against the flow
Jun. 9, 2008

the next step

Well I know I’ve been talking about marriage and family for a long time, and some of you may thinks that’s the only thing I think about but it’s not. It just so happened that the topic jumped into my head one day so I started writing about it. But I’m getting the feeling your tired of hearing about it (and it’s getting harder for me to come up with cool thing to talk about, concerning marriage that is). So I’m going to start a new, cool, and completely awesome topic. But first I want to know what you think would be something you want to hear about. I want your input not only about what you think about the things I write, but also what I should write about. 

So this entry well be for you to tell me what you want to read, but that would make a sort boring entry. So, I have decided to tell you some things about me. Most of you know a good deal about my family, cuz I’ve been talking about them in most my entrees so I tell you other thing.

                                5 THINGS I LOVE TO DO

1.       Bible study, I love digging deep and finding the good stuff

2.       Bole, I love bowling, and I’m not too shabby at it.

3.       I love playing RPG’s,

4.       Just kind of chilling with my friends, not having any real plans

5.       Using my imagination to come up with crazy awesome stories

                                             5 THINGS I HATE TO DO

1.       Read I don’t read very well and I don’t like doing it

2.       Write (like with a pen or pensile) it really hurts my hand so I hate doing it

3.       Tell someone I can’t help them.

4.       To let someone down.

5.       To tell someone I can do something and then not be able to.

5 things to describe me

1.       Not tall, 5’ 7’’ish

2.       Blond, longish hair

3.       Blue eyes

4.       Hyper, or more energized

5.       FUN, l make everything fun

Well I’m at camp now, (the camp I’m working at) so I won’t be on here as much I as I would like. But I’ll try to get on as much as I can. The camp has dialup, so its really slow too. I’m going to try to get on and read your blogs when I can but its hard to fit that much computer time into my day…sorry.  

           Ok so, don’t forget to let me know what my upcoming blogs should be about.

 

Christ’s Glory

Brett

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May. 29, 2008

supper sweet home school class of 08, T-shirt giveaway.

So this is my entry to enter this supper sweet home school class of 08, T-shirt giveaway.

 

                Ok so my home schooling experience has been interesting. I started home schooling my 6th grade year, and have loved it ever since.  I’ve always wanted to go into some form on ministry, so most of our schooling has had a strong Biblical bass. Our focus has been history (from a Biblical point of view), but of cores we did the other school things too, but I didn’t like those as much, and we didn’t work as hard on them.

                Anyway, we were the first people in my family to think of home schooling, and, well, didn’t get really any support from them. Infect they all thought it was the worst idea in the word. But we did it anyway.  Infect my dad doesn’t think it good enough (oh, my mom and dad are no longer married, and I live with mom), like he says I’m not being schooled, and he had me emancipated last winter.

                Before we started home schooling I was labeled as learning disabled, they said I’m really dyslectic (so if this is hard to read I’m really sorry). The test they gave me, I scored really low on, but this past fall I took the test again (they need to be taken every 5 years), and this one is a new one (so it was harder), and I did really, really well. They say that an improvement of 15 points is extremely significant and doesn’t happen often. Well my score went up 25 points!!! Yes 25, 10 above the extremely significant improvement (the person who gave me the test said she had never seen or heard of anyone improving that much in that amount of time). So needless to say that’s supper sweet.

                Now I don’t want to bore you with a bunch of thing like that so I’ll go onto where I’m going from here. I plan on getting my BA in History through College Plus, then transfer to Johnson Bible College and get a BA in Bible study with a specialty in preaching.  But I know that there’s not many church’s who want a fresh out of college preacher, so I plan on going back to the Philippians and helping with the church’s in the mountains. And I also want to be certified EMT, to help me in the mission field and also incase I need to have something before become a minister of a church.

                So that’s my plans, where I’ve come from, and a little of what I’ve gone though, I know it was a little vague, but I don’t really know what all I should say. I’ve done a lot, won some cool awards and contested, had to deal with friends and family who don’t support us or any home scholars. We have had to re-make my plans because of being home schooled but I like these one better anyway.

 

Stay Strong In Christ Jesus Our Lord And Savor

Brett

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May. 23, 2008

marriage part 5 family part 3

Ok the next point I want to go over is Holidays. What Holidays is my family going to celebrate? How are we going to celebrate them? And what will we tell our kids? Now I know some of you know how crazy I am but this and you’ve told me what you think, but please comment anyway.

