I’m not sure where to start. Should I start at the beginning? A-when I held you for the first time after that 28-hour labor, knowing a love like no other? M-when I brought you home and you refused to eat, trying everything while I was alone, worried that you were losing weight? I had no money, no support, no phone…I’m not sure I’ve ever told you how hard that first week was.
I was thinking about all the good times we’ve had. I was a good mom. I made almost every decision after having you around YOU. Date nights? No, my kids are too small and I already leave them because I have to work to pay the bills. Travel alone? I don’t think so. Leave overnight with others? Yeah, right. Instead, we had slumber parties, backyard fun, visited every park in SA, went to the zoo, and had fun river trips.
Remember Hooked on Phonics? Yup, I bought that $200 system and sat with you until you could read. I sat with you on lots of homework nights, and I always made every effort to get what you needed for school. A, I drove 25 min to your school and back to work to have a short lunch with you weekly that one year I worked across town. We moved that year. I didn’t want you to go to that terrible school with kinder kids who said the F word, so I worked especially hard that year to get a down payment on a new home in a nice neighborhood where kindergarteners didn’t say the F word.
M, you learned to love to read. I remember wanting to buy you every good book you wanted. I never wanted you to feel like I did as a kid when I couldn’t afford ANY books. I remember your dad teaching you to ride a bike. I remember him teaching you to swim and then throwing you in the water and you loved it. Both of you did. I loved massaging you at bedtime and telling you bedtime stories or reading books like The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane (I loved that one!) until one day you told me you were too old for the stories. Thankfully your little brother milked those through middle school. And here I am doing it again with the littles.
Remember when I bought every episode ever of Little House on the Prairie and we watched them over and over? Country girls! M, I remember when Daisy died. You were so heartbroken. It still hurts me when I think about it. She was your baby. Remember the big Teen party we had for y’all? C got you girls a limo and all the girls got fancy dresses (yours were gorgeous), and y’all were silly at the Valero with everyone staring at you beautiful girls. It was fun letting loose and eating downtown. That took some coordination and effort. I so wanted you to have a special dress-up day.
I remember getting up some days to make you tacos, all pregnant, for you and your friends in high school. A-I was telling little C about your 18th birthday. How we bought you a car and how big your already big eyes got when your stepdad drove it into your big backyard party. He did so much work for that party. He let me buy you those crazy boots even after we had already gotten the car. He is such a good stepdad. M- I wish you had been around for your 18th. I would have loved to spend the last 3 birthdays with you. I also would have loved if y’all had thought of me on mine. I was waiting for my girls to grow up and spoil me with a party one day, but that was not meant to be.
The disappointment hurts. I guess I wanted to remind you of a few good times because you have probably forgotten in all the mess of me leaving Merie’s church. Such a tough time. But in the end, I had to follow my conscience. I remember A asking me why I was no longer going. I couldn’t lie. I don’t think I was ever very good at lying to you. I’ve been up all night thinking about you. Again.
Sometimes I wonder if those same people who told me I was a good mom then still remind you now. Or do they go along with the bad mom theory. I don’t know. It all makes me sad. I wish things weren’t the way they are. I wish I could just have walked away without a big stink, threats of withdrawal, moving you out the same day, tearing our family apart yet again. I think of those I dearly loved who betrayed me, taking the ones I loved most away from me, turning their hearts away. The ones you call your family now.
I hope every time you say MOM to someone else, you remember that she did not earn it. It is stolen. It is mine. I wear that name proudly still; no one can take what I have earned. A few weeks ago I had a real tough day. It all started with a song called “When She Loved Me.” It felt like you had died. Not in the “you’re dead to me” kind of way, but in the “I haven’t seen or touched or heard them” kind of way. It’s been so long I haven’t seen you (and even the few times I did, you have kept your distance) that a part of me felt like you girls were no longer existing. I cried for hours and hours. I had to remind myself that you’re still here, maybe God is working something.
I do know that He has given me freedom from oppression and I have so much more peace in my life (except for our unresolved situation). He also gave me 3 little gifts that keep my heart balanced, many times filled with joy. My little L is a gift. She reminds me of you both, and I think I have a chance to do things better this time around. L was asking for M a lot lately. It surprised me. He’s not 4 yet, but somehow he remembered you after 7 months of no contact. Children are the best. They have the softest hearts.
