Dateline NBC aired their fourth “To Catch a Predator” episode on Wednesday night while, hopefully, you were at Bible class. If you missed the episode, please watch the listings for MSNBC, as they have usually re-aired the episodes in this series several times, mostly on Friday or Saturday evenings. In this fourth installment, the crew went to a small town in Ohio, instead of a big-city suburb. Some people were shocked to learn that there are online sexual predators even[...]
I rarely read and/or review children’s books, but this one intrigued me a lot. This short book is helpful and will aid you as you work with children who are starting to ask questions about baptism and salvation. Often, children hear lessons in Bible classes or at Christian camps that cause them to think about becoming a Christian. While that is a wonderful thing, we still need to make sure that child is ready. This book helps with that dilemma.[...]
This post may seem more like a rant, but it does have a Biblical component. Please read on. Is anyone else tired of knowing every move that Tom Cruise and Katie Holmes make? It seems that, every time I get on a news website, one of the headlines is dealing with their relationship. And, by looking at some of the papers carrying those stories, it would seem that everyone on earth cares! Today is no exception. One of the leading[...]
There are always new features to learn when you run a blog. I had a couple of people tell me they had left comments and that the comments did not show up. Trust me, it wasn’t because your comments were unappreciated. I want people to comment as much as possible, both in agreement and in disagreement. I just had the settings wrong, so the comments were being stored, but not published. ALL former comments have now been published. If you[...]
I know. The title to this post must have come as a total shock. MTV, the youth channel that used to show music videos, endorses the homosexual cowboy movie “Brokeback Mountain.” How have they done it? They have given the movie two nominations for their annual movie awards, which will air on June 8. It is estimated that just under 480 million households in 171 nations will watch the awards. The MTV Movie Awards show is geared toward young people,[...]
