Could you pass the salt, please? I’m gonna serve up some tasty tidbits from the previous week…plus a few extras. In the Words and Music Podcast, Episode 94, I talk about: How the salt of the earth is losing its flavor Why it’s good to sing out loud…even if your voice stinks What you should do to keep your head from exploding What to do … Read the rest…
In this episode of the podcast I talk about joy peace, fear, time, hypocrisy, and the measles. Yep, you read that right. It all makes more sense when you read (or listen to) these stories… No joy in the “happiest place on Earth” The hypocrisy of the atheist’s “10 non-commandments” How a person is a person even before they’re born How fear is always … Read the rest…
In this episode of the Rhyme and Reason podcast I talk about: Who knows you better than you know yourself? How I sweat the details and why I shouldn’t How having a noble dream doesn’t make you a Christian Why your opinion of yourself isn’t the “ultimate”one How even memories can be childish things Why the main theme in the Bible should bring everyone … Read the rest…
How in the world can anything to do with spooky, weeping, hungry poverty bring you any encouragement? That’s a fair question. But in this Rhyme and Reason PodcastI share the fuller message behind why I’m using these words. It’s a message full of hope, and with everything going on in this world, maybe you could use some more hope. If you look around you … Read the rest…
There’s an awful lot of interest and attention on zombies these days. I don’t get the attraction, but then movies, videos, and TV shows don’t tend to reflect my preferences. So, I guess I’m in the minority. Still…what’s so intriguing about dead people walking amongst the living seeking to eat them? Life is beautiful. Death is a curse. It reminds me of a verse … Read the rest…
The old Christian hymns often said things so much more wisely and profoundly than the “praise and worship” music that permeates many churches today. They weren’t so repetitive and chant-like. They told stories and conveyed such faith in a relationship with the one true living, loving God. I’m sharing one of those old standards here again. It uses what’s often referred to as “the … Read the rest…
I’m not nothing. In fact, I am something. Not because of how particularly special I am just by being me…but because I love. Yep, love is the key. Without love I’m nothing. What does it matter what I do in my life, with my life, if I don’t have love? Without love everything and anything I do is motivated by selfishness. What else could … Read the rest…
