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Jerry Maestas might have trouble telling if a person was spiritually dead or not. After all, he drove his car for three days with a passenger, Amy Marquez, who had none of the signs of life. Finally, he drove her to an emergency room where she was pronounced dead. “I don’t know how he didn’t know” (she…

Jerry Maestas drove his car for three days with a passenger, Amy Marquez, who had none of the signs of life. Finally, he drove her to an emergency room where she was pronounced dead. “I don’t know how he didn’t know” (she was dead) said police Lt. Christian Lopez. “There were flies all over.” --The Week,…

MEANING/PURPOSE A new survey presented at the annual meeting of the American Psychiatric Association suggests that faith can affect a person's mental well-being. Researchers discovered people who regularly attend church are less likely to suffer from depression and other psychiatric illnesses. Results…

Out of Gas Susan and I entered into our marriage with equal assets and liabilities. I had an old Ford Courier pick-up and she had a Mazda sports car. She owed some money on some family land in Colorado and I owed a couple thousand dollars on my student loan from college. The debts were more permanent…

CHARACTER Tiger Woods may just be the most famous person with the ailment, but many Americans have bad knees. It is enough of a problem that 660,000 web sites are related to sore knees and how to care for them. They feature exercises and stretches designed to help prevent knee surgery. That’s a lot of…

Walking By Faith 2 Cor. 5:7 NASB "for we walk by faith, not by sight" Whatever else is involved in being spiritual, I am confident that it involves walking by faith. Like Noah, who was willing to invest 120 years building an ark because God told him a flood was coming. Or like Abraham who did not argue…

This Little Light of Mine Is your idea of camping staying in Motel 6 instead of the Holiday Inn? Not us, the Wilson's are campers. We love to pitch a tent or crawl into our camper and spend the night or the week in the wilderness. Campers are a special breed. We love the challenges of nature and the…

SCRIPTURE: Acts 19:1-2 and John 14:16-18 NASB (9-4-05) TITLE: Who is the Holy Spirit? INTRODUCTION Who’s Who in our society is used to determine the life and background of persons. There is the Who’s Who Among Students in American Universities and Colleges; Who’s Who In America; Who’s Who In Businesses;…

Salvation as conceived today is far removed from what it was in the beginnings of Christianity and only by correcting it can God's grace in salvation be returned to the concrete, embodied existence of our human personalities walking with Jesus in his easy yoke. Once salvation is relegated to mere forgiveness…