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DALLAS, TX - Friday’s showdown between the Dallas (Presbyterian) Reformers and the San Diego (Non-denominational) Freewillers was rained out in the top of the fifth inning and will have to be replayed. Or will it?
Dallas is protesting the cancellation and rescheduling of the contest, arguing that they won the ballgame. Strangely, they are [...]

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HILLSBORO, OR - Researchers at Intel Corporation have identified a group of potentially troubling and productivity-diminishing elemental particles: synergons.
In late 2002, Noticing a surge in what employees described as “life-draining meetings,” Intel quickly formed a task force to identify the problem.  After several weeks of intensive meetings, the original task force all resigned from the [...]

Have you ever noticed how Right-biased the English language is? Out of chips? “There aren’t any left.” Blind-sided? “That came out of left field!” Deserted by a loved one? “I can’t believe he left me!”
My friends, we left handers are not second class citizens.  We’re people, too! Can [...]

California enacts “No Child Left Home” legislation
Dissociated Press - Sacramento, CA
In a landmark move, the California State Legislature has passed a law to make child home care illegal past the age of four months. Called the “No Child Left Home Act” (NCLHA), the bill effectively makes home rearing of children by parents illegal.
“We’re encouraging [...]

Warning: Bible blog!
I love finding parallels in Scripture. One reason I normally enjoy the Old Testament more than the New is that there are so many allusions to the OT by the NT writers. It’s thrilling to pick up on a parallel for the first time. This isn’t actually the first time [...]

I’m disappointed by John Grisham. Don’t get me wrong; he’s a very talented, sometimes brilliant writer. At least one of his books would make my Top Ten Favorites list. But, his latest work displays at least one occurrence of shocking ignorance.
His latest book, The Appeal, deals with the messy topic of tort [...]

In the beginning, there were comments. And comments multiplied and became evil. Spam was in the blog in those days, when spammers saw the comments of men (and women), that they were beautiful. And the Blogger saw the thoughts of the spammers, that their every intention was evil.
Then the blogger said to [...]

It’s not at all uncommon these days to hear people, even ostensibly Bible-believing Christian people, claim that the God of the OT and the God of the NT are somehow different. Not so.
Yesterday I came across (again) this passage:
Exodus 34:6-7a (NIV):
6 And he passed in front of Moses, proclaiming, “The LORD, the LORD, the [...]

There are some Christians who will go to the mat telling you that you should always interpret the New Testament by using the Old Testament. This actually makes a ton of sense. After all, the Old Testament was written first, and the whole New Testament is built upon the old. So, yeah, [...]