“Immigration: Programs must be developed to find solutions to stopping ALL immigration pollution and the anchor baby filth that follows that. Find solutions to stopping it. Call for people in the world to develop solutions to stop it completely and permanently. Find solutions FOR these countries so they stop sending their breeding populations to the US and the world to seek jobs and therefore breed more unwanted pollution babies. FIND SOLUTIONS FOR THEM TO STOP THEIR HUMAN GROWTH AND THE EXPORTATION OF THAT DISGUSTING FILTH!”

This makes my blood boil.  Not only is he being “disgusting,” to use his own word, in how he talks about immigrants, who, when they are here legally, bring diversity and culture to our great country, but he is speaking of newborn children of God as being “baby filth” and “pollution babies.”  I am a stand-up-for-the-babies kind of gal, and this tests every bit of compassion I am supposed to have as a Christian for this terribly lost soul because of this sort of mindset.

I am praying for a peaceful resolution in Maryland and that environmentalists all over the U.S. and world will unequivocally denounce this man’s views and actions.

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A few years ago I came across a ministry called Watchman Fellowship–a ministry to help those wishing to “rescue” their friends and loved ones from false religions.  They have excellent resources available and I have called upon them to help me a few times over the years.  I wish I had someone from that ministry in my back pocket today, or at least the mounds of literature I had waiting for me at home.  Although these Jehovah’s Witnesses in the neighborhood did not approach us today, if I had been better prepared, I would have approached them.

So today’s post is, in part, for my review and my preparation. . .there are things that I could have said to them.  They are taken from the book by Ron Rhodes entitled “The 10 Most Important Things You Can Say to a Jehovah’s Witness.”  So today, after my son is in bed, I’m curling up with this book again and preparing for the time when God gives me another opportunity to lovingly share the Truth with those that the Deceiver has distracted.

I would recommend this book by Ron Rhodes.  Everyone has had “that” experience–where a Jehovah’s Witness has come to your door–what will you do the next time?  (By the way, this author also has a book for talking with Mormons if this touches any of you personally.)

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“In a recent study, the Barna Research Group revealed a stunning statistic that continues to reverberate throughout the evangelical world. Only 9 percent of professing Christians have a biblical worldview.¹

Because of this, today’s believers live very similarly to non-believers. A personal sense of significance is rarely experienced, we spend our money and time on things that fail to satisfy and we begin to wonder what life’s ultimate purpose really is. We are, in short, losing our bearings as a people and a nation.

To counter this slide within the body of Christ, we are launching one of the most ambitious and powerful projects in the history of our ministry-Focus on the Family’s The Truth Project.

The Truth Project is a DVD-based small group curriculum comprised of 12 one-hour lessons taught by Dr. Del Tackett. This home study is the starting point for looking at life from a biblical perspective. Each lesson discusses in great detail the relevance and importance of living the Christian worldview in daily life.”

Each of the 12 lessons powerfully discusses issues such as “What is Truth?”, “Who is Man?” and “Who is God?” as well as what our involvement should be in our community, nation, and world.  I would highly recommend this series to anyone wanting to ground themselves in the Truth and gear up for the battle we are already in.

Visit http://www.thetruthproject.org/ for more info or to watch a promotional video.  Bottom line:  Truth matters.

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When I was given Jesus Calling by Sarah Young as a gift six years ago, it was as if I had uncovered a treasure chest of gold.  Not much has changed now that I’ve read her newest book, Jesus Lives. 

Second in a series of devotionals unlike any that I’ve ever read before, Jesus Lives is written from the perspective of our loving Savior, as if Jesus Himself were speaking words of comfort directly to the heart of your need.  Each page tackles another issue, a struggle perhaps, in the Christian walk–topics such as trust, endurance, adversity, peace, assurance, and intimacy with Jesus, to name a few.  Each devotional is followed by several Scripture verses that support each day’s reading. 

