By Alan on May 04 in Daily Inspiration tagged Bible, Book of Mormon, climate, colder, constitution, courts, God, life, Lord, prayer, promised land, prophecy, religion, scripture, worship | Comments Off

 We’re In The Midst Of Climate Change . . .

“We’re in the midst of climate change—one that’s getting colder and colder toward religion.”

“Thus we see how quick the children of men do forget the Lord their God, yea, how quick to do iniquity, and to be led away by the evil one.”  Alma 46:8

For The Family

By Alan on Dec 21 in Blog tagged America, believe, Ben Stein, celebrities, Christian, God thinks, Jew, newspapapers, people think, the Bible, worship | Comments Off

 The  following was written by Ben Stein and recited by him on CBS Sunday Morning Commentary.

My confession:  

I don’t like getting pushed around for being a Jew, and I don’t think Christians like getting pushed around for being Christians.  I think people who believe in God are sick and tired of geetting pushed around, period.  I have no idea where the concept came from, that America is an explicitly atheist country. I can’t find it in the Constitution and I don’t like it being shoved down m throat.!

Or maybe I  can put it another way: where did the idea come from that we  should worship celebrities and we aren’t allowed to worship God  as we understand Him?  I guess that’s a sign that I’m  getting old, too.  But there are a lot of us who are  wondering where these celebrities came from and where the  America we knew went to.

In light of the many jokes we  send to one another for a laugh, this is a little  different:  This is not intended to be a joke; it’s not  funny, it’s intended to get you thinking.

In  light of recent events… terrorists attack, school shootings,  etc..  I think it started when Madeleine Murray O’Hare (she  was murdered, her body found a few years ago) complained she  didn’t want prayer in our schools, and we said OK.  Then  someone said you better not read the Bible in school…   The Bible says thou shalt not kill; thou shalt not steal, and  love your neighbor as yourself.  And we said  OK.

Then Dr. Benjamin Spock said we shouldn’t spank our  children when they misbehave, because their little personalities  would be warped and we might damage their self-esteem (Dr.  Spock’s son committed suicide).  We said an expert should  know what he’s talking about..  And we said  okay..

Now we’re asking ourselves why our children have no conscience, why they don’t know right from wrong, and why it  doesn’t bother them to kill strangers, their classmates, and  themselves.

Probably, if we think about it long and hard  enough, we can figure it out.  I think it has a great deal  to do with ‘WE REAP WHAT WE SOW.’

Funny how simple it is  for people to trash God and then wonder why the world’s going to  hell.  Funny how we believe what the newspapers say, but question what the Bible says.  Funny how you can send  ‘jokes’ through e-mail and they spread like wildfire, but when  you start sending messages regarding the Lord, people think  twice about sharing.  Funny how lewd, crude, vulgar and  obscene articles pass freely through cyberspace, but public  discussion of God is suppressed in the school and workplace.

Are you laughing yet? 

Funny how when you forward  this message, you will not send it to many on your address list  because you’re not sure what they believe, or what they will  think of you for sending it.

Funny how we can be more  worried about what other people think of us than what God thinks of us.

My Best Regards,  Honestly and  respectfully,

Ben  Stein

Paul Linford
For The Family

By Alan on Nov 03 in Blog tagged a plan, believe, God, prayer, President, Ronald Reagan, worship | Comments Off

Ronald Reagan – Praying For A President

May we all pray for our next President.

For The Family

By Alan on Aug 15 in Blog tagged Americqa, blessed, covenants, forefathers, God, Jesus, Lord, prayer, promised land, religion, religious, righteous, served God, trust, worship | Comments Off

U.S. Capitol Tour with David Barton

By Alan on Apr 21 in Blog tagged ability to assemble, choice, exemption from control, Freedom versus liberty, liberty, never contradicts or limits yours, speech, Spirit of the Lord, worship | Comments Off

Freedom is the exemption from control by some other person, or from arbitrary restriction of specific defined rights like Worship, or Speech 

Liberty is the sum of the rights possessed in common by the people of a community/state/nation as they apply to its government, and/or the expectation that a nation’s people have of exemption from control by a foreign power.

 

Freedoms are things that people EXTRACT from their government; 

Liberty is less derivative, more formative; a thing GRANTED by the people to the people in common. The ability to Assemble, for instance, while commonly thought of as a freedom, is really an aspect of liberty.

 

Freedoms end when they encounter a contrary freedom of another person. You are free to smoke, until you encounter my freedom not to inhale your smoke. 

Liberty lacks that distinction: my liberty never contradicts or limits yours.

  Conservatives traditionally support Liberty, but they may tend to be pliant about certain freedoms, aware as they are to the potentional dissonance.

“Now the Lord is that Spirit: and where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is liberty.”   2 Cor. 3: 17

Paul V. Hartman
For The Family 

By Alan on Dec 13 in Daily Inspiration tagged blessing, dead, God, husband, Jesus, Mormon, ordinances, temple, wife, work, worship | Comments Off

Temple Work

“The duty of temple work has been laid upon this people. But it is more than a duty, it is a blessing. I am satisfied that if our people would attend the temple more there would be less selfishness in their lives. There would be less absence of love in their relationships. There would be more fidelity on the part of husbands and wives. There would be more love and peace and happiness in the homes of our people. There would come into the minds of the Latter-day Saints an increased awareness of their relationship with God, our Eternal Father and of the need to work a little harder at the matter of living as sons and daughters of God.”      –Gordon B. Hinckley