God, grant me the serenityTo accept the things I cannot change;The courage to change the things that I can;And the wisdom to know the difference. The Serenity Prayer has been adopted by Alcoholics Anonymous and other 12 step programs. I hadn’t thought about it in some time, actually. “Serenity” certainly…
Friday, Alice In Wonderland opened up, and I hope to see it today. I haven’t been feeling real swift, so we’ll see. At any rate, it supposed to be a followup story to the original. Alice is grown and has forgotten all about Wonderland. Then, she falls down into a…
As Seen on Twitter: “if not true, then false”. “New truth”, how I hate the term! Some of you probably dislike it even more than I do. Frankly, even before the 90s, I could never understand how the “truth” could be “new”! Bethel Church of God (BCG) apparently teaches a…
Sometimes what seems like different ideas come from different directions, yet they hit a common spot. On this blog, I have begun posting a series on The Just War. Then, there are the usual calls for unity from various places. Friday, I posted about “The Church That Was a Mess”….
“Middle of the road” is a term that gets bandied about from time to time. To some, it means “compromise”. It often is viewed as the epitome of selling out and not standing for one’s principles. To others, though, it means not going to extremes. It is viewed as a…
For those who are not in the United States, and for those of you in the US that live under a rock, today is Super Bowl Sunday. And, again, for those of you living under a rock, there’s a controversy over a Super Bowl ad endorsed by Focus on the…
Today, you get to do most of the work. I’ve written about this before, but not on this blog, apparently. 18And a certain ruler asked him, saying, Good Master, what shall I do to inherit eternal life? Notice the question. The HCSB says the rich young ruler asked, “What must…
[I am posting this early because this is becoming more of a theme than I’d planned on.] 44No man can come to me, except the Father which hath sent me draw him: and I will raise him up at the last day. 45It is written in the prophets, And they…
15I know thy works, that thou art neither cold nor hot: I would thou wert cold or hot. 16So then because thou art lukewarm, and neither cold nor hot, I will spue thee out of my mouth. (Revelation 3:15-16, King James Version) Some teach that the hotness or coldness refers…
2009 is a watershed year for me in one area. It is truly the first year in which I began to truly understand what “Laodicea” meant. Laodicea = “justice of the people”, “the people decide” or “the people judge”. 1Judge not, that ye be not judged. 2For with what judgment…