UNPLEASANT CHORES More than ten years ago, our physician had the unpleasant task of informing us that I had cancer. After the treatment, the oncologist informed us that I could not be cured. It was a shock, but small in...
June 2009 Archives
TOO NEGATIVE! What would this world be without negatives? Ask a scientist. It is no different in our daily affairs. If I do wrong, then the truth for me is negative. I have discovered that my positive critics have not...
THREE FFFS? They are Fact, Faith and Fiction. I am that is a fact. I was created that is faith. I have evolved by a mysterious accident that is fiction. I am far too complicated for being the product of...
DEFINE GOD? Jesus, our supreme authority on God, defined God as being Spirit (Jn.4: 24). Can science dissect the molecules of a spirit? It is absurd because a spirit has no molecules. But God is not a spirit but Spirit....
CONSISTENCY? The Ancient Greeks believed that no one could step into the same river twice. The Bible insists that everything but God changes and life is but mist (Ps.39: 5; Ja.4: 14). I look in a mirror and compare my...
TRUST GOD: Do I Trust Me? It sounds profound and religious, but I am not quite certain what it means to trust God? Can I sit back and He will take care of me? Can I stick out my neck...
FOUR STEPS DOWN AND ONE STEP UP The prophetic Mark Twain was asked, "What would men be without women?" He answered, "Scarce." I lived in three countries that had radical violent changes but none as obvious and insidious as the...
The Ninth Commandment! The Ninth Commandment, "You shall not bear false witness," has been perhaps the most difficult stumbling block for mankind (Ex.20: 16). It is troubling when the President thinks that jailing terrorists was an incentive to recruit more...
LEAD US NOT INTO TEMPTATION? This request in the Lord's Prayer is somewhat of an oxymoron (Mt.6: 13). Primarily, if God is doing the leading and temptation is being taken to mean evil, then we have an act that is...
REHOBOAM: His Mistakes? Rehoboam, son of Solomon, king of Israel represented what a leader of a nation ought not be or do. His motto was, "My little finger is thicker than my father's waist" (II Chr.10: 10). Solomon was an...
REAL-ISSUE: Is Morality. The "real issue" is not the separation between Church and State but between Christian morality and the Politically Correct Morality. There was no conflict between Church and State while they agreed on Judeo-Christian morals. But when godless...
