It’s been impossible to keep up with blogging for the last couple of days because we’re in training for a new job as a barista at Clutch coffee bar.
Continue reading “That’s Cluch!”A sign…
An evil and adulterous generation seeks for a sign, but no sign will be given to it except the sign of Jonah.” So he left them and departed.
(Matthew 16:4) ESV
The river of the water of life
Then the angel showed me the river of the water of life, bright as crystal, flowing from the throne of God and of the Lamb
(Revelation 22:1) ESV
The wasted city is broken down
The wasted city is broken down; every house is shut up so that none can enter.
(Isaiah 24:10) ESV
Institutional Incompetence
Can wicked rulers be allied with you, those who frame injustice by statute?
(Psalms 94:20) ESV
If there’s one thing that the COVID-19 pandemic has taught us it’s that the authorities which govern us don’t know how to wield authority or govern us. However, they’ve given us some photographic gems.
Continue reading “Institutional Incompetence”Scum and Villainy Cantina
Rejoice in the Lord always; again I will say, rejoice. Let your reasonableness be known to everyone. The Lord is at hand; do not be anxious about anything, but in everything by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving let your requests be made known to God. And the peace of God, which surpasses all understanding, will guard your hearts and your minds in Christ Jesus.
(Philippians 4:4-7) ESV
We (that’s me and the Holy Spirit) recently had a Twitter exchange with someone who resented God for their very existence. We got nowhere trying to encourage them to be thankful.
Continue reading “Scum and Villainy Cantina”We dodged a dystopian hellscape, for now
Have you ever felt constrained? trapped? or tied down? If yes then hopefully you also know what it feels like the be released, set free, or liberated. We (that’s me and the Holy Spirit) are feeling this now.
Continue reading “We dodged a dystopian hellscape, for now”Tie Hair Get Ready
We (me and the Holy Spirit) don’t have any hair so in our case it’s more like shave head get ready. Ready for what? New beginnings.
Continue reading “Tie Hair Get Ready”How Did You Miss?
“The Guide says that there is an art to flying,” said Ford, “or rather a knack. The knack lies in learning how to throw yourself at the ground and miss.”
– Douglas Adams, The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy
I’m reading the Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy to my son while I’m homeschooling him. We do all of the school assignments of course, but I have a few assignments of my own. These include reading to him some of the books that have had particular significance in my life.
We have read through John Watson’s the Double Helix, and Arthur Ransom’s Swallows and Amazons. We read the Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, the Restaurant at the End of the Universe and we just started Life, the Universe and Everything. That’s when we got to the part about learning to fly.
It somehow produced, in my mind, a tenuous connection to the Matty’s Paradigm predictive testable hypothesis 22, which itself is an outgrowth of the Sophia Proton thought experiment.
Predictive Testable Hypothesis 22
- IF the Holy Spirit is the power of God to inspire human writers,
- AND the physics of the universe has been written in scripture so that it’s
- obvious and
- invisible,
- AND the physics of the universe has been written in scripture so that it’s
- THEN phrases or words that look like physics, geology, chemistry or biology should be treated as if they are physics, geology, chemistry or biology,
- AND the science will be congruent with the scriptural context.
The connection is, as I said, tenuous and, if I’m honest, I can’t quite put it into words at this time. However, it has something to do with so-called Biblical literalists not actually taking the Bible literally, and somehow managing to miss most of its meaning.
Something along those lines. I’ll figure it out.
Loyal to the Word of God
Study to shew thyself approved unto God, a workman that needeth not to be ashamed, rightly dividing the word of truth.
(2 Timothy 2:15) KJV
Speaking of George Muller (1805-1898)
He intended no assault upon brethren who hold other views, when he thus plainly stated in his journal the honest and unavoidable convictions to which he came; but he was too loyal to both the word of God and to his own conscience to withhold his views when so carefully and prayerfully arrived at through the searching of the scriptures.
– Arthur T. Pierson, George Muller of Bristol

I may be guilty of assaulting brethren who hold other views, but I certainly understand what it means to be loyal to the word of God and to my conscience. Here’s a quote from the book I’m currently reading, one which I’ve read before but return to.