As my last post noted, Greece, the home of the ancient philosopher Epicurus, rejected fiscal restraint and austerity in exchange for “Hope is coming” debt finagling. “Syriza” or “Let the Good Times Roll Without Repercussions Party” has won a short-lived victory in Epicurean Greece: “Avoid pain or at least spread it around. Give it to…
What do you want? The Truth or a Lie? I am a Christian parent of four children. I post this because… The new/old Jeremiah Wright preachers of hate and exclusion want you to join them in bashing Whites, Jews, Christians, Tea Party members, Capitalism, language and… the First Amendment. As you listen you hear the…
Tomorrow, before I receive the Body and Blood of the Lord I will again kneel and pray the Lord’ s Prayer: Our Father, which art in heaven, Hallowed be thy Name. Thy Kingdom come. Thy will be done in earth, As it is in heaven. Give us this day our daily bread. And forgive us…
Becoming a follower of Jesus Christ, an heir of the King and a fellow servant in the Kingdom of God began when I first believed that God existed. What followed was the understanding that God not only existed but that He is an Infinite-Personal God who, though having created the vast universe ex nihilo using…
Years ago, in the 60’s and 70’s, I was part of the Jesus People Movement. It was during those days that I heard street-wise preachers like Phil in school auditoriums and in public parks. Hundreds of us teenagers attended. We brought our school friends with us and many believed. And after they believed we took…
If nothing else, Terrence Malick’s movies are visually stunning, beautiful by any measure of the soul. We are capitvated and drawn in by the visual beauty, a Lily of the Valley Beauty. In his latest movie ‘To the Wonder” we can hear Saint Patrick’s Prayer whispered within the music of Henryk Górecki’s Symphony No.3 “Symphony of…
You are about to take a bus ride into another dimension. No, not a trip to the Twilight Zone. Or, maybe it IS to the Real Twilight Zone! Despite the nonsense that comes from Oprah’s media pulpit, all roads are not radii that lead to God and Heaven. Instead there will be a Fork in…
As you begin reading Paul’s letter to the house churches in Rome you clearly see Paul’s heart for the church and for the Kingdom of God now in place in this most cosmopolitan of cities: “This letter comes to all in Rome who love God, all who are called to be his holy people. Grace and…
