9/16/2018 “According to Stephanos Bibas, a professor of law and criminology at the University of Pennsylvania Law School, the criminal-justice system has become a “capacious, onerous machinery that sweeps everyone in,” and plea bargains, with their swift...
Listening to Alex Kendrick’s story of the Kendrick Brothers’ Sherwood movies- Flywheel, Facing the Giants, Fireproof, Courageous, and War Room- was inspiring. It was almost funny how many contractors have been receiving requests to enlarge or reconfigure...
Posted after contemplative prayer classes in 2014…. “…..discovering the work of Fr. Thomas Keating as I have learned about Centering Prayer in a women’s prayer group. “The Silence that is sheer is-ness” ….just learning to be...
Today Pastor Terry Tatum preached at Lynn Haven UMC on conversion and repentance. At one point he referred to himself as one who had come to see his ego “self” as one inch big in comparison to a prior opinion of himself as a super-hero! It reminded me of a day when I...
“You go nowhere by accident. Wherever you go, God is sending you. Wherever you are, God has put you there. He has a purpose in you being there. Christ who indwells you has something He wants to do through you wherever you are. Believe this, and go in His...
“This kind can only come out by prayer.” There is an incident recorded in three Gospels- Mark 9:14-29, Matthew 17:14-21, and Luke 9:37-45 that gives interesting perspective on miracles and prayer. It comes on the heels of the twelve disciples having been sent out by...