All those years you lived with me, I never asked or wanted you to leave. Your home will always be your home should you need it. Your family will always be here, even through disagreements. Not just us, but your grandparents and all of our extended family. Everyone misses you both and wonders what kind of place separates families constantly.
We understand so much more now and continue to move forward. Sometimes I wonder if this whole “not talking to us” thing is a way to get us to go back. Unfortunately, we have seen too much of how Merie’s organization destroys the very families that God gave us and we know that is not in His plans for families. He did not give us to families just to destroy them. It is all too common there. Neither of your 3 parents is perfect. Yet here we are in all our imperfection, still loving you. There is so much more I want to say, but all that always leads to strife, so I will leave it. I wish you well and we will pray for you as we have every night since you left.
~Mom.
Thank you MLong for your letter to your daughters. I hope it reaches their hearts. <3
I don’t know all the details of this story, as there are two sides of every story. So, I’m not about to judge it. That said, I can judge that the dysfunction in Stanton largely comes from women being out of subjection, a sin that began with Merie Weis. A lot of the feuds in Stanton are simply cat fights between women vying for power. I’d hope mothers would train their daughters to love God, and obey his commands about being submissive in marriage, but I haven’t really seen any of the women complaining about Merie on here doing that,… Read more »
MLong, I hope and pray your family is reunited 100%. I believe every word you said. Curious Chris, seriously? There is a time to be quiet. Smh.
Yes, seriously, Craig. Not very smart judging a situation you know nothing about, but then, that’s what happens when you keep calling Stanton a cult, they can do no right, and those accusing them can do no wrong. The exact thing you and others criticize Stanton for doing. Further, the root of this problem in Stanton was a woman teaching. And, I haven’t heard you speak a single word about that problem, instead you keep saying Stanton is a cult. I’d like to know how that is improving the situation at all. Proverbs 18:13 He that answereth a matter before… Read more »
Curious Chris, we should do a debate podcast and just talk out our differences. Lol
That would be fine, Kevin.
People tend to get very emotional in debates with me, and I can’t figure out why. Take the other night, when about 50 60+ seniors gathered to discuss their climate change fairytale. It’s completely bogus and I was making points like, “why has the end of the world due to climate been predicted 41 times in the last century, and it never happened, yet you all fervently believe these myths”?
The women were particularly exercised.
“It’s easier to fool a man than to convince him he’s been fooled”
Twain
Craig, thank you for your kind words.
Another large part of their problems is that they are indifferent to things that are commanded to be done, and should be natural as a Christian, in how to deal with each other. I believe that to many are still being led by their own personalities in how they apply and exercise their Christianity. In many ways they require prerequisites from others before they chose to love and help others. I have said this before, one of the Evangelists admitted that it’s not within him to be considerate to other people. His wife has to remind him when he isn’t.… Read more »
the other half of what I wrote is missing. It was a second post.
