My Own Thoughts

Again from Willard’s Hearing God. Some Christians too commonly demonnstrate that the notions of “faith in Christ” and “love for Christ” leave Christ outside the personality of the believer. One wonders whether the modern translations of the Bible are not being governed by the need to turn outr weakened practice into the norm of faith. [...]

I am reading Willard’s Hearing God and I have found it to be a book full of good thoughts and strong ideas. I have also found it to abound in his beliefs, which he sets against other beliefs (such as mine) or which he doesn’t even seem to realize might not be universal. For example, [...]

is the title of a section of the chapter “Redemption through the Word of God” from Hearing God. It has an interesting perspective on Nicodemus. .. Nicodemus, this leader, complimented Jesus [in John 3:2], yet at the same time he complimented himself on being an insider who had the good sense to recognize God at [...]

Hearing God by Dallas Willard seems to me to have a misunderstanding of magic. He says that magic doesn’t cause things to happen. The belief of the people that are involved in the thing, the receivers of the negativity, cause it to happen. So a voodoo doll pin doesn’t give a person pain. A person [...]

I’m reading a book by that name by Dallas Willard. And I’ve been thinking about how I’ve heard God. I used to “know” things without having anyway to know them. I knew when my grama was hit by a car. I knew when my friend was mugged. I knew when my friend was in trouble. [...]

Fiction: Ordinary Heroes: A Novel by Scott Turow Irish Magic II- story by Susan Wiggs was good, the rest not so much The Man from Stone Creek by Linda Lael Miller, very well written Western Frankenstein by Mary Shelley Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll Through the Looking-Glass by Lewis Carroll6 The Princess Bride [...]

We’re running around like chickens with our heads cut off, all trying to do everything as quickly and well as possible. It means each of us is contacting people separately, which probably isn’t the best way to go about it. But then again, it gives them a feel for the busybodiness of the church. I’ve [...]

Oh, the title of the article says they are creeping. Oh well. Mysterious Clouds Creeping Out of the Arctic. They’re very pretty. They are “night shining clouds.” According to wikipedia that means: Noctilucent clouds, also known as polar mesospheric clouds, are bright cloudlike atmospheric phenomena visible in a deep twilight. The name means roughly “night [...]

It’s entitled Battlefield Leadership and is at Euphoric Reality. . Read military history. Read small unit actions. Personality of a big battle is often formed by a small unit action 2. Visit historic battlefields with maps, books in hand. That’s just a start.

My two boys are now 14 and 15. The oldest started college last year at the local community college. The youngest wants to be a youth minister and the oldest is a declared athiest. I baptisted them both on the same day 2004 and I remember waking up the morning after he told me he [...]

They throw out 3 million crimes. Telegraph in the UK from TFS Magnum

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This is an entry entitled “The Most Beautiful Machine.” I certainly wouldn’t call it that, but it is worth a light guffaw.

“Science without religion is lame. Religion without science is blind.” “Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one.” “Science is a wonderful thing if one does not have to earn one’s living at it.” “The whole of science is nothing more than a refinement of everyday thinking.” “Technological progress is like an axe [...]

In college I wrote papers on propaganda during WWII. It would be a lot easier to do those now. Here’s a website with all of Dr. Seuss’ pro-America cartoons during the war. A Catalog of Political Cartoons by Dr. Seuss. And I found a new present I want. Walt Disney Treasures: On the Front Lines [...]

This Norwegian article describes finding three bodies, one of which was Incan, during the move of a rose bush. The body is 1000 years old. So long before Leif Erikson got to Vinland, maybe Incan Explorers were heading into Europe. Who was he and how did he get there?

From now on the boys also have to mow the lawn once a week. It will be the turn of the boy who does not have dishes. And they will not get paid unless they also weed and edge. I thought I would collapse out there, so I am sure that they will feel the [...]

The boys bought Dallas Willard’s book Hearing God for their dad today as a belated Father’s Day present. I have begun reading it. I would say that truthfully I have begun skimming it. I’ve hit high spots and thought about questions in it, agreeing or disagreeing, and then skimming on to the next page. That’s [...]

Dr. Francis S. Collins is the head of the Human Genome Project. As such, he ought to be and is one of the foremost scientists of our age. And he is a believer, a theist, a Christian. His book The Language of God is the presentation of evidence for belief in God. His story, presented [...]