The year 2009. Has it really been that long since high school? College? Y2K? 9-11? The past few years have been so unpredictable that I’ve had reservations about making any kind of new year resolutions at all. Could it be that I was just making the wrong kinds of resolutions? In any event, I think [...]
Christians have been engaged in a battle to put “Christ back in Christmas” for as long as I can remember. There have been uproars over the use of “happy holidays” instead of “merry Christmas,” outrage over lawsuits that have been filed to keep Christmas trees or nativity scenes out of public view. The hostility toward [...]
This is the post that I was trying to get up on the 4th. Now I’m back to a normal internet connection and life is peachy. It is now approaching a quarter of a millennium since our founding fathers signed the Declaration of Independence, which is a long time in human years, but not so [...]
I’ve been camping with my aunt and uncle’s church since Friday. It’s beautiful here in Mammoth Lakes (and they have a nice library where I can set up my laptop). Yesterday some friends and I went on a 18 mile hike to Thousand Island Lake and back. We looped around and came back on part [...]
I’ve been working on a special 4th of July post, but I’m having some technical difficulties with part of it. So for now, happy Independence Day. May those of us blessed to live here never forget the sacrifices made to establish and protect it, or the God who has allowed us to live such a [...]