Monthly Archives: October 2011
Paying More for Healthcare
If you smoke or you fit the definition of obesity, you’ve been subsidized by everyone else in the past and that’s about to change. You can look forward to paying more for health care. Seems the insurers have worked out you are a higher risk category so you cost them more for coverage. Read the rest of this entry
All You Need is Faith
The pain from her cancer was excruciating and the side effects from the treatments she hoped would really help were so hard to take. She lay in her hospital bed knowing time was running out fast. It was hard for her to take the lively energy of her kids for long but she wanted to spend every remaining minute she could with them. Soon they would be without a mother. Read the rest of this entry
Why did Jesus threaten the guy?
Later Jesus found him at the temple and said to him,”See, you are well again. Stop sinning or something worse may happen to you.” John 5, NIV
This sounds so neat and so familiar that we seldom stop to think what’s going on here. We figure: guy did bad stuff and ticked God off, God punished him with crippling sickness, guy suffered for thirty-eight years, Jesus healed him and now he threatens him with a relapse if he doesn’t keep his act together perfectly from now on. Really?
The Celebrate Freedom Party
The Religious Guys have something important to say. They’ve just seen someone rescued from the must disgusting fate; they’ve seen him getting excited about a whole new life ahead, a life that had seemed impossible until just a few moments before. Read the rest of this entry
You Know What They Did to Me?
“I would be able to do well in life but other people push me aside and snatch what I should have.” Or how about, “I know I’m talented but others have destroyed my confidence so I don’t do much these days.” “They abused me when I was a kid and it made me dysfunctional, I’m not like other people.” “I was raped so I can never trust men again.” “My overbearing mother always criticized everything I did so it’s hard for me to try now.” Read the rest of this entry
The Stupidest Question Imaginable
It was a revolting place made worse by the people who went there each day. The smells were nauseating and the flies were disgusting. If you had a weak stomach you’d rather not see some of the people who came there. They were disfigured and twisted with ugly sores and blank staring eyes. Their faces showed the emotional and physical pain they were feeling and hopelessness prevailed. No one would come here by choice! Anyone who had to come here Read the rest of this entry
Thrills or Answers?
Yesterday he’d been so full of life. In his few short years he’d never been one to get sick. That was yesterday. Today he looked terrible. His face was ashen and his skin was clammy, he was lethargic and just lay with his unfocused eyes listlessly pointed at the ceiling. They’d tried everything they knew but nothing seemed to work. Read the rest of this entry
I Love My New Home
After so many months of working long hours to scrape up the down-payment, Brian and Meg were excited to move in to their new home. It was a great first home on a good-sized lot. They felt so lucky. New furniture had sealed the deal for Meg. After the cramped apartment Read the rest of this entry
Am I Judge or Not?
Maybe you didn’t notice the contradiction in my recent posts. First came the quotes from Jesus about not judging others and avoiding a critical spirit. Next came the challenge to spot the fakes. The problem is, how do you identify the fakes if you don’t judge what they say and do? Read the rest of this entry
