Category: Bernie’s Posts

  “I don’t think that we will ever get to a point where there is no uncertainty” said a Wall Street analyst.  Wow, he gets paid for thoughts like that.  If there were no uncertainty he would be one of the...

According to Attorney General William Bar, a curmudgeonly Federalist, Fisher Ames, in an essay during the early years of the Republic, wrote this – In any age, the so-called progressives treat politics as their religion....

  Martin Luther was very concerned for the care of the poor and needy. He helped to set up the common chests which was used to help poor people in congregations get by in times of need and difficulty. Most of his...

  Back in the day before smart phones and messaging we had a wonderful example of the mutual conversation and consolation of the saints.  It was called the prayer chain and the way it worked was simple.  Someone got sick or...

  I have been reading a lot of Luther and a lot about Luther in the last few weeks.  Since it is his birth month (11/10/1483) and we are in that time of the church year that we wind down through days of warning and...

What you need to know about G.K. Chesterton is that he wrote a book called “The Everlasting Man”.  C.S. Lewis read it and became a Christian.  G.K. Chesterton wrote commentaries on all kinds of things back in the...

  So the New York Times that can’t report too much on real creepy stuff like Jeremy Epstein and his connection with the deep state, spend a lot of ink on a article about texts from the past that suddenly showed up on...

Dangers in the Garden   I have always said that rather than making fun of the book of Genesis people should read it with a open mind and realize that so many of the intractable problems we face are explained there.  Sexual...

I was looking at a bunch of epitaphs and blank funeral bulletins and then I saw a simple epitaph on face book – rest in peace, love you and miss you.  It was a simple response of a daughter to the death of her mom. It is...

  I have been spending some time trying to look at Luther’s oft sighted vituperation and nastiness.  I’m trying to figure out what it meant and why it happened and then ask the question, have the heirs of the...

I wrote this back in 2012.  Search for it if you want to.  It was entitled God’s math. The 10 Commandments are the moral Law and they get broken by thoughts desires, word and deeds. God seems to have put a lot of...