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Is the Message Still Relevant?
For 2000 years, since Jesus commanded his disciples to go spread the good news to all nations, Christian messengers, or missionaries, have traveled throughout the world spreading the message of hope and redemption. There are few people on the Earth … Continue reading
All Things are Possible
Recent conflict and protests in America, about statues and monuments recalling troubling events in the past, seem to be dividing a country that clearly needs uniting. Those who focus on division rather than unity seem to think that all things … Continue reading
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Tagged books, Christ, god, Providence
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Historical Sites along the Maine Coast: Kittery to York
Kittery, Maine, situated on the northern shores of the Piscataqua River, was a home to seamen and fishermen. Most such men of the salt sea were not well known in their own time and forgotten today. An exception was Lieutenant … Continue reading
Posted in American History, books, Christianity, God's Providence, Great Commission
Tagged Christ, Daniel Little, god, Great Commission, History of New England
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Independence: Disorder in a Democracy
In today’s day, we are confronted with disorder, almost chaos and anarchy at times. How do we bring order out of a disorderly situation? The concluding years of the American Revolution in the 1780s provides us with an example. The … Continue reading
Posted in American History, books, Christianity, God's Providence, Government
Tagged Biography, books, Constitution, god, history, Providence
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Animals and Time
Do animals have an experience of time similar to humans? I believe so. I propose that each life, whether human or animal, experiences time and the passage of time, hence history, individually, uniquely. It is difficult for a human to … Continue reading
Posted in Christianity, General Essays, God's Providence
Tagged Animals, Dogs, god, Providence, Time
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You Shall Know the Truth, and the Truth Shall Set You Free
This is the gist of remarks I made before students and faculty at the spring 2017 Matriculation ceremony at Bacone College. Many years ago I was a student at a university on the East coast. This university had a large … Continue reading
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Tagged books, Christ, god, Jesus, New Testament, You Shall Know the Truth and the Truth Shall Set You Free
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There are Trillions of Lives–What about Me?
There are 7.5 billion humans residing on this small Earth, which is 15% of how many people (demographers estimate) that have lived on this Earth over the course of its 4.5 billion year history. Therefore, more people are dead, have … Continue reading
George Washington and Providence
Jeremy Belknap, a patriot, scientist, historian, and minister in the late eighteenth century, wrote during the War for Independence to his friend Ebenezer Hazard, praising General George Washington: “A man is never more truly noble than when he is sensible … Continue reading
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Tagged Biography, George Washington, god, history, Providence
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And God Saw Every Thing that He had made, and Behold, it was Very Good
The title of this post comes from Genesis, 1:31, the final verse of the first chapter of the Old Testament. This final verse provides commentary on the sixth day of the Creation, in which God had, after the creation of … Continue reading
Posted in Christianity, God's Providence, Reflections on the Psalms
Tagged Adam, Creation, god, Love, psalms
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Blessed are the Poor?
In the Sermon on the Mount, the Beatitudes, as recorded in the Gospels of Matthew and Luke, Jesus taught his disciples as well as others what he considered to be the most important lessons by which to live. Matthew and Luke … Continue reading
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Tagged Blessed are the Poor, god, Jesus, Love, Poor, Sermon on the Mount
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The American Plutarch 