Well it’s 2017, who would have thunk it. And I would suspect that there have been a pile of New Year’s resolutions made in the past 11 hours and if the truth was known there have probably been a pile of New Year’s resolutions broken in the past 11 hours. We have probably all verbally…
The Story of a Prophet
The Story of a Prophet We all know the Story; we’ve heard it over and over again. If you close your eyes you can almost picture them, the Old Testament words that are read each year during Advent. The words of Isaiah and Micah that relate to the coming messiah. They are repeated in sermons,…
The Story of a Birth
The Story of a Birth We all know the Story; we’ve heard it over and over again. this is the beginning of the Christmas story and it has all the earmarks of a great story. You hear it this time of year in sermons, songs and read about it on Christmas cards. Of course, it’s…
Story of a Journey
We all know the Story; we’ve heard it over and over again. If you close your eyes you can almost picture them, Mary, Great with Child, on a donkey. Wow while that may be an accurate description I’m not sure that any woman ever, would appreciate being described that way. Ranks right up there with,…
Story of Royalty
The Story of Royalty We all know the Story; we’ve heard it over and over again. If you close your eyes you can almost picture them. Riding their camels across the desert at night, the moon highlighting their royal robes and crowns against the stark desert sand. It is a very familiar part of the…
#abbafather
#abbafather Have you ever heard someone pray using the phrase “Mother/Father God”? It happens, every once in a while, I’ll be in a situation where a mainline pastor is praying and they will use the phrase because they feel it will be less offensive than “Father God” or sometimes I think they are either trying…
#rememberme
#rememberme. In 2013 the British National Army Museum voted it "Britain's Greatest Battle". If you are thinking perhaps “D-Day and Normandy” you’re close, that placed second. Or maybe you drifted back further to the Battle of Waterloo in 1815, Waterloo placed third. Most of us would be hard pressed to come up with the correct…
#icandoallthings
#turntheothercheek
Is it just me or does the US presidential election seem nastier than usual? The interesting thing, or disturbing thing, or sad thing, use your own adjective, is that both Candidates would say they were at least brought up in the Christian tradition. When asked about her faith Mrs. Clinton responded with a trinity of…
#castthefirststone
Have you ever had a song or a part of a song stuck in your head? You know like, . . . “Mahna Manhna.” You’re welcome. Back in the early eighties I heard a song once, only once as far as I can remember. It was in the kitchen of our family home on Golden…