What’s the REAL Problem?
THIS IS WHAT I SAID IN 2019: “If I could just have like a week with nothing to do and nowhere to go I could finally get this house clean and…
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One Beggar Telling Another
Paul Tillich was one of the greatest theologians of the 20th Century, the “father of existential theology.” When he was asked to define what a Christian is, he said, “Oh, that’s easy, a…
“Lord, I’m Ready!”
Who would have thought that relatively powerless persons could bring shifts in history? Gandhi, an unsuccessful lawyer, adapted the teachings of the Sermon on the Mount and the writings of…
To Tell The Truth
In 1884 Grover Cleveland was running against James G. Blaine for the presidency of the U.S. Blaine supporters discovered that Cleveland, who was a bachelor at the time, had fathered…
Be of Good Cheer!
Cheerful thoughts like sunbeams lighten up the darkest fears,For when the heart is happy there’s just no time for fears. And when the face is smiling it’s impossible to frown,And when…
“Let My People Go!”
I once stood in that old frame church in Richmond, Virginia, with its old-fashioned, boxed-in pews. I shut my eyes and heard a man say again, "Give me liberty or give me death," and I thought how…
A Time Much Like Ours
The people of that time were being heavily taxed, and faced every prospect of a sharp increase to cover expanding military expenses. The threat of world domination by a cruel,…
The Light Is YOU!
Do not be dismayed by the brokenness of the world. All things break. And all things can be mended. Not with time, as they say, but with intention. So go.…
Judas or Peter?
Among the apostles, the one absolutely stunning success was Judas, and the one thoroughly groveling failure was Peter. Judas was a success in the ways that most impress us: he…
We Didn’t Even Have a Horse!
Huey Long was a very colorful Louisiana politician who had hopes of running for the presidency in 1936. He began as an unschooled farm boy and ended up in the…
