I am only 55 years old, and yet I spend a large amount of time thinking about the hereafter. Do you? It’s funny because I can’t get it off my mind! When I am in the car I think about the hereafter, when I am at work, when I am church, when I go into stores…….. I think about t
It wasn’t until I gave up everything in my life that I gained everything in my life. That’s a pretty tough statement to make. In life, as a believer, as a follower of Jesus, or even as an unbeliever…….we often are trying to live life on our terms and wonder why the empty plac
I have many achievements in life. I was in the Army and led a platoon of soldiers through a war (11th Chemical Company, 5th Platoon, Gulf War), I serve the hungry and addicted (Grace and Grits), I have a band (The Vicar Bry Band), I am a pastor and am blessed to serve a wonderful church (a group of
Why is it that when everything in life is going well…..we don’t need anybody else….”we can stand on our own”? But when we are hurting, in emotional pain, or physical pain…..we are in deep need of others. Indeed…..we often are in deep need of Jesus. Jesus per
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
Jesus tells us that entrance into the kingdom of heaven is not earned, but given freely only because of God’s great generosity, which goes far beyond our human ideas of what is fair. Jesus goes further and clarifies the membership into the kingdom of heaven, that it is by God’s grace alone. In