Dinah's Flowers
Tables are set
Last Minute Bridal Bouquet by Joyce
At the Cross
A table of friends
Mike & Trisha
Jodavid
Luke played Vision Forum Music special for Melody
Freeze Tag
Mamma's Flowers
Our neighbor, Emma, Dinah's dear friend, tells the stories of a life well lived.
"Modern man has a will to fiction. His basic reality is his imagination, and he lives out his life in his imagined world instead of reality.
Is it harmless to live a lie? Never before in all of history have people lived so extensively in terms of their dream worlds rather than reality. They watch television...movies, read fiction and believe that the world of their imagination is better than God's reality.
When an artist asked permission to paint Cromwell’s portrait, Cromwell granted it on the condition that he be painted warts and all…We want to be seen as we imagine ourselves to be.
Our God is a consuming fire. Too many…reduce God to Father Christmas.
Because we do not live by every word that proceeds out of the mouth of God (Matt. 4:4) we are the victims of our sins, and of those who choose to exploit our sins. The prerequisites of all blessings from God include the confession of sin…
When men and nations persist in sin and avoid confession, they become self-righteous and Pharisaic. They insist in living in illusions about themselves, i.e., in living a lie, in an insistence that their private fictions are public realities. We have a world today passionately devoted to its fictions.
If we do not take the fall of man and original sin seriously…We will then become good Pharisees, denouncing evil in someone else. If we believe in the fall and man’s original sin, his will to be his own god (Gen. 3:5), then we identify the real problem, and we see its locale: in all of us. We know the remedy, Jesus Christ, and we know that His will must be done, so that His Kingdom may come. That will of the Lord is set forth in every word of the Bible. That book tells us, “Thou art the man,” but it gives us the power to work, as the invisible rulers who will not rule. We find it much easier to blame others."
"To prove definitely to myself that I did not need salt during extremely hot weather, I went to
"The college boys gobbled the salt tablets and guzzled quarts of cool water...at lunch they ate ham sandwiches, drank cola drinks, and cheese sandwiches. We rested a half-hour after lunch and continued our rugged hike across the red-hot blazing sands. Soon things were beginning to happen to the strong, husky college boys...first three of them got violently ill and threw up all they ate and drank for lunch...they got dizzy and turned deathly pale and a great weakness overcame them. They quit the hike cold! They were driven back to Furnace Creek Ranch in poor condition. But the hike went on with seven athletes. As we hiked, they drank large amounts of water and took salt tablets. Then suddenly five of them got stomach cramps and became deathly ill. Up came the water and some of the lunch—these five had to be driven back to the ranch.
"That left but two of ten hikers...it was now about 4 p.m. and the merciless sun beat down on us with great fury... almost to the second, the last remaining salt-tablet athletes collapsed in the hot burning sun and had to be rushed back for medical care...
"I felt as fresh as a daisy! I was not full of salt tablets and I was not full of food because I was on a complete fast. I drank only the warm water. I finished the 30-mile hike in around 10-1/2 hours...and I had no ill effects whatsoever! I camped out for the night and next day arose and hiked another 30 miles back to the ranch without food or salt tablets.
"The medical doctors gave me a thorough examination and found me in perfect condition."
~Paul Bragg p. 16-17 The Miracle of Fasting
For one week, Freedom Generation summer camp will contribute to just that. With classes like One Nation Under God, Economics 101 and the French and American Revolutions Compared, students learn how to impact their future. Speakers and workshops are featured along with great camp activities: swimming, hiking, camp fires, skits and camp volleyball.
With six locations across the nation, we are privileged to have one at
Huntington Lake, from camp Keola
The Western camp dates are June 15-21, 2008
I have been a part of this camp for 12 years, first as a camper and now counselor and volunteer speaker. This year I plan to give 500 years of American history in one hour and Freedom to Fascism, Dad is to teach Our Government: the Legislative Branch, a great talk that shows the brilliance of our founders design and how we can change the future.
Camp is always encouraging and invigorating.
This year’s head speaker is Rev. Steven Craft: Author, an animated motivational and inspirational speaker, who serves as Correctional Chaplain.
