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3/25/2025 1 Comment

A Fabulous Debt

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Our dogs can be obnoxious.  Whenever our next-door neighbor’s kids or dogs play in their backyard, Sig and Uzi run along the wooden fence barking with some dog-only-knows obsession. When birds fly overhead or geese land on the pond, they race the length of the yard yapping, trying to create a “no-fly zone.” Phil and Julie never complain. Graciously, they say the noise does not bother them and they like dogs so don’t worry about it.

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2/18/2025 1 Comment

The First Commandment

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​Aseret haDevarim are the Hebrew words which mean the “ten words” or “ten matters” and describe what is worldwide known as The Ten Commandments.[1]
"In the early fifth century, the Christian theologian Augustine of Hippo combined the first two commandments into one commandment, and split the prohibition on coveting into two commandments . . . Augustine’s list became the standard enumeration for the Roman Church."[2]
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The Eastern Orthodox churches used a variation of Jewish thinking by making the first commandment, “Do not have other gods besides Me,” and “Do not make an idol for yourself . . .” (20:3,4a). But in Judaism, the first commandment is God’s declaration, “I am the LORD your God.”
           

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1/7/2025 0 Comments

Not to Do Dumb Stuff

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​Pastor Brian led the children in a short message at Agape Church. One of his questions for the kids was if they had any New Year’s Resolutions. Several girls and boys shared before one young boy raised his hand and said his New Year’s Resolution was “Not to do dumb stuff.” That elicited quite a chuckle amongst the adults.
Inspired by the young boy’s answer, I called and asked my West Point classmate, Randy, what the dumbest thing he could think of that he’d ever done. It did not take him long to answer. “I got a car, a California customized van, as a Cadet, before it was authorized. I kept it parked off campus but decided to drive it around school one day before graduation.”  Unfortunately, someone reported him, and he became a Century Man. This meant that on top of the hours he had already walked for other infractions with his rifle across a cement apron, he would surpass 100 hours of marching.

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4/25/2022 1 Comment

The Problem with Religion

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​Did you know that God is offended by meaningless, false-hearted chanting? 


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9/14/2021 0 Comments

Disruptive Innovation

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Harvard Business School professor Clayton Christensen, coined the term disruptive innovation.[1]  Essentially it describes how a product or service begins at market bottom and then inexorably rises in the market until it at some point, displaces well-established competitors.  A small, new company that is weak on resources successfully overcomes proven incumbent businesses by offering what the incumbents overlook in providing their more established clientele. An example of this is Microsoft and Apple moving into the computer industry and turning it upside down by providing affordable desktop and laptop computers.

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3/14/2021 0 Comments

Separated Ones

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​A group of people determined to separate themselves in the pursuit of holiness.  They gave themselves a name—Perushim, which means separated ones. Over time as they concentrated on holy living, they became proud and self-righteous. On the outside they looked great but on the inside they rotted.[1]

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4/22/2020 0 Comments

Deuteronomy

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​Deuteronomy is a “must read” for any serious student of the Bible.  That it is one of the most significant books of the Old Testament is evidenced by at least 28 quotations by Christ and various authors of the New Testament.[1]  Jesus quoted from this book three times to refute Satan’s temptations when He was led out into the desert for forty days without food (Matthew 4:1-11; Deu. 6:13, 16; 8:3). Once when asked by a Pharisee what the greatest commandment in the law was, Jesus quoted Deu. 6:5, “Love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul, and with all your strength.”

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3/31/2020 0 Comments

Numbers

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​The fourth book of the Bible is Numbers which is a translation of Arithmoi, from the Septuagint.  It is titled as such because the book contains two census counts, numerous statistics, tribal and priestly figures, and other numerical data.  The Hebrew name is included in the first sentence of the book and means “in the desert of ”; an accurate description of the book’s content, which follows the Israelites through almost forty years of desert wandering.[1]
The story began in the second year of the Israelites escape from Egypt, as they camped in the Wilderness of Sinai around 1444 BC.  It ends 38 years later “in the plains of Moab by the Jordan across from Jericho” (36:13) in 1406 BC.[2]

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3/5/2020 0 Comments

Leviticus

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If you asked many Christians why they have not read through the entire Bible the answer might be “Leviticus.”  The third book in the Bible is difficult to read through because it is mainly comprised of laws, religious offerings and sacrifices, and health instructions.  Ironically this was the first book studied by a Jewish child.[1]

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2/18/2020 0 Comments

Exodus

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​Rabbi Irving Greenberg in his article “Why The Exodus Was So Significant” wrote, “The Exodus transformed the Jewish people and their ethic . . . Christianity and Islam adopted the Exodus at their core, almost half the world is profoundly shaped by the aftereffects of the Exodus event.”

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4/2/2019 0 Comments

Living an Honorable Life

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The Denver West Point Society hosted its first Leadership and Ethics Conference for high school juniors in Colorado.  It was entitled “Living an Honorable Life.” General (ret) George Casey served as the keynote speaker.  I had the privilege of hosting at my table six juniors—Amaya, Grace, Elias, Sandra, Caleb and Haley representing three different high schools and towns.   We studied vignettes that featured moral/ethical dilemmas with the students working through ethical decision-making models to reach wise solutions.


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1/6/2005 0 Comments

Laws

​A crumpled gray Saturn blocks the intersection while scores of drivers stuck by the accident sputter at the infuriating delay.  Firemen extract the old woman from her car smashed by a young man in a big hurry.  She saw a green light and preceded east on Canon Street.  He was headed south on Anarchic Avenue.  Irritated and in a hurry he ignored the red and sped through the intersection broad siding the hapless woman.  

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2/15/2001 0 Comments

Traditions and Institutions

In 1903 the Russian czar noticed a sentry posted for no apparent reason on the Kremlin grounds.  Upon inquiry, he discovered that in 1776 Catherine the Great found there the first flower of spring.  “Post a sentry here,” she commanded, “so that no one tramples that flower under foot!”—William Poteet in The Pentecostal Minister

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10/24/2000 0 Comments

Destruction

​How many of us are uncomfortable with God’s Old Testament track record?  The fact that He commanded Israel to completely annihilate those who lived in the Promised Land disturbs our sense of decency and contorts our view of His love and mercy.  So we glob on to Jesus as the remake of God’s image and in so doing miss His message that He did not come to bring peace but a sword.  God did not change, His method changed.  The perfect grace-bestowing Son fulfilled the Law man could not keep. 

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9/19/2000 0 Comments

Dogmatic

​If being right is most important, listening may be a lost cause.  There is a cost for preferring stubbornness to sensitivity, opinion to grace.  For isn’t it true that there still remain churches:

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