If the church approached Communion like the pharmaceutical industry approaches medicine, there would be a less problems. For one, there would be no assumption that Communion is open to all and therefore only the unloving try to regulate access. Continue reading
If evolution is true why isn’t the Textbook of Veterinary Internal Medicine used in the study of medicine? Wouldn’t that make sense? If man evolved from animals, then there should be lots of insights from the study of lower forms of life, at least mammals. And the one right before man should be a gold mine. O that’s right; we have no idea which animal that was or it is so far in our distant past that we have no access to it. Continue reading
At the most recent ACELC conference I met a layman. I will call him Leon for that is his name and he would not shrink from being identified. He was at a conference recently where the Reverend Doctor Jeffery Kloha was taking his view of the New Testament text to the layman. Leon was not pleased. Continue reading
By now you’ve heard of the famous atheist Stephen Fry’s rant against God. It happened on February 1, 2015. Google it and you can hear the whole spiel. What is funny to me, no it’s sad, is that so many Gen-Xers glom unto this as if what he is saying is new. Fry is espousing a 4,000 year old argument against God found in God’s own Book, the Bible. Continue reading
For weeks, maybe months, in 1966 while my mom was shopping for groceries I was at the soda fountain in the Muir’s drug store with my father listening as Barry Saddler sang the “Ballad of the Green Berets.” One of the lines is “These are men who jump and die.” But the times are a changing. Now you have to sing, “These are men and women who jump and die.” Continue reading
That’s what a postcard from LCMS, INC. HQ said. And they even quoted the Bylaw, emphasis on the second syllable, which says this really isn’t a “let us” but a “you had better.” Continue reading
Fox has a new summer show titled Boom! and does it change everything? No, it shows everything really has changed. Continue reading
Those who know say you should always use some sort of visual for a blog. They get more hits. I don’t because I don’t know how, and don’t care enough to learn. That is the Luddite me at his worse. A better way to look at blog “art” is as marginalia. Sure maybe no monk labored months drawing them, but they do say something about the overall work. Continue reading
There is a song from 1990 by Lorrie Morgan and it’s worth listening to. “I’m looking for something in Red” is the title, but the second stanza is what I write of. It goes. “I’m looking for something in green/ Something to outdo an ex-high school queen/ Jealousy comes in the color of jade/ Do you have some pumps and a purse in this shade/ And a perfume that whispers “Please comes back to me”/ I’m looking for something in green.” Continue reading
Have you noticed how many people get their history from the History Channel? Isn’t that a bit like getting sex from the Playboy Channel? Continue reading
