Loneliness is a quiet monster: you can’t run from it, you can’t hide from it; you can’t escape from it, like the black of night it’s always there. That’s how I felt at one point in my life. But loneliness can be overcome. Loneliness is painful and very private; it’s hard to talk about, but it must be addressed and brought into perspective. I experienced loneliness from a young age. It may be hard to look back into our childhood, but the truth is, in some aspects, we carry that pain with us. We often experience that same childhood pain …
Should America Legalize Pot or Not; A Pastor view
When Colorado legalized the sale of pot to the general population, I was disappointed, but not surprised. I wondered what would prompt them to legalize another potentially dangerous addictive drug to the American people. Don’t we already have enough legal destructive addictions to deal with: alcohol, nicotine, and prescription drugs? I thought about their motives, and the only reason I could come up with was to generate more revenue to pad already fat pockets, and to waste more money on self-interest projects. Where do they expect this money to come from? It is going to come from the pockets of …
E-cigarette Ban
The use of e-cigarettes is sweeping the country; especially with teenagers who are embracing this product. Too many believe that e-cigarettes are not as harmful as cigarettes, but researchers are finding that e-cigarettes are damaging to your health. We know that e-cigarettes are another means to ingest an addictive chemical into your body (nicotine). Once an addictive chemical takes control of you, it controls your thoughts and actions. I can attest to the fact that breaking a nicotine addiction is one of the hardest things to do. I was a smoker for forty years and it took the near shutting …
Sacred Wedding Vows
I was part of a wedding ceremony this past week, which, for me, is one of the happiest services a pastor performs. A wedding is full of excitement and hope for the future. With that said, it can be easy to get caught up in the preparation and pageantry of the ceremony, causing those involved to forget the sacredness of the vows that the bride and groom exchange. A marriage between a man and a woman is God’s design. God established the marriage covenant in Genesis 2:24, God after introducing Adam to his beautiful wife, Eve; wrote, in His Book, …
The Church: The Voice of God
I had a funeral to officiate this past week. Funerals are one of the toughest services for a pastor to do, especially if the service is for someone who did not know Christ, which was not the case in this situation this lovely lady had been a Christian for many years. As I was preparing for the service I thought about two things: how quickly our lives pass by (the Bible describes our years on earth as a vapor, and how quickly it vanishes (cf. James 4:14 NKJV), and as a blade of grass, which so quickly fades away, “All …