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I have been absent from my blog for quite some time.  Much has happened.  Last July while vacationing with our family in Gulf Shores, Alabama the thought occurred to me, why are we living in the suburbia of Houston, Texas? We have vacationed along the section of the Gulf Coast referred to as the Emerald Coast for over 30 years.  I have actually never visited the public beaches of the area.  David and I were sitting at the Hangout overlooking the Gulf Shores public beach.  I thought, "Wow, the public beaches are just as beautiful as the private beaches."  A silly thought I know, since they are all the same beaches.  On the way back to Texas I asked my husband, a native Texan, how he would feel about moving to Gulf Shores.  Shockingly, he said, "I'm up for that!"  We discussed it all the way home.  We already had a trip to Aruba planned for October to celebrate my 60th birthday followed by the holiday season.  We decided we would pray about it for the remainde

The Case for the Reprobate Mind

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    Everywhere I look, I see madness, mayhem and violence.  The minds of a vast portion of humanity seems to be frozen, with icy jagged edges unable to reason.  Jesus told us that when He returned, the earth would be filled with these things.  Matthew 24:37 But as the days of Noe were, so shall also the coming of the Son of man be.  Genesis 6:5 And God saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and that every imagination of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually.  We are given a description of the reprobate mind in Romans 1:29-32.  I am listing the markers of a reprobate mind below.  The list starts off with the statement "Being filled with all . . . unrighteousness fornication wickedness covetousness maliciousness full of envy murder debate deceit malignity whisperers backbiters haters of God despiteful proud boasters inventors of evil things disobedient to parents without understanding covenant bre