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Category Archives: Sins
Halloween: America’s Present-Day Philosophy
The preparation for our family’s journey across the seas has left me with little time to write this week. However, my immediate and pertinent thoughts are drawn to the highly celebrated American holiday fast approaching: Halloween. In Pastor’s sermon last … Continue reading
Posted in Idolatry, Sins
Tagged children, Christian, Dr. J. Vernon McGee, Dr. Renald Showers, God, Halloween, philosophy, Romans 8:7, The Most High God
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Two Adulterous Sisters
Periodically I come across passages or whole chapters in the Bible that read like a Stephen King horror novel or a Nora Roberts romance. The prophecy of the Two Adulterous Sisters is a combo of the both. If you think … Continue reading
Posted in Idolatry, Sins
Tagged adultery, Assyria, Assyrians, Babylonia, Babylonians, bible, Chaldea, Chaldeans, Egypt, Egyptians, Ezekiel, Ezekiel 23, God, idolatry, Israel, jealousy, Jerusalem, Jesus, Judah, Judea, love, lust, mercy, money, Oholah, Oholibah, prophecy, prostitution, Sabbath, salvation, Samaria, sinful, sins, Two Adulterous Sisters
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A Photographic Illustration of God’s Wrath: Images from the Holocaust
My study of the bible has recently brought me to the book of Ezekiel. Ezekiel was a fearless man who recounted his visions from God to the people of his day. Many of these prophecies were a foretelling of the … Continue reading
Posted in Death, Sins, Suffering, War
Tagged Alexander the Great, Aliyah Bet, Auschwitz, Auschwitz-Birkenau, book of Ezekiel, Buchenwald, Chelmno, concentration camp, crematorium, death camp, deportation, Dr. J. Vernon McGee, Dr. Josef Mengele, Elie Wiesel, Ezekiel, Ezekiel's prophecies, fury, gas chamber, genocide, God, God's wrath, Hitler, Holocaust, Israelites, Jesus, Jesus Christ, Jewish, Jews, King Nebuchadnezzar, Kristallnacht, Meyer Hack, Nazi regime, Nazis, Parita, Primo Levi, Sachsenhausen, Star of David, US Holocaust Memorial Museum, vengeance, Warsaw ghetto
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The History of Mankind, Written in Blood
Last week I took it upon myself to memorize world history from 10,000 B.C.* to current (as well as American history and Georgia history) in 5 days. Yes, I’m a little crazy. Well, maybe a lot crazy, especially considering everything … Continue reading
Posted in Death, Sins, War
Tagged 9/11, America's Civil War, American Civil War, American history, Christian, conquest, death, English Civil Wars, European Exploration, French and Indian War, genocide, God, God's wrath, history, Holocaust, invasion, Jesus, Matthew 24: 6-14, Mexican War 1846, Middle Ages, murder, peace on Earth, Peloponnesian Wars, Romans 12:19, sins, Sodom and Gomorrah, the American Revolution, the Bubonic Plague, the Crusades, The Holocaust, the Salem Witch Trials, the Trail of Tears, war, Westward Expansion, world history, WWI, WWII
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Even Babies are Sinful
The other night, as I watched my six year-old twins sleeping peacefully, all curled up and snuggled next to each other, I thought about how absolutely perfect and adorable they are. How innocent. How beautiful. The quintessential image of happiness … Continue reading
Posted in Sins
Tagged babies, baby, children, heaven, Heaven is for Real, Jesus, mother, motherhood, parenting, Psalm 51:5, sins
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Hast Thou No Scar?
Written by Leslie Schmidt Look at your hands. Do you have any scars? If not there, do you have any elsewhere on your body? Maybe your scar is the result of a surgical procedure. Whatever the case, a scar will … Continue reading
Posted in Character, Compassion, Forgiveness, Sins
Tagged Amy Carmichael, forgiveness, God, Jesus, John 21, John 21:15-17, love, Matthew 16:16, mercy, No Scar?, Peter the Disciple, salvation, scars, sin, soul, Toward Jerusalem
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Don’t Do Me Any Favors
Let me preface this post by stating that I didn’t create it to win friends, but rather to discuss the truth. Each morning I take a seat on the late Dr. J. Vernon McGee’s Bible Bus, and for 30 minutes I … Continue reading
Posted in Christianity, Sins, Word of God
Tagged bible, Christian, Dr. J. Vernon McGee, God, Jesus, liberalism, pastor, preacher, Romans 2:8, salvation, The Word of God, Thom S. Rainer, Titus 3: 3-7, truth
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Comfortably Narrow-Minded
Not all that long ago you wouldn’t have caught me dead using those words in the same sentence, let alone making them the title of a blog post. In fact, I used to be so open-minded that all ideas, morals … Continue reading
Posted in Character, Peace, Sins
Tagged anguish, baptism, Christian, Dr. J. Vernon McGee, faith, forgiveness, God, heaven, hell, Jesus, narrow-minded, salvation, woodshed
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On Easter We Celebrate Our Freedom
It never occurred to me to write a special post for Easter until I was sitting in church today. For most of us, Easter is an egg hunt. My family is no different; Bill and I got up at 5:30 … Continue reading
Posted in Compassion, Forgiveness, Salvation, Sins, War
Tagged Abraham Lincoln, Army, Christian, Civil War, compassion, Easter, Easter Bunny, generosity, God, Jesus, mercy, Michael Delaney, salvation, sins, war
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