Battles

 Preparations for our regular 2nd Tuesday night of the month Friendly Game Table Club meeting are in place.  We will be running and old set of rules called Star Guard.  

  Helping God Isaiah 50:7 The Lord God helps me, so I will not be ashamed. I will be determined, and I know I will not be disgraced. Five years ago I lost my mother and in those five years there has not been a day I did not think about her. My mother was a remarkable woman. A lot of people say that about their mothers but it is true for me. First and foremost children loved her. To my memory I think she was happiest when she was in the middle of teaching little children about the living God. Next is the fact that whatever my mother put her hand to she did it well. But the thing that stands out to me as I have gotten older is how generous she was. This is a big deal because my mother grew up poor and could have been stingy but that was not her nature. Thinking about this it now makes me think about how my mother taught me to be a man who is generous. To be truthful I have not always been a generous man but the legacy of my mother has had an effect on me. My mother was a ...

 One of the clubs I play in does a table crusher game of Chainmail each November.  That is a 26 foot by 8 foot table filled with some where around 4000 troops.    

  Learning Isaiah 50:4 The Lord God gave me the ability to teach so that I know what to say to make the weak strong. Every morning he wakes me. He teaches me to listen like a student. Aircraft amaze me and not because they are these great big machines that look cool or that they go fast but because of how they work. The basic concept of powered flight is that the speed of the air flowing around the wing keeps the aircraft aloft. For me the science and the math that is involved just captivates me. Objects that weight as much as some planes do should not be up in the sky and yet they are because the math tells us they can. Because we have learned a truth about how the universe works we can use it to make things fly in the sky and that amazes me. What is more fascinating to me is that this math and science directs me to the God who created the universe. By learning truths about the how the universe works we also learn there is this God who is the truth of all things and that i...

  Evil Isaiah 50:1 This is what the Lord says: “People of Israel, you say I divorced your mother. Then where is the paper that proves it? Or do you think I sold you to pay a debt? Because of the evil things you did, I sold you. Because of the times she turned against me, your mother was sent away. A central part of our hope and faith in Jesus is that we are joyful people. I have to confess that I have not always thought about joy in that way but over the years as I have spent time in scripture I have found that our God is profoundly joyful. What that means as believers in the living God is that we should be by our very nature joyful people. On more then one occasion I have talked about how the joy of Jesus’ birth seems contrary to what Jesus was coming into the world to do. Jesus was born to take on the sin of the world and yes He would be victorious in that but at a high cost. For me Christmas should be a somber time as we remember the cost of our sin is that God has to ...

 Shelving is always an issue for all of us.