View his bio at: http://www.jbs.org/node/2121
other speakers include Eagle Forum California president, Orlene Koehle and JBS immigration spokesman, Sam Antonio will serve as camp director.
Sign up soon!
To restore freedom, we must pass it on.
Less Government under the Constitution,
More responsibility, under the Ten Commandments
And with God’s help, a better world.
WE MOURN THE LOSS OF MICHAEL BILLINGS
by Howard Phillips Nov. 21, 2007
God determines the hour and the occasion for our passing, and it is not for us to question His decisions.
We, nonetheless, must grieve at the death of Michael Billings, who at the age of 19, was an accomplished theologian, activist, and leader. A scholar in residence at my son, Doug’s Vision Forum, he helped train interns and was as much an expert on the writings of Dr. R. J. Rushdoony as any other living person.
The son of Dr. and Mrs. Michael Billings of
Michael died on November 4 in a car accident as he was returning to
“I am much afraid that schools will prove to be great gates of Hell unless they diligently labor in explaining the Holy Scriptures, engraving them in the hearts of youth. I advise no one to place his child where the Scriptures do not reign paramount. Every institution in which men are not increasingly occupied with the Word of God must become corrupt.”
~Martin Luther
When we got there, next to the powder horn on the Palace Green, there was Mr. Ford and his wife in full costume, explaining the development of colonial liberty. Then Dan introduced a young man – a kid – who hadn’t gotten over acne yet. Mr. Ford had great hope for Michael and said he would likely be one who would be here to lead the celebration 50 years from now at the 450th. When Michal spoke, it filled us all with hope. I thought “If Doug Phillips died tomorrow, we will be ok – God is raising up others to carry the torch!”
After the two hour tour, we gathered around, Mom meeting Mrs. Ford and other ladies from
Months later, looking something up on Visionforum.com, the headline on Doug’s blog sent a chill through me: “Michael Billings in the words friends and admirers.”
God hadn’t taken Doug, but He had taken Michael at 19 ½ years old. Our thoughts are not His thoughts. His ways are greater than ours.
Friends of Michael collected his speeches, letters and memories into a book, named for his first sermon: Life Is But A Vapor, The Life & Legacy of Michael G. Billings, edited by Wesley Strackbein.
Here are some excerpts:
“True greatness is not achieved by striving for prominence over others or by grasping for power, but by exhibiting a humble, self-effacing attitude of service to all.”
This being said, Michael’s philosophy of humble service was not one that left any room for weakness or cowardice. Rather it called for bold preaching and decisive action. As Michael stated:
“Humility is not a synonym for weakness or incompetence. It does not mean that we cannot teach vast crowds with great authority, face grueling intellectual debate, or confront the hypocrisy and error of our day. For Christ our Lord did all of these things.”
“What I want to say to pastors, fathers, leaders, all of us—to each and every one of us—[is] that it begins with us… We must infuse the faith of our fathers into the life of our country. Colonial
“How dreadful it is to commit even one sin against God; to be guilty of just one act of contrariety or rebellion towards the Infinite Being, the infinitely great and omnipotent God, the One in whom all the angels in heaven declare is Holy, Holy, Holy”
“Ignorance of God is a terrible vice.”
"Young men… it is appointed for you a day to die, and no matter how strong and healthy you may seem now, the day of your death may be very near. “You must not boast of tomorrow, for you do not know what a day may bring forth.” Remember always that tomorrow is the devil’s day. Satan does not care how spiritual your intentions are, how holy your resolutions are, if only they are determined to be done tomorrow."
~Michael Billings
Posted by Regina
Pure Honey
A Nancy Balyeat Bear
Saturday Breakfast, Outdoors April 5, 2008
Dinah's Favorite Singing Bird
One Tree Removed
Victory!
To the Dump!
