Hosea. That name just doesn't roll off the tongue. Yet Hosea served God as a prophet through at least 5 kings in Judah and Israel. When you read the book you discover what God asked Hosea to say and do. God was not pleased with Israel - and He showed it -
Hosea 4:6-8
"6 My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge: because thou hast refused knowledge, I will also refuse thee that thou shalt be no Priest to me: and seeing thou hast forgotten the Law of thy God, I will also forget thy children.
7 As they were increased, so they sinned against me: therefore will I change their glory into shame.
8 They eat up the sins of my people, and lift up their minds in their iniquity."
Salvation comes from the Lord. Revelation 7:10:
"And they cried with a loud voice, saying, Salvation cometh of our God, that sitteth upon the throne, and of the Lamb."
Get knowledge of God. Read what He wrote to all people. Pray. Do. Pray. Do. Pray. Do. Keep on praying and doing.

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Concept drawing by Production Designer Hermann Warm for The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari, Robert Wiene, 1920

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Thought for Thursday, 06/03:
"The road to truth is long, and lined the entire way with annoying bastards." ~ Alexander Jablokov

bit of bad news. it appears some of our freedom-of-speech-and-liberty-luvin liberal/progressives have mounted a campaign to have this site's system emails reported as spam to google. Thus, instead of gmail being the most reliable way to get emails from us, gmail is now blocking us. Let me tell you what, if anyone wonders why there is such a huge divide in this country right now, and why I frankly don't mind simply resenting the hell out of the other side of that divide, its times like these.

The task of apologetics is to show that the evidence that the New Testament calls people to commit their lives to is compelling evidence and worthy of our full commitment.That often involves a lot of work for the apologist.

Sometimes we would rather duck the responsibility of doing our homework, of wrestling with the problems and answering the objections, and simply say to people, “Oh, you just have to take it all in faith.”

That’s the ultimate cop-out.That doesn’t honor Christ.We honor Christ by setting forth for people the cogency of the truth claims of Scripture, even as God himself does.We must take the trouble to do our work before the Spirit does his work, because the Spirit does not ask people to put their trust and faith and affection in nonsense or absurdity. —R.C. Sproul (from, Defending Your Faith: An Introduction to Apologetics )

These people are an embarrassment. A complete and utter embarrassment. [This email is real. I verified it.]