In the eleven years I was in the Navy, we lived in about thirty different places. Each was as much home as our current residence of thirty years. It’s been great to be in the same place so long. The house is full of mostly […]
Author: Nick
Depression – Evidence of an absence of Jesus or just chemical imbalance?
To be sorry is to have a feeling of deep distress caused by loss, disappointment, or other misfortune suffered by oneself or others. We are sorry and depressed people. During 2011–2014, about one in eight Americans aged 12 and over reported taking antidepressants in the […]
Correction Rejection
The captain of a battleship at sea noted a light on a dangerous collision course. The captain immediately ordered his signalman to signal: “We are on a collision course. I advise you to change course 20 degrees east.” Back came a response from the other […]
Direct Connection
I love writing blogs, teaching, that kind of thing. I like the connection which makes teaching the best. Writing a blog, I don’t always feel the connection. Feedback is sporadic. The more direct the connection, the better. It’s also why I feel an obligation […]
Perverted Promises
My resolution for 2020 is to follow the daily meditations contained in David Jeremiah’s Daily in the Presence. If I am able to be true to that commitment, much of what I write in 2020 will spring from his meditations. I would never claim […]
Death Row Christmas
Yesterday I spent time with ten inmates on death row at Angola. I have known these men for nearly two years. I met them at the first-ever Kairos weekend retreat on death row in February 2018. The men have met every Monday since to conduct […]
Happiness in the Pursuit of Holiness?
Yesterday I wrote about Happiness. It wasn’t the first time I addressed that topic. In the summer of 2011, I wrote this: But as He who called you is holy, you also be holy in all your conduct, because it is written, “Be holy, for […]
Elusive Happiness
As 2019, winds down, Americans find happiness elusive. According to a World Happiness Report for the United Nations, the United States is only the 19th happiest country in the world. The good news is that is 19 out of 156 countries. I am glad we […]