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Is Freedom A Resource? And Is It Renewable?

Like many Americans I am concerned with the progressive growth of the federal government. However, unlike many of my fellow Americans, I don’t blame any party, business or particular person; rather I blame the American individual. From our nation’s inception the government was designed with the bottom/up model - “a government for the people and [...]

I Dunno Why, But This Is Entertaining

1 Comment | Posted by matthew on June 19th, 2008 in Christian

Booyah!

Tags: Christian, Mormon, witness

Think Again

1 Comment | Posted by matthew on June 18th, 2008 in Christian, Culture, Fear, Homosexual

Think the issue of homosexual marriage isn’t that important, or that it is not indicative of such terrible possibilities as many seem to say? Think again:

From the AFA

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Tags: AFA, Christian, Homosexual

Absolutism And Media Pomposity

No Comments Yet | Posted by matthew on June 6th, 2008 in Christian, Media

No fixed point of reference is going to do you any good unless it has two factors:

It has to be seperate from you
It can’t move

~Frank Peretti
Ever notice how pompous and self-aggrandizing the media is?
You ain’t seen nothin’ yet:
Barack Obama took the meaning of “secret meeting” to a different level last night, after he slipped away [...]

The Predestination Paradox

3 Comments | Posted by matthew on June 4th, 2008 in Christian, I, Pandora

This is only the lightest of treatments of what has muddled many a mind and rankled many an argument over the vast span of history between Christ’s walking on earth and out present day.
Let me begin by putting all my cards on the table:
Predestination (or election) and choice and free-will in salvation are not mutually [...]

If God Were Not Jealous…

1 Comment | Posted by American Texan on May 30th, 2008 in Christian

…He would be an idolater.
Think about it- God is jealous to protect His honor, His glory. God’s jealously is righteous because He wants to be recognized for who He is.
Some Biblical support:
Exodus 20:5 “You shall not bow down to them or serve them, for I the Lord your God am a jealous God, visiting the [...]

Am I Saved: A Quandary, And Last Year

No Comments Yet | Posted by matthew on May 13th, 2008 in Christian, I, Pandora

I tend to be dense, sometimes.
Over the last two years, at least, I’ve noticed a theme in God’s work in my life. A lesson, as it were, He spends all year drumming in to my head. And usually it takes a while for me to notice I’m still in class, as it were.
Last year, it [...]

Six Flags Over Jesus

No Comments Yet | Posted by matthew on April 28th, 2008 in America, Christian, Culture

This movie is long, but worthwhile. Very worthwhile.

Tags: Christian, GodTube, Pastor Paul

“Smiling All The Way To Hell”

6 Comments | Posted by American Texan on April 22nd, 2008 in Christian

This morning in chapel at the small Christian College I attend, the speaker made several statements which I found very interesting and thought-provoking:
“I heard about a man who was accused of scaring people into heaven. I asked him about this recently and he said, ‘When my children were little, I scared them from touching a [...]

Words To Live And Die By

No Comments Yet | Posted by matthew on April 16th, 2008 in Christian, Islam

“I know what I am headed for but I face my destiny with my head held high, standing upright and with the interior solidity of one who has the certainty of his faith.”
~Magdi Allam, Journalist and Christian convert from Islam

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Tags: Christian, Islam, Magdi Allam, Muslim, Pope Benedict

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