Joel Engelsma

 Western expansion made America what it is today without the west we wouldn't have half the resources America has to today. The western movement effected the government simply by channeling greed into something good \ Many great people came from the west Custer the Indian chiefs and Daniel Boone.

 They wanted their own land and kept getting cheated on by the white man. At the start, Nicodemus had three dollars in his treasury. Science answers  1. The primary thing pushing mass wasting is water and humans. 2. A rockslide occurs when rocks slide only a short distance, while rockfalls occur when rocks fall for much longer distances and are instances of mass wasting. 3. The primary ones are if humans have removed roots, trees, and vegetation from hills, which loosens up the soil, and after rain, mass wasting can occur. The same thing can happen with a river that is right below a hill, which can cause erosion and mass wasting. 4. A rockslide is where rocks slide from mass wasting. 5. A rockfall is where rocks fall from mass wasting longer distances. 6. we contribute to mass wasting by removing the trees with the roots alongside hills this loosens and gets ride of the structural integrity of the hills causing mass wasting.

 My place on immigration is this.  I think there should be an open border with relatively simple ways to get in a simple background check and a photo id then we just put a record in the country of you this way we vet a lot of people that would be dangerous if they want to stay in America its as simple as going to a secretary of state office and getting citizenship.

 I liked the stories at the start about the "doctor" and how the account had been preserved and not so preserved over time.  I like how he went out by himself when he was young and attempted to make it nd the luck he got and the wisdom he could attain at such a young age.  This book was a work of somebody who gave everything for his country and he still echos with us today.

 Historians have used the term Gilded Age for the period right after the Civil War and on because it is clear that there was a lot of money in those days.  During this time there was rampant paying people off just so you could get a better part in politics most politicians were very rich and used their position to gain more and more wealth. This was also when there was an economic boom things started ramping up in factories and everywhere but especially in America because it had so many untamed resources at the time.  the use of this term guilded age was a very good and useful term to describe what was happening at the controversial but very important economic time.  The guided age will go down in history as extremely important and it shows what we should not be doing when we become politicians.

 There are two points that I must go over that led to the industrial rev First the demand the demand of products was going up. Also boosting that was the supply there was a ton of supplies from America tons and tons of raw materials could be converted into things. Lastly technology had gotten to the point where these massive buildings could be raised and hundreds of workers employed as well as the railroad that grew massive during this time time was being saved therefore giving more time to work. 

 The Reconstruction I belive was something America had to go through. I would say it did what it needed to do freeing all the African Americans just because the African Americans had never been free they didn't know hoe to act so they had a lot of issues with making money and such like that.

 The Reconstruction was a very tumultuous time in the history of America. it happened directly after the Civil War it got started during the war by President Abraham Lincoln and he even had an amazing setup planned for the reconstruction. Sadly it never happened because of his untimely death at the hands of John Wilkes Booth. His predecessor Andrew Johnson followed the plans of Reconstruction that Abraham Lincoln had planned out. The steps that Andrew Jhonson took were very lenient in terms of dealing with the south he thought that he could just bring them back into the union and free all the slaves. Yet there were people in the senate called the radical republicans that hated how lenient he was and tried passing several bills that allowed them control of the southern land even going so far as to put generals in charge of the southern states but instead of them as states they would be five districts all run by separate generals.

 Todau im writing about my favorite childhood memory i really liked when we moved to the second house I ever lived in and we had some woods so it was super fun. We had a friend over for some reason and decided to dig a hold in the woods. We ended up digging down four or so feet and it was awesome we hit clay and it was so cool just going out there and seeing that hole getting bigger and bigger.

 Separate but equal is a term thrown around by congress a long time ago during reconstruction after the Civil War it basically means that somehow African Americans are both separate and equal. Those two words don't belong I a sentence rogthor I don't know how congress thought that was a good idea I guess back then things were different though because that's what they did and everything backfired on them. they had to change it in the fourteenth amendment overstepping the thirteenth amendment 

 Today I will be speaking about studying. There are many ways to study for a test of any kind. Now always the best way to study is to do repetition over and over of the work that you will be tested on. This method has been proven repeatedly to come out on top. There are however to make this method a lot more interesting as it is the most boring of studying methods. The first one I have is flashcards. They add this randomness to repetition, which works very well because of how random it is. You can make flashcards out of anything just be sure to mix them up well. 

