My 2021 Reading List
I had a good friend ask me several times to make a list of the books I would recommend. For whatever reason, I kept putting it off. My thinking was “no one cares what books I read.” Yet each time… Continue Reading
Miscellaneous
Just Stop It!
I read a quote recently from a county level Republican party official (who shall remain nameless) that stated: “I don’t understand my conservative Christian friends who say violence is unacceptable. What the crap do you think the American revolution was?… Continue Reading
Politics and the Kingdom
Recently someone asked me to read a newsletter from the Oklahoma Conservative Political Action Committee (OCPAC) and to give them my thoughts. I’m not sure they expected what I wrote. Here are my thoughts about the marrying of politics and… Continue Reading
Christ’s Ambassadors
Did you know that an ambassador of the United States is the President’s highest-ranking representative to a foreign nation? And these ambassadors have a great responsibility to accurately “represent” the President of the United States because they “speak” for him.… Continue Reading
Wall or Welcome
I generally do not weigh in on “political debates.” Whether you support a wall to keep people out or if you support a welcome mat to invite the stranger in… that argument isn’t the point of this post. I find… Continue Reading
Forty Things I’ve Learned After 40 Years of Marriage
My wife and I married young…she was 18 and I was 19. We didn’t know much about relationships or life for that matter. We only knew that we “loved” each other and wanted to spend the rest of our lives… Continue Reading
“Preying” Christian Leaders And Profiteering Doomsayers
It’s been over a month since the excitement and “dread” of the “Blood Moon” and really, nothing has happened. Leading up to September 27, 2015 many were predicting apocalyptic events. Yet here we are and not a word from them. As I… Continue Reading
Podcast: ‘His Name Shall Be Called…’
I wrote six short posts on the various names that were prophesied Jesus would be called. If you would like to hear the 30 minute audio message, here is the link to the podcast. God bless and have a Merry Christmas!… Continue Reading
Rain, Lightning, and Thunder
Storms and weather in general have always fascinated me. I could sit and watch lightning and the storms for hours. Other than the “devastation” that can come from them, there is something beautiful about a thunderstorm cloud, its lightning, thunder… Continue Reading
How Christians Should Vote On Election Day
I hope you vote today (Tuesday, November 4, 2014). It’s great to live in America and it’s great to be able to vote in our system of government. It’s like no other place else on earth. But know this: there… Continue Reading