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2021-02-13T19:21:59-04:00

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Recollecting and Helping

Last updated on: February 13, 2021 at 7:21 pm By John Mark N. Reynolds

I was once on my way to an important meeting, when one of children asked if I could help them with something. I stopped and did, because even though there were Big Things to do, the “little” things counted. As a Christian, I could not even be sure of my judgment and that the “little thing” was really small! The terrible things being done by the Communist China are not easy to see, but will rank as some of the... Read more

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2021-02-12T19:45:27-04:00

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We Cannot Put off the Real Story

Last updated on: February 12, 2021 at 7:45 pm By John Mark N. Reynolds

Advertisements remind us not to put off standard health care, just because there is a pandemic. Illness of any kind intrudes even if what we are told that we should be paying attention to some other “vital news of the day.” Life continues and the deep patterns of life do not care a whit what is trending on social media. They do not even care, or are hardly impacted, by the rise and fall of empires. God has a long,... Read more

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2021-02-11T22:36:25-04:00

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Be Active. . . Christians Let This Work Be Thine

Last updated on: February 11, 2021 at 10:36 pm By John Mark N. Reynolds

Answer jingoism with patriotism. Answer quietism with Christian activism. Never mix motives, but be active in this life in light of the world to come. One reason to deeply read Black activists before the Civil War is that they got this balance right and did justice in the Republic inspired by the Kingdom. A Christian must be active for justice, read the prophets, as subjects of the King of Kings. An American citizen should be active for justice, defending what... Read more

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2021-02-10T23:19:41-04:00

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Futurity Hath Secrets of Horror to Hide (A Certain Prophecy)

Last updated on: February 10, 2021 at 11:19 pm By John Mark N. Reynolds

God knows, but we cannot know, for a certainty, the future except in some general sense. We can be certain that a just God, who is also merciful, will delay the chastisement of a nation, giving her time to repent, until time is up. We can be certain that tyrants with gulags, even one as powerful as the Communist Party in China is today, will fall. Justice will come, but meanwhile money and power will buy false prophets to proclaim... Read more

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2021-02-10T13:31:46-04:00

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Maybe the Villains?

Last updated on: February 10, 2021 at 1:31 pm By John Mark N. Reynolds

Perhaps after the fifth goal, maybe at four, I knew we should slow down. We were winning 5-0 and in a soccer game 5-0 is not close. Naturally the seniors kept wanting to score, but as coach my job was to stop the humiliation. Sportsmanship counts. Win like ladies or gentlemen. There was another more selfish motive. We did not want to become the villains in someone’s story of “back in the day.” The game was won and nothing good... Read more

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2021-02-08T23:57:13-04:00

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‘Tis the Worst and the Best

Last updated on: February 8, 2021 at 11:57 pm By John Mark N. Reynolds

The bully-boy often goes too far. When I was a boy, there was a bully in school who with his jackals made all our lives a misery. They kept pushing until finally anyone not “cool” or who played in the band or who read books was getting slammed into the hallway lockers. It got more frequent. Finally, many of us, the losers and nerds, grouped together (in the Pirates Club. . . I told you we were nerds) and made... Read more

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2021-02-08T00:23:52-04:00

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Oh then, Brothers, with your armor, Heed ye not the siren charmer!

Last updated on: February 8, 2021 at 12:23 am By John Mark N. Reynolds

The Lord is a warrior, the Lord is His name. He breaks unrighteousness and injustice on the wheel of His Mighty Power. We cannot cease from mental fight, nor can the sword rest in our hand, until we have built greater liberty in this green and pleasant land. So it must be when there is injustice, unrighteousness, in the cosmos. God calls us to cry out when the poor are oppressed, when there is systematic injustice. The tyrants, those in a... Read more

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2021-02-08T01:00:13-04:00

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The Anchor to Reality of Family

Last updated on: February 8, 2021 at 1:00 am By John Mark N. Reynolds

Hard times require something to help us survive. Friends have tried streaming all of a comfort show. Others go for the old standbys booze, food, overwork, never sleeping. Sometimes, after a very hard day, I try listening to the best audiobook reader, Charlton Griffin. He is very good, but not good enough for these times. Some of these things are comforting, even very comforting, but they are not deep, real, solid enough for chaotic situations. We need better comfort. Naturally... Read more

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2021-02-06T13:30:18-04:00

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The Danger of our Times- Missing Humanity

Last updated on: February 6, 2021 at 1:30 pm By John Mark N. Reynolds

Dehumanize a human if you wish Hell. Some people may seem difficult, less worthy, but who do we think we are? The Creator made them persons, while we can only label, name them, often badly. We cannot create what “is” on the level of being, but mislabel what is with bigotry and bile. If we name badly, they do not change, but we are warped and ruined, damning ourselves with our damnable nomenclature. We must name as we wish to... Read more

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2021-02-06T13:40:20-04:00

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God Never Made a Sin

Last updated on: February 6, 2021 at 1:40 pm By John Mark N. Reynolds

The tyrants are afraid. They know that they have no right to the power they claim without consent of the governed. The tyrant knows that his loathsome actions are justly hated. He is afraid, even of mercy, because to beg for mercy will be to put himself in the power of those from whom he can demand nothing. The tyrant then attempts to define his subjects by slanders, put downs, or by the sins that he attempts to provoke in... Read more

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