Hello, bloggy peeps. Today, Sunday, I shan’t be putting up a post o’ any substance, cuz I gotta go grocery shopping and do laundry and all that sort of weekendy thing. Tomorrow I will be posting about all the Valuable Stuff I learned at traffic school yesterday. It’s actually real and interesting stuff! Some of it. Other stuff will just be … stuff no sane adult should ever really think about but I can’t help because I have weird brain... Read more
[Major update! I can get online at this class! I’m gonna Twitter what it’s like here if the “instructor” doesn’t mind my totally not paying attention and goofing around online while, I guess, he tries out his nightclub material on the class. Right now it’s me and six other people sitting in this shabby “meeting room” at a hotel that ain’t exactly the Ritz-Carlton. Pretty grim. I’ll keep you posted.] This morning I’m off to a one-day, eight-hour traffic class.... Read more
We all hate doubt and uncertainty in our lives lives. What we want is security. We need to know things are all right, not hope or wonder if they are. And the more important something is to us, the more surety we want about that thing. And what do most of us count as among those things about which we definitely need maximum certainty? That’s an easy one: Ourselves. In order to feel as secure as possible about ourselves, people... Read more
I got fat. When, about six months ago, my wife Cat became too ill to exercise—and then throughout the time that we learned that she might have cancer, needed an operation, had the operation, and recovered from the operation), I stopped exercising myself. (Cat’s fine now; she had the operation; she’s good.) The fat I put on is sympathy fat. I’m not going to keep staying in shape when Cat cannot. Apparently. Besides not exercising, I also started eating anything... Read more
I join with many past and future Miss America wannabes in declaring that I, too, desire world peace. I would love world peace. My God Jesus Christ is called The Prince of Peace. So that proves, right there, that I’m all in for peace. I guess the biggest thing getting in the way of world peace is religion. If everyone was the same religion, world peace could probably actually happen. But people are definitely not the same religion. So that’s... Read more
To pick-up where I left off with My Answer to the New Ager Who Claims to Know God … the primary problem I have with New Age “religion” is the problem of absolute spiritual superiority. Or, for short, the ASS syndrome. (more…) Read more
See this meal? This is the New Year’s Eve meal my wife Cat and I made for our dinner last night. Looks nice, right? Got the champagne, the caviar, the asparagus. It’s all so lovely. Except one of the foods on this table tried to kill me. (more…) Read more
Thanks, a great deal, to everyone who left a response to the New-Ager about whom I wrote in A New-Ager Asks: MUST I Know Jesus Before I Can Know God? Lots of marvelous stuff, from both sides of the God/No God aisle. Way to reward me for blogging, people! My own answer to the question, “When the New Ager is deep in [her New-Agey] meditation, and feels what he experiences as nothing less than the full and absolute presence of... Read more
In this morning’s post (The Holy Spirit = God = All You Need to Know), I referred to the question of what, if any, extent the spirit of God can or does dwell within the hearts of non-Christians. A devotee of New Age beliefs responded to that question by asking for further clarification; she asked whether or not I believed that a person must know Jesus Christ before they can know God. It’s a question I’ve had to consider before.... Read more
We make Christianity entirely too complicated. The whole point of it is supposed to be as simple as a child’s smile. In order to merge yourself with the full truth of God, you don’t need a seminary degree, classes, sermons, home study tapes, the latest Christian bestseller, or anything else. All you need to be is alive, and you’ve automatically got, right there within you, virtually everything about God that you could possibly need to know. “But the Counselor,” says... Read more
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