The Old Flag in the Closet

Memories are not all accurate.  They’re like an old tattered flag coming through a fog.  They resemble the past but have become worn with time, rough weather and its mornings up and evenings down.  The flag of our memory has been embellished, patched and parts of its threads are in shreds.  It ends up in a closet tattered and wrinkled.  It’s like the old man in us being surveyed by the new…

Social Distancing?  We Need to Process It.

 But not for the reason you think.  On my morning walk today it was dark when I left and light when I returned.  While walking I was thinking about social distancing but not the media’s definition but the biblical rejection of it.  Follow me on this.  What we are really doing in this virus dilemma is not social but physical.  We…

“Houston, we have a problem.”

 You may remember those words when a space mission was in jeopardy a few years back.  If you use those words and apply them to our personal and relational lives, we could easily shout out to the world around us, “World, we have a problem.  We’re out here in spiritual space and up a creek without a paddle.  We’re all alone.  What do we do?  We’ve got…

If You Don’t Start With the Spirit, You Don’t Start

 One primary truth before we begin any discussion, teaching or explanation about human life:  God is Spirit.  Therefore, the entire process of life as we know it began spiritually, functions spiritually and has a spiritual purpose.  If we have a scientific appraisal of physical existence it gives us only half of the story, half…

Kicking the Habit

 Folks, it’s a bad habit.  Telling people ‘good luck’ is meaningless.  I know we are conditioned by the culture to say it.  I know it’s almost a natural thing to do. We may even say, “ I guess I’ve been lucky” when people ask about our lives having been long and productive.  Just harmless words, or so we think. What I’m just suggesting is there might be a better way.  How about “Be blessed?” But…

The Holy Spirit and You (Tuesday Bible Study)

 “I just had to do it.  I had to say something.  I just couldn’t let that slip by.”  I don’t know of anyone who hasn’t at least had that feeling if not that actual experience.  Think of the feeling you had when you first saw the mountains, met a unique person, had an inner compulsion to do something special.  You go to a…

Why Are We Here? 

We don’t go to movies anymore.  Most of them are gross with muck and mire language, crude humor and visual obscenity like what we saw in the 2020 Super Bowl halftime show.  But occasionally, a friend will say “You’ve got to see this movie or TV show.”  Then we will.  What’s the basic process here?  First of all, we like good movies, movies with a message.  Second, we don’t trust advertising.  We…

Facing the Deeper Strongholds

When we live in close quarters for an extended time there is no question that relationships are strained. But that could be the best time to allow the Lord to do what only He can do. He can heal past conditioning, the kind of conditioning that is attitudinal. They are called strongholds, attitudes we developed apart from God, based on how we responded to our past pain and pleasure…

Getting Life Right

 Everyone wants to get life right. It’s built into us. But do we realize that it has already been done for us? Paul puts it simply, “This righteousness (being right) is given through faith in Jesus Christ to all who believe. There is no difference between Jew and Gentile (or any distinction we make), for all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God, and…