By Alan on May 16 in Blog tagged God, heaven, inspiration, Jesus Christ, laws, learn, mars, nature, plan, powers, principles, righteousness, study | Comments Off

How To Get To Mars

Only Upon The Laws and Principles Of Nature

with Work and Inspiration and by Seeking for that

Ultimate Goal and Reward.

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How To Get To Heaven:

Only Upon The Principles Of Righteousness.

 ”All thrones and dominions, principalities and powers, shall be revealed and set forth upon all who have endured valiantly for the gospel of Jesus Christ.”

According to that which was ordained in the midst of the Council of the Eternal God of all other gods before this world was, that should be reserved unto the finishing and the end thereof, when every man shall enter into his eternal presence and into his immortal rest.

D&C 121:29, 32

For The Family
God’s Plan of Happiness

By Alan on Dec 25 in Blog tagged economy, magician, practice, principles, slight of hand, Yann Frisch | Comments Off

It’s Like Managing A Family Budget

Magician Yann Frisch

If we practice using correct principles, we can make challenges disappear.

For The Family

By Alan on Nov 20 in Blog tagged abortion, aligning, child-killing, Christian, citizen, covetousness, defend, Democrat, election, faith, God, Jesus, liberal, marriage, Mitt Romney, morals, Obama, politics, Poverty, pray, principles, Providence Crowder, rejected God, Republican, sin, sodomy, The Family, values, vote, wealth, word | Comments Off

Providence Crowder

Aligning Her Voting With Her Christian Faith

A couple of days ago, God gave the people what they wanted.  This heated election season is over.  We have our president.  The people passed over Mitt Romney, the Republican candidate, and overwhelming lent their support for Obama and the Democrat agenda.

I can understand the peoples support for the Democrat Party.  Much of what they say they stand for sounds moral and compassionate, especially concerning the poor and minority populations.  Yet, my convictions and research eventually led me to reject the Democrat ideology, preferring to side with people and political parties more aligned with the morals and values consistent with my Christian faith.

I used to be a Democrat, but I am no longer.  I am a registered Republican.  Not because I thought the Republican Party was so righteous, but because there came a time in my life as a Democrat, that I could no longer reconcile my politics and my faith.

Since my faith supersedes everything else for me, I find that it is pure madness for me to vote for politicians who uphold policies that are in a direct conflict with my faith.  It is foolishness for me to vote against my own values and interests.  Christianity is more than a title for me, it is who I am and determines how I live and how I view the world.

Since I am not only a Christian, but a citizen of this nation, I have the right to share and debate my values and ideas, as does everyone else.  I am so proud that I can, with my vote, influence this nation in upholding godly principles and values.  I will continue to vote with the party and/or persons that supports what I interpret to be godly and biblical values—the Judeo Christian values that were engrafted into our constitution and laws—the values that made this nation the greatest nation on earth and have afforded people of EVERY faith, and people who claim to have NO faith, to live free and prosperous lives here.

Great nations have fallen because of grievous sins and ungodliness and America is not exempt.  In Scripture, when Israel was prosperous, it was not because of her own economic ingenious.  Israel was blessed when she obeyed God—when she as a nation loved what God loved, and hated what God hated.

The primary reasons why I reject the Democrat platform is because it has within it the most immoral and ungodly principles to guide this nation.  Our preference for this course for our nation is a sure sign that we as a nation have not rejected the Republican Party, per se, but we have rejected God.  Just like in the days of Samuel, when the Israelites demanded that Samuel “appoint them a king,” God told Samuel, “Obey the voice of the people in all that they say to you, for they have not rejected you, but they have rejected me.”

Rejecting God will be, as our enemies would say, death to America.  It is our flat out refusal to love what God loves and detest what He detests that will drive this nation over a moral and economic cliff.

Even though I adamantly reject the Democrats historic racist position concerning black Americans, racism is but one sin.  As a Christian, I cannot reconcile my faith with the Democrat’s support of socialism, re-defining marriage, and abortion.

President Obama “impressively” won 93% of the black vote!  I am black, but I am among the 7% who did not lend Obama my support.  What may be perplexing to some is that blacks are overwhelmingly conservative in their moral values and convictions, so their support of the Democrat Party seems inconsistent.  Yet, for these black Christians, they believe that the Republican Party perpetuates the “unforgivable” sins of racism and oppression of the poor.  Jesus, they say, admonishes us to care for the “least of these” in society.  Never mind what history confirms about the Democrats, these Christians believe that it is the Republicans that are perpetuating hatred and discrimination against so many that have less pigment and/or estrogen than they do.  I understand the argument.  I lived the argument.  I believed the accusations that are waged against Republicans; accusations that Republicans have done so poorly to defend themselves against.

