I am loving that extra hour of sleep I got last night. I wonder if we could start backing the clocks up every Saturday night?

I’ve been listening to Douglas Adams” Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy on Audio. It’s a hoot.

Here is my favorite quote so far:

“`You’d better be prepared for the jump into hyperspace. It’s unpleasently like being drunk.’
`What’s so unpleasent about being drunk?’
`You ask a glass of water.’”

What frustrates me the most about this is that I know there are a lot of Christians who agree with him.

We are not a “Christian nation.” We do not have a “Christian army.” The Kingdom (Reign) of God does not need the help of the U. S. Armed forces to make its way throughout the world.

General: We’re in a ‘Spiritual Battle’

In January, Boykin recalled a conversation with a Muslim fighter in Somalia who had said that Allah would protect him from U.S. forces.

In June, Boykin said, “The battle that we’re in is a spiritual battle. Satan wants to destroy this nation, he wants to destroy us as a nation, and he wants to destroy us as a Christian army.”

The book will hopefully be released in December. For more info go here.

Exploring the New Testament: A Guide to the Gospels and Acts is a book worth getting. It’s written by David Wenham and Steve Walton. I’ve been using it some in my “Kingdom of God” class and I’m very impressed. I see it becoming one of those books I’m constantly referring to. It deals with the most recent scholarship on Jesus and the gospels in a understandable and balanced way. I may even use it as a text book for a class at Garnett in the future.