Lynn, our society has been moving away from self-reliance, and towards dependency on others, the government, and the church, for over a century. This was by design. Recommend researching Cloward-Piven. It is entirely right to say, ‘Ask not what the church can do for you, ask what you can do for the church’. I never asked the church for anything, not a cent, but I loved to give, because Paul truly said, ‘It is more blessed to give than to receive’. Pericles gave a masterful speech to the Athenians and in it, he said, ‘We secure our friends not by… Read more »
We are to rely on the church in the time of need and it isn’t just for monetary needs. There are multiple scriptures that instruct the us on how we are to be there for those who need it. What’s sad is for people to think these things at polar opposites in that looking to holding the church for what they are commanded to do, in these instances, is being unnecessarily dependent on those we are told to depend on. To teach, “ask not what the church can do for you” is actually teaching people to bypass those instructions and… Read more »
I’d be dead if I followed your attitude, Lynn. Glad I didn’t. Relying on people for constant aid is a fools errand, God alone can be relied upon. The church is to help the poor and needy,but, no one from Stanton is on here to give their side. I’ve never seen anyone who had a legitimate need, monetary or otherwise, denied aid from Stanton, in my entire 40 years on earth. I have seen needy directed to welfare, which is completely unscriptural, and is theft, by Stanton. Many of the male teachers are very compassionate, and aren’t hard hearted at… Read more »
You still aren’t seeing it. I’m NOT talking just in monetary help. That is a small part of it. I have, also, seen where people who are not in these types of situations be indifferent to it enough where they see anything to do with this topic a burden and those in need just as you see them. If this wasn’t such a very large and important topic them why is it listed as part of our judgement on judgement day? Now, see if you can get it this time. Our COMMANDED instructions is to be there for one another… Read more »
Of course Christ is saying to help the needy, I never disputed that. However, the severity of the needs definitely needs to be considered. There certainly are priorities, and women and children are the first priorities, particularly widows and orphans, and men are last. I’m addressing all help, monetary and otherwise. Last I checked, we will all be judged on how we helped others. The only person in the Bible, who was righteous, and a man, complaining about how he wasn’t helped, was Job, and his circumstances were far beyond anything any of us have dealt with. When David or… Read more »
You are sorely misguided and everything that is wrong with the current state of the church. Since you refuse to see what it is being conveyed you will only see it in the way that you do. This ISN”T a complaint about being in pain. It isn’t something that only happened to me. You surmising of what MG thought is exactly what TC did in surmising something you have no first hand knowledge of and you surmised it in a negative connotation. I was hoping to take the thoughts away of how you want to keep making everything about the… Read more »
I agree with you Lynn. What I saw was leader worship; no matter if it was good leadership or bad leadership, no one else mattered in the congregation except the leader and keeping them happy often at the expense of the rest of the congregation. If, like me, you objected to the abuses of leadership you were then gainsayed, that is, opposed on everything both great and small. Like you, I learned that the Lords treasury was for leadership and their favorites. When I was going out and helping start the congregation in Prescott AZ and Mesa AZ I had… Read more »
They do prefer some above others and in too many areas. When people would go to the congregation for help with light bill, or whatever, it wasn’t a judgement that maybe you didn’t deserve it, but one of if you tried everybody else before coming to the collection that was collected for that. I was asked by numerous people the same questions if I went to family, friends, the state, etc. first. TC told me that when we needed to move into another house and needed help with the deposit to come to the church and they would help. I… Read more »
Hearing what you are saying, and not discrediting it, Lynn. However, there is a lot of information that contradicts your view of the church. Your personal experience seems to be your primary reason why you believe Stanton is not helping the sick and needy, and yet, it’s very dishonest of you to leave out the evidence that Stanton has helped thousands of the sick and poor. If you are going to judge, you must be impartial and unbiased, and cannot let your personal experience cloud your judgement. The fact is, there would be no Stanton if it wasn’t for one… Read more »
it is getting had to read this. my response is just below.
It is a matter of perspective I believe. I saw a single mom in Stanton who was dying of cancer recieve a check for a small amount, I think for like 28.00 from a congregation in Mississippi, the poorest church at that time to help her take care of her financial needs while the rich churches like the one I was in, sent nothing. The poorest are the most generous and the rich are the most stingy and that is the insult. If Lynn was in the Mississippi congregation he would have recieved overwhelming support but because he got little… Read more »
I am curious Mr. Curious Chris if you have misandry that is a woman that hates men or a Mysognyist thst is a man who hates women in your local congregation how do you recommend dealing with them? How does a Christian leader like yourself teach someone to give up their self exalting hatred of the other gender and love others as equals? What examples from scriptures would you recommend?
