Texas engineer finding the signal of grace in grief, code, and Scripture
Time Magazine’s article on the 4th US Climate assessment which purports to confirm all the dire warnings of Al Gore and his global crew of climate alarmism myth makers.
Since 2000 (the first climate assessment report), the global temp average has changes by zero degrees celsius. all the models are not in agreement, most show no cause for alarm much less can point to anything driving climate except for solar changes.
A couple of articles that present facts instead of ‘the sky is falling’ hype
Yet we hear that some of you are living idle lives, refusing to work and meddling in other people’s business. We command such people and urge them in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ to settle down and work to earn their own living.
Insight
A busybody is a gossip. An idle person who doesn’t work ends up filling his or her time with less than helpful activities, like gossip. Rumors and hearsay are tantalizing, exciting to hear, and make us feel like insiders. But they tear people down.
Challenge
If you often find your nose in other people’s business, you may be underemployed. Look for a task to do for Christ or for your family, and get to work.
Thoughts about our culture
We are too much driven by ‘news’ that is actually gossip and unfounded partial truth/reality mixed in with endless speculations that inflame our flesh to fantasize and waste mental and emotional energy on what are many times simply falsehoods presented as a news report.
We are made in God’s image. anything we do that defaces or diminishes His image in us is an affront to God, and likely displeases Him. Therefore we should be very careful what we do with what he has given us.
The Covenant of the Rainbow Genesis 9:6
…5And surely I will require the life of any man or beast by whose hand your lifeblood is shed. I will demand an accounting from anyone who takes the life of his fellow man: 6Whoever shedsthe blood of man, by man his blood will be shed;for in His own image God has made mankind.7But as for you, be fruitful and multiply; spread out across the earth and multiply upon it.”…
1 Corinthians 11:7
A man ought not to cover his head, since he is the image and glory of God; but the woman is the glory of man.
Revelation 13:10
“If anyone is destined for captivity, into captivity he will go; if anyone is to die by the sword, by the sword he must be killed.” Here is a call for the perseverance and faith of the saints.
Genesis 1:26
Then God said, “Let Us make man in Our image, after Our likeness, to rule over the fish of the sea and the birds of the air, over the livestock, and over all the earth itself and every creature that crawls upon it.”
Genesis 1:27
So God created man in His own image; in the image of God He created him; male and female He created them.
Genesis 42:22
But Reuben replied: “Didn’t I tell you not to sin against the boy? But you would not listen. Now we must account for his blood!”
Exodus 20:13
You shall not murder.
Exodus 21:12
Whoever strikes and kills a man must surely be put to death.
Leviticus 24:17
And if a man takes the life of anyone else, he must surely be put to death.
Numbers 35:33
Do not pollute the land where you live, for bloodshed pollutes the land, and no atonement can be made for the land on which the blood is shed, except by the blood of the one who shed it.
Deuteronomy 5:17
You shall not murder.
Judges 9:56
In this way God repaid the wickedness that Abimelech had done to his father by murdering his seventy brothers.
1 Samuel 15:33
But Samuel declared: “As your sword has made women childless, so your mother will be childless among women.” And Samuel hacked Agag to pieces before the LORD at Gilgal.
1 Kings 2:32
The LORD will bring his bloodshed back upon his own head, for without the knowledge of my father David he struck down two men more righteous and better than he when he killed with the sword Abner son of Ner, commander of Israel’s army, and Amasa son of Jether, commander of Judah’s army.
2 Kings 11:16
So they seized Athaliah as she reached the horses’ entrance to the palace grounds, and there she was put to death.
Proverbs 28:17
A man burdened by bloodguilt will be a fugitive until death; let no one support him.
