Hello again everyone, I hope everything is going well with you all. I recently found out that many of the people I know are going through a not very good time right now, and I didn’t know it till they told me, so I wanted to start this off by telling you that when you’re going through hard time you need to let people in sooner rather than later. So I wanted to ask if you’re going through hard things to let me know if I can pray or talk with you.

Alright now I didn’t get much response from my last entry and that’s fine, I waited a long time to write again to give you more time to read or comment. I’m not sure if you’re not liking the topic or you just didn’t have anything to say about it, but I’m still going to write about teen’s until I can’t think of anything else till talk about. And if it’s not what you want to read about I’m sorry, but if you want you can leave a comment about what you would like me to write about next.

Alright well this time I’m talking about teen’s and there place in the Church; now when I say Church I mean the body of Christ not the building you may go to on Sunday. So how should we as teens be in the Church? What things should we do, and what should a Godly teen look like? Well let’s see what we can find. First off, think for a moment for those of you who do go to a building with other Christians every Sunday. Think and try to remember if there are any elderly people who could use a young friend to help them with their house or yard work. You would really be surprised to see how many go without things because they just can’t do or get it. Many live with thing that can be very dangerous because they can’t fix it or make it safe. You couldn’t believe how many are so lonely because they don’t have a husband or wife anymore, and there kids live far away, do you know that elderly people who have someone to talk to or someone that just really cares for them will live longer and be healthier, not to mention how much they can and would love to teach you.

The bible tells us we need to look after and tack care of widows, orphans, and these’s who need something that we can give.  Jams 1:27 “Pure religion that God our father accepts is this, to look after orphans and widows in there distress and to keep one’s self from being polluted by the world.” Now I know that this just says orphans and widows but I do believe that what Jams is saying is to care for those who cannot do things on their own, he gives orphans and widows as an example because they could do nothing to provide for themselves. But he is saying take care of the people who need help to live. And I will even take it as far as take care of those who are less forcemeat than you are, if you can help them you should. Now it could mean you can just talking with a lonely old man or woman, or doing there shopping, and cleaning, are there people in your site who need help.

Matthew 25:34-40 say’s “Then the king will say to those on his right hand, ‘come you blessed of my father, inherit the kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the world: for I was hungry and you gave Me food; I was thirsty and you gave Me drink; I was a stranger and you took Me in; I was naked and you clothed Me; I was sick and you visited Me; I was in prison and you came to Me.’ Then the righteous will answer Him saying, ‘ Lord when did we see you hungry and feed you, or thirsty and give You drink? When did we see You a stranger and take You in, or naked and cloth You? Or when did we see You sick or in prison and come to You?’ And the king will answer and say to them, ‘Assuredly, I say to you, inasmuch as you did it to one of the least of these My brethren, you did it to me.’ ” if you’re asking yourself did Jesus just say when you help people just to help them it’s the same as if you did it to Him, than yes that is what you just heard Jesus say. Now we are not to look at this passage and say ok so when I do things for people God gives me stuff, we’re meant to look at it as God feels that it is so important to take care of people who we can’t take care of themselves, that He looks at and rewords it just as if you had done it to Him. He wants us to know that when we do these things for others that in His eyes we have done great things for Him Jesus Christ, yes when you help you old naber cut her yard God say’s thank you for cutting my yard. Now this also means that when you look across the street in the winter and that nice 70 year old man who has no one in his life is shoveling his driveway and you just sit there saying wow, you’d think he get someone to do that for him. God sits in heaven looking down and is heartbroken that you sat there and watch Jesus struggle and strain himself to do something that you could do with great ease.  

Acts 4:32-35. “Now the multitude of those who believed were of one heart and one soul; neither did anyone say that any of the things he possessed was his own, but they had all things in common. And with great power the apostles gave witness to the resurrection of the Lord Jesus. And great grace was upon them all. Nor was there anyone among them who lacked; for all who were possessors of land or houses sold them, and brought the proceeds of the things that were sold, and laid them at the apostles’ feet; and they distributed to each as anyone had need.” This passage I think is taken the wrong way sometimes. People have said that this passage tells how we are to look after those in our church, but not so much the people outside our church. Now there are two things wrong with that way of thinking, one this was not just the church in Jerusalem that did this, it says all who believed were of one heart and soul. So that means that we’re not only to look at the needs of those in our church but all those who are in Christ Jesus our Lord. And yes this passage only talks about taking care of the needs among the believers, and yes we had better be doing that, but it does not mean to over look the needs of those in our towns, this just says that the things we have are not ours anyway so don’t let your fellow believers go without the things they need, and any time you are able help those outside the church. We forget all to often that the things we have aren’t ours anyway, they are all Gods and we need to remember that, when He returns He will know what we did with His things and to those who only used them for or on themselves will be shown who the real owner is and be punished for letting those they could have helped go without. That also means that when He comes, those of us who know and remembered that its all His and have used His things to help bless others and take care of those who otherwise would have gone without, He will bless us with so much more.

