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Taking a Month to Pray and…

Tue, 01/24/2012 - 17:10
TweetI’m taking a month off to pray and fast and mourn; to study, prepare and grieve; to seek His Face. See you mid-February. Soli Deo Gloria! Galatians 6:9 Share on Facebook

The Christmas Seed

Tue, 01/10/2012 - 20:21
Tweet“And I will put enmity between you and the woman, and between your seed and her seed; He shall bruise you on the head, and you shall bruise him on the heel.” Genesis 3:15 When God spoke the earth into existence, it was formless and void—a lump of clay, so to speak, ready for the [...]

Taking No Pleasure in the Death of Christopher Hitchens

Tue, 01/10/2012 - 20:21
Tweet“Say to them, As I live, declares the Lord GOD, I have no pleasure in the death of the wicked, but that the wicked turn from his way and live; turn back, turn back from your evil ways, for why will you die, O house of Israel?” Ezek 33:11 On December 15, 2011, one of [...]

The Art of Bickering Versus the Witness of Unity

Tue, 01/10/2012 - 20:21
Tweet“The glory that you have given me I have given to them, that they may be one even as we are one, I in them and you in me, that they may become perfectly one, so that the world may know that you sent me…” John 17:22-23 A few years ago, I had the blessing [...]

Why Friday was Black and Blue

Tue, 01/10/2012 - 20:21
TweetThe AP headline on the front page of Sunday’s paper read “Why Friday was Black and Blue”. In case you haven’t heard, the biggest shopping day of the year had some ugly elements to it: –a woman in Los Angeles was so intent on getting at a crate of Xbox video games that she pepper-sprayed [...]

What are You Gripe-ful For?

Tue, 01/10/2012 - 20:21
TweetI have an awesome idea! How about if we swapped out Thanksgiving for Gripes-giving? This would be a day where we sat around the table and asked everyone to share their gripes and complaints. Get ‘em all out on that day. You couldn’t gripe the rest of the year, just on Gripes-giving. Just the opposite [...]

Pondering Presidential Selection Criteria

Tue, 01/10/2012 - 20:21
TweetI just returned from a trip to Iowa that had two major objectives: conduct a Truth Encounter conference and attend Saturday night’s Presidential candidate forum. I believe there was something providential about these two events coming back-to-back, for they provoked within me some serious thoughts and observations regarding the upcoming primaries and elections. Basically, they [...]

On Writing Trip

Tue, 01/10/2012 - 20:21
TweetSorry to be absent, but I’ve secluded myself in a hollow in the middle of Tennessee to work on three things: –the Truth Encounter (follow-on to the Truth Project); –a draft of a book that could be the start of a 12-book series entitled “Worldview Tour Guide Books: Book 1: Veritology”–it would provide a combination [...]

Response to OWS Comments

Tue, 01/10/2012 - 20:21
TweetWell, I certainly didn’t expect the emotional responses to my previous two blogs. A number of you took exception to what I was saying, and that is fine, when the rebuttals are respectful. Some were unprintable, name-calling, and by-the-way, “anonymous” which I don’t post. But I wanted to respond to the general thrust of those [...]

People Over Profits: Faulty Logic

Tue, 01/10/2012 - 20:21
TweetOne of the consistent signs exhibited at the OWC (Occupy Wall Street) protests is the slogan: “People Over Profits”. If you hear them chanting anything, it will probably be this slogan. It is intended to make the reader or hearer believe two things: –1st that people and profits are a contradiction. That is, one can [...]

When the Greedy Protest Greed

Tue, 01/10/2012 - 20:21
Tweet“…make it your ambition to lead a quiet life: You should mind your own business and work with your hands, just as we told you, so that your daily life may win the respect of outsiders and so that you will not be dependent on anybody.” 1 Thess 4:11-12 A lot of media time and [...]