Abraham's Journey
By Charlie Johnston Mt. Meeker, Colorado – Send not to know for whom the bell tolls, It tolls for thee. – John Donne Many Christians assume that Armageddon and the Apocalypse are synonymous. Up until about 25 years ago, I was one of them. The Apocalypse is the final sequence of events leading to the […]
Read More Welcome to ArmageddonBoise, Idaho – (Before getting to the second installment of ROR, a comment or two… Yesterday, the national test of the Emergency Broadcast System came and went without triggering any national disaster or advent of martial law, just as it has every time it has been done before. There had been much speculation in the […]
Read More Rules of Regency – Part IIWoodburn, Oregon – (I am necessarily in a very compressed West Coast swing because I have to get back for an event at Mt. Meeker scheduled for Oct. 14 and 15. It is a nice, tight schedule, but it prevents me from getting all that I need to do finished in other areas. I am […]
Read More Rules of Regency – Part IBy Charlie Johnston Yuba City, California – In the ‘90s there was a craze for what were called Magic Eye images. These were sheets of chaotic computer-generated patterns. When looked at the right way, a vivid, three-dimensional image unrelated to the pattern would jump out at you. Once you saw it, you could not not […]
Read More God’s Plan Begins to Reveal Itself – if You RelaxBy Charlie Johnston The older I get, the more I come to appreciate the wisdom of Jesus including Judas in His initial crew of Apostles. I am certain that Judas fully believed Jesus to be the Messiah. It is the only way the whole story makes sense. He was tired of traipsing around the desert […]
Read More ARe We There Yet?By Charlie Johnston “As the twig is bent, so grows the tree” – old Oxford proverb A few weeks ago, a fellow promised to cut off my tie if I wore one to a dinner I was to attend. Since I was not the main speaker at the event and it was at a […]
Read More TwigsBy Charlie Johnston (Back when I was managing editor of a group of suburban newspapers, my political column that appeared in all papers was entitled, “Just Politics.” The title was actually specific to the newspaper group, having been used by four or five writers over the course of a quarter century. It became so identified […]
Read More Just PoliticsBy Charlie Johnston I had a different column ready to queue up today, but last night this idea hit me powerfully… Of late, I have been bombarded with messages from atheists saying stupid things like, “I wouldn’t follow a God who would kill His own son,” or “A God who would let children suffer is […]
Read More Trinitarian TruthsBy Charlie Johnston (I have been pondering this piece for several weeks. I think we have entered difficult new territory in an irrevocable way. For those who asked, no, I have not been sick since getting home – just working my way through this piece. It lays out our way forward as I see it. […]
Read More Beyond the FailsafeBy Charlie Johnston Sometime later today the Rocky Mountains will come into view and I will be within sight of home. Thanks be to God. It has been a very busy couple of weeks, but an incredibly productive one. I can’t wait to tell you about the amazing field day we had in Lone Rock, […]
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A Sign of Hope 