We as teens in the church need to show the light of our Lord Jesus Christ to all those we meet. We are the new generation and right Now He has chosen us to carry out His work. We are the ones that the loud is and has falling to. Now what are you going to do with it?

I don’t know where you are in any of these places, but there is not one person who does not fall under at least one of these. Some of us may not even know who is looking up to us and that makes it even harder. What then are we to do? How are we to act? I just found out my little brother Alex (11 years old) is following what I have done and am doing in places I didn’t think he was. I must say places I didn’t really want him to. For example: my bad attitude towards reading and writing has become very apparent in him as it was and is still in me. This is one place that I have failed as his older brother and role model. It was in a place and way I didn't think was even there. The other things he is doing is dressing like me, getting into the some things like medival times, ancient warfare, my type of movies, and things like that, that I am in to. Now most those things aren’t bad things, but he isn’t following me in any good things such as: deep bible studies, worship music, good manners, being polite or a gentlemen.

Why is it that he only follows things that don’t really matter? Why is it that he isn’t following my life style? I believe that it is because I have always had the same taste in movies, clothes, and history, but there are times when I’m not a gentleman or don't have good manners, or am not polite. I do only listen to worship music when I’m in the car and when I do my bible studies, but not around him and I haven’t always done that. There was a time that, though a Christian, I was not at the same level I am today, and he can remember that. By not staying consistent for 11 years, he is less likely to follow in those things. If I want him to take after me in something I can never do the opposite. Now you’re thinking how in the world can you do 100% the same all the time? And the only thing I can say is, yeah its hard, but to be the teen God wants you to be you MUST stay the same in what you do say and how you act, it only take one thing to mess up years of work. Now don’t get me wrong this may not be for everyone, but it really is for the younger brother or sister. They will want to be just like you, and the way they will do that is if they can remember the way you did something that’s how they will do it. The problem is a bad thing stays in someone’s head longer then a good thing. A bad attitude will have more of an effect on someone then a good one.

I know I know, what can we do and why even try if iI'm messing up one times, it destroys so much. Well I have some good news, but you will have to wait until my next post for it…..

Lol, jking. I’m going to tell you now. The way to make the best impact is to really show them the good habits, like when you have your deep bible study let them know you will be doing that and not to interrupt you. This way you’re not bragging that you’re so Godly, but you’re telling him not to disturb you because you’re doing this and it means a lot to you. You also must show that other things aren’t as  important as this. A big thing will be the way you treat your mom and dad, if you’re always respectful they will pick up in that, but remember that when you’re not it will stay with them longer than being respectful. If you make it a important thing all the time they will see that those are the things that make you, you. But again you must make light of other thing that have no real value.

I again want to say that this will not be an easy thing, in fact it will be one of the hardest things you do. This is not something you can turn off and on; this is something you will be doing all the time even if you don’t want to or if you don’t know you're doing it. The things you do will have lasting effects on the people who look up to you. The thing you must ask yourself is: will you help to show them what God wants or will you let them fall into the path of the world. How can anyone allow younger people how to fall into worldliness? We were let down by the people who should have been there for us, to show us the way God wants us to be. We cannot let those who look to us down in the same way. If we can be the Godly influence in our world we will make a lasting difference. So start living today. 

hello friends, i need your prayers!!! we just found out that my grandfather has pulmanary phibrosis and lung cancer as well. and i dont know if you know anything about the two but the treatments for the cancer will make the pulmanary phibrosis much worst, so we dont know if he's going to be able to get treatments. the biger thing is he is not Saved... and as of now he has no intentions to. so please we need lots of prays. thank you.

Gods will

Brett Mitchell

Ok everyone, so I just wanted to thank you all for you suggestions.  I know it took me a long time to write a new entry, but I’ve been at camp (well I’m still at camp, but I have more time now). So I’ve been thinking and I am going to write about teens. I’ll be talking about what we as teen should aspect from other teen, adults and where our place is in the Church, our homes, and also the world. So this is also going to be split into a few parts, I’m not sure how many but I know it will be a few. So let’s get started.

First I’ll start with how I feel we should look at and be with other teens. Now just in case you didn’t know I am 18 (but I will be 19 in September) so I’m a teen too. How should we as teens be towards each other? We really need to spot be so disrespectful, if we want to be respected by others (adults, kids, teens, and God), as of now we teens as a howl do not deserve respect, we (as a howl) don’t give respect to other therefore we should not get any.  We need to stop being rude, we need to show and be responsibility. All this crud joking must stop (Ephesians 5:3-7 “But among you there must not be even a hint of sexual immorality, or of any kind of impurity, or of greed, because these are improper for God’s holy people. Nor should there be obscenity, foolish talk or coarse joking, which are out of place, but rather thanksgiving. For of this you can be sure: no immoral, impure or greedy person- such a man is an idolater- has any inheritance in the kingdom of Christ and of God. Let no one deceive you with empty words, for because of such things God’s wrath comes on those who are disobedient. Therefore do not be partners with them. ) we need to not even let others around us do them. We need to start being uplifting to one and other, all this teasing needs to come to an end. The sarcasm doesn’t help anyone. We are to use our words to help others and bring good things to the ears of those who hear us talk.

