To say the last two years has been like living in a Twilight Zone is to grossly understate the matter for anyone even accidentally paying attention. I’m not a politician mind you, and I don’t claim to necessarily have my finger on the pulse of everything that is going on in America’s political landscape. And …
In Mark 9: 14-29, we are confronted with the story of the disciples seeming inability to exorcise a demon that had wrecked a poor young man’s life, and that had equally sucked all the belief a poor Father had of his son ever being free from it. Evidently Jesus had an object lesson he wanted to …
I can remember now for damn near close to 50 years of my life, stumbling across the phrase from the disciple whom Jesus loved in chapter 1 of his gospel, “Behold the Lamb of God, that takes away the sin of the world!”. And I guess I knew what that meant to a degree, even …
A Bump in the Road I’ve been consistently drawn to the passage I want to put before you today for a good portion of my life, and even more so of late, somehow trying to “get it in me” if you will. The synoptic gospels of Matthew, Mark and Luke each give their spin on the …
Deja Vu I stumbled across a portion of scripture for about the umpteen millionth time this morning. A scripture that indeed struck a chord within me that has been perhaps longing to be strummed for some time in order to awaken my own calcified heart to its melodic revelation. And as I polished off that …
Blog ADHD I guess you could say I’ve gotten a little off focus lately, with you know… with um, that narrow path thing I’m always going on about. It’s of course always on my wayward heart and mind as it relates to the part of it I see drastically missing now in the church, and …
The Devil’s Advocate In 1997, I was quite captivated by a movie starring Al Pacino and Keanu Reeves entitled “The Devil’s Advocate”. I was finishing my undergraduate degree in Pastoral Ministries and Bible, preparing for my entrance into a Master’s program, eagerly ready to embark on a call into “the ministry”. The movie struck an analytical …
An Epiphany of Sorts It was about a year and a half ago that I found myself on a particular “ship of fools” shall we say. I don’t mean by my deprecating comments to exclude my own ability to “play the fool” from time to time in regard to what I will reflect upon today. …
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A Question I’ve reflected on this particular topic for some time now, asking the discernable “sixty-four dollar” question as it relates to others as I “people watch” all around me, while also rather sheepishly asking it of “yours truly”. For after all, what is good for the goose as they say, must also be good …
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Dedicated to Paul, John and The brother from Another Mother I typically shy away from hot button issues, first of all because they are “hot”, and secondly, because I mostly only wanted to write about The Narrow Path and the few that find it; and how the one leading us on that path is oftentimes found …
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