 Today I read the first 64 verses of pslam 119 and its interesting in how the bible is set up we have one of the biggest pslams right next to one of the smallest psalms 

 Today I read psalms 115 to 118 and the shortest psalm is in it psalm 117 is two verses and is a praise psalm. all of these songs were praise songs and the fist one actually mocked the people who worshipped false gods.

 Today I read through three or four pretty short psalms all praise psalms that would be pretty easy to memorize. It was cool there was one verse that said the ear of the LORD is the beginning of knowledge which Is also talked a lot more in proverbs.

 Psalm 109  This is one of that psalms I forget the name but it partially calls curses down on he song writer's enemy but at the end, it turns to praise and exultation to the LORD.

 Psalms 107 is a continuation of the story of the Israelites in the dessert and it ends where they are fighting for there land its full of praise for the Lord changing desserts into oceans and lush land. 

 psalm 106 Starts out with praise to God. Then, it goes through the story of how the Israelites were saved and how they disobeyed God. I feel like this is a common theme in a lot of psalms. 

 Psalm 105 is a story-like song it tells how God rescued the Israelites from the Egyptians and it goes through the plagues God brought upon the Egyptians.

 Today in the bible I read a very obvious praise psalm. Pslam 104 is a very obvious praise pslam and it mentions Levithan which I thought was cool. This song reminds you that you should always be singing a joyful noise unto the Lord for what he has done for us through his son Jesus Christ. 

 The great reconstruction after the civil war. After the bloodiest war America had ever seen took place president Abraham Lincoln decided he was to start a grand reconstruction of the southern states and it was extremely generous. Sadly president Lincoln never was actually able to finish is work as he was assisanmated a few days after. His vice president or now [resident johnin's did in fact try to do it with a few minor changes to the idea. The senate and congress came down hard on him though because they thought it would be better for a more militaristic approach making the southern states military states.  

 Today were going to talk about the dutch during the settling of America now the dutch came relatively late because remember the big thing with America was that it was much freer than most other countries they didn't have an issue with this but they enjoyed a good deal of freedom anyways in the Netherlands they were the freest country out there at the moment and at that time enjoyed a surplus of immigrant to there a small plot of land. 

 Today for sermon Sunday we had a guest preacher for our morning service and he did a very good job. We talked about the number seven and how it was the completeness and we talked about the church in Revelations that was surrounded by mountains there was this smugness because people knew that it was extremely difficult to take this city it also was important for commerce so there was quite a bit of wealth as well.

 Today for sermon Sunday I am going to talk about the evening service and it was about cursing and swearing unnecessary oaths. He talked about how when you sin you double the sin by not carrying God's name with honor so you sin once then you also automatically commit the third commandment of sin as well. The Heidelberg catechism said it we should try very hard to not use God's name in vain because there was a death penalty in Israel if you did. God gave us his name and that is a great privilege and we should not mess with that privilege in any way. 

 Today for nonfiction I am going to talk about our church our church is in the URC denomination meaning united reformed church and you could add America on there but I think there are some URC churches in Canada as well so wouldn't fit really well. We a re a formed denomination that it pretty big especially in Michigan but there are also churches in California and a couple other states over that way. 

 For sermon Sunday I am going to talk about the morning sermon and this one is still on the Joseph series. This is also the part of the story when Josephs brothers go down to Egypt to get some grain because they were in a severe famine.  Josephs saw them walk into the place where they were selling grain and the first thing he says he accuses them of being spies to look at the weak parts of the land of Egypt.  Remember Joseph basically could do anything to his brothers Joseph basically has absolute power over everyone in Egypt besides the Pharaoh.  Joseph could have snapped his fingers and his brothers heads would roll. 

 Today I am going to keep talking about the history of America and America is slowly ever so slowly getting settled people are seeing opportunity and an insane amount of freedom in America and people don't yet know how big America actually is just uncharted land that you can take for nothing it's just up to you and whoever you bring with you to tame it. 

 For sermon sunday today we talked about king nebuchadnezzar. In the chapter where he there Shadrach shack and Abedinigo into the fire furnace and he saw four people saw Jesus standing with the three friends. The pastor talked about the plain of dura which was our field trip to this massive statue towering over everything the only thing that was also there was the blazing hot furnace that was probably a kiln.

 I learned a new kata yesterday and it is called sokugi chudan and its really cool that I got to know alt this kata but I would much rather just work on the kata that I know and figure everything g out with it and perfect it that's how I like to do things sometimes I feel like there just cramming things into your head. 

