The Importance of God's Family Plan

     A kid needs a family. A boy needs a dad for so many reasons: To show him how to use a pocket knife, to find night crawlers for fish bait, and yes to handle a gun safely.
     I got a 22 cal. rifle for my 11th birthday. I had to prove I could use it safely for a year before I got my next gun, a J.C. Higgins, 12 gauge pump with an adjustable compensator choke and ventilated rib from Sears. Wow what a gun for a 12 year old. I had to prove again I could load and unload it safely, knew how to carry it and cross fences safely, and if I accidentally pointed it at someone, I either missed that week's hunting trip, or worse I had to carry everybody else's gear and leave my gun at home. Believe me, I knew gun safety.
     A boy needs to know things; how to drive a nail, how to catch a baseball thrown low left, or high right. If you hold your glove wrong you'll muff the catch; how to swing a bat, throw a curve ball, and how to spiral a sweet pass with a football, (my dad missed that one with me).
     A girl needs a dad too, lots of times for the same reasons, because sometimes a girl just wants to hang out with her dad and learn the things that boys like. How to bat so she doesn't look so much like a girl, where the oil and antifreeze belong so you don't put oil in the radiator, and all the family needs to learn how to change a flat.
     Girls need a mom too, perhaps one of the most important relationships in all mankind. They need to learn how to sew, knit, and even cook, ( what a novel idea for today's society); not microwaving a hot dog, but real cooking and baking.
     There are however more important things a girl must learn, namely how to become a woman, go through the scary process of a first menstrual period, and most important how to date, plan a marriage, a family, and how not to get pregnant and ruin chances of having a long happy chance at one's dating years.
     Boys need moms too. My own best friend Dennis, lost his mother on the operating table to a drunk doctor when he was born. He never saw his mother, and as a boy of 5-7 rarely a day went by when he didn't mention that doctor and what he was going to do to him when he got old enough to punish him for killing his mom. Not having a mom traumatized Dennis for his entire childhood.
     As a very young boy I learned how to bake and cook. I stood on a stool next to mom's flour bin and watched every move she made in the kitchen; how to make cakes from scratch, whip egg whites, cook 7 minute frosting, make sugar cookies, fried pies, and cook dry beans in a pressure cooker. There were no mixes in those early years, no cake mixes or instant potatoes. I really learned how to cook. Oddly my sister didn't have as much an interest in the process and had to learn many of those skills later as a teen, but 20 years later I still remembered what spices went in a spice cake.
     Some things you learn through a blending influence of both parents; things like how to fight or not fight a bully. When to punch him in the nose or not, when to run, when to fight, and how to treat a black eye with raw meat when you did; or perhaps not. There was a difference in the advice you received from mom and dad, yet both were important to how you handled tense situations later in life. Dad demonstrated wrestling holds, mom emphasized more peaceful ways to exit a conflict. Both were important at times.
     So what happened to the Family? Today it is the girls that throw left hooks on the school bus. Boys carry pellet guns or worse to school to scare the bullies. Principals don't have big paddles anymore and the school discipline, (or rather lack of it), proves it. Bibles aren't allowed in schools anymore, so the precepts aren't taught there anymore, only Political Correctness, and tolerance, (neither those words or the concepts found anywhere in the Bible). No wonder there are School Shootings.
     The stats are in and dysfunctional families raise unhappy, unstable children. Two daddies or two mommies doesn't work, not ever. Whether it is the absent father, in the majority of black homes, or the homosexual sin that robs a child of a mother or father; the data proves children of these dysfunctional families suffer.
     Girls and boys need both parents, to find out what functions a Mom plays or a Dad plays in a home. If they don't fully understand the functions, guess what? It creates a dysfunctional home. It isn't rocket science but it is solid fact just the same.
     If the Family isn't able to teach these concepts and Biblical precepts, who will? The schools with corrupted Common Core Textbooks are teaching just the opposite. Worse the Churches aren't fulfilling this purpose either. The vast majority of Pastors don't preach anything useful anymore. The pasteurized, politically filtered, watered down mush from most Pastors is useless, boring, and the Bible hardly ever even quoted.
     Satan has succeeded in replacing God's Plan for the Family with his corrupted version, at home, at Church, and at school. So kids carry condoms instead of Gideon New Testaments, cell phones instead of slide rules, (heck they don't even know what a slide rule is). Cursive is gone from the classroom so they can't even read the signatures on the Declaration of Independence. Spelling is out the window because of texting abbreviations, and only one out of 3 children has had the experience of having both parents in their home for their entire life. The norm is dysfunction.
     Most dangerous of all, a danger to civilization itself, is Satan's false concept
of a homosexual marriage. An act of sin cannot be allowed to become the foundation of a marriage covenant. A once and sometimes still illegal act of sodomy cannot become an accepted function by a thinking court. The problem is our courts and justices are not thinking logically but rather "acting" in their own best interests, out of their own lusts and lewd behaviors. Laying down decisions to cover their own sins, instead of rightly dividing the Law. Media outlets and Hollywood too are infected with this same moral disease. The Bible is the answer. It is clear on all these issues. In the Bible as Phil Robertson accurately taught America, God equates Homosexuality with Bestiality:
Thou shalt not lie with mankind, as with womankind: it is abomination. 23 Neither shalt thou lie with any beast to defile thyself therewith: neither shall any woman stand before a beast to lie down thereto: it is confusion. 24 Defile not ye yourselves in any of these things: for in all these the nations are defiled which I cast out before you:
Lev 18:22-24

