Defending the Faith by Leading Your Family ~ Geoffrey Botkin

1) How do I bring leadership to my wife when God feels 1,000 miles away?

This task is ominous. We should feel helpless. Think about the mission like the puritans and as our Lord who came to earth willingly. His desire is for my sanctification and my victory. Think about eternity. Simply walk in it. As I help my wife think about these things, she sees me as a man to be followed.

2) Please explain the best way for a single man to find a godly wife.

Nail down the life mission you will be following. Articulate your life mission. Train yourself in godliness. Let men see the grace of God in your life. Let others see you make disciples. Be aware of young women assisting their fathers in their homes. She will understand what she will be giving up her life to follow. Go to older men (or to her father) and ask what young woman might be compatible. Pursue her objectively. If you marry a wife without an interest in your mission and in the Kingdom of God, you will be quite miserable. When you do marry, inspire your wife continually.

3) Do you mean it literally that my wife should call me “lord?”

My dear wife, Victoria, does not say, “Lord would you like more coffee?” She has an internal understanding that only Jesus is our Lord with a capital L. Holy women with imperfect husbands rest in this.

4) How does a working wife fit into this? In the work force, her boss is her lord. She has to be subject to him living outside the will of God eight hours a day. That is what she is paid to do.

5) What should I do if I have blown it?

Start with confession. Begin with a plan. “Honey, I need to tell you where I have been wrong. Our family has not been on target. Here is what I’ll change.” When she sees you being serious about changing she will respect you more and more. “I’ve missed this. Will you come with me in this new direction?” This is so romantic for your wife.

6) What if my wife has a difficult time trusting me?

Part of the curse is that our wives tend to usurp our authority. Men have a tendency to abdicate. Wives have a command to do this 24/7. You need to show her an unshakable love, not to bully your wife, but to serve her and lay your life down for her. She needs to come to want your advice. A fancy rich expensive dinner is not nearly as effective as to sit down, hold her hand and tell her, “I want to lead our family for Christ.”

7) What if our wives are smarter and more spiritual than we are?

Probably all our wives are smarter and more spiritual. That gives us no permission to abdicate. If your wife is truly smart and really spiritual she will see God’s wisdom. It is a patriarchal universe. Every man is a patriarch. Wives gain their highest happiness as women and not men. They are truly noble.

If you lead her wrong, you’ll both crash and burn.

8) What about asking her to learn from Godly material?

Yes, make some assignments, “Honey you study this for me and see if we can learn from it. I won’t have time to study it like you will. Wives feel the pressure of learning from others.

9) To what degree do you exercise the authority you discussed Saturday?

Leadership is stewardship from God. Exercise leadership diligently and confidently. Leadership makes us more in love. As a man who has been honored with an honorable wife… communicating to my wife “I need to be one heart, one soul and one flesh with you.” This is limited by the law of God. We do not escape the jurisdiction of the church and state.

10) How do you lead her without treating her like a child?

Never think of her as a child. Get out of that mode as fast as possible. She is a fellow heir in the grace of life.

11) Where am I in sin if she refuses to submit?

Look first at the log in your own eye. Love her and help her as a non-Christian to understand the gospel. Do you lay your life down for her? Preach the word to her with longsuffering. Puritans did this.

12) Should a man study the Bible separately, then with his wife?

Yes, you need to be memorizing on your own. Study the word a lot to share with her.

13) If the home is her domain, how do I instruct her in how to manage it?

You are responsible for everything about your house. If it is not being managed well, you need to get your house in order, carefully. We have shared kingdom objectives.

14) What is militant Christianity?” It is the enduring of hardship. “Endure hardness as a good soldier.” You wake up in the morning and say to God, “Reporting for duty.”

15) How do I keep my family from being defiled when shopping?

Men, remember never abdicate. Take leadership to create a better environment. Set up guidelines to protect children (from ungodly television etc.) when with in-laws.

Our wives disciple our daughters. Prepare them to work with their husbands. We must disciple our wives we must protect them against predatory influences, predatory males. The daughter of a priest who became sexually immoral was executed at the door of his home to show he failed in his duty to protect her. God was very serious about that.

