Charles Stanley this morning in his series on the Ways of God spoke on the topic, “He Forgives Our Sin.” We typically listen to his InTouch telecast as we are getting ready for church on Sunday mornings. What jumped out at me this morning was his relating the portion of the Model Prayer (aka The … Read more
I’ve been re-reading, after several decades, Edith Schaeffer’s L’Abri in which she quotes her husband Francis Schaeffer. “Supposing we had awakened today to find everything concerning the Holy Spirit and prayer removed from the Bible-that is, not removed the way liberals would remove it, but that God had somehow really removed everything about prayer and … Read more
A blessed and Happy Thanksgiving to you all from Gary & Lynda Crocker.
The overall theme of the Bible can be summarized as God saying, I created you. I am holy. Your rebellion against me is serious! You need Me. Trust Me. This obviously leaves out a lot of detail, but the essence is there. Many of the ‘problems’ of Scripture fall into place, at least for me, … Read more
Starting points are important. The options for our conclusions are dependent upon our initial presuppositions. We disallow some results by decisions we make consciously or unconsciously at the beginning. If it is decided at the start that all must be explained without any reference to a transcendent God, a transcendant God will not be found … Read more
Tomorrow will make three months since my last post – and five months since “retirement” from Boeing! By now anyone who had been checking my blog with any regularity has likely given up on me. I’ll not try to detail the entire quarter. Instead, I’ll skim over a few recent events. Most significantly, our most … Read more
Here I am nearly two months after retiring from Boeing and I’ve been silent here for a couple of weeks. I guess it’s time I gave a report. I had intended to be more frequent with my posts but obviously have not been. I tend to be overly cautious about my words and how they … Read more
I began reading The Da Vinci Code the other day. Since we’ll be discussing it in the Tipping Point Sunday School class over the next few weeks, I needed to read it first hand. … Would I recommend it? I’m torn here. So I need to qualify my answer.
I’m a long way from really understanding it all, but I’ve begun the learning process for setting up the reading of an RSS feed. This actually is a bit of a test of that.
It’s been more than two weeks since I’ve given an update and that has brought me into my second month since ‘retiring’. It has certainly not been a lazy month. Reading: I have read, or am at various stages of reading several books. Breaking Tradition to Accomplish Vision by Paul R. Gupta and Sherwood G. … Read more
