Notable Quotable


June 30, 2005

“There are two methods, or means, and only two, whereby man’s needs and desires can be satisfied. One is the production and exchange of wealth; this is the economic means. The other is the uncompensated appropriation of wealth produced by others; this is the political means.” Albert Jay Nock

Do It Now

Today’s My Utmost for His Highest, by Oswald Chambers. Agree with thine adversary quickly. – Matthew 5:25 Jesus Christ is laying down this principle-Do what you know you must do, now, and do it quickly; if you do not, the inevitable process will begin to work and you will have to pay to the last [...]

Notable Quotable


June 29, 2005

“Those who profess to favor freedom, and yet deprecate agitation, are men who want rain without thunder and lightning. They want the ocean without the roar of its many waters.” Frederick Douglass

Direction of Discipline

Today’s My Utmost for His Highest, by Oswald Chambers. And if thy right hand offend thee cut it off and cast it from thee: for it is profitable for thee that one of thy members should perish, and not that thy whole body should be cast into hell. – Matthew 5:30 Jesus did not say [...]

Apprehended by God


June 28, 2005

Today’s My Utmost for His Highest, by Oswald Chambers. If that I may apprehend that for which also I am apprehended. – Philippians 3:12 Never choose to be a worker; but when once God has put His call on you, woe be to you if you turn to the right hand or to the left. [...]

The Overshadowing personal deliverance


June 27, 2005

Today’s My Utmost for His Highest, by Oswald Chambers. I am with thee to deliver thee, saith the Lord. – Jeremiah 1:8 God promised Jeremiah that He would deliver him personally- “Thy life will I give unto thee for a prey.â€? That is all God promises His children. Wherever God sends us, He will guard [...]

America: Land of the Formerly Free


June 23, 2005

A few short years ago, a good friend of mine was put out of business when the city of Moorhead, Minnesota seized his land through eminent domain in order to turn it over to a developer. He got less than fair market value for his jewelry store because the city knew that he would spend [...]

Honorable Mention

I have yet to win an award for my blog, but I did get my first honorable mention. Challies dot Com has given me honorable mention in the First Annual Christian Blogosphere Awards of Demerit. The category: Worst Use of A Foreign Language. Vox Day once mentioned me in his own awards (comment section only) [...]

Acquaintance With Grief

Today’s My Utmost for His Highest, by Oswald Chambers. A Man of sorrows and acquainted with grief. – Isaiah 53:3 We are not acquainted with grief in the way in which Our Lord was acquainted with it; we endure it, we get through it, but we do not become intimate with it. At the beginning [...]

The Undeviating Test


June 22, 2005

Today’s My Utmost for His Highest, by Oswald Chambers. For with what judgment ye judge, ye shall be judged; and with what measure ye mete, it shall be measured to you again. – Matthew 7:2 This statement is not a haphazard guess, it is an eternal law of God. Whatever judgment you give, it is [...]

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