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Mormonism and Christianity - Compatible?
What do Mormons believe? They like to call themselves the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints. But the question is do they...
A Burden You Shouldn't Have to Carry
I’ve heard this a lot in over five decades of living: “I’m a good person. I go to church on Sundays.” That’s usually followed by...
I Ran Low on Hope
I need to find hope again. I know where hope gets found, but it’s easy to get run down, isn’t it? My hope tank can get pretty low when a...
There's a sin that God won't forgive?
One of the most basic fact of Christianity is that Jesus died on the Cross to pay our penalty for sins. His sacrifice covers the sins...
To my Surprise, There's Nothing New to See Here
Up is down, and down is up. Right is wrong, and wrong is right. Does it sometimes seem that everything is backward, and nothing makes...
Healing the country is a big job - it can be done
Is healing the U.S. even possible at this point? You’ve seen the same headlines I have, right? Chaos, confusion, and evil seem to abound....
What did I just say?
“I’m glad I had to go through that.” Sometimes the strangest things come out of my mouth in mid-sentence. During a recent phone...
Ever had an "A-HA!" moment?
A press conference with Zippy Duvall of the American Farm Bureau led to a spiritual awakening for me. Lawlessness abounds in the U.S.
Encouragement in confusing days
Encouragement. I don’t know about you, but I need it. Even the smallest bit of encouragement can make a guy like me feel ten feet tall....
Guilt - Quit Holding On To It
Guilt: we all experience it, even if we don’t want to admit it. Most of us have lain awake at night, staring at the ceiling and...
Swearing - Why can't I just stop?
Swearing is something that most humans seem to do every day. I can’t be the only one, right? Why is it so bloody hard to be mad without...
Enduring in the face of everything going on
Enduring the instability in the country right now feels like a tall task, if not a downright impossible challenge. But it can be done....
The Resurrection of Jesus during the season of His birth?
The Resurrection of Jesus feels like the complete opposite of what we should be thinking about during the season in which we celebrate...
Worrying - Am I addicted to it?
“Worrying never does anyone any good at all.” I think that’s a safe statement to make, right? So why can’t we human beings stop doing it?...
Hope - you can find it in a strange year like 2020
Hope seems to be hard to find today, doesn’t it? Gloom and doom dominate the headlines, and they try to drown out what little sunshine...
Turmoil - Can It Really Be Overcome? Yep
Turmoil is my new word of the day. Lord knows we have a lot of it to deal with. The 24-hour news cycle is abuzz with “peaceful...
Fear - we sure have a lot of it these days.
Fear. I’ve been thinking a lot about it lately. I’ve been feeling it too. After all, you can’t live mere miles away from the destruction...
Control issues and the lessons learned from them
Control issues. I have them. I don’t seem to be the only carbon-based life form on the planet with control issues either. Let me ask you...
Judging Each Other for all the Wrong Reasons
Judging. We human beings do a lot of it when we look at each other, don’t we? And before we go any further, I’m just as guilty as anyone...




























