Photo by Steve Something About Them Wairs from Everett D. Wair Sr. creates a new spin on the myth of the werewolf, a cornerstone of culture and a reflection of the human psyche. The story of Something About Them Wairs is centered around the community of Lancaster, California, where three men of the Wair family have just committedContinue reading “Howling at the Moon: Thinking About Werewolves”
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Parable of the Ten Virgins: Keeping Faith and Trusting God
Photo by Ludvig Hedenborg She Let God Write Her Story by Yelena Borichevska is an interesting and complicated insight into the merits of having faith and handing over yourself to Christ. 5 Trust in the Lord with all your heart and lean not on your own understanding; 6 in all your ways, submit toContinue reading “Parable of the Ten Virgins: Keeping Faith and Trusting God”
The Christian Community: Why It is Our Duty to Serve One Another
Establishing a good and faithful servant’s relationship with one another and God is an important cornerstone in creating a tight-knit Christian community. Let us talk about good and faithful servants’ relationships. What are these, and why are they important? In these trying times and always, I think it is best to look back to Galatians 5:13-14: 13Continue reading “The Christian Community: Why It is Our Duty to Serve One Another”
Arguing for the Existence of God: Reasons for His Presence
Photo by Mike B Gary Lindberg is the author of The Vegetable Grows and the Lion Roars, but he is also the author of the phenomenal God’s Existence: Truth or Fiction? In Gary Lindberg’s God’s Existence: Truth or Fiction?, he proposes a scientific basis for the existence of God, but for a lot of us believers, scientificContinue reading “Arguing for the Existence of God: Reasons for His Presence”
Contemplating the Word Of God Among the Leaves and Along the Rivers
Photo by Markus Spiske In Dr. Linda De Coff’s seminal The Songs of Eternity, she outlines insightful methods for a profound and intimate conversation with the higher entities that exist beyond the reach. The Holy Bible of the Christians begins, in its earliest iteration, with the Hebrew word: Bereshit (בְּרֵאשִׁית), which means “In the beginning.” In the beginning,Continue reading “Contemplating the Word Of God Among the Leaves and Along the Rivers”
Finding Faith and Freedom in the Unlikeliest of Places
Photo by RODNAE Productions Real Prison, Real Freedom is the life of Rickie Smith, who was known as the worst Texan inmate. When it looked like violence would follow him forever, he encountered the Gospel of Jesus Christ. Prison, for most, is simply a distant place where criminals are kept and justice is dealt with—whereContinue reading “Finding Faith and Freedom in the Unlikeliest of Places”
Growing in Catholic Faith to Conquer Spiritual Drought
Spiritual drought is that period of being distant from the presence of God. During this time, a dark void expands in a person’s life, and if not detected and treated early, it could leave a consuming devastating impact on their lives. People go through a season of wilderness in their life of what’s known asContinue reading “Growing in Catholic Faith to Conquer Spiritual Drought”
Praying to Fight Fear
Fear is an emotion that everybody has. It is an instinct we intrinsically have even before becoming more civilized. It was an unpleasant emotion because we needed it to survive. Fear usually manifests when we perceive or recognize something threatening or dangerous. Whenever something triggers our fear, our response is to fight or flee. ThisContinue reading “Praying to Fight Fear”
Paying God’s Love Back
The most common symbol of the Roman Catholic Church is the crucifix In Roman Catholicism, the crucifix follows the design put forth in the Latin tradition. This tradition is to include in the front of the crucifix a corpus or the body of the Lord Jesus Christ as he makes the ultimate sacrifice to cleanseContinue reading “Paying God’s Love Back”
Faith and Its Existence
The Oxford English Dictionary describes faith as the complete trust or confidence in someone or something. Another definition points to it as a strong belief in God or in the doctrines of a religion. It is based on spiritual apprehension rather than proof. In a way, faith is like love in that it is willingContinue reading “Faith and Its Existence”
The Damsel’s Files 