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• Self-esteem Versus Dust

  

  I grew up in the 1970s and I was teaching first grade in the 1980s when the "self-esteem" movement hit education. Suddenly there were no winners or losers, no... Read more

  Posted on 21 February 2014 SOCIETY, SPIRITUALITY

• US Company Wants to Bring Free Wi-fi to 100% of World: Mark of the Beast...

  

  I enjoyed Rapture Ready editor Terry James's essay this week called Tribulation Technologies Tightening. The title is evocative, isn't it? Read more

  Posted on 19 February 2014 SOCIETY, SPIRITUALITY

• Be Angry...but Do Not Sin

  Are you righteously angry? Even personally angry? It's OK ... within limits."Be angry and do not sin; do not let the sun go down on your anger," (Ephesians... Read more

  Posted on 18 February 2014 SOCIETY, SPIRITUALITY

• God is Making a Pointillist Painting

  

  We know that the church is a body, a united body of believers.For just as the body is one and has many members, and all the members of the body, though many, ar... Read more

  Posted on 17 February 2014 SOCIETY, SPIRITUALITY

• Sunday Martyr Moment: Vitus Killed by His Own Father, & the Temporary Nature of...

  Foxe's Book of Martyrs. According to this summary from Christian Book Summaries,Writing in the mid-1500s, John Foxe was living in the midst of intense... Read more

  Posted on 16 February 2014 SOCIETY, SPIRITUALITY

• Salvation: an Illustration by Action Jones

  

  Action Jones made his illustrations freely available for ministry. Here is one titled Salvation"It is the Spirit who gives life; the flesh is no help at all. Read more

  Posted on 15 February 2014 SOCIETY, SPIRITUALITY

• Quake in SC; Sinkhole in KY with Slo-mo Footage, and Other Earth Shakings

  

  The earth sure is an active celestial body, isn't it. There are several volcanoes erupting now, major storms affecting millions, air travel has come to a... Read more

  Posted on 15 February 2014 SOCIETY, SPIRITUALITY

• Be a Daily Christian

  

  Christianity is not a one time moment when we are justified. That is simply the beginning. Our sanctification means we are being continually transformed into th... Read more

  Posted on 14 February 2014 SOCIETY, SPIRITUALITY

• Slovenia Is Still Frozen Solid: 'This Is Crazy, Really Crazy', & 3 Other...

  

  Millions of people in the United States south were affected by a massive storm this week inaptly named Pax. It stretched from Florida and Texas to North Carolin... Read more

  Posted on 13 February 2014 SOCIETY, SPIRITUALITY

• This is My Father's World", Music of the Spheres, Maltbie Babcock, and...

  

  Part 1Part 2In part 1 of "This is My Father's World", Music of the Spheres, Maltbie Babcock, and Pythagoras, I looked at how Pythagoras intuitively understood... Read more

  Posted on 12 February 2014 SOCIETY, SPIRITUALITY

• This is My Father's World", Music of the Spheres, Maltbie Babcock, and...

  

  In part 1 of "This is My Father's World", Music of the Spheres, Maltbie Babcock, and Pythagoras, I looked at how Pythagoras intuitively understood the harmony... Read more

  Posted on 12 February 2014 SOCIETY, SPIRITUALITY

• "This is My Father's World", Music of the Spheres, Maltbie Babcock, and...

  

  This is My Father's World is a hymn written sometime in the 1800s by Maltbie Babcock, a preacher in upstate New York. It was published after his death in 1901,... Read more

  Posted on 11 February 2014 SOCIETY, SPIRITUALITY

• What Do Joel Osteen and the Timothy McVeigh Have in Common? Mother Teresa and...

  

  Pastor Don Green of Truth Community Fellowship preached an excellent sermon on February 2, 2014 titled Who is Satan?He posed a question at the beginning of the... Read more

  Posted on 08 February 2014 SOCIETY, SPIRITUALITY

• "Times Are Hard, I Can't Find Work..." The Bible On Working

  

  Unemployed men outside a soup kitchen in Chicago, 1931.For even when we were with you, we would give you this command: If anyone is not willing to work, let... Read more

  Posted on 07 February 2014 SOCIETY, SPIRITUALITY

• Adding to Or Taking Away from Scripture

  

  Plus minus icon, Wiki ccDid you know if you add to scripture you're cursed? Equally, if you take away from scripture you're cursed. Read more

  Posted on 07 February 2014 SOCIETY, SPIRITUALITY

• Volcanic Twisters: Sinabung Volcano's Eruption Spawns Dust Devils. Plus Other...

  

  There was a terrible volcanic eruption in Indonesia. Fifteen people died as the pyroclastic flow overcame them. A heartbreaking photo of an ash strewn roadway... Read more

  Posted on 06 February 2014 SOCIETY, SPIRITUALITY

• Does the New Testament Teach Christians to Offer a 10% Tithe?

  Short answer? No.For many Christians in a New Testament church it might come as a surprise that a 10% tithe, or a tithe at all, is not required. Read more

  Posted on 05 February 2014 SOCIETY, SPIRITUALITY

• Turkey in Prophecy

  ‘Thus says the Lord GOD, “Behold, I am against you, O Gog, prince of Rosh, Meshech and Tubal. “I will turn you about and put hooks into your jaws, and I will... Read more

  Posted on 04 February 2014 SOCIETY, SPIRITUALITY

• Creation Grace: A Glassy Sea

  

  EPrata photoThis picture was taken in Lubec Harbor, easternmost point in the US and next to New Brunswick Canada. The waters are part of the Bay of Fundy,... Read more

  Posted on 02 February 2014 SOCIETY, SPIRITUALITY

• Sunday Martyr Moment: A Phyrgian City Burned

  Foxe's Book of Martyrs. According to this summary from Christian Book Summaries,Writing in the mid-1500s, John Foxe was living in the midst of intense... Read more

  Posted on 02 February 2014 SOCIETY, SPIRITUALITY