This year (2018) the Christmas magi left a Google Home and a Google Mini under our tree. I’d been interested in these devices, and now I have them. Continue reading “Hey Google”
One Man’s Big Mistake!
None of us is perfect. The current state in our country (shootings by corporals, and political haranguing by those ‘at the top’) is proof of that. When we look at the rich or poor, insignificant or powerful it seems that we have not improved much through the last 2000 years. Take Jesus’ time for example. Continue reading One Man’s Big Mistake!
I probably don’t believe in that god either!
George Buttrick is one of my heroes. He and my dad were born in the same year, 1892. Buttrick was born in England, my dad was born in the Territory of Oklahoma and lived in a covered wagon.
George went to college; and at age 23 he graduated with honors in philosophy from Victoria University, Continue reading I probably don’t believe in that god either!
Head Full of Rocks, a Heart Made of Stone
There is an old saga that’s filled with emotion and intrigue, it starts in Genesis chapter 37, and continues for 400 years. If you fire up your imagination to fill in the emotions, colors, sounds, and smells you can spend days and days here.
You’ll recall the story. Joseph, as a young man of 17, was sent by God to Egypt to prepare a place for the Hebrews to multiple and become a nation. Continue reading Head Full of Rocks, a Heart Made of Stone
I Like Stories
I like stories, and I really like success stories. In the Bible, the whole 11th chapter of Hebrews is chocked full of success stories, but these aren’t dollar and cents success stories, they are much more important, they are stories about how people bet their lives on what they believed. These are gut level, heart-pounding stories and the first verse of the chapter sets the tone: Continue reading I Like Stories
Minimum Knowledge to Become Christian
Some time ago a friend asked me to write an article about the minimum a person must know and believe to become a Christian. I agreed, thinking, “That should not take too long.” But the more I thought about it the more difficult it has become, it took a long blog to explain the minimum a person needs to know to become Christian. The following is a summary of the blog, the details are below. Continue reading Minimum Knowledge to Become Christian
The Meaning of Easter
Jesus spoke seven times on the cross. The sixth time he said one word, “TETELSTAI”, it is translated into English as “it is finished”!
The word can also be translated “PAID IN FULL!” THREE words in English, Continue reading The Meaning of Easter
Burundi
Tom (not his real name) is a political asylum seeker from Burundi, a small country in east Africa. He’s applied for American citizenship and when that’s granted he’ll take the oath and change his allegiance from Burundi to America.
His application to become an American citizen is similar to an application to Continue reading Burundi
The Gospel (Good News)
In this day and age with all of our wars, pain, refugees, and on and on, it’s always nice to have some Good News. But, there can’t be any Good News without the bad news.
The bad news really isn’t news, it’s normal life. We see evil and the evidence of evil all around us, we watch it on the nightly news, we listen to it conveyed in our songs, and Continue reading The Gospel (Good News)
Lystra – Interesting!
Lystra and the events that happened there have always intrigued me. Lystra was a country town in Galatia (in what is now central Turkey) that Paul and Barnabas visited on their first missionary journey as recorded in the New Testament, Acts chapter 14 (48AD). Continue reading Lystra – Interesting!