 The second yip[ test in my karate style is probably by far the hardest tip rest requires a lot of memorization and has the kata and our set self-defenses which are basically a framework for what you can do to someone to show what works and what doesn't. 

 Sermn Sunday today I am going to talk about the fening sermon guest pastor. It was about eijah and how he lived by this book where ravens came and fed him bread and meat and he drnk from the brook and we learned this is the practice of patience because it took him a long time and he could just sit there and weit for his next meal waiting for God. 

 That is John leppelamsn story in his three years in Vietnam he was a 101st paratrooper army then an army seaman in the elite LRRP army squad unit. he left to tell the tale. When he got home however the entire country had gone queer. He has a story of a man who put his hand on his thigh and the man was like I hope you don't mind and his answer was you either take your hand off my thigh or I cut it off as he pulled out his combat knife. 

 Today were going to go back to john Lippman this man is now in the team of six lrrp additions going out to post days trying to make contact with the enemy and they have pretty good success even though john doesn't make a lot of of contacts they are masking a lot kills and making things much safer for the other people in the military. After doing this for a while he gets extremely sick and has to leave Vietnam wich is something he really didn't want to do because he knew he would be going back to the united states. 

 The Indians are being slaughtered by the colonists this is not yet when ur9ng the revolution during this time the Americans still under England had far more freedom than the people in Britain had. They were left relatively to themselves as long as Britain got its taxes and its wool and furs and stuff that America got shipped out. Britain is hanging onto power only through America if they didn't have a lot of control over America then Britain would be nothing just a poor little country. 

 Today I am going to talk about American history again. I am going to talk about the multiple wars with the Indians while settling in America there were tons of times that we had to fight the Indians on their property sometimes we would make them mad and we would attack them or vice versa mostly it was them attacking us. There were many war crimes that we committed against the Indians that could be topped. Multiple times Americans went in and murmured all the children and women in a village and presidents would herald it as something great. 

 For a sermon Sunday today, I am going to talk about the evening service and it was about all Ten Commandments. We talked about how all of the commands were most likely on each of the stone tablets our Heidelberg catechism says that there were four on one and six on the other one this theory is most likely the least likely one because remember the ten commandments were kind of like a contract o each side in this contract they would be God and man. 

 John Leppelam is now in the US Army lrrp the elite army long-range ranger rescue unit the training was extremely different and intense the teams were small only consisting of six people. Their kill rate was the highest ever in the war. These were one set of people that were miles better than the Vietnamese. The Vietnamese had always had the name of the world's best guerrillas they stood zero chance against these lrrps battalions. These LRRP battalions were the people you called up when you needed vitmanse exterminated they would go out nights on an end setting up ambushe sresaearching and sending in enemy top positions. 

 Today I am going to talk about john leppeman nd he was on these boats during the test offensive digging and giving supplies to people and shooting a blowing things up in an as pretty safe way. After that, he decided to do something more useful with his life so he joined the lrrp special troops these people are basically army rangers just called something else at the moment. 

 Today were going to keep going over the history of the inited states and where going to start where we left off with England being late to colonization of the us but somehow still having the most people and prosperous colonies there. There are a couple reasons for this firstly the way England traded with people was very different than how normal people traded second there we these, massive companies called the long company which was an India company and there were a couple more. Basically, these companies would get paid money to start colonies and you would hopefully get a massive return on investment in resources and money maybe gold. 

 Today I am going to talk about the history of the United States and the different countries that were in charge of bringing people to us first three countries started before the English. These three were Spain France and the Dutch.  the English became in earlier the only reason they were able to take over a lot of America because they had trade routes and rules and these bg companies that got paid to get tons of money. 

 Sermon Sunday yesterday we had the first of a series on Joseph and his eleven brothers and it was about his dreams his messed up family and how god was working to create the nation of Israel in Egypt. His first points were on the messed up family that Joseph had and all the adultery that that family had had. 

 John Lerppelman is always on point duty sleeping barely four hours a night in vitamin knowing that one day if he keeps this up he will in fact get shot and poisoned or in some other way come out of these missions on a helicopter in a bodybag he needs to get out that's where his friend and him decide to enlist for army seamen giving supplies to people during the test offensive and that's where we left off. 

 Today I am going to talk about the history of America as we know it today. From Columbus setting sail to the current war on terrorism. First the settlements in the new world after Columbus found it. Many settlem,nts didn't get off the ground but there where many that flourished and kept growing at a rapid pace. There were three main people interested in the new world this was the Spanish the English and the french. The English actually got into the game later than everyone else and still succeeded in having better skeletons but that is another story for another time. 

