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I am moving once again. Hopefully this is the last time. Please update your bookmarks and feeds. I will delete this blog in a couple of weeks.

New blog address:

http://www.theburders.com/frank

The creativity that is woven into our fabric as humans never ceases to blow my mind.

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“Surely those who know the great, passionate heart of Jehovah must deny their own loves to share in the statement of His. Consider the call from the throne above, ‘Go ye,’ and from ‘round about, ‘Come over and help us,’ and even the call from [condemned] souls below, ‘Send Lazarus to my brothers that they come not to this place.’ Impelled, then, by these voices, I dare not stay home while these Indians perish. So what if the well fed church in the homeland needs stirring; they have the Scriptures, Moses and the prophets and a whole lot more. Their condemnation is written on their bank books and in the dust on their Bible covers. American believers have sold their lives to the service of Mammon and God has His rightful way of dealing with those who have succumbed to the spirit of Laodicea.”

Tomorrow morning at 7am I will be boarding a plane to go to Boston to watch the sox play the tigers at FENWAY.

We should always look for different ways to live out the gospel. Not for the sake of being different, but to answer the calling on our lives which is much different than the world. Let us always look for and try new and creative ways to serve. New and creative ways to love. To go against the grain. After all, we serve the creator of the universe! How creative is He? And we follow the one who went against the grain so much that it cost him his life and he calls us to do the same. To stand up for voiceless people, to love the poor and to fight for their rights. I am convinced that together, we can make a difference.

World meet the newest member of our family. His name was going to be Winston, but we are just going to be calling him by his nickname (LG - Little G) for a bit until we figure it out. Any suggestions?

One year ago today I walked down the aisle and said “You bet I do!” in front of family, friends, and our Father. Thank you for an amazing first year, my lady. And no, we don’t have our anniversary cake. We already ate it.

Maybe it’s time for Christians all over the world to lay down the flags of their nations and together raise the banner of God. The Christian icon is not the stars and stripes but a cross-flag, and its emblem is not a donkey, an elephant, or an eagle but a slaughtered lamb.

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President Harry Truman said, after dropping the atomic bomb on Nagasaki on January 9, 1945,

“Having found the atomic bomb, we have used it. We shall continue to use it…It is an awful responsibility which has come to us. We thank God that it [the atomic bomb] has come to us instead of our enemies and we pray that he may guide us to use it in his ways and for his purposes.”

We ourselves were well conversant with war, murder and everything evil, but all of us throughout the whole wide earth have traded in our weapons of war. We have exchanged our swords for plowshares, our spears for farm tools…now we cultivate the fear of God, justice, kindness, faith, and the expectation of the future given us through the crucified one…the more we are persecuted and martyred, the more do others in ever increasing numbers become believers.

-Justin Martyr