A milder, almost balmy, morning at 7 deg. C. Good morning for riding.

What marks the modern sexual revolution out as distinctive is the way it has normalized these and other sexual phenomena. It is not therefore the fact that modern people look at sexually explicit material while earlier generations did not that constitutes the revolutionary nature of our times. It is that the use of pornography no longer carries the connotations of shame and social stigma it once did and has even come to be regarded as a normal part of mainstream culture. The sexual revolution does not simply represent a growth in the routine transgression of traditional sexual codes or even a modest expansion of the boundaries of what is and is not acceptable sexual behavior; rather, it involves the abolition of such codes in their entirety. Carl Trueman

First bike ride in a week, due to being away from home. Cold and frosty, but no wind.

In his 1983 Templeton Prize address, Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn offered this summary explanation for why all the horrors of Soviet communism came to pass: “Men have forgotten God; that’s why all this has happened. Carl Trueman

In short, something birthed by the Spirit can become fleshly if we are not careful. Beni Johnson

Just 6 degrees C this morning. You wouldn’t guess how cold it is from the photo! A beautiful day if you have enough clothes on.

To me, the mystics are just normal people. They are normal people consumed by the presence of God. Beni Johnson

The forecast was for wind and rain this morning, but the weather turned out to be quite OK.

One of the things that make “mystics” different from other people is that they have only one desire, to know God in His fullness. Beni Johnson

Cold, cloudy and windy this morning with the weather set to decline over the next few days.