To the “black liberation theology” prodigies, it is the “black man” that must receive it’s just dues from its evil white oppressors that have kept blacks trapped in failing schools, in crime ridden neighborhoods, and without job skills and an education that would make them employable.  These evil white oppressors may once have been Southern Democrats and the Ku Klux Klan, but now they are Republicans.

This is what many blacks believe about Republicans.  And though you show them proof of otherwise, they will find you tons of revisionist historical literature to defend their past oppressors, the Democrats.

I have been told by a few of my black Christian friends concerning this election that God has upheld the “black man” in righteousness and protected him from the “haters.”  I want people to really get this and understand. Obama is not president because he is righteous. There is NOTHING righteous about Obama’s support for child killing, sodomy, covetousness, and idolatry.  His black skin does not make him right for black people.  Obama does not share the values of most blacks and his policies hurt the people he claims he wants to help.

BUT, what God has said in his Word is coming to pass. Christians are aligning themselves with lawlessness and ungodliness.  And because Obama is black, many blacks and others choose not to acknowledge how far into abomination that Obama has taken them.  They choose to overlook and ignore what God says in his Word concerning the moral and economic issues we face as a nation, choosing instead to side with Obama’s words over God’s Word:

“Therefore God sends them a strong delusion, so that they may believe what is false, in order that all may be condemned who did not believe the truth but had pleasure in unrighteousness.”

God has PROMISED to judge in righteousness and has often used ungodly rulers to execute his judgment. Surely America will be judged for her grievous sins that go up daily as a stench in the nostrils of a holy God. I just pray that God has mercy upon this nation and upon us all.

I have also been told to “get over it” and not be a sore loser.  I am told to pray for our president because that is what we as Christians are suppose to do, because everything is in God’s hand anyways.  True, God is in control.  Obama is president by God’s permissive will.

But I am not so convinced that if Mitt Romney had won the presidency, black Christians would be praying for him as they tell me to do for Obama.  Instead I believe that we would continue to hear from the leftist liberals the same old tirade of rants about racism that we have been hearing for the past few months; and hearing blacks call Mitt Romney out for being the “racist that he is” and fearing that he will bring back Jim Crow.

In fact, I don’t remember the black Christian community praying for Bush or any other president the way they do for Obama.  In fact, I remember some pretty fancy and ungodly words and terms used to describe President George W. Bush.  I won’t repeat them here.

Regardless of this, I WILL pray for our president.  I will pray that he repents and turns to God, and leads this nation in the path of righteousness.  I pray that he surrounds himself with godly counsel and does not shun and mock the Word of God.

I pray for his success.

BUT, his success should not be measured in how many people he can put on foodstamps, but how many people his policies free from foodstamps.  His success should not be measured in how many poverty programs he enacts, but in how many poverty programs he needs to eliminate because Americans are working and successful.  His success should be measured not by how many women he gives access and money to have abortions, but how many abortion clinics need to be shut down because their services are no longer needed.  His success should be measured not in how much wealth he can redistribute, but how much wealth he can help individuals and businesses generate; thereby keeping America the most prosperous and generous nation on earth.   I want Obama to have success because his success is America’s success.

And for the record, I don’t hate Democrats, but I do hate the policies and ideas they have aligned themselves with.  I really have a problem with the way the Democrats “pimp” the poor.  Yeah, I said it!  They are poverty pimps and they use the poor as pawns.  They stir up envy and hatred among the poor and pit them against the rich, causing the poor to covet and vote for politicians who will steal from the wealthy and give it to them.  They vote for politicians that will “punish” big business, but in the end, it is these job creators that have to lay-off workers, raise prices, send jobs overseas, or shut their doors–ultimately hurting the poor and increasing the poverty base.

I won’t go on much more, but “redistribution of wealth” and “paying your fair share,” are rooted in covetousness and there is no biblical foundation to justify our government stealing from one family to give to another.  Unless under your immediate or parental care, no one should be forced to pay for another’s health insurance, home, car, education, food, clothing or anything else.  Redistribution of wealth eventually leads to redistribution of poverty because ultimately everyone will be equal, but they will be equally poor.

