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My Own Private Mexico

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...

Bless The Lord.

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...

The Scaffolding of Dreams

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...

8 Things The Bible Isn't And Doesn't Claim To Be

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...

What Do You Do When Jesus Shows Up?

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...

Pinpointing the Navigational Coordinates of the Kingdom of God

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...

Better Than Nothing

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...

If Christ Has Been Removed From Christmas, Who Can Put Him Back In?

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...

The Last Highway

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...

What Was the Point to Jesus Saying 'Keep My Commandments?'

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...