"Let no iniquity get dominion over me." This is the prayer of any person who fears addiction to anything. It is the cry of anyone who knows the danger and potential of anything gaining that sort of dominion. What… Continue reading

Art credit - https://www.redbubble.com/people/aprilann/works/9943039-he-will-regard-the-prayer-of-the-destitute Eugene Peterson calls Psalm 102 "A Prayer of One Whose Life Is Falling to Pieces, and Who Lets God Know Just How Bad It Is." The brother is broken, downtrodden, depressed, angry, and abandoned … Go to… Continue reading

We see something amazing and set it aside as if amazement is not the way we are to live each day. What is amazing must be some sort of aberration or inclusion.  We cannot cope with what we cannot explain. We… Continue reading

We walk among "perpetual ruins," reminded of what once was. Were we born at the wrong time? There once was glory. All we see is decay. Where is God? Is it all yesterday's story for yesterday's people? In the lament,… Continue reading

What does it mean to make a heart declaration that there is no God? I get tired of the lazy tendency to explain Psalm 14:1 as a description of atheism. I am not defending atheism; I am just saying that… Continue reading

  Let me start by saying that I only have a few minutes to compose this entry. The fact that I have any time flexibility at all is because I was rather rigid about planning my day today. Having said… Continue reading

In a climactic episode of Dr. Who, the Doctor travels, quite literally and metaphorically to the end of the universe in a quest to find and revive his sweet friend, Clara whom he has lost to curse of death. When he… Continue reading

Forest Gump was thought by most to be a man of limited intelligence. When his drill sergeant in basic training declares him a genius, it is a moment of irony in the film. For the sergeant, it was obvious that… Continue reading

It is "I Am In Control Day" commemorating the "mis-speak" by then Secretary of State Alexander Haig on March 30, 981 after the attempt on President Reagan's life. We  we can control some things and manage others, while there are… Continue reading

For ye have not received the spirit of bondage again to fear; but ye have received the Spirit of adoption, whereby we cry, Abba, Father. (Romans 8:15) Little Sarah was only three years old. All day long, she had been… Continue reading