By Jerry Wilson, on December 31st, 2009%
I heard a Bible teacher once comment that the two books of Samuel and Kings are history written from man’s viewpoint while Chronicles is history written from God’s viewpoint. For example, consider how King David is remembered in each. In Samuel and right into Kings it’s tabloid fodder galore. You get it all: Bathsheba, Absalom, the . . . → Read More: Kings And Chronicles, 2009 Edition
By Jerry Wilson, on December 30th, 2009%
Get . . . → Read More: Three Words Will Do
By Jerry Wilson, on December 29th, 2009%
It’s been previously noted, yet warrants repeating, how the Internet is synchronized beauty and horror. Beauty in how everyone can participate. Horror in that so can anyone.
The manner in which a believer conducts his or herself online should be no different than how we behave in any other aspect of life. Unless we’re in character for . . . → Read More: The Self-Imposed Silence Of The Lambs
By Jerry Wilson, on December 26th, 2009%
There’s something amusingly ironic in how the two songs for which the ultra-political Clash are remembered both have as their subject… relationships: “Train In Vain” and “Should I Stay Or Should I Go.” Well, there’s also “Rock The Casbah,” but it’s more memorable for its terrific hook and chorus than lyrics. But I digress.
Should I stay . . . → Read More: Should I Stay Or Should I Go
By Jerry Wilson, on December 25th, 2009%
… that in at least this moment the Times rocks by naming Neda its Person Of The Year?
Other Neda . . . → Read More: May I Note…
By Jerry Wilson, on December 24th, 2009%
Don’t worry. I’ll bust out the Harry Simeone Chorale later.
Anyway, assuming you can get past the cheesy “so which backup singer was the director dating” aspect, here’s a live version of “Dogs Of War” from A Momentary Lapse Of Reason. Enjoy. And do the dogs of war hang out with the hound of heaven?
[video . . . → Read More: It’s Christmas Eve, So Naturally I’m Listening To Pink Floyd
By Jerry Wilson, on December 23rd, 2009%
We’ve all occasionally run across the stereotypical angry atheist, all spittle and phlegm as they hurl their progressively weaker arguments at you while never genuinely responding to your refutations of their tortured pseudo-logic. After a while, the root cause for their hatred of Christ and Christians is revealed: something or someone along the line let them . . . → Read More: Blame Game
By Jerry Wilson, on December 23rd, 2009%
Christmas draws nigh. As this is a time for gifts, reflecting the greatest gift of all — God’s Son — it’s a good time to reflect on the gifts so many of us share.
It’s easy to look at this bleak world and think “what gifts? Another day of soul-sucking employment or drudgery-laden anxiety over unemployment? Relationships . . . → Read More: Needle Girl In A Haystack World (Which Has Nothing To Do With A Roll In The Hay)
By Jerry Wilson, on December 22nd, 2009%
Latest update on the Rifqa Bary case, taken from my Examiner column today.
Resolution in Rifqa Bary case still nowhere in sight
Rifqa Bary, the Ohio teen who this past summer made headlines when she ran away to Florida out of fear her devout Muslim parents would kill her or have her killed due to her becoming a . . . → Read More: Have A Merry Christmas Despite It All, Rifqa
By Jerry Wilson, on December 21st, 2009%
Since I talked about puppies yesterday, ’tis only fair I discuss kitties today. As opposed to cougars, of which I’ve met a few over the years. But I digress.
Although currently cat-less, for many years home was home to two felines named Max and Rambo. I’ll start with Max, since she was the first to arrive. Yes, . . . → Read More: Lessons From Little (So They Thought) Lions