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  • Brilliance Discarded

    … but only for a moment The wasteland of human greatness The end of the hands and mind of the greatest composer in human history The final resting place of his genius Final respects for the most brilliant of brilliance of human creativity … Or is it? What is that you are listening to? Brilliance…

  • The Problem of Evil – Abridged Edition – Have Mercy on Me – The Jesus Prayer

    I have studied the problem of evil since I learned to think philosophically, psychologically, and theologically. I have all the easy answers in a short file. I have the really tough ones in the question box. We can dismiss it all with the word "sin," but that three letter word is far larger than we…

  • Sharpen Up Your Leadership Skills

    Are you taking full advantage of the opportunities that come to you with arms and legs every day? You have been gifted with associates above you and below you on charts made by human hands who have the capacity to add value to your life with every conversation and as you observe them. Some of…

  • I Will Lift Up Mine Eyes

    “I will lift up mine eyes unto the hills, from whence cometh my help.” – Psalm 121:1 Some would punctuate the phrase, “From whence cometh my help,” with a question mark at the end because the next verse answers it as if it were a question, “My help cometh from the LORD.” As magnificent as…

  • The Image of the Invisible God Is How We We Endure

    The secret of endurance as discovered by Moses is this … "he endured as seeing Him who is invisible." (Hebrews 11:27b, NKJV) Seeing the invisible God. It really goes to the heart of faith for people of faith. We deal in that realm that an outsider might legitimately view as subjective … and yet we…

  • King of What?

    Are you the King? Not of this world is Jesus’ reply. It’s apples and oranges. The key words that differentiate Jesus’ kingdom from our kingdoms are: Realm, Reign, Rationale Peace, Power, Popularity If you are like Pilate, and to some extent, we all are at some point, you just don't get it. We can't get…

  • The Pause That Refreshes 

    Thus the heavens and the earth were finished, and all the host of them. And on the seventh day God ended his work which he had made; and he rested on the seventh day from all his work which he had made. And God blessed the seventh day, and sanctified it: because that in it…

  • Hannah’s Prayer <p data-mce-style=“text-align: center;” style=“text-align: center;”><strong> <a class=“asset-img-link” data-mce-href=“https://pastortomsims.typepad.com/.a/6a00d8341c745453ef02e860da53e3200b-pi&rdquo; href=“https://pastortomsims.typepad.com/.a/6a00d8341c745453ef02e860da53e3200b-pi”><img alt=“Samuel name of god” class=“asset asset-image at-xid-6a00d8341c745453ef02e860da53e3200b img-responsive"… Hannah’s Prayer

  • Beautiful and prompted this reflection: Small movements and beginnings are only small if all we measure is the present.  Retrospective views widen our understanding and inform our sense of purpose in every moment.   Small is small thinking and small doing. What is of little account is in the ledger of the accountant is the…

  • Voltaire’s Garden

    Born this day in 1694 – Voltaire, French historian, playwright, and philosopher (d. 1778). He was an ardent critic of the church and Christianity and a Deist who wrote, "He challenged orthodoxy by asking: "What is faith? Is it to believe that which is evident? No. It is perfectly evident to my mind that there…