Category Archives: personal

Hiatus Time

The Lord commands and we obey. That pressure I mentioned a few days ago isn’t gone, but it has convinced me to make some decisions. One of them is that this blog is going to take a nap. For the … Continue reading

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We Shall See

Yesterday I was distracted by a very heavy sense of pressure. It has happened often enough that I recognized it as a moral burden, a potent sense of anticipation that great evil was coming to America. Furthermore, I was not … Continue reading

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Adjusting Myself

Moral choices I’ve made over the years have consequences. In my twenties, I was offered a job in business management. It would have kept me from going to church, and at the time, that was more important to me, so … Continue reading

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Joe Cooper Hyundai

This is an honest and free endorsement of a local car dealer. Over the years of my life, I’ve never had enough money to buy a new car. Thus, I ended up buying from a lot of individuals and from … Continue reading

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Time to Place Your Bets

I get questions. In this case, the question itself is not important; it’s a matter of what it implies. We have a bad habit of not searching out the unspoken assumptions behind what we have been taught to think. To … Continue reading

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Prayer for Polarization

How to you handle spite directed at you? I’m not worried about people who disagree with me. They have been present from the first day I began blogging back around 2000. Some within community disagree with some of what I … Continue reading

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Still Has a Place

Well, how about that? I’m officially over the hill, now. After several months of pushing hard and giving it my best, I am unable to gain any increased muscular power by progressive weight training. This is no ordinary plateau. Sometime … Continue reading

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The Turning Point

You won’t see it in this photo, but this was the place where my life changed dramatically. With my wife and kids, I rented half of a house down at the end of this street on the left. The house … Continue reading

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God in a Box

I have no interest in writing my biography; I don’t believe my life has been that interesting. But a few people have asked me how I got where I am in this ministry. I’ll offer a rough outline of what … Continue reading

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Tools in the Box 01

I had written something else entirely, but decided it wasn’t the message for today. I’ve noted this before: The federal government has officially listed me as a cult leader and terrorist. The only reason they have not taken me into … Continue reading

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