The Secret Wireless

I am against false advertising.  I think we all are.  If I see something on a commercial or in a newspaper or on a billboard I want it to be based in some sort of fact.  Don't tell me the car runs on gas when it really runs on diesel.  Don't say it is blue when it is red.  Call a thing what it is. As we were driving home from Florida I saw several billboards advertising "adult" stores and "gentlemen's clubs".  I think we all know what is actually inside these places and it is not adults and gentlemen.  If you are going to sell sexually explicit books, movies, "toys", etc, you should call your store something like "sexual novelties" or "porn store".  It is not a place for adults.  It is a place for people with an erotic itch to scratch, right, wrong or otherwise. And you certainly should not advertise your club filled with naked women and drunken, drooling, sexually frustrated men as a gentlemen's club.  Call it a ...

        In I Timothy 1:15 Saint Paul describes himself as the foremost sinner.   It is sometimes translated as “chief of sinners”.   In another place he calls himself a “wretched man”.   Paul seems to be down on himself.   How could Paul, the 13 th Apostle, the man handpicked by God to carry the Gospel to the Gentiles and pagan, be so negative when it came to his own standing before God.                 Well, it happens because Paul was not able to fool himself.   Paul was very aware of who he was, what he had done, and what he was doing at the moment.   And he knew for certain that no amount of good deeds could erase the sinful past which he had lived.   Nor had he ceased to be a sinner since that time.                 Paul had persecuted the church. ...

What was that pesky golden rule again? When I ask my son, "Why did you hit your brother?" the answer is always, "He hit me first."  Do unto others as they have done unto you.  Right? When you had a bad day at work, that jerk cut you off in traffic, and you know tomorrow isn't going to be much better, who do you usually take it out on?  Usually those closest to us, those who might actually be trying to make our lives better, like our husband or wife.  Why take it out on them?  Well, I was having a bad day.  They might as well get to join in my misery.  Treat others the way you have been treated. But that is not the golden rule.  At least it is not the one that Jesus gave us. Sure, the world lives by this rule: Do unto others as they have done unto you...Treat others the way you have been treated.  But Jesus calls His disciples to a different way, the way of the one who fulfills the Law and the Prophets. "So whatever you...