At the end of the day, bathing in the soft light of a candle, lying still on your favorite easy chair, surrender to the silence, and you will find within it, music to disappear in. Franz Kafka, one of the major German-language novelists and short story writers of the 20th century, whose unique body of writing is considered amongst the most influ

No sooner has Thanksgiving Day been celebrated with the family, than the thoughts of adorning the home with Christmas decorations begins. Often the Christmas decorations are packed away in the attic or other storage room within the house waiting to emerge and allow for cascading memories and joy to fall upon the home once again. Often the decora

What can make a kiss so sensational, that it is still talked about and discussed generations later, and even heatedly debated a couple thousand of years later? It makes you wonder, that must have been some kiss! and it really was. The kiss in question was between Jesus and his now infamous disciple Judas Iscariot, whom as you may recall, signal

Compte Donatien Alphonse Francois de Sade (1740 - 1814), better known as the Marquis de Sade, was a famous French atheist and writer. He spent 27 years of his adult life in the prisons and insane asylums of the French monarchy, the French Republic, the revolutionary terror and Napoleonic Imperial France. In short, his sexual perversion and crue

A strange phenomena has appeared in healing and revival meetings. Unbelievers just off the street receive miraculous healings while devout born-again Christians who've been suffering for years go home sick. Many, including myself, have pondered this for years. In this article I will offer a unique insight from the scriptures that speaks to the

The records of Jesus' prayers constitute a priceless document of one perfect being expressing himself to another. Though Jesus must have been involved in prayer all the time, all we have in the Bible is six prayers of Jesus. There are three kinds of prayers, and we know for sure that the mortal Jesus was involved personally in two of them.

The doctors came and went each prescribing some kind of remedy that tasted so bad that I longed to vomit just to get the taste out of my mouth. It was an illness that came on me suddenly as if it was waiting in a dark corner just for the right time to raise its evil head and force me to surrender to its will. I didn't want to die, but I could fee

Today was a big step for any Candidate or Catechumen in the Catholic Church. This was the day that they are recommended by their parishes to the Bishop or Cardinal of their dioceses. In the first rite of the day the catechumens are asked to stand before the congregation and let the congregation know that they are prepared and ready to take the ne

Everyone is looking for the ultimate surefire secret to instant riches; aren't you? It is nice to have more than enough and to enjoy life without financial pressures. God has designed it that way and He means it when He says to cast all your cares on Him. But, how do you receive abundance? Following the Ten Commandments assures that: "All these

In the book of Revelation, the Apostle John mentions the Seven Spirits of God (Revelation 1:4, 3:1, 4:5, 5:6). For the moment, we will ignore the individual identities of these Seven Spirits, and only consider Their collective unity. In considering the unity of the 7 Spirits of God, we need look no further than the collective symbols of the 7 Sp

One of the things we all have in common is that sometime in our lives we all experience times, technology, terror, tears and truth. We experience what the times do to us - times of exultant joy, times of deep grief, times of unbelievable passion, times of unbearable loss, times of quiet calm, times of heartrending sadness, times of undying love a

I went looking for "online" and "kiosk" in my bible concordance to see what Jesus thought about digital donating. I didn't find anything. But then again, I didn't find "write a check" either. I did find several passages about bringing in crops and goats. Don't worry, there are provisions for what to do if you are truly blessed and cannot carry y

It is a principle of the Scriptures that the individual can affect the community in either a positive or negative way. For the later, Achan serves as a prime example. His rebellion against the decree of Yahweh affected the whole nation, putting an end to the surge of excitement surrounding the fall of Jericho and foreshadowing the eventual fall a

I was less than two years old when I walked right out of our Naval issued housing apartment and right into the deep end of the pool that was close to our home. My head plunged under the water and I gasped for air while pleading for help. I could see several people watching my desperate splashing and head bobbing. Within minutes I was pulled out

In the Christian context, to persevere means to continue steadfastly in the faith, in spite of all the obstacles, difficulties, trials and dangers in grace to the very end, for our eternal reward and life with God . With the mounting crisis and problems facing us, many of us may feel like giving up. We felt discouraged and lost. The situation be