(A Troubled Pastor’s Haunted Meditation) I want to be liked. Don’t you? I think everyone does, it is how God hardwired us. There are very few people in this world that don’t care about how they are perceived or are thought about. Often, these non-feelers are considered callous and cold-hearted, the proverbial narcissist. So naturally when you learn that people…
Life has been frustrating of late. I find myself hot and bothered. I need some clarity. So I decided to do what every pastor does during trying times: I grabbed my bible, shut my eyes, licked my index finger, raised it into the air, and then opened the bible while randomly picking a passage to read. Here is the first…
It's crazy season! We have entered into the later days of October a few weeks before a national election. Everyone is a bit on edge and unhinged in their personal opinions. People seem to be both terrified of the Halloween ghosts and ghouls that may be hiding in the dark shadows of the house, and they are even more scared…
You may have to fight when there is no hope of victory, because it is better to perish than to live as slaves. - (Winston Churchill) Last night was a warm October night in Grand Rapids, it was an indian summer delight. I was sipping a lemon-lime Slurpee while sitting on a porch outside talking to my brother-in-law about world…
“If the truth is worth telling, it is worth making a fool of yourself to tell.” Frederick Bueckner How can a person know if they have grown up? Is it because a person's shoe size has quadrupled in the last two years? Is it their newly acquired deep vocal-fry tone? Or maybe they have had more bouts of B.O. recently?…
Ideas in a society flow downstream. Like raindrops, cultural beliefs and attitudes begin falling from the collective sky, and like raindrops they always start small; a droplet here and brief shower there. But overtime, small droplets form larger streams of opinion, and as they join together they soon become swift moving rivers of thought. When a cohesive mindet forms a…
Stop the name calling. I am not an unreasonable guy. I am definately not a homophobe. I am not a racist. I am not mysoginistic. My problem is much more basic than that. So if you are going to judge me, judge me for being a SAPROPHOBE. That is right! As much as I hate to admit it, I really…
It never ends, does it? The great bloodsport of our day is raging, Politics - -it divides families, friends, fools, fiends and the family dog. We are destorying ourselves because we are divided. One of the biggest problems, in my humble opinion, is that we do not understand how to properly view the office of the President, the purpose of…
Stop trusting in mere humans, who have but a breath in their nostrils. Why hold them in esteem? Youths oppress my people, women rule over them.My people, your guides lead you astray; they turn you from the path. isaiah 2:22 & 3:12 Yes, I watched it. The new Disney+ addition to the Star Wars Universe has come out, "The Acolyte," and since I am a glutton…