A buffer from hopelessness

by | Jun 22, 2016 | Weekly Words

“Life … is a tale Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, Signifying nothing.”  | William Shakespeare, Macbeth   It is easy to live for others, everybody does. I call on you to live for yourself.   | Ralph Waldo Emerson   In this world nothing can be...

The Spirit in summary

by | Jun 14, 2016 | Weekly Words

The end of all things is at hand; therefore be self-controlled and sober-minded for the sake of your prayers. Above all, keep loving one another earnestly, since love covers a multitude of sins. Show hospitality to one another without grumbling. As each has received a...

But God

by | Jun 9, 2016 | Weekly Words

But you are a chosen race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people for his own possession, that you may proclaim the excellencies of him who called you out of darkness into his marvelous light. Once you were not a people, but now you are God’s people; once...

Keeping and Holding

by | Jun 8, 2016 | Weekly Words

This week my parents retired. After a career dedicated to teaching high school kids, they taught their last classes. My dad was given the honor of giving the graduation speech and what follows is a perfect representation of how I was raised and how he lived his life....

Different by design

by | May 31, 2016 | Weekly Words

But grace was given to each one of us according to the measure of Christ’s gift. | Ephesians 4.7 One of the biggest mistakes Christianity has made is to read the gospel through a Platonic lens. Plato believed that everything on this earth was nothing more than...