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December 29, 2012

Sometime readers come to a blog, a post, a story, or a book and don’t have a positive reading experience. It may be all encompassing or just the frustration that while they liked some things they read other parts were dissappointing. We all experience this in our reading life. Some people say they feel cheated by the book/author, that the book/author didn’t live up to the accolades. Let’s face the facts. No author can satisfy every reader, except in short bursts. To paraphrase Lincoln, you please some of your readers all of the time and all of your readers some of the time, but you will never please all of your readers all of the time. As an author,...
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Bridge Over Troubled Waters…

We are in terrible shape as a nation and somehow need to find a bridge across the troubled waters facing our country and its political impasse over debt and our inalienable rights. The solution is grace. It is also God’s solution to the bridge over death to life. Indeed, without grace no real chasm...

The Company Store

Liberals used to decry the company store, often rightfully so, since so seldom did the workers have an alternative and the store succeeded in binding them to the company, sometimes for life. Even when meant to “assist” the workforce, it eventually became a form of economic slavery. Without the company granting them “credit” most...

The Latter Rain…Knowing God

It’s been a while, a long while, since I have written anything and my blog has become brown and parched. I am not sure if this latter rain will continue or if this is just a brief shower. Time will tell, as it always does. I am working on my Knowing God Teacher’s/Self-Study Edition Study...

Knowing and Being Known

...since God has always demanded that His people love Him with their whole heart, mind, and soul, failure to "know" Him is in essence a failure to love Him, since how can one truly love what one does not know.

As a Tree Falls…

As a Tree Falls…

One of the great fallacies of the non-believer is that they can put off their decision about God/Jesus/Salvation until the end. Even if the person is fortunate enough to have the time (no sudden death) to address the issue, it is VERY unlikely anything will change, since reversing direction goes against the weight of...

Knowing God Study Materials: Teacher’s/Personal Study Edition Available

FYI: The Section One Teacher's/Personal Study Edition is now available for download from The Knowing God Study Center.

The Nature of Sloth

I was reading a review of Josef Pieper’s Faith, Hope, Love on Amazon when the commentor (Lawrence J. King) said something that struck a deep nerve and sent a shudder through my being (I am not joking). He said: I used to think of “slothful” as synonymous with “laziness” — but this book made me realize...

Is God Saying This to You?

 A Sunday thought I would like to pass on – Is God saying this to you? I am the light in the center of your soul I am the joy seeking to make you whole I am the peace you heartfully seek I am the meaning of your coming week What are you?

What is Wrong with the Christian Church?

I had this insight this morning at church, which at first I thought was for my congregation alone, but as the day wore on, I believe it has a larger application. That is for you to judge. In the Old Testament reading this morning, taken from Leviticus 19, we were warned against a litany...

Lent 2010: Day 17S – Making Changes, Knowing What To Do

Several days ago I asked a question. “Where do you think all of the things I have been talking about during these Lenten meditations–God’s teachable moments, His inexorable call for repentance and redemption, our attempts to change course in some or all aspects of our lives, and knowing which of the many things we...

The Inevitable Corruption of Science

Some things are inevitable. History teaches us that everything created by mankind, whether physical, philosophical, sociological, or theological eventually falls apart, either through natural processes wearing on it, or outright corruption. Science is no different. It does not exist in a vacuum. Since its inception it has lived through the actions of the people...

Lent 2010: Day 17 – Where It All Begins: Step 3

We have been answering the questions of where and how we make the changes in our life to become, to be the person, God is calling us to be. We have already looked at Step 1: Offering ourselves as living sacrifices and Step 2: Do not be conformed to this world (see previous posts)....

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