All of my Christian life I considered pragmatism to be an evil. I equated it to compromise, while in my idealism I tried to see myself as a hero taking courageous stands for Christ. Way back, there was one sermon that got a lot […]

Hebrews 11 is the famous “faith chapter”. There the writer talks about what faith is and gives us some great examples of faith. The two verses in particular that define what faith is are vss. 1 and 6: Now faith is the assurance of […]

I found the article below very perceptive. We are rapidly approaching the day when everything will be connected and recorded. Technology dazzles. It is very effective, a lot of fun at times, and basically unstoppable. But there is a dark side to it too. […]

Yesterday a horrible story came out of Pittsburgh. A nun in her seventies was brutally raped by a teen in her church parking lot, as a statue of the Virgin Mary silently looked on. You have to ask yourself what kind of person can […]

You take on the nature of what you worship. And as time rapidly accelerates, a great divide appears between those who worship the Lord and those who hate Him. It’s getting worse, not better. Here’s a recent scene from Argentina, traditionally a Catholic nation, […]

Two stories are in the news today that show what level of damage is being done to this nation on a continuing basis. The first is about Obamacare. Fox news reports that experts from a wide political spectrum are predicting that next year when […]

I’d like to tell the story about how I experienced the astonishing love of God that I had heard so much about, but not really seen firsthand. Oh, I did have some experience with it, but it was little compared to the transformational encounter […]

Back in 2008 I was visiting my sister in Pennsylvania. This was during the presidential election. My sister had been a Democrat for years, through marriage, but had more recently seen the wisdom of conservatism. I was glad for the change. But by 2008 […]