Owners Manual

By |February 7th, 2025|Categories: Brooks|

Learning how to study your Bible is important, but equally important is answering the questions of the why and the what.  Why are you studying? What are you looking for in its pages?  In John 5:39, Jesus tells the Pharisees, “You search the Scriptures, for in them you think you have eternal life; and these are they which testify of Me.” (NKJV) Other versions translate “search” as “pore over” (CSB), “study” (NIV), and “search and keep on searching” (AMP).  It’s clear they were committed to the study of Scripture, yet they was so fixated on their

Cost of Ownership

By |January 17th, 2025|Categories: Brooks|

As many of you may know, I worked in the Travel Industry from 1979 thru 1990. I took great pride in finding the lowest airfares for anyone who walked into our agency, and will have to say, became pretty good at it. Once I’d quoted the client a fee, it was the total charge to get roundtrip from point A to point B.  Not anymore.  Travel today and there are a myriad of additional costs you will most likely incur.  Would you like to select your seat in advance? Do you want the “premium section” of

Willing to Learn

By |January 16th, 2025|Categories: Brooks|

I’m presently working on a short teaching series on how to study the Word of God. It’s not the only way or necessarily the best way, but a way I’ve found to be very successful. Its premise is based on the old saying “Give a man a fish and you will feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish and you will feed him for a lifetime.” In the spirit of full disclosure, I don’t like to fish. I have friends and family that do, but in the world of fishing I’m a “give me

Changing ISPs

By |August 9th, 2024|Categories: Brooks|

About a month ago, I changed ISPs (Internet Service Provider). Received a new router and consequently had to update the wifi settings on the devices in my home needing access to the internet. Updated my personal and business laptops, iMac, television, and irrigation system controller. Everything ran smoothly until the day I unplugged my old router. Got up the next morning and told Alexa to play some music but she responded with an “unable to access the internet,” message. At first I thought there must have been an “Alexa outage,” but that would be rare so I

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