It seems like 2020 has lifted worry and fear to a whole new level. Things that we never needed to worry about before March are the forefront of our thoughts today.  Rates of infection, death rates, will a vaccine be discovered?  Will the vaccine be safe?  Does my mask match my suit?  Oh, to have…

Most of us know the words. We can recite them without thinking and often have.  You know it as the Lord’s prayer and it was read for us earlier.  When the passage was read earlier it was read from the New Living Translation, but that isn’t how we know the Lord’s prayer.   There are several…

Have you ever had to work with someone who just doesn’t get it?  Whatever it is?  Maybe you’re trying to explain how a particular program works, or perhaps you’re trying to get them to understand the ethos of your company.  Why and how you do what you do.  But you have to keep coming back…

It was a collision of sorts. A Collison of Kingdoms. Pilate who was the most powerful man in the country stood in judgment of Jesus, the most powerful being in the universe. Jesus has been arrested and brought to Pilate by the religious authorities. The charges were blasphemy and treason. And for whatever reason, Pilate…

Every saint has a past, every sinner has a future.  Those words were penned over a hundred years ago by the Irish playwright Oscar Wilde but they could very well have been written about a young man named Saul who came to a pivotal point in his life where he would have to choose to…

It is the stuff of nightmares, you’re unable to breathe, the pressure is closing in and your last thoughts reflect on what you wished you had done.  Regrets fill your mind, if onlys become your focus and as the darkness increases your struggles decrease until what was you has departed and what is left is…

His name was Job but I wonder if his friends called him Murphy, because it seemed that anything that could go wrong for him, did go wrong for him. He was kind of like the guy who said, “If it wasn’t for bad luck, I wouldn’t have any luck at all.” You might recall the…

A Fisherman’s Tale: CHAPTER 28 The days had flown since we returned from Nazareth. Some days I fished and other days I spent with Jesus and the others.  Our days with Jesus soon fell into a comfortable routine.   He’d come by the house and we’d chat for a while and then we would wander through…

So this was how it would end.  Public humiliation and possibly a public death for a private act. An act that had never been intended to be shared with others and certainly not made public.  It had all started out innocently enough, a shared glance, an innocent touching of hands, a long conversation and it…

You are the apple of my eye!  Have you ever heard that expression?  Probably not recently in common usage, but maybe in an old movie or a historical novel.  There was actually a song that made the charts by that name in 1956.  It was sung by Frankie Valli and the Four Lovers.  The group…