Author: Brian W. Smith
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Woke: A Culture of Lies, Destruction, & Murder, as Predicted in the Bible
June 8, 2022: My sister passed along a photo on social media of a chicken farm burning to the ground, the 19th such farm to be torched so far this year by arson. This farm was a major supplier of eggs, selling some 3 million a day. In Pennsylvania and Iowa, millions of chickens and…
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Arise and Save: A Psalm 3 Meditation
His own son had seized power by stealth, stealing the hearts of the Israelite people by advertising himself as a judge of the people. Kind David had not been the best father when it came to correcting his sons’ bad behavior. Now his son Absalom had taken control of Jerusalem and was ruling over Israel,…
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Reaching Out to People Who Can’t See What They Need to See
I’ve wrestled with this issue because of the struggle I’ve had to find natural compassion for the spiritually lost. I’m deeply troubled over the fact that I find it much easier to judge and condemn people than show Christ’s love to them. I struggle with the problem of pointing people to Christ without giving the…
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Abraham: A Model for Intercession (based on Genesis 18:16-33)
When we think of intercessory prayer, we usually think of praying for loved ones in need, or for friends who may need a fresh touch from Christ, or who may even need to come to salvation through Him. We don’t usually think of praying for God to not overthrow a city or country. But this…
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Praying for Justice: Persistence is the Key
A scripture passage I have read repeatedly is the Parable of the Persistent Widow, found in Luke 18:1-8. It’s the only place in the Gospels where this parable of Jesus is found, and it serves to illustrate just how important persistent prayer is. This is a topic that has been at the forefront of my…
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When God Brings Justice His Way
Justice. We’ve heard the cry for it in recent weeks and months with school and restaurant shootings, from the family and friends of a black teenager gunned down by a young cop only 90 minutes after being sworn into duty, and from a growing number of men and women violated sexually by predatory men in…
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What’s Missing from the School Violence Discussion
In the weeks following the massacre at the high school in Parkland, Florida, I shared the heavy hearts of many, young and old, over the senseless loss of life at the hands of a troubled young man. For seventeen lives to be snuffed out because of a succession of failures on the part of many…
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Justice vs. Vengeance: How the #Me Too Movement Blurred the Two
In 2017, one news story after another seemed to carry the account of another high profile man accused of sexual misconduct. One message kept coming through from the victims: sincere apologies are not enough; we will make you pay and pay dearly for what you did to us. That’s understandable in cases of rape or…
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Surviving Gas Shortages
A pipeline bursts. Gasoline spews out, and the flow of gas to distribution depots and stations slows to a halt. Suddenly, states of emergency are declared to prevent price gouging and to allow more tanker trucks to get through fully loaded to restock the stations. It happened in Alabama, affecting the southeastern U.S., including where…
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Leaving Jew-hating Behind
Here’s one of those things I don’t like sharing about myself, but I find it’s important to spill it out now. Some years ago, I developed what could not be described as anything but an intense hatred of Jewish people. It grew out of struggles I was having with Jewish neighbors who obviously despised me…
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