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This is actually more like a Discipleship Study Guide and a Ministry Information site. Hope you will still go look around. So, why not a website? …Because, websites are often associated with “Trying to sell you something” and …we are NOT trying to sell you anything.. Not even Jesus? Nope, silly rabbit, you can’t sell Jesus! … and if we, (in a sick way) could? He would be way out of our price range and yours, because Salvation is something Priceless! OK dudes … Jesus is like FREE. In other words, knowing Jesus … the only cost, is that you believe! Also, know this, that you have the “American Constitutional Freedom” in America anyway, to hold on to any Cultural beliefs of faith, you also have the “American Constitutional Freedom” to choose any faith for yourself, also to share this, your observations, to collect data, to form your own conclusions, and express these conclusions, by mouth/or writings per your constitutional rights. So, just go explore this site and have some fun exploring. Note: There does exist here, hidden nooks and crannies to explore within these pages. You will find all these things and more, from Youth Educational Game aids, Discipleship aids, Some Hard Questions, Critical Thinking, Missionary Educator Teaching games, Old and New Photos, Blog posts, Videos, even some (Magician) Magi Secrets, some Worship Music, Evangelism, Prayer/Faith Opportunities, and even a few Music videos … like on da-MTV. You may find all this, embedded with in these pages. So, why the Hard Questions? Because, we were once Youth and Children’s ministers. Meaning, that we consider, the “asking of hard questions” as being very healthy and normal, in all learning environments, and we think it promotes actual learning to occur. This is good for anyone starting to move into …thinking for themselves. Kids need to think for themselves because, “Many, talk-n-more talk, but all are not giving out the correct answers.” Just a fact that not all, are correct! “Critical Think” teaching, comes natural to us. Got older kids/teens with spiritual questions? Send them here to go look around.

Our Personal Public Disclosure: Why? Because transparency is associated with Truth. We are Christians, that have become Missionary Educators/Evangelists. With that said, If found within these pages, there does exist any agenda other than creating a Safe place to explore Critical Think and a place to Simply Taste and see that God is good. Just know upfront that, our leanings are slanted towards more of a (Combined Scholastic view with a bit of select parts of the Modernist) Schools-of-thought. We are not in anyway (Post-Modernist and we do not follow along with Secular Humanistic) Schools-of-thought. We find that most people are (in someway) a combination of at least three schools-of-thought or more. Hope we can still be accepting of each others differing views! And at the very least engage in discourse. And If while reading, you find a page difficult in some way, we hope you just move off of that page and go to another one. Blessings, Mark and Karen Daughtry

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• Just what is Scholastic ?… Think it can be described as the belief that there exists in this world many (Schools-of-Thought), some are good others are not, some uplift morals others do not, some contain truth others do not, some think God gives truth others do not, But, some teach that man creates truth, not a good school that I would want to attend. An Example: Jesus had 12 students, His disciples, and He taught them amazing Truth. … Many others taught way differently and or against God… This is where the other (Schools-of-thought) come into the picture. A warning by (Irenaeus) presented some 2000 years ago, gave very strong insight and guidance.
• Just what is a Modernist mind frame ?… I think it’s just a weaker forerunner to a milder version of the Humanistic School-of-thought, which is not all bad. God created humans to be human, have free will, have doubts, have questions, use their own mind, Critical Think, use observations, draw conclusions, make decisions, do good for all humankind, and celebrate all humans self worth. Modernism, is Ok with allowing for, a human struggle with the tangible; and yet, still being open to aspects of the intangible thinking. Descartes (Father of the Scientific Method)…. Now, he was a known Christian and a Modernist, (although, in his own stated views, he was mostly works leaning person, instead of understanding God’s grace person), I am thinking, (that grasping the deep, deep, depths …of Gods amazing grace is probably something that is not easy, for even a brilliant mind to do) .
• ————————- Why is there a line drawn here? ———- Because, I myself, choose to continue the joy in keeping an open mind towards personal God experiences, and the intangible things, that we cannot always observe; therefore, I personally choose not to cross this line. Why? Because, I don’t want to replace Theology with any other ologies, like Sociology (Comte), Phycology, or even Cultural Anthropology. See, the Post-Modernist filled mind will say’s that God, is just a construct of the Human Psyche or the human brain. And I simply choose, not to believe this silliness. Or follow along with the Philosophers, who continually replace morality with Relativism and/or … God’s truth with Relativism. They, only try to destroy “The Old Ways” to satisfy their own puffed ego. For example: take the issue of Relativity, now, I really like (Albert Einstein), and I like his amazing (Theory of Relativity) As amazing as this theory is, it was meant to find meaning in the discipline of Physics. And therefore: I am also choosing, to leave God, in the Theology discipline. And not move God to the Psychology discipline. I will not just declare, that God is a psychological construct: “a deity spawned out of mere human thought.” … just more silliness thinking. …There are bucket loads of man made sillinesses, falsehoods, and false deities bouncing around like ping pong balls. I believe, there is only … one true God. This is, my personal observation, my data, and my conclusion. And my personal expression is this…. that He was not dreamed up by some Man!—————–Just call me an Old School believer of the Faith.——————————————— And therefore, here is the Line! And this is the reason why it is here!…. Because, I made up my mind, I have chosen, and I made – a very personal line, … I drew that line, in the sand here. ———————————————— and Yes, I am very happy where I drew it for myself. …I encourage all to make up their own minds. (1 Kings 18:21) Choose who is your God! I did!… Study Gods word! … make up your own mind. … and you .. do you!
• Just what is a Post-Modernist … They believe most everything created by a Western educational practice or culture, is bad, and must be destroyed, torn down, thrown away, and without research or question, they think, even History should be discarded, or worse, we should let an approved Revisionist Recreate everything from scratch. There is an implied, burn the books mentality about everything that disagrees with, or challenges their Group Think methodology which only promotes and shares a desire, for a Godless-Removal of the Old Ways, making way for creating a Morality Void Utopian State. FYI… I am an opponent to any idea of removing God from our society and/or culture.
• Just what is a Secular Humanist … They feel that in-order for humans to progress, they must surrender an archaic belief in a faith/God. (T.B. Wakeman) even wanted all Christians to be thrown in jail. Non-secular Humanists aren’t all bad, and granted, they usually are not always Secular-Humanists. Simply said, about the non-secular humanist, they have a very high view of Man. They believe, that there is actual good in humans to do good aside from God. I see possibilities of the human race doing good stuff here. I also believe that, like wise, a lot of evil is from Human conduct, not the Devil. And you should not say, “The Devil made me do it, nonsense!” Part of any humanist belief should be having the guts to take responsibility for your own actions before blaming God, Religion, or even other humans. Not all professing non-secular humanist are closed to God possibilities, they, (some of them) even openly wrestle with a belief in a God, and some may attain a slight belief in the possibility of faith in a deity/God. This is called Agnosticism. Where one, is simply open, to the possibilities of allowing for a faith to develop. Non-secular Humanist, tend to be more Agnostic, where Secular-Humanist tend to be more Atheistic. “In their personal views”. This is only my personal observation of the two. Most important: Remember this is America. And everyone is entitled to his/her own belief or personal views.

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