In Memory of Ken Jessup

In Memory of Ken Jessup

by | Oct 31, 2009 | Spirituality • Peace of Mind

I lost an old friend today. He had been in poor health – really  for as long as I knew him, so in some ways, today’s news was not a surprise. But it still hurts. He was younger than me. He lived with us in Texas for a year. He worked for me. He moved on...

Karma vs Grace

by | Aug 25, 2009 | Spirituality • Peace of Mind

This school year I am involved with teaching the yewts at our church during Sunday mornings. The older I get, the less I know that I know, but the few things I do know, I know that I know. Since I want to give these kids something they can hang onto, I am careful to...

Ruminations on Baptism

by | May 29, 2007 | Spirituality • Peace of Mind

If you were baptised as an infant, then someone made a decision to do something good for you, a decision that you were incapable of making for yourself. In baptism, the child is welcomed into the household of faith and accepted as a part of the community of faith...

Subject Predicate Object

by | Nov 1, 2006 | Spirituality • Peace of Mind

A young friend of mine is struggling mightily to overcome a particular behavior that he considers sin. I don’t say right out that it is sin because I know that he has a little confusion about the difference between sin and temptation. Of course, if...