“But we trusted…and beside all this, today is the third day…” Luke 24:21
Every fact that the disciples stated was right; but the inferences they drew from those facts were wrong. Anything that savours of dejection spiritually is always wrong. If depression and oppression visit me, I am to blame; God is not, nor is anyone else. [...]
Archive for January, 2008
Oswald Chambers on the Discipline of Dejection– (Part IV)
Posted in Culture, Education, Religion on January 30, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Leonard Pitts, George Bush on Discipline (Part III)
Posted in Culture, Education, tagged discipline, George Bush, Leonard Pitts on January 30, 2008 | 1 Comment »
If Hell were a place to be joked about, I might compare it to an Iowa winter right now as I saw that Leonard Pitts, the far left Miami columnist, had something reasonably positive to write about George Bush, even if it was one line. Pitts wrote, “When President Bush decries ‘the soft bigotry of [...]
Personal Thoughts On Discipline (Part II)
Posted in Culture, Education, Religion, tagged discipline, Hebrews 12 on January 30, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
This is an eight-post series on discipline continued in the next four parts with the writings of the Scottish Oswald Chambers who lived for only 42 years but not before writing a beautiful meditation, My Utmost for His Highest. The writer of Hebrews reminds us that the Lord disciplines those whom He loves. Reading Martin [...]
Rick Majerus on Discipline (Part I)
Posted in Culture, Education, tagged discipline, Rick Majerus quote, training on January 29, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Rick Majerus, St. Louis University basketball coach, will start Men Like Trees Walking off on an eight-post series which will include Majerus’ pithy quote, four meditations by Oswald Chambers on discipline, a couple of pop-psychologists, and an excerpt of a conversation that I had with John McCain’s cell mate Colonel Bud Day.
Parents want to take all the [...]
“First They Came for Piglet” (The Inimitable Mark Steyn on Political Correctness)
Posted in Culture, Politics, tagged Islam, Mark Steyn, political correctness on January 28, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
By insisting on re-labeling terrorism committed by Muslims in the name of Islam as “anti-Islamic activity,” Her Majesty’s government is engaging not merely in Orwellian Newspeak but in self-defeating Orwellian Newspeak. Read on…
Is Mike Huckabee finished?
Posted in Politics, Uncategorized, tagged huckabee, Republican National Convention on January 26, 2008 | 1 Comment »
We are almost certainly headed for a brokered convention. The Republican candidate must have a simple majority in at the convention which works out to 1,191 out of 2,380 candidates in Minneapolis. To date the count goes Romney (59), Huckabee (40), and McCain (36). For those who say Huckabee is fading fast, the momentum and [...]
Favorite G.K. Chesterton Passages
Posted in Art, Literature, Religion, tagged chesterton quotes, Thomas Aquinas on January 25, 2008 | 1 Comment »
G.K. Chesterton (1818-1901), the great British mystery writer and Dickens critic, wrote a life of Thomas Aquinas called The Dumb Ox, a pejorative leveled at Aquinas’ bulking presence and quietude by some of his fellow students. Chesterton asserts that nothing could be further from the truth and spends the whole of the book praising Aquinas’ [...]
Hiking Compulsory Age Helps No One
Posted in Education, Letter to the Editor, tagged compulsory education, Education, Iowa education issue, school attendance age on January 19, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Lawmakers in Des Moines are considering hiking the compulsory attendance age to 18. The last thing our public schools need is more kids who don’t want to be educated. Some legislators have a new take on the old saying: you can lead a student to a school and you can make him think. While some [...]
The Bush Department of Justice Shoots at the Second Amendment
Posted in Politics, tagged Bush, crime, gun ban, guns, Washington D.C. on January 16, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
John Lott, one of the foremost minds on the issue of Second Amendment Rights, shows what might happen to perhaps the most important Supreme Court case concerning guns in years. Unfortunately, the adminstration seems to be on the wrong side:
A lot of Americans who believe in the right to own guns were very disappointed this [...]
