Camping Genius: Swimmer's Ear Protection
Lone Star Camp Waterfront circa 1966One of the hazards of taking a youth group on an outing to the lake is the risk of kids contracting swimmer's ear. Here's a simple solution to help prevent it that...
View ArticleChristian Manhood: A Man's Purpose
I live, I breathe, I exist by the grace of a God who has called me for a purpose. As my life winds down through it's latter half I find that in searching for that purpose, I may have accidentally...
View ArticleStar Honor Series: Part 6 - Building a Reflector Telescope
John Dobson introduced his wonderful homemade low-cost, non-equatorial plywood telescope mount for large homemade reflector telescopes in the 1950s. Telescope mounts can be as expensive as the...
View ArticleChristian Manhood: Women are Lovely Creatures
Women are beautiful. I'm not talking physically, although there is that. I'm talking about their very nature, their instincts and drives. It's not politically correct to talk about the differences...
View ArticleAn Invitation to Adventist Writers
If you would like to be a guest blogger on The Journal of Hairy Chested Adventism, please contact me through this website's comment section or message me through my Facebook Account. I'd love to get...
View ArticleCamping Genius: Splicing Ropes
The best way to join two ropes is NOT a square knot. So, recognizing that Pathfinders are headed for Oshkosh for the Big Camporee, let me give you a nice knot to learn - the splice. It's really not as...
View ArticleCamping Genius: The Shovel Grill
If you're a Pathfinder counselor or director, you're always looking for new woodsy stuff to teach the kids. Here's one camping genius trick that will not only impress your kids, but also doesn't take...
View ArticleDebunking SDA Myths: The Truth Will Set You Free
Pope Frances & Shimon Peres discuss creating a "United Religions" organization. Notice this did not happenin secret. The author of this sign of the end is quite happy to have his work displayed on...
View ArticleLosing the Shut-Ins: A Call for a Revival of the "Sunshine" Ministries
GT Ng - General Conference Exec. SecretaryThe Adventist Church as reached 18.1 million members, making it the fifth largest Christian denominantion in the world, after the Roman Catholics, Eastern...
View ArticleStar Honor Series: Part 7 - Mounting Your Reflector Telescope on a...
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View ArticleAdventist Food: Potluck Vegetarianism
King Ranch Chicken I've been buried in writing a couple of books lately and haven't been back here to post in a while. Sorry about that, but something good came out of the time. I was approached by...
View ArticleThe End of Time: Did Christ Intend for Us to Be Socialists?
Forgive me for talking about politics in a religious forum. I have been told we Adventists are not to discuss politics (usually by SDAs who vote Democrat), but given that Ellen White once said that God...
View ArticleChurch Fellowship: The Pizza Party With a Twist
This is what the finished pizza ought to look like.Sometimes you just need to get the brethren and sisteren together for some old-fashioned fellowship. Here's an interesting twist on the pizza party...
View ArticleFallen Warriors: Ron Halvorsen Sr.
Pastor Ron Halvorsen Sr. - Hairy-Chested Adventist Man"Jesus ate fish."The simple statement by her pastor shocked the very rigid Adventist church lady of the sort Ray Stevens dubbed "Sister Bertha...
View ArticleWhat To Do About The Enemy Within?
We all should be looking in the same direction,that is, if we all plan to go to the same place.Dan Jackson, President of the North American Division of the SDA Church recently issued an appeal for...
View ArticleServants of the "Angry" God
Angry GodThere is a myth in Christian mythology to the effect that somehow, between the Old and New Testaments, God had some kind of conversion experience. After this, He became a much nicer God and...
View ArticleThe Aftermath - GC 2015
Ted Wilson - GC PresidentThere has been a lot of anger and hand-wringing and some behind-the-scenes "attaboys" and high-fives in the wake of the GC's "no" vote on ordination of women. Nobody, however,...
View ArticleStar Honor Series: Equipment
Screenshot from Stellarium program.If you're doing a Star Honor class, here's a really great software program your kids can download onto their laptops and home computers. If you're looking for a good...
View ArticleWhy Do Adventists Not Know "How to Feel" About Ben Carson?
Carson post currently going around FacebookThe greatest want of the world, according to Ellen White, is the want of men who will stand for the right though the heavens fall.Increasingly, as the...
View ArticleTime to Marginalize? I Don't Think So!
A recent editorial by Bill Knott, editor and executive publisher of the Adventist Review suggested that it is time to marginalize certain independent ministries and speakers and bar them from speaking...
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