Humans didn’t always think in linear terms — point A has to somehow pass through B before you can get to point C. We didn’t always think in terms of Cause and Effect: don’t put the cart before the horse or else you’ll go nowhere.
It was an early April morning as we drove away from the “Last Chance Food and Gas Café.” The sky was brilliantly blue with only a couple of clouds hanging there.
A happy family? A good job? Nice home? Passionate, loving relationship? World Peace? Treasures in heaven? I found myself thinking about where our dreams and wishes tend to go when thinking about where our treasures lie and where our hearts might find themselves.
Diversity itself is the fundamental drive and goal and purpose — the ocean of God’s presence, the Kin-dom of God’s love. It’s deep and it’s wide.
We come into this life endowed by Love, inspired by Love. We belong. All belong. And the vote of 480 or so people at General Conference does not change any of that at FUMC Fort Worth.
It is hard not to choose sides… whatever the argument, or cause, or creed, or need. It’s our biology as much as anything really. And yet we try to transcend our evolution.
It’s easy for some folks to tell others what Christianity is, to convince others how they need to act or what to believe in order to be a Christian.
The topic this week is time. In particular, there’s no time like the present. Really. There is no time. It isn’t really real, according to most physicists.
Last week, I ended my message with a brief tale about the First Century Chief Rabbi, Akiba ben Yosef (often referred to as Rabbi Akiva).
Once upon a time, a scholar came to visit a therapist. After the scholar had been orating and propounding for a while, the therapist proposed some tea.
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