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“Thou hast given a banner to them that fear thee, that it may be displayed because of the truth. Selah. “ – Psalm 60:4 We all march under one banner or another. In a battle, it takes a courageous soldier to carry the banner, flag, or ensign. To do so, one becomes a target for…

The mighty God, even the Lord, hath spoken, and called the earth from the rising of the sun unto the going down thereof.  – Psalm 50:10 The call to worship that resounds throughout history is an evangelistic call. It is a summons to recognize that God is Sovereign over all things and that He is…

How do we know it is God? Familiarity is the answer.

What do these three paragraphs have to do with each other? I don’t know … One was about violence; one about prayer; one about diplomacy. None had easy answers – just feelings and questions. If we want answers, we need to look through and beyond our musings, but we cannot avoid them.

Good morning, good souls. Hear ye, hear ye. Court is in session. All rise! The honorable you are presiding over your day, your choices, and your responses to all sorts of evidence suggesting that it might be a bad day. See through it to the truth. It is already a great day. Live it!

Living in a comfort zone is like pulling off at a rest stop on one's journey, pitching a tent, and calling it home while the world passes by on the way to multiple destinations one will never reach. It's comfortable, but it is going nowhere. 

The sacrament of failure was observed in timely fashion …with suitable dignity …and appropriate simplicity …time honored liturgy.

We face a fearsome, fierce todayYet, trembling through, I stand to say that I shall stay,But only if I may, kneel along the wayTo pray.

Faith embraces that which flickersIn the darkness far beyond our graspWhose enlightened silence whispersIn ears that hear with hands that clasp.

  Dirty dishesScattered toysSilly wishesLittle boysLife's a wonderWhen you findGentle thunderOf this kind