What do you teach your children? What sorts of things do they soak up from your example in relationships and practical, important areas of life like handling money and directing their financial future? We imprint them with more of how we live in these areas of life than we verbally teach them. I wonder if [...]

Like most people I don’t like to discuss money. And no, this is not prelude to me asking you for some. It is the outcome of the necessity of the last few years to take a good hard look at how I view money and finances and how to resolve the vast differences on [...]

My husband and I have a reached a place in life where we see the imperative for change. We’ve seen the need for decades, but there is something in people who are like us that can’t quite negotiate the hurdle. But the specter of ones mortality and the wisdom of counting ones days is an [...]

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the fine Christian philosopher J. P. Moreland has a new book coming out called Kingdom Triangle that looks to be very interesting. Moreland blogs about it …
In this book he seems to be doing something that the church vitally needs but, strangely, almost no one talks about. The “triangle” refers to Moreland’s [...]

Pope considers return to Latin mass | Chron.com – Houston Chronicle
Now, little more than a generation later, Pope Benedict XVI is poised to revive the 16th-century Tridentine Mass.
…A Vatican official, Cardinal Dario Castrillon Hoyos, confirmed earlier this month that Benedict would soon relax the restrictions on celebrating the Tridentine Mass because of a “new and [...]

Who says so?
Why is that which was instituted as a “firstfruits” over before the Harvest is in sight?
What indication was ever given that it would end- what prophetic word of the Old Testament prophets is invoked as foretelling its end as that which foretold its beginning?
Where is the sure word of scripture that we [...]

Have you ever found yourself non-plussed by an atheists insistence that you must be able to “prove” there is a God? Or felt pressured and upset by the ones that make fun of your “unsicentific” or “irrational” belief in God?
New Covenant states:
Why start off in defensive mode when it isn’t necessary?
…and if you really want [...]

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I took this photo @ the Franklin Park Conservatory. It is a glass skylight made by Dale Chihuly, I believe.

Many researchers want to rethink the internet’s underlying architecture, saying a “clean-slate” approach is the only way to truly address security, mobility and other challenges that have cropped up since the internet’s birth in 1969.
…In the late 1960s, BBN won the contract to build a network linking machines at four universities. That network, then known [...]

I am so glad for the different input I get from others. I don’t think I was always that way,but it might be one of the assets of aging. Even when you take things with a grain of salt, sometimes you get a good meaty answer that switches on the old synapses in an electrical [...]

“To quite an extent, gambling is a tax on ignorance. I find it socially revolting when the government preys on the ignorance of its citizenry. When the government makes it easy for people to take their Social Security checks and pull [slot machine] handles, it relieves taxes on those who don’t fall for it. It’s [...]

I was just out looking through blogs, killing insomnia time, and came across another woman’s blog where she said “ciao” because she was tired of blogging and the fact that the same old world and national problems keep on being their own tired old selves. I could commiserate. It does get wearisome to rant and [...]

Back from the family vacation … and I have one word of advice on family vacations. Remember the saying “too many cooks spoil the stew” ? Well, too many opinions on what a vacation should be like messes up the vacation. For the first time the older children with their nascent families came and all [...]

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I love doctrine with a passion, and I spend a good slice of my life teaching it – but even I have to admit that we aren’t saved by doctrine, and that God can be visibly and awesomely at work in the lives of people whose doctrine is well wide of the mark. [...]

Are the concepts of understanding God’s will through the study of scripture and the revelatory sensing of His voice and direction truly oppositional? Do they not coincide throughout the scriptural account? I believe both are necessary to avoid error in discerning the Father’s will and following the Lord.
One of the first things encountered in the [...]

Right before the Virginia Tech massacre, a post came to my attention from halfway across the world. We see violence and become aware of how very damaging it is to our world, how much loss we are suffering from the destruction of souls, especially young ones, but anyone who somehow was deterred from fulfilling a [...]

I finally did it…Spam Karma 2 is now in charge of my comments, and so far it is working remarkably well. No more 2000 and some comments awaiting moderation.
I sincerely hope this takes care of the problem…. and since p0rn spam makes up the lionshare of my spam it should improve my outlook ( [...]