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Spam, spam,

spam. Lately all I’ve done with the blog is clear out the avalanche of spam comments.   The true purpose of spam is to lure us in with false promises in order to transfersomething of value from us to the spammer.    In the present case I’m still losing something of value, time, but it is not being transferred.    [...]

Continuations of a theme

Remember this from the last post:  “You’re not entertained.  You don’t enjoy church.   It doesn’t have the same level of excitement.  Three issues…”   Last time we touched on entertainment, this time lets look at enjoyment.
Why don’t you enjoy church?  Well as discussed before, you aren’t entertained but we can enjoy that which does not entertain [...]

I’m baaack!

Didn’t think I was going to make it.  Website troubles, crashing video system,  daughter graduating, what a mess.  I had to say no to a 9 day business trip to Geneva because of the graduation.  And this, the 500th Anniversary of John Calvin!!  Does she owe me.
I’ve not been completely wasting the time, thinking, planning, [...]

Merry Christmas!

Yes, I can read a calendar but the greeting is for those who came to church yesterday and won’t be back until Christmas.  Its a sad comment that this rings true and because of this there is a temptation to turn worship services into opportunities to evangelize.  This I believe to be an error.  While [...]