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After doing some push-ups yesterday to prove to my children that I’m not dead yet, I feel dead today. My stomach muscles hurt in places I did not know I had stomach muscles and my chest, sides, and arms are collecting signatures on a petition to secede from the union. However, I am still able … Continue reading
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I would hate to be guilty of always looking at the clouds instead of the silver lining, so when I saw the report “U.S. Deleveraging, Unlike Some” on the Powerline blog that had some good news about American debt, I thought I would pass it along. Well, “good” is a relative term, of course! To “leverage” … Continue reading
Some of you may not have heard about it on the news, but the Obama Administration was slapped down hard by the Supreme Court of the United States recently, and given that it had to do with religious freedom I would figure many of you might be interested. (In a side note, it also adds … Continue reading
Oh, my poor neglected blog. I’ve had so much in my head running around that I would love to spend some time talking about, but I am prevented by the same reason I haven’t written much over the last couple of weeks — being blessed with work! However, today I did want to say a … Continue reading
Howdy! I have been AWOL from the blog this weekend and today for a variety of reasons and want to apologize to those whose comments have languished in my comment queue. My apologies! This weekend we had company (hope you got where you were going safely, G&DW!) and I had my biweekly Cincinnati-Akron-Pittsburgh-Cincinnati trip of awesomeness … Continue reading
Today’s Tomorrow’s World commentary, “Green Trees and Jesus,” brought the carol referred to in my title to mind. Worth a read! Here’s the first paragraph: Green Trees and Jesus by Gary F. Ehman Looking back over the years, it has become evident to me that the gap between what the Bible says to do, and … Continue reading
Wow — I almost missed it! By some accounts today is exactly one day away from the so-called Mayan “doomsday”: December 21, 2012. (Some say it’s actually in the December 21-23 range, while others, still, say it’s another 50-years away, but–hey–why be picky?) The key word in the above is “so-called.” Because the Maya did … Continue reading
Every year around this time (rather unfaithfully, methinks), I try to explain why I don’t observe Christmas. Here’s a parade of past attempts: “Christmas… WWJD?” “Christians shouldn’t keep Christmas” “New archaeological find reminds what Christmas IS and ISN’T…” “Egg Nog, yes. Christmas, no.” “Why I don’t keep Christmas, stated briefly” “Christmas and God’s Opinion” (Warning: … Continue reading
The recent miscarriage experienced by Jim Bob and Michelle Duggar is making a great deal of news headlines these days, as are thoughts about whether or not it was appropriate for photos of the child to have been taken by the family or for some of those photos to have become public (perhaps inadvertently) through … Continue reading
Well, thank God for Roderick C. Meredith. His article in this month’s Living Church News, “Which ‘Armstrong’ Do You Follow?” not only made the same point I did back in my “Recreating Herbert W Armstrong in their own image” post, but he said it better. (Go figure!) More importantly, as someone who spent so much … Continue reading
I noticed yesterday that my blog pops up rather high in a Google search on 2012! I don’t know if that should leave me excited or depressed. So, I thought to myself, “Self, if folks are going to find their way here, they might as well find the truth once they arrive.” [My thanks to … Continue reading
[EDIT: Before posting this, I want to point out that when I posted about Tim Tebow yesterday I had missed that we had a commentary out on the same subject! Go there and click through to Mr. Wakefield's commentary if you have not. Don't miss it!] I normally like to comment on my trips to Charlotte, … Continue reading
Mexico’s National Institute of Anthropology and History is holding their round table effort to beat back 2012ologists with actual facts and research, which they had previously announced in their discussions of the not-new-news Comalcalco Brick. Now, in the news today, one of the members of the scholarly panel has had his comments reported — coincidentally, … Continue reading
Recently I wrote a post highlighting a form of Leibniz’s cosmological argument and mentioning how nice it was to see him get some press. Actually, he appeared recently in another book I am currently reading that was just about irresistible at the local Half Price Books when I saw it: The Probability of God, by … Continue reading
My thanks to GN for passing on to me a new bit of 2012-related news. The title is terribly misleading (misleading as in false) but the article is worth reading for those who are keeping up with such info: “New Reference to 2012 ‘Apocalypse’” (I appreciate that Express.co.uk at least put scare quotes around “apocalypse”). … Continue reading
My sermon last Sabbath was about what the Bible teaches about the purpose of man (we have a great booklet on that: Your Ultimate Destiny), and in it I spoke a bit against the abuse of logic and philosophy. But that does not mean I’m anti-logic or anti-philosophy in general. Actually, I’m very pro-logic, and … Continue reading
Well, after mentioning it about a year ago, I’ve finally posted an FAQ page! My thanks to everyone who contributed questions and my apologies for taking so long. I’d noted things down for it from time to time but never got around to actually putting it up. It can now be accessed among the other … Continue reading
We had a wonderful weekend this Sabbath and today. Services in Cincinnati and Columbus were fantastic, and we enjoyed getting to touch bases again with everyone and talk about Feast experiences. Then a hot dog roast Saturday night, followed by a stay with the Monsons made for a wonderful time. And today both types of … Continue reading
I thought this would be a good place to follow up on some comments I made in a recent Bible study in our area. Wyatt Ciesielka’s excellent commentary out today has prodded me, as well (read here: “Are you being taught a false gospel?”). One thing I appreciate about the Living Church of God — … Continue reading
Those who think that atheists by definition hold to no propositions in faith don’t understand either atheism or faith. It is simply a matter of where that faith is directed. That thought was prompted by some statements of faith made by professional skeptic Michael Shermer, publisher of Skeptic magazine and author of the new book … Continue reading
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