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Insights: Desiring the New
Hey, it’s a new app! It tells me the weather, sports highlights and stock changes for the day. And it’s free! What a deal! All I have to do it download it, agree to the conditions and I get instant, up to date information and it’s free! Or is it? Continue reading
Country: Federalist Paper 30
In Federalist Paper 30, Alexander Hamilton was not able to look far enough into the future to see the taxation that would exist in 2015. Instead he wrote, “It may perhaps be imagined that, from the scantiness of the resources of the country, the necessity of diverting the established funds in the case supposed would exist, though the national government should possess an unrestrained power of taxation. Continue reading
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Country: Federalist Paper 28
Federalist Paper 28 discusses when the federal government can or should raise a permanent army. The concern was if representatives at the federal government level could betray the people in favor of some despotic rule? Continue reading
Insights: Consistency
Consistency. We crave it, expect it and demand it. We don’t realize how often we expect things and people around us to be consistent, but by our words and actions we do. Continue reading
Insights: The Wise Path
I have a good friend helping me with electrical work. He has a great deal of experience and he hooked up the 3-way switches by thinking through the process of current and switches. I would have had to look at the nine different electrical diagrams for 3-way switches and just follow the correct diagram, even though I might not understand the principle. We’d both get the same end, but he understood what he was doing and he’s much wiser for all situations. It reminds me of the political process that has started for 2016 in CPAC straw poll. Continue reading
Book Review: The Kaizen Way by Robert Maurer
The Kaizen Way by Robert Maurer is a quick read for dealing with big problems. I remember being overwhelmed by several papers during college and once I started writing, even if what I wrote was thrown out, the paper started flowing. It was that initial step to get the process going that mattered. However, many people are neutralized on the first step and fail to attempt what they really want to do. Continue reading
Book Review: Googling God by John Cox
“Googling God” has a subtitle, “Searching for a faith you can believe in.” At first I thought it might be a possible book an unbeliever could read for evangelistic purposes. What I discovered is that it is much better suited for someone who likes to read, or young in their Christian faith, or has hit several bumps in the road and is questioning God. The last two chapters bring the book into focus. Continue reading
Country: Man Is God
The American public is ready for it? Recently, Supreme Court Justice Ruth Ginsburg stated that America is ready to accept approving gay marriage.1 She said,
“The change in people’s attitudes on that issue has been enormous,” Ginsburg said. “In recent years, people have said, ‘This is the way I am.’ And others looked around, and we discovered it’s our next-door neighbor — we’re very fond of them. Or it’s our child’s best friend, or even our child. I think that as more and more people came out and said that ‘this is who I am,’ the rest of us recognized that they are one of us.”
“We” realized that it was one of our neighbors, our child’s best friend or our child, who has come out to say, ‘I am gay.” Is that the standard by which decisions are made? Continue reading
Shepherding Truth 