Government transfer payments, a.k.a Welfare, generate a lot of argument. A certain picture on Facebook caused a lot of angry posts. It wasn't mine, and I didn't post it, but I did peruse the comments. God inspires sharing. What does God say about sharing? A lot of people, even non-Christians invoke Matt 22:17-21 to justify government theft.
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Once I decided to write more, I wrote less. It seems that I react to the attitude of others concerning the "right" way to do things, and how it seems that so many people want to punish others for "wrong" thinking. We humans recycle certain attitudes every eighty years or so, and my 90 year old father does like to point out American similarities to ( Read more... )

1 Thessalonians 2:4
"But as we were allowed of God to be put in trust with the gospel, even so we speak; not as pleasing men, but God, which trieth our hearts."God's Word reveals God. When people find out how devoted I am to the Truth of God's Word, they want to put me into a comfortable box. Some accuse me of things I do not believe, while ( Read more... )

For the last couple of weeks, I have been watching The White Queen. It prompted me to read a bit of history. What a dysfunctional group of reprobates! The British Royals were certainly not alone in this distinction. They simply have no qualms about parading their dirty laundry. Previous studies of mine, the Russian Royals, the Roman Emperors, the ( Read more... )

Last month, I confused two incidents into one, so this is the third home fellowship in two months that has been declared illegal, with people arrested. This matters to me because I have been attending home fellowships for 31 years. None of these people have been anyone I know, nor are any of them associated with the ministry with which I choose to ( Read more... )

Why is that every time I get gloomy, someone dies? Day before yesterday, I thought the world was going to end. Last night, it did for my cousin's wife. She and I had had an unofficial argument, because I had a real one with her younger daughter three or four years ago. Normally, I don't talk with that side of the family, because their matriarch and ( Read more... )

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"The budget should be balanced, the Treasury should be refilled, public debt should be reduced, the arrogance of officialdom should be tempered and controlled, and the assistance to foreign lands should be curtailed lest Rome become bankrupt. People must again learn to work, instead of living on public assistance."

Marcus Tullius Cicero

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  Most Americans my age, who were Americans as teens, know very well who Sam Walton was. We watched one of the nation's most popular TV shows, and admired that plucky family. Thanks to my in-laws, even I have been by Walton's Mountain. The story of those children is a classic rags to riches tale of the American Dream, which by the way, is NOT home ( Read more... )

There's no way to say this, except: I feel like shit. I feel like my insides are dying, but it's not bad enough to go to the doctor about it. My joints hurt; my muscles hurt; my intestines hurt; my stomach hurts; everything except my head hurts. People around me say I'm just feeling the aging process, but if this is a portent of things to come, ( Read more... )