16) I’m not a virgin. Can I possibly be worthy to marry a virgin from a good home?

I answer as a man who has been praying for over two decades for the men who will marry my daughters. None of us will ever be worthy of the good wives the Lord gives us. None of us merit the privileges and joys. God makes all things new including you.

As the father of two daughters, if a young man comes to me; would it be a total deal breaker? Not necessarily. Every suitor will be immature. My daughters are looking for hearts that fear God and hunger for righteousness.

Every man has been trained by the pop culture to have eyes full of adultery. We are exposed to porn, even in ads. Men, that is impurity.

Loss of one’s virginity is very serious. A man that has defrauded virgins has an obligation to tell the fathers. You should tell the prospective bride’s father and he should verify your health. Exodus 22, Deut 22.

17) If I had $10,000 how could I best invest it?

Invest in the Kingdom of God, in wisdom, assets. Invest in your family businesses and estate.

Defend the faith by leading your family. Identify your life mission. Take on dominion oriented activities. We need to be family men, businessmen. Children need to be nation builders. How can we build the United States of America? We are no longer respected world wide. Enemies despise us with reason. Train all nations to obey all Christ’s administrative and moral commands. Use your gifts, specific to your background and abilities to do everything Christ commands. The clergy/laity distinction is largely Greek and Roman Catholic. Every one of us has specific abilities. As we see their abilities developing, inspire you r family to build this legacy, they will not need a lot of direct management. They will ask you, Dad what do we choose? Buy the word of God, understanding God’s business interests. Jesus did his Father’s business. By the example of your character you will inspire your children. In a properly functioning Christian home, issues of power, battles of the will, ultimatums are not an issue. We are all working together. I tell my son who works very hard; you need to take a break. The issue in question is the will of God. We pray “thy Kingdom come, they will be done on earth as it is in heaven.” There is no argument in heaven. It is all done. We work together as a family to know and perform his will in the ways we approach the great commission. Order your household with all dignity 1 Ti 3:4

18) Command the future through training Gen 18:19 For I know him, that he will command his children and his household after him, and they shall keep the way of the Lord. We have to learn immediate repentance, walking in the light.

Boys at 13 talking, “What is the just thing to do?” Be a holy humble patriarch. America is plunging into wars in Middle East? Is this just? How should we deal with it? Lay out plans for a flexible legacy. What are you living for?

19) What is the greatest way to help your wife and children to catch vision?

Dinner table, issues health, war in Iraq, birth control pill – 110 million women taking pill world wide, so many hormones excreted changing fish. Fish instead of 50/50, it is becoming 80% female. Men are losing ability to reproduce. Is this a judgment from God? How do we apply scripture? We are God’s instruments to stand in the gates and articulate this. The dream of magic pill came from eugenicist Margaret Sanger to lower the birth rate of everyone, but especially undesirables. In 20^th century healthy families dropped from 7, 8, or 9 children to 2. “In the multitudes of people is the king’s glory.” Christians need to repent and have children.

20) How do you fit everyday jobs into your mission statement if most of your time is outside the home? [Each contributes according to the gifts God has given him.]

I think it is ideal is for fathers to start businesses in your home so they can work with sons according to Deut. 6. At one point I took job as CEO at media corp. but I waited till sons were old enough to join me.

One high paying computer industry executive went home to repair with his sons and contributed to a massive amount of character to take into the future.

Set up your home life so there is so much going on it is almost like you are there: a self-contained economic engine of reformation. Children have the peaceful fruit of righteousness. Principles of “Curriculum Advise” can be downloaded form Western Conservatory.

“Teaching them to observe all things that Christ commanded us.” How do we get our arms around that? Begin by honoring the word of God in your home. Laws superseded by coming of messiah have been fulfilled. Laws for fathers and mothers to obey: Eph 6 Obey your parents in the Lord for this is right. Never throw a commandment behind your back. “Seek first the Kingdom of God and His righteousness and all these things will be added to you.” We were in the kingdom of Darkness, now we are in the Kingdom of Light. We are the creatures. Our king is Jesus Christ. You have a king. How would he set up His cabinet, His court, His armies? The Lord gave us this analogy I want to seek that and make sure this is application is right in military morality, sexual morality, and marital morality. We seek to implement all these things that we have the moral responsibility to implement. Some have more responsibilities than others, as Abraham Kuiper, we are subject to the authority of Kings of Kings.

