December 31, 2004 | Posted by Steve When you follow the news coming out of Washington it’s easy to lose the big picture in all the zeros that trail the numbers in the announcements. Take the Social Security mess, for example. Our President, who loves to tell you how the Social Security system will wind up with a $10,000,000,000,000 (that’s “trillionâ€) deficit [...]
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December 31, 2004 | Posted by Steve Rom. 13:6-8 “This is also why you pay taxes, for the authorities are God’s servants, who give their full time to governing. Give everyone what you owe him: If you owe taxes, pay taxes; if revenue, then revenue; if respect, then respect; if honor, then honor. Let no debt remain outstanding, except the continuing debt [...]
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December 21, 2004 | Posted by Steve Here’s a little story about the transit agency that couldn’t. Our story starts with a really big number, so get out your calculators. How’s 62 million bucks grab you? $62 million is the size of the budget shortfall the South Eastern PA Transportation Agency (SEPTA) is facing. You could ask, “How in the world did [...]
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December 14, 2004 | Posted by Steve What is wrong with us as a country? What did Bernie Kerik do that suddenly made him unfit to lead our Homeland Security efforts? C’mon, gang, it’s not like this guy used torture techniques on the people he arrested when he was a beat cop… Whoops… “Uh, Mr. President, Bernie used excessive force a few [...]
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December 14, 2004 | Posted by Steve Luke 12:2-3 “There is nothing concealed that will not be disclosed, or hidden that will not be made known. What you have said in the dark will be heard in the daylight, and what you have whispered in the ear in the inner rooms will be proclaimed from the roofs.†Too many people think they [...]
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December 14, 2004 | Posted by Steve “Teaching Old Liberals New Tricks” (NOTE: This concludes our extended essay series “Gimme Dat Old Time Religion,” in which we diagnose just one of the many causes behind the Democratic failure this November.) In the three previous installments in this series we looked at why the Democrats lost the election and how they mistake “religion†[...]
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December 14, 2004 | Posted by Steve There he was, hoof firmly planted in mouth, before hundreds of soldiers and the beckoning ears of the entire world. He didn’t know he had been ambushed by a question that some smart-alecky reporter had fed to that innocent soldier. Oh, those darned reporters! Some left-wing, liberal-minded reporter probably bullied that soldier, torturing him with [...]
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December 3, 2004 | Posted by Steve Working in our church’s multi-media ministry has given me a renewed distaste for “mega-church syndrome.” It’s like we are trying to turn our church services into Vegas, Broadway, or cheesy Six Flags reviews. But we don’t hire and pay pros to do the work, that would be too expensive. Instead we try to get professional [...]
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December 3, 2004 | Posted by Steve 2 Corinthians 9:6-9 â€Remember this: Whoever sows sparingly will also reap sparingly, and whoever sows generously will also reap generously. Each man should give what he has decided in his heart to give, not reluctantly or under compulsion, for God loves a cheerful giver.  And God is able to make all grace abound to you, [...]
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December 3, 2004 | Posted by Steve “Jimmy, stop fidgeting.†“Awww. Gramps, can’t I play a little more Gamecube?†“Jimmy, your mom and dad told me that you need to be in bed by 9. It’s 9:05. Time for bed.†“AWWW, GEEZ, Gramps!†“Enough of that, young man. Now slide under the covers… There we go. “So what story do you want [...]
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