The Jesus Way – No Show Prayers
Nuance is a troublemaker. We’d love for our convictions to be well-defined, stark, and without shadows. But that isn’t authentic or realistic. As we judge others with a lack of…
Nuance is a troublemaker. We’d love for our convictions to be well-defined, stark, and without shadows. But that isn’t authentic or realistic. As we judge others with a lack of…
I have these rules for life. This happens to be the sixteenth in the list. It also happens to be one gleaned from a sign. Many years ago my family…
Have you ever done the right thing in the wrong way? Or perhaps done the right thing with the wrong motives? All of us can probably raise our hand to…
Who is the hardest person to love? Or perhaps we could turn this around and ask – Who is the easiest to hate? That person or group is the very…
We all have a built-in fairness scale. But, if we’re really honest, we’ll also admit that our fairness scale is skewed a bit in our favor. One part of that…
The next topic in Jesus’ sermon on the mount seems almost trivial compared to murder, adultery, and divorce. But in several ways, it is more important than those three combined.…
Saved and salvation are “church words” that find their meaning in the Bible. What does it mean to be saved? Why does anyone need saving? What are we being saved…
We’ve probably all experienced the mind-numbing boredom of waiting in line. Standing or sitting until our turn comes around, until our name is called, or it’s our turn to ride…
A recent study, as reported in The Daily Wire(link is below), shows that a continuous marriage without divorce reduces the risk of dementia later in life. Interesting. There have also…
Sex is good, but not all are spiritually, emotionally, and physically healthy. That is important to understand before we delve into the next part of The Jesus Way. In several…
In our previous article (link), Jesus taught that murder is more than the physical act of ending life and that judgment would fall on disparaging and angry words spoken to…
People swear by the strangest things. There is the pinky swear. Or “I swear on my mother’s grave” – regardless of whether she’s in it or not. “Scout’s honor,” can…