Do churches stand with God?

In 1988, when we started to a church  with our first three children — in that denomination in which I grew up and have a Christian Education degree and teaching credential from its college, all 12 of the women there, came up to me and let me know in the first two Sundays, that it was uncool to have another baby.  God graciously gave us an additional three during the following seven years that we attended there.  ~Es

Eden Restored

Eternal wealth isn’t land, houses, cars and money; rather large families led by a father & mother dedicated to the kingdom and covenant of Christ. This battle determines the future. To see God’s heart here, read Psalm 78 especially 1-11.

True wealth is not vast numbers of ducks or even getting your ducks in duck houses. True wealth is ducklings raised with a Godly spirit of “Go-for-it!”  Every couple years you don’t invest, you lose the one you could have had.  ~David

PedigreeTrophy Pets, Pedigree Trophy Children

 Some get their children into the best colleges and look like the world. Their whole life is woven into a web of practical blasphemy. It is a win-win situation. If their kids turn out to be superstars they brag; if they turn out to be super problems, they can still brag and say, "Woe is me; I have a child that has ADD, ADHD."

Is there anything wrong with having a pet and showing affection and devotion?

No, and nothing wrong with desiring the happiness of your children. But because you are doing it for yourselves, judgment is falling on you.

The point is the attitude of the heart. If you do it for your own selfish reasons that are anti-God, the anger and the wrath of God is heavy on you, and your society, and your culture, and maybe even your family. We can be judged by it.

Families that are turning God's battleground into a playground: When we say Children, let's just enjoy ourselves; it's a playground! Let's have fun. Let's do what we want. Let's do it for our own enjoyment. We are discipling our children to be comfortable in a death culture that has the wrath of God abiding on it.

Since the 1840's the most effective evangelists of this death culture have been main-stream Christian parents because they impart a theology of morbid selfish lawlessness to their children when they say things like, "Let's just have fun and enjoy ourselves." If they put aside the commands of God for their own little environment.

Here are the characteristics of a death culture:

-Parents nourish a morbid preoccupation with self:   Do what you want, son. What do you want?

-Parents minimize the value of a child's soul.  Parents tend to indulge children because they fail children in their spiritual responsibilities and they carry the guilt of that. If we cover the guilt that is weighing on us, we tend to bend over backwards for their demands.

-Parents are unwilling that their children bear the cross of Christ in moral responsibility. They go to church but don't want to get overboard with it. We want you to grow up and get into the best colleges. Parents do not insist in obedience to any aspect of God's law.

The American Dream is an idolatrous love-affair with mammon at the expense of Biblical obedience.

If God is the King, He needs to rule over every nation. We need to disciple every nation to be ready for His rule. Even pagans will be afraid not to conform to God's standard, to act like Christians and think like Christians and talk like Christians even though they are unregenerate in their hearts. This was true in the American Colonies.

You can get Geoff Botkin's "Children as Pets" here at

The Baby Conference - BlueBehemoth.com

Geoff Botkin in the photo above enjoys playing music with his daughters. But he teaches them that the world is not a playground; it is a battleground. Mr. Botkin has a large family and is a great teacher on making the world Christ's disciples.

Sunday Reading

Melody loves this book!

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The Little Boy down the Road is the first book I've read in one day in a while. It is a delightful windows into rich family life. I laughed until tears ran down my face at Buddy the Hampster's funeral...
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Dinah came back from the Tea Party energized. She says, "I've got to read more!"
The Creature from Jekyll Island was her first pick. G. Edward Griffin's story of our Federal Reserve shows that the Fed is neither Federal or a reserve. It is private and built on debt. Dinah says it reads like a novel.

Re: Nancy Pelosi on Contraceptive bailout

Although cultures of life win by default, the world is still hurt by cultures of death.

Beale Philips, who's story we posted in October, was born to a divorced 40+ year old mother who had conceived her in an adulterous affair with a married man.

Abortion would not become legal till two years later, but was quite available to those who wanted it.

Beale's birth mother gave her up for adoption and by God's grace, she is on of the most radiant examples of Christian womanhood I've seen.

This is why we can't say 'just let them think that way.' Satan hates babies, and he specifically attacks the children of God’s people, like with Pharaoh and Bethlehem. But man is made in the image of God, so Satan hates even his own -- as in the modern abortion holocaust.

I tell my siblings, "He who serves leads."

