To the poet and the sage, all things are friendly and hallowed, all experiences profitable, all days holy, all men divine. -Friedrich Nietzsche

"What hath night to do with sleep?" -- John Milton

A goal without action is a daydream - Keats

I DO think its important to study and read the books and opinions of people with whom I disagree - BOB HILL

"Error does not become Truth because it is widely accepted; Truth does not become error, even when it stands alone!" --Unknown

�To preach full surrender to an unsaved man as the way of salvation will just make a hateful Pharisee out of him.� --William R. Newell

Do not let your schooling get in the way of your education.- mark twain

Brevity is the Soul of WIT.....Shakespeare

Arminians know they are saved but are afraid they cannot keep it, while Calvinists know they cannot lose their salvation but are afraid they do not have it



If a nation expects to be ignorant and free, in a state of civilization, it expects what never was and never will be. -- Thomas Jefferson

There is no worse tyranny than to force a man to pay for what he does not want merely because you think it would be good for him. -- Robert Heinlein

A goal without action is a daydream - Keats

Socialism in general has a record of failure so blatant that only an intellectual could ignore or evade it. -- Thomas Sowell

"... the message being proclaimed today is not the Gospel according to Jesus," we can praise the Lord for that--it had better not be!"- MILES STANDFORD

I'd rather be divided by truth, than united by error - MILES STANDFORD

God expects you to get in the game. Not keep the score.

Life is tough. Life is tougher if you're stupid. - John wayne

"You can't go broke underestimating the stupidity of people in general." - H.L. Mencken

�It is not as the wicked thinketh, that poverty, adversity, sickness, tribulation, yea painful death of the godly, be tokens that God doth not love them; but even clean the contrary, as all the whole course of Scripture doth evidently declare: for then He would never have suffered His most dearly beloved, the patriarchs, to have had such troubles, nor His prophets, apostles, martyrs and chief champions and maintainers of His truth and Gospel, so cruelly of the wicked to have been murdered and slain.� [John Foxe, Acts and Monuments, volume 7, p. 582.]

Land of the free, at the expense of the brave- VietNam Vet.

"Education is something which should be apart from the necessities of earning a living, not a tool therefor. It needs contemplation, fallow periods, the measured and guided study of the history of man's reiteration of the most agnoizing question of all: Why? Today the good ones, the ones who want to ask why, find no one around with any interest in answering the question, so they drop out, because theirs is the type of mind which becomes monstrously bored at the trade-school concept. A devoted technician is seldom an educated man. He can be a useful man, a contented man, a busy man. But he has no more sense of the mystery and wonder and paradox of existence than does one of those chickens fattening itself for the mechanical plucking, freezing and packaging." -- John D. MacDonald.

Our message to the unsaved is to BELIEVE on the Lord Jesus Christ, not to surrender to the full demands of discipleship. Saints are the ones who need to surrender.

They see God's plan with Israel conditioned upon human choice, while God's plan for salvation within the church is ultimately a sovereign act of God. There is no symmetry in such logic - THOMAS ICE



Only when I learned how to read the Bible critically did God unveil His depths. This may seem paradoxical, that glory should accompany diligent search and many broken pencils. I always thought it came when one�s head was in the clouds, when one felt cozy and protected in church, when one floated through the day in a Big Warm Jesus Hug. No. These things, for me, led to self-righteousness, a rut of immaturity, and confronting my poor mother with the gospel of hell. Then how does glory come? Absolutely, it comes from God. From our perspective, it comes from opening the eyes, from critically re-analyzing belief, from squarely facing previously ignored scripture. It comes from the determination to finally heed that still small voice that has whispered for years, Something is missing. - MARTIN ZENDER

I don't disagree that many black Americans remain oppressed, but I would argue that their oppressors are activist leaders within their own community. Some of them perpetuate victimization by ridiculing young black students who do their homework and strive for excellence in school (i.e., acting white). For some, success is only exalted when it is earned in sports, music or within the DNC. However, if a black American succeeds in other areas--like becoming Secretary of State, Supreme Court Justice, National Security Advisor--(s)he is kicked out of the "black American" club having their membership revoked. To these extremists, "black" and "victim" are the same---so if you don't act like a victim, then you can't be black. Black leaders have done in 40 years what white people could not do in 400: to make black Americans accept inferior status." TOWNHALL.COM