Archive for April, 2006
Friday, April 28th, 2006
About 44 million people in this country have no health insurance, and another 38 million have inadequate health insurance. This means that nearly one-third of Americans face each day without the security of knowing that, if and when they need it, medical care is available to them and their families.
Having no health insurance also often [...]
Thursday, April 27th, 2006
An opening now exists, as it hasn’t in a very long time, for the Democrats to be the visionaries. To seize this moment, the Democrats need to think differently—to stop focusing on their grab bag of small-bore proposals [and look] to their history, for in that history there is an idea about liberal governance that [...]
Monday, April 24th, 2006
Look to your health; and if you have it, praise God, and value it next to a good conscience; for health is the second blessing that we mortals are capable of: a blessing that money cannot buy.
Izaak Walton, English Writer.
Ah! I am feeling almost human—Neanderthal, maybe—and have come to appreciate health more than ever. Nothing [...]
Thursday, April 20th, 2006
Ah, how good to me home! I so much enjoy spending time praying with brethren in other parts of the country, but there is nothing quite as enjoyable as flying down the Columbia River Gorge approaching the Airport. Home! a wonderful word and a wonderful place.
If you’re interested, the prayer summit was held north of [...]
Wednesday, April 19th, 2006
Well, it’s been one of those seasons when I can’t seem to get sat down and write some thoughts. Even now I’m in Chicago with about 20 pastors from the area. Anyway, I wanted to let you know I’m not dead (even though I’ve been sick with “the cold from hell.)
Anyhow, I came across this [...]
Saturday, April 8th, 2006
[T]he April 17 issue of the New Yorker magazine quotes former and current intelligence and defense officials as saying the administration increasingly sees “regime change” in Tehran as the ultimate goal.”This White House believes that the only way to solve the problem is to change the power structure in Iran, and that means war.” (Unidentified [...]
Friday, April 7th, 2006
Circa AD 50-
…Serious trouble developed in Ephesus concerning the Way. It began with … a silversmith who had a large business manufacturing silver shrines of the Greek goddess Artemis. He kept many craftsmen busy. He called the craftsmen together, along with others employed in related trades, and addressed them as follows:
“Gentlemen, you know that our [...]
Saturday, April 1st, 2006
A president only tells congress what they should do. Lobbyists tell ‘em what they will do.
Can’t Congress do anything that’s not on a lobbyist’s list? They can, but they never have.
A lobbyist is a person that is supposed to help a politician make up his mind–not only help him but pay him.
If we have senators [...]
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