Biblical Creation and Evangelism

by Cowboy Bob Sorensen  When Easter is on the way, stores get greedy selling candy, cheap toys, rabbit images, and all sorts of nonsense. (At least we do not have to listen to pusillanimous secular Easter music.) To add to the stress, kids  expect  gifts because of marketing. Then there are atheists and feral legalistic Christians who promote  the lie that Easter is pagan in origin . At least I can hear the birds with springtime songs chirping away while I walk to my car in the pre-dawn cool air, that is a good thing. A picture taken at a big box store of a cuddly Jesus, run through  cleanup.pictures That other stuff is grating, but this kind of thing puts a burr under my saddle. Mayhaps someone will say, "Oh, goodie! They're keeping Jesus in Easter!" Not hardly!  Who is this guy?  Some long-haired white guy in a robe and sandals with a beard that wouldn't antagonize anyone. He's not intimidating. I've got some bad news for you, sunshine. First of all,...

by Cowboy Bob Sorensen This article is going to be an odd analogy between hardworking, loyal cowboys and people involved in ministries. The "golden age" of cowboys and the great cattle drives only lasted about twenty years, but quickly became the stuff of many television shows, books, movies and so on. However, cowboys still exist. (While some ignorant people use the word as a pejorative, cowboys then and now were known for hard work and loyalty .) There are not many Westerns being made for television and movies any longer (except for ultra-violent and "adult" shows, it seems), but the image of the loyal cowboy that puts in long hours and does often dangerous work lives on — and cowboys still exist . Roundup on the Cimarron, 1898, Library of Congress A duty in farming and especially in ranching is to "ride the fences". The cowboy rides the fence perimeter to look for damage (which may mean thieves breaking it down to make off with livestock...