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March 2025

March 15, 2025

Empathy v. Apathy

Look, we don’t have to care. We could give three sh^^t’s about someone else. But...

February 2025

February 06, 2025

Parenting, Faith, and the Fight to Keep Going

Our blessings-we can miss them, even when they are staring at us in the face.

January 2025

January 05, 2025

Is God in My Struggle?

God is funny. I think I can see him smile and simply saying-and always in...

December 2024

December 20, 2024

Christmas? Politics or Marketing or Dogs?

I wasn’t going to do a Christmas card this year. You, who have received them...

November 2024

November 02, 2024

God, How do I Identify What You Truly Desire?

And yet, Abba loves us just the way we are. The battle is won with...

October 2024

October 19, 2024

What Role Do God and Jesus Play in Political Movements?

Growing up, there was one poll. It was the Gallup poll, remember that one? It...

October 12, 2024

When Faith Moves You: Finding God in Life’s Exhaustion

We have been bought. We have been pulled from a pile of bodies and chosen...

July 2024

July 21, 2024

Jesus In Men, Who are We?

Let’s talk the basics first, keeping us within the lane of this short discussion—Jesus living...

June 2024

June 29, 2024

Is Jesus, our Lord, In Politics?

Is the Lord, Jesus, involved in the issues today? If he does, where is He...

April 2024

April 21, 2024

Where is This Jesus Fella?

Where is this Jesus Fella? Where is Jesus? I don’t mean to say that flippantly,...

March 2024

March 16, 2024

Choices

We don't get many choices in the theater of this life of how we get...

November 2023

November 19, 2023

The Power of Prayer

What I have learned over decades is it is usually my prayer, when it doesn’t...

June 2023

June 18, 2023

Fathers Day

 FATHERS DAY Being today is Fathers Day and the timing of things in this world...

June 11, 2023

A Week From Today

OKAY, IT'S YOUR TURN Okay, so a week from today is Father’s Day. It is...

March 2023

March 19, 2023

Technology is a Fickle Mistress

How technology has helped and maybe even hurt us, our faith, or source of information....

January 2023

January 22, 2023

Today is a Good Day

...but sometimes, we are given a good day.

January 13, 2023

Life Can Be Amazingly Hard! Duh!

Life can be amazingly hard. ‘Ah, Mark, duh?’ No, seriously. I am not sure any...

December 2022

December 04, 2022

Sometimes….

                  SOMETIMES.... Sometimes, you just let the...

November 2022

November 19, 2022

In This Life….

Sometimes in this life, well, I would venture to say most of the time in...

November 08, 2022

Sometimes….

SOMETIMES.... Sometimes, it’s okay to turn the car radio off and talk to yourself. Sometimes,...

October 2022

October 19, 2022

Was Jesus a Christian or a Jew? Yes – People Really Ask That

  WAS JESUS A CHRISTIAN? I heard this question more than once. Was Jesus a...

October 09, 2022

Most of the Time, I Don’t See God

So, just because you don’t see, don’t hear, doesn’t mean He isn’t there. It means...

July 2022

July 23, 2022

…Just Us

JUST US I’m a retired widower. I know I know most of you thought I...

July 14, 2022

Optics-Real or Imaginary?

OUR OWN OPTICS We live in a world of 'optics.' A word used too much,...

July 06, 2022

Is It Ever Time to Change?

A CHANGE IS COMING I am-maybe, no longer a Night Panther guy. I need to change...

June 2022

June 26, 2022

I Wonder What I Would Have Done

Declaration of Independence I WONDER WHAT I WOULD HAVE DONE.... I wonder what I would...

May 2022

May 29, 2022

Sometimes, in our seasons….

Sometimes, in our seasons, we have difficulty seeing the season itself and get swallowed up...

March 2022

March 06, 2022

Sometimes, We Repeat Things

Sometimes, we bounce. Sometimes, in that bounce, we don't bounce well. Its life. Sometimes, that...

March 04, 2022

Floundering or Living Large?

I think we all wonder if we, where we are at, are sometimes floundering.

January 2022

January 16, 2022

Living? Sometimes, I want Off

SOMETIMES, I WANT OFF THIS ROCK! I sometimes get so tired. I guess you could...

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