Hmmmm. I wonder if we should also think that way with the beggining of the bible; i.e. 6 day creation…..

1. I think that posting that on facebook is completely justifiable. Where do we get our word humble from. I believe its from the same place that we get the word humilitation. This was a great example of a prideful girl getting humiliated/humbled. I totally agree with this and will probably impliment this type of punishment to my children. Humiliation is a great and biblical punishment

2. A gun is totally exeptable. Except it would have been more effective if he would have the computer opened up and on face book. He also could have used a shotgun

3. My kids will get spanked…………. and I don’t want to ever hesitate to do it in public.

…On a more serious note, what about investing the 3 million and having the dividends pay out to an organization or church?? Is that ethical? Biblical?

1. I would hope that $2 million would go to the church and $1 million would go to my immediate family. Most likely though, 90% would go to Glen my Hampster. I just could not enjoy heaven without knowing his favorite movie ‘Ratatouille’ would be playing continuousl on his 70′ inch plasma and his 1100 square foor cage would be lined with fine woven silk from the Middle East. I mean come on…. Do you think I would be a good pet owner if I let him drag his ass on anything else??? I don’t think so.

2. The first thing that comes to mind for me is eating out. I am very lazy when it comes to making food or going grocery shopping so most of the time, I am eating out. I am wasting a lot of money this way and it would be good for me to change this.

My generation has never had to fight for anything. We are given so much whether it be federal grants that we don’t have to pay back to go to school or a car from our parents right when we turn 16. We don’t see these things as gifts but as things that we “deserve”.

We are at a time in history that, if I chose to, I wouldn’t have to work at all and yet would still be provided above and beyond my basic necesities for survival. Whether that be through government institutions our the average person coming out of a Mcdonalds who feels sorry for me because Im sitting on a corner with a sign that says, “hungry”.

2. I had to look up the word secularism. : )
I do feel that this plays a role in our “entitlement” mentality. Whenever you stray from biblical mandates and instructions, there are always consequences and this may be one of them. To be honest, I still am a little fuzy on the correct definition of the word.

I put the blame on the breaking down of the family. From personal experience, I just feel parents are not teaching their kids the values and disclipines that are needed to run a healthy society. 95% of kids these days, including me, are all spoiled. Like I said before, we don’t have to work for anything. So why would it be any different when we go out into the real world? I never had to pay my parents back for the car they gave me, so why should I have to pay back the government for my college? I deserved getting an education just as much as I deserved that car.

I think the real question is, what has happened to that family that the parents are no longer teaching there kids this. This is putting a lot of blame on the parents but I don’t think its right to blame our society or government. Our Society is a result of how the family runs, not the other way around.

And maybe this is due do the rise in secularism within the family. Parents have stopped taking advice on how to raise their children from the bible and started to take it from Phychiatrists.

I have also wondered why it wasn’t hammered into me as a kid in sunday school to Obey your PARENTS!!!! Lets stop spending every sunday on Jesus’s Love for us and start spending some time on our responsibilities as children.

3. I am trying more and more to express my thanks daily. As Bill Mills so wonderfully put it, every breath is a gift from God. So just to meditate on His sovereignty through out my day and realize that every situation I am in, whether it be a fun one, awkard, saddening, convicting, tempting, whether I am eating or driving or going to the bathroom, is a gift from our merciful God. All this He is working out for His good.

Blessed be the Lord God, The god of israel, Who only does wonderous things!
-Psalms 72:18

Those were some great quotes from our founding fathers. It awesome to be able to read those quotes and get a picture of the heart and passion they had for God. Very inspiring and convicting on why I don’t write like that.

Your friends tradition is really cool. If the Lord blesses me with a family of my own, I will definitly do something like that.

1. I do feel that we as a country are less thankful. I feel a major reason for this is due to our reaction of all the blessings that have come from this nations past. Here in America, we are never “in need” of anything material. We live and eat like Kings of the past.