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Discovered something that I had not known this morning: the Galatians were Celts. That caused me to wonder about Paul using the term of “bewitching” in the epistles. Witchcraft primarily comes from the Druids. Probably has nothing to do with it but it made me stop and think.

I retired from secular employment last Friday. I went to work when I was about 13-14 years old. That was back in the days when the rules were easier for hiring minors. Most of my adult life, I have worked a full-time job plus a side-gig. That is in addition to the ministry which I…

My heart is heavy thinking about the children going to band camp in New York. They got on that bus without any thoughts of how bad the day would turn out. I am sure they were excited. The parents put them on that bus thinking of how blessed they were to get to experience the…

I had an old post on Facebook that showed up this morning. It was about a sermon I heard when I worked at the radio station. A friend of mine, Stanley Sneed, preached a great message. I put him on the air every Sunday. He passed away before I left the radio station. We would…

I was thinking about something while I was studying for the Sunday school lesson this morning. The Sunday School lesson took me to the portion of scripture of Jesus rebuking the Pharisees for not taking care of their parents under the guise works for God. I thought about how sometimes ministers have a tendency to…

I am a firm believer that creativity is an important part of the Christian experience. That is why the Bible tells us to sing a new song. I believe that the creative exercises that we go through in our Christian experience are a form of meditation on spiritual concepts. Even writing this blog post every…

I had an experience yesterday that I seem to have often these days. I was studying the Sunday School Lesson. The text pointed out that circumcising was not explained to Abraham. It appeared that he knew about it. It also mentioned that one of the pharaohs was actually circumcised. how many times have I had…

We are having a lot of debate on flying saucers. I don’t believe in the type of stories that seem to be going around in the rumor mill. However, I do believe in intelligent celestial beings. The Bible talks about beings that are not human but intelligent. They are otherworldly. I can’t say they account…

I have trouble distinguishing between normal emotional swings and spiritual events sometimes. Today is one of those days. I have the blues today. Emotional swings are completely normal. A good night’s sleep and your favorite breakfast does not mean you prayed through about that life-long problem. A stomach bug and noisy neighbors only allowing you…

Thinking about what is important for us in our daily walk with God this morning. I think one of the most important traits we should demonstrate is consistency. That is also one of the traits that is so easy to lack. All of us have our times on the maintain. Then we have times in…