Miscellaneous Monday

Another crazy shoots people in Arizona . The news has been playing every angle and some from a very biased blind spot .Bottom line ,said individual was a disturbed , mentally unstable person . A ticking time bomb of many messed up ideologies. But the part that disturbed me was that he could face the death penalty because he murdered a Federal Judge in the shootings .
Now I believe in the death penalty and hold that officials need to be protected but a judge or a police officer's life is no more valuable than any person murdered by a heinous person. The little girl killed by this madman has just as much value as a judge . If this person is found to be mentally competent , knowing right from wrong , then  he deserves the death penalty for his reckless disdain of life by killing all those poor victims , all baring the image of God. Sickening and a clear example of a fallen and depraved world .

The average student coming out of University in Canada will owe between 30,000 dollars and beyond. It has risen at a ridiculous amount over the last 30 years .My generation(I'm 47) could get an under grad and come out with maybe 9000 in debt . Today unless the parents can afford a good chunk of change , it can easily top 40000. The expense of getting a good education is putting a huge burden of many trying to get started with thier lives. It doesn't help that text books are outrageously expensive.
My oldest son recently had to order two books that he needed for his business degree. The total cost , 1100 bucks . These books will hopefully pay off , enabling him earn more money but the bottom line , they are ridiculously over priced. For one , they are soft cover , printed on standard paper and have a combined page count under a 1000. They don't even come with a slip cover or special stands to display thier awesomeness. Bad enough young men and women are getting fleeced at tuition , but its criminal the books that they need cost . If I didn't know better , I would say the  mafia is in charge .

Christian fleeing the City of Destruction

I have been reading through Pilgrim's Progress again . It is the new edition released by Crossway last year . It is beautifully done . What the Editors have done was tweak what Bunyan masterfully wrote back in the the 1600 hundreds during his imprisonment and released in 1678 . They modernized some of the English phrases that would be awkward today but maintaining the beauty of what Bunyan wrote. It seems fresh and I'm throughly enjoying  reading of Christians pilgrimage from the City of destruction to the Celestial City . Plus it features new art wonderfully done by Mike Wimmer. Highly  recommend it.



Verse For The Day:   May the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace in believing, so that by the power of the Holy Spirit you may abound in hope.  (Romans 15:13 ESV)