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CELEBRATING THE RED...

Monday, October 29. 2007


I won’t rub it in: the Red Sox are the World Champions, again! One lesson of life for those who supported the Other Team might simply be, “You win some and you lose some. Oh well- keep going, keep trying.” Of course, now you could root for the Patriots. For the sports fans here, this is a great time to be a New Englander.

For everyone here, the view outdoors is magnificent! Foliage is at its peak and it is absolutely perfect! Awesome display of Beauty that glorifies the Creator. My brother is an Artist. God is, too. Color (red or not), creativity, imagination and design are things Christians should celebrate for God’s sake.


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PLAYING WITH FIRE

Monday, October 29. 2007

"A headline in the Los Angeles Times pretty much said it all: 'Maddening Intense Blazes Met Explosive Suburban Growth.'"  This is from a column today by Richard Reeves.  Our local paper ran it with the title “Playing with fire, getting burned”

"The results were predictable: Fifteen big "brush" fires, more than 600 square miles burned, more than 1,800 buildings reduced to ashes, hundreds of thousands of people running for their lives, cost about a billion dollars.  There is no mystery about any of this. The Times headline was perfect because it caught the relationship between man and nature in disaster, whether fire, flood, earthquake or global warming. What nature does is inevitable; all these things were happening with maddening regularity long before there were upright bipeds running around making them better or worse."



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PRIORITIES IN PICKING A PRESIDENT

Saturday, October 27. 2007


It requires Special Revelation via the Scripture to know the Gospel; nevertheless “Natural Law” exists and it is the basis God has for holding pagan Nations accountable for their actions. For example, study the first chapter of Amos which records God’s judgment coming on those pagan Nations guilty of violence, oppression, cruelty in their treatment of other Nations and people groups (e.g.- slave trading).

Natural Law, particularly, Natural Moral Law, is about Justice. That is God’s yardstick for every Nation. Instead of politicking and seeking legislation to make this a Christian Country, our goal should be to make it a Country wherein there is Justice (as measured by God’s standards) for all.

This gives us a major principle to use in deciding which candidates to support in the coming national election. Likewise, this goal gives us a guideline to use in evaluating legislation and government policies. Who will work for Justice? What will enable Justice?









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ROMNEY FOR PRESIDENT?

Saturday, October 27. 2007


In light of what I have written above, I am inclined to think that Mitt Romney might be the best candidate for our next president. I am also persuaded by this well-reasoned article by Wayne Grudem that Mr Romney is probably the best person among the current candidates for the position.

http://www.crosswalk.com/news/commentary/11557559/page1/


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OUR "OTHER" TROOPS IN IRAQ

Wednesday, October 3. 2007

We have a national debate about the number of troops in Iraq and when to bring them home. We hear various accounts about how many are necessary to get the job done and what they are costing the taxpayers. Until now, very little has been mentioned in Congress or the media about the “other troops” we have stationed in Iraq. Frankly, I was shocked to learn of the numbers involved and have serious questions about the these paramilitary operations, which I understand are now essential to the war effort.

“There are now more private contractors working in Iraq than U.S. soldiers serving there. Many are not U.S. citizens. Triple Canopy, another private firm, usually hires Peruvians to man the checkpoints inside the International Zone and Ugandans to guard distant airbases. The Peruvians, known as “incas” among Americans there, usually do not speak English”




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