Prayer:

Great and mighty and patriarchal God and Father of all, You have not put a yolk on us that is burdensome. I pray they will see they are acting on your behalf, and see their children rise up and call their mother blessed and honor their father.

Make Disciples

Clearly, before Christ comes back the nations of the world will be Christianized, Matt 28:18, 1Cor.15, Heb 10:12-13. God promised that those who honor and keep his commandments will be blessed to a thousand generations. Those that disobey God will be destroyed. What is coming soon is the destruction of covenant breakers the “meek shall inherit the earth.” Man builds his kingdoms and they come down. But, the kingdom that Christ inaugurated (Matt. 12:28) shall increase as yeast. Daniel 2:35 says the stone not cut out by human hands shall become a mountain and fill the whole earth. Jesus Christ is the stone not cut out by human hands that grows and covers the whole earth.

~Lance and Dinah

Calvinism gives people a greater ability to weather the storms of life.

John Calvin suffered many times in his life of bad health but he said, "O, LORD, your hand is heavy upon me, but I take comfort that it is your hand and not another."

Do away once and for all with "Saint" Lincoln by Lance

Do away once and for all with "Saint" Lincoln. He plunged these united states into a bloodbath that took the lives 1.2 million dead, missing or wounded. We're still trying to loose the chains of slavery with which he unleashed on us. Obama is desperately trying to tighten them. Marx loved Lincoln and commended him in a letter for the reconstruction of a social world.

The first Communist club was in NY. Three of the founding members were later Lincoln’s generals: Wedemeyer, Anneck and Willich. Karl Marx commissioned Lincoln’s future General Joseph Wedemeyer published the Communist Manifesto in America.

There were 50,000 Southern civilians that were killed by besieging cities - Richmond surrendered a few days before Robert E. Lee surrendered, Grant burned them to the ground. Lincoln hung, shot, and imprisoned ministers of the gospel like E. M. Bounds. He shut down 300 newspapers, confiscated guns in the border states, censored voting, imprisoned political opponents - Northern sympathizers known as "Copperheads."

No man did more to promote Communism in the US prior to the Bolsheviks than Charles A Dana. An absolutely must read is “Red Republicans, Lincoln’s Marxist” by Al Benson and Walter Kennedy.

Frederick Engels, a coauthor of the Communist manifesto, bragged that the Union army was saved early on in the war by the 48ers. European Communists that fled from the failed revolutions in Europe in 1848, but "succeeded in these united states with their revolution. One 48er was Charles Dana, the assistant sec. to Abe Lincoln, and a close friend of Karl Marx. Lincoln called Dana “the eyes of my administration.” It was Dana who recommended sending Grant to burn the Shenandoah and Sherman to burn Georgia in the "March to the Sea."

As Engels confided to Weydemeyer, one of the preliminaries of a Communist Revolution was the establishment of a "single and indivisible" republic. "Indivisible" as was inserted into the socialist pledge of allegiance by a mason, Francis Bellamy, whose cousin Edward Bellamy wrote "Looking Backward."

Francis Bellamy declared that "indivisible" was the meaning of the Civil War.

How to Defend the Faith by Loving our Wives

I have made the audio from the first session available as a sample for those who may still be interested in joining us. If you have friends who might benefit from these times, they can hear what we covered today by going to this page: https://www.westernconservatory.com/smm
Sincerely,
Geoffrey Botkin

Our lives are characterized in the way we invest our time and money. How will I defend the faith? Deception is all around us.

Thy presence alone can make me holy, devout, strong and happy.

Abide in Christ in everything you do. Many professing Christians live no different than the world. Older women need to teach the younger women.

