Marriage And Family

Dr. Kent Hovind On The Depopulation Agenda Of The Global Elite

2009-11-01T09:01:00.002-05:00

In the video posted below, Dr. Kent Hovind speaks about the horrific depopulation agenda of the global elite. This short video contains video footage of the infamous Georgia Guidestones, and in it Dr. Hovind discusses the tragic impact that Margaret Sanger (the founder of Planned Parenthood) has had upon the world.....

This Is What Your Teenagers Are Doing When You Lend Them Your Car

2009-10-10T22:54:00.002-04:00

Have you ever wondered what your teenagers are out doing when you loan them your car? If so, you might not want to watch this next video. If you have particularly wild teenagers they might just be out on the highway doing this with your car.....

To All The Kids Who Survived The 30s, 40s, 50s, 60s And 70s

2009-09-15T12:15:00.002-04:00

The following anonymous document was forwarded to us in an email recently, and we thought that it made so many great points that we would share it with all of you. Sometimes it takes something like this to realize just how much has changed and just how far we have fallen.

After you have read the following piece, please leave a comment and let us know what you think about it.....

TO ALL THE KIDS WHO SURVIVED THE

1930's, 40's, 50's, 60's and 70's!!

First, we survived being born to mothers who smoked and/or drank while they were pregnant.

They took aspirin, ate blue cheese dressing, tuna from a can and didn't get tested for diabetes.

Then after that trauma, we were put to sleep on our tummies in baby cribs covered with bright colored lead-base paints.

We had no childproof lids on medicine bottles, locks on doors or cabinets and when we rode our bikes, we had baseball caps not helmets on our heads.

As infants & children, we would ride in cars with no car seats, no booster seats, no seat belts, no air bags, bald tires and sometimes no brakes.

Riding in the back of a pick- up truck on a warm day was always a special treat.

We drank water from the garden hose and not from a bottle.

We shared one soft drink with four friends, from one bottle and no one actually died from this.

We ate cupcakes, white bread, real butter and bacon. We drank Kool-Aid made with real white sugar. And, we weren't overweight. WHY?

Because we were always outside playing...that's why!

We would leave home in the morning and play all day, as long as we were back when the streetlights came on.

No one was able to reach us all day. And, we were O.K.

We would spend hours building our go-carts out of scraps and then ride them down the hill, only to find out we forgot the brakes.. After running into the bushes a few times, we learned to solve the problem.

We did not have Play stations, Nintendo's and X-boxes. There were no video games, no 150 channels on cable, no video movies or DVDs, no surround-sound or CDs, no cell phones, no personal computers, no Internet and no chat rooms.
WE HAD FRIENDS and we went outside and found them!

We fell out of trees, got cut, broke bones and teeth and there were no lawsuits from these accidents.

We ate worms and mud pies made from dirt, and the worms did not live in us forever.

We were given BB guns for our 10th birthdays, made up games with sticks and tennis balls and, although we were told it would happen, we did not put out very many eyes..

We rode bikes or walked to a friend's house and knocked on the door or rang the bell, or just walked in and talked to them.

Little League had tryouts and not everyone made the team. Those who didn't had to learn to deal with disappointment..

Imagine that!!

The idea of a parent bailing us out if we broke the law was unheard of. They actually sided with the law!

These generations have produced some of the best risk-takers, problem solvers and inventors ever.

The past 50 years have been an explosion of innovation and new ideas.

We had freedom, failure, success and responsibility, and we learned how to deal with it all.
If YOU are one of them? CONGRATULATIONS!

You might want to share this with others who have had the luck to grow up as kids, before the lawyers and the government regulated so much of our lives for our own good.

While you are at it, forward it to your kids so they will know how brave and lucky their parents were.

Kind of makes you want to run through the house with scissors, doesn't it ?

The quote of the month is by Jay Leno:
'With hurricanes, tornadoes, fires out of control, mud slides, flooding, severe thunderstorms tearing up the country from one end to another, and with the threat of swine flu and terrorist attacks, are we sure this is a good time to take God out of the Pledge of Allegiance?'

The Cutest Kid Video That We Have Seen In A While

2009-08-16T10:07:00.002-04:00

Do you have kids who can't seem to stop bothering each other? If so, you will likely appreciate this video. In this video we have a baby brother who can't seem to stop touching his older sister. Even though his older sister keep pushing him away, this baby brother just cannot seem to get the message.....

Family Speed Links: The CDC Estimates That Hundreds Of Thousands Of Americans Could Die From The Swine Flu

2009-07-27T18:08:00.003-04:00

*According to shocking new estimates from the CDC, hundreds of thousands of Americans could die from the H1N1 flu over the next two years. Is your family ready?

*Under one horrifying new government program in the U.K., thousands of "dysfunctional" families are being given intensive 24-hour supervision to make sure their children attend school, go to bed on time and eat proper meals.

*According to another insane new government proposal in the U.K., all parents will be forced to sign "contracts" to ensure that their children behave at school.

*The Last Days has posted a very intriguing article about the population control and eugenics agenda of the global elite.

*Organic Health has posted an article about how the FDA expressly allows rat excrement, maggots and insect heads to be put into the food that your family eats.

*The Emergency Food Supply has a recent post about how scientists around the world are very concerned that the Ug99 "wheat rust" plague could ultimately wipe out 80 percent of the world's wheat crop.

*If you are concerned about what the health care bill will do to the elderly members of your family, then you should read why many are calling Obama's health plan the "Kill Grandma Bill".

*Lastly, some researchers are now asking this question: Is aborted fetal DNA in vaccines linked to autism?

Why Are There Segregated Proms In America In 2009?

2009-06-21T17:39:00.003-04:00

At a time when the United States of America has elected the first black president, segregated proms are still being held in parts of Georgia at the insistence of racist parents.

Seriously?

Seriously.

Talk about wicked parents.

A major U.K. newspaper recently published a story on Georgia high school senior Kera Nobles, who was forced to attend a black-only prom the night after many of her best friends attended the "white" prom.

Kera recently graduated from Montgomery County High, and she was devastated that she could not attend prom with her closest friends.

"It was heartbreaking," she told the Telegrah. "It was the one night to see all your friends dressed up and I'm told, I have to wait until the next night because of the colour of my skin."

So who is to blame?

The parents.

They are the ones insisting on the segregated proms.

And you know what is even sadder?

Many of them would claim to be Christians.

But they are promoting anti-Christians hatred to the extreme.

Honestly I wish I could sit all of them down in a room right now and preach to them for a couple of hours.

The Scriptures tell us that God values all people equally. In Colossians 3:11, the apostle Paul wrote this:

Here there is no Greek or Jew, circumcised or uncircumcised, barbarian, Scythian, slave or free, but Christ is all, and is in all.

The truth is that anyone who dislikes someone for the color of their skin is a sinner.

If you hate people because of the color of their skin, you need to get set free by giving your life to Jesus Christ:

http://www.chick.com/reading/tracts/1049/1049_01.asp

Prophet Tom Deckard: The Judgment Of God Is Coming To America

2009-06-02T17:44:00.003-04:00

Today it is "fashionable" for Christian ministers to preach a message that God is going to make all of us rich, prosperous and worry free and that all He wants to do is to help us live our best lives now. But the truth is that is a very unbalanced view. America has piled up a mountain of sin, and the judgment of God is coming.

