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  • Our Messed Up World and That Time Jesus Came to an Anxious, Waiting World

    Our Messed Up World and That Time Jesus Came to an Anxious, Waiting World

    Lost in the demands to “keep Christ in Christmas” and the requests to “remember the reason for the season” is a broader purpose: hope for a messed up world. You see, the Old Testament ends with a prophesy through Malachi. He was one of several prophets who tried getting through people’s ignorance and indifference…

  • 2021 Hits, Misses, and More

    2021 Hits, Misses, and More

    As we approach Christmas and the 2021 year-end, I’m reflecting upon what was and what may be. Actually, I’ve spent the last 20-ish months thinking about who and what I want to be when I grow up. A mid-life crisis sparked by covid, perhaps. I don’t know. But definitely a season of evaluation, strife,…

  • How to Give a Kindle eBook as a Gift on Amazon

    How to Give a Kindle eBook as a Gift on Amazon

    When I was seventeen and set a life goal of publishing a book, I never could have predicted the world of ebooks, and Kindle. Never thought I would self-publish a book that could be digitally sent to a mini-computer that people held in the palms of their hands (that they sometimes used as a…