By Steve Quillian

A need has arisen and there’s a lot to say, a lot to pass on and we’re running out of time.

“Tell your sons about it, and let your sons tell their sons, and their sons the next generation.”    Joel 1:3

You Are drunk on social media, high with their stories and the fog is thick in your mind.  You waste away in your easy chair, staring into electric screens, taken with artificiality, stories, make believe.  As the electricity charges the batteries in your devices, you plug in, literally. Continue reading →

The facts are the facts.  I learned as a pulpit minister that how a person spins those facts naturally causes division.  The Bible says what it says, yet we have Baptists, Methodists, Catholics, Pentecostals.  I was involved in a group known as the church of Christ and we put our spin on the text like everyone else and formed ourselves into a group.  There was often heated debate about what to do with the exact same facts that the other groups had access to, not to mention debates among our own people.  There are divisions within churches of Christ that would probably surprise outsiders.  There are conservative churches of Christ, liberal churches of Christ, institutional, one cuppers and more (what the heck is a one cupper?).  Even with the divisions within our ranks, we were a united front against the likes of those Baptists, Methodists, Catholics and Pentecostals.

Presuppositions

Along the way I’d heard about the idea of presuppositions – what a person supposes to be true beforehand. Continue reading →

The fact that you have influence over others doesn’t imply your personal sovereignty.

Compliance is a virtue when you are a slave

If you have no sovereignty, then its alright to cave.

The idea of personal sovereignty is the idea of self ownership and the natural right to choose control over one’s own destiny.  Some words that are synonymous with sovereignty are autonomous, independent, liberty, free, unfettered, self-deterministic.

Schuyler Brown said, “What sovereignty seems to offer is choice; or liberation from automatic response.”  I like that.  However I’d modify that to say that what sovereignty seems to be is a freedom, a choice, a liberation from a prodded response. Continue reading →

It takes big tools to make quick work of leveling Americans into one class.

Americans have just now completed the first wave of leveling – flattening the hills, raising the valleys, evening everything out.  Cast down the industrious, elevate the sluggish. Everyone will be equal but the equalizers (and the prison guards).  Who are these equalizers?  These are the ones who generate phrases to assimilate into the general consciousness, like “essential services” and “frontline worker.”  You will never know who these people are.  You are forbidden to ask, to assume they even exist.  The question is removed as it is being asked, cut off, censored.  You can wonder aloud with your verbal search for clarity, sounding the ideas off others to gauge their reactions and see what they think, but your genuine request for debate is cut off.  There is no debate, for there is no question. Continue reading →

By Steve Quillian

We spend enormous amounts of time and energy consuming information.  It’s like taking a continual inward breath.  But we need to exhale also.  We need to pour out that which is within us, to a degree at least equal to, if not greater than the information we breathe in.  

We also need to be intentional about the information we take in.  Take books for example.  We intentionally choose a book, read and absorb.  This is totally different than how we take in information through social media.  Television was bad enough.  Ah yes.  We look at it with our eyes and read as we would a book.  We watch a video the same as we’d watch a television show we selected.  We, with our eyes, look at the natural world around us and learn.   Continue reading →