Thou shalt not take the name of the LORD thy God in vain; for the LORD will not hold him guiltless that taketh his name in vain. ~ Ex 20:7 The 2nd and 3rd Commandments are unique in the respect that both of them have some type of punishment associated…
Why are you cast down so far, my heart?Why the pain deep in my soul?What have I done that you hide from me?Please heal me and make me whole! In sorrow, I have cried in the dark.I feel so very alone.Grant me forgiveness, for I am frail.Forgive my sin to…
Early one morning, in the spring of 1945, Ida Weisenbacher, a twenty-one-year-old Austrian farm girl, was woken from her sleep by a loud banging at the door. Through tired eyes she glimpsed a Nazi officer standing outside her house. ‘Get up immediately,’ he demanded. ‘Hitch up the horse and wagon;…
Dear President Obama, It is with great regret that I heard on the radio today that you have removed the ban on embryonic stem cell research. I initially thought I would not speak to the subject, but it is because of comments that you, Sir, made today that prompt me…
Now the LORD had said unto Abram, Get thee out of thy country, and from thy kindred, and from thy father’s house, unto a land that I will show thee: And I will make of thee a great nation, and I will bless thee, and make thy name great; and…
And a superscription also was written over him in letters of Greek, and Latin, and Hebrew, THIS IS THE KING OF THE JEWS. And one of the malefactors which were hanged railed on him, saying, If thou be Christ, save thyself and us. But the other answering rebuked him, saying,…
[Note: This is a repost from the old blog location.] I was reading a paper today, and there was an editorial about this past election. It seems that a rather Republican household decided after the election to fly their flag upside down. For those who are unaware, flying the flag…
As a man, I find it hard to imagine what labor is like. I can only tell you what I observed my wife go through when my daughter was “born”. Actually, she was a C-section, so even what I witnessed probably isn’t representative of what women go through during the…
Let them bring them forth, and shew us what shall happen: let them shew the former things, what they be, that we may consider them, and know the latter end of them; or declare us things for to come. Shew the things that are to come hereafter, that we may…
I had started before to put together a spreadsheet for a One Year Bible Reading Schedule that goes through the entire Bible in one year and has links that will take you to the correct page. However, sync’ing with my Dell Axim always removed the links! Anyhow, my Axim quit…