Susan's Pendulum

Oops. Check out that color. Our house was orange. Yes, yes, a brownish orange, indeed. But oranger than I liked. So when it was tim...

"Not everything in the Bible actually happened." Some people think that.  Some people think that God didn't really say wh...

About a month ago I was horrified to see the abortion pill on sale at Walgreens, big and bold, obvious and in-your-face, on the shelf next t...

Shrewd.  It sounds sneaky.  And slick.  And cheaty.  And bad. So in Psalm 18, it seems weird to pray, With the merciful, You will show Y...

Pastor has been having fun recently pointing out connections between stories.  He keeps reminding us that the chapter/verse divisions weren...

Remember the parable of the unjust steward (Luke 16)?   It's one of those confusing stories -- the master commends the guy who did somet...

Sixteen hymns in our new hymnal by Timothy Dudley-Smith, several mentioning God's sovereignty .  Overall there's not really anything...

Luke 9:13 -- "You give them something to eat."  "We ain't got nuthin'." But earlier in the chapter, Jesus had...

Quick review, in case you don't remember what you learned in confirmation class:  The first three commandments are the First Table of th...

A modern play.  Not the kind we usually go see at APT .  But boy, I'm glad we went.  Molly Sweeney isn't just a story.  The words...

Novelty, simply as such, can have only entertainment value. And [Christians] don’t go to church to be entertained. They go to use the servi...

I told a chemistry joke.... There was no reaction. stolen from Melody

I think I fixed it! Loads of old programs were wiped out and not re-installed.  I even figured out how to delete the back-up file that was...

So this fellow wants to follow Jesus.  But first he wants to say bye to his family.  Jesus says that no one who looks back is fit for the ki...

Can you tell the difference between a piano, a tuna fish, and a bucket of glue? Well, you can tune-a piano, but you can't piano a tu...

Jeremiah talks about suffering and mercy and the Lord's compassion (Lamentations 3) .  Though He causes grief, yet He will show compas...

Boy, the things you learn in choir.... "Doth" does not rhyme with "moth." It says like "duth," like as if it...

Elad Nehorai writes that he didn't love his wife when they were married.  It is a most-excellent article about what love IS, and how se...

Earlier this summer, we had to change filters on the Culligan water filters.  But after the maintenance, something went wrong.  The line kee...