Now I don’t want you to think I’m perfect in this, because I’m really not. This is something that’s been on my mind for a long time now, and I am trying to keep a tight range on my tongue (James 1: 26-27). I know it’s hard and I don’t want to make it sound easy, because it’s not, if anyone tells you it is THEY  ARE  LEIING!!!! This is going to be something that you are always going to have to be conches of; you are going to have to work very very hard at this. But this needs to become not what we practice, but it needs to become a life style.

It goes farther than this, we need to be more than anyone expects, many people don’t expect anything from us so it’s easy to just not try doing great things. But is that how we should be? Are we not telling them that there is no rezone to have any faith in us accomplishing anything good? What then should we do to get them to know we can do great thing and be great people, who they can and should expect great things from? By doing thing on our own that they may not have even asked us to do, think about it. If we chose to learn to do things we will have to do when we’re on our own now. What will that show to those who think poorly of us? When we show we have a plane of where we are going in life, will that not show that we can go places? I want you to try this out, and tell me what you do and then what happens after you do it.

This is really something for us to work on. Let’s show every one that we can give and therefore deserve respect, let’s show then and we are responsible and therefore deserve more responsibilities. Let’s show them that we can be great roll models, and therefore deserve better ones from them.

Well I know I’ve been talking about marriage and family for a long time, and some of you may thinks that’s the only thing I think about but it’s not. It just so happened that the topic jumped into my head one day so I started writing about it. But I’m getting the feeling your tired of hearing about it (and it’s getting harder for me to come up with cool thing to talk about, concerning marriage that is). So I’m going to start a new, cool, and completely awesome topic. But first I want to know what you think would be something you want to hear about. I want your input not only about what you think about the things I write, but also what I should write about. 

So this entry well be for you to tell me what you want to read, but that would make a sort boring entry. So, I have decided to tell you some things about me. Most of you know a good deal about my family, cuz I’ve been talking about them in most my entrees so I tell you other thing.

                                5 THINGS I LOVE TO DO

1.       Bible study, I love digging deep and finding the good stuff

2.       Bole, I love bowling, and I’m not too shabby at it.

3.       I love playing RPG’s,

4.       Just kind of chilling with my friends, not having any real plans

5.       Using my imagination to come up with crazy awesome stories

                                             5 THINGS I HATE TO DO

1.       Read I don’t read very well and I don’t like doing it

2.       Write (like with a pen or pensile) it really hurts my hand so I hate doing it

3.       Tell someone I can’t help them.

4.       To let someone down.

5.       To tell someone I can do something and then not be able to.

5 things to describe me

1.       Not tall, 5’ 7’’ish

2.       Blond, longish hair

3.       Blue eyes

4.       Hyper, or more energized

5.       FUN, l make everything fun

Well I’m at camp now, (the camp I’m working at) so I won’t be on here as much I as I would like. But I’ll try to get on as much as I can. The camp has dialup, so its really slow too. I’m going to try to get on and read your blogs when I can but its hard to fit that much computer time into my day…sorry.  

           Ok so, don’t forget to let me know what my upcoming blogs should be about.

Christ’s Glory

Brett

So this is my entry to enter this supper sweet home school class of 08, T-shirt giveaway.

                Ok so my home schooling experience has been interesting. I started home schooling my 6^th grade year, and have loved it ever since.  I’ve always wanted to go into some form on ministry, so most of our schooling has had a strong Biblical bass. Our focus has been history (from a Biblical point of view), but of cores we did the other school things too, but I didn’t like those as much, and we didn’t work as hard on them.

                Anyway, we were the first people in my family to think of home schooling, and, well, didn’t get really any support from them. Infect they all thought it was the worst idea in the word. But we did it anyway.  Infect my dad doesn’t think it good enough (oh, my mom and dad are no longer married, and I live with mom), like he says I’m not being schooled, and he had me emancipated last winter.

                Before we started home schooling I was labeled as learning disabled, they said I’m really dyslectic (so if this is hard to read I’m really sorry). The test they gave me, I scored really low on, but this past fall I took the test again (they need to be taken every 5 years), and this one is a new one (so it was harder), and I did really, really well. They say that an improvement of 15 points is extremely significant and doesn’t happen often. Well my score went up 25 points!!! Yes 25, 10 above the extremely significant improvement (the person who gave me the test said she had never seen or heard of anyone improving that much in that amount of time). So needless to say that’s supper sweet.

                Now I don’t want to bore you with a bunch of thing like that so I’ll go onto where I’m going from here. I plan on getting my BA in History through College Plus, then transfer to Johnson Bible College and get a BA in Bible study with a specialty in preaching.  But I know that there’s not many church’s who want a fresh out of college preacher, so I plan on going back to the Philippians and helping with the church’s in the mountains. And I also want to be certified EMT, to help me in the mission field and also incase I need to have something before become a minister of a church.

