Craig Mathews

Father of 3 boys. Grandfather of 5 boys and 3 girls. Stepgrandfather of 1girl. Believer and follower of Jesus. Pastor and joining Jesus to build His kingdom.

[Craig Mathews @crgmthws]

@Borja_dobleG They have every right to spend every last dime.

[Hillbilly @JamesHu27192912]

Written by a 26 year old‼️

WE HAVE A PROBLEM: This is a well written and thought out article written by a 26 yr old college student by the name of Alyssa Ahlgren, who's in grad school for her MBA. What a GREAT perspecitve...

My Generation Is Blind to the Prosperity Around Us!
I'm sitting in a small coffee shop near Nokomis (Florida) trying to think of what to write about. I scroll through my newsfeed on my phone looking at the latest headlines of presidential candidates calling for policies to "fix" the so-called injustices of capitalism. I put my phone down and continue to look around.

I see people talking freely, working on their MacBook's, ordering food they get in an instant, seeing cars go by outside, and it dawned on me. We live in the most privileged time in the most prosperous nation and we've become completely blind to it.

Vehicles, food, technology, freedom to associate with whom we choose.These things are so ingrained in our American way of life we don't give them a second thought.

We are so well off here in the United States that our poverty line begins 31 times above the global average. Thirty One Times!!!

Virtually no one in the United States is considered poor by global standards. Yet, in a time where we can order a product off Amazon with one click and have it at our doorstep the next day, we are unappreciative, unsatisfied, and ungrateful. ??

Our unappreciation is evident as the popularity of socialist policies among my generation continues to grow. Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez recently said to Newsweek talking about the millennial generation, "An entire generation, which is now becoming one of the largest electorates in America, came of age and never saw American prosperity."

Never saw American prosperity! Let that sink in.

When I first read that statement, I thought to myself, that was quite literally the most entitled and factually illiterate thing I've ever heard in my 26 years on this earth. Many young people agree with her, which is entirely misguided.

My generation is being indoctrinated by a mainstream narrative to actually believe we have never seen prosperity. I know this first hand, I went to college, let's just say I didn't have the popular opinion, but I digress.

Why then, with all of the overwhelming evidence around us, evidence that I can even see sitting at a coffee shop, do we not view this as prosperity? We have people who are dying to get into our country.

People around the world destitute and truly impoverished. Yet, we have a young generation convinced they've never seen prosperity, and as a result, we elect some politicians who are dead set on taking steps towards abolishing capitalism.

Why? The answer is this,?? my generation has only seen prosperity. We have no contrast. We didn't live in the great depression, or live through two world wars, the Korean War, The Vietnam War or we didn't see the rise and fall of socialism and communism.

We don't know what it's like to live without the internet, without cars, without smartphones. We don't have a lack of prosperity problem. We have an entitlement problem, an ungratefulness problem, and it's spreading like a plague." #pleaseshare

[Brother Rachid الأخ رشيد @BrotherRasheed]

The Persecution That Doesn’t Make the Headlines

I am a Muslim convert to Christianity. I lived for 15 years as a Christian believer in Morocco, much of that time in what we called the underground church.

Listen carefully, because this is what “moderate Islam” looked like for us:

Morocco is considered one of the most moderate Muslim countries. That is true compared with Mauritania and Libya, where converts from Islam face the death penalty, or Egypt, Jordan, Syria, the West Bank, Saudi Arabia, the UAE, and Pakistan, where converts face imprisonment, torture, intimidation, or severe persecution.

But here is the reality of “moderate” Morocco.

We gathered secretly in homes every Sunday because churches were for foreign Christians, not Moroccan converts. We sang in low voices so the neighbors would not hear us. We arrived two at a time to avoid suspicion. If anyone asked, we pretended it was simply a gathering of family and friends.

We baptized converts in bathtubs.

I was baptized in a bathtub myself. A missionary and a few Moroccan Christians were the only people present.

We kept our house churches small, usually fewer than twenty people. When they became too large, we split them. Christmas and a few special occasions were exceptions.

