A Christ Follower: The Journey

Hear, O Israel: The  LORD  our God, the  LORD  is one. Love the  LORD  your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your strength. These commandments that I give you today are to be upon your hearts.  Impress them on your children. Talk about them when you sit at home and when you walk along the road, when you lie down and when you get up. Tie them as symbols on your hands and bind them on your foreheads. Write them on the door-frames of your houses and on your gates.  Since the early 1900's, and especially the early 1960's, there has been a move to remove the truth about the values that formed our nation, and it continues to this day. History has been re visioned and is being re visioned. Prayer in school and Bible reading (practices begun when our nation first began) were made taboo by our courts.  Teaching of the 10 Commandments and the Golden Rule became forbidden.  Thomas Jefferson's discussi...

Since the sixties ( as in early sixities) a tidal wave trend opposing our Judeo Christian traditions --that  guided our nation since its inception -- swept through our nation and began to infect our nation.  Since that time, the family began to break down, STD's have become epidemic, murder, moelestation, mahem, suicide, greed and other insanity began to  envelop the culture of this new secular humanistic society that has been losing its soul. We began to reap what we have sown. (The secularist would rather I call it "Karma.")  I will stick with our more Judeo-Christian verion, however. Back in the day, I learned the school stuff, but we also learned things like the 100th Psalm, in praise of God. Matter of fact, I still can recite it to day.  Things like   "The Love Chapter of the Bible," which is 1 Corinthians 13, especially verses 4-8...verses that give EXCELLENT guidance for what it means to demonstrate love.  And ... OH Yeah... the 10 Commandments...

Come to me all of you who are struggling and I will give you rest for your soul:   JESUS Seems like everywhere I go, these days, people are struggling: Spiritually some seem lost (maybe they are lost) or the "well of their soul" is empty. Emotionally some are walking through the valley of everyday living.  Or they are angry and get angry at the drop of a hat.  I witness this while driving as people drive their cars like they are bumper cars and rage on, putting others at risk.  Anxiety permeates hearts and fear resides inside. Still others cannot seem to make a relationship work, no matter what.  Still too, their is the BIG E.  The "economy stupid" as one Govenor kept telling himself so he could be elected President.  Folks are having difficulty finding or keeping a job.  Last but not least, health enters into the picture for some.  Makes a person feel sort of lonely some times? One thing that helps me is a core value of my life: Spending ...

  For some 2010 has been a challenging year.  For others, not so much.  In fact it may have been a VERY good year.  Some have taken what took place and made it better. No matter what has happened, as we SoJourn  into the next year, let me encourage you to live one day at a time,  taking one step at a time, acknowledging God's love for you and God's Sovereignty over whatever happened. Add to this a daily attitude of gratitude  that is focused on your blessings  and you will  cut down on your stressing. Since 2009 was such a difficult year for my family,  I have sought to  daily journey  2010 the above Wisdom way of "The Ancient of Days."   On my better days,  if I do so, then I experience better days.  If not... not so much. I am glad to have had more better days than not.  Then again, with God's help, I have been looking at each day differently this year, more times than not.  I Praise God for both ...

I have placed 4 videos on A Christ Follower of a song that was created out of the loss and distress of a person's life. The impact of this song on people's lives has been immeasurable.  I hope you find comfort and peace from these.  I hope you will take time to relax and listen to them either one at a time, at different sittings or all at once.  The story behind the story can be seen in the Bill Gaither video clip or the first video clip on the left. It is my desire that words of this encouraging music will provide you with the stuff to be enough via the grace of God.  May it be well with your sould today, and may you  .... Be Blessed 2-day ... Especially 2-day. SoJourner

Just sitting here wondering what are the spiritual issues (or any other issues) concerning folks as they begin stepping into the new year?

That first Christmas, though completely prophetic, was anything but "merry."  Think about it:   Mary, Mother of The Son of God, was 9 months pregnant.  Yup!  And she is riding on a vehicle with 4 legs... did I hear anyone say "donkey?"  How comfortable would that be?   Her husband was marrying her, but the rumors (all true of course) that the Daddy was NOT the Daddy abounded throughout their Jewish caravan and family.  This set Mary up to be stoned. (I am not talking about stoned on drugs.  I am talking about a rock concert on her person, one rock at a time.)  The Step Daddy, Joeseph, was not traveling on vacation, he was being forced by the ruthless Roman governement to be relieved of his money in the form of taxes at the whim of the latest Roman leader. What about hotel reservations?  None were made, and this meant homelessness for the family. Kind of scarey! Every place they went said "No Vacancy."  So they found a cave where ...