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Human misery stands a good chance of lasting as long as the sun shines until people decide that their want no longer matters enough to control life. Hear these words from the Book of Genesis: Adam...
DATE: April 9, 2015 | CATEGORY: Pastor Tom's Tidbits
We take seven journeys through life. We leave home – our personal Garden of Eden – and find ourselves freed like God freed the Israelites from oppressive Egypt. Then we enter a wilderness journey,...
DATE: Jan. 1, 2015 | CATEGORY: Pastor Tom's Tidbits
After humanity found itself expelled from the Garden of Eden, after God freed the Israelites from ancient Egyptian oppression by performing cosmic warfare against Egyptian gods, magicians, and...
DATE: Dec. 11, 2014 | CATEGORY: Pastor Tom's Tidbits
Biblical literature teaches that we all take seven journeys in life. Which journey are you on? Two months ago I wrote about our first journey in life – “Welcome to the Garden of Eden.” This journey...
DATE: Oct. 30, 2014 | CATEGORY: Pastor Tom's Tidbits
We take seven journeys in life. Last month I wrote about our first journey, “Welcome to the Garden of Eden,” where we begin growing up and leave the buoyancy of infancy and adolescence and move...
DATE: Oct. 2, 2014 | CATEGORY: Pastor Tom's Tidbits
Imagine yourself standing in a field filled with bushes and trees surrounding you. You look down, seeing your bare feet. It occurs to you that not just your feet look bare. All of you looks bare....
DATE: Sept. 11, 2014 | CATEGORY: Pastor Tom's Tidbits
Whether we like it or not, expect taking seven journeys through life; and, each journey bears a name: We call Journey No. 1: “I find myself with someone I don’t know in a place I don’t recall, and...
DATE: July 31, 2014 | CATEGORY: Pastor Tom's Tidbits
Shift happens. Pastors, like all folks, suffer occasional desert dry spells, when God’s presence feels non-existent. Most often these dry spells occur when a pastor feels overwhelmed by the world,...
DATE: July 3, 2014 | CATEGORY: Pastor Tom's Tidbits
Some lessons our parents never taught us. Consider not getting those lessons a parental oversight, or consider those missing lessons as lessons our parents never learned in the first place....
DATE: May 22, 2014 | CATEGORY: Pastor Tom's Tidbits
Three weeks of heaven ... For the past three weeks, my family and I vacationed in Santa Fe and Taos, N.M., Flagstaff, Ariz., and Carlsbad, Calif. Put another way, over the past three weeks I...
DATE: Sept. 6, 2013 | CATEGORY: Pastor Tom's Tidbits
When do we acquire knowledge of evil and lose our innocence? I confess that I remained fairly innocent (or perhaps naïve) well into my twenties. It never occurred to me that I possessed anything...
DATE: Feb. 1, 2013 | CATEGORY: Pastor Tom's Tidbits
If you and I knew everything that the year 2013 held in store for us, staying locked inside our home might appeal to us. While most look forward to another year - a time, once again, to promise to...
DATE: Jan. 4, 2013 | CATEGORY: Pastor Tom's Tidbits
