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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Freedom History
"We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights, that among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. That to secure these rights, governments are instituted among men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed." … Continue reading Freedom History
Game Plan
With the recent win of the U.S. Women's soccer team, it has given those athletes the chance to express their gratitude of the benefits of living in a free country. Except it didn't always come across that way. We saw scenes of the American Flag being dropped (thrown?) on the ground and danced on, and … Continue reading Game Plan
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
Called to Be Free
13 You, my brothers and sisters, were called to be free. But do not use your freedom to indulge the flesh; rather, serve one another humbly in love. 14 For the entire law is fulfilled in keeping this one command: “Love your neighbor as yourself.” 15 If you bite and devour each other, watch out or you will … Continue reading Called to Be Free
243 Years
Twelve days after the Battle of Gettysburg, July 15, 1863, Lincoln proclaimed a Day of Prayer: “It is meet and right to recognize and confess the presence of the Almighty Father and the power of His hand equally in these triumphs and in these sorrows. … I invite the people of the United States to … Continue reading 243 Years
Pain and Suffering
In my first round of college at Southwest Baptist University, I took a January-term class called "Pain and Suffering." It was a philosophy class that filled the requirement in that area. The professor, a PhD -- and try as I might, I cannot recall his name -- carefully guided us along the Biblical teachings on … Continue reading Pain and Suffering
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
THE RIGHT RENDITION 