Winging It

Years ago Christian musician Amy Grant shook up the Christian world by telling everyone she was first a musician and second a Christian. I m...

Double Standards Abound Hezbollah dropped a rocket barrage in the middle of a soccer field in Israel killing 12 people -- mostly children....

I have a great regard for consistency. Let me explain. Everyone has beliefs, opinions, principles, values, etc. (The Right likes to argue th...

It was early 1980. I was a newlywed ... and had just lost my job. Mind you, it was a job as a Security Supervisor -- good enough, but not gr...

I'm considering adding a new feature to my blog. Paul wrote, "Let the word of Christ richly dwell within you, with all wisdom teach...

In Job 1, there is a gathering in heaven before God at the end of which God calls Satan over and says (I'm paraphrasing here), "Hey...

Lots of people are concerned about AI -- artificial intelligence. It's everywhere. It's trying to mimic real humans. And it's no...

I recently heard a character on a show explain to the pastor character on the show that "Prayer is just inaction." She was beratin...

A Different Flight of Stairs Of course, the big news early this week was that Biden dropped out of the race ... 107 days before the electi...

Grace and peace be multiplied to you in the knowledge of God and of Jesus our Lord; seeing that His divine power has granted to us everythin...

According to the latest statistics , the current divorce rate in the U.S. is 6.2 per 1,000 people. In 2022, there were 673,989 divorces or a...

Recently I shared (in comments) the information that my grandfather died (2007 -- not recently) rejecting Christ. A "brother in Christ...

We know the commands. We know the instructions. We have our Bibles. And so many of them are so clear as to not be avoidable. We may start to...

We know that we are commanded to "rejoice always" (1 Thess 5:16) and "in everything give thanks" (1 Thess 5:18) and, per...

I've heard it in word and song and conversation far too many times. "Jesus loves you just as you are." Now, I know that there ...

Missed The news all week, of course, was largely around the assassination attempt on Trump, so that occupies a big space in today's ent...

There are lots of things in life I can't afford. I can't afford a boat or RV. Too much money for mere entertainment and amusement. D...

The line from the Animals' song was, "I'm just a soul whose intentions are good. O, Lord, please don't let me be misunderst...

In Matthew 6 we have Jesus providing His disciples with a framework for prayer -- the famous "Lord's Prayer." Near the end of ...

The Atlantic in 2016 offered a political commentary from Jonathan Merritt that claimed that "Trump-loving Christians" owed Bill ...