Today I am going to talk about the morning sermon and I'm not going to tell you the text because my dad didn't cite the text once so it probably wasn't that important. He talked about how membership is a key part of the church being just an attendee isn't enough. You have to stand up in front of the church and publicly pronounce your faith in christ. Then you can enter into the church wich is christ's body.  

 John Leppelman on the oats/,. So John is on the boats and he is on these boats during Tet Offensive. S o they had to resupply some people in a city that had been the main object of the enemy and almost every time they made a supply drop they were under tons of fire from one side of the river and sometimes both sides of the river even where they had to land there might be attackers the marines there held out for an extremely long time with John Lepplman and his crew giving them supplies.

 Today I am going to talk about the basics of working out. First, you must know the term progressive overload. This term is used all of the time. You are basically guaranteed to not build as much muscle if you don't progressive overload. but what is progressive overload? Basically, it's adding more weight or repetitions over time to an exercise if you do ten pushups hopefully the next time you do eleven or more then that.  Now you know that term you must choose a split for your choice this will depend on how often you want to workout. Some people find it optimal for them to workout every day others find it more optimal to workout three times a week. A general rule is to workout at least three times a weak. The most popular split is push-pull legs meaning on the days you workout you do your push muscles in your chest triceps shoulders. Then you have a rest day. The next day you do your pull muscles which are your back muscles also some shoulders and biceps and some forearms. Th...

Today I am ging to talk about the colonization of this fort in between this fork in the Misipsi they were surrounded by swamps. They had all sorts of malaria-related diseases and almost every summer tons of people would die so finally the commander of this fort put everyone in a very disciplined routine and they lowered the percentages of everybody dying. Then he asked for help from England and they sent shipfulls of goods over. They fought the Indians a ton and over time however they became kind of friends but more friendly then they were. 

 According to sun tzu, there are three ways to use fire in the art of war. The first is to burn the soldiers in the camp. The second is to burn the baggage in camp. The third is to burn the baggage trains as they move from place to place. Note do not light the fire when you are downwind. Always have the wind blowing towards where you want to burn things. Using water you can attack the enemy but you cannot take their belongings. Remember one part of the enemy's baggage is worth two of your own. 

 Sermon Sunday the morning sermon was by my dad and it was the pre-good Friday sermon because this Friday is going to be good Friday. The day that mot Christians take to be the day that Jesus either died or rose from the dead I think it died. We don't actually have this exact date this date isn't the exact time Jesus died but we use this date. It's the idea that we worship When Jesus died but we don't know what day he died so we use good Friday. 

 The penny is useless. Today I am going to give you some reasons why the penny is useless and is hurting the economy. First, the penny is going backward. It actually costs more money to make a penny than the penny is actually worth. The penny costs about one point eight cents to make one cent. So we are losing money on the penny. Also, it is a time waster studies have shown that when someone has to pay with pennies at the register they waste an acreage of 2.5 seconds at the register than fourteen minutes in the year. Not to mention the people behind you still waiting to pay for the groceries. 

 John leppelman is stumbling through th jungle with next to no sleep and he is expected to somehow kill or capture vitnamaese it was preoperstwerous he finally decided to get out whule he could he reporteded to a new job on boats these boats were kind of like tug boats just more heavily srmed and armored. The job was pretty easy and he got to lounge arund on a boat all day which was way better then running around in the jungle. This is where he was during the tet offensive. 

 Today for sermon Sunday I am going to talk about the morning sermon and its on prayer. First of all our church has the habit of only the pastor but the bible explicitly says that all the men should have a turn in the prayer.  Another thing is that when someone asks you to pray for them you do it on the spot and doesn't wait at all.

 For my book, I am going to continue the book Blood on the Risers. We left off with this man named John Leppelman in the 182-second airborne division. He is here for a couple months but he can't stand it. It's extremely dangerous and they weren't getting anywhere because the Vietnamese would just leave. The Vietnamese were expert guerilla warriors and they used it to full effect. The leadership was horrible being made to do watch duty three or four nights in a row when you're already shot from trudging around the jungle all day. 

