Spiritual Christian Living

  J-e-sus Witness!     There are many names for God in the Bible.   They all reveal another aspect of His greatness, His Glory, and the wonderful ways that He relates to mankind.   Of all of the names for God – there is absolutely one name that stands out FAR above all of the others.   The purpose of this paper is to explore some of the names for God in the Bible and explore why the name of Jesus is the one to get excited about, the one to build an organization on, the one to dedicate yourself to declaring! This is the only name that is worth “Crossing mountain and valley to make a convert!” The beautiful, matchless, powerful name… of Jesus is the only name to get radical about.   That is why I consider myself a J-e-sus Witness (say it with a bit of an H sound before the e).     In 1978 I was attending a small Bible College in San Antonio Texas and was out getting my hair cut.   I had only been a Christian for a couple of years ...

  Jesus is the Answer    I had become a Christian while I was in the U.S. Air Force and was stationed in North Carolina.   I was just getting started in my Christian life when I did something that was either dumb, or directed, depending on how you looked at it.   When you were in the military during those days, they would periodically send around a sheet for you to look at and decide where in the world you would be willing to be relocated.   It would list quite a few countries in the world that had an AF Base that you could put in for.   Of course, most guys would be sure and pick out Germany, and Hawaii, and places like that.   For some reason, I checked that I would be willing to go to the Middle East.      Maybe I thought about the time that I had lived in the country of Turkey when I was a kid when my dad was stationed there in the Military and I didn’t have too many bad memories about that experience.   For whatever ...

Mr. Machine    I think it was 1962 when my parents bought me a Mr. Machine Robot toy for Christmas.   This was a cool little toy for that time period.   It had a wind up mechanism that would move the robot across the room and every few seconds it would open its mouth and make a short whistle noise.   It might seem pretty simple these days, but it kept me entertained for a while.   I played with it for a number of weeks and as I did, I kept looking at the transparent body and all the gears inside.   I think that even as a young 6 year old I really had a big curiosity to know how things worked and being able to see all those gears really intrigued me.   One day my curiosity got the best of me and I found a way to pop that thing apart to get a good look at how it worked.    When I broke the rivets open all those gears went all over the floor.   I was shocked as to how many there were and how they all had fit into that body.   ...

  “Moments”       We never know which moment will be our last.   What if you were driving and this is what you saw in front of you?   Would you re-evaluate your life at that moment, or would you be wonderfully glad that you have given this moment and every other moment already over to God?       There are a lot of moments that we might quickly ask for God to be involved.   The soldier on the battlefield, sunk deep in the foxhole and surrounded by the enemy will often call out to God “Lord if you will get me through this, I will serve you the rest of my life.”   The heartbroken husband or wife who just found out that the person that they had trusted has been found unfaithful, might cry out to God to help them through that heart-wrenching moment and through the many difficult moments to come.   There are many serious moments of life where we realize our limitations and the gravity of the moment and we reach out to the ...

  The Ultimate Baseball Game?      Throughout the years that I have been a Christian, I have used a number of different ways to try and explain what the Christian life is like.  One of the ways that I have used to describe the Christian life, is that it is like… the most important baseball game ever!  Let me describe that game for you.     Imagine that you walk into this massive baseball stadium.  What is happening here is more important than a regular-season game, or even a playoff game, or even the World Series!  What is going on is a game that is going to determine your eternal destiny!  Whoa… I think that I got your attention now.  Though the game is about eternity, it takes place sometime while you are still on earth.  What happens in eternity in your life, is determined by what happens in this game.    Each person must go up to bat.  Eac...

Life Cereal and the Age of the Earth        When I was a young kid, I remember eating a lot of cereal for breakfast.  My favorite cereals at that time were Captain Crunch and Life.  As I was eating the Life cereal, I remember that on the back of the cereal boxes they would have different Anthropological and Geological topics.  As I went through Elementary, Middle School, and then on to High School I remember that all through those years there were various discussions about how old the earth was.  I remember that the estimations as to how old the earth is, went from tens of thousands of years to hundreds of thousands of years.  Today is it up to millions and even billions of years old.    It struck me as very odd that as I had grown-up about ten years of my life – the ideas of how the earth had aged had changed considerably more!       I originally motivated to wri...