Working the field, part IX - Alexander

Stewart A. Alexander

If you’re looking at that and saying, “Who?” then please read on …

It is a firm belief of mine that more than just a few Presidential candidates deserve time and attention. It has been one of my complaints about the current race in the two major parties that even they can’t give attention to each of their candidates — to say nothing of the tendency to ignore the “third parties.”

Working the field, part VIII - Paul

Ronald Ernest Paul, Sr.

Ron Paul is a very interesting character. Since I make no secret of the fact that I am a Huckabee fan, it might come as a surprise that I admire Ron Paul tremendously. He is a true believer. He means what he says, and says what he means. He is not beholden to his party before his principles, and he doesn’t say what he thinks he needs to say in order to win votes.

Rather, he says what he needs to say to show his positions, and to try to convince people that they should believe what he believes. This, by the way, is what politicians should be doing.

What is worship?

My church’s worship team has been watching a series of DVD’s and using the workbook for LaMar Boschman’s “Pulse” series. The idea of the series has been to look at what worship is, why we do it, what it means, what God wants and thinks of our worship, what it should look like, and other such questions.

Worship is one of those things that every Christian just does. For most of us, analyzing how and why we worship has never crossed our minds. And when it first did, I felt like it might be wrong to do so. After all, it’s supposed to be about the heart.

Of course, that’s simply wrong. It’s not just about the heart. It’s about the heart, mind, spirit, soul, intellect, emotions, body, and everything else we have. The question is, what are we willing to give to God … of what will we simply let go and let God have?

I’m not, at this moment, going to go into tremendous detail on this subject. I am, though, going to work through the studies of the book again, and I might post some thoughts on each section as I do so.

We all know that singing is worship. And, for the most part, we get that praying and other “church things” are worship. How much do we get that everything we do can be worship, and once we get that concept, how many of us actually do everything we do as an act of worship?

I suppose that that’s enough to consider for the moment.

Mike Huckabee on Foreign Policy

NEWS RELEASE: 

MIKE HUCKABEE DELIVERS MAJOR FOREIGN POLICY SPEECH  IN WASHINGTON, D.C.

Washington, D.C. – Former AR Governor and Presidential Candidate Mike Huckabee delivered the following speech, “Paths and Priorities in the War on Terror,” at a foreign policy forum hosted by the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) in Washington, D.C. this morning. 

The following text is a copy of his prepared remarks as written:

“Saying American foreign policy needs a change in tone and attitude, or an opening up and a reaching out, is as obvious as saying O. J. Simpson might be having a bad month.  This Administration’s bunker mentality has been counter-productive both at home and abroad.  They have done as poor a job of communicating and consulting with other countries as they have with the American people.