I just can’t get at what the problem is.
I don’t know how many of you are Star Trek fans, but out of all the different series that were released I was always most partial to “The Next Generation”. In particular I always enjoyed a character on that show call “Data” who was an Android (no….not like your phone’s operating system) who was always striving to understand and become more human.
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I wouldn’t be caught dead living for myself
Recently, I was reading a letter from one of the missionaries we support…
I hope you make a practice of doing the same because in the correspondence of
missionaries you will find:
- to live for God and press on in your faith
- An opportunity to pray for a saint and consider how you might support them.
- A view of how God is moving in the world.
- Great inspirational stories from foreign lands…and much more.
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I would rather be bitter. . .or, not!
Hey, I have a question for you and I want you to give an honest answer, okay? Doesn’t it feel good to be bitter? Doesn’t it seem almost natural? How can you say that Rob? Oh, come on, you know what I’m talking about! When you feel bitter and you are getting ready to express it you almost feel … powerful!
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I have had it with. . .Part 2!
In last week’s e-mail I spent some time inviting those who would dismiss Christ based upon their view of Christians to stare squarely into the face of Jesus Christ and answer the question, “Who is Jesus to you?” (see e-mail below for reference). Today, however, I want to spend some time addressing anyone who is a Christian (myself included) by saying, “You are being watched” (creepy sounding…isn’t it?).
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I have had it with. . .
Recently I have again heard people say that they have become somewhat dissuaded about the validity of the Christian faith because they don’t like what they see when they observe the lives of Christians.
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World traveler
Wow… I have had some week. I have been doing
a lot of traveling. During the course of this week I visited Rome, Greece, Egypt, and a small part of Africa, to name a few of the places I’ve been. It was amazing to see all these lands… from the comfort of the wonderfully adorned rooms of the University of Pennsylvania Archeological Museum.
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When I was young. . .
When I was young, I always marveled at how “old” old people were, and now I am fast approaching becoming one of them.
When I was young, I imagined a thousand different futures for myself, and now I see that the choices narrow with each passing year.
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I guess all I can do is pray
I’ve been considering life lately and it has occurred to me that with each passing year I have gained more acceptance of one particular truth; much of life is beyond our control, and what appears to be in our control really isn’t. The truth of the matter is that it seems that for the things that matter the most to us, they are the things we seem to have the least influence over.
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Giving birth to Death
I’ve been thinking more about addiction these days. Through the years I have noticed that Christians can sometimes resist the idea of addiction because they are upset by the notion that comes from addictions research and literature that people are born with certain dispositions and therefore are destined to spend their days ravaged by one form of addiction of another.
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Is it in our nature to “hear” nature?
As many of you may know, I was blessed to be on vacation in Florida over the past week or so. It was a wonderful time of rest and relaxation. While away we stayed in this beautiful condo provided to us by a friend that was on the third floor of a building.
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