History is interesting to me. Through the various seasons of life my interest in it has waxed and waned, but right now I'm really interested in it. My work at the California Trail Interpretive Center in Elko, NV has been very rewarding and has opened up new areas of knowledge and interest to me. As [...]
Category: Scripture
Daniel 2:1-28a – Know Your Audience!
Know your audience! This is an admonition that we should always keep in mind whether we're writing or speaking. Understanding the perspective of those with whom we wish to communicate is crucial to being able to convey our message truthfully and with grace. If you carefully read the books of the New Testament, for example, [...]
Daniel 1:8-21 – Living with integrity when a culture wants to cancel you (pt. 2)
For those of you who don't know me well, I'll give you a bit of background about myself. I was a schoolteacher for 30 years (high school AP Physics and Geology, primarily) as well as doing various special assignment types of things for the school (tech support, university liaison, data analyst, etc.). After that I [...]
Daniel 1:1-7 – Living with integrity when a culture wants to cancel you (pt. 1)
I am currently reading a very good book by Pete Hegseth and David Goodwin called "Battle for the American Mind: Uprooting a Century of Miseducation." In it they talk about the great influence that socialistic, political, and anti-Christian "values" have had on the development of our education system since the late 1800s. They explore the [...]
New Bible Study: Daniel
I haven't published a Bible Study post since June 6. I bit off a bigger project than I was capable of completing. In my previously announced study I was going to use the Baptist Faith and Message as a guide to a doctrinal study and, after completing the first 3 posts, I was quickly swamped [...]