HillFaith Blog: Good News for Hill Staffers
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Just In Case You See A Guy Around Congress With ‘HillFaith’ On His Mac
It’s Tuesday, Feb. 19, 2019, and for the first time I am doing something I have eagerly anticipated for a long time. I am sitting in a Dirksen Senate Office Building food shop doing “office hours.” No, not office hours like college professors keep because I’m not here grading, or judging, anybody. Rather, I will…
The ‘Goldilocks Principle’ Shows Earth Was Designed For Humans
Do you recall the story of Goldilocks from your youth? She struggled as she sought the right porridge, chair, and bed, but in the end, her discoveries were “just right.” The Goldilocks Principle in secular cosmology is a recognition by scientists that the Earth appears to be “just right” for life to exist on it….
Thoughts On Valentine’s Day, Chocolate And Child Labor
Valentines Day is for lovers, especially lovers of chocolate, but here’s a fact that you may not know – Nearly half of the world’s chocolate is produced in the Ivory Coast of Africa, much of it with child labor. That’s according to The Brookings Institution’s Molly Curtiss and Jenny Perlman Robinson, who write:
Scientists From Harvard, Johns Hopkins, UCLA, Etc. Sign ‘A Dissent From Darwinism.’ Should Hill Staffers Take Notice?
Evolution is accepted as unquestionable fact throughout the popular culture, mainstream media and academic community, but what if more than 1,000 scientists from Harvard, MIT, Princeton and similarly prestigious institutions from around America and the world say they now reject Darwinism, not on the basis of religion but science? Well, they have. So now what?
Five Ways Your Brain Is Different From Your Mind And Why That Matters
Cold-case detective J. Warner Wallace gets excited when he talks about the essential connection between human consciousness and the necessary existence of God. This is a huge problem for atheists because, as Wallace points out, brains and minds aren’t the same thing. “Is that all we are, material bodies, material beings.” Wallace asks. “The problem…
PUEBLA 2019: Our Mission Is Now Completed And We Are Heading Home Tomorrow
Hananeel’s new courtyard received its last paver early this morning as the Friendship Baptist Church (FBC) mission completed its work and then took off for the downtown Plaza. We have to leave very early in the morning to catch our return flight to Houston, then back to Dulles where a church bus will be waiting…
PUEBLA 2019: Three Amigos At The Well And Pavers Corner Reached
Thursdays in Puebla for the Friendship Baptist Church (FBC) mission team are always the last full day we have to complete our week’s work, so it typically becomes the busiest of our time here. Today was no exception on either our construction work projects or our visitation and evangelism efforts. It was easily the most…
PUEBLA 2019: Hump Day At Hananeel Is Always A Tough One
Remember that GEICO commercial with the camel strolling through the office asking everybody what day it is until a lone exasperated employee finally says the magic words? You know, “Hump Day!” Wednesday is Hump Day because it’s between two sets of two workdays each. It’s the same for the annual Friendship Baptist Church (FBC) mission…
PUEBLA 2019: A Beautifully Paved Courtyard Is Taking Shape At Hananeel
Tuesday, day three, at Hananeel Baptist Church in Puebla, Mexico, is a beautiful, bright, comfortably warm day and the Friendship Baptist Church (FBC) mission team is making good things happen. Check out, for example, the progress being made in turning that construction staging area seen in Monday’s post into a beautiful, peaceful courtyard that will…
PUEBLA 2019: A Monday Journey Way Out, Including A Taste Of Cactus
Workday one in Puebla, Mexico, for our band from Friendship Baptist Church (FBC) fell on February 3, which also happens to be the national holiday celebrating adoption in 1917 of the country’s current constitution. Fireworks are a big deal in Mexico and a major battle of the revolution that lasted from 1910 to 1920 was…