Having watched my 401(k) drift off the side of the money cliff, I had hopes that our new President and his Democrat friends would try to make some difference. Not going to happen! Got a report on what is in the new $1.7 trillion (with interest) Stimulus Package, and we all need to be worried. Search for it on the web so you can see for yourself, but here are some of the "don't make any sense" items:[html]<ul><li>$400 million for research on global warming. What happened to the regular federal budget, and how many "regular people" will that put back…
Peter, Paul and Echo
Reading what Peter has to say about how the church (believers) should respond to the government in First Peter chapter 2. What struck me was how similar he sounded to Paul in Romans 13. Sure enough, it was like an echo. Here were two of the biggest men in early Christiandom, and they were echoing one another. Remember, Peter was the guy who thought Paul should not be trusted. And Paul was the guy who, early on, wanted to eliminate those pesky followers of Jesus, like Peter. Yet, here they are sounding like twin brothers – each with the same…
A Stone, A Wall and A Life
Kind of skipped over this in my reading of First Peter, but went back this morning to the first verses of chapter two. Here was something to which I could easily relate in two ways. Firstly, my memories of building a retaining wall of cement blocks started with the lowest spot, where I placed the corner stone. People thought I had lost my marbles when they saw how far down I dug the hole for the footing and then dug a much deepet hole in which to place the reinforcing rods that would be surrounded by cement. Then we placed…