We are the Church

Church isn't a building Service doesn't happen within Church is the people So go out and let service begin.

Harmonic Series

I plotted the harmonic series for a major triad, 3rd and 5th against the root. This is what a major chord looks like mathematically. This is just plotting the sine waves for a major triad chord (root, 3rd, 5th). The 3rd is a ratio of 5/4. The fifth is

Liberty Bell

The inscription on the Liberty Bell is found in Leviticus 25:10, “Proclaim liberty throughout all the land unto all the inhabitants thereof”. On July 8, 1776, the Liberty Bell rang from the tower of Independence Hall, summoning the citizens of Philadelphia for the first public reading of the Declaration

The Glory of Paradise

Latin Hymn By Peter Damiani (1007-1072) For the fount of living waters panting, like the weary hart, Prison'd beats my soul its barriers, madly striving to depart; Walks about, and frets, and struggles homes forsaken to regain, Drags at each remove untravell'd, pilgrim still, a

Runnin' Away to Tucamcari

A little ridin’ music please … I'm gon' run away to Tucumcari Make camp where the land is bare I'm gon' run away to Tucumcari Ain't no one gonna find me there Ain't no one gonna find me there I'

Live Not By Lies

What can we do in times like these? Answer: Live Not By Lies Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Center — Solzhenitsyn Live Not by LiesAleksandr Solzhenitsyn’s immortal 1974 essay calling for civic courage.Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn CenterThe persistence of the Lie

The Loneliness of the Christian

By A.W. Tozer The loneliness of the Christian results from his walk with God in an ungodly world, a walk that must often take him away from the fellowship of good Christians as well as from that of the unregenerate world. His God-given instincts cry out for companionship

Christians with Addiction

“If we consider the unblushing promises of reward and the staggering nature of the rewards promised in the Gospels, it would seem that Our Lord finds our desires not too strong, but too weak. We are half-hearted creatures, fooling about with drink and sex and ambition when infinite joy

Short But Helpful Retirement

Not retired, but full of helpful ideas …

Are We Living in a Simulation?

This paper was published in the Oxford Philosophical Quarterly in 2003, four years after the Matrix movie. Well, ... What if everyone had their faces buried in lying machines that impose a kind of artificial reality? What would happen? Are You Living in a Simulation?The original paper that introduced the

America's News Religion

When political narrative replaces faith, truth becomes heresy. The News is America’s New Religion, and We’re in a Religious WarWhen political narrative replaces faith, truth becomes heresyRacket NewsMatt Taibbi

We're Terminal

Some folks die in offices one day at a time They could live a hundred years But their soul's already dead Don't let your spirit die before your body does We're terminal, we're terminal We're terminal Jon Foreman