Hey United Methodists!

Please be sure to read all of this article about the 2005 “Hearts on Fire” conference, which was designed to promote acceptance of homosexual practices but even went beyond that and turned into a heresy-fest.  It highlights just how far gone parts of the United Methodist Church are.   I’m not sure why these bishops, pastors and [...]

Book review: The Death of Right and Wrong

Hold onto your hats, people.  Tammy Bruce is an openly gay, pro-choice, non-Christian, but I’m a fan of hers.  Seriously.  Of course, I disagree with her on those topics, but I appreciate her style and we have a lot of common ground elsewhere.  And she is willing to draw some lines where others will not.
I read [...]

Where will we stay in Heaven? Will we sleep?

Where will followers of Christ live in heaven?  In John 14:2-3, Jesus said:
In my Father’s house are many rooms; if it were not so, I would have told you. I am going there to prepare a place for you. And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come back and take [...]

Attention Wal-Mart bashers

Some people love to demonize Wal-Mart for allegedly underpaying their employees and not providing enough benefits, among other things. I’m not saying Wal-Mart is perfect or beyond criticism by any means. I just find that the bashers display the typical covetous attitude of those who think God is doing a lousy job of distributing wealth [...]

Digital photography tips & hippo picture

If you are getting serious about digital photography, here are some tips. 

Get a good camera.  There are some great deals out there. 

3 mega pixel minimum, 5-6 MP is great. 
3x optical zoom minimum, many newer cameras have 10-12x optical zoom which is great.
Digital zoom isn’t worth much.  It is basically just pre-cropping your pictures.

Get plenty of [...]

Never read a Bible verse

One of the best of Bible reading tips I have heard is “Never read a Bible verse” by Greg Koukl at Stand to Reason.  The main point is to never read just a Bible verse.  Always read a verse in light of the whole passage. 
Here’s an example of why this is important.  A blogger had [...]

Weekly roundup

Best commencement speech ever.  Too bad no one will hear it. 
Solving Sudoku puzzles – If you don’t know what these addicting little puzzles are, don’t try them. 
Why Islam isn’t completely united – And it is a good thing, too.
Coerced abortions are usually not as dramatic as the case where the parents kidnapped their 19 yr. [...]

Peter Singer: OK to kill disabled babies

In case you haven’t heard of this guy before, I’ll start by pointing out that he is an ethicist philosopher (seriously) at Princeton University.  Here are some snippets from the full article at Lifenews (read it all, it isn’t very long):

Singer came under international condemnation when he announced he favors killing disabled babies via infanticide. Though he [...]

Quote of the day

From the inaugural issue of Salvo magazine (great stuff – check it out!):
From Oxford biologist Richard Dawkins: “Retribution as a moral principle is incompatible with a scientific view of human behavior.  As scientists, we believe that human brains, though they may not work in the same way as man-made computers, are as surely governed by [...]

NBC & Madonna mock Christ’s crucifixion yet censor Veggie tales

More here.  I’m sure they’ll mock Mohammad and Islam next, thus showing their desire for balance and how they courageously take on all icons.  This would also prove Rosie O’Donnell’s point about the similarities between Islam and conservative Christianity, because I’m sure the Muslim response would also just be an email campaign. 
To heighten their hypocrisy, NBC [...]

What we won’t do in Heaven

There are many things we will do in Heaven, but a couple things we won’t do, including:

Sin (I won’t miss that)
Share the Gospel with unbelievers.  It will be too late for that, so we better do it now.

Thoughts for the day:

I judge all things only by the price they shall gain in eternity.
John Wesley
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Book review – Good Dog, Carl

 When the girls we young we read them countless books.  We really enjoyed the “Carl” series, including Good Dog, Carl. 
Carl is a rottweiler who is left in charge of the baby in different places.  Everything in the book is normal except for the part where the mom says, “Look after the baby, Carl. I’ll be back [...]

Spinach recall!

They finally took spinach off the market.  Of course it is bad for you – it has been trying to warn you with its terrible taste for years.

Theology by Rosie and friends

I expect anti-Christian nonsense from Rosie O’Donnell (perhaps she should take her worldview and lifestyle and do a field trip to Saudi Arabia to compare and contrast cultures).  I don’t expect to be loved by the world.  But I shouldn’t expect to hear it from a church leader:

“Behind modern fanatical Islamic terrorism lie many spiritual [...]

Irony and redundancy

Muslims protest violently over accusations that they protest violently when accused of being a religion that was spread by violence.  Seriously.  This reminds me of Judges 6:31  ”. . . If Baal really is a god, he can defend himself when someone breaks down his altar.”  (or criticizes one of his prophets?)
Michelle Malkin’s site has [...]

Was Jesus an illegal immigrant?

Was Jesus an illegal immigrant?  Do we have a Biblical mandate to have open borders?  Could we remain a viable nation and have enough funding for everyone if we permitted unlimited immigration? 
Despite what some liberal theologians believe, the short answer is: No. 
More here.