God Centered Dad

 I have often mentioned the salvation from the penalty of sin that is available through Jesus, the Christ, the Son of God. I have not, however, explained what it is and how to attain it. I want to change that with this article. To do so, I will need to start at the beginning of time at the creation, and walk you through the ways that God has revealed Himself to humanity over time. There will be some jumping back and forth through the Scriptures to grab proof texts, but the story of salvation marches from Genesis all the way to Revelation. There seems to be a misunderstanding among not only non-Christians, but even a lot of Christians, about how and when God's moral code was given to men, and how He has sought to encourage us to follow it. There are those who have rejected God who argue that the Bible is full of murder, intrigue, sexual indecencies and all manner of other things that Christians set themselves against, and they use this as an excuse to reject God. They are absolutel...

  I was offered the opportunity to go to a remote cabin with a man that I know from my church and his two young adolescent boys for this past weekend. The dad wanted a second responsible adult with him and his boys; but he asked me anyway. Besides the rough living and the ice fishing, this trip also gave me the opportunity to spend a fair bit of time on a snowmobile; something that I have not had the chance to do for around 20 years. With about a 45-minute trek one way across the frozen expanse of lakes and forest in order to get to or from the cabin, I got a good opportunity to brush up on my sledding abilities, especially since I got into minor jams on a number of occasions due to my inexperience on a power toboggan in combination with the conditions.  There were several places where wandering off the track by even a few inches caused the machine to tip over and you suddenly found yourself standing beside the machine in waist deep snow, which I did several times. This meant ...

We live in a world that is intent on tearing itself apart, with the best intentions. We are putting so much value on the individual person that we fail to see the long term implications that our decisions and actions will have on society as a whole. When we, as a society, see a person or a group of persons suffering, or as seems to be the case more often than not, appearing to be suffering, society wants to defend them. That's a wonderful sentiment! But we seem to have forgotten that actions and decisions should have consequences. The removal of consequences for bad decision making not only does, but already has created an environment wherein there is little thought given to the outcome of ones actions, at the personal, corporate and even the governmental levels of society. Without consequences and the related pains that come with them, we don't pay a price for jumping before we think things through, and there is no incentive to do better, to think things through and to consi...

   There is a BIG story in Canada right now about a school shooter in northern British Columbia (B.C.). There are not a lot of mass shootings in Canada, so when one happens, and it happens at a school, it is big news. But the coverage of this has been anything but honest.   I was first hearing about this shooting last night, as my wife fed me tidbits as she found them. What my wife was telling me, in the approximate order that I heard it, was that there was a shooting in B.C., it was at a school, the suspected shooter was a "female in a dress with brown hair", 10 dead, 25 injured, the shooter killed themselves. As soon as I heard that phrase, "female in a dress with brown hair", I said to my wife that women don't do mass shootings; that shooter is a transgender. This morning, I decided to do a media dive to see what the world is being told about this incident. I have a strong disdain for the media, for very good reason, so I was not holding out much hope that t...