An Observation: The Upcoming U.S. Election
Don’t let the title fool you. I’m not electioneering for one side or the other. Our whole political process has gotten very confused, nasty, and complicated. I have my opinions on issues, but that really is not important at present. I see the surveys reported in the media asking what issues one considers most important […]
An Observation – God, Our Father
In our weekly church worship we have a time following the sermon where we “pass the peace”. That is, we take a few minutes to walk through the congregation greeting each other with the words “the peace of the Lord be with you”. Also, in our time of pray we have the opportunity to offer […]
An Observation: Have our cake and eat it too.
That is an old expression basically saying we want all the good things as they are, but we also want to do whatever we choose with no restrictions. This has been at the heart of our rebellion from the Lord since the beginning. It the Christian context we want God’s blessings but we want […]
An Observation – What is man that You are mindful of him?
There has been an ongoing commentary about the functions and power of Artificial Intelligence. “Artificial intelligence was founded as an academic discipline in 1956. …… Funding and interest vastly increased after 2012 when deep learning outperformed previous AI techniques. This growth accelerated further after 2017 with the transformer architecture, and by the early 2020s hundreds […]
An Observation – Spiritual warfare – Part 1
I have mentioned Spiritual Warfare a couple of times saying that we are in a very serious spiritual warfare today. I think I need to go further in explaining what I mean by that, and what the nature of that warfare really is. First, it is a real war. Not […]
An Observation – A Long Shadow Cast by Genesis 1, 2, and 3
I am sick of this 2024 U.S. Presidential election season. The media is full of electioneering by democrats and republicans running for both national and state offices. We might rejoice that we are in a country with free and fair elections, which I think for the most part they are. However, that matters little when […]
An Observation – On A Workshop
We emphasize that the Bible is God’s holy, revealed, and inerrant word. There are two Testaments but one complete book. It is the same God revealed in both. There are not two gods as some suppose, a god of law and judgment in the Old Testament and a God of redemption and grace in the […]
An Observation – The Incarnation
As we make our way through the Christmas Season our busyness increases with schedules toplan, decorations to put up, gifts to buy, etc.,etc, etc. We look around our area at the outdoordisplays of Santa Clause, reindeer, elves, snowmen, decorated trees, and an occasional mangerscene. We plan for family gatherings, and the joy of our children. […]
An Observation – And the Word became flesh and dwelt among us
We want to remember that all of the people we read about in the wonderful Biblical accounts are real people in a real world. Christmas is time for the beauty and joy of the wonderful event of the birth of our Lord Jesus Christ. But the point of His coming was to share in all […]
A Relationship with Almighty God. 6/18/26
I don’t think we fully realize the depth of blessing our Lord wants for us. Our salvation in Christ Jesus is marvelous. It is what we are reliving in these Lenten days, and will celebrate with great joy on Easter Sunday. All of this is essential but only the beginning of our eternal life with […]