One must be careful, my friend, to accurately diagnose misandry and misogyny. The former is never used by the left, because they have accepted that men and the patriarchy are the enemy, though they are the best friend of women they have had in human history, and the latter is badly abused by the left, which claims all men have some forms of innate hatred of women, unless they let the women do whatever they please and whatever their fickle whims dictate. I can’t tell you how many women I’ve talked to who have these ‘supernatural’ experiences. The men who… Read more »
We are to love each other, but we are to love God first. His spheres for the genders are not negated by any other laws. Why was the man’s wife estranged? Hard to judge the man’s actions when all the details are not known. It used to be, before we had no fault divorce sprung on us in 1969, that a woman was dependent on the man, not the government for support. That has changed. Women now initiate 80% of all divorces. Of course, I’m not defending men who abuse alcohol, drugs, use porn, commit adultery, or molest children. Because… Read more »
@Curious Chris You talk a whole lot about women (mainly sexually) and their “place”, subjection, submitting to the husband, etc. Notice how this Open Letter has nothing to do with literally anything you’re talking about.
But here you are, ranting.
Do you have anything to say in response to the letter or just about how you view the place of women and where women, as a gender, derive our issues?
I’m waiting.
Wow, great to have the ability to comment again!! Thank you!! There was a bug fit the last few months, though I love the new commenting system. Where to begin, since my town had the National Guard out to stop the looting over the fake narrative that black men are being massacred by police constantly. For those who have been deluded by the Communist media, owned by….wait for it…the Jews, the same ones who killed Christ (many aren’t even blood related to the original 12 tribes and are Ashkenazi Jews, descended from the Khazars), here is a direct quote from… Read more »
Where did women teach men in the New Testament?
When you can show in the New Testament where a woman questioned or taught a man, then I’ll answer you, Over it.
No women in the NT taught or questioned men. Why are you?
If the NT is the standard to be followed are women the only group commanded to be silent? What does the NT say about the withdrawn from remaining silent? As far as your bogeymen of the illuminati, the CFR, your are out of date those groups were in use in the 1980’s, then it was the CIA, then the NSA, and now immigrants who are “bad hombres ” for me I am not afraid of bogeymen but of God in heaven. If the Jews are the trouble makers in this world then what is your “final solution ” for the… Read more »
Women never teach men in public in the NT. Do you even know what I was withdrawn from for? I strongly doubt it. Exactly what did I say that I was withdrawn from for? 90% of those upholding the unscriptural withdrawal have no idea. The Bible never commands any withdrawn from person to honor an unscriptural withdrawal. Further, the church, guided by women’s fickle emotions, is obeying a lying Goverment and isn’t meeting. If you were paying attention to the news, which Stanton takes great pride in not doing, you’d know Bill Gates was behind Common Core, which was a… Read more »
Kind of a rambling emotionally charged rebuttal. Exactly the same behaviors that you accuse the Women in leadership in the Stanton group of, and it begs the question: have you looked in the mirror lately? If it is acceptable in your eyes to rebel against your withdrawal and the restrictions commanded for it in the NT then what was wrong with Merie rebelling against her withdrawal? If you are special or unique and therefore superior and are not required to follow God’s judgments then what is wrong with women who are special or unique and therefore superior not following God’s… Read more »
I note you don’t answer questions directly, and then condemn comprehensiveness as being “rambling”. Specious arguments. God commanded men to hear churches, never women. If Merie has a problem, and her differences were legitimate, she should have followed a male preacher, and confined her strongly expressed opinions to ladies class. Her teaching men did far note harm then good, as it trained generations of Stanton women to rebel against their husbands oversight. So, as if men don’t have enough on their plate, dealing with a wicked and Satanic world, they have to come home and deal with a woman who… Read more »
Henry Ford was antisemitic and his writing were used by Adolf Hitler as propaganda, bad example there. As far as having no critical thinking skills that was true when I was under the oppressive teaching of the preacher who started the Prescott Valley church. Today Solomon has taught me much, like the critical thinking skill of analysis. I read in Genesis of the tower of Babel how God saw that once man started to accomplish things that he would lose all self restraint from his imagination and that to restrain man he confused him much the same way Christ dealt… Read more »
