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Reading List: Oil and Gas Prices Spike, Chicago Crime, Security Training and Test, Biden’s Orwellian Tax Surveillance Policy

Stay home, harvest some more firewood.

Oil and Gas Prices Spike to Highest Level in 7 Years, America Now Paying an Extra $400M Per Day at the Pump – Biden Policies Undermine US Oil Supplies http://www1.cbn.com/cbnnews/us/2021/october/oil-and-gas-prices-spike-to-highest-level-in-7-years-america-now-paying-an-extra-400m-per-day-at-the-pump

Dan Crenshaw on energy prices and green new deal policies, “Translation: “we don’t care if you can’t afford to heat your home this winter. If you’re not heating your home with unreliable renewables, you don’t deserve heat at all.” This is what happens to your brain when you treat wind and solar like pagan gods.”

Translation: “we don’t care if you can’t afford to heat your home this winter. If you’re not heating your home with unreliable renewables, you don’t deserve heat at all.”

This is what happens to your brain when you treat wind and solar like pagan gods. https://t.co/CKnTP9vQIX
— Dan Crenshaw (@DanCrenshawTX) October 12, 2021

Train!
“So in the lowest parts of the space behind the wall, in open places, I stationed the people by their clans, with their swords, their spears, and their bows.” Nehemiah 4:13 ESV https://bible.com/bible/59/neh.4.13.ESV

RonPaulLibertyReport
You Thought Chicago Was Bad? Wait Till This Weekend!
“The head of the Chicago police officers union has advised Chicago Police Department officers to refuse to disclose their vax status to city officials, as they face a Friday deadline to disclose or be fired. He warns that this weekend may see 50 percent fewer cops. With Chicago already a killing zone, what will happen with only half the cops? Also today – creating doctor shortages, the virus religion, and a good news story from the rock music world.” https://youtu.be/ZQlyq9jtS3A

Warrior Poet Society
HOW to take OUR country back
“Today, John Lovell talks about tyranny and what we all must do to resist it.” https://youtu.be/7hmSIC7CnX8

Colion Noir
Armed Citizen Shoots at 2 People Breaking Into Car At Buckhead Shopping Plaza, Killing One “The only things criminals are afraid of in this world are cops and armed citizens. Does anyone want to take a guess what these two types of people have in common? They both have guns. This is why the second amendment is so freaking important.” https://youtu.be/LxeGOXpccXE

Warrior Poet Society
Take my Security Test
“How safe are you? How safe is your home? How safe is your Family? Take John’s security test to find the gaps in your personal security, travel, and home security areas.” https://youtu.be/ajKnXDt3qbE

T.REX ARMS
The 5 Best Mapping Tools
“Thanks to smartphones and Google maps, we’re all navigation experts now. But what are the best tools to use offline? Paper maps, dedicated GPS devices, tablets, or something else?” https://youtu.be/rkouDgxnj1Y

T.REX ARMS
An Introduction to Radios and Emergency Communication

T.REX TALK – Rifle Loadouts Under $3,000
Lucas talks about various rifle upgrades and loadouts.

“He said, “These will be the ways of the king who will reign over you: he will take your sons… He will take your daughters … He will take the best of your fields and vineyards and olive orchards… He will take the tenth of your grain and of your vineyards … He will take your male servants and female servants and the best of your young men and your donkeys… He will take the tenth of your flocks, and you shall be his slaves. And in that day you will cry out because of your king, whom you have chosen for yourselves, but the Lord will not answer you in that day.””
‭‭1 Samuel‬ ‭8:11-18‬ ‭ESV‬‬
https://bible.com/bible/59/1sa.8.11-18.ESV

The Perfect Police State: An Undercover Odyssey into China’s Terrifying Surveillance Dystopia of the Future by Geoffrey Cain