So I’m going to start at the beginning of the year and moving through, I’m not going to talk about every one, just the main ones. So first is new years, and I don’t see anything wrong with doing something for new years. But, I do see something wrong with the way most people celebrate it. So the way I want to celebrate it with my family will be; staying with them (like not going out with the wife and leaving the kids at home) I think I’ll just make it a special day. Like maybe do something a little different, do some more than normal gamey or fun thing. Maybe get or fix up some fun food and just make it a good fun day.

The next Holiday is Valentine’s Day, and I think this Holiday is one of the dumbest Holidays there is. I think it is one of the reasons husbands don’t do good or nice thing for and with their wives the rest of the year. Now the other thing about it is cupid, you know who I’m talking about, the Roman god of love. So yes we celebrate a Holiday for the Roman god of love, and I think that is wrong. The other thing it does is make young people think they need to date and if you don’t have somebody you feel left out and like a misfit.  

Next is St. Patrick’s Day. Now I will be celebrating this great Holiday. It’s so sad that not many people really know who he is. So let me fill you in on a few things. So St. Patrick is not Irish, he’s English. Now the reason he’s so cool is because he single handedly converted the entire Island of Ireland from there pagan and druid believes to Christianity, after he was one of their slaves for 10 years. So this to me is a very important Holiday and I think we should do a lot more with this one, but more as in things really about him not just more things we do now.

Now it’s time for the Holiday that has the wrong name, so I’m going to call it by its real name not the fake one, I will go over why it has a fake name. Resurrection Sunday is the most important holiday, the day our Lord Jesus rose from the dead and made the way for us to get into heaven. But unfortunately we as a whole celebrate it wrong. First off by calling it Easter, Easter was a pagan holiday going on at the same time Christ was crucified and it was a holiday to honor the gods and goddesses of the earth. It was always done the first part of spring they were thanking the gods for the rebirth of the earth, things were starting to bloom and babies were being born, which is why we use bunnies and eggs they’re a symbol of fertility. We do NOT celebrate Easter. I could go on and on about this but I wont for now.

The next one on my list is….Mothers day (I think to save time I’m going to put Fathers day in with this). Now I think we all agree that this is an important day, it is good to set aside a day to the mothers and fathers, I mean they did do a lot for us. But do you think that this can or has lead to not honoring them enough the rest of the year? Have we forgetting to always respect them and show them that we really do appreciate them? Have we made it harder to be truly good children by putting a day on the calendar that is to be just for them. Now don’t get me wrong, think it’s great to have a day for them, but does that help others not give them the respect they should have every other day of the year?

I know there are more Holidays than the ones I’ve mentioned but this are the ones I want to talk about; I don’t mean to say the other ones are not important. So the next one I’m talking about is Independence Day. Now this is a very important day for our Country, and all the other Democracies in the world, but do we look at this Day right. I think this day should be spent by remembering what our founding fathers wanted and did for us, this should be a day to remember what they went through to do what they did, and a day to remind us that we don’t give up because things look like we can’t win. We the underdogs won then and we as Christians (the underdogs) need to remember that just because it looks imposable it doesn’t mean it over; we can still pull through and win.    

All right now it’s time for the controversial one…Halloween; this is most definitely a holiday that we as Christian should not be a part of. This holiday was started as a pagan tradition by druids, they would kill a animal hollow out its head then us it as a mask so that the evil spirits couldn’t see them and if they found someone who wasn’t wearing a mask they would say “trick or treat” meaning give me a treat or I’ll play a trick on you. Now these trick aren't little practical jokes, they would be things like; kidnapping their kids, burning down their house, killing their livestock, and in some cases killing them. Now I know that that’s not how it is now or what people do, I know most people don’t even know where it came from, but by us continuing this evil tradition we keep something very evil in nature here and alive.

Next come Thanksgiving; there is only one thing I really see wrong with Thanksgiving, when we have our big thanksgiving dinner we become gluttons and that’s something we are never to do, whether we’re having a feast or not. I think its good to have a big meal for Thanksgiving, but that doesn’t mean we should eat until their sick, or eat so much that part way through the meal you need to unbutton your pants because you eat so much, that’s WRONG. I think the way we should do the food part of Thanksgiving more like we eat things that we don’t get to eat very often. It is a very special day, it’s great to meet with family and friends to keep reminding ourselves how much we are thankful for. But that doesn’t mean we need to eat until we throw up.