Men will never be leaders till their homes are in order. Husbands need to be respectful leaders in their homes. The welfare state makes family life unnecessary and unwanted. The welfare state endorses perpetual childhood. The state frowns on men taking responsibility.

Worldly romanticism makes agape love impossible. Lay your life down for your wife every day.

Women are severely messed up spiritually and progressively confused and degraded turning to the state to care for them. We must husband, care for our wives, discipling our wife. If we don’t we will not have the strong marriages that God require. Protect them from a corrupt culture, rescue her from the captivity of a bad world view, and cleanse her from unbelief, ignorance, compromise, corruption and rebellion. Love your wife. Provide her both and material and spiritual support to sanctify, beautify and honor her. Adorn your wife with a gentle and quiet spirit.

Will your wife be willing to call her husband “lord?” Cleave closely to her with a romantic enthusiasm. Every man needs to be more verbal with them. Protect her from wrong influence in catalogs, internet and movies to control the flesh. Honor our wives as a husband that is worthy of the title “lord.” Wives are attracted to gentle men. What must you do to become a man of courage and valor? Our heads are never turned by someone younger or more attractive.

Masculine repentance is hard. Western men are more messed up than western women. Assess our own unbelief and rebellion. Assess my unbelief. Help me grow in this. We have traits of rebellion. We must find problems in ourselves first. We have to root out our wrong view of family, marriage, affections, worldly wealth and esteem. Do we have nonbiblical heroes? Are we married to self-love instead of our wife? Are we in pursuit of personal affluence at the expense of character? Are we exchanging true freedom for statist security? Is wealth and leisure time away form responsibility?

Examine unbiblical goals. Severe dangerous relationships. Greed is idolatrous. Is tongue unbridled? Assess our gifts, talents, abilities. Get council. Use sympathy, kindness and gentleness.

Is my wife happy? The more she loses her life for Christ’s sake. Would she die for Christ become a refugee in a two day notice? Willing to go into the wilderness to protect her

Does your wife love Christ enough to study and obey all Christ’s commandments? Does she dishonor you by the way she speaks to the children? Does she look to worldly messiahs for security? Does she prefer licensed Christianity to the unlicensed variety, endorsing the state? Conform to every edict of the state? A weak gospel is a tool of the statist gospel, not a biblical gospel.

Does your wife smile at the future?

Does she fear man and seek the approval of the elite (a scholarship to Harvard)? We do not need the approval of others over the approval of Christ. A friend of the world is an enemy of Christ. We are free. Long-term debt is wrong. Debt makes slaves of an entire population. Does your wife blame others for her problems? Does she look for hope in candidates who are statist in their beliefs like Sarah Palin?

The profane and vulgar should be offensive. Do rival gods offend her? Do we really, really want children? Does she allow strangers to rock the cradle as a Walt Disney movie or Marxist piano teacher?

A wise woman is spiritually teachable. Use a gentle tone of voice. Give her space. If you are committed to the will of God, the family will want to hear you. Her primary mission in life is to help you with your mission.

Geoffrey Botkin’s First Fatherhood Mentoring Lesson

We learned about purifying our wife; protect her from lies and dangers:

Adorn her with the raiment God intends: a gentle and quiet spirit and attitude. Can she call her husband “lord?”

Cleave to her with romantic enthusiasm, to unite closely with her in interest and affection. Adhere with strong attachment.

Honor your wife as a husband worthy of the title, “lord.” Mrs. is also a royal title. Behave as a courageous gentleman of valor.

Western men are more messed up than our women, thinking rebellion and independence are cool. We are selfish. We want our personal peace. We have redefined personal space away from our responsibility to our wife and children.

Examine yourself. Ask her help to see your own areas of unbelief and rebellion. Confess it first.

Assess your wife’s needs based on your own shortcomings: wrong worldview, wrong view of family and marriage, wrong affections (wealth), wicked heroes and heroines (movie stars and sports heroes), fruitless pastimes (movies), self love, unbiblical goals for children.

Assess your gifts, talents and abilities.

Husband evaluation quiz:
Is your wife happy?

Would she die for Christ today?

