One God, one cog, one blog. http://www.homeschoolblogger.com/monocogman/ en-us Homeschool Blogger Fri, 27 Nov 2009 21:19:00 -0600 Fri, 27 Nov 2009 21:19:00 -0600 Finally on the third attempt we made it to the top of the mountain.  Those that have been following along here know that the mountain is Spirit Mountain.  It is located 15 miles northwest of Laughlin, NV and Bullhead City, AZ. To prove that this climb was successful, a picture of the top. The post sits at the very top along with a notebook in a box to sign in as proof of your arrival. Here are four short clips taken during the hike. Total elevation gain from the trucks to the top of the mountain is 1800'. You do the math to figure out the average grade going up. Yes, we already have another attempt in the works. We are going to try it from the southeast. Some say it is more difficult, though I don't know how it could be, but stay tuned.... http://www.homeschoolblogger.com/monocogman/747963/ Fri, 27 Nov 2009 21:19:00 -0600 http://www.homeschoolblogger.com/monocogman/747963/ "Thanks be unto God for his unspeakable gift." http://www.homeschoolblogger.com/monocogman/747682/ Thu, 26 Nov 2009 11:31:00 -0600 http://www.homeschoolblogger.com/monocogman/747682/ Less than two weeks for the third attempt on the mountain. If you have been following along here, you know that some of us have been attempting to climb Spirit Mountain in far southern Nevada.  Each time the mountain has won the battle. The day after Thanksgiving will be the next attempt, weather permitting.  (Yes, believe it or not, it can snow up on that mountain in this desert area. Though we don't expect any this early.) Stay tuned for the next posting as we hopefully show pictures from the very top of the peak. http://www.homeschoolblogger.com/monocogman/745124/ Mon, 16 Nov 2009 13:41:00 -0600 http://www.homeschoolblogger.com/monocogman/745124/ Don't get caught up in all this "hate is bad" stuff going around these days. Amos 5 21   I hate, I despise your feast days, and I will not smell in your solemn assemblies. 22   Though ye offer me burnt offerings and your meat offerings, I will not accept them: neither will I regard the peace offerings of your fat beasts. 23   Take thou away from me the noise of thy songs; for I will not hear the melody of thy viols. Revelation 2 15   So hast thou also them that hold the doctrine of the Nicolaitans, which thing I hate. Proverbs 8 13   The fear of the LORD is to hate evil: pride, and arrogancy, and the evil way, and the froward mouth, do I hate. Psalm 101 3   I will set no wicked thing before mine eyes: I hate the work of them that turn aside; it shall not cleave to me. Psalm 119 128   Therefore I esteem all thy precepts concerning all things to be right; and I hate every false way. Be careful about condemning hatred. Psalm 11 5   The LORD trieth the righteous: but the wicked and him that loveth violence his soul hateth. http://www.homeschoolblogger.com/monocogman/743379/ Mon, 9 Nov 2009 16:32:00 -0600 http://www.homeschoolblogger.com/monocogman/743379/ It was the second attempt to climb Spirit Mountain.  The mountain is located in far southern Nevada.  The mountain's peak is 5600'.   Here is the mountain viewed from the east. Last April we attempted to climb from the east; after 6 hours of climbing and still hours from the peak, we turned back because of limited daylight.  This time the plan was to start at first light.  We chose the approach from the southwest.  We were starting at 3700' elevation compared to 2500'  the previous attempt.  And without the 2 mile hike across the flats to where the ascent would begin, we were confident of making the peak by noon.  Well, we again were turned back.  There is no trail up the mountain.  The mountain has many canyons  and sheer rock faces.  This photo may give you an idea, as we hugged the side of the mountain attempting to find a way up.   We were at 4800' at this point, and came to a dead end at the spacing between the rocks in this picture. (sorry about the shadows) So it was 9:30, and we realized that there are two separate peaks, and we were on the wrong mountain.  You can't see this from the ground, nor do the satellite images show this.  So a few more pics and down the mountain we descend. The area is rather remote and rugged. Thankfully temps were on the cooler side, 55°-65°, so no worry about snakes. The view from the higher elevations overlooks Lake Mohave and the Colorado River. The next plan is to try the approach from the southeast.  