You can watch and listen to both the message and the song by clicking here, on the WFPC Live-Feed. Rebekah’s sermon begins at the 18:30 time-stamp and my song get’s going right at 45:00. The song is not bad – the sermon is awesome! Continue reading “Raise your head for love is passing by…”
It’s another beautiful Saturday here in Wake Forest. I’ve had this song floating around in my head – my spirit really – most of the morning. John Rutter’s “For the Beauty of the Earth.” For the beauty of the earth For the beauty of the skies For the love which from our birth Over and around us lies Over and around us lies Lord of … Continue reading For the Beauty of the Earth
I wrote recently that beauty is inextricably connected to gratitude. I believe the same equation is at play when it comes Continue reading the strong connection between gratitude and joy
Fasten (rivet, paste) your attention on what is cute, and adorable, and engaging, and delightful, and redemptive, and pleasing, and admirable. Invest your mind and your spirit in things that are exemplary, ideas and images that simply make people smile. Continue reading an invitation to help fix the Internet
What if we turned the tables on hate by setting the table for love? Continue reading what if we “clicked” on beauty and love, and let division and hatred die for lack of interest?
Texas will receive timely help from Washington, yes, but it won’t nearly scratch the surface of need. Churches, individuals, NGO’s (including Presbyterian Disaster Assistance), are already gearing up. Businesses from all over the USA will donate people and resources. But it still won’t cover all the need. Continue reading rich or poor, hurricane victims need help regardless…
“Sin (hate) is crouching at your door; it desires to have you.” – God, Genesis 4 People have been asking me when I’m going to write about Charlottesville, and the troubling toehold white supremacist and other neofascist groups seem to have established in the landscape of contemporary American ideology. Well, I’ve been taking pause to observe, and I’m listening a lot, and I’m trying to get … Continue reading hate is “us-gone-wrong” – it lives in all of us #Charlottesville
People online without filters are more than “bless their heart” embarrassing, they do critical damage to relationships – and relationships define the way we live together. Continue reading The Internet is making America angrier, and it’s time we all took responsibility
Good morning, Internet. Today I have a legitimate “public conversation” question I’d like to get your thoughts on. Continue reading does free speech come with a commensurate responsibility to listen?
God’s view erases all of the petty, ill-fitting, bigoted, legalistic, reactive, “I know better than God”, hypercritical narrowness of what I like to call, “Lightly Christianized religiosity.” Continue reading The grace of Jesus is the alternative to the judgments of failed religion…