                So that’s my plans, where I’ve come from, and a little of what I’ve gone though, I know it was a little vague, but I don’t really know what all I should say. I’ve done a lot, won some cool awards and contested, had to deal with friends and family who don’t support us or any home scholars. We have had to re-make my plans because of being home schooled but I like these one better anyway.

Stay Strong In Christ Jesus Our Lord And Savor

Brett

Ok the next point I want to go over is Holidays. What Holidays is my family going to celebrate? How are we going to celebrate them? And what will we tell our kids? Now I know some of you know how crazy I am but this and you’ve told me what you think, but please comment anyway.

So I’m going to start at the beginning of the year and moving through, I’m not going to talk about every one, just the main ones. So first is new years, and I don’t see anything wrong with doing something for new years. But, I do see something wrong with the way most people celebrate it. So the way I want to celebrate it with my family will be; staying with them (like not going out with the wife and leaving the kids at home) I think I’ll just make it a special day. Like maybe do something a little different, do some more than normal gamey or fun thing. Maybe get or fix up some fun food and just make it a good fun day.

The next Holiday is Valentine’s Day, and I think this Holiday is one of the dumbest Holidays there is. I think it is one of the reasons husbands don’t do good or nice thing for and with their wives the rest of the year. Now the other thing about it is cupid, you know who I’m talking about, the Roman god of love. So yes we celebrate a Holiday for the Roman god of love, and I think that is wrong. The other thing it does is make young people think they need to date and if you don’t have somebody you feel left out and like a misfit.  

Next is St. Patrick’s Day. Now I will be celebrating this great Holiday. It’s so sad that not many people really know who he is. So let me fill you in on a few things. So St. Patrick is not Irish, he’s English. Now the reason he’s so cool is because he single handedly converted the entire Island of Ireland from there pagan and druid believes to Christianity, after he was one of their slaves for 10 years. So this to me is a very important Holiday and I think we should do a lot more with this one, but more as in things really about him not just more things we do now.

Now it’s time for the Holiday that has the wrong name, so I’m going to call it by its real name not the fake one, I will go over why it has a fake name. Resurrection Sunday is the most important holiday, the day our Lord Jesus rose from the dead and made the way for us to get into heaven. But unfortunately we as a whole celebrate it wrong. First off by calling it Easter, Easter was a pagan holiday going on at the same time Christ was crucified and it was a holiday to honor the gods and goddesses of the earth. It was always done the first part of spring they were thanking the gods for the rebirth of the earth, things were starting to bloom and babies were being born, which is why we use bunnies and eggs they’re a symbol of fertility. We do NOT celebrate Easter. I could go on and on about this but I wont for now.

The next one on my list is….Mothers day (I think to save time I’m going to put Fathers day in with this). Now I think we all agree that this is an important day, it is good to set aside a day to the mothers and fathers, I mean they did do a lot for us. But do you think that this can or has lead to not honoring them enough the rest of the year? Have we forgetting to always respect them and show them that we really do appreciate them? Have we made it harder to be truly good children by putting a day on the calendar that is to be just for them. Now don’t get me wrong, think it’s great to have a day for them, but does that help others not give them the respect they should have every other day of the year?

I know there are more Holidays than the ones I’ve mentioned but this are the ones I want to talk about; I don’t mean to say the other ones are not important. So the next one I’m talking about is Independence Day. Now this is a very important day for our Country, and all the other Democracies in the world, but do we look at this Day right. I think this day should be spent by remembering what our founding fathers wanted and did for us, this should be a day to remember what they went through to do what they did, and a day to remind us that we don’t give up because things look like we can’t win. We the underdogs won then and we as Christians (the underdogs) need to remember that just because it looks imposable it doesn’t mean it over; we can still pull through and win.    

All right now it’s time for the controversial one…Halloween; this is most definitely a holiday that we as Christian should not be a part of. This holiday was started as a pagan tradition by druids, they would kill a animal hollow out its head then us it as a mask so that the evil spirits couldn’t see them and if they found someone who wasn’t wearing a mask they would say “trick or treat” meaning give me a treat or I’ll play a trick on you. Now these trick aren't little practical jokes, they would be things like; kidnapping their kids, burning down their house, killing their livestock, and in some cases killing them. Now I know that that’s not how it is now or what people do, I know most people don’t even know where it came from, but by us continuing this evil tradition we keep something very evil in nature here and alive.

Next come Thanksgiving; there is only one thing I really see wrong with Thanksgiving, when we have our big thanksgiving dinner we become gluttons and that’s something we are never to do, whether we’re having a feast or not. I think its good to have a big meal for Thanksgiving, but that doesn’t mean we should eat until their sick, or eat so much that part way through the meal you need to unbutton your pants because you eat so much, that’s WRONG. I think the way we should do the food part of Thanksgiving more like we eat things that we don’t get to eat very often. It is a very special day, it’s great to meet with family and friends to keep reminding ourselves how much we are thankful for. But that doesn’t mean we need to eat until we throw up.

