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The Erasable Bible

2010-07-02T17:34:55-05:00

I found this on

http://www.eadshome.com/

It's funny that he talks about the erasable Bible, then uses a scripture reference from a corrupted Bible. But the message is true none the less.

Quotes by John Adams

2010-06-04T17:49:30-05:00

We have no government armed with power capable of contending with human passions unbridled by morality and religion. Avarice, ambition, revenge, or gallantry, would break the strongest cords of our Constitution as a whale goes through a net. Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other.

John Adams, Address to the Military, October 11, 1798

[D]emocracy will soon degenerate into an anarchy, such an anarchy that every man will do what is right in his own eyes and no man's life or property or reputation or liberty will be secure, and every one of these will soon mould itself into a system of subordination of all the moral virtues and intellectual abilities, all the powers of wealth, beauty, wit and science, to the wanton pleasures, the capricious will, and the execrable cruelty of one or a very few.

John Adams, An Essay on Man's Lust for Power, August 29, 1763

I Pray Heaven to Bestow The Best of Blessing on THIS HOUSE, and on ALL that shall hereafter Inhabit it. May none but Honest and Wise Men ever rule under This Roof!

John Adams, letter to Abigail Adams, November 2, 1800

Liberty cannot be preserved without a general knowledge among the people, who have a right, from the frame of their nature, to knowledge, as their great Creator, who does nothing in vain, has given them understandings, and a desire to know; but besides this, they have a right, an indisputable, unalienable, indefeasible, divine right to that most dreaded and envied kind of knowledge; I mean, of the characters and conduct of their rulers.

John Adams, Dissertation on Canon and Feudal Law, 1765

Democracy... while it lasts is more bloody than either aristocracy or monarchy. Remember, democracy never lasts long. It soon wastes, exhausts, and murders itself. There never was a democracy yet that did not commit suicide.

John Adams, letter to John Taylor, April 15, 1814

Comment on peterheck.com hit my launch button

2010-06-04T15:45:40-05:00

So my friend Brent told me about an article that Peter Heck wrote on his site about the homosexual change in the armed forces. I get the view it's about choice, but this post is about a comment someone made that hit my launch button. I don't know if it was a joke or not. So here is the comment

myuscavage

"Religiously, I have a hard time with homosexually, no doubt. But keep in mind...this is the U.S.A. and you can't push your religious views on others."

Now this could be a joke, or he really feels that way. So this is my comment back if it's not a joke and to those that feel in the U.S of A "you can't push your religious views on others".

@myuscavage Who says i cannot push my religious views on others? YOU! I take my orders from above, specifically Jesus Christ.
Mark 16:15 And he said unto them, Go ye into all the world, and preach the gospel to every creature.

I don't see any exceptions do you?

How about Matthew 28:19-20

19Go ye therefore, and teach all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost:
20 Teaching them to observe all things whatsoever I have commanded you: and, lo, I am with you always, even unto the end of the world. Amen.

The place i want to live in holds Christ higher than man and lives by His law first and foremost. Just let me know why i cannot "push" my beliefs. The other side has no problem pushing theirs, and the end result is death.

Proverbs 14:12 There is a way which seemeth right unto a man, but the end thereof are the ways of death.

And by push i mean live it out and want the country i live in to be established on the foundation of Jesus Christ and the Christian Religion. Not "push" as in accept this or die, that's not the way God is and it's not what i am called to do. You go against The Holy God nothing will save you from His wrath. My desire is you exist here long enough to figure out your wrong and get your life right with Christ before you are called before the Judge.

Ezekiel 18:23

23 Have I any pleasure at all that the wicked should die? saith the Lord GOD: and not that he should return from his ways, and live?

Also what kind of "Religiously" are you subscribing to?
The world will hate me because of my devotion to Jesus Christ
John 15:18-19 18 If the world hate you, ye know that it hated me before it hated you. 19 If ye were of the world, the world would love his own: but because ye are not of the world, but I have chosen you out of the world, therefore the world hateth you.

I will keep pushing for a God fearing nation that upholds His law. You can hate me all you want, it's to be expected.

All scripture from KJV.

