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Success Principles for the New Year from Carl Sommer of Advance Publishing

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Following up from Carl Sommer, teacher to educational reformer, to machine shop guru, to award winning publisher and Christian broadcaster, Carl Sommer has had a wonderful life. It didn’t start out that way. He had a rough start from his home of origin. Then, he served New York as a teacher, until he took off a year to study what was wrong. His book on the subject made an impact and he moved his family to Texas. There, he decided a teacher’s salary couldn’t support 5 children, so he started a machine shop. In 2017,when I interviewed him, it was the best and biggest in the nation. One son ran that while the other ran the publishing house.  Great books, suitable for public school libraries that snuck in good values. He was also producing children’s programming for TBn at the time.

You will want to hear his story. And buy his stories at www.advancepublishing.com

 

Mothering and Salvation

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The problems that mothers feel the most have changed over the years. Back in the 1980s we were tormented that our children were not doing well in school. In the early 2000s, we learned that “learning disabilities” were common. We were then puzzled why we were having so many physiological issues that “no one knew about.” We began to be locked into controversy about whether vaccines caused autism. By the 20 tens we were just overwhelmed by the massive problems our children were having. In the 2020 we are flabberghasted at the problems that society is bringing us. We just hope our children are not raped, mutilated, or alienated from us. We think now that learning problems like “learning disabilities” are largely dealt with. We are exhausted.

The root cause of everything is evil in the world, brokenness of humanity. Wouldn’t it be great if there were one over-arching solution? Good news. There is. We call it salvation. Today, for most people, this word has a strange, religious smell to it. It means rescue! In Central America, there is a beer named “Salvation” because there the refreshing quality of a cold beer could find no better term!  Salvation is rescue, it is refreshing, it is also a total renewal of reality.

As mothers, as grandmothers, as educators, we sure need a resurrection out of decay, dirtiness, and darkness.  Jesus is there. He brought it to us. Came down from heaven to walk among us humans, to offer His Divine Hand.

Hear how this could apply in your child’s life.

Blessings.

She Was NOT “Kicked Out” of Class — How to Handle Controversy in College

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Keying off a post on X.com that sparked a big controversy about ideological indoctrination in colleges and universities, I teach you how to handle controversies in class as a college student. I also expose the trickery in this particular post and how the controversy got sparked. I even give you some tips about how to be effective in the controversy about sexualization and leftist indoctrination in college.Charlie Kirk was effective because he was truthful and knowlegable.

NOTICE AND AVOID DISTRACTION THAT DETRACTS FROM YOUR LIFE

Some people want to make hay by … spin. Other want to pick our pockets or worse while distracting us by getting us to fight with each other. Find out how to avoid this.

So, the incident a couple of weeks ago claimed that a student was kicked out of class for refusing to go along with sexual indoctrination. Actually what the video showed was the professor agreeing to let the student leave, after the student makes some outrageously ignorant comments. She was not kicked out. We don’t have enough of the video to actually know the professor was up to.  What we do hear is not adept, but without context we can not judge that she was indoctrinating the student. Maybe she was, but everyone in the story handled themselves badly.

HERE IS HOW TO PROCEED IN A MORE EFFECTIVE MANNER

Here is how to do better.

Controversy is a must as a subject in college. It is a must because one will face societal controversies when one graduates and becomes a professional. Perhaps that is what the university president meant to say. We don’t know. What we know are a very few words, again, taken out of context. Not a good look.

Just like the student didn’t seem to know the rules of the game of college classroom, so the politician didn’t seem to know the rules of the game about college administration. The college president has no control, or shouldn’t, over the teaching in the classroom.  We already had ongoing controversies about academic freedom and tenure. The politician who started this might indeed know the game of political “gotcha” with regard to media. That is not how we want to controvert issues, not how we want to be lead, and certainly not the kind of character we want to govern.

Let’s get into it.

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Related to this episode,please notice my book on how to not lose your faith while in college.

https://www.lulu.com/search?page=1&sortBy=RELEVANCE&q=not+to+not+lose+your+faith+in+college+sharon+sarles&pageSize=10&adult_audience_rating=00

Also, a teaching series on how to teach (whether your children or your students) in these dangerous times. It is an exegesis of 2 Timothy 1 and 2.  Go to shop. Notice we have a sale.

 

Grooming the Next Generation for Success – Dani Johnson

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One of our most popular episodes was when Dani Johnson visited with us about her then new book: Grooming the Next Generation for Success. Prescient. Yes, she was ahead of the curve. Today, I trust you see how important this is.

By contrast, one of my most recent episodes, titled “Children are Important” has been one of my least listened to episodes. Ahem. Yes, this shows the values of society. How many times did I se, even years ago, women spend lots of money on cheap jewelry but nothing on education for their children. How many times have relatively wealthy people told me they didn’t have money for private school. Children are important.

Your children are important to y our future. But children in general are “the canary in the coal mine” for the whole society.

And stuff is coming out now.

Next week we are going to replay Dani’s episode with us that was her crusade against porn. Folks we need to make our children “ungroomable.” More about this the following week. Also, you may see some changes around here. Tune in again, please.

For now, here is Dani’s book: Grooming the Next Generation for Success

And for Dani now: https://www.danijohnson.com/    Please let’s do pray for Dani. She is younger than I am; I am sure God and Dani have even more great plans. Let’ pray for ourselves, that we take up the inspiration, and the torch, and the work.