Hopeless Is As Hopeless Does
What do I mean when I refer to hopelessness? What is hopelessness? Get ready we’re going back to school. But, only for a few moments.
I Gotta Be Me!
I gotta be me. I mean, who else could I be? I could be anyone I choose to be, I suppose. I’ve been to enough places, met enough people, and read enough books to be anyone or anything that I would like to be.
Okay, so I lied!
I’d promised myself that I was not going to beleaguer the fact that I’d had open heart surgery with triple bypass. I lied to myself. That occurred seven weeks ago yesterday. Today I got up and went to the gym with my wife, Cheryl, and we worked out together on the treadmill, elliptical, and stationary recumbent bike.
The Heart of the Matter is the State of the Heart
The heart of the matter is the state of the heart.What does that mean? No, it is not intended to be a play on words, a tongue twister, or a philosophical mind puzzle game. It has nothing to do with my recent heart surgery from which I am recovering very nicely. I’ve...
Can I Do That?
Most recently it has been brought to my attention, on more than one occasion, that I am not a young man anymore. WHAT!!?? Who said? When did that happen? It is only now that I have awakened during my fifty-fourth year and realized that time has indeed marched on and...
Discipleship: A Continuing Process of Identity
Yesterday I heard a powerful testimony that centered around the simple context of identity. It was a testimony of salvation tainted with spoils of a life slowly changing because there was a lack of dicipleship which lead to a confused state of identity. There was no...
Discipleship: Returning to the Fundamentals
It seems that people want to make more out of the discipleship process than what it actually is. Certainly, there are various phases of discipleship depending upon the spiritual maturity of the individual. How does one get to be spiritually mature. Discipleship....
A New Beginning For Small Things
I have been pondering a few weeks as I have been working to put this site together as to what the topic for the first post should be. It is something that I have wrestled with and prayed about to some great extent. Some of the posts in "Daily Living" came easily. That...