December 2011

The Constellation Coma

It is obvious that the last word cannot be said about the stars over Bethlehem, simply because we just cannot know for sure of what all the Magi were aware.  Although in my book, Creation’s Ballet for Jesus, important connections were identified, yet other events in the sky may also have had their role, although […]

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The End or the Beginning of Christmas – a Christmas Eve Sermon

“She will bring forth a Son, and you shall call His Name JESUS, for He will save His people from their sins.”   So all this was done that it might be fulfilled which was spoken by the Lord through the prophet, saying: “Behold, the virgin shall be with child, and bear a Son, and they

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The Plan

For He has made known to us in all wisdom and insight the mystery of His will, according to His purpose which He set forth in Christ as a plan for the fulness of time, to unite all things in Him, things in heaven and things on earth.   [Ephesians 21:9-10 (RSV)] As identified previously, the

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The Hole in the Center of the Vision

In the two previous posts, the brain is identified as having the extraordinary capacity to find organization within what at first seems chaotic (as when a baby must organize its perceptions of the world around it).  However, sometimes it can go too far: it can attempt to find order where there is none (as with

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Colorblindness and Blind Spots

As the last blog pointed out, the human brain has extraordinary capacity, but that capacity also has the ability to get things wrong.  It can indeed take what at first seems chaos, organize it and discover meaning within it.  However, it doesn’t always get things “right” – as identified with the sounds and the colors,

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