most deadly because with no actual deed, there is no knowledge of the consequences, and no real need to be saved from those consequences, I believe they will not call out to God and ask for forgiveness, they will keep their sin a secret and only in the next life will the consequences be dealt with, and this is in the end d**ning.
If we are to try to help others, we need to have a perspective from eternity, because evil from this world is temporary, but heaven or hell are permanent.
A pastor from the gulf coast region said that the best thing that ever happened to that area was Katrina. Many think this is silly at best, or cruel and insane at worst. But people woke up and realized that God could take everything from them, and they wouldn't see it coming. People Of God from all over US and CAN and other parts of the world flocked and continue to flock there to help people in the aftermath, and the fellowship of those workers is almost beyond words. People forgotten by the churches of the area were touched, those formerly condemned to a life of poverty and crime were being ministered to in a way that they formerly would have said could never happen, people helping and giving with no hope or expectation of reciprocation, giving out of their poverty or riches with the hope that they could help someone in need. A light shines in that area that did not shine before. Without the death and destruction of much, this would not happen.
Or look to the scriptures and see how many times God allowed His special people to become slaves, to allow their homeland to be desecrated, in so many way and so many times, so that they would cry out to Him and return to the loving arms of their God.
God sees the results of sin, He knows them and allows them. Who are we to try to step in and disrupt the process that God endorses?
But we can be there in the aftermath. We can visit those who have been molested, minister to those who now must deal with the pain of knowing they murdered their child, these are great opportunities that we should be looking out for far in advance of lobbying to change laws to keep the numbers of sins that we see committed down. This is the position of Children of God.
Jesus Christ was taxed in a way that was unlawful, because he was not a foreigner, and although He did not hide or ignore the fact that this was unjust, He also did not strive by means political to change the wrong practice.
I think we should follow this example. No, we should not be silent about what is wrong, lest the darkness think it has won the day, but also, we need to be much more concerned with how we can help those who need it rather than try to restrict evil from being practiced.
It a whole lot easier to sign a petition and go to a rally than it is to volunteer to care for those who are dealing with the aftermath of sin.
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). He made an interesting comment - people tend to get the government that they deserve. Also, that our nation's government was built on a representative model. The representative does need to know how his constituents wish him to vote. If we do not inform our representatives of what is important to us, then we have no excuse in blaming deteriorating conditions on them. I saw a bumper sticker that read - If You Don't Vote, Don't Complain.
The grotesque spelling errors speak nothing positive of home schooling in general. Since the poster may actually only come across as having a lack of ambition, having written a post which was simply misread by me, I will only mention the appearance of a devil-may-care attitude. No lovely picture is painted here, no matter who looks at it. I do hope other home schooled indiviuals will rally around this site and check their spelling as well as the content of thier posts, if indeed, this site is to continue. At the present time, this site is a sad misrepresentation of the average home school graduate. 
