…A heart and mind searching for truth in a lying, fallen world.
Norman Rockwell had a way of capturing fundamental Americana. In this painting we see the traditional image of thanksgiving in America: mother bringing the platter of plenty to the dinner table. Today, I want to give thanks and I pray…
Welcome to the 199th Christian Carnival. The theme for this week’s carnival is taken from J. I. Packer’s life changing book, Knowing God. Though many people find the book difficult (read intellectually demanding), most of it was originally written as…
The 199th Christian Carnival will be at Beyond the Rim… Matt Jones’s list of previous Christian Carnivals. To enter is simple. First, your post should be of a Christian nature, but this does not exclude posts that are about home…
Aphorisms: A tersely phrased statement of a truth or opinion; an adage. (TFD.com) Aphorisms are golden nuggets. They are short, compressed wisdom that has been born out over time and experience. I collect them. Here are a few I recently…
It is November 11, Veteran's Day in the United State, a day when we remember all those who are serving and have served in the armed forces of the United States (Memorial Day is when we specifically remember those who…
Some people believe the war we (the U.S. and Western Civilization) are currently engaged in is with Al Qaeda and the arbiters of radical Islam. While it is true that we are fighting those elements in several places around the…
In case you wondered about this or any other blog’s readability, this link will tell you the level required to read the entered blog. I tested a few well known and personal interest blogs for fun. [HT Rebecca Writes who…
This post was originally supposed to be only a draft for future development, but somehow it got published. I am sorry about that. You may have noticed that I have been on hiatus for a while. I have been trying…
I thought I might point out a few posts I have stumbled on and read recently. In a way this is my own private Carnival… Mad Minerva writes about how when Hugo Chavez put up a statue of Che Guevara,…
Most times, when I get up in the morning, my brain is in high gear; sometimes, rarely, it is somnambulant. Today I am at a run, with ideas flitting around like birds around a feeder. So here is one of…
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