“Not I, nor anyone else can travel that road for you. You must travel it by yourself. It is not far. It is within reach. Perhaps you have been on it since you were born, and did not know.” – Walt Whitman
Happy Monday – Lighter fare in the form of great quotes on life, great illustrations, humor, and occasionally, art. “The art of being happy lies in the power of extracting happiness from common things.” - Henry Ward Beecher “THE GOOD LIFE requires that we take pleasure in new things; A GOOD LIFE requires that we …
"Prayer is either a sheer illusion or a personal contact between embryonic, incomplete persons (ourselves) and the utterly concrete Person. Prayer in the sense of petition, asking for things, is a small part of it; confession and penitence are its threshold, adoration its sanctuary, the presence and vision and enjoyment of God its bread and …
Happy Monday – Lighter fare in the form of great quotes on life, great illustrations, humor, and occasionally, art. “To come to the end of this journey of time only to realize that we've lived a mediocre life before an extraordinarily, remarkable God may be the greatest tragedy to befall all of mankind.” - Anonymous …
“…However, when the Son of Man comes, will He find faith on the earth?” Luke 18:8 Palm Sunday commemorates Jesus' final entrance into Jerusalem. As he rode into the city on a donkey, many of the residents and visitors to the city spread palm branches and coats before Him. The people were hoping the coming Messiah …
“I find my life is a lot easier the lower I keep my expectations.” ― Bill Watterson Few days were as disappointing to me as the day Bill Watterson stopped drawing “Calvin and Hobbes.” My favorite comic strip since “Bloom County”, Calvin and his tiger were my weekly fix for humor and alternative viewpoints on …
“When Pope Julius I authorized December 25 to be celebrated as the birthday of Jesus in A.D. 353, who would have ever thought that it would become what it is today. When Professor Charles Follen lit candles on the first Christmas tree in America in 1832, who would have ever thought that the decorations would …
The advent of our Savior is truly a great adventure. “Advent” is the root word for adventure, giving the impression of the arrival or appearance of something risky and wondrous. The Advent we celebrate has a wild and risky edge to it, because our God has always chosen wildness as one of His trademarks. Listen …
The story of the birth of Jesus is a story of a vulnerable baby born into a scene that can be best described as a wild frontier. A dangerous, unpredictable world rife with animosity toward God. Our God sends His Infant Son into this world naked, vulnerable, exposed to great danger. It seems to be …
The Christmas story, the account of the arrival of our Savior as a baby, has a wildness to it. Colored with scandal, flavored with risk, it has elements that are wild, bold, over the edge. Our God appears as a helpless baby in a scene that could be accurately described as a wild frontier socially, …
“But we preach Christ crucified, to Jews a stumbling block and to Gentiles foolishness….” I Corinthians 1:23 In the last few posts, I wrote of the coming of our Savior and the light that He brought into the dark world. Light is a popular topic around Christmas. We find great comfort in the positive themes …
