Back Again

Last year, I started this blog, but apparently no one was reading it, so I stopped. Now I have decided to reopen it and take some proactive steps to get readers. One change I want to make is to make this site available for those who have questions about the Bible and doctrine and if you are having problems that you want some counsel on, to have a place where we can begin to make contact. I must warn you though, that I am not a trained counsellor, nor a theologian. But I have spent many years searching out answers for myself and waiting on the Lord for understanding.

But, in addition, I have lived, at this point, just short of sixty-five years, forty-eight of them as a man who has given his life to Jesus Christ and most of the rest in the church. I've seen the good, the bad and the ugly, and, also, that which has seemed good but turned out not to be so in the end. Moreover, I have not merely been an observer. I suppose, I have done my share of each.

I am hoping that all of this may be of help to you the reader and I do invite you to ask unrelated questions which I may be able to get to in time.

I have a few rules. The first is that I do not respond to profanity at all and will remove posts that are filled with obscenities without comment, for several reasons. Firstly, profanity is profane and wrong. Secondly, it has been shown that the place in the human brain where profanity is stored is different from the place where rational thought is stored. It is a lazy brain that substitutes a profanity for a proper word. In those years of my life where I was in public schools ( I still substitute), I noticed that students frequently used a profane word or strings of profanity when they could not dig the proper word out of their brains. And, lastly, profanity belittles the one it is used on, and, perhaps, strangely, also the one who uses it. Despite outward braggadocio and vanity, you cannot elevate yourself, if you put so little value on others. If you don't believe this is so, it is probably due to youth or a poorly observed life.

So, do feel free to respond, not only to my blog itself, but also to challenge me or ask questions you might want to have answered.