God Centered Dad

  Have you ever noticed how much you look at your phone, or your computer, or your TV, just to get the latest news on whatever it is that catches your interest? We can literally watch the news 24 hours a day now, and that's not to say that we can access news media at all times, but what I am saying is that there is news actively being disseminated literally 24 hours a day. Things didn't used to be this way. When I was growing up, and really for most of my life, news was available on a scheduled basis. Your newspaper would get delivered in the morning. The radio station would deliver news twice an hour during the morning show, then give an updated news broadcast during the lunch hour and another updated news broadcast while you were going home from work. The rest of the day was mostly entertainment. On TV, there was the morning show which included news updates or you could watch a dedicated morning news show, noon would deliver another news show, the supper hour would deliver ye...

  For those of you who have read numerous of my posts, you will know that I have not worked to earn money for nearly six years now. I was previously self-employed, but the last invoice that I sent out from my business was sent in November of 2019. Since then, we have lived by God's provision. This is not to say that things have not been difficult, because they absolutely have been. There have been times when bills have gone unpaid and fresh food was scarce for us, but at the same time, we have always had food in the house; we have never gone hungry. There have been some ways that God has provided for us, the method of which I have not particularly appreciated. I have even complained to God about the manner of His provision! Talk about being ungrateful! But God, in His patience with me, gently but firmly told me that He decides how and when to provide for those who have committed to waiting on Him. I don't think that I have stated so yet, but God has released me to return to th...

   Recently, Keir Starmer, the Prime Minister of Britain, has announced that his government plans to introduce a digital identification system across it's territory. The impetus for this system is stated to be to ensure that only British citizens are able to secure employment in Britain, and this is the result of uncontrolled illegal immigration into the country for the last several years.  Illegal immigrants have been an issue for quite a number of years, but the numbers have really spiked over the last four years or so. The vast majority of the immigrants are young men of middle eastern descent and they arrive without families. There are very few women who make the trek, so the result is that Britain is enduring a slow invasion of military aged men with no relational attachments and who hold cultural views that are starkly contrary to those of the native population. Consecutive governments, lead by the Conservative and Labour parties, have claimed that they have no abil...

   I write the following with reservation. It isn't that I don't think that the assassination of Charlie Kirk is not worth talking about, because it most definitely is. The reason that I am reticent about writing about the murder of Charlie Kirk is that I do not want to seem to be benefiting from the tragedy that is Charlie's murder. I have a pretty decent idea about how algorithms work, so I know that when people search Charlie's name, myriad articles will come up in the results, and some of those results will include this article. I have waited a full week before I even contemplated writing anything on this topic in hopes that I will have missed the mad rush for everybody to dig into this tragedy for moral or immoral reasons. I have watched with a significant amount of disgust as people have celebrated Charlie Kirk's death. The absolute glee that has been displayed at the termination of a human life in such a macabre fashion should cause all of us to hang our head...

  I had no intention of delving into the Sean Feucht controversy, but it occurred to me that this is more than just a Christian controversy; this is, in fact a political controversy. For those of you who, like me, have been hearing about but otherwise largely ignoring the uproar that Sean Feucht has had swirling around him recently, here is a cole's notes version of what I have been able to gather.   Sean Feucht has been involved in the Christian music industry in some form or another for around 20 years. He is connected to Bethel Church, which has had it's own controversies over the years. Bethel Church is another one of those issues which I have not cared to dive into too deeply, so I will not be expounding on that here. I will say that, regardless of the controversies around Bethel Church, they have produced some very good worship music over the years, and we have to make a decision about whether we can use and appreciate that music apart from the controversies of the ...

  I have developed a very strong aversion to new technologies. Keep in mind that I have lived my life in the age wherein computers have gone from a novelty item that people didn't understand or see the value in having, to a time when most people carry more computing power in their pocket or purse than what was used to initially launch the entire NASA space program. And I have used a lot of this technology over the years for personal and business purposes as well as for entertainment purposes. But things have taken a turn as of late. My whole life, the notion of a sentient artificial intelligence (AI) has been the holy grail of technological advancement. And while we are not there yet, the strides that artificial intelligence has taken in just the last two or three years is staggering, and I think that it is also terrifying. This is partly due to the fact that the engineers are using AI to design the next level of AI. Talk about letting a monster design itself. In my article entitle...