According to Hoyle…

He also understands when things just never lay out the way they are supposed to. When things don’t go according to Hoyle. When SOPs are a distant fantasy, and life is anything but business as usual. And His plan is able to accommodate those things. He’s a repairer.

Even the Losers Get Lucky Sometimes

Genesis 36 — 1This is the account of the family line of Esau (that is, Edom).  2 Esau took his wives from the women of Canaan: Adah daughter of Elon the Hittite, and Oholibamah daughter of Anah and granddaughter of Zibeon the Hivite— 3 also Basemath daughter of Ishmael and sister of Nebaioth. — 40These [...]

Genesis 20: When I’m 64

Genesis 20: —1 Now Abraham moved on from there into the region of the Negev and lived between Kadesh and Shur. For a while he stayed in Gerar, 2 and there Abraham said of his wife Sarah, “She is my sister.” Then Abimelek king of Gerar sent for Sarah and took her. 3 But God [...]

…and my Brain Went off like Jiffy-Pop!

I have a great friend and pastor who once dropped this one on me: Jesus, in his resurrected body, is the most real thing in the universe. (pop). Rob Bell, in his book Velvet Elvis, writes that he is “simply trying to orient myself around living a particular kind of way, the kind of way [...]

Persuasion

We live in a society of persuasion.  Right now, there are a number of people trying to persuade me to elect them to the office of President.  Watch the TV for eight or nine minutes and I’ll likely find 5 or 6 ads trying to persuade me that my quality of life will improve if [...]