Category Archives: General

It could be because of where I’ve been pastoring, but I don’t think so. It’s only been in the last 7-10 years that I have encountered people who have absolutely no religious background.  They don’t know Gideon’s fleecing has nothing … Continue reading →

This of course is from Hamlet.  The one I’m thinking from is also from England, and is no lady, but then he isn’t a man either.  Or at least not what God intended man to be.  Likewise, when I don’t … Continue reading →

In 1989 tennis player Michael Chang won the French Open.  The crowd cheered the Chinese-American player until….

I received two interesting pieces of mail on the same day.  One was from Houston Lutheran’s Life; the other was another LCMS church’s newsletter.  They both had startling information.

I have been told the following Luther quote is unverifiable.

That was the title of a September 2009 article in National Geographic.  The most remarkable thing I found in this article was that they considered a 150 pound man to be the average.  That’s probably the average 5th grader.

“On Saint Patrick’s Day in 1946 six Nipponese defense counsel appeared at the captial’s war-crimes tribunal wearing green lapel ribbons…” (American Caesar, 474)

C-4 is a plastic explosive I was trained to use.  You could take a piece of this white doughy substance and safely heat your C-Rations.  But if you tried to put that fire out by stamping on it, the resulting … Continue reading →

I don’t think Simon and Garfunkel were praising the sound of silence in their song by that name.  After all, they have the line “Silence like a cancer grows.”  They don’t appear to praise silence; I do.