Scoffing anticipated

Without a trace of homophobia and not a rant in sight, Rick Perry simply conveyed his beliefs about an example of where this country has gone wrong. The result should have been anticipated. He is not ashamed to call himself a Christian but many others are and more still hate the name of the God [...]

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Banned vocabulary word

Have you noticed something missing from conversations in all forms of media- personal, electronic, written-about the debacle at Penn State? How about from the discussion of failed politicians, NFL or Hollywood celebrities, or riots or divorces in hometown America?  Euphemistically entitled a condition, exceptionality, syndrome, genetic disposition, problem, societal ill, disease, tendency, aberration, failure, inequity, [...]

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Me

Does this sentence seem strange and yet all too common to anyone else besides me? “Tip: Be the master of your own domain – make this blog creatorworship.me for just $24 per year.” Thus goes the ad at the top of my Dashboard on this blog. I want to say, “No, please read the subtitle [...]

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Meaning of Well Educated

I was asked the following in an interview recently: “What does it mean to be educated?” After clarifying that the interviewer actually meant “well educated” I directed him to Psalm 119:97-100 and Proverbs 1:7:   “O how I love Your law!  It is my meditation all the day. Your commandments make me wiser than my [...]

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Review of what we should have learned

If the students at the school where I teach selected me to be their faculty speaker at graduation, here is the speech I would deliver to them.     Class of 2010, congratulations on the progress of your education to this point of graduation from high school. Congratulations to your parents and relatives and friends who have loved [...]

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Absolutely

The young man was serious. “We can’t know what is true.” He was asked if there is any objective truth, that is, things that are always true regardless of your opinion or mine? “No, I don’t think so.” Furthermore, “all religion is just man-made ideas about who God is,” and “logic may not be right”, [...]

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Room 417

On the hallway wall next to the door is posted “Room 417 Storage”.  In this fairly new facility it is used as an occasional office.  The majority could not tell you where it is or for what purpose it is utilized.  I was assigned to sit in silence in Room 417 with three other people for [...]

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Bored to Death

      On my classroom wall is posted the statement, “Bored is not a circumstance; it’s a state of mind.”  From the frequency of gaming, surfing the web and channels, and various other vicarious pursuits of entertainment coupled with short attention spans and lack of excitement for anything short of amazing I would say it is [...]

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Waver No More

The United States is not a Christian nation any more than the Northern Kingdom of Israel was a godly nation in the days of Elijah.  King Ahab and his father had made sure of that by not merely carelessness with God’s commands but actually having ”forsaken the commandments of the Lord” (I Kings 18:18).  As [...]

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You Don’t Want Fair

A common thought and pronouncement in our culture is, “That’s not fair.”  But we don’t really want fair ultimately because then we would all be in a world of hurt.  And that world is called hell.  What we want is privilege. Privilege is offered to all who will accept it by admitting they have done [...]

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Just Sayings

Some old sayings recycled and rehashed for the days we are in: Desperate times require desperate measures           So the old saying goes But are we willing to take the cure           Before we’re in the throes   If it were a snake beside the path           We’d all been bit for sure But will [...]

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Shack Flak

Let me say it up front. I see most movies after they have gone DVD. I hear most news from a biweekly magazine.  I find out how the ball team did after the season.  By the time I try it out it’s gained the adjective “classic”. That way someone can tell me if it’s worth [...]

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Final Ruin?

I was listening to a book on CD with my son as we played Lego’s.  In the The Young Carthagian G.A. Henty has Hammilcar, the general, as he stis astride his horse overlooking Carthage after return from battle saying, “Give her but a government strong, capable, and honest; a people partriotic, brave, and devoted and [...]

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