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"Vain repetition, that's all it is!" My friend was absolutely horrified by my shift from my Pentecostal roots to the Greek Orthodox Church. He came to a service where I was presiding as priest and he simply shook his head in disbelief. "How could you do this?" he wondered to me afterwards. All the ritual…

When I was a boy, I was always excited about my birthday party. My mom was a hard working lady, but there always seemed to be time enough to make my day special either with a cake or something else that let me mark this landmark in my young years. Nowadays, well let's just say,…

I really don't know where it came from, but since I can remember, there were two great interests in my mind - politics and religion. Strange, since my traditional Southern upbringing discouraged the mixing of the two realms of human endeavor. But there it was, a passionate interest in both, so much so that there…

I was sitting right next to it! And then it went off! And I nearly jumped out of my skin. It was an alarm that let you know when someone was "breaking into the house." I didn't realize I was that close when they were going to test it and it scared me to death.…

I will never forget his face. You see, this man was asking me about giving to his church. He was absolutely amazed that his pastor had preached a sermon on tithing. Tithing is the belief that one should set aside 10% of one's income to dedicate to God's house and supporting the work of the…

"They say hindsight's 20/20." Yep, that's what they say. I don't know anyone who, if they could and knowing what they know now, wouldn't jump into a time machine and go back to one or two spots in their lives and do something different. We all have moments in our lives where we were blind…

"Don't judge me!" That's the cry of modern man in a modern society that has come to see every desire as a right, and every pleasure as a perfectly normal expectation. There's a new Hollywood movie coming out that illustrates my point. It's called "50 Shades of Grey." I won't bore you with the details,…

"Free advice is worth every penny you pay for it!" With that, the old man proceeded to share with me some pearls of wisdom that I remember to this day. Isn't it funny how much we already know? I mean the truth is I pretty much know how I should live and what decisions are best…

There's one sure way for any politician to get an applause line in a stump speech. All he or she has to do is say "I support our troops!" And rightly so. The brave men and women who serve in our military perform a vital function in the preservation of our liberty, and we, as…

It's just such a part of our common world today! There are people who believe they are killing other people for God. In fact, when a member of ISIS (that terrorist group in Syria and Iraq) was asked why they were actually killing the children too, he said they didn't want the children to grow…