Earthquakes, Tremors and Aftershocks

California is the focal point when discussing earthquakes. There have been some devastating ones in that state. The one in 1989 seems to be the most talked about what with its collapsing overpasses and damaged housing. The topic there is the ‘Big One’ that has yet to come. Movies like San Andreas Fault, wildly imaginative though they may be, only build a certain expectation of disaster at any moment. In talking with some of the people out…

Time to Rock and Role

Bill Haley and the comets created a social earthquake in the youth culture in 1955 when he introduced his hit ‘rock and roll’ song called Rock Around the Clock in the movie Blackboard Jungle. That movie actually galvanized the idea of an already thriving phenomenon, the street gang. It…

Earthquakes and Their Tremors

One of the great tremors still causing us to feel the earthquakes arising from the Crucifixion and the Resurrection, is prayer. Everything personal between God and man before those…

Proof of Life, The Earthquakes

I can’t let go of the earthquake. Earthquakes get your attention. But the earthquake Matthew records earns, no not earns, rather, demands our personal attention. Especially this earthquake, the physical earthquake, this particular earthquake. It changed the way…

Two Earthquakes

In last year’s college playoff game Clemson beat Alabama in the last play of the game. It was not expected and totally a shock, especially to Alabama fans. There was an earthquake in the sports world. The same was true a few years ago when little Appalachian State in North…

Resurrection; It Just Makes You Think a Whole New Way

Recently I discovered a lapel button someone had given me to wear. It read, “Made in America with 100% Norwegian parts.” Actually, that was true. My family on both sides go way back in Norway. When I was very young my mother and father mentioned their past old country…

The Meaning of the Resurrection --- Keystone

Two psychiatrists walking down a hall in opposite directions. Each said good morning to the other and as they passed, each thought, “I wonder what he meant by that?” That pretty much sums up human experience. Without God we see everything about us, people, national and local issues, broken families, hurting individuals, and the world in chaos. Everyone to one degree or other is passing by and saying ‘I wonder what is really happening here?’…