At The Amusement Park

When our churches become so physically comfortable and entertaining we run the risk of beginning to believe that this is normal that this coziness, purchased by wealth, is common.  After we have lowered ourselves to this point the next more deadly belief is soon to follow; this comfort is our right.

In other words it is impossible to empathize with the tragedy of suffering of our brothers and sisters around the world when we only see it on two 480” video screens in our sanctuary. 

Fishing With God

You make him (humans) to rule over the works of Your hands;

You have put all things under his feet,

All sheep and oxen,

And also the beasts of the field,

The birds of the heavens and the fish of the sea,

Whatever passes through the paths of the seas.

                  Psalms 8:6-8

It is one thing to pen this Psalm when your greatest technology is a fish hook but another when you can drag net millions of fish in an afternoon.  Our technology today has given us a dominion that is frightening when placed in the hands of people who would not acknowledge the first verse of this Psalm;

“O Lord, our Lord.

How majestic is your name in all the earth.”

As believers we should keep in mind another line in this same Psalm;

“What is man that You (God) take thought of him?”

and remember the truth that God is keeping thoughts of us!

(For more on this and other subjects attend my slide lecture and show opening, Tuesday, February 17, 4:30 p.m. in A72 at Union University)

The Loneliness of Loving

Heartache, the ache of love bruised and battered, is only possible to the heart that has given itself wholly to loving.

(For more on this and other subjects attend my slide lecture and show opening, Tuesday, February 17, 4:30 p.m. in A72 at Union University)

A Cure For Melancholia

One need only taste a bit of chocolate or the lips of ones lover to know there is a God in heaven and He seems bent on indulging us.  The next time you are bound to melancholia write down how a strawberry tastes.  It is an impossible journey of joy. 

(My wife would automatically think we should dip the strawberries in chocolate before we begin to write.)

“One must ask children and birds how cherries and strawberries taste.”

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

(For more on this and other subjects attend my slide lecture and show opening, Tuesday, February 17, 4:30 p.m. in A72 at Union University)