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Contrary to Our Interests
Prior to taking off in an airplane, a safe pilot will consider several variables—the condition of the airplane, the weather, the origin and destination airports, and his or her physical condition. Now even if a pilot does all of the … Continue reading
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Building Relationships
In a recent survey by LifeWay Research, 78% of Protestant churchgoers say they have developed significant relationships with others at their church. Those who attend church more frequently are more likely to strongly state they had developed such relationships. However, … Continue reading
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Access to the Bible
In a recent Ethnos 360 magazine [1] on a page asking for donations, the advertiser gives the following statistics. They state there are about 6,900 languages in the world. Only 531 have the complete Bible and fewer than 2,000 languages … Continue reading
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I Bombed Pearl Harbor
My wife was going through her dad’s papers (see my blog on Robert Allen Coy from January 29, 2019) when she came across a newspaper article that he had kept. The article was about the memoirs of a Japanese pilot … Continue reading
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What Lies within Us
One more takeaway from Amy Shively Hawk’s book Six Years in the Hanoi Hilton. She quotes Ralph Waldo Emerson at the start of one of her chapters. “What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared … Continue reading
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How God Judges People
In the last blog, we talked about the life of the Vietnam War POW James Shively. In the book about Shively, the author recounts a story from John McCain who was also a POW along with Shively. At one point, … Continue reading
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How to Live
The book about the Vietnam War POW, Jim Shively, contains a tribute from a friend and a former POW cellmate. This tribute concerns the character of Shively; the fact that even in the North Vietnamese prison he showed those he … Continue reading
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Our Religious Beliefs
I was talking to an individual about my blog and book. Specifically, our conversation was why some people just accept what the main stream religions teach while others need to search out, for themselves, the questions they have about religion. … Continue reading
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The Cost of Discipleship
As we have discussed in this blog and in my book, there are many passages in the Bible which requires we do more than just believe in Jesus and his death for our sins in order to be saved. Unlike … Continue reading
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I don’t know about your impression of the Old Testament prophets, but to me they seem to be more like John the Baptist who wore a “garment of camel’s hair and a leather belt around his waist, and his food … Continue reading