One of those who has been preaching this message that the judgment of God is coming is Prophet Tom Deckard.

Prophet Tom Deckard is the controversial prophet who has been stunning the Christian community in the United States with the truly amazing miracles that he has been performing, and he has a prophetic track record that is 100 percent accurate that stretches back over 30 years.

Prophet Deckard has prophesied to presidents, prime ministers, and leaders all over the globe.

These are just a few of the major events that Prophet Deckard has prophesied that have come to pass.....

*He prophesied 9/11 two years in advance.

*He prophesied the end of the Cold War a year before it happened.

*He prophesied the coming of the AIDS epidemic two years before it hit.

*He prophesied both Iraq Wars two years before the first one even began.

*He prophesied the fall of the Berlin Wall in advance.

*He prophesied the Indonesian Tsunami and told the people living there to move from the coast while they could.

*He prophesied the economic collapse of the United States many years in advance and most people laughed and said that it could never happen. They aren't laughing anymore.

Not only that, but God confirms the message that Prophet Deckard speaks by the signs, wonders and miracles that God works through him.

The Lord God heals the blind, the deaf, the lame and those with terminal cancer through Tom Deckard. Children with autism are completely healed and restored to full health. In one crusade in Africa alone, hundreds of people were healed from AIDS and went back to the doctor and were medically certified as having been healed. He has even seen three people raised from the dead during the course of his ministry.

Come and see.

Prophet Deckard will be in Raleigh, North Carolina on June 6th and 7th. You can get full details here:

http://www.jewishprophet.com/Itinerary.htm

Come and be a part of the greatest move of God of this generation.

God is getting ready to do something so big that it will shock the world.

God has commissioned Prophet Deckard to gather the ten lost tribes of Israel (Ephraim) and to take them home to the land of Israel.

After the reign of King Solomon, the land of Israel was divided into two kingdoms - the northern kingdom (also known in the Scriptures as Ephraim) and the southern kingdom (also known in the Scriptures as Judah). Those two kingdoms existed side by side for several hundred years.

However, the northern kingdom (Ephraim) turned away from the Lord God and he allowed them to be invaded. Over 700 years before Jesus was born, the Assyrian empire invaded the northern kingdom and carried away the people into exile.

The northern kingdom has not been heard from since.

The southern kingdom (Judah) was later invaded by Babylon and also taken into exile, but later they were allowed to return to their land. The Jews (Judah) lived in the land of Israel until 70 A.D. when the Romans destroyed the Temple and scattered the Jews to the four winds.

There was no nation of Israel from 70 A.D. until 1948 when the modern nation of Israel was established and millions of Jews (Judah) starting returning to the land of their ancestors.

But what about the northern kingdom?

What ever happened to the ten lost tribes of Israel?

Did you know that the Scriptures very clearly teach that in the last days the southern kingdom (Judah) and the northern kingdom (Ephraim) will be reunited in the land of Israel once again?

Ezekiel 37:15-23

The word of the LORD came to me: "Son of man, take a stick of wood and write on it, 'Belonging to Judah and the Israelites associated with him.' Then take another stick of wood, and write on it, 'Ephraim's stick, belonging to Joseph and all the house of Israel associated with him.' Join them together into one stick so that they will become one in your hand. "When your countrymen ask you, 'Won't you tell us what you mean by this?' say to them, 'This is what the Sovereign LORD says: I am going to take the stick of Joseph—which is in Ephraim's hand—and of the Israelite tribes associated with him, and join it to Judah's stick, making them a single stick of wood, and they will become one in my hand.' Hold before their eyes the sticks you have written on and say to them, 'This is what the Sovereign LORD says: I will take the Israelites out of the nations where they have gone. I will gather them from all around and bring them back into their own land. I will make them one nation in the land, on the mountains of Israel. There will be one king over all of them and they will never again be two nations or be divided into two kingdoms. They will no longer defile themselves with their idols and vile images or with any of their offenses, for I will save them from all their sinful backsliding, and I will cleanse them. They will be my people, and I will be their God.

So has this happened yet?

Of course not.

So that means that this prophecy is still yet to be fulfilled.

Either it will happen or God is a liar - and we know that God is not a liar.

Ephraim and Judah will be reunited once again.

Could it be possible that God is calling you to be part of this movement?

Could it be possible that you are part of the ten lost tribes of Israel?

Watch the following video with an open heart. If you get a hold of this it will radically change your life.....

You always knew there was more, didn't you?

You always knew that the power of God was still real today, didn't you?

Come and see.

Drive, fly, take a train, run, catch a ride with a friend.....do whatever you have to do to get there to Raleigh on June 6th and 7th. If God is tugging on your heart as you read this, then make sure that you get there. It's a free conference. God is moving and you don't want to miss this.....

http://www.jewishprophet.com/Itinerary.htm

Do you want to see the real power of God?

Do you want to hear about what is going to happen to America from a proven prophet with a 100 percent track record?

Do you want to hear about how the Lord God is actually gathering the ten lost tribes of Israel?

Come and see.

If you live in the mid-Atlantic region, then this is the conference that you DON'T want to miss in 2009.

Parenting Tip #1479: Don't Let Your Daughter Go To Prom Dressed In A Confederate Flag Dress

2009-05-25T10:51:00.003-04:00

It is prom season again, and based on what some girls are wearing to the prom, it is clear that a lot of parents are simply not paying attention.

We have seen a number of REALLY disturbing dresses this year, but the one to the left is perhaps the most bizarre.

One teen is suing a Kentucky school district for banning her from the prom for wearing a red dress styled as a large Confederate flag.

School officials would not let Jacqueline Duty into Russell High School’s May 1st prom for wearing the dress.

You can read the rest of the story here.....

http://www.virtualp.us/blog/?p=434

So please, parents, pay attention to what your kids are wearing.

Is The Swine Flu Still A Huge Threat To Your Family?

2009-05-07T20:09:00.002-04:00

The news cycle has moved forward, and most mainstream media outlets are no longer paying much attention to the swine flu, but is the swine flu outbreak a larger threat than ever?

On Thursday, the World Health Organization said that up to 2 billion people could become infected by the swine flu if the current outbreak turns into a pandemic.

WHO flu chief Keiji Fukuda startled the world media when he told them this: "If we do move into a pandemic.....it would be a reasonable estimate to say perhaps a third of the world’s population would get infected with this virus."

That is a whole lot of people.

But is there any evidence that this current outbreak could become a pandemic?

Well, the WHO has officially reported 2371 cases of the swine flu now in 24 countries. Mexico alone has confirmed 1112 human cases, and 42 deaths have been officially attributed to the swine flu.

That is a mortality rate of almost 4 percent in Mexico.

If you start projecting that type of mortality rate worldwide in a pandemic scenario, things start getting really frightening.

While the mainstream media and most of the American public has gotten very bored with the swine flu story, the reality is that things could still get really bad.