Will we make it next time? Stay tuned... http://www.homeschoolblogger.com/monocogman/739665/ Tue, 27 Oct 2009 13:05:00 -0500 http://www.homeschoolblogger.com/monocogman/739665/ The senate has passed the hate crime bill, the house had done so earlier this month.  It is expected to be signed into law by Mr. Obama. www.bloomberg.com/apps/news Your first amendment  rights will then be severely hindered.  Yes, change was promised and change is being delivered.  But this is a matter of not believing what God said about change. Romans 1 22   Professing themselves to be wise, they became fools, 23   And changed the glory of the uncorruptible God into an image made like to corruptible man, and to birds, and fourfooted beasts, and creeping things. 24   Wherefore God also gave them up to uncleanness through the lusts of their own hearts, to dishonour their own bodies between themselves: 25   Who changed the truth of God into a lie, and worshipped and served the creature more than the Creator, who is blessed for ever. Amen. 26   For this cause God gave them up unto vile affections: for even their women did change the natural use into that which is against nature: 27   And likewise also the men, leaving the natural use of the woman, burned in their lust one toward another; men with men working that which is unseemly, and receiving in themselves that recompence of their error which was meet. 28   And even as they did not like to retain God in their knowledge, God gave them over to a reprobate mind, to do those things which are not convenient; Did you see the three references to change in those passages.  The sodomites are all about change. The Lord said In Prov 24:21, 21   My son, fear thou the LORD and the king: and meddle not with them that are given to change: America this passage is for you - (found in Daniel 5) Thou art weighed in the balances, and art found wanting. God hath numbered thy kingdom, and finished it. http://www.homeschoolblogger.com/monocogman/738511/ Fri, 23 Oct 2009 13:18:00 -0500 http://www.homeschoolblogger.com/monocogman/738511/ It is prime time to ride the bicycle in our part of the world.  The desert is cooling down, temps in the higher elevations of the desert are in the 60's and 70's.  And the terrain in our area is certainly wilderness. Deut 32 9   For the LORD's portion is his people; Jacob is the lot of his inheritance. 10   He found him in a desert land, and in the waste howling wilderness; I have thought about that verse while riding in some very remote wilderness locations in this area. The wilderness is a very dangerous place if you are not prepared to go in there.  Yet the Lord was willing to venture out into the wilderness to find Jacob the text says.  This world is a wilderness of sin.  Dangerous, dry, and destructive. In the wilderness there are the serpents hissing, a lack of water, but also according to the Bible, a Baptist calling out to men to repent. Isaiah 40 3   The voice of him that crieth in the wilderness, Prepare ye the way of the LORD, make straight in the desert a highway for our God. Matthew 3 1   In those days came John the Baptist, preaching in the wilderness of Judaea, 2   And saying, Repent ye: for the kingdom of heaven is at hand. 3   For this is he that was spoken of by the prophet Esaias, saying, The voice of one crying in the wilderness, Prepare ye the way of the Lord, make his paths straight. For those with a repentant heart, the gospel message rings out, "Christ died for us". Are you still wandering in the wilderness of sin, or have you trusted the Lord Jesus Christ as Saviour? http://www.homeschoolblogger.com/monocogman/735628/ Mon, 12 Oct 2009 19:21:00 -0500 http://www.homeschoolblogger.com/monocogman/735628/ Here is the current proposal, of course it could change before it is signed into law. http://www.politico.com/livepulse/0909/Ensign_receives_handwritten_confirmation_.html?showall Now do you really honestly believe the federal government is that concerned about your health?  http://www.homeschoolblogger.com/monocogman/730418/ Fri, 25 Sep 2009 14:47:00 -0500 http://www.homeschoolblogger.com/monocogman/730418/ Investments can be made in many different areas.  They could be made in the stock market, real estate, a business start up, or even in a country.  The greatest investment one can make is in the Kingdom of God.  