POWER OVER DEATH AND DEVIL
In The Book of Hebrews we read, “Since therefore the children share in flesh and blood, he himself likewise partook of the same things, that through death […]
January 2018
THE 24/7 GOD
The 24/7 God is no God at all. That would make God corporeal… or limited to time and space. God is incorporeal … meaning not […]
LOVING THE POOR
Theologically and philosophically we all know (or at least have heard) that we are to love the poor. It has been at the heart of […]
TWO KINDS OF DYING
Mother Teresa of Calcutta (1910-1997) said, “The greatest disease in the West today is not TB or leprosy; it is being unwanted, unloved, and uncared […]
BREAKING THE GRIP OF WORRY
A Christian pastor, James Gordon Gilkey, wrote in the 1930’s this little remedy probably based on the humorist Mark Twain’s comment, “I’ve had a lot […]
MAKING ACCOMMODATION
In the Book of the Revelation of Jesus Christ we read. “He who has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the […]
MISBELIEVER
In his letter to the Church of Galatia, the apostle Paul wrote a very interesting line: “But it was because of the false brethren secretly brought in, who had […]
BURNED ON HIS FOREHEAD
Chief Charlo (Claw of the Little Grizzly or Small Grizzly-Bear Claw) lived from 1830-1910 in the Bitterroot Valley and served as head chief of the Bitterroot Salish from 1870 […]
WHO WE ARE
“It is imperative to have some awareness of what we are if we are to become different from what we are.” I first read a […]
WHITEWASHED PEACE
Christoph Friedrich Blumhardt (1842-1919) wrote, “We should protest against the peace that tolerates everything as it is (Ezekiel 13:10). This includes those religions and teachings that […]