“I had come with the intention of discovering how China had built the most sophisticated surveillance apparatus humanity had ever seen. I thought I could get a glimpse of how artificial intelligence and China’s vast camera surveillance network operated, maybe through the occasional comment from a local, or through run-ins with the police that I could then use for my reporting. Instead, I felt overwhelmingly that the state was reporting on me.”
The Perfect Police State: An Undercover Odyssey into China’s Terrifying Surveillance Dystopia of the Future by Geoffrey Cain https://a.co/cT9Z3B7

Biden Administration Buying Chinese-Made Drones ‘Harmful to National Security:’ Former Intel Director
“The Department of Defense said on July 23 that DJI systems ‘pose potential threats to national security.’” https://link.theepochtimes.com/mkt_app/biden-administration-buying-chinese-made-drones-harmful-to-national-security-former-intel-director_4042873.html

“The Biden Administration just bought military equipment from China, reports @DLoesch. Plus, the CCP just created an island in international waters. She talks with @YatesComms about all that, and more!” https://twitter.com/thefirstontv/status/1447713862527094789?s=21

Preparing to seize bank accounts for a bail-in and Federal Authoritarianism?

Biden’s $600 IRS Taxpayer Reporting Proposal ‘Massive Invasion of Financial Privacy’: Bank Association Exec
https://link.theepochtimes.com/mkt_app/bidens-600-irs-taxpayer-reporting-proposal-massive-invasion-of-financial-privacy-bank-association-exec_4040433.html

Biden’s Orwellian Tax Surveillance Policy
“We are witnessing a real-time demonstration of the way a failing political order can lead to the imposition of Orwellian surveillance out of last-gasp desperation. That’s the only honest way to assess the Biden administration’s almost unspeakably bad proposal to require that all U.S. banks report data to the Internal Revenue Service about any account with more than $600 in annual deposits and withdrawals.” https://www.coindesk.com/policy/2021/10/13/bidens-orwellian-tax-surveillance-policy/?outputType=amp&__twitter_impression=true

‘Authoritarianism’: Federal Judge Condemns DC Jail Officials for ‘Deliberate Mistreatment’ of Jan. 6 Rioters http://www1.cbn.com/cbnnews/us/2021/october/authoritarianism-federal-judge-condemns-dc-jail-officials-for-deliberate-mistreatment-of-jan-6-rioters

Household Prayer: Knowing God

To know God

“For what higher, more exalted, and more compelling goal can there be than to know God?”
J. I. Packer, Knowing God

Brothers, I am praying today that we would know God more, and that we would find joy in making Him known to our children. I pray that by making family worship and Bible study a priority in our homes their hearts would rejoice in knowing Him.

“And this is eternal life, that they know you, the only true God, and Jesus Christ whom you have sent.”
John 17:3 ESV https://bible.com/bible/59/jhn.17.3.ESV

““You shall therefore lay up these words of mine in your heart and in your soul, and you shall bind them as a sign on your hand, and they shall be as frontlets between your eyes. You shall teach them to your children, talking of them when you are sitting in your house, and when you are walking by the way, and when you lie down, and when you rise.”
Deuteronomy 11:18-19 ESV https://bible.com/bible/59/deu.11.18-19.ESV

“Thus says the Lord: “Let not the wise man boast in his wisdom, let not the mighty man boast in his might, let not the rich man boast in his riches, but let him who boasts boast in this, that he understands and knows me, that I am the Lord who practices steadfast love, justice, and righteousness in the earth. For in these things I delight, declares the Lord.””
Jeremiah 9:23-24 ESV https://bible.com/bible/59/jer.9.23-24.ESV

Reading List: Dissent, Parental Rights, Train Rifle Reloads, Dystopia

Children do not belong to the state!

