Ecclesiastes 12:10

   It is a simple truth that we might miss the significance of; large things are made up of smaller things.   As one author put it;   Drops of ink are shaped into letter, letters are arranged into words, words form sentences and sentences combine to express thought. Great forests are made of trees that grew from sapling that started as small seeds.  Walls are built from many stones. An ocean is formed by drops of water.  Be they dead stone, living flesh or rolling sea, all things hold to this truth, large things are made from smaller things   This truth isn’t just in nature but in our lives as well. Principles determine our choices. Choices create our actions. Our actions form our behavior. Our behavior defines our character. Our character established our worth.   What we are and the value of it comes from the everyday minor insignificant thoughts and actions.   We may think,”Oh that’s no big thing why bother”, but l...

  This may sound like a rant, but here goes anyway.    Just because you are now sorry for what happened didn’t mean you repented.  Just because the consequences have caught up with you and you are now suffering, doesn’t mean you have repented.  Just because you have now fessed up to what everyone else has already knows, doesn’t mean you have repented.  Just because you know that unless you show some contrition, things might get worse for you, doesn’t mean you repented.  Just because you issued a formal apology, shed a few tears, tore your robes, said “I’m sorry”, doesn’t mean you repented.     Repentance is more than just being sorry.  Repentance is making a turn around.  It isn’t just a “whoops, sorry about that”, it a realization that what I was doing was wrong and I can’t keep doing it. It isn’t just sorry I got caught, it sorrow that for what I was and commitment to be different.  Paul describes it this ...

  You may have seen the recent commercial by the Ad Council  that tells us love has no limits.  It shows people behind an x-ray screen embracing only showing their skeletal outlines.  The people emerge from the behind to reveal they are a same sex couple, to a cheering crowd.  The scene is redone with people of different races, religions and ages.  Each one is accompanied by the lines; love has no gender, love has no race, love has no disability, love has no religion, love has no labels.  The ad campaign claims to combat what is seen as bias in our world today.   It got me to thinking about how the world is trying to redefine love. We hear the argument in our world to today; How a person can be against two people who love one another? To try to put limits on love is wrong.   But how does the Bible label love? Love is patient, love is kind and is not jealous; love does not brag and is not arrogant, does not act unbe...

  It was a great nation.  One of the most powerful, wealthy, influential, and important kingdoms of it time.  But for the last several years, there were signs things were falling apart.  Marriage was under attack.  The case from government was marry whoever you want, there are no limits. That however wasn’t what God had said.  The heart of the leaders were moving away from God.   So now a time of choice came for the people.  Two leaders had emerged. Who would rule the land? The people had a choice to make, even if it seemed like either choice would be a mistake.     On one side, a person that had been in public service for a long time right in the middle of going on in the kingdom.  While there seemed to be some promise early, there were now some great concerns. This person would show a willingness to compromise God’s clear commands in order to keep power.  They used division and schemes to try and win the people...

  The Principia, is a three-volume series of mathematical proofs by Isaac Newton about his laws of gravity and motion. It’s what we base calculus on.  The Principia is one of the greatest works in the history of science and has been studied by legions of scientists, mathematicians, and professors for the last three centuries.    If anything were wrong with it surely someone would have noticed the mistake by now!   That’s exactly what Robert Garisto thought.  Garisto was a student working on a paper for a history of science class, when he noticed that Newton had mistakenly plugged the wrong number into an equation to find the mass of the Earth (Newton had used 10.5 seconds in his write-up, but 11 in the actual problem).  Garisto didn't think much of the error when he found it -- he assumed it had been put in there intentionally by his instructor, and that spotting it was part of the assignment.  It wasn’t, the instructor didn’t even...