And last but not least…..Christmas; now I will tell you now I hate Christmas. I love Jesus’ birthday, but that’s not what Christmas is anymore, so I don’t like it. Now I really don’t care if you think I’m a Scrooge or the Grinch because I very firmly believe when something turns from what it was meant to be into something it’s not i needs to be fixed and that’s what I’m going to try to do. First its in like the one month that it would most likely not be in. it’s more likely to be in early summer or fall not the middle of winter. The next thing is there reason for picking 12/25, it was because there was so much evil things going on in this time of the year that they wanted to even it out. People spent so much time on Santa and that part of the holiday and spend almost no time on Christ’s birth, all people in the world (ok maybe not all people) celebrate Christmas and most of them don’t care about Jesus, some even hate him and they thinks it’s wrong to have Jesus in any part of Christmas. THIS IS HOW WE SHOULD FEEL ABOUT WHAT THEY DID TO THIS GREAT DAY!!!!! But we don’t…why? I better stop here because if I don’t I’ll go on and on…but I wrote a sermon on it (kind of, it’s about lots of what I don’t like about Christmas but not as much I wanted it to be) it’s on my other blog the on titled brettsermons so if you want read it.

Continuing on with family and marriage, I want to talk about raising the kids. Again this is how I want to raise my kids; this is what I see as being the best way to raise Godly children who will spend their life’s doing God’s work. I know there may be or could be thing that will make it hard to do this but remember this is my plane and as you all keep telling me and what I DO know, plane can change, thing can happen to prevent all my planes from turning out the way I want them to, but I am still going to try to do them the way I’m planning.

Where to start…ok we will start with bed time stories, what are good or proper bed time stories for children being raised to do great th`ings for God? I so strongly think all “holiday” character stories and all “Disney” type stories are WRONGE. I will not tell my children any “fairy tall’s”. Why not bring them up with things that matter? How about right before bed we read a passage from the Bible or a chapter from the Under God, Foxx’s Book of Martyrs, Little Pilgrims Progress, Sir Knight of the Splendid Way, even Narnia. What would be wrong with any of those, at least those are thing that will strengthen the faith, even as a child. I know they may not always understand what I’ll be reading to them, but they will know those stories, other children know The Little Mermaid, or Santa Clouse, or any of the common bed time stories.

Now what about TV or movies? Well I have already decided not to have cable, we will have a TV but it will be for movies. I don’t want movies I wouldn’t let my kids see, so that means I will have to learn to do without. There’s something you should know about me I LOVE my movies. I have more movies than my family has (we have our family movies and then I have my movies…like the one I bought or people gave me) my list of movies is prity good for a 18 year old with no “real” job. Movies like Braveheart, Patch Atoms, Lord of the Rings, and Indiana Jones to name a few. I watch all the time, but this is something that I’ve been thinking about and I think I don’t want them in my house. How can I tell my kids these movies are your and these are mine and mommies? When I think about it if I don’t want my kids to watch them, there’s a good chance God doesn’t want me to watch them. I feel that if I kept them and didn’t let my kids watch then I would be a hypocrite, and I don’t want that.

Now I’m the type of person who wants to have lots of kids (like at least 10), so I want to start having kinds shortly after getting married. And seeing how I want to get married young, nether me will have finest collage (that is if all things go the way I would want them to go), we (my wife and i) my want to go to different collages, so what will we do. Well I will let her go to her collage first (if that’s what she wants but if she wants me to go first I will) and I will work and if we have any kids yet (assuming there past the point where they need to stay with their mom) I will take care of them while she does her schooling . And when it’s my turn to do my schooling she will take care of the kinds while I do my schooling. Now this is something that both my wife and I will have to be willing to do for the other. This may not work for everyone, I know that. It also depends on whether she wants to go to college. But if she does I will make that sacrifices for her, and I believe if I find “her” she will too.

I want to talk about the benefits of doing marriage and collage this way. First off, it will show right up front that we are willing to make sacrifices for each other. This will show us that we are truly committed to the other. Another benefit is that if my wife or I is taking a class that we don’t understand but the other one does, it will help us see and remember that we complete each other. This will help us chose the class’s we take, if I know the my wife is far better at this or that then I am, I will know that I don’t have to stress over it, or try to put more time in that, rather than improver and adding onto the gifts I know God has put inside of me. We will be able to know the type of ministry we’re going to go into much better than if we wanted till we both finished our schooling and got settled down in a ministry.

Now most collages have houses or apartments for married couples so there are no problems there. We could help pick the classes the other was going to take, and even help them study. Now I will admit that it would be much easier if we waited to have kids, but we’ll work it out ether way.

Now again I will say that this may not work for everyone, but that’s not because it is wrong. This form of marriage can only work one if you find the right one when you’re young, two both have to want to it this way, three you have to be seeking god with your whole hart both of you. The lack of one of these and I don’t think it would work at all. This form of partnership is in my mind the best form; you go though all your studies together, so you really know each other’s strengths and weaknesses. You get to start your own life together from the beginning.

Ok so, I’m going to break this into many parts, I don’t know how many it will be but it would be to big and long. So I will say again this is what I think, not what it must be. I am not saying this is how it needs to be, this is how I want mine to be, and it’s how I see it working best through my studies in the bible.

