C.M. Alvarez's Blog, page 9
July 28, 2023
How to Tell a Story
How do you tell a story? We all tell stories, whether it is giving a persuasive speech, wooing a new client, launching an ad campaign, or writing an actual fictional account. It is a part of the human experience, but just like so many things that are common such as interacting with other human beings in a courteous way, learning to fold clothes properly, and how to feed oneself beyond grabbing the nearest junk food, it needs to be taught.
July 23, 2023
Hoping in the Lord
Sometimes we read passages in the Bible and simply gloss over the words. What did the words really mean to the writer and what do they mean to you when you’re looking for hope. Sunday thoughts on Psalm 31.
July 21, 2023
What it Means to Fight to Win
Subscribe on YouTube Timestamps, Topics, & Links 0:00- Intro May 6, 2022: Pakistan Rules Out Refugee Status for Afghan Asylum-Seekers https://www.voanews.com/a/pakistan-ru... March 23, 2023: Pakistan steps up crackdown on Afghan refugees, adds new restrictions https://www.thenewhumanitarian.org/ne... 4:47- Fighting to Win The medical learning curve about COVID-19 March 31, 2020: Hous...
July 11, 2023
Is it “peace” or cowardice?
https://youtu.be/9vALHlmoL_0
There is a lot of wrong done, and very little of it is hidden. Often it is brazen and out in the open. So why does it continue? Because very few people are willing to say or do something about it. It is far more comfortable to be a coward.
Timestamps, Links, & Resources
0:00- Intro
The Destruction of Detachment
3:30 - It's Not For the Sake of the Gospel
July 5, 2023: Why I have empathy for Karen Swallow Prior
https://baptistnews....
There is a lot of wrong done, and very little of it is hidden. Often it is brazen and out in the open. So why does it continue? Because very few people are willing to say or do something about it. It is far more comfortable to be a coward.
Timestamps, Links, & Resources
0:00- Intro
The Destruction of Detachment
3:30 - It's Not For the Sake of the Gospel
July 5, 2023: Why I have empathy for Karen Swallow Prior
https://baptistnews....
July 3, 2023
The Destruction of Detachment
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yUGco...
What happens when we just don’t care? Much of the situation in Afghanistan can be explained by the detachment of those who should care.
Timestamps, Topics & Resources
0:00- Intro
2:50- The abandonment of the Afghan people
8:17- Generation Jihad and our history in the Middle East
The Generation Jihad podcast from the Foundation for Defense of Democracies
https://www.fdd.org/category/analysis/podcasts/generation-jiha...
What happens when we just don’t care? Much of the situation in Afghanistan can be explained by the detachment of those who should care.
Timestamps, Topics & Resources
0:00- Intro
2:50- The abandonment of the Afghan people
8:17- Generation Jihad and our history in the Middle East
The Generation Jihad podcast from the Foundation for Defense of Democracies
https://www.fdd.org/category/analysis/podcasts/generation-jiha...
June 25, 2023
Hope is not delusion
https://youtube.com/live/6BqTWu6vJQg
When you’re hard situation, you have to have hope to make it through. But hope is not delusion. How do we know when our hope is reasonable. Some Sunday thoughts.
Timestamps, Links, & Resources
Bible studies on Hope
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list...
June 20, 2023: Pakistan: Government must stop harassing and arbitrarily arresting Afghans seeking refuge
https://www.amnesty.org/en/latest/new......
When you’re hard situation, you have to have hope to make it through. But hope is not delusion. How do we know when our hope is reasonable. Some Sunday thoughts.
Timestamps, Links, & Resources
Bible studies on Hope
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list...
June 20, 2023: Pakistan: Government must stop harassing and arbitrarily arresting Afghans seeking refuge
https://www.amnesty.org/en/latest/new......
June 21, 2023
Cheap Talk & Faith without Works
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M0xTn...
There is a saying “talk is cheap.” We can say anything, but what we actually believe and who we are is shown by what we do. James says essentially the same thing in James 2-26 when he writes, “faith without works is dead.”
Some thoughts on a Sunday, and an update on Afghan Christians in Pakistan
Links, Topics, & Resources
0:00- Intro
3:29- Talk is cheap
December 6, 2021: Clint Smith explains ‘critical race theory boogeyman’ in Lawren...
There is a saying “talk is cheap.” We can say anything, but what we actually believe and who we are is shown by what we do. James says essentially the same thing in James 2-26 when he writes, “faith without works is dead.”
Some thoughts on a Sunday, and an update on Afghan Christians in Pakistan
Links, Topics, & Resources
0:00- Intro
3:29- Talk is cheap
December 6, 2021: Clint Smith explains ‘critical race theory boogeyman’ in Lawren...
June 11, 2023
What is the End-Time Delusion?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YM4y1...
It’s been a week of disclosures in the U.S., but do those revelations change anyone’s mind? The dangers of choosing delusion over truth.
Topics, Links, & Timestamps
The End-Time Delusion - 2 Thessalonians 2
It’s been a week of disclosures in the U.S., but do those revelations change anyone’s mind? The dangers of choosing delusion over truth.
Topics, Links, & Timestamps
The End-Time Delusion - 2 Thessalonians 2
The Man of Lawlessness2 Concerning the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ and our being gathered to him, we ask you, brothers and sisters, 2 not to become easily unsettled or alarmed by the teaching allegedly from us—whether by a prophecy or ...
June 5, 2023
Are You Guilty?
https://youtube.com/live/8ZTd--A_lNI
We are very quick to point out what other people are doing (or have done) wrong, but are your hands clean? Are you equally guilty?
Topics, Links, and Resources
0:00- Intro
4:24- Who is guilty?
7:20- The Golden Rule vs the Silver Rule
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aj-rl...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p7tY3...
10:00- The Holocaust & the Triangle of Victimization
Echoes & Reflections Holocaust Reflection
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We are very quick to point out what other people are doing (or have done) wrong, but are your hands clean? Are you equally guilty?
Topics, Links, and Resources
0:00- Intro
4:24- Who is guilty?
7:20- The Golden Rule vs the Silver Rule
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aj-rl...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p7tY3...
10:00- The Holocaust & the Triangle of Victimization
Echoes & Reflections Holocaust Reflection
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May 29, 2023
How our School Board prepared me for the Taliban
https://youtube.com/live/0L8n8g30R4I?...
Afghanistan isn’t the only place shady people are in control. Thoughts for the day: how the actions for our school board prepared me for the Taliban.
Timestamps, Links, & Resources
0:00- Intro
Spirit of the Rainforest by Mark Andrew Ritchie
4:00- Not everything people tell you is true
5:00- Always Verify Information
8:50- Manipulators Obscure Facts
13:10- Always Check the Actual Source
April 12, 2017 Humble ISD trustee Hea...
Afghanistan isn’t the only place shady people are in control. Thoughts for the day: how the actions for our school board prepared me for the Taliban.
Timestamps, Links, & Resources
0:00- Intro
Spirit of the Rainforest by Mark Andrew Ritchie
4:00- Not everything people tell you is true
5:00- Always Verify Information
8:50- Manipulators Obscure Facts
13:10- Always Check the Actual Source
April 12, 2017 Humble ISD trustee Hea...