One individual on a forum that we like to visit has even made charts that show that swine flu cases are growing at an exponential rate, and that if this rate continues then things will get really, really bad. You can see his latest post on this and his charts right here:

http://www.godlikeproductions.com/forum1/message789735/pg1

So before we jump to conclusions too soon about the swine flu, perhaps we should admit that maybe we just don't have a complete picture of this outbreak just yet.

A confidential internal document out of Texas that reveals that authorities believe that there are 10 to 25 times as many actual swine flu cases as is being officially reported has gone absolutely viral on the Internet.

Dr. Marcus Gitterle, a doctor from New Braunfels, Texas, sent out an internal alert that was not meant to be seen by the public. The words that he penned in that internal alert should chill us all.

Gitterle explained in his internal memo that "what we are hearing privately from the CDC and Health Department is different from what you are hearing in the media."

It is hard to actually describe how dire Dr. Gitterle makes the situation sound in his memo. The following are some of the most shocking quotes from Dr. Gitterle in the document.....

"There are 10-25 times more actual cases (not possible cases -- actual), than what is being reported in the media."

"The way they fudge on reporting this is that it takes 3 days to get the confirmatory nod from the CDC on a given viral culture, but based on epidemiological grounds, we know that there are more than 10 cases for each “confirmed” case right now."

“ER’s south of here are becoming overwhelmed — and I mean that — already. It is coming in waves, but the waves are getting bigger.”

“Since it is such a novel (new) virus, there is no “herd immunity,” so the “attack rate” is very high. This is the percentage of people who come down with a virus if exposed. Almost everyone who is exposed to this virus will become infected, though not all will be symptomatic. That is much higher than seasonal flu, which averages 10-15%. The “clinical attack rate” estimation from CDC and WHO may be around 40-50%. This is the number of people who show symptoms. This is a huge number. It is hard to convey the seriousness of this to those outside of the medical fields.”

You can see an actual copy of this internal memo here:

http://www.prisonplanet.com/texas-doctor-claims-swine-flu-cases-far-worse-than-reported.html

If what Dr. Gitterle wrote is true, then the seriousness of this swine flu crisis is far beyond what most of us have been imagining.

Not only is this increasingly starting to look like a pandemic, but also some analysts are now asking whether this strain of the swine flu was man-made.

Indonesian Heath Minister Siti Fadilah Supari has publicly stated that the swine flu virus could have been man-made.

Dr. Sherry Tenpenny has an excellent article out regarding the suspicious circumstances regarding the suspicious nature and appearance of this disease.

In addition, Dr. Leonard Horowitz is not only arguing that the swine flu virus was definitely man-made, but he is also naming specific doctors and organizations that he believes are possibly involved. Just check out this stunning YouTube report:

Whether this swine flu is man-made or not, the reality is that it is spreading quickly.

There are also now frightening indications that the swine flu outbreak is much worse than the mainstream media is telling us. Multiple eyewitness reports out of Mexico confirm that the real death toll there is far higher than the limited number of confirmed deaths that are being reported internationally.

Comments from Mexican eyewitnesses on a BBC News website tell of a much bleaker situation in Mexico than we have been told in the mainstream media. These chilling reports should put a chill up your spine.....

*Antonio Chavez, a medical doctor from Mexico City:

I’m a specialist doctor in respiratory diseases and intensive care at the Mexican National Institute of Health. There is a severe emergency over the swine flu here. More and more patients are being admitted to the intensive care unit. Despite the heroic efforts of all staff (doctors, nurses, specialists, etc) patients continue to inevitably die. The truth is that anti-viral treatments and vaccines are not expected to have any effect, even at high doses. It is a great fear among the staff. The infection risk is very high among the doctors and health staff.

There is a sense of chaos in the other hospitals and we do not know what to do. Staff are starting to leave and many are opting to retire or apply for holidays. The truth is that mortality is even higher than what is being reported by the authorities, at least in the hospital where I work it. It is killing three to four patients daily, and it has been going on for more than three weeks. It is a shame and there is great fear here. Increasingly younger patients aged 20 to 30 years are dying before our helpless eyes and there is great sadness among health professionals here.

*Alvaro Ricardez, Oaxaca City, Oaxaca, Mexico:

In the capital of my state, Oaxaca, there is a hospital closed because of a death related to the porcine influenza. In the papers they recognise only two people dead for that cause. Many friends working in hospitals or related fields say that the situation is really bad, they are talking about 19 people dead in Oaxaca, including a doctor and a nurse. They say they got shots but they were told not to talk about the real situation. Our authorities say nothing. Life goes on as usual here.

*Migdalia Cruz, Phoenix, Arizona:

I have a sister-in-law from San Luis Potosi state in Mexico and we were told that in San Luis Potosi there have been at least 78 deaths, just in that city alone, not 68 in all of Mexico, as is being reported. Schools have been closed until 6 May in this state and in other areas in Mexico. Also, many public venues are being closed, so this makes it more deadly and dangerous than has been stated.

*Yeny Gregorio Dávila, Mexico City:

I work as a resident doctor in one of the biggest hospitals in Mexico City and sadly, the situation is far from “under control”. As a doctor, I realise that the media does not report the truth. Authorities distributed vaccines among all the medical personnel with no results, because two of my partners who worked in this hospital (interns) were killed by this new virus in less than six days even though they were vaccinated as all of us were. The official number of deaths is 20, nevertheless, the true number of victims are more than 200. I understand that we must avoid to panic, but telling the truth it might be better now to prevent and avoid more deaths.

Hopefully reports like this will get out there and will make people realize how serious this all could become.

Reports of new swine flu outbreaks are coming in almost constantly now and the World Health Organization recently raised the threat level from a Level 4 Global Outbreak to a Level 5, which has never been done before. Meanwhile, scientists are completely puzzled how such a powerful strain that combines elements of swine flu, bird flu and human flu could have appeared seemingly out of nowhere.

So is this going to be the big one?

Is this the one that is going to kill millions of people?

It still may be too early to tell.

But one thing that we do need to realize is that this "swine flu" is not just run of the mill swine flu. It contains elements of the following.....

*Avian flu
*Human flu
*European swine flu
*Asian swine flu

Now how in the world did an incredibly strong combination of these viruses appear seemingly out of nowhere?

Scientists are baffled.

If only a few hundred people end up dying from this swine flu that is not that big of a deal. Hundreds of people die from many different causes every day.

But if this disease starts sweeping the globe and thousands of people start dying, then that could indicate that this IS the big one.

The reality is that we have been warning on another of our blogs of a coming flu plague for quite some time.

What is even more disturbing is the possibility that this new flu may be engineered. We recently reported on the unlabeled bird flu/human flu mixture that Baxter International "accidentally" sent out to other labs.

Why would our scientists mix these dangerous viruses together so recklessly? The CDC was mixing human flu and bird flu together as far back as 2004. This is incredibly dangerous to do. One mistake and a pandemic virus can be released that could kill millions of people.

So how many people will this "swine flu" virus kill?

Is this going to become a massive pandemic that bring the world to a standstill?

Prophet Tom Deckard (who has a perfect track record stretching back over 30 years) has been prophesying for several years that a flu pandemic is coming that will kill millions of people. The following video examines Prophet Deckard's bird flu prophecy in light of recent events.....

So what should we all think about this?

