On Labor Day Weekend, we celebrate all things built and strengthened by America’s workers. Wanting inspiration from my favorite pastor, Max Lucado, I watched his sermon on U-Tube; the sermon was about Mary Magdalene on Easter morning. “For his anger endureth but a moment; in his favour is life: weeping may endure for a night, but joy cometh in the morning.” (Psalm 30:5) Mary Magdalene was troubled by seven evil spirits before she met Jesus Christ. When Jesus spoke to…..
As we enter another week in mid-August, it is important to remember that we must be imitators of God, His beloved children, and to live in love as Christ loved us. It occurred to me that Americans have strayed so much from God that we are accepting what is wrong as the norm and not what is right. That means one thing: we need our hearts healed by God. The following things are what we should be doing to correct…..
I’m not quite sure what would help soothe my problems of this past week, but when I attend the church’s park service, my soul is freed and everything that was challenging fades away. I pray that the hostile political atmosphere of our country does the same. For the Gospel today, John 6:12 (KJV), Christ told His Disciples that they should “gather up the fragments of food that remained from feeding a thousand people and let nothing be lost.” With the…..
The bullets rang out at a Trump rally yesterday. President Biden is calling for calm and peace, not this senseless violence. Trump was carried off the stage, having been hit in the right ear by a twenty-year old assassin’s bullet. Even as the Secret Service put him in his car, he encouraged more violence by raising his clenched fist, and shouting, “Fight, fight!” As the images of January 6th returned to my mind, Trump doesn’t seem to care about what…..
What I thought would be a raising of my spirits after losing my beloved cat, Mikie, became a satire on how much the divisions in our nation are much like a divorce. I put the movie into the DVD player and was looking forward to a laugh or two, when I realized that the divorced parents in the movie were really the Democratic and Republican parties of our political system. Neither party spoke respectfully to one another, and political punches…..
Many of Paraguay’s poor live around the dumps of cities. One man who lives in a shack by one of those dumps began picking out things that he could make into musical instruments for the children that roamed the dumps. Those children have learned and performed pieces by Beethoven, and they have been sought after and taught by some of the world’s greatest musicians. They are truly “pictures of God’s grace.” In the book of Joshua, Joshua positioned his armies…..
So this is how it feels to have to say, “Good-bye,” to the most precious pet you have ever had. Mikie has been with me for seventeen years; as I thought back on moving here to Wisconsin seventeen years ago, there has only been one week when a precious pet has not lived in my home. I have had a precious cat for seventeen years; for fourteen years, I have had a precious dog. Both of my best friends are…..
One CNN reporter said that this debate’s purpose was “to make people want to vote,” but what American voter does not want to know what Joe Biden and Donald Trump are proposing for the next four years? However, all the debate showed was what Joe has magnificently done in the past four years and how Trump divided this nation, some would say beyond repair. The startling fact was the mental decline of Joe since his State of the Union address…..
Someone once told me that a writer’s responsibility is to speak to our good and bad thoughts, words, and deeds in terms of how these behaviors affect the world around us. The past, the present, and the future are directly linked to man’s ability to love one another. Yesterday, I e-mailed my fourth book, “With Love, All Things Are Possible,” to my publisher and sighed relief after five long months of hard work. The material for the book revolved around…..
This message could not have been more appropriate than today. It’s Father’s Day, and we are being deluged with stormy weather. Through all the storms of our lives, we must remember that Jesus Christ is in the midst of those storms. He walks on water for us, and says, “It is I; do not be afraid.” Many of us fear that our boats will sink in the rougher winds and waves of our tumultuous lives, and we begin to say,…..