Ok I want to start by what I’ve gone through was a son, and what I’ve noticed in my mom and dad’s Marriages.  For starters you should know that my parents are divorced, and have been seine I was three. My dad lives in Illinois and I live with my mom in Michigan, so it’s like a six hour drive to see my dad.  Now my mom got remarried soon after as well as my dad. Mom is still with him, but dad got divorced again, and remarried again. So I have had two step moms a step dad and then my mom and dad. I along with to many youth in the world had to see marriages fail. I have seen them start and end and all the bad throughout the whole thing.  I know thing that don’t work in marriage, I know the wrong way to start one, and for that matter the things that can rip them apart.

Ok so I want to start at the beginning and then go though as far as I can. So the first thing is when to get married. Now I personally want to get married young like before or during college (that is if I can find Her by then). Now I know that that is contrary to our society today, but most of my thinking is. Now I do have a reason for wanting to be married young, so I ask you to consider what I say, you don’t have to agree with it but please try to understand where I’m coming from.

Ok so we all know that God has made someone that completes then. (I will talk as if it’s my “wife” so I’ll be using hers and not him or her) I know that somewhere out there is the girl that God made just for me, to complete me and for me to complete. The problem is I don’t know if I’ve found her yet, I might know her, but God has not yet told me who she is (I’m starting to get inpatient). Of cores there are girls I have thought might be “Her” but I still don’t know for sure. Now the reason I think it better to get married young is because, I’m not finished yet. Ok the way I look at it is, that God has made us perfectly, but in two pieces, and I can’t be “perfect” until I find “Her”. I think that you can’t really know what or where God wants you to be until you are “perfect”. So its best to be “perfect” or complete when your finding out where or what you will be going with your life. You can’t fine or get to your really potential until you’ve been made complete.  So find that the best way to prepare for my life is to do it interlay with my wife. If I am “perfect” when I, in collage then I’ll know more what I will and will not be able to do. For instance I am good at putting thing in a different form to help people understand it better. I am not good at math, reading, spelling, and computers, but my wife will make it up. The bible says that when you get married you become one flesh, when God made Adam He knew that he wasn’t finished, so He made Eve to complete him. Now it is a finished project. Now there is nothing that between the two of them that they can not do, they have become perfect.

Now we are going to say that I have found “Her” so what now. Well I think that its vital that you do the entire prose’s in a Godly fation and with help. So I strongly think that premarital counseling with a Christian consoler is very beneficial. Ok now it is of vital importance to not stay all googly eyed over my wife to be (once I’ve found her) I need to stay open eyed and keep in mind that if I don’t, It could mead I can’t do what God put me here to do, but it don’t stop there, now my wife, the girl I’m mint to be with, and the person she’s with, and its just keeps going, will not be able to completely fulfill what God made us to do. Now don’t get me wrong I still believe I will be able to do good work for Him, But not to the same existent.

Are we beyond repair? Is there anything we can do, to turn this country around? Should we just give up, and let this mass of evil that is the USA rampage freely without check? How can we, an everyday person even dream of turning it around? This once great and God fearing country use to be a gift from The Almighty. We at one time knew what it meant to be a part of a true and free country, but those days are long gone. This is not some fairytale you read to your children, this is not some story that starts long ago in a galaxy far way. This is the truth of what has happened to this corrupt place we call home.

There was a time when all people in America were treated with a sort of respect. There was a time when no one locked their doors; there was no need of such precautions. We at one time could and did trust almost everyone. There was no fear of evil befalling you for trusting a stranger. We use to know each other, before TV and the internet took control of people’s free time. And our government really did look after us, not make things harder by making new departments and stupid law that should be a no brainer.

There was even a time not long ago that we had good clean TV show and movies. But not now, think of the movies that you like best and the TV show you love, now think, are they shows that have good morals, or are they full of unclean corrupt things? I bet it’s the later. Almost all our movies are full of violence, drugs, sex, cursing, and just plain old bad thing. There are very rarely good, clean, funny, pure movies these days. Kid’s movies aren’t even clean anymore. Think about a new kids movie, now think hard, how much filth is thrown into them? I’m not going to go into many of them, but I’ll list off some kid’s and family movies that I’ve seen that have filth in them. Horton Hears A Who, Cat In The Hat, all the Shrek’s, Enchanted, both the Ice ages, and that’s just a few. Then the movies that don’t have filth in them are full of evolution. The bee Movie, all the Land Before Time’s, Dinosaurs, and that’s just a few.

Those are kid’s movies that have filth in them, kid’s movies, how much worse are the ones we watch.  I want you to try something, the next time you watch a movie keep a piece of paper and a pen with you. Wright down everything you see or hear that is bad; swearing, sex, gays, drunks, theft and thing of the sort. Then look at who the movie is advertised to; like kids, families, or what. Now keep in mind, if it’s a war movie there will of course be violence, but if it’s a movie that is not known to be a war movie its violence gets marked against it. Wright down what it was that was bad and if it could have been avoided without changing the movie.