The truth is that it is still way too soon to draw any firm conclusions. It will be important for all of us to stay tuned to the news over the next few days so that we can determine how to keep our families safe. However, the fact that the World Health Organization has raised the global pandemic alert level to Level 5 is certainly not a good sign.

If what Dr. Gitterle says is true, and 40-50% of those exposed to this flu come down with it, then we could be facing a pandemic of staggering proportions.

Just think about this.....if 100 million people worldwide end up contracting this flu, and if only 3% of them die from it, then that would still be 3 million dead people.

But most Americans do not seem too concerned about this outbreak. In fact, most of them are making absolutely no preparations. Most of them think that the danger has passed and that they no longer need to be concerned about it.

In light of all of this information, hopefully you will not make the same mistake. Do what you need to do to prepare yourself and your family for what is ahead.

One of the most important things that you can do to prepare is to get right with God. If you have sin in your life then this is a great time to repent of that sin and to turn to the Lord and ask Him to help you and your family get through this crisis safely.

Even if this is not the "big one", the truth is that the next deadly pandemic could strike at any time. Instead of causing us fear, the reality of the situation should give us a sober determination to prepare and to get closer to God.

Do You Think This Baby Will Be A Preacher When He Grows Up?

2009-04-22T09:39:00.002-04:00

Now a break for something cute.....

Have you ever seen a baby preach a sermon?

The YouTube video below is absolutely adorable and more than a bit strange.

Out of the mouth of babes, eh?

Unfortunately, I think this baby is better than the majority of preachers that I have seen on television.....

Gender Roles

2009-04-08T14:49:00.003-04:00

The idea of traditional gender roles has become anathema in modern American society. To even discuss the idea of different roles for men and women these days is to invite the wrath of the politically correct crowd.

But are men and women exactly the same?

Do husbands and wives have different roles to play in the context of the family?

Those are important questions.

Most Americans today would reject the idea of specific gender roles.

But the Bible embraces them.

In Ephesians 5:22-25 the Scriptures say this.....

Wives, submit to your husbands as to the Lord. For the husband is the head of the wife as Christ is the head of the church, his body, of which he is the Savior. Now as the church submits to Christ, so also wives should submit to their husbands in everything. Husbands, love your wives, just as Christ loved the church and gave himself up for her

When you read through what the Bible has to say about gender roles, one of the things that jumps out is the huge responsibility put on men. Husbands are expected to do whatever they have to do to protect their families. That includes having to die for them if necessary, just as Christ died for the Church.

But are men brought up to be this type of extraordinary "servant-leader" in the United States today?

No.

If you turn on the television today, you won't have to wait long to see how men are expected to behave in modern America - sex crazed, beer swilling, irresponsible idiot slackers who cower before their more mature, more responsible and more dominant female partners.

The truth is that the "strong male" has become an endangered species in the United States. It has been widely reported that testosterone levels in men are dropping about 1.2% per year, and 59% of all college students are now female. In fact, it has been reported that women in their 20s in the 10 largest cities in the United States now earn more money than men of the same age. Those women who are still looking for a traditional "man" complain that all they find are overgrown boys who have given up, tuned out, are slaves to their addictions and who won't take responsibility for anything.

Not that men are bad - most of them feel completely lost and confused - as if they have lost something that they didn't even know they were missing. All of their lives American men have been taught that they are NOT the leaders of the home, and that it should be expected that women will yell at them and tell them what to do. Movies and television reinforce this programming every single day by bombarding men and boys with the message that they are irresponsible subservient slackers who need to be corrected by the more responsible females.

Just think about all the times you have watched a scene where a female character yells at a male character and chews him out.

And what do we do?

We laugh and snicker.

But now take that same scene and flip the characters.

We would be horrified, wouldn't we?

And rightfully so.

So why do we think it is cute when the female verbally abuses the male?

The truth is that we have taught a generation of women that they should lead and dominate men. Instead of teaching them the Biblical principle that women should respect their husbands and let them lead, we have instructed our young women to rebel against any semblance of male leadership.

A shocking study done by the respected Pew Research Center confirms that in the United States it is women who predominantly rule the home.

The study surveyed 1,260 individuals who were either married or living together. What the study found was that in 43% of all couples, women make more decisions in the four areas Pew surveyed: planning weekend activities, household finances, major home purchases and television watching.

26% of the time men make more of the decisions, the survey revealed, and 31% of the time the decisions are made "equally".

So should we be surprised?

Is it not obvious that the women wear the pants in most American families now?

For example, one respondent to the USAToday article about this survey wrote this:

"I am a manager at work, and wouldn't have it any other way. But when I get home, I'd much rather chill out and let the wife make the calls."

The truth is that we have trained a generation of American men to be immature, subservient, submissive wimps who are very hesitant to take responsibility or leadership.

Watch just about any sitcom or any television commercial or any movie with these issues in mind. Watch who the dominant partner in any couple is. Once you know to look for it you will see it everywhere.

This is not how a society should work.

The Bible teaches that men should be strong, powerful, sacrificial servant-leaders as we see in Ephesians 5:25:

Husbands, love your wives, just as Christ loved the church and gave himself up for her

The truth is that men need to be so strong for their wives and children that they need to be ready to die for their families if it comes down to that.

How far we are from that ideal today.

Instead of creating a society full of strong men who would be willing to die for their families if need be, we have created a society full of weak, irresponsible, passive men who won't stand up for anyone or anything.

Is that something to be proud of?

Should we boast that we have nearly eradicated traditional gender roles from modern American society?

Not at all.

The rejection of traditional gender roles has made America much weaker, and it is future generations who will continue to pay the price for our foolishness.

Christian Nation?

2009-04-06T15:11:00.002-04:00

The new American Religious Identification Survey shows that most religions in the United States are losing members rapidly. According to the survey, the percentage of self-identified Christians in the U.S. has fallen 10 percentage points since 1990, from 86 percent of the population to 76 percent.

The survey also reports that Catholics, Baptists and other mainline Protestant denominations have seen large drops in numbers since 1990.

The number of Americans who claim no religion at all has reached 15%, which is up from 8% in 1990. Islam, Wicca and eastern religions such as Hinduism and Buddhism also show large gains in the survey.

Acknowledging this same trend, Newsweek recently ran a major article entitled: The End Of Christian America. Newsweek ran their own poll about religion and it turned up some stunning findings:

*Fewer people now think of the United States as a "Christian nation" than when George W. Bush was president (62 percent in 2009 versus 69 percent in 2008).
*About two thirds of the public (68 percent) now say religion is "losing influence" in American society.
*The percentage of Americans who think religion "can answer all or most of today's problems" is now at a historic low of 48 percent.

This trend of Americans moving away from Christianity is showing up even more prominently among young adults. A shocking new survey by the Barna group reveals that less than 1 percent of all Americans between the ages of 18 and 23 have a Biblical worldview. This new data clearly shows that the youngest adults in America have clearly rejected traditional Christianity.

Barna's survey defined having a Biblical worldview as holding the following beliefs:

*Believing that absolute moral truth exists
*Believing that the Bible is completely accurate in all of the principles it teaches
*Believing that Satan is considered to be a real being or force, not merely symbolic
*Believing that a person cannot earn their way into heaven by trying to be good or by doing good works
*Believing that Jesus Christ lived a sinless life on earth
*Believing that God is the all-knowing, all-powerful creator of the world who still rules the universe today.

