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3 Jan 2024 6 minute read 0 comments Nathan Payne
"The artist is the last free person."Duncan Fallowell It's getting weird out there. I derive no pleasure from believing it will only get worse. People who revel in "being right" are dangerous lunatics; I would love nothing more than to be complet...
31 Dec 2023 1 minute read 2 comments Olawalium
No matter how bad you think the year has ended for you, there are a lot of people who would give anything to be in your shoes We have those who wish the year shouldn't end yet due to deadlines they need to meet and we have those who look up to the...
29 Dec 2023 4 minute read 0 comments Nathan Payne
“What? know ye not that your body is the temple of the Holy Ghost which is in you, which ye have of God, and ye are not your own?”1 Corinthians 6:19 Because it's a hilarious, festive way to go, deaths by flocks of carnivorous balloons are generally...
28 Dec 2023 6 minute read 20 comments Allen Taylor
Spend any time at all around Christians today and you'll inevitably hear someone refer to the Bible as "the infallible, inerrant word of God." This is usually proclaimed with the chest puffed out and the eyes widened to emphasize the infallible, iner...
24 Dec 2023 1 minute read 0 comments Olawalium
There is no denying the truth that Jesus always show up. Just when He was late for Lazarus, little did they know He was right on time. Jesus carries the embodiment of God and when He shows up, great things happen as we have seen with the miracle in...
21 Dec 2023 7 minute read 2 comments Allen Taylor
Approximately 600 years before the birth of Jesus Christ, a king of a great empire built a golden statue. Afterward, he passed an edict requiring everyone to bow down to that statue and worship it. Three teenage Hebrews refused to do so. Making good...
20 Dec 2023 4 minute read 0 comments Nathan Payne
"They came in with green vests and goat horns. They blasted everyone."Survivor of the Salvatierra Massacre On the night I moved into my apartment on 18th and Racine in Chicago in 1999, I was shaken down by the Latin Kings. A stoned, drunken gangb...
14 Dec 2023 5 minute read 10 comments Allen Taylor
Last night, my wife and I curled up in our cozy warm place and watched the new Christmas movie starring Reba McEntire and John Schneider. Titled Christmas in Tune, one of its major themes, as with almost all Christmas movies, is "there's something sp...
11 Dec 2023 2 minute read 0 comments Nathan Payne
“We need the possibility of escape as surely as we need hope; without it the life of the cities would drive all men into crime or drugs or psychoanalysis.”Edward Abbey I packed my van this weekend, for a trip I may never take. I don't have any fur...
7 Dec 2023 8 minute read 12 comments Allen Taylor
Over the years, as I've grown in my faith, I've wondered what Jesus meant by "If you love Me, you will keep My commandments" as recorded in John 14:15. It sounds simple enough. Obey me, you idiot! How could he have said it any plainer? Pardon the cra...
