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Today, we are in The Season Of The Last Generation. The Birth Pains that Christ Jesus spoke about are currently under way, including natural and unnatural disasters. They will be ever increasing. Because of the increase of wickedness, the love of most will grow cold. Social, economic and political turmoil will be ever increasing, causing people's hearts to be weighed down with dissipation, drunkenness and the anxieties of life. An apostasy within the Church of God is currently under way. This will all reach a climax with Satan revealing his Antichrist and requiring that everyone worship him; That every one receive his "mark" in order to buy or sell; The new currency of the New World Order, the New Tower of Babel.

Today, it is critical that those who have a heart for God are aware of what God is doing and speaking today. God is opening up His Word like never before in preparation for The Time Of The END. I exhort you to open up your heart and your eyes to see what He is doing and your ears to hear what God is speaking at this time. My prayer is that we will be able to stand before the Son of Man at His appearing, without fault and with great joy. I encourage you to read David Wilkerson's book, America's Last Call at davidwilkersontoday.blogspot.com. Also, Google, Tommy Hicks Prophecy, 1961 for a view of the End Times.

Tom's books include: Called By Christ To Be ONE, The Time Of The END, The Season Of The Last Generation, Worship God In Spirit And In Truth, Daniel And The Time Of The END, and Overcoming The Evil One. They are available at amazon.com. They can also be read without cost by clicking on link: Toms Books.

To receive Christ Jesus as a child by faith is the highest human achievement.

Today, the Bride Of Christ is rising up in every nation in the world! Giving Glory to Her Savior and King, Christ Jesus!
Today, the world is Raging against God, Rushing toward Oblivion! Save yourself from this Corrupt Generation!
Today, America is being ground to powder because of it's SIN against God!

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Saturday, October 31, 2015

THOUSANDS OF MUSLIM MIGRANTS 'DISAPPEAR' FROM CAMPS

Middle Eastern migrants arrive in Nickelsdorf, Austria, Oct. 9, 2015 (Photo: YouTube, Unzen Suriert)

Middle Eastern migrants arrive in Nickelsdorf, Austria, Oct. 9, 2015 (Photo: YouTube, Unzen Suriert)


WND EXCLUSIVE

THOUSANDS OF MUSLIM MIGRANTS 'DISAPPEAR' FROM CAMPS

But U.N. Agenda 2030 has a fix: Step right up for your 'universal ID'

Leo Hohmann

Where oh where have the Muslim migrants gone?

