What We Say

As the trans-continental railroad stretched east from California, a flood of Chinese workers made the trip to America looking for work on the railroad and in the booming California economy.   Of the books that have survived from that time are Chinese-English translation books.  And the phrases they translate are very telling, as it were.

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Why I’ve come to cringe at the “5 Steps Of Salvation”

I realized this week, while listening to a sermon posted to Facebook, how much I’ve come to cringe when I hear the “5 Steps Of Salvation”.  

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Dogs are easier to love than people.

I like dogs.  I’m not a crazy dog person like some people are though, and I’ve never really understood how some people go to the extreme of “they’re like kids to me” until I read this….

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What if you had to carry your free speech in your pocket?

What if your free speech, all of those ideas and opinions that our founding fathers guaranteed you the right to proudly proclaim, what if that free speech had to be carried in your pocket rather than your heart?

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Why do your kids argue?

Why do your kids argue and fight?  And does it matter?  On a recent road trip this hit me, and I wish it would have a long, long time ago.  

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Telling the STORY of Jesus

I’m afraid that we (me included) sometimes try too hard to break the Bible down into a series of facts and timetables.  We probably do this because facts and talking points are handier to win arguments. And too often, winning arguments and being right is what religion is about for a lot of people.  But […]

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Vacations VS Adventures

Colonel Jeff Cooper once observed that no one should ever want to go on a vacation.  His reasoning was that “vacationing” just implied that you were going to vacate one place to occupy another. Instead, he reasoned that we should leave home with the purpose of “adventuring”. The difference is subtle, but words are powerful. […]

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The real problem with the left isn’t any policy

Yesterday in a conversation about gun control Hillary Clinton said, “We need to make every politician who sides with [the NRA] to look in the eyes of parents whose kids have been murdered.” And that’s a perfect example of what’s REALLY wrong with the left.  

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“Gun Control” Is An Insult To Our Intelligence

“Gun Control” isn’t working and to say that it is, is just a slap in the face of intelligent people. 

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