This page provides all installments for my series titled, Sketches of a Skeptic – From Doubt to Belief. The purpose of these articles is to affirm that it is both permissible and healthy to question one’s beliefs, as well as the teachings of others. At the same time, the goal […]
We were stymied in the prayer session and couldn’t seem to get clarity until suddenly someone heard the word ‘Saturn’. Breakthrough! Saturn is a big deal in the Bible. In Stephen’s message before he was stoned, he stated that the Israelites had embraced Moloch, the god who they brought out […]
I was really frustrated. Many years ago, while conducting a school in Georgia we had been working on a new prayer. One student had stayed up all night researching and praying about the new Prayer to Release the Treasures of Darkness. We had hit a wall, and I kept asking […]
So often we base what we believe on what we’ve heard others say without investigating for ourselves. For example, have you heard of familiar spirits? “Of course, you say! “These are spirits passed down the family line.” Well, actually that is not correct. The KJV version translates the Hebrew word […]
How often have you heard Isaiah 54:17, “No weapon formed against me will prosper?” quoted by someone who is experiencing difficulty? I have many times; often in the context of a church service when the entire congregation would agree with this proclamation from the pulpit. But, has your life proven […]
Spiritual beings called Powers have often shown up in our meetings. They seem to oversee electromagnetic fields and sometimes bring objects to us and place them in our hands. As we discerned them, some people could see the objects in others’ hands, and I would ask what they saw. The […]
I knew that I had to go and visit the redwoods; it was as if I was being drawn to them. I had seen the California redwoods a few times in my life, but why was this necessary? It is a long drive! But we were planning a vacation and […]
I am not sure when it first began – probably sometime between 2007 and 2011. I was sitting in my living room watching television and started feeling very weird. In my vision on the right side I could see what I have described as a broken coke bottle bottom sliver […]
It was another boring-but-necessary day in the American Baptist Seminary of the West. The topic was the ‘image of God’ and the professor was confused. We entered into a futile discussion of what the image of God could actually be. Concordances were consulted, German theologians were consulted. No consensus. Decades […]
The Lord has a sense of humor! Donna and I were at the end of our Come Up Higher book tour in September 2011. We had arrived at Gillette, Wyoming where Donna settled into our motel while I drove to a ranch some distance from the city, way out in […]
