New Age feminists and their influence on the Church

we must be very careful with our children! we need to moniter EVERYTHING they see and do to see that it aligns with God's Word.

a good listen

i enjoyed this vid and thought maybe you would too

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Social Media

why do you blog?
seriously, why?

is it to make money? nothing wrong with that! i sure wish someone would offer me big bucks to share what my days are like!

is it because you like to write and this is a cool way to do it? do you make any moola on the side with it?

do you have a strong opinion about everything and want everyone to know it? does that include earnings from your sidebars?

do you write (or buy) ebooks that cost money but know the same info can be found on the web for free?

do you have a ton of followers on your blog that never really come back to your blog to read anything? they got their extra entry in your giveaway last year and haven't been seen since!

do you have thousands of twitter followers but they never got to know "the real you" so why should they care what you tweet? i might know you but not care that you drank iced tea an hour ago!


do you even know the friends you have on facebook? would you know them if you passed them on the street?
for me facebook changed when a real friend - via the web i admit- had a miscarriage and fbed it once so she wouldn't have to make separate announcements AND I MISSED IT because i was reading how to save $1 on coconut oil and how cute so and so 's kid was today!! nothing wrong with either of those things BUT....

i have made a few friends thruout the years via the web so i know it can be done - Denise i am still trying to get to Blairsville! but on the whole........

i guess there is no right or wrong. some people make money from their blogs, others don't. some tweet with strangers quite happily and others don't. some follow and never come back. if both parties are cool with that i guess it's ok.

what i am saying - for myself really- is why? what is your purpose in blogging, tweeting, facebooking etc? is it for ratings so you get higher points in the eyes of businesses or is it so great aunt sofie can see pics of the kids?
do you ever make the mistake of thinking those google connect friends are really friends?

either way it's ok. i just want you to think about why you do what you do and be happy about it. for me- i am gonna be making some changes.

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overpopulation?

As you know I don't believe in using birth control. I feel that God is in charge of how many children you have. Because of this, I am privileged to hear many statements like "do you know what causes that?" or "the world is overpopulated and you're contributing to the problem"
To the first question, I just laugh. But to the second, I like to inform them.
There are 52.5 square miles of land in the world, not including Antarctica and any water areas.
If all the people in the world were brought together into one place they could stand, without touching anyone else, in less then 200 square miles.
The city limits of Jacksonville, Florida, contains 841 square miles. By allowing an average of 2.6 square feet for each person, from babies to adults, every person in the world could stand shoulder to shoulder in just one half of the city.

If the idea of having only 2.6 square feet for yourself (your allotted living space if the whole world's population had to fit into half of Jacksonville Florida) makes you feel a tad cramped, how about an allowance of 100 times that large? Under those circumstances you would have an area equal to a a family of four living in a one thousand and forty square ft home (Tami's note - we are a family of nine living in 1400 square feet). In this case you would have the entire world's population living in just half of the state of Nebraska.
What about 1000 square feet per person? That would fill both states of Nebraska and Kansas. The entire rest of the world - 99.7 percent of the land area of the earth (except Antarctica) would be empty.

taken from Rick and Jan Hess's book A Full Quiver

so i think we have proven that overpopulation is a MYTH! proprogated by those who don't want children but do want an excuse!

homekeepers

why am i so passionate about women being homekeepers? ladies this is our God ordained place!
without homekeepers where would our children be? sitting in front of a tv, watching who knows what questionable show and stuffing their mouths with unhealthy (and sometimes downright dangerous foods) because we didn't have time to purchase groceries!
if we were "lucky".
without homekeepers our children could be wandering the streets getting into trouble, maybe so much trouble that the police are involved.
happens every day.
without homekeepers our children would be stuck in daycare all day regardless of how they felt or what they needed. mommy went to work so you have to go here. yes you might be sick or just needing a cuddle from mommy but you won't be getting what you need here!

please don't write and tell me "oh my daycare is a good one". no one replaces mommy. and i have heard that poor tired excuse too many times. babies belong at home with mama regardless.
when you have trouble dropping your child off at the daycare center or babysitter- there is a reason!! the Holy Spirit is beckoning you to return to your God given position- not to pawn it off on someone else!

why do some ladies (notice i didn't say all) refuse to trust God and see how He honors you when you honor Him? do you think He would lead you down the path of childbearing and then leave you there alone?!
i hear all the time- i need to work. do you really? is there nothing that you have stubbornly refused to give up that increases that need? i know a couple who complain all the time about money woes. but they will not give up that $100 cable bill!!!
is it fun depriving yourself of your wants? no!! but maybe re-evaluating those wants is in order! does having $100 worth of cable tv each month even out the fact that you missed your son's baseball game or that only the babysitter saw your baby's first steps? will your cableman - or new car salesman- be with you on your deathbed? which relationships do you think need more nurturing?

can you do it? yes do you want to do it? how can you not? is it justifiable dragging a sleeping 6 month old out of her warm bed and into the car for the trip to somewhere else with bright lights and noisy kids?
what if your son gets his feelings hurt today? where are you to help pick up the pieces? what if your daughter is scared of something and needs reassurance? where is your God given place? what child was given to you for rearing?

yes i am passionate about about women being at home. if women were at home then i truly believe we wouldn't have the some of the problems in this world that we have!
not just mothers but all women.

