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I offer this as brief haunt to a self-convicted attitude. It requires spiritual finesse to walk between the extremes of perceptiveness vs. priggishness. Between being smart or self-righteous. Discerning or Damning. Clever or Condemning. Self-righteousness is loathsome. It’s... Read More →

As a pastor this is frustrating to me. I hear the reasons often for why such and such didn’t make church. Church today is becoming a shared priority. It’s been a slow pendulum shift from the 1980’s and 90’s when church attendance and faithfulness were seen... Read More →

Luk 6:46  “But why do you call Me ‘Lord, Lord,’ and not do the things which I say?  It has become too easy. It has become too cheap. It has become too theatrical, even too contrived. It has become world-like. It happens in the comfort of air-conditioned... Read More →

Ephesians 5:16  redeeming the time, because the days are evil. I make a little “electronic” phone reminder used as my sales motivation, “time wasted equals opportunity lost.” In the workplace, that’s my B-12 vitamin to keep plugging away at it,... Read More →

If you want to get accepted today in the typical American workplace then just throw out words like “diversity” and “inclusiveness.” Now you’ve joined the club. Diversity means, no one can discriminate in hiring or functioning in the workplace on the... Read More →

It’s August 15, 2017…and once again, people are up in arms. It was heightened in Charlottesville, VA this weekend, and seems to be gaining steam recently in Raleigh-Durham, N.C. I watched the latest Durham protest, the sacking of a bronze “Old Joe”... Read More →

The pagan Philosopher Voltaire once quipped, “The happiest of all lives, is a busy solitude.” One may interpret the Philosophers words variably, but what I think he really meant was, we are better off busying ourselves in our own solitude than we are in the presence... Read More →

1Pe 1:13 Therefore, preparing your minds for action, and being sober-minded, set your hope fully on the grace that will be brought to you at the revelation of Jesus Christ. 1Pe 1:14 As obedient children, do not be conformed to the passions of your former ignorance, 1Pe 1:15 but... Read More →

Perhaps it’s just me, but it seems like whenever there’s a life-threatening tragedy (save the latest Sully movie), the ‘paramedic’ or the hero is soon forgotten and the ‘saved’ person is most remembered. I just watched an interview of a 15 year... Read More →

John Newton is the writer of this hymn, a man who lived a good part of his life as a sailor, experienced many hardships, and was later converted after reading Thomas a Kempis’. This hymn is based on a prayer in which the believer asks the Father for Christian growth.  ... Read More →