Category Archives: Application

As I stated in my last blog, we are discussing prayer at the church I attend.  What caught my attention was that there are many verses in the Bible which simply instruct us to pray.  These verses have no preconditions … Continue reading →

In the church that I attend, we have been talking about prayer.  For me, prayer raises a lot of questions such as:  If God is all-knowing, why does he need us to talk to him in prayer?  He knows more … Continue reading →

Ri Le runs a very successful restaurant business and I have been a patron at his restaurant many times.  In a recent newspaper article about him, Ri Le states one of the most important moments in his life occurred 25 … Continue reading →

He was an honor student in high school and excelled in sports.  He was a World War II veteran serving in Korea.  He married Naomi and together they raised 10 children.  He was a farmer for most of his life.  … Continue reading →

Several years ago in a philosophy class I was taking, a fellow classmate gave me a list of three books he suggested that I read.   Well, I finally got around to reading one of those books.  It was a book … Continue reading →

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow says it more eloquently than the above title does.  At times it does seem that this world is a lost cause.  It is only because we have “the assurance of things hoped for, the conviction of things … Continue reading →

When things go our way, we tend to think of ourselves as lucky.  When things do not go our way, we think of ourselves as unlucky.  A recent column in Flying magazine puts a different perspective on this issue. Peter … Continue reading →

I have been reading John Hick’s book Evil and the God of Love.  It is one of the better books I have read on the subject of human free will vs. God’s sovereignty and how a loving God can permit … Continue reading →

Back in June we wrote about the book Killers of the Flower Moon which details the murders of several Osage Indians in order to concentrate and control the wealth of the Osage Indians.  The FBI only convicted one person of … Continue reading →

I recently read a book about the World War II battle for Okinawa.  Now books about World War II are not uncommon but what was different about this book was that it was written by a Japanese officer who was … Continue reading →