Now this does not just stop at movies, TV shows, and music are like this also. Do the same this when watching TV and when you listen to music. But once again it does not stop there. It not only our entertainment that is full of filth and immoral things, try this. Go online and look up what your state or city is trying to accomplish, see how many things there push for and then see how many are good and line up with the Bible. For instance, I recently heard that South Bend IN, was trying to pass a bill that would fours all businesses to add a special bathroom for homosexuals. Luckily it did not pass but it doesn’t change the fact that they tried. Think a minute to what that would do, did you know that a church in the eyes off the State is a business, and if that law was passed every church in the city would have no choice, they would have to put bathrooms for both gays and lesbians’. What would we do then?

Think for a minute, what do you think these things have done to us as a howl? What do you think will happen if things continue the way and rate that they are? How far have we strayed just in the short 18 years I’ve been alive? Why is this? We have given the devil our world. What have we saved for God? Is there anything that we keep pure, and holy, or sacred? We can’t say our courts have been kept pure or Godly. We can’t say our media has been kept pure. We can’t say our television or movie companies have been kept pure. We can’t even say the Church has been kept pure, holy or sacred. It has gotten out of hand and out of control.

Our television and movie industries have been consumed by greed and envy. They only want the money, and they don’t care how they get it. And every time they put out something new we (as a hole) flak to it and our morals go farther and farther from where they were and where God wants them to be. They put out a TV show, that seems like it might be good, and then slowly slip in all kinds of filth (sex, homosexual thing, bad morals). And with movies, you can’t even go by the rating cuz it changes all the time. For instance, a pg13 rating can have the f word in it once. And a pg can have a set number of cues words. And there are leaves of cues words, like, moderate, heavy. Now we know that a cues word is a cues word. There are leaves of sex scenes as well. Yea did you know that? A pg13 movie can have a sex scene as long as they don’t show everything and if it’s short enough. A pg movie can show a sort of nudity, the actors can be naked as long as they don’t show anything, now if it’s between the two I would rather them be naked but not show anything. But that doesn’t change that fact that IT DOES NOT NEED TO BE IN THE MOVIE.

Our media pushes for us to be very thin and tan. Both of these are not good for you. They push birth control, which I don’t think God want us to do. He wants us to have many kids and fill the earth.  They push do what feels good, when we know that God has told us the way to live.

Our courts haven’t been kept in line with what really matters. They have instead of using what is right and wrong to make the decisions, they’ve been using what is accepted. I think they have forgotten that some things are wrong no matter what new things are going on around us. The right and wrong doesn’t change just because more people are doing them, all that means is more people are doing wrong things. 

Now what can we do about it? Most people say, there’s nothing we can do. It’s already gone to far and we might as well just get use to it. Well I say THEY JUST DON’T CARE ENOUGH. There are things we can do. We (the Christians in the USA) are just to lazy to get up off our pews. We can change thing. We have the power to do anything we want. There are all kinds of things we could do to start turning things around. For starters, we need to stop contributing to the corrupt things in our country (most TV shows, music, movies…) as long as we keep going along with things they will not change.  If you want to complain about anything if you’re not trying to fix them YOU HAVE NO RIGHT TO COMPLAN.  

You can’t give the excuse “there is nothing I can do” cuz there is. If you are upset with the way the schools in your town are teaching the youth then get out there and get on the school board, or help make programs for the youth to do, to help them in the areas you feel the school is lacking in. if you problem the way your town is being ran, then get on the town board, or at least attend the town meetings.  If you have a problem with the TV and Movie industries are ran stop supporting the ones you don’t agree with. If you’re like me and can’t stand all the gay rights stuff then don’t support their supporters.

Now I’m not going to lie, it’s hard to do this. I know.  You see when I was 16 I got a job at Wal-Mart, I worked there for 6 months. But I heard that Wal-Mart joined National Gays of America. And needless to say, I couldn’t do that. So I walked out. Needless to say, they didn’t like that. But it couldn’t stop there; we (me and my family, my household) would not shop there. Now this is a little different for my household, my mom has a business in her house. We take care of elderly people. So we buy a lot of stuff, like $200+ every week. That’s a lot, and that’s with the cheap prices Wal-Mart has. So I would not let my mom shop there so instead of $200 it turned into like $300 at smaller food stores.  

But on a good note, Wal-Mart has broken for that partnership and fired the person who made it happen. So we shop there again. If you are going to punish something for doing something you strongly oppose, you must reward them for trying to make things better. Now remember this is not what you must do. This is the only way I think we can make a difference; this is what I think we should do.  If you feel you would like to do this as well, I’d be very glad, but don’t feel like I’m telling you to.

We are the world to come. If we decide we want thing different then it falls to us to change it. And the way we do that is be living our lives different the world does and opposite to the way we’re being pushed.  The only power this world has is the power we give it. Believe it or not you and I can set the standard and the rest of the world will have to follow. Now this can only work if enough of us make this radical change. And we must make it completely we can’t only do it sometimes or in some places, it much be with everything and all the time. We will have to raise our children the same way so that they will keep the world. We have lost our saltines, and it’s time to get it back.