Systemic Damage to our Country

     Changes come. Changes happen. Changes can go unnoticed or they can cripple and be very noticeable. Recently my own body has undergone a somewhat losing battle to MS and severe Diabetic Neuropathy. A little over a year ago, I was pushing a wheelbarrow and building a new patio and koi pond, today I am being pushed around in a wheelchair from one VA Doctor to another, and hopefully soon to a Private Neurologist who can do some good prescribing treatment for my MS.
     Quite a change. My body went from skipping and strolling through the garden, to struggling with a simple trip to microwave a cup of instant coffee.
     The same is true of our once proud Country, and every bit as systemic. The United States, founded on the Gospel of Jesus the Christ, is now groveling in its sin, attacked by Satan on 9/11; yet unrepentant, we elected a Muslim Traitor intent on furthering Islam's indecencies and severing the head of Freedom, our very Constitution. Barack Hussein Obama or whatever his real name is, is confidently, arrogantly, haughtily, signing illegal Executive Order after another in direct contradiction to every principle extant in our Constitution, with nary a whimper from our Congress as a body. Sure a lone Senator or Congressman or Woman cries out, a FOX News Commentator calls foul, or a brave Sherriff from a County in the heartland stands up to defend his people; but for the most part, our elected officials cower behind political correctness, and just plain personal greed.
     You and I watch the George Soros infected, Media Matters dictated, version of the evening "news", and wonder what in the world ever happened to the Country we love? Where are the Christian principles once so deeply imbedded in our Constitution that daily operation of Government was reflective of God's Glory?

     We watch babies murdered, sacrificed to the present day's god Molech with precision and premeditation, by gunslingers for hire, in Abortion Mills owned by Satan's own spawn. Millions of defiled dollars made by spilling the innocent blood of babes who thought themselves to be swimming in the safety of the womb.
     We watch sickening video of men kissing men as they are illegally "married" on the defiled steps of the County Courthouse, (Satan's Picture of God's defiled Ordinance), for his laughing pleasure. What happened? Sin has infected our Country. No one cried out from the Church. Our pew-sitters were silent. No one prayed, or if they did it was only one. No one voted, or if they did it was only one. No Preacher sounded the alarm on the wall, or if they did it was only one.
     What do we do? We wake up! We Pray! We unite behind Preachers who sound the alarm. We heed that alarm and put on the armor of the Lord! We tell the truth! We Vote the Bible! And read it again in our Schools as the very first Congress of the United States intended. We get out the old History Books and follow the old paths, teach the truth again and reeducate our masses as to the Christian Foundation of The United States of America. That is what we do, we impeach this imposter President and try him for the High Crimes, misdemeanors, and Treasons he has openly committed; and we elect a Christian leader again. That Country is what we do.
 "Thus saith the Lord, Stand ye in the ways, and see, and ask for the old paths, where is the good way, and walk therein, and ye shall find rest for your souls. But they said, We will not walk therein.  Also I set watchmen over you, saying, Hearken to the sound of the trumpet. But they said, We will not hearken."
Jer 6:16-17

What are they Teaching my Kids?

