October 2021
By Seth Halpern/Editor We love choices. I know I donât like to be limited to small (or no) selection of items on a menu or in a grocery store. Iâm not looking for just tortillas. Iâm looking for Mission Tortillas and not the regular ones- only the Carb Balance Flour Soft Taco sized tortillas! How about you? Do you like to have a selection so that you can make YOUR Choice? A friend of ours who lived in Kazakhstan noted that the grocery stores had what she needed but there was no choice- only 1 kind of whatever she needed- eggs, bread, mayo. Iâm not sure that they even had tortillas in Kazakhstan but Iâm willing to bet that they didnât have Mission Carb Balance Soft Taco Flour tortillas!
Yes, we Americanâs love our choices whether itâs tortillas or milk or clothing or anything else. We also love our rights. Rights and choices are very closely related. Itâs about Freedom, which is an extremely high value among Americans. We want (and fight for) the right to parent our children the way we see fit. We want the right to
October is Pastor Appreciation Month. Remember to honor your pastor for the calling and hard work they do for us and for the Kingdom of God. Check out the âPastor Appreciationâ notes throughout this issue. what we eat and drink as well as How we eat and drink it- (think fast food, soda and straws). After all, we are adults. We can vote, we can serve in
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the military. We should be able to live our lives the way we want without rules on our personal lives mandated by the government. Of course, there are some things that should not be ok, such as crimes or abuse against another person (or animal). Thatâs why even though we want our rights, we usually agree that it must not hurt another. This is where we
get into the sticky issue of abortion. If you donât believe that a growing baby in the womb is âanotherâ person, you may want your ârightâ to do as you
please with your body. However, with modern science, itâs hard to dispute the fact that âanother personâ is growing in the pregnant womanâs body. At any rate, the term âpro-choiceâ comes from that same desire for rights and choices for our lives. Now we have âvaccine mandatesâ being thrust upon us. For many, their livelihood may be hanging in the balance. Some say this is a good thing in order to protect the masses. Many, many others are pushing back as a violation of our rights. They canât take away my choice to NOT vaccinate, right? This is seen as a government power grab and over-reach. The issue
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