I occasionally have a couple ideas for articles that are too short for me to post by themselves and I don’t want to send more than one email on an update per day, to keep you from feeling spammed. When this happens, I’ll just string them together and make one blog post, with one email going out.
Preparedness Club
I mentioned last week that I would be launching a premium membership that I’m calling “The Preparedness Club”. Today, I want to give you a little more information about it. This will be one way to support the Prepared Christian Ministry. I’ve been asked a few times about a donation button. After careful consideration and prayer, I have decided to include one, but I also want to have the Preparedness Club as an option to give something back to you.
This is where the cool part comes in; I have approached companies that offer goods and services in the preparedness market place and so far, 17 have offered discounts. My goal was to try and get you a discount on any product that you might want to buy and I’ve come close! From ammo, many kinds of food storage, water purification, paracord, first aid, and books; if you purchase items from the companies who have offered discounts, the Preparedness Club will save you money.
The Preparedness Club will have one giveaway a month, minimum. Some of the items so far are: a Midland weather radio, the Total Home Prep Now DVD’s, books from Paladin Press, and more.
For those of you not interested in The Preparedness Club, I haven’t forgotten about you. I have some giveaways planned for you as well. I hope to launch the Preparedness Club next week, or the week after at the latest. To celebrate I am going to give away a one year membership, to enter either fill out the form below, or send an email with the subject of Preparedness Club to chris (at) preparedchristian (dot) net and let me know that you would like to enter.
Keeping In Touch With Prepared Christian
If you’re someone who uses Facebook or Google Reader to stay up to date, you might need to make some changes. It seems Google has decided to shut down Google Reader on July 1, 2013. If you use them to read my RSS or any RSS feed, you’ll want to find another reader.
Over the last months, Facebook has changed how updates are received. They want to charge companies for advertising, so only a small segment of people actually see my updates via Facebook. For example, as of the time of this writing, my last two posts have only been viewed by 101 and 185 people, respectively.
To make sure you see every update, it has been recommended that you create an “interest” list. I’ll give the steps below.
First, go to the page you want to create an interest list for. For this example, I went to Camping Survival.
Hover over the “like” button and click on “New List”.
Click the “Next List” button on the bottom right.
Name the new list and click “Done”
Your new Interest list will show up on the left hand side of Facebook.
Bulletproof Mind
I have recently discovered something some of you might already be familiar with; The Bulletproof Mind from Lt. Col. Dave Grossman. Lt. Col. Grossman travels 300 days a year, giving The Bulletproof Mind lecture but it is also available on DVD.
Here is what is mentioned about Lt. Col. Grossman and the Bulletproof Mind on the USCCA website, where you can also watch a video and purchase the Bulletproof Mind DVD.
“Most of the people in our society are sheep. They are kind, gentle, productive creatures who can only hurt one another by accident.” I mean nothing negative by calling them sheep. To me it is like the pretty, blue robin’s egg. Inside it is soft and gooey but someday it will grow into something wonderful. But the egg cannot survive without its hard blue shell. Police officers, soldiers, and other warriors are like that shell, and someday the civilization they protect will grow into something wonderful. But they need warriors to protect them from the predators.
Then there are the wolves, and the wolves feed on the sheep without mercy. Do you believe there are wolves out there who will feed on the flock without mercy? You better believe it. There are evil men in this world and they are capable of evil deeds. The moment you forget that or pretend it is not so, you become a sheep. There is no safety in denial.
Then there are sheepdogs, and I’m a sheepdog. I live to protect the flock and confront the wolf.
If you have no capacity for violence then you are a healthy productive citizen, a sheep. If you have a capacity for violence and no empathy for your fellow citizens, then you have defined an aggressive sociopath, a wolf. But what if you have a capacity for violence, and a deep love for your fellow citizens? What do you have then? A sheepdog, a warrior – someone who is walking the hero’s path – someone who can walk into the heart of darkness, into the universal human phobia, and walk out unscathed.”
I had read the above years ago, but wasn’t aware of The Bulletproof Mind. I will be attending the seminar this fall. I cannot wait! If you consider yourself a fellow sheepdog, you might consider checking out the seminar or buying the DVD. You can see Lt. Col. Grossman’s bio here and his calendar here. As I mentioned, you can find out more about the DVD at the USCCA website.
I will be giving my thoughts on the seminar afterward. Did I mention I was really looking forward to this?!
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