But even those who still call themselves Christians do not necessarily hold to traditional Christian beliefs any longer. Two other recent surveys show that the majority of American Christians believe that accepting Jesus Christ as savior is NOT the only way to eternal life.

USAToday recently reported on an almost unbelievable new survey that has found that 52 percent of American Christians believe that eternal life is not exclusively for those who accept Jesus Christ as their savior.

A different survey that was taken last year by the Pew Research Center's Forum on Religion & Public Life found that 57 percent of evangelical Christians in America believe that "many religions can lead to eternal life".

That shocking study revealed what many Christians have known for quite some time - apostasy among "evangelical Christians" is spreading, and it is spreading rapidly.

Evangelical Christians are supposedly those who follow the teachings of the Bible the closest. But this survey shows that even a majority of them do not even believe in the most fundamental precepts of the Christians faith.

For example, John 14:6 says the following:

Jesus answered, "I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me."

If there was another way for our sins to be forgiven, then why did Jesus need to die on the cross? If there were other ways to salvation, then Jesus could have come down to earth, pointed out a bunch of other ways to get to heaven, and then could have gone back up to heaven without having to deal with the cross.

But the reality is that there was no other way for our sins to be paid for.

And yet these new surveys reveal that a majority of American Christians now believe that there are other ways to heaven.

The Pew survey also revealed that 45% of Americans as a whole say they seldom or never read their religion's holy books.

Perhaps if more Americans were reading the Bible then they would know what is truth and what is error. Instead, Americans have surrounded themselves with preachers and self-help coaches and ministers who tell them what they want to hear, who always make them feel comfortable and who never tell them about sin, holiness or the judgment of God.

The current situation in America reminds us of 2 Timothy 4:3.....

For the time will come when men will not put up with sound doctrine. Instead, to suit their own desires, they will gather around them a great number of teachers to say what their itching ears want to hear.

The sad reality is that the trends all show that church attendance in America is in decline.

Dave Olson, the director of church planting for the Evangelical Covenant Church, has done some really interesting research into the church attendance patterns of Americans.

Olson's findings contain a ton of bad news. For starters, his research found that the percentage of Americans regularly attending church is only 18.7%.

Olson has put his findings into an eye opening slideshow entitled "Twelve Surprising Facts about the US Church".

Here are some of the things that he found:

The percentage of people who actually physically attend a Christian church each week is quite a bit below what pollsters report.

The percentage of people who attended a Christian church each week decreased significantly between 1990 and 2000.

Only one state, Hawaii, actually saw an increase in the percentage of the population attending church between 1990 and 2000. Every other state in the entire nation saw a decrease in church attendance.

Evangelicals, mainline Protestants, and Catholics are each strong in very different regions of the nation.

The church planting rate has been declining steadily throughout the history of the United States.

If these current trends continue, the percentage of the U.S. population that attends church each week in 2050 will be about half of what it is today.

So what does all of this mean?

It means that America is not a Christian nation any longer.

The percentage of Christians in America is rapidly declining, while other religions are gaining members rapidly. Even many of those who still call themselves "Christians" have rejected the fundamental principles of traditional Christianity.

However, sometimes when things seem the darkest is just when God brings new light on to the scene. As old institutions die out, perhaps God will bring something to pass which will be even greater than anything America has ever seen before.

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2009-04-06T13:25:00.002-04:00

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Is Someone In Your Family Suffering From Addiction?

2009-03-25T09:29:00.002-04:00

Do you have someone in your family who is currently caught in the grip of addiction? If so, then our new website may be of use to you. Our new site is called Addiction Recovery, and we hope that the guides and resources that we provide there will help those families that are coping with the horror of addictive behavior.

These are some of the articles that we already have up that you may find of interest:

*Alcohol Addiction

*Drug Addiction

*Gambling Addiction

We will be adding articles on additional addiction subjects as well. If someone in your family is suffering from addiction right now, hopefully this new site will be useful for you.

The Creation/Evolution Battle

2009-03-19T13:41:00.001-04:00

A new study has found that the theory of evolution is far less accepted in the United States than it is in most other western countries.

A chart that shows the results of this study is below.....

Well, it looks like the data shows that there is a consensus in the western world that the theory of evolution is true.

But is it?

What does the science actually say?

You might be surprised.

We recently wrote an article entitled "The Creation/Evolution Debate" which demonstrates that when you actually look at the facts they do NOT support Darwinism.

But people cling to the theory of evolution because the alternative is unthinkable to them - that there is a God who created them and who they are ultimately accountable to.

Many Of America's Families Are Now Living In Tent Cities

2009-03-16T13:22:00.000-04:00

Is it not obvious at this point that the United States of America is in the early stages of a depression?

If the following video does not stun you, it should at least sadden you deeply.

Tent cities filled with the homeless and unemployed are rapidly growing in Sacramento, Seattle, Reno, Nashville and in many other cities across the United States.

Can you imagine what is going to happen if things get much worse than this?.....

The Economic Collapse Is Putting Extreme Stress On American Families

2009-03-10T13:01:00.003-04:00

The current economic collapse is really starting to cause extreme stress among America's families as job losses, home losses and bankruptcies continue to soar. Not being able to feed your kids and knowing that you are on the verge of losing your house is enough to cause panic and desperation in even the most solid marriage.

What do you do when you can feed your family? Well, more families than ever are turning to food stamps. A record 31.8 million Americans are now on food stamps as the number of poor Americans families is shooting through the roof.

American families are also losing their homes at alarming rates. More than 11 percent of mortgages are delinquent or are in foreclosure.

In fact, the housing market has collapsed so completely that in some areas you can buy a house for a buck.

Seriously.

A two-bedroom, 800-square-foot home in Detroit recently sold for one single dollar. Because of the foreclosure crisis, there are more than 40,000 vacant properties in Detroit. The median price of a home in Detroit is now only $7,000.

The economic collapse is also hitting older families really hard. The collapse of the stock market is literally ruining the retirement dreams of millions of baby boomers as many of their once promising nest eggs have totally crumbled.

So are the banks safe? Well, the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation says that it may need to borrow as much as $500 billion from the Treasury Department. The truth is that is simply does not have enough cash to cover all the banks that are failing.

How in the world could this happen to America?

The United States of America was once the wealthiest, most prosperous nation on the entire earth. Americans lived in peace, almost everyone had a job, businesses were booming, the citizens were the healthiest in the world and almost everything America did turned to gold.

Those days are gone.

Instead of taking care of our national wealth, Americans spent it.

That wasn't enough for the new greedy generation of Americans, so they spent their children's money, and then they spent their grandchildren's money and then they spent their great grandchildren's money.

Now the United States is in the middle of a financial horror that is literally unprecedented in the history of the world.

As we posted on another blog the other day, the total liabilities of the United States government, including future social security and medicare payments that the U.S. government is already committed to pay out, now exceed 65 TRILLION dollars, which is more than the entire GDP of the whole world.

If you don't believe us, just read the 2008 Financial Report of the United States Government.

It's an official U.S. government report.

And you know what?