Most kids today don't know who Mark Twain, Tom Sawyer and Huck Finn even were. They don't even know Moby Dick was a whale or that Big Red, Old Yeller, and Rin Tin Tin were dogs. Same for George Washington, Ben Franklin, and Paul Revere. Heck, Kids have never even heard of Paul Revere and the Raiders much less that the first Revere was a Patriot. Patriot is a dirty word in today's schools. Our NEA Union Schools teach something else. It's Not just the EVIL of Common Core Curriculum either, they have stopped teaching Cursive, meaning children won't be able to read the Founding Fathers documents, or WWII letters home from Europe or the Philippines, or the back of Photos of their ancestors in an old trunk, or a bill of sale for a mule, or a fro, or a slave. Heaven forbid they would ever know there were white slaves too. How will they understand history if they can't read it firsthand? They are being assigned new kinds of Literature with not so well hidden plots involving tolerance, Political Correctness, and acceptance of things like Abortion, Homosexual Marriage, and everything will soon be taught with a bias against Christian Values, in fact everything Christian is dare I say Demonized. They are given more information on Condoms than on Napoleon or Hitler. Buy your kids some books, a whole shelf full and in full view. Buy them Rush Revere and His Wonder Horse Liberty by Rush Limbaugh, buy them a Study Bible in the King James Version, Mark Twain's whole series, Genghis Kahn, Lassie, Big Red, Bambi, Little Women, Moby Dick, Robin Hood, Robinson Crusoe, and a full range of other children's classics, a good Dictionary, and some good pre 1970 American History books. Mike Huckabee also has some great American History DVD's that won't help kids reading skills but can counteract some false History in their revisionist textbooks so they can know (from you that Mike's DVD's are right and their teacher is wrong. Help teach your kids because they sure won't learn the truth about our Country in school. They are instead being quietly indoctrinated and Propagandized into Socialist Doctrines. It isn't our local teachers fault. They are being forced to teach from texts they probably don't approve of and Government approved worksheets written to indoctrinate. Much fault locally goes to our School boards who fail to read and review textbooks themselves, relying on slick salesmen's presentations.

 

Sadness and Disapointment

My days of late are ruled by sadness and disappointment.
Our Entire Country flies our Star Spangled Banner upside down in Code Distress.
Our Military flounders, forlorn with Cold Breakfast for lack of a Commander in Chief.
Troops, Abandoned by an incompetent Congress obstructed by uncaring Liberal Traitors, tread mine ridden paths as they hear of benefit cuts back home.
Our Children are being Indoctrinated in Communist Doctrine rather than Educated.
Political Teachers Unions and their Common Core brainwash young minds.
Our Christian Heritage, the Faith of our Founding Fathers erased from their pages.
Children who can't do math without a Calculator and never saw a slide rule.
English spelling and grammar gone by way of texting shorthand and worthless slang.
Math and Science, American and World History all mere things of the Past; literally.
School lunches as free of gluten (& taste) as lessons are of Patriotism and manners.
Journalism too is Dead. With Lies, cover-ups, and Leftist Propaganda its Mainstay.
Our President uses a Stolen Social Security Number and can't pass E-Verify.
Our Angry First Lady HATES our Flag and our Country but flies to excess her own Air Force One at Taxpayer expense.
Homeless Veterans beg forgotten on the street while Druggies and illegal aliens rake in Welfare, sell Food Stamps and government Cell Phones for Drugs, and make babies for larger checks.
Sixty Million Bloodstained Babies cry from their graves as Planned Parenthood Lies.
Child Molesters roam our playgrounds in search of innocent minds to harm.
Homosexual Perversion is Rampant and Reprobate Minds free to boast their Sin.
Greed rules our Markets, and Businesses, and worse our Congress.
Church Pews, even if full, never cry out, seldom witness, seldom even Pray.
Preachers seldom Preach, Deacons seldom Serve, Bibles lay where they were placed the previous Sunday with hardly if ever a page turned.
Micah the Prophet wrote fittingly for our Congress and unfortunately our voters:

"The good man is perished out of the earth: and there is none upright among men: they all lie in wait for blood; they hunt every man his brother with a trap. 3 That they may do evil with both hands earnestly, the Prince asks for Gifts, and the Judge asks  for a Bribe; and the great man, he utters his mischievous desire: so they wrap it up in a shiny new package. 4 The best of them is as a brier: the most upright is sharper than a thorn hedge: the day of thy watchmen and thy visitation cometh; now shall be their perplexity."
Micah 7:2-4

