Faith 20 Welcome to My World

Remember when we mentioned that country song, “We Live in Two Different Worlds” back in Faith 11? There's another one that has the same feel. Read on. We'll get to it. But let’s continue this idea of loving God and loving our neighbor. There is a deeper meaning to the Great Commandment than we might first recognize.…

Faith 19 Putting Our Security System to Work

The security system we have been talking about is far more than just maintaining mere physical, economic and social survival. We are not here just to have the right belief and go home, shut the garage door and feel complacently self- assured. As the writer of Ecclesiastes assures us, that is simply ‘chasing…

Faith 18 Security in an Insecure World

Do you have a security system? The answer we have given is in a name and a title, Jesus, who is the Christ. Jesus the name means savior (He is a constant presence saving us from ourselves, our inclination to sin) and Christ the title means the anointed one (The way, the truth and the life leading us in every next…

Faith 17 Do You Have a Security System?

It seems that almost every show you see on TV contains an ad for a security system. In those ads there is always a frightened victim, a strong offering of protection and a system that guarantees it. Keep that thought in mind as we deal with the mind.…

Faith 16 Heart and Soul

That was the title of a Frank Loesser song from the late 1930’s. It’s romantic lean, like the song we quoted last time, narrows love to emotional longing and leaves you there. “Heart and soul, I fell in love with you, lost control, the way a fool would do, Gladly... Because you held me tight...” Note the ‘lost control.’ Keep…

 Faith 14a  When You Think About Intuition

These next three segments will open up the way we love God with all our heart, soul and mind as He directed. We start with the heart for three reasons, it’s core, it’s deceitful and it’s willful. But most importantly, the key…

Faith 15 Deep in the Heart of Me

Those are words from an old ‘40’s’ romantic ballad that describe where we begin almost all of our human understanding about love. It's our need for it and our desire to have it satisfied. God made us to love, but how? It’s right there, ‘deep in the heart of…

Faith 12 Faith, God's Love Plan

Love. Sometimes it’s vented in romantic sentiment as in the song and movie theme ‘A Many Splendored Thing’ or in its rejection that ends up on Elvis Presley's ‘Lonely Street’ and ‘Heartbreak Hotel.’ Note that every song ends up in feelings, feelings that fantasize, feelings built around wishful thinking, an imaginary…

Faith 10 Image-Conscious? I Hope So!

Are we concerned about how we look when we go out? If we appear at a party where everyone is dressed in a coat and tie and we have on jeans and a sport shirt how do we feel? Why didn't anyone tell me? And, not only that, the party is in full swing and I'm an hour late. Then we have to find someone to blame like the…

Faith 9 True Wisdom Through True Faith

Life Is What You Make It, Or Is It?

There was an old banter around years ago. It went like this:

“Life’s tough.”

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