We take so many things for granted, don’t we? The air we breathe. The clothes we wear. The food in our pantries. The things that we take for granted the most are the two most precious things we have. They are time and people. We tend to believe that we have all the time in the world. For the ones that we love, we assume that they know how we feel about them. Yet, for the loved ones that we are estranged from, we believe that we will reconcile someday but just not today. The problem is that someday sometimes never comes. We get so bogged down…
Author: Michael Wilson
Do you have Destination Addiction? I know that I suffer from this debilitating affliction. What is it, you ask? It’s the idea that the next…
2022 is almost over and a new year is about to begin. The older I get the more I realize how much time is behind…
Tina Turner posed the question, “What’s love got to do with it?”. Quite literally, everything. Love is the basic foundation of all creation. As we…
One thing that is ironic to me is that Jesus (the Prince of Peace) was born during a time known as the Pax Romana, the peace of Rome. However, that Roman peace came at a high price. It came through the punishment and sometimes the violent death of anyone that opposed Rome. Peace came through violence. That’s the way of the world.
In this season of Advent, the first week’s theme is hope. The hope of a promised deliverer. Hope for a Messiah that will save us. …
In this current time and space we find ourselves in, it seems to me that God has us in a season of transition. Many of my friends who are in leadership capacities in churches have felt the same thing.
Control. Everyone wants to have control over their lives. When I was young I felt invincible as most young people do. I felt that I could overcome anything.
As a Christian I am a new creation in Christ (2 Cor. 5:17). The old Michael was crucified with Christ and I have been born from above, born again into God’s family. I am a son of God, as righteous as Jesus because of what Jesus did on behalf of humanity. It’s nothing of my own doing; just simple faith in the work that Jesus did for me. I don’t claim to understand how God does it but I know that It’s true. However, I don’t always live, act or feel like a son of God. I don’t always behave…
In Psalm 8, David asks a question of God. He asks, “What is man that you are mindful of him, the son of man that you care for him?” What an important question for us to ask. When we think about God in all his majesty and wonder what are we? Have you ever stood next to the ocean? I have and can tell you that looking out at the ocean’s vastness, I felt small. I have been to the Grand Canyon several times in my life. Standing on the rim of the canyon and seeing the immensity of it,…
