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Since the beginning of time there have been long-lasting successful, happy, fulfilling marriages. Without a single “expert man has figured out how to harmoniously exist with their married partner. But along came marriage counselors to fix a problem that didn’t exist. We have come to rely on “experts” to tell us self-evident truths that we can discover through knowledge, experience, wisdom, and common sense. Love is an emptying of ourselves and filling it with God and his love for us, an unconditional love that puts the needs, cares, concerns, and happiness of others over ours. It is the emptying of the needs and wants within us and replacing them with the needs and wants of others. In ...

Every year millions of students are educated through our public school system. School is mandatory for both the educators and the students. Our government requires that all children shall receive an education. As more families have come to rely on dual incomes and single parent families become more common, we have seen changes in how both parents and students view the educational process. A lack of discipline and respect on the part of students has placed an increasing burden on our teachers. Teachers are faced with a lack of support on the part of parents and administrators. Parents have become more reliant on teachers, counselors, and administrators to provide solutions to social a ...

Our nation was founded on the principles of individual freedoms, personal responsibility, and a limited and defined central government. Our Declaration of Independence stated that it was our Creator that endowed us with unalienable rights, among those, life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. That all men are created equal. That is was the purpose of a central government to secure those unalienable rights. Our nation has changed a lot and not for the better. We have come a long way since the Revolutionary War and we seemed to have come full circle. The very tyranny and usurpation of citizens that punctuated life under British rule has revisited us. Patrick Henry said, “Why stand ...

Do you remember the times when you were sitting by the campfire peering into the pitch black night knowing not what or who is lurking behind the bushes, in the trees, or slithering on the ground? At that very moment dad decides it is time for a skin crawling, heart pounding, stomach churning bedtime story. What manner of person, what kind of depraved mind would entertain the thought of spinning a sleep depriving tale? As if a moth drawn by light, you cannot listen but you cannot keep from listening. Fantasy becomes reality; fiction becomes truth; and calm becomes terror. Your mind hangs on every word; the landscape unfolds before your eyes; characters and villains, friend and foe ...

Too many people, far too often dream and have goals but never take the steps necessary to realize those dreams. Life is meant to be lived. Dreams are meant to be fulfilled. There is an old expression, “Better to have loved and lost, than never loved at all.” To paraphrase that quote, “Better to have followed your dreams and have them unfulfilled, than to have never dreamed and pursued those dreams at all. Each of us has that desire to pass on what we have learned, to share stories, to entertain, to console with comforting words, to inspire, and to motivate. Books and all written materials allow us to reach a larger audience, to have a greater impact, and to expand our influence. So, ...

Socialism is any of various theories or systems of social organization in which the means of producing and distributing goods is owned collectively or by a centralized government that often plans and controls the economy and people for the “greater good.” Prior to the Declaration of Independence, we were ruled by a monarchy in England, a king, an absolute sovereign, a single person. Our Republic is a government of, by, and for the people founded on the principles of individual liberties and personal responsibility. The only reason for the existence of government was to preserve, protect, and defend those unalienable rights. And that government would have limited and defined powers as ...

A nation, like our body, is a living, breathing organism, no less subject to illness and deadly diseases. Just as our bodies have markers that tell us if we are healthy, so too does our nation. The most basic and most important pillar that determines whether our national structure is firm and can withstand any obstacle or trial is the moral tenets that guide its people. And none has been more effective in maintaining the direction and stability ensures generations of thoughtful, caring, responsible, productive people than the Bible and our Christian faith and a nuclear family consisting of a biological mother and father united in holy matrimony The cancer of socialism and secularism ...

Many businesses fail today, not because of poor financing, outdated technology, or lack of qualified employees. They fail because they lack the very basic elements that are characteristic or all successful businesses. They have become reliant on high priced consultants, to advise them on a course of action and to make their companies profitable, without looking internally for the answers that are already there. Businesses look to technology as the answer for many or all or their financial shortcomings. Staffing is reduced, as a short-term solution to their long-term problems. Rather than increasing revenues through aggressive and creative sales programs, they opt for the short-sighted ...

The greatest threat to any world power or dominant civilization is not external, it is internal. Some of the most advanced nations were conquered not through a superior military force but through a gradual but steady erosion of the core values and beliefs that made those nations great. They have become unwitting victims of their own success. Every individual, every structure, every nation must be built on a firm foundation. If a building is built on loose shifting soil it will not stand the test of time. Water and wind will undermine the structure and it will, in time, certainly fall. We as individuals must be firmly rooted in a moral and spiritual foundation if we are to withstand t ...

Slavery has existed in the past in and exists today in virtually every part of the world. Servitude can be either voluntary or involuntary. Dictators and tyrants can impose their will against the will of the people. Some people choose servitude because it brings a sense of comfort, certainty, and stability. It is the ability to acquire and retain property that enables people to attain and maintain independence in the career they chose, where they live, the number of children they can nurture and support, the type and size of the home they can afford, the car they drive, the food they eat, and the clothes they wear. It also ensures their ability to accumulate savings, enabling them to p ...