That 65 trillion dollars does not even reflect any significant money from the monstrous financial bailouts that Congress has passed.

So things are going to get MUCH worse financially.

How in the world could the richest nation on the earth let this happen?

This is what happens when extreme greed and extreme gluttony overcome a nation.

For decades, we, along with many other financial experts and patriots have been screaming and yelling about all the debt that America was getting into.

But nobody listened.

Because of the mountain of debt that the U.S. government, financial institutions and ordinary Americans have piled up, the financial system is beginning to fail.

Already, 13 banks have failed in 2009. All of the bailouts that Congress have been passing certainly don't seem to be helping much yet.

The truth is that all of this government spending that Congress is doing will help the economy in the short term, but it will make the long term problems of the U.S. government far worse because all of this spending is just increasing the debt.

So who is going to buy all of this new government debt? China has serious doubts about who is going to buy all of America's new debt. The reality is that the only way that the government can "bailout" anyone or pay for any "stimulus" bill is to borrow.

So America borrows and borrows and borrows and borrows.

If your own personal finances were like that, how do you think it would end?

And most analysts are now predicting that times are going to get even harder.

Already there are so many ordinary Americans that are in severe pain.

The U.S. economy lost 598,000 jobs in January. Just think about that. Over half a million jobs GONE in one short month.

These job losses are hurting real people. Do you know people who have lost jobs? We do. We know parents that are trying desperately to support their children who have now lost their jobs.

When people lose their jobs they don't have money to spend at the stores and they can't pay their mortgages either.

Foreclosures in the United States increased by 81 percent last year, and there doesn't seem to be any end in sight.

As more people lose their jobs, more people will lose their homes.

The truth is that there are more homes sitting empty in the United States today than there ever had been before.

Just think about that.

In fact, there are some areas of the United States that are in danger of becoming permanent disaster zones.

Did you know that some areas of New Orleans STILL have not been rebuilt after all this time?

In the "greatest country on earth" a situation like New Orleans can persist for YEARS and still the government does not fix the problem.

It is a national disgrace.

But New Orleans is not alone. There are a growing number of areas around the U.S. that have been hit by natural disasters or hard times and have just been left to rot away.

Just ask someone who has been to certain areas of Detroit. There are some places there that look like a war zone. People there are hurting bad.

Does anyone care?

All of this financial turmoil has also cause a sharp increase in the number of homeless.

It's not just people sleeping on street corners either.

Due to the huge number of foreclosures, tent "cities" have been popping up on the outskirts of major cities all over the nation.

The truth is that there are more people in the United States without a decent place to live than ever before.

And Americans are getting desperate.

Can you imagine getting down on your knees and begging for a job at the dump?

That actually happened recently in the Tampa Bay area.

136 people, most out of work, answered a recent employment ad for a position at a landfill.

"At one point I actually had a line of people 10 feet out the door waiting to talk to me," Scott Hanus, an operations manager for Veolia Environmental Services told the St. Petersburg Times.

In fact, he had 4 people actually get down on their knees and beg him for a job.

At the dump.

Wow.

Did you hear about the approximately 1,000 people who applied for 50 low paying jobs at a new In-N-Out restaurant opening in Nevada?

This is how the Las Vegas Sun described the scene:

Some wore ties. Some wore their pants too low. Some were balding. Some owed two months of mortgage payments. Some spoke openly of suicide. Some asked this reporter for a job. Some asked the manager at the hotel hosting the event for a job.

For some Americans, desperation is giving way to hopelessness.

One out of work Arizona woman described her increasing desperation this way: "When three months go by with only two job interviews, it's hard not to feel a certain amount of self-doubt and hopelessness."

All of this increasing desperation is putting a lot of stress on life in the home.

The Baltimore Sun is reporting on one woman in the Baltimore area is having a hard time hiding her desperation as her husband's business has almost completely failed. Her family's cars have been repossessed and their house is in danger of foreclosure. "We're behind on everything," she says.

She also tells of being afraid of her abusive husband: "He gets very frustrated, very, very angry."

The reality is that according the U.S. Bureau of Justice Statistics, more than half a million Americans, almost all of them women, are abused by their spouses every year. All of this economic stress is making things even worse experts say.

Some Americans have decided that the economy is never going to fully recover and so there is a renewed interest in survival techniques. But is running off to the mountains really a long term solution?

The truth is that Americans have lived beyond their means for decades, and now America is full of families who think that life is over if all of their treasures are taken away.

But perhaps all of us would be better off if we took the words of Jesus in Matthew 6:19-21 to heart.....

"Do not store up for yourselves treasures on earth, where moth and rust destroy, and where thieves break in and steal. But store up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where moth and rust do not destroy, and where thieves do not break in and steal. For where your treasure is, there your heart will be also."

If your family is in severe financial pain, the number one thing you need to do is to turn to God. In the dark economic times ahead it is going to take a lot more than just hard work and determination to make it through. You are your family will need God's protection and God's help.

Satanic Music?

2009-03-04T15:28:00.004-05:00

If you are a Christian parent with teens, then you probably have a conflict with them at some point over music.

But is music something to be concerned about?

Is rock music actually dangerous?

Is there such a thing as Satanic music?

Should Christians be listening to any type of music no matter what the message is?

Have you ever considered if modern music is having an incredibly destructive impact on the young people of the United States?

The truth is that much of what is called "rock music" does have a strong Satanic influence. Consider the following information.....

David Bowie said in Rolling Stone magazine (Feb. 12, 1976):

"Rock has always been THE DEVIL'S MUSIC . . . I believe rock and roll is dangerous . . . I feel we're only heralding SOMETHING EVEN DARKER THAN OURSELVES."

Do you ever wonder why all forms of violent crime, sexual sin, and drug use have skyrocketed in the United States since the 50s?

In the disturbing song "The Conjuring" by Megadeth, the true mission of rock music is clearly revealed:

"I AM THE DEVIL'S ADVOCATE
A SALESMAN, if you will . . .
Come join me in my INFERNAL DEPTHS . . .
I've got your soul!"

Do you ever wonder if rock music has anything to do with the explosive popularity of witchcraft, the occult and Satanism in America?

Rocker Frank Zappa once proudly boasted:

"I'm the devil's advocate. We have our own worshippers who are called 'groupies.' Girls will give their bodies to musicians as you would give a sacrifice to a god." (Peters Brothers, What About Christian Rock, p. 17)

Do you ever think twice about the music you are listening to? Do you ever pay attention to the messages that are being pumped into your brain?

In the incredibly disgusting song, "The Prince", the rock group Metallica proclaims:

"Angel from below . . .
I WISH TO SELL MY SOUL . . .
DEVIL TAKE MY SOUL
with diamonds you repay
I don't care for heaven
so don't you look for me to cry
AND I WILL BURN IN HELL
from the day I die."

Rocker Marilyn Manson is very clear about what his mission is:

"Hopefully, I’ll be remembered as the person who brought an end to Christianity." (Spin, August 1996, p. 34)

The group Bow Wow Wow, in their sick song "Prince of Darkness", openly give an "invitation" to receive Satan:

"So open the door and LET SATAN IN, The Prince of Darkness."

Don't you think it is time for you to be aware of what you are listening to?

