Sunday, December 2nd, 2007 Several months ago, I led a meeting near where I live. I shared some of the emptiness and loneliness of my boyhood. After the meeting, a beautiful young woman came up to me. I have been in that meeting with her for several years. I have grown to deeply respect her … More Thougts on Loneliness and Fellowship
A few years back, I had a spiritual adviser named Warren. We met once a week, usually in a park. It was a wonderful time for me. One day, after we had been working together for a year or so he asked me to visualize the very best future I could think of for myself. … More My Imagination
Saturday, September 18th, 2010 There are passages in the Bible that amaze me. Genesis chapter one and the Order of Creation Story is one such passage to me. I understand Genesis 1 as a remarkable pre-scientific expression of the modern understanding of the formation of the earth.The way Genesis 1 anticipates modern scientific understanding is … More Evolution and the Genesis Creation Story
Monday, March 7th, 2011 In this blog, I am going to write what I feel is the message of Romans 7-8 for me. “Do you not know, brothers and sisters—for I am speaking to those who know the law—that the law has authority over someone only as long as that person lives? For example, by … More No Condemnation
Saturday, November 13th, 2010 Right now, this minute, 10:25 PM, Monday, October 11, 2010, I am full of fear. If someone would say to me, “Why pray if you are going to worry and why worry if you pray.” I would feel a combination of feelings. I think a guilty feeling would come first accompanied … More Feeding My Faith
In this writing I am equating fasting with all the things I do to ensure that I am maintaining closeness to God. Things like bible study, church going etc\. Maybe I could say they are things to show god and myself I am maintaining my relationship with Her/Him ad to gain God’s favor. Now I … More
It is 12: 45 AM.The reason I am awake is had a poor man’s dream. In my dream I was totally exhausted in my parent’s home as a grown man. I was totally exhausted and needing a place to rest. I was an adult and my parents were adult and were about my same age. … More Rest
It is the nature of any bureaucracy to dump the freethinkers and the doers, despite the fact they are the very ones they need the the most. I knew a woman a few years back that was doing her doctorate at an important California University on why the educational system tended to push out the … More They Murdered Jesus
