I Thought We Were Beyond This

This is from a recent survey conducted by Trinity College:
The context in which this chart was originally brought to my attention was showing the increase from 1990 to 2001 and from 2001 to 2008 in Americans claiming to have “No religion“.  You know, the “secularization” of America and all that jazz.
I always like to look [...]

Lustful Tragedy

Like a small rock in my shoe, I find that minor quibbles that I have wreak more havoc on my psyche than the large issues.  For example, the Civil War was not a civil war.  When the United States of America declares war on another country, i.e. the Confederate States of America, it is not [...]

Return to the Garden

I learned some lessons about the nature of sin in my last post, Garden of Weedin’.  
I was outside this afternoon and the clovers have taught me something new.  If sin is not fully removed from your life — then it will return.
This is a picture of a spot of my grass that, to my [...]

Garden of Weedin’

The weather around here is warming up, and I’ve been doing some outside yard maintenance.  The yard has gone more or less neglected over the winter and I quickly noticed that something had taken over the ground in my backyard.
You know, you always hear that clovers are associated with luck – four-leaf clovers, etc.  It is [...]

Mawwiage and Wuv, True Wuv

Beyonce tells some man in a new song:
“Cause if you like it then you shoulda put a ring on it.” 
The message of the song being that a man can’t be mad to see an ex-girlfriend with another guy when he wouldn’t propose to her.
I suggest a modified quote — “If you like it then you [...]

Choice – A Godly Endowment

This is part 3 in my 3-part post on Chaos, Chance, and Choice.
Freedom of choice.  This is the issue that the War in Heaven was about.  This is what our Constitution is designed to protect. 
Choice.
Adam and Eve had a choice.  Cain had a choice.  The people in Noah’s day had a choice.  Sodom and Gomorrah had [...]

Power, Lies, and Corruption

 
“Power corrupts; Absolute power corrupts absolutely.”
An oft-quoted phrase when referring to politicians or CEOs.  The implication being that great men are generally bad men.  I was reminded of this proverb when I was watching a Discovery channel show on TV about the brain.  The show presented a statistic:  ”One out of every 100 Americans are psychopaths.”  Well, [...]

You Make Your Own Luck

This is part two in a three part post on Chaos, Chance, and Choice.
What sort of things would you leave to chance?  Harvey Dent gave away his agency to the whims of chance.  Dent was a good guy.  He seemed be Gotham City’s ray of hope, a hero who didn’t need a mask.  However, when tragedy struck [...]

An Agent of Chaos

This is going to be part one in a three part post on Chaos, Chance, and Choice.
Does Satan really look like a guy with a plan?  Heavenly Father has a plan.  Satan has been trying longer than anyone of us can remember to upset this plan.  Since before this Earth was formed, Satan has been [...]

Immanuel – The Christmas Gift

I could watch the Polar Express to see what the first Christmas gift is going to be, but I already know.  I could go peeking thru the boxes my wife has placed under our tree, but it wouldn’t help.
Immanuel — which being interpreted means “God with us” — that is the Christmas season’s big gift. [...]