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Kamikaze Christianity
it is almost a mantra: "when we get to Heaven, we will know everything just as He does." i have started perking up at that point in people's talks, because i know they are rationalizing. when we have prayed through to the point of exhaustion and want an excuse to quit......Read More

Posted on: 2008-02-01 14:27:44 | Rating:

| Views: 49 | Comments: 0 | Tags: mythbusters

someone's mugging your kids: you
the baby was still in diapers. mom and dad kinda tiptoed in and got settled and the baby stayed asleep. then stuff started and the baby woke up. and had the audacity to cry. stupid baby. they shushed it. they spoke sternly to it. by now the idiots had the attention of the entire......Read More

Posted on: 2008-02-01 18:52:13 | Rating:

| Views: 35 | Comments: 0 | Tags: spanking torture and other signs of refinement

hero
i want to be a hero. it can't involve pain or work. i am looking for suggestions. ...Read More

Posted on: 2008-02-01 19:44:07 | Rating:

| Views: 77 | Comments: 3 | Tags: search

heart of hearts
our enemy is a counterfeiter. he walks around "like" a roaring lion. he comes in "like" a flood. do you know what is done with counterfeit money? whatever they do with other trash. burn it, recycle it. it is actual paper with imaginary worth. our enemy is a real......Read More

Posted on: 2008-02-02 16:13:50 | Rating:

| Views: 64 | Comments: 2 | Tags: your answer is inside you

wilderness part 1
one of the things that Abraham's descendants and early believers had that most Americans don't was a wilderness. the wilderness that the complaining Jews spent forty years in was so close to the promised land that they had to have been able to see it during the wanderings.......Read More

Posted on: 2008-02-07 01:00:03 | Rating:

| Views: 66 | Comments: 1 | Tags: wanderings

goodbye to a good heart
Betty died. a peaceful, giving woman went to her final rest on monday. why does it feel like i am walking through water? not ON it, mind you; through it. people freeze in my head the way they were the last time i saw them. this woman gave her life, family and home to others.......Read More

Posted on: 2008-02-07 15:41:15 | Rating:

| Views: 38 | Comments: 1 | Tags: God gets all the good ones

comfort ye My people
Comfort ye my people. -God what in the......Read More

Posted on: 2008-02-08 13:48:26 | Rating:

| Views: 81 | Comments: 1 | Tags: stuff

favorites
i'm persuaded that the stories in Scripture are as non-moralizing as a sidewalk. so many things are described that are just flat out wrong, but they happen without any sort of correction. the apostle paul was not afraid to voice ideas that were purely his opinion. so in that......Read More

Posted on: 2008-02-08 20:55:30 | Rating:

| Views: 53 | Comments: 2 | Tags: creating strong children

step-children
consider the boy: Ishmael. his sissy father certainly didn't. this is the original red-headed step-child. if you missed the last several centuries, let me catch you up. God told abraham he was going to be a dad. abe thought that was cool, cuz he was old enough to be a grandpa, and......Read More

Posted on: 2008-02-09 01:13:11 | Rating:

| Views: 69 | Comments: 1 | Tags: family dynamics

perfect
i have a kitten in the house, dish network for the arctic freeze that is coming sunday, and a daughter who calls just cuz she misses me to say i love you at 1:30 AM. it is a perfect day to die. but if i don't, i'll be back soon. ...Read More