Do You Have Any Monster Locusts in Your Life? As a kid my friends and I nearly lived our lives around the Friday Night Creature Feature—A la “Fright Night”, which was a campy TV show that featured an old “monster movie”. One of the earliest ones that I can recall was about a scientist who, […]
For reasons beyond comprehension that can only be explained by the phenomenon of channel surfing, I impulsively watched an entire episode of Grizzly Adams this past Saturday. Yes, an entire episode. For those of you who are clueless, The Life and Times of Grizzly Adams was a tv show that was only on for two
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Recently I was watching a rerun of Travel Channel’s “No Reservations”, which was hosted by the late Anthony Bourdain while he was on a visit to Colombia. Having recently been to Colombia on a mission trip, the show piqued my interest. To some degree Colombia still has a lingering bad rap from the drug cartels
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Ever notice that there seems to be something special about 40 in the Bible? Gen. 7:12 – it rained 40 days and 40 nights Ex. 24:!8 – Moses was on Mt. Sinai 40 days and 40 nights Num. 13:25 – The Israelite spies took 40 days to scout out the Promised Land. Mark 1:13 –
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Peter was not only a disciple of Jesus, but was considered one of the “inner three”. He, along with James and John are mentioned on multiple occasions as being the only ones who were present, or whom Jesus took with Him, when an extraordinary manifestation of His power and glory occurred. Albeit briefly, he at
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Recently several politicians have been telling us that unless we follow their plan, planet Earth only has twelve years left. Can we make it? About 2000 years ago, the Bible revealed that during the End Times in a period often referred to as the Great Tribulation, the earth would indeed experience environmental catastrophes on a
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In 1994, the AP reported on a demonstration by Indian farmers in New Dehli who were protesting the government’s plan to import 3 million tons of manure to use as fertilizer. Why? The Indian farmers pointed out that since they were vegetarians they had plenty of cows and therefore plenty of cow manure. Furthermore, because
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Do you ever read food labels? What exactly is chocolate flavoring? Is there any real cocoa in Count Chocula? Were any real strawberries actually used to make that pop tart? Since 1994 the FDA has required that food labels list the ingredients in order of their volume. Thus, whatever the food is primarily composed of
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Sipping whiskey from a paper cup,You drown your sorrows till you can’t stand up,Take a look at what you’ve done to yourself,Why don’t you put the bottle back on the shelf,Yellow fingers from your cigarettes,Your hands are shaking while your body sweats,Why don’t you look into Jesus,He’s got the answer. Gonorrhea on Valentines Day,And you’re
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There’s a major theme to Judges that’s seen throughout the entirety of the book, which is the consequences of not completely following God. It’s a theme that will also carry over into 1 Samuel with Saul, Israel’s first king (but that’s a different story for a different time). In Judges we see a downward spiral
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