JFlah's Blunders

You know, this year I noticed more and more people using "happy holidays" instead of Merry Christmas and that even greeting cards are echoing that. I had a harder time finding a card that reflected what we're celebrating. I mean, without Jesus Christ, what's the point in celebrating "Christmas" at all? Without Christ, none of it makes sense. I don't know why I'm more sensitive to society's exclusion of Him this year than I was last year, but it may be simply that it's more widespread than it was last year and that I care more than I did before. I've just been thinking is all. I've been listening to Alistair Begg of Truth for Life in the mornings for a while now. This week he's been expounding the "Who is Jesus?" idea and I've gotten all excited again. It's like Christmas takes on a new light when you know the truth of why we celebrate it. I mean, without the Christ of Christmas, without his being fully divine a...

You know, Dove Chocolate gives terrible advice. It's nice to open a piece of chocolate and have a sweet little fortune-cookie-esque comment inside the wrapper, but those comments have gotten progressively worse since they started printing those little things. The Dove chocolate is by far my favorite brand, but I am glad I don't live my life according to the principals they promote. Check this one out: "Forget the rules and play by your heart," it says. Sure, it sounds great, but what terrible advice! I mean, if everyone followed their heart no matter the consequences... All I can do is shake my head. What a relativistic quagmire we've fallen into! This kind of stuff is only part of the reason society has so many ills - no one seems able to locate their self control any more. One guy decides that his heart wants something that isn't his (like his buddy's car) and one woman decides that her best friend's husband floats her boat more than her own husb...

Teach me to do Your will, for You are my God; may Your good Spirit lead me on level ground. Psalm 143:10 (NIV) So, yeah. I've been looking at that verse for weeks and praying that it'll become written on my heart. There are so many times when I have been struggling with "life" and from the dirt, a flower will spring up that will help remind me that if not for God, (the God of the universe, the God who is and was and will be forever) there would be no good at all in my life: No good health; no good family relations; no love; no comfort; no sweet puppy dog to come home to in the evenings. Were it not for Him, I'd be miserable, hopeless and, well, to be frank, I'd not exist at all - nothing would. It's a comfort to know that He is there - that He is in control even when I don't necessarily want Him to be - that I don't have to fear the future. God knows and provides what's best for me because I love Him - so I don't have to worry and that...