And last but not least…..Christmas; now I will tell you now I hate Christmas. I love Jesus’ birthday, but that’s not what Christmas is anymore, so I don’t like it. Now I really don’t care if you think I’m a Scrooge or the Grinch because I very firmly believe when something turns from what it was meant to be into something it’s not i needs to be fixed and that’s what I’m going to try to do. First its in like the one month that it would most likely not be in. it’s more likely to be in early summer or fall not the middle of winter. The next thing is there reason for picking 12/25, it was because there was so much evil things going on in this time of the year that they wanted to even it out. People spent so much time on Santa and that part of the holiday and spend almost no time on Christ’s birth, all people in the world (ok maybe not all people) celebrate Christmas and most of them don’t care about Jesus, some even hate him and they thinks it’s wrong to have Jesus in any part of Christmas. THIS IS HOW WE SHOULD FEEL ABOUT WHAT THEY DID TO THIS GREAT DAY!!!!! But we don’t…why? I better stop here because if I don’t I’ll go on and on…but I wrote a sermon on it (kind of, it’s about lots of what I don’t like about Christmas but not as much I wanted it to be) it’s on my other blog the on titled brettsermons so if you want read it.

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May. 9, 2008

marriage part 4 family part 2

Continuing on with family and marriage, I want to talk about raising the kids. Again this is how I want to raise my kids; this is what I see as being the best way to raise Godly children who will spend their life’s doing God’s work. I know there may be or could be thing that will make it hard to do this but remember this is my plane and as you all keep telling me and what I DO know, plane can change, thing can happen to prevent all my planes from turning out the way I want them to, but I am still going to try to do them the way I’m planning.

Where to start…ok we will start with bed time stories, what are good or proper bed time stories for children being raised to do great th`ings for God? I so strongly think all “holiday” character stories and all “Disney” type stories are WRONGE. I will not tell my children any “fairy tall’s”. Why not bring them up with things that matter? How about right before bed we read a passage from the Bible or a chapter from the Under God, Foxx’s Book of Martyrs, Little Pilgrims Progress, Sir Knight of the Splendid Way, even Narnia. What would be wrong with any of those, at least those are thing that will strengthen the faith, even as a child. I know they may not always understand what I’ll be reading to them, but they will know those stories, other children know The Little Mermaid, or Santa Clouse, or any of the common bed time stories.

Now what about TV or movies? Well I have already decided not to have cable, we will have a TV but it will be for movies. I don’t want movies I wouldn’t let my kids see, so that means I will have to learn to do without. There’s something you should know about me I LOVE my movies. I have more movies than my family has (we have our family movies and then I have my movies…like the one I bought or people gave me) my list of movies is prity good for a 18 year old with no “real” job. Movies like Braveheart, Patch Atoms, Lord of the Rings, and Indiana Jones to name a few. I watch all the time, but this is something that I’ve been thinking about and I think I don’t want them in my house. How can I tell my kids these movies are your and these are mine and mommies? When I think about it if I don’t want my kids to watch them, there’s a good chance God doesn’t want me to watch them. I feel that if I kept them and didn’t let my kids watch then I would be a hypocrite, and I don’t want that.

        So our movies will be thing like: Left Behind 1-3, Six, Passion of the Christ, Veggie tails, One Night with the King, the odd testament character movies like Joseph, Jacob, and Abraham. Movies that will benefit all of us, one that we would really watch with Jesus, really ask what would Jesus do before turning it on and these are the only types of movies I can think of that He would watch.              
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May. 1, 2008

marriage part 3 family part 1

   Now after your married you have to live; so this is part 3 of marriage and part 1 of family. I'm going to talk about the things the husband and wife should do (again this is how I want mine to be), and things to avoid. I'm going to take some of what I've seen in the marriages of my parents the things that have not worked the things that have worked and the things that broke the up.

                Ok we are going to assume this is my marriage. It is after college, and we have had three kids by this point. They are 6, 5 and 3 years old, and that my business I've started has and is going well.
 One is Clothed in Christ (my screen printing business) and the other is Treasures in Heaven (my storage sheds), and we will also keep in mind I won't be a minister at a church yet (most churches don't want a right out of college minister), but we'll say I'm a paramedic at this point. And as for my wife we'll say she stays at home with the kids, the kids will be old enough to start school, so my wife will be doing that while I'm at work.

