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"Put them in fear, O LORD! Let the nations know that they are but men! Selah" - Psalm 9:20 (ESV) Money, pleasure, and power are what nations suppose they possess and they are intoxicated by the vapors that emanate from the altars built to these false gods. It was not just the ancient imperial cults that…

Lately, I've been signing up for things – mostly free, but not always. You have to sign up first; then you can sign-in whenever you like. I have noticed that if I don't sign-in for a while, I sometimes have to sign-up again. It is really nutty … I am trying to find parallels to…

We’ve all lost some things and we’ve lost them while there was beauty all around, but beauty can come out of it if we choose.

  God of all that is without Whom there is not,God of all that was, without who nothing has been,God of all that can be and should be and might be,God of all that shall be.God of unfolding wonders and unfathomed waters of wisdom,God of all who live, who have lived, and shall live God…

It is a big IF.  I have heard the first part of this often quoted, but It is not an open ended question. It is answered in the next sentence. The statement cries out for context and the context is given almost without a breath. The fact is, the real foundations are not and never…

It was a comedy yesterday – or at least a moment of comic relief in the midst of a very serious day.   The summation of the story is that I accumulated some bruises. How I got them is the rest of the story.   I was sitting in the city council meeting, mainly to…