MASTERY OVER THE BELIEVER Ye call Me Master and Lord: and ye say well; for so I am. – John 13:13 Our Lord never insists on having authority; He never says – Thou shalt. He leaves us perfectly free –…
Blog Spotlight
I’m thinking I may do an irregular (as opposed to regular) Blog Spotlight. I was going to call it “blog of the week”, but I don’t plan to actually do it every week, or any scheduled amount of time for…
Local Radio
This weekend in Granite City is the first annual “Bad Boys” car show. To have some fun with it, the local morning talk radio show is broadcasting from a car dealer along the main drag in town. When I woke…
Another Constitution Vote
There is a great column up on World Net Daily today about conservatives increasingly abandoning the GOP. I found it via Vox Popoli, where the same excerpt was quoted (it’s a great excerpt). As the election draws nearer, I become…
News in Brief
From The Onion: Noisy Upstairs Neighbors Wake Man At 3 P.M. SAN LUIS OBISPO, CA—The inconsiderate residents of the apartment above Jim Bracker, 23, woke him from a sound slumber several minutes before 3 p.m. Monday. “Christ, quit with the…
Gas Prices
I added a deal on the right side of my blog that lists the current high and low prices of gas in the Twin Cities area. I think it’s a pretty cool website, where people can log in and post…
Devotional?
Just wondering, I read My Utmost every weekday, and sometimes on weekends. I enjoy it and get a lot out of it. I started posting ones that I found especially good here, then recently began posting them more frequently. Should…
The Persecuted Brethren
For over 20 years, there has been a war raging in the Sudan. People are being murdered by their government because of their faith in Jesus Christ and because of their skin color. I’m glad to see that this madness…
My Utmost for His Highest
THE SPIRITUAL SOCIETY Till we all come . . unto the measure of the stature of the fulness of Christ. – Ephesians 4:13 Rehabilitation means the putting back of the whole human race into the relationship God designed it to…
Mixed Up Lyrics
You ever find a song you love, but are never quite sure of the lyrics? Well, I was about to go to bed when I thought I’d put an end to the wondering. The song is “Took My Place”, by…
Done with Movable Type?
I was just poking around on the Movable Type website. I know they’re going to be releasing version 3.0 soon, and wondered if they did yet. It looks like they haven’t yet, from what I can see, except for developers.…
News in Breif
From The Onion: 7-Year-Old Loses Respect For Shrek After Seeing Him In Burger King Commercial KANSAS CITY, MO—Cale Parnell, 7, said Monday that he no longer holds Shrek in high regard, ever since the green ogre started appearing in TV…
My Utmost for His Highest
The great probing Ye cannot serve the Lord. Joshua 24:19. Have you the slightest reliance on any thing other than God? Is there a remnant of reliance left on any natural virtue, any set of circumstances? Are you relying on…
End of U.S.?
With the threat of terrorism looming over us since September 2001 (really it goes back much further than that, but…) I am less and less optimistic about the future. Put this story, about a process being sought to cancel (or…