Perspective

We are not human beings having a spiritual experience. We are spiritual beings having a human experience. – Pierre Teilhard Chardin

Challenge Polite Prayers

One of the biggest hinderances in my life as a Jesus-follower was prayer. It would “clean my clock” and leave me defeated, disillusioned and totally daunted at ever being able to pray in any significant way. I tried everything I could think of, read about or heard about but nothing was anything more than a short [...]

Come and Live

My son-in-law put me on to a great online music resource while he was here over the holidays. For some of you it’s probably as old in your knowledge base of Methuselah, but for me it was brand new. The neat part of it is that it is free! The second neat part that most [...]

A Year of Conquest

…this is only a simple thing for the Lord, for he will make you victorious over the army of Moab! You will conquer the best of their towns, even the fortified ones. You will cut down all their good trees, stop up all their springs, and ruin all their good land with stones. It seems that [...]

Shaking My Head

There are times when I shake my head and quietly ask myself, “Why?” I suppose I’m actually thankful that I don’t do too much head shaking in this manner. It is rather disconcerting. Though, being completely candid, it is in those moments where my comprehension of the eternal becomes more focused, more broad, more understandable. [...]