posted by Staddon Family on 08/2/10

The Senate is expected to vote this week on Kagan, Obama’s recent Supreme Court nominee. Since Kagan has never before been a judge, and therefore has no judicial record, how do we know where she stands on the issues? Thanks to many who have done the research for the rest of us, some very startling things have come to light. It turns out she is very pro-homosexual and very anti-2nd Amendment rights. It appears that she is already biased in favor of homosexuals and possibly even harboring hatred against the morally conscientious.

Here is criminologist John Lott’s concerns over Kagan’s anti-gun stance. Severe concerns have also been raised by Americans United for Life regarding Kagan’s record of support for partial birth abortion.

This Senate decision may affect our country for many, many years. Supreme Court Justices are usually in office for life. Take responsibility as an American citizen to call your senators as soon as you possibly can. Politely make it clear that you will not tolerate your representative voting in favor of Kagan for the Supreme Court of the United States. Senator Ben Nelson (Democrat, Nebraska) decided to change his stand and oppose Kagan as a result of hearing from the people of his State. You can find your senators’ phone numbers right here or call the Senate switchboard at 202-224-3121 and ask for them by name.

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posted by Esther on 08/2/10

What a great conference! There was such unity as we met with old friends and many new friends of like heart! Dad had a chance to share with the first time families, Robert played a piano special with Clayton, James spoke on his trip to Peru, Daniel testified of God’s work through the Bible Bee, and I worked with the Commit girls but we all received way more then we could have ever given. What great insight was gained under the teaching of  Bill Gothard, Gil Bates, Tom Harrmon, Paul and Jenny Speed, Phil Downer, Jim Logan and others.

One session on discipleship was especially good. How do you make disciples? Dad was reviewing his notes with us on the way home in the van and asked “How should you view yourself as a disciple maker? “A servant?”, we guessed. No. “A father?” Close! The way Paul pictured himself as a disciple maker is given in 1 Thess. 2:7: “But we were gentle among you, even as a nurse cherisheth her children.”  The answer is that Paul looked at himself as a mother caring for her child. She expects messes and struggles as the baby grows. This is the first of the four M’s of discipleship: Messes. Making a disciple means caring enough about the messes in life to do something to clean them up. The next M stands for Milk: this is when you teach someone the everyday steps of Christian life. The third M stands for Meat: this is when you teach them how to feed on the deeper things of the Word of God for themselves instead of you teaching them everything. The last M is for multiplication where you help them to begin teaching others. We were all motivated to make disciples!

We thank the Lord that we were able to go and be encouraged in our walk with the Lord. “And let us consider one another to provoke unto love and to good works: not forsaking the assembling of ourselves together, as the manner of some is; but exhorting one another: and so much the more, as ye see the day approaching” (Hebrews 10:25).  

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posted by James on 07/31/10

Peruvian Traffic

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posted by Michael on 07/24/10

What a refreshing time enjoying the unity of fellow believers in a whirlwind of profitable activity! Times of planning, times of work, times of rest, and times of play, but all of them were times of joy. I wish we had pictures of the volleyball and ping pong! What a joy it was also to have the Fleshman family join us! Thank you one and all for pitching in and blessing us with your energy and smiles and voices.

Thanks to the help of many volunteers who helped care for the apple and peach trees in previous months and years, we were blessed with an abundant harvest! The Wilkes and Fleshman families helped us process some of the harvest so that we could enjoy it on many occasions to come. Thank you one and all!

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posted by Michael on 07/22/10

Hillary Clinton got me thinking recently with a decision she made to support a legally binding international treaty to increase regulations on the gun trade. Just what do you think the Administration is up to now?

The disarming of American citizens can be achieved by controlling the distribution of firearms. The best way at the moment to get control of this distribution is through an international treaty that would bypass the legislative process (“government of the people, by the people, for the people”) and subjugate the American people to laws created by foreign nations. Would the American people comply with that kind of insanity? I don’t think so. Remember Virginia’s motto? It is “Thus always to tyrants” with Virtus armed and standing atop a dead tyrant. What if Virginians were to stick to that? What about the famous words of Patrick Henry? “Give me liberty or give me death!” What do you do with a law that makes a good thing illegal, while the law itself is Constitutionally illegal? Article 2 of the Bill of Rights states that “the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed.” Do Americans value freedom as much as those who have tried to live without it? Why did my grandpa put his life on the line in World War II? Talking about the right to load ammunition and bear arms is talking about the guarantee of a free country. If Mountaineers will always be free, mountaineers will have to be armed. That’s what the 2nd amendment is all about. If you love America, go here.

Let’s think this over. Why should anyone be labeled a criminal just because he owns a weapon? Why did God give horns and hooves to the buffalo, and stingers to the honey bees? What is wrong with parents protecting their families? Why would a government even want to make it difficult for its good, responsible and law abiding citizens to arm themselves? Does the government really think it can completely control all crime so that no one ever has to defend themselves? Do we want the government to have that kind of absolute control over everyone? If that means eliminating guns, it also means eliminating cooking utensils, rocks, and fingers. Anyone who truly favors fighting crime must favor the armed citizen. If we have a crime problem, what we need to ask is why people do not control themselves and respond correctly to difficult situations. So why would some people want Americans helpless? Are the American people entirely untrustworthy? Why should the government be afraid of an armed nation? This level of suffocating restraint without any regard to personal self-control is tyranny. For one thing, governmental force and secular education do not have the capacity to solve a crime problem. Furthermore, a law that banned weapons would only take weapons away from law abiding citizens, the very ones who should be armed. Every month the NRA reports many accounts of citizens properly using firearms to successfully protect their families. Does it seem to you that the TV news tends to only report the actions of lawless people using weapons in lawless ways? Is this by accident?

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