Monthly Update (Dec, 2019)
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Stuck on Stupid
“So if God exists, he wouldn’t earn any brownie points if he lied to you, right?” asked Marge.
Planned Restart
It Is Time Me not updating my blog has become a normal matter for the last months. Better stated, years. Today I’m restarting the posts as described in the following plan. The Plan The plan is to update twice a month, with one update about what is currently going on in my writing career, and […]
A Manifesto: Stop Denying Reality
The Denial There is a denial of reality in America and around the world. A denial that the God of the Bible exists as the only true God, Creator of heaven and earth. A denial that states He is not relevant to our lives today, at least no more so than the god’s of other […]
Give Me the Key
What about keys make them so important to us? In a word: security. If we have something of import, we lock it up. We want to keep people out of our homes so we lock them up, both when we’re at home and away. We lock our cars. We have safe deposit boxes locked away […]
Alone But Not Alone
Is there a way to be alone but not feel alone? If there is, what is it? From personal experience, at least from the perspective of married life followed again by single life, I believe there is. After graduating with a four-year university degree, I married. Then, just under a year later, a traffic accident […]
Time is a Canary
Why are canaries sometimes referred to as stoolies, pigeons, or tattle-tales? Because in mines they would “tell on” the presence of toxic gases before those gasses became lethal to the miners. How did they “tell on” the gasses? By giving their lives. They were sensitive to the gasses and would die before those gases became […]
Too Familiar
How “familiar” are we with God? Put another way, are we too familiar with God? It is certainly possible, but where does one draw the line? The answer depends on who God is, something He has revealed in the Old and New Testaments of the Biblical record. Old Testament In the opening paragraphs of the […]
What if It Was True
The Question One of the most important questions of life is: “Who was Jesus?” The answer has eternal implications. What if Jesus really was who He claimed to be: the Son of God. Then what? A logical reaction would be to point out that if He really was the Son of God then He wouldn’t […]
Evolution. Is it “For Reals?”
Theory Evolution. It is a theory presented as fact in the United States. It is taught in public schools. It accepted as the best, most understandable explanation of the origin of life and all that exists. Synopsis Evolution teaches that everything we know and experience is the result of an explosive event often referred to […]