FIGHTING THE FIGHT
It can become very tiring to fight the “good fight of faith” which is to say, to fight against evil. There are days we want […]
May 2017
GOSPEL BEGINNINGS
It is apparent to me that the beginning of Christian thought and practice was not at Pentecost, but in the gospels. Probably the instability of […]
NOT MANY TEACHERS
The apostle James wrote, “Not many of you should become teachers, my brothers, for you know that we who teach will be judged with greater […]
FINDING OURSELVES
One of the real secrets I have learned through the years is the importance of finding ourselves in the scriptures. By this, I mean as […]
CYCLES OF CHANGE
The world goes through cycles of change and right now the world is basically pagan again. It is as though we need to be back […]
HALF OF THE KINGDOM
In looking through some past journal notes I ran across this note that I wrote in 1995: “We often want what Herod Antipas offered the […]
BORN AGAIN
“One day, one night, a juror came to Jesus and he wanted to know what he could do to be saved. Jesus didn’t get bogged […]
NEW SEEMS OLD
In the past few years I have visited several places and tried to take careful notice of what I saw and heard. These are some […]
SYMBOLS AND PRESENCE
Madeleine L’Engle (1918-2007) wrote, “When we are self-emptied enough to make room for this love, it is not as a result of our own moral […]