An Encouraging Word – A smaller, but purer church?
byWithout knowledge, even zeal is not good. Proverbs 19:2 A little knowledge is a dangerous thing. One of the things that used to send…
An Encouraging Word
An Encouraging Word – The power of dining
byIf you preside at a dinner, be one with the guests. Sirach 32:1 I knew I wanted to be a priest in the second…
An Encouraging Word – The mother and son bond
byHe stores up riches who reveres his mother. Sirach 3:4 On April 28, 1944, sometime after lunch, a woman gave birth in the back…
An Encouraging Word – Liar, liar, pants on fire!
byThe truth will set you free. John 8:32 A quote widely attributed to George Orwell says, “In a time of universal deceit, telling the…
An Encouraging Word – Can you hear me now?
byLoud screaming and howling arose in the camp. Judith 14:19 Why is everyone screaming? It seems that every day people are upping the level…
An Encouraging Word — Compassion fatigue
byMoses’ hands, however, grew tired; so they took a rock and put it under him, and he sat on it. Exodus 17: 12 “Frankly,…
An Encouraging Word – A leap of faith
byWith my God to help I can leap a wall. Psalm 18:30 I’ll be 72 next month! Even my finger stumbled over the keys…
An Encouraging Word — Competition or cooperation?
byMust you prove your rank by competing? Jeremiah 22:15 I suspected immediately that it was a sign of the coming of the “end times”…
An Encouraging Word – Getting beyond our anger
byWrath and anger are hateful things, yet a sinner hugs them tight. Sirach 27:30 Is the world filling up with angry people or am…
An Encouraging Word – The heart of the matter
byAll that matters is that one is being created anew. Galatians 6:15 When I was a kid growing up down in Meade County, Ky.,…