My Own Thoughts

Turns out this Sunday is Reformation Sunday. These are two of the five points of the Reformation: “1. Sola Scriptura: Scripture alone is our ultimate authority 2. Sola Christus: Christ alone is our Savior and Lord.” If Scripture is our ultimate authority, how can Christ be our Savior and Lord? Finally I have found the [...]

Live Science says that pain is genetic. Turns out BH4 is what controls a person’s “vulnerability to chronic pain.” Having lived with lots of pain for years and being one who yells when my fingernail bends, I wonder which level of BH4 I have.

“Those who do not know history are doomed to repeat it.” – George Santayana In that case, Americans will be doomed to repeat the last century. Having read Clayton Cramer’s blog about his wife’s English students not knowing anything about Hitler except that he invaded the Soviet Union, I thought I would give my English [...]

My niece G is two. She says her prayers with her brother. He says the prayer, she says “Men.” The other night she wouldn’t say “Men.” Her mother told her to, but she shook her head and kept her mouth closed. Finally my sister asked, “Is there someone else you want to pray for?” She [...]

We treat our terrorists better than we treat our soldiers, unconvicted. If you want to read about the worst of America, go to Euphoric Reality. If you want to help their families, go there too.

Go to Black Five and listen to Beccy Cole, a “Poster Girl” on the Wrong Side of the World. Bawled my eyes out. Anyone want to buy me a CD for Christmas?

The Times Online, UK says a year after the France riots started, each day 112 cars are torched and 15 police or emergency services are attacked. Before next week’s anniversary of the Clichy riots, the violence and despair on the estates are again to the fore. Despite a promised renaissance, little has changed, and the [...]

Muslims for America has a survey of 317 American Muslims. Here is a small sample of the questions and answers: 5. Did Muslims hijack planes and fly them into buildings on 9/11? YES 117 NO 139 UNDECIDED 51 6. Did the U.S. government have advance knowledge of the 9/11 attacks, and allow the attacks to [...]

has been enjoined. We Christians have felt the tide turning against us and have seen evidences of our belief taken captive and destroyed. (Ten commandments anyone? Nativity scenes?) But now the battle has been described by someone who is not a Christian. He places himself in the category of uncaring agnostic. “The New Atheists will [...]

“The good Lord does not always show up when we want him to, but He will be on time.” That’s a quote from Alex Haley’s Roots, found at a Friend’s (Quaker) site. I hope it’s true. I’m praying it is true for E.

I read on Casting Out Nines a post that discussed words we use in the negative, such as discombobulated, that we never use in the positive, combobulated anyone? Today I was reading Daring Young Mom and she wrote, “If you’re mad to the point of explosion, wait to talk about it until you’re a little [...]

in 90 seconds. Evangelical Outpost has a history of the ruling of the Middle East in a map form that covers 5000 years of history in 90 seconds. Good stuff.

right now is very dangerous. Seraphic Secrets posts about it… In Lyon, a car was rammed into a synagogue and set on fire. In Montpellier, the Jewish religious center was firebombed; so were synagogues in Strasbourg and Marseilles; so was a Jewish school in Creteil — all recently. A Jewish sports club in Toulouse was [...]

Apparently my name is so unusual it doesn’t exist. HowManyOfMe.com There are:0people with my namein the U.S.A. How many have your name? Oh yeah. What about me? (Note: I did cheat a bit. I used my first name and my maiden name. My first name when I was born is not the same one I [...]

Cursing. Cussing. What does that mean? Well, profanity is from the root word profane which means to take something sacred and make it unholy. So saying “God” or “Jesus” in some form other than a discussion or a prayer, for instance as an exclamation after you smash your finger, is profanity. Cursing? Well, that’s when [...]

Dr. Charles may have one.

in this country is liberty. “…[A]ll men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.” That’s where we enshrined it. And it may be the reason for our defeat. If, as a culture, the highest value is personal, [...]

E’s been watching Penn and Teller’s B*S* show. From something R said to me last night, I realize that what the show is really is P’s (and assumably T’s) belief system and their arguments for that belief system. They don’t want to be polite, so manners are bad. (They “prove” this by showing two wackos [...]

that has come out of our son becoming an atheist, hopefully temporarily, is that we are having to think through things well. We’re becoming more ready, as Peter put it, to make a defense of our faith.

Live Science has an article entitled “Grammar May Help Fight Bacteria.” Supposedly, thinking of peptide chains like sentences and replacing the nouns gave the scientists “new artificial bacteria-fighters.” Hah! And you thought grammar was only to get you out of English class. If you read the post, you’ll see they think they’ve got something that [...]