That is the question German authorities are asking themselves after some troubling reports of disappearances.
According to German press reports, keeping track of all the Muhammads and Alis pouring across borders is proving ever so tricky for European countries being flooded with people on the move from the Middle East and Africa.
Now, the United Nations is partnering with a private company to offer a solution – a new “universal” identification system that will comply with the United Nations’ sustainability goal of having biometric identification “in the hands of every citizen” in the world by 2030.
As author-blogger Pamela Geller noted this week, citing German press reports, more than one in two refugees from one camp went missing and are now unaccounted for and considered “on the run.”
At least 580 refugees initially were reported to have disappeared from Camp Shelterschlefe.
Now, in a “terrible new twist,” the disappearances are spreading.
“It’s become an epidemic,” Geller said. “7,000 migrants have left the Brandenburg shelters. Where are they going? Who is sheltering these illegals, many with ties to ISIS?”
Such a high number of people hiding is “completely unacceptable,” according to the German authorities.
“Where are they hiding? Could they be connecting with sleeper cells?” Geller writes.
“Is it any wonder that Europeans are scrambling for guns?” Geller added, referencing a report by WND earlier this week that long guns are flying off the shelves in Austria and other countries where it’s still legal for average citizens to buy firearms.
Die Welt is reporting that thousands of refugees have left their assigned accommodations.
“They are simply not there anymore,” the news outlet reports. Refugees disappear daily from the initial welcoming centers in Brandenburg without giving notice.
Authorities said they believed the missing persons to be heading on their own to stay with family or friends already in Germany or in other countries throughout Europe, or at least that’s the hope.
Several hundred migrants have disappeared each week since the beginning of September without signing in, Ingo Decker, the spokesman of the Potsdam Ministry of the Interior, told Die Welt.
“Eventually, these refugees are simply not there anymore,” he said.
On Wednesday alone, more than 600 people left the welcoming center, Susan Fischer, the deputy ministry spokeswoman, reported to the newspaper. According to official figures of the state government, more than 17,000 newcomers came into the country since early September. About 7,800 have been housed in cities and villages, about 2,700 people are still in the initial reception centers. That leaves at least 7,000 who have left and are AWOL.
A report from German news outlet Faz.net headlinedRefugees disappearing from lodging,” says around 700 refugees disappeared from emergency accommodations in Lower Saxony. Voices calling for a direct registration by the governmental agencies are getting louder.
National authorities required cities and towns in the region to accommodate 4,000 on short notice and now can’t account for all of them.
Germany’s welcome mat ‘setting the stage’
Paul McGuire, an analyst who has appeared on Fox News and the History Channel and co-author of the new book, “The Babylon Code: Solving the Bible’s Greatest End Times Mystery,” says the heavy influx of Muslim migrants almost assures there will be another terrorist attack at least as big as what happened in Paris earlier this year at the Charlie Hebdo newspaper office.
He said sources in Germany tell him the majority of the nearly 1 million migrants who have streamed into the country are between 18 and 25.
“There’s no way they could be this stupid and let this many in. It has the look of something intentional,” he said. “I’m getting emails from people in Germany. They know this is being done on purpose, to destroy their villages and towns.”
McGuire said he was in France just a few days after the Charlie Hebdo attack.
“They were sitting ducks, and the people of France were completely shocked,” he said. “So they’re setting the stage for another attack.”
McGuire said the leaders of the global “hardcore left,” such as billionaire philanthropist George Soros, are using the Muslim migrants as a battering ram against the walls of the Christian West.
Hungary Prime Minister Viktor Orban was quoted by a public radio outlet this week calling out Soros for his backing of the migrant invasion, saying:
“His name is perhaps the strongest example of those who support anything that weakens nation states, they support everything that changes the traditional European lifestyle. These activists who support immigrants inadvertently become part of this international human-smuggling network.”
George Soros
George Soros
 McGuire said the Muslim migrants are particularly useful to socialist globalists like Soros.
“They are like a bludgeoning group, they can bludgeon everything Christian out of our society,” he said. “The hard left uses them because they demand all these laws and special accommodations, and inevitably they enact Shariah and force the culture to go into retreat, and then you have this weak Christianity that can’t withstand anything.”
‘Driving the new world order’
McGuire sees a perfect storm brewing in which global authorities will need to keep better track of people, especially refugees, but the new rules will end up applying to everyone.
“So these migrants are coming to drive the new world order, to bring order out of chaos,” he said. “You destroy nationalism, destroy social cohesion, and then these Muslim groups coming in will create a crisis and force a response that will feature a state crackdown and the need for heightened security, and one of the ways you do that is through universal IDs. It’s just evil.”
