Really! Otis, our cute little 25 pound lean, mean fun machine dog was in the garage with Karen and I, and as they were leaving to go back in the house, he stepped on a baby rattlesnake on the walk. He will spend several months recovering from two bites by that snake. Apparently it's that time of the year, when there are a.) lots of baby snakes and b.) lots of snakes. [more]Seems that during late March to early April, the snakes breed like cats (according to one veternarian) and as a result, BAM – in May, there are all…
More Loose Ends
One chapter and seventeen verses – still leftovers to figure out. How did Peter, Paul and John come up with this stuff? Here in chapter three (Second Peter), he seems to have mixed a pot of stew or soup that needs to be eaten very carefully. Take time to dig out each chunk – false teachers (actually teachers of falsehoods), fire coming down, right living, remembering Jesus, creation and the end. If what he wanted from his readers was attention, [more]he's got it! The word he uses about false teachers is that they are scoffers who follow their own evil…
A Dog, A Pig and Patience
Winding down my study of Second Peter, but there are still some loose ends. The first one that struck me as strange was the quotation from Proverbs that is in chapter 2 verse 22, "A dog returns to it's own vomit," which is taken from Proverbs 26:11. There, Solomon, the wisest man who ever lived, is making a bunch of comparisions that someone wrote down. Kind of like someone compiling a book of Abraham Lincoln or Booker T. Washington quips. Pithy little statements that can stand alone, but strike at the heart of our lives. Words that don't take any…