Life is something. Something else, I tell ya. Often funny. Sometimes very, very funny: one example of this literally just happened, just culminated this morning. You see, for the past few days I noticed a sporadic, usually-dull pain in my lower back. Usually dull but a several times a day quite sharp. To the extreme […]
It’s 8:30 a.m. as I write this and I felt like a quick game of chess so I played against the computer, selected one of its weaker opponent choices (since I only have a few minutes, yeah, that’s it, that’s the reason 🙂 ) then proceeded to capture his queen and both rooks. Those who […]
(As promised in the previous post…) I love a good quote. Always have. None can compare with those which are straight out of the Bible, since they are literally God-breathed, flowing forth from the very mind of God Himself. But I also really like several which, while not straight out of the Bible are totally […]
Speaking of things from my youth which have borne much fruit, still, down to this very day… When I was 19 a fellow at my church gave me a copy of “The Journals of Jim Elliot” at Christmas. (Jim’s widow and biographer Elisabeth would later speak at the church several times.) It’s one of the […]
A few posts ago (“Why I’m Doing This”) and on the Why page in reason numbers nine and ten, I mentioned that my childhood was characterized by having famous theologians (Merrill Unger, Andy Telford, Richard Seume) and preachers (Haddon Robinson) and Christian leaders (James Dobson, Jay Adams, the latter of whom was the inventor or […]
Like everyone else, I get quite a bit of spam in my email inbox. I love the fact that I can simply mark those as such and BLOCK THE SENDER going forward. That’s exactly what Bible memory does in the Christian life! It “blocks” sin from making it to the “inbox” of our mind. “Thy […]
I enjoy a good game of chess. That has been the case since I first learned the game as a child. I just went a decade without playing even a single game (as you know, I have far bigger fish to fry these days) but started playing again over the recent holidays and it really is […]
As I did with the About page in this blog’s very first post, I think it would be good to paste the Why page in this one, so without further ado… . Why . When someone hears that I’m well on my way to memorizing the ENTIRE Bible, I’m sure the first thing that comes […]
As we all know, given God’s gracious sovereignty there’s no such thing as “accidents” or “coincidences”, such simply don’t exist. So it was a double blessing when I was researching car batteries and “stumbled upon” a certain webpage which was such an immediate and immense (and ongoing) blessing to me that I just had to […]
No, this post isn’t about politics. Rather, I’m talking about two facts of human existence. It’s in the Bible so it’s an absolute fact that “Each day has enough trouble of its own.” (Matthew 6:34) But also in the Bible and equally true is the fact that God’s compassions and mercies “are new every morning.” […]