Independence Day and Election Day are looming in our immediate future! As the days draw ever closer, these ancient words become my daily prayer for our Country and its people. Now, therefore,” says the Lord, “Turn to Me with all your heart, With fasting, with weeping, and with mourning.” So rend your heart, and not… Continue reading pray for the USA
It's COLD! A cloudy and 52° Memorial Day weekend here in our Central California valley. Not the first time I can recall it being cold on this Holiday weekend. My mind travels back to weekends spent in a tent at 7,000 feet above sea-level in the Colorado Rockies. Now that was miserable. No way to get… Continue reading happy memorial day
The past couple of days have been spent finishing up a 'book' of the Easter Week serialI posted back in April. If you didn't catch the series during Holy Week, you can download it now in PDF format. If you missed any of the 'books' I've posted, they are all together on z....wait for it....… Continue reading the week
If Spring came but once a century, instead of once a year, or burst forth with the sound of an earthquake and not in silence, what wonder and expectation there would be in all hearts to behold the miraculous change. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Over the next couple of months, here in the USA, we'll take time… Continue reading moms, dads & grads
Remember His Words? On the first day of the week, Sunday – Resurrection Sunday – at early dawn while it was still mostly dark, Mary Magdalene, Mary the mother of James, and Salome, who had all come with Jesus from Galilee, went back to the tomb where his body had been laid on Friday evening.… Continue reading Sunday – HE LIVES!
As you'll recall from reading the Gospel accounts of Jesus' ministry on earth the Sabbath is a time when NO work may be done without invoking the wrath of the Pharisees. There's not much information preserved in Biblical records concerning the hours and days Jesus' tomb was sealed. We know from Luke's account that on… Continue reading Saturday – popular world view
Christian tradition says Christ spent Friday on a cross, juxtaposed between two thieves, completing God’s plan for reconciling his fallen creation (man) to himself. Hollywood and the History Channel take great pleasure in depicting the horror of the crucifixion of Christ. With the special effects possible in today’s world of technology it’s not difficult to… Continue reading Friday – good and black
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