Randal, plain and simple

Let God be thanked today

Let God be thanked today for

  1. the first day set aside for Christians to remember that Jesus died for our sins and arose from the dead on the first day of the week;

  2. his providence which takes our smallest and often unconsidered actions to produce a blessing to many people;

  3. a fine initial response to yesterday's news that sign-ups are now open for our big event in April.


The daily habit of writing #3goodthings, in places like the Fediverse, is good to a degree, but it replaces gratitude to the God who is good and does only good, and whose goodness motivates us to learn and to do his good will.

“You are good and you do good. Teach me your statutes.” Psalm 119.68 NET

Memory is a faulty thing. We remember things differently. (No great revelation there.) But if God is receiving the glory for it, it doesn't matter who remembers it rightly.

When big names, supposedly pillars in the church, slander God's servants in public, something is deeply amiss.

Somebody denied evidence of the Roman Empire in the NT. Who said Pilate and Caesar were Romans? Deliberate ignorance. Disregard for history. Was the person captured by some wild premillennial theory? (Any premillennial theory is wild, but some more than others.)

Back in the day, a personality test said my type wasn't into writing, or some such though. Practice makes ... acceptable.