Would she be willing to become a refugee on two days notice or turn back longing for Wal-Mart?

Is Christ the dominate Lord of her life?

Does she insult Christ in any way?

Does she turn to worldly messiahs for security?

Is she a friend of the world: American dream built on debt?

Does she blame others for her problems?

Does she know the value of children and really, really want them?

Does she allow outsiders to rock the cradle (influence them)? Take children to unbelievers for babysitting or music lessons?

Does she understand your vision for family dynasty?

She must love you God’s way. Eph. 5:24, Col. 1:18

Major Reasons a Christian Should NOT Support Rev. Mike Huckabee

http://tdgwolfwatch.blogspot.com/2008/01/huckabee-christian-scorecard.html

Peter Braderick

http://www.tyrannyeve.com/

Tyranny Eve.com

The modern state is either openly or covertly godless.

It has legalized abortion and homosexuality, and increasingly, euthanasia.

“Cesar’s household,” in Philippians 4:22, may refer to cabinet-rank officials. Romans 16:23 mentions Erastus the chamberlain of the city.”

The early church faced the issue of lordship or sovereignty. The church's response was, "Jesus Christ is Lord" (Phil. 2:9-11), not Caesar. For Christians, theocracy must be the normal pattern of all government, because God alone is Lord or sovereign. It is basic to the madness of our time, and of all apostate history, to assert the sovereignty of man or of the state (Gen. 3:5).

We thank God for 20 wonderful years with Dinah. Happy birthday, sweetheart

I ran into Dinah at 3 am. She told me, "Happy birthday, Mom!" Yes, it is a day when I gave birth.
Two days after her birth, I attended a Christmas service with our family and newborn. I did not like the thought of staying home alone.

Are you a Theonomist?

“Theonomy” is derived from a combination of two Greek words: theos (“God”), and nomos (“law”). It simply means “God’s Law.” Broadly speaking the term describes the Christian ethical position that holds that God’s Word determines what is right and what is wrong, rather than “natural law.” “Theonomy” is generally understood to point out the righteousness and practicality of the Mosaic civil code for modern application.

The distinctives of the theonomic ethic are at least six. Theonomy holds that Old Testament Law (often called “the Mosaic Law,” but actually wider than the Mosaic Law code) is:1. Binding (that is, we are obliged to obey it for our sanctification); and2. Relevant (in that all our Lord does is governed by all-wisdom and all-knowledge, thus making His Word practical for all times and applicable for all situations),3. When properly interpreted (taking into account the full significance, purpose, and situation of the original intent of the various laws individually considered), and4. Properly applied (the flow of redemptive history must be taken into account and the New Testament precepts and principles must be given their full significance.)5. Thus, the details of the Law are essential to Law-keeping (they form an essential part of the Law, as parts to the whole), and6. Are meant to equitably observed by man on the personal, social, and civil levels of human existence.From God’s Law in the Modern World: The Continuing Relevance of Old Testament Law by Kenneth L. Gentry, Jr. pg. 9

John said the Kingdom of Heaven is at hand.

Jesus ushered in the Kingdom: He said "The Kingdom of God is upon you." Luke 11:20, & Matthew 12:28 The Kingdom of God is like: yeast, a farmer sewing seed, a mustard seed that grew...

According to the Dispensationalists’ View by Lance

Charles Ryrie & Eugene Merrill 2/3 of the Jews are yet to be annihilated. Israel will be created on the ruins of her own suffering. Charles Ryrie said in his book The Living End, in the chapter entitled, “A bloodbath for Israel,” he states that 2/3 of Israel will be killed during the Great Tribulation.

This is extreme racism. It was never to a race, but always to a line of faith.

Zionism is the antithesis of Biblical Christianity.

