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Feeding The Beast
May 10, 2012
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May 3, 2012
What If This Present Were The World's Last Night?
April 26, 2012
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Vigilance in the Face of the Lion
February 23, 2012
43 years ago I was a rifle platoon leader engaged in battle in Viet Nam. Fortunately, I was but 23 years old. I know I do not have...
February 23, 2012
43 years ago I was a rifle platoon leader engaged in battle in Viet Nam. Fortunately, I was but 23 years old. I know I do not have...
Bridging the Gulf of Separation
May 12, 2011
Most of you have treasured relationships with not a few others; family and friends you want to be with if time and location...
May 12, 2011
Most of you have treasured relationships with not a few others; family and friends you want to be with if time and location...
Chief of the Bullied
March 31, 2011
Bullying has been in the news a lot lately. Whether its apparent epidemic proportion in our day is simply an issue of modern...
March 31, 2011
Bullying has been in the news a lot lately. Whether its apparent epidemic proportion in our day is simply an issue of modern...
Tsunami
March 17, 2011
The pictures streaming from the earthquake and tsunami in Japan have horrified many of us, just as 9/11 was a horrendous...
March 17, 2011
The pictures streaming from the earthquake and tsunami in Japan have horrified many of us, just as 9/11 was a horrendous...
Pain in Tuscon
January 13, 2011
Scriptural Basis: “Blessed is the man who does not walk in the counsel of the wicked or stand in the way of sinners or sit in the seat of mockers. But his delight is in the law of the Lord and on His law he meditates day and night.” Psalm 1:1-2 Application: The very public pain inflicted by one disturbed individual on so many in Tucson this past week is another opportunity to question the goodness of God and the nature of life in a world which God created and sustains. Most often the questioner...
January 13, 2011
Scriptural Basis: “Blessed is the man who does not walk in the counsel of the wicked or stand in the way of sinners or sit in the seat of mockers. But his delight is in the law of the Lord and on His law he meditates day and night.” Psalm 1:1-2 Application: The very public pain inflicted by one disturbed individual on so many in Tucson this past week is another opportunity to question the goodness of God and the nature of life in a world which God created and sustains. Most often the questioner...
Post-Christmas Blues?
December 30, 2010
Scriptural Basis: “At that time the sign of the Son of Man will appear in the sky, and all the nations of the earth will mourn. They will see the Son of Man coming on the clouds of the sky, with power and great glory. And He will send His angels with a loud trumpet call, and they will gather His elect from the four winds, from one end of the heavens to the other………I tell you the truth, this generation will not pass away until all these things have happened. Heaven and earth will pass...
December 30, 2010
Scriptural Basis: “At that time the sign of the Son of Man will appear in the sky, and all the nations of the earth will mourn. They will see the Son of Man coming on the clouds of the sky, with power and great glory. And He will send His angels with a loud trumpet call, and they will gather His elect from the four winds, from one end of the heavens to the other………I tell you the truth, this generation will not pass away until all these things have happened. Heaven and earth will pass...
Amazing, Pondering, Treasuring
December 16, 2010
Scriptural Basis: “So they hurried off and found Mary, and Joseph, and the baby, who was lying in the manger. When they had seen him, they spread the word concerning what had been told them about this child, and all who heard it were amazed at what the shepherds said to them. But Mary treasured up all these things and pondered them in her heart. The shepherds returned, glorifying and praising God for all the things they had heard and seen, which were just as they had been told.” Luke 2:16-20 Application: Have...
December 16, 2010
Scriptural Basis: “So they hurried off and found Mary, and Joseph, and the baby, who was lying in the manger. When they had seen him, they spread the word concerning what had been told them about this child, and all who heard it were amazed at what the shepherds said to them. But Mary treasured up all these things and pondered them in her heart. The shepherds returned, glorifying and praising God for all the things they had heard and seen, which were just as they had been told.” Luke 2:16-20 Application: Have...
Your Response to Middle Advents of Jesus
December 2, 2010
Scriptural Basis: “The thief comes only to steal and kill and destroy; I have come that they may have life, and have it more abundantly.” John 10:10 Application: A recent issue of World Magazine recounted the story of Sam Kolden. He is a Wisconsin High-Schooler who has autism. From the eighth grade to his senior year Sam practiced and participated with the Menomonie Indians football team. On homecoming night this last October his years of perseverance and commitment paid off with...
December 2, 2010
Scriptural Basis: “The thief comes only to steal and kill and destroy; I have come that they may have life, and have it more abundantly.” John 10:10 Application: A recent issue of World Magazine recounted the story of Sam Kolden. He is a Wisconsin High-Schooler who has autism. From the eighth grade to his senior year Sam practiced and participated with the Menomonie Indians football team. On homecoming night this last October his years of perseverance and commitment paid off with...
Getting to “Due Time”
November 19, 2010
Scriptural Basis: “For our light and momentary troubles are achieving for us an eternal glory that far outweighs them all. So we fix our eyes not on what is seen, but on what is unseen. For what is seen is temporary, but what is unseen is eternal.” 2 Corinthians 4:17-18 Application: I have been in a funk all this last week. While transporting quite a number of the most used books in my library back to Georgia, they were all stolen off the back of our car in Tennessee; a large container...
November 19, 2010
Scriptural Basis: “For our light and momentary troubles are achieving for us an eternal glory that far outweighs them all. So we fix our eyes not on what is seen, but on what is unseen. For what is seen is temporary, but what is unseen is eternal.” 2 Corinthians 4:17-18 Application: I have been in a funk all this last week. While transporting quite a number of the most used books in my library back to Georgia, they were all stolen off the back of our car in Tennessee; a large container...
Is Today Your Hanging Day?
November 11, 2010
Scriptural Basis: “Be self-controlled and alert. Your enemy the devil prowls around like a roaring lion looking for someone to devour.” 1 Peter 5:8 Application: I never felt closer to death than when serving as an infantry platoon leader in Viet Nam. For the purpose of preserving my life and the life of my men I learned everything I could about our enemy; how they operated, where they set ambushes, the way they camouflaged booby traps; anything I could learn from the Vietnamese soldiers...
November 11, 2010
Scriptural Basis: “Be self-controlled and alert. Your enemy the devil prowls around like a roaring lion looking for someone to devour.” 1 Peter 5:8 Application: I never felt closer to death than when serving as an infantry platoon leader in Viet Nam. For the purpose of preserving my life and the life of my men I learned everything I could about our enemy; how they operated, where they set ambushes, the way they camouflaged booby traps; anything I could learn from the Vietnamese soldiers...