A phrase used in advertising for the National Negro Education Fund was “The Mind Is A Terrible Thing To Waste”. That phrase has stayed in my mind for many years now. We are not born with a mind. It is developed. We are born with a brain, and this marvelous […]
Freedom. I would like to be in a small group with you and together we would attempt to define “freedom”. What does true freedom look like? Have you raised children? Before they reach the stage of being “self-conscious”, they are free. They are totally uninhibited. We then as parents begin […]
Silence. Silence that literally shouts at you. I have said before that I spent several years on lookout towers when I was young. On Jumbo mountain, where I was stationed for one summer in the middle of the Bob Marshall Wilderness, the silence at times would become deafening. There are […]
Isaac Newton was supposedly sitting under an apple tree and saw an apple fall to the ground. It was then that he asked himself, “what made the apple fall down rather than staying in space or going up”? I am not sure if it really happened just like that, but […]
There are few scenes in literature that provoke human emotions more than the cross. I try to keep the cross in the cross hairs of my thoughts throughout the year, not just in this season of Lent. The cross is inhumane, cruel to the highest degree and is used to […]
The place of crucifixion is a scene of torment and suffering. People who experienced this death through the Roman justice system could hang on a cross for several days. Who would want to be there? The politicians who made the decision to put Jesus on the cross were represented, if […]
In the season we are in, we as believers in Jesus Christ are looking forward to Easter. Some are celebrating Lent, some are preparing various programs, as we look forward to one of the greatest religious holidays of the year. However, before we get to Easter, and all it represents, […]
Easter is just around the corner. In these weeks before Easter, will you join me in looking at the Cross. The Cross is not a pleasant place to be, but there were people there that I would like to examine, and ask, “why were you at the cross? As I […]
If I were to ask you for the ingredients for a successful life, what would your list look like? Long life? Health? Family? Just as baking or cooking require ingredients, so does life. I could ask all kinds of questions, such as,” where do you find those ingredients? Is there […]
Consider with me the human mind. The mind is different from the brain, but the mind comes from the brain. When we are born the brain can be compared to an empty C.D. disk. There are many things that may be placed on the disk. The empty disk is at […]