"Thanks be to God for His indescribable gift!" (2 Corinthians 9:15) I am sitting in my favorite chair, looking across the family room at the gifts that are already under the Christmas tree. It is true that my cat has already tried to unwrap them, and many are now...
In the third part of our series on the subject of suffering of Christ and Christians, let's reflect on two more themes ... Refining Since the ultimate purpose of our call is to be moulded into a Christ-like image (2 Cor 3:18), suffering plays the role of a refiner...
Does anyone out there have the answer or solutions to get rid of headaches? You know those pesky intruders that alter your day? I wish I knew. The other day I had one of them. The aching throb spread right around the right eye socket. Yuck. It took my concentration...
Today, we come to the concluding part of our series on the subject of Christ and the Christian suffering... Remain In the first part of the series, I had said whilst focusing on the sufferings of Christ that Jesus' "humiliation" did not end at the Cross, or for that...
Ever wonder why when something does not go right and negative circumstances come about? It is not so much that I have been on the receiving end, because I have no control over the actions of people. I do, however, have to control how I am going to react. God expects...
A few months after a bomb destroyed the Oklahoma City federal building, a book about the bombing appeared in our local bookstore entitled Where Was God at 9:02 A.M.? That's a good question. Now many ask "Where was God on September 11,2001" One morning in July, 587...
“For, before the harvest, when the blossom is gone and the flower becomes a ripening grape, he will cut off the shoots with pruning knives, and cut down and take away the spreading branches.” (Isa 18:5) I don't know about you, but pruning knives, being cut down,...
All my life (almost) I have heard it said that the most important thing in one's life is getting to heaven. Parishioners have said to me, "I don't care about having some palace in heaven like the Apostle Paul will have; he suffered so much for Christ, beaten and...
"But we know that all things work together for good to them that love God, to them who are the called according to his purpose." (Romans 8.28) When I was in grade school, I learned about a city in the south which built a statue to the Boll Weevil. In case you don't...
" . . .The LORD has forsaken me, the Lord has forgotten me." (Isa 49:14) A common theme that often emerges as I read through the daily prayer requests in this newsletter is one of despair. "I feel so far from God!" "I need to know God cares, because it doesn't...