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PROGRESS: BUILDING LIVES, BUILDING SOCIETY. Mark 5.

Pictured: the bell tower of Antioch Missionary Baptist Church, Houston, Texas. Americans struggle to appreciate the march of human progress because we are surrounded by it. Driving across this great nation today can seem like an endless line of truck stops and fast food, gas stations and coffee shops, oil wells and 300-foot wind turbines.Continue reading “PROGRESS: BUILDING LIVES, BUILDING SOCIETY. Mark 5.”

Nation Shopping. Deut. 4:6,8-9.

A retired couple recently moved from the United States to Thailand.  Why Thailand? Because their retirement income, meager by US standards, made them wealthy in Thailand.  They bought a mansion in the country and hired both a maid and a cook.  They lived like kings and traveled constantly, convinced they had discovered the secret toContinue reading “Nation Shopping. Deut. 4:6,8-9.”