  Vlood on the Riser is a book about a man who stayed in Vietnam for three years and in his three years there he served as a member of 182 airborne paratrooper division a seamen with small carrier boats. In the end, he served as an LRRPv Which is short for long-range ranger patrol. This group is no longer a thing this group got merged with arm ringers. These people did basically the same thing and they did it with only six men per company. He starts out in the book in the 182-second Ariborn decisions as a new guy who has no idea what he is doing also he is given the radio,. 

 I have started reding this massive history of America. It's about seven hundred pages and starts around Columbus finding America and ends around the war on terrorism. So its pretty big which is cool. This is the first time I have read a bok about real stuff that's actually been big and it's pretty technical so I don't try to memorize all the dates and people. My history is pretty good though I know most of the names and places they talk about. 

 For sermon Sunday I am going to talk about.  In the evening service, we had a guest pastor. He is the pastor of Alto urc which is actually the church I am going to task with so that going to be fun hearing and seeing him again. his sermon was on exodus 24 and it was about how worship is important to God because there are books and chapters in the bible all on the idea of worship and how to worship. 

  Yesterday we had chair defense on street week and I strained my hip flexor sort of.  We were doing al sorts of choke hold holds and stuff to do when you're in a crowded seat like church or something like that. We were doing these wrist grabs stuff and how to put people in wrist logs and armlocks and stuff like that. 

 This week at the dojo is street week which is always fun because we can just wear our normal street clothes.  On Thursdays at the dojo, we have a seminar week where we learn some special form of self-defense. This week its chair defense. This means learning how to defend yourselves when sitting in a chair and not sitting upon it. 

 Sun Tzu says in his book if you travel over fifty li with or army only one-tenth will make it if you travel thirty li with your army only two-thirds will make it and baggage will be lost. He also says to deliberate and think before you move. When you do move, move quickly and attack without warning. Make your plans as dark as the night. If you cannot understand or use the terrain to your benefit you will be lost. Use the locals as guides so you may know the best way to attack. 

 I am reading The Art of War by Sun Tzu and it is very interesting. The chapter I am reading right now is all about weak points. It is all very practical and common sense stuff. Like if you are to send troops to the left you weaken the right and vice versa. you must impose your will upon the enemy,y. The one who reaches their battle first will be well rested the ones that come second will be tired and not ready to fight. You must fight where you want to fight and not where your enemy wants to fight. 

 Sermon Sunday was on goodness and my dad actually quoted two perfect quotes from Winston Churchill and from Narnia voyage of the dawn treasurer. I don't remember the exact words of Qouite but Winston Churchill's quote was all I can offer is blood toil sweat and tears. The Narnia one was from repeeecheep how his one purpose in his life was to come to the land of Aslan and when his boats failed him he would swim with his nose to the east. 

 I have four karate classes right now Monday through Thursday I go to a class. Most of the time I teach or help out the instructors only at Thursday class do I actually learn things. Of the other classes I teach two are at a school and another one is just a place where we do karate only one of these classes is at the actual dojo which is the voyage church.  I also enjoy learning different kata we need in pour karate style. I like learning the Shotokon versions especially. 

 I am going to first tip in my karate style today and I am going to film it and put it on my YouTube channel.  The first tip is probably the easiest one to do all you basically have to do is all of the kicks strikes blocks and stuff like that it is pretty fun.  They probably grade you the highest off kata and this is the second thing there definitely more lose on memorization but not by much. 

 Today I have a blog on the sermon Sunday we had yesterday I am going to talk about the evening sermon and we ha d a guest asture he had three points with a keyword for each point the first point was look to christ the second word was listen for christ and the last one was live for christ. the text was on the mount of transfiguration where Jesus becomes more glowy and Elijah and Moses show up and the first thing peter says is master shall we make three taberncles here. After all that happened Jesus forbade the disciples to tell anyone else about his. 

 I am starting an arts slash working out and other stuff YouTube channel. I got permission from my teacher in karate to film a couple of my tip tests. Yesterday after advanced class he wanted to talk to me so I was like sure because I'm not going to say no. He asked me if I wanted to be in a longer film about human trafficking and it's going to be set around the prodigal son and that going to be super cool. I also signed up for my next tip test and I'm going to film that. 

 I was elected to the wasrm up at Thursday karate class so I decided to do something a little different I am going to have three segments each working on different body parts. It's hopefully going to be fast-paced and hard. We are first going to start out with the upper body in the first segment. We were going to do a lot of pushups and core work. After that segment, we worked more on the lower body but were going to work on more explosive movements. After that, we have hardcore cardio where will do a lot of running and burpees, and jumping jacks.