CRIMINALIZING DISSENT “Darrell Castle raises the question of who has the right to decide what goes into the heads and arms of your children. Phrased differently, who owns your children?” https://www.castlereport.us/criminalizing-dissent/

“Replacing parental control with government control of education (and other aspects of child raising) has been a goal of authoritarians since Plato. After all, it is much easier to ensure obedience if someone has been raised to think of the government as the source of all wisdom and truth, as well as the provider of all of life’s necessities.” http://ronpaulinstitute.org/archives/featured-articles/2021/october/04/parents-should-control-education/

Have you harvested firewood for the winter?

Energy Crisis May Trigger Winter Blackouts Across US: Coal Firm CEO https://link.theepochtimes.com/mkt_app/energy-crisis-may-trigger-winter-blackouts-across-us-coal-firm-ceo_4039344.html

Misinformation ignored by the thought police?

“New York Times Pens Major Correction After Overstating Child COVID-19 Hospitalizations… by over 800,000 cases” https://link.theepochtimes.com/mkt_app/new-york-times-pens-major-correction-after-overstating-child-covid-19-hospitalizations_4039143.html

“But Peter said to him, “May your silver perish with you, because you thought you could obtain the gift of God with money!” Acts 8:20 ESV https://bible.com/bible/59/act.8.20.ESV

Big Tech for the Police State

‘The Perfect Police State’: China’s Digital Dictatorship Goes Global https://www1.cbn.com/cbnnews/world/2021/october/the-perfect-police-state-chinas-digital-dictatorship-goes-global

“Since 2017, an estimated 1.8 million Uyghurs, Kazakhs, and people from other primarily Muslim minorities have been accused by the government of harboring “ideological viruses” and “terrorist thoughts,” and taken away to hundreds of concentration camps.”— The Perfect Police State: An Undercover Odyssey into China’s Terrifying Surveillance Dystopia of the Future by Geoffrey Cain https://a.co/fPKOaLr

“… each place you go you scan your ID card at the entrance, in front of armed guards. After you scan it, a display next to the scanner shows the word “trustworthy,” meaning the government has declared you a good citizen, and you’ll be permitted entry.”— The Perfect Police State: An Undercover Odyssey into China’s Terrifying Surveillance Dystopia of the Future by Geoffrey Cain https://a.co/esBPyA0

“When Abram heard that his relative had been taken captive, he assembled his 318 trained men, born in his household, and went in pursuit as far as Dan.” Genesis‬ ‭14:14‬ ‭CSB‬‬

Warrior Poet Society “Today, John talks about the real worth of a man.” https://youtu.be/yMZZT0_rI14

T.REX ARMS “How To Train Rifle Reloads – Stop Doing 1R1s” https://youtu.be/xSleniGt5lU

Colion Noir “California Says LAPD New Service Pistol Safe For Police But Not For Civilians…California gun laws are designed to punish gun owners and not keep them safe, and here is yet another example.” https://youtu .be/xtMU0VlXpjE

New FBI Study Finds Knives Kill 2X More Than Rifles & Shotguns Combined https://youtu.be/ovz_Fb3dk7Q

Reminder: Tyranny always makes everything political. That’s how a tyrant can take control of all aspects of life… God made humans before the state and politics. God made humans in His image. This has huge implications that should not be overlooked. https://ministry.family.blog/2021/08/01/tyranny-politics-and-the-pre-political/

Money, in Matthew 22 a denarius (Matt. 22:21), has the states “likeness.” Therefore, we pay our taxes to the state. Our money is political (not to be confused with labor!).

But our children and we ourselves have God’s “likeness” (Gen. 1:26), therefore we belong to God. We are pre-political. https://ministry.family.blog/2021/08/01/tyranny-politics-and-the-pre-political/

Household Prayer: community, love one another

“Beloved, if God so loved us, we also ought to love one another.”
1 John‬ ‭4:11‬ ‭ESV‬‬ https://bible.com/bible/59/1jn.4.11.ESV

Brothers, today I’m praying for the community. Praying that we love and serve one another in the grace and mercy of God because He first loved us. Every family in our CC community will have joys and challenges and I pray we love and serve one another and rejoice and morn with one another. Finally, I pray that our love for one another in our community would bear witness to the love of God in the larger community.