A large portion of Germany’s missing refugees had not been registered, nor had they applied for asylum, which is a recipe for chaos. The local authorities point out that they have no authority to hold people.
The same rules apply to refugees sent from the Third World to American cities.
Once they are resettled in a city, whether it’s Denver or Minneapolis, Des Moines or Detroit, they are free to migrate anywhere in the United States. The refugees are placed on a fast track to full citizenship and signed up for various welfare benefits by resettlement agencies affiliated with the Catholic, Lutheran, Episcopal, Jewish and evangelical-Christian organizations. A congressional research study found that 91 percent of refugees from the Middle East receive food stamps.
Local politician Angelika Jahns criticized the current situation in Germany. “We need to know who is staying in Lower Saxony,” she told the Die Welt. She said the refugees should be registered as soon as they arrive in Lower Saxony, but they are not forced to do so by the German national government.
The problem of refugees gone missing is clearly on the radar of global elites, and in fact they are already using the refugee crisis to promote a sweeping new global ID system, WND has learned.
The United Nations high commissioner for refugees in May 2015 awarded a three-year contract to a firm called Accenture to “identify and track” refugees in a pilot program targeting camps in Africa and Asia with a new biometric ID, reports FindBiometrics.com, a trade journal covering the biometric and information management industries. Accenture is an international technology services provider based in Chicago.
Here is how FindBiometrics describes the project:
“The UNHCR will use Accenture’s Biometric Identity Management System (BIMS) for the endeavor. BIMS can be used to collect facial, iris, and fingerprint biometric data, and will also be used to provide many refugees with their only form of official documentation. The system will work in conjunction with Accenture’s Unique Identity Service Platform (UISP) to send this information back to a central database in Geneva, allowing UNHCR offices all over the world to effectively coordinate with the central UNHCR authority in tracking refugees.
“Starting with a pilot project in the Dzaleka Refugee Camp in Malawi, the program has blossomed over the last couple of years to provide services in refugee camps in Thailand and Chad, with over 220,000 people identified in the two countries so far. It’s an ambitious project, but Accenture has experience with large-scale biometric system initiatives, having helped the Department of Homeland Security’s Office of Biometric Identity Management with a major border control project, for example. This latest endeavor will see the company’s technology used in important humanitarian efforts – and in fact it seems to have already helped hundreds of thousands.”
U.N. Agenda 2030 calls for ‘universal ID’ for all people
This “universal ID,” which grabs the biometric data of refugees, is just a starting point for the United Nations. The goal is to eventually bring all people into the massive data bank. The proof is in the U.N.’s own documents.
The U.N. Agenda 2030 document adopted by 193 of the world’s heads of state, including President Obama, at the Sept. 25 U.N. conference on sustainability in New York, includes 17 goals and dozens of “targets.”
Target 16.9 under the goal of “Peace, Justice and Strong Institutions” reads as follows: “By 2030, provide legal identity for all, including birth registration.”
The World Bank is also throwing its weight behind the United Nations biometric project being conducted by Accenture.
In a new report issued in collaboration with Accenture, the World Bank is calling on governments to “work together to implement standardized, cost-effective identity management solutions,” according to FindBiometrics.
A summary of the report states that about 1.8 billion adults around the world lack any kind of official identification. “That can exclude those individuals from access to essential services, and can also cause serious difficulties when it comes to trans-border identification,” according to FindBiometrics.
“That problem is one that Accenture has been tackling in collaboration with the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, which has been issuing Accenture-developed biometric identity cards to populations of displaced persons in refugee camps in Thailand, South Sudan, and elsewhere. The ID cards are important for helping to ensure that refugees can have access to services, and for keeping track of refugee populations.”
Then comes the final admission by the World Bank that the new biometric IDs are not just for refugees.
“Moreover, the nature of the deployments has required an economically feasible solution, and has demonstrated that reliable, biometric ID cards can affordably be used on a large scale. It offers hope for the UN’s Sustainable Development Goal of getting legal ID into the hands of everyone in the world by the year 2030 with its Identification for Development (ID4D) initiative.”
It is a serious problem for the authorities that many thousands of people are on their way on their own in the federal territory, Decker told Die Welt.
He said refugees might be registered multiple times as the registration is based on information given by the registrants, which almost always come without any papers.
“The same guy that is Muhammad Ali here in Eisenhüttenstadt can be Ali Mohammed a little bit later in Hamburg,” Decker exemplified. “The states must live with that for the time being, because a proper registration at the border is currently not in sight.”
One the U.N.’s biometric labeling of all humanity is in place, this will no longer be a problem.
Read more at http://www.wnd.com/2015/10/thousands-of-muslim-migrants-disappear-from-camps/#EH5RWIvkwCUl884V.99

