Mike Wittmer

Category: Christian Worldview

  • ask us how we defeated global warming

    Grand Rapids just completed our coldest July ever. Our average temperature for the month was 67.1 degrees. We never went above 84. Three days didn’t climb out of the 60’s. We did receive plenty of sunshine (63% of what was available), so lack of sunlight was not the issue. Actually, unless you enjoy swimming at…

  • better than you think

    [I am trying to hate Tim Tebow]. I’m sure he is a fine Christian man, but a couple of years ago his Florida Gators defeated my Ohio State Buckeyes in the national championship game, turning a proud program and sweater vest into the laughingstock of the SEC. OSU is the only one of my teams…

  • beer is not the answer

    In his excellent book, Unpacking Forgiveness, Chris Brauns makes the point that forgiveness means reconciliation, and it’s impossible to be reconciled with someone who has not repented and asked for forgiveness. Since no party has yet admitted they were wrong, I am not sure what Obama’s beer party on Thursday afternoon is going to accomplish.…

  • close to home

    How’s this for serendipity?  Yesterday a girl ran over my parents’ mailbox.  She was texting.

  • hang up already

    Maureen Dowd, a columnist who is always fun to read, has a good column today on the evils of driving while talking on a cell phone. I understand that there are exceptions and emergencies, but as someone who drives a two seater hatchback, I’m willing to go out on a limb and say that insofar…

  • global warming, please!

    Unless the new GM sells a lot more SUV’s in West Michigan this week, we will set the record for the coldest July ever (or at least since 1870, when we started keeping track of such things).   I’m not sure what this means, but I do know three things:  1. I haven’t been to the…

  • keep a ring on it

    This week’s Time magazine has an insightful cover story, “Why Marriage Matters.” Along the way it claims that “There is no other single force causing as much measurable hardship and human misery in this country as the collapse of marriage. It hurts children, it reduces mothers’ financial security, and it has landed with particular devastation…

  • 4th of july

    Just for fun (and to be contrarian), here is an excerpt from John Wesley’s “A Calm Address to Our American Colonies.”  It shows that not every Christian, especially those in England, thought that America’s independence was a good thing.  Read Romans 13 at your parade or fireworks display and you’ll get his drift.  Here it is: …

  • talking about the Christian worldview

    Yesterday I was interviewed by the InternetMonk about the tension between loving God and the things of this world.  Stop by and leave a comment there or here and I’ll do my best to respond.  This is the second week of an intense summer school schedule so I will appreciate your patience.

  • tiananmen

    The title of this post guarantees that Google will filter it from reaching China.  That’s Google, the company that is absolutely committed to doing no evil, except in China.  There it will do a little bit of evil, enough to keep its foothold in the world’s largest market.  Today is the twentieth anniversary of the…