                Ok so let's get started. Now marriage is a two way thing and then adding kids means both my wife and I will need to be raising the kids together. When the wife is the only one tending to the children they tend to be very mellow, non-adventurous, and softish (now that's not all the time). The other thing is if it a boy, they tend to be "girly" which leads to being made fun of and called gay (I mean called gay not made gay). Also when its mom raising a boy, the boy doesn't learn his place as leader for when he gets married and has his own family (again this is not all the time but more often than not).

                Let me tell you why I think this. Ok now my dad is in the army and 4 years ago his troop got activated and he when to Iraq. At this point he was with his 2nd wife, and had two sons with her. My dad is one of those dads who plays rough with the kids, wrestles, and throws them in the air and that kind of stuff. He had been doing this with both of them their entire lives, (at this point they were 6 and 3). After he left, their mom babied them and they never saw any male influence in there upbringing for 15 months. When dad got back, he came back to two girls not two boys (you may think I'm exaggerating but they changed big time) they would cry if any dirt got on them (these are 7 and 4 year old boys they are the messiest things in the world) but not them. Dad would try to hold them up in the air above his head or put them on his shoulders (like he always use to do) and they would freak out and screamed and cry like someone was going to really hurt them. Before he left they were used to sleeping in their own room (well there shared a room) and when he left they slept with their mom every night, as in they would sneak into her room at night cuz she couldn't say no. By the time he got back they were scared of heights, bugs, dirt, sleeping in their own rooms, dogs, and they whined and cried more than anyone I know.

It's really funny because I have a younger sister too (at my mom's) she is now almost 8, and she goes out digs through the dirt with her hands trying to find worms and bugs to play with. She did this in front of my little brothers (the same one's I've been talking about) and they were freaking out just watching her.

I know that this does not always happen, take me for example. I was mainly raised by my mom, but you may not have ever noticed if I didn't tell you (even if you knew me on a personal leave). It has turned out that I am the exception for most the things I'll be talking about.  The only thing that has happened to me from being raised by mom more than dad (step dad is include in as dad), is that I get along much better with girls than guys, and I don't get into "guy" things like any sports, cars (I like looking at them like old hotrods but that's it), being tough and unemotional. But those are things that our culture has put onto males, now some of those things are important, and sometimes they are bad.

Now on the flip side, if the kids are raised mainly by dad there are also problems. We'll start with a boy being mainly raised by dad. They are more likely to really get into cars, sports, being a tough guy, not showing a soft side at all, often it can lead to not knowing how to treat a girl properly, they are more likely to be rude (I'm not saying that girls aren't rude cuz you can be), the combination of the last two I said can lead to and often does lead to hurting girls. They may not mean to but it does happen.

Now it's time for dads raising girls. Let's just face it; there are things with girls that dads don't know how to deal with.  Most of the time the girl will act more like a guy and really get into cars, sports and other "guy" things (I'm not saying girls don't or wouldn't do that anyway). The problem is it will make it harder for them to become a submissive wife like the Bible talks about. Many times the girl will be more of a leader when raised mainly by dad (which can be good), but not in a biblical marriage, they tend to be more "guyish", and when they have kids and one turns out to be a girl it can be harder for them to raise a girl to be more like a girl.

  Now I want you to know I know there are times when there is no choice the mom or dad have to do all the work, like if a parent dies or just leaves. I know that happens and they do their best and often they do a good job, but what I'm talking about is when mom and dad are both still there and can help the other. I also know that the things I've talked about don't always happen and can also happen when both parents raise them together, but it is more likely for these things to happen when only one parent is doing the bulk of the upbringing.
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Apr. 25, 2008

marriage part 2

Now I’m the type of person who wants to have lots of kids (like at least 10), so I want to start having kinds shortly after getting married. And seeing how I want to get married young, nether me will have finest collage (that is if all things go the way I would want them to go), we (my wife and i) my want to go to different collages, so what will we do. Well I will let her go to her collage first (if that’s what she wants but if she wants me to go first I will) and I will work and if we have any kids yet (assuming there past the point where they need to stay with their mom) I will take care of them while she does her schooling . And when it’s my turn to do my schooling she will take care of the kinds while I do my schooling. Now this is something that both my wife and I will have to be willing to do for the other. This may not work for everyone, I know that. It also depends on whether she wants to go to college. But if she does I will make that sacrifices for her, and I believe if I find “her” she will too.