The system didn’t immediately post my comments, which explains the comment stutter, and Gish gallop. It has come to my attention, that since Stanton is run by emotional women, and has been since Merie Weis, and that women are far easier to deceive than men, that Stanton was a sitting Duck for this recent Corona Virus. They still have not met in some locations, terrified by the Satanic media’s lies. The virus was cooked up by the wicked bankers in the biggest Communist Country in world history, China. Anyone who honestly studied and reads books (outside of school) on Communism… Read more »
The system didn’t immediately post my comments, which explains the comment stutter, and Gish gallop. It has come to my attention, that since Stanton is run by emotional women, and has been since Merie Weis, and that women are far easier to deceive than men, that Stanton was a sitting Duck for this recent Corona Virus. They still have not met in some locations, terrified by the Satanic media’s lies. The virus was cooked up by the wicked bankers in the biggest Communist Country in world history, China. Anyone who honestly studied and reads books (outside of school) on Communism… Read more »
Mandell. Does this name ring a bell? Not a common name today, and few have heard of anyone with the name. Those on this site learned, as did I, that Merie Weis was financed by Mandell Weis, a possible former Communist, a wealthy philanthropist, and the man who allowed her to teach, when God never commanded a woman to teach. He obviously didn’t have good priorities, as he was giving all kinds of money for arts and theater, two aspects of society which rarely appeal to the virtuous, Godly, and wise, and which often appeal to the corrupt and degenerate.… Read more »
I never said they didn’t even and/or don’t help. It’s their attitude towards those who they DON’T want help and their justification of it is being taught to the congregation, which is dangerous, because it can cause them to be indifferent and not obey the scriptures laid out on this subject. Have you been listening to the reasons why Merie left? Most was because it had turned into an, “Elder – Preacher” rule who was taking the business and running of the church from the congregation. Their version of an Evangelist was that they rotated congregations. They stopped studying. There… Read more »
This morning, as I was in worship, in Stanton, I was listening about recent weddings. Now, weddings are a joyous occasion, EXCEPT WHEN YOU MARRY A WOMAN IN STANTON. Because the leader of Stanton was Merie Weis, and she exemplifies being deceived like Eve. Men are severely taught on all sex outside of marriage, then they get married, and women frequently try to rule over them, pulling their usual stunts, like withholding sex and giving men the silent treatment. Stanton is like a defiant, harridan, virago, Xanthippe, fish-wife, shrewish, and termagant woman. Querulous, boisterous, quarrelsome, and scolding. That has been… Read more »
Stanton and the Moth As I was sitting in worship this morning, I looked over and noted a rather large moth, about as big as both the upper joints of my thumbs, combined. It was perched blandly on my seat, and was struggling. Not sure what happened to the poor thing, but it feebly was trying to crawl up my pew. Instantly, pity filled my heart for the poor creature, and when it got too close to my coat, I put a song book between me and the moth, and it bravely clambered onto the song book. For the duration… Read more »
You know, CC, you’re not completely wrong here. You have some right. What you talk about comes from Stanton’s own standards of women and they are hypocrites, saying women should be silent, criticizing other religions for having women preachers and pastors, yet they too have women who preach and reprove from a sitting position. Many of the marriages therein are miserable, with the young ones forced to choose between very few candidates. Such is life in Stanton. Their divorce rate is not likely better than the rest of the world. I have to admit, I probably was one of the… Read more »
Thank you for your comment, MLong, however, I’d advise to read ‘The Transformed Wife’. If Merie Weis would have known what Lori Alexander knows today, there would have been a lot of pain, suffering, and dysfunction that would have been averted. As a matter of fact, the rebellious women teachers of Stanton could all use some serious study of that website, as they have been out of line ever since Merie started her usurpation campaign of the men in 1940. After a young life of partying hearty, she became inspired to wreak holy hell on the male gender, by usurping… Read more »
Ah, I can see where your perspective comes from. You live in a liberal hotbed, and I in a conservative one. So that’s why I don’t see as much as the extremes that you speak of. Yes, there is sin, etc., but yeah Cali is out there. Thankfully I am in an area that still leans on God in general and while no congregation is perfect, we overall do not likely have the issues you have out there in its extremes as much (Except in Austin haha). I wish you well in trying to find a place for you to… Read more »
Exactly right, MLong. On the front lines in perhaps the most corrupt part of the nation, with San Francisco possibly being the Marxist capital of America. Nancy Pelosi is a Jezebel for sure, and she’s got a pretty firm foundation in SF. The entire nation has moved far away from the historical, Constitutional, and Biblical foundations we were founded upon. Fabulous site with quotes on liberty and virtue. http://quotes.liberty-tree.ca/quotes_about/virtue Everyone would be well advised to read all 364 of them, as they show how the Christian religion is so very important and necessary to our political liberty. Our Constitution was… Read more »
