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Love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul and with all your MIND

Monday, July 28, 2014

Better ONE man should die....

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  In the gospel of John (John 11:50) the high priest says of Jesus, "You do not realize that it is better for you that one man die ...
Tuesday, July 15, 2014

I see a pattern emerging

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   Pattern matching is an important ability in engineering (or really any job for that matter).  The ability to spot patterns of behavior ca...
Thursday, July 10, 2014

We need a refugee camp

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    Many of us have probably experienced a family or friend that was in need of a place to stay for a while until things got better or they ...
Tuesday, July 8, 2014

Equality: What does it mean?

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   Raised as a Lutheran I was brought up learning Luther's Small Catechism in which a common question is raised:  "What does this...

Sometimes you have to let death come

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   My father was a wonderful man.  The son of a Lutheran pastor he grew up during the depression in a small town in Illinois.  He entered th...
Friday, May 16, 2014

A life of appeasement is not worth living

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     You've probably heard the phrase:                     "If you don't stand for something, you will will fall for anythin...
Wednesday, May 14, 2014

Using Capitalism to Control Free Speech

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   There's an old Marxist phrase that says:       "The capitalist will sell you the rope you intend to hang him with"     ...
Monday, April 21, 2014

Fear and Respect

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    I own my own home and all the contents inside of it (we paid the bank off 2 years ago!).   Every room in it, every piece of furniture,...
Thursday, April 17, 2014

The importance of "Moral Authority"

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      It was like a scene out of a Hollywood movie ( a cross between "High Noon at the OK Corral"  and "The Hunger Gam...
Wednesday, April 16, 2014

THE END IS NEAR!

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   We are told that "change is good".   But change is good or bad depending on your point of view.  If we change the Senate from D...
Tuesday, April 8, 2014

You might be a libertarian

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     One of my most favorite comedians of ALL time is Jeff Foxworthy.   He is well known across the United States for his routine called ...
Tuesday, March 25, 2014

Why CONTROL is bad and CHAOS is good

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     Do you remember the old "Get Smart" TV show in which 2 agencies, KAOS and CONTROL, battled it out in 007 like fashion only...
Monday, March 17, 2014

Not all reading is the same

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   My son has read more novels already than I ever have (I've only read 3 in my life).  He has read all the "Harry Potter" boo...
Wednesday, March 12, 2014

Why MATH is important

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   We all remember sitting in elementary and high school math as the teacher strains to find a purpose for us to learn things like: The ...
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