Walking The Walk

I preached a sermon on Sunday, and one of the things I said was that sometimes we just get stuck in life.  Too often we get stuck on something in our past and we just can't get free of it.  We're like an anchored ship, we're stuck right where we are until we cut those anchor chains.  And very often those anchors that keep us from being able to move into our future are deeply dug into our past. We carry a lot with us we don't need.  Just rubbish.  Old hurts.  Past failures.  Painful experiences.  Awful things we've lived through.  Ugly words people have said to us or about us that continue to hurt us.  Bad habits we can't seem to get free of.   So how do we get unstuck? The best place to start is with prayer.  Pray about it.  Tell God you want to be free from all this stuff that keeps you living and reliving the past.  Ask God to show you the way forward, and then fix your eyes forward!  Stop looking in the r...

   "May the Lord direct your hearts into God's love and Christ's perseverance."   ~2 Thessalonians 3:5 I had a conversation a few weeks ago with somebody about faith.  He says he's an atheist, and questions anybody that would allow themselves to be "limited" by the "rules" of being a Christian.  He wanted to have a conversation he said, but what he really wanted to do was give a lecture about how silly I was to spend so much time studying in seminary, and how dumb I was to waste my retirement years going into Christian ministry instead of kicking back and enjoying my well deserved reward.  So I listened to him.  I interjected where I could, but he didn't hear me.  I left feeling sorry for him.  He is bitterly unhappy.  He is unfulfilled.  He has a secular view of the world and is unwilling to even acknowledge there may be a spiritual side of our nature that if he were to open up mind and his heart could show him there is a deep...