This weekend an old grief returned to haunt me. My faith felt weak and limited in the presence of this old foe. So, I reached back into a sermon I preached August 19, 2012 and rediscovered the simple faith of a widow and her gift of two small copper coins and remembered a prayer that can help you when you feel you’ve run out of your resources to cope.
A Lesson Under the Balcony Once there was a church, Second Methodist, that prided itself that, though it was “Second,” it sat the largest chancel choir in the county. Every member wore not only a robe to match the church carpeting but a stole for every color of the Christian year. But time was not…
A Path for a Gaza of Peace: It’s Really a Small World After All! Latest Executive Order establishes Gaza as theme park “Babel Land”! Mike Macccabees, tapped as Disney-esque Czar, announced, “The Hammer is the biggest roller-coaster ever seen, and our baby-back ribs are ‘beyond words!‘” * “Babel Land”: A False Start The above AI…
How Ideological Mirage Captured America’s Church “In the Beginning was the Conspiracy, and the Conspiracy was god!” When Political Mirage Becomes Personal Identity How is an FBI Antifa investigation like a Sasquatch search? Easy! Both make big hair deal about nothing. While the above comment about the Antifa Sasquatch search sounds comical, what is not…
“The issue facing us is not the left versus the right but the crisis of intolerance.”-Pastor Vincent Woolsey Tolerance … “The pastor’s wife is a bar-fly who frequents a bar. We don’t want our church money going to a floozy … ” So, the rumors wafted about the local teetotaling Wesleyan Methodist pastor’s wife and…
The Rise of Christian Zealots This Gemini AI generated image I created captures the rise of radical Dominion Theology to usher the Kingdom of God in by force, if necessary. Also known as the “New Apostolic Reformation,” this ideology preys on Government, churches, schools, Healthcare, and religious freedoms in the name of a militant savior…
“And a Little Child Shall Lead Them” (Isaiah 11:6). In every life, there comes a moment when you realize that an opportunity landed on your porch, one that makes up for all those past regrets. Bill and Suzie, a young hard working family in the U.S. breadbasket of Missouri. With two boys in grade school,…
