Exploring the Kingdom

Wishing You Were Here I’ve been married for almost four months now; it’s an interesting experience to say the least. I know that would be the case for just about everybody. Moving from the single life to the married life involves so many things—everything really. But I’m doing it for the first time at the […]

Going with the Flow The heavens are Yours, the earth is also Yours; the world and all it contains, You have founded them; Tabor and Hermon shout for joy at Your name. You have a strong arm; Your hand is mighty, Your right hand is exalted. Righteousness and justice are the foundation of Your throne;

Casual Christianity As we get older it seems that relaxing becomes more and more inviting. I’m not talking about engaging in diversions such as hobbies or following sports teams; I’m talking about doing less and less; avoiding activities that require effort. Sometimes it’s necessary whether we like it or not. I used to love to

Move to the Light There was a great NBA player back in the day that I loved to watch. He was tall—of course—and quite agile, as is usual at the professional level.  But what set him apart was that his hands were so big he could palm a basketball; hold it like I can hold

The Pivot The world’s a mess isn’t it? Catastrophes seem to be happening everywhere. We’ve got landslides and floods due to heavy rain, fires due to lack of rain, earthquakes due to shifts in the earth’s crust. There’s warfare on a variety of scales along with disputes and contentions that range from civil disobedience to

Chow Time That’s a term that was used in the Navy when it was time to eat. I’ve been using it ever since. It sounds different, more to the point than: let’s have dinner. That’s too civilized; the heart of the issue gets lost in the effort to be polite…maybe. I’m thinking about this because

Pantomime Did you ever hear that term? It can mean a variety of things. It may be playacting—or just gesturing—without the use of words. Or it may be applied to an exaggerated display of behavior. It may be associated with a type of stage production where a well-known story is presented in a comical manner

The Futility of Our Minds So this I say, and affirm together with the Lord, that you walk no longer just as the Gentiles also walk, in the futility of their mind, being darkened in their understanding, excluded from the life of God because of the ignorance that is in them, because of the hardness

Going Up? You may hear that when you get on an elevator, usually by another passenger as they’re pressing the button for their floor. Rarely is there an operator on the elevator; it’s all automatic. The device is programed so that the operation of the doors and the starting and stopping at the floors are

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