Category Archives: personal

Heart Truth

From my earliest memory, I knew that God had His hand on my life. By no means did this indicate I lived a charmed existence. Parts of my childhood passed in homelessness, and poverty was never far away. Further, I … Continue reading

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Apologies for Substack

I wasn’t aware that Substack was trying to force me into charging for subscriptions to the blog, until someone told me they were hit with a donation page upon trying to visit my Substack. I apologize for that. It took … Continue reading

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Admin: Ministry Notes

To answer some questions I’ve had: I’m finally in a position to branch out into another area of ministry. It may sound like a hobby to you, but I’ve long felt led to engage in faith outreach through my cycling. … Continue reading

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Never Arrive

Do you admire people with a “mind like a steel trap”? Sorry, I’m not one of those. It might take me a few days to discern exactly what the substance of an issue is because my fleshly nature still fights … Continue reading

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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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