IT has made transmission of information effortless. As a result, so many things have become possible. How could you market your product to the right people? How would you know or meet who may be interested? How could you promise a ride to anyone, anywhere in a major city in five minutes? How could you know enough to do that? How could you connect ( Read more... )

Do you have confidence before God? Should you? Do you want to ( Read more... )

On this mountain [Zion] the LORD of hosts will make for all peoples ( Read more... )

I've written poetry shared on this journal. This is my first venture into spoken word. I avoided posting this poem for some time because I was a bit self-conscious. Ironically the poem begins with the fear of being misunderstood, which the poor struggle with a lot, and I guess so do I! Please know that I don't take myself too seriously and I'm open ( Read more... )

You can be a pair of glasses ( Read more... )

My back was injured in the summer of 2007. I hit the ground and was momentarily paralyzed. When the feeling came back into my body I could feel that something was internally wrong with my spine ( Read more... )

We humans have a remarkable propensity for using tragedy as an indicator of sinfulness. We judge people based on the tragedy they suffer. In the bible you can see a recurring theme that people believed that those who suffer tragedy "were worse sinners (Luke 13:2)." You can see this same theme in the entire book of Job where his friends over-and- ( Read more... )

There is an attitude that I've seen in most churches that needs to change. It is the attitude of sorrow because of the reading of the bible and a realization of personal sin. You may know what I'm talking about. People read the bible and realize that they are sinners and then they mope about it. They talk about how the bible just keeps hitting ( Read more... )

There is a set of articles in my facebook news feed that has been showing itself recently. Perhaps the ideas in them can best be summarized in the story of Little Red Hen 2012The basic theme can be summarized like this: "It's not fair that I should pay so many taxes for those lazy poor people ( Read more... )

Many times in life we get stuck trying to categorize things as being good or bad; right or wrong; black or white. The truth is that there are many gray areas in life. I tend to focus on "doing the right thing" in every situation. I focus on "getting it right." But lately God has been teaching me that he's not as interested in me getting it right ( Read more... )