Men and Women are NOT Equal

I know I got your attention with that statement!

Men and Women are not equal just as apples and oranges are not equal.  The two can't be compared, they are just too different.  Neither one is better than the other but they're not equal to one another either. Why is it that men are confident being men and yet most women are not confident in their womanhood.  Women shouldn't want to be like men in order to feel confident in themselves.  We should be proud that our Heavenly Father made us women.  He made us different than men and that's okay, that's the way He meant it to be

Feminism was created by Satan to cause women to forget that God made us for a purpose.  Our Heavenly Father fashioned us different from men for a reason.  We are the counterpart to men, we complete them.  Our strengths make up for their weaknesses just as their strengths make up for our weaknesses.  Men and women are like puzzle pieces, they look different but they go together to make one big picture.  That is what marriage is, a man and woman coming together to form one unit, just as the Scriptures say in Mark 10, "But from the beginning of the creation God made them male and female.  For this cause shall a man leave his father and mother, and cleave to his wife; And they twain shall be one flesh: so then they are no more twain, but one flesh."

Women should be celebrating Womanhood, not trying to hide it or turn it into something else.  I'm glad that the world has apples AND oranges.

Are You a Christian...

Are you a Christian or do you just go to Church?

So I'm sure I got your attention with that question!  I probably even offended some of you.  I'm impressed that you kept reading.  Of course, I'm not saying going to church is wrong.  What I'm saying is that 'just' going to church is wrong.

Being a true Christian is a way of life.  It's not an hour or two on Sunday, it's the way you live every minute of every day.  True Christians give others the benefit of the doubt.  They are always looking for service opportunities.  They're striking up conversations with random people in the checkout line just so that they can possibly share the Gospel.  There's a prayer in their hearts at all times.  When something good happens they automatically thank God.  When they're in trouble they ask for His help first.  They're constantly listening for the voice of the Holy Ghost.  They're always wondering if they're on the path to Heaven.  They often ask themselves 'what would Jesus do' and then they do it.  Their Scriptures are close by and they read them often.  The Scriptures are the Word of God after all, and a true Christian heart yearns to hear from Him.  Others recognize something different in a true Christian and want whatever it is that makes them different.

So with all that said, I ask again, are you a true Christian or do you just go to church?

The Incredibles 2 and Fake News

If you only get your information from the mainstream media then you will only know what they want you to know!

We went to see The Incredibles 2 in the movie theater last night and I thought it was interesting that at the beginning they touched on this idea. Very carefully, they suggested that the mainstream media was only showing information that would give the public a negative feeling about superheroes. Then, an entrepreneur in the movie suggests that they change the Public's perception by offering the other side of the story that the news was not portraying.

The exact same thing is going on today and this is why Trump calls the news 'fake news'. Mainstream media like CNN, NBC, etc. shape the public opinion by only giving the public what they want them to see. A perfect example of this can be seen in how they are talking about illegal immigrants being separated from their children during Trump's presidency.  However, this happened during Obama's presidency also and was never mentioned by the media.

Squatters

Squatters

Imagine that you have a really nice, upscale apartment complex.  You currently have a few units available for rent.  You have many applications to choose from to fill those two units and to receive your monthly rent money.  

While you are looking at applications and deciding which applicants to have come in for an interview the janitor comes to your office in a panic.  He informs you that one of the rooms has people living in it even though you know that it's supposed to be vacant.  He said that it appears that the lock has been jimmied and that the people that moved in to the room also moved in a whole bunch of stuff.

You immediately hurry to the apartment that is supposed to be vacant and knock on the door.  From the other side of the door you hear a voice that says they will not open the door and that they now live here.  You tell them what the rent is and ask if they plan on paying.  They say they have no intention of paying rent but they will stay here as long as they can get away with it.

You call the police only to find that you must file a complaint.  You go down to the courthouse to find out the hoops that you must jump through to get them out of your apartment.  While you are jumping through hoops they are using the water and the electricity for free that you provide to the apartment building.  They have no respect for the place because they are not paying rent and so they throw their garbage out the window onto the street below.  You are also aware of a strange smell coming from the apartment.

You worry about the condition of the place after they vacate while the court worries about their rights and takes weeks and sometimes even months to decide that they must be removed from the apartment by force and you receive the right to evict them.  By the time they are vacated and you have the apartment back, it is trashed.  They've left behind their broken furniture and dirty dishes.  The carpets are stained and the walls have holes in them.  They are now out of your apartment but you have no monetary compensation for the time that they were there or the mess they made.  You have to put your own money toward cleaning up the apartment and preparing it for somebody who will actually pay to live there.

Sounds terribly unfair right?  Something that you think we should change?

Well, this is not actually a story about an apartment complex and some squatters, it is a story about the United States and illegal immigrants who commit a crime by coming in to our country without going through the proper legal channels.

Now that you know the truth, some of you will probably say, oh, but it's a different situation with immigrants.  You'll conveniently leave out the illegal part when you mention the word immigrants.  But that doesn't change the fact that some people come here unlawfully without following the proper channels.  And yes, I realize that they are not all dangerous criminals, but they still are committing a crime.  The United States has empty apartments, and we're happy to have people move into them, but we want them to do so legally by applying and getting approval.  Then, after they've applied, gotten approval and moved in, we expect them to pay 'rent' so that the rest of us don't have to suffer by paying it for them through our taxes.