I want to talk about the benefits of doing marriage and collage this way. First off, it will show right up front that we are willing to make sacrifices for each other. This will show us that we are truly committed to the other. Another benefit is that if my wife or I is taking a class that we don’t understand but the other one does, it will help us see and remember that we complete each other. This will help us chose the class’s we take, if I know the my wife is far better at this or that then I am, I will know that I don’t have to stress over it, or try to put more time in that, rather than improver and adding onto the gifts I know God has put inside of me. We will be able to know the type of ministry we’re going to go into much better than if we wanted till we both finished our schooling and got settled down in a ministry.

Now most collages have houses or apartments for married couples so there are no problems there. We could help pick the classes the other was going to take, and even help them study. Now I will admit that it would be much easier if we waited to have kids, but we’ll work it out ether way.

Now again I will say that this may not work for everyone, but that’s not because it is wrong. This form of marriage can only work one if you find the right one when you’re young, two both have to want to it this way, three you have to be seeking god with your whole hart both of you. The lack of one of these and I don’t think it would work at all. This form of partnership is in my mind the best form; you go though all your studies together, so you really know each other’s strengths and weaknesses. You get to start your own life together from the beginning.

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Apr. 22, 2008

Marriage Part 1

Ok so, I’m going to break this into many parts, I don’t know how many it will be but it would be to big and long. So I will say again this is what I think, not what it must be. I am not saying this is how it needs to be, this is how I want mine to be, and it’s how I see it working best through my studies in the bible.

Ok I want to start by what I’ve gone through was a son, and what I’ve noticed in my mom and dad’s Marriages.  For starters you should know that my parents are divorced, and have been seine I was three. My dad lives in Illinois and I live with my mom in Michigan, so it’s like a six hour drive to see my dad.  Now my mom got remarried soon after as well as my dad. Mom is still with him, but dad got divorced again, and remarried again. So I have had two step moms a step dad and then my mom and dad. I along with to many youth in the world had to see marriages fail. I have seen them start and end and all the bad throughout the whole thing.  I know thing that don’t work in marriage, I know the wrong way to start one, and for that matter the things that can rip them apart.

Ok so I want to start at the beginning and then go though as far as I can. So the first thing is when to get married. Now I personally want to get married young like before or during college (that is if I can find Her by then). Now I know that that is contrary to our society today, but most of my thinking is. Now I do have a reason for wanting to be married young, so I ask you to consider what I say, you don’t have to agree with it but please try to understand where I’m coming from.

Ok so we all know that God has made someone that completes then. (I will talk as if it’s my “wife” so I’ll be using hers and not him or her) I know that somewhere out there is the girl that God made just for me, to complete me and for me to complete. The problem is I don’t know if I’ve found her yet, I might know her, but God has not yet told me who she is (I’m starting to get inpatient). Of cores there are girls I have thought might be “Her” but I still don’t know for sure. Now the reason I think it better to get married young is because, I’m not finished yet. Ok the way I look at it is, that God has made us perfectly, but in two pieces, and I can’t be “perfect” until I find “Her”. I think that you can’t really know what or where God wants you to be until you are “perfect”. So its best to be “perfect” or complete when your finding out where or what you will be going with your life. You can’t fine or get to your really potential until you’ve been made complete.  So find that the best way to prepare for my life is to do it interlay with my wife. If I am “perfect” when I, in collage then I’ll know more what I will and will not be able to do. For instance I am good at putting thing in a different form to help people understand it better. I am not good at math, reading, spelling, and computers, but my wife will make it up. The bible says that when you get married you become one flesh, when God made Adam He knew that he wasn’t finished, so He made Eve to complete him. Now it is a finished project. Now there is nothing that between the two of them that they can not do, they have become perfect.

Now we are going to say that I have found “Her” so what now. Well I think that its vital that you do the entire prose’s in a Godly fation and with help. So I strongly think that premarital counseling with a Christian consoler is very beneficial. Ok now it is of vital importance to not stay all googly eyed over my wife to be (once I’ve found her) I need to stay open eyed and keep in mind that if I don’t, It could mead I can’t do what God put me here to do, but it don’t stop there, now my wife, the girl I’m mint to be with, and the person she’s with, and its just keeps going, will not be able to completely fulfill what God made us to do. Now don’t get me wrong I still believe I will be able to do good work for Him, But not to the same existent.