I have come to the piont in my life that im not a kid anymore but im not yet an adult. i think you might know what i'm talking about. so where dose that leave me? where dose that leave you? are there things we can do for God? YES!!!! God dose not set out a law that says you cant do my work untill you have reached an age that someone who dosent even know you has set. if you me or Bob has a gift then you beter believe God wants you to use it right now! why else would He give it top you? dont wait for an "adult" to tell you when your ready, cuz i hate to say it they dont know. i dont care who they are...they can not tell you when you are ready to do the work God has set befor you. wether you Mom, Dad, teatcher, or even your minister. if you think your ready to start something for God get out there and do it.

now im not saying to disobey your parents, im saying dont wait for them to say its time, but at the same time if you feel your ready and they dont, sit down with them and see why they dont want you to, and let them know why you feel you are ready.

so let me tell you when i had to do this. last year (when i was 17) i got the opertunity to go one a mistion trip to the Phillipains. now i wasnt to be going with a group, i would have been going there by myself, i would fly there with no one else (i had never flone befor) then i was to get in a van with a driver for 6 hours to the house of the people i would kidof be staying with. after geting seteld i went up to a small village with out them, i would be with the people for the church there but i didnt know any of them. i'd stay there for 2 1/1 weeks and spend the rest of the mounth with the first famly i knew. needless to say my parents did not want me to go. and i was fureus... i got in many fights with bolth my mom and dad, but i knew God wanted me to go. so i got my mom on the same page as me and then 1 1/2 mounths befor i was to go, my dad said yes. so i had to rais $1800 in 1 1/2 mounths... i got $2500.

if God is going to use you, and someone tells you no, He will show you a way to get you where you need to be so you can do what He has put in frunt of you. Just make sure you go about geting there in a way that God will like and aprove of.

ok so, my spelling will most likely not be perfact becouse, well im dyslexic and i also just dont spell vary well...so sorry, if you cany read somthing its spelt they way it sounds.

Anyway, i am 18 and im hopeing to become a minister, so the things i'll be writeing will be manly sermons and my vews on hot thing...(i like the topecs no one else wants to talk about) so if you have something and you would like to know what i think and what i fine in the bible says about it, let me know.

ok so my blogs will sometimes seem odd, i will be puting the sermons i'v writen in the past on, but i dont know how often or how many i should put on at a time. so if you have any suggesttions let me know. there may be a time when i write something and post a normal blog.

ok now i wont everyone to know that i dont care about puting things nice. i'm sorry if you dont like that, but i think it is wrong to make things seem not all that bad or wrong when they are. the things i'll be writeing are and will be not liked by some people. this is the way i do things, i put things straight and upfrunt, please dont get upset or not read my other things... some thing i write you may like and i know that not everyone agrees with my "radical" vews.

but all that aside, i hope you like and learn from my posts. it would help if you told me what you really think of them, DONT LIE, i cant be a Good minister if i dont hear the tryth form the people who read my stuff. i hope yopu injoy...

GOD BLESS

Brett Mitchell

Dear citizens of the once great America, have we forgotten where we came from? Do we know why we came here? And do we remember why we broke off from Britain? Was not one of the reasons to get away from the corrupt justice system? Being so, how is it that we’ve let the courts and judges stray so far from where the Constitution placed them? Our once great nation had the best courts in the world, and our judges were the purest. Not so anymore, the judges are using opinion rather than facts. Now I don’t at all mean that all judges are like this, there are probably some good and pure judges somewhere in this once great nation.

Let me tell you how the courts just showed me how they don’t care for the people or the judgment they throw out. This happened to me on March 3, 2008. My father and mother are divorced, and I stay mainly with my mother, so my father pays child support. Now my father has decided he no longer needs to pay child support, because I turned 18 in September, and the law states that after you turn 18 you're no longer a child, so child support is not needed—that is, if the child is not in school. I am still in school, just not in the way my father wants me to be. I’m home schooled.

So when I found out my father was taking my mother to court over it, I sent letters to people I knew, who I thought could testify that I am being schooled. These people I wrote to are mainly educators, so their words should have weight on this matter. Along with that we had a psychological assessment from a school psychologist (with our local school district). Now I had these tests done because I have been learning disabled since I was in 3rd grade. The psychologist noted “His growth is very impressive and he was home schooled during most of the time from the first testing to this fall’s assessment and is no longer considered learning disabled.”

But when my parents went up to see the judge, the judge wouldn’t look at anything we brought. All he looked at was the statement my father wrote. After reading it he said “when you put him in a real school with a real diploma, I’ll return the child support.” And that was pretty much it, he wouldn’t let either one (my mother or father) say anything. Now I'm not writing this because I’m upset with or disagree with what the judge said, I’m writing this to show you how our courts and judges no longer meet the requirements to be a judge and should be reprimanded or relieved of their duties. Help fix our courts, stop sitting around letting people with power get away with abusing their powers, let our government know you won’t take it anymore. This is our country and our government, take it back, and this time let’s keep it.

Thank you, and God Bless

Brett Mitchell