Admission to the zoo: $46.00Lunch at the zoo: $16.58Gas to get to the zoo: $10.00Pony ride at the zoo: $4.00Watching your daughter see an antelope and screaming “MOOOOO!”: Priceless We had initially decided to have a quiet day at home today, but round about 9:30 Aileen said “why don’t we do something today?” So after…
Here in Canada we are rapidly approaching a federal election. The aptly-named Liberal Party has been in power for the past three terms and has been the predominant party in Canada since the 1960’s. Tired of the terrible corruption and lack of morality in the party, many Canadians seem to be turning on the party…
Do you know what your clipboard is? It’s that little area in your computer’s memory where it stores things that you have recently copied and pasted. You can find out what is in it by going into a program like Word and pressing the key combination of CTRL-V. The contents of my clipboard are currently:…
My son bought a toy today that came with a tiny piece of paper with some miniscule drawings of how to assemble it. Below that were the following printed directions: At assemble other that process inside,if feel difficult,please face home to look for the help.The sketch map possibility that this assemble the method is different…
Statistics Canada performed its first-ever survey that looked at sexual orientation. Interestingly (and not-too surprisingly to most Christians) the percentage of people who identify themselves as homosexual was far lower than the gay community would have us believe. While they claim that between 5 and 10 percent of the population is homosexual, this survey found…
While the corporate world deals with the fact that hundreds of thousands of American jobs are being outsourced to companies overseas, now we find out that it is happening in churches too. There is a bizarre and strangely hilarious article in the New York Times about the Catholic Church’s practice of outsourcing prayer and masses.…
This phrase is one of my pet peeves. It is used with alarming frequency and I seem to hear it wherever I go these days. The other day I read a quote where someone said “my own personal heart is breaking.” I guess he really wanted to stress that he didn’t break anyone else’s heart.…
Matthew 18:19 and 20 are oft-quoted verses that most of us know by heart. Verse nineteen is the favorite of the Word of Faith so-called Christians. It reads “Again I say to you that if two of you agree on earth concerning anything that they ask, it will be done for them by My Father…
I think the Supertones may be gunning for the record for the greatest amount of turnover of any band in Christian music. * Of the seven originals I believe only two are left. Several replacements have also come and gone. However, with singer/songwriter Mojo (Matt Morginsky) still firmly at the helm, their sound and general…
I just saw over on James White’s site that he and some other great speakers are going to be holding a conference in Toronto later this year (September 10, 11). The speakers will be: So I’m excited! It should be a great conference. I’m particularly interested in hearing a Reformed perspective on witnessing to post-moderns…
Here are some snippets of an interesting article I saw over at In The Faith. At the St. James AME Church in East San Jose, Calif., young people worship by dancing — choreographed movements inspired by everything from ballet to the latest MTV videos. It’s an alternative way of praying that helps bring kids into…
My taxes are due June 15. That means tomorrow. Care to guess what I am going to be doing tonight? Ah, the terrifyingly unsatisfying life of a procastinator!
It has been a while since I last updated my list of recommended links. Today I finally got around to deleting one that hasn’t been updated in a long time and I added two new ones. I try to keep my list short, so if it makes my list you know it’s worth reading! I…
I was about 18 years old the first time I saw a dead person. My grandmother had unexpectedly suffered a massive heart attack and died just a few days earlier, and now the family was given the opportunity to say “goodbye” to her before the funeral. We were ushered into a room in the funeral…
Anne Catherine Emmerich, who may just be nominated for a Grammy award for writing the screenplay for The Passion of the Christ is due to be beatified on October 3. This, of course, is a step on the road to canonization (ie being declared a saint). I wonder if she was ever considered for this…
A few weeks ago I completed a rather interesting Web site for my uncle, Ron Cowle. Ron is an artist, and a pretty good one at that! The site was unique in that he had a very clear vision of what he wanted it to look like and my job was really to take that…
I have promised never to do a “ramblings” entry more than once per week on this blog. I usually reserve it for Sunday, but after a very hectic day today, I have decided to post ramblings on Thursday. They require at least 20% less brainpower than a well-thought-out article, and I need to reserve brainpower.…
Flash (that’s Macromedia Flash, for the not-quite-so-computer-literate) saw fit to corrupt one of my files today. Naturally it was one I had spent the whole day working on. Not only did the program crash 7 or 8 times during the course of the day, but it also refused, time and again. to play the movies…
I took an hour out of my evening to watch the proceedings surrounding Ronald Reagan. This evening he was brought to the Capitol Building where he will lie in state until the funeral on Friday. The historian in me is always interested in the traditions, the pomp and circumstance that are found at such occassions.…
I bought a CD the other day that uses the word “antediluvian” in one of the songs. I think I have now, officially, seen everything. Care to hazard a guess what album it was and who the artist is? If you are not familiar with the word antediluvian it means “of or relating to the…