Please, everybody, join in prayer for Erlene’s son, Eric, who had to go to the emergency room last night after suffering a stroke. He’s only 57.
O Lord our God, we know all healing comes from you. Have mercy, Father, on your servant Erlene and her son, Eric: shelter them under the shadow of your wings, and give Eric full recovery from his stroke. In Jesus’ name, Amen.
Please join in prayer for my friend, Betty, a dear friend of ours. I haven’t been asked to give you the particulars: just that she has certain health issues that concern us.
Please, Father in heaven, have mercy on our friend, Betty, and deliver her out of trouble. Please, Father, heal her–as we know you can. We ask for this blessing in Jesus’ mighty name, Amen.
My wife has just listened to my 2016 “webinar” with Andrea Schwartz and pronounced it very interesting. She’s never wrong about things like that, so it’ll probably interest you, too, if you give it a chance. I posted it on this blog earlier this morning, so you can easily find it on the home page. If you’re reading this, you’re probably on the home page now. Funny how that works out.
I hope nobody minds if I don’t report on politics this weekend–which I will do, of course, if I think I have to. But only if I have to. I’m feeling just a bit used-up. I think I’d be the better for a nice cigar, followed by a movie. It’s raining, so I’ll need my umbrella.
I do enjoy doing interviews, but no one’s asked me to do one lately.
It has always been a not widely observed tradition in my home town to celebrate May 3 as Thutmosis Day: for on that day, in 1453 B.C., Thutmosis III became Pharaoh of Egypt.
Well, I missed it yesterday because I was occupied with other things, and now today I’ve read that May 3 has nothing to do with Thutmosis and the year is way wrong, too. It’s either 1470-something or 1500-something, but it’s not 1453. As for May 3, it wasn’t even his birthday, let alone his coronation day.
Upon becoming Pharaoh, Thutmosis III proceeded to conquer a bunch of people who had never done him any harm. It is not understood why he did this. It seems there’s always some kook, or small group of kooks, or great big mass of kooks, who wants to rule the world and subject everyone else to whatever it is they fancy. Once upon a time it was Genghis Khan. Now it’s globalists. They have private jets and expensive drinks at Davos. Thutmosis III would not have cared for them.
Now that we know all the days are hopelessly wrong, it seems somewhat pointless to continue to celebrate Thutmosis Day, not that many people were doing so. For the foreseeable future, May 3 will have to be content with being just May 3.
Its days are numbered
In the wake of President Trump’s executive order cutting off federal research grants to colleges and universities that refuse to honor the First Amendment’s guarantee of free speech, 28 states have enacted free speech legislation (https://www.campusreform.org/?ID=12186).
Not only that–16 more have introduced such legislation and are currently working on it. Hey, that’s 44 out of 50! Iowa, Oklahoma, and Kentucky are the latest to come on board, with Texas expected to join them in a few days.
In general, the new laws stop the colleges from restricting free speech to “free speech zones,” limiting the free speech rights of students and faculty, withholding resources from anyone whose ideology doesn’t match the college’s.
America’s colleges and universities are currently infamous for enforcing uniformity of speech and thought. They call it “diversity.”
We’ll see if they keep on doing this, once it starts costing them.
I did this webinar with Andrea Schwartz for Chalcedon, so if you can stand the sound of my voice for 50 minutes, well, here you are!
I’ve done a lot of interviews about my books, but this was the first time I’d ever talked with anyone who’d actually read them. That made it more fun.
Anyway, here I am. Enjoy the conversation.
Here’s another Charles Wesley hymn by Maddy Prior and the Carnival Band–Lo He Comes with Clouds Descending. This is the event longed for by every Christian in the world.
And in the meantime: sing, pray, work.
Our kittens were much more interested in the underside of the bed. They disappeared one day. When I finally looked under the bed, suddenly out from the box spring popped the two little upside-down head. They’d found a hole in the fabric, and in they went.
I would have rather they’d frolicked on top of the bed like they do in this video.
And I’ll bet our kittens weren’t the only ones who wanted to get inside the box spring. I don’t see the attraction, myself.
After perusing more nooze than is good for me, I need to lift up mine eyes unto the hills and rinse out my brain. So I hope you don’t mind another hymn
Why this one? I don’t know. It’s been on my mind all day, and I think that means I ought to post it.
To God Be the Glory, by Fanny Crosby: sung by the Apostolic Christian Men’s Group. Background sets by God the Father.
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