Doubt is one of the greatest challenges to faith. We worship an unseen God, we live in the power of an unseen Spirit, we have been redeemed by a Jew who was executed and some say rose from the dead more than 2,000 years ago. And yet, despite the enormous challenges we finite creatures have in ... Continue reading
Delight
August 4, 2006 By 1 Comment
In conclusion, my children, take delight in your heavenly Father. —Philippians 3:1, paraphrase (the Apostle Paul writing) I once had a girlfriend who loved to go to the park and swing on the swings. As a sophisticated young college student, I always felt a little foolish doing this.But young ... Continue reading
Billy Preston
June 7, 2006 By
His good nature seemed to define Billy Preston, who died Tuesday at 59 of kidney failure in a Scottsdale, Ariz., hospital. Indeed, it was Preston's sunny disposition that landed him his most famous gig as "the fifth Beatle."In 1969 the Beatles were nearing a fractious end, and the recording ... Continue reading
Washington, faith and perseverance
May 25, 2006 By 2 Comments
Measured by the size of its importance to those fighting for the Cause of America, those everywhere in the country who saw Washington and his army as the one means of deliverance of American independence and all that was promised by the Declaration of Independence, [the battle of] Trenton was the ... Continue reading
What about healing?
December 6, 2005 By
After leaving the synagogue that day, Jesus went to Simon's home, where he found Simon's mother-in-law very sick with a high fever. "Please heal her," everyone begged. Standing at her bedside, he spoke to the fever, rebuking it, and immediately her temperature returned to normal. She got up at once ... Continue reading
November 22
November 22, 2005 By
I had forgotten the date. When Nov. 22 rolls around, I always flash back to the fifth grade and 1963. I'm in my classroom, seated at my desk as usual, but we've all stopped working. We're puzzled, anxious, worried. My rock-like teacher, Mrs. Smith, is in the hallway speaking softly to another ... Continue reading
Tradition as DNA
August 1, 2005 By 6 Comments
There is almost nothing right or wrong which does not alter with a change in clime. A shift of three degrees of latitude is enough to overthrow all jurisprudence. One's location on the meridian decides the truth, that or a change in territorial possession. Fundamental laws alter. What is right ... Continue reading
Dangerous wonder
June 24, 2005 By 1 Comment
One day some parents brought their little children to Jesus so he could touch them and bless them, but the disciples told them not to bother him. Then Jesus called for the children and said to the disciples, "Let the children come to me. Don't stop them! For the Kingdom of God belongs to such as ... Continue reading
