WHAT DOES CHRIST HAVE TO DO WITH THE MASS?

For those of you who are reformed, have you ever wondered about the word Christmas?  Why is the word Christ put with the word Mass?

Did you know that America did not originally celebrate Christmas?  Read the article linked below and see for yourself.

Boston outlaws Christmas

Curtis' travels and some thoughts to consider along with a beautiful video of God's creation in Beautiful BC

All that desire to live godly in Christ Jesus shall suffer persecution it says in the word of God.  So, if that is true, do you think those who do the persecution are going to regard it as persecution, or do they think of it as your just desert and that you have a martyrs complex?  Persecution, godly persecution, is suffering for Christ, for the truth.  Servetus was not persecuted.  He was executed for heresy.


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DIVERSITY AND UNITY

Vive la difference as the French would say.

I was sharing some thoughts on this with a fellow G+ r.  Here is what came out...The snow flakes, scientists say, all vary in size and shape.  There is not one the same.  The lesson in that, is that God has made his creation with variety, and there is most certainly a beauty in that!  So we also have been made unique.  Each of us has a unique stamp upon us.

Society is like snow flakes.  Together we can make a beautiful snow fall.  Any who have skied on fresh powder snow, know there is NOTHING like it.  When you fall its almost impossible to get hurt no matter how fast you are going, because the stuff you fall on is so fluffy that its like falling in a cloud...LOL.

Society can also be likened to a body.  Each part is unique.  Each organ has its own function.  Put the organs all together and you have an absolutely AMAZING creature.  What men and women can do with the human body is incredible.  Consider the gymnast...the professional soccer players...the martial arts experts...various sorts of labor from Africans carrying over 100 lbs of water on their heads to the powerful strength in rig hands on a drilling rig...and that's not even touching the subject of what our brains can do.  There are many fields in which the human brain being specialized in has achieved incredible things...such as the space station program...or medical milestones like surgeons preventing spina bifida in children yet in the womb by surgery.

From the snow flakes and the body we learn how society may thrive. Each of us has something to contribute.  And we will thrive the most when we allow each part to maximize its specialty or genius.  Einstein once said, if you teach a fish how to climb a tree, it will spend its whole life thinking it is a moron.  What we must do then, in society, in our educational institutes, is to find what exactly each individual is naturally gifted in.  If we perfect the art of discerning where each person's talent lies, and hone in on an education suited just for that particular person's gift, we will begin to see astronomical results in our societies.

I feel a need also to speak on unity.  Unity needs to be balanced with diversity.  In order to have unity, we need to strive for commonality, which appears to appose diversity.  What we need to do is to find balance between divergent aspects or subjects, and unity among those same divergent parts.  Sounds contradictory almost doesn't it?  Our task is to find the right balance in fostering each parts uniqueness, while at the same time finding as much commonality as is possible.  For example, in the case of a human body, all the different parts make up one human body.  Each part needs to be maximized in its unique abilities, and following Einstein's principle we must not teach the lungs to pump blood like the heart.  At the same time, we must balance this fact with the need to find commonality, since they are in the same body.  That is their unity.  The heart may pump blood to the lungs so the lungs can live and in turn the lungs will send oxygen to the heart so it also can live.

Auto immune disease works like satan and throws this all into a mess.  In auto immune diseases, body parts attack each other, and the body breaks down and even dies.  In society, bullies mock and oppress those parts that differ from them.  Bullies range in age, from kindergarten to Monsanto CEO aged men.  In the Church, satan prods Gods children to FOCUS on the differences, rather than what is the heart of the matter and which makes them one in Christ.  In society one talent or field is focused on, which most commonly it is a university education.  But so many in our day, are in vocations they hate, and that is in a large part due to their not using their own natural genius. A book smart person ends up in a trade and fumbles about anxiously with tools he is not meant to handle.  We all have a God given genius! In the Church, we need to learn to see each persons gift, and that is so often neglected.  We are too busy building our houses or our careers or our empire.  Or we have simply neglected the NEED to develop the body of Christ by making sure all parts are chipping in.  When God's people chip in, they feel satisfaction and have a sense of belonging....they feel as if they are apart of a family...apart of the body...that they matter...and have an impact...and not just an impact, but an important impact...and that is no simple motivational thing...its true...EACH PART OF THE BODY OF CHRIST HAS A VITAL PART TO PLAY!  AND THAT MY FRIENDS IS THE CHIEF PURPOSE I WROTE THIS BIT ON DIVERSITY AND UNITY.  Gods people all have unique gifts, but they also have an amazing truth to unite on, the word of God is full of truths.  The problem we face is that our 3 enemies work hard to keep us apart and divided.  Our sin hinders our vision.  To overcome this, understanding goes a LONG way!  The stronger brother may bear with the weaker brother to preserve unity, because he in compassion realizes the weak brother's vision is limited and he primarily needs love now, WHILE he grows with you.

Healthy Meals

Some common sense tips from

a simple bachelor

who aint no chef!

