Category: Culture & Social Issues

God’s Design And Man’s Rebellion

 William  February 20, 2005

Christian and Jews believe that the family, both nuclear and extended, is an institution designed by God for the welfare and continuance of the human race. When God’s design was threatened in the time of Noah, he responded by destroying…

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Self-Sabotage And Sin

 William  February 8, 2005

One of the many things that I do in my life is try to manage our family’s investments, including my wife’s, mine, and my daughter’s ROTH accounts. Since these investments are weighted towards stocks, I tend to do a fair…

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The Death Penalty: Part II

 William  December 3, 2004  1 Comment on The Death Penalty: Part II

This discussion was started because of a posting on Proverbial Wife. This is solely a biblical investigation, since, to the best of my ability, my life is scripture-driven and that is my touchstone for this issue. Social, psychological, and public…

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Shakespeare Was Right

 William  December 1, 2004

In Henry VI, Part 2, Act 4, Scene 2, Shakespeare has Dick the butcher say, “The first thing we do, let’s kill all the lawyers.” While no Christian could never accede to such wickeness, it being a gross sin and…

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God and man

 William  November 26, 2004

My mind has been wandering today as I work on an index for apect programming. Taking breaks to refresh the well, I find myself contemplating God and man. The Thanksgiving holiday for someone who works at maintaining a semblance of…

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The Death Penalty: Part I

 William  November 24, 2004  4 Comments on The Death Penalty: Part I

The Scott Peterson case has brought the topic of the death penalty back into discussion and numerous Christian writers have begun to comment on the issue (i.e. Proverbial Wife). I have a problem. I have stated before that to the…

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Freedom

 William  November 16, 2004

Yesterday, Adrian Warnock addressed the nature of freedom in discussing the current political leadership in the West along with the policies in the war on terror and toward the Middle East, with a focus on the situation in Iraq. The…

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Why No Evident Change?

 William  November 14, 2004  1 Comment on Why No Evident Change?

Every Sunday morning I listen to Ravi Zacharias, a well-spoken Christian apologist, before going off to church. He has a way of centering my thoughts on primary concerns, something very useful when I am about to engage my God in…

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TGIF

 William  November 12, 2004

It’s Friday and the refrain of the day, even from my wife this morning is TGIF (Thank God its Friday)! It is remarkable, when you think about it, how we in the Western world, especially the United States, gear our…

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For Every Idle Word They Will Give Account

 William  November 11, 2004

One of the darlings of the left in the United States is Noam Chomsky, appealing to both hard-wired radicals and intellectual leftists ensconced in their sanctuaries of supportive thought, safe in the womb of that which they despise. Chomsky, like…

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