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On Not Rushing to Anger
All the Gospels tell the story of Jesus casting the money changers and animal sellers from the temple. It’s a powerful story. As you remember, when He found people keeping animals...
Friends Everywhere
One of the very encouraging things about running a website such as TacticalChristianity.org (or our sister site, LivingWithFaith.org) is seeing the web traffic – people coming to the...
Cornelius – Centurion of Word and Deed
“At Caesarea there was a man named Cornelius, a centurion in what was known as the Italian Regiment. He and all his family were devout and God-fearing; he gave generously to those in need and...
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...
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...
