Nothing Left To Lose

It has been said of our youth in the USA that over several successive generations they have lost first their innocence, then their authority, then their love, then their hope (hence an increasing suicide rate) and more recently their very selves, washing them up on the shore of the third millennium after Christ and depositing … Continue reading →

Compensatory Worship

What a study in sharp contrasts is presented for us in the seventh chapter of the gospel of Luke in the New Testament! (verses 36 though to conclusion of the chapter) Jesus is invited to eat at the house of a Pharisee, a religious leader and part of the religious establishment. A woman who is … Continue reading →

Intense Fellowship

Once I was intending to play flute for a lunch crowd at a senior center. I went jogging into the building as I often do carrying the flute under my arm when I stumbled and went sprawling headlong facedown on the pavement with flute clattering down in the driveway ahead of me. A couple of … Continue reading →

The Memory of Warmth

We found a little white dog in Alaska once in an empty house huddled under the furnace. The furnace was no longer actively heating the house, but perhaps the little dog remembered the days when it was heating the house. The pitiful bedraggled animal no longer had the benefit of heat in the cold Alaskan … Continue reading →

Compatibility

There was a Bible teacher who reported having a conversation with the Lord that went something like this: “My son, you and I are incompatible, and I don’t change!” (See Malachi 3 v.6) In the short book of the prophet Malachi, the last prophet to speak before the 430 years of deafening silence, there is … Continue reading →

Fizz pt 2

I might say I know someone that I haven’t communicated with in months or even years. Technically I am correct in saying that because we have been introduced and we recognize each other’s names, and maybe once upon a time we were current on some of the events and concerns in each other’s lives but … Continue reading →

Keeping the Fiz

 My wife was looking for something to drink, so I told her I had seen a Sprite in the refrigerator. “But that one has been opened, ” she informed me, ” I want one with some fizz in it!” It occurs to me that relationships can be like that partially consumed Sprite in our … Continue reading →