I joined (or more accurately re-joined) a small group last night, one of the many associated with Westside Family Church (WFC) and connected with their recently opened Leavenworth campus. I promised the other members of the group that I would research (it’s one of my talents/gifts) one of the study questions from the guide (which can be found here) for this week’s installment of the Model Family sermon series.
Category: Christianity
Looking Like Christmas in Kansas City
You can always count on Hallmark and Crown Center to pull out all the stops at Christmas time. I drive through the heart of Crown Center twice a day during my commute. The December mornings are especially pretty in the pre-dawn darkness:
Happy Birthday Aunt Jan and C.S. Lewis!
“Happy Birthday” to my Aunt Jan in Ohio. She’s shown between her two older brothers in the photo below taken a couple of years ago at my dad’s 70th birthday bash:
Incidentally, all of the above are born in the same month — November — as is my husband and my daughter-in-law. I’ve blogged about this before. Here’s a photo from their early days (circa 1953):
I have many fond memories of my Aunt Jan. I remembering spending a summer or part of a summer with my grandparents (her mother and father) in St. Paul, Minnesota, when I was about six (circa 1970) and Jan was still in college (she was probably about 20).
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Dear Abby: Traditional Thanksgiving Prayer
DEAR READERS: Tomorrow is Thanksgiving, and no Thanksgiving would be complete without my sharing the traditional prayer penned by my dear mother:
Oh, Heavenly Father,
We thank Thee for food and remember the hungry.
We thank Thee for health and remember the sick.
We thank Thee for friends and remember the friendless.
We thank Thee for freedom and remember the enslaved.
May these remembrances stir us to service,
That Thy gifts to us may be used for others.
Amen.
Have a safe and happy celebration, everyone! — Love, ABBY
Posted today on Dear Abby’s blog.
Is the Force A Religion? | Tor.com
http://www.tor.com/blogs/2014/11/is-the-force-a-religion
Believe it or not I’ve discussed Star Wars, the Jedi and the Force during Bible studies. I kid you not.
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Living in the Spirit Cover Reveal
Cover reveal for my uncle’s first book. Available now (a bit early) from some retailers.
Loving Your Neighbor, Even the One You Hate
“There is another way … “Do not seek revenge or bear a grudge against anyone among your people, but love your neighbor as yourself.” (Leviticus 19:18)
Movie Review: Seven Days in Utopia (2.5 Stars)
Watched in February 2014
Synopsis from IMdb: After a disastrous debut on the pro circuit, a young golfer finds himself unexpectedly stranded in Utopia, Texas and welcomed by an eccentric rancher.
My Thoughts: Friday night after a short but long week at work and a wicked day of firefighting on the IT front line at a large law firm, I came home to an enjoyable dinner of tasty tacos with my hubby. He had scheduled a band practice for the evening (the second one of the week), so I attempted to read, but couldn’t concentrate. I switch to surfing through my Netflix streaming queue and stumbled across Seven Days in Utopia, seeing that Robert Duvall starred in the movie. You can rarely go wrong watching Duvall, so I started watching while the band in the basement practiced classic rock covers.
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We might be destroying the universe just by looking at it
Weird on more than one level.
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The 7 Most Intriguing Philosophical Arguments for the Existence of God
I knew there was a reason I never pined to be a philosophy major in college. Although Descartes gets my vote for being eminently mathematical and practical.
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Addendum from my uncle:
There were five “proofs” in my day, and two arguments why there couldn’t be a God.
What all these arguments (pro and con) lack, even the ones which are “sufficient” is that they aren’t “necessary.” They might explain how God might be possible, or not possible, (some better than others) but they don’t PROVE the existence or nonexistence of God.
Therefore, they fail to accomplish what they purport to do: prove the existence of God.
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