June 9, 2019
“If you think President Trump is a terrible person and you’re mad that a pastor chose to pray for him, then you need to swiftly reexamine the gospel message — and your own heart. Trump’s sin should not deflect our desire and responsibility to pray for Him — indeed the more sin we observe the […]
Tags: "woke", 1 Timothy, anti-Trump lens, Bible trumps feelings, hurt SJW, I Tim 2:1-6, leaders need godly wisdom, Pastor David Platt, political bias, pray for our leaders, special day of prayer for the President, surprise visit, Trump at McLean Bible Church, Trump receives prayer, unscheduled stop
Posted in Politics, Politics & Religion, Religion |
June 2, 2019
“For I know the plans I have for you,” declares the Lord, “plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future.” — Jeremiah 29:11 (NIV) God’s Word is filled with words of wisdom, encouragement, and comfort, primarily for those who put their trust in Him. Unfortunately, many […]
Tags: claiming biblical promises, covenant Israel, exile of Judah, Hananiah, Jer. 29:11, Jeremiah, King Zedekiah, misapplying biblical promises, misuse of Scripture, plans to give you hope and a future, plans to prosper you and not to harm you, rightly dividing the Word of God, Southern Kingdom, taking verses out of context, the Weeping Prophet
Posted in Religion |
May 26, 2019
“Sin tax proponents have shifted gears by arguing that taxation is mainly aimed at compensating society for the drains sinners impose on the public healthcare budget and reducing the harm consumers do to themselves. With this new push, the limits of what defines a sin steadily are being expanded.” — “‘Sin Tax’ Costs Outweigh Benefits” […]
Tags: ax the tax, Daren Bakst, Dem policy backfires, grocery tax, Hot Air, hurts the poor the most, intrusive government policy, Philadelphia, public health initiative, sin tax, soda tax, sugar tax, taxing foods by sugar content, The Daily Signal, U.S. News
Posted in Politics |
May 19, 2019
“Each timepiece has its own purposes and limitations…. When used outside of its intended purposes or limitations, any dating technique can produce incorrect and unreliable results. When used within its intended purposes and limitations, radiometric dating can and does serve as a reliable and trustworthy tool, just as satellite pictures and Doppler radar do in […]
Tags: dating limitations, error bars, estimated sample age, Hugh Ross, isolating contaminants, Jeff Zweerink, parent and daughter isotopes, proposed accelerated decay, radiocarbon dating, radiometric dating, RATE group, reliability, Roger Wiens, sample purity, sample size, Shroud of Turin, using the proper method
Posted in Religion, Science, Science & Religion |
May 12, 2019
My friend Todd was recently involved in a brief Facebook thread, responding to a post from a mutual FB friend — well, Todd knows him much better than I do — and one other. Knowing that Todd comes from a much more libertarian perspective than I do and is more critical of the administration, I […]
Tags: Convention of States, executive orders, existential crisis, Hitler, narcissism, North Korea, public education, tariffs, TDS, trillion-dollar deficit, Trump administration, Trump Derangement Syndrome, unemployment
Posted in Politics |
May 5, 2019
“By the time the court rules, that may be discombobulating to our plan.” — Secretary of the Interior David Bernhardt to the Wall Street Journal I wrote early last year about then-Secretary of the Interior Ryan Zinke’s “new draft offshore oil and gas plan” which would make “over 90 percent of the total OCS acreage […]
Tags: Alaska Public Media, ANWR, Collin O'Mara, David Bernhardt, Dept. of Interior, environmentalist win, Judge Sharon Gleason, Nathan Rott, NPR, offshore drilling, Randall Luthi, Rep. Joe Cunningham, ruling against Trump executive order, Sen. Lisa Murkowski, Trump administration, U.S. oil and gas resources, WCR, Well Control Rule
Posted in Politics |
April 28, 2019
It seems we have had a spate of recent discoveries in astrophysics and cosmology that got some attention in the popular press. The biggest one, of course, was the first image of an actual black hole — highlighted by its surrounding accretion disk, of course. That image became so popular that it was “honored” to […]
Tags: agglutinative language, astrochemistry, Atlas Obscura, Big Bang, Blackfoot language, Caltech, CMB, Corey Gray, creating new words, Einstein’s legacy, first image of black hole, first neutrinos, first type of molecule, gravitational waves, helium hydride, interferometry, LIGO, multi-messenger astronomy, part poetry, primordial plasma, Sabrina Imbler, Sharon Yellowfly, structure of the universe, theory of relativity, translate astrophysical jargon
Posted in Science, Uncategorized |
April 21, 2019
“Then the Day of Unleavened Bread came when the Passover lamb had to be sacrificed. Jesus sent Peter and John, saying, “Go and prepare the Passover meal for us, so we can eat it.”… So they went and found [the guest room] just as He had told them, and they prepared the Passover.” — Luke […]
Tags: blood sacrifice, Charlton Heston, Christ on the Cross, classic film, death of firstborn males, Easter, Jesus Christ, Lamb of God, led out of captivity, new covenant, old covenant, Paschal Lamb, Passover, Promised Land, slavery to sin, Ten Commandments, Ten Plagues, the Resurrection
Posted in Religion |
April 14, 2019
“Its prophetic voice has remained surprisingly contemporary, both in its particular forecasts and in its general tone of semiserious alarm.” — author/editor/publisher Martin Green Something a little different for you today… In 1946, Aldous Huxley wrote a Forward to the new edition of his Brave New World (1932). It was part retrospective, in which he […]
Tags: Aldous Huxley, brainwashing, Brave New World, cloning, dystopian, economic security, efficiency, eugenics, militarism, propaganda, recreational drugs, scientific caste system, sexual promiscuity, the problem of happiness, totalitarianism, utopia, welfare-tyranny
Posted in Politics, Politics / Science / Religion, Religion, Science |
April 7, 2019
“[The Equality Act is the] most extreme threat to religious freedom, free speech, privacy, and to women’s rights that has ever been proposed by Congress. [It] will be used as a wrecking ball to churches, religious organizations, religious freedom, and free speech.” — Liberty Counsel The Equality Act has been around for several years, and […]
Tags: Barronelle Stutzman, Civil Rights Act, Equality Act, federal sexual orientation and gender identity law, Greg Angelo, H.R. 5, Jack Phillips, Jerrold Nadler, Julia Beck, LGBT activism, Nancy Pelosi, SOGI
Posted in Politics, Politics & Religion, Religion |