The rock group Black Sabbath have actually given invitations during their concerts for people to receive Satan into their lives. One of their albums is even titled "We Sold Our Soul for Rock'n Roll". Their song N.I.B. (Nativity In Black) is in reality a love song from Lucifer, in which Lucifer invites people to "please take my hand":

"Some people say MY LOVE cannot be true
Please believe me, MY LOVE, and I'll show you
I will give you those things you thought unreal . . .
YOUR LOVE FOR ME has just got to be real . . .
Look into my eyes, you will see who I am
MY NAME IS LUCIFER, PLEASE TAKE MY HAND!"

Posted below is a series of four videos that will challenge everything that you believe about rock music.

It is absolutely the hardest hitting documentary series on the true nature of Rock Music, Pop Music, and Country Music we have ever seen! Pastor Schimmel was a minor rock star who had visions of future riches and glory in his head before Jesus Christ got hold of his heart. These videos takes you backstage, showing the true nature and of rock stars from the 1950's through today. In these videos you will see shocking video of Elvis, The Beatles, The Rolling Stones, Black Sabbath, AC/DC and Madonna. Even Britney Spears, 'N SYNC, Ricky Martin, Garth Brooks, and Eminem are included, just to mention a few. If you are fighting with your children or your grandchildren about Rock Music, these videos will give you the ammunition that you need to convince your loved ones of the Satanic nature of Rock Music. You will also see how seductive rock music is, and how much of modern music is preparing the masses of youngsters to be the future army of the antichrist.

After watching the videos below, hopefully you all will be much more aware of the source, agenda and message of much of today's music and you will be much more hesitant to pump endless hours of it directly into your brain.

*Warning* -- The videos linked to below are extremely graphic and show very clearly the link between rock music and the occult. They are most definitely not meant to be watched by young children.

Our challenge to you is to watch at least one part of this four part series and then to come back here to this blog and defend the artists and the music talked about in the presentation.

The videos:

Part I: http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=2494291415376995856&q=Sold+Soul+For+Rock+and+Roll&ei=Tco6SKrED4im-QGe8vXwAw&hl=en

Part II: http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-2501641644828032698&q=Sold%20Soul%20For%20Rock%20and%20Roll&hl=en

Part III: http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=4315257824039757348&q=Sold+their+Souls+For+Rock+Roll+3&ei=v8s6SN2DNJHk-AHEiZTxAw&hl=en

Part IV: http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-5288201614619778233&q=Sold%20their%20Souls%20For%20Rock%20Roll%203&hl=en

The good news in all of this is that you CAN be set free from these demonic influences. The good news is that the Lord Jesus Christ is more powerful than all of the powers of darkness, and if you will repent and invite Jesus Christ into your life you will receive eternal life and will have all of your sins forgiven.

If you are interested in becoming a Christian we would encourage you to check this out:

http://www.chick.com/reading/tracts/1049/1049_01.asp

So what do you think about all of this? Feel free to post your thoughts about the video series in the comments section below.

Body Scanners That Reveal Your Naked Body Going Into U.S. Airports

2009-02-20T16:10:00.002-05:00

Imagine a futuristic world where security is so tight that just to take a flight you have to be scanned by a machine that can look under your clothes and give security officers a perfect look at the precise form of your naked body - including your private parts. Well, the future is now.

You might not be so eager to take that next flight after you read this.

"Body scanners" that give operators a very clear image of what is underneath your clothing have replaced metal detectors at Tulsa's airport.

We wanted to put up a picture of what these "body scans" look like, but we were hesitant because they actually do border on pornography. These body scans are the closest thing to viewing a person's naked body without actually seeing their skin.

Officials in Australia where they have installed similar machines confess that these machines DO show people's private parts.

Cheryl Johnson, the general manager of the Office of Transport Security in Australia, admitted the following about these machines: "It will show the private parts of people, but what we've decided is that we're not going to blur those out, because it severely limits the detection capabilities."

She also added this comment: "It is possible to see genitals and breasts while they're going through the machine, though."

But all in the name of "security", eh? Now to board a plane you have to subject yourself to having one or more "security" guards view the naked form of your body.

Tulsa International Airport is just the first airport where these body scanners will be tested in the United States.

San Francisco, Las Vegas, Miami, Albuquerque and Salt Lake City will join the body scanning test in the next two months.

According to ABC News, the TSA plans to install 600 of these machines in airports across the nation this year.

Are you as disturbed by all of this as we are? If so, please feel free to leave a comment.....

The Importance Of Talking To Your Teens About "The Birds And The Bees"

2009-02-18T06:33:00.004-05:00

Today we have a guest post from Jen of YourSTDhelp.com on the importance of talking with your kids about reproductive issues. Do you agree with her outlook? After reading the article, we would encourage you to leave an article with your opinion in the comments section below.

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Talking to your teen about "the birds and the bees" is every parents nightmare, no one wants to have to explain sex to their children. At this crucial time in their lives what you do say or don't say can be life changing. Your children are thinking about it and talking about it just not with you. Their are so many myths in school on the subject from different positions to not get pregnant to dangerous ideas of being protected from sexually transmitted diseases because of other silly rumors. If you don't talk to your teen about sex the repercussions can be much worse then a half hour talk at the kitchen table.

One of the reasons parents tend to avoid the dreaded conversation is they think that their kids are to young or they won't really be thinking about it until college which just isn't true. According to the CDC teen pregnancy's in 2006 were at 435,427 infants born to kids between the ages of 15 to 19. Even scarier still was a recent report that found one in four teenage girls between the ages of 14 to 19 was infected with an STD, many of which are incurable and will be with them for life. These figures alone should help jump start a conversation with your children at the youngest possible age.

Before you sit down with your teen you should defiantly have a game plan laid out so it can go as smoothly and less stressful as possible. The first thing is to make sure that your both comfortable and it's not a confrontation but a open conversation. Many parents find that having an itinerary of the talk will make things faster, easier, and more complete. Start off with talking about what sex is, when it's appropriate to have sex, different forms of protection, and how to use them correctly. These are all important points you should touch on. Make sure to always be open to questions, and even as much as you cringe to hear it, try and force some out of them as well. Talk about pregnancy myths and the statistics of STDs in the Country and even State. Usually between hearing about how a baby could potentially destroy their future and just how gross STDs really are they tend to think a second time before they act. Also creating easy access to condoms decreases their chance for pregnancy enormously.

Every family is different and children develop at different speeds. It's up to you to know when the time is right to have the talk with your teen. Don't think that just one talk is enough, gentle unconfrontational reminders are extremely important. When your teen gets a new boyfriend/girlfriend is a good time to have another little chat and maybe the right time to open up that access to condoms even if they're not sexually active. Remember life changing events can take place and it's up to you to make sure your child lives a healthy and safe life.

Chinese Scientists Use New Technology To Clone 5 Human Embryos

2009-02-15T16:32:00.004-05:00

There was a time when human cloning was only a reality in really bad science fiction movies, but that time is officially over. Thanks to a new breakthrough, scientists in China have successfully cloned five human embryos.

So how is this done?

This new technology involved taking human cells, usually from the skin of a donor, and injecting them into a human egg.

