The Best Use of Our Time While Here

The Best Use of Our Time While Here

(This is the third of three messages on the goodness of why we are here.) Assignment 1: Walk through any luxurious neighborhood and see how many people are taking time to enjoy themselves on their front porch. In the 1979 comedy, The Jerk, Steve Martin plays...
The Goodness in Everyday Life

The Goodness in Everyday Life

This is the second of three messages on the goodness of why we are here. A while back, I wrote out the following outline on living life, and more specifically, on how to experience the goodness in everyday life—because there is an amazing goodness to life, as you...
The Journey of Bliss

The Journey of Bliss

This is the first of three messages which build upon one another and shall culminate in a peak of clarity—hopes the writer—and an enduring optimism about the goodness of why we are here. bliss: perfect happiness; great joy God has created all human souls such that...
The Truth Seeker’s Creed

The Truth Seeker’s Creed

I spent years in unbelief, followed by years of searching for truth wherever that led, followed by a moment when I realized Jesus was my Savior and I transferred my trust to Him. Intellectually, the following is what that journey looked like: THE TRUTH SEEKER’S...
Freedom For The Hurting Soul

Freedom For The Hurting Soul

A friend sent me a video recently of a young man singing his heart out. This YouTube-instant-sensation, plain-speaking, country boy comes out of the Appalachian woods and out of musical obscurity to sing—to wail really, to plead his case from his stripped down,...