Exactly right, MLong. On the front lines in perhaps the most corrupt part of the nation, with San Francisco possibly being the Marxist capital of America. Nancy Pelosi is a Jezebel for sure, and she’s got a pretty firm foundation in SF. The entire nation has moved far away from the historical, Constitutional, and Biblical foundations we were founded upon. Fabulous site with quotes on liberty and virtue. If you type in Quotes Liberty Tree, it will come up. If I submit website links, the post is delayed for review, so I did one post without them, and the other… Read more »
Since my last comment mentioned Jezebel, here’s a great post from the estimable Lori Alexander at ‘The Transformed Wife’. Written By Anonymous Fundamentally, the primary premise of God’s Word is about building the family of God. Would you agree? God made man and woman and asked that they join together as one to create the next generation of godly offspring. In doing so, we have a choice in who we marry, but once married, we are to join together as a family unit to achieve God’s primary purpose which is to give Him children who will love Him and who… Read more »
I don’t care for a few of her thoughts on women, but a lot of it I do agree with. Mostly, I have not heard teachings in this “tone” where I go, but for the most part, there are many examples of women like this that I am surrounded by. I am particularly fond of one Christian who moved to another state recently who was quite devoted to her children and husband. I was amazed at her EXAMPLE. Not once did she ever reprove or try to “teach” me. Rather, I would sit in the nursery, observing her with her… Read more »
Great analysis. And I appreciate your distinction between “quiet” and “silent.” Huge difference.
The vast majority of women, MLong, do not care for what Lori Alexander says on women, because the vast majority of women in America are conditioned by weak men, and by the Marxist controlled media, schools, and tech companies to reject Godly womanhood, and to accept the inferior ‘women’s rights’, which is nothing other than an attempt to rob women of their destiny and heritage. ‘The truth that’s told with ill-intent, beats all the lies you can invent’ William Blake. Just because something doesn’t make someone feel a certain way is NO INDICATION OF IT’S VERACITY. Both the lukewarm church… Read more »
I don’t like to go off topic, but in this case, it appears to be appropriate, and I hope the readers will bear with me. The Council on Foreign Relations (CFR) has been waging a war on Christianity (which explains the falsehoods Merie encountered, and her beginning to teach), for over a century. They control our money with the Federal Reserve and the 16th Amendment (income tax). They funded Communism in Russia and China. They were behind every single war since World War 1. They have controlled both sides presidential candidates since World War 1, with the possible exceptions of… Read more »
THE ILLUMINATI AND THE COUNSEL ON FOREIGN RELATIONS By MYRON FAGON (A Transcript) The Illuminati and CFR ABOUT THE SPEAKER “WHO’S WHO IN THE THEATER” has always been the Bible of the People in the Legitimate Theater. It never played Favorites, it told no lies, it Glorified nobody. It always was an unbiased HISTORY of the men and women in the Theater. It recorded only those who proved their worth in the one – AND ONLY ONE – testing place of the Theater. BROADWAY: That “WHO’S WHO” records the plays Myron C. Fagan wrote, directed and produced … Dramas, Comedies,… Read more »
“Do you know who owns and controls our mass communications media? I’ll tell you. Practically all the movie lots in Hollywood is owned by the Lehmans; Kuhn, Loeb, and Company; Goldman-Sachs; and other internationalist bankers. All the national radio and TV channels in the nation are owned and controlled by those same internationalists bankers. The same is true of every chain of metropolitan newspapers and magazines, also of the press wire services, such as Associated Press, United Press, International, etc.. The supposed heads of all those media are merely the fronts for the internationalist bankers, who in turn compose the… Read more »
“It was in the decades following our Civil War that our industries began to burgeon. We had great railroads to build. The oil, mining, steel, textile industries were bursting out of their swaddling clothes. All of that called for vast financing; much of that financing had to come from abroad. That meant the House of Rothschild and that was when Schiff came into his own. He played a very crafty game. He became the patron saint of John D. Rockefeller, Edward R. Harriman, and Andrew Carnegie. He financed the Standard Oil Company for Rocky, the Railroad Empire for Harriman, and… Read more »
Over the past few decades I have been doing extensive studies in the books of Revelation and Daniel. I will say that with listening to a lot of the tapes that Merie did on Revelation it wasn’t even close. I am about halfway through the book in Chapter 14. The book is a history of the church past, present, and future.
