(Originally posted 02/10/14 .) Bookmarks: To get bail, money talks Polar bears aren’t all warm fuzzies. Private planes are nice, but...

(Originally posted 02/08/14 .) Adam Grant, The Dark Side of Emotional Intelligence Daniel Goleman, An Antidote to the Dark Side of...

(Originally posted 02/01/14 .) How Emotionally Intelligent Are You? Here’s How To Tell If you’re in a boat out on the water, and a storm...

David Farenthold, “Austerity is a hard nut to crack” George F. Will, “2013’s lesson for conservatives” Farenthold asks what’s best for...

The Trump administration’s alternative Christianity In recent weeks, I have become strongly motivated to become upwardly mobile. This...

Wednesday, June 21, 2017 Monday, I lived my life the whole day the way I’ve always said one should, consistent with The Way of Peace ....

Proverbs 30:15: “The leech has two daughters. Their names are ‘Gimme’ and ‘Gimme.’” ———— ♦ ———— Saturday 05/12/12, 3:00 p.m. — I tired...

Monday, May 8, 2017 Church member Joe Stocks died suddenly Saturday. Natural causes. Jesus said, “Let your light so shine before others,...

Psalm 37.25: “I have been young, and now am old; yet have I not seen the righteous forsaken, nor his seed begging bread.” I see it all...

Proverbs 3:5-6: 5Trust in the Lord with all thine heart; and lean not unto thine own understanding. 6In all thy ways acknowledge him, and...

In a recent post, I said, if Jesus did teach thus-and-so, he was wrong. That’s an extreme position for someone who calls himself a...

The real secret:  There aren’t any. Christmas day, when I sat down in the shower line at the shelter where I stay, Comet was showing the...

For years, I’ve had a special sensitivity to reports of child abuse. This one may give you nightmares for the rest of your life. ...

(Originally posted 10/11/13.  Transcribed from an e-mail I sent my mother 24 August 2010.) Jesus said any number of things in large part,...

Main points: (1) God always provides more than you need. (2) Use well what you’ve got now; only then will you get more. (3) What you...

“Worth his weight in gold.” A talent was an amount of money intended to correspond to a man’s weight in gold. Thus, a man who possessed...

(Originally posted 10/08/13.) Matthew 25: 14 “For it is as if a man, going on a journey, summoned his slaves and entrusted his property...

Many people are skeptical about prayer. How many have prayed fervently, day and night, for an ailing loved one, and never obtained the...

Luke 18: ¹Then Jesus told them a parable about their need to pray always and not to lose heart. 2He said, “In a certain city there was a...

My response to Sunday’s sermon — and another event, after church — surprised me, and seemed to affirm that self-love is indeed the...