My position is that the world will be converted to Christ and the nation of Israel will be Christ’s followers in the line of Christ. In the meantime we dare not talk about a rebuilt temple. Jesus is the TRUE temple. On the cross, Jesus said, “It is finished.” [Temple (Matthew 24:2), Land Promises (Joshua 21:43), David’s throne (Acts 2)]

Egyptians who left with Israel and people from surrounding nations in search of the true and living God were allotted land with the Israelites. One who blasphemed God was put out of the camp, never to return. Not a bloodline, Heb. 11: by faith Abraham, Rahab…

Jean-Jacques Rousseau by Lance Seppi,

Jean-Jacques philosophy as laid out in Emile is the foundation of modern education. Paul Johnson’s Intellectuals describes Rousseau as “An Interesting Madman.”

Born in 1712 to a “Calvinist” family in Geneva, His father, a watch-maker by trade, was involved in riots. His mother died soon after. After his father died Jean returned because “He saw his family in terms of cash.”

This one man embodies the principles of the French revolution, three decades before reality hit.

His book Emile, detailed his ideology that “In short by transferring his responsibility to the state ‘I thought I was performing the act of a citizen and father and I looked on myself as a member of Plato’s Republic.”

Plato laid out that “No child shall know his father and no father shall know his child.” He believed that no man was as loving, compassionate, caring, he would never quarrel but was found to love quarreling.

He was a precursor to Marx, and believed that private property was evil, the source of social crime, and that “The poor are victims of the rich.”

Let’s see how loving, compassionate, and caring he was. He had at least three mistresses. One of his long-time live-ins, for 33 years, Therese Lavasseur gave birth to a child in the winter of 1746-47. He had the midwife take the baby to the Hopital des Enfants-trouves, “With ‘The greatest difficulty in the world’ he persuaded Therese that the baby must be abandoned ‘to save her honour.’ She obeyed with a sigh…Four other babies he had by Therese were disposed of in exactly the same manner.”

In justification for his rank cruelty “He blamed the wicked circle of godless intellectuals among whom he then moved for putting the idea of the orphanage into his innocent head. Then, to have children was an ‘inconvenience’. He could not afford it. ‘How could I achieve the tranquility of mind necessary for my work, [if] my garret were filled with domestic cares and the noise of children?’ He would have had to ‘stoop to degrading work, to all those infamous acts which fill me with such justified horror’. ‘I know full well that no father is more tender than I could have been.’ ”

“Something had to take his place, and that something was the State in the form of the orphanage.”

As Kevin Swanson recounted, “Someone asked him, ‘Jean-Jacques what did you have, boys or girls?’ ‘Oh, I forgot to check the gender.”

5% of children in the orphanage survived to adulthood, and most became beggars and vagabonds who grew up to be the French Revolutionary backbone of the violent overthrow of the Louis XVI, the Aristocracy, and the Christianity of France.

Rousseau was an aimless vagabond going from place to place without purpose. A man with out God is purposeless.

As Kevin Swanson says, “Modern man is lost and lonely, lost without Truth and lonely without relationships.”

“Until he was well into his thirties, Rousseau led a life of failure and of dependence, especially on women. He tried at least thirteen jobs, as an engraver, lackey, seminary student, musician, civil servant, farmer, tutor, cashier, music-copier, writer and private secretary.” He held the post of secretary to the Comte de Montaigu, the French ambassador to Venice but was dismissed after 11 months and fled to avoid arrest by the Venetian Senate. “Montaigu stated…that his secretary was doomed to poverty on account of his ‘vile disposition’ and ‘unspeakable insolence’, the product of his ‘insanity’ and ‘high opinion of himself.’”

The French revolution is a testimony to what happens to a society that drives out Christianity. The Catholics drove out the Huguenots, and later the French purged the Catholics. Christians are the foundation of culture. When you drive out the Christians your culture unravels, economically and morally, and this gave rise in 1789 to the French Revolution bloodbath when some 300,000 people were murdered. Robespierre had a plan to kill all the farmers in France to make France ready for “the new day.” They even took the tax-board down to Madame de la Guillotine where it chopped their heads off.

Rousseau believed that society owed him, helping him meant that you were helping yourself. After staying at the Chateau of the Duc de Montmorency-Luxembourg he wrote a letter expressing that, “I will neither praise you nor thank you…the ploy worked beautifully, the Duchess replying apologetically: ‘It is not for you to thank us—it is the Marshall and I who are in your debt.’”