Resolution for American Security 2014

 Resolution for American Security 2014
                                                           by
                                            Larry Clifford ©2014

     While most American News Services are blindly focused on “Plus-sized Barbies” this morning, and the New York Times shamefully publishing a cover up article to whitewash al Qaeda’s (and I believe Barack Hussein Obama’s) obvious direct involvement in the well planned Attack on Benghazi and the Kidnapping of Ambassador Stevens, (before it wrecks Democrats election hopes in 2014); Radical Islamic Terrorists are, this very morning,  well organized and actively planning more harm in every State in the United States, in every Major City in the Country, in every Mosque, and this treachery is actively being executed on a daily basis.
     What should we be doing? The answer is easy, but the resolve completely missing by our cowardly press, sold out Congress, treacherous Muslim President, mindless liberals, and otherwise sleeping general public. All of these solutions are extremely reasonable and totally just considering recent Islamic activity in the world.  What should we do?:

1.  Close every Mosque in the United States, and (at least temporarily) confiscate all Bank Accounts (remember 1/8^th of all monies collected by Muslims, including innocent sounding Charities, is by Islamic Law required to be spent on Jihadist Terrorism), safes, computers, disks, jump drives, cell phones, records, files, recordings, tapes, photos, and handwritten notes for examination by the CIA and FBI. (Not TSA, DHS, FEMA or any other Obama corrupted Agency). All monies from the sale of Mosque Property and funds in any way suspect to be applied toward directly reducing the Nation Debt or to further reduce Islamic Terrorism directed toward U.S. Citizens. Every person named in association with any form of Jihad should be immediately deported or if warranted jailed for planning such crimes.
2.  Stop all entry of Islamic peoples from all Countries of origin into the United States or any of its territories, with the exception of only certified ambassadors of State for specific and pre-certified and arranged,( including traffic routes and departure dates), meetings with U.S. Officials. It must be remembered that 100% of those responsible for the Terrorist Attacks on 9/11 were clearly Islamic in name and culture, so all entry into the United States henceforth should be profiled specifically to prevent Islamic entries into our Country.  Islamic traffic from the U.S. would be one way, unless return trip is Pre-approved for humanitarian reasons approved by a Court or by the State Department with a reasonable period of time for Public comment being required before any reentry.  Any Islamic person wishing to remain in the U.S. would be lovingly subject to the Strictest Form of investigative vetting, even where marriage and family relationships are involved. Islam is not, and has never been,  a Religion but rather a Cultic Political Movement to Control the world and destroy Freedom of Religion wherever it is found. Members of this Political Movement are uniformly sworn and required to vow their allegiance to the destruction of America, so none can be trusted without intensely thorough verification. Some of course are in this country as refugees of this evil false religion and its ruthless persecution of exiled leaders and/ or defectors and should be seriously and lovingly considered for humanitarian relief. Those who have publically Confessed conversion to Christianity (or other religious faiths) should be given special consideration to prevent their beheading, crucifixion, stoning or other persecutions for leaving Islam’s terrors.
3.  Burkas should be immediately banned for travel of any sort, or entry into any crowded venue. Burkas are potential instruments of Terrorism, hiding even the sex of the individual contained therein. These lose fitting garments are easily used to conceal identity of the wearer (even felons and wanted terrorists) as well as weaponry, bombs, contraband,  documents of war, stolen data on recording devices, and messages to foreign enemies. All garments worn by Muslims, male or female, traveling or entering public venues should be small enough to prohibit weapons or bombs being carried, with the head fully visible for instant facial identification.
2.  Immediately suspend any and all Foreign Aid, Military and Economic, to all Islamic Countries. If they wish to engage in war with the U.S. let them do so with their own monies. This includes Iran for which sanctions should be strictly increased and reinforced including confiscation of all Iranian designated bank funds for application to our own National Debt. Make no mistake, these countries are to a greater or lesser degree all at War with the United States whether we wish to admit it or not. Islam is an Evil we must acknowledge and stamp out in any free country. Europe is finding this out the hard way, and we must if we are to survive as a free Republic.  
    
     That is my opinion of the ideal New Year’s Resolution for America in 2014.

