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Ruth’s Gleaning Cake
Yield: one household, with some left over.
Ingredients
1 full measure of loyalty
1 cup of humility, sifted fine
2 handfuls of industry
½ cup of counsel received without argument
3 spoons of kindness
1 cup of courage
2 cups of patience
1 cup of fine gratitude
1 cup of trust
Several large heaping tablespoons of restraint
Method
Heat the house, not the oven.
Loyalty goes in first. If it is missing, nothing else will bind.
Sift humility into industry so the work does not rise into pride. Mix only until the two are no longer separate.
Fold in counsel.
Do not overbeat.
Stir in kindness through the batter last.
Pour into an ordinary pan of your heart.
Do not grease it with self-interest.
Bake through the whole harvest, not the first afternoon.
The cake is done when it can be carried home and still feed another person.
Brush the top with whatever leftover mercy you were given.
Do not ice it.
To serve
Slice it for the bitter one first (Naomi called herself Mara).
Keep a portion for the household. If there is still some left, that is the point.
It keeps.
Quiet faithfulness does not stale as fast as a loud cake.
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Islam is not compatible with Western civilization.
After the massacre of Chios in 1822, the Muslim Turk commander Vahit Pasha ordered the beheading of all the remaining Christian prisoners. He had their skulls stuffed with light straw. The next day he sent them to the Sultan, along with five loads of other heads and two loads of ears belonging to people of the lower classes. These were the "trophies of his victory."
52,000 Greek Christians were sold into slavery, and 42,000 men, children, and women were slaughtered.
Young girls were raped publicly in the streets, and newlyweds in front of their husbands, who were then slaughtered. Others were raped in front of their parents, after which the men's genitals were cut off. Women over 40 were set on fire and left to burn alive. Pregnant women had their bellies ripped open and their fetuses pulled out, while small children were thrown forcefully against rocks. The frenzy of the Muslims was unprecedented.
Many Turkish soldiers cut off the heads of Greek Christians and then licked their swords. With this act, they believed they would earn a place in paradise. Others were hanged from the island's trees for deterrence. Severed human limbs and corpses were scattered on the streets, while the sea had turned red from the blood. The smoke from the burning houses had covered all of Chios, while the flames made the night look like day. Several women from Chios preferred death over dishonor and slavery. They committed suicide by jumping off cliffs. Some were killed while defending their children, siblings, and husbands.
Remember the date: 30 March 1822
If you want to support me in the effort I’m making, please consider becoming a subscriber to my X account for only $2. I write about the ancient, medieval, and modern history of Greece and what Christians went through in Asia Minor, Greece, and Cyprus because of Islam. Thank you very much to those of you who support me and read me.
- Homer Pavlos
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There is someone out there who is worried, in pain, feeling alone, feeling hopeless and "yoked" to all of your troubles...
Jesus said:
"Come to me, all you who are weary and burdened, and I will give you rest.
Take my yoke upon you and learn from me, for I am gentle and humble in heart, and you will find rest for your souls.
For my yoke is easy and my burden is light."
Matthew 11:28–30
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You cannot have both "gender identity" and "sex" as protected classes. They're in conflict with one another. So pick one
You can prioritize the man for fear of hurting his feelings or you can protect the girls whom the sports team was designated for
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🚨 Pastor @PhilipAMitchell's dire warning for Christians:
"Time is running out."
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A real human being.
It began in California in 1942, when trains carried entire families away from the homes they had known for years. Mothers, fathers, children, all Japanese Americans who had built their lives in those valleys. One morning, their orchards were full of life. The next, they stood empty behind signs that read, “Evacuation Completed.”
Bob Fletcher stood by the roadside and watched his neighbors disappear behind barbed wire. They were farmers who had spent years growing strawberries and peaches, working from early morning until the sun went down. They were people he knew and cared about. Now they were being taken away simply because of their ancestry and the fear surrounding them.
The farms they left behind quickly began to suffer. Weeds spread across the fields. Equipment sat unused. Angry whispers moved through the town. Some people wanted the land for themselves. Others believed the families were getting what they deserved.
Bob didn't agree.
He stepped forward and offered to take care of three farms, belonging to the Tsukamotos, the Nittas, and the Okamotos. He promised to keep their fields alive until they could return, even though nobody knew when that would happen, or whether they would ever be allowed to come home.
Bob worked from before sunrise until long after dark. He pruned the trees, repaired equipment, harvested the fruit, and kept each farm going through every season. While he worked, people shouted at him from passing trucks. Some slashed his tires. Others warned him to stop. Bob kept working anyway.
The families had asked him to stay in their homes while they were gone. They wanted him to be safe and comfortable. Bob refused. Instead, he chose to live in a small workers' bunkhouse. It had almost no comfort, but he said it felt right. He wanted to wait for them there.
