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The Left Learns “Turnabout is Fair Play”
by Dennis Peacocke November 2009 It’s no secret that the mainline media has been left-winged for decades. We also know that the left doesn’t really believe in free speech. If you doubt this, try and bring a conservative speaker to a major state University. Once the conservative talk-show radio hosts began to be able to…
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President Obama, the Mystery Man
by Dennis Peacocke September 2009 Barack Obama is an extraordinary man on multiple levels. He is bright, tenacious, highly strategic, and has the magic ingredient of astute political instincts. His climb up the Chicago political ladder showed that he was pliable, resourceful, and willing to claw his way to the top as he climbed over…
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ON THE REPEAL OF “DON’T ASK, DON’T TELL” IN THE MILITARY
by Dennis Peacocke August 2009 New York Senator Kirsten Gillibrand recently succeeded in pressing a Senate re-examination of the military’s “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” policy, previously enacted to side-step the issue of homosexuals in the Armed Services. As long as they kept quiet about their sexual preferences and did not conspicuously engage in homosexual activity,…
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Entertainment: What Michael Jackson Really Means to America
by Dennis Peacocke July 2009 Michael Jackson recently passed away (most likely from issues related to the misuse of drugs) and the Unites States news media has responded to a national feeding frenzy of public concern and mourning. It is as if a person of great historical dimensions has left the nation alone and greatly…
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Happy Father’s Day Post-Modern America
by Dennis Peacocke June 2009 Late in June, we celebrate Father’s Day once again in modern America. To those who have fathers who are still living, who know who their father is, who remain on good speaking terms with their father, or who think it is important enough to communicate in a special way on…
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Learning to Speak Fish
“Learning to Speak Fish” By Dennis Peacocke May 2009 And He said to them, ‘Follow Me, and I will make you fishers of men. —Matthew 4:19 There are numbers of scriptures that remind Christians that they are “strangers in a strange land.” We are reminded: that we are ambassadors from another Kingdom (Col. 1:13); to…
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The Politics of Reaction and Crisis
by Dennis Peacocke March 2009 George Bush’s presidency was defined by the events of September 11, 2001. He seized upon this event and the issue of terrorism to create eight years of focus on policies set to “take democracy to the Middle East” and protect domestic America from terrorist attacks. Out of these commitments came…
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Economics & the Current Financial Crisis
by Dennis Peacocke February 2009 The economy continues to spiral downward, as both our citizens and the nations of the world await economic remedies that have a strong chance of success. As the government unfolds its “solutions,” the crisis described as the “perfect economic storm” will neither simply go away, nor will it transcend the…
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A Magna Carta for Government Bail Outs
A Magna Carta for Government Bail Outs By Dennis Peacocke | January 2009 In times of stress and crisis, people, organizations, and governments need a very clear set of rules or principles for measuring decisions. For governments, their constitutions ultimately serve this purpose. Binding rules or limits help us stay out of crises, limit the negative…
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Do You Study Biblical Economics from a “Whole Bible?”
Do You Study Biblical Economics from a “Whole Bible?” By Dennis Peacocke We Christians are a strange lot. Frequently, we say we believe one thing but live out our lives quite differently. While hypocrisy is one thing, “spiritual blind-spots” are another. Problematic as hypocrisy is, it is not my concern in this article; rather, I…
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Co-Managing the Earth: The Foundational Work of the Christian Marketplace Ministry
Co-Managing the Earth: The Foundational Work of the Christian Marketplace Ministry By Dennis Peacocke Do business until I come… —Luke 19:13 We are now standing at the foundation-laying stage of one of the most significant Christian movements of church history—the advocacy of a Christian values-based economy. How we work with God’s Spirit in helping to lay…
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Change the Family, Change the World
by Dennis Peacocke …since Abraham will surely become a great and mighty nation, and in him all the nations of the earth will be blessed? For I have chosen him, in order that he may command his children And his household after him to keep the way of the Lord by doing righteousness and justice;…
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Towards Understanding the Current Crisis in the Western World
by Dennis Peacocke The current war in Iraq is part of a much, much larger “culture war” not being reported. The fracturing of the international community and the internal divisions it is causing within nations is symptomatic of the deeper war that is really going on. What follows is a brief overview of the three…
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The Christian Business: If It Exists, What Does It Look Like?
The Christian Business: If It Exists, What Does It Look Like? By Dennis Peacocke Virtually every believer called to the marketplace desires to work in, help manage, or build a business enterprise honoring Christ. Many people refer to this as working with or building a “Christian business.” That, of course, raises the question of defining…
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Empowering People in and for Marketplace Ministry
by Dennis Peacocke As we all know, the vast majority of adults spend more time working at their jobs in the marketplace than any other social activity. To many, if not most of them, work is “work” – a toilsome tedious necessity that must be done to survive but often carries little of their hearts.…
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Living Our Faith at Work
Living Our Faith at Work By Dennis Peacocke You are our letter, written in our hearts, known and read by all men. —2 Corinthians 3:2 The best way to evangelize anyone anywhere is to simply live our faith. Our most effective witness as individuals, a church, or a company is to embody evangelism as a…
