Cars are safer and more efficient, more people have cars, phones are better, people live longer, information about everything is much easier to get, shopping is easier, farming has become more efficient, food is safer and easier to buy, air-conditioning is much more common, microwaves make cooking easier, there are more people, photography is easier … Continue reading How has the country changed during my lifetime?
4 Civilization
Person of the Year
Year in, year out, who is the person of the year? By definition, the person of the year, every year, is the person we number our years by, Jesus of Nazareth. Every time we write or say the year, we acknowledge and honor Him. He is bigger than the years we count since He alone … Continue reading Person of the Year
4.0 Civilization
Of all of the things civilized man has built I am the most impressed with our roads. They are used by everyone—for good and for ill. Roads connect all of us with nearly everyone in America. We take them for granted. Few of the people who use our roads work as hard as the people … Continue reading 4.0 Civilization
4.3 America’s Economic Foundation
Many people think that capitalism is America’s foundation, but, while it is true that America has a primarily capitalistic economy with a little socialism mixed in, America’s economic system rests on Christianity’s two greatest Commandments: Love God (that includes doing what is right and following the law), and the “Golden Rule” (treat others as you … Continue reading 4.3 America’s Economic Foundation
4.2 All Cultures Are Not Equal
Now and again I have read about the discovery of a tribe of people who have never been exposed to modern conveniences. Unlike the Christian missionaries who traveled all over the world at great personal risk spreading the good news of Christianity and the progress that accompanied it, the modern left-leaning explorer is very reluctant … Continue reading 4.2 All Cultures Are Not Equal