Wednesday, August 7, 2019 was Professional Engineers Day. Being an engineer, something that I could not help to notice is that God is a specification writer. We read about this in God giving Noah instructions to build the ark: “Build a large boat from cypress wood and waterproof it with tar, inside and out. Then construct decks and stalls throughout its interior. Make the boat 450 feet long, 75 feet wide, and 45 feet high. Leave an 18-inch opening below…..
A recent Texas Public Radio’s The Source1 interview with Elizabeth Waltman, Chief Operating Officer of the South Texas Blood and Tissue Center and Dr. C. J. Winckler, deputy medical director of the San Antonio Fire Department, was filled with biblical truth; even though that was not necessarily their intention. I do not know what their spiritual beliefs are or what they think of the Bible. The Bible tells us: “And if any native Israelite or foreigner living among you eats…..
Soviet dictator Joe Stalin took extreme measures to re-write history. He was a paranoid ruler and killed people that he saw as rivals, even those who had supported him. Then in an effort to remove them from history, he would have their images removed from photos.1 Another glaring example of an effort to re-write history is the use of the terms C.E. (Common Era) and B.C.E. (Before Common Era); rather than B.C. (Before Christ) and A.D. (Latin for the Year…..
The property tax is wrong. People make choices on how to spend their money. People take trips to Las Vegas every month, buy new cars every three years, go out to eat every night, or blow their money at “gentlemen’s clubs.” This is the United States of America. If that is what they want to do with their money, that is their business. But if a person chooses to spend more of their money on a house, then all of…..
The Bible is quite often criticized for some of the hard things in it, particularly in the Mosaic Law. There are a lot of things to be said about this. Paul, in his letter to the Romans, discusses how the law shows us our sin. Dennis Prager is making some of the harder verses a discussion point for his program, showing that when you really dig into it, the verses make a lot more sense and represent a giant step…..