Posts by Truth and Life

Originally it was called Decoration Day, first observed three years after the end of the Civil War. On May 5, 1868, John Logan, issued a proclamation from his Washington, D.C. office telling Americans to celebrate “Decoration Day” on May 30. He urged them to decorate Civil War graves with the “choicest flowers of springtime.” It…

According to the latest Gallop poll, from 1937 to 1998, church membership remained relatively constant, hovering at about 70 percent. Over the past two decades, that number has dropped to less than 50 percent, the sharpest recorded decline in American history.    Sometimes it takes someone else to hold up a rhetorical mirror to us…

God said to Moses This day I call the heavens and the earth as witnesses against you that I have set before you life and death, blessings and curses. Now choose life, so that  you and your children may live. Deuteronomy 30:19. There never was, since the fall of man, more than one way to heaven.  That…

The Spirit Gives Life We hold onto time as if it preserves us. We fabricate a futurein hopes that it will supply us with all that we need and desire For, “All people are like grass, and all their glory is like the flowers of the field; the grass withers and the flowers fall. 1…

Tomorrow millions of Christians around the world will celebrate Ash Wednesday, February 22, 2023 by having ashes placed on their foreheads in the shape of a cross. In one sense it is a picturesque practice with not much significance to our daily lives. That is until the ash heaps of Dachau, Auschwitz or Bergen-Belsen are…

The word transfiguration means metamorphosis. It means a spiritual change like from sorrow to joy. These are not easy times in which we are now living. The times have always been difficult, but I see these times as singularly difficult, which makes the Transfiguration of Jesus all the more meaningful. Jesus very much wanted His…

We have been made in the image of God with amazing minds, emotions, and imaginations.  The problem is that these can work against us with thoughts of always having to measure up to something or someone, including ourselves. Because the God who has made us is a personal God, His love demands nothing of us.…

Most New Year’s resolutions are about breaking a bad habit.  Sin is like a bad habit from which you cannot free yourself. It’s the guilt and shame of the sin, the sin of past mistakes, some very foolish, others unwise and still others go on to destroy life. This is called the sting of death.…