I have a confession to make. I cried today. Unrequited love–life’s great theme seen in our literature, arts, and song. It gets you every time, this “loving someone and that love not returned in kind.”
I was listening to Jose Luis Perales and Alejandro Fernandez sing Perales’s “Por que’ esta soledad” (Why This Loneliness?). [...]
When I first heard Jeremiah Wright scream, “Not God bless America; God damn America!” I shuddered and said to myself, “Is this a sermon in a church?” Yes, it was. The Trinity United Church of Christ. And as the the hateful rhetoric spewed forth, I asked, “How could they call this hate doctrine Christlike? We [...]
To just keep on living–that is the hope I hold on to every time we march in one of the company’s funeral processions. I saw my face reflected in the side window of a sedan while we were marching last week, and it seemed to say, “On this another fateful day, I have hope.”
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Belief is the distinguishing characteristic of the sons and daughters of God. They will just flat out believe God and His word. Period. They will rip off the shroud of doubt that lays like a suffocating blanket of death over their own hearts, and they will shout, “No! He’s alive! In me! He is risen in [...]
“Where there is no vision, the people perish.” So goes the wise proverb. But it is not just any vision for our lives that ultimately rescues us. It is the vision that our Creator has for us that will serve as the spiritual Rock and Foundation upon which to build our lives.
His vision [...]
We who have been born from above have become the “children of God” or the sons and daughters of God. For we “have received the Spirit of adoption, whereby we cry, Abba, Father” (Romans 8:15). And we know that our Father is the “King of glory.” And we know that the sons and daughters [...]
“Love from above–down and through” has turned into my motto or credo. Some may wonder where I got it from.
Human beings have one major need: to be loved, especially someone who can give them sincere, pure “love from above.” The love I’m talking about is agape love, or God’s love. And so we humans [...]
