Guess what the number one industry in the state of Minnesota is. It’s not agriculture, that’s number three. It’s not tourism, that’s number two. The number one industry in Minnesota is GOVERNMENT! The number one industry in Minnesota is that…
Direction of Discipline
Today’s My Utmost for His Highest, by Oswald Chambers. And if thy right hand offend thee cut it off and cast it from thee: for it is profitable for thee that one of thy members should perish, and not that…
Apprehended by God
Today’s My Utmost for His Highest, by Oswald Chambers. If that I may apprehend that for which also I am apprehended. – Philippians 3:12 Never choose to be a worker; but when once God has put His call on you,…
The Overshadowing personal deliverance
Today’s My Utmost for His Highest, by Oswald Chambers. I am with thee to deliver thee, saith the Lord. – Jeremiah 1:8 God promised Jeremiah that He would deliver him personally- “Thy life will I give unto thee for a…
Difficult
Surfing the web on a Blackberry is tough.Posting to a blog on one is even tougher.
America: Land of the Formerly Free
A few short years ago, a good friend of mine was put out of business when the city of Moorhead, Minnesota seized his land through eminent domain in order to turn it over to a developer. He got less than…
Honorable Mention
I have yet to win an award for my blog, but I did get my first honorable mention. Challies dot Com has given me honorable mention in the First Annual Christian Blogosphere Awards of Demerit. The category: Worst Use of…
Asking the Wrong Questions
As I grow older and wiser, I notice more and more that politicians like to get their way by asking the wrong questions. I am not saying it happens more and more (it may be), I just notice it more.…
Acquaintance With Grief
Today’s My Utmost for His Highest, by Oswald Chambers. A Man of sorrows and acquainted with grief. – Isaiah 53:3 We are not acquainted with grief in the way in which Our Lord was acquainted with it; we endure it,…
The Undeviating Test
Today’s My Utmost for His Highest, by Oswald Chambers. For with what judgment ye judge, ye shall be judged; and with what measure ye mete, it shall be measured to you again. – Matthew 7:2 This statement is not a…
The Ministry of the Interior
Today’s My Utmost for His Highest, by Oswald Chambers. But ye are . . . a royal priesthood. – 1 Peter 2:9 By what right do we become “a royal priesthood”?? By the right of the Atonement. Are we prepared…
The Weekend Flew By
Quite literally my weekend flew by. I think I’ve mentioned a few times that I have been in training for my private pilot’s license. Saturday was my first Solo cross country flight. I’ve been trying to get it in for…
Have You Come to “When� Yet?
Today’s My Utmost for His Highest, by Oswald Chambers. And the Lord turned the captivity of Job when he prayed for his friends. – Job 42:10 The plaintive, self-centred, morbid kind of prayer, a dead-set that I want to be…
The Uncritical Temper
Today’s My Utmost for His Highest, by Oswald Chambers. Judge not, that ye be not judged. – Matthew 7:1 Jesus says regarding judging-Don’t. The average Christian is the most penetratingly critical individual. Criticism is a part of the ordinary faculty…
What Do You Make of This
Today’s My Utmost for His Highest, by Oswald Chambers. Greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friend . . . . I have called you friends. – John 15:13 Jesus does…