Month: April 2016

    I read in Luke 3:7-14 about John the Baptist calling on people to repent.  “What should we do then?’  The crowd asked.  John answered, ‘The man with two tunics should share with him who has none, and the one who has food should do the same.’”    I thought on this first part…

What is the difference between a critique of a situation, event, or person and complaining?  That is easy for me; when I do it then it is a critique, but when others do it they are complaining.  How I wish I was really that righteous and could say that in all honesty.    I sometimes…

I want to speak about investments for a moment.  Yes, this has to do with money.   No, it has nothing to do with getting your money back, at least not for yourself.      Churches make decisions on investing.  Either that do or they don’t, and just as in financial markets when and if…

One of the great challenges of the modern American era is finding solutions to public violence, especially in regard to homicide in and among the poor, most particularly concerning black on black crime.    All violence is and ought to be disturbing.  Something surely must be wrong with us if we find violence to be…