Police raided Christian gatherings, confiscated Christian materials, dragged believers to police stations, interrogated them, threatened them, and humiliated them with vulgar language.

Our children had to go to school and study Islam and memorize the Quran even though their parents were Christians.

We could not freely give our children Christian names. The government did not need to write “Christian names are forbidden” in bold letters. The authorities simply refused to register them.

Our marriages were treated as Islamic marriages under Sharia because the Moroccan state refused to recognize us for what we actually were: Moroccan Christians.

A Moroccan Christian woman could not simply marry a foreign Christian man as a Christian. He had to establish before the authorities that he was Muslim because, according to the government, she was still a Muslim.

The state decided our religion for us.

Even death did not end it.

When a Moroccan Christian died, he was buried in a Muslim cemetery under Islamic rituals because the government still considered him Muslim. I remember one Moroccan Christian who died in Tangier. We had to do the impossible to get his body to Ceuta so he could receive a Christian funeral.

Imagine having to smuggle your religious identity across a border just to be buried according to your own faith.

We could not establish our own legal Moroccan churches. We could not get permission to build even one church for Moroccan converts. Our house churches were illegal gatherings. We lived at the mercy of the police. Any meeting could be raided. Any neighbor could report us.

Foreign Christians had churches.

Moroccan Christians had secrecy, whispers, living rooms, bathtubs, police interrogations, and fear.

And then Muslims lecture the West about “Islamophobia.”

Spare me.

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[Johnny Midnight ⚡️ @its_The_Dr]

Dolly Parton Delivered her Pet Peeves.

[CaliRN619 🚑🩺🚑 @CaliRN619]

Why could GenX afford to buy a house and you can’t?

We bought ourselves cars that barely ran and learned to to fix them with duct tape and baling wire.

Most of you refused to learn to drive and when you finally did, Mommy bought you one and still pays for your gas and insurance.

We lived 6 people to a 1 bedroom so we could move out at 18.

You’ll live with Mommy until you’re 40 because you can’t share a bathroom much less a bedroom.

We got our first “real” job at 14 and have worked 2-3 jobs at a time through school and will until the day we finally retire or die.

You won’t start working until you’re 25 and you cry on day 3 if you haven’t been promoted or if you don’t get praised because you showed up.

We had a 13% interest rate and earned about $500 a week for a full time, above minimum wage job.

You cry about 6% and you’ve never worked a minimum wage job because you think it’s beneath you.

We learned very early on how to regulate our time, our money, and our emotions.

You believe you’re the main character and that your big feelings require others to regulate so you don’t have to.

You want a house? Stop whining and figure it out like every other generation has had to.

[Doge Tipping @Dogetothemoon]

This interview will aged well. For those people who ask what is Elon Musk doing with his money? He is a trillionaire now. Here's the best answer for it.

Joy Behar: "Less than 0.1% of Elon's total net worth is actual cash sitting in a bank. That is around $1 billion or $2 billion at most. The remaining 99.9% consists of shares and ownership in companies such as SpaceX, Tesla, and others.

Those companies have created more than 160,000 direct jobs, over 600,000 indirect jobs through their supply chains, and well over 500,000 additional jobs through broader economic activity. If we do the math, at least one million people around the world are able to put food on the table because of jobs created by Elon's companies.

On the other hand, Joy, you are reportedly worth $30 million. Unlike Elon, you have not founded or owned a scalable company that creates jobs. Most, if not all, of that $30 million is likely accessible money that could be spent. Thirty million dollars is generational wealth.

As you just said, “Are you going to live forever?” Elon is not going to live forever, and neither are you. Why are you not giving away your money? With just one-third of it, you could probably feed 3,000 people for an entire year.

In your case, when it comes to cake, that would be cake for breakfast, lunch, and dinner. Cake for life. So, Joy, you have $30 million. When does your giveaway begin?"

[Craig Mathews @crgmthws]

@NickFondacaro Do they not realize that when America first started the government was made up by ordinary citizens and NOT politicians? When did it become politicized that you had to be a politician in order to be in government?

