When you stop and think about it, it’s the little things, the minutiae.  I can get my head around the miracles in the New Testament, miracles are by definition miracles.  You either believe them or you don’t.  So I don’t struggle with how Jesus fed the five thousand that was a God thing, a miracle…

Who Was on the Cross In 1950, Japanese Film Director Akira Kurosawa produced a movie that through the years has appeared on any number of lists of great movies.  Maybe you are familiar with it, the name of the movie is Rashomon, and the premise of the movie has been used in movies, novels and…

I love this story.  Here we see Jesus healing not one person or two but four in three separate instances and if we had of kept reading we would have discovered that after leaving the blind men he healed a man who was mute. And this wasn’t an isolated incident in the story.   Contained within…

God Answers Prayer, But Not Always Prayer helps us feel closer to God, more connected to the church and extremely guilty if it is perceived that we don’t do it enough or correctly.  And this is one of the verses that is often claimed as a promise for praying Christians:  James 5:16 The earnest prayer…

If I was to ask for a show of hands as to how many folks here pray I would suspect that virtually everyone would raise their hands.   If I was to ask how many folks believe their prayers would be answered hopefully the same number would raise their hands.  I mean really, if we don’t…

When you Pray. I love the positive thought that comes across in the statement that Jesus made to the disciples in the book of Matthew.  It is found in what we refer to as the Sermon on the Mount and Jesus says three words that reflect his positive belief in the people who will call…

Soli Deo Gloria, Glory To God Alone He was a man who couldn’t keep a job.   He was a church organist and composer and while he was a great organist the pieces that he composed himself were often considered too showy to be played in church, and so eventually the church would grumble and…

I was sixteen when Gary Gilmore died it was January 17 1977.  And maybe some of you are thinking:  That name sounds familiar.  Gilmore was a petty criminal from Texas who would have lived and died in complete obscurity except for one thing.  He became the first person in the United States to be executed…

What is in a name? The question was asked by Shakespeare when he wrote In Romeo and Juliet, “What's in a name? that which we call a rose by any other name would smell as sweet.”  To which Anne Shirley responded  “I read in a book once that a rose by any other name would…

Sola scriptura  On Scripture Alone Do you own a bible?  Do you read the bible you own? Who or what is the final authority in your life?  You know,  The one thing that you won’t or can’t argue with?  If you were a fan of “Rumpole of the Bailey”, a British Television series about a…