My comments: So now, the "mark" of the Beast is possible, where everyone in the World can be "marked". The Whole World is now ready for the revealing of the Beast of Revelation 13. It is likely he will come to Power in a situation of Global Chaos and issue Global Martial Law. Chaos is building everyday in every Nation on Earth. 

PRAYING COACH GETS UNEXPECTED DEFENDER

Conservative Tribune

Praying HS Football Coach Gets Unexpected Defender, Scares Lib Administrators to Death


The Daily Caller reported that high school football coach Joe Kennedy recently sued the Bremerton School District in Washington state after district officials demanded that he stop praying during football games.


In response, the district has reportedly suspended Kennedy indefinitely, placing him on “paid administrative leave,” according to TheBlaze.
Thousands have rallied in support of Kennedy, including the Congressional Prayer Caucus, which sent a letter to Bremerton officials demanding they cease infringing on Kennedy’s religious rights.
For his part, Kennedy said that he didn’t believe the country he fought to protect should be treating him this way.
“I spent 20 years in the military fighting to defend the Constitution and it didn’t seem right that I wasn’t allowed to say a prayer with my guys after a football game was over,” said Kennedy, who served against Saddam Hussein’s Iraq in operations Desert Shield and Desert Storm. “I’m standing up for what I believe is right.”
The Prayer Caucus letter defended the right of Americans to practice their religion in public.
“The Establishment Clause does not require quarantining private, non-coercive religious expression to private quarters or off-duty hours,” stated the letter, which was signed by almost 50 representatives.
“Protecting Coach Kennedy’s freedom to choose to kneel quietly after the conclusion of a high school football game and pray, in a way which coerces no one, is something that all Americans should rally behind — regardless of religion or political persuasion,” Rep. Randy Forbes, R-Okla., told The Daily Caller.
“Protecting one American’s right to pray, is protecting every American’s right to pray,” he said.
The Constitution guarantees each American’s right to practice religion. No one is forcing people who see Kennedy praying to pray with him.
Kennedy is allowed not only to have faith, but also to exercise it, just as others are allowed to not have faith. Maybe liberals should focus on fixing other problems, like their disastrous inner city policies, instead of harassing one man who wants to pray.
And something tells us that if Kennedy were praying towards Mecca, no one would dare ask him to stop. But because he is a Christian, it’s open season.
H/T WND
http://conservativetribune.com/praying-hs-football-coach/?utm_source=Facebook&utm_medium=TPNNPages&utm_campaign=BestOfDay&utm_content=2015-10-30&dlvrit=1810663
My comments: We Praise God for the Congressional Pray Caucus. This situation is an Example of the DESPICABLE NATURE of the godless, Socialist, Secular Humanists. They are Against God and His Word and all who belong to Him. They are Evil men and women, Impostors, going from Bad to Worse, Deceiving and being Deceived. (2 Timothy 3:13)

ABORTION POLLUTES AMERICA

Abortion is bloodshed before the Living God.
God says:

'Do not pollute the land where you are.
Bloodshed pollutes the land,
And Atonement cannot be made for the land
On which blood has been shed,
Except by the blood of the one who shed it.
Do not defile the land where you live and where I dwell,
For I, the Lord, dwell among the Israelites.' (Numbers 35:33-34)

Think about this reality,
Atonement cannot be made for America,
A Nation that has shed the blood of more than 50 Million babies,
Except by the blood of the ones who shed that blood.
The Land of America is DEFILED before the Living God.

In America more than 50 Million babies
Have had their lives terminated;
Their blood shed for the expedience of a Culture
Who has Numbed their hearts to God the Creator and His Word.
This bloodshed now demands the blood of those who shed it;
All those responsible,
Even that of the government who legalized the practice
And facilitates it.
Imagine the stored up Wrath of God over this single issue.
America is living on borrowed time.

America has ignored the voice of the Church of God
Who has warned the Nation of the consequences of abortion
Before and since it was legalized.
They understood that Sin embraced leads to ever greater Sin.

It may well be because of those who bear the name of Christ Jesus
And who have lived the life they were call to by Christ,
That America has not been judged,
Specifically with bloodshed to this point.
Nevertheless, the Culture in America is falling apart
Which is a terrible Judgment in itself.
America cannot continue on its current godless course
And survive as a Nation before the Living God.
Godlessness always brings Confusion, Chaos and finally, Destruction.
This is the pointed lesson of history.

The killing of unwanted children
Has been a sign of the Decadence
Of many preceding Cultures, including Ancient Israel,
Rome, Germany and many others.
It is indicative of the Decadence of America, China
And many other Nations today.
Satan delights In ever infant killed; that is what he came to do, kill.

Those of us who understand this reality
Throw ourselves on the Mercy of God;
We Depart from the heart set and mind set of Babylon,
Which is consuming America and the Nations of the World.

