Babymakers
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Another Sunday, another church... this one was SUPER FRIENDLY. The scripture was verse by verse out of 1 Thes 4. The message "preached" but was inaccurate. He used the wrong version of the Bible and the word fornication was replaced with immorality. Doesn't sound like a big deal until you really try to study something. There is a difference between fornication and adultery. Both things are immorality but two separate types. This verse wasn't referring to both types of immorality: just fornication. This passage wasn't referring to adultery... oh wells... it still "preached". Next week will be another church. Someday I might find a church home.
After church we headed out to the park where there was a civil war re-enactment. We had SOOOO much fun. It totally picked our spirits up! They had a sign up booth for children to enlist in the army. Of course our older three children enlisted. The lady overheard me saying that women were not allowed to fight back then and then stepped in with her feminist viewpoint. She assured our girls that "There were women who fought in the civil war. They just had to hide that they were women so they would not be mistreated." Yes, I am sure that happened but this woman made it sound normal, which it was not. Oh wells. Feminists we are not. At 1:00 all the children gathered. We were kind of bummed because we though we accidentally signed up for the North. Well, much to our surprise, after they lined all the soldiers up and passed out guns, they asked if anyone wanted to be a Rebel! My children immediately stepped forward. And before you think to badly of us please realize there was MUCH more at stake than slavery. I believe that slavery would of ended eventually anyway. What was at stake was losing freedom to big government. Then the children were off to some drills. After drilling the new soldiers they marched off into the woods. There they sat still and silent waiting for those Yankees to show up. Down the road came the other children marching with some blue coats leading them. The battle began. There was lots of shooting, playing dead, running to new positions and our children's side even took some hostages! The whole time cannons were firing. (a tip- if you are ever at a re-enactment, where you are close to the cannons, open your mouth and it will help your ears not to get hurt.) Now, we have a family that would love to get into this. Savannah, oldest DD, was not much into this whole being in battle thing, but boy oh boy would she love to sip some tea with ladies while wearing a big dress with a hoop! Dad likes the thought of blacksmithing and Jacob just wants to go back into battle- what a boy!    You can see a couple of our children behind this cannon. By this point their formation was totally out of whack. Jacob is on the right side of the photo with two guns. He got an extra in battle somehow. I think one of our hostages left it behind after he escaped or something. Savannah is in the red and orange above the middle of the cannon.  Gabriel and I. He slept through all the cannon blasts! He only jumped for the first few shots. The noise level was incredible.  Rebekah is in pink.  Savannah in orange and red with her brother Jacob to the right.  Benjamin with his pickle. |
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Aug. 27, 2008 - Yummy
| I copied this from an article at aol news. Hot dogs typically contain muscle meat trimmings from pork or beef. Contrary to legend, they do not contain animal eyeballs, hooves or genitals, according to the Hot Dog Council's Janet Riley. But the government does allow them to contain pig snouts and stomachs, cow lips and livers, goat gullets and lamb spleens. If they have these byproducts, the label should spell out which ones, a U.S. Department of Agriculture spokeswoman said. (I don't think they do list them out by name) |
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Aug. 25, 2008 - Jericho
| We borrowed this Ripley's Believe It Or Not book from my mom. These books are really neat so if you ever see one BUY IT! Anyhow, back to the important part. My husband, who doesn't like to read most things, picks up this book and can't put it down. He is reading me all these interesting facts out of it tonight. One of them is about Jericho. Jericho is a Bible story we have all heard about 1,000,000 times right? Most of us know the story but for anyone who doesn't here it is- Joshua and his people walked around the city of Jericho for days and on the last day the walls, by the hand of God, and through their obedience and faith, the walls came falling down. Then God's people, Joshua's and his army, were able to walk right in and take over. The only survivors were Rahab the Harlot's family. She was promised to be able to survive because she helped God's people. Now, here is where it is interesting. If you are like me you always have imagined four walls falling down and them walking into the city inside the four walls to take over. NOT SO! According to this book the walls were actually shaped like a labyrinth. I wasn't sure this was true so I google searched it. And it is TRUE!  I got this image off of Wikipedia
Can you imagine how amazing this is? God destroyed not a little bit of wall BUT ALL OF THESE WALLS! How cool is that?
Some history I found out in my search- This city was first excavated in the beginning of the 1900's. It was not fully excavated until later though. In the study of Jericho it was discovered that the walls really did fall in the whole city EXCEPT for the North wall... hmm... not an accident I'm sure. Just so happens that the Bible said Rahab lived and all these years later the Bible was proved to be true. The whole city fell except where Rahab and her family were. It is also interesting to note that they could not explain why the walls really fell during their investigation. It was like an earthquake but with fire. No natural cause could explain it. Looks like it really was God that destroyed that city. Maybe we should take his warning that some day He is coming back and that He will judge sin. I think he is serious. People can doubt the Bible but all the historical evidence proves it true. We had better be ready. Are you? You better trust Jesus to save you from wrath because that is your only hope.  Jericho |
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Aug. 22, 2008 - Artificial Sweetners are Toxic
| Are you the type of parent that allows your child to have a diet soda now and then? I mean after all, how bad can it be? It is just one can, right? Or, maybe you buy your children sugar free candy because it is a better treat for them. Are you diabetic? You probably think that you have no choice but to replace sugar with nutrasweet, splenda or equal. Well, think again! DO NOT FEED THIS STUFF TO YOU OR YOUR FAMILY! Watch this documentary and you will understand what I am saying. And I don't want to hear any excuses about not having time or blah, blah, blah. There is NO excuse to not look into something when you are confronted with evidence that you could be harming your loved ones or yourself. You may also read this site for information about Splenda. |
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