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Category: environment

  • Genesis 26: History Repeats 

    In this chapter Isaac and Rebekah and their two sons travel East to escape a famine. The Lord tells them not to go to Egypt. They end up going to the land ruled by King Abimelech of Gerar. The name Abimelech was used for several Philistine kings, so may have been a descendent of the…

  • Genesis 7: The Flood

    God told Noah to take his family of eight including his wife, 3 sons and 3 daughters-in-law and himself, along with 7 pairs of each clean animal and two pairs of each unclean animal into the boat. Clean animals are later shown to be the as ones used for sacrifice. God says in seven days…

  • Genesis 1: 1-13: Beginnings

    The book of Genesis, meaning beginning, starts with God creating our world. It says the Earth was formless and empty and the spirit hovered over the face of the waters. God said, let there be light, and there was light.  While Genesis starts our modern Bible, chronologically the oldest book, Job, references the foundation of…

  • The Real Real

    The hard thing about our seasonal Bible studies is that people come in with years of pain and sorrow and suffering just to have an hour and a half of being around people who will listen to them. What do you think of church, and Bible and religion? Is it not fancy churches or massive…

  • Swampland

    The land behind my home growing up was an old building site. It had bad drainage and had been abandoned. It was our playground the place that I return to in my dreams.  Every dark winter the uneven ground would fill up with water, all dank and boggy with brown skeletons of broken reeds and…

  • Money

    I often hear you don’t need money to be happy, but our cash-based society, everyone needs money to pay for things. Shelter, food, clothing, transportation, education and medicine cost money. All those things have to be paid for my somebody. Money can also purchase services and buy time that would otherwise be taken up by…

  • PSA

    Yesterday, I was in a massive line at the Dollar Tree with my kids and an older, single woman behind me decided this would be a awesome time to engage me about her memories, thoughts and opinions of child rearing. As a current, active mom, this is not the time. Seeing me in public, with…

  • The Four Sides of People

    Humans have at least four sides to them that always need to be taken into account, otherwise we will not be effective in our dealings. People have physical, emotional, intellectual and spiritual needs. Children are a perfect example of this. Kids have pretty obvious physical needs. They need food, shelter and exercise. They also need…

  • Bag Boys

    Why does the Boomer Generation push back against environmental improvements? I keep getting these posts and memes about how annoying single-use bag rules and plastic straw bans are. Of course I get that it is kind of frustrating when you’re used to having an endless supply of free plastic bags and straws at the store…