When I was a teenager, at social events we sometimes played a game called ‘Limbo.’ The objective was to ‘walk’/crawl bent over backwards, rather awkwardly, under a bar setting on…
Category: <span>General</span>
During the last few decades, some churches, in an effort to attract visitors and hopefully new members, have attempted to make their worship services more ‘friendly’ or comfortable to those…
Paul, in his letter to his friends at Philippi, says: “Do all things without grumbling or disputing, so that you may prove yourselves to be blameless and innocent, children of…
[BUT ONLY IF IT IS A RENEWED ONE!] Often, an ‘outspoken’ individual is someone who ‘speaks their mind’, meaning he or she utters aloud what they think about some issue…
Ethnocentric- ‘evaluating other cultures according to the standards of one’s own culture.’ A brief narrative appears in Matthew’s gospel [15:22-28 and Mark 7:24-29] of an encounter between a Syrophoenician [Canaanite]…
“Therefore, since we have so great a cloud of witnesses surrounding us, let us also lay aside every encumbrance and the sin which so easily entangles us and let us…
Some years ago, I dropped off my son Jon at a public park that had a catfish-filled pond for him to exercise his love of fishing. I returned a few…
In my prior blog post I focused on our resentments toward other people, and how resolving those resentments is essential to our fulfilling the second great commandment of ‘loving your…
I think our own personal life experiences will affirm the fact that it is difficult to feel positively toward someone who, we believe, has wronged us. That ‘someone’ could be…
Knowledge: “facts, information, and skills acquired by a person through experience or education”. Some specific knowledge is useful to many of us e.g. where can I buy gas for my…