“Beloved, … I found it necessary to write appealing to you to contend for the faith that was once for all delivered to the saints. For certain people have crept in unnoticed … -ungodly people who pervert the grace of our God into sensuality and deny our only Master and…
The Psalmist’s Argument
Hear and see the psalmist’s argument. He who planted the ear, does he not hear? He who formed the eye, does he not see? Psalms 94, verse 9, ESV. Of course these are rhetorical questions that demand a “Yes!” answer. So, if we read this argument backwards, we can say…
Raw Pieces of Thought
Enzymes jump like water in hot oil across synapses, from neuron to neuron, until some, terrifying or soothing, mundane or wonder-filled, idea has been cooked behind eyes, nose, and mouth of a single skull. The idea chef presents coherent sentences, “good” art, and purposeful action – evidences of the thought’s…
Death is Coming
Death is coming for me. I feel its presence. Every second of everyday, it creeps closer. On days when I feel the ominous impact of some evil spinning on it’s own axis or the pull of shame for some offense I’ve done, or on those when my medicine quits working…
The Impact Crater that I Almost Missed
The Encyclopedia of Alabama simply said: as if everyone had always known they had been driving on remnants of an impact crater. Bald Knob in Cinematic Scenes It is true. If you happen to be in the area of Wetumpka, you can see Bald Knob without too much trouble. You…
Intersections of Contrary Things
Literary Beginnings As far as I can remember, Don Quixote, though at the top of the Well Educated Mind List, was not in the wooden-floored, white-shelved municipal library my mother took me to as a child. Nancy Drew was, so I read her series, my Bible, and as many fairy…
Two Thieves, a Middleman, and Some People at the Waffle Café
TWO THIEVES, A MIDDLEMAN, AND SOME PEOPLE AT THE WAFFLE CAFÉ ________________________________________________________________ A Play in Two Acts by a blogger whose blog got a little out of hand Copyright © 2016 …
Teaching Procedures?
StudyGuide Lines – Instructional Design Tips for Christian Teachers and Writers Procedure: “So if you are offering your gift at the altar and there remember that your brother has something against you, leave your gift there before the altar and go. First be reconciled to your brother, and then come and offer…
Learning Concepts
StudyGuide Lines – Instructional Design Tips for Christian Teachers and Writers Concept Learning Concepts are categories that you use to sort and store packages of information (objects). Learning theorists believe concepts are formed when a group of essential characteristics (attributes) are grouped together and labeled so that members (examples) of…
Some things I learned from my dad because I was not in Children’s Church
Two things are on my mind today. Number 1: My dad’s 79th birthday: Happy birthday Daddy! Number 2: Church nurseries and “Children’s Church.” Below are some things I learned as a child at church from my dad because I was not in nursery or Children’s Church. 1. I learned to…