The illegal Hispanic women, who give birth to 25% of the babies born in California, are leading. They may be leading badly, raising children who look to the welfare state to provide, but they are leading.

We must lead by raising children who love God, and love to work -- who are producers, not just consumers. They will bless the world.

Bedtime Conversation

Jodavid: Regina, Do my joints have grease in them?

R: No, they have cartilage and…

Jd: Do they have ball bearings to make them run smoothly?

R: No they have little sacks that cushion the bones, and when you get dehydrated…

Jd: Ball bearings reduce tension.

R: MmHmm

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Dinah says it is imperative women have good educations –

we have to be able to answer our children’s questions.

Don Hart Esq., Entrepreneurial Bootcamp 2006

Children can go one of two ways in my view, they can either serve and work, and they can be raised to love those things. Or they can play and be served and learn to love those things. These are two distinct tracks that our children will travel. It will either be work and service to others or play and being served and being entertained. Which way do we want our children to go? What better avenue than family entrepreneurship to learn the ethic of the Christian life? Work for the Lord in service of others. It is the God ordained avenue for this kind of discipleship; it is Deuteronomy 6 waiting to happen. In doing so, we prepare our children both for provision and to be a help meet to a provider. In family entrepreneurship we give our children a biblical view of economics and wealth.

RJ Rushdoony in Christianity and Capitalism points out the biblical basis for capitalism. He talks about reward and punishment in the Bible and how competition, reward and punishment are biblical objectives…God is the source of liberty to engage in business and He is the provider of blessings when we are obedient and curses when we are disobedient. All we have to do is read Deuteronomy 28 to see how clear that picture is and how material things are a part of how God operates.

This is not a conference about automatic steps to prosperity and wealth; it is a conference about faithfulness and respect for His sovereignty in submission to His will.

~Attorney Don Hart after several lawyer jokes, brought to light the root reasons for family business before explaining top legal issues and tax benefits.

Ten Things You Must Do if CPS Targets Your Family

How to Fight CPS: Advice from Seasoned Defender of Families

Chris Branson is an attorney in Houston who specializes in CPS defense and general civil litigation. Read the article.

Wealth of Many Children to a Home and Nation

"Behold, children are a heritage from the LORD, The fruit of the womb is a reward.

Like arrows in the hand of a warrior, so are the children of one’s youth.

Happy is the man who has his quiver full of them. Ps 127:3-5

"Blessed is every one who fears the LORD, Who walks in His ways.

When you eat the labor of your hands, You shall be happy, and it shall be well with you.

Your wife shall be like a fruitful vine In the very heart of your house, Your children like olive plants All around your table.

Behold, thus shall the man be blessed Who fears the LORD...

6 Yes, may you see your children’s children. Peace be upon Israel! Ps 128;1-6

"But though North America is not yet so rich as England, it is much more thriving, and advancing with much greater rapidity to the further acquisition of riches. The most decisive mark of the prosperity of any country is the increase of the number of its inhabitants. In Great Britain, and most other European countries, they are not supposed to double in less than five hundred years. In the British colonies in North America, it has been found, that they double in twenty or five-and-twenty years…Those who live to old age, it is said, frequently see there from fifty to a hundred, and sometimes many more, descendants from their own body. Labor is there so well rewarded that a numerous family of children, instead of being a burthen is a source of opulence and prosperity to the parents. The labor of each child, before it can leave their house, is computed to be worth a hundred pounds clear gain to them. A young widow with four or five young children, who, among the middling or inferior ranks of people in Europe, would have so little chance for a second husband, is there frequently courted as a sort of fortune. The value of children is the greatest of all encouragements to marriage. We cannot, therefore, wonder that the people in North America should generally marry very young. Notwithstanding the great increase occasioned by such early marriages, there is a continual complaint of the scarcity of hands in North America. The demand for laborers, the funds destined for maintaining them, increase, it seems, still faster than they can find laborers to employ."

~Adam Smith's Wealth of Nations

See the singing Duggar Family

Happy Mother's Day to Michelle Duggar

who is Expecting her 18th child

Sung by the Duggar Family, to the tune of Edelweiss

May the Lord Mighty God Bless and keep you forever

Grant you peace perfect peace, courage in every endeavor

Lift up your eyes and seek His face and His grace forever

May the Lord Mighty God Bless and keep you forever

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