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April 2022

April 03, 2022

Denzel Washington on Will Smith: “The devil got ahold of him.”

Washington offers the Christian response Photo by wikipedia During his International Leadership Summit, Saturday, T.D....

April 02, 2022

“Inventing Anna” and “The Dropout,” white, pretty, female con artists

Two shows, “Inventing Anna” and “The Dropout,” have at their cores the true stories of...

March 2022

March 29, 2022

The lost — notes for a sermon

Luke 15:1-32 The Parable of the Lost Sheep 15 Now the tax collectors and sinners were...

March 28, 2022

Culture clash – Chris Rock and Will Smith

Christ Rock made a bad joke about Jada Pinkett Smith and Smith’s husband Will walked...

February 2022

February 06, 2022

A new alternative to traditional funerals – composting

“From dust we come, to dust we return,” is spoken at funerals, but it hasn’t...

October 2021

October 11, 2021

Midnight Mass— a mini review

According to IMDB, the series Midnight Mass is where “an isolated island community experiences miraculous...

October 03, 2021

“If our religion is based on salvation…”

I posted something on Faith on the Fringe this week that appeared to resonate with...

August 2021

August 10, 2021

Suddenly Republicans are pro-choice

After generations of opposition to a woman’s right to choose to end a pregnancy, some...

July 2021

July 03, 2021

God’s power is made perfect in us, through our weaknesses

According to Frederick Buechner, “Paul WASN'T MUCH TO LOOK AT. "Bald-headed, bowlegged, strongly built, a...

June 2021

June 26, 2021

Even when God is silent – I believe

Notes for a sermon... Psalm 130 130:1 Out of the depths I cry to you,...

May 2021

May 30, 2021

We’re not prepared for the catastrophe that’s coming

When the computer networks at Colonial Pipeline were hacked with ransomware, within days here in...

May 01, 2021

Speaking of sin

Notes for a sermon... Acts 8:26-39 8:26 Then an angel of the Lord said to...

April 2021

April 01, 2021

Jesus in the Garden on Easter Sunday

Jesus in the Garden -- An Easter Sunday sermon from 2021. John 20:1-18 Early on...

March 2021

March 06, 2021

Spring Cleaning

This third Sunday of Lent. Notes for a sermon... Spring Cleaning John 2:13-22 2:13...

January 2021

January 30, 2021

Jesus Drives Out the Unclean Spirits

(My sermon for Jan. 30, 2021) Mark 1:21-28 1:21 They went to Capernaum; and when the...

January 22, 2021

Is the Story of Jonah Really About a Whale?

(These are my notes for my sermon, Jan. 24) When we think about the story...

January 07, 2021

2021 Has Begun With the Unimaginable

So much happened in 2020 that we couldn’t imagine. The virus and the hundreds of...

December 2020

December 17, 2020

Third Sunday of Advent

Here are the notes of the sermon I delivered the third Sunday of Advent, 2020...

November 2020

November 20, 2020

“Who do people say that I am?”

Mark 8:27-38 27Jesus went on with his disciples to the villages of Caesarea Philippi; and...

November 05, 2020

Avoiding Trump’s Nero Decree

On March 19, 1945, Adolf Hitler issued an order to destroy German infrastructure to prevent...

October 2020

October 19, 2020

Keep going. Press on.

My new novel is 70,000 words. The way I write, each chapter is its own...

October 01, 2020

God Made You Unique

Garrett Brown invented the Steadicam. He invented it for and used it first on the...

September 2020

September 21, 2020

Mitch McConnell’s Government Teacher Would be Appalled

“The American people should have a voice in the selection of their next Supreme Court...

September 16, 2020

Let Your Light Shine

I watched the movie The Curious Case of Benjamin Button for the first time the...

September 09, 2020

What Are You Doing With Your Time?

There’s an axiom in advertising: “Half of all advertising is wasted – you just don’t...

September 06, 2020

The Racist Next Door

You pull into your driveway to see that the neighbors you don’t know very well...

September 03, 2020

Interesting Times

My grandmother taught in a one room school house. She was sixteen, teaching all grade...

August 2020

August 06, 2020

Liberty University’s Latest Embarrassment – Photographic evidence

Students and alumni of Liberty University, here is your president: Yet again, Jerry Falwell Jr. makes...

August 02, 2020

What is faith?

What is faith? Is it our belief in God? Or the confidence we have in...

July 2020

July 28, 2020

Faith on the Field of Dreams

In the movie Field of Dreams, Ray, his wife and daughter, and Terrance Mann can...