Port St. Joe and Fresno
All you hungry for dialogue and discussion, listen up! I will be in Port St. Joe, FL this FRIDAY and SATURDAY for a great time of exploring the Word. The contact information is on my web site calendar. AND THEN, it’s off to Fresno with Brian and Suzanne Bennett. November 5-7. Again the contact information…
Why Don’t We See Sin For What It Is
We are generally (perhaps deliberately) unaware of the giant chasm created by the smallest of sins and the demands of God because the Church has taught us that we are under grace and therefore the tiny sins don’t really matter. They are simply errors in judgment. If my greatest sins can be easily forgiven by…
A Religion of Piece(s)
On October 9, 2015, the Muslim cleric Muhammad Salah “Abu Rajab” preached to the congregation of the Al-Abrar Mosque in Rafah in Gaza. In his “sermon,” he expressly avowed that he and his brothers of the West Bank are terrorists intent on killing every Jew on the planet and continuing their killing campaign to America….
Richard Nisbett – The Geography of Thought
Richard Nisbett The Geography of Thought, How Asians and Westerners Think Differently . . .and Why, (Free Press, 2003). All citations in quotations. My comments and explanatory notes added. “Westerns have a strong interest in categorization, which helps them to know what rules to apply to the objects in question, and formal logic plays…
EMERGENCY!
I have just learned that one of the women who was on the Israel tour is in the hospital in Israel. Valerie Cole and Scott stayed after the tour for a few extra days. Valerie didn’t feel well and after two days ended up in the emergency room with a burst appendix. Emergency surgery and…
The Way of God
The Way of God – Moshe Chaim Luzzatto I consider Luzzatto’s book, Mesillat Yesharim, a critically important work in the explication of the power of the yetzer ha’ra and the obligation each of us has toward others. The book elaborates a step-by-step evaluation of the “fearless moral inventory” needed to combat the subtleties of the…
The Color of Dead
The Dead Sea, October, 2015