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Apr. 18, 2008

are we beyond repair?

Are we beyond repair? Is there anything we can do, to turn this country around? Should we just give up, and let this mass of evil that is the USA rampage freely without check? How can we, an everyday person even dream of turning it around? This once great and God fearing country use to be a gift from The Almighty. We at one time knew what it meant to be a part of a true and free country, but those days are long gone. This is not some fairytale you read to your children, this is not some story that starts long ago in a galaxy far way. This is the truth of what has happened to this corrupt place we call home.

There was a time when all people in America were treated with a sort of respect. There was a time when no one locked their doors; there was no need of such precautions. We at one time could and did trust almost everyone. There was no fear of evil befalling you for trusting a stranger. We use to know each other, before TV and the internet took control of people’s free time. And our government really did look after us, not make things harder by making new departments and stupid law that should be a no brainer.

There was even a time not long ago that we had good clean TV show and movies. But not now, think of the movies that you like best and the TV show you love, now think, are they shows that have good morals, or are they full of unclean corrupt things? I bet it’s the later. Almost all our movies are full of violence, drugs, sex, cursing, and just plain old bad thing. There are very rarely good, clean, funny, pure movies these days. Kid’s movies aren’t even clean anymore. Think about a new kids movie, now think hard, how much filth is thrown into them? I’m not going to go into many of them, but I’ll list off some kid’s and family movies that I’ve seen that have filth in them. Horton Hears A Who, Cat In The Hat, all the Shrek’s, Enchanted, both the Ice ages, and that’s just a few. Then the movies that don’t have filth in them are full of evolution. The bee Movie, all the Land Before Time’s, Dinosaurs, and that’s just a few.

Those are kid’s movies that have filth in them, kid’s movies, how much worse are the ones we watch.  I want you to try something, the next time you watch a movie keep a piece of paper and a pen with you. Wright down everything you see or hear that is bad; swearing, sex, gays, drunks, theft and thing of the sort. Then look at who the movie is advertised to; like kids, families, or what. Now keep in mind, if it’s a war movie there will of course be violence, but if it’s a movie that is not known to be a war movie its violence gets marked against it. Wright down what it was that was bad and if it could have been avoided without changing the movie.

Now this does not just stop at movies, TV shows, and music are like this also. Do the same this when watching TV and when you listen to music. But once again it does not stop there. It not only our entertainment that is full of filth and immoral things, try this. Go online and look up what your state or city is trying to accomplish, see how many things there push for and then see how many are good and line up with the Bible. For instance, I recently heard that South Bend IN, was trying to pass a bill that would fours all businesses to add a special bathroom for homosexuals. Luckily it did not pass but it doesn’t change the fact that they tried. Think a minute to what that would do, did you know that a church in the eyes off the State is a business, and if that law was passed every church in the city would have no choice, they would have to put bathrooms for both gays and lesbians’. What would we do then?

Think for a minute, what do you think these things have done to us as a howl? What do you think will happen if things continue the way and rate that they are? How far have we strayed just in the short 18 years I’ve been alive? Why is this? We have given the devil our world. What have we saved for God? Is there anything that we keep pure, and holy, or sacred? We can’t say our courts have been kept pure or Godly. We can’t say our media has been kept pure. We can’t say our television or movie companies have been kept pure. We can’t even say the Church has been kept pure, holy or sacred. It has gotten out of hand and out of control.

Our television and movie industries have been consumed by greed and envy. They only want the money, and they don’t care how they get it. And every time they put out something new we (as a hole) flak to it and our morals go farther and farther from where they were and where God wants them to be. They put out a TV show, that seems like it might be good, and then slowly slip in all kinds of filth (sex, homosexual thing, bad morals). And with movies, you can’t even go by the rating cuz it changes all the time. For instance, a pg13 rating can have the f word in it once. And a pg can have a set number of cues words. And there are leaves of cues words, like, moderate, heavy. Now we know that a cues word is a cues word. There are leaves of sex scenes as well. Yea did you know that? A pg13 movie can have a sex scene as long as they don’t show everything and if it’s short enough. A pg movie can show a sort of nudity, the actors can be naked as long as they don’t show anything, now if it’s between the two I would rather them be naked but not show anything. But that doesn’t change that fact that IT DOES NOT NEED TO BE IN THE MOVIE.

