— To uplift, inform and challenge —

Fellow Servant,

        A commonality of most incoming  ministry mail is various expressions of anxiety.  In fact, so prevalent, it would be easy to conclude that the Church lacks as much peace as does the world.  We note this not to disparage or make light of one’s problems or severity of the issues so many are facing.  However, we do intend to remind of the remedy God has provided for His own.

         As alien pilgrims immersed in this world’s cesspool of sin, Christians are daily challenged and tempted every which way; to fear, doubt ... even to give up.  We’re all faced with threats, problems and disappointments and to ease the pain, some seek relief in worldly ways.  But there’s a vastly better remedy: God’s.  Let’s take a few minutes to consider this matter.

— Bible-based commentary on vital issues of the day —

Christian Terrorists

The Department of Homeland Security views as "potential
terrorists," those who love God or personal freedom.

(Following from The American Dream¹ — 2/07/12)

Love America?  Are you against a one world economy and a one world government?  Do you deeply love individual liberty?  Do you believe in conspiracy theories?  If you answered any of those questions affirmatively, then you are a potential terrorist according to a brand new Department of Homeland Security (DHS) report that was just released in January 2012. The report is entitled "Hot Spots of Terrorism and Other Crimes in the United States, 1970 to 2008", and it was produced by the "National Consortium for the Study of Terrorism and Responses to Terrorism" for the Department of Homeland Security.  As you will see detailed later on in this article, the most shocking part of this report is when it discusses the "ideological motivations" of potential terrorists.  The report shamelessly attempts to portray red-blooded Americans that love liberty and that love their country as the enemy.  Once upon a time, deeply patriotic Americans were considered to be the backbone of America, but today they are considered to be potential terrorists.

— Bible-based commentary on vital issues of the day —

Economic Outlook

Is history prepping for a re-run?

Markets were on a roll.  New corporations were being listed every few days.  Germany was unified, had a new currency and its mighty exporters were doing business around the world.  Greece had merged its currency with that of France and Italy in a bold experiment in monetary union.  A massive new European economy was flooding the world with cheap goods and disrupting old patterns of trade.  New technologies were creating global markets where money and information zipped from bourse to bank virtually instantaneously.  It seemed as if everyone would keep on getting richer and richer forever.  That is ... until the market suddenly crashed. 

— Spiritual food for today —

Rock & Sand

In this morning's pre-dawn darkness and before I could lock unto the things of God, my mind took off and transported me back to a familiar town of the early ‘40s.  In vivid detail, I mentally walked through its park, streets, stores and three movie theaters; even around and through our family’s four-room cottage on a washboard-like, country dirt road.  Names, prices, places, faces and spaces all appeared as clearly as printed on this page.  So disturbingly real, I wondered if the episode signaled a crashed mind-drive ... or if that’s what happens just before one dies.  Very unsettling.