Wednesday, July 11, 2018

Super Heroes: Beating Down Evil


     My cousin, Brayden and I like to dress up like Superheroes.  
We imagine we have super-powers, and we do lots of good deeds and help beat down evil and let good win. 


"In due season, we shall reap, if we do not lose heart." 
Galatians 6:9

I think this verse means that if we keep believing in God,
 and we don't give up (lose heart), 
will overcome 
anything in life.   

Our enemies may be nicer, 
our schoolwork
will come easy to us, and we will have friends. 

Our life won't be as Hard as it used to be,
 because we will grow close to Jesus by praying,

 listenting to music that praises Him, 
and reading more about the Bible. 

Friday, January 5, 2018

America's Treasure: Civil Rights (my report for school)

Source:  Buzz Feed News

     Civil Rights are equal rights for the civilians of America. 


 This is important! 

I am studying civil rights in my Social Studies Class right now. 


Civil Rights are for all races, and all the kinds of people who are alive in this country.  I am glad we have civil rights because they support people who have disabilities.  The meaning of the civil rights is found in our Constitution, in the statement, “All men are created equal.”  Everybody has the same rights in this country. 



       Discrimination used to be big in this country because we had slavery, and the poor black people got ripped from their homes in Africa to come here and work in this country.  People said blacks were 3/5ths human.  That angers me.  I have many black friends.  I hope that if I were living back in that time, I would help them escape from slavery. 

Source:  Buzz Feed News

     Rosa Parks was arrested for not giving up her bus seat to a white man in 1955 in Montgomery, Alabama.  Martin Luther King, Jr. led peaceful protests, and gave a speech that helped to make him famous.  President John F. Kennedy made discrimination against black people illegal in 1963.    But we still have discrimination in our country.  I see discrimination all the time in my life.  In Soccer, the Captains pick the best players first.  The worst players are left to be picked last.  Usually, the worst soccer players get put in a place where they barely play at all.  Lots of places discriminate against people because they are different, even though it is illegal.  Jesus said, "Love your neighbor as yourself." (Matthew 5:48).  If we did this all the time, we wouldn't need laws for Civil Rights!


Source:  MarandaHawthorne.org 


      Another place I see discrimination is in business.  Just because a person is a little bit different, he doesn’t get raises or move up in the business.  I am talking about someone’s accent, or their looks, or their clothes.  These things should not be used to judge if they get a raise. 

     At my Summer Camp this past summer, there was a kid who was very different from the others.  He had Autism.  The other kids said, “I don’t want to play with him, he’s gross.   He is a cry baby, and he is always in trouble.”  But I tried to be nice to him.  I tried my hardest to be a good friend to him.  It was pretty hard, because he was really eccentric.  Some of my friends even put pressure on me to NOT spend time with the different kids.  They said I wasn’t cool anymore.  I had a lot of talks with the Counselors, and with my parents about all this.  In the end, he got sent away from the Camp, and had to go to a special school in another town.  I felt really sad about that.  I did not get to say goodbye to him. 




These kids have Down's Syndrome and
live in Honduras.  I send money to their school
to help with supplies and stuff they need. 

     In conclusion, Civil Rights are rights that prevent discrimination, but not always.  People are not treated equally all the time.  I am not even great at treating people equally.   Sometimes certain people get to me, and I don’t want to be around them.   I don’t want to give them a second chance.  I get mad at them more easily that other people.  John F. Kennedy and Martin Luther King, Jr. both were assassinated for trying to end discrimination.  So you can see that we still need improve on treating people equally in this country. 

Wednesday, July 27, 2016

Rich in Good Deeds...



Command them to do good, 
to be rich in good deeds, 
and to be generous 
willing to share. 

This way they will 
lay up treasure for 
themselves."

I Tim. 6:18-19

Here is a video of our time at the L2L Convention this Past Year. 

Friday, July 15, 2016

Faith with Works... My take on it

 I read the the Bible every day with my Mom or Dad.  We love to learn about the Bible.    It is God's Word.

