6/15/22 From one year ago today – 6/15/22 “…….the very point in the universe where heaven and earth are joined has now become the life and witness of the reborn believer.” Firebrand Magazine In 2008, when THE UMC changed its member vow to...
Consider this: If heaven is coming to earth, as we are told in Revelation and Matthew and for which we pray every time we pray as the Lord prayed, and, in fact, ALREADY the Kingdom of Heaven IS coming on earth, then what God’s people tolerate on earth is already being...
Adolescent reflection at age 17: “To say that one is wholly and undeniably happy is to lie. For how are we, such shallow beings, to determine those things which have gone to the utter depths of our souls and left them scarred with sorrow? Does not every...
Jesus’ life provides the template, the BEST example, of how we are to grow in six ways (Luke 2:52). Abraham Maslow’s hierarchy became the standard for understanding human development and setting institutional policies to support healthy populations after...
For 6 or 8 years now I have suffered with some foot discomfort from a condition known as Morton’s neuroma. It’s damage to the nerves in the balls of the feet that is, I’m told, the result of years of wearing high heeled, narrow toed, insufficiently...
I was reading recently from How People Change by Timothy Lane and David Tripp. In it they describe some of the manifestations of “Christian externalism”, their description of the things people do to try to fill the “gospel gap” that subverts...