Archive for June, 2007

Civic Responsibility and Daytime TV

Sunday, June 24th, 2007

I was sick recently, and since we shut off cable TV, I found myself exploring that vast wasteland that is daytime television.  And then it hit me…
Almost every time I talk to someone about jury duty, they’re trying to come up with innovative ideas for getting out of it.  But when I turn on the [...]

“God doesn’t hear my prayers” - Johnny and the problem of unanswered prayer

Wednesday, June 6th, 2007

Johnny, my four-year-old son, put into words what a lot of people believe but won’t say. The other day we were just arriving at home after an outing and Johnny just came out and said, “I think my prayers don’t work or God doesn’t hear my prayers.”
“Why do you say that, Johnny?” Eleanor, my wife, [...]

God’s fingerprints on our brains?

Sunday, June 3rd, 2007

OK, that title sounds nasty, but what I mean is that every so often we find evidence that what the Bible teaches us about how we’re made is true.  I just read an article that gives us another peek at how God made us.  As it turns out, the need to give is wired deep [...]

Singing Rabbit

Friday, June 1st, 2007

I seem to be on a rabbit theme lately.  Check out the weirdest commercial I’ve seen in a long time.  (There’s some deep stuff coming, but that takes time so in the meantime, here’s the Skittles rabbit.)