Heading out of town yesterday morning I passed two signs heralding Father’s Day. One was in front of a church. It said: “Sermon: A Special Father’s Day.” The other was a small restaurant. It’s sign said: “Breakfast: A Father’s Day Special.” One parking lot was crammed beyond capacity. The other’s parking lot only had two […]
Have you had your eyes gourged out?
“Samson! The Philistines have come to capture you!” When he woke up, he thought, “I will do as before and shake myself free.” But he didn’t realize the Lord had left him. So the Philistines captured him and gouged out his eyes. They took him to Gaza, where he was bound with bronze chains and […]
Jesus, Twitter and the Devil
Isn’t the explosion of social media entertaining! Just in case you didn’t notice, that was an exclamation, not a question. Why is it that we give all the good stuff to the bad guys? If we come from a church background, everything has to have some rule, regulation or negative connotation attached to it. The […]
Would Jesus Twitter?
I’m getting old. Seriously old. I remember when the Commodore 64 was the hottest thing on the planet and was deliciously excited when I built an interface that allowed me to write directly to a cassette disk to store my “ruminations.” I paid as much for my first C64 as I did myMacbook! I’ve been […]
An email telling of murder…
Remember the missionary I was telling you about who left everything to serve Jesus? I just receive this via email: Adults and children are coming to church. Among them is a child whose father was murdered last Saturday night. Three gypsies shot him eight times because of a drug debt. Even more shocking was that […]