Some of the current issues in the forefront of the divisions between Democrats and Republicans are non-negotiable for me.  Though they are far from perfect and in need of some soul searching themselves, I admire the historic position and legacy of the Republican Party for championing the rights of women, blacks, and the poor.  This is part of the reason they still have my support.  We as a party have some work to do.  But the reason I choose not to vote Democrat has little to do with the fact that they are the party of Jim Crow and the KKK, but that today they are on the wrong side of the EVERY ISSUE that matters to me most.  “Choice,” “Reproductive Rights,” “Marriage Equality,” “Fair Share,” are all repackaged code names for the same age old sins: “child-killing,” “sodomy,” and “covetousness.”  Nothing new under the sun.

Providence Crowder

John Greenhaigh
For The Family

By Alan on Aug 24 in Blog tagged America, beliefs, Brian Williams, garments, LDS, Mormon, principles, The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, truths, underwear, values | 6 Comments

THANK YOU BRIAN WILLIAMS

FROM

MORMONS IN AMERICA

We as members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints appreciated the opportunity to share our religious beliefs, family lifestyle, some prominent members of our Church, with a brief overview of some of our people in action with a glimpse of what is most important to us.  We also are grateful for the “time” we had on network television to show ourselves as real people.

For the television exposure that we had last night on TV we say,  THANK YOU!

Many people got to see some of us members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, LDS, or “Mormons” as we really are.  They also showed some “Jack Mormons” who are NOT WHAT WE ARE!   They are those who liked our religious values for a time but for some reason, COULD NOT LIVE THEM.  We also did NOT appreciate showing our sacred garments or underwear.  They are NOT SECRET!  THEY ARE SACRED; a reminder to us of promises we have made to our God just as as they did in ancient times and with other religions.  We are NOT interested in what underwear Brian Williams was wearing and should have deserved the same consideration!

In general, we are an honest, loving, kind, hard working people who focus on The Family with long lasting values and principles.  We are Chrisitans who believe in Jesus Christ and those things that He said and asked us to do in the Bible and in The Book of Mormon.  The Book of Mormon also contains Jesus’s visit and words He gave to His “other sheep” in North America when He appeared to them after He was crucified and resurrected.  Jesus also visited outer peoples.

We are God’s Children.  We believe we lived before as spirit children of God and then came to this world via “birth” to get a physical body and that we ALL will live again after this life.  We believe in the Ten Commandments and NOT as the ‘Ten Suggestions’ and follow a living Prophet of God just as in olden times.  We believe there are certain things that Jesus said we must do in order to be able to return to Him again like having faith and to be baptized and to receive the Holy Ghost.  We believe that marriage is ordained of God and is not for just time where “death do you part”, but for ‘time and all eternity’!   All of these things must be done by one who has the authority to do so having receive it from Jesus Christ or one of those whom He has had it bestowed upon.  For those who have died early or did not have the opportunity to know of Jesus Christ and His commandments, their earthly ‘work’ is done for them by proxy in one of our many Temples or ‘House of the Lord’.  We all go to a Spirit World when we die and it is there that those who never had the chance will learn more and have the opportunity to accept the gospel or not.

We hope that all media opportunities will continue and allow us the opportunity to share that which is dear to us and not go to those who are not of our faith or who were and cannot live our standards.  Please remember, if you want to know what a Mormon believes, “ASK A MORMON!”

Everyone is invited to visit one of our churches on Sunday.  All will be welcomed!

I share these things openly because, “I am not ashamed of the gospel of Jesus Christ”,

Alan Osmond
For The Family

By Alan on Aug 06 in Blog tagged change, nation, One, principles, return, time, Under God, values | Comments Off

Reflection Of Our Day

Isn’t it about TIME that we returned to those values and principles our forefathers lived when they founded this great nation?

One Nation Under God!

Marlon Snow
For The Family 

By Alan on Jul 09 in Blog tagged are you the one, children, choice, commitment, dating, forever, God, honesty, life, marriage, principles, The Family, together, trust, values | Comments Off

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Kept From The Truth Because They Know Not Where To Find It

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That Is Christian Courage

Recently I have been getting some of my really good blog and internet followers and friends on my websites and social networks that wonder why I don’t speak out and defend myself more actively when accusations that are made against me or my beliefs by those who don’t agree, can’t live moral standards, or are just trying to upset me when I post my feelings and various articles about certain values and principles and those religious truths that I believe and know to be true.  Yes, sometimes I have had to block someone from my various sites who are trouble makers or have a personal agenda and are so blunt or who curse, and others that I have tried to just ignore or reason with and try to explain my thinking, my beliefs and those values in which I believe.