"Today's workplace is the most fertile breeding ground for affairs. The observed increase in women's infidelity is because more women are in the workplace and more women are in professions that were previously dominated by men," Dr. Glass wrote with Jean C. Staeheli in “NOT Just Friends: Protect Your Relationship from Infidelity and Heal the Trauma of Betrayal.”
(how do you think a husband feels when he wants time with you but you have to work late? or when dinner is no where to be found because you haven't cooked it? when the laundry hasn;t been done ?)

if many social scientists are to be believed, you run a higher risk of having a rocky marriage. While everyone knows that marriage can be stressful, recent studies have found professional women are more likely to get divorced, more likely to cheat and less likely to have children. And if they do have kids, they are more likely to be unhappy about it. A recent study in Social Forces, a research journal, found that women--even those with a "feminist" outlook--are happier when their husband is the primary breadwinner. By Michael Noer of Forbes magazine (one of God's mandates to us was to be fruitful and multiply. so if women are less likely to have children then they are ignoring God's Word.)

For many of the eating patterns examined, findings for children with full-time working mothers are less positive than those for children whose mothers work part-time or are homemakers. taken from HERE

what about nursing babies? so hard to do when you are in an office across town from the child! and pumping doesn't seem to give you the same warmth.
American society does not give mothers a long maternity leave or otherwise encourage mothers to stay at home so breastfeeding would be easier. Nor is it common to find facilities at the workplace for pumping, though this seems to be on the increase. taken from HERE
and yet we all know that breastfeeding is best for baby!


Recent research by the Institute for Social and Economic Research at Essex University found that children of mothers who went back to work within the first three years were slower learners, and a 2008 Unicef study recommended that mothers stay at home for the first 12 months or "gamble" with their children's development. The Pew Research Centre in Washington found high levels of anxiety among women over the issue.
yet the The National Institute of Child Health and Human Development Study of Early Child Care countered this info with a study that stated "they found that, while there are downsides to mothers taking work during their child's first year, there were also significant advantages – an increase in mothers' income and wellbeing, and a greater likelihood that children receive high-quality childcare. Taking everything into account, the researchers said, the net effect was neutral. taken from HERE
(the advantage was that the children would be in high quality daycare? that';s an advantage!!! and it only brought the effect up to neutral!! not much of a successful finding if you ask me!)

Titus 2:5 To be discreet, chaste, keepers at home, good, obedient to their own husbands, that the word of God be not blasphemed. (remember how working women are less likely to have children?)

ephesians 5:22 Wives, submit yourselves unto your own husbands, as unto the Lord.
(if you are working for a boss then you are submitting to someone else's husband!)

oh and the proverbs 31 woman didn't work outside the home. she delivered her goods to the merchandisers and THEY sold it for her. like a consignment shop.


ok i could go on more but i think you get the idea. why would you willingly put all these risks into your family's life? is there nothing you can do or go without to avoid it? have you prayed? not for a job but for wisdom. have you deducted all your costs needed for work and saw how little you really bring home? can you just plain do without something and still survive? (i am living proof that you can!)

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i recently read an article about a popular actress. she discussed how she lived 1000 miles away from her young children while filming for months at a time. her children are 7, 5 and 2 i believe. she said , word for word, " i depend on the neighborhood women to raise my children while i am gone." WHAT?!!! she was quoted as saying she misses out on so much of their childhoods BUT since a script was delivered to her door the day after she prayed if she should continue acting then she felt it was His will that she do the series. WHAT?!!!!

she really thinks God's will is for her to abandon her family and miss out on everything they are involved with and have other people rear her children? REALLY?!!

satan is subtle ladies! he knows our struggles just like God does. do you think that satan. who God calls a liar and a thief is above tricking us?

did you read the verse in proverbs 31 where the woman leaves her family in someone else's care so she can make money? or did you read how she had a HOME based business?

was the direction in titus 2 for the older women to teach the younger women to seek "personal fulfillment" at the expense of your family? i must have missed that part!! (i don't mean a woman can't go out to lunch with a friend or have a hobby that she does etc- but those things don't take precedence over your family!)

all in all i was sickened by the article- it had other things written that i disagreed with- and reinforced my beliefs even more!



some easy recipes using real not processed food.


tri colored tortillas
slice green and red peppers plus yellow squash lengthwise and saute in olive oil. place on a warmed tortilla and top with cheese.

