Deep Thought got it right!

In “The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy” by Douglas Adams, the “Answer to the Ultimate Question of Life, the Universe, and Everything” was calculated by an enormous supercomputer named Deep Thought over a period of 7.5 million years.  In the end, Deep Thought came up with the simple answer to ‘everything’… it was “42“.  Turns

A proper perspective

In the desert, access to water can mean life or death.  Not just enough water to drink, but enough to grow and sustain crops and livestock.  And when there’s a famine in the land, that water is even more precious.  So when Isaac was faced with such a famine and water shortage, he set out

Don’t be a house divided

As we come into Thanksgiving and Christmas on the heels of the most divisive election season in our history, we may need to work extra hard to not be a house divided.  Over the years, I have seen families torn apart by relatively insignificant issues.  Sometimes they find healing and sometimes they don’t.  Sometimes they

Who’s God is it anyway?

If you’ve never watched the show, “Who’s line is it anyway?” is very funny.  There are several version over the years (originally starting in Great Britain) but my favorite is the seasons with Drew Carey as the host.  The show brings laughter through a sort of impromptu acting.  I say sort of because there are

Who do you say that I am?

How often have you haggled over the price of something, or fought over the check for who will pay the bill at a meal?  Now when you’re looking at the cost of a car, of course a little negotiation is in order… that’s a lot of money at stake.  But picking up the check for a

What are you willing to do?

This past summer, God told my wife and I to be prepared.  Since we were in the middle of a job search across the country, we assumed that He was referring to being prepared for a pending move.  So we did just that.  We prepped the house for a pending sale.  Boxed all of the

Omniscient

I love the dilemma in all time travel stories.  If anything changes in the past, what would be the ripple effect throughout time.  Then there’s the real mind bender that Back to the Future toyed with but didn’t address.  If Marty McFly went back and interrupted the introduction of his parents, causing him never to

Going the wrong way

One of the many funny scenes in “Planes, Trains and Automobiles” was when Del (John Candy) and Neal (Steve Martin) end up in the wrong lanes of a divided highway.  They accidentally drove on an off ramp in the dark and with no lights or other vehicles, had no indication that they were in the

Uniting a divided nation

Today, people across America woke up with vastly differing emotions, and it’s not as simple as excitement or frustration.  While there were plenty of enthusiastic supporters or both candidates, there was perhaps an equal or even larger number of people reluctantly supporting the person that at least more closely lined up with their overall stance

How bad was it?

Most people have heard of the city of Sodom and how God dealt with it.  But it begs the question, just how bad was Sodom to have this kind of fate?  Let’s examine a few things we do know. It was a city of some size.  We don’t know for sure, but we do know