Paul de Vries

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  Sep 13, 2016

  PC-Induced-Stupidity Helps the Terrorists

  I am writing these reflections on September 11, 2016, just 15 years after what many call the most tragic day in American history — the day in which more than 3,000 innocent civilians died at the hands of young murderous, suicidal devotees of an oppressive religion.

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  Sep 11, 2016

  Rediscovering the September 11 Scriptures

  This Sunday, September 11, is the 15th remembrance of the awful terror attacks on the World Trade Center. In each of our lives much has happened in these past fifteen years since that terrible morning, but it is good to go back to recall some of what we learned at that time.

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  Aug 13, 2016

  This Eerie Election Season Is No Surprise to God

  We now live in a very eerie, disorienting, disheartening time. Just when America needs trusted leadership, after two high profile conventions we have two major candidates who are generally not liked and distrusted.

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  Jun 18, 2016

  Economist Unintentionally Discovers 3 Biblical Values for Prosperity

  When it comes to creating vibrant personal livelihood and economic vitality, economic historian Gerald Sirkin believed that there is one very dependable but depletable resource that most of us have seriously ignored.

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  May 6, 2016

  How Nancy Pelosi Agreed on God's Solution

  Commitment to even a good cause is absurdly difficult to achieve in our highly partisan national and local politics. However, I know that it is profoundly within our reach.

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  May 5, 2016

  National Day of Prayer: A Prayer for American Education

  Our National Day of Prayer is the first Thursday of May: May 5 in this year AD 2016. There is so much in our national life that needs prayer — where do we begin?

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  Apr 6, 2016

  How Chinese (and Biblical) Wisdom Can Help Our Dull, Closed Minded, Uncreative College Students

  Can we draw attention again to the tragic brokenness of American college education? Many of us are wondering this year how Washington DC became so broken. Perhaps some of the deeper moral problems of our national leadership are pathologies that affect much of the whole country.

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  Mar 10, 2016

  Jesus Christ Is Anti-Establishment

  In both Biblical teaching and in personal experience, there is much to learn from crises of the "establishments." Godly change is a constant staple of Biblical teaching, and also continuing change is central to Spirit-led living.

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  Feb 5, 2016

  On Political Correctness, Truth Telling, and Christians, Muslims Worshiping the Same God

  "Surely, Christians and Muslims pray to the same God," we are told often.

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  Dec 4, 2015

  The Shameful Ignorance, Illogic, and Intolerance of the Illiberal 'Liberal Media'

  The ignorance, illogic, and intolerance of the illiberal "liberal press" were dramatically demonstrated in yesterday's NY Daily News (NYDN) cover story: "God Isn't Fixing This."