Jesus is so often portrayed as “the gentle one”, meek and quiet….someone that no one would fear. Often times God is portrayed as vengeful and angry……I believe that neither picture is fully accurate. My mother loved me unconditionally and as I look back on my life, she w
Lately I have been looking a lot at evil spirits (aka demons), and Satan. I believe that often they are, by-in-large, misunderstood, meaning that we always visualize “the Exorcist” or some gross, ugly entity when we think about the words or think about “driving out demons”. T
No one today would like to admit to being possessed by evil, indeed, most people would laugh at the thought. Mainly, I believe that people don’t recognize the reality of demons because they have been so overblown graphically in the media. Additionally, most would look to a psychosis of some so
When I was young I remember feeling like I could tame the world…..then I remember realizing, slowly and then suddenly…. that the world had me! I tried hard to do good and I tried hard to live life like anyone else, but everything always seemed to backfire. I just couldn’t get it ri
Life happens and we always look for answers, don’t we? When storms come in our lives….a tragic loss of life, the breakdown of a marriage, the ending of a relationship, the loss of a job or a debilitating disease…..we look for answers. We look anywhere for anything that might help u
A friend of mine asked me today about the story in the book of Matthew in which Jesus drives the demons out of two men and into a herd of pigs who all go over a cliff and die. In the end, the townspeople all tell Jesus to leave. In Matthew 8:34 we read, “And behold, all the city came out to me