Herr Hans Berger, a PATIENT window salesman
Jodavid, Unloading Beehive Frames
Cleaning Fan LightsR.J. Rushdoony on Children
“The first and basic premise of paganism, socialism, and Moloch worship is its claim that the state owns the child. The basic premise of the public schools is this claim of ownership, a fact that some parents are encountering in the courts. It is the essence of paganism to claim first the lives of the children, and then the properties of the people...How can we expect God to honor us, or bless us, when we give our children to the state schools and surrender their minds daily to the teaching of humanism? It is sin to and madness to believe so, and those who try to justify their sin only increase it. The true believer will like Hannah (I Samuel 1:27f), see children as a gift from the Lord, to be given to the Lord as long as they live.”
~ pg. 10
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Rushdoony, The Eschatology of Death
“Dying cultures block out tomorrow, having no confidence in their ability to cope with growth and the problems of growth. Dying Greece and dying Rome both saw themselves as overpopulated and overwhelmed with peoples and problems, and so too does our modern, dying statist humanism feel. It talks desperately about zero population growth and zero economic growth, because behind such thinking is a zero future, an intellectual and religious bankruptcy...the dying live but for the moment, because they have no future. Converted into formal philosophy, the name of such a state of anticipated death is existentialism. For the existentialist philosopher, Jean-Paul Sartre, man is a futile passion who wills to be a god but is faced with the certainty of death."
~pg. 15
4 "Hear, O Israel: The LORD our God, the LORD is one!
5 "You shall love the LORD your God with all your heart, with all your soul, and with all your strength.
6 "And these words which I command you today shall be in your heart.
7 "You shall teach them diligently to your children, and shall talk of them when you sit in your house, when you walk by the way, when you lie down, and when you rise up.
8 "You shall bind them as a sign on your hand, and they shall be as frontlets between your eyes.
9 "You shall write them on the doorposts of your house and on your gates.
For He must reign till He has put all enemies under His feet.
Dinah learning haircutting from Regina 
Home, Sweet Home
Lurch, screech, rrrip... learning to drive with a clutch 
Drive-by flowers
Brave girl, ready to give it another try! 
Can't pass 'em up!
The Race is On!
Power nap before the next load.
A Swiss Chard bouquet.A YouTube video
The
A look into her
"many-ways to heaven" New Age thinking
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JW4LLwkgmqA
Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed like one of these.
Cinch 'em down!
Scared Stiff 
Anything Else, Bro?
She brings her food from afar.
An Iris with all its petals yet folded.
Seal 'em up!"Exercise is king, diet is queen.
Put them together and you've got a kingdom."
Jack LaLanne, at age 93 is still working out
two hours a day, mostly in the pool now.
"You have to exercise, not necessarily to the extent that I have.
Twenty to 30 minutes three or four times a week is fine
when combined with a sensible diet.
But work at it vigorously."
Energetic, spry and given to spontaneous outbursts of song, he loves joking around and greets others warmly.
Jack LaLanne, said he almost killed his brother twice, "I was 15 at the time. I was addicted to sugar. I ate junk food constantly and felt horrible. I suffered from blinding headaches. I was skinny, weak and had a nasty temper. I was so sickly that, under doctor's order's, I hadn't been to school in six months. Then my mom practically dragged me to a lecture on health. That lecture saved my life. Paul Bragg told me that if I would exercise and eat a proper diet, I could regain my health." The strict vegetarian diet Paul Bragg suggested helped Jack feel better. Jack's diet is still mostly vegan, except egg whites and occasionally fish. He has long advocated drinking juices extracted from raw fruit and vegetables.
In 1955, at 41, LaLanne swam handcuffed from Alcatraz to Fisherman's Wharf in
In 1956, at 42, he set the world record of 1,033 pushups in 23 minutes on You Asked for It, a TV show.
In 1959, at 45, LaLanne did 1,000 pushups and 1,000 chin-ups in one hour and 22 minutes.
In 1974, at 60, Jack swam from
In 1976, at 62, commemorating the "Spirit of '76," he swam 1 mile in
In 1979, at 65, LaLanne towed 65 boats filled with 6,500 pounds of wood pulp while handcuffed and shackled in
In 1984, at 70, handcuffed and shackled, LaLanne towed 70 boats with 70 people 1.5 miles from the