When you give above the tithe, and give to support New Testament missionary endeavors, you are investing in the Lord's work. He has given some promises concerning this. Luke 6 38   Give, and it shall be given unto you; good measure, pressed down, and shaken together, and running over, shall men give into your bosom. For with the same measure that ye mete withal it shall be measured to you again. II Cor 9 6   But this I say, He which soweth sparingly shall reap also sparingly; and he which soweth bountifully shall reap also bountifully. 7   Every man according as he purposeth in his heart, so let him give; not grudgingly, or of necessity: for God loveth a cheerful giver. And in II Cor 9 the Bible tells us giving is like an experiment. 12   For the administration of this service not only supplieth the want of the saints, but is abundant also by many thanksgivings unto God; 13   Whiles by the experiment of this ministration they glorify God for your professed subjection unto the gospel of Christ, and for your liberal distribution unto them, and unto all men; Many of you that read this do not know who I am, or anything about me.  So I don't write this to bring attention to me, but rather to what the Lord has done this past year.  I keep track of what our family gives above the tithe to support missions through the church we attend.  I also keep track of what God gives back to us through other people, as Luke 6 speaks about.  Thus far this year, the rate of return on what the Lord has given back to us is 63.5%.  I was challenged at the beginning of this year to give much more than the past year, and at a time when our finances are tight.  To God's glory, he has given back, and much more.  Are there any banks offering a return of 63.5%?  How about the stock market?  Real estate is certainly not giving you a return like that on your investment.  But the Lord is showing that he is "able to do exceeding abundantly above all that we ask or think". We don't give to get, but the Lord is always faithful to his word, and the reaping is bountiful on the bountiful sowing of money into his work. If you are a Christian, how is your giving? Do you tithe? Do you give to support missionaries through your church? Is your giving the largest part of your budget? Or Do you spend more on a automobile payment than on the Lord's work? Do you spend more on groceries and going out to eat than you give to the Lord? This is why the apostle Paul wrote, Phil 3 17   Brethren, be followers together of me, and mark them which walk so as ye have us for an ensample. 18   (For many walk, of whom I have told you often, and now tell you even weeping, that they are the enemies of the cross of Christ: 19   Whose end is destruction, whose God is their belly, and whose glory is in their shame, who mind earthly things.) http://www.homeschoolblogger.com/monocogman/725015/ Tue, 8 Sep 2009 11:28:00 -0500 http://www.homeschoolblogger.com/monocogman/725015/ Perhaps you heard the news concerning the ELCA, (the Evangelical Lutheran Church of America).  They voted in Minneapolis to allow sodomites that are in "long term and monogamous relationships" to be pastors.  In the past they have affirmed their support of abortion. The following quotation is taken from the denomination's website. "A developing life in the womb does not have an absolute right to be born". And they add, "The church recognizes that there can be sound reasons for ending a pregnancy through induced abortion"   So this church has affirmed that they condone adultery, perversion, and murder. Having rejected the Lord Jesus as the only way of salvation, they have turned to moral relativism.  They are the blind leading the blind as our Lord said, and they truly have fallen into the ditch. No, I am not serious about nailing 95 thesis on the door of any Lutheran church.  It is better that you obey the scripture that says, "Come out from among them, and be ye separate."  And concerning what a scriptural church is, Jesus said I will build my church and the gates of hell shall not prevail against it.  Sorry, Mr. Luther was about 1500 years to late. And no need to reform Roman Catholicism, they were never the true church having always preached their false message that is connected to the Mass. Stick with the scriptures!!!  Believe what God said, adding nothing and taking nothing away, and keeping it in context. http://www.homeschoolblogger.com/monocogman/721986/ Sat, 29 Aug 2009 15:09:00 -0500 http://www.homeschoolblogger.com/monocogman/721986/