Do you ever think that someday you are going to do great things for God? I have to admit I have often thought that and now, at 70 years old, I still sometimes think it. I suppose there is nothing wrong with that unless I, […]
Category: The Spiritual
Getting Things to Work Out
Sometimes things just don’t seem to work out. When that happens I tend to go through a mental checklist. I play Linda Ronstadt’s Poor Poor Pitiful Me a few times in my head. I repeat a few more times, “It’s not me. I’ve done everything […]
Amazing Faith
Jesus paid attention to faith. When a Roman soldier, who had only third-hand knowledge of Jesus, believed that Jesus could heal his sick servant by just saying the word, Jesus was “amazed.” Luke 7. On the other hand, when the people who knew Him from […]
Pray with Persistence
Scripture makes it clear, in several places, that we are to pray continuously. When it comes to our petitions, it seems we are encouraged to nag God. “Rejoice evermore. Pray without ceasing. In every thing give thanks: for this is the will of God in […]
Plenty of Info – Not Enough Wisdom
In the early 70s I was a computer tech in the Navy. I worked on one of the most sophisticated computers then available. We used it to track Russian submarines. The computer filed a large room. I remember when we got a new disc drive […]
Life is Short
Recently I started home delivery of the newspaper. It has caused me to restart an old habit: reviewing the obituaries. I don’t do it to make sure I am still alive. The practice does make me thankful that I am. I will be 71 in […]
Eternal Truth and Divine Mystery
One of my favorite Christian teachers recently created quite a controversy. Francis Chan has been researching Church history. He learned, for the first time, that the early church, for several centuries, gathered in ways very unlike the modern church. In early church gatherings, communion was […]
Gainfully Employed
 But you are a chosen people, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, God’s special possession, that you may declare the praises of him who called you out of darkness into his wonderful light. 1 Peter 2:9 We all Have personal assignments. We may be pastors […]