Starting last Christmas, I came to the realization that the songs in Rudolf the Red Nose Reindeer are really awesome. Johnny Marks was the guy who wrote the songs and Burl Ives did a lot of the singing, but even the songs he didn’t sing are excellent. The tune that’s sung on the Island of […]
I’ve been listening to an interesting series of podcasts from R.C. Sproul about different worldviews. It’s been interesting to learn more about different philosophies like existentialism, hedonism, humanism, pragmatism, pluralism, positivism, and relativism that shape our culture here in the United States. Evangelists are better equipped if they first learn the culture of the place […]
Let me start by saying I’m not going to attempt to defend the initial decision to deploy our troops to Iraq. I can only hope and pray that our leadership made the best decisions they could with the information they had. I don’t pretend to have the pertinent information or to know whether the decision […]
One thing I’ve noticed a lot more frequently over the last few years is the tendency for smokers to hold their lit cigarettes out the window while they’re stopped at an intersection. Why do they do this? Are they trying to tell the world that they smoke and they’re not ashamed of it? Is it […]
A couple years ago, Sarah and I attended a homeschooling summit. One of the featured speakers was Mike Farris, chairman of the board of the Home Schooling Legal Defense Association. He warned about the UN Treaty on the Rights of the Child, the most disturbing part of which is article 16, discussed here. The […]