Christ's Yankee Emissary in the Republic of Texas! Yee Hah!

My area of Texas is considered highly Catholic AND Bible-believing Baptist. With so many people professing faith in Christ, I am shocked at what I am hearing in my community and on the radio. Some people who make more than $250,000 / year are getting out their old copies of “Atlas Shrugged” by Ayn Rand and they are identifying with the characters in her classic novel. I hear people saying that if Obama’s policies are going to punish those who are “productive,” they will start eliminating jobs at… Continue

I build my relationship with God in many ways; one way I remember Him is in regular times of PRAYER. I recall when I started a discipline of prayer. I had good intensions, but never quite succeeded. I realized that I checked my e-mail each morning more regularly than I prayed. Thus, my morning e-mail to God was born. My personal prayer took on the form of typing to Him like a very respected friend. I became eager to wake and tell him… Continue

I came across THIS wonderful sermon by John Piper that has my mind sorting through what it means to be a biblical husband and wife when a couple is childless.

It is often difficult enough when a couple experiences infertility, but then salt is rubbed into the wounds when they look to their faith for help with coping and find that biblical husband / wife roles… Continue

This is a call to our state governments to recognize the division of church and state when it comes to marriage and legal unions. The state government is the proper authority to define the rights and obligations of a single household within their state. Therefore, all persons wishing the legal protections of joint ownership and survivorship should apply to the state for whatever civil union the state defines; futher, only the state can dissolve civil unions.

The church is the proper authority t… Continue

Working with people who are very sick, I often have folks ask me to pray for them because they are too sick to find the right words or concentrate on the prayers they normally say. I say a lot of words to God over the course of the day and find when it is my turn to sit in the chapel and refresh, I love nothing more than to sit with Jesus in silence.

I sit, eyes closed and relaxed, and picture Him on the pew / seat next to me. I even feel like I can lean on His shoulder a little. If my mind wan… Continue