I'm reading the book 1944: FDR and the Year that Changed History. Mostly about WWII. FDR's health was failing, he only worked a few hours a day. The only way he runs for a fourth term is to not campaign, but be named by acclamation. He brought his boyhood stamp collection to the White House: over a million stamps in 150 scrapbooks. Also horrid details about the concentration camps. No one outside the camps knew what was going on. Two prisoners escaped, crossed the border, and told their story. At first they weren't believed. Astounded at how few survived the initial D-Day landing.
Most all the snow is long gone. Even when I was young we got more snow, through at least 1983 or so. Weather runs in cycles. The jet stream and that thing that comes up from the Gulf will shift ever so slightly, and it changes the weather for the entire area.
JFBC and Passion were cancelled yesterday. North Point too. Did go to my small group tonight.
Dallas Dallas Dallas. Glad they lost. During the Tampa game announcers Aikman and Buck kept talking about the Cowboys game, wishing they were there. It became a joke. I'm sure Bucs fans and Eagles fans loved hearing them drone on about the Cowboys.
We stayed in yesterday. M went out to spend time with friends. I did a bunch of laundry and cleaned upstairs, Watched some football. Roast beef sandwich for lunch and Mexican soup for supper, with a quesadilia. Slaved over a project for several hours, writing and re-writing, cutting, adding, editing.
What's wrong with the Warriors? Did the return of Klay Thompson disrupt team chemistry? Hard to believe, since Thompson considers himself one of the top hundred players in NBA history.
Who should decide what's best for a child: his parents or the government? State Schools and the End of Parental Rights: The Ideological Origins of the Progressive Dream of the State as Father, Mother, & Educator.
Denison's posts are hard to digest. Why I copy and paste sections and cut out the extra words, and try to simplify the best parts. If I miss a day its hard to catch up. Hard to digest more than one a day.
Good Denison column on the results of free will: God created us to love him and our neighbor. Love requires freedom to choose not to love. When we misuse our freedom to harm others and ourselves, God allows us the consequences of our decisions. This is free will. Last week in the New York Times David Brooks wrote an article titled "America Is Falling Apart at the Seams." He sees "a long-term loss of solidarity, a long-term rise in estrangement and hostility." He cites a Washington Post headline, "America Is a Nation of Narcissists, according to Two New Studies." Over the past several years Americans have been acting in fewer pro-social and relational ways and in more antisocial and self-destructive ways.
Denison: what would you expect in a culture that has been rejecting biblical truth and morality for decades? 79% of Americans say "people can believe whatever they want." Only 35% believe moral truth is objective and absolute. The fastest-growing religious demographic in America is those who have no religious affiliation. God cannot lead those who will not follow, or give what we will not receive. It is clear to me our culture is in the permissive phase of divine judgment, where God allows us the consequences of our decisions. Romans 1 offers an example: "God gave them up in the lusts of their hearts to impurity, to the dishonoring of their bodies among themselves" (v. 26). Paul adds: "Since they did not see fit to acknowledge God, God gave them up to a debased mind to do what ought not to be done" (v. 28). The results read like Brooks' article: "They were filled with all manner of unrighteousness, evil, covetousness, malice. They are full of envy, murder, strife, deceit, maliciousness. They are gossips, slanderers, haters of God, insolent, haughty, boastful, inventors of evil, disobedient to parents, foolish, faithless, heartless, ruthless" (vv. 29–31). If we refuse to repent we will experience God's punitive judgment, whereby God initiates punishment for sin. The Exodus is just one biblical example. The prophet warns us: "The nation and kingdom that will not serve [God] shall perish" (Isaiah 60:12).
MLK JR: "I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin, but by the content of their character."
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