Rousseau believed that man was a part of the State, and his identity was with the State.

“Laws made under the authority of the General Will must, by definition, have moral authority. [Rousseau said,] ‘The people making laws for itself cannot be unjust.’ ‘The General Will is always righteous.’” In other words the voice of the people is the voice of God. The god-like State is authoritarian and also totalitarian. It is the nanny of all and friend of none. The difference between this and Christianity is that we believe God created the world and gave us His law to live by. On the other hand humanism is, “The placing of man at the center of all things, and making him the measure of all things.

“The axis of Rousseau’s ideas was the citizen as the child and the State as the parent. He insisted that the government should have complete charge of the upbringing of all children. Hence – and this is the true revolution Rousseau’s ideas brought about – he moved the political process to the center of human existence by making the legislator...into the new messiah...‘Everything,’ he wrote, ‘is at root dependent on politics.’”

He saw virtue as the product of good government.

Genesis 3:5b “You will be like God, knowing [determining] good and evil.” Instead God has written his law on our hearts. It’s not left up to the dictates of the “General Will.”

David Hume and Voltaire both called Rousseau “a monster”

The wizards that peep and mutter are the false philosophers and intellectuals that do not speak according to God's law:

“To the law and to the testimony!

If they do not speak according to this word

there is no light in them.” Isa. 8:20

The Mumblings of the Wizards that Peep and Mutter

1. Those so-called Intellectuals and many of these Philosophers lived immoral lives. These men want you to drop off your children at the local humanist temple of Reason. Horace Mann came to Massachusetts,when he saw the public schools he said that the public schools are temples, and the teachers are high-priests of a new religion.

We can’t afford children, they’re too much work, and a financial burden, my career comes first!

3. We are citizens of and find our identity in a State that replaces God. And we’re proud of it!

4. Instead of an Omniscient God we had an “omniscient” State,.

5. Karl Marx said in the Communist Manifesto said “replace Home-education with social.” But why? Because we’ve got to destroy the family.

6. Get the mothers out of the home!

This is what I want.

Three generations of in-laws
standing together
with vision and joy.

What happened to '09? by Lance

In January; Victor, Melody and Regina flew to Texas for the San Antonio Independent Christian Film Festival. Now for the first time in 70 years “Christian film-making is coming of age,” said Doug Phillips, the founder of the festival.

For so long we have been eating the scraps from Hollywood and Madison Ave. Its time we start to create a God honoring culture of films. As Christians we ought to be the most creative people in the world. We serve the Creator of the universe. It is a reproach on the body of Christ that we are a bunch of bored wastrels with no good ideas.

Later that week Dinah and I were blessed to drive out with three Slavic friends. In Beorne we visited some of their friends and went to a Romanian church. Dennis translated for us. It was wonderful to meet family friends of the Chobans, who were homeschooling their children, and another family planning to when their children get older.

Before leaving for Texas, I was honored to preach at the Lordship Church in Ridgecrest, about God's command to raise our children up in the nurture and admonition of the Lord and why education must be in the fear of God.

Another sermon I gave there in May was on Rebuilding Culture, showing how the early church rebuilt culture. When the Romans abandoned their babies under the bridge of the Tiber River for the dogs to get, but godly Christians went down, collected them and passed them out to Christians to raise them in the Lord. They took care of the poor, they started righteous courts so that justice would not be perverted, and even the pagans came to them for justice. And when the Roman Empire fell, Christians rebuilt culture.

We had a great shock in San Francisco (a.k.a. Sodom by the Sea). It was a great opportunity to contend for the faith. In fiendish rage they would tell us, “Theses are our streets, go back into your churches and save souls.”

Lord Monckton exposed faulty science promoted by Al Gore.

Lord Monckton Assaulted to the point of unconsciousness

by EuroThug Police at Copenhagen

http://sonoranweeklyreview.com/?p=1590

Today Hugo Chavez

the Socialist president of Venezuela,

let it out of the bag that

the real agenda is Marxism-Socialism,

blaming "global warming" on capitalism

and received a standing ovation.