3 bean vegetarian chili
soak black beans, red beans and pinto beans overnight. in the a.m let come to a boil for several minutes and then keep on low- med for a few hours. when beans are getting soft puree some tomatoes in a blender- enuf to make a sauce- and add to the beans. chop an onion and green pepper into this. and let simmer for an hour. i like to add garlic too. when beans are ready serve topped with cheese or sour cream (or both!).

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Eggs

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oh how i wish my daughter had not taken my camera without permission! oh how i wish she had put it back instead of setting it on the table while eating and the 2 yr old had not spilled soup all inside of it! why do i wish this so much?

because- WE HAVE EGGS!!!!!!

yes my chickens are now laying eggs!!!!!

Let's Get Some Babies Home!

this sin't about the necklace! go read!!!

Some Home Remedies

this is agenda 21

MORE AND NORE COUNTIES ARE SIGNING ON TO THIS BILL! WAKE UP!!

Letter: Beware Agenda 21 concepts

July 10, 2011 01:31:00 AM


Sacramento Area Council of Governments (SACOG) is being used to implement Agenda 21. It used to be just for planning transportation issues, but now is being used to plan every aspect of our community including food, water, housing, land use, and business. SACOG bypasses local elected officials and dictates how our community is to be run.

According to the Agenda 21 authors, the objective of sustainable development is to integrate economic, social and environmental policies to achieve reduced consumption, social equity and the preservation and restoration of biodiversity. People who support sustainability insist that every societal decision be based on environmental impact, focusing on: global land use; global education; and global population control and reduction.

And what is "social equity' or "social justice?" It is described as the right and opportunity of all people "to benefit equally from the resources afforded us by society and the environment." This is redistribution of wealth. Private property is a social injustice because not everyone can build wealth from it.

The report of the 1976 U.N.Habitat Conference (http://tinyurl.com/3qusgaw) states: "Land" cannot be treated as an ordinary asset, controlled by individuals "Private land ownership is also a principal instrument of accumulation and concentration of wealth, therefore contributes to social injustice."

Everyone should do their own research to see what and who are behind these concepts, and what it would mean to our American way of life if they are implemented.

James Seif

Yuba City



Read more: http://www.appeal-democrat.com/articles/social-108174-land-agenda.html#ixzz1Rie10Iso

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What Stood Out to Me

i was reading an article entitled A Biblical Response to the Feminist Agenda and these are a few things that stood out to me. thought you might be interested.

One of the most devastating, and debilitating, and destructive movements in our day is the "Feminist Movement."
Radical feminism has brainwashed our culture. It has brainwashed our culture to the degree that even the church has fallen victim to this. Church leaders, theologians, professors of theology who are supposed to be profound in the Scripture, as well as lay people in the church have bought the feminist lies.

And that well known name, Margaret Sanger, the founder of Planned Parenthood, writing an article called "Women in the New Race," says this, "The most merciful thing a large family can do to one of its infant members is to kill it."

We cannot think lightly about this agenda--we have to think deeply about it. The fact that you may feel in your heart some need to be free because you become victimized by the current agenda, doesn't really mean that you really understand the agenda. You don't know that behind this entire feminist movement is some very Satanic religious philosophy, and it runs very deep in the people who are influencing our culture, the people who have influenced deeply and provided the whole agenda, to say, Hillary Clinton and many others. And we have to take these ideas very seriously because they are in the White House, and now they will be creating laws that we have to live by. They are obliterating our culture. They are being taught through every avenue to our youth, and even Christians are falling under the spell of the feminists.

Sheila Croonan (sp.) again, writing in the National Organization of Women Times, in January of 1988, said, "The simple fact is, every woman must be willing to be recognized as a lesbian to be fully feminine!"

And then he says, "workers at home," and here's the one that gets all the heat nowadays!
The word "workers at home" one word in the Greek, "oikourgos" from two root words, "ergon" which means "work" and "oikos" which means "house." It's simply the sphere of a woman's life is her home--that's her domain.

