Tagged With: Creation
QTMs for 4/25/16: WHAT DOES IT TAKE TO ‘REALLY’ TICK GOD OFF?
Tell Him he doesn’t know what He’s talking about. Seriously. That’ll do it. Make fun of His created order, of His rules for living, and of how He organized His Universe in general and our world in particular. Look God right in the eye and tell Him He’s an idiot. Better yet, lay this one on ‘im: … Continue reading
Christmas Eve QTMs: YOU HAVE NO IDEA
“The Christian era won’t be over even if America loses its way. “ I wasn’t reading so much as scanning. Scanning picks up verbs, lightly brushing over adverbs and adjectival modifiers like cooks brush oil or butter over the rolls that just came out of the oven. Scanning. High-speed ‘reading’. Half a paragraph away before … Continue reading
QTMs for 10/25/15 – It’s All In What You Do With It
Breathing is as natural as, well, as breathing. None of us give it a thought unless it stops for some reason. Then things get serious. Real. Breath is another of those unappreciated but oh-so-necessary gifts from God. “God formed man out of dirt from the ground and blew into his nostrils the breath of life. … Continue reading
QTMs for 9/17/15: SO YOU THINK YOU CAN CHALLENGE GOD…
“Who could confront me and get by with it? I’m in charge of all this—I run this universe!” That’s what Job heard when he’d whined that God wasn’t paying attention to Job’s problems, had ignored his plight and evidently had singled him out to be Heaven’s whipping post. Attributing human traits to God doesn’t work. … Continue reading
Q(uiet) T(ime) M(usings) for 8/31/15: THE HAPPY WARRIOR
My eyes suddenly popped open in the way we all wake from time to time. Something had been occupying my subconscious that bubbled closer and closer to my mind’s surface until. . . here’s where you moisten your lips, form them to begin to say the letter ‘m’, and suddenly blow out. POP. I’m guessing it was the … Continue reading