This blog post is a response to a reader’s recent email.  In that email the reader sent an article (not authored by the reader) discussing the difference between a republic and a democracy.  The article was sent by the reader because I used the term democracy several times in a recent blog post (Advice to [...]

I mentioned yesterday that last week Katie and I got to go see a concert with our friends who came to visit from Lubbock. I thought today I would just briefly mention that we went to see Hanson, and that the concert was fantastic. I’ve been a fan of the group for years but have never had the opportunity, so when we found out they would be playing here (which also happens to be their hometown), we jumped at the chance to go see them live.

Last week was a busy week for Katie and me. My parents actually arrived the weekend before for a short trip. We enjoyed having them here and were grateful to show them a little bit of our lives God has blessed us to live here in Oklahoma. Since they were here on a Sunday they were able to meet so many of the wonderful Christians here at Broken Arrow. We enjoyed getting to see them, even though it was for a short time. After they left early Tuesday morning, I spent all of Tuesday and Wednesday sick at home.

Then on Wednesday night, we were blessed with even more visitors. Some very good friends from Lubbock—Tony, Beth, and Brent—drove all the way up to go see a concert with us. They were able to stay through Saturday morning, and it was so good to spend those days with them. Though Katie and I are very happy here in Broken Arrow, there was something so uplifting by spending time with good friends we used to see on a daily basis.

The Congressional Budget Office recently released a report tracking spending in the Iraq War over the last eight years in comparison to the total national deficit. Fox News picked up the data in a recent article and compared the total cost of the war to the total cost of the recent Stimulus Bill. Here is [...]

For those of you who didn’t know Steve Martin was a musician (yes, that Steve Martin)… A comical theological argument in song: Atheists Don’t Have No Songs Thanks to Jay Guin for posting this on his blog so I could enjoy it.

“The wage of the righteous leads to life, the gain of the wicked to sin.” Proverbs 10:16, ESV Have a safe and holy weekend!

Obama re-centered himself in the conservative political cross-hairs recently when he seemed to make statements supporting the building of a mosque near Ground Zero (not at Ground Zero, as the media consistently implies). At the same time, New York (among other regions) also faces a debate over how public schools ought to handle religious holidays, [...]

The Christian American culture is something I’ve thought a lot about over the last couple of years. For so long many people have considered being an American synonymous with being a Christian. And, whether it’s intentional or not, it feels as though many people value their status as an Americans more highly than they do their status as a citizen of the kingdom of heaven. What does being a Christian have anything to do with the country I live in? And how does the proverbial “American Dream” fall in line with what Jesus had to say about our allegiances and our values?