“In this the love of God was made manifest among us, that God sent his only Son into the world, so that we might live through him. In this is love, not that we have loved God but that he loved us and sent his Son to be the propitiation for our sins. Beloved, if God so loved us, we also ought to love one another. No one has ever seen God; if we love one another, God abides in us and his love is perfected in us…
We love because he first loved us…
And this commandment we have from him: whoever loves God must also love his brother.”
‭1 John‬ ‭4:9-12, 19, 21‬ ‭ESV‬‬ https://bible.com/bible/59/1jn.4.9-21.ESV

“Let us hold fast the confession of our hope without wavering, for he who promised is faithful. And let us consider how to stir up one another to love and good works, not neglecting to meet together, as is the habit of some, but encouraging one another, and all the more as you see the Day drawing near.”
Hebrews‬ ‭10:23-25‬ ‭ESV‬‬ https://bible.com/bible/59/heb.10.23-24.ESV

Household Prayer: faith to upend the world

“And when they could not find them, they dragged Jason and some of the brothers before the city authorities, shouting, “These men who have turned the world upside down have come here also,”
Acts 17:6 ESV https://bible.com/bible/59/act.17.6.ESV

Praying that we embrace “[our] responsibility to raise up the next generation to know Christ and His world… steeping them in the truth, goodness, and beauty of Christ and His ways… training them to believe and obey the King of the world.” (1)

I pray that we and our children would “follow Jesus at all times and in all places… in marriage, vocation, education, military service, recreation, financial exchanges, and political decisions.” (1)

And I pray that our faith would be so strong that like Paul and the other Apostles people would say “These men.. have turned the world upside down” (Acts 17:6 ) and that our witness would “shutdown the very industry of idol making (Acts 19:27).” (1)

““Now this is the commandment—the statutes and the rules—that the Lord your God commanded me to teach you, that you may do them in the land to which you are going over, to possess it … You shall teach them diligently to your children, and shall talk of them when you sit in your house, and when you walk by the way, and when you lie down, and when you rise.”
Deuteronomy 6:1, 7 ESV https://bible.com/bible/59/deu.6.1-7.ESV

“The earth is the Lord’s and the fullness thereof, the world and those who dwell therein,”
Psalm 24:1 ESV https://bible.com/bible/59/psa.24.1.ESV

“And Jesus came and said to them, “All authority in heaven and on earth has been given to me.”
Matthew 28:18 ESV https://bible.com/bible/59/mat.28.18.ESV

“Your kingdom come, your will be done, on earth as it is in heaven.”
Matthew 6:10 ESV https://bible.com/bible/59/mat.6.10.ESV

1. “Strong and Courageous: following Jesus amid the rise of America’s new religion” https://press.founders.org/shop/strong-and-courageous/

Household Prayer: work

Brothers, today I’m praying that God would establish the work of our hands. Wether our vocation, day job, the work in the home, or the work of educating and instructing our children. Whatever we do, may we “work heartily, as for the Lord and not for men,”

“Whatever you do, work heartily, as for the Lord and not for men,”
Colossians 3:23 ESV https://bible.com/bible/59/col.3.23.ESV

Creation mandate, cultural mandate, or dominion mandate: Genesis 1:26-28

The Lord God took the man and put him in the garden of Eden to work it and keep it.”
‭‭Genesis‬ ‭2:15‬ ‭ESV‬‬
https://bible.com/bible/59/gen.2.15.ESV

“I perceived that there is nothing better for them than to be joyful and to do good as long as they live; also that everyone should eat and drink and take pleasure in all his toil—this is God’s gift to man.”
‭‭Ecclesiastes‬ ‭3:12-13‬ ‭ESV‬‬
https://bible.com/bible/59/ecc.3.12-13.ESV

