A little down time for a number of reasons.  Be back maybe next month.

4 Wonderful Daughters

My daughters were so kind to their dad on Father's Day.

They had recently seen my favorite outdoor chair give out.  So they gave dad a new chair, a shirt,  along with a candy bar,and a wallet to replace the one I have used for the last 10+ years; and then of course it wouldn't be Father's Day without a new tie.

Thank you again my daughters, I love you all so very much.

Wrong border Janet!!!

Homeland security director Janet Napolitano is working hard to secure the border.  The problem is she is concerned with the wrong border, the border between Saudi Arabia and Yemen.

http://www.worldtribune.com/worldtribune/WTARC/2010/me_gulf0487_06_03.asp

Of course Arizona is in the news concerning the border.  I live in Arizona, so I am well aware of the issue.  All we ask is that our border could have all the attention borders are given in various Middle Eastern nations by the federal government.

Thank you

I want to publicly thank all those that put this new page together for me.  I think it was mostly my wonderful wife, but maybe the girls also had their part in this.

Now back to your regularly scheduled programming.

What good is the beer industry for our country?

When you weigh the benefits of some jobs and tax revenue versus the harm it causes, one would have a very difficult job in persuading an unbiased judge of why we should allow it within the borders of our nation.  Rather if anything, simply export it to your enemy nations.  (of course I speak in jest on that last thought)

How many homes have been broken because of beer?
How many wives and children have been abused by a beer drinking man?
How many children go without the basics of life because the parents have to drink their beer?
How many young people have been addicted to booze, because they started out with "just one beer"?
How many young people have committed fornication under its influence?

I could go on for awhile with these kind of questions, but answer just one for me.

What good does the beer industry do for our homes, our cities, our country?

And if you do respond with jobs, simply listen to what the Lord says.
Habakkuk 2
15   Woe unto him that giveth his neighbour drink, that puttest thy bottle to him, and makest him drunken also, that thou mayest look on their nakedness!

Shame on those who drink beer.
Shame on those who sell beer.
Shane on those who distribute beer.

It is that time of year

Time to announce the 4th annual Independent Baptist Preacher's Mountain Bicycle Meeting. 

Yes once again the call goes out for all Baptist preachers to join in the desert southwest for some great mountain bicycle riding, preaching and fellowship.  We won't set up a race course like last year, that might have scared off too many of you.  Some come out to the western desert of Arizona with a message to preach and your bicycle to ride.  Leave an email address in the comment section and I will give you more details.

Three days and three nights

It is that time of the year again.  Many in the religious world are observing what they call "holy week".  They will hold services on what is called "Good Friday" in observance of the Lord's crucifixion.  This will be followed on Sunday morning with "sunrise services". 

Please note what the Lord said in Matthew 12:40,
"For as Jonas was three days and three nights in the whale's belly; so shall the Son of man be three days and three nights in the heart of the earth."

Well that doesn't fit too well into the Good Friday way of thinking.  No matter how you try to slice it, that is two nights, Friday and Saturday.

As far as the sunrise service, read what is written in John 20:1
"The first day of the week cometh Mary Magdalene early, when it was yet dark, unto the sepulchre, and seeth the stone taken away from the sepulchre."

So the resurrection took place before sunrise.

So if you really wanted to know the day he died and rose, study the scriptures.  You will find that the Lord Jesus died late on Wednesday afternoon, and rose after sunset Saturday.  After sunset is the start of the new day, so it still fits fine into being the first day of the week. 

One last thing, don't you think it to be strange that this "holiday" isn't on the same date each year?
But that is for another entry.

Just thought a little truth might be in order for those involved in "holy week".  It would seem strange to believe and practice a lie while trying to be holy.