Looking for Tom

Looking for Tom

Turkey Season.  Opening Morning.  Temperature 56 degrees.  Overcast.   The alarm went off at 4:00 A.M., three hours before sunrise. My son John and I got our gear together and we ate breakfast on the go.  We drove to a Wildlife Management Area (WMA) “destination...
Blessed Are They Who Are Persecuted

Blessed Are They Who Are Persecuted

March 26, 2017 Matthew 5:9 Sometimes you just need a great theologian like Comedian/Singer Ray Stevens to explain things in simple language. Many years ago, he sang about prosperity preachers in a way that shows something of the incongruity of their message with the...
Blessed Are the Peacemakers

Blessed Are the Peacemakers

Matthew 5:9 March 19, 2017 Now that Mel Gibson’s “Hacksaw Ridge” has been in theaters for months, many of you now know the story of Corporal Desmond T. Doss, who joined the Army four months after the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor. Doss was a Seventh-Day Adventist who...
Blessed Are the Pure in Heart

Blessed Are the Pure in Heart

Blessed are the Pure in Heart Matthew 5:8 When I was a boy and my mother called me to the table for a meal there was a requirement that I had to wash my hands before I could sit at the table and eat.  It didn’t have anything to do with religion.  It was good hygiene....
Blessed Are the Merciful

Blessed Are the Merciful

Matthew 5:7 In 1943, 21-year-old Charlie Brown was flying his first mission over Nazi Germany.  He was part of a 500-bomber formation headed to bomb an airplane factory in Bremen, Germany. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZRKQvmT3Xhs (Ibid) During the raid, Brown’s...