The “legitimate” dog breeders and rescue organizations are perpetuating the very thing they are trying to eliminate. As long as the puppy mills and backyard breeders will provide dogs they won’t provide, there will be a market, and the industry will continue.
The New Normal and the Old Normal
Here’s a fact: people can be a most pessimistic group. But here’s another fact: people forget very, very quickly. Especially things that are unpleasant.
The Chicken and the Pig
Many people desire to connect with God, but only on their terms. But God doesn’t allow us to connect or relate to Him on our terms. It’s His terms, or not at all.
COVID-19 No Worse than the Flu: Update
The upshot is that the coronavirus may be up to 10x more deadly than the flu.
What a Great Weekend!
Don’t you love that feeling of accomplishment when you try something new and it actually works?!
The Sins of the Fathers
As I see my own failings as a father, I frequently get discouraged. I see my own sins passed on, and sometimes magnified, in my children. And then God, in his grace toward me, brings me gently to a “dry” and “irrelevant” case law regarding Ancient Near East inheritance, and he shows me that He is sovereign even over my sin.
And In This Corner, Influenza!
I have recently run across a lot of people arguing either that (1) COVID-19 is no worse than other pandemics we have experienced in the recent past; and/or (2) COVID-19 is no worse than the flu.
Elective Balancing
Even in discussions among evangelical Christians, there appears to be an unacceptably high willingness to trade off lives for economic reasons.
The Curse of Grace
We flatter and deceive ourselves when we think we choose God. God chose us, when we were still allied with the serpent.
