How do we tame the chaos in our lives? Let's face it, it seems the chaos is increasing in our day and age, and more and more it seems people are actually encouraging chaos and the fanning of the flames of our passions. But this level of chaos isn't...
My Pentecostal background shaped me to expect that God wouldn't ask me to BE like Jesus Christ and then not give me the power to actually DO that! But being cut off from the continuity of the wisdom of the Church meant we had to make it up as...
Everybody knows that whoever possesses the Spear of Destiny, has ultimate power! Their armies can never be defeated and power will be theirs forever, as long as they have the Spear! You know the Spear I’m talking about, don’t you? This is the Spear that pierced the Lord’s side at...
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Edgar Allen Poe writes the psychologically terrifying "Tell Tale Heart" and we watch as the guilt from a murder drives the murderer crazy thinking he hears the heartbeat of his victim. This guilt is destructive to the man in the story and we can readily understand the horror of...
The headlines read like a series of horror stories to many. Mass shootings and infectious diseases break out and we wonder about our own health and safety. Conflict rages in the Middle East and radical Islamic groups are ethnically cleansing the Christians and other minority groups, even killing children...
I’ve heard this all my life “God will provide.” I remember hearing it when me and my brother and my mom were near poverty when I was young, and He did. I remember hearing it when I watched my family go through a shattering crisis, and He did. I...
"I love you 3000." This iconic bit of Hollywood scripting is such a powerful illustration of our current understanding/misunderstanding about love. The sentimental side of me sheds tears as a child tries to tell her daddy how much she loves him, and in her little head the number 3000...
Socrates sees the wisdom in living a wakeful life when he says “ὁ δὲ ἀνεξέταστος βίος οὐ βιωτὸς ἀνθρώπῳ – The unexamining life is not worth living for a human being.” Notice the continual action implied in the original. This wisdom, planted in we humans by our loving Creator, is...
It’s no secret that family life is filled with challenges. To be honest, I don’t think we’ve seen the real fallout of all the societal experiments we Americans have engaged in since all these movements have been demanding this or that change in society. One of the interesting, if...
