Year-End Musings (12/31/2022)

• If you listen to the Blessed Hope Podcast, you know I stress Bible reading—especially reading entire books of the Bible in one sitting whenever possible. Here is the annual list of Ligonier Bible Reading Plans. Please find one that works for you and get to it!

• How do Christians feel about climate change and global warming? Pew Has the Answer

• OK, so we Californians have to put up with Gavin Newsom. But at least we don’t have to deal with this: Iguana Causes Large Scale Power Outage in South Florida. In California the power goes out because of government green energy and environmental policies, not because of gigantic lizards!

• Here’s a gift our governor wouldn’t appreciate. The perfect gift for the right governor

• What could go wrong here? Atlanta Church Wants to Grow and Dispense Medical Marijuana. Dude, pass the offering plate . . . The deacons are gonna buy Doritos and Jack-in-the-Box tacos for everyone!

• This is one determined bear. A thousand miles? This Bear Doesn't Want to be Relocated

• This one caught my eye. Stealing the Baby Jesus from a Nativity Scene. Frankly, I was sorta relieved when I read that the perpetrators were not Reformed/Presbyterian elders trying to uphold the second commandment.

Television commercials have reached an all-time low. Here’s what I find most offensive.

• Any political commercial . . . no explanation needed

• What does an Emu have to do with Insurance (Liberty Mutual?)

• The Charmin bear with a “clean hiney” commercial. Aren’t bears supposed to do their business in the woods?

• I’d rather not see women of varying proportions in their dainties talking above private hygiene matters—complete with examples.

• Same-sex couples smooching.

• There’s a company advertising a series of products which I must buy “right now!” because the manufacturer is no longer making them and therefore supplies are limited. Think about that for a minute. Why buy something which is so great it is no longer going to be made?

• Pharmaceutical companies selling medications with side-effects which may lead to death . . .