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Percy Pig for Christmas
The Fourth Watch - Qui 08 Dez 2022 06:32:46 EST - 7

Have you been following the Percy Pig row across the pond in the United Kingdom? The Marks and Spencer department store chain has been offering Percy Pig “sweets” (candy) for Christmas. But buyers aren’t happy! Read more......

New World Speed Record
The Fourth Watch - Qui 03 Nov 2022 06:32:35 EDT - 2

Karen and I shot to the top of the world’s tallest broadcast/communication tower, the Tokyo Sky Tree (634 meters/2080 feet). The view from the Tembo Deck is spectacular. As you gaze out over the 360 degree vista of the world’s largest c...

Beware the Small Openings!
The Fourth Watch - Qui 27 Out 2022 06:32:36 EDT - 7

God bless our neighbors to the west. Orkin (the pest removal company) has once again crowned Chicago with the dubious distinction of being the most rat infested city in this country. For the eighth year in a row! “‘Each fall, mice and o...

Hurricane Ian
The Fourth Watch - Sex 07 Out 2022 06:32:30 EDT - 15

The apocalyptic fury with which the winds of Hurricane Ian slammed into the Florida shoreline last Thursday, and with which they with buzzsaw precision subsequently obliterated a swath of destruction across the Sunshine State to the opposit...

Can We Walk Away From Dementia?
The Fourth Watch - Qui 08 Set 2022 03:31:59 EDT - 6

Here’s a story headline that would catch the eye of anybody in the over 40 crowd! CNN ran the news piece under the heading, “Walk this number of steps each day to cut your risk of dementia” ( dementia risk wellness/index.html). Curiou...

No Water . . . At All?
The Fourth Watch - Qua 31 Ago 2022 21:32:06 EDT - 4

Can you imagine a world without water? Think about it. Nearly every single daytime or nighttime, waking or sleeping, human activity is dependent on water. Why, if water disappeared from this earth, we would last around three days. “Dehydr...

When the Reservoirs Run Out
The Fourth Watch - Sex 26 Ago 2022 01:32:01 EDT - 3

As the drought tightens its grip on the western states here in the U.S., the dramatic plunge of reservoir water levels is stunning. If you haven’t seen the before and after NASA satellite photographs of Lake Mead (“the largest reserv...

A Pair of Feet*
The Fourth Watch - Sex 19 Ago 2022 01:31:58 EDT - 7

A few days ago, Brittany Moore and her year and a half old toddler, Ethan, were in the backyard blowing bubbles into the Georgia summer air. As one of those rainbow hued wet bubbles drifted upward into the sky, little Ethan ran after it. Bu...

So Are We Getting Older or Younger: Reflections on the Beautiful Life
The Fourth Watch - Qui 11 Ago 2022 21:31:48 EDT - 6

You know it is a slow news cycle when one of the hot stories of summer has to do with how fast our home planet Earth is spinning these days. Read more......

Let’s Make History Together
The Fourth Watch - Qua 22 Jun 2022 21:32:07 EDT - 54

You are invited to an historic Supper in honor of our Lord Jesus. For the first time since 2019, we will gather as a worshiping congregation with real emblems of His broken body and shed blood (good bye packaged communion wafers and juice),...

"Jesus Is Coming—Get Involved"
The Fourth Watch - Qui 09 Jun 2022 01:31:59 EDT - 16

An old song from my parents’ generation crooned about meeting in St. Louis, today the chrome arched city along the Mississippi River that is host to the 61st General Conference Session of the Seventh day Adventist Church. Karen and I drov...

A Voice Is Heard in Uvalde
The Fourth Watch - Qui 02 Jun 2022 01:31:52 EDT - 26

“This is what the LORD says: ‘A voice is heard in Ramah, mourning and great weeping, Rachel weeping for her children and refusing to be comforted, because they are no more’” (Jeremiah 31:15). Ancient words eerily capture the numbing...

