I'm spending this week with an amazing bunch of teenagers and adults at New Creation United Methodist Church in Chesapeake, Va., at their annual Youth Week where I am serving as the guest speaker all week long. The kids from the youth group came up with the week's theme, "Rebel with a Cause." So each … Continue reading A New Creation…
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Discovering the meaning of life…
Once again, I find myself apologizing to faithful readers for my lack of faithfulness in updating this little corner of the blogosphere. Not for the first time, nor probably the last, I've allowed the distractions of life & business to deflect me from this bit of avocation. In the 3 months or so since my … Continue reading Discovering the meaning of life…
Catching up…and slowing down
Sometimes we all need a catch-up day...one of those days when you go through the backlog correspondence, work assignments, unread articles and unfiled paperwork and just get back on top of it all. Today is catch-up day for the Faithrants.com blog. If you follow regularly, you know I had been blogging through a shared Lenten activity … Continue reading Catching up…and slowing down
I bargained for salvation and they gave me a lethal dose
From the sixth hour until the ninth hour darkness came over all the land. About the ninth hour Jesus cried out in a loud voice, “Eloi, Eloi, lama sabachthani?”—which means, “My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?” ... And when Jesus had cried out again in a loud voice, he gave up his … Continue reading I bargained for salvation and they gave me a lethal dose
A new, old command
“My children, I will be with you for a little while longer. Then you will look for me, but you won't find me. I tell you just as I told the people, ‘You cannot go where I am going.’ But I am giving you a new command. You must love each other, just as I … Continue reading A new, old command