Now He Tells Them!

 

November 21, 2022

 

The radio Bible study today dealt with Daniel and his friends refusing to eat the food that Nebuchadnezzar supplied, because it was proscribed for Jewish people. Instead, Daniel proposed to the man in charge of the cadre of young men chosen as the best of the best that he and his friends only eat vegetables, and the king could determine whether their health suffered. In this way, he and his friends honored God and kept the commandments of their religion, proving that they were faithful, even when it would have been to their worldly advantage just to go along with what the king wanted.

 

I couldn’t help remembering that centuries later, Jesus said, “It is not what goes into the mouth that defiles a person, but what comes out of it.”

 

I imagined Daniel sitting up in heaven, going, “Then what did I go through all that for???”

 

 

She Stopped Reading Too Soon

July 3, 2022

 

Rep. Lauren Boebert is tired of “this separation of church and state junk, that’s not in the Constitution.”

 

According to Boebert, the church is supposed to direct the government, not vice versa.

 

The First Amendment to the Constitution, Rep. Boebert, says that the government can’t let the church make the decisions.

 

Read it.

 

Radio Days

May 30, 2022

 

On Saturday, I was listening to NPR while I was running errands, and got out of the car before a mildly interesting story was finished. I forgot about it before I’d even made it into the store. Today (the following Monday), when I turned on the radio, they were at the EXACT point they were at when I shut it off on Saturday. I was amazed; and I got to hear the end of the story.

 

I then realized that it was also Bible Study time; so, I flipped to that station to see if the guy was finally going to get to the point where Ruth proposes to Boaz. (Ruth is a short book, but he’s been on it for 2 weeks; and when we left Friday, we were about to get there.) The pastor of one church I attended implied that they had done the deed, but other interpretations I’ve read said they didn’t, so I wanted to see what this guy said. And sure enough, if I hadn’t turned to the station at JUST THAT MOMENT, I’d have missed it.

 

(For the record, the notion of deed-doing was given short shrift in his recounting; he mentioned that some people interpreted the passage that way, but he refuted that with various and sundry arguments.)

 

And that concludes my Fortunate Radio Timing stories.