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Merry Christmas everyone! I’m looking forward to spending some time with family over the holidays.  I hope you are too. See you in 2008!

You can’t love people collectively. — Joseph Cardinal Ratzinger (Salt of the Earth) I don’t play the lottery. I don’t have any biblical justification for my views (other than the implications of stewardship); I just don’t need another way to lose my money! One of the things I’ve heard people complain about is the taxation [...]

The man to whom God is all in all, who feels his life-roots hid with Christ in God, who knows himself the inheritor of all wealth and worlds and ages, yea, of power essential and in itself, that man has begun to be alive indeed. —George MacDonald (Unspoken Sermons) You’ve got to love a surprise [...]

The Lord has multiplied his knowledge . . . For there went forth a stream, and it became a great river and broad; indeed it carried everything, and it shattered and brought (it) to the Temple. And the restraints of men were not able to restrain it . . . For it [the water] spread [...]