Church & politics

@GeorgeCarlinSez: If churches want to play the game of politics, let them pay admission like everyone else.

Amen!

He said to them, "Then give back to Caesar what is Caesar's, and to God what is God's." (Luke 20:25 NIV)

Does the Response to Hurricane Irene Prove Big Government Works?

@ChristianPost: Does the Response to Hurricane Irene Prove Big Government Works? http://t.co/xfQliaC

Do We Really Need A National Weather Service?

Do We Really Need A National Weather Service? | FoxNews.com
http://www.foxnews.com/opinion/2011/08/27/do-really-need-national-weather-ser...

Uninterrupted weekend?

Looks like I'll be getting a weekend uninterrupted by work for the first time in 5 weeks! Thanks for finally coming through West Michigan weather!
#wmiwx

Interesting severe weather event last night

Interesting severe weather event last night over Southern Lower Michigan:

http://www.crh.noaa.gov/images/grr/surveys/20110825_August_24th_Updated_Sever...

Preaching the Resurrection

It would have taken something spectacular like this to make 11 apostles and many others willing to be martyred...

Preaching the Resurrection August 25, 2011 "And with great power gave the apostles witness of the resurrection of the Lord Jesus: and great grace was upon them all." (Acts 4:33) There are multitudes today who believe that Christ's resurrection was a "spiritual" resurrection, insisting that the idea of a dead body returning to life after three days in the grave is completely unscientific and impossible. This was not what the apostles preached with great grace and great power, however. They would hardly have been excited about any kind of spiritual resurrection, since everyone--both Jews and the pagan Gentiles--believed in life after death. If that was their message, no one would have doubted, and no one would have cared. Even when the disciples saw the resurrected Christ, they first "supposed that they had seen a spirit" (Luke 24:37). Christ even had to urge them to "handle me, and see; for a spirit hath not flesh and bones, as ye see me have" (Luke 24:39). When the disciples finally became convinced of His bodily resurrection, they were quickly transformed into courageous evangelists, willing even to die in support of their glorious message of salvation. The resurrection was, indeed, contrary to scientific law and all human experience, and this very fact proved to them that their Lord was Himself the divine lawgiver and Author of all human experience. All other founders and leaders of human religions, ancient or modern, are themselves subject to death, but He alone has triumphed over death. Only the Creator of life can conquer death, and the resurrection proves that Jesus Christ is Creator, as well as Savior. Therefore, when we today, like the apostles of old, proclaim the resurrection of Christ, we know that His name is above every name, and this enables us also to witness with great power, in great grace. HMM Print this article | More Days of Praise articles Institute for Creation Research | 1806 Royal Lane | Dallas | TX | 75229 Powered by phplist. This email was sent to kc5nhz@yahoo.com. To unsubscribe, change your email address, or update your subscription, please go to www.icr.org/change

Women's Equality Day

August 25th is Women's Equality Day. June is Gay and Lesbian Pride Month. You do the math.

Weather pix

ICR Witnessing to Evolutionary Philosophers

Witnessing to Evolutionary Philosophers http://www.icr.org/article/6166/

TV meteorologist misses SKYWARN training

My weather weenie friends will catch this. Long story short, it's a really a wall cloud, which occasionally produces tornadoes.

http://t.co/rceAQ15

RT @stormpics  @FindTheTornado

Physical labor for a change

Took a day off from work and ended up helping my energizer bunny in-laws with the backyard fence. My job was to dig up roots and stumps. It is fun to do that kind of stuff and to see tangible results. When I worked for a landscape company prior to getting into the NWS, my favorite job was shoveling snow because I never had to worry about overheating, it was a good workout, and the results were obvious.

However, I'm thankful not to be employed in a physical labor career - not because it's "beneath me", but because the only way I can keep my racing mind from driving me crazy is to hyper-focus on more mentally challenging stuff (ah, ADHD). And of course, physical labor takes a toll on the body after a while.

Still going!

From The Band to Beastie Boys to Hot Chocolate! You gotta be kidding me!!

This & that

Crank it up!

Got a garage band one street over blasting Loving Cup by the Stones. This is so un-East Grand Rapids, but I'm digging it :)

Questioning God

This is a very hard pill for even many of us

Christian scientists to swallow...

From: The Institute for Creation Research <webmaster@my.icr.org>
Date: August 14, 2011 2:31:50 AM EDT
To: kc5nhz@yahoo.com
Subject: August 14 - Questioning God

Questioning God August 14, 2011 "Nay but, O man, who art thou that repliest against God? Shall the thing formed say to him that formed it, Why hast thou made me thus?" (Romans 9:20) Whenever one begins a question with "why," he should realize that the answer must necessarily be theological, not scientific. Science can deal with the questions of "what" and "how," sometimes even with "where" and "when," but never with "why"! The "why" questions have to do with motives and purposes, even when dealing with natural phenomena. ("Why does the earth rotate on its axis?" "Why do we have mosquitoes?") Even though we can partially explain such things by secondary causes, we finally encounter a "first cause," and then the "why?" can be answered only by God. The wise thing to do is simply to believe that He has good reasons for everything, whether we can discern them now or not. "Shall not the Judge of all the earth do right?" (Genesis 18:25). God the Creator "worketh all things after the counsel of his own will" (Ephesians 1:11), and it is our high privilege simply to trust Him, not to question Him. On the other hand, He often asks us: "Why?" "Why are ye fearful, O ye of little faith?" Jesus asked His disciples when they thought they were in great peril (Matthew 8:26). "If I say the truth, why do ye not believe me?" (John 8:46) He would say to those who question His Word. Then to those who doubt His deity, the apostle Paul, speaking in His name, asks: "Why should it be thought a thing incredible with you, that God should raise the dead?" (Acts 26:8). As the popular chorus goes: "God specializes in things thought impossible!" Our God is omniscient and knows what's best; He is omnipotent, so He can do it. He is all-loving and will surely do what's best for those who trust Him. HMM Print this article | More Days of Praise articles Institute for Creation Research | 1806 Royal Lane | Dallas | TX | 75229 Powered by phplist. This email was sent to kc5nhz@yahoo.com. To unsubscribe, change your email address, or update your subscription, please go to www.icr.org/change

another weather / fence shot

Rob - thanks for the compliment. here's another "fence" shot from earlier this year.

another shelf cloud approaching WFO GRR

Interesting times in my hometown

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/the-fix/post/could-ron-paul-wins-the-ames...

Jesus Is Not a Serial Killer

http://m.newsbusters.org/blogs/brent-bozell/2011/08/13/bozell-column-jesus-not-serial-killer

Cut the rope in stereo

On the couch. Two itouches on each side.