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It’s a Site!
The parents of TacticalChristianity.org are happy to announce the arrival of TC.O's sister site LivingWithFaith.org! The new site weighed in at a healthy five pages and is already...
Leaders with Only Half of What They Need
A Barna Group survey, conducted last year, found a number of interesting things about the leadership concepts, identities and lifestyles of the self-identified Christians who were...
The Threads of Context
The English word “context” is derived from two Latin words meaning “to weave threads” (contextus, from con 'together' + texere 'to weave') and so our word signifies...
Job’s Friends
They’re the Biblical characters we “love to hate” – the friends who said more unfriendly things than they should have done, the friends God reproved for what they said....
Battle Plans
In Deuteronomy 20 we find the special instructions God gave to ancient Israel as it was about to enter the Promised Land. These instructions were the “tactical briefs” given to...
Celebrity Scriptures – a Family Activity
BibleGateway.com, perhaps the largest (and we feel the best) online site having all the major Bible translations, recently published some of its usage statistics for 2013. The site was visited...
Why the Spies?
What do your problems and the spies that we are told God sent into the Promised Land have in common? For that matter, what does a book written fifty years ago by Allen Dulles, the first...
True Sincerity
“Sincerity - if you can fake that, you've got it made.” ― George BurnsI love a good popular etymology as much as anyone, and the standard explanation for the word...
Seeing Shepherds
Seeing Shepherds, oil on canvas, by Daniel Bonnell (c) 2010. Reproduced with permission.I don't usually include discussions of paintings on this web site, but in this case I am happy to...
Before You Ask
You know how a compass works. The floating needle or direction arrow points toward the earth’s magnetic pole. You also know what happens if the compass comes close to a local...
Three Components of Real Love
The Book of Luke tells the well-known story of how Jesus was invited to the home of a Pharisee named Simon. While he was there, a woman who was a prostitute slipped into the house and, weeping...
New for a New Year
2014 finds us with many good things planned for the site. A new selection of books is up, with new quotes, links and articles on the way. Our site has been invited to become...
