“We need leaders who themselves love the country and the freedoms of this country more than they love themselves and their own careers or reputations or ‘legacies’.”~ Eric Metaxas
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Above Rubies Daily Encouragement Blogs
Through the weekly and daily devotionals you can be constantly encouraged in your great role of parenting, the highest career in the nation. You can also stay updated on what's happening with the Above Rubies ministry.
“We need leaders who themselves love the country and the freedoms of this country more than they love themselves and their own careers or reputations or ‘legacies’.”
“Our country is in danger, but do not despair. The fortunes of America depend on you. You are to decide the important questions upon which rests the happiness and the liberty of millions yet unborn. Act worthy of yourselves.”~ Dr. Joseph Warren (1741-1775).
It's time for this generation to speak up and pray up!
2 Chronicles 7:14
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"I sought for the greatness and genius of America in her commodious harbors and her ample rivers . . . and it was not there . . . in her fertile fields and boundless forest . . . and it was not there . . . in her rich mines and her vast world commerce . . . and it was not there . . . in her democratic Congress and her matchless Constitution . . . and it was not there. Not until I went into the churches of America and heard her pulpits FLAME WITH RIGHTEOUSNESS did I understand the secret of her genius and power. America is great because she is good, and if America ever ceases to be good, she will cease to be great."~ Democracy in America by Alexis De Tocqueville (about 1835 -1840)
May our pulpits FLAME WITH RIGHTEOUSNESS again!
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‘We have problems in this country, and many people are waiting on God to do something. I just wonder if maybe God isn’t waiting for us to do something. And while no one is capable of doing everything, everyone is capable of doing something.”~ President Ronald Reagen
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"Endurance is not just the ability to bear a hard thing, but to TURN IT INTO GLORY."~ William Barclay
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"Make no mistake. We as Bible-believing Christians are locked in a battle. This is not a friendly gentleman’s discussion. It is a life and death conflict between the spiritual hosts of wickedness and those who claim the name of Christ. It is a conflict between two fundamentally opposed views of truth and reality."~ Francis Schaeffer
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“Men are qualified for civil liberty in exact proportion to their disposition to put moral chains upon their own appetites . . . Society cannot exist, unless a controlling power be placed somewhere . . . It is ordained in the eternal constitution of things that men of intemperate minds cannot be free. Their passions forge their fetters.”~ Edmund Burke
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“The raising of children is indeed the most important foundational stone in determining the destiny of any society or nation.
A nation is only as strong as its foundations are strong.”
~ Colin Campbell
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“Children bring benedictions from heaven when they come, and while they stay they are perpetual benedictions.”
~ J. R. Miller (1840 – 1912).
Painting: “Walking with Dad” by Vickie Wade
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TELL HER SOAmid the cares of married strife,
In spite of toil and business life,
If you value your dear wife—
Tell her so!
When days are dark and deeply blue,
She has her troubles, same as you,
Show her that your love is true—
Tell her so!
Don’t act as if she’s past her prime,
As tho’ to please her were a crime,
If ever you loved her, now’s the time—
Tell her so!
She’ll return for each caress,
A hundred-fold of tenderness,
Hearts like hers were made to bless—
Tell her so!
You are hers and hers alone,
Well you know she’s all your own,
Don’t wait to carve it on a stone—
Tell her so!
Never let her heart grow cold,
Richer beauties will unfold,
She is worth her weight in gold—
Tell her so!
~ Unknown
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UNDEFEATED MEN is being launched by ARDEN ALLISON and CAL CALHOON. Here is their statement:
“We want to help men become physically, mentally, and spiritually fit. We want to inspire men to be honest, courageous, and committed. We want to continue to embrace life's difficulties while finding rest where we can. Our goal is to protect the weak while never relenting in our drive to do good. Just remember ~ A Good Man's Never Stuck!”
Today they are advertising their WHY PROTEIN, ESPECIALLY FORMATTED FOR MEN! It’s the best!
Check it out! Go to the site here: https://undefeatedmen.com/
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“Listen, I'm against sin. I'll kick it as long as I've got a foot, I'll fight it as long as I've got a fist, I'll butt it as long as I've got a head, and I'll bite it as long as I've got a tooth. And when I'm old, fistless, footless, and toothless, I'll gum it till I go home to glory and it goes home to perdition.”~ Billy Sunday
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"He knows not how to rule a kingdom, that cannot manage a province; nor can he wield a province, that cannot order a city; nor he order a city that knows not how to regulate a village. Nor he a village, that cannot guide a family; nor can that man govern well a family that knows not how to govern himself; neither can any govern himself unless reason be lord, will and appetite her vassal; nor can reason rule unless herself be ruled by God, and (wholly) obedient to him."~ Hugo Grotius
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“A nation of well-informed men who have been taught to know and prize the rights which God has given them CANNOT BE ENSLAVED. It is in the religion of ignorance that tyranny begins.”
~ Benjamin Franklin, Founding Father
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“Men, in a word, must necessarily be controlled, either by a power within them, or by a power without them; either by the word of God, or by the strong arm of man; either by the Bible, or by the bayonet.”~ Robert Winthrop (18th Speaker of the United States House of Representatives ).
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"If we abide by the principles taught in the Bible, our country will go on prospering; but if we and our posterity neglect its instruction and authority, no man can tell how suddenly a catastrophe may overwhelm us and bury all our glory in profound obscurity.”~ Daniel Webster (Served as the 14th and 19th U.S. Secretary of State).
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“We have staked the whole future of the American civilization, not upon the power of government, far from it. We have staked the future upon the capacity of each and all of us to govern ourselves, to sustain ourselves, according to the Ten Commandments of God.”~James Madison (architect of our federal constitution and 4th president of USA).
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“A wise and frugal government, which shall leave men free to regulate their own pursuits of industry and improvement, and shall not take from the mouth of labor bread it has earned – this is the sum of good government.”~ Thomas Jefferson
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“All the miseries and evils which men suffer from vice, crime, ambition, injustice, oppression, slavery and war, proceed from their despising or neglecting the precepts contained in the Bible.”~ Noah Webster
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