The other day a friend emailed me this quotation on despotism by Alexis-Charles-Henri Clérel de Tocqueville:
” …each man is haunted by a fear of sinking to a lower social level and by a restless urge to better his condition. And since money has not only become to sole criterion of man’s social status…everybody is intent [...]
Father’s day is lame, and yet I always enjoy it. It is lame, I believe, because it is another ploy for corporate America to generate some fake emotions and then cash in on them. I enjoy it because I really like my kids and as their father I am very proud of them. My upbringing, [...]
I keep coming back to the same thing: “I don’t want to be a burden on my family”. This statement disturbs me not because it is something I fear, but because it reflects an unconscious buy-in to a culture that I think we need to address. As Christians we are not really called to use [...]
Hey let’s get the sauce on and then talk some God stuff, and how it may or may not relate to Star Trek.
2 cups of plain Kraft bbq sauce
2 cups of Texas Pete
3 heaping tablespoons of frozen orange juice concentrate
3 heaping tablespoons of minced garlic
1 stick of butter
Place ingredients in a pot and simmer until [...]
Love is a decision. I write this with a new perspective. Someone brought up the fact that making love a decision may not be romantic or sound like it is from the heart, but to me it is in the choosing where most of our meaningful experiences begin.
Furthermore, I don’t see love as a feeling [...]
The foundation of much evangelism training today is based on what’s known as the Four Spiritual Laws. These were formulated in the 1950’s and are (in my paraphrase):
1) God loves everyone
2) Everyone has sinned and been separated from God
3) Jesus is the only way to get back to God
4) Accept Jesus as your personal Savior [...]
There’s a drug being hailed as one of the newest wonder drugs. Zolpidem, usually a sleeping pill, has been given to several patients in persistive vegetative states. That means they have been in comas with little to no hope of any kind of recovery. The wonder? Many of these patients are waking up. Some are [...]
Last night, I watched my team, the Indianapolis Colts, win the Super Bowl. It was the first time that “my team” had ever won the NFL’s prized award. And I must admit, it felt good. My friends who came over to vote for the “Losers” had to hang their heads in shame. All their taunting [...]
