There is a bird, the cuckoo, who is a common in England and many other parts of the world. The first sign of spring is that bird’s call. The cuckoo never builds her own nest. When she feels an egg event coming on, she finds another nest with eggs and no parent bird. The cuckoo […]
Category: Wisdom from our elders
Ben, Look Again…. Could it be…. A Setting Sun?
I am made to wonder, after reading several books on the founding fathers and their original feelings and thoughts concerning the Constitution, if those men would be both amazed and indignant about how their child has been transformed into some kind of weird and grotesque creature bearing little resemblance to the innocent and bright-eyed babe […]
Life Changes, Not Land Captured
Vietnam was a war like no other war that American forces had ever been engaged in previously. Unlike World War I or World War II where geographical gains (or loses) were determinate of winning (or losing) battles, Vietnam, in contrast, was a war where geographic control had little to do with the overall outcome of […]
Standards Are a Root, Not a Leaf
“Standards” are a prescribed order of action or conduct. In the biblical sense “holiness standards” are God’s prescribed order of conduct for His people. Standards prescribe what one wears externally, but its essence flows from what one wears internally as the “new man.” If one sees the word “standards” as being only outward guidelines of […]
The Fight Over The Origin Of Holiness Standards Or The Spiritual Monkey Trial
It was officially known as Scopes v. State, but history remembers it as The Scopes Monkey Trial. For two weeks in the summer of 1925, in a crowded courtroom in little Dayton, Tennessee, religion squared off against science, and two sides struggled for the right to influence the minds of America’s youth. In reality the […]
A Voice not a Vote!
God’s church was meant to function with a voice not a vote. It is a “voice crying in the wilderness” and not a “consensus of the multitude” that progresses the church of Jesus Christ. Isa 58:1 ‘Cry aloud, spare not, lift up thy voice like a trumpet, and show my people their transgression, and the […]
Uniting Requires Untying
Regardless of what some people may hope for or advocate, in this life anyway, there will and can be no perfect agreement of men in certain vital areas. No matter how loud the chant for unity may be voiced – there will always be a certain lack of cohesiveness existing among men. Is the reason […]
Little Foxes – Large Failures
“It’s the little foxes that spoil the vine.” On 25 July 2000, Air France Flight 4590, an SST Concorde, crashed in Gonesse, France, killing all 100 passengers and nine crew members on board the flight, and four people on the ground. It was the only fatal incident involving Concorde. According to the official investigation conducted […]
The Ocular Has Overtaken the Oral
Few today can recall the “Fireside Chats,” as they were fondly called, between then president Franklin Roosevelt and the American public. During the tremulous times of a second world war and a great depression the radio voice of FDR was a vital connection between a worried and shell-shocked people and their government. While watching the […]
When Judas Becomes The Hero
It is no revelation to us that the mentality of this age is becoming, at a blindingly rate, more twisted, perverted and untoward exponentially. “Calling evil good” is the normal rather than the exception and “intolerance” has become completely intolerant of the tolerance soaked masses. The “negative” print has become the “keeper” while the true […]