For Michelle and the other forgotten ones

Hey. Whatever happened to what’s-her-name?
Who?
That girl.
What girl?
The one that used to hang around here with us. She had the long hair with the bangs in the front? You remember her.
Nah girl.
Yes. She used to walk to church with us all the time. Back when we lived in Malvern.
But we moved up outta there after high [...]

2009-20TEN

For the first time in 20 years I’m not going back to school, and I had no excuse to join the shopping frenzy this tax-free weekend. “Real life” begins tomorrow as I’ll join adults everywhere working full time. Blah.

Wherever you’ll be when the bell rings tomorrow…

Lesson 8: A Loveless Christian?

First, we must throw away the world’s definition of how to love others. The world tells us to be “nice.” The world tells us to be polite. So we walk around with this mask, this façade. We do not care for the other person. We are just nice to them when they are around us. Essentially, we act like we love them.

Lesson 7: Children of God

I wonder, as a child of God if I now suffer from the same ailment. Instead of following God just because he says so, I now expect explanations and instead of acquiescing to his every command I offer rationalizations and justifications just ‘cuz I think I’m grown.

Lesson 6: Walking in the Light - Rejecting Antichrists

666. Mark of the Beast. End times. Antichrists. Deception. Apocalypse. Last hour. Time of trouble. Persecution.
Words that sometimes makes us squirm.
Who or what is the antichrist anyway? Satan? A human being? Someone like Jose Luis de Jesus Miranda? A spiritual leader? A leader of secret societies? A national leader? Just an ordinary person who [...]