When I was working at a television station, we had a farm program that aired each weekday morning.
The host was a great guy named Gene Reagan. One morning he told us that a farmer had called him to
complain about Daylight Savings Time. He claimed that the extra hour of daylight was killing his
tomatoes!

If you love someone you accept them as they are. Right? That’s the explanation we hear from churches
and denominations that embrace the LBGTQ+ lifestyle. After all, they say, God is love. 1 John 4:8 does
say emphatically that God is love. However, those who use that line of reasoning have it backwards.
They define love with human, carnal understanding. They then use that faulty understanding to define
God. In essence, they are making “love” their god. That’s not how it works.

I read an interesting article about what are called “Reformed Baptist” churches. Those are Baptist
churches who embrace Calvinism or “reformed theology”. As they preach and teach Calvinism, they
publicly tout their theology. There church sign, website, and printed material will tell you they are
Reformed Baptists. I looked them up online and discovered that in the Alabama association of
Reformed Baptist churches there are 38 member churches. That’s not a lot.

I follow a Facebook page called “The Holy Nope”. A man posts videos from church/revivals/conferences
that are almost unbelievable. Some are just so silly that I laugh at the absurdity of the preaching. Most,
however, contain serious fallacies up to, and including, outright heresy.

Scholars say that Moses wrote the first five books of the Bible over 3,400 years ago. One website claims
that the first written document we have is about 3,500 years old. That website, and others I visited,
never mentioned the Bible as an important part of written history.

There was a busy group of Jewish Christians that taught that after you were saved, Jew and Gentile, all
Jewish laws and festivals had to be kept in order to be saved. These were referred to as Judaizers. They
often followed Paul to churches he had established and, after he left, proclaimed their beliefs. It caused
quite a stir and a lot of confusion.

We are currently watching “The Chosen” on Sunday night at 6:00 and are in season three. It is an
interesting program. I, and many others, have been asked if the show is accurate in its portrayal of the
Gospels. The answer is yes…and no.

There are two things that I believe are necessary for a civilized culture: Discipline and accountability.
Both of these things are achieved by “rules”. The Cambridge Dictionary defines “rules” as “an accepted
principle or instruction that states the way things are or should be done, and tells you what you are
allowed or are not allowed to do.” So, we see rules as a particularly good thing.

I read an article that stated several reasons why a person should not vote for a certain candidate for
president. I disagreed with all of them except one. The article claimed the candidate was an
“Islamophobe”. I would hope so. The fact is, we should all be Islamophobic. As freedom-loving citizens,
we should be concerned with the lack of freedom and liberty afforded by Islamic beliefs and practices.
However, my personal Islamophobia is Spiritual. The first thing that stood out in their doctrine is that
the message was supposedly delivered to Muhammad by an angel (the same goes for Mormon

We are just a month away from our annual “Grace on the Bluff”. It relies on your donation of unwanted
items. I hope you have been setting things aside. Please stay tuned for the dates we will be receiving
donations. And please note we will not be taking furniture this year. There is always a lot left over and
many times the items just too heavy and it is not easy to arrange pickup/delivery.