Blog Journal

When you hear the word Christmas, what is the first thing that pops into your mind? In America, many of us think about twinkle lights; merry Christmas wreaths; or the smell of incense burning while candle light flickers onto lofty wooden beams or high stone arches laid together by pious ancestors long dead but still…
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Season last, long past showers of leaves swirling in kaleidoscope colors and after warm autumn breezes turn bitterly cold, I wrote about Advent; with candles aglow, meteors blazing and Italian Renaissance artists creating beautiful frescos to encourage us from below, to look upward. Many of us during this season, hold dear thoughts and imaginings that…
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Proverbs are pithy maxims; many of which are similes or comparisons, and are delivered in metaphors and allegories. Solomon and Jesus used this venue of communication to teach… Why? I don’t really know, but perhaps they did it because they knew we as humans are curious, imaginative and creative and therefore would be drawn into…
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“Who doesn’t watch the news and howl? Who doesn’t breathe through wounds and grieve for what was or dreamed and isn’t? How do you sit around a table and bow your head in thanks when parts of this world and bits of you are somewhere crushed?…giving thanks is only this: making the canyon of pain…
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In America, today is the day we call Thanksgiving and on this day because of the name mostly, we will spend a moment or two reflecting on life’s journey… and the blessings we have received. Most often our reflection is momentary with the pronoun being the primary source of our reflection… We are busy, right?…
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In every post this week, God has reminded us of our calling. Actually, it is His calling to us, as God always is the initiator and it is to His purpose for which we are called. He has called and calls still-for Christ Followers to be salt and light in our dark and dying world……
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Chopping greens for a party at work when time got away from me, so I don’t have the continuation of the Covenant of Salt for you. I apologize, but I did want to leave you with a teaser…. Job 6:6 What is food without salt? What is more tasteless than the white of an egg?…
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I couldn’t sleep tonight and a thought that was mentioned yesterday in the post i.e. A Covenant of Salt, keeps swirling around in my mind. To be honest and totally transparent, I had never seen these scriptures about such a covenant in the scriptures before, but now that I have, God is holding me there,…
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Today, I have a message for the tired, discouraged, the weak and weary. To those who are striving against the agony of sin… to those of you who are struggling… those of you like me, I have Good News! The cause of our conflict is sin. Yes, the conflict is a conflict against sin and…
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This is a re-post of a blog written by Garrett Kell, pastor at Del Ray Baptist Church. Here is a link to his blog site. Garrett Kell – The Harvest “There was a great tragedy that occurred on Tuesday, November 6, 2012. The tragedy was not found in the celebrations of elected officials or the…
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