The author herself says, “We will experience many losses over the years, but the one thing we cannot live without is the one thing we can never lose–Jesus’ loving Presence.  Even this great truth, however, many not be enough to carry us confidently through our toughest times, unless it is accompanied by experiential knowledge of Jesus.”

Without any hesitation, I give this book a full 5 stars.  If you are looking to really get to know Jesus experientially or you want to hear Him speak directly to your soul and quiet your fearful heart as only He can, I encourage you to read Jesus Lives by Sarah Young. 

You can check out the details of this book and order it at Thomas Nelson Publishers, where I am a Book Review Blogger - http://brb.thomasnelson.com/

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Another one of those “mmm, mmm, mmm, mmm, mmmmmmmmmmmmm” moments happen (see blog I’m referring to here) when I make my 5 year old his favorite smoothie, perfect for these hot spring and summer months.  And the best part?  Inside are hidden all sorts of healthy ingredients that he can’t even taste!

1 frozen banana (peeled)

Frozen strawberries (to taste)–approximately 5

Frozen blueberries (to taste)–approximately 3/4 cup

Rice Dream rice milk (to consistency he/she enjoys)–approximately 1-2 cups

Protein powder–I have discovered Garden of Life’s Raw Protein–it’s from the company of Dr. Jordan Rubin, who brought himself back from incurable Crohn’s disease with diet and then went on to obtain doctoral degrees in nutrition, teaching others how to reach optimum health.  This raw, organic, vegan protein has all the essential amino acids as well as enzymes and probiotics. 

Coconut Oil–1-2 tablespoons–Many in the nutritional community are saying that coconut oil is one of the best things you can add to your daily diet. . .cook with it, add it to smoothies, or eat it right off the spoon!

Although this is the entire list of what we add to our smoothies so far, you can also throw in flax seed or psyllium husk (excellent sources of fiber), fruit-sweetened yogurt (if there are no lactose intolerances), or any supplements from capsule form that you open up and sprinkle in (as opposed to having the child swallow a pill).  For example, we are beginning our son on Quercetin/Bromelain to help with these miserable springtime allergies, and sprinkling the powder from the capsules into his smoothie is exactly how we plan to get him to take those.

Enjoy!

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Still don’t believe me?  You may be thinking, “Ok, fine, but my child will know the difference.  I’ll never be able to get him or her to eat them with virtually no sugar in it.”  Oh really?  Let me tell you that my 5 year old son had a very similar response to Bob Wiley in “What About Bob?”  Never seen that movie?  It has got to be one of the best comedies ever made!  Here is the clip that I am referring to.

Now that you are convinced, for those of you that would like the recipe, here it is:

1 1/2 cups unbleached all-purpose flour

1 teaspoon baking powder

1/2 teaspoon baking soda

1/4 teaspoon salt

1/2 teaspoon ground cinnamon

1/2 teaspoon ground ginger

1/4 teaspoon ground nutmeg

1/2 cup (1 stick) unsalted butter, melted and cooled

1 cup sugar (NO, NO, NO. . .1 teaspoon organic cane sugar)

2 large eggs

One 15-ounce can pumpkin puree

1 teaspoon pure vanilla extract

1 cup raisins

Mix dry ingredients together.  Whisk wet ingredients together.  Combine, fill approximately 18 muffin cups three-quarters full, and bake at 375 degrees F for 22 to 25 minutes.

And voila!  A treat that you don’t need to feel guilty about!

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Putting a Face To What You’re Fighting For
By Claire Culwell

A year ago, when I was 21 years old, I met the woman who gave birth to me. I had always dreamed about the day I would meet her, and it NEVER involved the most significant part of it all…learning that I was an ABORTION SURVIVOR.  She was 13 years old when she became pregnant with me and the only option she knew of (according to her mother) was abortion.  She proceeded to go to an abortion clinic nearby where she had an abortion.  A few weeks later she realized she was still pregnant and decided to go to an out-of-state late-term abortion clinic to have a second abortion. During her examination at the late-term abortion clinic, she was told that she had been pregnant with TWINS.  One was aborted, and one survived.  She was also told that it was too late to have even a late-term abortion.  She decided to give me up for adoption when I was born two weeks later.  If you ask her now, she will tell you that if she had known the results of abortion vs. adoption, she would have gone straight to the adoption agency instead.  Putting me up for adoption (and giving me the best family I can imagine) was a life-changing decision for all of us.