 The Difference in our Heads and God’s                                                            by
                                          Larry Clifford ©2013


     My Dad Tom used to tell me, “Son, as long as you fall on your head, you’ll be alright.” What he was telling me was that I was hard headed. He was right of course. Like all other men and women I was born with a head requiring all Logic, Reason, and Common Sense be hammered in, not merely absorbed the first time I read or broached a subject.
     So what is the difference between God’s big head, and our little one? Let’s start with our head, because we can understand that a lot easier. Let’s take the average man, he knows:
1.  What he thinks.
2.  What he thinks his friends and family may or may not think.
3.  What he recalls of what he has read and seen.
4.  What he has studied in schools, colleges, seminars, and personal studies.
5.  What he has understood from the News, Commentators on TV, and so on.

     That is pretty much it. Some may even have Photographic Memories and actually be able to recall all these things, but not many. Now let’s consider God’s Head, God knows:
1.  What he thinks.
2.  Every single thought of every single man and woman ever to live, whether openly expressed or retained without verbal expression. Oh, and every single thought of the Millions of Angels He created also.
3.  All the physical, mathematical, and what we call natural Laws of the Universe.
4.  Every step, flutter of feather, or flip of fin of every animal ever to walk, fly, slither, or swim on the face of the earth, (or any other planet).
5.  To illustrate my next point God also knows the climate and geophysical data of every solar body in every Universe, down to the exact millisecond of every Century since creation and what that data will be in the future.

     Man has Questions. God has no Questions, not a single one. Man can argue about any subject. Not God, he has already worked out all the details of every conceivable question long ago, within His Mind alone He worked out all the possible tangents, twists and turns of every possible variation of outcome, and said, “Yep, that is how it will be.”
      Take man’s issue of Global Warming, a foolish issue if ever there was one. False Science based on man’s manufactured and most often lied about data, manipulated and twisted to fit Al Gore and the United Nation’s corrupted plans. Now God knows the earth isn’t warming right now. It hasn’t for about 15 years now. God has all the climate and sea level data, for every port elevation, for every port, every rock on every point, every creek outlet into every cove, down to that exact millisecond we talked about. God has no Questions. God deals only in Facts.
     God knew in real time what your Grandmother was thinking on any given day in your memory. You don’t; but God has it in Perfect and instant recall. God in his Omnipresent Mind is reading my thoughts as and even before I type, and at the same time is guiding the stone that just left David’s sling headed toward Goliath; at the very same time, He is parting the Red Sea, attending some little girl’s piano recital, and watching little Billy reluctantly brush his teeth. He just comforted a male bluebird as its mate was hit by a Studebaker Convertible in 1954; He just watched the sweat pop out on Harry Truman’s brow as he ordered the Atomic Bomb strike on Japan; His mind is everywhere, as at the same time, He just watched the last breath of every victim of the Titanic. God’s head is so enormous in content and capability that we little humans can’t begin to comprehend his unlimited knowledge. Why oh why, do we even try to figure God out, when we can’t even figure ourselves out.
     And what is the most wonderful thing about God’s Mind? The most Amazing thought God ever had was that in all his perfect Logic and Reason, He took time out of His busy schedule, to devise a way to Forgive man and woman for all their many sins. He, the Creator, named Yeshua (which we pronounce Jesus), decided that the walking, talking part of His Triune Godhead would come to earth, born as a baby laid in a feed trough, and die as a sacrificial lamb for all the sins of mankind. What an amazing Mind. Now if only man would use his limited mind to accept that wonderful Gift without questioning why God decided to do it that way, and not some other. But then………. our heads are harder than God’s Head.

CHRISTmas

                           CHRISTmas
                                                      by  Larry Clifford ©2013 Quote but Please Share
Twas the night before CHRISTmas,
and all through our house,
we were waiting for CHRIST’s Birthday!
even one mouse.
Grandpa took down the Bible,
and sat in his chair,
all the family was gathered,
for the Gospel he’d soon share.
It wasn’t the tree, or the tensile, or trim,
no Santa in our house, it’s not about him.
This day is for Jesus, the King of all Kings,
and all of the wonderful Blessings He Brings.
Grandpa read of His Birth,
How Angels Sang of His Worth,
and Reminded us Wise Men still Seek Him.
The only tree that matters,
is the Cross where Jesus bore,
your sins, and my sins, and more we don’t know;
And Conquered Death and hell’s fires below.
Happy Birthday Dear Jesus, On Your Throne way Above,
We Praise You, and send You All of our Love!