Overtaken!
When I was a police officer, one of the most exciting, most dangerous, and most nerve-racking parts of the job was a high-speed chase! It's one of the most dangerous experiences of a police officer, but overtaking the car you are chasing isn't the point. Identifying the car and...
Neither This Nor That!
For the past several years our society has been struggling with the chaos of "identity politics." Our whole society has been gripped by the challenges of "microaggressions," gender dysphoria, and the "cancel culture" of being a heretic of the current faddish madness trying to pass itself off as "progress"...
What Belongs to Cesar & What Belongs to God
We have succumbed to such a consumerist mindset that the Pavlovian trigger of “sale” actually has us queuing up outside the “box” retailers to wait in the cold to get a slip of paper that permits us to purchase a product at a particular price so we will “have”...
Come And See The Lamb of God
Patti Smith once said: "It was an unexpected encounter that slowly altered the course of my life." Buy, hey, that's what happens to us when we have encounters with significant persons. Now let's consider an encounter with Jesus Christ. Jesus is God in the flesh. He is risen from the...
By What Authority Do You Do These Things?
I never will forget the moment in college when I was confronted with the question "How do you know?" It was in an undergraduate philosophy class and I had actually never really thought about "how" I knew things. The fancy name for this is "epistemology." Epistemology is the study...
Giving Tuesday Report – THANK YOU!
Our Goal for the Annual Giving Campaign is $5000 in One-Time Gifts and $200 additional monthly support. And our #GivingTuesday got this Annual Campaign off to a wonderful start. We raised over half our One-Time goal yesterday! But it isn't too late for you. Our Campaign will run until the end...
All the People Hung on His Words
"I can pray out in the woods so much better than in a church!" But do you do that? Seriously, I hear so many excuses as a priest from folks who can't seem to make regular church attendance a priority in their lives. And most of those lives are...
It’s #Giving Tuesday! Read the News!
Every year, after Black Friday and Cyber Monday, we get #Giving Tuesday. This is a day to try to pry our souls away from mere consumerism and focus on investing our treasure in Eternal Values. Today is #Giving Tuesday, the day we here at Faith Encouraged Ministries use to launch...
The Very Stones Would Cry Out!
In A.D. 70 the Roman general Titus surrounded the city of Jerusalem. The Empire had had enough of rebellions of the Jews and sought to bring to an end to the rebels' take over of the city in A.D. 66. The total destruction of the Jewish Temple during the...