2011 May

2 winners of the Flexi Clip giveaway

Current giveaway: Grandpa Jake's Campfire Cooker

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May 4, 2011 By kimc

For this very fun drawing, we get to choose not one, but two winners!

First is Madrilee, who said:

Oh, boy is that a rough choice! There are so many beautiful ones! I have very thick hair that is terribly hard to manage now that I have cut it a little longer than shoulder length. So I think…aw, it’s so hard! But I think I would chose either this one or this one. But as soon as I go back to that page, I’m going to spot sixteen others that I would chose. Oh, you weren’t joking when you said ‘spend hours’………

Well, Madrilee, now you really do have to narrow it down to one. Unless you end up placing an order with your free gift…I’m sure Lilla Rose won’t mind!

Second is Cindy, who said:

I really like the Purple stone cluster, but they all are really lovely.

Purple sounds lovely!

Congratulations, ladies. Enjoy your free Flexi Clips, and stop back in to tell us how much you love them.

Thank you to everyone who entered the drawing and made it a success for the sponsor. Your enthusiasm makes it easier for me to offer giveaways, which increases the odds that each one of you will someday!

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The problems in modern education

Current giveaway: Grandpa Jake's Campfire Cooker

May 4, 2011 By kimc

ht: The Feast of Booths

Gkc16 The problems in modern education The basic cause of all the problems in modern education can be summarized in three words: Darwin, Marx, and Freud. The theories of these three men have pervaded all of modern thought. Their ideas are much alike in that they are narrow, materialistic, fatalistic, and utterly anti-Christian. Their influence has been felt far beyond their limited fields. Darwin’s ideas have contributed to a blind belief in progress…

Each of them took not so much a half-truth as a hundredth part of a truth, and then offered it not merely as something, but as everything. Having never done anything except split hairs, [each of them] hangs the whole world on a single hair [whether it be biology, economics, or psychology]. . . . It is yet another mark of this sort of agnostic that he is ready to assert his absolute knowledge of everything to the verge of a contradiction in terms. Just as he will always try to write a history of prehistoric man, so he will always struggle to be conscious of his own unconsciousness. . . . Just as it is the latest fad to prove that everything is sexual, so it was the last fad to prove that everything was economic. The Marxist notion, called the materialist theory of history, had the same sort of stupid self-confidence in its very insufficient materialism.

As the one fad conceives everything about the bird to be connected with mating, so the other conceived everything connected with it to consist of catching worms. . . . These fads fade very fast, and it may seem hardly worthwhile to prick bubbles that will burst of themselves. Nevertheless, there is one consideration that makes it worthwhile. It is a character of all these manias that they cannot really convince the mind, but they do cloud it. Above all, they do darken it. All these tremendous and rather temporary discoveries have had the singular fascination that they were not merely degrading, but were also depressing. Each in turn leaves no trace on the true and serious conclusions of the world. But each in turn may leave very deep and disastrous wounds and dislocations in the mentality of the individual man…

… instead of finding forgiveness for our sins, sins that we committed through our own fault, we get the most amazing psycho-babble, wrapped in the mantle of science, which explains that our sins are not sins, and whatever it was we did, it wasn’t our fault. It was our parent’s fault, or our teacher’s fault, or simply nature’s fault. The evil perpetuated by this sort of counseling is twofold: we become less responsible for our sinful actions even while we long for a forgiveness that never comes. It is the marriage of Freud and Darwin, of one pseudo-science to another.

~G.K. Chesterton

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Helping our Christian brethren

Current giveaway: Grandpa Jake's Campfire Cooker

May 3, 2011 By kimc

Recognizing that each family has different priorities, there are 3 fundraisers that we would like to tell you about today. Each is for a cause that, we think, seeks to glorify God and further His kingdom. Please consider giving to one or more and also passing the information via social media. We make it easy for you with social media buttons at the bottom, but if you click through, all 3 have buttons to allow you to share directly from their sites. Passing word along via your social network will help each of these different efforts to meet their goal!

Honor WWII Veterans

normandy Helping our Christian brethren

One of Vision Forum’s core principles is teaching people to obey the 5th commandment by honoring their parents. That is the driving force behind their upcoming Normandy project, A Final Farewell to WWII’s Last Living Heroes.

As of right now they are 67% funded. If they do not raise the entire amount by May 7, they lose all of it.

Bring Kasey home

From our online friends, the Earlywine family:

Our son Kasey, that we are adopting from an orphanage in Eastern Europe is turning 5 on Wednesday, May the 4th. Also, Sunday, May the 8th is Mother’s Day! So, in honor of both we are doing an on-line event to raise money to pay for our plane tickets to go get our son and our in country expenses. Our goal for this fundraiser is to raise $5000! Please consider helping us however you can and share this event with your family and friends!

PLEASE HELP US ENSURE THAT THIS WILL BE THE LAST BIRTHDAY OUR SON HAS TO SPEND ALONE WITHOUT A FAMILY IN AN ORPHANAGE!

Every dollar counts and gets us closer to bringing our son and one of his orphanage-mates home.
GO here to donate to our family sponsorship page: http://reecesrainbow.org/sponsorearleywine

Help Alabama families

Last but not least, the Lee, Crawford and Boyd families were devastated by the recent tornadoes which blew through the South Wednesday night. These are exemplary, faithful, Christian families who now even in their loss are responding with faith and confidence in the Lord. They need help. Currently, there are more than a hundred people physically assisting them on the ground. Now they need the funds to begin the process of rebuilding. In some cases, with only the clothes on their backs, they will be starting over and need cash for shoes, food, temporary housing, immediate medical bills and basic needs.

Tom Lee died heroically protecting his family as their home collapsed around them. In God’s Mercy his wife and thirteen children survived after many hours of being trapped under rubble. Daughters Tiffany and Emily are in the hospital and suffered potentially severe nerve damage. Their insurance does not cover these medical bills, their father is dead, and their home and possessions are gone.

The home of Aaron and Kelly Crawford (of generationcedar.com) and their nine children was completely destroyed by a tornado on Wednesday night taking all of there earthly possessions including all of their vehicles and all of Aaron’s construction tools which are his source of livelihood.

Gary and Jane Boyd and their nine children survived without injury but their home was severely damaged by trees falling on it. Their home was the rendezvous point for the Lee and Crawford families in the hours following the tornado since it was the only one left standing.

You can see videos of each family here. The Moore family is providing additional updates on relief efforts. The donation buttons below send your money DIRECTLY to the local church, Christ Church Branch Cove, and your gift is tax deductible.