Tag: in america
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“Don’t Give Your Strength to Women”: Bathsheba’s Wisdom for Her Grandchildren in Proverbs 31:1-3
I want you to imagine, for a moment, that you are walking down a path and come to a fork. You must veer right or left. You must choose which way to travel. How do you decide which path to take? If I don’t know what is coming, I will just go down one path…
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Didache- Reformed Doctrine 1,400 Years Before Luther or Calvin
Didache 3-4 In chapter 2, the author(s), either the apostles or the apostolic fathers, gives a practical list of first things. These first things were actions or restrictions that summarize the Law. We saw that they were a proper representation of the Law as we compared them to the Biblical account. They are meant to…
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Is Freedom a Myth?
Freedom has always been an interesting concept to me. When thinking about physical freedom, people have measured it in three ways: positive, negative, and republican. Positive freedom is the freedom I have to do what I am capable of. I can eat and I can sleep and I can read. I cannot breathe underwater unaided.…
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Shooting Law Enforcement Officers
There was a time, when I lived in Wake Forest, NC and was visiting home that I got pulled over by a police officer. I was on an Oklahoma back road so that I could avoid the tolls, going through either Cyril or Apache. The speed limit was 25 miles an hour and I was…
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Behold American Independence
“Independence Day is nigh! It is the day that we celebrate the American colonies winning independence from Britain, and we assume to still have such independence, but there is distaste. What was honey to the lips might turn sour as it enters the stomach. Behold American Independence that provides its people with welfare and healthcare…