“Every saint has a past, and every sinner has a future.”

~ Oscar Wilde

The Longest Night of the Year

2017-07-14T09:33:14-04:00December 21st, 2016|Uncategorized|

Originally written in 2006 for a “Blue Christmas” service at Tellico Village Community Church Tonight the earth will come to its winter solstice, and we in the northern hemisphere will experience the shortest day of the year. There will be only about 9 and a half hours of daylight on December 21st. And that means the night is 14 and a half hours long. At the Arctic Circle, the night is 24-hours long. That’s a very long night. The longest night of the year. My friend Ken Paul once told me after his beautiful wife Dot passed away that the [READ MORE]

Buying Souls for God

2017-07-14T09:33:14-04:00December 8th, 2016|Uncategorized|

In Victor Hugo's Les Miserables Jean Valjean, a man convicted of stealing a piece of bread to feed his sister’s starving child, has served nineteen years in prison for the crime. NINETEEN YEARS! Now he is paroled, but society scorns him, making it impossible to earn a living. With no place else to go, he is taken in by a kindly old priest who feeds him and gives him a place to stay the night. But Jean Valjean is such a desperate man that he steals the priest’s silver chalices, and runs away into the night. But Jean Valjean is [READ MORE]

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