Revelation 1:19 Write the things which thou hast seen, and the things which are, and the things which shall be hereafter;
My experience has been that this book is the most difficult book in the Bible, and anyone reading it to find out what the future holds is quite often disappointed in reality, though many are fully satisfied in their imaginations. To attempt to master Revelation without understanding the other books of the Bible is an errand no wise person attempts. DJ gave a great lesson today. Heartfelt, poignant, and to the point. Very much appreciated, though if all in Stanton believed it, I wouldn’t be excommunicated. The true test of Stanton is how they treat the lowest sinners. With women… Read more »
You are right that it isn’t an easy book to understand. That is why I have spent decades in it and not just combing over it. None of it is taken lightly. There are actually members of the COC way before Merie was around who spent time in it. I have cross referenced their studies, mine, a lot of prayer, and history. It fits. I’m not saying 100%, but a greater understanding than has ever been taught in the current COC. I am in no way disappointed with reality. In fact I am glad to have a better understanding to… Read more »
I am in the commandment “Thou shalt not covet thy neighbors…” and I find that if one does not exercise self discipline over ones desires that ones desires become uncontrollable; that is wanton. Like a horse allowed to wander so is desire that is given free reins. I find uncontrolled desire to be insidious, that is it creeps into every area of life, first into the area of money, then into authority, then into ones lusts. I use the tools that Christ gave in MT5:29 if thy offend thee pluck it out as seen in Job 31 I have made… Read more »
It’s a huge fight, and it’s one that none of us men ever should have had to fight. We didn’t really have to face these temptations in 1940, when porn was completely illegal, and cell phones and the internet didn’t exist. Nothing wrong with cell phones and the internet, but, there is a lot wrong with allowing vile garbage and filth on them, designed to ensnare and entrap the vulnerable. What these evil and wicked Rothschild bankers have done, who have controlled the Democrat party since 1913, when they took control of America’s money, for the first time in our… Read more »
Painful reminder today of the truth of Proverbs 11:22 as a jewel of gold in a swines snout, so is a fair woman that is without discretion. One application of this abstract psychological principle is that swine will eat money and so an indiscreet or perhaps a sexaulized person will eat your money and the end result is you end up in the poor house and I thought this only applied to picking a partner for marriage but was shown at work today that a swine will eat anybody’s money around them as an older woman that I work under… Read more »
A question for the finest minds on earth: in proverbs 5:8 it says let thy fountain be blessed… I look at fountain as an abstract idea for a source of life giving substance. If your job is your fountain then you should bless your job and find only good in it. If God is your fountain of life the bless your God and find only good in all that he does. Reverse thinking then would be to curse your fountain and find no good in it, this then is the root of a traitor, some one who has nothing good… Read more »
Another question about women not teaching men I have to ask what happens when a woman is of higher intelligence than the men? Or if the woman is more virtuous than the men? Or has greater understandings than the men? Or is more courageous than the men? I have met a great many women who were of higher intelligence than myself, many who were more virtuous than myself and had deeper understanding than myself. Am I, being a seeker of wisdom, expected to ignore a person better than me due to gender? I take wisdom wherever and whenever I find… Read more »
Very powerful lesson today. Matthew 7:1-2 judge not, that ye be not judged. For with what judgement ye judge, ye shall be judged. In context spoken as a warning to the Jews at Jerusalem who would later on make a judgment between Christ and Barabbas and pass judgement of death upon Christ which in AD 66-70 their own judgment of death came back upon themselves. Another related warning in Matthew 24:15 spoke that when you see the Roman army in the holy place to flee. In context it does not make sense because the Roman army was in Jerusalem when… Read more »
Silence can be deafening. It never fails to amaze me the stubbornness of man. A man can be completely in the wrong and still refuses to change to his own destruction. In Proverbs 2:19 Solomon warns his sons about the consequences of going to the strange woman, that they do not return nor take hold of the paths of life. The implied meaning of they do not return again is that they do not repent and the implied meaning of they do not take hold of the paths of life is that they refuse to confess but are stubborn and… Read more »
Yes, that can happen. Avoiding immodest women in the workplace is a very smart thing to do.
