Posted in Politics on Jan 31st, 2008 No Comments »
Jay Nordlinger of National Review has been journaling from Davos Switzerland. In his most recent report (see here) he shared these stories that struck me as particularly revealing of the real truth of what is happening with the “war on terror” and how our own Western media has distorted that truth so badly…
Time and [...]
Posted in Fiction on Jan 31st, 2008 No Comments »
Christians love to preach. We have the gospel, we have our morals, we know what’s right and what’s wrong and we like to tell other people all about it.
Trouble is that many people have been turned off and don’t care to listen any more. Why is that?
Well, sometimes it can be helpful to look at [...]
Posted in Faith on Jan 30th, 2008 No Comments »
Consider this verse:
John 12:40 “He has blinded their eyes and hardened their hearts, Lest they should see with their eyes, Lest they should understand with their hearts and turn, So that I should heal them.”
The Greek word for “hardened” in this verse is “poroo” which means, “to grow hard, callous, become dull, lose the [...]
Posted in Faith on Jan 29th, 2008 2 Comments »
Many of us want to see God more clearly. We like to worship Him and seek His face in part because we desire to know Him better. In some ways, it is not hard to love God because all we need to do is trust that He really is a good God. He rarely speaks [...]
Posted in Life on Jan 28th, 2008 No Comments »
I took this picture last Spring in our backyard. The roses were in full bloom for my daughter’s wedding!
Posted in Politics on Jan 28th, 2008 No Comments »
People are tired of Bush. People are even tired of the Clintons. While Hillary has done well in the primaries, and even captured significant segments of voters like women who identified with her, she — along with Bill’s help — have also attracted the scorn of those on the Left who are simply tired of [...]
Posted in Fiction on Jan 25th, 2008 No Comments »
I had an idea yesterday for a science fiction short story. It would go something like this…
Two college kids are taking a sociology course and are given a research assignment to study how people are able to separate fact from fantasy, truth from propaganda and valid information from misleading advertisements. The premise is that society [...]
Posted in Faith on Jan 24th, 2008 No Comments »
I posted a short story last Friday (the 18th) called The Daughter where I attempted to show that our Father not only takes us off of the streets of sin and shame and into His house where we can gratefully serve Him for all He’s done, but that He has also adopted us as one [...]
Posted in Faith on Jan 23rd, 2008 No Comments »
I continue to be intrigued by Rembrandt’s painting that I talked about in my last post (see below). Consider what this picture tells us if we look at it from the perspective that the canvas is us.
Will people accept us? Will they like how we look? Do we stand back and let God paint into [...]
Posted in Faith on Jan 22nd, 2008 No Comments »
This is the Rembrandt painting entitled, “Artiest in Zijn Studio”.
Now, I’ve never studied painting myself but there is clearly something wondrous here. The canvas in the work is literally glowing while not only parts of the room remain in darkness but the painter himself is darkened. It is as if he is saying the work [...]
Posted in Politics on Jan 21st, 2008 No Comments »
So where do we stand in the primaries? Well, on the Republican side, everything now points to a major contest in Florida on Jan 29th. All four front-runners (Giuliani, McCain, Romney and Huckabee) technically have a shot at winning (see latest polls here). Even Fred Thompson has a chance. However, while McCain’s win in South [...]
Posted in Life on Jan 21st, 2008 No Comments »
This is the flower that blooms on the Saguaro cactus, taken during a hike here in Tucson. The flower is the state flower of Arizona.
Posted in Faith on Jan 21st, 2008 No Comments »
There is something amazing about how the very act of believing allows our minds to clear and helps us to see things that previously we were blinded to. In fact, there seems to be an inverse relationship here. The more faith one has, the more God reveals Himself to us. Jesus spoke in parables to [...]
Posted in Fiction on Jan 18th, 2008 1 Comment »
She was penniless, abandoned and alone. A starving outcast from society — cast about on cold streets by the winds of shame. Hope had fled away. Love was only a bad memory that brought with it great pain.
But one day there was a change in the wind. A gentle breeze of unmerited mercy blew and [...]
Posted in Faith on Jan 18th, 2008 No Comments »
Have you ever run into somebody that voices the following objection to God?
“If God really loved us then he would show himself to us. To force us to believe in him without coming down and proving he’s real is just not ‘fair’”.
Well, here’s my reply to a colleague friend who raised this very objection…
First, I [...]
Posted in Politics on Jan 17th, 2008 No Comments »
Jeff Jacoby’s latest column in the Boston Globe talks about the Death of the Bush Doctrine. What is the Bush Doctrine you ask? Well it’s many things, but in the context of Israeli-Palestinian conflict, Jacoby has it correct, the “Bush Doctrine” means the U.S. expects the Palestinian leadership to decide whose side they’ll be on, [...]
Posted in Politics on Jan 16th, 2008 No Comments »
Michigan was the state that Mitt Romney had to win to stay viable. If he couldn’t win there, given his family background and strong economic message, then it didn’t look like he would be able to win anyplace (except in Utah and Idaho). On the other hand, a McCain win would have given him the [...]
Posted in Faith, Fiction on Jan 16th, 2008 2 Comments »
Here’s part 2 to my fictionalized version of Revelations chapter 5. You may want to check out Part 1 first, if you missed it. Also, if you are interested in reading the entire story that this excerpt came from, or any of the others stories that I have started, you can check them out here.
I [...]
Posted in Faith, Fiction on Jan 15th, 2008 3 Comments »
I’ve always liked Revelations chapter five…
1 Then I saw in the right hand of him who sat on the throne a scroll with writing on both sides and sealed with seven seals. 2 And I saw a mighty angel proclaiming in a loud voice, “Who is worthy to break the seals and open the [...]
Posted in Life on Jan 14th, 2008 No Comments »
This was another flower we saw on our trip to Hawaii in December.