Mind Your Own Mortgage by By Robert Bernabe

2010-06-02T09:32:13-05:00

So i do reviews for books and i got one from booksneeze called Mind your own Mortgage. I am looking at purchasing a new home and this book could have not come at a better time. Mind your own Mortgage starts off with how the housing market got into the mess it is in today (2010). Then it goes into detail on what is going wrong with people and how they handle their mortgage. I feel one of the most important points that was made in the book was that when you purchase something today that you really don't need you are borrowing against your mortgage. Even if you have as little as 75$ a month to put on your mortgage do it. The worksheets that are presented show you how to shop and get good pricing on your mortgage. The one annoyance i have is that when you go to the website to get the forms you need to subscribe to the site. Now the cost at this writing is only 29.95 for a year. Not allot of money, but was not expected, how naive of me. :-D So anyway i read Gods plan for your finances before reading this book, and that got the ball rolling. Mind your own Mortgage reinforced the information i got from Gods plan for your finances. I am currently reading Money management for those who don't have any. It has some good info, and some things that i would not ever want to do, but this is not the place to review it.

So since i spend time writing software and not much is available for Linux in regards to good financial software i thought i would write something for myself to help me keep track of what is going on with my money. I plan on releasing it as OSS GPL but it may be a year or so. I have so many other things. Granted i will be using it before the year is up, but we will see.

If you have a mortgage or are looking at purchasing your first home i strongly recommend reading this book. The information in it's pages will save you thousands of dollars on your mortgage.

Get money back from cycling to work

2010-05-20T18:13:23-05:00

I just read an article about cycling to work and how you can get a max of 20$USD back each month for maintenance and other bicycle things.

Biking to work

I will comment more on it later. My wife wants me home.

From Ravi Answers Atheists Part 2 of 2 starting position 4:03

2010-05-18T17:33:59-05:00

In the 1980's i was doing an open forum at the University of Philippines
in Manilla when a student popped out of his seat and he shouted at me,
he said "Everything is meaningless, i don't know why you are taking
about meaning. Everything is meaningless!" I said you don't believe
that, he said "I do!". I said no you don't, he said "Yes i do!". I said
you don't. He said "Who are you to tell me i don't?". I said repeat it.
He said "Everything is meaningless!". I said you don't mean that, he
said "I do!". I said can i ask you a question? If everything is
meaningless, then what you just said was not meaningful. On the other
hand if what you just said was meaningful, then everything is not
meaningless. In effect you've really said nothing.

That night at a different meeting that young man gave his life to
Christ.

When it rains it pours

2010-05-09T07:18:29-05:00

Things are crazy. I have two servers that are having some serious problems, one is out of commission, trying to get a new MB ordered for it. I got the other MB ordered, and should be in this week. I had a client order a new Lacie drive and i am having issues with it. Simon and Noa are running around all crazy like. Nicole is watching the BlackHawks upstairs trying to unwind from her day. I have a pizza in the oven for dinner and cannot wait for it to be done. Been reading Mind your own Mortgage. It's a book i have for a review. I hope to get it done this week. I am also reading Faith under Fire By Chaplain Roger Benimoff. I will do a review on that book when i am done. It is an eye opener. I pray every night for our soldiers that are deployed around the world, and ask for Gods protection on their lives and spirits.

Well mom wants mothers day off, so i guess i need to get back to wrangling the kids... i think Simon is on the corner dumping a load in his pull-up. UGH!!! my work is never done. It has taken me more than 10 minutes just to get these thoughts out. I am thankful that i have this time with my kids.

Peace be unto you.

God Saw Them Through, by Glenn Thomas

2010-05-01T12:55:29-05:00

So in my reading today i just finished God Saw them through by Glenn Thomas. Now when i started the book i got to the second chapter and thought man if it keeps up like this it will be a long time before i am finished with this book. But once deployment happened things started moving allot faster. So much faster that i finished the book and was wanting more. I am almost sure that i read about the 2/8 in another book i have, but i have not found it.

This book is a testament to prayer and faith that God is in control. How situations happened that were advantageous for the solders of 2/8. I will give this books to friends and tell them, let the author introduce the soldiers in the first two chapters, because after that you won't want to put the book down. Also it's a reminder that we need to pray more, and set a specific time to pray. That is something that was mentioned in the book. People would pray at 9:00 pm eastern time each night. And how the Holy Spirit would wake people up and impress upon them to pray for specific people. It is an awesome recording of specific details of American military history.

