Well, it's another snow day. Third in a row for this math teacher. I live in Eugene but work in Oakridge, 45 miles up Hwy 58 toward Willamette Pass. Oakridge has been without power and completely cut off from the outside world for about 5 days now. I can't help but wonder how the children I teach are doing. Most people rely on electricity to heat their homes, so my kids are likely really struggling with the cold. Only those who have wood or propane heat to supplement will be warm.

It seems to have become a Saturday night tradition in the Reagan household to eat pizza and watch a movie.  We like, on occasion, to watch a good spy thriller and the last two Saturday evenings we watched the first two movies in the Jason Bourne series.  This isn't really a review, by the way, and I'm not even going to recommend that you watch the movies.  The movies were very dark, missing almost completely any portrayal of human goodness.  (The second movie was even darker than the first.)  What is prompting me to write this morning is that the ending scenes of th

It’s July 5th and this morning I stepped out on our balcony and put out our flag one more time.  We don’t have a bracket to insert the pole into, so I used spring clips to attach it to the railing.  It doesn’t really matter how it is displayed, the flag is a symbol of our nation and of our devotion to America.  I love my nation and this Independence Day season I have been feeling particularly proud to be an American...

The slide into sin often follows a threefold pattern...

Years ago, when we were still homeschooling our sons, my youngest son, David, created a web site full of very nice graphics that can be used as walpaper, icons or whatever.  He even used some of them to make real tiles that he sent to his grandmothers as gifts.  That site has been sitting inactivated and static for years but just the other day David reactivated it.  It's still a great site and you can check it out here:

https://christgraphics.com

Enjoy!

Jesus told Peter that the church would be built on the rock of revelation.  Here are some thoughts on that passage.

Always it came down to violence.  Those who opposed the gospel could not prevail by reason because reason pointed to Christ.........

Is anyone in America listening?  They should be.........

Far too many Christians have joined the rest of the world in condemning and complaining and picking at everything the president does or says.  Tell me, does that attitude display the kind of love showcased here in 1 Corinthians 13?

Here is a review of a book I just read.