Tag: Religion
Don’t Blink?
As a former delivery driver for United Parcel Service (UPS) and long before becoming a pastor, safe driving was drilled into our training.
If Possible
The stories purported in the bible, for instance, are ancient to be sure. These were a different people from the modern man. Polytheism was the norm, various presumed spiritual manifestations guided a superstitious mentality, and science had little influence apart from disciplines such as mathematics and agrarianism.
In the Moment
It is a dilemma. I read an article some time ago that described America’s most dangerous jobs and guess what, administering religious services was eighth on the list. In the wisdom literature of the Bible there is the statement, “A prudent man sees danger and takes refuge, but the simple keep going and suffer for it.” I must admit, it caused me to pause and consider what I am doing as a pastor. Then, however, I realized that we are all in danger. Every person has death pursuing them whether it is early in life or later, we get ensnared…
Be Conscientious, Act, Repeat
To what extent are we to be our brother’s keeper? And if we are tasked with this high calling, what is the best way to achieve compassion mixed with realism?
Reach and be Rescued!
Astronauts Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams, after being stranded nine months on the International Space Station, have returned home safely.
