The news has been filled to brimming with fodder for blogs the last couple of weeks. Conservatives went into a feeding frenzy with the declaration by Barack Obama: If You’ve Got A Business, You Didn’t Build That . His claim isn’t surprising in light of his overall worldview but to have it so clearly expressed in the political season was a bit jarring so some. The left is rushing to defend the idea that that we are products of our culture, surroundings and upbringing and therefore are only successful because of everyone else and all that went before us.

In the early morning hours of the 20th, as I was driving though California, the breaking news took over XM airwaves Continue reading …

With all this talk about Capitalists and outsourcing and whatnot, I wanted to use this blog post to talk about the craziest business person I know: my friend Andy. Andy is a contractor who specializes in high end and historic restorations. He looks like a blonde cleft-jawed super hero and at one point he was doing over a million dollars a year in renovations. Until he decided to engage in the craziest business model ever. Andy decided his business was a ministry. Originally he wanted the business to fund a ministry but God had other plans and slowly Andy’s business got devoured by Andy’s ministry. How crazy is this business model? Andy gets most of his workers from either a homeless shelter or the half-way house where he attends regular bible studies. Currently he has 5 workers who are recovering alcohol and drug addicts. He has them working on roofs, putting up quarter-of-a-million dollar homes, and they pray together every morning before he entrusts them with power tools in someone’s home. Continue reading …

One of the underlying themes behind the healthcare debate is the question, “Should Adults be Trusted to Make Adult Decision?” Should an adult be allowed to decide they do not want to purchase health insurance? Perhaps they are part of health care sharing though an organization like Samaritan Ministries. Others may not want any provision for potential medical expenses for a variety of reasons. Liberals, in love with the nanny state concept do not really want to allow for adults to make decisions about their lives. After all, they may make the wrong decision and put themselves at risk.

Some of folks plagued with the problem of independent thinking rail against Federal control of their lives with policies like this. However, the liberal press and liberal/progressive politicians view the Federal Government as all knowing and all caring and have full time bureaucrats who know what is best for each individual. Avoid independent thinking for questioning their authority is rebellion and those who do so will likely be punished.

Many in the conservative camp are fighting against this kind of government intrusion into the lives of citizens but, as is so often the case, there is also a blind spot on the part of at least some conservatives in areas of their teachings. Continue reading …

Wandering Stars, Contending For the Faith With the New Apostles and Prophets, by Keith Gibson, Solid Ground Christian Books, Birmingham, Alabama, paperback, 306 pages, 2011, $25 (Note: This book can be purchased from our friends at Personal Freedom Outreach by calling 314/921-9800)

Author Keith Gibson has produced a book on the history, heresies and aberrations of the New Apostolic and Prophetic Movement. In it he takes on every one of their claims. It is comprehensive and meticulously documented. Gibson has researched an incredible amount of material and information from first sources and from the writings and public statements of these heretical teachers themselves. It is interesting to see their own words condemn them. What Gibson exposes is a group of false teachers who are presenting an imaginary and fictitious portrait of God, Christ, the Gospel and the Christian life and who wind up in the end with a diminished God, and a diminished Bible. In doing so they work hard to exalt themselves and themselves alone. Continue reading …