Because of the abortion, I was born 2 ½ months premature and weighed 3 lbs 2 oz.  I was on life support and had to stay in the hospital for 2 ½ months until I could be brought home.  My hips were dislocated and my feet were turned (because during the abortion, the sac that held my body together was broken) and when I was brought home I had 2 casts on my feet and a harness. I was put in a body cast for 4 months, and I didn’t walk until I was over 2 years old.  It still affects me even today.

It’s hard for me to even grasp the fact that I survived and my twin didn’t.  I also know that I’ll never know what I’m missing because my twin didn’t make it into this world and what the world’s missing because of ALL the babies that don’t receive the same GIFT of life that you and I have.  But it shows me the magnitude of life.  Life was not meant to be taken for granted or played around with.  Life is the greatest gift you can receive and give.  The hard part is that so many of us (myself included) just go about our lives not realizing what a GIFT we’ve been given and forgetting about how many babies are not given this gift and opportunity of LIFE. . .

My birth mother, Tonya, my twin and I were once in the same messy situation as each of the women walking into the clinics across the nation.  I hope that you will fight for the babies’ lives with LOVE because love (and grace) are the only reasons that I am here today after an abortion that was supposed to take my life and a second attempted abortion.  I encourage you in your fight for the precious gift of life. . .

Let’s lovingly and respectfully continue to fight for life together!

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Washington Update 

Haunted by the Passed

He was the one none of us expected to be talking about today. For five months, Rep. Bart Stupak (D-Mich.) stood guard on the wall between Americans and his party’s army–a stubborn sentinel for life in a chamber of abortion-hungry Democrats. Without him there would have been no Stupak coalition, no Stupak language to ban taxpayer-funded abortion. In the end, conservatives couldn’t live without him. Now, neither can the unborn. In the last moments, when members tried to incorporate Stupak’s language into the bill, 21 pro-life Democrats voted for it. And for the first time in this Congress, Bart Stupak wasn’t one of them. Instead, the bill–completely devoid of pro-life protections–passed with his help, 219-212*.

With the clock ticking down, the Democrat from Michigan stunned everyone by trading away five agonizing months for a meaningless piece of White House paper. With one-sixth of the economy in his grasp, the President agreed to Stupak’s deal: an executive order that would somehow negate the abortion funding in the Senate bill. It was meant to reassure wobbly Democrats that the administration would protect taxpayers from any involvement in the abortion industry. Unfortunately, it does nothing of the sort. Just ask Planned Parenthood. In an email to supporters (subject: “VICTORY!”), the organization brags, “We were able to keep the Stupak abortion ban out of the final legislation and President Obama did not include the Stupak language in his executive order.” For once, FRC agrees with pro-abortionists like Rep. Diana DeGette (D-Colo.) who told the press that the executive order “doesn’t change anything.” . . .

Even the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB) appealed to Rep. Stupak to reject the compromise. Its legal experts were unanimously opposed. ” The statutory mandate construed by the courts would override any executive order… only a change in the law enacted by Congress can… address this very serious problem.” The Wall Street Journal seemed surprised with the deal. “…[O]f course,” the editors write, “such an order can be revoked whenever it is politically convenient to do so.” As an attorney, Bart Stupak would have known that this was an empty gesture on the President’s part. More importantly, he turned away from beliefs and put that trust in the most pro-abortion President in U.S. history. Americans have come to expect this kind of betrayal from this White House–but they never expected it from the man fighting for life in his party. . .

