Lessons From a Rich Fool
Jan 04
This sobering verse gives, in a nutshell, God's evaluation of people whose dominating concern is the accumulation of material possessions. Such a person is, by the Lord's own testimony, a fool.
A new category feature… Duh!
Mar 02
Everyone tells me that I am way to serious about stuff. Actually, I have a pretty lame sense of humor – something to do with spending thirty plus years living in a full house with a wife, a least a dozen young people, eight Jack Russell Terriers and a border dog named “Jack.” So, I created a special category called, “Duh!” This is where I will post at least one stupid story from around the world… a stupid story for every day of the year – unless you’re Jewish! If you are – then you get blessed with four additional stupid stories for free! Enjoy! William Cody Bateman P.S. By the way, I was known as “Spanky” each time I hiked portions of the 2,178-mile Appalachian Trail… that’s gotta’ count for something.
Why do "Christians" act and talk so… worldly?
Feb 25
In the Book of Ephesians are included several guidelines for the Christian's speech--how we should talk and what we should talk about. These are not easy rules to follow, but are necessary if we would please our Savior and be effective in our Christian lives and witness. As our text indicates, vulgar talk, idle chatter, and coarse jesting should "not be once named among you, as becometh saints" (5:3). "Let no corrupt communication proceed out of your mouth, but that which is good to the use of edifying, that it may minister grace unto the hearers" (4:29). The same applies to bitter, angry, malicious speech. "Let all bitterness, and wrath, and anger, and clamor, and evil speaking, be put away from you, with all malice" (4:31). And certainly our communications should be true and trustworthy. "Wherefore putting away lying, speak every man truth with his neighbor" (4:25).
Wisdom is found in being a fool…
Feb 19
"Where is the wise? where is the scribe? where is the disputer of this world? hath not God made foolish the wisdom of this world?" (I Corinthians 1:20). The scholars and scientists and intellectuals of this world may be held in great esteem by men, but to God, their humanistic reasonings are foolishness. In fact, the evolutionary philosophy which dominates the "wisdom of this world" has led to our modern amoral culture, to racism, to imperialism, to communism, Nazism, to New Age pantheism, humanism, atheism, abortionism, and to all manner of evil and foolish beliefs and practices.
Thirsty Captain Auto Pilots Vessel to Destruction
Oct 10
A 66-foot shrimp trawler crashed into a pier Thursday afternoon on the Intracoastal Waterway, damaging a boat, boat lifts and the floating dock, officials said. The wreck occurred about 3:15 p.m. when the boat was headed south near marker 121, which is near Mason Inlet, according to Petty Officer Liam Walmsley of the U.S. Coast Guard's Station at Wrightsville Beach. "He had it on autopilot and he had turned around to get a drink of soda," Walmsley said, citing the pilot's explanation for the wreck. "When he turned back around he was crashing into the pier."
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