It is not that she is simply to be home, but that the home is her sphere. The woman in Proverbs 31 left home when she needed to buy a field, she left home to prepare that field, she left home and went afar to find things that would help the family. The woman did what she needed to do, but the focus of everything was the home, and that's where she poured her life. She got up early and she went to bed late for the sake of the home. She is to be a "home-keeper" that's the sphere of her responsibility, that's her place of employment, that's where she should pour her life.
For a mother to get a job outside the home and send the children to some kind of "Day-care" place is to shirk her God-given responsibility. It also is a failure to understand that her husband is to be the provider, as Ephesians 5 makes it very clear. Even if you wanted to work outside the home to pay for your children to go to a Christian school you made a big mistake. Better that you should stay in the home and raise your own children to be godly than to pass it on to somebody else. Now we know today there are a lot of wonderful things that we have in the home that ancient people didn't have. I mean that you are not in there with some kind of a stone pot beating out the grain to make flour. And you are not down at the creek slapping your clothes on a rock--we know that. And you are not just spinning thread so that you can make fabrics so that you can sew garments, so we know that you have more time. You need to be very careful how you use that time discreetly. You do have more time, and there may be things outside the home you can do that will assist the home and that will assist others, that may even be enterprising like the Proverbs 31 woman and bring in a little bit of income, but any of those kind of things that you do--the home remains the constant and ongoing priority--everything focuses on that.

When your children are grown and gone, or if God doesn't give you any children, you have a certain freedom. But even then in what you choose to do outside the home you don't lose the responsibility for the home, you may be able to care for your home, and because you have no children still do some things outside. Your home may still be a haven for your husband, it may be a place where you can show hospitality. You may have opportunity to wash the saints' feet and do every good work, and still do something outside the home, something noble. I always think its wonderful when women work in Christian ministry, when they don't have children at home, or when they teach little ones in school, or when they are involved in a Christian mission enterprise, or when they are involved in ministering to people in jail, or when they work in a hospital, or with doctors, and those who help people. But you need to be careful even in doing that that you don't get yourself in a position where you are tempted, because we all know, and the statistics are very clear on this: "women who work outside the home have an exponential number of extramarital affairs when compare to women who are in the home--because of exposure, temptation." You must make wise choices if you are going to take the freedom that you have in terms of time, because you children are grown, because you can care for that home because of conveniences, and choose where it is you are going to use your gifts and talents and abilities, and women have them to teach and lead and administrate, co-ordinate, and serve, and help, and give, and all of that. Just like all of the gifts that are mentioned in the New Testament. You must choose wisely so you don't compromise yourself in any way. But, your place is the home.
It is also tragic to realise that many women want nothing more than that, and they have an unfaithful husband who leaves them. They are stuck, aren't they with children--no source of income, and forced in many cases to work outside the home to support the family. That's not right. 1 Timothy 5 makes it very clear, "other men in the extended family should care for that woman so she doesn't have to do that." They have already lost a father, now are you going to make them lose a mother--those little ones? If there is no other men in it, then it says in 1 Timothy 5, some other women ought to come to her aid, and if there are no women to do that, then the church ought to take care of her; but churches aren't even willing to do that.

But, "a woman's place is in the home" only says half of it. "A woman's place is in the home" to me doesn't sound right--a woman's responsibility is in the home. To say her place is in the home makes you think that she just ought to sit there, because that's where she belongs. No, that's where her duty and responsibility is--that's where her opportunity is to have the greatest impact on the world. A woman doesn't impact the world by getting a briefcase and going downtown--she impacts the world by raising a godly generation of men and women.

read the missing paragraphs and more HERE.
i haven't read any other articles here so i can't say if i agree with them or not . :)

fantastic!!

oh did i find a fantastic recipe!! Tammy's recipes outdid herself!!!

A moist pumpkin sheet cake with homemade cream cheese icing

Cake Ingredients:

16 ounces (2 cups) canned solid-pack pumpkin
2 cups sugar
1 cup vegetable oil
4 eggs, lightly beaten
2 cups flour
2 teaspoons baking soda
2 teaspoons ground cinnamon
1/2 teaspoon salt

Cream Cheese Frosting Ingredients:

4 ounces cream cheese, softened
5 tablespoons melted butter
1 1/2 teaspoons vanilla
1 3/4 cups powdered confectioner's sugar
2-4 teaspoons milk
chopped nuts, for topping
Instructions:

1. Beat pumpkin, sugar, and oil. Add eggs, mixing well.

2. In another bowl, combine dry cake ingredients and stir to mix. Add to pumpkin mixture and beat well.

3. Pour batter into greased 15 x 10 x 1-inch jelly roll pan. Bake at 350 degrees for 25-30 minutes or until cake tests done with a toothpick. Cool on a wire rack (in the pan); cover with a towel after about 15 minutes of cooling.

4. To make frosting, beat cream cheese, butter, and vanilla in a mixing bowl until smooth. Gradually add sugar, mixing well. Add milk until frosting reaches desired thickness. Frosten cooled cake and sprinkle with chopped nuts if desired.

30 minutes
Cooking Time:

the recipe came from HERE

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