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"Islam Is of the Devil"
http://www.whtc.com/news/articles/2011/apr/23/terry-jones-expected-back-michigan-next-week/
So this pastor of a charismatic congregation, after months of build-up, burned a copy of the Quran, and now his associate pastor and he want to protest in front of a Michigan mosque. His congregation's website includes a store page which sells his book Islam ( Read more... ) -
Meditation (Romans 5)
Being justified by Christ's death, made right in the eyes of God the Father, so that we may connect with the Father where we before were utterly separated, how do we hope in God's glory? With the matchless glory of the eternal God in view, even suffering here produces joy in us, because the temporal holds no fear for those who inherit eternity. ( Read more... ) -
Not All Tears Are an Evil
Thinking back on my numerous experiences with movies that wrung tears, or songs on the car radio that made driving difficult (perhaps even temporarily dangerous), I suspect many of those little rainstorms were more due to exhaustion than to anything inherent in the show or tune at hand ( Read more... ) -
The Unjust Judge?
The Unjust Judge?
Why does the Bible need the book of Judges? To what purpose is the tiresome cycle of Israel’s serving other gods than the One who claimed and established them in the Torah, so that He turns them over to suffer under their idolatrous and oppressive neighboring nations, until they repent or not, and He decides to provide leaders to ( Read more... ) -
The text of our Christmas card
…and they shall call his name “Immanuel" which means, God with us. (Matthew 1:23 ( Read more... ) -
The Twelve Albums of Christmas, part II
Because you needed someone to tell you one more thing to buy, that's why ( Read more... ) -
Fort Worth Meets My Feet
Actually, i did run a couple miles (estimated, haven't odometered out the distance yet) Thursday night, but this AM was the first getting up and out for a regular run. With all the driving and box toting, this has been a very light week for working out, with no upper body work (and by "no", I mean helping jam two sedans full of the stuff of life, ( Read more... ) -
"Becoming a slave is easier than you think ..."
Good morning, last day of work ( Read more... ) -
Wilco (the Album/the Song/the Band)
So after missing a couple of preview hearings on Wilco's own site, a friend finally linked me yesterday to the preview stream NPR has going ( Read more... ) -
Plumbing the Lines
I thought about my dad this past Saturday, and again on Tuesday of this week. That's not to say I don't think of my dad regularly, but doing home or car repair always reminds me of him. He's still around, just not in the same state I live ( Read more... )