At a recent pastors’ conference someone threw out the question, “Why does God often refer to himself as the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob?” (See Exodus 3:6, I Kings 18:36 & Matthew 22:32) Abraham, Isaac and Jacob were the three patriarchs who got the Jewish nation, God’s chosen people, started. When you refer to God…
The preacher in Ecclesiastes 1 says, “Vanity of vanities! all is vanity The poet Ogden Nash puts it this way The prophets chant and the prophets chatter But somehow it never seems to matter, For the world hangs on to its ancient sanity And orders another round of vanity.
No matter where you go in this county, if you walk into a Wal-Mart or Target, you know you are in a Wal-Mart or Target. That is because these companies work very hard on their corporate identity and the uniformity of their stores helps maintain their identity, which is good for business. Sadly, in most Christian…
Another tragic shooting occurred in our country on December 14, 2012; 20 children and 6 adults were shot to death by Adam Lanza at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut. This follows other shootings at a Sikh temple in Wisconsin, a movie theater in Colorado and a shopping mall in Oregon. These shootings all involve guns…
An Ode to the English Plural We’ll begin with a box, and the plural is boxes, But the plural of ox becomes oxen, not oxes. One fowl is a goose, but two are called geese, Yet the plural of moose should never be meese. You may find a lone mouse or a nest full of…
According the Associated Press out of London, England, fantastic fibbers gathered at a remote pub in northwestern England on a recent Thursday in November to compete for the title of world’s biggest liar. The contest was held at the Bridge Inn in the town of Santon Bridge. Contestants had five minutes to impress the judges with a whopping but convincing…
In 2 Samuel, chpater 7 we read that the Lord gave King David rest from all his surrounding enemies. David thought this would be a perfect opportunity to build a temple for the Lord since, “I dwell in a house of cedar, but the ark of God dwells in a tent.” (v. 2) Nathan the prophet tells David, “What…
All Saints Day Text: “These are the one who have come out of the great tribulation. They have washed their robes and made them white in the blood of the Lamb.” Revelation 7:14 The Feast of All Saints goes back to ancient Rome. The Pantheon had been built in the year 27 BC to honor…
A Better Place Everyone is mighty, and everyone is weak; Everyone is an artist, and everyone’s a bureaucrat; Everyone is a good guy, and everybody is a rat; Everyone is beautiful, and everyone is base; But you made this a better place. Everyone is sacred, and everyone is just a bag of flesh; Everyone is a…
I had the opportunity recently to view a work of art that was based on the fascinating Fibonacci sequence. The Fibonacci sequence is named after Leonardo Pisa (or Pisano?) who was known as Fibonacci. Fibonacci’s 1202 book Liber Abaci introduced the sequence to Western European mathematics although the sequence had been described earlier in Indian…
Mirror Neurons 