Trump Is Going Down

Last updated on: November 15, 2019 at 10:44 am By Kermit Zarley

Two important things have happened so far today, at noon Eastern, regarding the shady dealings of Donald Trump in his 2016 campaign for the U.S. presidency and his tenure as president so far. The House Intelligence Committee began its second day of open, televised hearings regarding its impeachment inquiry into President Trump and Roger Stone, a Trump associate who illegally tried to get Trump elected as president, was found guilty of all seven counts charged against him by the prosecution,... Read more

Televised American Lessons in Democracy Began Today

Last updated on: November 13, 2019 at 10:31 pm By Kermit Zarley

The U.S. Democrat-controlled House of Representatives began its open, televised hearings today in its impeachment investigation of President Donald Trump. It is being conducted by the House Intelligence Committee, with Chairman Adam Schiff, a former federal prosecutor from California, leading the proceedings. Mr. Schiff began by reading a prepared statement wherein he explained that these proceedings would center on a phone call that President Trump made this summer, on July 25th, to Ukraine’s President Zelinsky. Trump later released an edited... Read more

Jeff Maggert Wins the Charles Schwab Championship

Last updated on: November 10, 2019 at 6:58 pm By Kermit Zarley

Just minutes ago here in the Phoenix Valley, where I live, Jeff Maggert won the season-ending Charles Schwab Championship at Phoenix Country Club in heroic fashion on the PGA Tour’s Champions Tour. He and Retief Goosen–a two-time U.S. Open champion from South Africa–tied in regulation play at 21 under par to force a sudden-death playoff that ended on the third extra hole. Both Maggert and Goosen had been making some putts during their final round, with Maggert often leading by... Read more

Funny Trump Stuff

Last updated on: November 9, 2019 at 12:40 pm By Kermit Zarley

President Donald Trump is under impeachment investigation in House of Representatives. In the past few weeks, six Democrat-chaired committees have taken depositions and held closed-door interviews of witnesses, some of them only agreeing to do so after being issued subpoenas and others, at the direction of the stonewalling White House, refusing to do so. Next week they will begin open hearings in which some of these same witnesses will appear again to be questioned by both Democrat and Republican members... Read more

11,000 Climate Scientists Say Restrict Population

Last updated on: November 5, 2019 at 10:58 pm By Kermit Zarley

A significant climate change study published today in the BioScience journal lists six major things humans should change to reduce global warming, and 11,000 scientists have signed onto it. One is that the growing human population should be restricted by such means as birth control because it contributes to global warming. Can Christian couples accept this restriction in good conscience? At the turn of the century, the world population was at about 6 billion people. Now, it is nearly 7.5... Read more

What Trump Should Read in the Bible

Last updated on: November 3, 2019 at 8:22 pm By Kermit Zarley

Over a year ago I blogged about Three Main Bible Proverbs President Trump should immerse himself in to change his aberrant way of being so full of himself. The following is more of the same: President Trump will say something and later claim rather unconvincingly, “I was only joking.” The Bible says, “Like a maniac who shoots deadly firebrands and arrows,” meaning indiscriminately, “so is one who deceives a neighbor and says, ‘I am only joking'” (Proverbs 26.18-19). When President Trump... Read more

McIlroy Wins HSBC

Last updated on: November 3, 2019 at 6:04 pm By Kermit Zarley

Ireland’s Rory McIlroy defeated American Xander Schauffele on the first hole of a sudden-death playoff today to win the WGC-HSBC Championship at the Sheshan International Golf Club in Shanghai, China. Both players had tied in the regular 72 holes of competition at 19-under par when Schauffele, who was fighting off flu symptoms all week, birdied the par-five 18th hole today to force the playoff. Sweet-swinging Louis Oosthuizen of South Africa was contending until he dropped out on the back nine. Playing... Read more

U.S. House Approves Rules for Impeachment of President Trump

Last updated on: October 31, 2019 at 10:31 am By Kermit Zarley

The U.S. House of Representatives just voted in favor of certain rules for continuing an impeachment investigation of President Donald Trump. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi had officially announced five weeks ago, on September 24, that this impeachment had begun. When Ms. Pelosi did this, her most profound statement was, “No one is above the law.” She thereby implied that if President Trump has committed “crimes and misdemeanors,” as the U.S. Constitution states, then the House should follow the Constitution about... Read more

Tiger Woods Ties Sam Snead’s All-Time 82 Wins on the PGA Tour.

Last updated on: October 27, 2019 at 11:57 pm By Kermit Zarley

Tiger Woods made pro golfing history today by winning the ZoZo Championship in Chiba, Japan, with a three stroke margin over Japan’s best player, Hideki Matsuyama, to tie legendary Sam Snead, who for over fifty years has had the PGA Tour record for the most wins, which is 82. And Tiger certainly played against a somewhat more formidable competition. From seeing Tiger compete this year, in which he came back from four back surgeries and five left knee surgeries to win... Read more

Did the Early, Local Church Have a “Pastor” as Spiritual Head?

Last updated on: October 27, 2019 at 11:39 pm By Kermit Zarley

During the early 1970s–nearly fifteen years into my non-formal theological education–I made some considerable changes in my understanding of the local church. In doing this, I was mostly influenced by the biblical teachings of Dr. S. Lewis Johnson. He and my former pastor, Bob Thieme at Berachah Church in Houston, were fairly close friends. But much of what Johnson taught about the local church clashed with what the somewhat authoritarian Thieme taught, and Thieme was a graduate of Dallas Theological... Read more