My introduction to jazz trumpeter Roy Hargrove a year ago was bittersweet. I saw him play a great gig with his talented band at "Jazz Alley" in Seattle, on the same day my first son went off to University to study music performance as a trumpet player.... I know little about the man, but something … Continue reading ‘BYE FOR NOW, ROY HARGROVE
Author: Fuel For Faith
THE PERFECT WORLD
The political scene with its surrounding discourse, debate and accompanying scheming, charades, and false characterizations and representations provide a perfect arena for human nature to hone and to extrude one of its prime characteristics-one of the things it's best at: blaming someone else... Life, for almost all of us, is tough, and then we die. … Continue reading THE PERFECT WORLD
THE COMMON ENEMY
Governments, kings, leaders and despots, and those opposing them in times past have always rallied people around them by pointing to a common enemy, whether real, perceived or contrived. Globalism seeks to do away with the ancient view of nations being our enemies by doing away with nations, and by calling people who don't agree … Continue reading THE COMMON ENEMY
WHAT IS THE GOSPEL OF JESUS?
What is the gospel of Jesus Christ? Is it socialism? Is it just one of many ways to God? Is it an invention of white American men? I've posted this message before...and I'll post it again... The Greek word translated “gospel” in the New Testament means “good news”, and in the context of the Bible … Continue reading WHAT IS THE GOSPEL OF JESUS?
THINKING ABOUT THE BRAIN
I have to apologize for my title - a greater brain could have conceived a better one... Scientists aren't allowed to consider even the possibility of design or creation, under threat of ostracism, ridicule, and loss of livelihood. Consequently such bafflingly complex design features as the human brain are just blindly accepted as being another … Continue reading THINKING ABOUT THE BRAIN
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