Godzilla Gives You… In God, whose word I praise, in God I trust; I shall not be afraid. What can flesh do to me? Psalm 56:4 When Big Lizard make movies, he seem able to withstand all human meat-sack assaults. Jets, tanks, bazookas, and bombs make no dent in Godzilla. But in reality, Godzilla hurt […]

Can you believe HitchHiker off again?! Big Lizard back in Captain’s chair this week. Godzilla need clarify something. Few week’s back, HitchHiker call image on Japanese dam “graffiti” and insinuate Godzilla to blame. First of all, this not graffiti. This art!! These guys who power wash dam brilliant artists like Michelangelo. Second, Big Lizard not […]

Let each of us please his neighbor for his good, to build him up. Romans 15:2 The words for neighbor show up at least 150 times in the scriptures. Jesus taught us that we are commanded to love our neighbors as we love ourselves. The general message is that our fellow human beings should be […]

Twenty-five years ago, shortly after my father-in-law died, I began to become aware that the Lord was asking more of me. At about that same time, my pastor introduced me to a book that he had just read, and encouraged me to read it and consider its challenge. That book was The Prayer of Jabez […]

The Lord your God is in your midst, a mighty one who will save; he will rejoice over you with gladness; he will quiet you by his love; he will exult over you with loud singing. Zephaniah 3:17 It strikes me how many people see God as a construct of the human condition, or a […]

Dandelions On Sunday in the treasure chest I use for children’s sermons, one of the kids had filled it with dandelions. He had put both the flowering and seed spreading phases of the dandelion in the box. I spoke about the flowering phase as the part that we show as beauty to the world, and […]

There is therefore now no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus. For the law of the Spirit of life has set you free in Christ Jesus from the law of sin and death. Romans 8:1-2 The word “condemnation” (κατάκριμα) jumps out to me as it literally means a punishment handed out after sentencing […]