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My Odeo Channel If you notice my post of the past several days, you will see a link included to download a podcast for your iPod or other MP3 player.  You can also download the files to your PC and play them with Windows Media Player, Real Player or Quick time. Podcasting is the audio […...

click here to download audio of today’s weblog Download 92205_podcast.mp3 I read the story of a little boy who was finally old enough to start going to school. As the time approached, his parents noticed that he was suddenly having fears about school. They tried to find out what he was afraid ...

click here to download audio of today’s weblog Download 92105_podcast.mp3 Let me ask you a few questions. What difference did your faith in Christ make yesterday? What difference will your faith make to today? What about tomorrow? God wants your faith to grow. For many of us our faith is about...

click here to download audio of today’s weblog Download 91905_podcast.mp3 If you are not dreaming, if you don’t have a goal for life and if you do not have a vision, you are dying. Because you’re either growing or you’re dying. We develop our dreams and then they develop us. Our dreams d...

click here to download audio of today’s weblog Download 916_podcast.mp3 I will have to confess that I stand guilty when it comes to the area of anti-intellectualism. It’s not that I am anti-intellectual, if that were the case I would not be pursuing my Masters degree. What I am saying is tha...

Resistance to change comes due to a variety of reasons. Some of these reasons include fear, tradition, lack of confidence in people, focus, timing, ignorance, and faithlessness. People fear the unknown and change brings with it the unknown. Questions are raised as to what will we be like in the futu...

Download 91505_podcast.mp3 Should Christians fight and reject “the right to die” movement, just as we fight against the abortion industry? A basic Christian belief is that my life is not my own to do as I please, but it belongs God. If we believe that the Bible teaches that murder is wrong and w...

I am so enraged I may not be able to write sensibly today! There are a group of people traveling around the country protesting the funerals of soldiers who have given their lives in the service of The United Sates of America in Iraq and Afghanistan. They sickening thing about these people is they cl...

Since the middle of the 20th century the objectivity of language has been challenged. Image is favored over words, feelings over concepts, intuition is prized more highly than knowledge. With the development of the virtual world the barrier between public certainty, and private conjecture has been d...

Mike Riddel implores his readers to give true representation of who Jesus is when communicating evangelistically. Riddel grieves that when “Christ is perceived as being the icon of good and respectable people, this has little relevance to peoples sordid and tangled lives.”[1] Jesus who live...