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  • I Am Distracted and Distractible – But That’s Not All

    Spiritual Disciplines for Highly Distracted Souls Here is a gift for folks like me 3 Hours of Focus Music

  • The Next Phase of My Life

    “… until I proclaim your might to another generation, your power to all those to come…”

  • The Impatient Club

    I can pray/sing with the psalmist the same prayer/song he prayed/sang. It is sometimes a hurried prayer for God to hurry. I just pray that I come to the same point of resolution. Amen.

  • WPT University Place: Healing the Heart of Democracy If CEU credits were required to renew our citizenship credentials, i would recommend this one hour to be on our common curriculum.

  • In praying for peace, we must always ask ourselves and God, “Have I done and am I doing, saying, and being all I can do, say, and be?” Peace Prayer – Tom Booth and Laura Huval, written by John Foley, SJ [off…

  • The Blessing- Ukraine Praying for peace and safety for Ukraine tonight.

  • A Different Walk Loving Enemies

  • The Common Threat

      Various enemies of Superman, as they appear on the cover of Superman Villains: Secret Files and Origins #1 (June 1998, art by Dan Jurgens).     What does it take to bring sworn, bitter, ideological enemies together?   A common threat.   Jesus was the common threat to the Pharisees and the Herodians. What did the Hasidim,…

  • A Diifferent Walk

    Pastor Tom's Sermon on Loving Enemies There is no payoff to the old way of regarding our enemies and retaliating against the. On the other hand, initiators, instigators, innovators, and imitators of Jesus' Kingdom have an eternal insight and reward that informs this life and the life to come.  

  • How Much Can We Know?

    I think that people, who may not have regard for the Bible as scripture or believe in divine direction, may often practice the principle of Proverbs 3:5 without knowing that they are obeying the scripture: “Lean not on thine own understanding.”