Search results matching tag 'Faith'

An open letter to America on Fiscal Responsibility

chuck.boyer — Wed, 25 Feb 2009 12:10:00 GMT

With all that has been going on these last couple of years with our economic times, I feel the call to write about the problem in a clear and concise manner. You won't hear any thing about derivative securities or sub prime mortgages or [insert industry here -- banking, auto, etc] bail out. Let me be as clear as possible and bring it back to 5th grade math.

Do not spend more than you make.
What you do not spend, save.

My kindergartener had a hard lesson yesterday at the the elementary school book fair. Her mom and I gave her $5 to spend and she could add however much she wanted from her spending money. The total was $7.76. Now most books at the fair were about $4 and she had her eye on 2 particular books. (Here is your 5th grade math lesson - 2 books at $4 each is $8 total. $8 is more than $7.76.) During the deliberations mom and I discussed whether or not to give her some extra change to cover both. The decision was to let her make the hard choice. Now before you say that we are cruel to not give her what she wanted, think about what she learned yesterday.

You can't spend more than you have.

A hard lesson, but one we should all relearn.

Bible proving Science

chuck.boyer — Mon, 31 Mar 2008 17:36:00 GMT

It is amazing to me that the more we discover using Scientific techniques how much more clear the Bible becomes. Here is an article on Foxnews.com about an eye witness account of the distruction of Sodom and Gomorrah.

Who's Jesus?

chuck.boyer — Thu, 08 Nov 2007 09:31:00 GMT

Who's Jesus? is a great post from Michael (my brother-in-law) about knowing Jesus personally.

Fishing

chuck.boyer — Mon, 22 Oct 2007 00:50:00 GMT

Jeannie and I went to a "revival" service tonight at Pender UMC. The speaker, Dr. Jim Buskirk was quite good and he had an interesting analogy for Sacntifying Grace. First he called Sanctifying Grace "Continuing Grace" or as he ultimately put it:

"God doesn't clean his fish until he catches them."

I'll let you contemplate that for a while. :)