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For a few years now, my granddaughter, Sabria, has been fascinated by the idea of a telephone with a dial.  She has even asked me to buy her one so she can dial up people and talk to them.  I remembered that Garey’s mom, Aggie, had one in working order, so the last time Sabria and her mom went with us to visit Aggie, I called Sabria out to the sun porch and showed her the old black dial-up phone.

I remember not long after I started in my first “full-time” work, I encountered some who took the position that the “red letters” in the Bible were more important than the “black letters.” In other words, we ought to give greater emphasis to the words Christ spoke on earth than to anything else in the New Testament. To them, the epistles, etc., were of lesser value than Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John.

Either-or tactic bad for pandemic policymaking

The IFC(Independent Film Channel) debuted in September 1, 1994 under the ownership of Rainbow Media.  IFC originated as a spin-off of then-sibling channel Bravo, which focused at the time on a wider variety of programming, including shows related to fine arts.  They were formerly the Independent Film Channel from ’94-’04.  Its sister channels are AMC, BBC America, Sundance T

Discussions about reopening schools and the merits of face-to-face instruction versus virtual instruction have been hot topics recently. Unfortunately, the United States’ COVID-19 death toll – about 163,500 – has surpassed that of many acts of war: the 9/11 terrorist attacks (3,000), the Vietnam War (58,200), and the Korean War (36,600). Of course, education is important, but safety is critical as well. Deciding what to do in the midst of a pandemic is tough.

“Poogene,” as we called him (Eugene was his first name) could have ridden the school bus home but opted to walk so he could smoke, throw rocks at road signs, and generally harass the younger kids who lived in town. He was just making time until he would be sixteen and able to quit school.  On top of all the meanness, he was mud-ugly and had few friends-other than his own kind.

My husband, Garey, is your typical country guy.  In his younger years, he would spend the night running trot lines on the river, eating from a camp fire, sleeping on a piece of plastic on the ground, ignoring mosquitoes buzzing around his ears, even grabbing a snake once that had crawled up next to where he was sleeping and flinging it into the nearby river.  

“Having eyes full of adultery and that cannot cease from sin” is a vivid description of false teachers (II Pet. 2:14). It reminds me of the description of the people before the Flood when “every imagination of the thoughts of (man’s) heart was only evil continually” (Gen. 6:5). To have eyes “full of adultery” is a poetic way of saying these people see the perverse in everything. Purity and innocence are gone from them. Sin has perverted their minds.

Pop TV was launched in 1981.  It did not start out as Pop TV, however.  From ’81-’88, the channel was called the Electronic Program Guide.  From ’88-’93 it was called Prevue Guide.  From ’93-’99 it was called Prevue Channel.  It was then TV Guide Channel from ’99-’07, TV Guide Network from ’07-’13, TVGN from ’13-’15 and, finally, its current incarnation as Pop TV.  Its sister channels are CBS, CW, Showtime, The Movie Channel, Flix, Smithsonian Channel, CBS Sports Network, Paramount Network, Nickelodeon, Comedy Central, TV Land, Logo, MTV, VH1, CMT and BET.  

I don’t know anyone who doesn’t experience stress of one kind or another. One explanation of stress is: “In a medical or biological context stress is a physical, mental, or emotional factor that causes bodily or mental tension.