There Is No City of Saints

The Only Perfect Saints I’ve Met Were Made Out Of Plastic or Wood. I was raised in a denomination that puffed-up the saints to the point of adoring   worship.        It was comforting as a child but as I got older it discouraged me to the point of depression. I did...

The Blame Game

 Everything I Do Is Somebody Else’s Fault.  “The woman whom You gave to be with me, she gave me from the tree, and I ate.” Genesis 3:12 When Eve sinned she blamed the serpent. Her excuse: “He beguiled me.  The serpent was wiser than I and I being...

In The Twinkling of an Eye

An Instant That Shall Last Forever. “Listen, I tell you a mystery: We will not all sleep, but we will all be changed—  in a flash, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trumpet. For the trumpet will sound, the dead will be raised imperishable, and we will be...

Un-Seen But Not Forgotten

Christians do not volunteer for martyrdom but they are willing to die for their faith. A Christian martyr is a person who is killed for following Christ. Their enemies often portray them as spies, enemies of the state. As was said of the founder of Christianity...

WOO0W!

How Wide is the Distance Between Heaven and Earth? The world’s largest shopping mall is in Dubai with over a thousand...

Security

                                  There is Security in a Shadow but Not for Long Security, Security, Security! Everybody is talking about security. Hackers are invading our personal information. Health Care plans are evaporating like foam on the water. Cameras are on...

New Year Means Hope Reborn ~ 2014

                                          The Joy of a New Beginning Don’t we all long for a fresh start? Don’t we all wish we could wipe the slate clean? Don’t we tell ourselves that if I can just get another chance I won’t make the same stupid mistakes? I’ll do...

Against All Odds

You Can Be Right And The Majority Wrong. Ahh!It feels so good. I’m just beginning to get into the mood. Christmas is over, and 2014 is just beginning to get into a trot. Like every other new year this one is also full of possibilities and promises, resolutions, and...

Vow WoW

Time Will Tell Are vows are like pie-crusts, meant to be broken? I don’t think so. I have made a vow for the New Year and it is the 700 year old prayer prayed by Richard of Chichester, and it goes like this: “O Lord that I might Love you more dearly, Know you more...

Your Expiration Date

Taking a L-o-o-o-n-g Look at Life.  “What is your life? You are a mist that appears for a little while and then vanishes.” James 4:14 James who wrote the above words was the half-brother of Christ. He was also the pastor of church in Jerusalem and we know him today as...