I saw an athletic event at an outdoor stadium. The athletes were highly skilled and the competition fierce. There were many spectators cheering for the champions. As the event neared its conclusion, a weaker participant faltered and fell. Falling to the field he was broken and defeated. The crowd was silent and seated bearing with… Continue reading A Vision in Worship on Easter Sunday
Category: Theology
Brokenhearted Sinner
Dietrich Bonhoeffer is known for his opposition to Hitler ending in his martyrdom and also for great works he published including "Costs of Discipleship". However, before these events, right after he obtained his doctorate and became eligible for the ministry, he accepted a position in Barcelona Spain for one year. There he had opportunity… Continue reading Brokenhearted Sinner
Fear God and Live
What truth we know is from God; some directly via written form and other via individual revelation. Other information, mostly erroneous or out right untruths abound from suggestions of the enemy and imaginations of men. Truth is not time sensitive as current thinking claims and asserts, based on changes in fashion and various so-called technologies… Continue reading Fear God and Live
Reaching the Lost
In Mark 10:17-27 we see the story of the Rich Young Ruler which is instructive as to the proper way to reach out to the lost. We must make it clear that a person has to accept God on his terms. Also, once the terms are presented, in this case the demand to sell all… Continue reading Reaching the Lost
One Child’s Glimpse of the Kingdom
Unless you become as a child you will never enter into the Kingdom of God - Matthew 18:3 My first memories are when I was four or five. I have considerable access to photographs and some of these early one's may have influenced what I actually remember. I believe this was minimal although this is… Continue reading One Child’s Glimpse of the Kingdom
The Unman
I have often imagined Satan as a super intelligent being perhaps only a little less intelligent than God himself. However, in the fiction story told in the book, Perelandra, written by C. S. Lewis the being representative of Satan is described as more like “an imbecile or a monkey or a very nasty child”. Perelandra… Continue reading The Unman
An Ordinary Life
I was recently reading about the life of Bronson Alcott, Father of the author of "Little Women" and prominent Unitarian. The book contained a quote from his friend Ralph Waldo Emerson, the famous author and leading Unitarian minister of his day, disdaining the life of the common man. He found great consternation in his observation… Continue reading An Ordinary Life
A Famine in the Land
Amos 8:11 – “Hear this! The days are coming – this is the declaration of the Lord God – when I will send a famine through the land: not a famine of bread or a thirst for water, but of hearing the words of the Lord.” Like the Israelites in the Prophet Amos’s day America… Continue reading A Famine in the Land
