Proclaim Freedom

If you are concerned about human rights and religious freedom, please sign this petition! Freedom-loving bloggers, feel free to reblog! Barnabas Aid, an organization that works to stop Christian persecution, has began the Proclaim Freedom campaign that gives concerned people the chance to step up and do something about this injustice. Their website says: Barnabas Aid’s Proclaim […]

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Redeeming Soles

After last week’s fairly unusual snow event in the Seattle area, we have had rainy, slushy, cold weather this weekend. Areas both rural and urban are keeping an eye on their rivers, streams, and storm drains in case of flooding. If you are able to go outside and clean debris off of a nearby storm […]

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Courageous

Sherwood Baptist Church of Georgia has done it again. http://www.courageousthemovie.com/ It’s been nearly four months since the release of Sherwood’s fourth film, Courageous. I finally watched it this weekend and found that its tone was consistent with their 2006 football film Facing the Giants. It was a similar mix of laugh out loud hilarity and […]

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George W. & the Tebow

There’s an email going around right now that asks an intriguing question: The wise and objective Ralph Hiatt had this to say: Tim Tebow’s “Te-bow” reminds me of the almost exact position shown in the famous painting of General George Washington who was not ashamed to be a Christian when he knelt and prayed for his […]

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Be the Tree!

On the bottom of my iced tea lid last year was a quote by the Lumberman’s Poet, Douglas Malloch. It said: Good timber does not grow with ease. The stronger the wind, the stronger the trees. Yesterday a friend reminded me of what trees need to go through to build their roots and wood fibers, […]

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Our Prayer

Years ago, while looking through some personal effects of my great-grandmother’s, I found this New Year’s poem that has a relative’s name at the bottom. I don’t know if he is the actual author; I found this elsewhere on the web attributed to “author unknown.” This is a beautiful statement of hope for the new year. […]

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Swallowed Up By the Night

Have you ever screamed for help when you were being attacked and no one came to help you? That’s exactly what is happening to men, women, and children all over the world right now. They are being harassed, persecuted, tortured, raped, beaten, arrested, and stolen from. Their houses and meeting places are being burned down. […]

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Unborn Baby Stops Bullet

Yes, for real. Ralph Hiatt just met this miracle baby and features the amazing circumstances surrounding his birth at http://ralphhiatt.blogspot.com/2011/10/les-presento-enrique-strohschein.html. Do you believe in miracles? The Barrios family does. ************************************************************************************* ©2011 H. Hiatt/wildninja.wordpress.com. All articles/posts on this blog are copyrighted original material that may not be reproduced in part or whole in any electronic or […]

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