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Implications of That Vision Thing

Sometimes when I look back and survey where my head has been on things, I wonder how God let me live and continued to use me. Our fallen nature ensures we will always get some things wrong when God speaks … Continue reading

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Prayer Request: Service, Please

I’m getting there. As I read through the material on network administration, I’m playing with various settings on our home server, making sure I understand how they work. It’s been years since I played bookworm. And while I find this … Continue reading

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The Tracking Economy

I offer no advice at all, just my impression of things I’ve seen. We have the Tech Big Five: Microsoft, Google, Amazon, Apple and Facebook. They all have one thing in common — tracking. They are all trying to monetize … Continue reading

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It’s Coming Home

Could you have predicted it? We are watching the West implode. The cultural milieu has run its course and we are watching something new forming from the ashes. Even Western self-awareness of cultural birth and development is biased, but if … Continue reading

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Moral Logic: Human Need

Biblical moral reasoning proceeds from the heart, not the head. We live to reflect the glory of our Creator back at Him. Broadly speaking, human conduct glorifies Him by adhering to His revelation, both in the doing and in reaping … Continue reading

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The Holy Order of Gatekeepers

The concept of gatekeeper is as old as humanity: a wholly unnatural restriction to genuine human need, maintained by horrific injustice. (We can save the debate about what constitutes a genuine human need in God’s eyes for another day.) At … Continue reading

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This-n-That

Economic collapse: The US is there. You didn’t know that? Perhaps the meaning of the phrase “economic collapse” is what eludes you. There is less disposable income and a significant portion of the population is unemployed when they’d rather be … Continue reading

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Heart World Aborning

You can’t do this with your head, only by your heart. It’s not that people can’t change via lesser faculties, but your heart is the only part of you that can find reality and your proper path through it. The … Continue reading

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Not Just a Spectator

This thing is a global disruption. It’s an established principle of economics. The model is flexible, but it works like this: You have a company that produces something that people want and need, and the owners manage to invest in … Continue reading

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Can’t Afford Materialism

I can recall serving in the military when it was called “peace time” and all we did was train. In those days, our senior battalion maintenance officer said something to a group of us about what a wonderful thing it … Continue reading

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