Onward, Forward, Toward…

Reading the sports pages online after the first series of football games, I was reminded about an interesting piece of sports statistics that has occurred since the late 1930’s. Adam Schefter’s special article to NFL.com entitled Redskins to cast the deciding vote discussed this phenomeon where every time before the presidental election:

If the Redskins won their last home game before the election, the incumbent political party of the president won reelection.
If the Redskins lost the their last home game before the election, the opposing political party against the president …

Ooooh…………………
You’re playing hooky from God……
I’m gonna tell……………..
And you’re going to hell……….

I had received numerous comments in reference to my post No More Church Until Mid November that wondered what I was going to do with my time away from church. This particular Sunday….

Reading the Scriptures, one notices that when a man of God had to go away for a trial, there were two places that these people went
A Cave or the Wilderness

He’s a rebel and a runner
He’s a signal turning green
He’s a restless young romantic
Wants to run the big machine
He’s got a problem with his poisons
But you know he’ll find a cure
He’s cleaning up the systems
To keep his nature pure……

When Neil Peart of Rush wrote the lyrics to the song “New World Man” in the early 1980’s, he was comparing and contrasting the differences between the old world, new world, and third world man. However, as I listened to this song again while watching my Rush in Rio DVD, …

Diane at Crossroads sent me an e-mail many days ago that I finally got around to reading. It was a link to the lengthy article In God’s Name, Guidelines for Proper Political Involvement written by Michael Horton that does one of the most thorough articulations concerning the Jesus the Politician movement that has consumed the Religious Right in America. Horton does a most excellent job of showing us how God’s name has been abused in the name of personal agendas and pragmatism to promote social action that is …

I was going through my e-mail box determining which e-mails I no longer needed and I discovered a e-mail that was sent to me from a fellow church member many months ago that really touched me:

Anti-Christ of the week ending 10-30-04 is: