In the traditional liturgical Church Year, this Sunday and the two following are known as “gesima” Sundays, and the three Sunday period we are now in, is known as pre-Lent. What is the meaning of “gesima” and why a three week “pre-Lent.” Here’s a great . . . . Continue Reading »
From CBSNews.com:Ten Americans were detained by Haitian police on Saturday as they tried to bus 33 children across the border into the Dominican Republic, allegedly without proper documents.The Baptist church members from Idaho called it a “Haitian Orphan Rescue Mission,” meant to save . . . . Continue Reading »
Can it get any worse for the credibility of the global warming scientific community? The IPCC based some of its recommendations on anecdotes in a student’s thesis and an article in a mountaineering magazine. From the story:The revelation will cause fresh embarrassment for the The . . . . Continue Reading »
Thoughts from Pastor Larry Peters of Grace Lutheran Church, Clarksville, TN.We got 6-8 inches of snow last night. While for some of you that is nothing, for a city in the South it is like a major heart blockage. Everything has shut down. Where I should have been with a new member class this morning, . . . . Continue Reading »
I have been watching the libertarian love affair with Utopian transhumanism for some time. It seems odd to me. Libertarians tend to see themselves as hard-headed realists about the motives and hearts of men. But whenever they get a whiff of the futurist opium, many of the . . . . Continue Reading »
I will preface my remarks by saying that I own a first generation Kindle. It was given to me by a friend who quickly purchased the second generation. The Kindle is a very good device for pure reading. It is possible to forget you are using a device rather than reading a . . . . Continue Reading »
SING, my tongue,the Savior’s glory;tell His triumph far and wide;tell aloud the famous storyof His body crucified;how upon the cross a victim,vanquishing in death, He died.Eating of the tree forbidden,man had sunk in Satan’s snare,when our pitying Creator didthis second tree . . . . Continue Reading »
That’s not the end of what Peter said that day, and we’ll get back to that in a minute. But I think that we have to admit something to ourselves since we know we are like Oprah Winfrey. We have to admit that often, we don’t care about what God wants.
I think there are two reasons for this. ... Continue Reading »
To be trite, let’s call the nonsense about the Himalayan glaciers melting by 2035, “glaciergate.” Why? Not only did the IPCC Report present the false claim to the world as a way of pressuring political leaders—discussed already here at SHS—but it now turns out . . . . Continue Reading »
The jury in the George Tiller killing convicted Scott Roeder of murder in the first degree. From the story : Jurors swiftly convicted an abortion opponent of murder Friday for shooting to death one of the only doctors to offer late-term abortions in the U.S., a killing the gunman claimed was . . . . Continue Reading »
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