Easter

Easter

I am always happy when the world talks about Jesus. Much of the year the most His name is heard is as a by-word, but in this time of year, for a week or so, people talk about a resurrected Savior. Of all the Catholic holidays, this one is at least most closely...
Beginning of the Church of Christ

Beginning of the Church of Christ

The church of Christ started on the first Pentecost day after the resurrection of Jesus Christ.  Everything in the Bible before this Pentecost day pointed ahead and everything after this Pentecost day pointed back to the church.  In other words, everything before the...
A Disunited Denomination

A Disunited Denomination

The Methodist church, like all other denominations, began with a man. John Wesley and his brother Charles started a movement to reform the practices of the Church of England in the mid-1700s. The Church of England was a spinoff from the Roman Catholic Church which was...
The Statistical Craze

The Statistical Craze

Almost every time I feel a strong urge to write on an issue that really needs to be talked about,I later find that someone else said it before any of us were born. Recently I had been thinking about our obsession with statistics when I found this article. This is a...
When Christians ARE the Virus

When Christians ARE the Virus

Pestilence :”A contagious or infectious epidemic disease that is virulent and devastating.” (Webster’s Dictionary) During the reign of Nero a fire destroyed much of the city of Rome. Many Romans believed the emperor himself was responsible. The Roman historian Tacitus...