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Thoughts on Jezebel
These notes are originally from (I think) 1994-1995. Eunuch – a male who had been castrated (against his will or not) who would then be responsible to tend to the needs and/or bidding of the queen’s most intimate affairs without the threat of sexual intercourse. There are several items that we need to notice in this regard: 1. Someone who had been mutilated for Jezebel’s benefit. 2. May have been attracted to Jezebel at some point in the past, but lost that … Read entire article »
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What You Need to Know About Traveling in Madagascar
In September 2014, I traveled with a few other people to Madagascar. The group I was … Read more »
Who’s the Winner? Who’s the Loser?
One night in May, my son’s baseball team was playing another team. We had friends over to watch the game. It was a pretty close game. The parents on both sides were … Read more »
Children and Scripture
Today, I was reading Psalm 116 to some of my children. As is often my custom, I would read a verse and then ask a question to make sure they were listening. I … Read more »
What Does It Mean to Trust God?
Q. I’ve been told that I have to do is believe and trust God right. Someone finally got it through to me that I’ve just got to do it, to ignore everything … Read more »
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How can I overcome fear in my life? This is a common question. The past few months, I’ve had opportunity to correspond on this topic. Here are some thoughts on the subject … Read more »
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How to Walk with God
If you are just beginning your walk with God and would like some background on what this is all about, read on. … Read more »
Humor: Women Dancing in Church and Wearing High Heels
Here’s another good example of bad exegesis, where scripture gets twisted beyond its primary intent. This one is original with me. (Just shows how warped a creative mind can be if it … Read more »
Bible Proof That We Must Not Watch Television
When my brother-in-law was in college, he was listening to AM radio one day and heard a … Read more »
What is the Refiner’s Fire?
A young friend recently wrote the following: Q. I was just reading todays meditation, what do you mean by going through the refiners fire, and how do you do that? A. The process is one … Read more »
Teaching My Family to Pray – UPDATED
Yesterday during the morning hours, I felt that God was speaking to me about my country and my family. In particular, the Spirit spoke to me that things are going to get … Read more »
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The Little Electric Oven
One Christmas, at least I think it was Christmas and not a birthday, my parents bought sister a little oven. Now, this was in the days before lawyers had become fruitful, multiplied and replenished the earth. This wasn’t a piece of plastic with stickers to put on the oven to emulate fire. Nor did it come with a few round … Read entire article »
The Thanksgiving That (Almost) Wasn’t
A Short Story: It started off well enough. Jan got up early to get the turkey in the oven. She had time to make a steaming hot mug of cocoa before the rest of the family stirred. She had just sat down and opened her Bible to read this morning’s passage. Then it began. There was a loud pop in the kitchen followed by an acrid smell. Jan jumped up and ran into the kitchen to see what had happened. Her nose led her straight to the oven. When she opened it, the element wasn’t glowing bright orange, and the heat was rapidly dissipating. Her first thought was, “Oh, no! … Read entire article »
What You Need to Know About Traveling in Madagascar
In September 2014, I traveled with a few other people to Madagascar. The group I was with wants to do some relief and development work there. My main job was to do photography and video to document what we learned. But they were having a difficult time finding solid information about the basic information travelers would require. … Read entire article »
Windows is Ungodly and Unix is the Right Operating System
Lest I be mistaken, let me remind readers that this does fall into the “HUMOR” category, especially “Good Examples of Bad Exegesis.” But if you like this kind of stuff, read on. Someone on a list recently was writing about how God gifts people differently, including techies. They said: One of the hard lessons we learned is that God calls different people with different skills to work for Him. And He chooses the people with those skills for a purpose. The same way that He made some to be pastors, and some to be teachers, He also made some to be Windows people, and others to be Linux people (I still think the “Mac people” … Read entire article »
Give the Gift of Music
What do these things have in common: dogs barking, a wailing banshee, an industrial metal press operating at high speed and the swearing skills of a sailor? If you guessed popular teen music, you are bang on. Before anyone gets an idea that this article is about bashing whatever happens to be popular, it’s not. I enjoy probably as wide a range of music styles as anyone I know. The point of this article is to help parents think about being intentional with the music their children listen to on a routine basis. The overriding scripture that comes to mind is Proverbs 29:15 which tells us that “a child left to himself brings shame to his mother.” … Read entire article »
Eat, Drink and Be Mary
Each year we find ourselves in the largest holiday season of the year. Each year, many of us find ourselves worn out. For most of my life, I’ve seen the tug of war between church and commerce. I’ve read sales slogan after sales slogan. I’ve heard sermon after skit after song on remembering the “Reason for the Season.” It’s hard to deny … Read entire article »
Raising Entrepreneurs
Recently I had the opportunity to take my three oldest children to a home business conference a few hours away. It was similar to other conferences I’ve been to. There were motivational speakers. There were speakers who’ve made millions using the market power of the Internet. There were people who have been working a home business for just a couple … Read entire article »
Don’t Be Evil or Naive
Where do you host your personal e-mail? Your church e-mail? Your Christian mission e-mail? Whom do you e-mail privately, and where do THEY host their e-mail? After this week’s announcement by Google that they do not consider your e-mail on Gmail to be “private,” I got fed up with seeing Christians, Christian churches, Christian missionaries and mission agencies and anyone else … Read entire article »
Who’s the Winner? Who’s the Loser?
One night in May, my son’s baseball team was playing another team. We had friends over to watch the game. It was a pretty close game. The parents on both sides were cheering their respective teams. There were plenty of close plays and (being Little League) enough errors to wrench the gut of any coach. At the end of the game, however, the score was higher for my son’s team than for our opponents. “Hoorah! We won!” Our company for the evening came back to our home for a visit. In discussing the game, my friend told me that while getting into his car, he happened to see one of the boys from the other team … Read entire article »
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