Archive for April, 2009

Yesterday I went with my father to the Hutchins State Jail. He preaches at various state institutions around northeast Texas, and being in my area he asked that I go with him to sing. I didn’t go in yesterday with the best of attitudes. I did it to honor my father. He wanted me...
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In the last few years I have taken to writing in my journal in the form of prayers to Yahweh. This is what I wrote today. Because it relates to some things I have said here recently, I decided to share it. I lost my work in the other program and I hate doing...
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On Wednesday, I headed off to the TEA party protest in front of the Richardson City Hall.  It was not the organized and scripted affair that I experienced at the first event I attended in down town Dallas.  When I arrived, I found a good sized crowd of people standing along the sidewalk with...
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Today I read about Saul’s pursuit of David in I Sam 21-24. Chapter 21 begins with the account of David and his men eating the consecrated bread. I remember Jesus using this record to show that the laws were written for our benefit, not to imprison us. I also noted David’s respect for Saul...
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Socrates said, “The unexamined life is not worth living.”  I never took philosophy.  I don’t know everything that was behind that statement, but it keeps popping up in the oddest of places.  I keep hearing it from the pulpit.  It’s usually delivered as part of an exhortation to look at our own lives critically...
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