Our media pushes for us to be very thin and tan. Both of these are not good for you. They push birth control, which I don’t think God want us to do. He wants us to have many kids and fill the earth.  They push do what feels good, when we know that God has told us the way to live.

Our courts haven’t been kept in line with what really matters. They have instead of using what is right and wrong to make the decisions, they’ve been using what is accepted. I think they have forgotten that some things are wrong no matter what new things are going on around us. The right and wrong doesn’t change just because more people are doing them, all that means is more people are doing wrong things. 

Now what can we do about it? Most people say, there’s nothing we can do. It’s already gone to far and we might as well just get use to it. Well I say THEY JUST DON’T CARE ENOUGH. There are things we can do. We (the Christians in the USA) are just to lazy to get up off our pews. We can change thing. We have the power to do anything we want. There are all kinds of things we could do to start turning things around. For starters, we need to stop contributing to the corrupt things in our country (most TV shows, music, movies…) as long as we keep going along with things they will not change.  If you want to complain about anything if you’re not trying to fix them YOU HAVE NO RIGHT TO COMPLAN.  

You can’t give the excuse “there is nothing I can do” cuz there is. If you are upset with the way the schools in your town are teaching the youth then get out there and get on the school board, or help make programs for the youth to do, to help them in the areas you feel the school is lacking in. if you problem the way your town is being ran, then get on the town board, or at least attend the town meetings.  If you have a problem with the TV and Movie industries are ran stop supporting the ones you don’t agree with. If you’re like me and can’t stand all the gay rights stuff then don’t support their supporters.

Now I’m not going to lie, it’s hard to do this. I know.  You see when I was 16 I got a job at Wal-Mart, I worked there for 6 months. But I heard that Wal-Mart joined National Gays of America. And needless to say, I couldn’t do that. So I walked out. Needless to say, they didn’t like that. But it couldn’t stop there; we (me and my family, my household) would not shop there. Now this is a little different for my household, my mom has a business in her house. We take care of elderly people. So we buy a lot of stuff, like $200+ every week. That’s a lot, and that’s with the cheap prices Wal-Mart has. So I would not let my mom shop there so instead of $200 it turned into like $300 at smaller food stores.  

But on a good note, Wal-Mart has broken for that partnership and fired the person who made it happen. So we shop there again. If you are going to punish something for doing something you strongly oppose, you must reward them for trying to make things better. Now remember this is not what you must do. This is the only way I think we can make a difference; this is what I think we should do.  If you feel you would like to do this as well, I’d be very glad, but don’t feel like I’m telling you to.

We are the world to come. If we decide we want thing different then it falls to us to change it. And the way we do that is be living our lives different the world does and opposite to the way we’re being pushed.  The only power this world has is the power we give it. Believe it or not you and I can set the standard and the rest of the world will have to follow. Now this can only work if enough of us make this radical change. And we must make it completely we can’t only do it sometimes or in some places, it much be with everything and all the time. We will have to raise our children the same way so that they will keep the world. We have lost our saltines, and it’s time to get it back.

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Apr. 15, 2008

work for God

I have come to the piont in my life that im not a kid anymore but im not yet an adult. i think you might know what i'm talking about. so where dose that leave me? where dose that leave you? are there things we can do for God? YES!!!! God dose not set out a law that says you cant do my work untill you have reached an age that someone who dosent even know you has set. if you me or Bob has a gift then you beter believe God wants you to use it right now! why else would He give it top you? dont wait for an "adult" to tell you when your ready, cuz i hate to say it they dont know. i dont care who they are...they can not tell you when you are ready to do the work God has set befor you. wether you Mom, Dad, teatcher, or even your minister. if you think your ready to start something for God get out there and do it.

now im not saying to disobey your parents, im saying dont wait for them to say its time, but at the same time if you feel your ready and they dont, sit down with them and see why they dont want you to, and let them know why you feel you are ready.

so let me tell you when i had to do this. last year (when i was 17) i got the opertunity to go one a mistion trip to the Phillipains. now i wasnt to be going with a group, i would have been going there by myself, i would fly there with no one else (i had never flone befor) then i was to get in a van with a driver for 6 hours to the house of the people i would kidof be staying with. after geting seteld i went up to a small village with out them, i would be with the people for the church there but i didnt know any of them. i'd stay there for 2 1/1 weeks and spend the rest of the mounth with the first famly i knew. needless to say my parents did not want me to go. and i was fureus... i got in many fights with bolth my mom and dad, but i knew God wanted me to go. so i got my mom on the same page as me and then 1 1/2 mounths befor i was to go, my dad said yes. so i had to rais $1800 in 1 1/2 mounths... i got $2500.

if God is going to use you, and someone tells you no, He will show you a way to get you where you need to be so you can do what He has put in frunt of you. Just make sure you go about geting there in a way that God will like and aprove of.