 I have started to read the art of War by sun tzu. He wasn't a good man but a brilliant tactician in war and fighting. He wrote the famous quote know your enemy nd know yourself and you need not fear the outcome of a thousand battles.  Not everything in that book is these amazing quotes some of them are pervasive sense. Even this man a general said that war in the end will destroy your economy it will destroy the moral of the entire country. He said one oxcart of the enemy supplies is worth more than two of your own. 

 After completing Hell Week, trade in your white shirt for a brown shirt and move into the second phase. In this face, they yell at you but nowhere near as much as the first phase this phase is more about being in the water and dealing with high-stress situations where you really need to use your brain.  After you complete phase two you are not yet let into the elite navy SEAl group. First, you must complete about six months of training in the actual SEAl team you will be with for the duration of however long you signed up for. Here you not only learn things every seal must know but you are also given a job in the team and you get to know your teammates like brothers.  

 After a navy seal wannabe has finished indoc or indoctrination they will formally start BUD/s or basic underwater demolition. Here their mental and physical strength will stretch to a capacity never reached anywhere else in their life. They will only get a couple of hours of sleep a week; when they are awake they are either extremely cold or hot. The minimum run is a twelve-mile run. Then after phase one, there is phase two. Before you enter phase two however you must complete the infamous hell week.  Hell week starts with the instructors running into your dorm shooting off me 60 machine guns with blamnks in them and throwing flash-bang grenades everywhere. They also will have fireman hoses running to spray anyone unfortunate enough to look up. You form up on the grinder and start working out running anything to keep you moving. Hell week participants are only given about four hours of sleep to cover an entire week and they will have run the equivalent of a marathon a day....

 For my reading today I will talk about a king of the British. This king was nicknamed the falcon because when the people wanted to crown him king he was in the woods with his falcon's hunting.  The issue was that the Magayroians had decided to invade Germany so the king had to defeat the Magyrians. Just there was the small issue of the myriads being able to fight on horseback and the germans not being able to do that. Only being skilled with fighting on the ground. So the king made a clever plot. He told the Magyrrians that if he paid them gold for nine years, they wouldn't attack his kingdom. They said yes and in these nine years, the king trained his men in the arts of fighting and horseback and p[practiced by fighting the daines. 

 For sermons Sunday I am going to talk about the evening service. This service was partly based on the Lord's Supper but more on who should be allowed into the church. There are many churches and almost every single one does it differently. There are churches that all they do is dwell on this matter.  First, there are two things we must remember: when you are to join the church you must make a confession of faith. You must go before the elders and then to the church.  There are two things negative charity and positive charity are we trying to find the god things in someone's life or the bad things in someone's life. In my denomination, we always have done negative charity meaning we are looking for things that would prove you are not a saved Christian  If we cant find anything that is severely negative we will most likely have to let you into the church with open arms. 

 Navy Seals are one of America's most elite forces in the world and America.  Navy Seals specialize in capturing or killing one or two people at a time. They are trained to do large operations but they specialize in something else. Navy SEALs have the hardest selection course in America for someone who's just normally enlisted.  First they go through normal navy boot camp if they pass the physical tests set before them and the instructors see something in you. You can do to indo or indoctrination this is where they teach the simple things like boats and how to do the obstacle course. After that you go into BUD/s which stand for basic underwater demolition. 

 Branched-chain amino acids are something I am going to go into today. Amino acids are something that your body has to have but your body can't actually make amino acids. What amino acids basically do is lower the amount of soreness in your muscles it's excellent after a hard leg or back workout to take about six grams. The kind I recommend is in a powder form that dissolves into almost any beverage that you can think of. Let me tell you this though amino acids are in a lot of types of meat and vegetables you do not need to take this powder form to have your body have these. The important thing is just taking a dose if you know your meal isn't going to have enough of the certain amino acid. 

 Today I am going to talk about one of the Crusades. The crusade I am going to talk about was the crusade where a hermit led an entire army. First of all this crusade had two armies one army was led by a hermit. The other one was led by a king. They met up and made one large army. This crusade ended very quickly because the Crusaders decided they had to kill and steal from fellow Christians to get food.  They came to a city still very far away from Jerusalem and for some reason, they decided to siege the city even though the city was Christian. Some time later an army of Turks came and wiped out this crusade. 