“Build houses and live in them; plant gardens and eat their produce. Take wives and have sons and daughters; take wives for your sons, and give your daughters in marriage, that they may bear sons and daughters; multiply there, and do not decrease.”
‭‭Jeremiah‬ ‭29:5-6‬ ‭ESV‬‬
https://bible.com/bible/59/jer.29.5-6.ESV

““Who then is the faithful and wise servant, whom his master has set over his household, to give them their food at the proper time? Blessed is that servant whom his master will find so doing when he comes.”
‭‭Matthew‬ ‭24:45-46‬ ‭ESV‬‬
https://bible.com/bible/59/mat.24.45-46.ESV

“Entwined in our natures as image-bearers of God, we have an integrated directive as vice-regents over God’s creation… God created the heavens and the earth and granted humans the privilege of work to order those raw materials and subsequent derivatives in a way that glorifies and honors him (1 Corinthians 10:31). We were not meant to sit idly and waste time, space, or resources. God intended for us to work and manage the assets he created—and it glorifies him when we do it well…
Creation Mandate: Why we work, how God’s labor directive permeates human culture, and the implications in your own life
https://answersingenesis.org/genesis/creation-mandate /

Household Prayer: eternal focus

Brothers, today I’m praying that we would be living for eternity and that our children would come to know that they are eternal souls. I pray that we can represent God and His eternal Kingdom well and that they would be more esteemed than the things of this temporary world.

“For what does it profit a man to gain the whole world and forfeit his soul?”
Mark‬ ‭8:34-38‬ ‭ESV‬‬ https://bible.com/bible/59/mrk.8.34-38.ESV

“Come, O children, listen to me; I will teach you the fear of the Lord.”
Psalm 34:11 ESV https://www.bible.com/59/psa.34.11.esv

Fear God

“He is an awesome God. He dwells in unapproachable light (1 Timothy 6:16). He is a consuming fire (Hebrews 12:29). He makes mountains smoke (Psalm 104:32). He makes the waters divide. He created man from the dust. He gives life and breath to every living thing. And He has condescended to speak to us. If we do not fear God, then we cannot raise a generation to fear Him.”
Strong and Courageous: following Jesus amid the rise of America’s new religion https://press.founders.org/shop/strong-and-courageous/

Household prayer: providence and the work of our hands

Brothers, I’m praying our children will see God’s hand, His work and His power, in history. And I pray they will see their part in His story. Bless the work of our hands, Lord, to educate and instruct our children in the knowledge of God!

“Let your work be shown to your servants, and your glorious power to their children.

Let the favor of the Lord our God be upon us, and establish the work of our hands upon us; yes, establish the work of our hands!”
Psalm‬ ‭90:16-17‬ ‭ESV‬‬ https://bible.com/bible/59/psa.90.16-17.ESV

“For the Lord is a great God, and a great King above all gods. In his hand are the depths of the earth; the heights of the mountains are his also. The sea is his, for he made it, and his hands formed the dry land. Oh come, let us worship and bow down; let us kneel before the Lord, our Maker!”
‭Psalm‬ ‭95:3-6‬ ‭ESV‬‬ https://bible.com/bible/59/psa.95.3-6.ESV

Household Prayer: image bearers on earth

This week I just want to share the prayer I shared at the foundations/essentials parents meeting.

“And Jesus said to them, “Whose likeness and inscription is this?” They said, “Caesar’s.” Then he said to them, “Therefore render to Caesar the things that are Caesar’s, and to God the things that are God’s.”” Matthew 22:20-21 ESV

“Then God said, “Let us make man in our image, after our likeness. And let them have dominion over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the heavens and over the livestock and over all the earth and over every creeping thing that creeps on the earth.” So God created man in his own image, in the image of God he created him; male and female he created them.” Genesis 1:26-27 ESV

“but Jesus said, “Let the little children come to me and do not hinder them, for to such belongs the kingdom of heaven.”” Matthew 19:14 ESV

“Your kingdom come, your will be done, on earth as it is in heaven.” Matthew 6:10 ESV

Heavenly Father, thank you that we are yours, that we have your likeness and image upon us. Thank you that our children bear your image, your inscription.