To their inquiry I would say that one of mortality’s great tests comes when our beliefs are questioned or criticized. In such moments, we may want to respond aggressively—to “put up our dukes.” But these are important opportunities to step back, pray, and follow the Savior’s example. Remember that Jesus Himself was despised and rejected by the world. And in Lehi’s dream, those coming to the Savior also endured “mocking and pointing … fingers” (1 Nephi 8:27). “The world hath hated [my disciples],” Jesus said, “because they are not of the world, even as I am not of the world” (John 17:14). But when we respond to our accusers as the Savior did, we not only become more Christlike, we invite others to feel His love and follow Him as well.

We must never become contentious when we are discussing our faith or values.

When we respond to our accusers as the Savior did, we not only become more Christlike, we invite others to feel His love and follow Him as well.

Like all true disciples of Christ, they stood with the Savior by loving others in a tolerant and compassionate way. That is Christian courage.

True disciples of Christ see opportunity in the midst of opposition.

By Alan on Feb 13 in Blog tagged apologize, better care, borrowed, Call a friend, complacency, courage, demands, discourage, don't blow horn, encourage, free of malice, gratitude, I love you, kaugh, kind and thoughtful, lighten up, make a promise, make effort, pay a debt, pesimist, principles, read, reality, resolve problems, share stories, smile, smoke, soft answer, tall, think, understand | Comments Off

Do the things you’ve always wanted to do but couldn’t find the time.

• Call up a forgotten friend. Drop an old grudge, and replace it with some pleasant memories.
  
• Share a funny story with someone whose spirits are dragging.  A good laugh can be very good medicine.
  
• Vow not to make a promise you don’t think you can keep.
  
• Pay a debt.
• Give a soft answer.
  
• Free yourself of envy and malice.
  
• Encourage some youth to do his or her best.  Share your experience, and offer support.  Young people need role models.
  
• Make a genuine effort to stay in closer touch with family and good friends. 

• Resolve to stop magnifying small problems and shooting from the lip.  Words that you have to eat can be hard to digest.
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• Find the time to be kind and thoughtful. All of us have the same allotment.  24 hours a day.  Give a compliment.  It might give someone a badly needed lift.
  
• Think things through. Forgive an injustice.  Listen more.  Be kind.
  
• Apologize when you realize you are wrong. An apology never diminishes a person.  It elevates him.
  
• Don’t blow your own horn. IF you’ve done something praiseworthy, someone will notice eventually.
  
• Try to understand a point of view that is different from your own.  Few things are 100 percent one way or another.
  
• Examine the demands you make on others.
  
• Lighten up. When you feel like blowing your top, ask yourself.  “Will it matter a week from today?”
  
• Laugh the loudest when the joke is on you.
  
• The sure way to have a friend is to be one. We are all connected by our humanity, and we need each other.
  
• Avoid malcontents and pessimists. They drag you down and contribute nothing.
  
• from trying something risky.  Nothing-ventured means nothing gained.  Be optimistic.  The can-do spirit is the fuel that makes things go.
  
• Go to war against animosity and complacency.
• Express your gratitude. Give credit when it’s due- and even when it isn’t.  It will make you look good.
• Read something uplifting. Deep-six the trash.  You wouldn’t eat garbage – why put it in your head?
  
• Don’t abandon your old-fashioned principles. They never go out of style.
  
• When courage is needed, ask yourself, “If not me, who?  If not now, when?”
  
• Take better care of yourself. Remember, you’re all you’ve got.  Pass up that second helping.  You really don’t need it.  Vow to eat more sensibly.  You’ll feel better and look better, too.
  
• Don’t put up with secondhand smoke. Nobody has the right to pollute your air or give you cancer.  If someone says, “This is a free country,” remind him or her hat the country may be free, but no person is free if he has a habit he can’t control.
  
• Return those books you borrowed. Reschedule that missed dental appointment.  Clean out your closet.  Take those photos out of the drawer and put them in an album.  If you see litter on the sidewalk, pick it up instead of walking over it.
  
• Give yourself a reality check. Phoniness is transparent, and it is tiresome.  Take pleasure in the beauty and the wonders of nature.  A flower is God’s miracle.
  
• Walk tall, and smile more. You’ll look 10 years younger.
  
• Don’t be afraid to say, “I love you.” Say it again.  They are the sweetest words in the world.
• If you have love in your life, consider yourself blessed, and vow to make this the best year ever.

By Alan on Nov 15 in Blog tagged Alan Osmond, an enemy to God, choices, courage, desire to serve others, Faith in Jesus Christ, fulfill my purpose, fulfill prophecy, God's Plan of Life, goodness, joy and thanksgiving, life is good, my eternal companion, natural man, principles, relationships, scriptures, spiritual children having human experiences, Suzanne, The Family, the feelings of my heart, this day, values, wickedness, Zion People | 10 Comments

It is winter and life in the mountains is GOOD!

