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Tuesday, November 11th, 2008What does America believe in? Is God real? If so, how do we picture the nature of the being?
My personal story: When I was a very young boy, our family went to Mass every Sunday, my sister and I went to Catechism (Sunday school for Catholics), and I never thought much about the existence of [...]
How to Overcome Inadequacies: Stop Thinking About Them
Friday, November 7th, 2008Sometimes I feel so overwhelmed by everything I have to do, and want to, that I end up feeling I can’t get anything done. I’m sure I’m not the only person who’s felt that way. But when I allow a constant “to do” list to stream through my brain, it floods my alertness, and I [...]
Obama Elected: How to Cope, Biblically, with Winning and Losing
Wednesday, November 5th, 2008Barack Obama was elected president of the United States last night, bringing to a close the most heated, and emotional election I can ever recall. It was a long road to get here. I’m glad it’s over. But with the elation and let down of the election, there is a lot of emotion surging through [...]
Israel Asks for a King: A Story for Election Day
Tuesday, November 4th, 2008Today, this Election Day, millions of Americans are reporting to the polls to place their votes for the candidates they feel worthy to lead them. If you haven’t already gone out to do that great civic duty, please take a few minutes to ponder the choices laid out before you. 1 Samuel 8 (NIV):
Is Celebrating Halloween Wrong for Christians?
Wednesday, October 29th, 2008I’ve heard the arguments my whole life: Halloween originated as a pagan holiday, a grotesque one at that! Christians have no business celebrating a holiday whose origins go so far against God. Even if it has changed, it’s hardly an innocent holiday now! I mean, look at all those children, dressed up as ghosts and [...]
How to Read the Bible Every Day
Tuesday, October 28th, 2008For a lot of my life, I told myself I didn’t have time to read the Bible. I occasionally cracked it open. But then a week, or month would go by until I touched it again. I did pray, though not as much as now. My prayers were shallow. I didn’t understand Who I was [...]
What’s Scarier: Boo at the Zoo, the Christian Sponsors, or the People Who Just Don’t Get It?
Monday, October 27th, 2008Every Halloween season since 1977, the Lincoln Children’s Zoo has hosted Boo at the Zoo, a big fundraising event to allow kids to trick-or-treat within its gates. In it, the trick-or-treaters walk through the zoo in a pre-set path while local businesses, with displays set up, hand out candy, coupons, and whatnot. One local dentist [...]
Psalm 121:3 — Sleeping in Peace
Friday, October 24th, 2008He will not let your foot slip—
he who watches over you will not slumber
Psalm 121:3
Scrapbooks…
I have a note, in my handwriting, in my scrapbook from years ago. It says, “Give your worries to God before you go to bed, He’s up all night anyway.” It was something my sister told me on the phone one [...]
Ben Stein: Jewish, but OK with Christmas Trees
Tuesday, October 21st, 2008With the holidays approaching, we know it’s going to start up again. The same battle heard for years now: separation of church and state vs. Christmas. Nativities and Christmas trees will be taken off lawns of courthouses. For non-compliant government offices, lawsuits will be started. Employees of our favorite stores will be told it’s inappropriate [...]
God-Planned Pregnancy
Monday, October 6th, 2008Rewind back to May. I was reading the Bible, and really praying. Asking God where I was needed, and what I needed to be focused on. We had recently separated from our former church, so I was feeling up in the air, and needing direction. The way I felt I was being led was not [...]
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