Winging It

Loretta Lynn sang, "Everybody wants to go to Heaven, but nobody wants to die." Ain't it the truth? Well ... almost. Most peopl...

In Exodus we read about the children of Israel (and most of the adults) testing God (Exo 17:1-7). They had crossed the Red Sea through a mig...

In Deuteronomy 6, Moses says, "Now this is the commandment, the statutes and the judgments which YHWH your God has commanded me to teac...

Fighting the Wrong Battles The laws aren't vague regarding immigration, and, despite the battles over language ("It's not ille...

Modern scholarship largely agrees that Genesis ... at least the first 11 chapters or so ... is myth ... at best. Possibly just wrong, but, a...

Stevie Wonder (and a lot of others) sang What Christmas Means to Me , a warm song about the meaning of Christmas ... with very little connec...

I keep coming back to the disappointing savior ... Santa Claus. As a society, we tout him as a wonderful example of goodness and light, but ...

I hate electronic communication. Okay, maybe that's an overstatement, but ... consider. I was looking at statistics the other day. Ironi...

Full disclosure. I did this back in December of 2015, a sort of extra-length dad joke, I guess. And my wife has been listening to hours and ...

We're in the midst of the Christmas season and heading down the stretch to Christmas day. The time is steeped in tradition. "Tradit...

Nonsensical Science The current mode of thinking in our world is materialism. The word has two definitions. One is the obvious "I alwa...

We were in church ... an adult class ... and they were sharing prayer requests. Someone asked for prayer for a newlywed couple on their hone...

I remember in my younger days someone told me, "You are God's best choice as the father to your children." I protested. They c...

I've been notified by Blogger, the Google-owned service I use to publish this blog, that an entry of mine was deleted. They deleted my m...

It's a tough question. All Christians (all people) sin. Our only means of recourse is the forgiveness that Christ gives. And John writes...

Yesterday, I wrote about "dwelling in the house of the Lord forever." What does it mean to dwell in the house of the Lord forever?...

In City Slickers (1991), Jack Palance plays a tough cowboy, Curly, to some city slickers. At one point, he tells them what the secret of li...

Sydney Sweeney is a twenty-something actress who recently made the news with her "scandalous" commercial. The apparel company, Ame...

The FDA wants to probe adult deaths linked to the COVID vaccine. The "acceptable" story is "no credible evidence of widespre...

Scripture is clear that God made man in His image (Gen 1:27). Not a question. Some have wondered if, for instance, sin changed that. Apparen...

The question of the morality of lying has always been a point of contention among believers. We have the very plain command, "You shall...

The world has a way of taking words that contain important content, redefining the word, then reapplying it as if it had the same content. ...

There's an old cry ... "Remember the Maine!" The USS Maine was a ship sunk in the Havana harbor in 1898 at the outbreak of the...

One Way Israel and Hamas came to a ceasefire agreement in October. Since then, Israel has made multiple attacks. People are upset ... but n...

Therefore if there is any encouragement in Christ, if there is any consolation of love, if there is any fellowship of the Spirit, if any aff...