The truth is we are all converts. Some of us were born into households where we learned at our earliest moments that the rhythm of the Faith was going to inform our lives. Others of us have these dramatic moments of confrontation with Faith that mark a specific time...
"Who touched Me?" What? Lord, the whole crowd is pressing in to touch You, and you ask "Who touched Me?" Lord, it doesn't make sense. Everybody is touching You. I imagine that is what most of the disciples were either thinking or saying when the Lord asked this question in...
God's grace is never wasted. God's patience is never exhausted. God's love is never overcome by hatred and His mercy is never failing. Think of this, today if your behavior can exhaust God's mercy and His love then you are more powerful than God. If your sin can finally "turn...
Think of one (just one) foolish thing you did as a child. I remember one "project" I attempted as a single-digit aged kid. I thought it would be "fun" to paint the basement of our house! The problem was I didn't have enough paint to do all the walls....
Sometimes the words of scripture are hard to understand. Do you remember the story of St. Philip and the Ethiopian eunuch in the Book of Acts? Philip heard the eunuch reading a passage from Isaiah along the road so Philip asked him "Do you understand what you are reading?”...
On August 28, 1963, Baptist minister and civil rights leader Dr. Martin Luther King gave his famous "I Have a Dream" speech on the mall in Washington, D.C. In it he uttered the equally famous line "Free at last, free at last. Thank God Almighty, we're free at last."...
I once took a fishing trip with a group of friends to the Gulf Coast. In a little town south of New Orleans, one of the top fishing guides in Louisiana was set to take our group out for the day. Now, I need to tell you, my younger...
Ah, summertime! The season of vacations, a more relaxed pace of life, adventures, and warm weather. "In the good old summertime...." Summertime is such a wonderful time of year. But our society is one in which most Americans take little to no vacation time. The drive to produce creates the...
Have you heard this before? "Well, I don't like going to church because there are so many hypocrites there." I've always found that funny because if you allow hypocrites to keep you from worship, then the hypocrite is closer to God than you are! Kinda defeats the purpose, don't...
In the culture I was raised, your mother is the most important person in your life. Oh, don't get me wrong, dad was just as important, but he was working, and it was mom that had the after-school snack ready for you when you got off the bus in...
