Michael A

Finding a Perfect Mate Starts With Oneself By Annie Holmquist – Epoch Times

14 Dec 2021 Michael A

“Contrary to the dominant message in this culture, one does not find the perfect partner and marriage. One makes a good match by constant effort and the steadfast will to persevere in the relationship. People waiting for perfect matches will find their idealism getting in the way of the practical work on self that is necessary to become the kind of person capable of being married to one other person for a lifetime.” In essence, those who want to marry and marry well will work on themselves first. They won’t waste time swiping left and right or hooking up with this one or that one to test if perfection is there….

Teaching Children to Recognize Propaganda – Epoch Times

14 Dec 2021 Michael A

…And in fact, they have been learning that propaganda for many years. Unfortunately, we looked away, convincing ourselves that such propaganda was only in big districts such as Los Angeles, or New York, or Chicago, not in our own local, Middle American neighborhoods. For years we kept our children in those schools, convincing ourselves they were safe, that their teachers and the curriculum they were studying were teaching them good things. That those good things would prepare them for living in the free world, able to embrace truth and recognize error immediately. Given the accelerated rate of deception in society, it now seems clear that schools indeed didn’t prepare children to recognize propaganda; instead, they were the ones that fed propaganda to children hook, line, and sinker.

Surviving Suffering Like a Champ – Epoch Times

13 Dec 2021 Michael A

“To stop our frantic getting, spending, and searching,” she says in “The Path of Loneliness, ” “and simply to look at the things God has made is to move one step away from despair. For God cares.” If anyone had cause for bitterness over the loss and pain she endured, it was Elliot. Yet she tells us that “it is possible both to accept and to endure loneliness [and by extension, all forms of suffering].” How do we do so? [Elisabeth] Elliot gives us the answer: “In circumstances for which there is no final answer in the world, we have two choices: accept them as God’s wise and loving choice for our blessing (this is called faith), or resent them as proof of His indifference, His carelessness, even His non-existence (this is unbelief).”

The Apostasy of Worldly Demas – Reverend Romesh Prakashpalan Sermon

13 Dec 2021 Michael A

Reverend Romesh Prakashpalan preached on 2 Timothy 4:10; based on that text, he explored why Demos apostatized. Simultaneously, he discussed the consequences of Demos’ actions. Questions were presented to listeners to keep them from doing like Demos; consequences were also clarified. The solution is to love the Lord more than one’s life and via prayer seek His help to accomplish that to the saving on you own soul. [Highlight points accompany this 55 minute sermon, for those who don’t have the time to listen.]

29 US States Have Confirmed Omicron Variant Cases, Most Among Vaccinated – Epoch Times

12 Dec 2021 Michael A

Ohio and Rhode Island on Saturday became the 28th and 29th states to report cases of the Omicron virus variant. Ohio officials said two cases were detected, both of which were among persons who were fully vaccinated more than six months ago. Rhode Island officials confirmed one case. The patient is fully vaccinated and recently returned from New York. …Officials disclosed the vaccination status of 66 of the infected individuals. Of those, the vast majority, or 52, were fully vaccinated. Some had even gotten booster shots.

Apple Gives $275 Billion to China – Epoch Times

12 Dec 2021 Michael A

Apple’s CEO Tim Cook, according to secret documents reportedly seen by The Information, inked a $275 billion giveaway in 2016 that explains the tech company’s success in China.

The Chinese market is no small part of Apple’s current approximately $3 trillion market capitalization. This makes it the world’s biggest company. So the Apple CEO could be incentivized to give away its technology and ignore human rights abuse to maximize his bonuses in the short term while not only selling out Apple shareholders, but American democracy to boot. Meanwhile, Apple is among other major American corporations—including Nike and Coca-Cola—lobbying Congress against the core provisions in a bill that just passed the House against the use of Uyghur forced labor in China. Uyghurs are working in factories that are in the supply chains of at least 82 well-known global brands in the technology, clothing and automotive sectors, including Apple, BMW….

DeSantis Proposes $8 Million in Budget to Relocate Illegal Immigrants to Delaware, Martha’s Vineyard – Epoch Times

12 Dec 2021 Michael A

DeSantis threatened to send illegal immigrants to Delaware back in November. He said his office is looking at legal avenues after his administration alleged that about 70 flights of illegal aliens were sent to Jacksonville, Florida, after being picked up by agents along the U.S.–Mexico border. “We’re going to get together and figure out what we can do in the immediate term to protect folks in Florida,” DeSantis told reporters, noting that his options are limited because the federal government controls the immigration policies and actions. But “if they’re not doing that,” DeSantis added, “then clearly the state should be able to come in and provide protection, and so that’s what we’re going to be looking to do.”

Murder-for-Organs Evidence Leads Coalition Director to Launch Not-From-China Pledge – Epoch Times

9 Dec 2021 Michael A

Though black-market organ trafficking does happen outside of China, Hughes says that state-sanctioned forced organ harvesting is an atrocity unique to the Chinese regime. “Atrocities that aren’t addressed worsen,” she said. “While the carrying out of these horrendous acts is most certainly a crime against the individuals who are killed and their families, it’s also an attack on the sanctity of human life, and a crime against all of humanity. “It is our responsibility as global citizens to do all that we can to stop it. Not only to fulfill our human duty to help others, but also so we don’t head towards a future where forced organ harvesting becomes normalized and spreads to other regions. A situation where certain citizens, good people who are deemed enemies of the state, are held captive as a commodity—nothing more than a ‘crop’ of body parts to be harvested.” [Couldn’t these very words describe the atrocity of abortion and the big-business of Planned Parenthood selling baby body parts? These people are globalist, I’m guessing that they are also leftist and pro-abortion; if so, then that is quite the blatant double-standard!]

California Leaders Plan to Make State Abortion ‘Sanctuary’ if Roe v. Wade Overturned – Epoch Times

9 Dec 2021 Michael A

Top officials in California are backing a plan to make the state a safe haven for women seeking abortions if the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade.
Planned Parenthood and some 40 other groups released dozens of recommendations for policymakers to consider adopting, including increasing funding for pro-abortion organizations, which help women getting the procedure with gas money, child care, and other potential obstacles; repaying loans for healthcare workers who provide abortion; and opening up virtual counseling for women in other states who want to take abortion pills.

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