Yelling to Myself

Once after I asked our congregation to support foreign missions with spare change, the pastor told me "that sort of thing just makes people feel guilty. We don't want people to feel bad." A couple of years later, he lost his position due to some discrepancies with church funds.

HEY! WE ARE SUPPOSED TO FEEL UNCOMFORTABLE AND GUILTY WHEN WE LIVE LIFE SO SELFISHLY AND THEN CALL IT OUR RIGHT TO DO SO. AS AMERICANS I BELIEVE "TO WHOM MUCH IS GIVEN, MUCH IS REQUIRED" IS TALKING ABOUT US!

When my four year old nephew was fighting brain cancer and minister from Dallas looked at one of the grandmothers and told her, " Do you realize that something in your life could have caused this?" The man is a health and wealth loony. What is worse, the grandmother was tippy-toeing into the shallow end of faith almost willing to give Christianity a whirl. Wow, what a heavy blow to lay on someone in such a fragile position.

GOD NEVER GAVE US THE RIGHT TO DECIDE THE REASONS FOR HIS PURPOSES. MY NEPHEW DIED IN OCTOBER. NOT BECAUSE HIS GRANDPARENTS MESSED UP. THE DEVIL DID NOT WIN. GOD HAS A PURPOSE THAT NO ONE CAN THWART.

I designed a cover for our church bulletin with a classic painting by Norman Rockwell on the cover. It was axed because of the smokers in the picture. Two weeks later, my church played almost three minutes of "Deal or No Deal" with the half-dressed brief case models with their skin showing from Siberia to New Zealand. Isn't that weird?

WE ARE SO SILLY. WE ACT LIKE WE ARE SO OFFENDED BY SIN WHEN WE THINK WE SHOULD ACT OFFENDED. HOWEVER, OUR TRUE STANDARDS WILL BE SHOWN WHEN WE LEAST EXPECT IT.