Reveration Blog
7/6/1998 GraceNo wonder people have trouble resting. It’s a complicated affair trying to figure out how to gain salvation. Earth’s religions dictate man-made solutions. If you want to be saved you better work hard. But a work-for-your-salvation mandate is fraught with inconsistency and produces great anxiety. How do I know what constitutes bad, marginal or good-to-go conduct? What will I be the next time I’m recycled? How do I recognize if the gods are pleased? What religion offers the best hope for getting my passport stamped for eternal entry into celestial paradise?
7/2/1998 0 Comments DignityCraig is blind. I stare in utter amazement as he works the controls on his soundboard. How does he do it? How can this man be a recording engineer without the ability to read dials? Soon he ushers me into a recording chamber but trips momentarily on my guitar case placed inconveniently in his pathway. Sheepishly I realize that the biggest hazard to Craig is me!
5/13/1998 0 Comments DestinyA tiny seed fell years ago and grew into a pine tree. But alas she rose in a place surrounded by firs and a healthy maple. The earth rotated and the sun shone but other more mature trees absorbed the light the struggling pine craved. Slowly, her lower limbs died. Her meager green needles only accentuated her brown gnarled plight. So with the help of Gary and Jim the sickly pine in the corner of my yard came down.
3/30/1998 0 Comments HopeMeditation
Isaiah 40:31--But those who trust in the Lord will renew their strength; they will soar on wings like eagles; they will run and not grow weary; they will walk and not faint. 10/14/1997 0 Comments CommunionMeditation
2 Timothy 1:9,10--He has saved us and called us with a holy calling, not according to our works, but according to His own purpose and grace, which was given to us in Christ Jesus before time began. This has now been made evident through the appearing of our Savior Christ Jesus, who has abolished death and has brought life and immortality to light through the gospel. 2/3/1997 0 Comments BeliefThe Sergeant Major looked over the railing as soldiers from his unit went over the edge. He had over twenty-five years in the Army but he had never rappelled before. As we stood in line, I saw no trace of fear in his eyes. He sought no excuse to leave the tower and climb back down the wooden steps. Instead he placed his trust: in the instructors who taught him how to tie a specially configured rope seat around his waist; the confident rappelmaster who double-wrapped his lines around a small metal D-ring and sent him off the platform top over the wall; the belay man 45 feet below, who was poised to pull his rope taut and break a possible fall; and the all important rope itself which would hold his weight and allow him to descend safely.
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