I eat simple. ...and I like it that way...so did John the baptist.  

This is hamburger fried right out of the freezer in a cast iron pan (don't use non stick or Aluminum).  Cook it to your preference...well done or rare or somewhere in between.  Its important to eat grass fed beef.  Stay away from supermarket hormone injected beef.  I fried up a whole onion in a cooper bottom pan using coconut oil, which is the best oil in my opinion.  Once the hamburger is done, I put Swiss cheese made from unpasteurized milk on the warm hamburger.  Then I put the fried onion right out of the pan on the whole pile.  I am not shy with sea salt.  Jesus himself said salt is for savor.  So salt it to your taste.  The cholesterol hype is only hype...but the key is to use sea salt, which is full of healthy minerals.  Another key ingredient I add is habanero pepper powder, which I make a powder in a  food processor using dried Habaneros.  It makes your sinus' drip and eyes water...depending on how much you shake on.  The more the better...Cayenne is a very beneficial food for your body!

I think a key to healthy eating is to follow Donald Cargill's advice.  A contemporary Scottish Minister told me he once said, "leave the table a little bit hungry.'  Think about it.  Moderation is good, and we know it.  Gluttony is not good and we all know that too.  And what do you know, good physicians like Dr. Mercola tout fasting.  Its good for your body to go without food in certain seasons.  

Eat according to your lifestyle.  If you are doing heavy physical work, or in the cold outdoors, you will need more energy and thus more food.  Your body will tell you what you need.  We all know when we eat too much....cuz we get fat and slow.  And if we eat too little, we lack energy. 

Internet Security Part II

The People are being HURT if we do not POLICE them.

If the internet is soooo major a part of our lives today and is a means from which perhaps most of  our business is done, then why is internet fraud so unchecked?  Why is internet fraud so rampant that when you file a fraud report of a distressed woman requesting help for funds to shelter her, that the police AUTOMATICALLY know its a fraud...or at least they know 99.99%  of such reports turn out to be fraud?

Follow my thoughts on this.  Martial law was practically declared on Ferguson over the Brown shooting.  That was a major show of power to keep the public safe!  How much money was lost in the riots in Ferguson?  Not long ago I saw a news report that Sony was shut down by hackers until certain demands were met.  How much do you think that cost?   I'm willing to wager the cost of Internet fraud, hacking, malaware...by FAAARRRR exceeds the damage from vandals in the nation!!!  How much power is being exercised to defend the people from internet fraud?

Add to this, the fact that Iran is not firing Russian nuclear missiles at the USA...which certainly implies an ability to control hackers.  In my former blog on internet security I made a case that it is a moral issue, not a technical one.  I would say, WE HAVE THE TECHNOLOGY to shut these crimes down!...but we aren't!  Why?  Is the damage selective?...and not representative of all parts of society?  Do we have examples of selective bullying? The IRS was used to target conservatives during this present Presidential administration.  Dietrich Bonhoeffer was a good man, and the world needs those men.  They need to be protected from IRS targeting, and internet targeting.

Internet Security

A Clean Internet PAYS to secure from…

Fraud, Hackers, con artists, virus vandals, malware, etc

1.     This problem is moral; not technical, first and foremost. Hackers are human.  They have a foot print!   They are NOT invisible ghosts.  We seem to have this notion they are though, and that we can’t do much about them.  Isn't that because we have been conditioned to accept them, when we really needn't? 

2.     LOGIC says that if the hackers and fraud artists can get to us online, we can get to them!  At the very least, we can shut them off from getting to us!

3.     Has anyone else tried to report Internet fraud to the police only to be told the criminals are in a country that is outside of their jurisdiction, and so our police are helpless to help us?

4.     Are Iranian hackers firing Russian nuclear missiles off at America?  So the needed technology is there.  It’s just not being implemented.  Why?  Is it a strategical problem?  …a technical problem?  Is it a moral problem?  Or is it a mix? These are questions we need to consider.  I believe it is primarily a moral problem.  Why is Monsanto getting away poisoning our globe?  And are there not scores of Monsanto’s in our democratic society?  William Bretton’s restoration of the NYPD in the 90’s, reveals the wisdom in a strategical analysis, too.  Teams of experts, professionals, authorities, ITs, etc. will need to consider optimization of tracking the hackers foot print.  Other possible offensive measures to consider would be things like, sending a friendly digital Tron or a good Trojan horse to the criminal’s computer.   If the hackers are abroad in another country, the team may need to consider the strategy of setting up shop in that country.  It may need to be a white-ops operation.  Militaries establish bases in other countries for the purpose of protecting our homeland.  Business is wise to use the same strategy.  The profits gained by a secure online market, will amply afford the costs associated in these endeavors.  The means of recouping that cost will simply need to be fine-tuned by the team(s).  Optimized tracking can also enable us to simply turn the hackers over to those in authority.  Optimizing the tracking of hackers is a key aspect in this and that will result from team work, out of the box thinking, but most importantly, by the power of God as we seek true justice.  The TEAM will need to look at how to close the various loop holes in the hacker ‘games’, as well.  

