Monthly Archives: April 2023

Album Review: Heartland

Heartland, by the Judds One of the things that one finds when one listens to the country music of the 1980s as opposed to more recent periods is that country albums were far shorter then than they are now. This … Continue reading

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Everything I Love

By the time I was barely a teenager, I had learned an unpleasant lesson that it appears some people are rather slow in learning. That lesson was that institutions are vulnerable to takeover, and are not often worth the faith … Continue reading

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Everyone Who Prepares His Heart To Seek God

[Note: These are the prepared notes for an offertory sermonette given to the United Church of God congregation in Portland, Oregon on the First Day of Unleavened Bread, April 6, 2023.] Good afternoon brethren. I hope you all had a … Continue reading

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The Traveler And North Sentinel Island: Chapter Two

As his shuttle approached North Sentinel Island, the traveler looked at the various information he could gather about the island remotely. He could see that the island was a relatively small one, but was still large enough to support a … Continue reading

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The Traveler And North Sentinel Island: Preface

As a writer, it is often a great occupational hazard that the things that are of most interest to us are often of the least interest to those who read our works. For example, the great writer and thinker C.S. … Continue reading

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Movie Review: Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves

Generally my attitude when seeing movies is that I do not tend to go to the theater unless I am pretty sure that I will enjoy the film, and despite some mixed accounts of the film before I saw it, … Continue reading

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The Traveler And North Sentinel Island: Chapter One

The Traveler was nervous as he sat in the waiting room looking at the door of the conference room on the headquarters ship. He was, after all, a young traveler, and was unsure of what to anticipate in the meeting … Continue reading

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The Problem Of Evil Isn’t God’s Problem At All

Yesterday I received an e-mail that sought to answer a common question about the problem of evil, and the title of the message itself was based on a book by a noted contemporary gnostic writer who believes that the problem … Continue reading

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