Immodest women are rarely generous and kind, from my experience, and are often stingy, angry, irrational, and domineering. Pity the poor man that marries one.
Please pardon the delay, as I honestly overlooked this comment.
What I find amazing about the scriptures is it lays down patterns of human behavior that repeats over and over again across the centuries of human existence. The fourth side of wisdom mentioned in Proverbs 1:3 is equity. Equity, the making of all things equal, on a personal level is called temperance. When one does not have control of ones emotions they are out of balance;the balance between reason and emotion,and can be a very dangerous person to be around. Consider the example of Nebuchadnezzar a ruler whose short temper quickly turned into rage and he had people killed wantonly.… Read more »
You’re right about leaders being self-controlled. While Trump is far from being a Biblically and Constitutionally sound President, he’s a million times better than the Democrat party, whose party has belonged to the International bankers, the same ones who funded Communism and slaughtered 100 million in the last century, ever since 1912. I’m reading “Libido Dominandi” by E Michael Jones, a brilliant scholar, even if he is a Catholic, and he details how America was sexually sabotaged, deliberately. For, a man not in control of his sex drive, is a man who is irrational and unreasonable. As Lenin said, “The… Read more »
The battle of the two eunuchs continues. There was a jewish man once, oh back in the early 1800’s, who in an attempt to avoid persecution converted his family to Catholicism but when they were still persecuted he went back to Judaism. His son drew from this that religion has no meaning and became an atheist and later wrote a book called the communist manifesto, yes Karl Marx was a highly educated, and from his father’s inheritance, very rich jew of his day. Does that mean all Jews are evil? Not at all, but like every other group there is… Read more »
A pickle can become a real comfortable to sit; if your a bump that is. When you have the spirit of a pharisee you just kill the messenger, but the message still remains the same. There is still a great evil in Phoenix, and I have to hear about it again. How many more lambs have to be defiled before the smooth criminal is exposed and removed?
Solomon wrote in Proverbs 30:18 that there were things that he did not know because they were to wonderful for him and those four things all share a common character trait: smoothness. When someone is subtle they can go undetected for years. I did not know, nor did my wife that our son had been invited over to the predator’s house. The predator had offered an invitation to our child directly, not for a group event but as a one on one time. The day after it happened my wife’s car was stolen during the Sunday worship service, no one… Read more »
Parents need to question their children with : has an adult ever invited you to his home without telling us your parents? Has an adult ever given you fruit where you felt “funny” afterwards? Has an adult ever told you “don’t worry it will be okay?” My son was defiled 18 years ago by the child predator and has tried to quiet the conscience with drugs and alcohol but childhood sexaul trauma cannot be healed with drugs and alcohol. Those that have been defiled can be healed from their traumas but it takes honesty. Judas’s really do exist . Help… Read more »
One of the fear mongering stories that was told was of a man who had stopped attending and told his children that they did not have to attend church with their mother and later that week at work the man’s nail gun went off and a nail went into his head. I believed the story at the time and when I stopped attending I let my children attend with thier mother but realize today that it would be less painful to take a nail to the head than to leave my children unprotected and have them beaten and defiled by… Read more »
As Christians we are not powerless against evil. In Psalms 29 we are told of the power of the voice and what can be done with it. The voice can create and the voice can destroy. The voice can prick the conscience and the voice can expose evil. When all the parent’s consciences are pricked they will start questioning their children, even their adult children about the hidden behaviors of the child predator. How many children raised in Christian homes have grow up only to become alcoholics and drug addicts? There is a reason why. In Isaiah 2:6 we read… Read more »