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I can’t believe 7 years have passed already since 9/11/2001. Leading up to this horror, Timothy McVeigh, the Oklahoma City bomber, was executed a few months prior. He set the stage by his final statement before his death as he quoted from William Henley’s poem, “Invictus.” Invictus Out of the night that covers me, Black […]

It is not easy to hear the voice of God in our modern age of cell phones, broadband internet connections, HD TV, ipods, IM, facebook, twitter, you get the point. I am returning to a basic pattern of Christian life that I practiced more during my younger days in the faith. I call it the […]

Soon after David was anointed king, he encountered spiritual opposition through Joab. (here is a brief description of Joab from wikipedia)[Joab, which translates to "The Lord is father," was the nephew of King David, the son of Zeruaiah. He was made the captain of David’s army. He had two brothers, Abishai and Asahel. Asahel was […]

We give up so easily in prayer. We pray once and if God doesn’t answer, we assume He is not listening. Or, we make the mistake of getting some vague conviction from God and fill in all the practical loose ends with our ingenuity and strategic planning. In 2 Samuel 2:1-2, shortly after Saul is […]

Being gracious to others, especially those who wrong us severely, has become a lost art. We are so quick to point out the flaws in others in attempt to tear them down and build ourselves up. In comparison to these lowlifes, we reason that we are not that bad and that cruelty and injustice must […]