Help someone when they are in trouble and they will remember you when they're in trouble again.

Just a quick post on Sunday evening.

I'm not good at Easter sermons. I am, by divine constitution, a teacher, and Easter morning calls for inspirational preaching.

Jahlil Okafor plays for Duke, one of two teams (the other is Wisconsin) headed for Monday night's final. I watched a little of their semi-final and was surprised how often he holds the ball in one hand. Then I saw this pic on the internet this morning that explains why. Yeah, that's a regulation basketball in his hand. It looks more like a grapefruit.

As I was rolling the truck bed back into the garage yesterday afternoon one of the casters on the dolly I made collapsed. It was Harbor Freight cheap and I got what I paid for. Changing it with a couple of hundred pounds of truck bed sitting on it ain't gonna be fun or easy.

Shirley also has a lily pond, and this morning she brought me three lilies and some water hyacinth that I potted and got in the pond this afternoon. I'm cautiously optimistic that this, the third year of my pond, will be the best and match my success with the roses.

After church Pam and I went over to see our newest grandchild, Emily Jean MacDonald. Pam saw her earlier this week but I was dog sick with the flu, so it didn't seem like a good idea for me to go then.
She's tiny, she's quiet, and she's a bundle of God's blessing.
OK, she makes a little noise from her bottom, but she gets that from her dad.
Five days old and I can already tell she's headed for big stuff.

I heard a pundit on TV recently say, "Think about places in the world right now where we have violent conflict. They're predominately religious conflicts."
I thought to myself, "That's true, but why not say it like it is. The religion involved is Islam."
I'm making no statement about Islam as a religion; we'll leave that for others. But at this point in time, sectarian violence is Islamic violence.
Just sayin'.

OK, think about times in history when Christianity as been the source/cause of violence, for example, the Crusades and the Inquisition. What associated factor(s) led to that violence?

Discuss.