The Wonders of the House

My wife and I have the privilege of caring for a couple of kitties while their owners are away on vacation. In the process of taking care of the kitties we are also taking care of the house in which they live. It is a spacious expansive (expensive too probably) house where the kitties roam … Continue reading →

Song of a Royal Priest

You have made us kings, O King of kings, and we shall reign shall reign on earth. You have made us priests, O Most High Priest, priests who intercede for the desperate need. Continue reading →

Dubious Wonderworkers

Fallen humanity is the only known species that can take a dynamic personal encounter with the living Creator God and transform it into something unrecognizable:  a boring,  irrelevant and meaningless experience.   Behold! It is a backwards wonder that only humanity can work:  not plain water to the most wonderful wine, but the work of … Continue reading →

Sharp Swords

Notice in Revelations Chapter 1 v6 that Jesus is described as having a sharp sword.  He is our example also in that, we must keep our swords sharpened. The sword is the one offensive piece of armor for the fully armed heavily armed soldier which we are all called to be in God’s great army … Continue reading →

Beyond Brother to Partner and Companion

He John the elderly elder on the island of Patmos for being a public nuisance, and disrupter of order and disturber of the Roman peace.  What? That little old man over there is all that?  He the brother and companion in tribulation was not just a brother although he could have stopped there if he … Continue reading →

The Tale of Two Sauls

One started out small in his own eyes, but grew bigger and bigger until he had to fall and lost his crown. He went from feeling unworthy and undeserving to feeling very entitled to  seemingly all or any honor bestowed. The other started out large in his own eyes, asked for, sought after, but grew … Continue reading →

Two Kinds of Wonder

The merely religious person is also a wonderworker, but his or hers is a wonder of a different kind altogether.  Instead of changing water to wine or multiplying loaves and fish, this one changes wine to something watered down and makes food and nourishment so scarce as to produce a famine.  This one makes us wonder … Continue reading →

Plumbing Depths, Scraping Sky

The deeper go the roots the taller and stronger the tree can grow.  The taller the tree the more branches, with leaves as surface for sun and shade, and birds perching.  The deeper the foundation the higher the building can rise.  The higher the building rises the greater the distance from which it can be seen and … Continue reading →

William Barlow Bio

Bill Barlow was born into a military family on February 25, 1943 in Birmingham, Alabama.  The family traveled to California, Washington, Ontario, Canada, and finally North Carolina and Washington D.C. before crossing the Atlantic to Heidelberg, Germany for three years.  Bill was active in athletics from an early age and excelled as a left handed pitcher … Continue reading →

Joseph Came to Realize

Joseph came to realize that what, or shall we say Who,  was growing in Mary’s womb was not a result of immorality but rather a result of immortality.   Continue reading →