When You Can’t Fly, Do This
The Fourth Watch - Qui 12 Mai 2022 01:31:49 EDT - 21

On Tuesday afternoon it was a nightmare come true. The pilot of the Cessna Caravan (a 38 foot single engine 14 passenger aircraft) suddenly slumped over at the controls. Moments later a passenger clicks on the radio to air traffic control: ...

An Infinity of Difference
The Fourth Watch - Qui 28 Abr 2022 06:31:45 EDT - 9

Have you heard about the brouhaha north of the border recently? Turns out Nissan Canada, the Japanese automaker, decided to tout the sound masking properties of their new, exquisite luxury model the Infiniti.  Read more......

“Immediate Forgiveness” for 40,000?
The Fourth Watch - Qui 21 Abr 2022 03:32:01 EDT - 6

What’s not to like about this “headline” yesterday from the U.S. Department of Education? In an April 19 tweet the department “announced steps to address historical federal student loan program failures, helping at least 3.6 millio...

This Easter Whose Side Is He On?
The Fourth Watch - Qui 14 Abr 2022 03:32:05 EDT - 26

In a world already irreparably fractured, Russia’s attacks on Ukraine over the last one month and three weeks—chronicled across the earth through live video feeds—have diminished any hope of global healing.  And yet many, who regard ...

The Advent of Economic Embargoes
The Fourth Watch - Qui 31 Mar 2022 06:32:04 EDT - 4

The conflagration they are calling the Russia Ukraine war (now five weeks long) has introduced to global humanity the power of a united economic embargo. Simply put—what we are witnessing is the strategic punitive enforcement of no buy/no...

Sign Me Up! This Spring
The Fourth Watch - Qui 24 Mar 2022 03:32:14 EDT - 12

Have you noticed? Life doesn’t always happen this dreadfully slow (the waning pandemic) or this dangerously fast (the Russia Ukraine war)—but life keeps happening. And so to celebrate the good news, upside of life this springtime comes ...

Pray for "Return to Palau"
The Fourth Watch - Qui 17 Mar 2022 03:32:20 EDT - 14

Our team is headed this week to the Republic of Palau (a small archipelago nation of 340 islands—southeast of Guam and west of the Philippines—population 18,000+). Its president, Surangel Whipps, Jr., is an active Seventh day Adventist ...

Pray for Palau
The Fourth Watch - Qua 09 Mar 2022 21:33:29 EST - 6

Our team is headed this week to the Republic of Palau (a small archipelago nation of 340 islands—southeast of Guam and west of the Philippines—population 18,000+). Its president, Surangel Whipps, Jr., is an active Seventh day Adventist ...

A Wartime Promise
The Fourth Watch - Qua 02 Mar 2022 21:32:07 EST - 6

For seven days now the world has looked on with handwringing concern as an aggressor nation has invaded a neighboring country. It is our human (and Christian) tendency to identify the villain, take sides in the conflict and pray (usually) f...

Groundhog Day
The Fourth Watch - Qui 03 Fev 2022 03:31:52 EST - 12

I suppose the whole world knows who Phil of Punxsutawney is. And what’s not to like about that huggable, furry underground critter who cautiously pokes his head from his den every February 2, and predicts America’s weather pattern for t...

Could He Be Right?
The Fourth Watch - Qua 05 Jan 2022 19:34:27 EST - 5

A friend of mine whispered to me the other day his conviction that the eventual downfall of the American democracy will be traced to January 6, 2021, and the mob attack on Capitol Hill. My eyebrows arched, considering the bright mind and re...

A Christmas Prayer: “We Are Still in the Sea . . . Not Sure [Who] Is Coming
The Fourth Watch - Qua 22 Dez 2021 19:34:19 EST - 6

Those are the last words of 30 year old Shakar Ali Pirot, one of over thirty Middle East migrants who perished in the English Channel a few nights ago, their desperate flight to freedom ending tragically. In this case, the electronically ca...

A Poisonous Tree for Christmas
The Fourth Watch - Qua 15 Dez 2021 19:34:36 EST - 9

A few days ago the Wild family—Mom and Dad and their two children—living on the Western Cape of South Africa were decorating their Christmas tree, a familiar holiday ritual. With the last ornament tucked onto a lighted branch, they all ...