This goal of this procedure according to the Chinese scientists is to create embryonic stem cells. Stem cells are cells that have the ability to grow into any type of tissue in the body. Many doctors and researchers around the world believe that embryonic stem cells can aid them in finding cures for many common diseases.

However, this technique is also controversial because the removal of stem cells always leads to the destruction of the cloned embryo.

For scientists in communist China, the destruction of the embryo is not a problem because they do not believe that life begins until after birth.

So they don't feel any guilt at all over destroying those children.

Embryonic stem cell research is also getting a lot of attention in the United States.

Just hours after Barack Obama was inaugurated, the FDA approved a scientific stem cell study that will use human embryonic stem cells.

Embryonic stem cell research has been a huge issue in recent presidential campaigns, but now with this FDA approval and with President Obama in office, this research is likely to begin as early as this upcoming summer.

This initial research will test whether embryonic stem cells are safe to use in spinal injury patients.

These embryonic stem cells come from four or five day old embryos, which have the ability to turn into any cell in the body.

However, there is one huge problem.

When these stem cells are removed from the embryo, the embryo is destroyed.

That is why this research has been so controversial.

Because it kills babies.

This is just another sign that the United States cares very little about life or about obeying God.

We create human embryos and we do whatever sick things we want to with them.

There was an article in USAToday the other day that left us totally stunned.

The article described how there are approximately half a million frozen embryos sitting around in storage in fertility clinics across the United States.

Half a million frozen babies.

Just sitting there.

According to USAToday, only about two-thirds of the "owners" of these embryos said they were ever likely to use them.

So what is going to happen to all of the leftover embryos?

According to the article, more than half of the "parents" of these embryos responding to a survey said that they were "very unlikely" to donate their "extra embryos" to another couple trying to have a baby.

What the survey did find was that the most popular option was donating the embryos for "scientific" research.

How sick is that?

Just think about that.

There are already a half million frozen babies sitting around in clinics and that number is increasing all the time.

A huge portion of these embryos will never be used by the "parents", and the most popular option for "disposing" of these embryos appears to be donating them for "research".

The truth is that the United States has rejected the value of human life in a multitude of ways.

America has thrown God's ways to the side and has embraced their own "wisdom" in the name of convenience.

It is time for America to wake up and to realize the tremendous sins against human life that are being committed all across the nation:

http://www.chick.com/media/1009_01.asp

The Incredibly Touching Story Of One Young 6 Year Old Boy Who Died Of Leukemia

2009-02-13T14:40:00.004-05:00

The following story was emailed to us today. It is supposedly a true story, but we cannot vouch for that. It is, however, a very moving tale.....

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In Phoenix , Arizona , a 26-year-old mother stared down at her 6 year old son, who was dying of terminal leukemia.

Although her heart was filled with sadness, she also had a strong feeling of determination.

Like any parent, she wanted her son to grow up & fulfill all his dreams. Now that was no longer possible. The leukemia would see to that. But she still
wanted her son's dream to come true.

She took her son' s hand and asked, 'Billy, did you ever think about what you wanted
to be once you grew up?

Did you ever dream and wish what you would do with your life?'

Mommy, 'I always wanted to be a fireman when I grew up.'

Mom smiled back and said, 'Let's see if we can make your wish come true.'

Later that day she went to her local fire Department in Phoenix, Arizona, where she met Fireman Bob, who had a heart as big as Phoenix.

She explained her son's final wish and asked if it might be possible to give her 6 year-old son a ride around the block on a fire engine.

Fireman Bob said, 'Look, we can do better than that. If you'll have your son ready at seven o'clock Wednesday morning, we'll make him an honorary Fireman for the whole day. He can come down to the fire station, eat with us, go out on all the fire calls, the whole nine yards! And if you'll give us his sizes, we'll get a real fire uniform for him, with a real fire hat - not a toy -- one-with the emblem of the Phoenix Fire Department on it, a yellow slicker like we wear and rubber boots.'

'They're all manufactured right here in Phoenix, so we can get them fast.'

Three days later Fireman Bob picked up Billy, dressed him in his uniform and escorted him from his hospital bed to the waiting hook and ladder truck.

Billy got to sit on the back of the truck and help steer it back to the fire station. He was in heaven.

There were three fire calls in Phoenix that day and Billy got to go out on all three calls.

He rode in the different fire engines, the Paramedic's' van, and even the fire chief's car.

He was also videotaped for the local news program.

Having his dream come true, with all the love and attention that was lavished upon him, so deeply touched Billy, that he lived three months longer than any doctor thought possible.

One night all of his vital signs began to drop dramatically and the head nurse, who believed in the hospice concept - that no one should die alone, began to call the family members to the hospital.

Then she remembered the day Billy had spent as a Fireman, so she called the Fire Chief and asked if it would be possible to send a fireman in uniform to the hospital to be with Billy as he made his transition.

The chief replied, 'We can do better than that. We'll be there in five minutes. Will you please do me a favor?

When you hear the sirens screaming and see the lights flashing, will you announce over the PA system that there is not a fire?'

'It's the department coming to see one of its finest members one more time. And will you open the window to his room?'

About five minutes later a hook and ladder truck arrived at the hospital and extended its ladder up to Billy's third floor open window--------16 fire-fighters climbed up the ladder into Billy's room.

With his mother's permission, they hugged him and held him and told him how much they LOVED him.

With his dying breath, Billy looked up at the fire chief and said, 'Chief, am I really a fireman now?'

'Billy, you are, and The Head Chief, Jesus, is holding your hand,' the chief said.

With those words, Billy smiled and said, 'I know, He's been holding my hand all day, and the angels have been singing.'

He closed his eyes one last time.

Family Speed Links - Gay Marriage Is Very Close To Being Legalized In Vermont

2009-02-08T17:52:00.003-05:00

*A bill that would legalize same-sex marriages has been introduced in the Vermont legislature.

*One New York school district is being criticized for encouraging students to explore homosexuality while trying to prevent them from studying the Bible.

*According to ABC News, Wall Street lawyers, investment bankers, CEOs and media executives used corporate credit cards to pay for $2,000 an hour prostitutes.

*The rise in suicides among U.S. combat soldiers is absolutely stunning.

*Lastly, the owner of one Florida abortion clinic placed a baby born alive into a plastic biohazard bag and threw it out as garbage. How disgustingly sick is that?

One Of The Cutest Kid Videos Ever - The Smartypants Dance - One Little Baby Girl Knows Her Geography Better Than A Lot Of High School Students

2009-01-31T21:16:00.004-05:00

This is one of the cutest family YouTube videos that we have ever seen.

The video of this tiny little baby girl pointing out U.S. states and dancing while she does it absolutely astounded us.

We sent it out to all of our family and friends.

What do you all think about this video?

Were you as amazed at this as we were?

Feel free to leave a comment with your thoughts.

An Elephant And A Dog Can Make Friendship Work - Why Can't Our Families Work Like This?

2009-01-25T20:19:00.002-05:00

Today we bring you the story of Tara and Bella.

No, it is not a story of two girls or of two women.

It is the story of the very real friendship between an elephant and a dog.

Seriously.

I have not seen such a touching story of friendship in quite some time.

Why can't our families have this kind of affection?.....