[Craig Mathews @crgmthws]

@ELee1973 @NickFondacaro Clearly they no nothing about government

[Craig Mathews @crgmthws]

@JayGenXer Sweden was able to do it.

[Craig Mathews @crgmthws]

@nahuelzn Very true. And very sad. I currently have a grandson playing on a club team in Houston. His parents struggle to keep him in the program because of fees angled the cost of tournaments out of city and even out of state.

[Nahuel Lanzón @nahuelzn]

🇺🇸 Le preguntaron a Landon Donovan por qué Estados Unidos no produce mejores jugadores. Su respuesta es clara: el pay to play atenta contra eso.

"Si no ganás 50 mil dólares, tu hijo no puede jugar fútbol.

Mi mamá ganaba 34 mil dólares al año, madre soltera criando a tres hijos. No podía pagar 4 mil dólares para que yo jugara en clubes.

Pero alguien me dejó entrar al equipo y pagó por mí. De lo contrario, no habría podido."

[Shadow Intel @TheShadowIntelX]

Elon Musk just put the entire university system on trial.

Not the curriculum. Not the professors. The premise.

Musk: “You don’t need college to learn stuff. Everything is available basically for free. You can learn anything you want for free.”

For a thousand years, universities held one monopoly. Access. You paid the toll or you stayed ignorant.

The internet erased that in a decade.

Every lecture. Every framework. Every textbook. Free. From any screen on Earth.

The six-figure tuition is no longer buying knowledge. It is buying a signal.

Musk: “There is a value that colleges have, which is seeing whether somebody can work hard at something, including a bunch of annoying homework assignments, and still do their homework assignments.”

That is the product. Not intelligence. Not creativity. Not vision. Compliance.

You are paying $200,000 to prove you can tolerate bureaucracy on a schedule.

Musk: “Colleges are basically for fun and to prove you can do your chores. But they’re not for learning.”

The entire system is a sorting machine for corporate HR. It does not measure what you can build. It measures whether you can sit still, follow directions, and deliver on command.

Four years of obedience dressed as education.

Musk: “If you’re trying to do something exceptional, you must have evidence of exceptional ability. I don’t consider going to college evidence of exceptional ability.”

The system optimizes for average. It rewards the compliant. It certifies the patient. It quietly filters out everyone who refuses to wait for permission.

The ones who reshaped the modern world never finished the test.

Musk: “Gates is a pretty smart guy, he dropped out. Jobs is pretty smart, he dropped out. Larry Ellison, smart guy, he dropped out.”

They did not drop out because it was too hard. They dropped out because the speed limit was too low.

The most dangerous thing a university does is convince a generational talent that finishing the syllabus is the achievement.

It is not. It is the floor.

A degree is a receipt for compliance. The future has never belonged to people who finish their homework. It belongs to the on

[Craig Mathews @crgmthws]

@TheHost_ At all the Costcos I have been to - food and drink are ordered at a kiosk where you pay by card. You are given a number which they call for you to get your order.

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@newkitchenpls @luxemiaa I begin to feel claustrophobic with not just my shade but all the shades down even at night. I feel more secure with the shade open.

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@JesseBWatters
Who, why, had the sign that said Black people aren’t apes at the beginning of the speech.

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@JesseBWatters
The deeper divide between Republicans an Ed the progressive far left Dems is Globalism

[Craig Mathews @crgmthws]

@gotrice2024 The only way the mortgage - that is what you owe on principle go up is if you have an Adjustable Rate Mortgage. Often homeowner’s insurance and local taxes also are part of the mortgage payment. That is probably what went up was one of those two.

[Craig Mathews @crgmthws]

@jwinterscom I agree. Yes it is.

[Craig Mathews @crgmthws]

@lancelle_greg @atensnut I thought KC Royals had the smallest market.

[Craig Mathews @crgmthws]

@jwinterscom I think when he said this is a partial key to understanding it. Remember his intention was not to rebel but to reform - to get the church back into the truth of Scripture and not on the traditions of man.