Even if you mostly avoid watching sports, as I do, you can still manage to learn that a lot of athletes, after a big win or even a small one, thank either Jesus or God. Sometimes it seems to be about the specific game they just finished and others it seems to be about […]
I was looking through my music collection and I noticed that I seem to have a strong preference for male vocalists. It’s hard to come up with any real percentages without doing a lot more detailed work than I feel like, but at a very rough guess I’d say that male vocalists outnumber female […]
The Bible has that piece in it where it says that it’s easier for a camel to pass through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to get into heaven. That got me to wondering about all the captains of industry that turn philanthropist in their old age. It’s commonly […]
What’s the deal with forty days? There’s forty days of Lent. Christ fasted in the wilderness for forty days. When Noah built his ark, it rained for forty days and forty nights. When Moses went up the mountain to receive the ten commandments, he spent forty days.
I thought maybe it had […]
Today, God and I didn’t have much of a conversation. He stopped by but just for a minute, just long enough to give me a small present. He pulled it out of a big red sack he was carrying, said merry Christmas, and then told me he had to go. He said […]
It’s Christmas season. Decorations have gone up all over town. Shopping centers have devoted part of their parking lots to the sale of assassinated trees and part of their floor space to imitation trees. The imitations seem to get a little better every year, recent years especially I’ve noticed a devotion to […]
We’re born with an incredible power, the power of imagination. We’re able to imagine things much better than they can ever actually be. It’s this power that fuels the sparkle in children’s eyes as Christmas approaches, they imagine sugar plums dancing in their heads but the reality is that sugar plums don’t actually […]
When I told God what I wrote yesterday about sometimes less is more when it comes to putting up your Christmas lights, she brought up something I hadn’t thought of. When it comes to keeping down the number of holiday lights, the Jews have got it all over the Christians. Hanukkah, the Festival […]
One of the staples of Hollywood movies is the neighbors trying to outdo each other. A not uncommon example of this is two houses trying to have the biggest, fanciest, display of Christmas lights.
Talking to God about this, I expected him to tell me that he preferred a simple nativity scene to a gaudy […]
While I was driving today, I saw one of those bumper stickers. The ones that say, “Christians are not perfect, just forgiven.” So I thought I’d ask God if that was true.
That they’re not perfect? Absolutely.
That they’re forgiven. Well, yeah. It seems God is pretty easygoing when it comes to […]
Sometimes the answers are easier than you expect. I asked God what was the difference between love and lust. She told me that lust is whatever we want for ourselves and love is whatever we want for someone else.
I got to thinking about mortality. I was trying different tacks to get God to tell me something about the end of my life. When would it be? Would it be soon? Would it be of natural causes? Stuff like that. At first he was fairly oblique, just tried […]
I brought up the subject of the old Soviet Union with God today. The battle between the USSR and the USA was often pitched as the godless communists versus the Bible thumping Americans and I was wondering how God himself had viewed the whole thing. As usual he refused to really take sides […]
The idea of giving Christmas presents originated in the Nativity story, wherein the three wise men brought gifts to the Christ child. A lot of people are ignorant of the art of gift giving. Everybody gets the idea that you should give a present that the receiver wants and either doesn’t have enough […]
I asked God about global warming. Is it something that is just happening or is it something we did? There were a couple of parts to her answer. First, she set it up to happen, in the sense that she created the world and our desires in such a way that they […]
One time God was hanging out in a cave with a storyteller, waiting for a big rainstorm to pass. This particular storyteller had a big fear of thunder and lightning and was having a really bad time as the storm went on for days. So God wanted to distract him and cheer him […]
There’s been a recent request to put several types of penguins on the endangered species list. Two of the biggest reasons for concern about these great southern waterfowl is that the effects of global warming seem to be shrinking their habitat and that massive commercial fishing efforts are cutting down on their food supply.
Implicating […]
You know that feeling that someone’s watching you? That sense that if you could just look in the right direction you’d see a pair of eyes pointed right at you, but you turn and twist and you crane your neck and there’s nothing there? I had one of those moments this morning, but […]
I was driving out on the highway and got to wondering what God thought about our penchant for strewing the planet with long ribbons of asphalt and concrete. The next time he stopped by I brought up the subject and we went down various paths and pretty much went wherever the subject took us. […]
Okay, I probably heard this second or third hand and even that was so long ago that it might even be that I’ve imagined the whole thing, but that still wouldn’t invalidate the idea and the idea is all that really matters to what I’ve got to say. Phew.
Someone once told me about a […]
When Rock and Roll was in its early days it was often denounced as the music of the devil. The old cliche was “sex and drugs and rock and roll,” and parents were warned that it was destroying the morals of their children. Now the new kid on the block is hip-hop and […]