Knoxville Murder Trial, my opinion/ 2 cents worth.

I do not take too much interest in local news, normally. I find that local news is usually not news at all. I am not a gawker at the unfortune of others. In fact, just yesterday I went to Dick’s Sporting Goods only to find three fire trucks, a couple of ambulances, squad cars, a [...]

The NFL and me.

Like many people, I find that I am entertained by watching football. The older I get the more I appreciate the NFL, mostly for the level of play. The business portion of the league, primarily player’s salaries, seem gratuitous to me. But that, my friends, is a debate in which I do not wish to [...]

Softball Single

As I push-mowed under the blue late morning sky, soft cool winds confirmed that summer had waned into fall. Soon the roar of my small Briggs & Stratton would be replaced by the quieter swish of leaf raking. My mind wandered as I methodically paced the lawn. I began to think about my eight year [...]

Submission-the mystery revealed.

The meaning of submission came to me in one of those “oh, duh!” moments when I realized that the word could be broken down into “sub” and “mission”. Then, in my brilliance, I saw that submission means “under -mission”. I concluded that to be submissive meant to be a willing participate with someone else’s mission. [...]

Personal Affirmation and Church

This is an addendum to my last post. I have always looked to churches, not Christ, as a source of affirmation. I have sought to be recognized as important within the organizational structure, particularly in playing and leading music. I guess I thought that having affirmation as a musician or even a teacher would provide [...]

Church and the common denominator-humans

Apart from all the doctrinal and stylistic differences that are taught in any given independent church or denomination, which can admittedly be vastly different, the human element remains. My personal experience is that this denominator delineates many of the overt differences in churches when it comes to participating. I was raised in a church where [...]

Music: The divine and secular.

What I hope to present here is my perspective on music in general; more specifically, why we have music and the influence it can have in our lives. Unlike many things in life music is not something I see as a neutral. I will develop why I believe this to be true. As someone who [...]

Dying to Love

I suppose this title could be read two ways. One focuses on dying. I die to myself so that I can love. The second is that a person is dying to the concept of love. I am going to focus on the former.
Marriage is tough. It cannot properly function unless the husband and wife die [...]

Popular Culture: Being lulled to sleep.

I have some concerns about some elements of our pop culture today, particularly media, entertainment, and new forms of communication. Examples of these are TV, secular music, cell phones, text messaging, email, Facebook, etc. My concern is that these technologies open up little and seemingly tiny cracks for being lured to believing that somethings are [...]

Jesus! why He prayed so much?

I feel like sharing some scattered thoughts about Jesus and His humanity. I often, and for good reason, put Jesus up on a high pedestal, forgetting what He must have experienced as a man living out His Father’s will. The lofty, transparent story is this; that Jesus was born and we have presents at Christmas, [...]