 Sermon Sunday the sermon yesterday was about songs and how they affect us. The first couple of points are we should be singing when we have worship services. The answer is yes from the start of time humans have been a singing people. Moses sang the entire country of Israel after the Egyptians were drowned in the Red Sea. The first song recorded in the Bible is a song in Job. Music also had an effect that saying plain old words doesn't have. If you were to take a sentence, put it into harmony, and make the words rhyme. That appeals much more to the emotions of man than just saying words do. 

 The full planche is the pinnacle of most calisthenics athletes' achievements. The full planche is a hold where your arms are completely locked out and your body is completely parallel with the ground with a straight back. the full planche works very large groups of muscles and is also very hard on your tendons and bones because they will be under an immense amount of pressure.  First, you must build up the strength for easier variation os the planche like pseudo planche pushups and tuck planche, and tuck planche pushups. 

 The structure of karate is strange because in different martial arts, they do different things but at the same time the structure can flex and you could add new ranks if you wanted to. Fist is the founder of the martial arts or style that you do.  For us that would be called the shidoshi which is the founder of the martial art under that, we have people called shi hons these are the inheritors of the martial art and are more powerful than the normal black belt they also have a red and black belt signifying of the blood of Christ and the sin we still have.  Then directly underneath that are the normal black belts instruct class weekly. Under that are the higher up belts called sempai that also help teach class when needed. 

 My book today is about town life in the medieval times. Town life was harder than living out in the country because there was so much more trash and filth. It is always dirty and the closer to the middle of town you lived the closer together the building were together. Until at times you were able to reach across the street and shake hands with the person on the other side. They were that close.  There were many guilds that helped the people in the guild. There were farming guild and every type of merchant guild. The guilds gave people money and food if they were down on hard times and helped out the people in the guilds when they could. 

 For sermon Sunday we ha a sermon on the book of Obadiah. It is a small one chapter book but my dad has already preached two sermons and i think he is planning i doing a few more after that. The sermon on what the prophets did. So it wasn't really on the book of Obadiah just the message of the all of the prophets and what they really did. These pope are kind of not remembered in christian circles now a days.  First of all the prophets always had a heavy burden on there hearts and souls when the word of the Lord came to them. They always had this burden to speak the word whenever they go it and it weighed them down.  A lot of times the prophets in the old testament were there to call down bad things onto the Israelite for leaving Gods fold.

 Today I am going to take the sport of bodybuilding. I will make this so you are the bodybuilder. First, you must choose which category you will be in. There are three categories. Open classic physique and men's physique the men's physique category is the smallest physique classic physique is where people still have a ton of muscle but no nowhere near open physique. To be in the open you have to pump steroids nonstop for forever.  So for the sake of the story, we are going to say you chose a classic physique. Now the first thing you must do is meet the weight requirements for classic and once yu do you must take on over a month of extreme dieting and hard work out. You must also practice the poses that you have to know for a classic physique ever category has certain poses you must learn such as front double biceps rear double bicep side chest and side tricep. There are also a few others you must become very skilled at.  The last thing you must do is get a tan. Not just o...

 Today for my blog post I will tell you about medieval knits. First, when you are to become a knight you are to start training at a very young and you must first start as a page. The page trains in the lighter style weapons but the main focus is to serve the Lords and Ladies of the castle where he is being trained. After he is finished with becoming a page he must become a squire which involves helping knights put on armor guarding prisoners. He also still must serve the ladies of the court. After he has finished and is of age he must stay all night in the church with his wepoans praying and fasting. Then the church vicar must come forward and bless his sword on the altars. Then he must put on his spurs and ride around on his gorse for a while and then he goes and feasts and that is how you become a knight. 

 My blog today is about the manga charts. The manga charta is basically a piece of paper with laws written on it that says what the king can and cant do. It is a lot like the American Constitution. Just it's a little smaller and there are more manga cartas. There is one American constitution. I think seven magan cartas were made. They were made because this king named John was bribing people and stealing tokens and tons of money. So the Lords of the land came and told him to stop but he didn't. So they made the Mafgna carta which gave the Lords more power over things and the kings less power. This is about the time the English parliament was made as well. 

 My blog today is about this French king named Cid He was taking saw visions and dreams a lot. He had a dream telling him he would never lose a battle against the Muhomadians and it was true. He was very feared in the battle. He once had a battle against five Turk kings and after he defeated them the kings decided they would be his servants from jow on. He ha da dream that he was going to die so he as his last thing he did was set his affairs in order and they set his dead body on a horse. Then they road his horse into battle and the Turks said they saw a mighty army of fifty thousand knights clad in white and one super tall white clad knight that struck with many blows on a pure white stallion. 

