A new study shows that uttering expletives when you hurt yourself is a sensible policy.
That is according to scientists who have shown swearing can help reduce pain.
A study by Keele University researchers found volunteers who cursed at will could endure pain nearly 50% longer than civil-tongued peers. Continue reading →

I don’t know why it struck her as so funny but as we were searching for a Christian T-shirt to give to our church camp director, Linda and I came upon one that said, “Jesus died for Pedro…and He died for you too!”
She begins laughing and I knew we were getting this shirt. Continue reading →

And Abraham called the name of that place Jehovah-jireh: as it is said to this day, In the mount of the Lord it shall be seen. Gen 22:14
And Abraham called the name of the place, The-LORD-Will-Provide; as it is said to this day, “In the Mount of the LORD it shall be provided.” Gen 22:14
I’ve only been Education Director for camp for two years, yet this has been the tougher of the two. Continue reading →

Arise, cry out in the night, at the beginning of the watches; Pour out your heart like water before the face of the Lord. Lift your hands toward Him for the life of your young children, Lam 2:19
This morning I arose and found on Worldnetdaily.com that in an astonishing admission, U.S. Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg says she was under the impression that legalizing abortion with the 1973 Roe. v. Wade case would eliminate undesirable members of the populace, or as she put it “populations that we don’t want to have too many of.” Continue reading →

But I do not want you to be ignorant, brethren, concerning those who have fallen asleep, lest you sorrow as others who have no hope. For if we believe that Jesus died and rose again, even so God will bring with Him those who sleep in Jesus. 1 Thess 4:13-14
I was making my phone calls last night to confirm teachers for church camp, which is 3 weeks away. Continue reading →

…and behind the second veil, the part of the tabernacle which is called the Holiest of All, which had the golden censer and the ark of the covenant overlaid on all sides with gold, in which were the golden pot that had the manna, Aaron’s rod that budded, and the tablets of the covenant; and above it were the cherubim of glory overshadowing the mercy seat. Of these things we cannot now speak in detail. Heb 9:3-5
Last Friday, a patriarch of the Orthodox Church of Ethiopia said that he would announce to the world the unveiling of the Ark, which he says has been hidden away in a church in his country for millennia. Continue reading →

Some trust in chariots, and some in horses; But we will remember the name of the LORD our God. Ps 20:7
The US standard railroad gauge, the distance between the rails, is 4 feet, 8.5 inches.
That’s an exceedingly odd number.
Why was that gauge used? Continue reading →