Archive for September 2020

Without really knowing it, the famous comedy team of the 1940s and 50s, Bud Abbott and Lou Costello, were also first-rate theologians. Their famous routine WHOS ON FIRST was pure Christology. All you have to do is change it from a question to a statement of truth. The WHO is GOD incarnate, JESUS CHRIST. In…

Is not our thinking sometimes confused when we begin the process of trying to come up with solutions to this or that challenge? For example, we ask, WHAT is the solution. Yet, a WHAT can accomplish nothing without a WHO attached to it in some way. In politics, we are constantly focusing on WHAT will…

In 1856, John Greenleaf Whittier wrote a poem entitled MAUD MULLER. It was a poem about a beautiful young maiden and a wealthy young Judge who met only once and though attracted to each other, neither spoke of it but went their way. And the balance of their lives was spent dreaming of what a…

There are words and phrases with which we are so familiar, that familiarity has, for many, diminished their significance. One such phrase is in Psalm 23: HE restoreth my Soul Restoration is an interesting word. The object of any restoration is something that is no longer as it was when it was created. It has…

If your objective is to drive from the east coast to the west coast of the United States, the best and surest WAY to accomplish that would be to take Interstate I-90. It goes through 13 states – Washington, Idaho, Montana, Wyoming, South Dakota, Minnesota, Wisconsin, Illinois, Indiana, Ohio, Pennsylvania, New York, and Massachusetts. As…

According to most of the experts in the area of human motivation, Fear, Money, Sex, and Power are the top four. Of the positive motivators, Power seems to win hands-down. And yet, (just consider this for a moment) the only things over which we humans can have absolute power ARE our thoughts. If you can,…

Is what you are seeing being more influenced by what you are thinking or is what you are thinking being more influenced by what you are seeing? Not long ago I was contemplating buying another automobile and was considering an SUV. All of a sudden, I started seeing SUV’s everywhere. I had not realized how…