There's A Hole In My Sidewalk

I walk down the street.
There is a deep hole in the sidewalk.
I fall in.
I am lost .... I am helpless.
It isn't my fault.
It takes forever to find a way out.

I walk down the street.
There is a deep hole in the sidewalk.
I pretend that I don't see it.
I fall in again.
I can't believe I am in this same place.
But, it isn't my fault.
It still takes a long time to get out.

I walk down the same street.
There is a deep hole in the sidewalk.
I see it is there.
I still fall in ... it's a habit ... but, my eyes are open.
I know where I am.
It is my fault.
I get out immediately.

I walk down the same street.
There is a deep hole in the sidewalk.
I walk around it.

I walk down another street.

Portia Nelson

"Unsafe" Abortions (?)

This just in- teaching people to count. Making my science education of some use.

Reuters headline:
Unsafe abortions kill 70,000 a year, harm millions
Tue Oct 13, 2009 1:29pm EDT

• Abortion rates fall but unsafe abortions still kill 70,000
• Women in countries with restrictive laws are at risk
• Dangerous abortion imposes heavy economic, health burden

Here is where the article completely makes the headline a (horrific) joke-

Despite easier access to abortion with restrictions being relaxed in many countries, the number of abortions fell from an estimated 45.5 million in 1995 to 41.6 million in 2003, the report by the U.S.-based Guttmacher Institute said.

But the study found a stubbornly high number -- almost 20 million -- of unsafe abortions, mostly in poorer countries and often carried out by the women themselves using inappropriate drugs or herbal potions, or by untrained traditional healers.

41.6 million abortions, to use the latest number, equals 41.6 million people killed per year-not 70,000.

41.6 million innocent human babies ground up and thrown away.

But to the media and the political left the horror is that an additional 70,000 women are killed.

To me, the horror is that 140,000 is the additional number killed, not 70,000.

To explain to the poor muddled masses of the left:

70,000 mothers + 70,000 babies killed each year in "unsafe" abortions = 140,000 dead.

41,600,000 + 140,000 makes an even 41,740,000 DEAD.

What is it that makes an abortion safe?

Apparently a 50% mortality rate is considered perfect, a "perfectly safe abortion." As long as one of the two people undergoing the procedure can walk away it is a "safe" abortion.

Usually that survivor is the mother, usually the one who dies is the baby: 50 - 50

Only when the mother is also at risk of injury or death is it "unsafe" and worthy of news coverage, international health outcry, and calls for more funds to ensure that 50/50 ratio is more carefully maintained.

see previous post here on the abortion holocaust.

"Glo"-ing endorsement?

Since the 1450's the Bible has remained unchanged. Yes, the word of God is unchanging, and must be vigilently defended and kept. But that is not what I am talking about.

Since Gutenberg invented the printing press and printed his first Bible five and a half centuries have passed and our Bibles have not changed in format.

I propose that those of us serious about the Bible and what it contains enter the 21st century.


Be sure to check out Glo "a better Bible."




Glo will be in retail stores on October 15, 2009. I have ordered it and post a review after I receive it and have a chance to look it over.

Sure its not cheap.
Don't make me start off on what you spend on meals, and movies, and clothes, and . . .
And it turns out to be only about what you pay for a leather bound Bible you set on the shelf in you library anyway.

WATERPROOF BIBLE!

Attention hardcore Bible carriers.

OK. I could have said Bible readers, but I am feeling a little vexatious today.

Check out this new Bible from Bardin & Marsee Publishing.

The new WATERPROOF BIBLE!

Now you can take your Bible with you on your camping trips.

Your motorcycle rides.

Outback at the pool or on the Family or Youth Beach trips.

You can even let your kids read your Bible.

Or, if you are like me. . .

You can read your Bible at your own desk in full confidence that the next time you knock over your glass---
it is only the computer you have to jump in to rescue!

NEVER FORGET

What does that mean to you?

Know this first of all, that no prophecy of Scripture is a matter of one's own interpretation, for no prophecy was ever made by an act of human will, but men moved by the Holy Spirit spoke from God. (2 Peter 1:20,21)

All scripture is inspired by God. (2 Tim 3:16)
"inspired" by God - theo pneustos That is literally, God breathed.
God actually breathed the words He wanted to give to us. That is truly amazing! Perhaps that is why scripture tells us "the word of God is living and active." (Heb 4:12) We know that "the LORD God formed man of dust from the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living being." (Gen 2:7) This similarity in creative work should give us reason to esteem the scripture carefully.
The men who were His "instruments" were faithful, and none of what was written was of their own interpretation. It was God's interpretation.

And yet...
So much of what is called "bible study" today is a group meeting, reading a passage from scripture, and then asking, "What does that passage mean to you?"
Just in case there is not someone there to volunteer, "Well, I think this means...", groups usually have a "study guide" which will conveniently have the guided question: "Ask each person to tell the group what this passage means to them."

That is not Bible study. It is simply shared ignorance.
Where is the one to proclaim, "thus saith the Lord?"
If there is no one who knows, let them (all) keep silent.
The key to Bible study is asking "What is God saying here?" "What does He mean?" (What does it mean to God?)

Asking, "What is this verse saying to you?" is making it your own personal interpretation, something even the writers dared not consider.

Whatever shall we do? Who will deliver us from our plight?

"And He gave some as apostles, and some as prophets, and some as evangelists, and some as pastors and teachers, for the equipping of the saints for the work of service, to the building up of the body of Christ; until we all attain to the unity of the faith, and of the knowledge of the Son of God, to a mature man, to the measure of the stature which belongs to the fullness of Christ.As a result, we are no longer to be children, tossed here and there by waves and carried about by every wind of doctrine, by the trickery of men, by craftiness in deceitful scheming;but speaking the truth in love, we are to grow up in all aspects into Him who is the head, even Christ."(Eph 4:11-15)

Christ has given us the gift of teachers. Actually the gift of pastor teachers.

Please keep that in mind the next time you hear...
"What does that mean to you?"

HUMILITY

Likewise, ye younger, submit yourselves unto the elder. Yea, all of you be subject one to another, and be clothed with humility: for God resisteth the proud, and giveth grace to the humble. (1 Peter 5:5)

See The American Thinker