This book is something that i will keep in my collection and share with many other people.

Living with Confidence in a Chaotic World By David Jeremiah

2010-04-27T09:04:49-05:00

This is the first work i had read by Dr. David Jeremiah, probably will be the last. In this book, page 52 Dr. Jeremiah is recalling the story of Peter being asked by Jesus if he loves Him, this is after the resurrection. I felt that Dr. Jeremiah missed one of the beautiful parts of this meeting. Jesus used the same type of coal for the fire that was used when Peter denied Him. The odour that would have come from that fire would have reminded Peter of the time when he denied Christ. Dr. Jeremiah in my mind destroyed the entire story to focus on the words that were used. I cannot tell Jesus that i "Agape" Him. I am not capable of "Agape" love. And to my knowledge the only person that has lived who is capable of that love is Jesus Christ Himself.

On page 180 the section on "Will We Be Ashamed?" Dr. Jeremiah says "Believe it or not, this will occur for many people." I do believe people will enter heaven and be ashamed. But my view is very different. I will be ashamed and filled with joy at the same time, because i will see what my Saviour Jesus Christ gave up to come rescue me and that it is now my inheritance. But what i don't think is people will enter the gates that have had opportunities to share Christ and did not. People that could freely grow in a personal relationship with Christ but choose that something else in this shadow of a life, was more important. The statement "My precious child, I bled for you on the cross. I gave all that I had, and what did you do with My gift?" Will be more like "I never knew you: depart from me, ye that work iniquity." Matthew 7:23 I don't see the point in giving people the false hope that all they need to do is accept the free gift, and never develop the close personal relationship with Jesus Christ. But for many i know they hope i am very wrong.

On page 213 Dr. Jeremiah calls for the church to wake up. Granted this is quoted from another book that he included, but it is very well needed to be said. "we need to take down our 'Do not disturb' signs, snap out of our stupor, come out of our coma, and awake from out apathy." On this point i whole heartily agree. The "Church" has become so pathetic that it's not even funny. They have let in "wolves in sheeps' clothing" Matthew 7:15. Not all churches are this way, but to many are trying to pass themselves as Christian Churches, but are nothing more than abominations.

This book did have some good points, but i would not recommend it to friends. However my close brothers i would let read, so if needed they could correct me in my views of it if needed.

Stop praying for revival and start praying people repent

2010-04-26T22:58:22-05:00

When you become entitled to exercise the right of voting for public
officers, let it be impressed on your mind that God commands you to
choose for rulers, “just men who will rule in the fear of God.” The
preservation of government depends on the faithful discharge of this
duty;if the citizens neglect their duty and place unprincipled men in
office, the government will soon be corrupted;laws will be made, not for
the public good so much as for selfish or local purposes;corrupt or
incompetent men will be appointed to execute the laws;the public
revenues will be squandered on unworthy men;and the rights of the
citizens will be violated or disregarded. If a republican government
fails to secure public prosperity and happiness, it must be because the
citizens neglect the divine commands, and elect bad men to make and
administer the laws.

-Noah Webster
(History of the United States (New Haven:Durrie & Peck, 1832), pp.
336-337, 49.)

2 Samuel 23:3 (King James Version)
3The God of Israel said, the Rock of Israel spake to me, He that ruleth
over men must be just, ruling in the fear of God.

Pray for repentance my friend. I like to be more direct on what i fell needs to happen. Revival will come when people repent from their sins and turn to Christ. Live the life that is pleasing to the Lord, and be a example to others.

Colossians 1:10 (King James Version)

¹⁰That ye might walk worthy of the Lord unto all pleasing, being fruitful in every good work, and increasing in the knowledge of God;

Revival is a community thing, to me, repentance is a personal one. Each one of us need to acknowledge our sins and strive to be "Salt and Light" to this world.

Matthew 5:13-16 (King James Version)

¹³Ye are the salt of the earth: but if the salt have lost his savour, wherewith shall it be salted? it is thenceforth good for nothing, but to be cast out, and to be trodden under foot of men.

¹⁴Ye are the light of the world. A city that is set on an hill cannot be hid.

¹⁵Neither do men light a candle, and put it under a bushel, but on a candlestick; and it giveth light unto all that are in the house.

¹⁶Let your light so shine before men, that they may see your good works, and glorify your Father which is in heaven.