It is with joy and thanksgiving that I express the feelings of my heart this day after having pondered the scriptures of Isaiah during the early hours of the morning and in giving thanks to our Creator above for all of the things that surround me;  for our Savior and Lord Jesus Christ with all His goodness that fills the desires within me to become as He would want me to become and who prompts my heart with warm feelings of courage after reading His words.  With thankfulness and the desire to serve others, which I know I must do, and in order to fulfilling my purposes and to give back for this life and this world in which I live today, I share these things.

The early morning hour awakened my mind with impressions of gratitude for life with a most wonderful family that loves me unconditionally and partnered by the most sensitive and tenderly beautiful giving woman, Suzanne, my eternal companion.  She causes the man within me to fulfill the best I can become for her and our family and the desire to provide her with the comforts, blessings and true relationship she is most deserving of and should have from me.  She is the one who stands by me daily, takes me in and comforts me and justifies my efforts each day with loving arms and reasoning while mending my wounds and renewing my strength after facing this world’s battles and tests.  What a wonderful wife!

It makes me think about my place and position in this world of God’s great plan of life as I challenge myself to try to become a better person in mind, body, spirit and heart and in reminding myself of the many blessings I have received and oh so many areas and ways of how I can still improve.  As I review the past with the many rivers that I have forged and crossed and the tests of life that have been fought and won only after battling for those choices in which I truly believed, in picking myself up and brushing off the dust when I would fall and bruise my body and ego while trying to make those correct choices, I have peace.  In tasting of the sweet success and achievements and licking the wounds of battles won while standing for truth and those values and principles that my parents taught me which had been instilled within me during my youth, I will never forget that for which I stand.  With courage I covenant to myself and to my Lord to become what God would want me to become and to bless His work and His glory of which I am a part, by my actions and those choices I make.

It is then that my mind remembers the faces of oh so many friends and relationships with experiences I have had with them over time which I cannot forget who have a special place in my heart and who deserve that responsibility that I feel, to give back to so many of them who played such an important role in making me what I have now become.

To those who are reading this, I want to thank you for choosing to be here, for trusting me and my friends, and in looking and searching for the good and the best things of life and for making commitments to be a part of a better way of living by putting God and family first.  We honestly have the desire to do well and make right choices and we will do it together.

Thank you for your faith in Jesus Christ and for being and remaining strong through this troublesome world of wickedness and for standing up for those values and principles of goodness that are offset and even destroyed by evil and conspiring men of our day and the wicked one they follow; for putting off the ‘natural man’ which is an enemy to God and in maintaining a spirit of hope, with our freedoms and faith knowing that just around the corner will be the grandest and greatest days of all when all of the evils of this world will be cast out with Satan, and Jesus shall return once again to dwell with us for a thousand years of peace and happiness.  We will then become a Zion people; the happiest people that ever lived!

It will have been worth the fight in working our hardest and standing up for good, in raising a family in a loving and orderly home with a true and faithful marriage, and in remaining strong and enduring to the end when the going got tough while the trendy world laughs and point their fingers and scoffing at us for our values and righteous desires; for living during the most challenging times ever with the fullness of good and evil while trying to provide for our loved one’s needs. All who do this will be blessed for setting their lives as good examples and in recognizing their mistakes and repenting of them quickly.  Truly, we will surely be rewarded for the fruits of our labors. We will have fulfilled prophecy and have become those who receive from the Lord His bounteous blessings with eternal rewards as promised. The hard times will then seem blurred as battled victories worth celebrating.  Eye hath not seen nor ear heard how great will be the blessings that the Lord will provide!  May we be the recipients.

We at thefamily.com hope that we can help provide for those who have eyes to see and ears to hear, wisdom and many truths, helps, warnings of danger and words of caution and prevention during these troubled times ahead as well as the good times with scripture support so that you and your families can be prepared and make your appropriate choices that are in line with the Lord’s will.

We sanctify our Lord and God with all our hearts and always try to be ready always to give an answer to every man that ask us for a reason of the hope that is in us with meekness and fear.  May we always remember who we are, why we are here, and where we are going during this short time we are away from our Heavenly parents and here on earth as their spiritual children having now attained a physical body as well and  having human experiences.

May the Good Lord bless us all and our families with the best this world has to offer is my prayer and wish for you this day!

With love,

Alan Osmond
For The Family

“But sanctify the Lord God in your hearts: and be ready always to give an answer to every man that asketh you a reason of the hope that is in you with meekness and fear.”  1 Pet. 3: 15