Ecclesiastes 3:3
a time to kill and a time to heal, a time to break down and a time to build,
Peter Preaches to the Crowd
…21And everyone who calls on the name of the Lord will be saved.’ 22Men of Israel, listen to thismessage: Jesus of Nazareth was a mancertified by God to you by miracles, wonders,and signs, which God did among you throughHim, as you yourselves know. 23He was handed over by God’s set plan and foreknowledge, and you, by the hands of the lawless, put Him to death by nailing Him to the cross.…
Woe to the Unrepentant
19The Son of Man came eating and drinking, and they say, ‘Look at this glutton and drunkard, a friend of tax collectors and of sinners!’ But wisdom is vindicated by her actions.” 20ThenJesus began to denounce the cities in whichmost of His miracles had taken place, becausethey did not repent. 21“Woe to you, Chorazin! Woe to you, Bethsaida! For if the miracles that were performed in you had happened in Tyre and Sidon, they would have repented long ago in sackcloth and ashes.…
The Wedding at Cana
…10and said, “Everyone serves the fine wine first, and then the cheap wine after the guests are drunk. But you have saved the fine wine until now!” 11Jesus performed this, the first of Hissigns, at Cana in Galilee. He thus revealed Hisglory, and His disciples believed in Him. 12After this, He went down to Capernaum with His mother and brothers and His disciples, and they stayed there a few days.…
Theology in gif images from about 100 years ago. Interesting how relevant and fresh the Biblical teaching is over time.
So some rational logical questions to ponder
What is your origin? Where does the universe and human beings come from?
What is the meaning of your life? What is the purpose of life
What is your destiny? What happens to you after you die?
What is truth?
What is your morality based on? How do you know what is right and wrong?
Some Bible verses to chew on:
The Lord will not cast off forever, but, though he cause grief, he will have compassion according to the abundance of his steadfast love. (Lamentations 3:31–32)
For he does not afflict from his heart, or grieve the children of men. (Lamentations 3:33)
The Lord passed before him and proclaimed, “The Lord, the Lord, a God merciful and gracious, slow to anger, and abounding in steadfast love and faithfulness.” (Exodus 34:6)
God is slow to anger. He is not touchy and explosive. He is not trigger-happy. As Ray Ortlund has put it, God “is not itching to bring down the hammer. We have to drive him to that.” Instead, “His spontaneous heart is to love us.”
God is not slow to love; he’s slow to anger. It is his love that has the engine running — always ready to go at a moment’s notice. In contrast, his anger has to be worked up within him. The two do not occupy the same place in his affections. Love abounds where anger doesn’t. It is love he possesses in boundless measure, not anger.
This is God’s pinned tweet. Everything else needs to be read in the light of this.
1991, I admired Dick Cheney and Colin Powell for the military leadership in the middle east and what appeared to be good common sense. Powell seemed to be a good SOS at least early on. something happened in 2008 when he endorsed Obama. He now claims that the USA is damaged on the world scene due to POTUS Trump. I wonder how he felt about SOS Hillary selling Uranium One to the Russians in return for donations to the Clinton Foundation and paying Bill 500K for one speech. such great moral leadership.
Sad to see Powell selling his soul to the left
all measures that I can see with my eyes say the US is re-emerging from the downward slide of the Obama Hillary Pelosi Reid years. Better and employing more people in all walks of life.
shame on you Colin Powell
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Zakaria asked Powell and his other guest, former Secretary of State Madeleine Albright, about American foreign policy and whether the country is still leading the rest of the world by example.
Powell, a Republican who has maintained a low profile during the Trump administration, called out “what we are not doing as the United States of America.”
“What are we doing? We’re walking away from agreements, we’re walking away from alliances,” Powell said. He noted that Trump insulted U.S. allies at the NATO summit.”
Letterman until mid 1990s was funny
late night with carson and leno was funny
fallon and colbert – not funny and frequently disgusting
and this confirms my choice was the right thing to do
“Tweets about Mr. Kaplan at the hearing immediately began circulating among Facebook message boards such as “Women @ Facebook,” a communications chat room called “Just Flagging,” and a group called “Wait, what?” where employees can ask public relations questions. Many employees had one query: Why was Mr. Kaplan there, front and center?”
John Hargrove Seeking Truth and Reality 