Seems like whenever I start getting optimistic about outcomes, I get disappointed. It can make me pretty testy. Then I have to go back and remember that the human race has been doing exactly what its doing to themselves and others, since we crawled down from the trees and out of the caves.

Still I cannot help wishing that we'd learned something along the way. Some of us did. Moses did, Buddha did, and Christ; probably there were countless others that never made the current "media."...

Zechariah 12:1 -- Thus says the Lord, Who stretches out the heavens and lays the foundation of the earth and forms the spirit of man within him.

God is spirit, and Zechariah 12 tells us that God formed the spirit of man within him. This human spirit is what makes relationship and fellowship with God possible at all.

Through his spirit, man can walk in step with God. In the spirit he is one with God. Through his spirit he knows of God and receives everything God wants...

Mortgage backed securities opened lower in price yesterday morning which forced lenders to worsen rate sheets. As the day progressed, MBS held steady to close just above opening levels. The lack of price volatility allowed lenders to hold rates unchanged on the day. After many days in a row of worsening mortgage rates, we opened this morning to slightly improved rate sheets.

Our lone economic report was weekly Jobless Claims. From the Department of Labor, this report tracks the...

John 8:39 - They answered and said to Him, "Abraham is our father." Jesus said to them, "If you are Abraham's children, do the deeds of Abraham."

Abraham was an alien and stranger on the earth. The goal of his life was to have a place in what God was building, not men.

We are not the heirs of faith because we know that we must live by faith, but we become the heirs of faith by actually having faith, by doing the same deeds that Abraham did.
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Time to do more scattershooting right here on Case's Column. You've got the time, and I've got the root beer, so together, we can slam down a cold one in this space. Besides, who could really turn down a cold, eight-ounce bottle of IBC? Or, perhaps, another one of my blog posts?

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The signs, seemingly, are everywhere. A new convenience store and travel center has just made inroads in my home state of Texas. You'll never be...