When he married Teresa in 1943, she joined him in the fields. Together, they worked for families who could no longer work their own land. Teresa's hands helped keep the farms alive too, even though her part of the story is often forgotten when Bob's story is told.
Bob could have kept the money those orchards earned. No one was watching, and plenty of other people took advantage of the situation. But Bob did something different. At the end of each season, he kept only enough to cover what he had earned for his own labor. The rest went into bank accounts for the families. He saved every penny, including the interest, and kept the receipts safe.
Three long years passed before the camps closed and the families were finally allowed to return.
Across California, many Japanese American families came home to find their farms ruined or gone. They opened the doors to empty houses, walked across neglected land, and discovered that their savings had disappeared.
But when the Tsukamoto, Nitta, and Okamoto families stepped off the train in Florin, they found something completely different.
Their fields were still blooming. Their homes looked the way they remembered them. Their equipment was still there and working. And at the bank were the profits Bob had saved for them. Three years of hard work and careful saving were placed back into their hands as though time had been waiting for them to return.
Al Tsukamoto later said Bob was the greatest man he had ever known. He had saved everything they had.
Bob never asked for praise. He simply said he had done what he believed was right. Then he returned to his ordinary life, raising his family with Teresa and leaving the story behind.
Years later, when Bob reached his nineties and eventually turned one hundred, the Japanese American community made sure people knew what he had done. They brought photographs of the orchards in bloom and told their children and grandchildren about the man who had refused to let fear determine what he did.
Bob Fletcher died in 2013 at the age of 101. His church filled with families whose lives had been shaped by what he had done.
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The Good News Cake
Ingredients:
4 full cups of the Word that holds everything together.
10 heaping tablespoons of earnest humility (you really can't over do it).
1 cup of the richness of the Father’s love.
1 overflowing cup of His Grace that is so sweet.
1 cup of Living water.
1 pinch of the salt of the earth.
Several heaping handfuls of God's wisdom
1 tsp of Rising on the third day.
For the Frosting:
1 cup of sweet forgiveness mixed with equal parts patience and love (for Love reference Ephesians recipes)
Method (the story in the bowl)
Prepare the world and heat it to 350°F.
This may seem very harsh and chaotic.
Sift your heart
Place bone dry ingredients in a large bowl of humility and repentance.
The batter will rise then fall flat until you trust the Way Truth and Life.
Please in the high heat oven and watch the cake rise.
Keep a watchful eye on it to see that it does not fall. Ask a friend to help watch.
Be patient, this cake may take a lifetime.
Serving note
Share it generously
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Who would've thought that three guys getting together to talk about God's word and Jesus could be a top podcast in ALL categories.
ALL glory to God.
Thanks for the support Live Free Nation 🤝
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Why is it “sad” to see a child LEARNING?
Some of the comments on our videos say it’s sad that I have to teach these boys certain things.
I don’t understand that.
You weren’t born knowing how to pay bills, fix things, communicate, grocery shop, handle emergencies, or navigate life. Somebody taught you. And I guarantee everything you know didn’t come from your mama and daddy.
That’s the whole point of a village.
These boys have parents who love them and teach them. My own children learn from people besides me too. More good adults pouring into a child is a blessing, not evidence that somebody failed.
Instead of being sad that they didn’t know something, be happy somebody cared enough to teach them.
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Today is the third Friday of September, also known as National Tradesmen Day. To celebrate, a young and cheeky editor at mikeroweWORKS has assembled a video to remind the world about what I looked like 18 years ago, back when I boldly proclaimed my intention to reinvigorate the skilled trades with some sort of ad hoc PR initiative.
Looking back, I think you’ll agree my performance – delivered after several beers on Labor Day of 2008 - was a fairly cringe-worthy spasm of uncharacteristic earnestness. It was, however, well-intended, and useful I think, in rallying others who shared my sentiment. In fact, a few years later in 2011, when Irwin Tools decided to launch National Tradesman Day, they called upon me to announce the occasion, which I was delighted to do. In return, Irwin donated $10,000 to my newly formed foundation, which I used to help fund our first round of work ethic scholarships.
Since then, lots of other likeminded companies and organizations have asked me to help them launch similar efforts to reinvigorate the trades, including the latest initiative from the Pentagon called BuildFreedom.US. I agreed, and in return, Build Freedom has donated $10 million dollars to mikeroweWORKS, which we’ll spend on the next round of work ethic scholarships. And so, we appear to be trending in the right direction.
Anyway, enjoy the attached video, a genuine blast from my past, and hopefully, an accurate look into the future. Better yet, share it with it someone in the trades, and help us commemorate National Tradesman Day by reminding the country that many excellent opportunities in the skilled trades are waiting to be filled, and that mikeroweWORKS is here to pay for the training you need to get started.