Christ Jesus warned us all:
Be always on the Watch,
And pray that you will be able to Escape All that is about to happen,
And that you may be able TO STAND before the Son of Man.
(Luke 21:36)

Today, the World is raging against God, rushing toward Oblivion. (Psalm 2)
This World in it's present form is passing away. (1 Corinthians 7:31)
America is being ground to powder because of her SIN against God.
Save yourself from this Corrupt Generation! (Acts 2:40)
As God has written, so shall it be! Hallelujah! Maranatha!
Father, Your Kingdom come, Your will be done, on earth as in Heaven!

Friday, October 30, 2015

SWEDISH POLITICIAN: COUNTRY 'FACING COLLAPSE' DUE TO MASS INFLUX OF REFUGEES

Passengers among them migrants and refugees, exit the German ferry terminal in Goteborg, Sweden. © Scanpix Sweden

Swedish politician says country ‘facing collapse’ due to mass influx of refugees

A leading Swedish politician says the country is facing a refugee catastrophe, which will lead to the “country collapsing.” The bold claims were made by Foreign Minister Margot Wallstrom, who adds the EU needs to do more to take the strain off Stockholm.
The northern European country expects to accommodate around 190,000 by the turn of the year, but this is putting a strain on the country both economically and socially. Wallstrom says that Stockholm needs more help and intends to put pressure on European Union member states to take a greater share of the burden the continent is facing from the refugee crisis in the Middle East and Africa.
“I think most people feel that we cannot maintain a system where perhaps 190,000 people will arrive every year – in the long run, our system will collapse. And that welcome is not going to receive popular support,” said Wallstrom, who is also a member of the Social Democrat party.

However, not everyone in Europe is wanting to follow Sweden’s lead, while along with Germany, the Scandinavian nation is one of the most popular destinations for refugees, due to its generous benefits system.
“I have to admit that there have been moments recently of very great disappointment. I have heard statements from member states that have been completely astonishing and very discouraging,” the foreign minister added in an interview with Dagens Nyheter, which was cited by The Local.
Closer to home, Wallstrom has also highly critical of the far-right Sweden Democrats, who have been “creating fear and are becoming the trigger for attacks.” Sweden has been rocked by a number of arson attacks against refugee centers and the foreign minister says a worrying trend is being repeated.
“We also had fires when we received refugees from the Balkans. This is a pattern that is being repeated. The Sweden Democrats have a responsibility,” she said speaking to the Dagens Nyheter newspaper. Wallstrom was referring to the mass number of immigrants the Scandinavian country accepted following the break-up of the former Yugoslavia in the 1990s.
The foreign minister has called on the Sweden Democrats to condemn the crimes saying more must be done to try and stop the arson attacks. Wallstrom noted that Swedish Democrat activists in the university town of Lund had been spreading addresses of planned refugee sites.
Sweden experienced five arson attacks against refugee centers in the space of two weeks in October. All the buildings were apparently set on fire on the eve of opening their doors to migrants and refugees, who have come to Sweden from countries in the Middle East and North Africa devastated by domestic conflicts and outside interventions.
The Swedish authorities say that, in view of the suspected arsonists’ tactics, they are keeping secret the exact plans to welcome new groups of asylum seekers for fear of new attacks. However, so far the locations of some centers are apparently being discovered or leaked, with 14 suspected arson attacks on refugee centers in Sweden since the start of the year.Meanwhile Swedish police say a man who killed two people at a school in Trollhattan, in the south of the country “was driven by racist motives.”
The 21 year-old went on a rampage on October 22 with a sword, before he was shot by police and died of his wounds in hospital.
"We are convinced that the assailant was driven by racist motives when he carried out the act," he said. "We have reached this conclusion based on what we found when we searched his apartment and his behavior during the act, and also on the basis of how he selected his victims,” Police Chief Niclas Hallgren said on October 23.
https://www.rt.com/news/320158-sweden-refugees-collapse-catastrophe/

REP. ROGERS: FAMILY IS CORNERSTONE OF SOCIETY AND CREATED BY GOD

Rep. Rodgers: Family Is Cornerstone of Society and Created by God

By Penny Starr | October 29, 2015 | 3:12 PM EDT
Rep. Cathy McMorris Rodgers (R-Wash.) (CNSNews.com/Penny Starr)
(CNSNews.com) – Speaking at an event to discuss the importance of family values, Rep. Cathy McMorris Rodgers (R-Wash.) Wednesday said that the family is vital to civil society and divine in nature.
“The family is the cornerstone of our society and an institution created by God,” McMorris Rodgers said at the Family Research Council on Wednesday.
McMorris Rodgers, who has a son with Down syndrome, has long been an advocate for pro-family issues, including co-chairing the House Down Syndrome and Military Family Caucuses.

