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Wednesday, March 3rd, 2010Some people are demanding that the high school football coach in their community be fired because the team doesn’t have a winning record. According to the mother of one player, they object to his demand that his players “don’t cheat, play dirty, or try to take out an opposing player by hurting him.”
I am told [...]
Work and Its Rewards
Tuesday, March 2nd, 2010Ecclesiastes 5:9-20
I wish that someone had explained these verses to me when I was younger. Perhaps I wouldn’t have been so driven in my work. Maybe I would have relaxed more and let myself enjoy life.
There is virtue in honest, hard work – no one would argue with that.
But some Christians have the idea that [...]
Ecclesiastes 5:9-20
Monday, March 1st, 2010Ecclesiastes 5:9-20 (New International Version)
9 The increase from the land is taken by all; the king himself profits from the fields.
10 Whoever loves money never has money enough;
whoever loves wealth is never satisfied with his income.
This too is meaningless.
11 [...]
10 Signs We Are In The End Days
Wednesday, January 20th, 20101. Knowledge Explosion Daniel 12:4
2. Plague In The Middle East Zachariah 14:12-16
(Atomic warfare)
3. The Rebirth of Israel Isaiah 6:6-8
4. The Jews Will Return Home Jeremiah 23:7-8 (Holocoust)
5. Jerusalem No Longer Under Gentile Rule Luke 21-24
Psalms 102:16 (6 Day War In 1967)
6. [...]
Judging Others
Tuesday, October 6th, 2009Only the Bible has appeared in more editions and in more languages than the devotional treasure “The Imitation of Christ” attributed to the German ecclesiastic Thomas a Kempis. His fifteenth century wisdom remains relevant and timely.
Kempis offers this mature spiritual insight, “Study to be patient in bearing the defects of others, [...]