Archive for 'Christianity' Category
Family
27 November 2010Often holidays can be stressful. In past years Thanksgiving meant traveling to Georgia, making arrangements for our cats, staying with my parents and just generally a lot of stress. It’s not that we didn’t want to do it. Family is important to us. It just required so much planning and effort and we were generally [...]
Answered Prayer
12 November 2010After five months of waiting and being unable to get any answers I’ve finally been approved for Social Security disability. Even though my case is clear cut I still feared being turned down and having to fight. And now I find my benefit is almost $100 more per month than we had calculated. Thanks to [...]
Latest Update
8 August 2010I know I’ve been a little slack in posting but I have an excuse. We’ve been pretty consumed with trying to move back to GA. And now that is happening! <y lovely wife finally found a job in Atlanta making much more than she can make in Charleston. We move in two weeks back to [...]
More Struggles
27 May 2010This has not been a good month. Readers of this blog are aware of the vision problems I’ve had. Now I’ve had a second stroke of the left optic nerve that has left me legally blind. I am not completely blind. I can walk around the house, work in the garden or cook a meal. [...]
Temptation
5 April 2010It had been many, many years since I read C. S. Lewis’ book Mere Christianity so I decided to take it up again. I remembered it being a great book but it was to far removed in time to remember any details. One of the things that struck me most in this re-reading of the [...]
Struggles Part Deux
22 March 2010A comment is the impetus for returning to this topic. Jenn Chimed in with this to say: This is not a “popular” message among Christians today, Ron, but one that deperately needs to be shared. Christians who are struggling are often treated with contempt by the Church, as if their struggles are a sign that [...]
Struggles
14 March 2010All of us, without exception, deal with struggles in our lives from time to time. For some of us, the worst struggles we face, though serious to us at the time, are relatively minor in retrospect. For others, there are some struggles that most people could not make it through. The question is, why do [...]
Christianity and Politics
2 March 2010For many years I believed that if only we could, as a country, adopt the best political philosophy, we could turn America around and once again become a moral, Christian country. I hope you see the problem with this. I was placing my trust in a philosophy which is the same mistake Utopian thinkers have made throughout history.
Prayer
1 March 2010Why is it that so many Christians struggle with prayer? We all know one or two “prayer warriors” but for many it seems difficult to maintain a daily prayer routine, much less engage in serious, daily prayer. I’ve gone through seasons where I was praying regularly and productively, only to one day realize that somewhere [...]
Miracles Run in My Family
22 February 2010My mom’s life is a series of miracles. As a baby she was rushed to the hospital not breathing. The doctors gave up on her and pronounced her dead but the nurse and my grandfather didn’t give up. They managed to dislodge a pea she had sucked down her wind pipe and get her breathing. [...]
