COPYRIGHT 2010 JESSE MULLINS Greetings! In accessing this posting you have located a portion of my just-completed and yet-unpublished second book, entitled Original Reason. (Specifically, Chapters 7-9, on this particular pageview.) I am posting this here in the summer of 2010 as an experiment. I will be shopping the manuscript around to some publishers, but [...]
Archives for April, 2010
A STUDY ON SALVATION, PART III
Going Places
Excited, huh? : – ) Well, I am myself! So glad for you to visit. Thanks for “clicking through,” and please know that this page has links that will take you wherever you need to go to find anything in this issue. All the main stories are grouped further down, so scroll down when you’re ready [...]
The Gospel as Free Will, Part II (Conclusion)
If you are arriving here and haven’t seen Part I (but would like to), you can go there by clicking here. But I have inserted a short review below, for those who want to skip Part I or for those who have already read it but would like to revisit key points. To skip the [...]
God
In a world where the mere mention of God in a public setting or context can draw more concern and dismay than any number of profane messages, we must stop and ask ourselves what has happened to steer things so far down so many undesirable paths. Abraham Lincoln wrote, “It is announced in scripture, and proven by all history, that those nations are blessed whose God is the Lord.” Proven by all history. A nation that is not God-centered cannot but lose not just its morals but its intelligence. It’s already happening. The God of Abraham Lincoln was a God who did not bless by serendipitously dropping providential gifts into the laps of the blessed. He blessed by raising the intellect. This generation will decide. We can choose darkness or we can choose light. CLICK THE IMAGE ABOVE TO READ THE FULL ARTICLE.
God
Quips and Quotes
First my own sayings. Then some of the greats'. I know better than to FOLLOW those acts! :-) |||| The only populations who inflict torture on members for “ratting” are prison inmates and schoolchildren. |||| Any gener- ation’s so-called generational values are nothing more than watered-down versions of their parents’, slowly getting cooked up into half-baked versions of their offspring’s. |||| To be called “spry.” Should it be taken as a compliment? |||| Have you ever noticed, in those situations when you really need to take a deep breath and let it out, how, after you’ve taken the deep breath and let it out, the thing that was bothering you is still there? |||| Today's romance-minded gal must kiss a lot of frogs before she finds her crazy coot. |||| CLICK IMAGE TO READ THE FULL ARTICLE.
Country
When the time comes, this space will be given to socio-political themes. For starters, though, just a traipse through the heartland as I share "souvenirs" of a cowboy journalist… |||| Does the Lord love a cowboy? Well, we know this much: when His Son was born, herdsmen were the first folks He sought out to tell the good news. |||| Most every young fellow has looked into the mirror at one time or another and saw, or hoped he saw, a Western movie hero looking back at him. But what’s a guy to think when, some ways down the trail, he looks into the mirror and sees a sidekick looking back? |||| Does Congeniality outrank Cordiality on the Roll Call of Virtues? And if Consistency is a minor virtue, where does that put mere Punctuality? |||| First you eat it all up. Then you’re all eat up with it. |||| CLICK THE IMAGE ABOVE TO READ THE FULL ARTICLE.