Friday Open Thread

Joe | January 22, 2010

Since today is Friday, I wanted to open this up again to whatever is on your mind.
If you have a prayer request, please post it in the comments. If you have found something interesting to share, please feel free to do so.
Have you written something you’d like to let others know about? Please feel free [...]

The Stone of Salvation

Joe | January 20, 2010

 
 
 
The Bible makes many points crystal-clear. Two of them I’d like to address are in Acts 4.
Who is the Chief Corner Stone?
Peter was on trial after having been arrested for “teaching the people and proclaiming in Jesus the resurrection from the dead” (Acts 4:2). The chief priests asked him: “By what power, or in what [...]

Happy Thanksgiving 2009!

Joe | November 25, 2009

With brief intermission from our series on “Seven Letters to Seven Churches,” I wanted to take this opportunity and share a document I recently found.

It is the Thanksgiving Proclamation from 1863 by Abraham Lincoln. You can view the original handwritten copies at The National Archives.
The year that is drawing toward its close has been filled [...]

President Obama’s Speech to the United Nations – 09/23/09

Joe | September 25, 2009

“We must remember that the greatest price of this conflict is not paid by us.  It’s not paid by politicians.  It’s paid by the Israeli girl in Sderot who closes her eyes in fear that a rocket will take her life in the middle of the night.  It’s paid for by the Palestinian boy in [...]

9/11: It’s Been Eight Years

Joe | September 11, 2009

The morning of Tuesday, September 11, 2001, I was sitting at my kitchen table eating breakfast and reading the morning paper before getting ready for work. Such as my “custom” was, I also had the TV news on that morning as well.
Just after 6:03 a.m. (PDT), as I was watching the news coverage of “a [...]

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Joe

I am a born-again Christian who believes the Bible to be the inspired Word of God, the final authority for faith and life, inerrant in the original writings, infallible and God-breathed. I am a husband, father and stepfather who eagerly waits for the return of Jesus, the Meshiach Nagid.