Tag: peace

  • Ghosts of Christmas’ Past

    We are of course familiar with the image of ghosts of Christmas’ past thanks to Charles Dickens, ‘A Christmas Carol,’ penned in A.D. 1843. Dickens points toward a morality of generosity during a great 19th century division between a well-off gentry class and the working poor. Even today his theme of the repentance of Scrooge…

    Much has changed in Christianity and Church jargon since the 19th and 29th centuries. Tuesday, December 27, 2011: Ghost of Christmas Past This is a photograph that hangs inside Trinity depicting one of my predecessors on the front steps on a snowy day about a hundred years ago, 1872 church.
  • He Leadeth me beside still waters – Psalm 23

    He leadeth me beside the still waters. He restoreth my soul: Psalm 23 – a song of calm confidence Many of us know it well. Perhaps we even recite the six verses of Psalm 23 even as I learned in the melodic flow of the King James Version of the Bible. The LORD is my…

    He leadeth me beside the still waters - from Psalm 23 with photo of lake
  • Be Still…

    “Be still, and know that I am God. I will be exalted among the nations, I will be exalted in the earth!” Psalm 37:7 What were the instructions of the risen Christ Jesus to the Apostles for the time after He ascended once more into Heaven? WAIT. Luke 24:48 You are witnesses of these things.…