Lord of the Sabbath
Lord of the Sabbath Matthew 12.1-8 At that time Jesus went through the grain fields on the Sabbath. His disciples were hungry, and they began to pluck heads of grain to eat. But when the Pharisees saw it, they said to him, “Look, your disciples are doing what is not...
Bike Commuter (Part Two)
The Bike I am not a great cyclist. I never could have been a competitive racer—a nervous Nellie on descents, too big for climbing, and not particularly skilled at challenging terrain. Still, I have managed to log over 100,000 miles of biking. Riders like me are...
Bike Commuter (Part One)
There’s considerable discussion these days about whether global warming is a reality, even though 9 of 10 scientists agree that it is. (Does it ever bother you that scientists all get lumped together in questions of science? I mean, does a researcher of...
Asleep Assessments
“When a man is getting better he understands more and more clearly the evil that is still left in him. When a man is getting worse he understands his own badness less and less. A moderately bad man knows he is not very good; a thoroughly bad man thinks he is all right. This is common sense, really. You understand sleep when you are awake, not while you are sleeping. You can see mistakes in arithmetic when your mind is working properly; while you are making them you cannot see them. You can understand the nature of drunkenness when you are sober, not when you are drunk.” – C.S. Lewis
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