Two torturous things: getting up at 4:30 this morning to go to work and jogging home this afternoon.

I can’t figure out why a liberal can’t pull good ratings in a nationally syndicated radio show. Last week I was working late, and I happened onto some bloke and his show on a Seattle radio station. He wasn’t all that good—I don’t think he’d be the one to go national—but his subject matter was fascinating to me. He slammed the president for being hypocritical and being an avowed evangelist. Then he brings on the president of the American Humanist Society and continues the theme, expanding to include discussion of an article (I think it was in the New York Times) that claims 83% of Americans believe in the Virgin Birth while only 28% believe in evolution. These statistics—along with the fact that the Chief Justice of the Alabama Supreme Court is refusing to remove the Ten Commandments from his court area, even in the face of a court order—were used to show that the country is going down the conservative tubes. But then to cap it all off, this guy says: “Religion is the enemy of growth.”

That is so wrong, at least where Christianity is concerned. If you look at history, it’s the Christian world view that monumentally influenced the rise of modern science and it also had a whole lot to do with some of the greatest works of art ever conceived. To say that true Christianity stymies the growth of the culture is preposterous. It, in fact, does quite the opposite. For a whole lot more on this subject, read How Should We Then Live? By Francis Schaeffer.

My little brother Justin has a very quick mind, and he’s not afraid to use it, even at his older brother's expense. He’s in my Bible School class and we were talking about Paul preaching to the Athenians, some of who were probably philosophers. This got us talking about philosophy a little bit and he brought up that little question, “Can God create a rock too big for Himself to lift?” I need to think about it a little more, I don’t think I quite satisfied him. And then he asked about the canon of Scripture and how it came to be and why we say there will never be anything else added to it. This is a subject that I need to read on, because I’ve wondered about the exact thing myself and only know a little about it. Certainly not enough to satisfy his inquisitive mind.