Centered Life

A poignant thought in today’s malaise is that we are trained to be relativists but are expected to act ethical. Our culture condemns those that assign any moral boundaries or state absolutes while it derides the established boundaries and decries the lack of ethics that results in the chaos in the world. The Apostle Paul [...]

We are daily bombarded with fearful reports of the conspiracies of men grasping for power, many of these are true and many more are the results of paranoid imaginations. The fearful victims of this world’s systems exponentially multiply their fears in response. As Christians, we have the revelation and a responsibility to live in faith [...]

We live in a culture that is just as carnal, just as self absorbed and just as fearful as at any previous time. The ‘Jesus follower’ is challenged to live “in the world” but not be “of the world”, that is, this world system. It is obvious that this world system is built on the [...]

Jesus exposed a spiritual value in His Sermon On The Mount, Matthew 5 “Blessed are those who mourn, for they shall be comforted.” In this life, we are not meant to escape the reality of loss, but to process our losses with God’s Grace. We live in a broken world with bodies that are “appointed [...]

A fresh start! What a great thought. The longer we live, the more we value this blessing. At the start of a New Year we have the sense of beginning again. We want to do it right, or at least – better! But, our experience is usually not so. We continue in the same way, [...]

Another year races to a close. The days and weeks peel away as the pages of a Sunday paper in the strong winds of life. Their passing awakens our hearts to the reality of the fleeting grasp we have on our time and our future. The prayer of Moses, the ancient lawgiver of Israel, brings [...]

We live in a time when the voices of this world are using derision and ridicule to discount the voice of faith. They intend to deride those of us that do not agree with them, particularly in the area of biblically moral truth and the creator God. They hypocritically deny any thought that does not [...]

The 2nd Coming & Earthquakes! On Wednesday evening I introduced the series of events listed in the Revelation, Chapters 6-16. This is the global scale of the consummation of the ages. That is, global, major earthquakes. All three series of events in these chapters of the unfolding cataclysms, the 7 seals, the 7 trumpets, and the [...]

My daughter’s recent resolution to conquer time on www.maniacalmother.blogspot.com has stirred a challenging thought.      We should endeavor to conquer time. We exist “in time,” and are creatures “of time.” Since time is relative to our perspective and our perspective is bound by our existence and our existence is reflective of our actions, we can [...]

The Joseph Company is a gathering of small businessmen and entrepreneurs. The name is taken from the story of Joseph as told in the Bible, Genesis 37:1 through Genesis 50:26. God used Joseph to save Israel and all of the known world at that time. This audio message was given to the group that gathered [...]