Law Enforcement

This Tuesday, September 1st, hundreds of new laws adopted during the Texas legislative session will go into effect. One of those laws makes it illegal to use a cell phone while driving in an active school zone, unless using a hands-free device. The Lubbock police department has said it will not enforce this law here, basically because of the costs involved in posting specific signs, without which officers cannot enforce the ban. There are no immediate plans to post these signs.

This made me think, "Well geez, then that law is useless here. There's no point." Although it is a good safety guideline, that law is not binding because nobody is enforcing it.

Then that reminded me of Moses' law in the Old Testament. Sure, some of those laws are good guidelines for living, but that law is not binding. Why? Because nobody is enforcing it. (Rom. 8:1-4)

New Voice of the Heretics Podcast

Just did a new podcast today- check it out here. (You can also download the podcast from iTunes- just search for "voth" or "voice of the heretics".)

Kam, Steph, Dave and I talked about Jesus' command to love our neighbors. What does that look like? Just who is our neighbor? How does religion warp the reality of Jesus' statement? It was a great conversation, I thought. We could probably have talked much longer on the subject, but we had gone on long enough :)

In case you missed it (like I did- I had family in town), check out last week's podcast. We had Stacey Robbins on and it was a great conversation with her about her faith journey, "truth", and relationship with God.

Much Too Exciting...

WARNING: This post is really more for my friends that don't attend church. If you're on of my church friends, please stop reading, as this post MAY upset you. It may not, but I'm just giving you fair warning.






Ok if you're still reading I assume you will find this story humorous. If you ignored the warning above, and you are somehow offended or angered by this post, please don't comment.

We were eating dinner this ebening and I decided to ask Jaxson about church. Our conversation proceeded as follows:

Me: "Jaxson, would you like to go to church sometime?"
Jaxson: "No, I already went. With my Nana."
Me: "Oh you went that time with Nana?"
Jaxson: "Yeah, I already went."
Me: (chuckling) "So once was enough for you, huh?"
Jaxson: (frowning)"Yeah, it was too exciting."

That last line of his was an Imagination Movers reference. I have no idea what he was thinking, if he really thought it was too exciting or not, but my wife and I laughed out loud for a good while. It was too funny.