She said being the mother of three children has confirmed her belief in the importance of family.
“Certainly, the best thing that has happened to me since I was elected to Congress – 35 and single – was getting married and becoming a mom,” McMorris Rodgers said, noting that she was the first woman to give birth twice will serving in Congress.

“And the experience of becoming a mom has only made it more clear to me the importance of family in our society,” McMorris Rodgers said. “The values provided by family are really innumerable – the stability, the comfort, the guidance – so important to us as individuals.
“The family is the cornerstone of our communities, and as communities we assemble for good,” McMorris Rodgers said.

McMorris Rodgers is also chairwoman of the House Republican Conference.

http://www.cnsnews.com/news/article/penny-starr/rep-rodgers-family-cornerstone-society-and-created-god

STRONG FAMILIES INCREASE ECONOMIC GROWTH

Strong Families Increase Economic Growth

By Rachel Sheffield | October 30, 2015 | 11:02 AM EDT
Traditional American Family (AP Photo)
Is there a connection between strong families and a thriving economy? A new study, “Strong Families, Prosperous States,” takes a step toward answering the question.
“Despite the clear economic gains associated with strong families at the individual level, economists across the ideological spectrum have failed to investigate whether strong families increase economic growth,” co-authors Brad Wilcox, Joseph Price, and Robert Lerman write in the report from the American Enterprise Institute and the Institute for Family Studies.
Some of the main findings:
  • States with the highest share of married-parent families are better off than states with the lowest share of such families. They have $1,451 more in per capita GDP, 10.5 percent more upward mobility for low-income children, a 13.2-percent decrease in child poverty, and $3,654 more in median family income. (The researchers controlled for factors such as education, a state’s racial composition, tax policies, and education spending.)
  • The proportion of married parents in a state is a top indicator for economic outcomes. The share of married parents, the researchers note, “is generally a stronger predictor of economic mobility, child poverty, and median family income … than are the educational, racial, and age compositions of the states.”
  • Violent crime is far lower in states with a greater share of married-parent families. On average, the rate of violent crime is 343 crimes per 100,000 population in states with the highest quintile of married-parent families, compared to an average rate of 563 crimes per 100,000 in states with the lowest quintile of married-parent families.
But why do strong families contribute to a thriving economy?
First, marriage leads to higher participation in the workforce and productivity for men.
“Studies reveal that married men work about 400 hours more and make about $16,000 more per year than their otherwise similar single peers, and they are less likely to quit a job without lining up a new one,” the authors write.
The report includes this chart on marital status and income:
Although motherhood is linked with a decrease in work and income for women, the gains for married men in these areas tend to offset those decreases.
Marriage provides many other economic benefits, the report says, including income pooling and economies of scale. Married couples also accumulate more wealth than those in other household types, have more assets, and enjoy higher levels of income—and are thus less likely to be poor.
Also, the study says, children from married-parent households are more likely to receive human capital to help them thrive in the world. They have access to greater levels of income and parental attention and are less likely to be abused or neglected.
Finally, strong families reduce the likelihood that youth will participate in delinquent behavior, thus contributing to a lower crime rate.
Wilcox and his colleagues explain that children raised in intact families, particularly boys, are less likely to act out aggressively and that young men from single-mother families are roughly two times as likely to spend time in jail. They note that youth from single-parent homes also are more likely to be victims of crime.
Communities with higher numbers of single-parent homes have greater levels of crime than those with larger numbers of two-parent families. Crime hurts economic prosperity, the authors note, and so stronger families contribute to protecting communities from that economic drag.
A related chart:
Tragically, family breakdown is common in the United States. The rate of unwed childbearing is high, at over 40 percent nationwide.
Divorce rates are at historically high levels, although divorces have leveled off somewhat since the 1980s. Fewer than half of America’s children will be raised by married biological parents for their entire childhood.
These trends will be difficult to change overnight, and there is plenty of work to be done. The authors provide a few recommendations:
  • Reduce marriage penalties in means-tested welfare programs.
  • Reform divorce laws to help couples avoid breakup when it isn’t necessary.
  • Strengthen marriage and encourage a reduction in unwed childbearing with a public service ad campaign focused on “the success sequence”: education, work, marriage, and parenthood, in that order.
  • Identify ways to expand career opportunities for lower-income men and women with apprenticeship programs and other innovations.
The well-being of the family and the economy go hand in hand. America can thrive only if its most vital institution, the family, is strong.
Read more about the link between family and the economy in The Heritage Foundation’s 2015 Index of Culture and Opportunity.
Rachel Sheffield focuses on welfare, marriage and family, and education as policy analyst in the DeVos Center for Religion & Civil Society at The Heritage Foundation.
Editor's Note: This piece was originally published by The Heritage Foundation.
http://www.cnsnews.com/commentary/rachel-sheffield/strong-families-increase-economic-growth
My comments: OF COURSE, God's Way is the way that works. He Designed it to be that Way.

