Dealing with anger, hostile debate, hatred towards opposition, disinformation campaigns, and animosity is difficult. It was difficult throughout human history and throughout USA history. Everyone has an opinion, usually an opinion that benefits themselves. Or an opinion they learned in…
In the essay What God Loves, I was considering God’s purpose for creating a world where so many people choose hate and violence over love and compassion. God created this world and all that is in it. He knew before…
Jesus prayed many times in scripture. He also taught his disciple’s a prayer. Luke 11:1-4 One day Jesus was praying in a certain place. When he finished, one of his disciples said to him, “Lord, teach us to pray, just as John…
For many people prayer is a complicated task. There are rules and methods to follow. There are many Christian books explaining how to pray. How to get through to God. Why is your prayer not working. Why do some prayers…
The Christian Bible contains most of the writings in the Tanakh. Christians call this the Old Testament part of our Bible. It is followed by the New Testament which covers Jesus’ ministry as a rabbi living in ancient Israel. Also…
I have been conservative most of my life. I don’t always vote for conservatives. I tend to be fiscally conservative but socially more inclined to what Jesus says in Matthew 25:31-46, when God separates the sheep from the goats for…
We start with Jesus’ words which I assume point to the things important to God. For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life. For God did not…
My parents were blue collar people. They both graduated from high school and my mother began working as a bookkeeper. My father went into business with his father-in-law running a small trucking company. After my grandfather died, dad took over…
The greatest transformation in my life began when God called me to join the Peace Corps at age 40. Working as a programmer for an insurance company was becoming mundane. So, during work I often searched the internet for alternatives.…
As a two or three year-old, I slept in a room by myself. Early one morning, I lay in bed and saw this amazing light coming through the window. I climbed out of bed and pushed a chair against the…
