Christ is Risen!
I remember watching him during the service. It had been a while since he'd been in Church and it was obvious. You see, this man wasn't just a friend, but a former clergyman. And his life had come off the rails and he found himself away from the Faith and living a…
Christ is risen!
"Now I recognize you!" He was an old friend from High School, and, for the life of me, I couldn't remember the face UNTIL he made that facial expression he use to make at lunchtime that made us fall on the floor laughing!
I love moments like that when the "AHA" moment comes and…
Christ is risen!
"We have an eye witness." Well, that got his attention. You see I was helping with an investigation with a recent spate of home burglaries in the area and we had caught a suspect in one of the neighborhoods where this was happening. This young man had been very successful in avoiding…
Grief has a way of blinding us to everything else around us. I remember a particularly dark time in my own life where a dear and wise man warned me of making important decisions during this time of grief in my life. He knew what I couldn't in that sad and scary place; grief blinded…
Rushing headlong into a significant moment without proper preparation usually means you are going to miss the point! I can't tell you how many times I've looked back on a significant moment in my own life and said "Boy if I knew then what I know now!" Yep, hindsight's 20/20.
On this Holy Thursday we will…
Most indifference and judgmentalism is rooted in fear, the fear that "I may not be right" or the fear that "I might be wrong" or even the fear that if I don't "defend this or that "truth" my whole world will come apart.
But actions motivated by fear are so rarely helpful. Perhaps if a bus…
"What you don't know won't hurt you!" Really? I've found that, sometimes, what I don't know hurts me pretty bad.
But what's worse is misunderstanding what I actually do know. In fact, I have misunderstood some things I thought I knew so bad that I might as well not known it at all! And that, dear…
I love the old horror movies in black and white. The building of suspense where you're screaming at the screen "Run" or "Don't go in there!" Vincent Price was my favorite, and my most favorite horror movie of his is "The Oblong Box" by Edgar Allen Poe.
What was brilliant about those old movies was their…
It's got to be terribly frustrating to the enemy of our souls when God takes what the devil meant to harm us and turns it around to be for our benefit! I mean how would you feel if your best weapons turned out to harm you rather than your intended target!
Take physical death, for…
There's an old Gospel song I remember from my youth: "If heaven was never promised to me; even God's promise to live eternally; it's been worth just having the Lord in my life. Living in a world of darkness, He came along and brought me the Light."
People of faith have always been secretly envied…