 I have written papers on creatine and you may be wondering if creatine is this powerful there must be some bad side effects right? No there aren't any side effects some bloating or gut pain in some people but the cases are there is not much to worry about.  Creatine has the same chemical body as an amino acid and on top of that, your body makes creatine. Your body makes about a gram of creatine a day. When you supplement creatine on top of that you raise those natural levels by about 30 percent.  As I have said before there are many different types of creatine but the best working is also the cheapest and that type is creatine monohydrate. Creatine can come in both powder and pill form.  When supplementing creatine there are two ways you can do it. The first way is a loading phase where in about you a week you take about 20 grams of creatine per day followed by a maintenance period of five grams per day for a month or so. The second way is to start out by taking fiv...

  Creatine is a supplement that has been around for years now. Today I am going to talk about a few things including the side effects of creatine and what it does to the Body. Creatine is a natural supplement that When supplemented correctly will increase ATP,  phosphocreatine levels, cell hydration, and protein synthesis,  reduce myostatin levels, anti-inflammatory effects, and satellite cell activity. First of all, increased ATP generation is also linked with other side effects of creatine, the ATP.  ATP stands for adenosine triphosphate this is the primary energy source the cells go to when doing a hard session of anything including heavy sprints and heavy weightlifting what creatine does is restore this ATP source a lot faster than it normally would have. The second is increased phosphocreatine levels, this is what the creatine is stored as inside the muscle meaning the creatine basically gets turned into something when supplemented. It should be noted that w...

 Today I am going to talk about another hero from the old times. His name was King Rollo and he was from the north. H and his army of men attacked the Franks many times. Over time, however, King Rollo noticed that living like a Frank had much more appeal than living like a pirate. So he had a conversation with the Frankish king and after much bargaining, the French king gave them the land that is now today called Normandy. Before this however Rollo had decided he was going to also follow the Christian God. He saw it as much better to worship him then Odin or thor.  He also decided to live like the franks did farming and not being mobile like his people always were. 

 Today my blog is going to be about King Edward. First, we must talk about what was happening around the time he was Prince Edward. Around this time the Danes a savage people from across the ocean were ravaging every single English town. They had completely taken over a side of Britain. Only one small side remained and that was the side where Prince Edward lived. He was very much a scholar and believed that scholarship was one of the greatest things a man could have. Around this time he started looking into how he could defeat the Danes and decided it was a good idea to take the fight to the oceans so he had very large warships commissioned to be built.  Around this time his brother died from wounds in a battle against the Danes and Preince Edweard became King Edweard.  He had to flee to the huts and the marshes many times but over time he actually was able to convert the Danes to Christianity and there was peace in Britain at last. 

 My blog today is on Charles Martel. Charles Martel was the son of a man named Pepin. Charles did many things for his country. That certain country was the country of the Franks. One of the greatest things he had done was beat a massive army of Turks. This all started years ago when Muhhomod was born and became a popular religious leader in the east empire of Rome.  They swept the eastern empire and wiped out everything in their past [ath only leaving Muslims only in certain places where were christians allowed to live and then they would have to pay a certain tax. They kept sweeping across the east until they met. Charles Martel was on one side with his army wielding a mighty battleaxe. On the other side, the army of the Muslims had gone undefeated. The battle we know very little about but we do know one thing Charles Martel was struck with such heavy blows from then on he was named Charles the Hammer. The Muslims were defeated and never to return to that spot with an army as...

 My blog today is on the book called Do Not Waste Your Life. This i basically a book telling people how to live their life to God's full meaning. This book is by John Piper. I have read the first couple chapter of this book and he seems to be a fan of a large number of older poeple. One of them being CS lweis who was a popular writer then ands now. He was about sixty when JohnPiper wrote this books.

 So the book i am reading is Do Waste Your Life by John Piper and he talks about people in his life who changed his life he remembers one time when his dad was preaching in a tent and an old mancame up and prayed the sinner prayer and was crying saying i lost it all i lost it all.

 Alas Babylon is an interesting book it's like the Robinson Crusoe story but almost in real life like there are cars that are slightly behind but there are nuclear bombs and that is the thing that is the issue in this book a man is living his normal life until he learns his brother has told him the secret code for him to go pick up his brother fanily to weither out whgatevre nuclear issues are coming.