There is an ongoing debate over ending the changing between Standard and Daylight Saving Time every spring and fall. I mentioned Saturday that the House recently passed the Sunshine Protection Act which now moves to the Senate.
Continue readingIt’s been a while since we published a Satur-deja Vu or a Happy Monday post. It’s been a slow couple of days at work, those happen sometimes but not often. Will there be a Monday post? Should you expect another Saturday post next week? Who can say? I’m not going to stress over getting them out on time every week but truth be told, I miss it. I still squirrel things away into folders just in case there is someone that might view them someday. So here it is, a little weekend jaunt that we used to call Satur-deja Vu.
The 2026 FIFA World Cup, number 23 if anyone is counting, began June 11, 2026 and will end with the championship match tomorrow evening. This evening at 5 PM EDT France and England will play to see who finishes in third place. Tomorrow Argentina and Spain will play for the World Cup title.
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I want to respond to this infographic in a way that is clearly thought out and well organized. During the incarnation, Jesus was an observant Jew. His chosen Apostles were Jews. They kept the Sabbath and the festivals and traveled to Jerusalem when required. But the spirit and intent behind making this image and sharing this particular information is misguided. This is from a person taking a very narrow view of the scripture and encouraging others to do the same.
Let’s begin with context. The verse quoted from Matthew 15 takes place between Jesus and a Cannanite (or Syro-phoennician) woman. It is a test of faith which she passes, leading to Jesus answering her request and healing her daughter. When I pointed this out to the original poster, or at least the person I saw post this on Facebook, the conditions and qualifiers came out. Her claim is that anytime Jesus did something for Gentiles it was as an example to Israel. This woman’s daughter was healed, and the centurion’s daughter was healed, yes because of their faith but more importantly as an example to Israel. They were merely object lessons, Jesus was not ministering to them. Examples are not ministry; at least that was the claim. Jesus marveled at the faith of the Roman centurion, commenting that he had not seen such faith in all of Israel. The verse from Mark is his account of the same conversation with the same woman. Jesus didn’t go throughout Israel telling them his ministry was only to Israel. The quote from Luke was just after the birth of John the Baptst, before Jesus was even born. The prophecy of Zechariah, John’s father, was more about the ministry of John the Baptist than of Jesus. And John 4:22 was Jesus’s conversation with the Samaritan woman at the well. More on that in a bit.
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Today is the 75th National Day of Prayer. The theme is GLORIFY GOD AMONG THE NATIONS – SEEKING HIM IN ALL GENERATIONS. There will be a broadcast tonight from Statuary Hall in our nation’s capital streamed from the NDP website also available on YouTube, Facebook and several different Christian television and radio stations. You can download a Pray Across America Guide from that website. There are also events at churches and other public places throughout the day in every state.
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This past Sunday at Unity Baptist I preached a message titled Holy Week. We read texts from Matthew about the Triumphal entry and the institution of the Lord’s Supper, which we shared following the sermon. I have posted each day this week on the events of Holy Week on the Unity Baptist website and linked to those posts each day from the church Facebook page. The most recent posts are linked in the left-hand sidebar.
Today is Holy Saturday, also known as Black Saturday. No lessons, no sermons, no miracles; just darkness and confusion on the part of those that followed Jesus. And now we wait.
WordPress reminded me this morning that I have been on this platform for 18 years. If my blog were a person it would be an adult. When I first met Michael Spencer, his blog The Internet Monk had only been around three years. He had only blogged a total of 10 years when he passed away. I did not start blogging until he launched a podcast and began to transition away from posting as often.
I wanted to note the occasion. Since it caught me off guard there’s no bloggoversary special, lifetime stats, etc. Just the acknowledgement that it’s been a minute since I started doing this in 2008. Let me just encourage everyone reading to do well and do good.
Long live the blog.
Exactly Similar – That describes when two things are the same only different. This week’s lead in is once again the weather but this time we’re talking about snow in the South and not a crippling ice storm. Athens could see 4 – 5 inches. Where I live, closer to Alabama, will gets bands of snow. There could be 1/2 inch or none at all, while locations nearby could see 1 to 2 inches. Then it will turn cold. Atlanta will stay below freezing from Saturday morning into Monday afternoon.
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Winter weather in winter. The image above is what we expect where I live in northwest Georgia. Some 200 million Americans will be affected from Texas and Louisiana all the way up to New York. The problem in the South will be ice and freezing rain. NYC is expected to have the longest streak of days in a row below freezing since 2018. The weather this weekend is no joke.
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I posted this yesterday on Facebook but I want to share it here and then add a bit of additional commentary.
It’s easy to tell just by looking around that we are busier than ever before. We used to work a shift at the mill, all day on a farm, or keep business hours in the city, but even if you worked hard it ended and everyone went home. Now we take work with us and clients/customers/bosses expect to be able to reach us anytime. You can put in a full day, then continue making work calls on your dive home then check and reply to emails once at your house. (I’m going to pretend no one is readying email while driving but I know better.)
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We have finished our observance of Advent which ends each year on Christmas Day as we celebrate the birth of Christ. But our little church out in Plainville, GA does not have a Christmas Eve or Christmas Day service so the Christ candle in our wreath has not been lit. I’m going to preach one more sermon, God is in the Manger, tomorrow morning and we are going to light the center tower/Christ candle. No one is going to complain about coming to church and hearing too much about Jesus, right? If so that’s a person I need to have a long talk with anyway.
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The Master's Table 