Bun-Girl offers up this article about the pagan origins of Christmas in response to my post about Halloween earlier today. I was already aware of the issues it mentions, but thank her for offering it. Actually, I believe that Christ…
A Little Updating
With not much to do at work right now, I decided to do some updating. I went through the “General” category archives and changed most of the posts to other categories. I had something north of 150 entries labeled as…
Blogspot Woes
I’m glad I’ve got my own thing going as far as my server and blog software goes. Blogspot seems to be down this morning, so most of the blogs I like to read are inaccessible. I’m still going though.
The Way of the Nicolaitans
A year ago, I wrote of my distaste for the coming “holiday”. I not only still feel that way, every year at the end of October, I feel even stronger about it. Originally a Druidic holiday, it is a celebration…
Constitution Party Platform – Religious Freedom
Article I of the Bill of Rights reads: “Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof.” Our Constitution grants no authority to the federal government either to grant or deny the religious…
Notable Quotable
“Our contest is not only whether we ourselves shall be free, but whether there shall be left to mankind an asylum on earth for civil and religious liberty” Samuel Adams
The Method of Missions
My Utmost for His Highest Go ye therefore and teach (disciple) all nations. – Matthew 28:19 Jesus Christ did not say-‘Go and save souls’ (the salvation of souls is the supernatural work of God), but-“Go and teach,” i.e., disciple, “all…
Constitution Party Platform – Pornography
I’m sure Vox is no fan of this part of the platform, as it’s not the most libertarian of views: Pornography, at best, is a distortion of the true nature of sex created by God for the procreative union between…
Notable Quotable
“to disarm the people is the best and most effective way to enslave them” George Mason
What is a Missionary?
My Utmost for His Highest As My Father hath sent Me, even so send I you. – John 20:21 A missionary is one sent by Jesus Christ as He was sent by God. The great dominant note is not the…
Constitution Party Platform – Personal and Private Property Security
We affirm the Fourth Amendment right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects against unreasonable searches and seizures, including arbitrary or de facto registration, general and unwarranted electronic surveillance, national computer databases, and national…
Notable Quotable
“History teaches us that man learns nothing from history.” Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
The External Crush of Things
My Utmost for His Highest I am made all things to all men, that I might by all means save some. – 1 Corinthians 9:22 A Christian worker has to learn how to be God’s noble man or woman amid…
Constitution Party Platform – Money and Banking
Money functions as both a medium of exchange and a symbol of a nation’s morality. The Founding Fathers established a system of “coin” money that was designed to prohibit the “improper and wicked” manipulation of the nation’s medium of exchange…
Notable Quotable
“Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did, and it never will. Find out just what people will submit to, and you have found out the exact amount of injustice and wrong which will be imposed upon them; and…