Luke 24:13-24 In 1857 Hans Christian Andersen wrote a fairy tale titled The Emperor’s New Clothes. In the story two weavers were great con men. They were weaving nothing on their looms, but they convinced everyone that if you could not see the material they were weaving you were a fool or stupid. We could laugh at the story, but look at the blinders we have today. We wear all kind of blinders: cultural, educational and religious blinders. …..
John 20:1-8 In the history of the NCCA men’s basketball tournament a number one seed has never lost to a sixteen seed until this year. Maryland Baltimore County, a sixteen seed that made this year’s tournament on a last second shot in their conference tournament beat the number one seed. The University of Virginia was the number one seed in the NCCA tournament. They had a record of thirty wins and two loses. Virginia had won the ACC regular…..
Read John 1:6-14 Do you remember how important it was to you as a teenager to get an invitation to the party that was to be the end-of-all parties? Then it happened and you did not receive an invitation. You were crushed by the experience. If you received an invitation it meant you were important. You were in that inner circle of people and that made you part of the elite group. The time you did not receive an invitation…..
Scripture: Psalm 126 Many things have blurred our focus on the meaning of Thanksgiving. In our blurred focus we have a hard time seeing God’s blessings in our nation’s life. We have been blessed with prosperous lives. In our prosperity we see ourselves as producers of the good life we have. In our easy living we don’t spend much time giving thanks for the abundance of things we have in our lives. The pioneers that settled this land, especially in…..
Matthew 25:31-46 We live in a time when more and more people live life with the focus on what’s in this for me. ‘Me-ism” is not new to us as human beings, because it is in our DNA. We start as little children with the cry ‘me first’. An example of this me-ism was a boy in our class in Elementary School always had to be first to bat in our school-yard ball games. Me-ism is about self-centered living. …..
John 10:1-18 Are we faithful to the promises we made to God when we joined His family? When we buy a home or car we promise to pay a certain amount each month or year. If we do not keep our promises to pay then the lender will come and take the car or home. What happens to our lives if we do not keep our promises we make to God? When we look at the word faithfulness, we think…..
I John 1:1-4 The human spirit is such that it craves joy as we make our daily journey through this life. The search for joy causes us to look in all the wrong places for our joy. Since the 1960s many people today have turned to drugs or some kind of product that will give them some kind of a short lived high. These false ways that we try quickly fade out and the deep misery of life returns…..
Scripture: John 14:22-31 How best would you describe life of people today? One word describes many of our lives – TURMOIL. The meaning of turmoil covers the waterfront of life: state or great commotion, confusion or disturbance, tumult, agitation, disquiet, turbulence, disorder and uproar. We live our lives in turmoil for we live in the world filled with agitation and disorder. Our ‘so called’ 24/7 media helps fill life with turmoil. We have instant news filled with fact and fiction……
The Evidence of the Holy Spirit is Found in What We Love Scripture: I John 2:7-17 I still enjoy watching some of the old detective shows on TV Hallmark Channel: Perry Mason, Columbo, Angela Lansbury in Murder She Wrote, Monk and Matlock. In each one of these shows these people had a way of looking at and for the evidence that solved the mystery of that crime and found the person or persons who were guilty. Evidence could be found…..
Welcome. My name is Rev. Ned Owens, author of Poisons In Our Well Of Faith. I’m so happy to have you as a visitor to my blog about my new book. This project is very special to me, and I hope to share some of that excitement with you here. I’ll be using this blog to interact with you about Poisons In Our Well Of Faith, expanding on some of the topics in it and blogging on some of…..