If you’re connected to social media in any form, I’m sure you’ve seen, and maybe even posted, messages regarding today’s anniversary of the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks. Most of these messages I’ve seen are centered around one central theme: “Never Forget.” And it’s true, there are many things about that day we should never … Continue reading Maybe it’s time to forget
Church
A New Creation…
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…
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