Greetings, Several weeks ago, I posted an article called, “Protecting Children”.  In this article I wrote about the numerous ways in which our children are being exposed to: beatings, school shootings, child trafficking and general abuse at home.   Within the Read more…

Greetings Everyone! As you might know from the past, we sometimes have a guest writer here on the LivingtheChristianExperience blog.  Today our newest writer hales from Savannah, Georgia.  Jeff is a former neighbor of our daughter Carmen in Iowa who Read more…

A few months ago, I published a reflection entitled “God is really Real”. In it, I asked you to imagine someone who was desperate to figure out whether God was real or not and as part of making that decision Read more…

“In 2023 there were at least 39 incidents of gunfire on school grounds, resulting in 17 deaths and 30 injuries nationally.  More than 349,000 students have experienced gun violence at school since Columbine.” ( John Woodrow Cox, Washington Post) “The Read more…

I happened across this quote while I was taking a time out from cutting and stacking tree branches that had fallen from our trees due to an ice storm a few weeks ago.  It was the metaphor of the words Read more…

One of the main concerns, of an adult person who has been adopted as an infant and not knowing who their birth parents were, is their family history.  This is important especially as it pertains to any hereditary medical and Read more…

Surveys show that that the number of people who do not believe there is a God is increasing every day. Pew Research Center says that today, only 81% of us believe there is a God. And while that may sound Read more…

  You’re probably thinking, “What a crazy question is that?” Of course I know why I pray. Prayer requests are sent to us very often, sometimes on a daily basis, from people needing our prayers. I pray for people to Read more…

In the gospel reading of, Luke 12:13-21, Luke addresses an activity all too familiar in our culture: chasing after wealth, positions of power and acquisition of material goods. I am not saying that we should not save up for retirement Read more…