Apply today at mikeroweWORKS.org
Carry on,
Mike
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God help me to be like them.
NEVER FORGET THE 21
In 2015, twenty Christian men were taken to a beach in Libya and ordered to deny Christ. Beside them, Matthew Ayariga chose their faith and their fate:
“Their God is my God.”
Twenty Christians were taken to that beach. Twenty-one died for Christ.
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A couple years ago, Mikala Sposito applied for a work ethic scholarship from my foundation. She asked for $2,700.00 to help realize her dream of becoming a welder. (Actually, her first dream was to become an Olympian. As a kid, she excelled at horseback riding, dance, soccer, and track, but not quite at the Olympic level. So, Mikala adjusted her dream and focused on something within her reach. Precisely the kind of commonsense approach to making a living we try to encourage.) Toward that end, Mikala filled out the application, jumped through all the necessary hoops, and signed the S.W.E.A.T. Pledge, as all applicants must.
According to our internal ranking system, which is inherently subjective and relative to each batch of new applicants, Mikala scored a 94, and was awarded $2,100.00, or roughly 80% of what she asked for. This is typical of the average percentage awarded to an excellent applicant. As a rule, we almost never award the entire amount requested. We want our recipients to have some skin in the game, and we encourage all applicants to apply for additional scholarship funds elsewhere, which Mikala did. But in this case, if I had it to do over again, I think I’d have awarded Mikala the full $2,700.00. Why? Because this woman is precisely why I award work ethic scholarships in the first place, as recent headlines prove. Headlines all over the country that identify Mikala Sposito as the sole welder to represent Team USA in the upcoming @WorldSkills Competition in Shanghai.
This is a very big deal. The World Skills competition is often referred to as the Olympics of the skilled trades, so it looks like Mikala’s dream is coming true after all. And it seems to me her journey is worth a brief encapsulation. Before she applied for a scholarship from mikeroweWORKS, Mikala demonstrated an affinity for welding in SkillsUSA. As a senior at Dexter High School, she won 1st Place at the SkillsUSA Michigan high school competition and went on to place 14th nationally. Then, as a freshman at Washtenaw Community College, she repeated her success by taking 1st Place in the Michigan college division. She then advanced to nationals, where she finished 8th in the country. That earned her an invitation to the Team USA pre-trials, which whittled the nation's top 16 young welders down to three. At the final USA Weld Trials at the Robotics Technology Park in Huntsville, Alabama, each competitor was evaluated on precision, safety, technical execution, craftsmanship, and multi-process capabilities under extreme time constraints. Mikala Sposito took the Gold, officially becoming the first woman to represent the United States in welding at WorldSkills. Next week, she’ll face off against the absolute best of the best from all over the world.
I should point out that Mikala would prefer it if the press didn’t make a big deal of her gender, and I completely understand. (She’s a welder – not a “weld-her.”) But today, the industry is in desperate need of proof that women can and do excel in the trades. Nationally, just 4.3% of tradespeople are female. At mikeroweWORKS, our female applicants are closer to 20%, but I assure you that percentage could be much higher. Companies are anxious to recruit talented welders of any gender, and women need to understand and believe the opportunities are real. Mikala prove that in spades, and I want to offer her my sincere congratulations, and invite all of you to do the same. Because Mikala Sposito is exactly what our country needs a lot more of. People who understand that talent is never enough to compensate for laziness.
In her application, she wrote, “Hard work beats talent any day of the week, and nobody is going to outwork me. Period.”
She also connected with every point of the S.W.E.A.T. Pledge but said the final tenet resonated with her the most. “Some people choose to be lazy. Some people choose to sleep in. I choose to work my butt off.”
My favorite quote, however, is Mikala’s response to seasoned professionals who see her wield a torch and call her a “natural.”
“I’m not a natural,” she says. Far from it. And none of this came easy. I worked and trained 60-80 hours a week for two years to get here.”
Regardless of what happens in Shanghai, the job offers are already piling up, including the most recent from SpaceX. She hasn’t graduated yet, but the future looks bright, and I for one would not bet against her.
PS. I never do this, but since my name is in the title of the foundation, I suppose I can. Mikala – please accept the additional $600 you requested from mikeroweWORKS two years ago. Shanghai is expensive, and since you’re representing all of us, we’d like to provide you with a little walking around money. The check is in the mail.
Now…go get the gold!
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Again @thatsKAIZEN takes a good look and comes back with a thoughtful view.
Thank you.
Charlie Kirk Didn't Even Believe In Race
This video debunks the top 5 lies and misunderstandings of what he said about race and DEI.
4:40 - Black pilots
12:20 - The Civil Rights Act
15:55 - Intelligence of black women
22:05 - Black crime rates
27:30 - Race is not real
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