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Apr. 15, 2008

what i want and what i'll do for you.

ok so, my spelling will most likely not be perfact becouse, well im dyslexic and i also just dont spell vary well...so sorry, if you cany read somthing its spelt they way it sounds.

Anyway, i am 18 and im hopeing to become a minister, so the things i'll be writeing will be manly sermons and my vews on hot thing...(i like the topecs no one else wants to talk about) so if you have something and you would like to know what i think and what i fine in the bible says about it, let me know.

ok so my blogs will sometimes seem odd, i will be puting the sermons i'v writen in the past on, but i dont know how often or how many i should put on at a time. so if you have any suggesttions let me know. there may be a time when i write something and post a normal blog.

ok now i wont everyone to know that i dont care about puting things nice. i'm sorry if you dont like that, but i think it is wrong to make things seem not all that bad or wrong when they are. the things i'll be writeing are and will be not liked by some people. this is the way i do things, i put things straight and upfrunt, please dont get upset or not read my other things... some thing i write you may like and i know that not everyone agrees with my "radical" vews.

but all that aside, i hope you like and learn from my posts. it would help if you told me what you really think of them, DONT LIE, i cant be a Good minister if i dont hear the tryth form the people who read my stuff. i hope yopu injoy...

GOD BLESS

Brett Mitchell

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Apr. 14, 2008

Is it Judging?

Dear citizens of the once great America, have we forgotten where we came from? Do we know why we came here? And do we remember why we broke off from Britain? Was not one of the reasons to get away from the corrupt justice system? Being so, how is it that we’ve let the courts and judges stray so far from where the Constitution placed them? Our once great nation had the best courts in the world, and our judges were the purest. Not so anymore, the judges are using opinion rather than facts. Now I don’t at all mean that all judges are like this, there are probably some good and pure judges somewhere in this once great nation.

Let me tell you how the courts just showed me how they don’t care for the people or the judgment they throw out. This happened to me on March 3, 2008. My father and mother are divorced, and I stay mainly with my mother, so my father pays child support. Now my father has decided he no longer needs to pay child support, because I turned 18 in September, and the law states that after you turn 18 you're no longer a child, so child support is not needed—that is, if the child is not in school. I am still in school, just not in the way my father wants me to be. I’m home schooled.

So when I found out my father was taking my mother to court over it, I sent letters to people I knew, who I thought could testify that I am being schooled. These people I wrote to are mainly educators, so their words should have weight on this matter. Along with that we had a psychological assessment from a school psychologist (with our local school district). Now I had these tests done because I have been learning disabled since I was in 3rd grade. The psychologist noted “His growth is very impressive and he was home schooled during most of the time from the first testing to this fall’s assessment and is no longer considered learning disabled.”

But when my parents went up to see the judge, the judge wouldn’t look at anything we brought. All he looked at was the statement my father wrote. After reading it he said “when you put him in a real school with a real diploma, I’ll return the child support.” And that was pretty much it, he wouldn’t let either one (my mother or father) say anything. Now I'm not writing this because I’m upset with or disagree with what the judge said, I’m writing this to show you how our courts and judges no longer meet the requirements to be a judge and should be reprimanded or relieved of their duties. Help fix our courts, stop sitting around letting people with power get away with abusing their powers, let our government know you won’t take it anymore. This is our country and our government, take it back, and this time let’s keep it.

Thank you, and God Bless

Brett Mitchell

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I am an 18 year old guy from MI, im homeschooled and hope to become a minister. now im dyslecet ans am just not a good speller so please tr to look past that. if there are words you cant read, they are spelled they way they sound. Ok so, this is the first time i'v ever bloged so help me out. I'm doing this cuz i want to share me beliefs and here what other Christian homeschoolers think of them. So make sure you tell me what you think of any and everything i wright about.

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