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Shoot Your Own Side First!
When Christians start feeding each other to the lions, we're in trouble.If you want to read some discouraging stuff, check out the "comments" section on virtually any Adventist sermon posted on...
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A Response to THE VIOLENCE OF A HEARTLESS THEOLOGY
I am either an exceptionally honest person who has the ability to see both sides of an issue or I'm without principles. Depends on who you talk to. Those who would divide my church into evil heartless...
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My First Mentor Retires
Add captionMy Dad took a flyer when I was four leaving Mom with three little ones to care for and without visible means of support. Until I was in my teens, my male role models tended to be fictional...
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Fallen Warriors: Leroy J. Leiske
Leroy J. LeiskeI've recently lost several mentors from my early Christian experience - some to retirement and some have passed away. Leroy J. Leiske was one of those mentors. When I knew him he was...
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Born to Be Saved
We are each born knowing everything we need to know how to do in order to obey God. His children are born in his image. As babies, we are born already knowing how to love in the most immediate and...
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Christians and Power – the Ancient Sin
David spares Saul though he himself had beenanointed King by Samuel.Follow the money. There is an old principal that police detectives have learned when investigating crimes, especially white collar...
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Knowing the Answers Before Asking the Questions
In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth. Now the earth was formless and empty, darkness was over the surface of the deep, and the Spirit of God was hovering over the waters. --...
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"Revisiting Revelation" What are You Really Trying to Say?
A friend I like and respect recently posted a video from an outfit called "Revelation Revisited". This group presents itself as a small group of Seventh-day Adventist laymen that have been studying the...
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Two More Articles on Unity in AW This Month
Got my copy of Adventist World today. It contained two more articles on church "unity" and "authority" of the leadership today. It saddens me that leadership feels it needs to remind us that they are...
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A Response to "Appetizers and Affairs" in Spectrum
Courtney Ray, a female SDA pastor joined liberal feminists everywhere in piling up a mountain upon the molehill that was Mike Pence's declaration that he didn't do lunch or dinner meetings alone with...
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Politics and Religion: Is There a Right Side for Christians
20th century Christian author GK Chesterton Put not your trust in princes. Wise words and yet we so seldom keep our skepticism intact when some smooth-tongued demagogue advances ideas we find...
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A Response to Calls for the Church to Expand Our Limited Views of Sexuality
I apologize in advance for the length of this post, but I thought I'd go ahead and get it over with. It has been suggested that it is time for the church to expand our "limited views of sexuality."...
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Camping Genius: The Pathfinder Bug-Out Bag
I've written before about the Bug-Out Bag and the Get-Home Bag. Each has a slightly different purpose. The Bug-Out Bag or the GOOD (Get Out Of Dodge) bag is something you keep in your home or car or in...
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A Knight Takes a Stand
Retired SDA historian, George Knight is on the hot seat. some of the Adventist Book Centers have even considered removing his books from their shelves as a result of remarks he made at a recent "Unity...
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Mental Illness and the Soul
And the Lord God formed man of the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living soul. - Genesis 2:7 KJVSeventh-day Adventists have a unique...
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A Loving God's-Eye View of the Ten Commandments
One of the reasons God said, "Have no other godsbefore me." Gods like Molech weren't very nice gods.Too often we think of "commandments" as harsh and arbitrary orders. In all of history, the only time...
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Socialists to the Left of Me, Nazis to the Right – Here I Am.
Stuck in the middle with you all!*You need not express a political opinion in an SDA gathering very often before you will be approached by some seriously concerned Adventist who tells you that...
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Arminius vs. Calvin - The Golden Path
Jacobus Arminius vs. John CalvinOn Facebook of all places I ran into a deep discussion of Arminianism vs. Calvinism (free will vs. election). Admittedly I'm an Arminian in that I believe free will is...
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Camping Genius: Pickup Canoe/Kayak Carrier
Actual pickup canoe rack built by a readerfrom the plans in the blog.This project is a handy multi-purpose rack for carrying canoes, kayaks, and even four-wheelers. The original idea came after a...
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Camping Genius: Picking the Perfect Kayak Paddle
Kayaks are rapidly overtaking canoes as the primary hand-propelled watercraft in use on the lakes and rivers of North America. They are the sports cars of the paddling world. If you do take up...
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