Frankly Speaking...
by Frank Allnutt

The Number One Hindrance to Prayer and Knowing God's Will
Most of us can remember times when we were in a quandary over knowing God’s will.

Perhaps you are in such a quandary right now.

Why doesn’t God answer your prayers and reveal His will to you? You pray harder and longer for Him to answer.

But there is only silence.

Doesn’t God hear you? You’re even more frustrated. Doesn’t He understand that you simply want to know His will in order to do it? Why is He holding back? Doesn't He care?  More >

The Gulf Oil Spill and Worldly Wisdom
I don’t want to belittle the seriousness of the Gulf Oil Spill disaster—the loss of lives, livelihood, wildlife and ecologies, and ominous political fallout. But I must confess that the oil leak has reminded me of the Hans Brinker story about a 19th Century Dutch boy who saves his country by using his finger to plug the hole in a leaking dike. The boy does that all night, in spite of the cold, until the adults of the village find him and make the necessary repairs.
   Though I am an intensely serious Bible student, I sometimes lapse into the mental state of a quirky novelist (I’ve written two books of fiction). And so I’ve been wondering how the leak in the dike story would unfold in today’s world. The central character is the ageing Dutch president. I wanted to title the book "The Old Man and the Sea," but was told someone else already used it. More >

The Name of the Antichrist
Calculating the 666 number of the Antichrist has long been an intriguing pursuit. But which of his names will equal 666? His birth name, or possibly a new name he will assume when he takes the throne in a future rebuilt Jewish Temple in Jerusalem? Will this would-be ruler of the world simply be known as, say, “John Doe”? Or, will he prefer the name, “John, Ruler of the World”? Or, “John, Lord of Planet Earth”?
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Could Obama Silence the Birthers?
The Birther movement continues to sail along a course of garnering growing support of its legal challenges to Barack Obama’s Constitutional eligibility to serve as president. But with help from Congress and enough states to amend the Constitution, Obama could scuttle the Birthers’ ship with a single stroke of a pen.
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Bill O'Reilly Touts Self-Sufficiency
Bill O’Reilly is pitching a book that he claims will help you become a millionaire and thereby self-sufficient. I see self-sufficiency from a totally different view. And it’s all explained in a book you probably already have—the Bible. More >