If House and Senate leaders believed the American people would forgive and forget by Election Day, they were mistaken. Right now, the bill’s new taxes and mandates are scheduled to start hitting homes in the heat of the campaign season. Meanwhile, nine state attorneys general will do their best to fend off the federal invasion at their borders. In Alabama, North Dakota, Nebraska, Pennsylvania, South Carolina, South Dakota, Texas, Utah, Virginia, and Washington, a collective lawsuit will launch the moment ObamaCare becomes law. . .

America is radically shifting in its opinion of the unborn–so much so that the only way Democrats could pass this bill was by putting a pro-life veneer on it. Those who ignore the people on this issue do so at their own peril. During his victory lap, President Obama said smugly, “This is what change looks like.” With all due respect, he hasn’t seen anything yet.

Please read the rest of this article here.  And then join me here later in the week as I return to non-political blog writing.  I’ve had enough of it all right now–not that I’m apathetic or will not be “standing on truth” with the voice that God gave me, but for now, I don’t have the stomach for it, and will be writing more along the lines of what you, my readers, voted for–Culture Through a Biblical Lens, Parenting, and Nutrition.  Join me!

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Fellow Americans,

Late last night, in a narrow and partisan vote, the U.S. House of Representatives passed the most significant piece of social legislation in over seven decades. It did so in the face of overwhelming and principled opposition from the American people. Large majorities of Americans oppose this legislation because it offends the historic American dedication to the principle of self-government. They understand that this new law will accelerate Washington’s intrusion into our most personal and private decisions.

This is why opposition to this bill will only grow. Supporters of this bill argue that popular hostility will recede upon its passage. But, rather than cementing our descent into a European-style welfare state, last night’s passage of Obamacare is best seen as a historic turning point, a true catalyst for real change. . .

Those who supported this bill are our fellow Americans, and we do not question their good will or patriotism. In public policy, however, good intentions alone do not suffice. And let there be no mistake, our philosophical differences with supporters of this bill are profound. The reason government-run health care has been the holy grail of the left for decades is that liberals realize as much as we do that it is a giant step toward the creation of a European-style welfare state. This is an evolution Americans have always resisted because it is alien to our national character.

If there is one good thing about the past year-one in which we have witnessed unprecedented horse-trading, press stunts, midnight votes and political manipulation in both houses of the U.S. Congress-it is that the American people have come away educated as never before about the differences between these two visions for America. Americans are strongly opposed to this bill not because they have been hoodwinked but because they understand this bill both in its particulars and at an instinctive, gut level.

They understand this health care bill forces individuals and employers to buy insurance policies designed by government bureaucrats. This intrusion is intended to follow us from cradle to grave.

Instead of empowering families and individuals to make their own choices, Obamacare empowers the bureaucracy to make those decisions for them. It is this unelected bureaucracy, unanswerable to the electorate, that will determine the content of health benefits packages, including medical treatment and procedures, and how much will be paid for those services. Yesterday’s legislation brings us one step closer to fully government-run medicine, with expanded government power over the financing and delivery of medical services that is sure to ration care in the name of cost control.

You will hear the left say this new entitlement will be popular with the American people. Do not believe them for a second. Yes, 32 million people will gain the theoretical right to health insurance. But over half of that coverage comes from placing at least 16 million more Americans into Medicaid, an unpopular and overextended welfare program that already rations care.

Americans will not stand for it. The American love for liberty prevailed in our founding, and will prevail once again. . .

Our health care system requires reform, and we have long advocated measures to improve our system. We can and should strengthen the ability of American families to choose the coverage they want, rather than giving that power to Congress and its agency bureaucrats. We can also spur competition and choice to bring efficiency and lower costs to the health system, in place of the bill’s deadening regulation and damaging price controls. And, above all, we should foster state innovation rather than Washington-based central planning.

Read the rest of this email from Edwin J. Feulner, Ph.D., President, The Heritage Foundation here.

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