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Davids Christmas and New Years Greetings
2013 Christmas and New Year’s Greetings from Peter and Judy Davids in Stafford, TX. After spending many Christmases in Canada with our family, we have chosen to stay at home in Texas this year. Christmas 2012 was spent in Calgary, AB with … Continue reading
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Memorial Day – the Mixed Bag
I have mixed thoughts about Memorial Day. First, it is often forgotten that it is about dead soldiers, not living ones. We have Veterans Day for the living ones, and Memorial Day for the ones who died in battle or … Continue reading
Two posts: a surprise about what excites people’s emotions
Last Saturday I put up two posts of Facebook. The first I thought might be controversial, since it concerned US politics (a vote in the Senate) and gun control. In short, I argued that right after Sandy Hook I predicted … Continue reading
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Tagged Christian university, Facebook, gun control, prophecy, SSU, St. Stephen's University, Vineyard
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God Hates Violence
It was early in the story of humanity that we read, “In God’s sight the earth had become corrupt and was filled in violence.” (Gen 6:11) That idea is repeated two verses later. After the Deluge story there is the … Continue reading
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Why Do Christians Love Obama?
I admit to being ironic in the title of this blog. What is clear to me is that many, probably most of my friends on Facebook are orthodox Christians. Probably they would call themselves conservative evangelicals, whether they were from … Continue reading
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Tagged Christian politics, Facebook, Obama, Right wing Republican
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Daily Conversion
Evangelicals have traditionally talked about one’s conversion, often using the term “saved” as in “When were you saved?” Over against that the monastic tradition and the Catholic and Orthodox churches in general have talked about continual repentance and continual conversion. … Continue reading
Is it Advent or Christmas?
I am always of two minds at this time of year. First, the is the confusion between the church celebration of Advent, the waiting the coming of God’s Anointed King that has been fulfilled along with the waiting for that … Continue reading
Reflections on Elections
Given that today is the day before Election Day here in this US of A, one would think that reflection on the election would be appropriate. However, I tried to avoid it, since biblical reflection is far more difficult than … Continue reading
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Tagged Born-again, Church and State, Elections, Jesus is Lord
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Dr. Joseph Blair on Kingdom and Kingdoms
Kingdom and Kingdoms Jesus came preaching, teaching, and living the kingdom of God as the central thrust of his ministry. So we should put his kingdom, his kingdom rule, at the center. In the run-up to the presidential election, neither … Continue reading
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We are in an election cycle right now, and each of the candidates for the two highest offices claims allegiance to Jesus, the two vice presidential candidate as committed Catholics (although of different part of the faithful Catholic spectrum), one … Continue reading
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