Arguably the most difficult challenge to our salvation is the call to forgiveness. Be merciful...
In 1896 a German immigrant to the United States, a man named Emmanuel Ninnger, paid for his...
Every time my wife and I go to a Costco, I head for their small table featuring best-sellers at discount prices. To my surprise Hope, the new autobiography of Pope Francis was available. It had been on my list so I put...
In 1996, the American singer & songwriter, Sheryl Crow, wrote and performed a song that made its way to the Billboard Top Ten and earned her a Grammy. Entitled If It Makes You Happy, the lyrics go like this… If it...
After a weekend of football and the presidential inauguration, my problem is not that I had nothing to write about but that there were just too many interesting topics from which to choose. Unfortunately, most of the...
A constant theme in the presentations I make through Spirit Filled Hearts Ministry, my apostolate, is that of forgiveness, beginning with forgiving ourselves. We are forgiven. Amen? We may know that in our heads, but is...
One of my favorite movies—one that’s always shown on TV every year on February 2—is Groundhog Day, which is widely considered one of the best comedies ever made. As many of you no doubt know, it stars actor...
Where does one begin when doing missionary work? I am writing as someone who was assigned to a mission three years ago and I am still in this assignment. I am new to being on mission. I did not know that my journey...
They are at it again, or to be more accurate, still at it. I’m referring to the condemnation of Donald Trump and his policy on immigration. I don’t mean the statements of secular progressives who arguably “know not...
On his deathbed, comedian W. C. Fields was reputed to have been frantically thumbing through a Bible. When questioned the confirmed atheist replied in his inimical way, Looking for loopholes. This title came to me just...
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