Something I thought I’d never see…
Sunday, December 21st, 2008Gas prices in the $1.50s again.
Archive for December, 2008
Kid Logic
Wednesday, December 17th, 2008When my wife asked 2-year-old Kendall why she doesn’t like green beans, she responded without hesitation, “Because I’m little!”
Government is not the solution; government is the problem
Saturday, December 13th, 2008What do the current riots in Greece teach us? The Wall Street Journal Online article is found at: http://online.wsj.com/article_email/SB122904354644400355-lMyQjAxMDI4MjE5MjAxNDIzWj.html.
I did a double-take when I read this in an article: “The abdication of responsibility was in part the result of the New Democracy party’s abandonment of the values of classical liberalism, whose cornerstone is the rule of law and the respect of private property.” That’s not classical liberalism, that’s classical conservatism!
I also gulped hard when I read that the Chief of the National Police said: “Violence cannot be fought with violence.” Huh? That’s the ONLY way to deal with violence at the societal, national, and international levels (though Jesus said that we should be pacifists at the personal level). As the ancient Romans said, “If you want peace, prepare for war.”
This situation shows how far downhill society goes when a nation goes far down the road of the nanny state. It’s completely wrongheaded: the government is not protecting its people from criminals (which it IS supposed to do) and it is promising welfare after the riots are over (which it IS NOT supposed to do).
Ronald Reagan is still right: “Government is not the solution; government is the problem.”
What more proof do we need that capitalism works than…
Wednesday, December 10th, 2008that you can send a “Lobster-gram” (complete with crab cakes and dessert!) to anybody in the world? Amazing!
Christmas, in principle
Tuesday, December 9th, 2008We love the trappings of Christmas. No amount of commercialism can quench the true Spirit of the season. “The light shines in the darkness, but the darkness has not understood it” (John 1:5). Yet the true Light still shines, and shines.
We love the Scriptural accounts of the Incarnation. They each give their flavor to the story: Matthew’s magi, Luke’s shepherds, and John’s Word become flesh.
What the gospels relate in narrative, the epistles explain in principle.
“For what the law was powerless to do in that it was weakened by the sinful nature, God did by sending his own Son in the likeness of sinful man to be a sin offering” (Romans 8:3).
“Your attitude should be the same as that of Christ Jesus: Who, being in very nature God, did not consider equality with God something to be grasped, but made himself nothing, taking the very nature of a servant, being made in human likeness” (Philippians 2:5-7).
“For God was pleased to have all his fullness dwell in him, and through him to reconcile to himself all things, whether things on earth or things in heaven” (Colossians 1:19-20).
“But when the kindness and love of God our Savior appeared, he saved us, not because of righteous things we had done, but because of his mercy” (Titus 3:4-5).
“The Son is the radiance of God’s glory and the exact representation of his being, sustaining all things by his powerful word” (Hebrews 1:3).
“That which was from the beginning, which we have heard, which we have seen with our eyes, which we have looked at and our hands have touched – this we proclaim concerning the Word of life. The life appeared; we have seen it and testify to it, and we proclaim to you the eternal life, which was with the Father and has appeared to us” (I John 1:1-2).
The Grand Miracle…this is why Christmas is truly the most wonderful time of the year!