Race is over

Sadly the race has come to an end.  Due to an injury that my Dad sustained, the race has been cancelled.  He was the winner in the points category, and I was ahead in the miles.  So it was a good contest, not to be repeated again by mutual consent.

June Race Totals

Dad                  1100 miles
Monocogman      900 miles
The lead for Monocogman has been cut to 318 miles. Finally in July the two contestants will see each other, and even ride together. Also, Dad has some traveling days as he comes to Minnesota for awhile. Should be interesting to see how the month plays out.

May Race Totals

Now that we are in May, the race miles are even against each other. But May had some down time for both of the racers. My Dad attended a funeral in Wisconsin, and then came across to MN for a short visit. Our family was out of town for a week at family camp in Joplin, MO. So this affected mileage totals. Dad 811 miles. Me 600 miles. My lead is now down to 518 miles.

April race results

Well April was an interesting month.  A lot of rain came through our area, and a busy schedule kept me from the bicycle.  Thus my total was 523.5, multiplied by 2 came out to 1047.  Dad fought strongly, and finished with 1063 miles.  So Dad won his first month, and closed the gap to 729 miles.  But he is to be congratulated the most for his final day of the month.  He started out around 6:00am and rode 177 miles by midnight, then kept riding as the new month started for another 28 miles, giving a total of 205 miles for a 24 hour period.  Remember the point system, there is 500 points to be awarded for the man who rides the most miles in a 24 hour period.  His total will be tough to beat.

Now that May has begun, the miles are even until October 1st.  Will that lead hold up for Monocogman?

Race update

The late figures for the month of March are here.

Dad 883 miles
Monocogman 441.2 miles, multiplied by 2.5 = 1103.

The lead is now 745 miles for Monocogman. April miles are multiplied by 2 in favor of Monocogman. Then May arrives, when for 5 months it is even miles. Look out, the race will tighten up.

Good Friday?

Jesus Christ said, "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." Jesus Christ said of himself that he is the way, the truth, and the life. All that he said is truth. He also said that the devil is the father of lies.

I John 2:21, "I have not written unto you because ye know not the truth, but because ye know it, and that no lie is of the truth."

Now if I were to ask a child if there were three nights between Friday evening and Sunday morning, they would answer of course not. No wonder Jesus said, " Except ye be converted, and become as little children, ye shall not enter into the kingdom of heaven." Because children would simply believe what their maker said. I don't know what the vast majority of pastors in this country are taught, but how they continue to follow this Good Friday tradition is beyond me. Simple math of counting to three shows that it is not so. Jesus Christ did not die on Friday, but rather Wednesday, as a simple Bible study shows.

Now if they lie to you on this subject, how many other lies do they tell?

Gaza, a lost cause

The prophet Zephaniah wrote, " For Gaza shall be forsaken". We learn from our reading in the Old Testament that Gaza was one of the areas that the Philistines inhabited. Judges 16:21 reads concerning Samson, "But the Philistines took him, and put out his eyes, and brought him down to Gaza, and bound him with fetters of brass; and he did grind in the prison house." The Philistines were the enemies of Israel. There never was peace between Israel and the Philistines. The only thing the Philistines understood was force. Either they used it against Israel to take land and spoil, or Israel used force in return to stop their attacks.

Move ahead to 2012. Nothing has changed. The Palestinians are the descendants of the Biblical Philistines. They are still attacking Israel as their one purpose in life. They still only understand force. There will be no peace with them, and our text shows that one day they will be forsaken as a people and utterly wiped out as another of the Lord's prophets wrote.

Zechariah 12:
8 In that day shall the LORD defend the inhabitants of Jerusalem; and he that is feeble among them at that day shall be as David; and the house of David shall be as God, as the angel of the LORD before them.
9 And it shall come to pass in that day, that I will seek to destroy all the nations that come against Jerusalem.