Rick on January 5th, 2009

You can safely say that I don’t get out much. Local cultural events here on the prairie - whether they be live concerts or cow-tipping - don’t manage too often to shift me from the schedule I need to keep for work. Movies, no matter the hype, are rarely going to get me to go [...]

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Rick on December 20th, 2008

OK, I’d like a show of hands - how many of you folks have ever heard of the Milgram Experiment? Freshman year, Psych 101? Anybody?
For those who don’t have a clue what I’m talking about,  Stanley Milgram was a Yale psychologist back in the 1960’s who was interested in how the  phenomenon of group evil [...]

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Rick on December 16th, 2008

If you are one of those folks who like to get involved in intellectual debates about whether or not Jesus was a real, flesh and blood man who walked the earth some 2,000 odd years ago, then Opposing Views has just the debate for you.
Me? The question is settled, so I have no need for [...]

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Rick on December 14th, 2008

To get the obvious question out of the way, the title comes from Keith Green1 (though the song title isn’t posed as a question - that’s my hook), and not my cat’s (or my) favorite thing to be doing. Now that it is out of the way, however, I have to say that the question [...]

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Rick on December 13th, 2008

Considering that we are a royal priesthood, why do we wait for a programmatic response or a sermon series on the subject? I wonder - is it because we have abdicated our responsibilities? The article below was published on Red Letter Believers:
Amidst the songs and sermons and outreach and discipleship that goes on in today’s [...]

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