TED CRUZ: 'CLIMATE CHANGE IS NOT SCIENCE--IT'S RELIGION

Ted Cruz: ‘Climate Change Is Not Science -- It’s Religion’

By Michael W. Chapman | October 30, 2015 | 2:04 PM EDT
Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas).  (AP)
Senator Ted Cruz (R-Texas), who grew up in a scientific household – both of his parents are mathematicians – said a recent exchange he had with the president of the Sierra Club further affirmed that “climate change is not science" but is "religion,” and he added that climate change disciples use the “language” of religion, regardless of scientific facts, to push their doctrine.
“Just a couple weeks ago in the Senate I chaired a hearing where the president of the Sierra Club testified,” said Senator Cruz in an Oct. 28 interview on The Blaze TV. “We had an exchange, where I simply asked him about the data.”
Aaron Mair is president of the Sierra Club. 
“He [Mair] simply couldn’t answer the most basic question, starting with the fact -- he couldn’t answer the most basic fact that for the last 18 years the satellite data show no significant warming whatsoever,” said Cruz.
“He had no idea about that,” said Cruz.  “He turned to his aides every minute or two.”
“You know, part of the reason he didn’t know the facts?” said Cruz.  “Because climate change is not science -- it’s religion.”
“Look at the language where they call you a denier,” said the senator.  “Denier is not the language of science.”
Look, I’m the child of two scientists,” he said.  “My parents are both mathematicians, computer programmers. My dad was a self-taught geophysicist. The essence of the scientific method is to start with a hypothesis and then look to evidence to disprove the hypothesis. You’re not trying to prove it. You’re trying to disprove it.”
“Any good scientist is a skeptic,” said the senator.  “If he’s not, he or she should not be a scientist. But yet the language of the global warming alarmists, ‘denier’ is the language of religion. It’s heretic. You are a blasphemer.”
Cruz continued, “The response from the Sierra Club: ‘We have decreed this is the answer, you must accept it.’ And so he didn’t know his facts because he just knew his religion.”
Aaron Mair, president of the
Sierra Club.  (YouTube screenshot)
According to Dr. John Christy, professor of atmospheric science and director of the Earth System Science Center at the University of Alabama, the Earth’s temperature has “plateaued,” and there has been no global warming over the last 18 years.
“That’s basically a fact. There’s not much to comment on,”Christy told CNSNews.com last fall when his data were released. Christy and other scientists compiled their data from actual raw temperatures collected from 14 instruments on various weather satellites. 
"I predicted this in 1999," Dr. Don Easterbrook, a climate scientist and glacier expert from Washington State, said of the 18-year period with no global warming. "My prediction has now happened." 
"The same year the United Nations' Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change's (IPCC) models were predicting that the Earth would warm by one degree per decade, I was predicting that the Earth would cool for the next three decades," he noted. "They were way off the mark, while my prediction is still on target."

http://www.cnsnews.com/blog/michael-w-chapman/ted-cruz-climate-change-not-science-its-religion