Reposted from 2012. The message bears repeating. There's yet so much to learn. I can still say this at age seventy-one, and I do love learning at this ripe old age. But on this slow-moving Sunday afternoon in gloomy Trinity, Florida, I took the opportunity to rest my brain a little. In fact, I practically fell asleep in my tracks.  But I'm awake now! I have so much to do, so little time to finish it all. Motivated by the young man in this photo, I opened the online encyclopedia and read all about the 7th Cavalry that was created just after the American Civil War, about General Custer and the Battle of Little Bighorn where he lost every man in that Sioux Indian War in Lakota, Montana. Custer and his men were using inadequate weapons while Sitting Bull and his warriors had access to weapons of choice. Needless to say, it was "Custer's Last Stand."  Then I read on about how that 7th Cavalry was extended to the far reaches, evolving to include the sq...

Just wondering this afternoon, as I ponder church this morning... do choir directors and worship leaders NOT read the words to some of these worship songs?  These songs that make no sense whatsoever.  These songs that some songwriter wrote while in a drunken stupor on Saturday night before and then sang on Sunday morning for the first time.  Most of them have no scriptural validity, and those that do manage to eke out a tiny measure of sensibility change grammatical structure in the middle of it all. Now the song has even less meaning and absolutely no intrinsic value. The songwriters of the apostasy have done their part to "bring it on"! Just how far will we digress in worship experience before our spiritual leaders take a stand against such nonsense? Well, I don't think they're going to. Excuse me, I forgot momentarily that we are living in the age of the apostate church. In Laodicea ! Such a falling away from our first love (Revelation 3:14-22). J...