FORTY DAYS SAVED
The Children of Israel had been slaves in Egypt for 430 years. Moses was sent to rescue and deliver them. They saw the plagues of […]
September 2023
THE SILVERWARE SERIES
#13 THE SILVERWARE CIRCLE From the Stone Age with rocks, bones, sticks and shells as the early Silverware of our ancestors who walked around dragging […]
KINGDOM CHILDREN
Jesus said, ‘I tell you solemnly,’ or ‘truly,’ or in our language, ‘I tell you for sure, unless you change and become like children, you […]
LIVING IN TRUTH
Rick Warren, pastor of Saddleback Church in Southern California and author (recently booted out of the Southern Baptist Convention for allowing women to be preaching […]
THIS YEAR’S BIRDS
There is an old proverb: ‘You don’t get this years birds from last year’s nests.’ Don’t look for something new in something old. New truth […]
NOT A CRUMMY DEAL
Tonight at sundown begins what the Jews celebrate as Rosh Hashanah, the Jewish New Year (Leviticus 23:23-25). One of the customs at this time is […]
FAITH METER
I keep seeing all these different gizmos that read our heart rate, blood sugar, blood pressure, temperature, the steps we take… etc. They are usually […]
PRACTICE THE PRESENCE OF BEAUTY
When the great eco-theologian Thomas Berry (1914-2009) was quite old, he was asked what he wanted to tell the generations coming behind him. He said: “Above […]
THE WAY OF REASONING
Inductive reasoning is a bottom-up approach, while deductive reasoning is top-down. Inductive reasoning takes you from the specific inferences to the general, while in deductive […]
THE WAY OF THE RIVER
Wendell Berry, Farmer and writer on the persistence of rivers: “To a river, as to any natural force, an obstruction is merely an opportunity. For the […]