I have been thinking a lot about what it says in  James 2:18 


 "But someone will say, 
“You have faith and I have works.”
Show me your faith apart from your works,
and I will show you my faith
by my works." 

 I heard my preacher say that people get confused by this verse.   
I asked my Daddy about it, 
 and he told me to research it 
and 
write an essay about it 
for my English Composition class.  

                

It was not easy to write,

but here are my thoughts about

Faith and Works.   



I think it means that if someone says, '' I am a Christian!''  and punches, kicks, abuses, swears like crazy, makes fun of others, and never, ever gives any second chances,  he is also a liar!   He says he has Faith, but what does his life show?


But another person says, ''I am a Christian!'' and does the opposite of the first person.  He is telling the truth!   I want to be more like this person.  






  In my life, I show my Faith in God by helping other people.  At least this is one way.  I helped my Daddy dig, insert pipes, and re-cover the pipe and hole with the dirt. 


It was hard work, but it was better than a flood in the basement! I saw my Daddy hurting because he was working so long and his back was sore.  

I had Faith and wanted to help him.   I showed my Faith by my Works... Digging and Helping.  This is all part of becoming a Strong Leader for Jesus. 

Thursday, July 14, 2016

Christ's Love Does Not Change






"Christian, take this for your comfort, 
that there is no change
 in Jesus Christ's love to those 
who rest in Him. 

Yesterday you were on the mount
 and you said, 
'He loves me:' 
Today you are in the valley of humiliation,
 but He loves you still the same"



.- Spurgeon♥ - A great man and Author 


Thursday, June 16, 2016

Unity: ONE Faith



Me and my Daddy at Church Services
My father is called “Daddy.” Even though I am eleven years old, I call him “Daddy.” My Daddy called his father “Daddy” until the day he died.  That’s because they lived in the South, and Daddy says lots of people call their fathers “Daddy” in the south.  I love my Daddy very much.   There are tons of reasons why I love my Daddy.  He takes me fishing, and he brings me old things like radios and old computer monitors to tear apart and try to fix. 



     Daddy teaches me how to build stuff, like sheds, and how to fix boat motors.  He teaches me how to make Mom’s vacuum cleaner work better, and how to cast and fish the best way.  He always keeps his cool in times of trouble, and he says that I should do that, too.  He hums when he gets upset.  


I know my Daddy hasFaith.  He reads to me and the whole family every morning from the Bible at the breakfast table.  He likes the Proverbs. From the Proverbs, I have learned that I should not be arguing a lot with others, I should be loyal to my friends, and I should not use credit cards when I grow up.  I learned all this from Daddy reading me the Bible, and then he talks to us about it. 
     It is sad for me when he has to go to work every day.  He has to work a hard job, lifting boats and engines, and doing other tough things.  He is a good Daddy because he brings in the bacon and pays the bills for our family.  When he comes home at night, he sometimes even grills food for us after all that hard work.  That shows me that he gives up his time and is unselfish, so we can all live together and I can be Homeschooled. 
     I know my Daddy loves me, because he spends lots of time with me.  We go on trips, like fishing all day, and one time he took me Duck Hunting in Arkansas for a whole week.  He even helped me with all the schoolwork I had to do during that week.   I kept on want to quit the school stuff that week, but he was patient and stern enough to make me do it, anyway.   When I get upset or disobey, Daddy never yells at me.  He corrects me very tenderly.  He puts his hand on my shoulder and guides me to do the right thing. 
     When I grow up, I am going to have 8 kids.  I want to be like my Daddy to my kids.  One way is taking them to work with me.  I will also take them to caves and dams and neat places like the places that my Daddy takes me.  I will read the Proverbs and Revelations to them, too. 

This shows a "Red Neck Trompoline" that my Daddy
made for me in Arkansas at the
Hunting Camp
     Finally, my Daddy is probably one of the best fathers in the world.  He always helps everyone in my family.  He loves to spend time with me. He works to make money for us to live.  He teaches me to always love others and help them.  I am so thankful for my Daddy. 

      

"The father of the righteous will greatly rejoice;

he who fathers a wise son will be glad in him. "



Proverbs 23:24