Back to the Basics: Love God, Love Others

A man came to Jesus and asked Him what was the greatest commandment in the law. Jesus replied, "Love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your heart, and with all you mind...and Love your neighbor as yourself." (Matthew 22.37-39). Nearly 2,000 years have passed and God's Word to us is still …

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Rights and Responsibilities

The West has finally achieved the rights of man...but man's responsibility to God and to society has grown dimmer and dimmer - Aleksander Solzhenitysn In a country where the law of the land, and all of the rights that come with it, is of more value than the Word of God (even for believers), it is …

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2012 in Review

The WordPress.com stats helper monkeys prepared a 2012 annual report for this blog. Here's an excerpt: 600 people reached the top of Mt. Everest in 2012. This blog got about 9,700 views in 2012. If every person who reached the top of Mt. Everest viewed this blog, it would have taken 16 years to get …

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It’s Not Over Til God Says So

Sometimes in life, things just don't work out the way that we've hoped and prayed for. No matter how much we labor or how much we try, we do not always yield the results that we need to keep our heads above water. In times like these we find ourselves so discouraged that we want …

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Another Post About Freedom Needed on a Day Like Today

Yesterday, another senseless mass shooting took place at a school in CT. When I last checked the news 28 people were confirmed dead, 20 of them were children. One of the news stories reported that the gunman walked into his mother's classroom, who was a teacher at the school, shot and killed her and then …

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Why We Must Confront Racism Instead of Ignoring It

Currently, I am reading "The Key to My Neighbor's House: Seeking Justice in Bosnia and Rwanda." As the title suggests, it is a book that describes the atrocities that occurred in both Bosnia and Rwanda in the 1990's, and the lengths that both countries took to get their nation on a path to peace and reconciliation.  …

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