Last Saturday Karen and I had the pleasure of being taken to dinner by a wonderful couple from our church. Jimmy and Victoria had asked us to join them for dinner after viewing a matinee playing of the fine movie, “Do You Believe?†While we were discussing the...
Have you ever displayed fear that you knew was founded on cowardice? To know yourself as a coward is to almost loathe oneself. Cowardice is a condition that can only be overcome by courage. Courage is not the absence of fear; it is the overcoming of fear. One of the...
When I was a young boy and even in my teenage years growing up in Northern California near the Pacific Ocean, one of my favorite things to do when we went to Bodega Bay was to go out on the jetty at Doran Beach and climb and walk the big rocks all the way to the end....
I’ve noticed a phenomenon in American Christendom lately and I am at times guilty of it. Fear. Fear of the past, fear of the present, and fear of the future. As Christians we tend to fear what has happened, what is happening, and what will happen. Fear comes from...
