“Thy silver is become dross…”
By John | March 14, 2009
The above posting title is from Isaiah 1:22 and is part of the list of sinful practices by the people of Israel. It specifically refers to the debasement of the monetary system of the nation of Israel. View the video below and see our present day version of the sin of debasing a nation’s monetary system.
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What Will It Take?
By John | March 6, 2009
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Media Theologians
By John | September 17, 2008
Do the main stream media get it? Will they ever get it? Here Charlie Gibson shows he hasn’t a clue. We see here why the media never present or report honestly on religious subjects. They discount God, or religion or faith as something that can make a difference in the lives of ordinary people. They don’t see it and consequently make asinine statements such as Charlies’s, “Are we fighting a holy war?” Also, we learn from this clip, that one of the qualifications a liberal journalist must possess is the ability to accurately quote misquote people.
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Blue Barbarians
By John | September 5, 2008
It has been said that civilization is always one generation away from barbarism. After watching the angry left, I think it is apparent we are much closer than a generation.
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God in the Blue States
By John | September 3, 2008
The title of this review, “God in the Blue States” is taken from the introduction to the book, The Faith of Barack Obama, by Stephen Mansfield and published by Thomas Nelson. Mansfield quotes Obama in his speech to the 2004 Democratic Convention when Obama said. “We worship an awesome God in the Blue States.” Those words are important because they help us to understand how Obama is changing the face of U. S. politics. What follows is, in the words of the author, “an attempt to understand the religious life of Barack Obama and the changes in American religious history that he has come to represent.” This is a formidable task, made even more so by the fact Mansfield limited his work to 164 pages.
The book gives insights into the early life of Barack Obama such as the influence of his atheistic mother, the effect of growing up fatherless in the decades of the sixties and seventies, his early life in Indonesia and Hawaii, the ambivalence fostered by his being a person of mixed race and his search to find a racial identity. Obama’s college years, the time working for social improvement on Chicago’s South Side and his successful run for the Senate are also covered. All these forces are nicely laid out by the author and help us toward understanding Obama’s religious roots. Read the rest of this entry »
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Free at Last!
By John | September 1, 2008
If you want to be free of all the distractions that pass for Presidential news reporting, the silly traditional Presidential debates and all those mindless talking heads, then this GodTube.com link below is for you. The Rick Warren Saddleback Civil Forum questioning of John McCain and Barak Obama is arranged in individual videos. This way you can more directly compare each candidate’s answer to each individual question. If you missed the original program on TV you can catch it on GodTube.com at you leisure. See it all here at GodTube.com
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A Father’s Day Tribute
By John | June 10, 2008
This is a video about a relationship between a father and his son. It is also about our relationship with God, the Father.
Happy Father’s Day
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ER and the Useless god of Post-Modernism
By John | June 4, 2008
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What About Arlington?
By John | January 1, 2008
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Being Thankful
By John | December 9, 2007
Have you ever seen someone you felt needed to thank but let the opportunity pass on? Well there are many opportunities to thank our troops for their service and sacrifice on our behalf. So the next time you encounter a service member say thank you as illustrated by this short video from The Gratitude Campaign.
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