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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Room 417
Posted in Beauty, Cultural commentary, General, Poem, Random thoughts, tagged Beauty, Cultural commentary, Poems, Random thoughts on June 10, 2009 | 4 Comments »
Bored to Death
Posted in Beauty, Cultural commentary, General, God Thoughts, tagged Beauty, Cultural commentary, God Thoughts on May 17, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
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 [...]
Waver No More
Posted in Cultural commentary, General, God Thoughts, God's Word, tagged Cultural commentary, God Thoughts, God's Word on April 20, 2009 | 1 Comment »
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 [...]
You Don’t Want Fair
Posted in Cultural commentary, General, God Thoughts, God's Word, tagged Cultural commentary, God Thoughts, God's Word on March 22, 2009 | 2 Comments »
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 [...]
Just Sayings
Posted in Cultural commentary, General, God Thoughts, Poem, Strength, tagged Cultural commentary, God Thoughts, Poems, Strength on February 5, 2009 | 2 Comments »
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 we extract the poison there
So each one can [...]
Shack Flak
Posted in Cultural commentary, General, God Thoughts, God's Word, tagged Cultural commentary, God Thoughts, God's Word on January 21, 2009 | 2 Comments »
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 [...]
Final Ruin?
Posted in Cultural commentary, General, Random thoughts, tagged Cultural commentary on November 3, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
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 [...]
Absolutely
Posted in Cultural commentary, General, God Thoughts, tagged Cultural commentary, God Thoughts on October 11, 2009 | 2 Comments »
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 [...]
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