Global Warming has been wonderfully separating intellectuals from pseudo-intellectuals for over a decade. In that time, liars have been unmasked, profiteers identified, and more such wretched people are being discredited every day. In the end,...
Reading for November 27, 2011 – First Sunday of Advent
Reading 1 Is 63:16b-17, 19b; 64:2-7 You, LORD, are our father, our redeemer you are named forever. Why do you let us wander, O LORD, from your ways, and harden our hearts so that we...
The Silent War Around Us: One Government Agency Battling For Funding Hurts Another.
In cities and countless small towns, large senior-citizen housing complexes have been built. For a comparative pittance, senior citizens, some as young as 55, can move into a low-rent apartment with minimal utility payments. These...
What are the Beasts, Especially the “Fourth Beast”?
We may begin close to home. The four beasts may be destructive monsters in our own minds that are working to destroy our souls. The lion is our own vanity, expressing a love of power...
What is “The Fourth Kingdom”?
Today’s Reading is from Daniel, 7:15-27: “I, Daniel, found my spirit anguished within its covering of flesh, and I was terrified by the visions of my mind. I approached one of those present and asked...
The Source of All That’s Wrong:
Col. 1; 21-23 describes everything that anyone needs to know. The passage tells us why things are wrong. When we disobey The Operating Instructions, we are separated from The Loving Programmer. Our minds become hostile....
A Parallel Between The Creation Program and Each of Our Own, Human Programs
When we relate ourselves to Genesis, 1:27, we each realize that “we are made in the image of God”. If so, we may assume that we are plagued with lesser versions of the beings that...
Big Bubbles Bursting
The collapse of the Soviet Union was the biggest bubble to burst in recent memory. Beside it, the “baby bubbles”, like the economies of Greece and Spain, are as nothing. The European Union is about...
The Bubble Machine
A bubble machine puts out bubbles that are, as the photo shows, moving so quickly, changing so rapidly, and disappearing so unexpectedly, that the camera can’t really capture them. Every human endeavor, outside The Church,...
Reading for November 20, 2011
Reading 1 Ez 34:11-12, 15-17 Thus says the Lord GOD: I myself will look after and tend my sheep. As a shepherd tends his flock when he finds himself among his scattered sheep, so will I...