Douglas Raine posted this article on the Full Gospel Businessmens Training page. It's called "17 Inches-- by John Scolinos". Twenty years ago, in Nashville , Tennessee , during the first week of January, 1996, more than 4,000 baseball coaches descended upon the Opryland Hotel for the 52nd annual ABCA's convention. While I waited in line … Continue reading Home Plate
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Patriotism is NOT Christianity
Another Fourth of July has come and gone; millions of Americans celebrated Independence Day with BBQs, parades, and fireworks. We have done this for 243 years. Nearly 2 1/2 centuries have passed since the first celebration of freedom from a tyrannical government that intended to govern with an iron fist of power and keep the … Continue reading Patriotism is NOT Christianity
The Cross of Social Justice
Eric Shaffer of MRCTV has posted an excellent article which he called "For Whom Cancel Culture Tolls". It's short, to the point, and spot on. And if you think about it, it's a harbinger of the Left's liberal mania to come. Shaffer says "Cancel culture is a phenomenon in public life and a recent development … Continue reading The Cross of Social Justice
Don’t Conform
We are inundated daily with ads and commercials that project what the world sees as "perfect" or "right" or "complete" and especially politically correct. Signs and billboards, TV, movies, magazines, newspapers, online and offline, they are wherever we look in our daily life. It's the stuff we need to train ourselves to immediately ignore, look … Continue reading Don’t Conform
Good News
Hardly anything the mainstream media puts out is actually good news. Perhaps part of the problem is you can't trust ANY of their news to be actual facts. But Gary Bauer of American Values said this in his End of Day Report: The Great Recession is finally in the rear-view mirror. Our economy is growing … Continue reading Good News
A Father’s Influence
John Adams, signer of the Declaration of Independence and America's second President, was the father of six children. During the War for Independence he spent much time in public service and away from his family. Not wanting to neglect his children, he and Abigail Adams wrote letters to each other about how the children's education … Continue reading A Father’s Influence
Life
Life is what happens when you're making plans. No one-- Christian, Jew, Muslim, atheist-- no one is immune to the trials and tribulations common to the Human Race. We all make plans. We all have hopes and dreams for the future, often based on what is happening at the current time, whether they look promising … Continue reading Life
Heartbeat? No, “Embryonic Pulsing”
June 29th the New York Times ran a report on the state of Louisiana passing a restrictive law on abortion, which bans abortions after a fetal heartbeat is felt. But the Times has decided that Americans don't know of which they speak: That's not a heartbeat that starts up in a fetus at about 6 … Continue reading Heartbeat? No, “Embryonic Pulsing”
Hope for America
Jesse Lee Peterson – host of “The Fallen State” TV show on WND-TV – is the most courageous, outspoken critic of the "civil rights" establishment in America today. Raised without his father on a plantation near Tuskegee, Alabama, during the Jim Crow era, Peterson has lived a part of America's history few have experienced. After … Continue reading Hope for America