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Acts 4:12 "There is salvation in no one else! God has given no other name under heaven by which we must be saved." It has become increasingly complex to manage all of my online accounts in regards to passwords. Where there are payment issues, I have really diversified what the passwords are so that one security leak does not become a river of ruin. But then it becomes an issue of needing to store all of those passwords in external realities which are most definitely not my brain. So, I have taken major evasionary steps to obscure access to such information. Doubt the sin nature? Don't. Industrious and wicked individuals and entities have no conscience in draining your accounts to zilch. Some evil in the world is done with an attempt to rationalize it as a necessary sacrifice to a greater good. I have to think abortion is at the top of that list. Keeping an unprepared women from motherhood, so that she still has choices, is that type of thinking. I real...

Psalm 117:91 It was good for me to be afflicted so that I might learn your decrees. When we think of gifts, we imagine cool stuff, wrapped in shiny happy paper, and tied with a bow. Under the tree. Very few think of gifts as painful...they wouldn't really be gifts then. We can get bad gifts but the worst thing that can happen is that we put it in a closet, trash can, or do the dreaded re-gifting. Bad gifts don't typically inflict pain unless their is a sadist Santa in your life. I actually met someone recently whose Dad's loves fruitcake. Now, that is a sick gift. You'd think our gifts would make us appreciate the greatest gift-giver of all: God. He who has given us breath and life, the remarkable opportunity of existing.  Yet, if we bring strength to strength, our intelligence can lead us astray from having a mind for God. We believe in our intellectual emanations not based on divine wisdom. If we are powerful physically and enjoy good health, G...

I first had Vietnamese food about 8 years ago. Like a girl, I wanted to ask it where it had been all of my life. The restaurant was a small place across from the movie theatre where a church was meeting up in Harrisburg. I generally like all Asian food...Korean, Thai, Japanese (sushi), Cambodian, and authentic Chinese (especially Szechuan), yet find Vietnamese my favorite. Although I had a Malaysian dish down in Philly one time, a deep fried yam stuffed with beef and peanuts, that was food fit for a god. One of the guys I was eating dinner with kept moaning, in a low almost inaudible tone, his pleasure with his dish.    Vietnamese cuisine is fresh and non-greasy, not sugared up like American Chinese. Through the resettlement of Vietnamese people by churches in Central Pennsylvania a couple of decades ago, some Vietnamese people decided to stay rather than head west to California to places like Little Saigon in Southern Cal. I am so glad...