Archive for November, 2009

The leaves change and they fall. Hopefully snow will greet us during this holiday time. Even the animals find this time of year had to resist. Once again God and his ultimate grace have shown us the beauty of the season. Hopefully we will stop to watch it all.
I wanted to take this opportunity to… »

I am in the mood to try to brighten up a week and can be both joyus as well as sad. Pass it on.
I am thankful for the partner who hogs the covers every night, because he/she is not out with someone else.
The child who is not cleaning his room, but is watching tv, because… »

Is it that I foolishly chose a preposition to end a sentence with? Or is it that I chose to blithely split an infinitive? There’s got to be something that I am doing – or else something that I am not doing – that is the cause of myfailure to convince my very best friends… »

It is only mid November and about  two weeks away from Thanksgiving, but according to most of the commercial world we moved into first gear for Christmas even before Halloween.  So I guess it is time to roll the annual speech about Christmas or lack of it to some of those in the resale trade.
Each… »

As I have been reading and thinking on the events taking place on this earth and especially here in America many parts of scripture have come to mind.
The Money changers in the Temple
The high priests who were more concerned about their *place* in the community.
How Satan tried to deceive Christ by telling Christ the following.
And… »

A recent column co-authored by John Eidsmoe and Ben DuPré struck me. They titled their column, “What makes a ‘great’ president?”

The basic thrust of the column was to examine the qualities that make one a “great” President. They start by examining the Presidency of our 11th President, James K. Polk. They note that Polk is… »

I received this message from my good friends at JBS and I am passing it along to those because of the importance of the message itself. A great many have decided that your choice of health care should no longer be your choice.
‘If you were upset by House passage of its health care reform bill,… »

It will be immediately apparent to most that these three things share some common traits.  The inspiration for this treatise actually came a few years ago while pulling weeds in my yard, a task I find more instructive than distasteful the older I get.
I haven’t reached whatever age where I’ll truly appreciate gardening yet, but… »

You might remember Michael Crichton’s fiction novel “The Andromeda Strain” about the epidemic spread of a deadly virus.  My memory of the book was (spoiler alert) it ended with the self-destruct mechanism of the compound where the scientists and laboratories were was canceled with forty five seconds remaining.  In typical Hollywood fashion, the subsequent movie… »

In surfing the news this morning and reading the articles related to the three shootings - Texas, Florida, Seattle - in reading the background on the individuals involved a thought crosses my mind.  While these events are terrible in themselves I look to WHY and in all of them I see one root cause of… »