\I miss you. But you knew that. What youalso know is the mess we have here on earth. Can you help? The Presheident is a moron, and so are the persons he has named to his Canet. I trust Dad is okay, since you got himt o Paradise through your charming of Saint PeterGlaying golf in the clouds? I'll likely be at eh Pearlies pretty soon. Please remain near them; I'll very likely need your influence to get me into Paradise. Speaking of PARDISE< IS IT REALL ALL THAT IT HAS CLAIM

We have all the symptoms of a sick society. Yes, we do. We lie. We cheat. We steal. We kill. And it must be added: we are enthralled as a people with our sick behavior. The news meda provide us with what we most want, the current news about how sick we are. The answer is easy, almost too easy, so simp[e that it can be summed up in two words Do good! That's the answer to what is decent living. And it's not complicated. We give friends our best advice. We help other

Most people will list speaking appeal and ability to draw a crowd as major elements in identifying a fine preacher. I differ. After 40 plus years of delivering from behind or in front of a pulpit, here's what I think are the main traits a Christian preacher should possess: #1 Personal Stability. He or she should basically be a healthy person, one who thinks clearly and is physically able to carry out a preacher's t asks. #2 An accurate understanding of the faith he or she

It happens. Death comes to everyone. Except in the rarest of circumstances, the one near death does not need to be told. Watching (or living with a person breathing their last does not need to be sad/ amd depressmg. We can make "the best" of what some might ordinarily consider to be "the worst" of situations. If the person nearing death has not desigmated a place for s memorial serviee, loved ones can (and should) find an acceptable place for the service. Funds for this

"I want to love and be loved,"-we frequently say and think that, mainly because we are well aware that love is the most precious experience we humans can ever know. But we also know that our "love" desire can fail us. We m ay think we have found it, then rudely (and painfully) we discover that what we thought was love was not that at all, far from it. Mainly, our problem with "love" is that we sometimes think of it in very narrow terms; when it comes our way, WE will know i

I was pastor of FCC in Burlington, IA, for six plus years On my last Sunday, near the end of my last morning service, I asked the congregation for feedback. Most of the comments were affirmative, but an elderly lady raised her hand, which I acknowledged. "I want the next preacher to get back behind the pulpit where he belongs," she exclaimed loudly and clearly. The pulpit and communion area was raise about 10 inches above the sanctuary floor; and it formes a pointed V in th

#1 Danger in Over-Sleeping A.B. was from my hometown and we attended UT Austin for three of the same years. It was during final exams fort the fall semester, 1958-1959 that I ran into her outside a classroom building She was in tears and terribly distraught. I asked her abpit her problem "I stayed up all night studying for myvFrench final.," A.B. explqined. "You'll be okay," I told her. "We've all done that, and we recovered every time." "But that's not all," she responde

A A major lesson being taught in the current political a world is how to evade, be asked question, that is, then succeeding in not answering it (a clearcut evasio m). : - "It's out of my territory; I'm not able to comment on that"--is one of the major evasions we're seeing on a regular basis. Another is--"Only the President can answer that"=often said in full awareness of the fact that the President cannot be forced to answer anything. He's entitled. Yet another form of "be

Obviously, in current usage, when Donald Trump says so. For it was he who defined the conflict in Iran as an excursion But Trump also said that the excursion would last only three to four weeks Thus, if it continues for, say, another 10 days, by April 1 it will have become a real war. Needless to say, "excursion" created a lot of confusion among the nations involved in the Iranian conflict, but even more, in the people who are keeping up with the conflict in a serious effor

When Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth recently uttered those four words in comment on the deaths of six US servicemen while their plane was engaging in a "refueling' , he likely did not understand the grieveous implications Where in the four words was there event even a hint of regret or sorrow for how the six deaths may have undoubtedly negatively their their familiies and friends? Let there be no misunderstanding: sadly, there IS a time for war, mainly in self=defense o

Often, when dealing with a headache, we try to ease the symptoms, rather than getting at the headache's real cause. We can do better. Here's how. First, of course, we must identify the real problem, which is not as difficult as we may have first thought. For example, a bad headache may have as its root cause an issue with someone to whom we wise to relate, like to a spouse, son, daughter, or another acqua intance. The relative or acquaintance may be unaware of our desire to

Of course they do. When they are in error in the USA, the nation is in deep trouble, but so is the rest of the world. Our ideology or, if you will, our way of looking at life and the world; that is much more basic, and, therefore, most important. Without a sound ideology underlying and directing our politics, what we do will inevitably lead to disaster. How important do we think life itself is? We must place the highest value on life itself, wherever it exists, wherever the

The Real Church is centered in Jesus the Christ and is not at all like most of the places that call themselves such. For one, the Real Church has no boundaries. It is open to all of every race, sexual orientation or nationality. It can be a place of worship at any time and in any location. Secondly, the Real Church is not concerned with numbers, such as how many belong or attend or have been baptized and converted. The Real Church has no budget, thus, no annual budget of a

I begin with me and my fellow heteros. I must have absolute respect for mysef, every other male and for all females. For healthy relationships between the sexes are the very foundation of human society. I am worthy, so is she. We know we can do great things together. And we are physically attracted to one another. We are in love. In love, we begin a family. In the process, we learn how to please one another as well as how to overcome any differences we may have. Don't m

At times, we use "hope" regarding things or events we wish to cease or avoid, like "I hope that's not the case." B iblically speaking (Jesus speaking, if you will) uses "Hope" in a much broader and deeper way, mainly, tha t is, we "Hope" in order to avoid the consequences of evil For Jesus, there was One Great Hope, to enter into heaven and live there forever. Indeed, many among us need to make effective use of Jesus' Hope. When life becomes perilous for us, Jesus would ha

USA in Dire Need of Winter Olympic Team Made Up of Native Americans The USA has way too many immigrants performing for it in the 2026 Winter Olympics. The names speak for themselves, such as Haugjaa, Santos=Griswald and Lehman. Clearly, we need Olympians with names like Tonto, Pronto, Sitting Bull and War Eagle. Sitting Bull would have no problem with the figure skating and War Eagle would likely set a new world record every time he competes. Indeed, we need to end this craz

Probably more than we thinFk. but not enough (there never is). Fsome people the words simply come too easily' they say they really care, but their actions say differently. If we really cared about people, as we claim, we would be much more sympathetic toward immigrants, who are as human as we but without as much as we have' they just desire a better life than what they've had to date. If we really cared about people, we would not spend so much of our time trying to add to

Can We Recover our Personal Allegiance to Integrity? ? Is it possible for our world of the 21st century to have people in high (and low) places who are dedicated to living as honestly as they possibly can? Perhaps not. It may be that we humans of the 2020's have immersed ourselves so deeply into ",alomg money" that we have lost contact with our better selves. We are not at all surprised when some well-known person is revealed to be a pedophile, or someone just as self-cente

Hell and Heaven Are Real The two major post-this-life destinations humans have believed in for centuries, they are, indeed, very real, but they are also very unlike what we humans have traditionally thought. Hell is full of people from all nations, races, and religions, though most are probably former USA residents, Disagreements for everyone among them occur all the time, regardless of the weather, which changes repeatedly so as to make their environment always uncomforta

THE BEST ADVICE YOU WILL EVER GET Pay no attention to what you read here. Stop. That is all we have to say regarding you and your problems. You don't need us, or anyone else. The person you most need is.. . .yes, is: YOU! Of course, I'm saying nothing new. It's the same point made repeatedly by our best psychologists. Ultimately, you must figure out how to deal with your problems. Not I. Not Dr. Frankl (he's deceased) and certainly not Dr. Freud, the master interpre