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What kind of Messiah where the Jews of First Century Judea and Galilee looking for? Reading the gospels, it is apparent that there were three types of Messiah they wanted, depending on the group. The common man was looking for a caring Messiah who would feed them and care for them. They were the ones…
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The Big Kahuna is a 1999 movie starring Danny DeVito and Kevin Spacey. It’s not really a very good of a movie. It’s about three salesmen at a convention trying to land a major account, and they refer to him as the Big Kahuna, thus the name of the movie. They can never find the…
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There are several friends who assume I’m a Trump man, but I’m really not. Trump was far from my first choice in 2016. As a matter of fact, when there were about fifteen candidates for the GOP nomination, Trump was at best my seventeenth choice. However, I did vote for Trump because I didn’t see…
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The ancient Greeks had several words for love. The four most common ones were: storge for the love family members have for one another, eros for the romantic and sexual love spouses would have for one another, philia for the love of friends and comrades, and there was agape which was the ultimate love where…
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We pray and pray and pray, but God doesn’t seem to answer. We wonder why this is so? After all Jesus told us, “Seek and you will find, knock and the door will be opened.” And yet, our prayers go unanswered. And we wonder why. I think James, the brother of the Lord, had the…
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Righteous men will from time-to-time sin. They might have even blinded themselves to their sin and are completely oblivious to their crimes. But if you go to them quietly and respectfully the will often weep at their weakness, beg forgiveness and thank you for your concern and love. That won’t happen with a sinful man.…
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I recently read the book You Are What You Love by James A. K. Smith. Like so many of the Christian books today it is fairly redundant. He often makes a point and then has the tendency to over emphasize the point. More than once he would take five pages to say again what he…
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Why did God allow Hitler to come to power? And why did He allow the Holocaust to happen? These are two questions often asked by both believers and sceptics alike. And these are fair questions even if they are unanswerable since as scripture says, “the ways of God are above the ways of man.” I…
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This is a post I should have written days earlier to commemorate the Doolittle Raid that occurred on April 18, 1942. You would think this was forever burned in the American memory, but I was surprised to find so many not knowing the story, even in the Baby Boom generation. The Doolittle Raid was America’s…
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I’ve finished reading the book How to Be Perfect by Michael Schur, the creator of the television show The Good Place. It could be titled Secular Ethics Philosophy for Dummies. It is an easy read and I’ve read about a third of it. But as the alternate title I gave suggest, it doesn’t touch the…
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In all honesty I have to admit that I’m not Pro-Life, I’m Anti-Abortion. I think it’s important that we stop hiding behind euphemisms that we think will be more acceptable to the public. I think those who say they’re Pro-Choice should admit they are not Pro-Choice. Many of them don’t believe a law-abiding citizen should…
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I have not been to Jerusalem, but I do hope to visit there some day. However, in a recent Bible class the teacher showed a photo he took from the top of the Mount of Olives with the Kidron Valley between it and the Temple Mound. He was showing this to explain how Jesus wept…