February 2021

Christianity in the US is quite a story. In the early 1800’s Christianity was on top in the US. No other world view competed. Faith was growing. Lots of bad things happened in the world with Christians on top as we also were sinners. Also being on top did not mean all were believers. Then Darwin, Nietzsche, and mean hearted Higher Biblical Criticism gave life to Humanism apart from God. Christians were in retreat. Fundamentalists apeared in the US by 1900 …

Satan loves secrets. They really work on us.  I recently turned 56 and thought how age 55 was a better year than age 54. Growing in Christ is one general issue, but the main thing was I hurt myself through most of age 54. At age 50, some aches and pains started catching up with me. At 54, I started to feel a pain in my knee and say silently and hopelessly “54”. I certainly said it every day. Near …

Yes, God exposed my idol. Let me explain.  I have been reading The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Gibbon. I was terribly shook by reading about the terrible Roman Emperors’ behaviors. I then read that Trump is Julius Caesar and how they cause the end of the Roman (American) Republic. I was shook and pale as I stood up from reading. My family asked what was wrong. I was not sure. Then I saw why an article …

Seeing the unseen is our best world.  I listened to a Youtube video today by an intellectual cultural Jew. He noted that humans conquered all the animals as we could cooperate in large groups and could conceive of what did not exist like the value of paper money for example. This also makes it possible for us to find God which the apes cannot. We can cooperate with people we hardly know, like Airline pilots through faith that Apes cannot …

I like the topic of Who we are? and Who We Can Be?  I got the following quote some time back from the C.S. Lewis Daily Twitter feed, and it moved me so time to talk on it. “No man knows how bad he is till he has tried very hard to be good.”-C.S. Lewis I would also add I found out how bad I was when I ran from God 1991-1993, Being good is infinitely hard when we see …