Posted in Future, Human nature, Spurgeon, books, tagged evil, news, Spurgeon on September 18, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Are you afraid of getting bad news? Commenting on Psalm 112:7 (above), the great Charles H Spurgeon, in his fine Morning & Evening devotional book, writes this….
Christian, you ought not to dread the arrival of evil tidings; because if you are distressed by them, what do you more than other men? Other men have [...]
Posted in America, Christianity, Culture, Current Events, Economics, Future, other faiths, tagged birth rate, demographics, fertility on May 4, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
When a country’s fertility rate drops below 2.11 children per family, it can no longer sustain the present population, and it will shrink. That is, if 2 parents only have 1 child (which is almost the norm in many countries in the western world), the next generation is drastically smaller, and is statistically unlikely [...]
Posted in America, Calvin, Culture, Current Events, Future, Piper on March 14, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Yes, TIME magazine has a new top ten list, and look at #3…
What’s Next? The global economy is being remade before our eyes. Here’s what’s on the horizon:
1. Jobs Are the New Assets
2. Recycling the Suburbs
3. The New Calvinism
4. Reinstating The Interstate
5. Amortality
6. Africa: Open for Business
7. The Rent-a-Country
8. Biobanks
9. Survival Stores
10. Ecological Intelligence
The [...]
Posted in America, Current Events, Future, Plain old fun, Politics, tagged debt, economy, government, money on March 6, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Our government talks today of spending not just millions, or billions of dollars, but of spending TRILLIONS of dollars. How much money is that? Someone has done a neat and simple sequence of illustrations HERE for you to see…. Enjoy (before the reality of our country’s shameful spending spree sets in).
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Posted in Culture, Future, Human nature, Missions, Personal on February 26, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
“If I find in myself a desire which no experience in this world can satisfy, the most probable explanation is that I was made for another world.”
– C.S. Lewis, in Mere Christianity
“Spare moments are the gold dust of life.” — Paul Harris
[commenting on your relationship to missions]:
“You have three choices: go, send or disobey [...]
Posted in Christianity, Future, Human nature, tagged Adversity, expectations, Pink on January 9, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Arthur Pink, an excerpt from “David’s Flight” –
Prosperity is often a mixed blessing, and adversity is far from being an unmixed calamity!
Alternating spiritual prosperity and adversity, is the lot of God’s people on this earth. All is not unclouded sunshine with them–nor is it unrelieved gloom and storm. There is a mingling of both:
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Posted in Christianity, Current Events, Future, Scripture, worship, tagged faith, heaven, hope, Jesus, Scripture, Second Coming, worship on January 1, 2009 | 1 Comment »
Last night at church we had a fun time of fellowship. We welcomed the new year with the reading of this Scripture and a reminder that we are closer to the return of Christ, and His making all things new. Rejoice in expectant hope! Behold all that awaits the faithful…..
Revelation 21
1 Then [...]
Posted in America, Blogroll, Christianity, Culture, Current Events, Future, Politics, prayer, tagged election, Obama, prayer on November 5, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Al Mohler on his blog spoke yesterday of how we should pray for this election. His points on election results and the future (#8, #9 & #10) are worth reviewing:
1. We should pray that God will bless America with leaders better than we deserve.
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