God is good, all the time — All the time, God is good!” It was a phrase that was well used, even before I arrived as Pastor of Grundy Baptist Church in January 2002. Located in the far southwestern part of Virginia (on the border of Kentucky and West Virginia), Grundy is in the heart of coal…
Emergency Appendectomies & God’s Providence
“For you formed my inward parts; You covered me in my mother’s womb. I will praise You, for I am fearfully and wonderfully made; Marvelous are Your works, and that my soul knows very well.” Psalm 139:13-14 “There’s no known reason for the appendix.” That was what someone mentioned to me the day after emergency surgery…
Tim Tebow & Coaches Who Fail to Study History
Those who fail to learn from the mistakes of their predecessors are destined to repeat them. (Paraphase of a George Santayana quote from “The Life of Reason, Volume 1: Reason in Common Sense”) When all is said and done, will the two Johns — Fox and Elway — be counted with Howard and Meyer or with Dorminey? Meyer,…
Scanners: The Tim Tebow Edition
One of my favorite science fiction/horror movies of the 1980’s (yes, I’m dating myself) was Scanners. If you are unfamiliar with the premise, two brothers are separated at birth. Both have psychic powers which not only can control other people’s minds, but can be used to inflict great pain on the mind, even to the point of…
Tim Tebow: Confounding His Critics One Game at a Time
Moving the goalposts is an informal logical fallacy in which previously agreed upon standards for deciding an argument are arbitrarily changed once they have been met. This is usually done by the “losing” side of an argument in a desperate bid to save face. If the goalposts are moved far enough, then the standards can…