The Birth of the Church Sigmund Freud wrote “The act of birth is the first experience of anxiety, and thus the source and prototype of the affect of anxiety.”    Which might explain Andy Warhol’s statement “Being born is like being kidnapped. And then sold into slavery.” This is week eight of our Story of the…

What Do I have to Do? – Gospels During the four years that I was in Bible College I had several opportunities to have Dr. Bill Burbury as my Professor, and in some of his classes Dr. Burbury offered what he called “Mark by Contract.”  When you went to your first class Dr. Burbury would…

I began by playing “the Bricklayers disaster” Video Boy, you gotta hate that.  Maybe his name was Job, or Job Murphy, cause it seemed that anything that could go wrong did go wrong.  You might recall the story from the Old Testament book that bears the name of Job.  If you have your bible with…

“Who Says it's right?”  Judges 17:6 Begin with reading from “Through the Looking Glass” “What a beautiful belt you've got on!” Alice suddenly remarked. (They had had quite enough of the subject of age, she thought: and if they really were to take turns in choosing subjects, it was her turn now.) “At least,” she…

Rules, anyone here into rules? You know laws, decrees, regulations, whatever it is that you want to call them.  If you are here’s the good news the book of Leviticus is full of rules, aren’t you lucky?  As a matter of fact rules is just about all Leviticus is about.  There is really no story…

This book contains 6000 years of recorded history.  It tells the stories of the Jewish people, of the Messiah Jesus and of the early church.  It contains intrigue and romance, love and betrayal.  It’s made up of flowing poetry, gripping prose and soaring apocalyptical prophecies. It’s not just one book it’s a collection of many…

How many guys had GI Joes when you were kids?  They weren’t dolls they were action figures.  Ken was a doll, and GI Joe was cooler and had cooler stuff.  I was an army brat so the only GI Joe I had was the army one, but a friend of mine had all four, and…

Dress for Success Can you remember a book that you read the year you turned 16?  Did you read any books the year you turned 16?  As most of you know, I am a reader.  My parents read to me as a child, then I graduated into comic books, anything from Casper the Friendly Ghost…

It seems that we are constantly being barraged with images of battles being fought around the world.  There hardly seems to be an evening that goes by without the news telling us of an armed conflict that is being fought over real estate, religion or resources.  And we hear about it so much that we…

Jesus is on his way to Jerusalem, a journey that he knew would end with him being crucified, and yet many of those following him thought he was on his way to establish his Kingdom in the capital city. Sometimes I wonder if Jesus ever wanted to say:  “What we’ve got here is a failure…