And thank you Lord that if we place our faith and trust in your Son we are forgiven and sealed with the Holy Spirit.

Holy Spirit lead us in your truth. Help us with our faith and obedience as we seek to do your will here on earth as it is in heaven.

Heavenly Father bless our community, help us live in obedience and display love, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, and self-control.

Help us as we instruct and educate our children to know you, and help us equip our children to make you known in this world. Thank you, Lord, that our children belong to you.

For your glory God because you first loved us. In Jesus Christ’s name I pray – Amen

“Some things – educating the young, caring for the old or ill – might be just too precious to leave to the care of impersonal institutions. Other things might be just too risky to fully outsource – things like food security and sources of income are moving closer to home…

exercising dominion, as in the dominion the first household was given, and as Tom Bombadil, in The Lord of the Rings, lives it out in Middle Earth. Now, I know what you’re thinking – domination is bad. But the word dominion shares a common root with the Latin word for home, domus, from which we get the word domesticity. Tom Bombadil’s dominion is not over other people but over his own home domain.”
“Households Are Back” By C. R. Wiley https://www.plough.com/en/topics/life/work/households-are-back

Household Prayer: hopefully optimistic!

Hopefully optimistic!

Brothers, I pray for an attitude that is hopefully optimistic. I pray we can be hopefully optimistic as we are doing the hard work of building Godly households and raising the next generation in the instruction and admonition of the Lord. No matter what the spiritual condition of the culture around us, we are praying and working in faith and obedience to bring God’s will to earth as it is in heaven. Carrying out our ambassador and witness responsibilities. Not because we have to, but because we get to thanks to the mercy and grace of our savior!

“Pray then like this: “Our Father in heaven, hallowed be your name. Your kingdom come, your will be done, on earth as it is in heaven. Give us this day our daily bread, and forgive us our debts, as we also have forgiven our debtors. And lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil.”
Matthew 6:9-13 ESV https://bible.com/bible/59/mat.6.9-13.ESV

“The more we make reading the Bible a part of our daily routine, the more we desire and appreciate it:”
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“Daniel obeyed God’s laws, not the pagan laws. And through Daniel’s love, faith, and obedience to God, he thrived in an ungodly land.”

“Those who stand steadfastly on the historic principles of the Christian faith will eventually be called extremists by the ones blown about by the winds of cultural change”
https://founders.org/2021/07/22/pleasing-christ-in-uncertain-days/

“… if the Bible calls it a sin, it’s a sin. Don’t try to nuance the Bible into oblivion. Open the Book and let it speak! Be so fanatical that you take this Book for what it says and how it says it. Be a Bible man or Bible woman. It’s okay to be a weird young earther. Moses was. Paul was. Jesus is. I’m content siding with them. If it’s the “simple-minded” who’re willing to believe what the Bible says, count me among them. I’ll make my home with the pig farmers over the professors. Count me among the cultural exiles rather than the capitulating elites…

The foulest sinner in your town or in your home or God forbid, on your deacon board, is no match for the power of God in the gospel. Preach the gospel to the self-righteous, the down and out, the poor, the rich, the affluent, and the illiterate. And trust that it is the power of God for salvation for all who believe. No breathing sinner is beyond the reach of God. So, be a gospel radical…

2 Corinthians 5:10 reminds us that we won’t stand before earthly kings or presidents or networks one day. No. It will be the King of kings Himself. The Lord Jesus Christ. Will we be found faithful? Will we be found loyal? …

Your aim is to please Christ. Your goal, your desire, your ambition is to please the King for the glory of His Name. Carry that motto to the guillotine.”

Pleasing Christ in Uncertain Days https://founders.org/2021/07/22/pleasing-christ-in-uncertain-days/