I hate to bother you. So please indulge my intrusion … This is a well known song lyric from Amazing Grace, “I once was lost but now I am found; was blind but now I see.” Those words pretty much sum up my life experience as it has countless others…

Air exists in two disparate contexts: “the whole mass of air surrounding the earth” and “an intriguing or singular tone, effect, or appeal.” (Merriam Webster Dictionary) Both are invisible. That is, “unable to be seen; not visible to the eye.” (Oxford Languages) Either can be felt as wind or as…

God wants everyone to become His children. It might be popular to assume we are all God’s children, but that is not the truth. The truth is, yes, God created all of Mankind. In that way all Humans are equal. Racial prejudice is just arrogance and a root of enmity…

Questions. Every now and then, self reevaluation is an appropriate exercise. The same questions arise in adulthood as when adolescence began whispering those persistently aggravating questions — ones which seemed unanswerable and so annoying. Most people choose to forget those pesky thoughts growing up and just move on. As adults…

Patty and I were discussing the issues entrenched in the abortion controversy. She made the observation that “We have lost genuine regard for other Human Beings …Could it be that is why real changes can’t occur? My wife and I have 5 grown children, and we have 6 grandchildren. So…

Who Did What?? When I was growing up, there was a philosophy spreading around. It was really a pseudo-philosophy since philosophy is a Greek word that literally means “love of wisdom.” I never saw any knowledge or wisdom there — nothing pragmatic, practical, or existential. Anyways, the idea spreading around…

One of the encouraging lessons I’ve heard recently — perhaps from something Brooklyn Tabernacle’s Jim Cymbala spoke about — anyways, it struck a chord within me. The reference is in John chapter 3, verses 11–12 where baptism is introduced. There is a baptism of repentance in water by John. There…

You know what is hard to talk about? Anything that is personal. That’s probably why we talk so much about the weather, sports, restaurants and recipes, puppies and kittens, gardening, travel — basically anything that does not trespass onto our private property. That personal barrier, the sign on the fence…

When criminals produce counterfeit twenty dollar bills, they don’t use the portrait of Alfred E. Neuman from Mad magazine. In fact, they use extreme efforts to make the bill exactly like the true government issue. When food manufacturers made attempts to create sugar substitutes, they wanted something sweet and not…