5.     One of the chief problems mankind faces is the ‘king of the castle’ attitude.  Tyranny brought on the Declaration of Independence.  Hackers are tyrant’s and must be met with the same response.

6.     Hackers, fraud artists, etc. are criminals who USE technology, even as Hitter USED guns.  The Allies did not shrink back in terror at Hitler’s tanks!  Neither did the Jews when Egypt, along with several more Arab nations, amassed troops on Israel’s borders in 1967…when Israel knocked out her enemies in the miraculous 6 day war.  Why should we run and hide from hackers, ‘HOPING’ these criminals won’t bully us?!?!  They are the ones who need to be made afraid!  The Allies did not put up with the Nazi’s laughing at them!  Why are we the people being left unprotected (on the web) then in the ‘free’ world?  Why is there not a well-known WEB911 number to call, when there should be? 

7.     If hackers and fraud artists and any and all internet piracy is adequately addressed by the business community, and justice is secured, prosperity will follow.  The cost to secure online security will more than pay for itself. The team of experts would analyze the mode of marketing this brand (internet security). It can and will be done, once we secure a team to start the ball rolling.  If this team does not stir the authorities to their duty in the process (which is the ideal, since it is their duty), the team will secure justice for the business and private world on the internet.  People, this really a simple problem.  Computers are just a tool, as guns are a tool.  Cabela’s sells guns, and they sell them in a safe manner.  Otherwise they could not do business!  They keep the guns BEHIND the counter, lock the guns, keep their eyes open, keep loaded 45 magnums underneath the counter, etc.  It’s the same with computers!  We are being sloppy somewhere along the line.   We just need to find and fix the holes…just as online marketing experts/coaches find the gaps in online marketing funnels.  In the very same fashion, this problem of internet security can and will be dealt with.  If 97% of online businesses fail, how much of that failure is due to piracy?  If the open seas are not seen as safe for commerce, how much economic damage are we really suffering? The cost has to be ASTRONOMICAL!  Securing the internet will open our markets up like we cannot believe!  It will give 10 fold prosperity…and more!  The ideas I have laid down here, are just a few examples of many, to show we have what it takes to deal with this problem.  The exact business plan will be put together by the team.  The sooner we assemble the team(s), the better for us all!  Businesses cannot exist without private individuals (customers)!  And those customers aren't likely to sail in seas that are left open to pirate ships.   How many million dollar companies have been prevented even from birth, by piracy curbing commerce in the open seas?  Private persons see the dangers in those seas…many of which were truly gifted to run million dollar companies and benefit society with their gifts and labors.  The damage is likely in the billions of dollars!!!  Our economies NEED us to address this problem URGENTLY!!!  This is a global threat, and the impact, I dare say, is greater than was Hitler’s threat to the world.  Isn't it TIME for the Allies to rise, and deal with hackers?!

CES
To God Be the Glory!

The book, MULTIPLIERS, CONFIRMS a KEY truth God has been pressing on my heart.

Essentially, people DO NOT thrive under oppression!  Bullying is not only in our schools!  Most of us know how serious of a problem bullying is in the schools.  In Mission, BC, a teenage girl committed suicide 10 or so years ago because of the crushing bullying she was subjected to.  I don't know how that makes you feel, but it makes me furious!  There is NO WAY that sort of thing should be allowed!  What?  Can't we adults handle the heat?  Can't we prevent this?  You know what?  My question is designed to stir those with power and authority up, and it will.  But it is also true, that we can't.  You know why?  Because we bully in society all the time.  Look at Monsanto and what that Nazi company is doing in the courts!  There are so many forms of Bullying going on in our society...that it is unbelievable!  And that is the bottom line reason why we have bullying going on in our schools.  

This book shows the POWER of people in authority have as they nurture those under their supervision!  People take off like rockets with loving and wise rule over them.  One powerful story  in the beginning of the book is about an Israeli tank commander.  The man performs with stellar performance when necessity demands, but when later placed under domineering and belittling command, he is unable to perform.  This is such and excellent and outstanding example found in the first chapter of the book.  You have to read or listen to it to really appreciate it...and the magnitude of the impact bullying and oppressive rule has upon people.

So the moral of the story is, that we recognize what makes us thrive, and I mean really thrive...and also to see what devastation we suffer under at present...EVEN IN DEMOCRATIC SOCIETY!  You know every veterans day we remember the war heros of WWII, and how they delivered us from Hitler.  But we need to realize, while we celebrate that, we do so while the very same oppression is being employed by those alongside us, or worse... even by ourselves!  We need to WISE UP PEOPLE!

The 10 commandments will prevent bullying.  The 10 commandments are a protective umbrella under which mankind will flourish.  And the Millennium is near...a time in which the 10 commandments will bless mankind all across this globe as nations realize the TREMENDOUS blessing to be had by doing things the way the Creator designed them to be done...even as putting premium grade oil in the engine vs sand, impacts our vehicles performance.

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