Al Gore said the ocean waves would rise 20 feet. In 100 years scientists say they will rise 16” at the most.

1/3 of the ag land in the US is for bio-fuels. This caused the world's food prices to double according to WTO. DDT prevented malaria which killed a million a year a year for 40 years. Al Gore identified him as one of the top ten most dangerous men. You can see his courageous Christian stance.

Polar Bears are flourishing. Six died because of a storm, not related to the so-called "climate change."

31,478 scientists, ten thousand of which are PhD's, signed a petition which Ron Paul quoted in congress, stating that global warming NOT human caused and is not a valid problem

As members of the Body of Christ,

we need to stop thinking in terms of years. Whatever problems we encountered during 2009 will probably continue into 2010. Likewise, any blessings seen may likewise continue. Life doesn't follow a script or particular timeline, nor should we. We should simply live our lives in loving response to the Lord for what He has done and let whatever happens happen.

Zionism is racism in the church.

Zionism is an idea that there are two peoples of God:

Israel and the church,

His bride and His concubine.

~Lance

Therefore know

that only those who

are of faith

are sons of Abraham.

Gal 3:7

But you are a chosen generation, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, His own special people, that you may proclaim the praises of Him who called you out of darkness into His marvelous light; who once were not a people but are now the people of God, who had not obtained mercy but now have obtained mercy.

~I Peter 2: 9-10

For as many of you as were baptized into Christ have put on Christ. There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither slave nor free, there is neither male nor female; for you are all one in Christ Jesus. And if you are Christ’s, then you are Abraham’s seed, and heirs according to the promise.

~Gal. 3:27-29

Biblical faith

however, is more than the church.

It is the ground of all spheres.

Church, state, family, the vocations,

the arts and sciences, and all things else

must be governed by Biblical faith,

and every sphere has equally

the duty of faithfulness to the triune God.

“‘A man’s enemies will be those of his own household.’

"He who loves father or mother more than Me is not worthy of Me. And he who loves son or daughter more than Me is not worthy of Me. And he who does not take his cross and follow after Me is not worthy of Me. He who finds his life will lose it, and he who loses his life for My sake will find it. He who receives you receives Me, and he who receives Me receives Him who sent Me. He who receives a prophet in the name of a prophet shall receive a prophet’s reward. And he who receives a righteous man in the name of a righteous man shall receive a righteous man’s reward.

"And whoever gives one of these little ones only a cup of cold water in the name of a disciple, assuredly, I say to you, he shall by no means lose his reward."

Matthew 10: 36-42

Enemies,

not because they personally offend you,

these are enemies to the cross of Christ.

The sovereign in any system of thought and life

is the source of law and of justice...The state, therefore, which rejects the sovereignty of the triune God of Scripture and which denies the validity and sway of His law-word, will become, not a means of justice, but a source of injustice. To the degree that it forsakes God, to that degree it will manifest injustice. It will be evil, not good, and its pretended justice and its man-made laws will be evil, not good....nor can a fallen world do other than pollute and destroy these things as it develops the implications of sin.

Every way of a man is right in his own eyes,

But the LORD weighs the hearts.

Prverbs 21:2

The Year 2009

We started the year with going to San Antonio for the Film Academy & Festival. We got to meet Jimmie Broyden who did a stunt demonstration also Steven Kendrick the producer of Fire Proof.

On March 5 we went to San Francisco for Prop 8 Hearings. I held signs. Lance debated Sodomites and Dinah debated a Communist. Regina took notes in the hearing.

On July 1, I got my permit to drive.

At the end of July we went WCWC. It had a great lineup of speakers.

I cleaned and laid Dura-Coat on our garage floor, then put together steel shelving.

In August we went to the Father & Son Retreat. It was great fun. We got to spend time with Bill Potter.
We did was push-ups with Doug Phillips.

I have lifted weights, but have never done it very long, so after looking on the internet and down-loading “Strong Lifts” work out log, I'm working out regularly. After watching Rambo First Blood part 2, I am inspired to see what lifting can do. Now I have a goal.

~Victor